The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1915, Page 1

| | PRICE ONE C \ = ‘ U-29 He Is Preying. Upon British Commerce. gt URE TAKEN IN RAID. ‘Captain of Ship He Sank Turned Camera on Him Just Before Attack. A LONDON, March 15.—The Captain of the British steamer Headlands, guak on Friday off the Scilly Islands “by the German submarine U- 29, saya the commander of the raider is Capt. Otto Weddigen, who gained Yame by his raids with the U-9, which _ torpedoed the British cruisers Hogue, “} Aboukir and Cressy last September, and later the cruisers Hawke ant Hermes. ‘The U-9 was reported recently as having been destroyed and there was ® rumor that Capt. Weddigen had deen fost with her. News that he is now Commander of the U-29 reached London in @ fetter from tho Captain of the Head- inads to the Dally Mail, inclosing a photograph of the U-29 taken by the Captain of the Headlands from the ridge two minutes before the torpedo struck the ship on Thureday last. ‘Phe Daily Mall says that of the British ships sunk the past fow days _. pe less than six were victims of the ) $%-29 operating off Lands ‘aig al pearing in the English Channel Thurs- day Rorsias the U-29 sank the In- ‘Bian City, tho Headlands and the ‘Andalusian before night, and on . Friday morning secured three more victims close together off the Scilly Isluuds. She also damaged three others, according to other reports re- ceived here. ‘The two other British sbips sunk by the U-29 were the Florazan and Hart- @ale. The French steamer sunk by the submarine was the Auguste Consiel. Only one ship, the Florazan, te have been sunk without To the crews of the others, the Ger- mane were courteous and not uncom: maunicative. The Captain offered sigare and wine, and threw out @ quit of dry clothes into a boat for a geaman who had fallen into ¢! He said he was about six days out from Cuxhaven, et aeeeneere PALMER TO COURT OF CLAIMS —— seman to Succeed Chief Jus- tee Howry, Who Hav Resigned. WASHINGTON, March 15.—Former Representative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania has been selected by Pres- Ment Wilson for Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims, to suc- ceed) Judge Charles 8. Howry, whose resignation is to take effect April L —————— NEW, SUBMARINE LAUNCHED. q é _JATES EXTRA / ’ With the German Submarine| T @be |“ Circulation Books Open to All. Cowes. teks e'New Tork Worlds SINKS SIX MERCHANT SHIPS: HIS U-9 SANK FIVE CRUISERS THAW WAIT WIL STOP PLAN TO GET | HIM MATTEAMAN Lawyers Arrafige Event of Adverse Decis- ion This Afternoon. TO TEST SANITY HERE Defense Demands That He Be Sent to New Hampshire as Result c: Verdict. Asylum in the event of preme Court. The writ is to be returnable forth- with, and if served bei started for Matteawan atay. of the opinion that the The Thaw forces will ened by numerous new conspiracy charge, thought Thaw sane, in reaching a verdict. The conspiracy trial several other gathered for him by th ‘wan who testified they contact with Thaw at the asylum, and who, as far as they were permitted, ‘A positive ex- attested his sanity. pression of opinion was it seemed apparent from their attl~ tude such opinions would have been favorable t- Thaw. If the jurors are called, it will be as Mr. Cook admitted to- day thelr testimony was admissible lay witnesses. as lay witnesses, and not expect the coming battle to be one of experts alone. Thaw’s friends decla: desire to remain in New York, and intends, if freed, to go and stay there, but that he does not want the Dowling committment hang- | ing over him, Anticipating an attempt on the part of the District Attorney to forcibly rush Harry Thaw back to Matteawan denying the motion to send Thaw to New Hampshire, counsel for the de- fense arranged thie afternoon for pro- curing a writ of habeas corpus from Justice Bijur in Part II. of the Su- However, Thaw's counsel are be necessary, for they anticipate that Justice Page will reserve opinion un- til plans can be completed for giving Thaw a jury trial in this county on the question of his sanity. cluding the jurors who juitted him and four others Saturday on the All question was not permitted to figure valuable witnesses, These include employees of Mattea- SoS T 2d oF PEHDSES $® for It In Justice Page fore Thaw is will act as a writ will not |3ivo, be strength- witngases, in- the jurors although the gave Thaw @ prosecution. were in dally ruled out, but added he did re he has 20 to Pittsburgh sha ; | i ® BO8L0G-56-00-000004-6-06 040008 FIVE BOS VANISH WBOAT ON WAY TOSHEEPSHEADBAY Nothing Heard From Jersey City Youngsters Since Start on Saturday. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH VON WEDDIGEN, RAIDER ON THE U-9 NOW BUSY ON U-29 Petde $O9GPSREHH Five boys went out from a pier at the foot of Chapel Avenue, Jersey City, in a little motor boat at 10 o'clock Saturday morning and have not since been heard from. destination was Sheepshead Bay, at which place the boat has failed to ar- Their The boys were George S. Schneider, twenty, William Dillart, eighteen, of No, 18 Danforth Street; Al Laflin, nineteen, employed at the Greenville station of the Jersey Central Rallroad Company; William Roland, Avenue, and William Albun, fifteen, of Halladay Street, all of Jersey City. Mrs. Schneider, mother of one of the missing boys, this morning notl- fled Sergt. Michael Ocean Avenue Police Station of the disappearance of the boat and ber crew and asked him to notify the Brooklyn, New York and Long Island police. of No, 417 Ocean Avenue; twenty, Princeton Sheehan of the ——_——_. PATIENT SHOOTS NURSE, TURNS PISTOL ON SELF She Is in a Dangerous Condition and Unable to Tell Cause. (Special to The Evening World.) MERIDEN, Conn., March 15.—Miss Josephine Flanagan, a nurse at the New Haven Sanatorium here, was shot four times by @ patient, George Pinter, in a for men inmates at the Inatitu- tion at 8 o'clock this morning. Pinter County Tuberculosis ' | reloaded his revolver and shot bira- Stock Broker Caught Between Cars, sei four times. BRITISH ISSUE BLOC FOR STARVING OUT GERMANY WEDDIGEN IN NEW RAIDER WILSON DEMAND BACKED CRUSE SCARESCARANZA Ship Blockade at Progreso Lifted and American Cargoes Allowed to Pass Out. U. S. VESSEL FIRED O} Another Was Held Up by Mex- ican Gunboat Before Presi- dent’s Final Warning. WASHINGTON, March 15.—Geu. Carranza hos abandoned his blockade of the port of Progreso on urgent rep- resentations by the United States. The Mexican gunboat Zaragosa has beon called off and two American ships lad- en with sisal for the United States have cleared without interference. ‘The backdown of Carranza was re- ceived here simultaneously with the announcement that the United States had served notice on Carranza that the port of Progreso, through which Practically all the sisal used in mak- ing harvesting twine for this country is obtained, must be kept open, and was prepared to back up its demand with the cruiser Des Moines, now at that port. The Des Moines has been at Pro- greso for some days and was pre- pared for vigorous action in case Carranza persisted in maintaining the blockade, Rear-Admiral Caperton, command- ing the American fleet in Moxican waters, reported the raising of the blockade in his* oMcial despatches early to-day and reported that the Zaragosa had returned to Vera Cruz. It became known for tho first time to-day that last week the Mexican gunboat had stapped one American ship with a shot across her bows, had held up another and had inter- fered with British shipping. Sinco Feb, 25 the State Department had steadily protested to Carranza again closing Progreso, where there have been factional troubles be- tween Mexicans nominally under his control, The people of Yucatan, it was gaid, obtain all thelr food from outside sources, and were as anxious that the embargo be raised as was the United States, Carranza allowed no food to go into Progreso since he ea- tablished the blockade, The American notice made it plain that the United States had no tn- tention of interfering in the factional troubles at Progreso, but was inter- ested only in tho sisal question. Fear is felt here concerning the safety of foreigners at Manzanillo, a port on the Pacjfic side of Mexico, because of the failure of Carranza’s forces to maintain order there and the diminishing food supply. Amer- jacn warships now in the vicinity of Manzanillo probably will bring for- elgnera there away should conditions not improve. Gocesaenaiinnenianans FAMILY OF SIX FOUND WITH SKULLS CRUSHED DRILERS START FRE IM SUBHAY TEAP 2 HOURS Short Circuit and Blaze Fills Tuhe With Smoke and Halts All Cars. SCARE IN BIG HOTELS. Three Phone Exchanges Put Out of Business by the Blaze, A laborer in the new Seventh Ave- nue subway, while drilling through Into the old subway wall at Seventh Avenue, Broadway and Forty-third Street, at 6 A. M. to-day, struck the same fed wire alleged to have cause’ the disaster on Jan. 6, and a short clreult followed, Burning insulation and timbers pro- duced @ black, pungent smoke that spread into the old subway, filled Broadway, Seventh Avenue and side streets like a fog, penetrated thé open windows of big totela and alarmed the guests and halted both subway and surface traMo for several hours. Three telephone exchanges, Colum- bus, Murray Hill and Circle were also Put out of business, The excavating work in the new subway. is being done by the Hol- brook, Cabot & Rollins Construction Company. The new tunnel to Forty- fifth Street adjoins the old subway and borings are being made from one to the ‘other for girders. Seventh Avenue, from a point between Forty- second and Forty-third Streets to Forty-fifth Street, runs over heavy tarred timbers covering the excava- tion. ‘When the drill near the timbers went into the conduit containing Interbor- ough, electric light, surface car wires and other power cables—just how many was not known—there was a blinding flash and timbers and insu- lation began burning furiously. ORDERED ALL CURRENT CUT OFF FROM CABLES. Policemen saw the smoke coming through the cracks in the timbers into the street and sent in an alarm of fire. The first thing done by Deputy Chief “Smoky Joe” Martin was to telephone an order to the various power houses to shut off the current. The fire spread rapidly in the tim- bers and in the insulation of the maze of wires and cables. Firemen first used sand, but did not put out the fire until about a block of the tim- bers covering the street were torn up. The subway power was partly shut off immediately to prevent @ repetition of what bappened in January, when a woman was killed and hundreds came near being suffocated. No trains rap ‘south of Ninety-sixth Street on the | downtown side or north of Fourteenth Street on the uptown side between 8.10 and 5.0. The Interborough-rushed all its (Continued on Fifth Page.) LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE WAR You can't capture a city by hiding in the trenches. KADE ORDER= 14 PAGES PRIOR ONE CENT ——-+4+-—__—_—. NEUTRALS HIT HARD BY BRTSH RON RING ROUND THE NORTH SEA BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER COMMANDING OPERATIONS IN THE DARDANELLES PE Order in Council Issued To-Day At tempts to Shut Off All German Commerce in a Manner Unprece-_ dented in International Law. PROTEST IS EXPECTED IN, March 15.—Great Britain to-day struck her, proniles blow agiinst Germany. By an Order in Council she attempts 40) stil Off Germany's commerce in a drastic manner, unprecedented in tater The decree practically declares a tlockade of the German No Sea coast, without using the precise term. This Is cofitrary to all. cedents which require the presence of blockading warships. To complete the programme of “starving out the Kaiser,’ goyernment laid certain drastic restrictions upon neutral commence, | These are designed to prevent Germany from exporting or importing: any commodities through Holland or Scandinavian countries on. th Baltic Sea, controlled by the German navy. * ‘The “blockade” order is eff ROOT NOT IN RACE once. In fact, the Government FOR 1916 HONORS Rotice that it had been in effect Tatk of His Being a Candidate for since March 1, when Premier in his House of Commons Presidency Absolute Nonsense, Says Ex-Senator. ave notice to the world of the ALBANY, March 15.—Under no cir- tlon of the allies to put a cumstances will former United States ring around Germany - The Gevernment expects strong. Senator Elihu Root be « candidate for President in 19! He said here Protests from the United Helland and the Gea , to-day: “All talk of my being a candidate countries, whose commeree te Wi hard by the order in Council. ta absolute nonsense. Such a thing is impossible.” scion of an unprecedented sort $80,000 FOR SUNDAY, PHILADELPHIA'S GIFT made necessary by Germany's violation of all principles of Money Flowing in From People for Evangelist’s Revival tional law in torpedoing Work in City: merchantme: Furthermore, ance was given that ample will be giyen neutrals in the PHILADELPHIA, March 15,—A to- tal of $65,000 was the conservative estimate given out early to-day as rise courte. LIVES OF NEUTRALS NOT TO BE the amount already donated to “Billy” Sunday for his work here by the ENDANGERED. The Government laid emphasis people of Philadelphia. It is believed the amount Will be swelled to $0,000 the statement by Premier before the day is over. that while neutral commerce suffer, no neutral ships wauld be A constant stream of checks, bills and gold is keeping tellers at the dangered nor lives of non-com imperilied in carrying out the Land Title Trust Company busy cred- {ting them to the evangelist'’s ac- vinions of the decree, In this count. TWIN BOYS ARE BORN IN era pertioingnereeprerstnatitenepiemee PLANNED 10 FIGHT WITH BABES ABOARD German Raider Would Signal Enemy, However, Before Battle Began. P iN NEWPORT, NEWS, Va., Mareb 15. -/That Commander Thierichens of the German commerce destroyer Prins Eiter Friedrich was determined to go down fighting, despite t resence of women and children on his ship, after warning any attacking enemy vessel that he had them with Him, was indi- cated from remarks attributed to him here to-day by the captain of # French craft Floride, which she sank on the high seas, It was when the Eitel was making the best time its damaged bollera would permit toward Newport News that the Floride’s moster, concerned for the safety of those who had been passengers on his ship, asked ‘Thierichens, he says, what the latter would do tf h le warships should overhaul him. “I would signal that women and children of the allies were on board,” answered the German, “But if the enemy took your signals for a ruse?” suggested the French- man. “Then there would be nothing for me but to give battle,” Thierichens was arerted to have replied. Commander Thierichen's plans to make his own repairs with his own machinists and plans to get the sup- Plies from the local #hipyards. None of the repair work had been begun, and that strengthens the belief here that the German ship was to be tn- terned despite the insistence by the commander that is is his intention to put to sea, Commander Thierichsens ente: in ed last night at formal dinner on board the Eitel Friedrich Rear-Ad- with the note of warning from Ger- many that her submarine ‘ might result in the loss of i ships and cost the lives of non-ogms batants. Rie The order, which practically dex clares a blockade against Germany a) “a 4 Firet.—No merchant vessel wren satied from her port of departure af ter March 1, 1915, shall be allowed te man port, Unk & Pass enabling her to proceed te some neutral or allied port, to Be named in the pass, the goods | One torpedo may sink a ship but nota tty, Commandant of the board any such ve "Bawin Bernhelmer, stock broker, of "sign Flanagan has a chance of re- rat [eine mye COR eases te re Eg PENNSYLVANIA STATION | mreea in a Brien tort eoate AnB Latent Undersea Fighter Added No $8 Central Park Went, was on lt covery, but Pinter, removed to the|Two Children Dead, Mother and) jong-distance guns can win without| lowing a call the German commander in custody of the Marshal’ ef | yey 1 he lector alev - | iB w a 4 nm a 1. to, United States Navy. sation to bis office at No, 100 Broad: | Merkien Hospital Bic wld to be Three Others Expected to Die substantial opposition. had made on the American Admiral prise court. Coods sat tesa ' —sub- . jfatally hurt, Miss Flanagan is thie : : ear oe . t contraband of war, shi . WINCY, Mass, March 15.—Sub- | way this morning when he was caught M ean i . 5 | ap ie Gdearilainn, Twin boys were born, to-day, in|no of war, i ae bulit for. tho United | between two surface cars at Broadway | years old and came to the sanatorium Flat Iron Weapon Used. By atadadtiry b Srany te eectining TWINS BORN FAR APART. the women's waiting room of the| Feauisitioned for the use /68 Mista Gates navy by the Fore River Ship- |and Wall Street. | Both, care were ee ae thistyctive years oid TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March 16 duct an AGGRESSIVE campaign. O4d1y Hnough They Also Have Dit-| Pennsylvania Railroad station, in this | Majesty, be restored by order of the! bullding Corporation, was launched | the hobble skirt type, und as he stepped | Pinter is about thirty-five years old ‘i RE Hs ve e see Hass fim You cannot convince ALL through s hy city. ‘The mother was Mra, Joseph | Court and upon such terms o sto-day. Mrs. Charlotte 8, Atkins, |in front of one going south the north- | ang is married, j Neighbors to- foun re entire | ‘single appeal. | mt Birthdays, court may ie the cit . wife of Lew M. Atkins, assistant | bound car caught him qnd wedged him | x9 peason for the attempted murder | family of Mrs. Ligzle Balding in their | your efforts must be SWEEPING to outs | Ray of Whitestone, L, I, who, with . March 15,—-A boy and . to be peraon, Ravel constructor, christened the |! the narrow space, An ambulance |. known and the physicians say Mixy |home with their skulls crushed. Bam-| distance and overcome competition, wore born here on different ad regio had eome fo temp omen deat 6 ‘from Volunteer c . el, eleven years old, and’ Celeste, | You can do all of these things through different places, shopping trip, “ Flanagan cannot be questioned owing | Ul, © uu cal 60 days and at Dl i — to his office, where it was found he wag) ont suries, lgeven, were dead when found; Mra.| World ads, waich have a circulation,| “They are healthy, and thelr mother,| After being attended by Dr, Brew-|MERCHANT SHIPS FROM “Menai Seeks Loan of $15,000,000, not dangerously hurt, ————-_ | Balding, thirty-five years: Irene, five; | in Greater New York alone excceding | yir5, ntosina Folsia, thirty-two, ie doing |ster, medical examiner of the rall-| | MANY TO BE STOPPEI BO JANIERO, March 15.—The Bre- STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY, | “itford, fourteen, and a one-year-old | hat of the Merall Times and Tribune | welt, ‘The «irl w road, mother and twins were re-| “Second—No merehant oo . a . jbaby are in a hospital, expegied to die, + 2P,M./A Matiron found on a bed was the bras midnight in the Fi {@™ Seven-time World ads, ccst heast per insertion and multiply results, | ToDeg! waa sent hi Wiad el ilfan reports! ¥ Be oer crranateg to fost, in | maine ee aia toan of offering as 8/7 RURMAU, W cores carom, ures wolfe Bt Si 6 ated mm moved to the Lying-In Hospital at|salled from any German, » | Evangeline, Bermuda. Second Avenue and Kighteenth, BU halt r Adriatic, Liverpee!....+.-+.490.P.M. weapon used. No arrests ee . e ~ ——