The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1915, Page 1

we f i | oa ; i lt i ¥ 4 ae if a ) \ Nag io the stock market 7° girculated a Ve ¥ ’ Pe a Ci ~ GENERAL MOTORS SOAR. a aname | Reports of $2 [ATES EXTRA T be (*Ctroulation Books Open to All,’ ) ——— = —— ee ee RRICE ONE CENT. Oonrelats 2018 ee Te ene NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1915. “Ciredlation Books Open to All. 12 PA BIG TURKI TO NEW filch REPORT OF HUGE CONTRACTS ¢ Motor Issues Reach New Levels as Manufacturers Under- S sell British Makers. Steel Shares Skyrocket in Big Bull Movement on the Exchange. ‘This was a day of record smash- A widely report that. orders! ‘amounting to more than $200,000,000 were about to be placed for muni- tlons sent the war order stocks leap- ing upward. | Advances were particularly marked | as there is a in the motor stocks, ceaseless demand on the other side of | the water for automobiles and auto- mobile ambulances. And so great has been the American invasion of this one'field that British manufacturers ave urged their Government to plac a high duty upon the imported ma- chines, confessing that the Ameri-! can manufacturers had practically mashed their business. The upward rush of the automobile shares was led by General Motors, | which not only opened up 31-4 points | at 2071-4, but with quick sales went | by several employees of the Booth &/ to high record price 9, a gain of 15 points and a new | Willys-Overland rode closely in the |among them that he lived alone in an} wake of General Motors, selling at| 181, an Increase of 41-2 points, and a new high figure for the shares, United States Steel, which has long | been tipped in Wall Street to go to! par by the first of the year, touched | 74 shortly after noon and thus estab- lished the highest price since 1912. Tt opened at 731-8 and the first trade of 2,900 shares made for it a gain of 7-8 ‘Then, with normal fluctuations, it advanced to the year's record Pressed Steel Car also went to the Highest point it has reached in the Jast nine years, selling 63, an a vance 07 41-2 points from the open- ing. Westinghouse was another of the record-breakers. going from 121-2 to 1143-4, the inighert figure of the year Rethi¢hem Stoel did not keep in the spotlight after the opening, But this was spectag” enough, boing W points ahead or the close an Satur day. From 30°, which marked the {8.point gain. shares sold off to 292 and later re 1-8 : Rethichem preferred r to fol- low the lead of the common, and opening at 12514, climbed by steady points to 1491, Crucible Stetl, another of the ‘o- Ing to par” stocks, started the day well enough with an opening ot 88, this being 24% points above Suiur- day's closing figure, and then went by slow steps to 91's, Traders thougnt then it was surely on its way to 199 but disappointment came temporarily when the price reactte te 87% Studebaker went up with the rest of the war stocks, opening at 841-4 and rising to 867-8 within an hour after ghe gong sounded. Westinghouse ad- Svanced from’ 1121-2 to 1195-8, and Mexican Petroleum, one of the heavily tipped” issues, advanced from 78 to 4-2. | WARORDER STOCKS BOOM RECORDS ON MISSING KINDRED LED A DUAL LIFE AT WORK AND PLAY Fellow Workers of Cashier Who Stole $22,000 Tell of His Peculiarities. POLICE STILL PUZZLED. No Woman in Case and De- tectives Think Absconder May Be Drug Victim. Search by the police and private detectives into the life of Edward.c. Kindred, assistant cashier for the contracting firm of Booth & Flinn, e Who vanished last Wednesday with| Ranch, sixty miles north of Browns- $22,000, was said to-day to be leading to many startling developments. Kindred, it was said, with a dual personality. was a man So atrange | were his actions at times that {t was|reports had been received early to- suspected he was a victim of the drug habit. This suspicion was entertained Flinn Company who came in contact with him, and it was even reported apartment in West One Hundred and Sixty-third Street because he did not want anything regarding his private life revealed. “Sometimes Kindred would come down to the office roaring like a lion,” said one of the Booth & Flinn em- ployees. “He would order the men around and an outsider would’ have thought he was a member of the firm. At other times he cringing in his bearing and would speak in & subdued tone as though afraid of something that was not ap- parent to us. “On the morning. of the robbery he came to the office with his chest out, strode to where the cashier was sitting and in a loud and authoritative tone insisted that it was raining too hard for him to go out after the payroll Then, before the cashier hardly had time to say anything, he turned to Barrett, the clerk, and ordered him to come along with him to the bank.” Acting Captain Willlam Deevy of the Detective Bureau said that some- times Kindred seemed to exercise 9 hypnotic influence en those around Continued on Secotu Page.) eae WILSON APPOINTS DOWNEY, Indiann Man Named Associate Judge of Claims WASHINGTON, court. Aug, 9.-George EB Downey of Indiana, Comptroller of the Treasury, to-day was appointed by President Wilson to be an Assoctate Judge of the Court of Claims, and James W. Metarter of Bowdle, 8. D.,| was appointed Assistant Register of the Treasury, Downey succeeds to the place for which ex-Congressman A, Mitchell “almer wae chosen, but which he de- clined, It was considered practically certain that Palmer would become ceunsellor to the State Department, which hae been veeant since Robert Lansiag was appointed would be almost | MEXICANS KILLED BY U.S. SOLDIERS der to Halt Raiders Attack- ing af Different Points. Two Hundred Outlaws Cross| Into American Territory on Secret Mission. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Aug. 9. With the expectation that the United | States soldiera sent to Norias Ranch would to-day relieve the altuation| there caused the attack of Mexi-| can dandite, border oMciels here ‘eurned théir attention ‘eo reports that 9800 Mexicans had crossed the into Hidalgo Coufty; Temas, in émall Parties, and apparently were making their way to a concentration point. ‘What’ this, portended none of the officials would venture &@ guess, but it was admitted that unusual precau- tlons Were being taken by peace omi- cers and ranch owners to prevent | outbreaks. Clashes between the Mexican ban-| | dite and American forces are reported | at various points. | Details of the fight at Norias | ville, Iast night, were awaited here| with inter Owing to the isolated nature of the country there and the | tact that the bandits cut all telephone \wires from the ranch, only meagre day, These estimated the attacking forces of Mexicans as numbering from fifty to two hundred. | A number of ranchmen, later rein- |forced by a detachment of United | States soldiers and’ Texas ran; re- | pelled all attacks of the outlaws, who jleft several of their dead when fin- ally they retreated sonthward, Five of the Americans were wounded, three of the number being sold: All passenger trains were stopped last night for fear they would be wrecked by the outlaws in passing through the affected district. Col, A. P. Blockson, commanding the lower Texas border patrol, to-day déspatched additional troops to Ly- ford, Raymondville and Sebastian, to |strengthen the detachments already at those places. j It was announced at Fort Brown | that four companies of United States nfantry are being rushed to Browns- ville from Fort McIntosh, near Laredo, ea SUA BRAZILIAN MINISTER FORCED BY CARRANZA TO LEAVE MEXICO CITY. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Carranzza | officiais here said to-day the Brazilian Minister at Mexico ‘ity, the only} diplomatic representative the United States bas in Meaico, has been with- drawn by his Government because Gen. Carranza was prepared to expei him from the country, as he dic Senor Ortega, the Guatemalan Min- | ister | The Brazilian Minister reported tu} the State Department to-day that no |reason had been given for the ex- | pulsion of Senor Ortega and that he himsqif intended to sail Wednesday from Vera Cruz on @ French liner for |the United States It is believed here that Carranza |expelied the Guatemalan and was |priparing to expel the Braailian |because of the participation of thetr countries in the Pan-American con- I BORDERIGTS More Troops Rushed to Bor-|: 5 AMERICANS WOUNDED. | § —_ SS Se —— $ $ 4 Seabeesidieete 8900-064 Woman Who Must Pay $42,496 7 ho Must Pay $42,496, WOMANIS FINED * Pee FH COGS SHEE SOE ES ¢ CAPITALIST IS FREED FROM ELLIS ISLAND} Is Told He Ought Not to Have Been Detained At All, William G. Anderson, a retired capl- taliat of Vancouver, B, C., had many harsh things té say about the United States Immigration Bureau to-da; Mr. Anderson, who is partly par- alyzed, reached New York from Eng- Jand on the Lapland yesterday. Dr. Brooks of the Immigration Depart- | ment looked him over and ordered him | to Ellis Island on the ground that he) might become & public charge. “But T have railroad tickets and am going straight to British Columbia,” protested the capitalist. “Then you may y all night on| the Lapland and report at Ellis Island | tn the mornin) hysician. | Mr. Anderson ne ought | not to have been ———— SCARE FOLLOWS EXPLUSION. rves Remove Tenant Volice Re bat Firmen Quench Flam Men repairing an automobile In Will fam R. Smith & Co.'« two-story shop at| ‘0. BOK West Fifty-second Street to- were startled by a small explosion nda burst of flame from the car. In stantly the fire spread through the rear of the shop and to the upper floor. Police reserves from the Weat Forty: | peventh Street station got the tenanta| out of the nearby houses, fearing that the gasoline stored in the shop might explodé, but the firemen son checked the blaze. The loss wae than $2,000, ——>_—_— Lectorer Nat Brigham Drops Dend HAMILTON, ©, Aug. %—Nat May- | nard Brighgm, lecturer, of Whelton nn | dropped dead here to-day while board: | ing a train for his home. He was fifty nine years old and a graduate of Har-| vard in the class of 1880 He was noted ae ® lecturer during the laat several cara, but previously had been a United slates Marshal for the then territory Vuh. ving been appointed by the la Tresident Cleveland | ference in Washington for composing | Mexican affairs. ae “gt: aot and antomobiles for bump. Check ‘room for Continued on Second Page.) sss tis Gs atest 14 £ on The dévelopment is a very disturb- * Neve’ “el |ders in the republic REBEL HAYTIAN CHC GIVES UP HIS FIGHT; LAYS DOWN ARMS Bobo Dismisses His Cabinet and Orders Generals to Sub- mit to American Authority. WASHINGTON, Aug dispatehen to the Navy and Stal 9.—Officia! De- partments to-day said Gen, Bobo, the| Revolutionist leader, had formally re- signed as chief executive, dismissed his Cabinet and ordered all his gen- erals in the north to deposit thelr arms with the American.authorities at Capt Haytien. Bobo, as well as Bou- rand, another Presidential candidate have given usaurances of every ef- fort to preserve order. In virtually taking over the Haytian Government officials here sald to- day that Admiral Caperton was act- ng with the Washington Administra- tion's approval. Objections, It was added, were being raised by men who hoped to profit personally by disor but the masses were pleased at the restoration of peace, Not only had Caperton vetoed the Presidential election scheduled for yesterday on the ground that it could not safely be held with political ex- citement so high, but Paymaster Mor- fis of the cruiser Washington w adminisiering the Cape Haytien o tom house and it believed other officer wan similarly in charg at Port au Prince. Revolutionary soldiers were being disarmed, disbanded and sent home. Caperion reported outbreaks at Croix des Bouquets, Aux Cayes and Bt. Mare, but said they were prompt. ly suppressed by small American naval detachments. ™ The iy years old was found to-day in the Harlem off One Hundred atd Second Streat wan 5 feet %, weighed 148, ray brown hair and muatache, gray sack wut socks, oO ahoer eo the ar @, but noth! ‘0,96. USTPAY OR 60 T0PRSIN \Judge Assesses Mrs. Sarah Robertson Record Sum for Contempt of Court. ‘NOW OUT OF STATE. i} | Doctor’s Wife Lost $90,000 in Wall Street and Failed to Pay Brokers. The heaviest fine ever imposed by the Supreme Court of this State for contempt fell to-day upon Mre. Sarah L. Reverteon, wife or Dr. Joneph A. Roverteoe, of the Polyclinic Hogpital. Justice Gavegan fined her $42,406 for failing to appear for supplementary examination. The Court decreed that Af the fing te not paid Mrs. Robertson must’ go to Ludiow Street Jail. Mra. Robertson was last heard of in Long Branch, N. J., where she moved immediately after a $90,000 verdict | was returned against her in favor of the Wall Street brokerage firm of H. Content & Co,, with whom #he specu- lated heavily in Union Pacifle stock, Mra. Robertson, in her Wall Street career, which she carried on unknown to her husband, made a most pictur- esque figure, She gambled in Union Pacific to the tune of hundreds of thousands and recorded $160,000 in winnings in one day. A big slump \in the market wiped her out, Her | brokerage firm sold her short. She | refused to pay the loss and the bro- kers sued her, On the witness stand she declared that Harold Content, head of the firm, haa told her she couldn't lose and if she did they would carry her, because ber luck seemed phenomenal Atter the jury returned tte $90,000 verdict against her last May the bro- kerage firm attorneys collected $11,000 on the judgment and, in order to sat- isfy the whole judgment, secured an order directing her to appear for an ex- | amination into her bank accounts and property holdings. At threg of these | hearings she appeared. The sensational dinclosure | $102,000 worth of bonds and mortgages whieh she owned had suddenly disap- | peared was made by Mra, Robertson at the second hearing. She could not ac- count for the loss and an adjourn- ment was taken to give her time to search for the missing securities. She returned at the third hearing and testified that she had hunted bigh ‘and low for the bonds, but couldn't find them either in her clty home at No. 47 West Forty-ninth Street or in the Long Branch home. The latter place bad been presented te her by her first Continued on Second Page.) Hitch Your Business to Advertising SS The day |s long since passed when the merchant can sit serenely behind his counter and have the people volun. tarily seek his wares. Instead, the peo- ple now read the advertising announce- | ments in the newspapers anc know Just | where to go for what they want, The | great business Institutions and stores recognize this fact and advertise cordingly. Newspaper advertising is tl life of trade, Your advertisement spr, before the attention of 400,000 Morning World readers, with their proven ability to buy, !s one of the best investments that can be made, THE WORLD'S ADS. FoR Readers :: Reliability :: Results — tnat| | brought down at | near Black Lak ATES EXTRA ¢ GES Kheyr-ed-din Barbarossa, of Turkish Government. battleship carried four 11-inch guns 18-inch torpedo ubes. ] , PETROGRAD REPORTS CAPTURE OF MITAU ; Germans Said to Have Been Driven Rack in the Province of Courland. PETROGRAD, Aug. 9—UnoMcial reports reached here this afternoon that the Russians have driven the Germans back in the Courland and |have recaptured Mitau, The War OMce had no information to make public, —_—>—— |GERMAN AVIATORS WIN BATTLE IN AIR Berlin War Office Reports That French Aeroplanes Were Shot Down Near Ypres. BERLIN, Aug. %.~The following statement was issued to-day by the German War ©mMce “Yesterday French aeroplanes were Pammerkirch and while early to-day aeroplanes were shot down by our battle aeroplanes near Ypres, Gon- drexance and at Harboney. “Thetwo latted aeroplanes be- longed to a squadron which previous- ly had dropped bombs on the open town of Saabruecken, which is situ- ated outside the tone of operations, without doing military damage and aiightly injuring a few citisens.’ PRIOE ONE CENT. .: H BATTLESHIP TORPEDOED : AND SUNK BY SUBMARINE OF ALLIES GERMIANS CAPTURE PRAGA: CLOSE IN ON THE RUSSIANS, BETWEEN BUG AND VISTULA Czar’s Troops Fall Back to Escape 4 From Three Armies Which Are Constantly Hammering Linesand Threatening to Encircle Them. ’ BERLIN CLAIMS PROGRESS .. AT KOVNO AND LOMZA . CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 9.—The Turkish 9,900 tons formerly the German warship Kurfurst: Friedrich ‘Wilhelm, has been sunk by a submarine of the Entente powers, ac- cording to an official announcement issued to-day by the A majority of the officers and men composing the crew of the Turkish battleship was saved. [The Kheyr-ed-din-Barbarossa was built at Stettin in-1891 and was purchased, together with the battleship Torgutteis, from Germany by Ture key in 1910, The vessel was 354 feet long, 64 feet beam and had a depth of 24 feet. Her complement consisted of about 600 officers and men. The in turrets fore and aft, two 1f-ingh guns in a turret amidships, eight 4.1-inch guns, eight 3.4-inch guns and twelve one-pounders, The vessel also was equipped with two submerged BERLIN (Via London), Aug. 9.—German troops have crossed the Vistula and occupitd Praga, eastern suburb of Warsaw, the Russians falk ing back to escape capture by the German armies now closing in upon thé angle of the Bug and Vistula Rivers. Before occupying Praga German artillerymen silenced the Russian batteries, which have been conducting a spasmodic bombardment of .War- saw since the Russians were forced to abandon the Polish capital. The Slavs are falling back along the Siedice Railway, attempting to establish communication with their lines northeast of Warsaw. Bavarian troops are pressing close in pursuit and not only are harassing the Russian rear guard, but are threatening to complete the ring around the Russian armies east of Novo Georglewsk. Gen. von Gallwits, with 300,000 Ger- man troops, has arrived within jess than ten mile sof the important War- eaw-Petrograd Railway, one of the two last avenues of escape for the Slavs in the Warsaw district. A violent battle has been begun at the Bug River, south of Vysof, &@ part of von Gallwita's army is tempting to force a crossing, Ru e are making a stand behind the fortified bridgehead on the south- ern bank of the stream. The German batteries are covering acitions both north and south of the river crossing, where pontoons are being threwn across the river, Thirteen miles to the southwest the army of Gen, Helts, after oecupyitig Serock, is moving south along the highway to attempt a second crpgs- ing of the Bug west of its junction with the Rzadza River, The apparently are offering resistance but are falling back on @he river, The Germans who crossed the Vis- tula south of Warsaw are preésiag closer to the left flank of the Slave in the Wareaw-Novo Georglevsk @a- ent and the Warsaw-Siedlce rail- way, the last of the two railways by | which the Slave may make @ sue. cessful retirement. The combined operations of the threa armies fm steadily tightening the ring arowd the Slav forces and press despatches pre- dict the capture of large bodies of the enemy \ Attacking troops before Mewae have pushed forward closer to’ the fortress,” says the official “Four bundred and thirt; facluding three offtcs Beis