The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1915, Page 1

~ ~ me i asliasteeeiaeenieaanmiiined Ietibiaeel German Cruiser Sunk in Baltic by British Submarine FINAL “ Circulation Books Ope Conyrinnt, 1946) by ew BS Aad bl ONE CENT. SHELLS HIT THE ANCO. Che The Press Publist y York World). YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ‘11, WEATHER—Cloudy to-night and Fridays Warmer } — World, FINAL 1915, 22, P ese eo PRICE ONE CENT. NA’S LIFEBOATS; MANY KILLED ON DECK, SAYS CAPTAIN NEW CHARGE AGAINST WT CALL WILL BE SENT 10 GOVERNOR UNLESS HE RESIGNS AT ONC Connie ns FAMIAN ERIIER Bi IN BALTIC. ‘Thompson Committee Believes His Stock Interests Make Him Ineligible Under Law. BROKER SHIELDS BOOKS BIG BATTLE HEARD “Tries to Dodge Showing Fut! is Meals | Frauentos et ved . Off; eals in Stocks Sweden—British Submarines Account of ba | Chairman Tawara EF. Mecan ot} Attack German Squadron, | the Public Service Commilssfon will | either have to resign at once or! COPENHAGEN, Nov. 11.-Consid- fgain faco charges proforred agains Ble ove 6f life among the crew of| him before the Govern: ibthe Geran geotestha crulserdreases| Members of the Thompson in-1j,5, torpedoed by a British submarine yeotlgating committee are under-|o¢ tho Southern Swedish coast, te @tood to regard the revelations of! reported here to-day, Details are ‘Judge McCall's stock interest in the | lacking Kings County lectrte Ligh and A caunonade of terrifi intensity jPower Company as suicient to ren-| "a" heard yesterday in the nolgh- Ger thim ineligible under the law to] Baltic Sea, It le belleved ly thone hold office, who heard {t to have been the re- All (ne mombers of the committee "pave been called to New York City flor 4 meeting to-morrow. Only those sult of a British submarine attack on a German squadron. The firing lasted twenty minutes and was of such violence that row < che residing in Now York City, with ocea-| goory and windows on the Rocky @ional appearances from up-State,| Harbor were blown open. Houses have been sitting in the caso so far. © Ax attempt ws made to-day to save McCall from further revelations of bis @tock transactions. Elverton I. Chap- man, head of the former brokerage house of E. R. Chapman & o where McCall's margin account was carried, Protested against giving up the full record. Ho said ho was perfectly will- ing to show the McCall's account so far,as the Kings County Electric Light and Power Company sivck was von- weerned, but he inquired of Senator ‘Thompson: “Must I show tho full ac- wount?” “Mr. McCall sald he wanted the ac- eounts produced,” replied Thompson. (ONCE WENT TO JAIL FOR RE- FUSING. “I ones went to jali for refusing to mhow @ customer's account and | don't want to do it again,” rejoined Chap- mav. He referred to the case of @wenty years ago when as manager for the old firm of Moore & Schley ho @refused to reveal to a Congressional Committee the accounts of certain Genators in sugar stock speculation, ‘This reluctancy on the part of Chapman put a new phase on the account, ae McCall had testified that vibrated as though in an earthquake. The weather was so thick that it was} impossible to observe any of the de-| tails of the engagement. ji a This is the first news of tho sink- ing of the Frauenlos, Her name does not appear in any available German naval list. Fehmarn Sound is a channel less} than a quarter of a mile broad, sepa- rating the Prussian Island of Feh- marn, off Femern, from the mainland of Holstein, Fehmarn Island ties about thirty-seven miles east of the entrance to Kie! Harbor. SHOT WIFE IN WOODS, THEN LEFT HER TO DIE Wounded Woman Lay All Night in Lonely Place Where Kozun Attacked Her. John Kozun, twenty-one, and Tes- sie, his wife, nineteen, boarded for the last threo months with Vlasko and| Tessie Baranack in the tiny thr rec fhe bad no other stocks than tho Mihge County Company holdings, |f0°m rear tenement on the second | ‘Whether thera were other transac. |M00r of No. 127 Washington | tions in the account is not definitely wero Bolemians who expected r fortunes he: to make th ut the best John could do waa to get oc- casional employment at small pay. A month ago Tessie’a condition compelled her to stop work. She spent most of her time in bed, John worried. Also he began to break down under the strain of constant standing at bis work, During the last week the neighbors heard him singing boisterously and making vain boasts about his wealth John took Tessio to New Jersey at @ o'clock Jast evening, telling her thoy would visit his sister at Westwood, ra, known. Senator Thompson said the ‘extent of the stock relations was up to MoCall and Chapman. If they ‘wished to hold back anything it wus ‘ep to them to decide. The subpoena called for the McCall and Freedman fecounts and the committee has a wight to seo them entire if it insists. After interviewing counsel to the @ommittes, Chapman went out to @onsult counsel of hisown, Arrange- fhents had been mado for an expert @ecountant to go with him this after- oon to his country home on Long Island, where the books of the firm have been kept since it gave up Stock | Instead he helped her off the train at, Eesticrs bisivess, River Edge, ne ackensack, andy RAO led her thremrh the woods, Suddenly ‘While waiting for developments In |jy wheeled and fired a. pistol the stock account, the Thompson |into her neck. ‘Then he ran aw committes continued its delving into | | ‘Tessie lay ait might in the woods, | the proceedings of tho Public Servieo | oahg were heard this mornin and Commission favoring the company in jshe was taken to the Hackensack which McCall held stock, although | Hospital, where her condition is said | Suserting that he had given it to his | to be serious. ¥a) ‘rinceton Gi mens |} trains (o KContigued on Fourth Page) New Maven Svveubus feSee adtsAdr | yesterday | set THIRD MUNITION FIRE WIPES OUT TRENTON MILL German Agents Suspected of Firing Roebling Plant, Busy on British Orders. |LOSS PUT AT $1,000,000. Adjacent Mill Just Fitted Up for Making Gunbarrels Is Saved. al to The Brveatng World.) TRENTON, Nov, 11.—The wire rope mi of the John A. Roebling'’s Sons’ | Company wae destroyed by fire in the | early hours to-day. Like the fires! in the Bethlehem Steel the Baldwin Locomotive lestroying war munitions the some to have been | interests of the Europe. | the loss plant and plant fire Ss believed by to further tho Teutonle armies battling in A conservatly of to the Roeblings !s $1,000,000, Tao wire rope mill was working; day and night on an order for steel cable Despite vials it is the un- derstanding here the rope is being used for the British net device for catching submarines. Vast coils of finished rope, still red hot and quite ruined, He in the roofles inclosure, covering a whole block in the Cham- bersburg section of the city. There were 600 men at work tn the plant, but so far as the police have been able to learn no lives were Fireffen had narrow escapes estimate |when portions of the wall fell. As soon as the naturo of the fire was known heavy police and private guards were placed about ail the other buildings of the Roebling plant. SECOND MILL, SEVERAL TIMES ON FIRE, SAVED. ‘The wire mill, a block and a half of which was recently remodelled and equipped for the manufacture of rifle batrels for the Midvale Stee! | & Ordnance Company, was in the} track of the volume of flames sweep- ing out of tho rope mill. was reported alight several times. Tho owners of the property gave out this statement: “We cannot explain the cause of! the fire. The iiding burned was used for the production of small rope, and our factory for heavy rope was net affected, About 1,000 men are thrown out of employment, and the loss is approximately $1,000,000, “We will use new buildings, about completed, for the manufacture of this small rope, and expect to be in operation within two month The wire-produothe part of our plant {s| |intact and also our steel works, and other manufacturers will help putting our wire rope in marke hape." As soon as the first firemen ar- rived every pleco of fire apparatus but one in the city was called to the plant and appeals for help were sent to Princeton and Lambertville qnd to Bristol, Pa. AJl sent apparatus and men, The Cire was under control be- fore they arrived. Several tenements adjoining the rope mill were burned, The ten- ants, warned early, had evacuated their homes, taking out what house- hold goods they could carry and pil- ‘SQUTHERNER KILLS |his friends fe was known as a "goo Tho root |; KAISER GIVES MEDALS TO MRS, J. W. GERARD WIFE AND SELF IN. HOTEL MALPIN. | Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Rup-| pert of Richmond, Va., Found Dead in Room. MYSTERY IN\ MOTIVE. | Slayer a Well-to-Do Real E | tate Dealer Who Gave Up His Business, | | | | | ‘Three revolver shots from a room | | On the third floor of ths Hotel Mc- Alpin caused an alarm to be sent to! | the office fust before 1 o’clock to-day. | | Austin Dennis and Robert Dunlop, |hallmen, under directions from an assistant manager, broke down the |door of the room, which had been occupied since Tuesday by a couple) who registered as Mr. and Mr#,| Henry C. Ruppert of Richmond, Va. | The man was about thirty-five years | {and the woman about five years | younger. | The woman waa lying dead on the bed, There were bullet wounds over | WS ED) her left ear and near her mouth. | The man was dead on the floor, In| First Time He Has Decorated a MMe right hand was a heavy auto- 7 matic ptetol. He had shot himself Woman Not of the Royal Blood. | through the mouth. | RICHMOND, Va. Nov. 11.—H. ©. —_ ‘7 Ruppert, who killed himself and his erie WAAR eine tanned Mrs, James W. Gerard, wife of the wife in the Hotel McAlpin in New |American Ambassador, with Red York, was a native of Richmond and} was generally supposed to be well-to-| Grogs gold medals of the first and | second class. do, For some years he was engaged in the real estate business here. A! ‘pis is the first time the Kaiser haa month ago he sold out and also dis-| ever given a decoration to a woman posed of his home in tho fashionable | not of royal blood, west end, saying that he and his wife! ho Kaiser also awarded Red Croas were going to Califorania on account medals of the second and third classes of her health, \to Rey, 8, Barclay of Cobham, Va, Ruppert had been married once be-/and John B, Jackson of New Jersey, fore and had been divorced. Among | Both have been active in investigat~ ) Mg Prison camps and suggesting Lm- provements, as thoy know his oo His 2) MANHATTAN HOLDS 2,295,671 NOW Fleming MR® J. Ww. Garmaro Or liver,” andfas tar domestic rélations were happy. aged mother still resides here. ond wife was formerly Kitt the divorced wite of Pierce of this city. tle elty 'BRITISH HOPE TO JUSTIFY |Poticc Figures show a Gain for| Borough of 192,465 Since Recent Census SEARCH OF ZEALANDIA’ Believe American Ship Was Three pany Miles Off Shore When Boarded | 4* | was « police census of the Borough of ttan, which the Mayor ordered requestef the Board of Health, mpleted yesterday and Com- and So Not In Neutral Waters. | ». ner Emerson sald to-day the WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Britisn 7! ea wed yataal ne eee authorities hero investigating the re-| 11.4 the recently taken State census ported forcible search of the Amori-) "ony. joard of Health's statisticians jcan steamer landia at Progreso, | 4); 1 the population of the whole Mexico, by a party from a British city, July 1, at 6806082, Dr. Eimer: criiser have information which leads said to-day thi nate must be thein to believe the Zealandia when scaled done tine i oun haa searched way lying more than three dered by war conditions. ‘Tho police miles off shore and was therefore not ¢ the other boroughs will be t, in a neutral port but on the high seas. taken as Nn as possible, Dr They are investigating further and son says, so that the death r the State Department 1s making in-) other averages may be tabulated quiries. arly Latest information to British sources a is that the Zealandia, which has been suspected of being engaged in unneu- | tral operations since she cleared mys- |tertously from Pensacola, Fla,, last | month, was intending to Ko from the Mexican port to Sweden, She car-| ried rosin, which {s used for making shrapnel, BRITISH S. S, CARIA SUNK BY SUBMARINE, hem in the street a block away, Se rrr Vessel Was a Cunarder of 3,032 Tho building was a modern four- PIMLICO WINNERS. With Home P story structure, with wooden floors, fons, With Home Port stec! doors and shutters and nume Liverpool. ous large emergency ex: I supposed to embody the latest prin. | LONDON, Nov, 1.-The British | ciples of slow burning construction msbip Caria Was sunk by a Gor-| except fur the floors, whic:. were oil | P' ubmarine to-day. Where the soaked, This condition accounts for | i occurred Was not announced, the rapid spread of the flames, once | bo crew Was saved they had started, Those who iold to | The Caria was a Cunarder of 3,082 ‘ (Continued on Fourth Page.) toms. She sailed from Liverpool, Lome port, op Yet, 7 for Naples. her was atin, SHELL FIRE RAINED AROUND ANCONA AS VICTIMS FLED Some Terrorized Passengers Scrambled Into Boats, Others Leaped Into Water. MANY KILLED BY SHOTS. One Survivor Says the Liner Was Making Fifteen Miles an Hour. MALTA, Nov. 11.—Scenes of wild panto preceded the sinking of the Ttallan liner Ancona. Men fought over blood-spattered decks for places in the Mfeboats. Shrieking, terror- stricken women leaped into the sea, some with children in thelr arms. Passengers badly wounded by the submarine’s shrapnel and unable to move, went down with the steamer as she disappeared beneath the waves, “Wo left Messina at 6 o'clock Sun- said one of the Italian survivors. “At Messina we picked up 130 third-class passengers, principally Greeks and Italians bound for New York, The majority of them were women aud children, with some ba- bi “At about 1 o'clock Monday after- nodn we sighted the submarine com- tng up astern. “The submarine was several miles away, but was dashing at us at great speed, We could see she wan @ big one the way she split the water over her bow? “Our Captain ordered full ahead, In a minute the submarine fired. Tho shot went wild, caused the greatest panic among the passengers. Women and children ran about, screaming and crying and going down on their knees, “The next shot struck aft, where a number of passengers and several of the crew were watching the chase, }Soveral men were killed outright, 1 un- | derstand. “One shot wrecked the chart-house, blowing fragments over the deck, When the next shell struck us the engines stopped. “In a few minués she was alongside us—the biggest thing of her kind I ever saw. Her commander mega- phoned a curt order to our captain to get off his passengers and crew. Then the submarine withdrew a short dis- tance with her gu. trained on us. “The first boats struck the water all right, But the fourth one, I think it was, capsiged. Then some- thing seemed to go wrong and boats be ding down the side, stiking jalmost on edge, Most of them right- Jed themselves, but others capsized, Tho crew kept yelling that some of the the lowering | “Then women ted jumping. Men threw boxes into the water abe: of them and tried to ewin to them, “The submarine began circling | around us, shelling the Ancona und the boats, One buat seemed to bo struck squarely by a charge of sbrap- nel, Men and women were shrieking speed | ing for help from the water. ae didn’ t see the torpedo shot, All L was a big explosica, id dr moment before | saw the An- cona clearly, The noise of the explo- }sion stunned me, When | looked \ayain she was gone. Our boat drifted} for several hours befuro tt was j Picked up.” —_—————— i $12 Men's O’coats & Suits, $5.95 | PAE #HUB" Clothin, way, cor, Barclay 8i Building, will sell tom Corwer, Broad: | opp. Woolworth ay ‘and Friday, 1,000 Men's Suits and Overcoats, tne Diack «dbet, Keays, pe dark mixed worsted; all af ‘Our special price to-day a sal ie? wadyh Friday, 95.95. Clothier Broedway, cor Barclay at. \ but it} sengers were interfering with | from the boats; others were scream- “ direct to New York, but WOMEN LEAPED OVERBOARD, CHILDREN DIED IN A PANIC AS UNER'S BOATS CAPSIZED Survivors Contradict Statement of Captain That No Warning Was Given; Describe a Chase During Which Many Shots Were Fired. 11 AMERICANS ON LINER; DEAD ESTIMATED AT 176. A report from Tunis to-day quotes the captain of the Italian liner Ancona as charging that no warning wax givett/by the submarine whicti sank his ship and that he “stopped dead” at the first shots. He declares lifeboats were hit by shells as they were being loaded. Passengers who were thrown into the water were not permitted to get on the submarine, The captain's story contradicts the statements of some of the sur- vivors, who declared there was a long chase before the Iiner was sent to the bottom. If the captain's charge {s true the whole question of submarine warfare is brought to the front again, and President Wilson | may have to engage in a controversy with the Austrian Government | similar to that which took place with Germany. There are contradictory reports as to whether one or two sub marines attacked the liner. An officer who landed at Cape Bon de- clares he saw two, There are also contradictions as to the number of shots fired. A Reuter despatch says there was one submarine and that the fifth shot carried away the chart house, He declares orders were given to aban- don the ship and that the submurine drew away a short distance. Many | shots were fired around the ship to hasten the loading of boats. This caused wild panic and the capsizing of boats. A despatch from Malta declares that when the submarine was sighted the captain ordered ful! steam ahead. Then a shot was fired, “which went wild.” [This was probably a signal to stop.] The next shot, this story says, struck aft and killed several pas- »| sengers. Many other shots are said by this correspondent to have been fired. This correspondent also tells of the wild panic and capsizing-of boats. Shots were fired as fast as possible. It is declared shots were fired at lifeboats. A despatch from Rome says the Ancona sought to escape and sent United States Consul White reports from Naples that there were only eleven Americans on board. | Latest reports say that 176 persons perished First Shot From U-Boat Hit Liner, Says the Captain LONDON, Nov, 11.—A Stefani News Agency despatch from Tunis says: “The commander of the Ancona, who reached here Thursday, de- clares the submarine gave his vessel no signal to stop. The first sign of \the presence of the submarine was shells from a distance of five miles, which grazed the steamer. The Ancona stopped dead, “Subsequently shells hit the boats which were being made ready for ‘launching, and many passengers were killed or wounded on the deck {and in the boats. Some of the passengers who had been thrown into the water approached the submarine, but were repelled and derided. inally shells and torpedoes were fired at the Ancona from a dis- ; tance of 300 yards.” A Reuter despatch from Malta @= eres says a panic which began as #00n'S8 | leaving port received a wirelpss men- the submarine was sighted was re-|sage directing us to stop at Messina sponsible for much loss of life, I ae more passengers and cargo, The people aboard wero mostly Grecks mad rush for safety, men, women) aig falians with large families, om Jand children overwhelmed the boats, | their way to the United States to set- several of whith were overturned] tie there. ‘The majority, therefore, before they could be lowered, Many! were women and children, of the occupants tell Into sea andy “We left Messina at 6 P. M. The were drowned, captain, having been warned of the “We left Naples with a fairly large | presence of enemy submarines, took number of passengers," says the! all possible precautions. At exactly Reuter despateh, “intending to eatl|1 o'clock Monday afternoon m wo Se te gee