The evening world. Newspaper, November 12, 1915, Page 1

' Unmarried Britons to Be Forced to Join Army FINA a rR pene L @be oF RtCs 0 ONE CO ENT. (The New Vi Coprrigtt, 1018, by The Press Publishing ork Wor! NEW YORK, FRIDAY, “NOVEMBER. 12, 1 915. 24 PAGES — Rain probable to: and Fight night; Saturday fair and colder, FANAL PRICE ONE CENT. — ‘DISMISS M’CALL, DEMANDS COMMITTEE | __IN CHARGES PREPARED FOR GOVERNOR STERN RULE OF ADOPTED BY G CONSCRIPTION REAT BRITAIN TO RAISE STILL BIGGER ARMY Lord Derby Announces That Draft- ing of Unmarried Men Will Begin Nov. 30—None Medically Fit Can Evade Service. LONDON, Nov. 12.—That conscription will begin in Great Britain on Nov. 30 is indicated by a proclamation issued by Lord Derby, Director of Recruiting, with the Authority of Premier Asquith. “If,” said Lord Derby, “young men medically fit and not indis- pensable in any business of national importance or any business conducted for the general good of the community before Nov. 30 the Government wi not come forward voluntarily Il, after that date, take the necessary steps to redeem the pledge made Nov. 2. “Whether a man is indispensable or not to his business will be de- ded, not by the man or his employers, but by competent authorities and tribunals which are being set up to consider such cases.” (The pledge of Nov. 2 referred to was Premier Asquith's statement in the House of Commons that if young ™en did not enlist voluntarity and conscription had to be adopted, mar- ried men would be the last taken to the colors.) The Manchester Guardian inter- prets the new recruiting announce- Ment to mean actual compulsion for unmarried men. “To talk of voluntary enlistment to @ man who is told that if he does not enlist voluntarily he will be enlisted all the same," the newspaper says, “ig to insult his intelligence as’ well 4s to command his person. The sys- tem which the Press Bureau's state- ment appears to contemplate ts not @ voluntary system at all so far as Unmarried men are concerned.” A despatch to the Dally Express from Geneva, Switzerland, says a mensage received there from Buchar- est states that the Russians have as- cended the Danube River from the Black Sea, through Roumanian terrl- tory, and have landed a small force of men and guns near Silistria. Bilistria is on the southern bank of the Danube, In Roumanian terri- tory, thirty miles east of the point where the river reaches Bulgarian soll. ‘Troops landed there could strike the Bulgarians in thelr rear. Reports have been current that Russia had asked Roumania to per- mit troops to cross the Roumanian soll to attack Bulgaria. Permission was sald to have been denied, and it ‘was reported Roumania had seized the interned Russian vessels which g@ought to go up the Danube with guns for the Serbs.) The Times's Balkan correspondent declares that if the Russians send 200,000 men into Serbia while the Anglo-French troops are landing at Balonica both Roumania and Gree: may fight for the allies. In that! event, he says, Roumania could at- tack the German rear with 200,000 men and use 400,000 men In a frontal | attack. POPE SAVED WOMEN CONDEMNED IN BELGIUM His Plea Responsible for Commuta- tion of Sentence of Alleged Spies, ROME, Nov. 12.—For the commuta- tion of sentence granted by the Kalser to tho Countess de Belleville, Mule, Loulge Thulier and Louis Sev- erin, condemmed to death in Belgium on charges of espionage, a plea from the Pope for mercy was responsible! i the Osservatore Romano says to-day. 1 NEW YORKER HELD ON FRAUD CHARGE John Wesley De Kay Accused in Connection with Arms Supply to Belgians. LONDON, Nov, 12.—John Wesley De Kay of New York was remanded in the Bow Street Police Court to- day on the charge, it is alleged by the police, of fraud in France in connec- tion with the supply of rifles to the Belgian Government. Ball was not allowed, PROVIDENCR, R. 1, Nov. 12, John Wesley DeKay is under indict- ment in the Fede: Court here charged with aiding and abetting in the misapplication of funds of the Atlantic National Bank. He was never arrested on this charge, al- though his brother, Henry E, DeKay was tried and convicted, his case now being on appeal. Mexican Na- | tional Packing Company bonds fig- tired prominently in the trial John Wesley De Kay was born near New Hampton, la, He is an author, and is a member of several New York and Boston clubs, For some time he headed the Mexican National Packing | Company, which operated under con- {cessions by a former Government of Mexico, In the spring of 1914 he went to Europe on a mission to purchase arms Jand ammunition for the Government of Provisional President Huerta pee Ee WINNERS AT PIMLICO. FIRST RACE elaine PML | WACy Wit lis” ia Shih. a aexart). Hie er second; ides io MoCaney t ehew 83.0 “OL 4, ‘Harry ‘uty itil map, INLONDON COURT SOUTHERN BEAUTY SLAIN BY HER HUSBAND, WHO THEN KILLED HIMSELF $94-94606464-0- OO898 OOS4-8O6£S69O9-9-4 SCBS98046:26-00-26:3¢. ROSALIE RLOPER JEALOUS WIFE'S RAGE REVEALED IN A DIARY CAUSED DOUBLE CRIME |Ruppert’s Act Followed Series of Quarrels—Bodies Are Taken Back Home. The. parents of Mrs. Rosalie Rup- pert, the beautiful woman whose flerce and violent jealousy of her hus- band caused him to kill her and com- mit suicide at the Hotel McAlpin yes- terday afternoon, arranged to-day for the transportation of both bodies to Richmond for burial. The diary of the husband, H. Carl Ruppert, fur- nished a bistory of the pair's tragedy more complete than could have been gathered from any other soure The Coroner and the police, after reading it, were satisfied that the trip of reconciliation after months of quarrelling and separation had grown into @ continuous succession of wild fits of savage outbreaks by the wom- an followed by just as wild reactions of tender affection. Ruppert's body was covered with black and blue marks and scratches. Such a quarrel began when they arose yesterday morning and inter- rupted their dressing for hours until the young real estate dealer's self | control seems to have brokenHe had |sold out his business in Richmond |apparently 1 the hope that their rec- oncillation would be permanent and they could begin life anew tn California. Thé last entry tn the diary read: “Wednesday, Noy. 10.—About 7 A M. Rosalie is very mad. Begins to dig her finger nails in me and fight me, One thing brings on another and | tell her about my trip in Richmond during fair week. She continues to fight. I am scratched all up and bruised, I sit around the room walt- ing for our trunks. Rosalie gets up and beats me up some more, She writes to her mother”’—— ionererentrhin Portugal Wants Amertcan Goodn, | Col, Thomas H. Bireh, American Min- |leter to Portugal, one of the passengers ‘abre Line jont ship Patria, which ars s}rived hery to-day, has returned for a vacation until Jan. 1 at his home tn | Burlington, N. J. He sald that there Was ® great demand tn Jortugal for jAmerican yoods and that the mark Made In U.S. A." Invarlubly effected 4 6. count: added, had uot yor aitested by the war, ‘YOUNG MILLIONAIRE ENGAGED 10 WED KILLS HIMSELF Old, of Chicago Had Suicidal Notions Since Boyhood. WROTE TO SWEETHEART “T Will Always ‘Think of, You | and You Will Know,” He Said —Was to Marry Nov. 16. CHICAGO, Nov. 12.—Warren M. Peabody, twenty-one years old and a millionaire by inheritance, whose body was found last night in his home beside a vial which had con- tained poison, committed suicide while temporarily insane, according to the verdict of a Coroner's jury to- day. From the ttme Peabody was a small boy the idea of suicide seemed attractive to him, was the testimony of his mother, the widow of Hiram B. Peabody, a millionaire real estate operator. her son was engaged at the time of his death and was on good terms with hia fiancee, Miss Louise Anderson of Memphis, Tenn. have been married next week, Several notes written by the young man, who about two months father's estate of 00,000, were read at the inquest, indicating that he was despondent over the condition of his health. In one of these Peabody stated that he believed death would bring him more happiness than had life, Another letter purporting to be the young man's last word to his flancee was given the Deputy Coroner by the police, It read: “I have gone. You must not look for me, It will be useless, I love you. You must be brave, It won't be long. I will keep you warm and happy in the land of the great forest and the rolling prairies, I will always think of you, and you will know ARREN" (Please destroy). MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov, 12,—War ren M. Peabody, the young million: who committed suicide in Chicago last night, was engaged to be married on Noy. 16 to Miss Louise Anderson, daughter of T, Carey Anderson, of this city, The young woman is pros. trated. Mrs. Anderson declared there had been no disagreement of any kind between the two. i BRITISH STEAMER SUNK; HER CREW MAY BE LOST Only One Survivor Landed From the Rhineland, Torpedoed by Submarine. LONDON, Nov. 12.—The British steamship Rhineland has been sunk by a German submarine. Up. to the landed, Thirty-eight Lascars and seven Ku- ropeans, part of the crew of the Brit- Ish steamship Clan Macalister wero landed to-day. The Clan Macalister, & vessel of 4,885 tons, was sunk, Nov, 10. The Rhineland was of gross and was built in 1993. She was 24 feet long, 35 feet beam and 21 feet deep. She was owned in Liver- pool by the Liverpool and Hamburg Steamship Company. 1,501 tons Mrs, Peabody testified that | The couple were to} ago | came into possession of half of his| Me present only one survivor has been | INDICT 5 CONVICTS FOR THEIR ACTS IN File Charges Against Thirty in All. jRALLY FOR OSBORN Warden’s Meeting—To Make Plea to Whitman. (Special to ‘The Evening World.) WHITE PLAINS, Noy, 12.—It was reported to-day that the Westchester County Grand Jury which has been conducting an inquiry into felonies committed by convicts in Sing Sing Pridon has already found five indiot- ments against inmates for assaults. The investigation to-day took up several stabbings of convicts, and the principal witnesses were “Judge” | Willett of the Mutual Welfare League, Joe Rotolo and W. H. Thompson, all of whom were Inmates of Sing Sing at the time of the assaults. It is believed that before the in- vestigation comes to a close at least | thirty convicts will be indicted and will have to stand trial here as soon as their terms in Sing Sing expire. It was announced to-day that & |meeting of prominent men and wo- men who are interested in the prison reform work now being carried on by Warden Osborne would be held at Heather Dell Farm, the country es- |tate of Adolph Lewisohn at Ardsley, | to-morrow afternoon, It will be un- der the auspices of the members of lthe National Committee of Prisons and Prison Labor, and steps will probably be taken to urge Gov, Whit- man to put the “soft pedal” on the Grand Jury Investigation so far as the Waren is personally concerned. The speakers at the meeting will be Dr, Hastings H. Harte, Chairman of the Jat! Committee of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison La- bor, and Prof, George W. Kirchwey, former dean of Columbia Law School snd assistant to Warden Osborne, Ac- cording to the invitations issued the guests of honor wil) be Warden Os- |borne and Dr, Katharine B, Davis, nmissioner of Correction of Man- | hattan, Mrs, Ralston H, Brown of Dobbs | Perry, daughter of the late Col, Rob ert Ingersoll, who represents the | Prison Welfare Ledgue, will also at- | the meeting, which promises to | be the most important held in the in- terest of prison reform, pede! = <ched SE DIVORGEE KILLS HERSELF IN ROW WITH CHAUFFEUR | First Shoots Seventeen - Year - Old Boy in Auto—Riding in Moun- tains Near Troy, TROY, N. ¥., Nov. 12—Mrs, Maud Gardner Baker, twenty-seven years 1, killed herself here last night after an attempt to shoot Raymond Clark, |a weventeon-year-old chauffeur, with whom she had quarreled. Mrs. Baker, a divorced woman, re- siding in Troy, had been spendin some time at the home of her moth in etersburg, and there met Clark Last night the coupl d while driving over the Petersburg Moun- tains In dn automobile and the Woman fired at her companion, The latter fell from the m wounded, while Mrs, Baker, jumping continued shooting. In the Clark escaped further in- jury. det into her awn body, ‘The woman fired the last bul- | SING SING PRISON iN Warren M. Peabody, 21 Years) Westchester Grand Jurors May Friends Will Hold | HEAD OF P. S. BOARD WHO IS UNDER FIRE OF STATE PROBERS. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER MECALL WILSON AND CABINET TALK DEFENSE PLANS Will Try to Avoid a Bond Issue in Raising Money to Meet Expenses of Greater Army and Navy. WASHINGTON, Nov, 12.—Premident Wilson conferred with his Cabinet for an hour, the first Cabl- net meeting since July, The sessions, which will now be held ‘Tuesday and Friday, promise to be the most important of the present Administra tion. It was stated the meeting to-day was not due to any crisis arising out of the sinking of the Ancona. Owing to the fact that reports on the: An- |cona thus far have been so conflicting that the Administration is without definite knowledge of the ails, the incident discussed by the Cabinet. The principal subject taken up was how to raise the to-day was not money for carrying out the defense plans, No definite conclusion was reached, but the pre- vailing idea was to avoid a bond issue. The subject will be consid ered further at conferences between the President and Democratic leaders of the Senate and House. * Secre Houston sald“ that the agricultural interests of the country were in very good conditton. Other optimistic reports of business cond! tions were laid before the Cabinet. -_———=>_—. iBIG ARTILLERY BATTLE IN THE REGION OF LOOS French War Office Reports Silenc- ing of German Batteries and Wrecking of Works, PARIS, Nov, 12.—A spirited bom- bardment in the section of Loos is mentioned in the following report from the Freneh War Office: “There was an active boinbardment yesterday in which both sides took part, In the sectors of Loos and of the ‘Fosse Calon. in the region of Bus, in the Artois district, our ar- tillery reduced to silerice certain en- emy batteries which were firing on our troops, “Along the remainder of the front the fighting with mines has continued with success, “In the Argonne district, at Hill No. P. 9. CHAIRMAN DEFIANT, REFUSES 10 RESIGN AND WILL HIGHT REMOVAL 10 FINISH Whitman Phoned Probers to Get Charges’ Before Him at Once— Will Probably Set Hearing of Chairman Nov. 24. “BOSS” MURPHY’S SENATOR DECLINES TO CAST VOTE Edward E. McCall, Chairman of the Public Service Commission, refused to resign to-day, and the Thompson Legislative Committee promptly voted to prefer charges against him to the Governor. “I won't resign,” exclaimed McCall yigorously. ‘ Friends ani ‘associates sought to counsel with ifm, but he shook them off and defiantly declared he would not quit under fire and that he intended to fight the thing out, The Thompson committee went into executive session at noon and formally voted to prefer the charges. McCall’s Tammany friends and political allies deserted him and made no attempt to save him. Of the three Democratic members of the committee, two of them, Senator James A. Foley, from “Boss” Murphy's own district, and Assemblyman Charles D, Donohue of Manhattan, responded “present, but not voting.” The third Democrat, Assemblyman Frederick S, Burr of Brooklyn, voted with the Republican members TRY TD KISS TEAGHER AND GET ARRESTED Boys Who Did It Were in Un- graded Class—Both Are Arraigned. Miss Mathilde Weill, of 60 Bast Fighty-ninth street, a pretty young substitute teacher, has always been popular with her pupils, but never until she was assigned to a clase in Public School No. 30, at No. 280 East Kighty-elghth Street, did her popular- ity reach such an alarming stage as o drag When she took charge of her new class, yester- day, however, she made such an im- that two of the boys threw their arms about her and tried to kiss her, She appeared to-day as complainant against them before Jus- tice Collins in the Children's Court. Miss Welll's new pupils composed what {s called an ungraded class, In it were Jacob Witowsky, 13 years old, and Raymond Maloney, 11 years old. During the afternoon lesson, Miss Weill said, young Witowsky suddenly her and flung his arms her, She struggled and Ma- loney, she says, came to Witowsky’s aid and also seized her. They all crashed through a glass door, Frtght- ened, the two boys released Miss Weill and returned to their seats, Witowsky, who lives at No, 309 Bast Ninety-fifth Street, was brought into court to-day, Justice Collings Issued al her into court, mediate bit approached about ab, we ves veld & counter-a'tack P¥|pench warrant for the other boy, after| j Means OF & spall mine against certalD| hearing Miss Welll's story, Witowsky | work where the Germans were show- ; was held for further investigation Jing much activity, To the north of pen | Flirey the explosion of a: suck} and later the Maloney boy, who ves | mine WAS successful in Wrecking cer-| at No. 102 East Ninety-elghth Street, |tain galleries pushed forward by thel way arraigned enemy and preventing the continuance, 4" AITMKMIC of this wor | $12 Men's 's| 0’ coats & Suits, $5.95) THE “H hing Corner, Broad- ay. cor. Barony St. opp. Woolworth Bul Hdings will o-day and Saturday 1000 ‘Men's Bult» and Overcouta ting ke thibet, penell stvipes and all a M to 44, day and ‘Saturday ay night till 10. The roadway, cox, Seralar a of substitute class Education for assigning a young cher to an ungr for e pases gue open day ahd want, “pelepbest in favor of the charges. Burr's district has suffered so much from public service commission fatl- ures to give transit and lighting relief that Burr joined heartily in the move for McCall's expulsion. The vote in committee was ayes seven, noes none, not voting, two. Chairman McCall gave out the fol- lowing statement this afternoon im the rooms of the Public Service Com- mission: “Edward E. McCall was asked this afternoon if he had anything to say regarding the action of the Legisla- tive Committee, He sald: “I shall not make any statement. I shall maintain a dignified course throughout. If it becomes necessary in any proper place, before the proper authorities, I will say all that is to be said.” GOVERNOR PHONED URGING AC- TION AT ONCE, Immediately ufter the decision Sen- ator Thompson and Merton E. Lewis, counsel, began preparation of the formal charges, which will be come pleted to-night and forwarded to Albany. Gov. Whitunan telephoned to the committee asking that no time be lost getting the charges before him, as he waned to read them over and arrange to serve the required notice upon McCall, It was arranged that the Governor would notify McCall on Monday of the charges being filed and give bim the statutory ten days in which to answer. ‘This will bring MeCall's trial before the Governor on Wednes- day, Nov, 24, if he elects to appear and dots net resign in the Mean time, The committee determined to have their charges include four specifiea- tions, as follows: 1, Violution of the law by having Jowned stock in the Kings County Electric Light & Power Company, a corporation subject to supervision of the Public Service Commission, The committee contends that te mere handing over of the certificates and "| dividend checks of this stock to Mra, McCall without any formal transfer or signed evidence did not constitute a genuine disposition of his interest, JOINED IN PROCEEDINGS, AL- THOUGH HE DIDN'T VOTE, 2, Participation In proceedings of the Public Service Commission in the application of the Edison Rlectrio I- Jasnipating Company of Brvoklyn, to acquire certain stock of the ‘dam Blec#ic Company, both of them