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ss cater wa tid . S. Aids Inquiry on Disaster at Du Pont Powder Plant FINA EDITION __ PRICE “ONE CENT. L The [*Cirentation Books Open to All. 1 Copyright, 1915, by Co. (The New York World). The Press Publishing NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1915. ‘irculation Books Open to Al 18 PAGES Cloudy and warmer to-night. Thursday unsettled, . FINAL? PRICE ONE ‘CENT. _ | SERB KING IN FLIGHT FROM BULGARS; 17,000 MORE OF HIS: TROOPS:ARE TAKEN. ANOTHER POWDER EXPLOSION AT DU PONT PLANT FOLLOWS DISASTER IN WHICH 30 DIED Crash at Jersey Works Spreads New Alarm While Blowup Investigation Is On. IN YARD More of Yesterday’s Victims | Expected to Die—U. S. Takes Part in Inquiry. FIRE ALSO. WILMINGTON, Del., Dec, 1.—There was an explosion of smokeless pow- der early to-day at the du Pont pow- der plant at Carney’s Point, N. J. across the Delaware River from this city, No one was hurt and the prop- erty damage was slight, company of- fictals say. The flash of the explo- sion waa seen by persons in this city, aa it occurred just at dawn, and the sound was heard, but most people knew nothing about it until several hours later, Company officials said the crash was what !s called a “flare-up” in al blending mill, but the few employees in the plant were not touched by the flash. There was also a small fire in the Hagley yard of the Du Pont plant here to-day Coming so close after the terrific explosion of yesterday in which thir- ty men and boys lost their lives, thes h@ynenings caused anxiety among resi- dents in the nelghporhood of the com- pany’s plants here and in New Jersey. It was explained by officials, however, that these flare-ups are of frequent occurrence and could be ascribed to different causes. ‘There have been no more deaths among the five injured in the Hagley explosion of yesterday. It is feared, | however, that some of them will die. One of the injured, Edwin Davis, | left the hospital to-day. Louis Booker, who died in a hospital last) night, making the death list thirty, left a widow and eight small children, No statement was forthcoming from the company to-day as to the possible | cause of yesterd sys disaster, Officials | are prosecuting a thorough investi-| gation. Some of the officers believe | that the cause will never be known, as) all the men who were near the pack- ing house when it blew up pre dead ‘The injured still in the hospital were some distance from the packing house | and apparently have no knowledge of the origin of the blast, Deputy Coroner Nichols took charge of the remains of the v tims, nearly all of which, however, were but human fragments, and be-| gan an Investigation, Later he will| summon a jury and a formal inquest will be held. Reports that notices had been found nailed to trees and fences leading to the Du Pont plants at Upper Hagley and at Carney's Point, warning em- ployees of Teutonic origin they would imperil their lives by continuing to work in either place, were receiving 3 to-day | at tho attention of the big force of de- | tectives on the case to-day, These reports were discredited both by the investigators and officials, After such rts had gained considerable cir- lation several days ago, the com- pany made thorough investigation and declared they had found absolutely nothing to substantiate them, WASHINGTON, Dec, 1,—Assistant Attorney General Warren announced to-day that a Department agent will be sent to Wilmington to investigate the du Pont Powder factory explo- sion, ‘Warren said the agent will co-oper- ate with the State authorities in an effort to ascertain the cause of the explosion and the persons respou- sible, . GIANT BATTLEPLANE TO GARRY HEAVY GUNS New German Machine Steered From a Bridge Like a Steamship. LONDON, Dee. 1—A German battleplane steered from thy bridge lke by Baron deseribed of Swedish Government aeroplane a steamship is Cederstrom, director th fac- tory at Soedertelge, who has been avi visiting ton centres in Germany, says a Reuter despatch from Copen- hagen. Baron Cederstrom says that the entire German aeroplane production | evolution, the | is undergoing complete change being made from light, to heavy machines, the latter capable of carrying immense loads, including guns, wireless apparatus, petrol and signallink Describing one such which he made a trip, the Baron says it was a giant battle biplane of im- proved designs and enormous dimen- ons, nearly three times the of the ordinary Alb with fan monse lifting power, great and notable speed, unprecedented weight of armor, a lery, petrol and provisions and a very large crey ini, KAISER’S BIRTHDAY PRAISE OF CHANCELLOR bomb. eviews: machine on slae pas type, stability and carrying an Tells Bethmann-Hollweg He Has Been a“Faithful and Tried Pillar.” Dec, 1.—A message of ings and congratula- tions has been sent by Emperor Will- iam to Chancellor von Bethmann- Hollweg, says a Reuter despatch from Amsterdam, which quotes the Ger- man ruler as saying “I heartily congratulate you r Bethmann, upon your birthday, which, unfortunately, you have to celebrate @ second tne while war is raging. In these serious times you have been my faithful and tried pillar, Your successes deserve my sincere con- gratulations, They are envied by your enemies, I trust Providence may bestow upon you further successes to the benefit of the Emperor and the LONDO. birthday er empire and the proud satisfaction of the sincer& ‘our family, This is wish of your grateful | Will Be CHILD WHO SLEPT ON WHEN BOMB EXPLODED, | WRECKING HER ROOM. | GIRL NEVER AWOKE, BOMB EXPLODING AGAINST HER DOOR jCeven-Year-Old Child Found Peacefully Sleeping in Midst of Debris. The bomb explosion against Tony Ruggero's door on the ground floor of No, 443 West Twenty-sixth Street at 2 A. M. to-day was like scores of other Black Hand affairs, except that it brought to the notice of the police New York's soundest sleeper. Sho is Lillian Ruggero, seven-year- old daughter of the man against whom the bomb directed. When the dynamite went off it blew in the door of her room, ag nst which it aad been placed. ‘The door was double locked and had a heavy timber bar- rier on the inside, Splintere from the wood were blown with such force they stuck in the wall by the child» ved Like arrows, Devris covered ner DIAnKCLs, aod Lhe noise aroused Low heigbovrhood, but When ‘Lony ran uw tu see if the girk Was safe he round ier still asicep, and she was still asleep When he carried her to the street and showed her,ta the police. Across the halt from the Ruggeros live Luigi Culmon., his wife and elght children, and Tony Massa, six- ty-two years old, @ baker at No. 4 West Twenty-sixth Street, The door on that side, nearest the bomb, was Massa's. It was blown in, and the |lex of a chalr, torn off by the explo- sion, flow over on the bed and-gave Massa a welt on the leg that entitled him to admission t. a hospital, had he wanted to go. The bomb blew the rear hall door {nto the back yard, broke windows through the buildings and neighbo.- hood, aroused the eighteen familins in the house and sent them hurrying down fire-escapes and stairs to the pstreet, and tore a ble hole in the Moor, doing $225 damage. FIGURES FOR THE WISE! 1,223,904 SEPARATE, INDIVIDUAL, CLASSIFIED, WANT-FILLING ADVERTISEMENTS WERE PRINTED DURING THE LAST ELEVEN MONTHS IN 645, 375, MORE THAN IN THE HERALD The Only New York News; as Many Ads. 116,219 World Advts, Last Month er ‘That Prints Even Halt » The © | 21,717 More Than ‘The World Printed in the Corres sponding Month of 1Ld HUSBAND TRIES HIS ALIMONY SUIT | | | | | | and Makes Her Say She Never Loved Him. |WON’'T LIVE Court Suddenly Out Fifth Avenue Modiste’s | Action for Separation. WITH HIM. So ‘Throws The spectacle of a husband crosa- examining his wife was presented to a crowded courtroom before Supreme Court Justice Gavegan to-day, when ¥rnest Bryham Parsons, former secre- tary to the late Frederick Townsend Martin, appeared as his own lawyer in the separation suit brought against him by Leonie Parsons, formerly an artist's model and now a Fifth Aye- nue modiste. In the rear row of the courtroo sat Wather Pasquale Spani, a French | priest, and four other clergymen | Father Span! was brought into court on a subpoena Issued by Parsons, ‘The other priests accompanied Father Spant to testify as character wit- nesses, If they were needed Her marriage, Mrs. tifled, took place April “It was more of a protectorate than a bond of wedlock,” explained Mrs. Parsons, with a smile, on direct exam Parsons 2, 1914 tes- ination, "We hi ment. T was alone, sons, and we gave each other our words that would help each other along, but we were not to be man wife like other couples. of being a wife in name The arrangement di Mrs. Parsons admitted, “A few days after the marriage her husband locked her in a room for three days and she stayed there, she sald. When she ob- Jected he slapped her face, and when she attempted to scream he “stuffed a sofa pillow into her mouth.” When Tt w only.” he attempted to have her placed in an insane asylum she left him, she lestified. The separation sult soon followed and when Parsons was unable to pay alimony he was sent to Ludiow Street | Jail, where he remained until a fow days ago Parsons drew a bundle of papers from his portfolio and began his cross examination “What is your name? “Leona Parsons,” th “Where do you Iv “No. 56 West Eleventh Street." “Now then,” he went on, “do you love your husband?” he asked wife replied The witness looked appealingly at the Justice and then lied », sir; L don't love my husband [HATE him!" “When did you cease to love “L never loved him. “Why did you marry hi n? “Because I was all alone here and wanted a protector, and YOU—yes, YOU—offered to protect me; te Are you willing to live with him |now?" “Not on your life! Justice Gavegan stopped proceed lings abruptly and nounced that} Mrs. Parsorfs's complaint would be dismissed. “How about my paying alimony? Jusked Parsons | "You won't have to pay an j Court announced. 1" 'Speck too. Toe bag! day and night, Ivlepbooe AND WINS If, 100 | |Grills Wife on Witness Stand not go well, | | CASHIER WHO WRECKED HIS BANK FOR THIEVES AND IS NOW RELEASE | | | WILLIAM F WALKER __ STOP FORD SHIP: HESACLOWN, SAYS ALTON B. PARKER Fears European Nations Will Take Win Us Contempt. Him Seriously and | Former Judge Alton B. Varker ts a statement to-day cx Ford Peace Party. | sued nCorning | | the sadling of the He says “if we could only be sure! that all other nations would estimate {him (Ford) as we do, as a clown | strutting on the stage for a Httle |time, no harm would come of 1.7 Th tatement follows | “In common with muny others, I lave deemed {t impossible that an ! uninformed man—explolted by thoao j who would fatten on his millions | would venture abroad proclaiming the right to speak for our people In We} critical international situation are now but three days from Mr, | Ford's threatened sailing and he still persists, ie time has come for the peopio| to let him know that under our ¢ New jam F. absconded Connecticut which ernment the President is authorized by the people ‘to speak for them or designate who shail | “Ford's ignorance and eoncelt em-| boldened him to seok the hono: power of such a designation, Coupled with the President's blessing, whieh, according to Ford, was denied him,| ntill he persista and at last se-| cured the blessing of a former mem-| her of the Cabinet which he pub Jiishes this morning If we could oniy be all other nations would him 1a we do, ay a el x on the stage for w litt harm j could ' » no uch Th Jthat nites will be seriou ly and they w > bring us into contempt, ifn troop 1 the trenches by wireless . 4 discussion abe 1 4 of worse f ur future ts y snties and mouthings nent should rewok ort ana| those of his guests , WALKER IS FREED: + STOLE $565,000. FOR WIRETAPPERS Br “Bank | Cashier Is Released by the 1, Conn., Board of Pardons, ERVED SEVEN YEARS. |Baptist. Association, Which, Lost $50,000, Succeeds in | Getting Liberty for Embezzler Special to ‘The Brening World.) HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 1.-—-Will- Walker, who seven years ago with $565,000 from the New Britain Savings Bank and the Baptist Assoctation, of institution he was President, this by the Boamt of Parole, | which unanimously favored his pe- tition aw indorsed by the Connecti- cut Baptist Angoctation Walker, captured in Lower Callfornia after a long chase in which New York wire who had fleeced him gave a clue to his whereabouts, has served seven years of an Indeterminate sentence 29, was freed from State prison the | @fternoon who was and tappers on four counts of one to twenty years. Walker, sixty-one years old, who never took a drink, never smoked, never took a vacation and was a leader in church circles in New Britain, Conn., disappeared Feb, 10, 1907, ith him went more than half « million dollars worth of secur- “model man and KING PETER GALLOPS AWAY AS BULGARS TAKE PRISREND: BARELY AVOIDS CAPTURE | \Sofia War Official Claims the Cap- ture of 50 Cannon and Howitzers and 20,000 Rifles in Addition to Nearly 17,000 Men. ROUMANIA TO ENTER WAR WHEN ALLIES SEND 500,000 BERLIN, ), Says: (via wireless to Sayville) Dec. given out at the Bulgarian Army Headquarters under date of Nov. 1.—An official report “King Peter and Russian Minister to Serbia, Prince Troubetskoy, oh afternoon of Nov. 2 left Prisrend on horseback for an unknown destination without any other companions. “Bulgarian troops after a short and decisive engagement took Pris- rend and made prisoners between 15,000 and 17,000 Serbians, They also captured 50 field cannon and howitzers, 20,000 rifles, 148 automobiles a large amount,of war material. to increase. The nutnber of prisoners continues “The battle of Prisrend, where the remnants of the Serbian army BATTLES IN AR BETWEEN GERMAN were made de prisoners, will probably end the Serbian campaign.” Another Bulgarian official report “Fg dated Noy. 28 aays: “Bulgarian troops have crossed the Upper Cerna and have taken the bridges and roads which lead to Monusttr. "On the Southern » Anglo-French front the situation is unchanged. In ities and cash belonging to the Sav- ings Banks of New Hritain, of which order to avoid mistakes it is stated alker Was treasurer. In addition, that the Anglo-French operations ido) Gueniae ‘to thu Donte te j have been confined to the Cerna Baptist Convention, of which Walker also was treasurer, waa stolen Iminediately the police of a score|Paris and Berlin Report En-; of cities were put on Walker's trial and descriptions and pictures of him counters at Different were sent broadcast, He was tr ‘ to New York and two days atter his Points on the Line. disappearance the directors of the . bank received a telegram saying ho| had bten killed by a railroad train. A| PARIS, Dec. 1.—Foliowing is tho rambling letter, signed by a fictitious | text of the communication lasued to- rn followed tho telegram, verify-|day by the French War Office It was belleved both Walker to mislead ug ite news had been sent by the searchers. Investigation revealed that prior to his disappearance, Walker had lost ich coney playing the stock market in Wall Str and that he had fi in t th King Georwe lowed ne which, In the Artois District one of our A conference of railroad offtctals coniiinaenes Yothing occurred last night worth | recording, with the exception of en- ergetic cannonading by our artillery he sector of the Frise Vulley, of River Somme. This activity fol- the explosion of & however, did no damage en into the cluteh of a clever gang of fake wire tappers, who had swindled| aeroplanes yeaterday attacked two him out of $860,000, it was said, Ac-|German machines behind the Ger- cording to the police, the wire-tap-]man lines, One of these machines ping swind fitted upa fafle pool-| was compelled to come down to the room 1 induced Walker bet|ground. The other fled and was pur- money on the races, One of them |asued as far as Doul, posed as a er” for the West Juring the day of November 29 a crn Union Telegraph Company. He| French aeroplane threw down six \dectared he was able to hold up race | Shella of 90 millimetre callbre on some results as they came over the wir rracks located close to the ratirond thus giving Walker time to place bets {station at Lens, These buildings on horses already known to seriously damaged, won, He first last $110,000; then (via London), Dee, 2 Induced to sell securities for $240,000] Damage to British trenches by the und this he ala t explosion of German mines is re Charles I. Gondorf, alleged by the | ported by Army Headquarters today police to be the head of u clever gang |” t of La Basses," says the re of fake wiretappers operating in New |Port. “extensive mining operations ay arrested and tried on the | carried out by our troops caused con churke of belng one of the mon who! Siderable damage in English posi ‘awindied Walker, but was acquitted, Wom. Walker advanced the unique defense, Bo tone ache pyreeigny narns after his return, that he had been | pants made prisoners.” hypnoti in New York and com > mitted bly crime while in a hypnotic | Tereesh Trolne inne to Constantl- ae FRANKFORT, Dec. 1 (via London) —— will be it pursday at Temesvar, BAS | ek he fit ry to the establishment of di ince hia return 19 1 neland af is tonin “servine beveaen’ Bare tem tile avetdent in’ ran Str 0 George iusday let palace ana lin and stantinopie, a Con isited Queen Mother Alexandra on stuntin patch to th ankCurter tue eevasion of her birthday ‘aeltung, German | | valley. Since the arrival of Bulgarian troops the Anglo-French forces not |only have not advanced ono step but have been thrown back for a distance jot several kilometres, All attempts of the Anglo-French troops to advance northwest to Cerna ; have failed, The left bank of the Cerna has been completely cleared of the enemy, The retreating French and Serbian troop» destroyed all the | bridges over the Cerna up to the | mouth of the Vardar.” _ ROUMANIA TO EN’ ENTER WAR WHEN ALLIES END 500,000 MEN | LONDON, Dec, 1.—Roumania will deliver an ultimatum to Austria as soon us the ‘nto allies concentrate 500,000 men in the Balkans, it fy re- ported in Bucharest, says a Central Nows despateh from that city. This despatch ts In direct contra- diction of the German reports that Roumanta has taken sides against the allies and forbidden Russia to use the Danube for transportation of troops, Despite these German claims that Rouma will balk the allies, « st message to the Morning , dated Tuesday, says rations are be ing made at Rustchuk, on the Danube, west of the Roumanian border, to accommodate 50,000 Austro-German troops who are due to arrive there shortly, Many officers with war material already have arrived. “Four Austrian monitors are pa« trolling the Danube along the whole length of the Bulgarian shore to where the Bulgarian frontier joing that of Russia.” German sources declare Fleld Mar- shal von Mackensen's army, with Hulgarians and Turks, Is to be directs Anglo-French force ta ed against the n southern § but doubtless many of them are going down the Danube Toe Salone to meet the Russians, j ; tere