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* L @be Oscar S. Straus New P. S. He INA PRICE ONE CENT. B Ag 3 Press Pol York World). NEW OSCAR 5. STRAUS NAMED AS MPCALL’S SUCCESSOR; WO RED Contempt Proceedings Started When Wood Won't Tell of $10,000 Loan. BANKS AGAIN HEARD. He Is Asked About the Business| of Concern That Once Belonged to Wood. ALBANY, Dec. 9—Oscar 8. Straus of New York, former United States Ambassador to Turkey and Progres- eive candidate for Governor In 1912, was named by Gov. Whitmun to-day as member and chairman of the down- State Public Service Commaision to succeed Edward E. McCall. The Governor declined to comment ,on the appointment except to say that Mr, Straus had accepted the position | and expected to qualify soon. The Governor was asked if Mr. Straus was appointed as a Republi- can or a Progressive, but was non- committal, The appointment came as a sur- prise to official Albany, but received favorable comment about the Capitol At the time the appointment of Mr. Straus was announced it was said at his home thet he was out on an all day motoring trip and was not expected home before this evening. He did not visit his office at No, 42 Warren Street this morning. When Senator Thompson, chairman of the Public Service Investigating Committee, heard of Mr. Straus's appointment he said: “IT am sure there is no politics in that appoint- ment. os WOOD GETS DEFIA WHEN HEIS ASKED ABOUT LOAN OF $10,000 HE GOT Counsel for the tigating Committee, inquiring into the Thompson Inves- affairs of the Public Service Commis- sion, was this afternoon instructed by Senator Thompson to take steps against Public Service Commissioner Robert Colgate Wood on a charge of contempt of court. Commissioner Wood was a witness before the Committee and was being questioned by Senator Thompson re- garding his admission that shortly be- fore he was appointed a Commissioner he had borrowed $10,000 from his uncle and brother-in Commis- sioner Woods was asked why he had borrowed the money and refused to answer. A yellow dog fund of $58,000 chat Was used about a year ago in con- (Continued on Second Page.) aes “aid MYSTERY IN FINDING OF GIRL’S CHARRED BODY (Special to The Brening World.) NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec, 9.—Mys- tery surrounds the finding of a charred body believed to be that of a school girl here to-day. The corpse which had shreds of clothing hanging to it, was found in the front hallway of a fashionable residence on Third Street, There were blood stains on the ground where the body was foand. A full force of detectives have been Placed on the case, SES TO ANSWER @ FORMER AMBASSADOR NAMED NEW HEAD OF PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD ‘BO BANDITS ROPE TWO GIRLS TOGETHER. ESCAPE WITH $7,000 Also Tie Watchman to Chair in Chicago Building and Leave Three Helpless, CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—Three boy ban- dits to-day held up Miss Emma Sch. linske, 24 years olf, cashier of the North Side Branch of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, tied her and Mamie Hain, a clerk together in a@ hall of the company's building and escaped with $7,000 In cash, When police arrived they found Lars Wold, watchman, tied to a chair and the two young women roped on the stairway leading to the office. ‘The robbers attacked the cashier as| she was returning from a safety de- posit vault with the money in a satchel. aieibiectane GERMAN BOYS NOT IN WAR Berlin Dentes Calling Them Out, AMSTERDAM, via London, Dec, 9.— Replying to @ statement in the French Chamber of Deputies that Germany last year called up the recruits of the class of 1916 and has now incorporated tn the army all but one seetion of the class German Statements About Phis statement 1s wrong, The class of 1916 has not even yet been wholly incorporated, and the class of 1917 has not all been’ called up." — SHOT HS ANGE WHEN SHE BALKED AT THER WEDDING Brennan Chased Mabel Haibt as Crowd Looked On, Then Fired on Her in Hallway. GIRL RAN FOR LIFE. Crowd Saw Youth With Pis- tol and Girl Screaming but None Interfere. Angéred by her refusal to marry him after they had been engaged for several months, William Brennan, eighteen years old, of No. 1501 First Avenue, shot Miss. Makel » Fast twenty-one yeare old, of No. Bighty-siath, Street, in a hallway en East Seventy-elghth Street, where she ran to escape bim.this. morping.. The young woman is in thé Recep- tion Hospital and will probably die. Brennan surrendered. immediately after the shooting. Brennan had planned the shooting of the young woman two weeks ago, when he first suspected she did not want to marry him, At that time he met her to go to the City Clerk's office for a marriage license and she told him they would have to get a witness, He understood that a witness was not required and believed the girl was de- ceiving him. Brooding over it he went to Jersey City and bought @ revolver with the apparent intention of killing her it she again refused to accompany bim te the Marriage License Bureau. He arranged an appointment for her to meet him at Fifty-fourth Street and First Avenue at 9.30 this morning, He was there for a half hour before she arrived, and when she came along he impatiently asked her where was the witness she had promised to bring along, “Will, I don't want to get married yet,” the girl sald. “Im young and so are you, Let us forget about it for a time at least.” Brennan threatened her and raised his voice until she started to walk hurriedly away, He followed her up First Avenue pleading with her, She turned east on Seventy-elghty Street and at Avenue A Brennan suddenly drew the revolver, She heard him threaten, turned, and when she saw the revolved started to run, Screaming for help, the young wo- man turned Into the hallway of a ten- ement at No, 661 East Seventy-eighth Street. In a half swoon she fell upon the stairs in the hallway, A second later Brennan entered and fired at her, The bullet plerced her right lung and lodged in her abdomen, When witnesses of the shooting followed Pa- trolman Gamble into the hall a mo- ment later they saw Brennan kneel- ing at the alde of the girl, The re- volver was on the floor at her side, She was unconscious, “Here Iam,” Brennan sald to Gam- ble, “I did it, and I am ready to go with you,” KITCHENER ATTENDS NEW COUNCIL OF WAR With Sir Edward Grey He Goes Wante British Parliament Session to Paris for To-day’s LONDON, Dec. 9—A bill to continue Session the present Parliament beyond the five- period and postpone a general LONDON, Dec. 9. ddward Grey, Me te dase or Commons to-day wa wic| the Secretary for Foreign Aftatrs, John Simon, “Secretary of State forland Field Marshal Harl Kitchener, ome Affairs, The bill makes tho life ee nae ae u of Parliament six instead of| the Secretary for War, went to 8, tending it to January Paris rday to confer with the five years, a, 1917, and treats the year 1916 for the purpose of the active Parliament as if it followed ‘immediately on i046 ich Government, it was officially announced this afternoon, ENGLAND ELD HOCKING CASE, SEN HBS Will Not Requisition Any Ves- sels of the American Trans- atlantic Company. PRESSURE BY WILSON. Wants Prompt Action on All Sea Outrages, Whether Seiz- ure or Sinking of Ships. Ry Samuel M. Williams. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 9%.— Action took the “AR Mepis to-day President Wilhon put pressure “on executive depart- ments to push vigorously ahead in the many soadhann problems, both for- sgrowing out of the Old World war. Here are some of the developments of the day: Secretary of State Lansing an nounced the scoring of an important point in the controversy with Enx- land over seizure of vessels fyink the American flag. Attorney General Gregory sum- moned District Attorney Snowden Marshall of New York for conference on the vigorous prosecution of “hy- phenated" plotters and conspirators against the peace and neutrality of the United States Congressman James R. Mann, tead- er of Republicans In the House, who recently announced the Administra- tion as “characterized by Inefficiency and incapacity,” called on President Wilson to join in non-partisan sup- port of national preparedness. Polley of prompt action on all seu outrages instituted, whether mere seizures of cargo ships by Englan! or submarine attacks by the Central Powers. The text of the note to Austria de- manding repudiation and reparation for the sinking of the Ancona ts to be given out as soon as the official telegram reaches Vienna. Ambassador Page at London ad- vised the State Department to-day that Great Britain had acceded to the American protest against the re. quisitioning of ships of the American Transatlantic Company. Test cases will be made of the steamers Hocking and Genesce, which will not be requisitioned but held pending decision of the prize court. In the meantime Great Britain assures the United States that no other ‘essels of the company will be seized, ‘The Hocking and Geness as other ships belonging to the Ameri- can Company, were selzed because of suspicions that they had German in- as well terests. The company has denied to the State Departmen’ that a singh: share of its stock m eld by any person other than American citizens pe eee 88TH HOUR CYCLE SCORE. Laps. Grenda 5 McNamara and Spears, 1765 5 Fogler and Carman 1765 5 Lawrence and Magin.... 1765 5 Egg and Dupuy......... 1765 5 Drobach and Corry. . 1765 5 Ryan and Thomas 1765 5 Mitten and Hansen...,. 1765 5 Moran and Walthour 1765 5 Eaton and Madden. 1765 5 Seree and Linart ses 1765 5 Hanley and Halstead... 1765 5 Sullivan and Anderson. 1765 3 Suter and Madonna 1765 2 Ruddi-Russi and Van- derstuyft . 1765 1 Former record Walthour 44 , made by Verri YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, GERMANY WOULD KEEP CO IF NECESSARY TO ASSURE NATION'S SAFETY ; Wood Defies Commi 1915. “1S OF HEAVEN” KETCHUM WROTE, AND WANTED MORE Begged Mother-in-Law Patch Up Row With Girl He Later. Married. to LETTER R D IN COURT. |; “Knew Prettier Girls,” but One He Wedded Was in Class of Her Own. The letters of a love smitten law- yer to his prospective mother-in-law, Philosophiging on the whims of Cupid to-day occupied the attention of Su- preme Court Justice Blanchard when the separation sult brought by Ada Brown Ketchum against Everett P. Ketchum, wealthy and Yale graduate, was resumed, Mrs, Ada Denice Brown, the moth- er-in-law, who !s a social leader in As- SHS HF lawyer bury Park, produced the letters during her re-direct examinatte On Tues- day Mrs, Brown qualified as an expert on kissing by testifying that a soul kiss meant a lingering kiss, The first letter, written in Novem- ber last year, a month before the wed- ding took place, was as follows: r Mother “God seems to have blessed you with the facility to understand If 1 had been rounded by demons Instead of an children. sur- angel like Ada things would have been different. I have been tled to a woman who had nothing in and [ had noth common with 1 ing to build up, 1 was afraid to leave her. My brain was sick and tired, My brain was handicapped and my nerves were Irritated, My brain said ‘stay by the wom- an;' my nerve sald ‘get away.’ 1 decided to experiment with my nerves, and they got me away | quicker than you can say Jack Robinson, “Mother, | was afraid of women and of loncsomenesa, Lthoughttt | Such a Conflict Is “Written would free my soul to get away from that woman, and now, in Book of Destiny.” mother, why doesn't Ada let me propose aguin? I have a general release in Kelly-Ketohum af PAIUS, Dec, 9.—Under the caption it wontae lh Lam @ reculae 1 ul writer, in an article in tho momact iL. cant without a | Pigar t length on Presi woman's love, 1 wonder if Ada |dent Wil sage to Congress. will become my Juliet? L could Jato qectares that the message was love Ada's Anger more than’ |, mated by 5 is anger, although anything In this w even - Rees all the pretty girls 1 kn When | net REO Sala phere Oe she gave me a real kiss T thought [It is ev ys M. Reinach, that 1 was in heaven the President was moved to the deep be perfectly happy by getting vente ; marriod. If I wero married Ada | D® lal of the director and severa could brave me up with a couplo [employes of the Hamburg-Americar of kisses, And, Mother, Dec, 3 is | Steamship Line on 4 charge of con my birthday, and it would 1 | spiring t raud the Government like a gift from above 1 | ern reft says M mitted to see Ada.” | . At this juncture Attorney A Balpan SEY Ore Levy interrupted eo re ot th t f A polit bah letter to ask what Ketchum im fA f mt writing that he w fhe | secret t vante Em witness were married Ke , nothing “Did he think he ought to have nu fe. anen A han an eventual |ried you?" aaked Mr. Levy nila Ghewaon, Darioany ond (ths | “Oh, no. not" she He} United Sta 1 simply wanted to no aldns. Ein the great book of destiny, None am a widow und he wanted me f the writing, Human na % sora Hive We ls bok cabed! is limited by Of course, you ne mit nd ee art) your son-in-law?” asked wy America | ther to let “How absurd!" replied Mrs, Ir wany ur or choose wh I did not im until Jon it herself. fier he began courting my daugh-| Most of the er newspapers refer! ser.” ‘to the mossage with approval, PaG-0G-9.000-04- |CHANCELLOR VON BETHMANN- Leading | GERMAN CHANCELLOR, WHO TOLD REICHSTAG STAND UPON PEACE bee Ae Ree Oe SEBOSCSEM 844 CHEER YESS SE rE EET HOLLWEG, SAYS GERMAN WAR TO WN ANERIA S SURE TO COME Frenchman Positive “Circulation Books Open to All.’”’ 22 PAGES NQUERED Weather—Fair and slightly colder to-night; Friday clean ANAL 4 % PRICE ONE CENT. LANDS GERMAN REICHSTAG BACKS CHANCELLOR IN DECLARING War Now,” He Declares, and a Socialist Says Alsace and Lorraine Will Never Be Given Up. GERMANY HAS ALL SHE NEEDS TO KEEP UP FIGHT BERLIN, via wireless to Sayville, L. 1, Dec. 9.—Speaking before crowded galleries in the Reichstag to-day, and following yesterday his conference with Emperor Willam, Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg ‘ made known Germany's position regarding peace sata ( “We do not fight i order to subjugate other nations,” sald the Chancellor, “We fight for the protection of our life and Ifb- erty. For the German Government the war has always been what it was at the beginning—a war of defense for the German nation and for her future, “The war can be terminated only by a peace which will give the certitude that war will not return, We all agree about that. There Hes and there always will He the root of our strength.” The address of Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, which has been awalted , with extraordinary interest, was made in response to the following So- cialist interpellation made by Dr. Philip Scheiderman: “Is the Imperial Chancellor ready to give information as to the conditions under which he would be willing to enter into peace negotiations?” After the Chancellor tinished his reply the other parties made a Joint declaration approving the Chancellor's utterances and in- dorsing the view that In the conditions of peace, made after the war, there must be guarantees for Germany's safety, even If this implies annexation of territory. Dr. Landberg, Socialist leader, in a speech, severely condemned the Soclalist Liebknecht for attempting to interrupt the Chancellor. “Germans of all classes,” he said, “including the workingmen, are unanimous that whosoever dares attempt to cut even the smallest slice out of the body of the German Empire will meet with general German resistance until it is taken out of his hands.” The applause grew stronger when Landberg said he and his fellow Socialists violently protest against any French, intentions to annex Al- sace-Lorraine, 7 Enthusiastic cheers filled the Chamber as the Chancellor spoke. At first there was tense silence throughout the whole house and the galleries. This was soon interrupted by vigorous signs of assent. FOLLY FOR GERMANY TO SEEK PEACE NOW. “As long as in the countries of our enemies the guilt and ignorance of statesmen are entangled with confusion of public opinion, it would be folly for Germany to make proposals which would not shorten but lengthen the duration of the war,” said the Chancellor, “First the masks must be torn from their faces. At present they speak of a war of annihiliation against us. We have to consider this fact—that theoretical arguments for peace or proposals for peace will not advance us; they will not bring the end nearer, “If our enemies make peace proposals compatible with Germany's {ignity and safety, then we shall always be ready to discuss them, “Bully conscious of our unshaken military successes, we decline the responsibility for the continuation of the misery which now fills Europe und the whole world. Nobody can say that we are continuing the war because we want to conquer this or that country as a pledge.” The Chancellor declared that the prospects of peace discussion in |the Reichstag had excited great expectation and much satisfaction in the countries of Germany’s enemies, That this feeling should prevail was ncomprehensible, in view of Germany’s successes in Serbia after opening jthe road toward her Turkish allies and after threatening the most vul- nerable points of the British Empire. ACCUSES THE ALLIES OF BRUTALITY, Although this situation, he sald, would explain the desire of Germany’s jenemies for pe none of them have made‘any overtures, They rather sling to the Intentions which publicly had announced at the beginning of the war, he with “naive brutality.” The Chancellor reviewed recent utterances about possible peace condt- |tions that have come from Germany's enemies. He mentioned amoung these the handing over of Alsace-Lorraine to the French, the annihilation of so- cailed Prussian militarism, the expulsion of the Turks from Europe, the noi haem at sald 4 { 2A cena oes cial oa THE ALLIES MUST ASK PEACE “Folly for Empire to Try to End ;