The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1916, Page 1

Ip Oe erence, Em VE * Copyright, 1916, by Co, (The New York The Pal orld). eat ana Be “NEW. YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, + tlin Reports a Has Spent Hindenburg's front were estimate nt this afternoon. aiVisions, or more than 500,000 seg had no success at any point ent. official Austrian statement this afternoon follows r Olika Austro-Hungarian de ments captured an advanced posi- of the enemy, filled the trenches, royed the works and re-| uYned to their main positions. A lempts of the advan putheast of Slenkow: frustra- ba by our artillery and by counter tracks. {2-9 ense enemy to were He Italian front the fighting} sumed at several places, There less spirited artillery ar the Toliino bridgehead, in he Fella section and on the Dolomites front. Itallan attacks on the between Great Pal and Small Pal a ar Schluderbach were repulsed.” sete leas BOWIE RESULTS. FIRST RACH — Purse $400; for en two-year-olds; four furlongs, Great Dolly, 109 (Hanover), straight 2.20, pluce $4.10 place first; Ni 2 (Butwell 3 bow , . second; axler), show $2.80, sector nd WwW third. ~~ Time Fay, Ayers, Alvord, Grand DCOND RACE.— Purse $400; thre olds and upward; five and Aurlongs—Between, Us, 116 (Met- bait), straight ie place $4.70, show 40, first; ina y, Cruise), place show $8.70, second; Martin Cas- (Schamerhorn), show $3.90, third, ‘Time, 1.082 Galeswinthe, lly Orme, Freda Johnson, Phil Un- rf, Tribolo, ‘Task, Juliet, Ed Weiss, esterton and Wat y also ran. pase ball ENTRIES AT BOWIE. f TRACK, BOWIE, Md. April 1 four Hasty Fry In; ell Trovato, igac: Selling; three-year: longs. Little England sch 185 4 up. ik minterpart,” 110) Brother! 105; 4; "Louise Trav Belling: We and twenty yards ATL, *itatwa, it i AY; Mins | Wate , 100; ‘Menlo’ Park, 168; Feyearolds Autumn) Kodele h | opposition 0 DIVISIONS OF RUSSIANS DRIVE AGAINST GERMANS: LOSSES FOOT UP 140,000 n Unprecedented mount of Artillery Employed by | Enemy, but Claims the Offensive Its Force. YERLIN, April 1.—Russian casualties in the offensive directed against d at 140,000 by the War Office state- “From Feb. 28 to March 28,” says the official report, “the Russians ked jarge sectors of Field Marshall's von Hindenburg's front with men, and with such an expenditure! ammunition as until now had been unheard of on the eastern front. yt the bravery and tenacious endurance of the German troops, the | The Russian offensive is declared to bo apparently exhausted for the FIRST VOTE TAKEN IN SENATE FAVORS SEATING BRANDES Sub-Committee That Heard Testimony Against Lawyer Is for Him, 3 to 2. WASHINGTON, April 1—By a 2 the Senate Judiciary vote of 3 to sub-committe . considering the nom!- nation of Louis D. Brandeis for the Supreme Court, to-day voted to recommend confirmation to the entire committee, hose voting for Chilton, Democrats; Cummins and con- firmation Walsh were Senators and Fletcher, against, Works, The full com- mittee is understood to stand prac- tically even, Each member of the sub-commit- Senators Republicans, tee will submit a separate report to the entire committee, setting forth the grounds upon which he reached his conclusion, It is not expected that the entire committee will vote on confirmation at its next meeting on Monday. Brandeis will offer no defense to the charges of unfitness for the Su- preme bench, His luw partner, Ed- ward F, MeClennen, so announced to- day when the committee met with four separate reviews of the testi- mony before it, In more than one of the four re- views Brandeis’s critics who have argued against his confirmation are bitterly scored, All agree that the to the Boston lawyer emanates from financial centres of New York and Boston, But Works is understood to hold that Brandeis has been involved in several legal transactions of doubtful ethical standing which have served to lower him in the respect of the bar Senator Cumming announced that he would fight for open sessions of the Judiciary Committee, the sub-committee will report its ver- dict on Monday, and for open ses- sions when the Senate discusses the nomination, to which Matoppo's Captor Tells of Bold Conspiracy to Wreck Munitions Vessel. |PLANNED TO SINK LINER. Schiller Says Aides Backed Down in Plot to Capture Big Cunarder. To save himself from deportation to Great Britain and execution as a pirate and a spy, Ernest Schilling, who took the British freighter Matoppo from lier crew of fifty-six , and commanded hear for a day, made a clean breast to-day to the Federal and city authorities of his knowledg6 of bomb plots in this country and their perpetrators. Among other things he confessed planning a nearly successful effort to blow up @ munition ship at a Man- ‘hattan pier. When he ts arraigned |in Jefferson Market Court to-morrow this is the charge which will prob- ably be pressed against him. Deputy | Commissioner Scull sent out several men in a hurry this afternoon to find | some of the men mentioned in Sehtll- ers confession. Included in the “Lone Pirate |statement Is his regretful admission |that the capture of the Matoppo was an afterthought, by way of consola- tion for the failure of his subordinate turing the big Cunard liner. The statement that the plot to take and blow up a Cunarder failed was a great relief to the authorities. They had some information three weeks ago of such a plot, in which Schiller was concerned, and at intervals had him shadowed, Then they lost track of him and, until his statement to- day, they have feared word would come that a Cunarder had been de- stroyed at sea, especially since there was a report the conspirators had sailed on a British sbip last Sat- urday. Schiller was allowed to spin his yarn of the capture of the Matoppo to reporters to-day, but not to tell anything of his other movements or plots. He sat in his shirt-sleeves on a bench in the trial reom at Head- quarters making the recital, At dra- matic points, as, for instance, where he told how he, with four days’ beard and bloodshot eyes and two revolvers, confronted the captain, he stood up and enacted the scene, SAYS SHIP'S OFFICERS OBEYED HIM MEEKLY. In substance his tale was as it has been told before, but there were illumi- nating new details. When he had the officers all gathered in the captain's room, he said, he could not find the key, He told them to stay there on pain of death and went out to explore the ship. They all obeyed orders meekly. “I mot an officer on deck,” he sald, “told him the ship was now a Ger- man prize and asked for bis revolver. He gave it to me at once, and at my request led me to the wireless room We waked the operator and had him disconnect the apparatus, I then sent both operators to the captain's room, I spnt the officer for an axe, which he brought promptly. I told him to smash the apparatus, He was so nervous he couldn't awing the axe and I had to do it myself, When I went back to the chart room, I found the boys shivering, so I ordered the Chinaman to bring us @ drink all (Continued on Second Page.) conspirators to back him up in cap- | PLOT TO BLOW UP | NTO CANDY GEN + SP ATPERHERE) THERES BOE Detective Rapids Goes to Grand to Ask About FIND BRIBE SHORT $1,200. Embalmer Kane, Who Says He Buried All, Only Digs Up $7,800. All the activities of the District At- torney’s office were devoted to-day to searching for the $1,200 which disap- peared from the $9,000 roll of bills handed to Embalmer Bugene 0. Kano by Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, the polsoner, on March 20, The roll of money when dug up from a hole under a tree on William Gillette's estate at Orient Point, L. I, yester- day by Detective Cunniffee counted up only $7,800. he never counted the money after Dr. Waite handed it to him and that the $7,800 rol Is the identical roll he recelved. Dr. Waite asserts he gave Kane $9,000 and there is no doubt about his cashing a check for $9,800 shortly before he met Kane on March 20. Kane, at the request of the District Attorney, produced all his account books and bank books at the Criminal Courts Building to-day, His employer, John 8. Potter, the undertaker, also produced all his books and records. These threw no light on the missing $1,200 which, for some unexplained reason, appears to be a matter of great importance In the District At- torney’s office. It was learned to-day that tho In- vestigation of Waite’s action has led Into suspected attacks upon the life of his wife. Detective Schindler has gone to Grand Rapids to question Mrs, Waite about certain attacks of illness which she suffered during the winter and to see if these attacks had any relation to certain purchases of candy made by the doctor in the vicinity of his home. Outside of the hunt for the miss- ing $1,200 there was a slacking up of work on tbe Waite case in the Dis- trict Attornéy's office to-day, Cun- niffe brought Kane and the money in at 10 o'clock and told about dig- wing up the hidden bankroll yester- day. On reaching Greenport the dete: tive and embalmer started for Orient Point in an automobile, It got stuck three miles out and they had to walk | back and boat. Starting water they had to put back to Green- | port because the boat had no rudder, | hire a by | They succeeded in getting @ sea- worthy launch, and on landing walked | some distance inland. There old shack used as a dressing for bathers in summer, Nearby was a grove of trees, one conspicuously | tall, Under the sod a few paces froin | the tree they found the sardine with the money inside wrapp¢ brown paper. FOUND ONLY $7,800 IN THE) BURIED ROLL. | Cunniffe counted the roll three times and could make but $7,500, | “You're ‘8 the other twelve hundred” asked the detective. “L told Judge Swann I never counted it," replied Kane, “I was too ner- vou Maybe the Man from I was an room an in nt took (Continued on Second Page.) teeta AYQID 8 PI ". Father Jolin’s Medicine for fighting sirongtlh,—adrt ON HINDENBURG DEFEATS ATTACKS OF 500 ,000 RUSSIANS © reenact WEATHER—Rain probable to-night and Sunday, | £DITION > f “Circulation Books Open to All. 1916. Gleeful Over His Bold * 3 ® zg Ps P99-6-0-006-9.8-0--.40.0O64 PEPE REO ODEDS GERMANS CAPTURE VILLAGE OF VAUX, WEST OF VERDUN Suddenly Shift Their Attacks to the East of the Meuse River. PATS, April 1.—German forces de- | in the Verdun ot the The War Office announced this region east Meuse | afternoon that one attack gained the] ans @ footing in the village of Vaux. The other attack was repulsed, | West of the river there was a vio- | lent bombardment in the region Malancourt: Following i# the text of the report: North of the River Aisne there has been considerable activity on tho part of the opposing arfillery forces in| the vicinity of Moulin-svus-Touvent and Fontenoy. “In the Argonne district we have directed a destructive fire on the high- | ways and railroad lines of the enemy te north of Haute Chevauchee. 0 the west of the Meuse the been an intermittent bombardment in the region of Malancourt, but without any infantry “Po the east has engagements. of the Meuse ume lingly viol 0 bardment bec yesterday evening and last night alc th sector between the wood to south of Haudremont and t of Vaux “Against this latter point the Ger mans delivered two sudden attacks In which large numbers of men took part. | ERNEST SCHILLER @vnceny: ® 200 ROD OOOO D ODODE EEE MED ON ALL SID INDIANS HIDE WOUNDED BANDIT ' IRATE CONFESSES NEW WAITE INQUIRY Pirate Who Took Ship Unaided, xploit O 15-3-33.G0-3GOG-0-2 98 The first, which was made from both the time, was checked by fire and the fire of our infantry before it could’ Ret as far as our lines. of the second after “During the cour: attac| i spirited footing fore cy a the fight, in of Vaux, th enemy, ne was - north and the south at the same our curtain of very able to secure a part recupied ern by of the our n the Woevre district there has artillery n against the villa some active heights of the Mouse Later details of the capture of Ma lancourt talion of Brench show that a single infantry held salient comprising the village forces t livered two heavy attacks last night| the attack of Thursday night’ until, surrounded on three firing 4 at the base of the bat- the ainst enty times thelr number in sides, they were thinner with each rush ore The German brigade and « sides, but by rifle tir Two yure was iad) pally Man operat repulsed making & bre of the Pre more fre uw 1 retire attacked compelled to choose betweer ment and captur Three German brigades just after dark. The column ing in front met with such tained fire that it was thr of| before reaching a house of lage, ‘The assaults were rene peatedly at intervals of a f utes, the German ran t Pree dee PAGES CE ONE CENT. € —— DODD'S WEN SCOUR HILLS ~ AFTER DEFEATED FUGITIVE: HIS ESCAPE NOW CUT OFF Carranzistas Also Rush to Hiding Place in Hopes of Getting the Fu- gitive First—His Wound Pre- vents Swift Travelling. FIRST SUPPLIES STARTED BY RAIL FOR PERSHING EL PASO, Tex., April 1.—Further confirmation of | Villa’s injury in the battle with Carranzistas at Guerrero was obtained to-day from Gen. Luis Gutierrez of Chihuahua City, who said Villa was shot in the knee and carried awa: on a litter by Indians in his band. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 1.—With only a brief rest Col. Dodd's cavalry, to whom fell the honor. on Wednesday of dispersing 500 of Villa’s men at Guerrero, has resumed the chase of the scattered bands, while supporting forces of American troops covered the railroad towend Chihuahua and smaller detachments began beating the country adjacemt | for signs of the bandit leader, e ; Overnight despatches to Gen. Fudston told of the forces being deployed, but none brought additional details of the fighting at Guerrero. All bere fillng dates of Thursday or early Friday, and for this reason officers bere retained the hope that perhaps another successful encounter had bees registered, or perhaps even the capture of Villa himself had been effected, ~ —_—_— > __ High expectancy at army headings | ASQUITH VISITS POPE —|ricsea"tn “ne atu ee tno emmttes FOR HALF AN HOUR and men at the front to drtve Villa British Premier and Head of Church into the open. Tt ts hardly possitie for him to make his way into @w almost inaccessible mountains and west of Guerrero, i Have a Long Unofficially tt was reported that the Talk. bullet that disabled Villa had passed ROME, April 1—Herbert H, Aa-|*8roush the bones of the leg. With quith, the British Premier, was re-| Ch & wound it would be hardly pos. colved to-lay by Pope Benodiot, who | S!ble for him to endure the pain tm-, talked with the British statesman | Cent to transportation over any for half an hour alone in the Hbrary | ST** distance. af the. Afatloan Gen. Funston’s messages to. Gen. | Premier Asquith went to the Vati-| Pershing included eoptes of the oon- sratulatory messages recetved from the War Department and the White House. jean with the British minister to the Holy See, When he entered the gate Swiss Guard rendered him mill- tury ors. He was received at the ~ fick tthe giant “talvcase yy. the | BANDIT IS REPORTED hedompanied hin to the -clemontine| £2 BE MAKING EAST Hall sonore ne rape ane ues| FOR CHIBUAHUA Ciry ind eseorted hi ) _ —--- ite- chutnbe , EL PASO, Tex., April 1.—The cap- ved I ture of Villa by the flying squadrons seh ea of American cavalry searching the Sie Madre Mountains is belleved by army officers at Fort Bliss to be MILK WAR ONIN CHICAGO, ing Higher Prive, w only a stion of days. That Villa already had been cay- tured and was being brought back to the army base at Casas Grandes was 4 report heard dere to-day, but it was credited in official quarters. “ | Mexican Consul Andres Gareia had 10 Word of any further engagements betwen the American troops and Villa forces. ° ‘ Hit of | the 60,000 ad, bu A Chihuahua despatch received by « Moxican official in Juarez this af- ternoon states that there was a re- port in Chihuahua that Villa had been captured in Minaca, Efforts to confirm the report here were without result While the hunt for Villa continues, Pershing will continue his oper- igainst ¢ eing bands of Villa men to prevent their concentra- tlon and to destroy them. Other reports received here say tribute then a big] Gen y jam: ution: volver dis were | followed several ~-y | be *