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| EDITION E CENT. Haht, 1916, Copy rig! in by PRICE ON 0 New York World). The Press Pablishing ~NEW YORK, TUESDAY, 1916. MAY 9, FOUR MEN ARE KILLED IN DYNAMITE. EXPLOSION orld, “Circulation Books Open to All. sl EATHER—Falr to-night and Wednesday; csoler, 18 PAGES “PRICE ONE OENT. 8,000 MORE DYNAMITE PLANT BLOWS UP: FOUR WORKMEN ARE KILLED; NORTHERN JERSEY SHAKEN Four Units of the Atlas Powder ARMY BILL DEADLOCK Works at Lake Hopatcong | TIGHTENED BY SENATE Destroyed This Afternoon, er House Report Rejected and Con- FELT OVER WIDE AREA. | | ferees Told to Insist on Amend- | ments tor Big Fighting Force. | i WASHINGTON, May %-——The Sen- > Sound Plainly Heard in the Big! Skyscrapers of Down- town Manhattan. @ rejected the House report on the army bill to-day and instructed Sen- ate conferees to insist on its amend- ments to the measure, As a result the army Dill deadlock was more hopeless of solution than ever. ‘The Senate amendments {douse bi Ning for a regular army Four of the units of the dynamite SS earn owe @ection of the plant of the Atlas Pow- der Company at Landing, N.J,, on the rend of Lake lowe Hiopateong, explod- Sins ingen aie inel it sate. { force of 250,000 men and 261,000 vol- . lunteers were voted down yesterday inent ed by t Athis Powder) a. the Ho : ; ——————— Company says four workmen wore njur 2 NEW WILSON NOTE wre" BRAISED) IN LONDON Killed and none reports 10 100 persons W proved unfounded. Fire followed the Dlazing brands, born gale from the a country nd for doited| west, were ¢ s Globe, a For- mer Critic. pha miles ove literally heard in the skyscrapers of downtown Manhattan, The plant this ternoon. “Puts Germany on Probation,” was the Evening Standard's headline, of the Auas Pow Company consists of scores of low,| “summarized, the note says ‘wait loorely “built structures scattered | ace’! sald’ the Pall Matt Gar over 600 acres of Jand. At the lower end of the Inke was the dynamite se Will ahow baw tte: plant and storage houses. One of the | PETRA thIRC RR ERT NADEa units of this p was a tank used for the storage of nitro-glycerine gakba Survivors say the tank exploded and that the concussion set off two of the dynamite storage houses. The WOULD ‘‘SAVE NEW YORK” Srpicena ‘pines wate these were | OVER LARGER AREA three explosions, the most violent marking the destruction of the tank, the other two, coming almost to- ether, representing the explosion of ‘ Mest bi dynamite in the two storage Second Street, houses, which was set off by concus- New York" Was the keynote sion, The other unit, a storage house, |of 4 luncheon meeting to-day at Del was destroyed by the fire which so's of the Fifth Avenue Associ spread after the main explosion re attending, In in- ‘The first reports to reach Paterson, dorsing the movement the association Morristown, Dover, Boonton and other | Went even further than the “Save tewns in the powder mill district |New York” committee and proposed placed the mumber of dead at more |to extend the factory barred district than fifty and the number of ijured at {a far down as Twenty-secend Street, peveral hundred. As it was known| siwson Purdy, President of the that 000 or more persons wore om-| Tax Commission, said: “It is ab- ployed in the Atlas plant these re-|Solutely essential that no building be orts were oredited and every am-|allowed anywhere which Is not suit- [ate available was sent to the foot | Able to tion, Most of the trou- of Lake Hopatcong. The most seri-| bie in New ¥ ously injured were taken to Dover ana | resulations Morristown and the others were | Careless of the _ treated at emergency hospitals estab- |“ Hahed tn residences and hotels around the lake. For a ttme the fire, fanned by the gale, threatened the whole lower end ot the Atlas plant, but the fire-fight- tng force of the company was quickly raliied after the panic following the explosions and threatened buildings were @aved, In order to guard against @ whole powder plant going up in one exploston the buildings are, plaster separated by wide spaces, donment,” said the Westminster Ga- "itth Avenue Association Advocates Extending Limit to Twenty- “Save Property rights of other owners: own- Mr. Purdy the restric: tions and of European cities regarding buildings, streets and T. Mortimer, Presi Building Cor- deseribed regulations sections den George of the Equitable ion, presided around the lake buildings were rocked thetr crockery shaken from shelves and eritin: on foundations: was jarred fe New Jor Stran and this ers in tha tion distribution saved the Atlas plan sey thought they ere experiencing Tn the settlement occupied by the an eartiana bur the natives-even { Won der mill workera in the vicinity of as far away the Oranges knew ota of the Atlas aud Hercules that another powder mull had blown lee and im the summer rescris up. | to the | “Uncompromising, Stern and Em-| with powd and dynamite mille aad storehouses, Window panes we LONDON, May $.—"Uncompromise| Li hig agli ae ah . ing, stern and emphatie," was the and as far away as Dover, whieh ix he} cha cterizatiol oO ident Vile nine miler distant. ‘The shock of the| Characteriaation of Presiden Wil explosion wns felt throughout the| son's note of acceptance of Ger- mountain distrlets of Northern New) many’s y by the Globe, formerly Jersey and the sound was plainly!one of the President's harsh critics, rk in due to lack of ire CVMRIG FOUNDERS: FIVE KILLED WHEN TORPEDO IT HER White Star Liner, Loaded with Munitions, Sinks Off Coast of Ireland. 102 SURVIVORS LANDED. “No Warning Inferable,” Says U. S, Consul—Denial Liner Was in Admiralty Service: LONDON, May 9.—The White Star liner Cymric, torpedoed yesterday afternoon by a German submarine wiitle #he wae on her way from New York with a large cargo of war munitions, sank at 3 o'clock hid’ morning off Bantry Bay on the| southwest coast of Ireland. Five of the 107 in the crew of the Cymric were killed by the exploston, | | All the rest of the crew were saved. | The Cymric carried no passengers. | The big liner floated eleven hours | after the torpedo hit her, and she was virtually abandoned at the time she started to go down, Several rescue vessels had gone to her ald. ‘The survivors were landed on the | shore of Bantry Bay this afternoon, Apparently the attack on the White Star liner was made without warn- ing. It was pointed out, however, that even if this were so the fact | would not offer proof that U-bont | |commanders were not keeping falth | with America, been issued to the German submarine commanders in accordance with Ger- man pledges to the United States, but it 18 quite possible that the U-boat which attacked the Cymric left its base before the new order was re- ceived. QUEENSTOWN, May 9.—Amertcan Consul Frost will go ty Bantry Bay, Ireland, to learn whether the lner Cymric was warned by the German submarine that torpedoed her, whether she was armed and whether she at- tempted to escape. He will Interview the Cymrie's of- ficers, WASHINGTON, May 9.— In re- porting the torpedoing of the White Star liner Cymric to the State De- partment to- American Consul Frost, at Queenstown, said the vessel sank at 3 o'clock this morning. Five of her crew of 107 were killed by the explosion, the Consul reported, Consul Frost's last message sald: “Cymric sank 3 A, M. to-day. Crew arriving Bantry about noon,” A previous message from Mr. Frost, which followed his announcement that the Cymric had been torpedoed, said “Cymrte cleared New York April without passengers, Suppose ay 29 mixed cargo with horses. On Ad- miralty service. Torpedo hit engine room, killing five out of crew of 107, Absence of warning inferable. Survivors will probably land at Bantry May 9.” The sinking of the Cymric will cause no international complications, as she carried no passengers and was jaden with munitions of war for the allies, Se ace Pulmotor Saves a Life, FAY GETS 8 YEARS IN PRISON, SCHOLZ FOUR, DAECHE TWO FOR SHIP BOMB CONSPIRACY Judge Howe Heeds Jury’s Plea for Mercy in Daeche’s Case. IS IN BAILED $25,000. Writ of Error Granted to Him —Fay and Scholz Sent Back to Tombs. be Lieut. Robert Fay, the deserter from e@erman-Army, to-day was sen- tenced to a term of eight years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, and Walter Scholtz, his brother-in-law, | and Paul Daeche, a German reservist, his two accomplices, were sentenced to four and two years imprisonment respectively, for conspiracy to disable ships carrying war munitions to the allies. In addition to the prison term each was fined $1 on each of the two indictments under which they were found guilty, The first conspiracy indictment charged to despoil {owners of ships and cargoes, the ond to despoll the insufance unc writers, | In pronouncing sentence, United States Judge Harland B, Howe scored Fay and Scholz without reservation New instructions have jin Dacche's case he waa obviously guided by the strong recommenda- tion for mercy the jury had made, Fay received his sentence with the assumed stoicism which has marked his demeanor throughout the trial, He was very pale and had all could do to keep himself in hand. The courtroom was crowded and the corridor without was filled for an hour before Judge Howe came rupon the bench after a conference in chambers with the Government's attorneys and counsel for the defendants. There were a number of Central Office detectives ‘among the crowd on the benches and in the corridor. Aa as sentence waar nounced a writ of error in Daeche's case was filed and be was continued he in the $25,000 ball on whieh he has been at liberty and Scholz wer taken back to the Tomba, Writs of error will be filed for them within a few days and an attempt will be made to obtain bail in their behalf United States Attorney H. Snow- den Marshall, in addressing the Court, sald that he would make no recom- mendation as to the length of term of imprisonmer but asked that a severe sentence be imposed in order to convey the lesson that none of the ent nations are to per nduct their Warfare from intry which these have defendants,” bald “are those which protect the ships of friendly nations, the sam laws which protect the now lying interned tn our harbor sider Fay an agent of his govern in this matter, and Task tha such as to serve future it the conspiracy in this count laws been vio lated by ho man s o ment sentence that in danger of be noti increases real A pulmotor used by Ambulance seon Weldon of Kings County Hospital Sur- aved the life of Jospph Robinson, a lieweler, of No. tht Wostininster Road, Flatbush, to-day. Rooingon had hanged himself by a rape the warcet of his home Policeman Field of the Parkville Station out hing believing him dead Aly d all infor ton tee and Robinson lade & prisol at the hospital, 8 port for the wartare }to use t purposes of making on any nation Clerk Leary then called Pay bar and asked if he knew any re why sentence should not be pr nounced upon him. Kay went up with a quick ste (Contiaued op Fourth Page) the | 10,000 MEN LOST BY GERMANS IN | cesses at Hill 304 and East | of the Meuse. PARIS, May 9—After a violent |bombardment of the French positions on Hill 304, on the Verdun front, the Germans attempted an advance at & |o'clock this morning. The War Office announces this afternoon that the attack was repulsed completely. French counter attacks east of the Meuse drove the Germans from cer- tain positions they had captured, The official report ad “The positions recaptured by the French cofsisted of some parts of trenches northwest of Thiaumont, “An intense bombardment was conducted by the Germans in the sectors of Eix and Chatillon and between Douaumont and Vaux. “There was grenade fighting at Apromont and in the valley of the Fecht. South of Autreches, near Solssons, the Germans attempted an attack, but were repulsed, “At Bolante, in the Argonne, the French captured two small Ger- man posts, killing all the oe. cupants. Elsewhere on the front there were no important develop- ments.” It is estimated that the Crown Prince has lost 10,000 in dead and wounded since he renewed his drive against Verdun with a heavy thrust from the northwest last Friday, The Germans suffered the heaviest losses in frontal attacks on the northern slopes of Hill 204 These latest assaults have served to demonstrate the high pltch of af ficleney to which the French pave brought the use of the machine gun. The French front line trenches are being defended by machine guns, with omparatively few men to serve them, and with the addition of nev, auto: natic rifles, two of which are equiva. lent to one machine gun. Saaneainanat GERMAN GAINS HELD ON VERDUN FRONT, FOR BORDE RESIDENT CALLS OUT MILITIA GERMAN SHIP BOMB PLOTTERS GET LONG OOOO NEW VERDUN DRNE Patis War Office Reports Suc- N.Y INKIRK, N.Y ent attempt to Twentieth Century kN. Y., sion of the to-day he train ran int wre Cre New Y placed on the ra niles west of Sliver of the engine engine did not leave the rails was injured nem Or PLOTTED WRECK OF Q0TH CENTURY LIMITED » May WALTER SCHOLZ PAVL DRACHE. tvatis my ree Central Flyer Dashes Into Pile of Ties on Tracks and Engine Damaged—Hunt for Guilty Ones, detectives are Investigating an appar nd NEW DEMAND BY OBREGON REJECTED AS FRESH FORCES || ARE SENT TO MEXICAN LINE ~~ <4 2 —_____ Cabinet Firm Against Yielding to Call for Withdrawal of Troops— Guardsmen of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico to Serve. LATEST RAID ORGANIZED | WASHINGTON, May 9.—National Guardsmen of three States, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, were called out by President Wilson |to-day to aid in protecting the border against Mexican raiders, In addi- tion practically all remaining mobile troops of the regular army were or- | dered to join the border forces, | By these orders approximately 8,000 additional troops were plates {under Major Gen. Funston’s command. Behind the orders is the plain intimation by Administration officials that the whole strength of the National Guard will be similarly employed if necessary. It was made plain, moreover, that the American expeditionary force will remain in Mexico until the Carranza Government has proved its abitliy to check brigandage and guarantee the security of American border towns, It became known that Gen, Obregon has demanded that a time limit be set upon the stay of the American troops in Mexico, At to-day's Cabinel moeting it was decided that the United States Government will refuse pow tively to accede to any such Hmitation SEVEN AMERICANS ESCAPE VILLISTAS, CAPTURING THREE Taken Prisoners by Bandits, "str. “Arredondo furnished tntorma- Mine Employees Bring Cap- jtion which he said tended to show SA A aete et \that the Glenn Springs raid was or- tors Back With Them. ganized from the Ameriean aide of the gon had not actually threatened to us Carranga soldiers against the Americans forces if the withdrawai was not immediately accomplishes, but it was said: “The situation is not at all good, and we might av well p pare for trouble." Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican Ambas- eador denied to Seeretary Lansing that Carranza had authorized any demands for the withdrawal of the American roops or that he had moved his troops nto strategic positions during the con- Railroad | line by those seeking to involve the EL PASO, ‘Texas, May 9—A prl-/ewo countries In war. This data was k the eastbound | Ste measiae received here to-day | telegraphed to Gen. Funston for auch says the seven American employees | investigation as he can make. wk Central Rail a pile iis at ap Crook inicio CLAIM IN BERLIN. GAHADIAN SOLDIERS May 9 (via London) f several F the Verdun front if Haucourt, wa by the War Ottice south unnounced The text to-day of the report follows ‘In connec At Hill $94 we took, sou to the trenches by stu: on front enterp| for there rises, m with of T south of Hauceu whic he Germans. Att with t few npts by at Ait 4 We wes patrol proved successful (railroad [overpowered thelr guards and have threa | excaped to the he pilot} of the Mexicans with them as pris- was damaged, but thi No on Silver] on the Luke Shore Div-| of the n Porto Rico de Boquillas mine Mexico, who were bandit ralders, | The orders for the militia to be called were issued after a brief eon- ference between President Wilson and Secretary Baker over @ joint report from Generals Boott and Funston at El Paso, The two officers stated that | the Glenn Springs raid made # plain that the border guard must be ma- terially increased. Boquillas, captured by Mexican border, bringing three oners The | firme An.wlo, Te message, Which was later con- , suid Dr. Homer Powers of San who the xis, was among IN U. S, ENVOY CHARGES - It was intimated broadly that Obre- ' Phare inte tte ween Secretary Baker has not been ad- Word uation of the vised whether a new expedition has ARRIVE IN ENGLAND men wa t he crossed the border in pursuit of the A k ui ie irae iders, but orders have not been 3504 W , “lthe bandits left the mine with their) changed, and Gen, Funstonts free to Censor Says 14,564 Who Left on) prisoners follow any hot trat! across the line. Four Ships Landed NE Nga ip hed aay ars Ba a The Secretary issued the: following Safely of San Angelo, ‘Tex.; Co 1 Halter, | arement: | neta ees "i ming superintendent; Butler, "The outbreak in the Rig Bend 4te- OTTAWA Oops M “ i Anounce- | engineer Seott, truck driver; trict of the Plo Grande hes eo far nent Was made to-day of the safe MeKnight, truck drive —| eurthe danger arrival in England of four troop ships | Coy, water pumper, and one other hela sane ti PB which sailed from Canada late in| Whose nit HOt ROWE ‘aril t yg 4 fant bas ose orl with 14,504 men of all ranks. The Ai iis eho esac are Can poten Seat she, Preece Abr "alae ag . toe | Maller mine ntendonis RH.’ out the militia of Arizona, New Mex~ ment was made to. | '. HULER | ico anc * ¥ ee nts eeu Ht, Atti ico and Texas and directed them to planes dro antl-alrcratt property damage, guns, Sata. iter’s de yx that two pped eleht bomb Monday ning. Bikh wounded and the employed as a port H fire from eulosia and had been t There was no tution w he underwent treatn be could live but @ short time, report to Gen, Funston, who will aa- sign them to stations along the border for patrol duty. “In addition to that, additiemal regiments of regular infantry have been directed to proceed to the border and such further arrangements will be made as are necessary for the complete security of the people of the : 4 i 4 ; é $