The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1916, Page 1

Chalmers Motor Official Suicide After Big AL OIrTion PRICE Sie TO-STORY LEAP KILLS MOTOR OFFICIAL; HAD JUST MADE $6,000,000 DEAL ONE OENT. AT BILTMORE Paul Smith Commits Suicide by Jumping From Win- dow of Hotel. HIS COLLAPSE SUDDEN. Believed to Have Been Worm Out by Work on New York Agency Change. Paul Smith, thirty-one years old, @me of the most noted men in the @utomodile business in this country, Weaped from the windew ef his room om the tenth floor of the Biltmore Motel to-day at about 10 o'clock and ‘Was dashed to death of the sidewalk @m the Forty-fourth Street aide of the Detel. His death ts attributed by his phy- sician and friends to a complete ner- vous and mental collanse following ale successful completion of a deal substituting an agency for the branch office of the Chalmers Motor Com- pany in this city. It involved the wale by contract by Mr. Smith to the C. T. Silver agency of $6,000,000 worth ef automobiles after Mr. Silver had been persuaded to undertake the agency. ‘While Mr. Smith's body was till tying on the Forty-fourth Street side- walk a telegram from Hu; Chal- fers was delivered at his room ‘thanking and congratulating him for the work on the big deal which had converted an annoying problem into @ victory for both the manufacture and the purchasers of the agency. My. Gmith had been for two years ‘the Vice President and general sales manager of the Chalmers Motor Com- It was his capacity for big Chalmere to draft him. Mr. Smith had risen rapidly through the busy of the automobile busl- mess of the last few WAD BEEN COWPUNCHER AND PHYSICIAN. Ten years ago he was a young physician beginning practice in Co- lumbus, O. He had b a cow- Puncher on the plains and « baseball player. He found a physician's life “robbed him of all his independence" and went to Detroit and began over mobile factory. ‘Within a few months he was Co- tumbus agent for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. His competi- tors explained jokingly that when Paul Smith could find no more au- temodiliats to whom tires could be sold, he turned to river captains who bought them for life preservers, Flanders, the automobile engineer, ager for the E. M. F. Company. He ‘was manager of sales for the Stude- baker, Losier and a large owner of the Metsger Company before Chalm- ers reached for him. When Mr, Chalmers complained a month ago that the New York branch business was a disadvantage to both manufacturer and customer because of its division of purposes and inter- | ests Mr. Smith volunteered to straighten out the situation, In the last thirty days he spent| twenty-three nights in sleeping | @ars smoothing out the multiplied @emplications, He worked so thor- um, (Continued on Second Page.) DPSS SSSS9s-2302655-22 PACL SMITE. ORPET FAVORED BY DEE NHS CHARGE TO,URY Nothing Short of Convincing Proof Will Justify a Con- viction, He Declares. COURT ROOM, WAUKEGAN, Ill, July .—As the jury trying Will 1000068 -| Orpet for Marian Lambert'a murder retired to-day to consider ita verdict it carried into the jury room instruc- tions from the Court which attorneys for the defenee believed prechuded any verdict other than acquittal, “Nothing short of proof ao clear and convincing as to exclude any reason- able hypotheals of innocence will sa’ sty @ conviction, and without such proof the jury must find him not gullty," Judge Charles H. Donnelly declared. “A mere possibility te mot sumMolent.” x ‘The Court, however, added that the jury must consider the evidence as a whole and that if they firmly be- Ueved, despite contradictory evidence, that Orpet gave Marian cyanide of potassium, whether he or she brought it to Helm's Woods, they should find him gullty of murder. “But if you believe that the evidence has shown Marian had the same op- portunity of taking the poison her- self that Orpet had of giving it to her, your verdict should be not guilty.” Judge Donnelly's tnstructions came after a dramatic closing plea for con- viction by Special Prosecutor David R. Joslyn There ure four forms of verdict possible: Not guilty; guilty with death penalty; guilty with life tm- prisonment and guilty with an in- determinate prison sentence — Ranaway Dr OMcer 4 Blocks, Policeman Kenneth Rogers of the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Station waa dragged four blocks by @ runaway horse that he attempted to stop to-day at Convent Avenue and One Hundred and Fortieth Street. He |was taken to Knickerbocker Hoep!tal with three broken riba tae a HALF TOWN HUNTS | SHARKS AS REST BURIES VICTIMS, Business at Matawan Sus- pended and Population Di- vides Into Two Forces, EXPERTS JOIN PATROL. Mouth of Stream to Be Block- aded with Heavy Steel Grating. (Special from Staff Correspondent of The Evening Wreld.) MATAWAN, N. J, July 15.—The funerals of the two shark victims were held thie afternoon and all Matawan went into mourning. All business was suspended and the pop- ulation divided into two forces—one to search for the man eaters in Mat- awan Creek and the other to follow the hearses of Lester Stilwell and Stanley Fisher to the grave. Never in ita history has the little town of Matawan been #o saddened, and the male members of the popu- Jation have vowed to devote their en- tire time to running down the shark that the killed the two boys. The funeral of Stilwell was held at 2 o'clock and that of Fisher at 4. The bearers of Lester's casket were achool chums, several of whom were swim- ming with him at the time of the tragedy last Wednesday. Among them was Albert O'Hara who was struck by the shark's tall aa it grabbed Stilwell. Determined men are scouring Matawan Creek this afternoon under the leadership of Norman Tice of The Evening World's shark hunting ex- podition, The three West brothers from Galilee are working down the stream with the tide, They have out up pieces of fresh fish and scattered them over the water, They are work- ing down toward Keyport and aro confident of landing a shark by nightfall, In anticipation of the capture of a shark several speculators have mado their appearance in town, One of them has auto truck equipped with a tank and says he will bid into the thousands for a live man-eater, The Evening World's Shark Hunt- ing Expedition early to-day sight ea three sharks in the upper part of the creek. One was about twelve feet long, while two emall ones trailed. This find by The Evening World force increased the vigilance of the citizens who are patrolling the beach As soon as Acting Mayor Hender- son became acquainted with to-day's situation he stated that a heavy ates! grating \:ould be erected at the mouth of the creek near Keyport. Until this is constructed a large barge will be Placed crosswise in the lower end of the creek to prevent the sharks from going into the bay. Scott "tc 4, an © -pertence! shark hunter in Southern waters, is keeping 4 constant patrol off the mouth of the creek, He has @ large power dory and carries @ harpoon. In his boyhood days Scott sailed on a whaler and the harpoon to him ts an ideal shark weapon. Perth Amboy Bathers received a shock yesterday when a ten-foot shark was sighted just outside the bathing nets, Keansburg 1s somewhat pro- tected by shallow water, but at the buoy, off shore « bit, several sharks have been seen by fishermen, The bathing beaches will all be equipped with protecting nets by to-morrow At the Highlands nets are now being stretched for the protection of swim- mers. The enterprise of The Evening World in organizing a shark hunting party bas stimulated the forming of (Continued on Second Pays.) hig HAGEN WINS “MET” 139 FACEDFIRE “ONU.S. COLLIER HIT GOLF TLE BY ONE STROKE, MAKING 74 | James M. Barnes Second, and Young Hoffner Finishes in Third Place. By William Abbott. GARDEN CITY GOLF CLUB, L 1, July 15.—Walter Hagen of Ro- cheater, national open champion in 1914, won the play-off here to-day for the Metropolitan open golf title, defeating James M. Barnes of White- marsh by one stroke and Charles Hoffner of Philmont by three stroke: Hagen's score for the eighteen hoies was 74, against 75 for Barnes and 17 for Hoffner. Jim Barnes, one of the longest driv- ers in the game, was practically euchred out of the title. After leading for the first nine holes Barnes was penalised at the tenth because bis ball hit @ bunker ten feet away, and, re- bounding, struck him on the leg. This misfortune cost the tell Mnglishman the first prise. He never managed to regain thie atrok Rarnes made a gallant finish on the home green, where he sunk a 80-foot putt from behind a bunker for a great two, but it falled to overcome the penalty. To win Hagen was forced to make many sensational shots. He was especially brilliant on the fif- teenth, where, after getting In trou- ble, he saved himself with a 15-foot putt that rolled over a sertes of mounds before dropping into the hole. At the log seventeenth Hagen practically clinched the ttle, when he drove @ 160-yard brassie shot to within ten feet of the hole, Charles Hoffner, the twenty-year old Phil- mont pro, who seemed like a weak. ing compared to his husgy oppon- enta, put up a plucky finish but was outmatched except on greens, where he saved himself several times, The three pro's were all cautious at (Continued on Fifth Page.) pitta i 90 H. P, FLYING BOAT SOLD TO F. T. DAVISON Young Aviator Gets First Unit of New Aerial Coast Patrol. The first step toward establishing an aerial coast patrol for this ocun- try was taken to-day when F, T. Davison ordered a ninety horse-power Curtiss flying boat, according to an announcement tssued by the Aero Club of America, Robert Lovett, Al- len Ames, H. B. Sturtevant, G. D. Winan and Mr, Davison reported at the Wanamaker Aviation School, Port Washington, L. I, to begin training as aviators. The unit is to contain twelve men, four to act as pilots, four as ob- servers and four as anti-alreraft men, Two experts in wire! tele- graphy also will be added, The full equipment of the body is to include four seaplanes and a complement of motorboats and automobiles for antd- alroraft work, President Wilson and the War and Navy Departments have given their consent to a plan for 4 coast patrol worked out by the Aero Club and a bill appropriating $1,600,000 for its maintenance was Introduced in the Senate a few days ago. A COOL SPELL TO STAY, MAYBE Good weather will b the next forty days if t in the old adage about to in's Day—furnishing an inde brand of weather that may be expected for that period, There was no rain in sight, according to the offivial foreca: ‘A Continuance of the pleasant woath: ie promised for to-morrow, with a tem perature that ia hat expected t6 #o much phove the 88 mark The humidity to. jay was lower than at any time during the weal. t new YORK, BATUBDAY, JULY 15, 1916, T BATTLE ON GERMAN THIRD LINE; BRITISH TIDE STEMMED, SAYS BERLIN BRITISH TROOPS MOWED DOWN - BY T20MILEGAE , Marines and Crew of Hector | Fight Flames and Storm for Six Hours at Sea. |ALL ABOARD ARE SAVED, Men Sticks to Ship Until She Breaks in Two. CHARLESTON, 8. C., July 16.— collier Hector against a gale which blew from 110 to 120 miles and hour, great gens, and disabled engines and the dering rescue of 103 men by the tug Wellington, were brought here to-day by the first auevivors to land. The Wellington, storm-battered, ‘worked.for six hours taking off the crew ang sixty marines which the Hector was taking from Port Roya! to Guantanamo. Capt. Joseph Newel! of the Hector, and thirty-six men were taken off later b ythe steamer Cypress and the wrecked Hector was left to her fate, en intles northeast of Cape Romaine gas buoy. No member of the ship's company was loat, but four were hurt. ‘The Hector left Charleston Light- ship Wednesday, Thursday morning at about ¢ o'clock she ran into the worst of the hurricane sweeping up Huge waves broke over and poured down the hatohes, flooding the holds and 4ii abling the engines. When she was unable to make way wireless calls for help wer aent out. As the big collier rolled at the mercy of the wind, which was driving her toward Cape Romaine, fires broke out in the hold, They did not gain headway, but added to the terror of those aboard, The Wellington reached the collier at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon, about one hour after the Hector had grounded fourteen miles northeast of Cape Romaine. The Hector's launch had been disabled by the storm, but & small boat with @ line put out and succeeded in reaching the Wellington. The dungerous work of transferring the men was immediately started and cotiued for six hours. Capt. Newell with a group of bis m elected to remain on the forward part of the Hector, which then had almost parted at about midships. The Wellington started for this port as the Cypress set out to take off Capt. Nowell and the others, as it seemed certain there was no chance to save the collier, At 8 o'clock last night Capt. Newell and his men who re- mained with him was forced to | the Hector, There were five men aboard each of two barges which the Wellington lost while trying to tow them from Philadelphia to Jacksonville, The Wellington left to-day to search for them. WASHINGTON, July 15.—A radio- gram received at the Navy Depart- ment from Commander Bryan of the Charleston Navy Yard this forenoon said that all the marines and crew who were on the wrecked U. 8, col- lier Hector were saved, Three men were injured. The message sald that the Hector was abandoned at 12.45 o'clock this morning, seven miles northeast of Cape Romaine, The vessel will be a total loss as she is broken in two. All hands were brought ashore aboard} the lighthouse tender Cypress and the naval tug Wilmington. There were twelve officers and seventy men of the |crew, in addition to one officer and fifty-six marine recruits from Nor- folk and Port Royal, 8, C. tain of the Hector la G. F. } Another dispatch from Capt. Bryan the officers, crew and ma- rinee on off by the lighthouse tender Cypress and the tug Wilming ton arrived at Charleston at 8 A. M | to-day, Capt. Newell With Some of His} 4 Tales of the losing fight of the naval) | [Circulation Books Open to All.” 10 PAGES Se ae ey Private Car for Nominee’s Party and Another for \ Paper Men Planned. BRIDGEHAMPTON, L. 1, July 15. —Mre, Hughes will accompany her husband when the Republican nom- inee makes his trans-continantal cam- paign trip starting Aug. 6. Further plans for the journey as announced to-day contemplate « private car for the nominee's personal party and a private car for newspapermen travel- Mag with him—the two cara to be carried on regular trains Bo fal possible Mr. Hughes in- tends to pass nights in hotels in the cities he will visit. He has declined invitations of friends to visit their domes en route, Misa Frances A. Kellow, Chairman of the Women's National Committes of the Hughes Alliance, had juncheon with Hughes to-day. ‘The candidate did not visit the golf links to-day, remaining at home in bie study. U-BOATS GET SUPPLIES FROM FLOATING DRUMS Method Revealed When Passengers Find Crew of Italian Lines Shooting at One, ‘The Itallan ateamer Duca Degit Ab- russi, which arrived here to-day, left Naples with all lights out and took a sig-ag course through the Mediter- rane@& to avoid submarines. On July 8, about 5 in the morning, tho passengers were aroused by fir- | ing ‘They rushed on deck and found the crew firing from the guns mount- ed on the stern of the ship at a float ing object, which later proved to be a huge iron drum These drums, the officers said, are numerous in the Mediterranean, the | Austriane and Germans setting thom | Afloat witb supplies of off and gasolin for the purpose of supplying U-boats, “isbanp's canpacy [Berlin War Office,in AdmittingGains _ TRIP TO THE WEST) ~~ hy Haig’s Army in Trones Wood bf and Elsewhere, Declares That ~ “Tide Has Been Stemmed.” be 2,000 GERMANS CAPTURED & IN THE LATEST FIGHTING © WEATHER—Fow te might ond Bundey } EOITION ; ai PRICE ONE CENT. o + 4 % 4 i + 4 x un BERLIN, July’ 1S (via London).—The continuation of the British attack on the German lines between Pozieres and Longueval resulted it their penetrating the German lines and effecting a gain of territory, the War Office announced to-day in the following statement: “British attacks which followed the first sanguinmary repulse saftered by thom merth of the Somme led to heavy fighting. By hls forces massed between Posieres and Longneval, the enemy, ia spite of the most severe lonses, succceded in penetrating oar lines and gaining some ground. He also occupied Trones Wood, “The attack has been stemmed, but the fighting is being con- tinned, “South of the Somme there was no infantry activity. “Aside from futile actions undertaken by smail British detache ments of Armenticres, in the region of Angres, in the Neuville sector and northeast of Arras, nothing of importance occurred the rest of the front.” LONDON, July 15.—The Germans at one point have been forced back to the third line of their. defense, under smashing British blows, four miles behind their original front, Gen. Haig reported to the Wat Office this afternoon, The official statement follows: M “All continues to go well om the British front, and at one point a we forced the enemy back to his third system of defense, more than q four miles to the rear of his original fromt trenches at Fricourt and Mamets, “In the last twenty-four hours we have captured over 2,000 © prisoners, inclading a regimental commander of the Third Guards | Division, and the total number of prisoners taken by the British ¢ since the battle bewan now execeds 10,000, Large quantities of | war material also have fallen inte our hands.” Special dispatches from Paris this afternoon reported that the Gere mans have retired on the French front, adjoining the British, to the Guillemont-Albert-Combles Railway. The retreat was made Necessary by the British advance, 2 The British encountered stubborn resistance after breaking through the,German second line and were met by steady sheets of machine gum fire in the district north of Longueval. Notwithstanding this determined opposition the British troops continued to consolidate their positions and break down small German positions in fighting that continued well into the night. 4 FOUR BRITISH WARSHIPS SUNK BY U-BOATS, BERLIN CLAIMS Auxiliary Cruiser of 7,000 Tons and Three Patrol Boats Sent to the Bottom— Crews Captured. BERLIN, July 15 (by wireless to Sayville).—The Admiralty announced | to-day that on July 11 a German submarine sank a British auxiliary cruiser and three patrol boats. The text of the statement follows “On July 11 4 German submarine destroyed in the North Sea a British q : auxiliary cruiser of about 7,000 tone, “On the same day German submarines off the British coast sank three | British patrol! boats, The crews were captured and one cannon was taken U-BOAT’S CREW GETS ' —W-BRITISH BREAKFAST | |Find Men of a German submarine which sank Me trawler Bute early yesterday mad@ the trawler's crew risoners they were at breakfast, bib: The Germans then ate the fast themselves, carried off all Supplies, placed the crew in boats sank the ship with bomba, The Bute’s orew reached the Tyne to-day, on Trawler Eating a Meal and Take All the Food. ee HULL, England, July 15—Tbe erew| World Wants Work Wonders, 4 j