The evening world. Newspaper, July 27, 1916, Page 1

‘ ~_?RIOE ONE CENT. ——$—_—___— EDITION toporiam. § be he Pecee Pubilaning enn f Circulation Books Open to All } = NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 27, AUSTRIA ADMITS GAINS BY RUSSIANS; RTILLERY BATTLE NORTH OF SOMM “ee STRKERS TO STOP ALL CARS “OF NEWYORK CITY, [S THREAT; POLICE CLUB BRON MOB itemesttlppaai National President of Unior Arrives and Predicts a City- Wide Tie-Up. E GUARD n BUSY. Disorder Spreads as Attempt Is Made to Operate Bronx Trolleys, President Mahone of the Amalga- Mated Association of Street Ratlway Men arrived to-day and stated that an effort will be made to tie up all Passenger service in New York City. That such an attempt is already under way was shown at noon to-day when a committee of mployees of the Third Avenue Rail- way visited strike headquarters at Webster Avenue and Fordham Road. The committee requested Organizers William F. Collins and to send down representatives unionize the Third Avenue workers. When the committee left headquar- ters members stated the employees of the Third Avenue Railway are cager to organize, and that Saturday morning the railway would be tied up completely from Westchester County to the Battery. James Hutcheon, conductor, No, 687 t One Hundred and Thirty-elghth treet, tried to stop tho crew of a Westchester Avenue car from hauling two stalled cars back to the barn, and when Detective Batto arrested him John Walsh, a laborer of No, 464 East One Hundred and Fifty - seventh Street, interferred. Attracted by (he disturbance, In spector Walsh, with Detectives: Riley and Dillon, came up in an automo bile, drew their revolvers and dis- persed the crowd, Walsh, the laborer, put up a good fight and had to be treated by a Lebanon Hospital sur- geon when he was tnken to the Mor- risania Police Station with Hutcheon, charged with disorderly conduct. to by Fully ten thousand people surged im the street on Westchester Avenue near One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street at 2 o'clock when twenty-five guards, employed by Berghoff and Waddell, were sent there to guard two cars which had been abandoned by their crews, A riot started another car approached and the crowd} the strikebreakers hurled stones at who were locked inside. The reserves from the Morrisania Station charged the crowd, using their sticks freely ,and made six arr John Wels claimed he was merely a bystander, had his scalp laid open. Hoe treated at the station house President Mahone, upon his arrival from Chicago, announced he would make his headquarters at the Conti- nental Hotel, Broadway and Forty- firet Street. He had seen @ statement fasued by E. A. Maher, the Vice Pres- Ident and General disorder in an effort to force 18,000 employees into their ranks DECENT AND HONEST LABOR | MOVEMENT, HE SAYS. “The statement of Maher is abso- lutely ridiculous,” stated Mahone. “Every one who knows the situ knows that it is a foolish me This is a decent and honest labor movement and 1 will answer Maher in full later.” The situation in the Bronx gives @ontinued on Second Page.) aries Lang} when a tinsmith, who was | Manager of the| Union Railway, in which the strikers were deliberately accused of creating ion | BOOKIES GUILTY DESPITE. DECISION ON PERSONAL BETS Fifteen W) ho Were | Were Once Dis-} charged Take Plea After a Conviction Is Found. Fifteen of nineteen alleged book- makers, discharged last January by Magistrate Deuel under the “péraonal bet” decision, rendered in Nassau County, to-day pleaded guilty to bookmaking before Judge Delehanty in the Court of General Sessions. | Lieut, Dan Costigan, who made the arrests last December, was not satis- | fled with Magistrate Deuel’s action and, after a conference with Polico| Commissioner Woods and District At- torney Swann, the cases were put be- fore the Grand Jury resulted in each case. The trial ant! conviction of Leonard Blumonstack, | fifty-seven years old, a saloonkeeper At No. 34 Whitehall Street, the first of the nineteen to go on trial. As tho sury brought In a verdict of guilty nst him fifteen of the others awaiting trial changed their p.eas of not guilty and pleaded guilty to the chayes. The remaining three will go to trial The nineteen arrests were the re- sult of a raid led by Lieut. Costigan | into the financial district Tho evidence against Blumenstack showed that on Dec, 4, Detective Lawrence Beine, one of Costigan's squad, made a wager with him on a horse race. In sentencing Blumen- stack to spend ten days in the City rison and pay a@ fine of $150, Judge Delehanty said: “In view of the fact that it has turned out that your trial has beeh more or less of a test case, and that fifteen other men have been led to plead guilty, and thereby save the County the cost of trials, as a result of your conviction, I will not send you An indictment pleas followed the to the penitentiary, as I first’ in- tended. “The fact that your Iquor license| is lost to you is also taken into con-| sideration as a part of the punish- ment that your conviction has cost you, In sentencing you to the City Prison for ten days and to pay a fine of $150, I hope that Jt will serve as a warning to any other persons tempted to enter the nefarious business in which you were engaged.” —____ RIVERS AND HARBORS BILL SIGNED BY WILSON Measure to Continue Old Projects »} and Carry Out New Ones Provides $42,000,000, WASHINGTON, July 27,—P Wilson to-day signed the Rivers | Harbors bill, appropriating approx'- mately $42,000,000 for the continuance | of old projects and the carrying out | of a few new ones. One new project is that appropr ing $300,000 to improve the Kast River channel so that battleships may |reach the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Tho| President urged this on the House in| the face of an effort to defeat it, re | this me OFFICER BARES $306,000 FRAUD ON ORANGE BANK Byrne Tells How at Hatch’s Request He Certified $ $34,000 | as $340,000, : | BOTH UNDER ARREST. ce President, New York Broker, Ill, Says Secretary's Story Right. Thomas §. Byrne, Secretary and Treasurer of the closed Mutual Trust Company of Orange, N. J., this after- | noon made a full confession to Prose- eutor Mott of Newark, N. J., in which he tells how the bank by over-certification, The confession is the aftermath to the warrants for his arrest and for the apprehension of Kiwin H. Hatch, a New York broker, who was vice president of the bank. According to the confession, Hatch called up Byrne on the night of May 18 and told him to meet him at the dank at 8 o'clock. When Hatch met Byrne, the latter says, Hatch told him he was “up against it” and needed $340,000 at once. Then, ac- cording to Byrne, Hatch told him how to over-certify the deposit slips, "“L protested,” said Byrno, “ana told Hatch that I had a wife and two children and would do nothing crooked for him, I also said that my |father was one of the most respected citizens in the Oranges and, besides, I had hundreds of friend depositors whom I wanted to protect, “Then Hatch be angry and sald: ‘Now, Byrne, | know this ts not Just right, but I am up against it. You know that | am carrying large sums of former United States Bena- tor Smith's paper and this has made my cash very low “"T have lots of money but it Is all tled up. I saved this bank when Smith failed and [ also came to the rescue in 1907, Now if I do not get I will be ruined and the bank will go with me Byrne further avers that after three hours he consented to help Hatch if Hatch would insure himself to pro- tect the depositors. This, Byrne says, Hatch promised to do. “I signed six deposit slips for $50,000 and one for $40,000," continued Byrne. This brought the certification up to $340,000 while the bank books showed but $34,000,"" Byrnes was held in $26,000 bail and Hatch was placed under guard at his home until he recovers from his illness: Hatch about @ year ago, bought out the interest in the institution held by Smith, Yesterday Hatch and his wife filed a mortgage on which they apparently borrowed $30,300 on their home The depositors have served notice on the directors that unless a state- ment is forthcoming within the next several days depositors will make public a statemept of facts about the workings of the bank col- lected Auring the last six months As Byrne was taken from the bank this morning to a waiting automobile, he turned to his counsel and said: “Tam a victim of circumstances. 1 had to do as I was told to hold my Job, Tam a sinner of others.” Edward M. Colle, cou for Mr, Hateh, later gave out the following tatement “Mr. Hatch has read Mr, Byrne's statement and desires to say that in all substantial particulars it is cor rect, and Mr. Hatch is responsible for the act done by Mr. Byrne at his re quest and solicitation,” W. Halsey and Company issued a statement to-day saying that Hatch's accounts with the company had been examined and were found tp Rave been cormect. > t to tts ruin | ‘First Picture of Woman Slain With Exonerated Army Officer PEPE PEER EERE EER eee Peete sescceseessoesoe & | | + oePoesO2® oe . i 3 4 q : i 7 ; s .y 2 psn . : a4 ® | — : el w vied $ 4 » 56448994464 649-6 4004944444 MRS, HARRY SPANNELL. SPANNELL IS HELD FOR DOUBLE MURDER Man Who Killed Wife and Col. Butler a Physical Wreck When Arraigned in Court. ALPINE, Tex., July 27.—Harry U.) Spannell was given a preliminary amination here to-day on a charg of killing his wife and Lieut. Col. M. C, Butler, U. 8. A., and remanded to jail without bond to awalt the action of the Grand Jury, which meets Sept, 11 When the prisoner was Broa into the court room it seemed was on the verge of mental collap He sobbed a greeting to the few of. flcars present and with dloodshot eyes searched the room, Apparent ly he paid little attention to the legal phases of the examination, To safeguard the prisoner from mob violence the hearing was held in secret. Spannell persisted in refusing to discuss the case. Thus far the only ment attributed to him was con- tained in a note to a friend In Waco, Tex,, in which it was asserted he had not intended to kill his wife, that ac cidentally he had hit her while firing | sta it Butler, Reports from Waco, Tex., wher Spannell formerly lived, and trom Hazleton, Pa., his boyhood home, in | Jicated money was being raised ff SAN ANTONIO, July ficial report on the killing of Lieut Col, M. C, Butler at Alpine, Tex., last week by Harry Spannell clears the name of the dead officer, The report transmitted to Gen, Funston by Col U. A, Gaston, district commander, says that Col. Butler was aware that Span. nell was jealous of his wife, and took care over to be aloue with her, 27.--The of-| Y Peet baee odd ee es 2 9O9OFOO44-4-O6 ARMY BL PASSED, CARRS A BUDET OF $312,000 00 Senate Putting Act Through, Votes $2,000,000 for De- pendents of Soldiers, WASHINGTON, July ‘The Army bill, carrying approximately $212,000,000, passed the Senate this afternoon without a record vote. An appropriation of $2,000,000 for reliet of dependent’ familios of en- listed men in the organized militia and regular army in service in the Mexican emergency was agreed to by the Senate in an amendment to the bill, Dependent families would be given not more than $50 @ month in the discretion of the Secretary of War. The amendment, which was pushed to final success after a hard fight by Senator La Follette, defines @ family as a wife, children or dependent motets War brides” were Included tn thy bin specifically by @ provision that relief money should go to any wife married ap late as July 15 this year. With one exception, the bill ts the largest military Qudget ever approved in time of peace by any nation, The exception 18 the $390,000,000 appropria- tion by Russia in 1914-15, providing for 5,000,000 soldiers. The army bill follows close on th largest navy bill, $315,000,000, ever au thorized by any nation The total of the two Is $6 the world's greatest pe war bill Fights are expected in the House against both bills. House leader Kitchin has announced they ne will become law with his approval President Wilson having taken, how- ever, & positive stand that the Sen ite naval programme must ap: proved, Senator Chamberlain said to day he hoped the si would 000,000, ume ce given his Chairman Hay, wh voice in the House ha wen dominant on military affy told Chamberlain to-day the not be the same ¢ there has been to other military bills this session. 0,000,000 Capital for Je: jon, TRENTON, N. J., July 27.-—The Pub Service Corporation of New Jersey y Core Ne ' eeroplas: ysition to this bili | f “Cirent tion ‘Rooks Open to All, 4 16 PAGES U.S. WARSHIPS WITH ; AEROPLANES GUARD SUBMARINE'S PATH Five Vessels and Several Air- craft Keep Allies’ Ships | Outside 3-Mile Limit. DEUTSCHLAND LINGERS. | Sailing Plans of Undersea Liner Reported Changed— Spy Ship Ready to Trail. NORFOLK, Va, July 2,.—Five United Staten warships and several are guarding American veutrallty off the Virginia Capes to- day against the overeagern ot the ish and French warships waiting for the submarine Deutsch- land to come out. The United 8 vessels are the cruiser North Care. Naa amd the 4orpedo destroyers Deagie, Fiuseer, Sterret and Reid, They are line@ up along the coast from Beaufort, N. C., to Delaware Breakwater, ‘The North Carolina is about ten miles off the capes and close by are two foreign warships, presumably British, One, a three-funnelied ve sel, ig believed to be the cruiser Cumberland, To-day the North Carolina en- gaged in aeroplane manoeuvres, launching two machines which cir cled around the foreign craft and well out to seu, The manoeuvees were to have been held off Newport, but with no other vessels available to assure the Deutschland a falr run from port, the North Carolina and the destroyers were assigned, with the provision that the aeroplanes should be utilised, The Deutachland will be protected from all foreign vessels while she is within the three-mile limit. After that she will encounter a formidable fleet of enemy ships. iners here have reported ten British and French war vessels between Hatte: and Cape Henry, though only four have been seen from shore. he names of all have been obscured, but two have been identified as the Berwind and Cumberland. United States warships wiil pre- vent private craft from following the Deutechland when she leaves the Capes. Several such vessels have been chartered for the purp: BALTIMORE, Md, July 31.— Either alarming information or good news of the submarine Bremen kept the German subamrine Deutachland in port to-day. Which it was tne managers of the undersea liner ven ture refused to say. Orders for the vessel to go out over night were suddenly counter manded. Inasmuch as news of the Bremen was the determining factor in the matter of the Deutschland sailing, it was accepted as true that at least the Deutsohland’s ister ship been heard trom. The aboard, prepared ither for a run out beyond the three-mile line at the Capes, or to intern for @ time in a cove dowr, Cheasapeake Bay, When the undersea iiner skims down the Patapsco for the capes en route home a big British tramp steamer, the Ardgryfe, Is due to fol- low her as a spy ship, An oificer of the Watch bout adimitted to-day that we plan tu go out when our friend over yonder dovs."” He was reticent about bis purposes, though he ad- jitted that he and bis Japanese keeping & lookout sald Capt, Koenig, on't violate the three- n Army | death’ at Hague, yesterday of rig tired. Lake George, 3 on G. C, was elghty years He pen In the army service to-day filed notice that It proposes to © its capital stock from $£5,000,+ nerews 000 to $60,000,000, 1863. The funeral will be held in W. spinrion neat Sunday, . be ip Arlington, Va. SI annem a: tug Timmins has extra coal} REPULSE OF THE BRITSH IN HAND 10 HAND FIGHTING, CLAIMED BY THE GERMANS Both London and Berlin Report In- tense Artillery Fighting North of the Somme—Gen. Haig’s Troops Only Six Miles From Bapaume. {ERMAN VERDUN VETERANS FACING VICTORIOUS ANZACS west of Posieres have been repulsed. According to Gen. Haig's statement the Ansac troops continued to press the Germane and there were hand-to-hand encounters all last night at various points, the Germans using gas shells sad tear bombs. 5 Newspaper reports say the Germans haye massed may veterans from the Verdun frane-fee an‘ effort to regain the Posieres and other positions they lately lost. The British artillery is pounding the German lines six miles from. Bapaume, their immediate goal. It is believed in London that if Bapaume is taken the entire German line will be forced to retire along a front of from fifteen to ty miles. Berlin claims that a French attack at Barleux, south of the Somme failed. Fighting continues on the Verdun front. Floods are interfering with the operations of the Rus- | sians on the Galician border, but Petrograd claims successes at other points. Kuropatkin is declared to be repulsing attacks by Von Hindenburg's army. More than 6,000 Teutons | were made prisoners in the fighting on Tuesday. Vienna admits an Austrian retirement before Russian pressure on the northeastern border of Galicia, where the Russians are trying to force the Teutons out of Brody in an advance in the direction of Lemberg. The Russians are reported by Berlin to have been sanguinarily repulsed in attacks west of Berestechk, in southern Volhynia, and north- west of Baranovichi, north of the Pinsk region. petbes vabedhs 1. code By GERMAN AND BRITISH REPORTS OF FIGHTING ON SOMME FRONT Berlin Claims Repulse of the Anzac Troops in Hand Grenade Attacks, but Gen. Haig Says He Continues to Press Enemy. BERLIN, JJuly 27 (via London). British hand grenade attacks against the German lines to the west of the town of Pozieres, in the Somme region, were repulsed yesterday, according to the announcement made by German Army Headquarters to-da: of the BRITISH GUNS WROUGHT HAVOC AT POZIERES Nearly 200 German Machine Guns “Between the Ancre and the Somme intense artillery activity On both sides lasted into the night. Enemy hand-grenade ate tacks were repulsed west of Pow Fieres, “South of the Somme a French 4 an attack carried out northeast of Put Out of Actlon—Ranks | aortas tailed, of Troops Decimated. “During the night several PARIS, July 27.—The capture of the lage of Poaieres from the Germans neans that the British are in compicte vssession of the German second line n the Somme regi strong French attacks made in the region of Froide Terre and Fleury were repulsed. Fighting continues at some points, “Strong reconnoitring detach. ments attacking on the front ns fight for Pozieres lasted eleven days—from July 14 to July 26. The} Southwest of Warneton and pas | place was defended by 200 machine. trols near Richebourg were res |uns, of which all but thirty wore de-| Pulsed, French coup de main north of Vienne Le Chateau fatled, Near Villeaux Bois and northwest of Prunay our patrols made about fifty prisoners in the French po- sition, “A French biplane was shot, down tn an aerial fight.” LONDON, July 37.—Hand-to-hend encounters with the Germans, wie 4 stroved or put out of action by the British artillery A species of fort in the centre of the village was defended by @ com- pany of Bavarian infantry, These troops resisted for twelve hours and ut the end of that time only four men were found alive, In @ dugout close by a hekp of sixty bodies remained unburied, Berlin reports to-day that British hand grenade attacks