The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1916, Page 1

“1 “PRICE ONE CENT. ‘WILS Pocomimanded the concession ON’S 8-HOUR ULTIMATUM yieeeneers The Vers Werte), Pebiobing > YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, CORSET OORT TF’ ’ *) Cee RODE s—;gSCoosooOSS of the eight-hour day. The eight-hour day now undoubtedly has the sanction of the judg of society in its favor and should be adopted as a basis for wages.’’—PRESIDENT WII.SON’S ULTIMATUM TO RAILROAD PRESIDENTS. 1916, f “Circula agit ¢ EDITION tion Rooks Open to Am.” | 10 PAGES — PRICE ONE CENT. PUTS STRIKE UP TO RAILROADS GAINS ON SK-MILE FRONT CAME BY THE BSH, tng REPULSED, BERLIN REPORTS Haig Says His Troops Have Captured Western Outskirts of Guillemont, and Germans Admit Shortening of Line in That Sector. LONDON, Aug. 19.—British troops ‘furled back the German line north of the Somme ast night in one of the greatest gains made by allies since the opening smash of the great offensive. _. The Germans were thrown back on Practically every sector of @/a characteristic: speech in which he} six mile front, extending trom a point south of Thiepval to the point where the British lines link up with the French near Guillemont. The greatest British gain was scored from the Foreaux wood (called High | wood by the Britist.) eastward to the junction point with the French. Following is the text of to-day's AFTERSEDURE OF 575,000 NEWELS ed. Durin, the night the enemy delivered sevoral very determined coun nat the posi- | Prisoner Believed a Principal | in Plot—Gems in Stock- | ing and Cigar Boxes. attacks had e: tions w spt on our eatreme right, where the en emy regained ground, these counte ke everywhere repulsed, “From High wood to the point where wesioin up with the French we advd@eod our over frontage of more than two miles for a distance varying between 2) and 600 yards, We now hold the western outskirta of Guille- mont and a ll thenes north. ward to midway between Delville wood and Ginchy, and also the line a A man who says his name is Hans | Fx 1 TI ; but hards north of Longueval a Thompson, but refuses to “Betw: High Wood and the give any other information about Albert-Bapaume Road we cap- — hinself, was arraigned this afternoon tured some hundreds of yards of | before United States Commissioner #n enemy trench ‘Houghton on the charge of being one east of Mouquet ad- | vanced our line by some 300 | Of the principals in a diamond jew- yards, Between Ovillers and |elry smuggling conspiracy, He was Thiepval we pushed forward on a front of over half a mile, As a result of these operations several hundred prisoners have been taken by us.” Giant sixteen-inch guns, outranging the German 42 centimeters, have helped the allies ju their galing on both | Uanks of the Somme Despatches from the Preneh front to-day revenied for the drst time the {held in $7,500 bail for examination According to a complaint made by Customs Inspector Murphy the con- spiracy was formed ingthis city on |June 1, and in furtheFance of the objects of It, Thompson soon after went abroad, He returned on July 1 as a steerage passenger on the Scandinavian line Hellig Olav, As Stoerage passengers are not re- | presence of these new artillery mon- quired to make out baggage declira. | ste Capabie of throwing every two tidhs, with the connivance of a mem. | minutes a shell weighing nearly a ton, | ber of the ship's crew, Murphy saya, these cannon are blowing great holes | Thompson succeeded in the course of in the rman works and systemat-|a few days in getting ashore his suit ivally levelling fortified villages. ease containing Jewelry estimated to be worth about $25,000, All this had cece GERMANS REPULSE STUPENDOUS ATTACK, IS DERLIN’S CLAIM 7 BERLIN, Ay « The War Offid rene the Germans Victori been accomplished before the customs vuthorities got an inkling of the al- leged plot from a jewelry dealer, who t is claimed, had been asked to pur- chase the contraband About the same time, Thompson, ac- cording to the coniplaint, becoming suspicious *induce an acquaintance 19 (vin London) t of to-day says d ihe stupendous Ansio-Pronch attack on | to check the suit case at the Bowling the Somme front which was made |Green subway Jon, ‘There it was yesterday, but between Guiiles|fnally located and watched by In- mont and Mavrepes the Germans} spector Murphy, ‘The latter claims shortened their line what that when one of Thompson's a Following is the text of to-day's!quaintances on Friday ni called German Way Office voport ‘or the anit ¢ he was followed by “Our brave troops yesterday | customs inen ul Avenue and Victoriously resisted With self-sa Fiftioth Street. ‘Thompson appear rificing tenavily a stupendous ef- [later and was arrested oo the smug fort on the part of oar combined enemies out the same u me 1 cxttois’ te’ bapeuen) lad) bean minds the utmost violence, the British jreom at Cordandt and West 5 and there, inspector declares, hid- | @ontinued on Second Page) den behind the counter he found » “ a jor who was Says Republican Candidate Has Shot His Bolt and Failed to Hit the Bull’s-eye. WILSON’S FINE RECORD, Warns Hearers in View of Fine Conditions to Stick by the Administration. BRUNSWICK, Me., Aug, 19.—Champ the Clark, Speaker of the House of Rep- Tesentatives, opened the campnign in Maine for the Democrats to-day in told of the accomplishments of the Administration and Congress under the leadership of President Wilson, He also took note of the campaign tour of Charles E. Hughes. Mr. Clark said in part: “Judge Hughes has made enough speeches in this campaign to enable Intelligent persons ty form something approxi- mating a 0 ret Judgment as to his opinions insues, He has shot his bolt failed to hit the Dull's-eve * “nt universally conceded both friend and foe that ints spoech at Youngstown, ©., in 1908 was far and away the greatest Republican specch made that year. Comparing his speeches since he was nomineted for President with his strong Youngs- town speech, one ts forced inevitably to one of two conclusions: First, that his pen and tongue ‘have lost their cunning measurably; or second, that he has nothing worth while to urge against Democratic accomplish- ments or to propose as f policies, should the Re irrent but wes by by geome miracle win the House, the Sen- ate and the Presidency HUGHES SPEECHES MERELY “QUERULOUS CARPINGS.” “His speeches may be not unfairly summed up as ‘querulous carpings’ at the splendid record of a Democratic Congress and a Democratic Adminis- tration. Here and there out of a vast multitude of things he finds a few of minor character which he deems un- satisfactory to him—which even if wrong--have no more to do with the tremendous problems with which a mighty people are wrestling than have the potato vines of Aroostook County, | Maine, to do with th the Missiasippi River “It is not within the power Judge Hughes or any other complatt ing orator wake a national issug for instance of the removal of Dana Durant as head of the Census Bureau any more than he can make a na- tional issue of who fired the Ephesian Dome, or who struck Billy Patterson, the man in the Iron majestic flow of of to Mask, WE ARE ALL GOOD AMERICANS, PRAISE GOD! SPEAKERCLARK ‘STRIKE ON CAR L FOR MONDAY STE Union Leaders Call on Mitchel and Straus to Return and Avert Tieup. NEW HEARING DELAYED Men’s Committee Meets Hed- ley, but Withholds Original Demands Till Tuesday. Six o'clock Monday night is the time now set by the leader#*of the Street Carmen's Union for calling an- other strike on the lines of the New York Railways Company—the com- pany which operates the gfeen line cars—in case the fourteen men dis- charged by the company since the | peace agreement wag signed last week have not been reinstated by that hour, This was the ultimatum left at the City Hall this afternoon by the labor leaders, following « futile effort to t in touch with Mayor Mitchel at lattsburg for the purpose of urging and try to straighten a } & Pl him to return out the new differences that have arisen, “We have flatly explained our po- sition to Secretary Rousseau,” who has been trying to reach the mayor," said Louis F. Pridiger, counsel for the union, “We de not consider the question these discharged men arbitrable, ‘That will be explained to Mayor Mitch We belleve he will come back immediately, “There will be no strike to-day or to-morrow, as far but I belleve the patience of the men Is exhausted and unless thelr dis charged fellow workmen are at work by 6 o'clock Monday night theres nothing for them to do but strike, according to their position as they have made it known to us” The union leaders telegraphed Mayor Mitchel and Chairman Straus last night urging then to return and try to straighten out the new differ- ences that have arisen. The union leaders sald that in case Mayor Mitchel persisted in his attl- tude that the question of the dis- charged men should be submitted to | arbitration, they would feel that they had done everything possible te trouble and would feel free to act 4 they saw fit, “SITUATION SERIOUS," SAYS MESSAGE TO MAYOR. Following 1s @ copy of we telegram sent to Mayor Mitchel Hon. John Purroy Mitchel, Mili- tary Training Camp, Plattsburs, N. ¥.: Situation quite serious. Have telephoned details to Mr, Rous- of as I can see, “He says that he is in favor of ‘un-| seau, Believe your prosence here diluted Americanism.’ So are we all,| 18 quite necessary. —_— The message sent to Chairman (Continued on Second Page.) Pee a ~| Hon, Oscar L, Straus, Big Island wom stocking filled with more Pond, Me., via Farmington smuggled Jewelry Situation very serious. Belleve The customs officials say that your presence here quite neces waiter, who had formerly been em-| sary ployed in the Mmehroom, vag at] Both telegrama were 1 by Thomson's request concealed the} Louis J. Pridiger, attorney for the stocking containing the Jewelry there, | union. The jewelry in the su ome of| “The proposition of the New York which |# suspected of being o| r-| Rallways directors for us to go 1? man manufacture, was packed Mayor Mitchel and Chairman Straus seven cigar boxes, and as yet it has! and have this matter arbitrated,” nol deen uppreised by the Government] eaid Mr. Fridiger, “was evidently experts made for delay and was not in good Additional developments and rests are expected next week, are (Continued on second Page.) INES SET NIGHT UNLESS D MEN GET OLD J085 ITALIAN LINER SUNK; PLIEDIN PASSENGER TRADE TO NEW YORK When Last Here She Carried Guns for Defense, at Which Germany Entered Protest. A despatch from London announces that the Italian steamship Stampalia, which until recently was engaged in the passenger service between Genoa and New York, has been sunk, pre- sumably by a submarine. La Veloce Navigation Company, the owner of the vessel, cabled Hartfeld, Solar! & Co,, the local agents, at No. 1 State Street, to cancel all reservations for the voyage from here scheduled to start on Aug. 26. Frank Fizgarott!, manager of the Hartfield, Solari & Co, office, sald to- day when told of the sinking of the ampalia: ‘The Stampalia was probably being used by the Italian Government for transport purposes in the Adriatic Sea in connection with the war with Austria. We have received no news of her since, She was armed for de fense on her recent trips between Italy and New York, which called a protest from Germany, “Her captain, EB ne Lavarello, was spoken of at the State Street off as one of the youngest skippers in the service of La Veloce Company, His crew comprised about 160 men, all of whom hailed from Genoa, other ports tn northern Italy.” The Due d'Aosta, sister ship of the Stampalia, scheduled to leave Pler 74, North River, at noon to-day, carries @ number of bookings over by the local agents when the cancellation of the Stampalia’s sailing on Aug. 26 was received, The Stampalia's home port was Genoa. She measured feet over all, with 56 feet beam and 29 feet of draught. She was bu In Decemler of 1 tampalta went to the rescue of the k steam er Thesaloniki when she was in trou ble in @ storm northeast of Be: on BELLEVUE PATI SIX FLOORS TO DEATH Convalescent Calls “Goodby” to Nurse Who Traces Him to Bal- cony and Takes Plunge, An empty bed In ward No, 6 at Bellevue Hospital, known to have been oceupled a few minutes before, attracted of ed to a bal st in Gime 1 fifty-nine, iby," he ef the hand the attention a nurse early to-day and she r cony overlookir to see Joseph Moran, p hed on the rallin and with a court ve jumped wix floors to the pavement, | He was instantly killed | Moran, who formerly lived at No. 31 North Willlums Street, Brooklyn, | Was admitted to t 1 July a1 - > (For Racing Results Gee Page 2.) | FIRST WOMAN AVIATOR READY TO QUALIFY FOR SERVICE IN U.S, ARMY PREPARED 10 QUALIFY ASUS. ARMY AVIATOR Passes Flying Tests at Mine- ola and Will Be First Woman in Service. Already qualified as an alr pilot, Mrs, Waldo Plerce of No, 28 East Ninth Street, a daughter of Mra. Isaac L, Rice, head of anti-nolse or- ganizations, soon expects to be the only woman aviator qualified to fly for the United States Army. Her husband is with the American Am- bulance Corps in France. Mra, Pierce yesterday, at the Min- eola field, passed all tho fying teste, both alone with passenger, necessary to qualify her as an alr pilot. When she’ receives her license from the Acro Club she will be the only licensed amateur woman pilot in America, She will take the teste for the military aviator's license at once, and will then be ready to fly for the army. and As Dorothy Rice, Mra, Pierco is best known to New Yorkers, She met ‘ierce, Harvacd graduate and football star, in Madrid, where both were studying art, and where later both were married, She about |twenty-five years old, of the highest |type of American gil, and is active and fearless, She ix one of the four famous Rice sisters, Many New York motorcyele police. men know her in the days when she was called the Hlue Streak because jot the speed with which, clad in bloomers, she piloted her motoreycle | along ftiverside Drive, A few times they accused her of going sixty miles an hour, Shoe has climbed the Alps, Jtravelled extensively, and is a | painter, sculptor and musician, More than one motoreyele policeman ts willing to wager that some aviation records M ure in for ® Plerce her flying }a good smashing after gets through collecting licenses. Not Wounded Aus. 1.-The report that in Crown Prince, Prederte unded and i 1 a Nom. Verdun uthoritatively ee oo t ot a ‘ ‘ Ike or veara t at duff by lint vuthoriged ino ait! by mith of New Yorla o} dered reported to-day by the House Commerce Committe, rr PRESIDENT CALLS 14 MORE EXECUTIVES 10 THE CAPITAL: INSISTS ON A SETTLEMENT + Ready to Go to Congress for Appoint- ment of an Investigating Commis- sion, He Declares—Suggests Rate Raise if Plan Proves Hardship. EMPHASIZES POINTS WITH CLENCHED FIST (Special from a Stall Correspendent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—President Wilson put the responsibility for averting a nation-wide railroad strike up to the presidents of the great railway systems of the country this afternoon. He told them that the eight-hour day as a basis for wages, even when the work cannot be completed in eigint hours, has the sanction of the judgment of society, and he believes in the eight-hour day standard. The President showed he was determined,. Several times he phasized points with clenched fist as he walked up and down before the railroad executives In the Bine Room, In a statement to the public, issued immediately after his conference with the railroad executives, President Wilson said: “I have recommended the concession of the eight-hour day—that 1s, the substitution of an eight-hour day for the present ten-hour day in ail the existing practices and agreements. 1 made this recommendation because I believed the concession right. “The eight-hour day now btedly has the sanction of the judgment of noclety in Its favor and should be adopted as a basis for wages even where the actual work to he done cannot be completed within eight hours. “Concerning the adjustment which should be made in justice to the railroads and their stockholders in the payment and privileges to which their men are now entitled (if such adjustments are necessary) there is a wide divergence of opinion. The railroads which have already adopted the eight-hour day do not seem to be at any serious disadvantage in respect to their cont of operation, as compared with the railroads that have re- tained a ten-hour day, and calculations as to the cost of the cha: must. if made now, be made without regard to any possible administrative economies or readjustments, “Only experience can make it certain rearrangements would be fair and equitable either on behalf of the men or on behalf of the railroads. That experience would be a definite guide to the Interstate Commeree Commission, for example, in determining whether as # consequence of the change It would be necessary and right to authorize an increase of ratos for the handling and carriage of freight (for passenger service is not aliected,) “1, therefore, proposed that the demand for extra pay for overtime made by the men and the contingent proposal of the railroad authorities be postponed until facts shall have taken the place of calculations and fore- casts with regard to the effect of a change to the eight-hour day; that, In the mean time, while experience was developing the facts, I should seek and, If need be, obtain, authority from the Congress to appoint a small body & month's salary! (agreements with a view to instituting inquiries into suggested of impartial men to observe and thoroughly acquaint themselves with ihe results, with a view to reporting to Congress at the earliest possible time the facts disclosed by thetr inquiries, but without recommendation of any kind, and that it should then be enttrely open (to either or both parties to the present controversy to give notice of a termination of the present adjustment of pay or practice. “This seems to me a thoroughly practical and entirely fair programme and I think that the public has the right to expect its accepiarce,” 8 aaa meni on after his confere with the President Wi he railroad executive ment. Hope you can matters so as to to Washington a arrange be able to come sent a telegram to fourteen presidents of Western railroads, The President's telegram follow The additional tomen called “Discussion of the matters in- tu Washington are volved in the threatened railway Louis W. Hill, Great Northern; 4 strike is still continuing, It is |J. Barling, St, Paul; J. N, Hanna- highly important taht 1 should | ford, Northern Pacific; E. P, Riple personally confer with you or some one authorized to you at the earliest poss Santa Fe; J Dickinson, Rock 1 and; E. F. Kearney, Wabash; W. C, Nixon, St, Louls and San Franeleco;