The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1916, Page 1

Ses ———— New Move Brings Italy Nearer Actual War With Ger- man Empire. BULGARS PRESSING ON. Troops Now Within 10 Miles of Greek Port of Kavala— Government Anxious. ENT. ALLIED ARMY INTHE BALKANS REINFORCED BY THE TALANS; FORCE LANDED AT SALONA |BRITISH WAR LOSSES GO STEADILY HIGHER Casualties Among Officers in (ast Week of July Were 2,55%— 737 Killed, LONDON, Aug. 10 (Correspondence of the Associated Pross)—Casualties among British officers for the last seven days of July were heavier than in any previous period of the war, PARIS, Aug. 21.—Itallan troops bo-| again showing the effects of the pres- @an to disembark at Salonica yes-| ent offensive on the Western front. terday, saya a Havas despatch from that point. They passed through the eity to camp preceded by military bands of the allies and cheered by the Depulace. LActive participation by Italian troops in the Salonica campaign would mean the existence of a state of war between Germany and Maly. Germany is directing the S against the allies on this front, and, as the official German reports show, has forces there. Some Austrian troops also probably are employed, and Possibly Turks, but the major portion of the army is made up of Bulgarians. Recent reports have indicated the withdrawal of Austrian troops from the Balkans for use on the Russian and Ital- fan fronts. (As the Entente allies aro be- Meved to have a force of some 700,000 British, French and Ser- bian troops on the Salonica front, the sending of reinforcements at this time, just after the opening of hostilities on a large scale, would indicate that the allies have embarked on a campaign of ex- tensive proportions.) _ BULGARS GAIN HILL ON WESTERN FRONT OF BALKANS’ BATTLE LIN! BERLIN (via London), Aug. 21.— The German and Bulgarian forcer which have taken the offensive on the stern end of the Balkan front are pushing southward in Greece, the War Office communication of to-day shows. They have wrested further positions from the Serbiane and beaten off efforts to recapture ground won. “South and southeast of Florida we gained the Vici Hill and Malareka Ridge,” the statement says. “East of Banica the Serbian positions on the Malka Niezep- Janina were stormed. All efforts of the enemy to recapture Dinteaat Jeri were fruitless. “Near Gumnica a weak enemy attack was beaten off. South- east of Lake Dotran spirited ar- tillery duels are in progress.” ATHENS, Aus. 21. — Bulgarian troops are reported within ton miles of the Greek port of Kavala in their advance to attack the Allies’ right wing. (Kevala, a port of about five thousand population, with con- siderable trade, was taken from ‘Turkey by Greece in the Balkan wars. It lies eigheen miles west of the Bulgarian border and has long been coveted by the Bul- ears.) ‘The Greek cabinet has been called tmto special session because of the Bulgarien advance into Greek terri- tory, Generals Moschopoulos, Sottilis and Ghenadis attending the confer- ‘The Britiah and French Ministers conferred with Premier Zaimis, who immediately afterward summoned the Chief of Staff of the Greek army. ‘The discussion turned on the ques- téon of withdrawing portions of the @reek army and civilians frfom the temitory cocupied by the Bulgare, | wounded, The casualty lists include 737 killed, 1,688 wounded, and 134 missing, a total of 2,669. They bring the aggre- Rute losses since the beginning of the ‘war to 36,416, of whom 10,842 have been killed or have died of wounds, 22,978 have been wounded and 2,596 of high rank, was generals were » colonel and nine were killed, BRITISH WON'T SET FREE AMERICAN BOY STUDENT John Kilgallen of Long Island, One of the Irish Rebels, Must Stay in Prison, and o | Heutenant-col LONDON, Aug. 21.—The British authorities have declined to release John Kilgallen, the young Ameri- can student. imprisoned during the Dublin rebellion, the American bassy was informed to-day, m~ Kilgallen, whose home is on Long Island, was attending echool in Dub- the rebellion broke out. The r of the school was Patrick Pearse, President of the short-lived Irish Republic gallen interested the State Depart- ment in his behalf, asserting that Pearse's influence over the boys un- der his tutelage led many of them to join the rebels, > ____.. AS DETECTIVE, IS CHARGE IN COURT |Prisoner Charged With Pointing Out Innocent Youth as Thief After Sleuthing Agreement. Joseph Whalen, thirty of No, $88 West Forty-second Street, ;Was arraigned before Magistrate Frothingham in Jefferson Market | Court to-day charged with represent Ing himself to be a private detective. | He was held in $1,500 for Special Ses- sions, Harry W. Wilson, silk merchant, of Na. 12 EB Thirty-third Street, complainant, testified that on ‘Feb. 16 last Whalen represented himself as being in the employ of a private detective agency and agreed for $5 to identify one of his employees who was robbing him, The money was paid and a youth who had been with Mr. Wilson for eight years was pointed out, Wilson learned that the young man was in a different part of the city when the robbery had been committed. He re- ported the matter to Police Head- quarters and Whalen's arrest fol- lowed, pe EIGHT KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Tei Tuc. years old, a Hurt and Three Missing When Rollers Blow U JACTSON, Tenn., Aug. 21.—Five or moro persons were killed and as many injured by tho explosion of threo boilers at the plant of the Harlan Morris Manu- facturing Company here this morning Several persons missing are believed to be in the ruina of the factory, == Rulltags (Word) Poh hirembd Bovis inde a bean me Sha ie THE WORLD TRAVEL be INERSMASHES. YACHT AND HURLS FIVE INTO WATE afayette, Inbound, Fails to tear Cries From Craft Adrift in Ambrose Channel. iT k REW SAV! |SHIP’S C ALL. | Brooklyn Party, Injured in Collision, Brought to Pier by Steamer. The liner Lafayette from Bordeaux docked at the French line pler to-day and among those who came ashore and Mra. A. 8. Meeker, of No. 521 Flatbush Avenue, Brook- lyn; Henry Haas and his son Harold, of No, 254 Lincoln Road, Flatbush, and Malcolm Knox, of . 1638 Bigh- ty-fourth Street, Bath Beach, all extremely lucky survivors of a colll- sion between the liner and a yacht in Ambrose Channel last night. They were suffering from bruises, immer- sion and shock, and were aent to their homes in taxicabs, The Mcekers, with the other three as thelr guests, set out from Ben- sonhurst yesterday afternoon in their thirty-five-foot power yacht Drifter for a trip outside Norton's Point. When well out in Ambrose Channel the engine broke down and the Drifter was carried seaward by the tide. Darkness fell before sig- nals of distress were sighted by other craft. Mr. Meeker rigged up @ saih and was helding his own unttl the wind died down, leaving the littie yacht b right in the path of the big mships, Along came the Lafayette, bound in, The party on the little yacht could see the big ves- sel miles away and they appreciated their danger, for the channel lights told them where they were, While yet the Lafayette was a mile were Mr. rales away the Meeker party began to shout warnings, but their cries were not heard aboard the liner, A bow lookout saw the little yacht too late. the hull of the Lafayette struck the Drifter a glancing blow and crushed it Those on the yacht managed to hang on to the wreckage. The cabin of the little craft, with Mr. Meeker on the roof, remained afloat until a small boat was put over from the Lafayette, under command of Second Capt. Do la Combe. The five sur- vivors were huried aboard the liner and placed tn the hospital, where they remained until time to go ashore ‘ o FORMER 69TH MEMBER TRIES TO END HIS LIFE John Blong, Despondent Because He Couldn't Get Work, Leaps Into the River. Despondent because he could not find work, John Blong, awed thirty, of No, 140 Fast Forty-ninth Street, for- merly a member of Company D, Six- ty-ninth Regiment, attempted suicide to-day in the Hast River, He jump from a pier at the foot of East Forty- ninth Street, but was rescued by Ed- ward Walsh, @ ‘longshoreman, and quickly revived. Blong told Magistrate Krotel in Yorkville Court that he formerly worked for Park & Tilford, and when the call for troops came he went to Camp Whitman with his regiment, remaining there from June 18 to July 1, when he was discharged on ac- count of bad feet. Biong said that he asked for his job and was put to work, At the end of the week his pay Was short, he said. Belleving that the firm ‘wished to be rid of him, he quit and has been without employment since. Magistrate Krotel ordered that Blong held till to-morrow, and said that he would endeavor to find work for the man, who apparently is ‘in poor health, suffering from lack of food. ‘ “HOPE OF AVERTING NE AIL EOITION YORK, | MONDAY, AUGUST 21, S. PREPAREDNESS PLANS MENACED, WILSON TELLS RAILWAY PRESIDENTS 19 2 B-AOUR DAY 1S ONLY MEANS OF NE FORTY President, in His RING NATONAL STRKE EXECUTES ARE TOLD Strongest Plea to Railroad Chiefs, Declares Wel- fare of All the in the Present People Is Involved Crisis. (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening Werld.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Pt resident Wilson this afternoon made his strongest appeal to the railroad presidents of the country to let noth- ing stand in the way of their accepting the proposition he set before them looking to bring about a settlement of the railroad crisis. “I want you to keep in mind, gentlemen,” he said, “that there are some things bound up in this situation that are not to be overlooked at this time—particularly the preparedness movement. “The {nterests of this country should appeal to both employers and om- ployees. Bear in mind also that there are peoples abroad who are boking to us for something of human help in the shape of human necessities. You who have not been here before probably are aware of my attitude on the eight-hour day. “I soe no other way bringing about a settlement.” Mr. Wilson then told Louis W. Hill, E, P. Ripley and the other new ar- rivals that he was not to be under- stood as making @ threatening atti- tude in his decisions about the eight- hour day, that he long ago reached the conclusion that it was a humane and Progressive movement that had the approval of society and that besides these reflections there was the other that it was the only way leading to @ settlement. The conference was oalled unex- pectedly, Not all of the fourteen additional railway chiefs summoned by the President had arrived, but as soon as the President heard Louis W. Hill and E. P. Ripley were here he sent word that he would like to see all of them this afternoon, Immedi- y a meeting of the p alled and the invitation “All the Presidents have not ar- rived yet,” said Mr, Underwood of the Erie, “ and it was intended that the last group summoned on Saturday should speak for maelves, The President's reqquest changes the pro- gramme,’ As the ratiroad presidents entered the White House, Hale Holden, their spokesman, said the executives ready here had sought to maintain open minds on the entire question, but that after President Wilson had explained his plan thoroughly to the new arrivals consideration of all ques- tions involved would be begun with the object of reaching a final decision. The conference adjourned shortly after 3 o'clock. From developments of to-day it would appear that young Mr. Hill, President of the Great Northern, is looked upon as the man who must bear the brunt of putting up to Presi- dent Wilson some plan by which, In the event of an acceptance by the railroads of the Administration's de- mand, the questions of a possible in- crease in freight rates and the avoid- ance by compulsory arbitration of future crises lke the present, shall be put into concrete form. Mr, Hill is the champion of railroad executives who are opposed to the eight-hour day principle. has a big following, but The Even- ing World representative bas reason to say that many of the leading railroad presidents are prepared to agree to President Wilson's proposi- tion not later than next Friday Just @ moment before Mr. Hill ar- rived at the New Willard President Ripley of the Santa Fo had walked out into the middle of the big room, looked the nervous aggregation of railroad magnates over and said in the (Continued om Second Page) He! DROVE HER AUTO ALONE ALL ACROSS CONTINENT Miss Amanda Preuss Made the 3,600 Miles at Rate of 300 Miles a Day, the Woman's Record. Attired in a very becoming khaki uniform of male attire, Miss Amanda Preuss, a pretty blonde of twenty- five, reached City Hall to-day with the announcement that she had trav- eed all alone in an automobile from San Francisco to this city. She cov- ered the distance of 3,600 miles at an average rate of 800 miles a day. The best time between Frisco and Man- hattan by automobile is credited to Irving Baker, who covered the dis- tance in about seven days and eleven hours, “I am a crack shot, but I did not carry @ revolver or a rifle,” declared Miss Preuss. “Neither man nor beast molested me. My route was over the Lincoln Highway oficial tour. My trip established # new record for a woman, What I mean Is, that I trav- eled the greatest dfftance unaccom- panied, I left San Francisco Aug. & at 6 A. M, and arrived in this city Saturday at 2.90 P, M. “Was I nervous? Not a bit. I was too buay to fear any one or anything. No, I met no wild animals in the Rocktes and have nothing thrilling to relate, Iran a car eight years before I began my record trip, “The next time I cross the ec T hope to beat Mr. Baker's rei HIS FIRST AUTO RIDE | AT 90 WAS HIS LAST Car in Which Aged A, W. Garner Rode Plunges Over Embankm | Killing Him and Four Others. SALEM, Va, Aus. 21—A, W. Garner of Drapersville was ninety years old before he ventured to take &@ ride in an automobile and to-day he is dead, ountry rd." CAR STRIKE GROWS Circulation Row 16. 12 PA —— PHILANDER C, KNOX JR. 1S RESIDENT OF RENO; MARRIED LIFE STORMY, | RENO. Nev., Aug. 21. — Philander G Knox jr., eon of the former Secretary Of State, has been here since the latter Dart cf last March. He has lived very quietly and has tried to keep identity secret. A young woman, acoompanied by her father, arrived here last June. They have occupied a bungalow near the fashionable section of the town, and young Knox has been much in their company. Philander C. Knox jr. in 1910, then « student at Mount Morris Preparatory School, this city, married Miss May G, Boller, a young woman who was ¢i ployed in a store here, His father at firat refused to recognize his marriage, it was reported, but became reconciled te his son when young Knox went to work and sold automobiles, For awhile the young couple lived at No, 1700 Lo- cust Street, Philadelphia, but afterward separated. Se AUTO AND TROLLEY CRASH. Five Hurt, One May Die From Accident at Pasaate. (Special to The Evening World.) HACKENSACK, N. J., Aug. 21.—Five Persons were injured at Palisade Inst midnieht when a large touring crashed into a Hudson River trolley at the Anderson Avenue crossing. ‘The trolley passengers hurt are Louls hie Lichtenstein, fracture of Lederman, nceration of she. or; John Harache, cuts on face and arms, All live in Paterson. The autolste injured were \entapert! of West Hoboken, fractured skull and may die; Jessie Lorezett! of Cliffside, injuries to head and leg. The! latter are in the North Hudson Hos- pital —_—— Ss AVIATOR WINSLOW ON VISIT. Joneph American Aviator fn French Army Here With Other Carroll Wt who has been flying with the French corps, returned on @ short furlough on the liner Lafitte to-day, He was ace companied by Mra, Winslow ‘Among the other passengers Count M.D. Outlhaye of Belgium, who fe on & governmental mission; Henry L. Suckley of the Amertean Ambulance Corps, who 1s seeking recruits for that organization. and Mile, Gerville-Reache, daughter of the contralto of that name who was the wife of Dr. Rambaud of the Pasteur Institute in West Twenty- wore third Street, Mada Rambaud died rorently. —— ma President cused of Penanting im land Dea WASHINGTON, Aux, 21--Secretary of State Lansing to-day admitted that an Jinvestigation t# being made of charges} \that Ramon Valdes, newly elected) Yenterday afternoon the car in which | President of Panam, was ins! ntal/ Stanton that the Stampode promoters | Mayor Mitchel was asked, after the he took his first ride, plunged over ain getting a land concession, estimated | advertised far and wide that they had | traction officials left his office, | sixty-foot embankment, turned over at about 60,000 acres, for as Hard | deposited $50,000 with a trust company | t's a fifty-fifty proposition right Ave mes before it atruck and killed |named Varnande. It has ber reported | i thin sun was to be distributed 'n | now," he replied, Garner and four others including bis | that the United Sate Da Be frase’ prhae sto champion ropers, buldoggers| WHI the railroad take back the ieclil é pine Valdes, in his. cleet jand wild Wost performers, No such | men if you decide they must do ea Three Killed on en Phetr Auto| - —_>—— an amount was on deposit, according | under the agreement?’ wae the next owinaatn OU ARE i ‘Tries to Dt fo Diver, to Weadick. Mr. Stanton immediate. | queation put him, NGSVILLE, Ky Phree 1 Howard, twenty-three, « luborer , a RNG RYAOR Is AUR, Pe Tee oan Howard, (nar ty fye, {UY started an investigation “L understand so," he answered, “I badly hurt when an au bile in which | Masa, attempted sutcide by | | think they will-accept my conctusion, rocky: bottom, Th dead are y Hliam|enty-ninth Street. He was pulled out} | 'Y fternoon voted 8? to 24 imme-|t S¢t for the directors in the same [atta Rainey, all of thisrelty ) Mie#] by Thomas Garvey of No. 879 Bloventh | diately to take up the Immigration | #ense aa T bave the power to act tom “a [Avenue and taken to Heliovue Hospttal iin, which the Democratle caucus had| Mr. Straus in bis absence.” (For Racing Results See Page 2) Lollsm voted to put over unul meat session, - TO DAYS WEATHER Portty Cloudy, Wermen Open to au) = GES PRICE ONE OENT. ee’ MAYOR REPORTED BACKING ARMIEN IN THEIR DEMANDS; CRISIS MAY PASS TO-NIGHT = Mitchel Listens to Shonts and Hed- ley After Two-Hour Meetingwith Union Leaders and Then Prepares to Return to Camp at Plattsburg This Evening. JOBS FOR DISMISSED MEN ONLY TERMS OF PEACE After Mayor Mitchel had heard President Shonts and General Man- ager Hedley of the New York Railways Company and a committee from the Street Carmen’s Union state their skles to-day in the con- troyersy which has arisen over the fourteen men who ‘fave been dis- charged by the company since the peace agreement was signed two weeks ago, the impression prevailed about the City Hall that the dif- ferences would be adjusted before nightfall and the threatened tie-up of the transportation lines of the city averted. Mayor Mitchel conferred with the unlon committee for almost two hours this morning, and spent an equal amount of time this afternoon in Hstening to the arguments set forth by Messrs, Shonts and Hedley and James L. Quackenbush, general attorney for the traction company. At the conclusion of both conferences Mr. Mitchel refused to discuss the details of what had taken place, STEEL SELLS AT 95, HIGH RECORD PRICE Common Stock Soars on Enormous Earnings of the Corporation— Other Steel Issues Follow. The common stock of the United! States Steel Corporation made a new high record price in the stook market to-day, selling at 96 just at the close of the market. The previous high was at 94% in October, 1909, The corporation's earnings this year have been enormous, Other steel stocks followed the leader upward, Republic advancing 2% points to 58%, and Lackawanna welling up 14 at 77, STAMPEDE COWBOYS SEEK PROSECUTOR Want Promoters of Show Punished for Luring Them Here With Promises, Quy Waedick, The Munyor’s optimistic manner, however, together with a word he dropped here and there, made it clear that he had hopes of settling the trouble before many hours passed. Another factor in strengthening the belief that the crisis had passed was the Mayor's announcement that he had made @ reservation on the train which leaves for Plattsburg at 8 o'clock to-night. The strongest rumor floating about City Hall corridore was that Mr, Mitchel had informed the union tead- ore that thoy were absolutely right ta thetr contention that the company had violated the agreement when it @is- missed fourteen of the men who hed gone on atrike, It 4@ understood that he told Presi- dent @honts and General Manager Hedley that im hie opinion the com- pany had taken @ wrong stand in the controversy; that under the terms of the agreement every man who went on atrike wae to be taken back with- out prejudice. MAYOR CALLS CARMEN FOR SECOND MEETING. Immediately after Messrs, Shonts and Hedley left the City Hall Mayor Mitchel called the unton leaders—Gen. eral Organizer Fitzgerald and Attorney Fridiger of the national body, Hugh Frayne, organizer of the American Federation of Labor and William Con- way, president of the local branah of the unlon—back to the City Hall for the purpose of laying before them the attitude of the raflway officials in the controversy, After Mayor Mitchel had brought the oarmen’s committee back to his office for the second conference he te! ephoned President Shonts to come to his office at once, saying: “This strike must be settled.” “How does tt look for a settlement ?”* vale the manager of the recent disastrous Wild West show called the Stampede at Sheepshead Bay hippodrome, headed a delegation of cowboys who called at the Federal Hullding tihs afternoon and asked As- sistant District Attorney Stanton if the promoters of the show could not be held accountable under the Federal Law for using the mails for purposes of fraud. Woeadwick, as spokesman for the are, on paper, winners , told Mr, cowboys wh of more than 000 in prige Following bis first talk with the i ‘ { i