The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1916, Page 1

AL gZOITION = PRICE ONE CENT Copy rigmt, UHH. te BULGARIAN CITY CAPTURED BY ROUNANIANS AS RUSSIA IS MOVING BiG ARMY SOUTH —_—>— Rustchuk on the Danube Falls —Nine Hungarian Towns Taken in Sweep. AUSTRIANS Evacuating Area of 15,000 Square Miles in Transyl- vania to Shorten Line. FALL BACK. PARIS, Aug. 31.—Roumanian troops, @ccerding to a report received here, gM cocupied the Bulgarian town of Rustehuk. Rustehuk has « pepula-| tee of adout 35,000 and ts situated on! the Danube opposite the Roumantan town of Giurgevo. BUCHARE*T don).—Otficial ar made here that the M-(via Lon- Auk nt bas been sage of R sian troops through Roumania has Aur u The Austrian @peral staff plans to evacuate all s@theastern ‘Transylvania to the Roumanians in crder ty shorten the Awstrian lines, the Austrian news: papers announve! to-day The Austrian papers inform r Weaders that becuuse the Transy! Vanian frontier curves and Is de indented, it is about 40 miles te and would require a huge foree to dofend ii. On ther hh tirement to o straieht line, Dorna Vatra frontier) and Orsova bian frontier, would give the trians a line of only about 200 miles tadefend, it was stated. (Withdrawal) to the Vatra-Orsova ait the evacuation of more than 15,000 eqnare miles of Hungarian terri- tory, an aren much larger than Belgiun.) The nowspapers further pol that the Austrian defensive |i not oolncide with the frontier houn daries. It is therefore planned to withdraw the troops to strongly pre pared positions, where the outflank~ ing movements of the enemy can be observed and where the Austri will have the advantage of terra! ‘Tale method, the papers added worked successfully in the Italian campaign. ROUMANIANS HAVE MORE TOWNS. ROME, Aug. 31.—Nine Hungarian towns and villages, including four with populations of more than §,000 and Kronstadt, the most important commercial city of Transylvania, Ihave been captured by the hou a in the firat threo days of a ping invasion through the Tran- gyivanian Alps. A eemi-official statement issued at Vienna and received here from Berne to-day admits that the Roumantaua: are attacking with extraordinary! vigor on a 375 mile front, The pres- strongest the Hungarian town of Orsova, 0 si frontier, where Roumaniin art has ceaselessly bombare the rian positions since the declaration | of war. ‘The Roumanians captured the vil) lages of Bodsa, Csukas, Catlyanos | and Gylufava, encountering only fee- ble resistance. Pressing westward from towns, Roumanian troops (rear th (hear thy Dorna line ow mean s do TAKEN ran ry Hu these entered (Continued on Fourth Page.) 4 ‘past two years. ROBERT EDGREN FLES QVER CITY FROM LON ISLAND With Aviator McCullough He Makes Trip From Port Wash- ington in Ten Minutes. Robert Edgren, Sporting Editor of The Evening World, flew with Aviator David MeCullough to-day from Port Washington, L. L, to One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street and North River in ten minutes in a Curtiss hydroaeroplane, They passed over the lower part of t 12.20 o'clock, winging at d over the Pulitzer Build- ng And other skyhigh structures at an altitude of about 4,000 feet. After getting over the North River the hine was headed north, as there rendezvous at One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street to celebrate the first birthday of the New York Wying Yacht Club. When MeCullough and reached the netghbrohood lezvous Kdgren f the ren- the hydroaeroplane n ont ef gasoline and) MeCullough ow forced to make a landing on the water near the Jersey shore. Then a row boat Was sent to tow the machine to the club anchorage Lawrence Sperry, with Trabee Day- ison, son of U.P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co., wore next rive at the rendezvous and they gave t crowds on Riverside Drive a thrilling exhibition of flying. Young Davison to 4 sa pupil nthe Ar Avation Schoo! founded at Port Washington vy } mother. Meryl J. Kendrick of Atlantic City, member of the First Reserve Aviation Corps, U. 8 A. flew to the meet from the Jersey resort, making the trit In about two hours. Ar the new Fiying Yaeht Club luncheon at Pabst's Harlem Ca Admiral Peary of North Pe f suggested the naming of a commis sioner who would be in charge ofall national aviation problems, He «ise sald that the country a great benefit if ma for patroliing purposas. He lauded the work of the French aviators and said ho has been informed that 50,000 additional would soon added to the French flying squadron. Allan Hawley, president of the Aero Club of America, outlined the Progress made in aviation during the He said he believed in Admiral Perry's idea in pa Tg by air scogts. would dv ines were used 4 machines he _> BRITISH LOSSES WERE 127,945 IN AUGUST asualtigs on All Fronts for Month 4,714 Officers and 123,234 Men, LONDON, Aux, 31.—It was offically announced to-day that the British casualties, killed, wounded and miss- ing, on all the fighting frongs in the month of August totalled 4,711 officers and 123,234 men. the the Sew Che Cirealation Books Open to All” NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 30, 14THAND 71ST ARE ORDERED HOME | FROMTHE BORDER, ' One Regiment Is Selected From Each of the Three State Brigades. | {BACK TO CAMP WHITMAN All Available =C Being Pressed Into Service — for Bringing Home the Troops. Ars (Special From @ Staff Correspondent of The ing World.) SAN ANTON! Tex ardsmen designate ' the divisional to Gen. Aug. 31 return to their home States by commanders were reporte Funston this afternoon as follows Third, Fourteenth and enty-first New York Infaitry, stationed in the Brownsville district. fast as possible, and all available cars of the Gulf lines are b into service. The troop days’ rations. No reason is given for {1 ft of the soldiers, but offic ag pF Will take ten adden and rs men have been &n the qui vive for some time in regard to the strike of railroad men. e Third, Fourteent and Seveniy-first have fin J their n day , and the soldiers are splendid condition for any kind of First and Seeond 1 Infaatry will be the Hiinois regime: returned, and the Fifth California In- fantry will go lo its State mobilize Heavy Field now at Camp Whitman, the only New York now available for use on replace reealled troops STOCK BOOM TAKEN AS DISCOUNT TO STRIKE Artillery, Many Railroad Issues Advance— U.S. Steel Again Hits Its t High Mark mt in Wall Street had a« estrone hellef of th rs that there wi strike, Un ates Steel ngain WO Just short Its Kain : the day but in the last five minutes fell a ‘Many of the leading railroad stocks Jwent up on an average in neluding St Paul, Balti. and Ohle, Un fic and Northern Pacific, Copper stocks also vied aloft on the strength of decia rations of extra dividends. Interna- tlonal Mereantile Marine nigh records aan BOMB EXPLODES IN FACTORY, mad new Yorty employees w work tn the r of the building Nos, 292-394 Woeat Broadway to-day when a bomb ex pleded, No damage was done, ‘The puliding is occupled by the box manu facturing company of J + Sehned The bomb, whiten | ght to have ot by a strikine box iniker, cons fa en rd filled’ with rwder and bird An em ald she SAW & man enter the arand leave again shortly before the bomb went off Nr, Schneider sald he had received a lette a former employer saying ho was keeping his two daughters away from work fearing the buliding was to whup. Others w 4 in the ‘ (old of efforts made to Inumi datq them be bi t | RULER OF ROUMANIA, ' WHO ENHORTS SOLDIERS 18 CAMPAIGN OPENS | 6YEAROLD GIRL “DRIVING AUTOKILLS Fourth Maryland Infantry, Bale SISTER AND IS NYIN Pass. | No report has been received on the New Jers Guardsmen, -_——- Present rangementa include the Merry Night Ride Through sending of ail three regiments to| fe : peer! Camp Whitman for further orders. Westchester County Ends Arrangements for the transporta- in Tr ic Mishap. tion of the troops are being « as| he z After a gay party at the SUver Lake Inn, near White Plains, that las far inte the morning hours, two young men and two girl compantons started to Tarrytown ly to-day with one eirls driving a bie touring cur Near the Rockefeller estate Pocantico Hills, the car rashed into a) stor wall nd the driver, M Anna ary, i years old, No, 36° Stor it Tarrytown, wis flung ad and probably fatally Injured. Her slater, Mary. twenty-two, was killed in stantly, and Benjamin Banks and Sdward Erhart, of Port Chester, were div bruised and cut. The reident ¢ kK place on the County House road w rans along. lalde the Rocket: er ia, aftor Miss Leary had d ne var for | several miles. Sho he front seat with Erhart a s ied him to let her take the whvvl. He de- murre but she i sted 4 finally | he consented. The crash came when! she apparently had mastered | workings of the cur and Erhart t | a loss to exp how tt happy 1 A family twin the K sta heard t and b t seene, W | Leary pinned und ‘ he | neck broken, and A Leary in | the road with bot proken and Jother injuries. Shy Parry |town Hospital ani iy not expected to recover Both Banks aid Eriart were knocked unconsc: but thelr in juries. were of a character After treatment | Tarrytown police | who were later rejoused by | Miits, | The young men the Leary girls in nights tal the ® two, Coroner ago and ar automobile ride last _ uffeur Gets Sixty tdward Farrell, a chauit No (485 Matbush Aven 1 ve sixty days in the Work © for driving btw automobile while intoxicated He wa, tried before Justice urvin, Herbert and Salmon in the lyn Court of pectal Bessions @ wee A police man teatt he saw ptoxicated nd drivnig the machine at Avenue © and Coney Island Avenue July 6 > -_ (For Racing Results See Page 2.) WOMAN ACCUSED OF $75,000 THEFT ~ FROM EMPLOYERS ‘Big Shortage Laid to Rattan | Company’s Former Cashier, | Indicted on Lesser Charges. WITH FIRM 23) YEARS, Miss Michaelis Held After Prose- cutor Alleges $20,000 Was Offered to Settle. Au amazing story Brooklyn stolen $75,000 from the firm by which she has been employed (m confidential positions for the last twenty-three years came to light before Judge May In the Brooklyn County Court to-day when Miss Henriette Michaelis, forty years old, who says she lives in Ben- sonhurst, pleaded not guilty to three indietments charging her with forgery in the third degree, The complainant American Rattan and Reed Manufacturing com- of No. in owhich oa womun is alleged to have ta the 268) Norman Lyonel J. Sal and Saloman. pany Avenue, Greenpoint jan is his brother, vice president of the concern, They president Joseph uld not be found at the office of the company to-day and none of the other officials would discuss. the cane OFFERED $20,000 TO SETTLE, LEWIS ASSERTS. After District Attorney Lewis stated that one of the lawyers engaged by 1916 ic freulation Books Open 14 NEW YORK WON'T | SUFFER HUNGER ~_FSTRKE COMES ; Will Be Inconvenienced, but Motor Trucks Will Bring in Food Stutts. MILK TRAINS TO RUN Rushing Anthracite To-dity From Pennsylvania Mines to Jersey Depots. of New York worked feverisily Executive railroads entering to-day anger perfectme the city supplied with milk, food and fuel in the event of a great railroad strike. Ali available equipment ownea controiied by the coai carrying roada waa pressed into service cat~ rying anthracite from the Penns vania mines to the supply depots in Now Jersey With of |New York, Susquehanna and West of New Jersey lines touching New or the exception the Erie, ern and Central | Railroads, all | York have ‘troight which will begin fect at the and result Issued embargoes on to take ef- close of business to-day in the complete suspen- sion of freight business except for milk trains at milaight on Saturday if in called managements will not attempt to re- the strike the railway sume freight business until they dis- cover juat what proportion of the em- ployees have quit and how many men Miss Michaolis liad offered her former uployers $20,000 to settle tho case, Judge May tived bail at $25,000 and set 11. Up to a@ late hour this afternoon Miss Michaelis had the trlal for Sept not succeeded tn obtaining ball. Koch indictment charges her with having obtained $1,750, but the story brought out during the arraignment proceedings alleges that sne obtained $75,000 through manipulations of the firm's weekly payroll over « period of about three years, Miss Micha 4 reserved looking woinan of the brunette type, refused to make any statement. Her present attorney, Meier Steinbrink, sald “TL was only brought tnto © case this morning vind know very little mut my client. [ du know, how er, that as the brains of this ern and t she got thirty-tiy Jollaya a week salary, From a bus! ners of amail returns when she en tered it, !t has now earnings are # om ye Mr, Steinnrink said that for a time Miss Michaclis had an apartment on grown until the Riverside Drive, an automobile and a chauffeur, He sald he understood she was itving in Bensonhurst at present, Home one had told him, he said, that his client had two brothers, lawyers, living in Manhattan ADVANCED RAPIDLY AFTER GETTING POSITION, According to District Attorney Lewis, Mist Miohaelis entered the employ of the company twenty-three years ago, When she was seventenn, having been in an orphan up to that Ume, She adapted f read lly to the business and her advance ment was rapid, She filled the post tion of bookkeeper for @ «reat many years, and in 1918 was made cashier und treasurer of the concern. Something occurred last April to company’s suspicions and y called in a certain accountant to examine the books. Miss Michaelis resigned almost immediately, but, rouse the they have available for the opera ton of trains ERIE COMPELLED TO REFUSE PERISHABLE FREIGHT. rw the Erie, sald to-day although It Lincoln, keneral manager of that his road, had issued no embargo, was compelled to refuse a lot of per ishable freight that had bean shit from other roads because there are not sufficient cars avaliable to carry Mr, Lincoln ep right on, all the freight offered said the Erie would strike or no strike “£ven If all the brotherhood mem bere go out we operate our road nw 50 per cent. basis,” ho declared We have made ampl Vision to house and feed all nec com away ¢ their own homes. Por that pure wa have ! barges, tuite, ferrybouts and dinin cara, In legal, « and ¢ departments outside of train Joperation wo have ex-engineers, fire men, conductors and br wh are not tyo old to Ko out and handle rains.” The Pennsylvania and New Yor Central Katlroa posted ¢ fay at all stations informing pas sengore that tickets will be sold sub: Ject to restricted tradi rvicu and | (Continued on Fifth Page.) District Attorney Lewis says, made ho attempt to leave Brook When the examinatior 1 wed that the fir systematically for & ficiats of the co trict Attoras nat ter Mr. Lewis says he hus spent the in tervening time in investigating storied that others than Mixa Mi chacils were responsible for the d appearance of the money, Find no hasia for these stories, he says, tc indictment of Miss Michaelis: fol lowed, PAGES EIGHT-HOUR BILL TO BE RUSHED IN BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE entn for keepits| Te Dey se Weather AL EDITION > te AIL" | PRICE ONE CENT. ———— ee —- NO OBSTAGLE WILL HALT THE ANT-STRKE MEASURE, CONGRESS LEADERS SHY — Wilson's Plea Fails to Win Truce From Unions—Government De- termined to Keep Commerce Mov- ing at All Costs, He Tells Chiefs. \8-HOUR DAY BIG BURDEN FOR ROADS, SAYS LOVETT \From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Prospects of averting the nation-wide | railroad strike, for Monday, grew brighter this afternoon, While the ' > . . 4 Senate Interstate Commerce Committee was hearing the railroad heads and the’ Brotherhood leaders, the House managers got into action and agreed on a bill, introduced by Representative Adamson and approved by President Wilson, providing the eight-hour day, pro rata pay for overtime and a commission to investigate the new conditions, They planned to rush it through while the Senate was working. Later formal announcement Was made that the President, Senate and ht makes violation of its provisions a misdemeanor punishable by from $100 to $1,000 ‘ine or not exceeding one year imprisonment, or both. The labor leaders insist on having @ penalty attached, A special rule will bring the It would make the eight-hour day Hiouse leaders had agreed on the Adamson bill as a compromise bill. j bi up for direct action by the House. | effective Dec 1 | After his conference with the President, Chairman Adamson of the | House interstate Commerce Comiittee, said: “We will pasa the Eight-Hour Bill, Introduced to-day {n the House, to- That will include the provision for an investigation of the effect That, we believe, will prevent the morrow, of the eight-hour day on the railroads, strike. OO OVER A MILLION A WEEK IS PROFIT OF FORD CO. Senators Pomerene and Smith, after talking with the President half \% hour, returned to the hearing en the President's proposed law “Tho President wants action; that's said Senator Pome- all we can say,’ ree 406,.| rene “I cannot believe that there Did a Business for Year of $206,-) 910° 46 strike, I cannot believe 00,000 on an Output of that any set of men will paralyse the industry of the country, , EXPECT BILL TO GO THROUGH DETROIT, Aug. 31.—Profits of $89, TO-MORROW. 194,118 for the tiscal year ended July) yiregay gome of the Republican 21 were indicated in the annual fnan-| oot entatives are Binting that. it statement of the Ford Motor] PIDs worst kind ef politics cerneen. for them to oppose the passage of the & cross busines#! ‘int hour law at this time The 508,000 Automobiles. Company issued this a Haan $20,000,000, MADY” Bresident’s advisors believe there will ) automobiles, | be enough votes to put it through the ent sald Ford Senate morrow, plo ure paid a wage Of ROL TeS%) ie senate steering committee has than $5 a day < assured the President that the elght- \ y hour bill will be brought ta within BRIDEGROOM SAID: ‘YEA, BO! | twenty-four hours, if not earlier, Air im Reply to wet | While union offciala were still aking before the Senate Interstate | ae rake hy ets fy Sty > a | Commoroe Committoe, President Wil- you Eide niece aan nuded oe Ant son summoned the four chiefs of the |e Nine Tune of Williamstown to-|F#liroad brotherhoods, — Garretaon, me Stone, Lee and Carter, to the White to you take thts wornan for your| House at 2 o'clock this afternoon to eas naked Squire ree IL |ask a ten-day postponement of the a won-wide strike, Yea, t 1 Sallada. loosing his) Following the President's appeal to hat i yor wateqate the Drotherhood leaders, the White ; donee ee eect tha | House issued the following state. ment ie | © railroad brotherhood leadera | Generat tency HI Panssea, | ere Unable this afternoon to give | the President any assurance.” WASHING Aug dt—The Gen ane k arrying an ap-| 4. B Garretson was at the Senate ropriation of $14.324,072, passed the | Committee hearing at the hour set for House thialatternson jthe conference, Chief Stone of the - _> — Engineers was authorized to speak for Netherta : Argentine | ine Broherhoods, The President told RUBNOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug a.) '°™ In @ very earnest way thas be Sedo’ fan Riel. Minlatar ot th s trying to do for them and that ands to the Argentine Republi owed it | to the country ota | dust where they stood Stone f ! ince 1908, died to-day