The evening world. Newspaper, September 5, 1916, Page 1

— eet BOE ONE CENT UNION READY TO TIE UP SUBWAY AND ‘L’; PHILADELPHIA LEADS AL EDITION to All, 5, 1 [“Cireutation Rooke 14 PA TIONAL LEAGU Ve Deyo Weether—Preved's Ghoweres Open to All” | GEs PRIC z ‘ONE CENT. STRIKEBREAKERS WAIT AT TERMINALS BRITISH WIN WHOLE SYSTEM OF TRENCHES FROM GERMANS —<——_——_—_—— French Beat Off Strong Counter At- tack by Kaiser's Troops—British Push Ahead 1,500 Yards East of ! Guillemont and Hold Falfemont. LONDON, Sept. 6.- ‘The British pushed 1,500 yards eo ward in fighting PRESIDENT CAN USE ARMY AND NAVY T0 AID U. 8. SHIPPERS Revenue Bill Drastic Authorizing Measures. BLOW AT BL ACKLIST. ampering With Mails by Brit- ish Is Also Resented in Another Clause. ‘ | WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—An amend. Rear Guillemont last night, capturing the village of Falfemont, Gen. Haig Ment to the Revenue Bill, authorizing Feported this afternvon. The whole German system of strong defenses at Faltemont {s in British th? United States is not engaged, bands. Tho British also gained a footing In the Deuse Wool, northwest of Combles a mile “The official announcement says that the fighting on the Somme since Bept. 3 has resulted in the capture by the British of the whole of the re-| privileges accorded to other nations | the Prestdent, during a war In which to withhold Clearance from all vessels which discriminate against American ‘shippers, to withhold privileges from ships of such nations as withhold maining German second line of defense on the battle front from Mouquet/from American ships, and to use the Farm to the polut where the British line joms the French, Bince the beginning of the allied offensive on July 1 the French and fram Cited Staten ports “atmy and navy vent if necessary to pre- departure of offending vessels was adopt- English have captured twenty-nine villages which the Germans had organ- ed to-day by the Senate. fed to the highost defensive degree. ‘They have taken about 41,000 pris- oners, 150 cannon and several hundred machine guns, The text of etatement s: “During the night we increased our gains in the neighborhood of Guillemont. In my's stubborn resistance and an uneeasing deluco of rain troops pushed forward to 1,500 yards east of Guillemont village @nd have obtained a footing In Leuse Wood. “Further south severe fighting the whole of the enemy's strong system of defense on a front of 1,000 yards in and around the British the one- our after Falfemont has fallen into our hands.” GERMANS FAIL TO REGAIN GROUND FROM FRENCH. PARIS, Sept. 5.—The Germans last might made several unsuccessful at- tempta to recapture ground lost to the French on both sides of the Bomme in the allied drive on Sun- d@ay and Monday, it was officially an- nounced to-day. The strongest rman counter-at- | tack was delivered north of the Bomme between Combles and Forest The French had observed prepara tlons for this blow throughout yester @ay and were fully prepared to meet tt. The first men to attack fell u der French fire and the survivors were driven back to thelr trenches South of the Somme the Germans made several unsuccessful attacks ‘ar Belloy-en-Santerre, the Frene h | taking 100 prisoners, Bad weather) hindered the development of the French offensive, but the night was spent in organizing the newly won | ground against counter attacks. The text of the official seatement follow: | “On the Somme front bad weather, which prevailed all night, hampered) operations. Our troops are organis-| ig themselves on the ground gained “North of the river the Germans livered a strong counter-attack de ching from Anderlu Wood agalast positions between Combles and Forest. Caught under the fire of ou artillery and machine guns the as- gaulting troops broke up and flowe 4 back to their starting line, having guffered heavy losses, The enemy! made no further attempts, South of the Somme the Germans) attempted an action at only a single) point of the front, to the east of Relloy-en-San-Terre, where several) attacks were repulsed by our fire.| The enemy left about 100 more pris-| oners In our hands, The allied attack to-day carried the terrific fighting over forty miles ef @omme front, or, roughly, one- (oentinued on Second Page.) official PHILLIES LEAD NOW! By Beating Boston in First Game They Top the List of Pennant Chasers, BOSTON, Sept. 5—The Phillies went into the lead in the National League race for the pennant this afternoon, when they t the Braves in the five first game 4 to 2, starting a game series, which may deter- j Mine the league winner, r lelphtn 1oooo n 0000 Hatteries—Alexander and Marnee and Gows omy Blackburn C.P.R. LINER SINKING 1000-4 20000 AFTER COLLISION) The Montreal in Accident on the Thames a Few Miles Below London, LONDON, Sept. 5.—The Canadian Pacifle liner Montreal has been in ollision and iy sinking off Tilbury. Tie Montreal | four masted steamer built in 1900 for! service between Canadian and Eng- lish ports, She is 469 feet long and} has a beam of 5 feet. Liverpool is | her port of registry. Tilbury is on the left bank of the Thames, a few miles cast of Lon- don, Severe’ sf the Canadian Pacitie liners have oven commandeered by the British Government, The loca- tion of the accident make It appear possible that tho Montreal was elther carrying Canadian troops to France or returning from such a@ trip, —_ GERMANS ADMIT CAPTURE OF CHILLY, SOUTH OF SOMME Capture of the RERLIN, Village of Chill Sept. 6. south of the Somn », by the Pr was officially admitted this afternoon, text of the official statement says: “The great Somme battle continues, | Our troops between forest and the Somme are engaged in hot ting “South of the river our forces ar defending themselves against a storm} enemy on @ nty kilo- metre> Ch been lost, twe he village of Chilly has Ki | | Mfers| Givecting the Commission to inveati- gate particularly the cost of produc- | # a stecl twin screw, | Wide front from Barieux south | This ts a dicect blacklist. An amendment to the Tariff Com- | mission section by Senator Gallinger| adopted, broadening the Com- sion’s powers so that {t shall ob- serve the ettect of tariff laws on in- lustry and labor and also observe, the effect of “economic alliances,” An amendment of Senator Phelan of California was also adopted au- thorizing the President by proclamy tlon to deny the use of the mails, ex- press, telegraph, wireless or cable fa- cilities to citizens of nations which do not accord to Americans all facill- es of commerce, “Including the un- hampered trafic in the mail” This blow at the British 2 m amendment, it was declared, was aimed particularly at British inter- ference with American mails, | An amendment by Senator Sterling pe here and absoad was rejected, pelea tals dt |'*BEST RECEPTIONS YET,’’ SAYS WILSON OF TRIP. | President, Back in in Capital, De- | lighted Over Kentucky Journey, WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 President Wilson returned here at o'clock this afternoon from Hodgenaville, Ky He was driven immediately to the | White House. “Vhese have been the finest recep- tions T have ever received,” is the way President characterized his trip through West Virginia and Kentucky ‘The President evidently was de- lighted at the enthustasm with which he was received, even when late at night there was nothing for small town crowds to cheer but the dark ened private car, ‘Thursday night the President leaves for Atlantic City, where he will ad- dress the convention of the Natlonal Women's Suffrage Association, Sat- urday morning he expects to motor to Long Branc Sweet Singer No More, | LONDON, Aug. 26 (by math.—The following 1s contained in a letter from a British soldier: "The Saxons used to have a chap with them named Paul, who had a sweet voice and used to wife the latest songs, He was easily in our front trenohes, and his songs were enjoyed by our fellows as well as the Germans, One day when things were quict there was no singing and one of our men called out to the Germans, ‘Tell Paul to sing.’ Back caine the answer, preceded by w string of German, curses: "You shooted Paul the Trenches Ie yesterday eminent | (For Racing Results See Page 2.) ' t LITLE AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOWN THE GIGANTIC ZEPPCLIN Victoria Cross ey Awarded by| King George to Aviator Lieut. | William Leefe Robinson, — | THRILLING FIGHT IN AIR. | Winner of Coveted Decoration Tells How He Set on Fire the Great Dirigible. LONDON, Sept. 6.—King George él the Victoria Crosa to William Leefe Robinson of the Roy al Flying Corps for bringing down a Zeppelin while the airship was ap- Proaching London Saturday night. The British Official Press Bureau, in making the announcement, says that the cross was awarded to Lieut, Rob- | inson for the most consplottous bri ery. Robinson, the statement \ tds, attucked the Zeppelin under ciroum- stances of great difficaity and danger, | and sent {t crashing to the ground a) flaming wreck. Robinson had been in the air for more than two bours and had previ- ously attacked another ulrsbip. The official announcement known for the first time that the! sppelin was destroyed In a thrilling | alr fight by an aviator tn an aero-| {Plane and not by shells from antl-| ‘aireraft land guns. HOW ROBINSON BROUGHT DOWN THE DIRIGIBLE. When the alarm that Zeppelins were approaching was given in Lon- | don on Saturday night Lieut, Robin-! immedjately ascended in his aeroplane, Several times the search. | lights revealed flyin around in search of a Zeppelin, At last, in the darkness, he picked up an airship, which a moment later | stood out boldly in the glare of sev- eral searchlights, Ieut. Robinson mado his attack at! close range, The Zeppelin attempted | to elude him by sending out great |cloude of smoke. It. disappeared in the clouds, but Robinvon kept up the pursuit and soon saw the Zeppelin burst into flames, | The jeutenant flew away safely and, descending to a lower level, sig naled that he had accomplished his ‘task, Within ten minutes he was | down and was telephoning bis report to headquarters, Then he jumped into an at ymobile and hastily drove to the scene of the wreck. GOT AN ION CROSS FROM ZEP- PELIN WRECK. Robinson one day award Lieut. | made | son his plane | Lieut most uncor field at Cuffley where the destroyed | Zeppelin lay early Sun¢ morning While he was chatting, with his bac toward the wreck of tho atrship, the searchers discovered an iron cross, | “Pass the word to Robingon,” said |the sentor officer, When the Lieu-| |tenant went up to him the senior of ficer gave him the tron cross and a was of the ned spectators in the | revolver found in the wreckage. Thi was the first indication the specta \tors had that Robinson wh n the airship, »NKON Was twenty-one ein July, He took his t wrtificate at Farnborough on j iis twentieth birthday age he ts con sidered the keenest yorcgster in his squadron, Five months ago, he sald quietly, | Zeppelin.” On several occasions he has taken part in chasing Germat | airships, Robinson probably receive in| prizes about $1 avlatic ion o by British sta for the destruc- Wowan F. Mrs. Sarah seventy-elght | Weat One Hundred et was seriously in nd Seventeenth jured to-day, while sitting in a window fell th tories to the bo of an atrahy Dr. Holzinan of Martem THe pital remaved Mre. Cohen to that i tution, "She has ® fractured skull, * \t | | Austro-German arm jas the whole E: lof train delay, moro OF BAY ARI, 1D COMMANDER WHO Ague ‘BEDS HIN DENBURG } | | a = EERE &: OAT ———_ Ja a Oeaesees AUSTRO-GERMAN LINES WILL HOLD, SAYS LEOPOLD! *: Commander Has No Fear of the Russian - Roumanian Com- bination Against Him. HEADQUARTERS OF PRIN LEOPOLD OF BAVARIA, AUSTRO- GERMAN FRONT, Sept, 5.—The com- | bined power of the Russian and Rou- manian armies will be unable to| breach the Austro-Germun lines in| the East, Prince Commander-in-Chief of Leopold of Bavaria, the Central in the Ei declared to-day. “This section of the front, as weil astern battle line is im- pregnable,” said the Havarian com- mander, ‘The Russians are brave, They advance ta thick masses, But they suffer grewsome losses and can- not.break through.” Replying to a query as to what ef- fect Koumania’s entrance into the war will have on the Allies, Prince Leo- | pold stepped closer to the corr fit, and said with enthusiasm; lars have brought! bad situation emanives into a some ur ‘They | re will be blo thoxe who might ample.’ Prince Leopold. though seventy years of age, ts robust and in perfect health, He takos a swim daily and In iulges In atecplochasing to keep in| trim | WAR TO UST 18 “MONTHS, IS BELIEF OF BRITISH Italian Prime ne Minister Is So In-! formed by English Govern- ment Officials, ROME British Sept, 6 Govern. | | Phinges | the WOMAN ENDS LIFE. IN 13-STORY LEAP AT HOTEL ANSONIA From Window as Frantic Elevator Boy Rushes to Restrain Her, IN ILL HEAL (Victim of Tragedy Was Mrs, Irene Landis of Far Rockaway. Mra, Irene Landis, 27 years old, who lived at the Evergreen Cottage, ‘0, 800 Central away, o'clock Avenue, Far Rock- committed suicide at 11.45 this morning by jumping from a window on the thirteenth floor of the Hotel Ansonia, Seventy-fourth Street and Broadway. The woman leaped just as Sidney Laach, an elevator opératom, was rac: ing toward the window to grab her. He wan within ten foet of the win-, dow when she torew herself out and dropped into a rear areaway near the Seventy-fourth Street side of the ho tel, her body graring Joseph Martino, an ash-can man, who, with Alexander | and James Schilic, brothers, was load- | Ing @ wagon In the areaway. Within @ few seconds the hotel was in a commotion, Leach began fran- | tleally yelling for help when he real- | ized he would be unable to save the woman, and his cries were taken up by chambermaids, Guests ran from their rooms pante-atricken and tt was with difficulty that Manager yanagh quieted them, Cavanagh summoned Traffic Police- Behrens and an ambulance from the Knickerbocker Hospital, Dr, Sum- mer, who came with the ambulance, ald the woman had been killed in- stantly, The body wan identified thin after. noon by Harry and Sam Nathan, brothers of the woman, They said her husband, A. Richard Landia, a travel ling man, recently had moved to Far Rockaway from No. 580 St. Nicholas Avenue in the hope that the change would benefit his wife, who was in poor health, Effor' noon to find out why the Woman chore Ansonia foF her tragic act, She been seen wandering through the hallways of the hotel during the morning, and there is much mystery as to what she wanted there. Leach said she rode in his elevator sev tumes, but he did not question her al be |Meving she was a guest, It is suid Mrs. Landis left Rockaway at 9 o'clock to-day to visit aw dentist in the city, > FOUR KILLED, THREE HURT, WHEN AUTO TURMS TURTLE | Machine Carrying Michigan Party Into Ohio Is Wrecked at a Sharp Turn, ANN ARBOR, Mich,, Bept 5.—Four ment officials have Informed the Ital- Minister of their belief that Will Jast at least auother ths | made eighteen n This announcement was pub- | “ | > — | he had made up his mind to "dow /HALTED tls $ TRAIN TO FISH, | and Norman Beck Engineer Allemed Two Houre at th Have Spent Sport. Special to The Byeuing World.) NEW ORLEANS, Sept. & Alecica| he lost a big lumber contract because Kar Wright, 000, charges that th of the Baton Rouge, Ham in a en- suit for gine and Eastern Ra halted his train | two hours to go Ashin | I concede the luring powers of jwas killed recently persons were Killed and three seri-| ously injured early to-day near San- dusky, O. When an automobile turned | turtle at a sharp turn, All were from. Ann Arbor ‘The dead aro drug clerk; Don A AN AVIATOR’S _HOMAGE. | Belgian D Flo Ger-| man Killed im Alr Battle, BERLIN, 5 (via London). Frof. Siebert, al years ago an ex- lchange professor in the United States, in an aerial action over the western front, ‘Tho following lday the Belgian victor dropped a bo: quet of roses for the funeral, with the insesiption “A Relgtan homage to a foe defeated in aerial Dette,” -6-- HEDLEY THREATENS-CARMEN AT STORMY PEACE PARLEY ~ NEITHER SIDE WILL YIEL the Former to Support to Stri $-—--——. ‘H, SAYS KIN. Gompers and Mitchel Summoned, Give Federation ke and the Latter, to Effect a Truce If Possible. AGREEMENT VIOLATED, of Carmen met this afternoon: in a jin its employ. ductors on the “green line" cars can eubway and “L" workers. vated Ines, certainly will be catlod within forty-eight hours unless there | 1m, in the mean time, a decided back- | down on the part of the Union or the management of the Taterborough, |GOMPERS AND MITCHEL SUM- MONED, Following a stormy conference at) the offices of the Interborough, No. 165 Hroadway, to-day, between a [committee representing the Union | and Genera! Manager Hedley of the Interborough, each side declared ad-! herence to contentions which can have but one result—a strike order ‘on the Interborough underground and overhead lines, | Organizer W. B. Fitzgerald of the carmen’s union has sent for Samuel | were being made this after-|Gompers, President of the American gamated Union Federation of Labor, who is in Maine, | but is expected hore to-morrow, May- or Mitche) also has been summoned from Plattsburg in the faint hope (ut he can find & way out of a situa- tion in which each gide refuses to ecognize & fundamental principle advanced by the other. Vitagerald, his counsel and several Mat lof his union associates called at the| Strike effecti City Hall to-day on thelr way up- town from the fruitless conference. Fitagerald Acting Mayor Dowling and Mayor Mitchel's secretaries and then sald | “It ts very important that Mayor Mitchel s' | return to New York at once, He has our pledge that we will not call @ strike without consulting | him and we are going to live up to it.” | “If there were no pledge would you |call a strike at once?” Fitzgerald was | asked. I can't talk about what »” he replied CONFERENCE ALMOST PRECIPI- TATED STRIKE. The conference almost precipitated strike despite the pledge to the! Mayor, At one stage Genera! Man- ee Hedley threatened to discharge | i the entire union committ of thirty. | employees right where they stood and th thrown out of T would n have them his office. Such an action undoubted- ly would have resulted in @ strike | | order within half an hour From reports that have reached headquarters the union leaders plan, | if the subway management manages to keep trains running In the event of w strike, to call out the employees Manhattan, and also the employees of | the surface lines of Queens and Rich« ( UNION HEADS CHARGE | A committee representing the union employees of the Interborough , Rapid Transit Company and the organizers of the Amalgamated Union 110 East One Hundred + and Twenty-tifth Street to perfect plans for a strike on the subway and *L" lines to be called without delay if the Interborough management insists _ upon entering into a contract or working agreement with each individual’ hall at No. The union leaders sent to the Public Service Commission this afternooy a formal complaint that the New York Railways Company has violated the: terms of the agreement which settled the strike on Aug, 7 this protest apparently is to open a w The purpose of ‘ay by which the motormen and ed; ) be called out in sympathy wkh the”. A strike on the GUDWAY BIVd 06-8 rere, All employees on theas aye temp have been warned that {f they! mond, faib to report. for wark of +> on @ sympathetic strike ‘they vil sbe dropped from the company pay rolls, and if, at some future time, they are | re-employed they will come in as new men. ‘The unton leaders have also threat- ened to call out the B, R. T. em. ployees, but the management of that corporation professes to have assur- ances that there is no possibility of @ strike on the Brooklyn lines, WANTS THE SUPPORT OF GOMPERS. Fitzgerald has a double object in calling on Samuel Gompers. Preat- dent William B. Mahon of the Amal- ls in Burope und Fitzgerald hesitates about ordering a reat strike on his own responsibility. Furthermore, he wants @ pledge of support from the American Fed, tion of Labor. Fitagerald announced to-day that a difference of a day or two in calling 4 strike doesn't matter, because the union Is strong enough to make a under any circum- He also said that the action j of the Interborough in employing and massing strikebreakera and appealing for police protection and the militia iy strengthening the union and bring- ing about @ situation which will, if the men desert their posts, be as mueh, of & lockout as a strike, Even while the conference was in progre: the Interborough manage- ment was tnstalling strikebreakers, grocerte! in Hedley Hall at the Van Cortlandt Park terminal of the Broadway aub- way, in the burns at One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street and Lenox | Avenue and in the “L" road bulld- ings at Niuety-ninth Street and Third Avenue, About 1,000 strikebreakers were assembled at these points, STRIKEBREAKERS POSTED aT STATIONS, Immediately after the close of the conference the Interborough manage- ent began sending out strikebreak. ers from “ie main office to man tions usder waiting orders, They wery directed to walt around the sta- tions and platforms in readiness to |jump in and take hold of things tp the event of a sudden strike order, Men competent to handle trains were stances, aviator's /on the Interborough surface lines in| posted at different stations along the line, with instructions to replace me- tormen and conductors who eight cooking utensils and cots’ | ~