The evening world. Newspaper, September 6, 1916, Page 1

PRICE ONE CENT. eae E NOW INCLUDE LEUZE WOOD; | FRENCH REPULSE GERMANS ———— Che [*Cireulation Books Open to All.” View’ Gone NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SBEPTEMBER 6 he Proms Pubiiebing _ State Comptroller Gets Item-! ized Accounts, but They Don't Balance. urious Fighting Now for Posses-|rrip cost $20,760.46. |F, T. Davis Robert A,| RICH YOUNG AVIATOR Peak Holi WHO MADE A DARING Lovett Thrill Crowd and PLUNGE OVER RIVER maT LONE Sa ram TRP s717, MARE T,OO0-FOOT PLUNGE | oy woprsuavns Saw Any of the Eleven Men Lined Up. POLICE TRACE RECORDS, | sion of Ginchy and Combles as British Are Driving for Bapaume! .— Allies Closing In on Peronne.| LONDON, Sept. 6. — With their immediate objective the towns of! bles and Ginchy, the key positions to the {mportant railway centre} heavily fortified Bapaume, the British continue to drive ahead, accord-| fag to the official statement issued to-day. Gen. Haig’s forces are now in) lon of all of Leuze Wood ' the vicinity of Ginchy. in the neighborhood of Mouquet DESTROY ll BOAT \ court. ’ Combles village and around Gin artillery effectively shelled the Base at Zeebrugge and Hard fighting 1s going on between Leuze Wood and Combles, and tn ‘The text of the official statement fellows: “The artillery of both sides has been active north of Pozieres and Farm, Last night we discharged gas successfully opposite Gomme- “During the night our troops gained possession of the whole | of Leuse Wood, Fighting « | | timue- between the wood and ier ot German Submarine “Yesterday afternoon our heavy | Bombard German Submarine “enemy's hutments in Polygon "i i,’ wood, east of Ypres Return Safely. as HARD GERMAN ATTACKS AMSTERDAM, Sept. 6.—British % ON'‘ADVANCING FRENCH airmen bombarded and destroyed a| | CHECKED BY HEAVY FIRE rman submarine in Zeebrugge har- | pt 6.—Repeated German nst the newly won French positions south of the Somme > —- i) Me yant nuance it was omeniy an BANK TELLER OPENS FIRE phe erm nea tneir AND ARMED ROBBERS FLEE Y Phe German assaults r great it violence at Deniecourt and Borny-en-Santerre orth of the’ pEeTROIT, Sept. Two armed Somme the Germans made no counter) pandity entered the branch of the tack during the night, but artillery | pederal State Bank at Medbury Ave- active at all points. yy.) BUG and Chene Street shortly before | The German assaults were deliv-| noon to-day. @red in the region of Deniecourt and) eonard Noj, the teller, was in his eer at announcement fouiows: |Ct#®, With about $6,000 in currency *labout him, The men with revolvers play of the Bomms the easy | pointed demanded that Noj pass out Psa Sage i ed nctivity [the mo but the teller, ignoring tontinued to a pronounced degree Lae ald ark seized his weapon on different parts of the front. ree \ \ South of the Somme the ( The men rushed from the building mans made several attacks on | 9M4 escaped in an automobile, our new positions south of Denie- | ——- {bor, returning safely to their base at | cording to reports recely- day. f; “Wines, Liquors and Cigars” Have Narrow Escape. in Governor's Private Car Only $21.81, ENGINE “WENT DEAD.” By Samuel M. Williams. | Long Drop Over East River (Staff Correspondent of The Evening| Necessary to Get Head- World.) x : ALHANY, Sept. 6—="Booke bir way for Volplaning. for the trip of Gov. Whitman's party to the Panama Exposition at San Francisco last year amounted to $717.41, * 4 partially itemized account of this expenditure of public money, which| | had been concealed in lump sum re- seatat oben ee . lee eo | Curtiss hydroaeroplane over the East | Porte: has peek furnisehd at last tO) River off Hunter's Point to-day| the State Comptroller, but the bills! which caused thousands of beholders Are not complete and do not balance) to gasp, first with horror and then with the returns previously made.| with admiration, | The Comptroller's experts are unable] The two young men are students in the aviation school recently es- | tablished at Port Washington by certify that they are even “mathe-| Mrs, H. P. Davison and a number of | matically correct,” wholly aside from] wealthy enthusiasts for civilian re- passing upon their reasonableness | Paredness. Young Davison has been flying for several months, but if he brouck in a recent decision ruled,|&% before accomplished spectacular was the duty of the Comptroler, feats in the air his identity as the Whe Stale bas alveady paid 426. ayintor doing them has been kept quiet, With Mr, Lovett as a passenger, Mr, Davison started for a trip over Long Island Sound and the East River for the upper bay to join in the naval manoeuvres of the mosquito fleet. He rose rapidly immediately after leaving Manhasset Bay and came —. lover Hell Gate a thousand feet in the Fora ra 700.46 WHAT THE JUNKET COST IN {ain moving swiftly though rocked erceptibly by the strong wind, RAILROAD FARE. percept! m the additional data just se- The airship was watched by every- cured by the Comptrotier some de-|%ody along the river front and on tails of these items have been ob-| ferries and other craft. The conva- Frederick Trubee Davison, eldest {son of H. P. Davison of the house jof J. P. Morgan & Company, and) | Robert A. Lovett, son of Judge R. 8. Lovett, head of the Union Pacific to make the accounts balance, or to and propriety which, Justice Ha: | 760.46 ay the total expense of this trip on a lump sum voucher turned in months ago by the special Expo- sition Commission, That voucher read as follow Mattroad fare (Ucketa) e717 tained. Wor example, the railroad |!escent patients in Bellevue Hospital| fare charge was made up as follows: | Were hurrying to the railings of the Suusies of, argue te Guraruor's balconies to have a look when the Duaies SeMich *Atilegs of“epectal tral rocking became more severe and (hy harge for visiting ( Dan yor oH aeroplane seemed to lose headway hares for viaiting Grand Canyon 542,60 P £11 la voleedlleeaure eid 42,59 | 8nd slide sideways. Hares Albans’ to’ Oblosgo ‘and ‘return... 8,000.00] The tiny figures of the aviators Ki Oh fo Seo Frauci MRIS it hatittanttnts 7.812,80| could be seen moving about sharply. Total 11,027.60] Then the nose of the aircraft turned The train ran direct from Albany to] sharply downward; to the spectators San Francisco via Chicago, but on] it seemed as though the tail pointed the return trip the Southern route] vertically to the aly, With a swoop| was used in order that the party|down which caused many to turn| might take in the sights of the Grand] away their heads and cover thelr eyes Canyon on the Colorado River, in| with the certainty of a tragedy it Arizona, It was necessary to leave qarted toward the river, The drum- | 1 STEELATPAR FOR FST TIME SHSTOIO 8 Stock Soa in Excited Trading —Market Sales for Day 100. Shires, With United States Stoel ec first time and companies making new high records, the Stock Market had a wildly ex- Transactions amounted to 1,868,000 shares, the largest trad- States Steel Steel, | teel touched par ts high water mark eourt and in the neighborhood of Berny. All these attacks were broken by our curtain of fir syhich inflicted losses on tho enemy. the Gomme, pressing the invade rT ‘WHY NOT RETALIATE WASHIN tative Gardner, Massachusetts, de-|thirtyenine people in the party the tinued their furious attacks upon | nounced to-day the action of the Sen-| followkng accommodations were pro- ate in adopting retaliatory legislation | vided: ‘8 against the British blacklist, In a| yk. pf Lullimau private ‘With never a lull in the fighting, British and French troops to-day con- the German lines north and south o} back all along the front, cap-| speech on the House floor he declared| tie turing trenches, prisoners and guns.| retaliatory measures are # And yet the battle of the Somme— | support of the main line at Williams, Ariz, for this and run over to the canyon at an expense of $562.50 for transportation, FOR LUSITANIA CRIME? In addition to the rullroad fare Tl there was the charge for rent of Pull- — man cars composing the train, The TON, Sept. 6.—Ropresen-| Comptroller has learned that for the car New dors, tor oY nd day n blow in| Ke use," ‘Sunde ermany's ugly ming hum of the engine had ceased | before the plung began, but the ne preferred hada Four point rise to speed of the drop seemed to increase | 174 and the common to 501-2, but all terrifically, these stocks # off, taking before A hundred feet or more above the| the close and rested near their start of the day rd at 100 18, water the direction changed abruptly | ka were strong and sev. into an almost horizontal plane. Be tween two river steamers the aero-| eral of the war brides, who have been | plane struck the river with a splash | Wall flowers recently, skipped out on) which sent flying foam fifty feet in| the floor of the Exchange for skittish the alr and for a moment hid it from| price thictuations, Railroad secur\. sight. In another fraction of a see- [eee FESS ape i the craft was gliding swiftly out| tes excent Reading, were stagnant, of the smother along the edge of the| Speculation boosted Reading three Copper # orage, “Positive My Husband Was Slain by a Woman,” As- serts the Widow. Miss Mary MeNIff, companion of Dwight P. Dilworth on an automobile | ride when he was shot to death in Van Cortlandt Park early Sunday night, went to the office of the Dis-| | trict Attorney of the Bronx to-day to try to identify any one of three men | under arrest. These men are held on | jentirely different charges, but were ‘supposed to have knowledge of the} | murder of Lawyer Dilworth, | They were put in line with eignt! | other men, called in from the atreet or! selected from among prisoners awalt-| Ing a hearing. Miss MecNiff walked up and down! |the line, scrutinizing all eleven for! | several minutes, asking that one or two of them put on peaked caps, lke those she saw on the men who killed Dilworth. In the end she said she could not| pick out any one as one she had ever scen before. The police regard Bernard Desio of No. 59 East Two Hundred and Tenth! Street, as the most important, of the| three suspects as he is charged with having held up Charles Colby of No. 457 East Two Hundred and Tenth Street August 26 and robbed him of $276. Colby was going through the park in his automobile, and when near the scene of th Dilworth murder two from the bushes and or- ed him to stop. He was relieved of Jewely and money to the value of $276. und the park for several days prior to the incident, and Is alleged to have told @ group of boys that he “was going to hold up somebody.” He has served twenty doys in the workhouse for disorderly conduct, and was once arrested for burglary, but discharged, it is said by the police. The second suspect is Tony Gad- ina, of Mt. Vernon, who sald he was ® laborer. Gadina was captured after the Mt. Vernon police had sent out an alarm for him, following a bold hold up there Saturday nigat. The home of Abraham Pitch on North Locust Street was invaded by three men while Mr. Pitch and five friends were playing cards, The trio proceeded to take everything valuable jin sight and escaped in an auto, which they had driven up to the curb. Gadina 1s believed to be one of the! men, He has served a term in the | House of Refuge, The third prisoner, George Leyden, | of No, 802 White Plains Avenue, the Bronx, was in the company of Gadina already two months old, and mo \titanle than that before Verdun— “You hypocrites, the Democratic side “You claim you jenly In ite beginning, according to are devoted to humanity and despias | mombers of the French General Staff, commercialism, Then why don't you who declare that within a very short} puss an amendment refusing our har. time there will be a material length- bors (o German's interned ships un- ii i til she repudiates the Lusitania ening of the fighting line in the {lS * he exclaimed at} erly direction, where Gen, Joffre aa i Gen. loeh's lines for the proposed drive. BROOKLYNS LOSE. AN the advances made by the: AT NEW YORK Franco-British armies along the! Brooklyn... 0 101 5 Bomme have been maintained in the) New York. 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 Le Ratteries—Ch Majls and Mi Benton and McCarty, Umpires—Quigly | { @ontidined on Second Page.) and Byrou, ; 2205.00! New York Yacht Club ancl 1,170.00/" A launch from the Viking, George |, Baker's yacht, ran out to the hy- croplane and towed it Into the Total Pullman oWF rent. sseseesceeees 44,740.00) SOME OF THE EXTRAS JUST | clu landing. Davison and Lovett ACCOUNTED FOR, jwere soaked to the skin, but unhurt This item does not tally with the|and after borrowing dried clothing charge which is given In the Jam | Ota ga a ae rd r, which Is $5,813.6 The | had gone out of commission without nptrolier found, however, a va-! warning and in order to Ket headway you | riety of small extras reported by the | to volplane, the long drop of nearly was off 20 points, or $2 recovered nearly half of that > PRED THAVEL BUREAU, ‘ullman Company which may have 1,000 feet was necessary; so long as Pulls hes fi 4 tna gat ing pave he kept control of his depreasing and been udded in to the totil, but he cievating planes, he wild, the foat was Jovs not know how to segregate them not dangerous, no matter how thrill. between rental and the other ‘tem ing it might have looked | musta eae \ os - (Codtinued on Eighth Page) _ (For Raoing Results See Page 2) ner | World) Building, up, while its companions; when the police arrested the latter, | sugged downward, He sald he was a@ street car co went| ductor, The authorities have nothing September wheat In Chicago) tangible against him, but his record | rose to $1.63 per bushel, b covered from the heavy slinp of two) It was said to-day that Dilworth weeks ago caused by Rouininia en- toring the war. Y |i being investigated | had been a frequenter of Uroadway resorts and was widely acquainted with persons frequenting yuch places. | According to one story, he was asked ign from the legal fru of Rudd, Wood & Molloy N Broad Street, | Second Pu > FATHER JOMN'S MEDICIND sth le reaiat (Continued Bookman 4000,—Adri, Gives caildren sivevais dieser, — Aart, Junion disputes whe Javolded by the simple expedient of that Hedley has violated his promise AL e gOITION Cireulation Hook * ‘Oper | nto All." 1916 16 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. —_ AR STRIKE STARTS AT 2A. M.; UNION DEFIED BY INTERBORO —- 240. ---—— DISCHARGE OF HUNDREDS IS CHALLENGE TO CARMEN; LOCK-OUT, SAYS ORGANIZER +: Even Men Who Signed “Master and Servant” Contracts Dropped for . Wearing Union Buttons—Dele- gates to Peace Parley Also Out. SURFACE CAR WORKERS VOTE THEIR SUPPORT The Interboro management discharged handreds of uslon em ployees to-day, Including members of the committee chosen by the men to treat with General Manager Medley. The object of the move was te force strike, and the mon have taken ap the It te expected tho strike will be called at 2 o’clock to-moi morning. Matthew J. Higgins, an organiser for the Amalgamated Union of Carmen, in address to 250 employees of the Interborough, who were discharged to-day, sald late this afternoon at Lyceum Hall, Eighty-sixth Street and Third Avenue: “A strike is inevitable, Every anion man on the lines controlled by the Interborough will be called out to protect you men.” There Is every Indication that t! loyees of the surface (ines controlled by the Interborough through the New York City Railways Company will be called out at the same hour as the way and “L” men. ‘Ihe employees of the Third Avenue surface lines are also ex: pected to Join the strike ax soon as a vote can be taken, and a surface tle-up Im Queens and Richmond ts planned. The Interborough has employed thousands of strike breakers and will endeavor to keep the underground and “1.” lines open, The men figure that by tying up the surface ines they can overwhelm the lod “L” subway servies, The Interborougia Company, determined on forcing a strike of the subway and “L.” employees, adopted the policy of discharging union men to-day and dropped hundreds from the payrolls, Among the discharged were employees who had signed the “master and servant” contract. These men were discharged because they refused to take off their union buttons, Organizer Fitzgerald of the Amalgamated Carmen's Union asserted this afternoon that this will be a lock-out not a strike, because the men, who are expected to declare a strike.soon after midnight, cannot be ex- pected to work under intolerable conditions, “Mr. Hedley,” said Fitsgerald, poixe to us about that contract yesterday with tears in bis eyes. He talke@ about it as if it were something sacred. And to-day by his direct orders men who have signed his ‘legal’ contract were fired where they stood. Mayor Mitchel is on his way back to New York from Plattsburg, but he] tes of union men from the lines of will arrive too late to take any part| he New York Railways Co. called on Mr. Hedley at the Interborough of in the tumultuous proceedings of to-} 1/0 7) 4 piak SREResNgh of: day and It ts doubtful If he could BoP | noon, ‘The conference was arranged the strike were he here, The Inter-! jast month when the agreement was borough wants @ strike, and the union signed but Fitzgerald and hie asso- must strike or blow up. clates knew before they went to No. his ts a good time,” sald a high] 165 Broadway that a strike had been official of the Interborough this after-| practically declared, Nothing came noon, “te fight this thing out to a fin- | out of the conference bearing on the {sh and we are going to do It, We) dispute between the Interborough and cannot haye @ union controlled by) the Amalgamated Union, outside influences in the Interborough| A strong indication that the unton organization will call out the employees of the DETERMINED TO CRUSH THE New York City Rallwaye—the “green UNION. car lines"'—at the same time the sub- ‘Prior to 19 about one-third of| way and “L" employees are called Mr. Hedley’s time was taken up with | out was shown this afternoon in a adjusting petty disputes and trifling | long statement issued by the union matters growing out of union rules,|leadere in which they attempt to We broke the union in 1906 and ever|establish that the Interborough wae since our organization has been work- | bound, in respect of the subway and ed on the lines of an army, We in-| “I,” the eame as it was bound by the tend to continue that polic: We | agreement of Aug, 7 between Preal- have always treated our men fairly | dent Shonts and the employees of the and we want to treat them fairly but | surface Mas, we won't have the time of valuable| INSIST HEDLEY HAS VIOLATED men like Mr, Hedley taken up with PROMISE. they can be! ‘The unlon officials take the stand having no Qnion.” to the Inter! fh employees, and Organises Fitsgerald and a commit! that as the ini ite of the lngasboss