The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1916, Page 1

oa (eee Heaps of Dead Found by the French After Wood Is Captured. HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT. British in Furious Attack North of River—German Line May : Be Withdrawn. PARIS, Sept. 9.—The French struck another successful blow against the German lines south of the Somme last \ night, capturing a small wood east of Beloy. The War Office announced to-day that 7,700 prisoners have been on the Somme front since Sept. 3 and that German loases in recent at- tacks on this front have been frightful Reaps of German dead have been found in captured trenches south of the Somme. On the Verdun front artillery has been most active tn the last twenty- four hours, particularly on the sec- tor of Fleury, Vaux Chapitre and Chenola, A German attack on tho Vaux Chaplire Wood was checked by French screen fires, “Bouth of the Somme during miner operations wo carried a emall wood east of Belloy-en- Santerre, and made fresh progress in the enemy's tronches cast of Deniscourt. “Reports received from various eectore of the Somme front agree aa to the importance of the lossos eustained by the enemy during his last attack. The number of Ger- man bodies found in trenches, gommunication trenches = and shelters is considerable, Prisoners taken by French troops along north and south of the Somme since Sept. 3 amount to 7,700 men, ftactuding about 100 officers. “Om the right bank of th Meuse (Veriun front) intense artillery fighting continues in the region of Fleury Vaux-Chapitre and Chenols, Toward 2 o'clock the Germans attacked the posi- tions which we captured on Sept. 6 in Vaux-Chapitre Wood, Our curtain of fire broke up all the enemy's attempts, The night was comparatively calm on the remainder of the front. “Although there was a high wind lant night one of our aerial squad- rons dropped twenty-four bombs railway atations at Etain and Conflains and on military estab- Hshments at Rombavh, ES pla sy BRITISH TAKE ANOTHER TRENCH ALONG SOMME; GERMANS MAY WITHDRAW. LONDON, Sept. 9.--Tho terrific on- Waughts by the Germans in their ef- forts to recapture lost trenches wore timed #0 as to derange the apparent plen of w more violent push of the Allies on both banks of the Sommo, r with great lows, of all toee attacks hus forced the Germans oO withdraw from in front of their Beoond ine trenches, which are stil intact, the Itght artillery that cov- ered the defenses, but which were di- reotly within the terrific gone of the French and German gunfire, It la the belief that the Germans @re preparing to retire to @ line of Btronger defense in view of the deter. following @ definite programme of un- eoasing eggressiveness. The British captured # Gorman (entinued on Becond Page.) ‘ mined attitude of the allies, who nro! ICE ONZ CENT. MORE GERMAN TRENCHES WO BY ALLIES IN SOMME KAISER'S LOSS VERY HEAVY rt The Cireulation Books Open to AlL' Coprriamt, # Co the Pree Puvtiabing Wertd). ARDNER TIES EVANS IN FIGH’ CAorld. 10 PA T FOR GOLF TITL Te Oeve Weather faint OND COOLER — Clroulation Booka Open to All.” NEW YORK, BATURDAY, SEPTEMSER 9, 1916 GOMPERS COMING TO PLAN WITH LEADERS GES PRICE ONE OBNT, —— SPREAD STRIKE TO AID THE CARMEN. | ORME: MINE BOSS KILLED. BY TWO BANDITS, WHO GET $12.00 Attack Him on His Way to Pay Off Men Employed by Youghiogheny Company. MARTIN'S FERRY, O., Sept. 9.— lee Rankin, superintendent of the Florence Mine of the Youghiogheny Coal Company, was held up by two bandits to-day, They shot and killed him and took $12,000, which was to have been paid out an wages to the miners. Rankin was in a taxt driven by Oliver Pickens. When under a grade crossing between this city and the mine, about three miles out, two for vign-looking men ordered Pickens to stop. Rankin, who was armed, imme- diately jumped out of the taxt. He was elght feet from the machine when one of the bandits shot him in the back, The highwaymen, covering the driver, grabbed the money which Rankin had in a aatehel and escaped, Pickens lifted Rankin into the taxt and sped back to the hospital here, Rankin died as he was being lifted 0 from the Mra, Karl Brown, a farmer's wife, N CLOSE FG -—ONLAST ROUND | Gardner Evens Game After Evans Was 3 Up in the | Morning Tussle. ——y THEN FALLS BEHIND. Gallery of 6,000 Follows Con- testants in Struggle for Am- ateur Championship, (Special From a Statf Correspondent of The Evening World. MERION CRICKET CLUB, HAV- ERFORD, Pa, Sept. %—With the morning game to his credit and 8 up on his opponent, Chick Evans of Chi- cago, open champion, started out this afternoon with the hope of winning the amateur title from his opponent, Robert A. Gardner, also of the West- ern city. The largest Eastern gafery of the year gathered for the afternoon round, there being more than 6,000 xpectatora outside the ropes when the finalists teed off at 2 o'clock. The weather conditions were perfect, there being little wind an da clear light. Details of the game follow: No, 1, 436 rds, par 4—Both were on in two. Evans'a approach putt was nine feet over the cup and he missed for a four, Ganiner was down in two putts for a win, 4 to $ Evans, 2 up for the two games, No, 2-618 yards, par 6—-Roth made tremendous drives and were up in 2, remarkable play. Gurdner laid his approach putt within a foot of the pin, Evans's third hit Gardner's ball and stopped near the cup. Both got birdies, the hole being halved in four, No. 3427 yards, par 4—After long drives Evans waa in a trap to the right and Gardnor on the far edge. | who waa driving to town, witnessed] Evana's out waa ten feet over tho 4 the shooting. Sheriff Butler and Chief of Police Hyland commandeered five automo- biles and loaded the police force of Martin's Ferry and a number of armed citizens into cars and went in pursuit. Bloodhounds also were put on the trail, a eS FATHER ELOPES WITH HIS SON'S SWEETHEART (Ripectal to The Wrening World.) BOSTON, Masa., Sept. 9.—Charles H. Gretter, 45 years old, treasurer of the Louls KE. Merry Company, do- sorted his wife and family and eloped with Miss Mildred Merrill, the 22- year-old swoetheart of his son who is at El Paso with the Massachusetts Guardsmen, Tho clopoment became known when Mrs, Gretter, who lives with her two. grown daughters and gon at No. 7 HBecknoit Road, North Weymouth, and Fred H, Merrill, father of Mil- drod, of No, 14 Eastman Road, Som- erville, admitted the fact and suld they did not know where the runa- Ways are. Miss Morrill was Grotter's stenographer for oral years, Mr. Merrill received a telegram fron his daughter Sunday, from Worcester, tolling him of what had done and concluding—"I fough him for six years,” aiciadaaramiaaeniaanis GERMANS ADMIT DEFEAT BY RUSSIANS IN THE CARPATHIANS 6 it BERLIN, Sept. 9 London). Forces of the Central Powers in the Carpathian Mountains northwest of Kapul, says to-day's official report lanued by the German General Staff, ylelded yesterday before the pressure exerted by the Kussians. tL a GIANTS WIN, AY Philadelphia NEW YORK oooun od New York 000110601 x9 Batteries—Demaree and bi. Burns, Perrit and McCarthy UmpiresiKiom and Emalic, hole and Ganiner laid his approach putt dead, Evans conceded Gardner's putt, Gardner winning, 4to 5. At thia point Gardner waa one under par and onne down, No. 4, 855 yarda, par 4—Gardner'sa drive was in the rough, leaving him a diMecult second, Gardner tipped his approach, but the ball reached the green and rolled into a trap. Evans was nicely on in two. Gardner's third went over the green. His fourth he laid dead, Evans's putt was way short and he missed his fourth, Gardner sank his fifth and conceded Evans's putt, halving in five, Evans 1 up. Mo, 5-580 yards, par §.—EKvans sliced his drive into a pit, while Gardner'a was straight down the fairway, Evans was 70 yards out of the trap on his second, while Gard- ner drove a screamer to tho edge of the brook. Evans's mashie shot pulled into the rough, His chip shot wan on the green 25 yards beyond the hole, Gardner overplayed the green on his third, but Evans was away, Gardner chipped his ball clone to the hole. Gardner sank hie putt for a 6 to 6 win, making the match all even . No. 6, 420 yards, par 4—/The pair drove well and were on the green in Gardner ovor-putted three feet, Evans also overplayed, Gardner con- ceded Rvans's putt, the latter winning 4 to 6 and being 1 up again. No, 7, 195 yards, par 5—Gardner topped hin tee shot while Evans was on, vans, putting poorly, struck five feet from the hole Gardner's second landed on the green, wank bis third, while Gs just to the right of the cup, Bvana winning $ and @ and being 2 up. Ot the end of the firat nine holes in the afternoon round Evans waa 1 up on Gardner, (For the Morn: -> YANKS WIN. peabedy Diab | AT PHILADELPHIA | Highlanders OO00L01O4 Athleticn .+++ +++ 10000-0060 On} N GOLF CHAMPIONS GIRL, 13, RAN AWAY. FORA PINE WITH BOL INNEW YORK Says She Fled From Bridge- port Because “Tired Out Working.” | STUNNED BY BIG CITY. Police to Investigate Her Story of Harshness by Foster Parents. A frightened little girl with large, wistful looking gray eyes, a slender body and work-worn bands sat in the rooma of the Children’s Soctety | to-day and told how she had saved up $18, bought her firet doll and then had run away from he: home at Bridgeport “to have @ picnic all by herself’ in New York. ‘The child said her name was Helen Kervaics and that she was born in Austria thirteen years ago, When she was two years old ba father fell under @ wagon and was Killed, she told officials of the society. Thon she came to this country with her mother, who, she aaid, died “many years ago.” After that she waa adopted }y Mr. and Mrs, Charles Holzer, who live on Brooklyn Street, Bridgeport, “When I wasn't going to school 1 was working all the time,” she said. “[ worked for Mra, Coffman in Bridge. port, taking care of her babies and I waved up $13. Then I lost my plac» and when I went home Mr. Holzer wan awful mad and sald I must find another place, “I just felt tired out and I said to myself I would have a picnic, Ho 1 went and bought a nice dolly and some jewelry in @ 10-cent store— tings and @ bradelet—and then I went to the depot and bought a ticket tor New York. “A lndy at the depot spoke to me and when I told her where I was go- ing she said I must call on her tn New York and gave mo her card, but I lost that. “1 got to New York yesterday after- moon and right away I was sorry I had come by myself. Everything was mixed up. I uad to dodge automobiles and street cars and I was scared for my dolly.” Misa Hazel Ellaworth, a welfare worker, picked Helen up at Worty- fourth Street and Eighth Avenue last evening and turned her over to the police, who became vory much inter- ested in the mysterious woman the girl had met in Bridgeport. Helen aid she had lost the woman's card. “Do you want to go back home?” whe was asked to-day, “Oh, no," wan the reply, as eho rubbed her catloused little hands, ‘I want to stay here and work, [ don't want to go back to my foster parents I wish some nice woman here 11 New York would let me work for her. I'd be awful good, and all I'd ask would be that I could play with my dollio in the evenings and keop the jewels 1 bought in the 10-cent atore, I've Kot $8 loft now and I would put that in bank and keep on saving.” Helen waa arraigned in the Chil- fourt to-day and held, pen investigation. 100-YARD DASHES RUN IN TEN SECONDS FLAT The three trial heats of the 100- yard dah tn the national A. A. U, championship games hero this after. noon wero each run in ten seconds, flat. The heat winnera were Alvah T. Meyer, New York; A. ® Ward, Chicago, and Roy Morse, New York > RESULTS ON PAGE 3 Entries on Sporting Page BRIDE BY CONTRACT, ONE OF FIVE FROM BARNARD COLLEGE BRIDE BY CONTRACT A. S. Levy, Who Wedded Pauline Cahn, Surprised More Do Not Adopt New Process, Married by contract, Arthur Levy, @ lawyer, and his bride, who wis Miss Pauline Cahn, of No, 202 Riverside Drive, a graduate of Bar- nari Colloge, have returned from their honeys trip and are living at No, 412 V Twentieth Street Mra, Levy la a close friend Freda Kirchwey, daughter of © Kirehwey, formerly ‘olumbia Law Sehool, who w ried to Bs Nove and Mra, f girls have be contract proce: drawing up ; Agreement and having (t witnessed by a judge, “Lam surprised that more young people do not adopt this. p sald Levy. “It is a8 simple and aw solemn ax the usial marriage rit FINDS $1,250 IN ‘L' CAR; HER REWARD, ‘THANK YOU Woman Returns Bundle of Money Lost by Joseph Rorner of East Norwalk. h Horner of day recovered a bank had left in train in Brooklyn last Just loss to 4. of Dr . Levy ther Barnard a by the etvil consists of Jone ant Norwalk to- | of $1,250 he Sireet elevated Puesday, was repordding 1 Fulton an Rorner his young woman Clty Kall Third Avenue elevated purchased @ th station of the line wad pushed @ bundle through the tloket window 4 4 bundle whion 1 pioked Hore exp her nan was found to wid wily cout rut vat aad Interbor Tntorbo! and wired hin to o did to-day, After ido self ho received hin bankroll, left he waid: “I thank you,” 1,716,000,000 E66s; ALAS, COLD STORAGE! And While This Number Is Great, It Is 10 Per Cent. Less Than It Was a Month Ago, WASHINGTON, Sept. 9-—Two hun. dred and twenty-one firma are hold Ing nearly 1.000 CAEN Of eeRe voout — 148,000,0 jogene—in vold forte bo the Dopartmen’ of Agricul: st an the figures neem, the om. report shows U (han @ month ago, n 10 por cent, MORE WITNESSES INPARK MURDER |Police Think Others Nearby | When Dilworth Was Shot Are Afraid to Appear. | WIDOW ON WAY HERE, May Tell Detectives of Friend- ships Lawyer Had—Miss MeNiff’s Story Stands. After nearly a week of patient and thorough investigation of the clreum- stance of the murder of Dwight P.| Dilworth, the lawyer who was shot down in the Golf Links road in Vi Cortlandt Park Suaday night restat- Ing an attack on himself and Misa Mary V. MoNiff, who was hie com- panton on an automobile ride, the au- thoritioes of the Bronx acknowledged to-day they had made no progress be- yond the story told by Mine McNIft immediately aftor the tragedy. Every bit of evidence that has been nathered by the fifteen detectives under Capt, Wines and by Assistant District Attorney Quigley has either borne out the story of Mins MoNift of the attack of two highwaymen while the automobile was halted—in an effort to get back to the right road~-or has proved to have no bear- ing on the killing of Ditworth, Capt, Wines an@ hin men are stil! | trying to find out whether there ts any truth in the story of a woman who told them yesterday she had been near the scene of the shooting had heard shote and had seen a woman running away, They are In- clined to betieve ao much of her story 1s true but they have been un- able to aet from her a definite atate- ment of things of which ashe hints sho knows but will not tell, CHAUFFEUR PERGISTS IN OE- NYING WOMAN'S STORY. The value of the woman's story La further lessened becauso the chauf- four with whom sho nays sho was in Van Cortlandt Park Sunday night fitly denies whe was with him or that he even knows her, He is a married man with two children; his wife took a keen Interest in the po- Noe investigation to learn if he were with the woman informant and even accompanied him to (he office of Capt. Wines; the police have satiafied themaelves that he did know the woman and that he frequently took her on auto rides at night; they have not yet verifcd her statement of their Doing toxcther Bunday nigat, he whole diMoulty,” Avsistant District Attorney Quigiey aal@ to- day, “in checkiow up Mine MoNUft's SEEK TOUNCOVER story comes from juat one condition, There was apparently no one along that dark road thet night who could toll us of what happened woo bas not some reason to conceal having been there, “Probably nearly every fervon who was in that vicinity had already told at home of having been somewhere clse at that time It ts bard to get the confidence of such witnesses and to convince them they will not, Sy fouling frankly with us, get them- scives Into serious trouble at home, Hut that hot mean that oMelala of Bronx County mean to let such @& crime as this go Unpuntat by default, It is only @ reason why our work la aggravatingly alow.” DILWORTH'S WIFE ON WAY HERE—MAY GIVE CLUE. Mra, Dilworth, the wife of the mur. dered man, is on her way here trom Port Soott, Tex, and is expected tn this city to-morrow, Sho has been vuoted Aa waleing, ywuitions that her husband was kiflod \, « fealeus qe 4 scorned woman, Tha police are dows mo the (Continued om Second Page.) -¢- THIRD AVE. AND BRONX LINE THREATENED WTH TEP POLICE EXPECT NEW CRISIS Maher Tells Inspector Schmittber- ger Men Plan, Walk Out To Night and Asks Protection—Car, Men's Chief Expects Aid of All Organized Labor. WHITRIDGE APPOINTS GARRISON ARBITRATOR Widespread strikes in all branches of industry and a union labor boycott against the Interborough lines are included in the plans of the Street car union leaders. They have interested certain men of -infuence in the American Federation of Labor and the Central Federated Union in a project to stir up a sort of union labor revolt. Samuel Gompers will be tn New York at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternooe to confer with the carmen's chiefs on the proposed general strike, The union loaders will endeavor to launch a propaganda against “capitaliam.” They will assert that capitalistic interests all over the country, in revenge for the national eight-hour law, are pouring their resources into this city to de feat the street cdr mon, and that now Is tho time for all unto working folk to go on strike and make trouble, An idea of the working of (he nn, minds of the street car union leaders guard went down to eee what they may be gained from the following | Were doing The others who had sauntered to the upper end of the platform board- ed the first car of @ train, ran to the front, yanked the motorman from Kile box and beat him up theroughiy, Then they ran back among the other Passengers and in the confusion the whole crowd got down the stairs and excerpt from a long statement ts sued to-day by William B. Pitagerald, Chief Org Association jaer of the Amalgamated of Street and Electric Rallway Employeos: “The people of Greator New York in the next few days will seo the away. moat remarkable demonstrafions o@/ General Manager Hedley in the the part of union iabor that they|mean time had telephoned Police Headquarters that hundreds of strikt- ere had been told to go to terminals and specified stations and assault mo- tormen and guarda, using tactics that were successful at the Ninety-eecoad Street station, He asked for extra police protection at certaia terminals and busy «tations, MINORITY ARGUES STRIKE, Hoprerentatives of the anton em ploysea of the Third Avenue liner and the trolley syetoma of the Broas, have ever witnessed in their history Wo are ao confident of the outcome that we are not glving ourselves the slightest concern, We have planned and we will fight until we win. Every trades union man and woman tn the Btate of New York will stay with w in this fight, as they realize this i net only our fight, but thelr fmt." At the union headquarters at the Continental Hotel there were bir to-day of “something big to-night AGAINGT The police hava laformat that} % Pitagerald toa about de to call] Wev'choster, Queens and Richmoas a atrike on tho Third Avente line and | (met last pivbt and letened te long tales Gade by the Amalgamated or- Manor! Rantzere, While the majority of the whird | USiPRntor were found to be tp faver wf a atrike if, in the judgment ef Vitewerald it wou do aay geed, @ | determined mizogwy argued agetagt ton that Third Avenur | In the Broun At about tho earns thine BA, dr, general anager of the Aveone ayatem, wos notifying Chief Inapector Sobmittberger of the com. pany’a inform employeus ro to uieet at Bighty.) ‘t *eesase the union le ted ap with Bixth Btrwet aod ‘Clint Avenun Fut E ‘tortion agreement, These men fourth Btwet and Lexlogton Avenue“ 1 that many of the men and Cortiandt Hh a the Mrone to. | et 6 strike they wanted tast igh and dow a aymparcerio | Mont ! would not go out fa a atrike, (© deoume — eifeat! re pach) MEveK MAY o'clock to-morrow = morning via| “He stu of the police tnforma- which da; 202 Dont & probable strike on the asked for police protoction, spector Bchmittberger at once Yeaan| - vent ivenue and Unton Mines to strong enough to warreat arranging. area Frederic. W. Whitrides, Presitant emen tgtig hs on hy ot J Third Avenue wad, rotifet he strike started orders te we Mayor Michel to-day that Dis com r domes and rest up in readts pany Nad selected tindley Mote Jor an omergency call within ri -Secre *{ twaive , Te police are needed arbit for t nue IMs] in w ote the Commissioner oremts ay port ants t in fresh mon PJ O'Brien, one of the organisers, ridge to ; Announced at a mass meeting of lived up to the terma of the arree | strikers at Lenog Avenue and One ment on his side Hundred and Sixteenth Street at 1 Soon after a mooting of strik ‘clock orday that the Third Avenue Vhis announcer’ yosition to claim that Re das Lenos Avenue and One Hund fon line employees, through Slatonth direst had @ reed vesentatives, had promised afternoon about Aftes went t wt at muicoight ‘Phe announces @ pecont Avena hog nient * grected with cheers, AAMOLY ae A Stren Ton et A Trot HO Che Now York Com went to the lower end of the piat-| tral form and ducted thomaeclves Kaliroad for an oxtra pallee mysteriously (hat the policeman on | guard at Grand Cantral Station ta@le cates that there has ded deen o ou fe ial