The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1916, Page 1

| a omen Strikers Vote To-Nigh Ch [“Ciroulation Booka w------- AL EOITION = = RIOE ONE OENT. ‘ jet, 100M, by medi “Fy Fi Open to All, NEW Teepe seeemne or Wertd) BIG LOSSES IN MMITCHEL'S AID TO END STRIKE. ARS BOMBARDED ASKED BY LABOR LEADERS; CARMEN T Report on Conference at City Hall to Be Submitted to the Workers. FUNDS REPORTED LOW. Strikers Also Worried by Rush of Brooklyn and Queens Trolleymen to New York. Mayor Mitchel announced this af- ternoon, at the conclusion of a lone conference with labor leaders, that be had been asked th use his offices in an effort to bring about an ad- justment of the controversy between the traction companies acd their oa ployees, The Mayor will enlist the| aid of President Straus of the Pub- Ue Service Commission and will then| yeoed to get in touch wth the trac- on managers in an effort to end the ‘The committee that called on me, said the Mayor, “came for a two- told purpose, One was to complain), pout alleged police unfairness to strikers, They mentioned a few spe- cifle instances, and Commissioner | Woods, who was present at the con- ference, promised to make a thorough investigation, “THey also came to tell me of the plans for a general sympathetic strike, which, they assured me, they | are doing all in their power to avert | They asked mo to use my offices in an effort to bring about an adjust- ment between the transit companies | and the men on the general basis of | the agreement of Aug. 6 and 2" | ACTION BY LONGSHOREMEN IS LAVED. announced Mayor = Mite! he thought he could give assurance that wo far as the longshoremen are con- dno action Wil be (ake looking to @ strike until Thursday, ta this} he said the committee of labor men which called on him no doubt would bear out. None of the labor mon contradicted the Mayor, At thts poin' James P. Holland, President of the Stato Federation of Labor, said: “And we can assure you, Mr, Mayor, that no action in the other industries will be taken before you are notified.” Later, while leaving City Hall, Hol and sald: So far as the tunnel and caisson workers In the new dual subway are concerned, they are organized to a cern ¢ | bre: jot raw man, Twenty-five thousand of them | will go out like that” Csnapping his | fingers by way of illustration) “if this transit strike is not settled, Wo'll | siiow them we're not bluming.” Tho question of calling off or con-, tinuing the strike will be put up! io the strikers by Organiser Will. | jam B, Fitagerald of the Amalgamated | Association at a mass meeting to be | held this evening at Lyceum Hall, | Highty-sixth Street and Third Ave- nue, ‘The report has been circulated | among the strikers that the union has nat sufficient funds on hand to pay strive benefits, and Pitagerald will be questioned on that point REPORT ON CITY HALL CONFER: ENCE TO BE SUBMITTED. The mass moeoting was called to 7 mit of the submission of a report « the conference held in the Mayor's office this afternoon, Another matter walling for di Jon is the rush of experienced trolley men to New York trom nearby communities because of rs (Continued on 8 > pond Page) VOTE TOA WL PRSEGUTE 724 FOR CUTTING WEIGHT OF BREAD Hartigan Admits, However,! Cost of Materials Warrants | an Increase in Price. Although bakers reatored loaves of to their full size this morning. the 724 who sold skimpy loaves last week are to be prosecuted. “I have asked the Corporation Counsel to assign @ special assistant to this prosecution.” said Commis. | sioner Hartigan, of the Bureau of | Weights and Measures, this after- noon, ach baker or dealer who sold bread short of the weight stamped on it is able to a fine of $100, and we are going after every one of them, “Inspectors have reported to mo to- day from all parts of all five boroughs of this city, and they all say that the loaves are up to regular sine, At the same time iKdoos seem that the price materials used in) making| bread has advanced to the point where it Is necessary to raise the price of bread." Mr, Hartigan showed a letter from| Lang & Co, flour men at No. 380} Eleventh Avenue, declaring that,| owing to the rise in the price of flour, bakers will have to raise 5-cent loaves | to 71-2 cents a loaf or reduce the size of the loaf from twelve to eight ounces, Tucked In with the loaves of bread | Welivered In thousands of homes this | morning was the following notice: | “On account of the increased | coat of raw material, together with the rise of flour and all other ingredients which enter into the making of bread, rolls, cakes, ete, and in order to u the high quality of our products, we are forced to raise the price of all kinds of rolls, buns, crullere 18 THE OPINION OF MASTER BAKERS, Members of the United Master Bakers, to whom this circular was shown, declined to admit that it was the result of @ general ag but all said that it was a good move, | They admitted that Commis. | sionpr Hartigan’s activity had brougnt| them all back to giving full weight bread, although last week they in- wisted that the law permitted them to sell food within ten per cent. of what it pretended to be, That the price of bread is bound to} rise is the oplnion of Willlam Stein. | mota, ox-President of the United Mas- soment, 0 ter Bakers, We must get mo y Money for said to The sident in cludes Pleischmann & Co. and other big bakeries, declared this aftagnoon that either prices must go higher or the loaves grow smaller: "We are now experi the machinery for reducing cent loaves m1 ounces ounces up in price we this alone Under the law, no baker dares confer with his competitors as to prices, We are all watching each lees, | ole’ | ere BY STRIKERS AND CREWS ATTACKED Streets in Shopping District Made Turbulent and Police Reserves Are Called. FOUR SISTERS ARE HELD. Arrested With 14 Others as Crowd Jeers Carmen on Madison Avenue. Streets in made the shopping district were turbulent by disorderly strikers to-day, as well those neighborhoods where clashes between strikers and the police have been fre- quent since the beginning of the car- men's walkout. Concerted efforts to interfere with the switching back of Lexington Avenue cars at Broadway and Twenty-third Street during the morning rush hour caused @ nolsy crowd to gather along the lewer ede of Madison Square, Police re- serves were called from the East Twenty-second Street Station, Louis Kareo of 149 Broome Street was arrested becaused he refused to keep moving after the police had scat- tered the crowd which bad encour aged the strikers by yelling and hoot- ing at the car crew: A band of twenty-five motormen and conductors in uniform roamed through Thirty-fourth Street be. tween Third and Seventh Avenues an hour later, climbing aboard cars and trying to hustle the crews from the platfor until police reserves from |the East Thirty-fifth Street Station drove them away, Anticipating that meetings of atrik. ing car men at Eighty-sixth Street and Third Avenue during the day might lead to attacks on cars in that vicinity, officials of the New York Railways asked for and obtained extra policemen under command of Inspector Hoettler to protect the Madison Avenue barns and the Elgh- ty-sixth Stivet crosstown line, ‘The od and subway strikers tet at 10 o'clock, The Third Avenue and n car men Wene to meet late in the afternoon, Martha, Esther, Rose and Re- becea Silvermann of No, 326 East One Hundredth Street were arrested at One Hundred and Second Street and Madison Avenue, Martha was arrested because it was alleged she yelled "Scab!" at car crews and refused to move on when ordered. The arrest of Esther, Rose and Rebecca followed on cbarges of disorferly conduct, Fourteen other arrests were made in the same neighborhood on charges of hurling bricks at cars and of threat. ening car cre B7 VILLISTAS EXECUTED AFTER CHIHUAHUA RAID EL PASO, Texas, Sept, 18,—Kighty- seven Villistas, captured by Carran- aistas after the bandit attack on Chi- huahua City Saturday, were lined up before firing sjuads Sunday morning and executed, according to a report received here this afternoon Among the prisoners was Col. Mariano Tames, who mutinied from Juarez with 100 men and joined the Villistas, — —_ BROOKLYNS WIN, VIRST GAME At Brooklyn voklyn 1 > GIANTS WIN, VIRST GAME At New York Pittsburgh Naw VOrb veveee ‘ 0 i] = YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 WOMEN DECOYS HELPED BLACKMAIL GANG 10 GET OVER A MILLION DOLLARS selnlallieens Operated in Leading Hotels in Big Cities All Over the Country. FLEW HIGH FOR GAME. New York Jurist Fleeced of $40,000 — Woman, Victim Kidnapped in Phila®iphia. One of the gang of blackmail>ra, eight of whom are under arrest to- day in Chicago, whom well-laid schemes are alleged to have yielded more than @ million dollars in hush money from wealthy men and women throughout this country, has turned State's evidence againat his former associates and disclosed to Assistant United States Attorney John C, Knox the minutest details of the swindlers* operations, The name of the informer, as re- vealed to-day by Mr. Knox, is Frank Crocker, Who confessed to partictpation in the blackmailing of Mrs, Regina A Klipper of Philadelphia at a hotel in this city last January, She had been induced to go to the hotel and while there was confronted by alleged United States agents, who threatened her with arrest and prosecution fdr violation of the Mann White Slave Act, She paid the blackmatlers $500 as the price of silence. Another step taken to-day in’ the Prosecution of the etght persons ar- rested In Chicago was the sending to that city of Detective Sergt. James Finan“ of the New York police force, who arrested Crocker at Palm Beach, TWENTY WOMEN IN THE BAND OF BLACKMAILERS. Word came to this city thig after- noon that confessions had also been made by two of the band who were not under arrest, Dick Barrett and Edward J. Thompson, This confes sion is sald to number the blackmailing band at sixty, twenty women and forty men, A quarr the division of the spoils of the swindiers is reported to have prompted the confessions. It is expected that before the week is out at least a score more of the grang will be apprehended Tho arrests are said to have been the direct result of these confessions H. C, Woodward, alleged to be th: brains of the blackinaihng gang, 1s be- ing sought by the polive, and Federal agents in Chicago said that within a few days he and a woman member of the coterie would undou! over to-day | edly be in custody The prisoners now in the cou Jail at Chicago are: Edward Donat “Doc” Donahue; Mra, Kdward Mrs, Helen Evers, allas Mrs W. Brown; Russel James Christian, alias J Cross, George Bland, Mra, br Alle alias Mra, Frances Cha und Frank Crocker, ‘The specific ct Henry u re against them the kidnapping of Mra. Klipper, whe was spirited off to Montroal by the gang when it was feared that she Was about to appear against them She was wanted as a Government wit ness, but when t 1 States agents went to her Philadel home she A gone, She ix sald now to be ready to appear and give testimony The prisoners, cuught after an elab rate system of dictoxraphs and} tapped telephones had been in stalled in their apartments, will be din Chicago to-morrow. tn! dings looking to their returr ladelphia for trint It was upon the guilty conselvnce that the gang in believed to have ¢ .0.. TENSOR CAMPAIH FL OF WILSON ASLEEP Exhibition of Hal Reid's Pic- ture Showing Nuns At- tacked Is Postponed. The “movie” Mm atrengéd by Wa! Reid for the publican National Committee, in which President Wilson is represented a» asleep at his deak while nuns are being attacked by Mexicans, will Rot be released to-day. Leaders of the Republican organisa- on, alarmed by The World's expost. ton of the picture, ordered a private showing of the film to-day and de- cided there will have to be many cute outs before MR can be given to the Public, The audience conalsted of George W. Perkins, Everett Colby and Herbert Parsons, members of the National Campaign Commitgee; James B. Rey- nolds, Secretary; wid Barry, Chiet of Publicity Bureau; Majar F, W. Crossett, secretary to Candidate Hughes, and Birch Helm, secretary to Chairman Willcox, “This Alm. explained Mr. afterward, “must not be re, finished, It is merely a scenario, like the first rough draft of @ speech, sub. Ject to revision and “Wil it be changed?” was asked, “Ob, yes, of cour replied Mr, Colby, “What we saw to-day ‘wan the original form, but there will be changes and parta cut out before It is approved.” There will be a vigoroug shaking up in Republican headquarters on ac- count of thix attack on the President and the dragging in of Mexican re- Ngious affairs, oIt rded as a ‘very unfortunate responsible are to be disciplined. Chairman McCormack of the Demo. cratio National Committee sald: “I cannot belleve it possible that any political organization is going to drag issues of this kind into the cam. + Sept. 18 |, mulher of # campaign moving ple- scenario which deals with the Wil: is & Minn nin the city ex: ept at vals since the early nineties, when he was released from State prison at Stillwater, He was! victed of an offense aguinst a young woma: After bia lease from prison Reid went Kast and produced thrilling | nelodramus. SECOND NEW YORKS ARE ORDERED HOME WAS! INGTOD , Sept. 18 The Sec. nd New York Lafantry, on the bi te has 0 n ordered to return to th State mol Department he t other tyain eq » troops orde be employed in bringing } turning regiments. Phe order is in line with Baker's policy of sendin, reani zations now in State mobiiigmtion mips to the border before mustered out of the Federal There 18,000 guardame the State camps. These w soon aa the necessary ar can be made. > eh art cece eee teens ena and those; Mayor’s Peace Pl Se Te Deve Weather-F Aim AND COOL ¢ EDITION [Circulation Rooks Open to, An.” | 1916, “DEAREST SWEET” NOTES OF ADMIRER COSTHER ALIMONY <niiliionain sonroy Wrote Some in Bath- room When His Own Wite Hid His Clothes. HUSBAND CHALL Suitor for Mrs. Duffy's Love Said He Hoped “Best Man Would Win.” GED, A batch of flaming love letters to y Dear Sweet,” “Blue Byes,” and ‘Dearest Grace,” whose affection blew hot and cold so often that the writer lost sixteen pounds in three weeks and slept only two hours a week, to-day defeated Mra. Grace M. Duffy's efforia to obtain alimony from John Francis Duffy jr, of the firm of John Budd & Co, No, 171 Madi- fon Avenue, After perusing the foot- high pile of missivea Supreme Court Juatice Giegerich refused to award support to Mre. Duffy, The writer, Justice Giegertch told, was Thomas D, Conroy, a young Wall Street broker ansociated with Lee Higinson & Co, and married, The Justice was also told that Duffy threatened to bring injunction pro- ceedings against Conroy to atop him from courting Mra, Duffy. Duffy did not tell the cqurt how he came upon the letters, but soon after Mrs, Duffy learned they wero in her husband's hands, the court was informed, Conroy called at the Duffy home and demanded they, tell- ing Duffy thay he wished Duffy would leave town, it was awfully gall- ing to know that another man was living with the wor he (Conroy) couldn't help admiring, even though he w her husband.” TOLO HUSBAND HE HOPED BEST MAN WOULD WIN. After Duffy's refusal to give up the letters and they were placed in a safe deposit vault Conroy, Justice Giegerich was told, met Duffy tn the Park Avenue Hotel and told him he would never give up Mra, Duffy and “hoped the best man would win,” Shortly after this challenge Mrs, Duffy went west, and it was while jshe was there tbat the letters w written, Mra. Duffy admitted to the Court that Conroy had written to her, but sald that there was nothing wrong in the letters, as Conroy was her “matrimonial adviser.” One letter to Pocatello, Idaho, read as follows “Dear Grace “My Little Blue Eyes-you never seem to like to look into my eyes the way mine do into yours-the idea of you asking questions, Why, | love you better than words can tell." Conroy, apparently, began talking Jin him sleep about woo" and aroused Mra, Conroy's suspicions | Thereafter when he wanted to write he locked himself in the bathroom and composed his messages Here is one of them “In my sleep L repeated that it was woveral days since 1 had written to you and 1 was told by Mer (Mos Conroy), that L had to give an answe as to whether I love you or ber beat My clothes were hidden so FE couldn't nut and write to you but Liman together a few gar Lam writing in the bathroom, Please excuse the peneti roM." Mrs. Duffy was still in the West when this was penned Doareat Sweet 8 ne (Mrs ne Conroy) is trying to (Continued on Second Page.) > RACING RESULTS ON PAGE 3 ENTRIES ON SPORTING PAGE 14 PAGES THE SOMME BATTLE OFFICIALLY ADMITTED BY BERLIN: eee | — PRICE ONE CENT. ae _———-<4 GERMANS ABANDON TOWNS ASFRENCH TROOPS DRIVE ON; FANG CLOSES IN ON THIEPVAL ‘London and Paris Both Announce New Succésses at Many Points— Placed at 40,000 Men. GERMAN LOSS IN 10 DAYS ESTIMATED AT 40,000. Big successes for the French south of the Somme were admitted this afternoon by the Berlin War Office. North of the Somme, ft was claimed, the fighting resulted favorably to the Germans. The loss of Berny, Deniecourt and positions between Barleux and Vermandovillers was announced. ‘ The capture of Deniecourt has not yet been claimed by Paris, though an official statement issued at noon reported the village surrounded, : The French War Office last night reported the capture of Bemy and Vermandovillers, The official statement in Paris to-day declared that two battalions had been nearly annihilated and that 1,200 prisoners and ten machine guns were taken, Both Paris and London contradict, the German report of results north of the Somme. Paris claimed the, capture of a trench in that sector, Gen, Haig reported that the British had closed in on Thiepval after repulsing German attacks and capturing enemy positions, MIGHTY. SOMME BATTLES. RAGE ON-FRONT OF 28 MILES Berlin Officially Admits Victory of the French South of the Somme, but Claims Suc- cess on Northern Side. BERLIN, Sept. 18 (via London).—/ ing developed favorably to the Gera. > Abandonment by the Germans of the| mean, villages of Herny and Dentecourt, to-| Following is the text of to-day's ” gether with positions between Bar-|German War Office report in the leaux and Vermandovillere, south of fighting along the Somme front the River Somme, is reported in to- “Army group of Pritce Rup- day's ofMeial statem: North of the! precht: The mighty Somme bat- River, the statement says, the fight- tles, carried out on a front of 43 . k etres (28 miles) from Thiep- val to the south of Vermandovil- lers, led to extraordinarily bitter fighting. Those north of the Somme terminated favorably to us, Those South of the river re- suited in the abandonment of! complete portions of positions be. tween Barleux and Vermando- Villers, together with the vilages of Herny and Dentecourt. "Our brave troops have givea splendid proof of thelr unshak- able resistance and thetr spirit of self-sacrifice, Weastph; Infantry Regiment No, 18 pecially distinguished itself south simoat te of Bouchavesnes, ana Our airmen threw themeaeive: Bete Le strong enemy aertal and brought down ten A successty! engage . STEAMER RAMS BARGE; TWO MEN RESCUED |Sound Liner Overturns Cargo of! Garbage in East River, but Escapes Serious Damage. Sound ate | The crowded w passeng in pthe Kast River New York Yaoht Chut 220 ¢ # aftern Richard Peck, at u through ANCHOPARE at of om when, lower end swung by the point oF te the Rlackwe against barge water-!li tow e of the t The big steamer turned urge) SQuadrona men) machines Th Army group Crown Prince the two men of the German Spirited artilery occurred at times in the Mouse (Verdun) re, Fleury advancing en: ments were compelled to tura tug tow barge to the foot of Bast Twent 1 After an ex bh stree whieh Jamag hard The wplous ed othe oR Javed on Up Che Piveg buck,” furnished a show for the and attendants of Retlowue , pag caenipg Neither of Che men thrown, BRITISH CLOSING IN er required hospital treat. iy , ON THIEPVAL, SAYS ‘ - GEN, HAIG'’S REPORT HORKAD, Bouduee” r it Mer. LONDON, Sept, 18- and pa wrem the British and French es shies Naked ae ‘Somme ppraey mow fronts on the German Losses in Last Ten Days | Reports from ie tas toe ania 1 } / |