The evening world. Newspaper, September 22, 1916, Page 1

| | rh __PRiIOn ONE CENT. CITY-WIDE TIE-UP HERE WITHIN A WEEK, — R LEADERS SAY BEFORE TAKING VOTE LABO | MMRYENSEN STRKES BAC: WINS VICTORY IN DOBRUDLA, BERLIN'S OFFICAL CLAIM " Said to Have Outflanked Russo- Roumanians, Who Reported His Army in Retreat—Allies Claim ”. GainsonSommeand in Macedonia, Reports issued to-day by the Berlin War Office not only cast doubt on the reported defeat of Field Marshal von Mackensen, but claim a big victory for his combined Teuton, Bulgar and Turkish forces. An official statement issued last night at Bucharest said *» von Mackensen’s troops in Dobrudja had been defeated after a six days’ battle and that they were destroying villages in their » retreat, _Bulgayian official reports to-day mentioned very briefly the issued yesterday and received fiffRing in Dobrudja. It cov- ered the action only until Wednesday, the day on which Bucharest claimed the battle ended in victory. The Berlin report to-day declares von Mackensen, by means of an encir- cling counter attack, had driven the Russians and Roumanians back in disorder. Reports from the other battle fronts, although from friendly sources, are cheering to the Allies. British troops in the Somme sector are said to have advanced on a mile front south of the Ancre, capturing two lines of trenches. Paris claims that:German attacks in force on the French end of the Somme front were repulsed and that the French and Serbian troops had made important gains in Macedonia. RUSSO-ROUMANIANS DEFEATED, DRIVEN BACK I!) DISORDER Fide Turned in Dobrudja by Von Mackensen’s Strategy—Teutons Lose Carpathian Mountain Peak. BERLIN, Sept. 22 (via London).— The Bulgarian and German troops under Field Marshal von Mackensen have driven back the Russians and Roumanians in Dobrudja in disorder, | the War Office announced to-day, ‘The victory was gained by means ot | fn encircling counter-attack, ‘Tho Joss of Smotrec summit to the Russians after several days of fight- ing in the Carpathians was officially admitted this afternoon. This height has changed hands several tim Near Korytnica, the Russians still e@ccupy portions of Austro-German Ppoaitions, The Teutons have cap- @ured 750 prisoners and several ma- @hine guns. On the western front, only grenade fights and artillery duels have oc- urred on the Somme and Verdun @ectors. Following Is the text of to-day's Berlin War Oifice report: “Roumanian front: In Dobrudja strong Roumanian forces attacked southwost of Topral Sari (14 miles @ompwest of Constanza), By an @acircling counter-attack by Ger- man-Bulgarian-Turkish troops against the flank and rear of the enemy the Roumanians are being driven back in disorder, “Macedonian front: Fighting activity on the Florina Kiyulet io atill lively and has been re- awakened to the east of the Vardar River. “Carpathians — The Smotrec gummit again has been lost, Con- timued efforts of the Russians on @Gentinued on Fourth Page.) " platform ACROBAT ENDS LIFE UNDER SUBWAY EXPRESS | Brennan Commits Suicide While on His Way to See a Man About a Position, Louis Kelso Brennan, an acrobatic performer in leading vaudeville etr- cults under the name of Louis Kelso, wandered up and down the express of the Seventy-second Street subway station at noon to-day, attracting attention by muttering to himself, As northbound express rolled in he threw himseif in front of it and was ground to pleces by the first three cars before the train could be stopped, Brennan, whose brother Stanley is a wealthy business man of Worcester, Mass., recently made arrangements to Join the circulation staff of the Re- view of Reviews, through W. 8. Mc- Grail, 4 friend of his brother, He and Mr. McGrail were to meet at lunch to-day at the Hotel Somerset in West Forty-seventh Street, where the acro- bat lived, — Woman a Snic From Gas, Miss Clara Agnus, twenty-four, roomer at No. 71 Brinkerhof Street sey City, was found dead to-day trom the effects of Muminating gas by Wille iam Stoveken, who rents the house. The young woman had apparently inhaled the fuid with suicidal Intent. Her body was e Jers ; enfo rh conmides & seasonmble paciod, Bw YoRK, PRIDAY, SCHOOLS TO OPEN MAY FORCE VICTINS MONDAY; FEAR NO. TOTESTIFY AGAINST Mayor Makes the Announce- | ment After Consulting With | Emerson and Willcox, “NEGLIGIBLE. DANGER So Reports on the Assem- bling of Children. The public schools will open Mon- | day. All the Roman = Catholic parochial schools In the archdiocese will open at the same time. This an- nouncement was made this morning | by Mayor Mitchel after a conference in City Hall with Health Commissioner | Haven Emerson and William G. Will- |cox, President of the Board of Edu- cation. | “Hecawse ot the talk of further danger from infantile paratyals,” said the Mayor at the conclusion of his con- | ference with the school and health | oMicials, “I decided to get the ultimate Judgment of those best qualified to speak on the question of school open- | ing. Both Dr. Emerson and President | Willcox agree in their opinion that there is no reason why the schools can't be opened on Monday.” President Willcox announced that |Dr. L. Emmet Holt, head of the Babies’ Hospital, believes that there will be no danger of a new epidemic of infantile paralysis if the schools open Monday. In a personal letter j to Mr. Willcox, Dr. Holt says: “Regarding the question of school opening I have a pretty definite opin- ion. With the precautions which Dr, Emerson has announced will be taken, and with the steady subsi- dence of the epidemic noted in the past ten days (which also follows pre- vious experience with this disease), I believe that the increased dangers from assembling children in public schools are negligible. “It 1s probable that occasional cases will occur through the month of October and perhaps also Novem. ber, but I do not think this number would be materially lessened if the public schools were not to ojen until December’. Father Smith, superintendent of the parochial schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, called up the Mayor's office and wrote @ letter to the Health Department on the question of opening the schools next Mondoy, Father Smith expressed the opinion that the schools should be permitted to open Monday. There are 135,000 children in the parochial schools of the city President Willcox says 95 per cent, of the public schoo! children are hack in town, so that it Ls not a question of bringing them from the country into a new danger zone, During the epi- demic, he explained, there were not less than 75,000 children attending the summer schools and the playgrounds. Their freedom from the epidemic was marked, “Many of ue believe that children are likely to avoid disease by attend- ing school,” said Mr. Willcox. The attention of Dr, Emerson was called to the fact that the Boston schools’ opening has been postponed until Oct, 2. He said Massachusetts was the only State in this section of the country in which there is an in- crease in paralysis cases. Massa- chusetts having been ono of the last | Staten visited by the epidemic, it |would have to run its course there, las elsewhere, it was explained, President Willcox was asked if nervous parents who refuse to sead | their children to school next week would be punished under the com- pulsory education law, He siniled in reply. It is understood the sehoo. authorities will not be very active in sing the law during what they " HEADQUARTERS Holt of Babies’ Hospital, Federal PARALYSIS SPREAD. BLACKMAIL GANG, Wealth or Position to Be No Bar in Bringing Out Evi- dence of Hold-Ups, HERE, Agents Are Busy Learning Facts of Operations at a Longacre Hotel. So determined are the Federal au- thorities that the alleged blackmail gang, which bled large sums from ter- rified men and women, shall be un- covered to its furthest ramification that even the wealth and prominence of ite victims in this and other cities is not to be considered when the swindlers are brought to trial here. ‘The Government's first action saa Y the four alleged members of the gang, Frank Crocker, George Irwin and William and George Butler, will bo taken in Philadelphia, where they are to be tried for obstructing justice in the kidnapping of Mrs. Regina A Klipper, who charges that they black- mailed her in a hotel in this city. The determination to hold the first trial in Philadelphia was announced to-day by Special Agent Garbarino upon his return from a conference with department heads at Washing- ton, After that the trial of the al- leged gilt-cdged blackmatlers will be shifted to New York, as many of their most successful operations ogalust wealthy persons were carried out here. The Federal authorities recognize the seriousness of calling to the stand some of the prominent women and men who have been ficeced by the blackmailers and one Government of- ficial went so far to-day as to say that he believed the suicide of more than one victim would result from the issue of subpoenas. In its work of blackmail the gang used as Its chief weapon the Mann White Slave Act. There ts some dis- cussion in Washington as to possible changes in the wording of the statute to remove the possibilities of black- mail under it, Federal authorities say that there will be few prosecutions under the law in future except where coercion or commercialism is in- volved, The bunt for members in this city has already begun, because the Gov ernment authorities believe that prac tically every blackmailing case they have discovered had {ts inception or some part of its plot laid in New| York. A hotel near Longacre Square has been reported to the Federal agents| as the headquarters of certain mem bers of the powerful coterle, and to- day It was said that employees of this establishment would be closely questioned, | Be RB | TWO BRITISH SUBJECTS => KILLED BY VILLISTAS : | Thirty-Six Carranza Soldiers Als so| Fell in a Rajd on an Oil Camp Near Tuxpam, GALVESTON, Tex., British taken from their home and shot and thirty-six of @ party Sept. 2 Two subjects were of thirty-eight Carranga soldiers were killed in a raid Sept 16 on an Aquila oll camp near Tax- pam by bandits Ing themacives Villistas. The news comes in a report brought! to-day by the steamer Topila trom! SEPTEMBER 22, TYSON's “ONLY LOVE’ TO SPITE WHOM HE MARRIED ANOTHER Me Olive Base BIG STRIKE THREATENED TH THE WETAL: rm General Electric Works in Schene tady May Be Shut Down Next Monday, SCHENECTADY, N. Y¥., Sei Members of all the metal trades of the General Electric Works last night aPpointed a committee to ait on General Manager George E, Emmons and notify him that unless the differ- ences between the employees of Pitts. fleld and the company ure sa’ torily settled before Sept. 29 the Presi dents of all the organizations in the Motal Trades’ Alllance in Schenee- tady will be empowered and req. ed ty cull a strike on that date. sxoantiieittiis U-BOAT TORPEDOES AND SINKS TRANSPORT Steamer Was Filled With Enemy Troops, Says Berlin Despatch, Sept BERLIN, 22 (by wireless to Sayville).—Tho Admiralty announced to-day that a transport was sunk in the Mediter noon Sept. 17 by a German submarine The transport, which was filled with enemy troops, sank In forty-three sec- onde. The statement made no mention of the fate of the pidiers aboard the transport, The quick sinking of the hip indicates that few, if any pe song, were re her vessels near BLACKLIST QUESTION IS bee UP BY WILSON Matter With Ambassador Bt ales Ajar at Shadow Lawn To-Morrow LONG BRANCH, Septe 22.—Preat- Jent Wilson has arranged to confer late to-day with Walter Hines Page, merican Ambassador to Great Brit- It ly understood that the British klisting of American firms and \terference with American malls are » be discussed Arrangements were made to-day for throwing open the gates of Shad- ow Lawn to admit the general pub- | Dise ain. lic @t the reception the President will give to-morrow afternoon to New Jer- sey business men. This ng Mr. Wilson received 4 toler uel Seu- bury, Ds " nomines for Gov- ernor of New York, thanking bim for Ju message congratulating him on bis nomination. ———— RESULTS ON PAGE 2 ENTRIES ON SPORTING PAGE Rout of Roumanians Reported by AL ZOITION irewlation Rooke Open to All.” | Tr? 16 PA T¥SON SPEEDS OFF FROM WIFE NO, 3 ~HEWED FOR SPITE | Now Scooting oting fie No, as He and Bride of Two Weeks Separate. LS OF ONLY LOVE, Wed to Another, but) “You Never Can Tell What a Tyson May Do.” Changing wives doesn't mean any more to John H. Tyson, the wealthy young speed law violator, than chang- ing tires on one of the high-powered cars that have carried him into court! on so many occasions, Having parted *) to-day from his third wife last Suhday after six days of connublal bilas, he Inti- mated very strongly at his beautiful en in Riverside, Comn., to-day that Jat freee him from Exjfor, wife No. 3, he will lose nb time inf making Mrs. Olive Stamford Bass of Stamford, Conn., ife No. 4, The young man whose spectacular automobile escapades have kept him in the limelight now saya that he matried Miss Exiner, the daughter of & retired ladies’ tailor Hving at No. 297 Lexington Avenue, to spite Mrs, Bass, the woman he really loven, He says he told his third wife so last Saturday and that on the fol- lowing day they separated forever. The speed with which Tyson raced about Connecticut on Sept, 1 tryine) to find a minister to marry him to} * Exner was in keeping with the ed with which their romance went to smash. Mrs, Bass, the woman with whom ‘Tyson ts in love, is herself trying to get rid of Alexander H. Bass, a schoo! boy member of a wealthy Stamford family with whom she eloped last April, She ts nineteen, and very pretty, with dark hair and eyes and 4 vivacious manner. While her mother, Mra, Josephine Hawley, ts trying to have the girl's marriage annulled in Connecticut and Bass's parents are seeking the same result for their son in the courts of New Jersey-he Is a student at Stevens Institute in Hoboken—young Bass 1s said to be still deeply in love with his wife, Mrs, Bass was a telephone op- erator in Stamford at the time she met Base I've separated from the married two weeks ago,” said ‘Tyson “Our marriage waa only a splice, I did it to spite M Bass, whom I really and truly love.” “Are you going to marry Mrs. Hass when you both get your freedom he was asked “It's a Uitte bit early to talk ubout marriage,” was the wiry reply. “1 just made a mistake and don't want to another, [haven't wade up my hind about marriage, but you never can tell what 4 young Tyson will do.” Tyson said ho had not heard from his third wife since she started back to New York. He said he had no girl I spite knowledge of the whereabouts of Mrs. |! Bass. Mrs. Hawley, her mother, said, not long after the reporter left Tyson, that she believed her daughter was at the Tyson place, the Hawleys L at No, 488 Main Street, Stamford, I'm sure I dou't know Just how it ts all coming out,” said Mra, Hawley, “Mr. Baas and Mr, Tyson both iove my daughter, She has known Mr, Tyson longer than she has known her husk I know for « fact that r. people would welcome! as & member of the! “What was the quarrel between your daughter and Tyson that! Prompted him to marry Miss Extner for spite?” Mra, Hawley was asked, | y daughter wanted John to stop ldrinking and he said he wouldn't.” Mrs, ‘Tyson ix said to have returned to No. 287 Leaington Avenue, but to have gone away be a ngain without leave Delegates Declare 200,000 in United — "| resulted in WEATHER—<ieudy, Prevedle Chomere. Sd one 70 UNON CHEFS LAY PLANS. FOR STRIKE 10 AID TRY 10 EVADE CONT Hebrew Trades and 12,000 I. W. W. Members Are Ready to Quit as Soon as Word Is Given. TORPEDO CAUSES RIOT Labor union representatives to the number of about seventy met at the Continental Hotel this afternoon to discuss the idea of calling a Bie. eral sympathetic strike in aid pf the striking street car ¢ lay plans for bringing about sich an. ition, a Many of the labor men’ $aid as ti ere going into executive see sion that there is no doubt about a general sympathetic strike which shall g9 into all industries in the Greater City within a week. ‘The term “sympathetic strike” was scdulously avoided by the men, They have in mind calling togéther as soon as possible all the of unions in the city and all the shop chairmen. A shop chairman is representative of the union in any shop. = —_——_____________» TWO HURT AS ARIZONA DROPS 19,560-LB. WEIGHT If the project goes through these shop foremen are to notify their em- ployers to-morrow morning that the employees cannot consistently ride on street cars and trains manned by non union men ond that street ear, “Lt Accident In’ Test of — Battles! ship's Davils Also Sinks a Lighter work satisfactory to the employeds Jand if such w not furnished sald employees will consider themselves relieved of the obligation to work un- der existing contracts, SENTIMENT FOR STRIKE 18 NOT STRONG, The sentiment for a general etrike 4a not any too strong in teh various , unions, especially in the unions of skilled mechanics, It may be late this evening before the meeting: comes to any decision, The street car union managers want {to call out the longshoremen, teamaters, | tachinists, engineers, firemen and | Workers #0 the new subways without delay Some of these tradem Wott event that an agreement Is reachéd al | to-day's seasion of the leadermysi walk out at noon to-morrow, wenera) strike embracing all ix not probable before the middie ef next week, say the leaders. ‘The business agents of the building trades unions in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn have declared themselves iu favor of a sympathetic strike, but the matter must be put up to the local unions and some of the The slipping of « cable this morn Ing in a weight tex! of the forward | port davits on the battleship Arizona, lying at Pier No. 6 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, injured John K, Rihn of No, 246 Sixty-first Street, Brooklyn, and Michael Hickey of No, 17 Nelson Street, Brooklyn, and partly sank the \ghter Shrapnel lylug alongside. The weight, an oblu mans of steel weighing 19,560 pounds, was bei holsted from the lighter by a cha and cable operated by pulleys. The cable made a slip through one of the pulleys on the Arizona's deck, the slack catching and throwing thé two men, severely cutting and bruising them and breaking Hickey's right leg. The weight crashed through thi deck of the Shra, making splin ters of deck, stanchions and ade. Ribn and Hickey were taken to the naval hospital, The lighter was then holsted into the drydock. ‘This is the (iret accident to the Arizona. ————— WOMEN ALONE CAN STOP RISING COST OF FOOD Housewives Called Upon to} detegetes cannot report before neat Prevent Men Gambling in Tuesday, The United Hebrew Necessaries of Life. Trades, 200,000 strong, are said by their officers to be in favor of @ sym- pathetic strik “All we want,” sald Morrie Fein- stone, Assistant Secretary of the United Hebrew Trades, at No, 3)” East Broadway, this afternoon, “ts. notice from the American 4 of Labor to walk out. If wo get notice we will go out In a body.”* F A man who sald he was Bob F was in Mr. Fvinstene’s offies: ; Pelters declared be spoke with au- thority when he sald that 12,000 mem» bers of the I. W. W, will wall out on sympathetic strike as secon as the word Is given, LEADING LABOR MEN AT THE CONFERENCE, ‘The leading labor men who met Ory wanizer Fitzgerald, his assistants counsel, James T. Holland and” Frayne of the State Federation; nest Bohm, secretary of the TR Federated Union, and se Seat and the Labor Conference at the © {ur-| nental this afternoon were: the i RAR Cloeni i © Sand esis Charles C. Shay, James 4 CHICAGO, Sept Housewives of Chicago were called upon to-day to attend & mass meeting at which or- tion will be perfected to fight a in the prices of foodstuffs, The announcement that bread ts to be advanced from 6 to 6 cents @ lost the call, Miss Florence King, President of the Women's As- sociation of Commerce, under whose auspices the meeting ls to be held, urged that housewives boycott deale or refuse to purchase supplies which have been advanced in price. "Men are interested tn buying and welling for @ profit, It is therefore y to expect them to take any ac- the call reads. “Women must increases 1 $10 MEN’S FALL SUITS, $5.95, The “HUB" Clothing Corner, Broad- vay, cor, Barclay St,. opp. Woolworth ite to-day and Saturday I, Suits "and “Overcoata. ane Nill eel 1,000 Men's Fi | Fine blac wnd dark i 1. Gur ap turda, by maak ul way, corner Barclay AT MADISON SQUARE