The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1916, Page 1

—_ @e 8 SS eas. Sinaiive Veen Vote of 29 Local Unions Needed to Declare General Walk-Out. WHITMAN APPEALED TO. Governor Opposed to Special Session, but Promises to Con- fer With Service Board. Readers of the unions in the bulld- | ing trades denied to-day that the action of peveral of the un! ing sympethetic strike resolutions on the table at meetings held last night moast that these unions are not in | fewer of @ aympathetio strike. They inelst that it ts unfair to assume frem the actlons of « few that the! uatens as @ body will not enter into @ etrike agreement. While individual union members aad some unions are agaings @ gen- eral otrike there appeare to be « Giepecttion on the part of a few men who are im control to force a strike im the Dufiding trades. However, the ways of union leadere and bust- ness agents are mysterious and they appear to bave rules which can be ewitohed to meet any emergency. WHITMAN OPPOSED TO SPECIAL & committee of nine members of the Legislature, headed by Senator J. J. Dunigan, catled on Gov. Whitman at the St. Regis this afternoon with the proposition that he try to bring! whout @ settloment of the strike and, failing tn that. call @ especial session) of the Legislature to enact a compul- sory arbitration law to apply to pud- Me utilities corporations and their of the situation. He would commit himself, however, on the aubject of trying personally to settle the strike er calling the Legisiature tate special session, contenting him- eelf with saying he would take up the attyation with the Public Service Cmmmission at the earliest oppor- tunity, It te known that the Gov- erner does not favor a special ecasion. | Ross Tompkins, Secretary of the| United States Board of Business Agents of Manhattan, sald, after « meeting of the board held at Bre- voort Hall to-day, that the follow- ing resolution had been adopted: “Resolved, That the United Board of Business Agents of Manhattan !s im favor of a general sympathetic strike to assist the carmen and that all affiliations wil! be go notified.” “This does not absolutely bind the wuilding trades of Manhattan to « wenere! strike,” explained Mr. Tomp (Continued on Second Puge.) —————_——- Cash to Pay Troops Heme From the Border BEACON, N. ¥., 26.--A draft for $17.17) was re A to-day > Major Frederick Cringer, Quater master at Camp Whitman, con) tl jel Quartormaste the. Unit States Ar te the Third fentry. No OG. after serving gaid that the thetr homies af ~_ 100,000,000 War ly Subscribed, ont Canndi Sept wee fons are. stt!] pos a of the county: aw we: rangements for fu rial credits in. Canada, and Finance Minister White pine Canadian Bankers’ as AL EDITION = PRioE ONE CENT. ae a ne en ee tee TWO OF 36 TRADES NS VOTE TO Che [* Cire alation a Books Open to ka Open to All.” | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, Capevon oe - LEADERS TRYING TO FORGE . STRIKE IN BUILDING TRADES; WORKERS OPPOSE A TEP. | GREEN MOTORMAN CAUSES _— WRECK ON ViADUGT SEABURY_S Surtace Cars Crash on 155th Street President’ Will Speak and Four Passengers | are Hurt. | Daliag Pope of No. 4 Fulton Street.) Brooklyn, @ etrikebreaking motorman on the Jerome Avenue Line, attempt- | ed to stop his car by applying the brakes on the Qne Hundred and Fifty-ffth Street viaduct above Bighth Avenue to-day, without ehut- ting off the power. As a result his car rammed @ One Hundred and Fifty-Afth street crosstown car ahead of him. The front of the Jerome Avenue car | was battered in and t! paasengers in it roughly thrown about. Thomas Ewell of No. 2537 Decatur Avenur was cut across the face and stunned; Miss Margaret Campbell of No. 2240, Grand Avenue, 8. A. Dixon of No. 1910 Davidson Avenue and Joha C. Brady of No. 1858 Cedar Avenue suffered minor {njuries. Both cars were crowded and the screams of the passengers caused @ Great crowd to guther on the via- @uct, disarranging rush hour tramMe, ———. WILSON IN PRINCETON CASTS PRIMARY BALLOT, to Home Town and Makes Brief Stay. PRINCBTON, N. J., Sept. 26.— President Wilson came to his home here to-day to vote in the New Jer- sey Democratic primaries. He mo- tored over from Shadow Lawn, ar- riving bere at 11.30 o'clock and rv- mained only jong enough to cast his ballot. Leaving Mre. Wilson in hie auto-' mobile on & street corner, the Pree- ident walked @ biook to the old fire engine house where he has voted for several years. warmly wits the officials Lge ie severe! old friends he met outside. | “Woodrow Wilson, number 14," said the ¢icction clerk as the President ped hig bailot in the boa. dent remained fn the booth ouly tw minutes. He voted for Democratic candidates for Governer, United States Senator, Congress and local of- H. Otto W ie candidate for Go dent is tinderstood to. ha neral Wescott 28 BURY PARK, N President Wilson re Lawn this afternoo’ as motor trip from Princeton. He, planned to play golf during the r mainder of the day. AMERICAN SEIZED BY GERMANS RELEASED Polak, Who Was Taken From Steamship, Freed After Appeal to U.S. Consul at London. | LONDON. Tsador Polak an A rien tigen, wh w re moved by the Germans fr the Patch mall steansiip Prins 1 when the vessel was iken int brugee inst w bs been released, according to a telegrom from Aister- dan) to-day to Robert PL skinner, American Consul General here. Mr. Skinner w uested ta oo ey this informat ) Mra, Pot w i N an ¢ u , f taining the release of her hust wealthy diamond cutter of New York te. tthe New twice MURPHY TO HAVE. BLACKMANL VICTIM FREEHAND TORUN REVEALS IDENTITY ras CAMPAIGN IN CITY TO PUNISH GANG, Fammuany Recognized as Both P. Parties Make New York State Pivotal Battlefield. WILSON. Here Soon—Hughes Starts in State on Thursday. New York City and State battle and both con have fixed on the | the centre of the Pres! Both from now on. teen will be tal political candidates of managers npire State ae the point of national victory. President Wileon will come here soon to make a E.R. West of Big Coffee Firm, Tells How He Was Held Up for $15,000 in the Ansonia. BUTLER Pl ADS GUILTY. Mleged Head of the Swindlers ls Sentenced Here to 18 Months in Prison. CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Announcing that he had concluded to “accept per- sonal humiliation” to save other men and women from being drawn into the blackmailers’ trap, Edward R. West, Vice President of the C. D. Gregg Tea and Coffee Company of New ‘epeech to help the Democratic cause, | Tork and Chicago, admitted to-day Nominally {t will be a non-partisan | that Be is the “A. M, Wesley” who address to some business organization not congected with politics, Secretary Tumulty came to town to-day from | the summer Waite House to discuss this and other gubsects with the cam. | paign managers, Judge Seabury, Democratic candi- | date for Governor, went to Shadow Lawn this afternoon to remain over! night National [mick goes to lear of the practical Pited t: the Cha’ as nan n the | resul two can da 0 New York. dent's guest and Vance MecCor- to-morrow morning of the conference . so that the was surprised in a New York hotel, with “Ailce Willams” by representa. Uves of the band of Mann Act black- mailers recently exposed by Federal offic The bdlackmailers after bringing! West and the woman to Chicago/ talked the man cut of $15.000 in re- turn for a promise to keep quiet. “The woman with me was not Alice | Williams, but Buda Godman, a mem-! ber of the gang,” West said This woman ts under surveillance ia a Chicago hotel pending the cutcome of the preliminar; bearing >f Jobn T. French, George Irwin and “Doc" Brady on charges of blackmailing There was much satisfaction at| West. French, who has used “Jack” Democratic headquarters among the| and “Homer” as allases, is wait to be President With Mrs. Wilson Motors| campaign managers over announce-| the eon of a wealthy St. Louis widow | |ment that “the New York attuation| Who believed him to be engaged in the Inad been worked out with utmost baberdashery business. harmony and co-operation.” The ar-| rangement gives to Charles F. Mur- phy, trol over the city can py pies to give him all assista Tammany leader, complete con- paten, backed iso of thie National Committee | York and went to the An required, | with no Interference or dictation, In | carried Murph: official corded. Tammany will devote tteelf solely Tor up-State New ngement of co-operation aay the city o York an has be State chairmen, the co erences, on through which were} intermediaries, y made no demands for re-| wards or offices, The only recogni-| |tlon sought was of Tammany as the; 1 Democratic organisation of New York City, and this bas been ac- mpalen. ar en made betwee ial national and upported by a per- “The language and manners of this band would deceive any one,” West said, “The woman proposed the trip ‘to me. On May 9 we reached New) onia Hotel. BECOMES BRIDE T0- DAY AT QUIET WEDDING IN CHRIST CHURCH een Miss Views, 6NVETTE NEWSPAPER MAN MARRIES. Mites V1 . Vetter to Bride of George Bac Fife Te-Day. Vetter, daughter of Mr. Vetter of No, 235 West, to be married to newspaper and and Mrs. C Sevonty-fl-st Georg Buchanan magazine writer, any years man- aging editor of Harpers’ Weekly, and ow of the staff of The Evening World, in the ¢ 1 of Christ Chureh, Broad- Way and Seventy-{irst Street, late thie afternoon. The Rev. Lewis B, Whitte- | more will offictate. Lieut. F. W. McKee, U. 8. N., and! Mrs. McKee, for whom Mr. Fife and/ Miss Vetter were best man and brides- maid at their wedding Iast June, will! ct as best man and matron of hon Tho only others present except the bride's pavents are to be her brother- | nelaw and sister, Mr. and Mrs, ML) aY an uncanny hour three men armed | Mars) | with Federal warrants and badges) |torced their way tnto my room, Buda Goodman became hysterical. She said she was a convent bred girl) and that her parents would commit, | muicide over the disgrace. She asked | Bim what she would do to save her- | self from disgrace and then the ques- | tion of money was adroitly broached. “Before I knew it we were in two staterooms racing back to Chicago We were kept prisoner three or four ya, and then because the woman had been crying all the time and ap- pealed to my chivalry to save her sonal. between 1 paid them $12,500 cash, Sever: io Sal gy al \ gaya after Irwin, who represented ork done by either side In the State yingeig as United States Cominia a ld pei Pagid Apstias sioner Foote, released | They ob ‘The Notional Committee has ar- Ai % ‘ ranged to have all Ite literature ang ‘ined $2,800 gro me advertising circulated in the State divided half Wiison and half Seabury. The meet with e MKS Nad spe ach on hes are to deal Saud al term: HEDLEY'S HOME GUARDED AFTER TWO BOMB THREATS ‘serge ton ars oto Three Policemen on Duty Day and Night at Interborough Thre J. Manager's Request. «policemen from ot been at bus in Yon ght tay ' Avenue, Van Cortlandt Ative cf Mr. Hodley » Headquarters, Yonk- Chis? Daniel | had received two tening a tom the Mr. Hedle Yoakers place * cage agking for — WEST IS A WIicOWER, BUT WOMAN POSED AS WIFE AT ANSONIA HOTEL Friends and ness associates of of jearned with surprise to-day linet, eS and the mysterious “A. M Weasley,” victim of the gang of black- | mailers recently rounded up, are one Minze. and the same man. Harry W manager of Weat's New York No. 7% Front Street, has wired to (at instructions concern ing Weat’s ditticult Mr, Minge said that West ts forty elght years old and bevaine a widewe a year ago. Me has a (hirteen-vear old daughter, He sald West and his friends Dad mentioned a “Buda Goodman" and referred to her as @ “elever girl.” At the Apaonta Hotel Frank W Harriman, the leseo and manager, said be bad known West and his wits for several years, When in New York upie always stopped at the An Mr. Harri (Continued vo Second Page) ————— VILLA SAID TO BE HEADING . TOWARD U. $. TROO Report Received at Field Headquar- ters in Mexico From Source Said to Be Reliable. FIELD HEADQUARTERS, MEX- ICO, So (via radio to Columbus, | N. M).—Villa and his bandit com- mand are n ing northward toward the American expeditionary force according to reports recetved to-day sl) Headquarters from @ @ource ed reliable, Villa is Northwestern reported to have crossed Ratiroad at San sty-five miles southwest 4 City after a skirmish between his men and Carranga s tw nt Chihua there Ville Was Not Preeent at Ralé on c i WASHINGTON apt afl. dential official advices, it was an- nunced to-day at the State Depart- show that Villa was not present the Hidalgo Day fighting at vahua City; tat no arma or inition were captured by the and that there were no de. m during amr its ertions from the Carranza garrison ry Lansing said the de. yore out statementa by Eliseo Ner jo Mexican Ambassador dest ing the affair The source nt's Information waa \isclosed, but Mr. Lansing sald he le and authentic regarded it un re sppemeencoss \pwe C. % Holidaye for Jewteh Peop! WASHINGTON, t 26--All Jows n said he bud go | fo tmental branch throughout the en leaves of ansence ays, Rosh Ha-shane Some of Audience in | Hughes faced two audicnces here to- ‘nim repeatediy, another in the open | air at @ large automobile plant, com- | | posea of workmen off for the noon | ® f “Circulation Rooka Open to an | 1916, HUGHES IS HECKLED AS HE ADDRESSES BIG OHIO MEETING “What About the Danbury Hatters?” Is a Query Hurled at Him From the Crowd. FOR UNIONS, HE SAYS. Toledo’ Theatre Cheer for Wilson and Some Hiss Hughes, TOLEDO, 0., Sept. 26.—Charies PE Gay, one at a theatre which cheered hour. A number of the latter sought to heckle the nominee and cheered Mr, Hughes spoke on the Adamson Lew in his open air gpeech. He ro- iterated bis declaration that he would nover “surrender to force,” and re- peated his assertion that the measure | was not an eight-hour law, out « wage law. The audience Matened quietly at first and cheered pointe made by the nominee. “What about the Danbury hattera?” shouted a man on the edge of the crowd, ‘There were many atreet noise from passing traffic, and apparently Mr | | Hughes did not hear. Towant the en: a) ‘of his speech other workmen took up the question. | “What about the Danbury hatters?” shouted many. | There was much other noise and voices, Mr, Hughes did not answer. After the meeting he sald he had not heard the question, “How about the unions in the f tory here?" shouted another man, Mr Hughes replied that he favored| nions and was cheered. | As the nominee neared the end of his address there was # growing) | volume of Wilson cheers sprinkled | here and there with uncomplimentary references to Mr. Hughes. He continued, however, with a emile on his face and frequent applause, to discuss the Adamson Law, declaring that labor, least of all, could afford to) surrender the principle of legislation | only after investigation. ‘The path of proper preparedness, | the path of maintenance, justly and firmly, of American rights la not the path that leads to war,” he sald, “It io the path of security. The pathway of peace Is to announce rights in advances and have the world understand exactly what we think and what we prepared to do.” ——-- | THE DANBURY HAT CASE ON WHICH HUGHES VOTED AGAINST THE UNIONS Juatice Hughes was a member of the United States Supreme Court which decided the Danbury hat case on June 4 1915. The opinion was written by Justice Holmes and unant- mously concurred In by all members of the court The court struck In Tuly held that the men 1902, must pay $: ho famages for their boycott on D, we & Co, 4 Latmaking frm. ree the dawege Judgment prog erty of the individind strikers wis threatened with attachinent. Pitty the men bad died during the iviga- tion, leaving the burden to fail on the 186 survivors, A erable part of the money has been raised hy Hpectal casesamuenta and appeals by labor unio anceniinn RACING RESULTS ON PAGE 2 ENTRIES ON SPORTING PAGE 14 PAGES ‘COMBLES FALLS INTO HANDS OF BRITISH; BERLIN ADMITS BIG GAINS BY ALLIES Amertean ° HAG REPORTS HEAN STRI Te Gere Weether—# ain _ Ey HEAVY LOSS BY DEFENDERS OF COMBLES; FIERCE BATTLES IN SHES German War Office Says Success of ~ the Allies Must Be Recognized— French Capture Village of Fregi- court in Desperate Fighting. 2,300 GERMAN PRISONERS TAKEN BY THE ALLIES LONDON, Sept. 26—Combles, key point of the whole German [battle tine fron Baupaume to Peronne, has been captured by the British | after eighteen hours of most furious battling north of the Somme, dg Fighting-was still going on in soma places in the streets of Contes |when Gen. Haig's report was filed. The French also swept forward j village, a little more than a mile northeast of Combles, and later se pulsing German attacks against the positions won yesterday. They ‘reacned the outskirts of Combles as SEVEN ZEPPELINS MAKE SECOND RAID WITHIN 48 HOURS gins EES Attack British Industrial Cen- tres, but London Says They Were Driven Away. LONDON, Sept. Thirty-six per> | sons were Killed and twenty-seven In- Jured in laat night's Zeppelin raid on England, the second within forty-eight! hours, Viecount French, commander | of the Home Forces, reported to-day. A number of small houses were wrecked or damaged, but the raiders | were driven away from industrial| centers, No damage was doue to fac tories or militury establishments. Seven Zeppelins took part in the raid. The eouth, east and northeast counties and north midlands were at- tacked, principally industrial centres in the latter region, Ant-atreraft guns played upon the | aiders with considerable effect, da- spite the fact that none was brought town. The loss of the two Ze ppelins ip Baturday night's rald dit ny ter the Germans from risking more airahips In bombing attacks, but some British weronautic eaperts believe sinailer <dlirigivios, instead of the argo super-Zeppelina, wh offer splendid targets, will visit’ England on future raids Tt ts now established that the two airships brought down on Sunday | were the nav ppelina L-83 and 43, poth of very recent construction | ‘One of the Zeppelins brought down Saturday night was fired upon by an aviator, the flyer duplicating the feat Mf Lieut. Robinson, who brought down a Zeppelin three weeks before The destruction of the other was dur to British Kuntire and lone of Kas FRENCH § SHOOT ‘Dow N 9 GERMAN MACHIN. IN 47 AIR BATTLES PARIS, Sepr 24 battles in the air y Somme front The War Office a Hy ¥ thet je Geman aeroplanes we | shot down, | the official statement tssued by the again last night, carrying Pregicourt British were entering the town, Following ts the text ef to-dag’s British War Office report: “Further progress hes bem mado during the night and this morning. A strong redoubt which had held out between Les Boouts and Guoudecourt now hag been captured and the garrison made prisoners. “Our troope entered Combies from the west and are overcom- ing the eneomy’s resistance. There he enemy's losses were very se- vere. “More than 1,800 prisoners, taken in the fighting of the last twenty-four hours, have already been counted, and a large amount of war material has been cap- tured.” A despatch from Puris nays the French captured 800 prisoners Tho British v'ctory, achieved after three weeks of desperate driving Qguinet the German centre, te the moet striking single achievement ef the whole Somme offensive It re moves one of the last two obstacles to ap Anglo-French thrust to equeese the Germans out of Peronne, one ef the two objectives of the great Allied advance. _—— SUCCESS OF ALLIES MUST BE RECOGNIZED, SAYS BERLIN REPORT BPRLIN. Sept 26 (by wireless to Soyville).-Successes were achieved by Anglo-French forces on the Somme last night to the east of Bau ourt L'Abbaye, north of Fleurs, says jerman army headquarters to-day Following ts the text of the Beritn er Office statement “Army group of Crown Prince Rupprecht Bavaria; Anglo- French infantry yesterday, which was the fourth day of the artil- lery bombardme: launched * unif ack between the Arcee Rrook River omime. } mmmenced at turing the night ' Ancora and Rau ‘ \ lie thrust el by our fire or broke ow lily befor lines saes were obtained by the nemy to of Faucourt L’ Abbaye conquest of the th of Gueude- villages on Mur mes must be rec. efore all we must t of our troops who facod the, united Anglo-French princtpal forces und the massed employmemt of material of the x Pats 4 Ses ors 2. / | cusiphdeme aaa ant aneinaiahenaae