The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1916, Page 1

i alll BIG G UN READY AS LINER L AIL EDITION ; PRICE ONE CENT. | 1016, by (The New Copyright, Co, The Press Publishing York World), NEW YOR K, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, GREEK GOVERNMEN AI 2 ee eer ow 1916. T SPLIT BY ALLI | Circulation Books Open to All.’ | 14 PAGES WEATHER—Rain probably to-night and te-morrew. LAVE EDITION PRICE, E CENT. ON REBELS OF CRETE ARE RECOGNIZED | = French Ship, Warned by Wire- less, Steamed Far Out of Usual Course. SAW NO SUBMARINES. Caruso, Gatti-Casazza, Mun- sey and Miss Anne Morgan Among Passengers. When the great French liner La- fayette reached Quarantine to-day not one of her 326 passengers, many noted Americans among them, knew that the ship's officers had been notl- fied before she sailed from Bordeaux * Sunday a week ago that the U-53 had called at Newport. Nor did they have any hint of the word which reached the ship by wireless the next day that five ships had been sunk by the submarine raider off Nantucket The news ci » them with a shock and they fairly fought for newspapers telling of the peril they ‘had escay All had been made more or less nervous by the uncer tainty, because of the unusual con- duct of the Lafayette's officers, that something out of the ordinary had happened. All last night and the night before the Lafayette followed her course without a light showing. Approaching Nantucket Shoals Ight, wher the j@ubmarine was active a week ago, the ship sheered off abruptly and steamed far to the south and then as sharply resumed her regular course, SHIP'S OFFICERS SIGHTED NO SUBMARINES. Some of the passengers sald she “sigzagged past Nantucket.” But the officers insisted the precautionary de- tour could not fairly be so described. @ submarine. From the beginning of the voyaxe all boats were slung out on the davits; the seventy-six millimetre gun on tne ‘efter deck was always ready for ac- Jeon and all obstructions to its being { gighted over either rail and to the gtarn were cleared away. Of all the passengers, Enrico Caruso, he tenor, was furthest from depres- gion. All in blue, from spats to over- cost and cap, and wearing an up- fumed Prussianized mustache, for gbich he demanded the approval and admiration of the friends who greeted bim at the pier, he fairly overflowed @ith high spirts. He held a largo gathering with an operatic recital of his experiences as a poultry fancier ‘at his place near Florence, the Villa Bellos Guardo. of the hen and the clarion of the rooster “For three months they wake me at 6 o'clock in the morning, so (re- peating the barnyard motives), All day long for three months they keep it up. And on tho first morning of the fourth month I can stand {t no longer. I leap fro my bed. I seize my automatic pistol. I throw open the window wide. The rooster he is just singing, so, Hut he is most frightfully interrupt, thus: ‘pfut, pfut, pfut, pfut.' Again and again I reloud, and re is a great silence and all my chickens are dead —and some of my neighbor's, too.” soon t CARUSO TO TOUR SOUTH AMERICA, Signor Caruso is to tour South America after the Metropolitan sea gon, and his contract cails for nearly 250,000 honorarium, Director Gatti- po STER nourishin Bt. Ny aa . Phone 800} They saw nothing which looked like) He trilled the cackle | LAFAYETTE DODGED U BOATS WITH GUN READY FOR ACTION; HAD MANY NOTABLES ABOARD | ONE ACTOR KLS ANOTHER IN LGHT. AND ENDS OWN LF Shooting in Theatrical Board- ing House Causes Excite- ment in Times Square. Frank and | killed Stephen Clifford, also an actor, in Kerns, an actor, shot 4 room in the theatrical boarding house No, 281 West Forty-third | Street this mitte afternoon and then eom- suicide by shooting himself through the head. Cilfford Uved at Bayside, L. 1 He died in an ambulance on t) way to Polyclinic Hospital. Kerns lived in rooming how Ciifford ted frequently and both were on | friendly terms with Tessie Hanuner, {an actress, who had a ro in the building, Miss Hammer's photograph was found In Kern's room, but she convine ‘J » Ditseh, who in vestiga dy, that she was t to blame in The house In whieh the murder and Isuicide occurred is just west of Broadway and Times Square. The sound of the shots and the arrival of an ambulance and many policemen Jattracted a crowd that tled up the whole neighborhood in a few minutes and led to the calling out of the re- serves of the West Forty-seventh| Street Police Station. | Charles Whalen, who has # next to that occup! < four shots at 2.30 o'clock and ran into the hall in time 6 Clifford stagger from the the doorway of Clif- ford's apartment and fall to floor, | Clifford pointed to Kerns's room and sald: “He she@ me." Then 'Vhalen heard another shot He stepped to the door of Kerns's room and saw the actor on the floor, dead. In the mean time the alarm had been spread and # policeman ar- rived. In getting out of Kern's room after four bullets had entered his body, | Clifford hed to break the glass panel | of a door With his fists —— NAVAL BILL FOR 1917 MAY BE $330,000,000 This Will Include Construction of Four Battleships, Two Cruisers room and Other Craft. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, aval appropriations are likely to break records again at the coming session | of Congress, The House Naval Committee, fore- | | seeing a vast amount of work ahead will meet Nov. 20 to begin consider ation of the naval bill, In naval circles it was predicted the appro priations, unle it navy members slau the b wil mount to § 000 uF more against $413,000, “t ye This will mean an appropriation t¢ four battleships and two cru n jaddition to many submarines and | destroyers. RACING RESULTS ON PAGE 2, ENTRIES ON SPORTING PAGE. ROFRANO ACCUSED OF GRIME BY PAL,’ WITNESS ASSERTS “IT Could Send Mike to Chair, but | Won't,” Statement Laid to Carnivale. ‘GUN TOTER’ ON STAND. Accused Politician’s Accuses Gaimari’s Slayer of ur Murders Now, James Serafino, who is serving @ Sing Sing sentence for burglary in the third degres, was the State's wit- ness to-day in the trial of Michael A Rofrano, former Deputy Street Clean- Come ing sioner, for inspiring the murder of Michael Gaimari in March last year Serafino described himself as Roceo Carnivale’s gun Agun toter, in the under-the-bridge language, ts the himself the totor, man who takes on responsibility of being punished under | the Sullivan law for carrying a weapon for his employer except at the exact moment the employer takes the weapon to use tt rafino sald that recently he met Carnivale in the yard at Sing Sing pr serving a sentence of from twenty years to life for complicity In the Galmari murder and Carnivale sald to him wy down know New York and ind and send Mike of course, 1 could ont gO go witness st to the electric chair, But I'm not gaq- ing to do it." 8 fino told of being In the com- pany of Rofrano, Carnivale and Fen- nimore at times when Joseph La le, & previous witness, described them as being together and plotting the death of Gatmari, Serafino said that once Carnivalle, standing with himself and Rofrano, pointed out Montemagno, of Galmart, confessed assassin Home Rule Club, the the suid: “Th re Wop ktd is going to do ‘The Horse’ for Joseph La Salle, murderer of Jim w ler examination By reading his testimony given at former trials, Mr. Littleton tried to make the witness take back hig statement that on tho night when Mitchel was elected Mayor he had overheard Carnivale promise Rofrano that “The Horse," as they called Gatmarl, would be put out of the way and saw a “big black gun” displayed as the weapon which was to 8 still ) court opene be used. LaSalle denied ever having told Carnivale at Dannemora Prison that a Rofrano had been that Lu Salle was to get a of sentence fe testifying frano, He dented (Continued on Second Page,) HELD AS GIRL’S SLAYERS. Ac Co erg tovl. » committed to th it bail on charges of omicide Giuseppe Matteleone of No. Monroe Street and Vincenzo Ste- Lawyer) $ Rofrano W. K. Vanderbilt Sr. Returns On Liner That Dodged U-Boats ODEO OHOT444 $99OO00E000-0 ¢ 3 Pe 3 SOCVETH OTOH pF-F-F-SSGSSPVOOSIG2-2 28> SC-ECOESRSES 26-0: HINDENBURG RECALLS 2 000 TROOPS 10 MAKE BIG GUNS os = Force to Be Added to 70,000 an tron wall defensiv he west, she plana to bring Eng . t Men Already at the Krupp land between the Jaws of Hinden rats burg's military vise and pinch her Works. ‘until she makes peace. Industries throughout the entire By Carl W. Ackerman, Rhine and Ruhr valleys, where shells ESSEN, Germany, Oct. 16 (United) roll out weekly by the milliona, are Press).—Twenty thousand new work-| Preparing the army for the inal ere this week will join the force of | Mtretch. A vialt to the great gun re Se : Plants bore gives one an !mpreasion of 70,000 already emplc the gigantic plans Germany ts mak- 1 at the great Krupp gun works tn the gigantic task ing of turning out shells and guns for the| Essen now feels so secure against German armies. possible air raids that the antl-aircrat: » have been removed, Defense of The addition of this force is one elty Was found to be unnecessary | step in the course Germany's renewod aiine the emoke-rising from # hun | efforts to win the war is taking under 1 t sand chimneys night and the direction of Field Marshal vonjday forms a thick coud over the en Hindenburg, new Chief of Staff, Many| tire 1 skilled being recalled /4t jim from the front to ald In speeding up| ting the production of war supplies and! and barracks are being built here to house| cities them | From conversations with Krupp di- and Ruhr past ble ine Valleys making for aeroplanes to dis- between Duisberg, Muelhelm Sssen, though miles separate tho In the latest allied air raid children w killed and the knocked off one house near workmen are | three root “Carnegie of Germany,” dustrial leaders, thre and other tn-| were not touched. facts b came krowing lke mush- $§ Monroe Street apparent regarding the German cam- : 4 of thelr tremendous They are accused of belng implicated | paign since Hindenburg assumed lead- may be gathered froin the fact in the de of Tie Brown | ership in one store yard a million shells UEAr SN OE NE pies Bs i mea First--Germany a to main- | are kept always on hand basemen 184 Monroe Street sev- tain her supremacy tn the artillery | In one building 1,100 men were rity Por | branch of warfare by increasing | working on big guns alone an Mett ind Stephano kept a fruit) the supply of guns. other building smaller june re pind ne vot where the child Becond—By renewed sut being drilled, In still another thirty _ | efforts she plans to stos weven-ton ple furmor plate were Ne May Cheapen the High Coat of} band going to England from } being baked, rolled, pressed and - neinnati, who is employed in| S@Munition shipments from > n Dayton munitions fact was in| America to England and to stop RED TRAVEL BURRAD, Washington to-day int on mee Canadian transports from carry- Je, Pulltage (Wy cet) tain, Secretary of War Baker with t ing troops to Europe ee ee i datlaan eile Abt anni Third—Ry an offensive agatst — which he claime h perfected, Russia and Roumania, while malas tobe hae, { rectors, with August Thyssen, the| Hssen, but the Krupp catablishmenta! MEETING TOEND BAYONNE STRIKE - BREAKS UPINROM Oil Workers Drive Police Judge Who Courselled Peace From Platform. DISORDER KEPT DOW Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram Barred Out of Strike Zone by the New Jersey Police. —_—_ The hope that the striking em- ployees and the officials of the Stand- ard Oj] Company at Bayonne would settle their differences to-day came to an abrupt end when 1,600 strikers, assembled in Mydosh Hall, strenu- ously voiced thelr disapproval of a plan to end the atrike set forth by former Police Judge Hyman Lazurus, acting as the representative of Mayor Garvin. Tho strikers, crying that they did not Intend to be sold out, drove Judes Larurus from the platform and cheered atatementa made by thelr leadora that the strike would go on until their demands had beon granted. While there has been no resumption of the violence that marked the strike last week, the Police Department, augmented by several hundred volun- teers, has not relaxed Its vigilange. The strikers left the meeting In an angry mood and the atrong police guard about the hall ts believed to be the only thing that prevented another outbreak. Judge Lazurus, after pointing out to the strikers that they would gain nothing by the violent methods they had been pursuing, sald the time had come to settle the strike, In this} connection he suggested that a com- mitteo consisting of one man from each of the six departments, assisted by| James H. Dougherty, counsel for the strikers, and himself be appointed to confer with Supt, Hennessey and other | | officials of the Standard Oll Company | When Judge Lazurus followed with | the suggestion that this committes be |iven fall power to end the strike t strikers rose ay one man and shouted | their objections to the plan. | | Many of the atrike reminded | | | Judge Lazurua of the fact that, as {editor of a Bayonne newspaper, he has been printing large advertise- | ments atating tho Standard O11 Com- pany's side of the dispute, George N. Melcher was chairman | of the meeting. He criticized Judge | Lazarus for suggesting the plan, — | | rom now on, men,” Meloher de- | clared, “we will run our affuirs with- | out outside interference, We will not| be sold out by any one, Uniess they agree to better our working condi. | tiona the Bayonne poorhoune is to be @ popular place Mro. J, Sergeant Cram of New York reached Bayonne to-day in her motor car, She wld she wanted to help the | | strikers, When ehe announced her | Intention of distributing 200 copies of |a New York Socialist paper among | |the strikera the police selzed the | papers and told her to Ko home, Lhore js a chance the strike may be |settied by arbitration, the Standard} |ON officials to-day having notitled J H. Dougherty, counsel for the men, that they would be wil discuss the matters at is with a committee of the strikers. Mr. Do erty sald he would try to bring lwuch a meeting during the we also sald the strikers ure at w a plan to combine all the oil w In the surrounding district in ganiaation winter." by Japan 8. Granta, WASHINGTON, The Chine Embassy to-day officially confirmed Pe kin orts that the J Rus-| ‘sian Governments have proteste nat the railway and canal rights 8 sions to the American International Cor ation of New York and the Slems- Carey Company of St. Peul, Mina, GREEK KING 10 LOSE THRONE IF ENTENTE WINS THE WAR; ALLIES GAIN ON THE SOMME + London and Paris Both Report Im- portant Successes in France, but Berlin Asserts That Ground Lost Was Regained by Counter Attacks FOCH’S TROOPS CLOSE TO ROAD TO BAPAUME LONDON, Oct. 16.—The Entente allies have formally recognized the Provisional Government of Greece in the island of Crete, set up ty former Premier Venizelos, The Entente Consuls at Canea, the capital of Crete, have been Ine structed to act together in this matter, An official statement issued here to-day says it is only in Crete that the question of official recognition has yet arisen, Official circles in London have received no word in regard to recog: nition of the new Cabinet at Athens by the Entente. Recognition by the allies of the Venizelos Government means that {n all probability King Constantine will lose his throne {f the Entente powers win the great war. HEAVY LOSSES BY GERMANS Attempts to Recapture Schwaben Redoubt Failed, Says Gen. Haig in a Report to London War Office. IONDON, Oct. 16.—The Germans last night made a heavy attack on the newly won positions of the British in the vicinity of Schwaben redoubt, WOULD CUT OUT ‘AMENS’ THAT ARE NOT NECESSARY Committee on Hymnal of Protestant iscopal Convention Would Also Eliminate Two Hundred Hymns. ST. LOUIS, ¢ 1i.—Revision of the church hymnal, entalling the elim- the Somme front, nounced to-day that the Germans repulsed with heavy loss owing is the text of the British War Office statement “Heavy shelling com. tinued at intervals during the night on our front south of the Ancre, A small hostile bombing attack on our trenches north of Courcelette was driven back with= out difficulty, “At Schwaben redoupt a more important enemy attack, delivers ed after heavy artillery prepare~ tion and assisted by Flammen- The War Office on hostile ination of “Am at the conclusion} werfer (liquid flame thrower), alae of all hymns save those of direct} was repulsed with heavy loss to prayer or praise, was recommended] the enemy to the annual ition the | “During the cht the enemy's Protestant Pplacopal Church lay | trenches were successfully entered in the report of the Commission on by us northeast of Ypros, soutle Hyannal | Blot and cast of Ploeg- The report recommends the elimi A number of tae enemy nation of 1 un 200 hyn at Killed and prisoners ware mar 1 the addition ¢ t i by American Authors Oct, 16.—The French con- \Jso If recommended that in| tinued thelf attacks on the Somme hymns the word “Jesus” be substi-|front last night, ‘They penetrated tuted for the old form, “Jesu,” |German positions at Sallly-Saillisel > Jand Saillisek, the War Office an- Thanksgiving Day Wil Be Last Day | nounced to-day of November, | They also occupied houses on the SHADOW LAWN, Lé BRANCH N. J, Oct, 16.—Thankagiving Day hei edge of the road to Bapaume, The be proclaimed as the last Thursday in} @ermans made a violent counter-ate November 1 will fall on the last |tack, and the fighting is stil ta ay of the mont | progress. Following ts the text of the French Votloe Sermen War Office report Pik North of the Somme yesters ; . day evening we penetrated the A diaosd Village of Ballly-Saillisel and oe- cupied houses « the Bapaume wh nded ad as us the central crosas mont vit ads, The enemy took very vioe r iced he ke an) dent counter action, Fighting —_ continues, Three tnehes of Snow in Michigan, “South of the Somme we re- M ‘ ALUME'T bree] pulsat a German attack at St, Eloi Wood, southeast of Belloys en-Santerre, 1 Phe regt of the front was come w fell h copper region during the night A strong wind gaye Calu- @ bilazurd, e and iy thi ES; }