The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1917, Page 1

LANE EDITION ————_—_— PRICE ONE See S: (The ‘New: Che | “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ 1917, by The Press Publishing York World), escued as _ WEBTIGHTENS AROUND SUITOR OF SLAIN MODEL AS POLICE DIVERT SUSPICION TO MANIAC = une SSUES OF FINANCE ~AND PROHBITION son-Stained Shirt. Governor's i tease Local Option Vote to Include Cities. GIRL FOUGHT Fifty Men and Woman a of Tragedy Victim Sub- jected to Grilling. (Special From a Staff Correspondent | of The Evening World. PHILADELPHIA, ence unearthed this afternoon by the} Getectives hunting the murderer of Grate Roberts, the pretty stocking | © @ba corset mode) whose battered body | was found fn her apartments here last Saturday night, ‘rime still to young rounder who has been under spurveillance at a local hotel here since ‘Sunday. This man, who comes from a sr town where his family is of gre en Jan, 3+ Evi- Williams, The Eve- By Samuel M, (Staff Corr ALBANY, problems ¢ Jab, ES Bl > paramount State affairs confronted brought the ri the new Legislature at its first meot- closer wealthy ing to-day. One. that of finance, 1s as old as tho Stato Itself; the other, prohibition, is (he new issue for New | York. Both wero set forth in me ges and documents laid before the Prominence, admits having been one Legislature by Whit of Miss Roberts's most ardent ad- It has beer policy of the mirers. The statement made earlier ve sald, * ant to towns to-day by Captain of Deteotives Tate of the State tho to determine that this man had been eliminated! by the vote of ctorate the from the case appears to have been! question as to whether the sale of for the purpose of covering up the | intoxicat liquor all be permit- Movements of the police, This man) ted within their borders, In a fe atill being watched. |cordance with t polley I belleve * Phe most prominent clue found tn) that the same privilege should be ex- the woman's apartments was a crim-|t to the cities of the Btate. -gon-stained shirt of fine texture, It he Legislature must keep in mind, hed been saturated with perfume. | however, that any curtailment of the The police learned to-day that the | auc Mc involves a reduction of fan under espionage used perfume | revenues of t ate and that in fn coplous quantities. They are now |cvent of the reduction of the num- bending their efforts to discover if ber of licensed saloons proper pro- the perfume favored by the suspect is | vision must be made to meet such @f the ame brand as that discovered | reduction in revenues," on the shirt. | PROHIBITIONISTS DIVIDED INTO A detail of Capt. Tate's men TWO CAMPS. @ubbed the “Sniff Squad.” made a Prohibition advocates divided round of local drug this a two camps, The oncilabl fheon. They have le it is ed by Rev. O. R. Miller, demand @lared, that the man th » wateh- | solute protbition, The moderates, fng has had several al tions with|by William H. Anderson, head of t qwemen, Word has reached the po-|Antl-Saloon League, sock gradual | fice that on more than one occasion | extension of the dry territory until | the has beaten women so badly that| whole State shall be included. | | Gov Whitman proclaims his conver- | sion to th by Joining the mod- | crates’ and favoring creeping par jalysts of the Nquor traffic. This plan |contemplates giving mu they have spent long pericds in hos- tals. It is reported that in one tance he tried to throw a girl Into| @ tub of boiling water. Rene Harris, one of the women every paid to have been beaten by the sus-|ity In the State, including was taken to Police Head-|C'ly, e right to vote on @uarters this afternoon. J Any wa Histrict wi Ft ts understood the detectives ox. | can make itself a dry spot and pect to show that the man under |the saloon Buspicion is the one who left a taxl- he long, complicated disser @ab and entered the Wilton apart. submitted t ment Friday. the Legislature Detectives learned late this afte editions of the sam that Miss Roberts was « | Expense ased te as last Friday afternoon, It! jobs increased, debt increased, taxes heen believed that she was slain | increased time before noon on Friday, but| The summary compiled by th Je now definitely known she passed ws the foilowing jprost of Friday afternoon at a resort si wane (hanint “pear Broad and Poplar Streets, She had an appointment gman at the house in question a Game involved in a heated @ith the proprictress “over priations asked with db a ments, eighty n nended, sixt expected jount of commission due her on) ove arplus, fifty-six m ns, pr Bary event by her admirer for wine. | vided local oplion does nat cut down The police are n trying to find | liquor tax me, Deficit to t net Qut what time she returned to her, by direct State tax, nine millions tment in the Wilton apartment) FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF PURSE 86, 7! STRINGS. Just before these developments be ween Govert and Le tur cond Page.) ee eral an ’ HINQUIRY | | named jden |tive with instructions to rep BARUGH NAMED IN HOUSE IN TALK ON PEACE NOTE LEAK phd elias Bennet Heard Broker Sold 15,000 Shares of Steel Short in Rising Market. NOW LIKELY. | House Refers Probe Resolution to Committee for an rly Report. WASHINC Jan. 3.—F a bitter wrangle in the House to-day, the iTON owing in course of which Bernard New York jaruch, the broker, s one of t #© who had pro- nation on Presi- to the bi gerents, the resolution of Represent Wood of Indiana, calling for a committes of four to investigate the leged “leak” was held privileged an s referred to the Rules Committee rt in a few fited by Wilson's peace note advance in li- al w days. The reference to Mr made by Representative New York, who sald “The rumor is that Mr. Barney Baruch, a member of the Council of National Def 1s the Baruch Bennet was of se, Ww man who this information und that thir- sident's le public he eold market—in steel, shares of Steel rumor New was ¢ on a ris' way—15,000 That th is the common York City [President Wilson's en out to the lock on the evening of D 11 o'clock that day Secretary nsing told the newspaper corre- spond at thelr regular morn- ing talk that he would have an important statement to make at 3 the afternoon note was 8 newspapers giv nts o'clock 4 [This statement was carried on the news ticker between 2 and 8 o'clock in the afternoon, In the last hour of the market there was 1 heavy drive on steel and its net the day ay Wall Street ler or not th was four fF is In doubt as ints was a real leak, or whether some of the spec- ulators played a “hunch.” M K is astray in his “thirty- minute” statement.] When the House met Representative Wood of Indiana demanded immediate {eration of bis resolution for an ivestigating committee to probe the charges made by Thomas W. Lawson that some Wall Street speculators ! 1 through advance information n the note Deba ne question viles which the Wood 1 have to be ¢ Jer ' in the Hou liately, Re ins supported 1, and Dem York, rted Chairman He t ne n ¢, in opposing peaking f ee , 1 Mr Ww 1 de ared th, 1 a ' Mr Henry in refusing Lawson a ring as “an uttemy Kd 86 In nm ireh respor Th im i At one 4 \ ( ner (Mass jumy ) und said If tw 1 ne 1 bet and ash was unde \ Va Yi fil Clark pounded bis gavel for ordes, * was) NEW ‘yoRK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 3, Fire Sweeps Studio [Circulation Rooks Open to All.” | Books Open 1 917. PETROVA SAVED AT FIRE WITH 35 OTHER FILM FOLK: MOVE STUDIO IS DESTROYED EW PHOTOGRAPH OF GIRL MODEL, VICTIM IN MURDER MYSTERY Star Risks Life | Life to ‘Rescue $15,000 Coat and $12,000 String of Rubies. | TWO SLIGHTLY INJURED. Actors and Actresses Descend Through Flames by Special Steel Stairway. A fireproof stairway, specially pro- vided just such saved Olga for an emergency, Petrova and other stars jof the Popular Plays and Players | Film Company from a fire this after- The studio of tho concern at $0 West Thirty-ffth Street ight fire and was destroyed In an noon, Nos, 2 |amazingly short time, Two em- ployees were slightly Injured. Mme, Petrova, Mahlon Hamilton | and Windham Standing, the princl- pals In a film which was being made in the studio on the third floor, and thirty-five others—actors, dir camera men and general employe 1 the special stairway a Hteral wall of fire. | dose | through The studio was formerly a church, |On the second floor was the film storage room and the film cutting room, in the latter of which the films were arran, for projection in the theatre, Tho fire started in the .lm |cutting room, supposedly from spon- taneous combustion, There !s nothing more combustible |than a picture film, Roll |upon roll in the storage and cutting rooms Caught fire in a flash, As the |alarm was given, Mine, Petrova, Hamilton and Mr, Standing were ing a big scene in the moving | the actors who were not in the group) were standing about out of range of the camera, The screams below and the sound plosions followed by the of flames warned the actors of the fire director shouted orders that all tart for the special stairway at once the floor of sharp ex of girls on roar and everybody did—except Mme Petrova, In her dreasing room, right off the studio, she had street clothing, maid, a leopard skin coat valued ¢ stored, besides her in the custody of her at $15,000 and a string of pigeon blood rubles worth $12,000, The maid kept right on, but Mme Petrova dashed into dressir room and rescued leopard t A her pige lood |The director and umera man waited for her at 1 of t However, Mine, I 4 did not in all her bel i ra dash to the dre nm, When fire was 0 1 1 to have s and ne wh tore " hey f wrlous film t \ f or $1 kin t, $2.50 Ki i fi kins, ea v ' Vermine stole May 8 ‘ nue and I 1 wi One Hund ! f film cutt \ ‘ Vs Paged - (For Racing Entries See Page 2.) Mr.) production ana} tatesman Si | ( earn Them Fr I \' the c 1 bow " y Bud \ t 1A f nt f A Pwo Veutrats tines of ‘ et Kershaw, 8. G >» GRACE ROBERTS: wison HAS THE TERMS, ‘| SAYS COUNT ANDRASSY - Mils Give SWANN SCORES ~ FORMER AIDE IN NEW BROADSIDE: Declares* Lucian S. ridge Took Money From Em- ployers for Influence. DEFIES HIM TO DENY IT. Accused Says He Never Had Manufacturers as Clients While in Office. District Attorney Swann addressed & challenge to-day to Lucian 8. Breckinridge, formerly a special An- sistant District Attorney in charge the twenty-seven labor leaders, the application for dismiasal of indict- ments for whom brought on the quar- and former Judge James A, Dele- hanty, reporters in typewritten form, as fol- lows: “LT charge you, Lucian 8. ridge, of Kentuoky, with having re- celved money in the name of a fee from a committee of employers when you were a Special Assistant District ‘Attorney under me, to induce you to use your spectal efforts against the | striking employees of the employ: assoclation represented by the com- mitt “[ charge that this money was ar- ranged for through the efforts of a well known ‘collector’ graft money for two policemen, | friends of yours whom you have used in your private practi for the manufacture fight tho labor unions. “Deny this, Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky, and I shall ask the Grand Jury to decide between us, “You used the prestige of your po association to know you boast of your family nam cruel act in publicly accusing a pub- lic officer, without notice and with- out a hearing in the courts of public | opinion, for your own sordid ends and who covets |to aid your confederate |his place. Sparta has more worthy sons than I, but they are not, Mr. | Delehanty, representing profes Jonal bondsman for wiretapper nfidenco men, and the foremost, ggest gambling house proprietor in York " y Breckinridge of tucky, Kentuckian so. re FOUR MORE VESSELS SUNK. |’. ey ed his m he will attempt * 1 way in Breathitt County, Kens tucky, where the enemy may be shot was ick or on the State Capitol, rd. | where } ay be n the State m] House window “You say [retained you an ig y! Less tr tability , und nmon decency would have n 1 paid y View y will d " n Mudslin 10 Per 1 It ' « outage on Second age.) 16 PAGES” Breckin-| of the prosecution of the cases of rel betweer District Attorney Swann Mr, Swann handed the challenge to Brecktn- | ‘o-between’ | of as a lawyer | but you have done an unjust and a | To: y’e Weather—RAIN, CLEARING TO-NIGHT, orld, FIN to All.’’ Lopee ATTACKS GERMAN AMBASSADOR; BLOCKS ENDORSEMENT OF PEACE MOVE TER FIGHT IN SENATE ON NOTE 10 BELLIGERENTS: REPUBLICANS ATTACK IT Senator Lodge Declares Resolution Endorsing President Wilson’s Move Projects Congress Into the Field of European Politics, and Forces Postponement of Vote. ACTION OF THE PRESIDENT DEFENDED BY DEMOCRATS WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—For the fourth time the Senate refused this afternoon to vote on the Hitchcock résolution indorsing President Wilson's note to the belligerent countries of Europe. Following a stormy session, the Senate, by unanimous consent, post- | poned action until to-morrow. * Senator Gallinger immediately tn- troduced a substitute for the Hitch-~ cock resolution, which read as fol- “RUSSIAN LOSS 1,000,000 IN FOUR GREAT DRIVES erResoived, that the denatd. of the United States, in the inter- ests of humanity and clvilization, express the sincere hope that 6 between the warring na- tions of Europe may be consume mated at an early dat Berlin Estimates of of Sacrifice of Men in Massed Attacks During the Past Year | BERLIN (via Sayville wireless). During the debate Senator Lodge Jan. 3—-One million men have been) attacked German Ambassador Count sacrified by Russia n four great! Bernstorff for giving out a newe- unsuccessful year just passed, s during the according to a re-| paper statement the note. publicly approving view Issued by tho Press Bureaw “It is hardly to be wondered at, to-day. Despite these losses, the with such a statement that Central Powers’ lines still are ua-| from the German Amb plerced said Senator Lodg i] de-} cam. | The review covered detailed scription of all the Russian paigns of 1916, winding up with the should be general misinterpret tion of the note, a general belief that it was d sition of Special Assistant District) | succemsful but violent Russian at-| as to help Germany in attaining Attorney under me to advance the it > eae ae enact tNe tacks designed to relleva pressure) & peace. uzon the terms she dev J cause of your p ray the labor |#Salnat the Rour anians, | manufacturers, againat ‘ wil | — —_———— 1 realize there may be two opin- grein ns rveetteret Mr. FRENCH BATTLESHIP ons in the Senate as to the Presi- x stn i fan aly, sane Ty | dent's suggestions,” said Hitchcock in reckinridge of men tuc Ws calling up his resolution, not be “but I can- eve there can be any real ob- jection to indorsing the action itself, VERITE TORPEDOED Report From Milan State fhe nations are at present far apart. 7 is slep by the President ds the firat Vessel, Heavily Damag ! to be made to bring them nearer. Lying Near Port of Malta “President Wilson has not gone so far as did Roosevelt during the Jap- | BERLIN, Jan. 3 (via Sayville).—Tor-|anese-Russian war, He has not asked | ng of the French battleship Ver-|the warring nations to stop the war. 1 German submarine near Mal-|1¢ Roosevelt's steps were justified, ta iy reported } © Zucricher Post./how much more are President Wil- | The newspay the V ‘45 son's efforts when the very existence |vheavily damax 1 is now of neutral nations {# becoming diff. ehgeatt ove Pe 4. SENATOR BORAH ASKS WHAT aux tn 190 ne of GOOD IT WOULD Do. * f so ; } 1 What ¢ J can come ¢ asked te Se Borah “What wi ace te ' plished by the Senate thdorsing i raat . . tion of the President? Indorse- forpedo tuk t , ‘ t by the Senate will not hurry the ‘ ies of the warring nations to the _ Teo t overtures,” It would be an expression by the WILSON NAMES HARDING scsi "sut tel", et negotiations for AS CANAL ZONE GOVERNOR". nue and that peace be about replied Senator Neves ‘is Watts J Ad Smith, “4 allure to pass the reso- tion woul 1 to me to Indicate ite ( lof N 1 Cok ack nterest \ et 1 The Presider ’ ator urn unmae eae ; \ rejoined, “distinotly states that a I ; i not a proposal of © or an ; : . : f mediation, but ply a re- , | duest f ns Answers are on the n An answer already has been : : ude by Germany, and every one hy Pei wn idea about what that means. H Nudge | P# Hies’ replies are on the way, and } r 8} what ca Senate do to accelerate 1 1 Mono. matter by passing this resolu. Supvemy Court of Hawall, Senator Hitchcock replied that