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nb ed AVL EDITION — PRICE = ONE CENT. Poriins Scores G. O. P. Coterie The | “ Circulation Books Open to i y “Circulation Books Open to All.’ NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1917. Some of the Statesmen and Bankers Named in the for Defeat of Hughes 16 PAGES WEATHER—Fairy continued cold, : | EZ£DITION == —= PRICE ONE CENT. SP. TOMULTY OBERT MANSING ® conaonor HARRIS AND BWING Yon BERNSTORFF. @ GAreerky Provo se MORGAN IS SUMMONED T0 “LEAK” ARCHIBON, OWHITE, Peace Inq uiry ey Sate JP. MORGAN Ne | eed FRANKAVANDERLIP, 1:P.DAVISON PERKINS AND COLBY ASSAIL CLIQUE OF GO. P. LEADERS SRA SAFE SHY $14,000 JIMMY VALENTINE. [WAX NOT “OLIVER.” OSBORNE THEM, | SAYS RAE TANZER Mysterious Burglar Robs Ber- ner & Co, Offices by Mani- pulating Combination. FOR THE DEFEAT OF HUGHES —_>— Moose Chieftains Threaten “ADMIRAL DEWEY New Split Over Control | of Pa Affairs. CALL WILLCOX VICTIM.| ’ Behind—All Thefts in borer | Financial Zone. tf j » siltee wed Executive Committee Accused aie ee, A Jimmy Valentine in real life is of Trying to Give “Ol modi EC, > pebet ot operating in the financial district. Guard” Full Powers Petes ' ' yy{ Three daring and skilful robberies — Condition “Decidedly Worse,”’| ..4 attriputea to him within two While aspects mimittor Re and Naval Hero May Not. | months. The last, which was re-| met 1 Teague ae | publieans mot in iz Survive Through Day. ported Jast night in the office of the| Plub to-day at the inv , paris Net, Bas | Stock Exchange brokerage firm of tional Chairman William Be WHeOXT WasHInGTON, Jan, 16.—Admiral| Charles W. Berner & Co, No. 115| to provide some mea ft Dewey's condition at 8 o'clock this| Broadway, netted him $12,000 in! the Progressives. tt morning was suld’by his doctors to be! cash and $2,000 worth of jewelry. manently welco ship bugptarat dole stinet! * and it was feared! On Nov. 19 the brokerage office of Republican Georg Ve * he would not lve through the day.| w, Sheldon & Co, at No. 71) and Everett Colby, erstwh Pr 1 wite and other members of bis! Broadway, was entered and the safe sive leade red a family were at his bedside, where) was robbed of $1,123. The thief en- against the confere they had been throughout the night. terea th the door and opened Mr. Perkins ¢ ed \ e| Dr. A. M. Fauntleroy issued this with the combination, No mbers ¢ ublican Hx bulletis } s been piel \ pelle ieee ae Admiral Dewey has slowly deciined| trace of him has been picked up. Mtive Committers, adopting t and ly morning.| On New Year's Day a thief entered Methods, engineered the presont rinning to becom® the office of the Union Commercial ference with 1 p rature (by axilla) 102: tenrence Company in the Woolworth which sought to belittle Chairmar thon 32, His breath: pujging and pried open many draw Willcox, cast upon him th of ling is more labored and his kidneys era and desks, but did not obtain the defeat of Charles EK. Hughes and | depressed. Swallowing ts very dith- | uch loot \Arive away P sives W were ef cult and bis general condition is dis- | The Berner offices are on the third @ mind to return to the Republican | tinetly worse.” floor of the United States Realty| fold. | Another statement Issued by Dr. aunaing. This structure iw protected | Mr. Perkins and Mr. Colby signeds Fuuntlerey at noon said: by a night watch patrol system which the statement. In it they called upon) “The Admiral is slightly worse than| ye eee. oor, ‘There Is a scrub- the entire fr wn Com: lat the time the first statement Was!) oman on the third floor every week mittee to meet in th r future and ued to-day from 1: o'clock until 5 o'clock circumvent the ain emen who % Admiral’s wife, who has been morning. met he ter i dosday ath \Imost constantly since aries Doetget, cashier of the Ber- Tho statement’ was baged on the /hiy iness became serious, 1s suid to| sc arm, locked the safe and the office merronve. Cemmilteo's, Achon : ney ‘pse as a result of her) qoor at 5 oclock last night and went ee ene # viee chet ny i | eee viel lhome. When he got to the office to- designating Washingion as its per-| ‘The President and Mrs. Wilson to-|a0\ the door and the safe were manent headquart fi vac- | day sent @ large bunch of White! socked. Opening the safe, he discov. | fancy in the I bia, and | House conservatory flowers to the | cad that two drawers and a strong| eppointin « of three | Admiral’s residence, and the President! +°Y nag been pried open. Of the mias- | to pass on all matte publicity, sent a request that he be given hourly |i°" Coan 9,000 belonged to the firm| flanance and expense, later naming | bulletins on his condition, and ‘$3,000 formed a reserve fund tor | (teelf as a committee to select “such the employees, who used it in specu- progressive-republic according POPE GONGRATULATES lane meres ene See a cane | | rhe thief did not leave a finger- $2 have associated with it as a cam: | WILSON ON PEACE MOVE print or @ scratch to indicate how he eye tcicea* auld tea aes | Jentered the office or opened the safe. | TEED sad aaah ee ae eae ees The supposition is that he used a ment, “wer bbe .. 5 fae Pontifffs Message Conveyed | key ne in spote of t act that Mr ‘ ’ Pie Lore 9 Eten Ramuutingh Male Chas Through the Spanish Ambassa- | An old-fashioned gold watch, two iy naar 1 taken word to r at Washinctor sapphire rings, a diamond ring and a Baap oF ons ee onan at Washington. diamond brooch constitute the stolen me, Homenw Af h WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Congratu- | jewelry. | group ins ie pen ¥ r lations from Pope Benediet XV. on] ee re action, that if the nplated 4 ; u the recent peace move of the Ameri ‘ Sake, we wou nave noth [th el rae “PAUL MORTON'S BROTHER eee on Wh SHE) & : "| President Wilson to-day by Juan | ’ powerless campaign committ A Mi {ane, the Spanish Ambassador, The “The clection of a Viee Chair a ea it A ent no suggestions for future ees was accon after four mem of the commitice Most Hert of Miss Margaret Grey Becomes Bride x n » was conveyed through a Kentucky, Howell of vska, Wi pat Amba even of Millionaire President of sons of New «and Chairman Will t ry, becaus Sal a Salt Company cox—had } n MOL ion e ba pany by there «& refer s ' 3 Paanrtira | CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Joy Morton tion of a um the Na ¢ Ne Hak alameda re multi-millionaire president of @ salt tional Comin toult d voted 5 W pence n company, and Miss Margaret Grey aswo, hea ha would do nothing |former nurse and companion to Mr. TWO-FOLD PURPOSE CHARGED !1F tie presen oe Morton's tirst wife, who died eighteen > COMMITTEE months ago, were married here to- ee Tes Vice charnan LITERACY TEST IS ADOPTED, |?" Rene Be : ‘ Mr. Mor 1s a brother of th late Paul Morton, Secretary of the Navy 1) wa in President Roosevelt's first Cabinet A toed and later presideut of the Equitabl Immigration bill, incorporating the | Life Assurance Society netomen ment? | on by | —_ | her Is to the United State | THERE'S NO DOPE | T > Incluar we literacy test in Father John's Medicine-—tor colds and | wh Tithe President to veto the coughs and as & body building tonic, i cau bill once. It will be effective May 1, -Advt, Lawyer’s Accuser Again De- clares on Stand He Was Her Hotel Companion. THIRD ROBBERY OF KIND|CALLS WAX A “CLOWN.” Not Even a Finger Mark Left] Never Saw Him Until Recently —Mrs. Osborne Aids Her Husband’s Alibi, Rae Tanzer denied on the witness stand to-day at the Safford perjury trial that Charles W. Wax was the “Olver Osborne” who was her com- panion in the Kensington Inn Plainfield, N. J. on Oct. 18, 1914. She man was lawyer, subsequently breach of the the asserted James again that W. Osborne, against whom — she brought suit for $50,000 fe promise Wax was made to stand up in the courtroom and the girl declared that been in the eo) pany 3 W she had never “of that clown.” “TE Osborne, insisted, 1 million times over. twas Jd you ask me In opening his case Benjamin 8! attorney for Safford, id in p We will offer evidence that Jame W. Osborne was the man who ruined Rae Tanger Also that, for uv s of saving bis own hide, he sucee 1 1 which would and the legal a conditl ing in the eyes of pub: him: financial position lic, save his and Before Miss Tanzer was questioned Mr, Slade objected to the presence of Charles W. Wax, who says he is liver Osborne,” in the court-reor but Judge Learned Hand overruled him, Your Honor, Wax will hear what Miss Tanzer testifies and then get in the stand and be in position to attack her on her own facts,’ Mr. Sia ex. plained, but the Court was obdurate RAE TANZER ON STAND TELLS OF MEETING “OLIVER.” After the usual preliminaries about her employment and address, Miss | in| 74TH N.Y. COMMANDER WHO DIED SUDDENLY AT TEXAS BORDER Pe NB: THORSTON: COL, THURSTON DIES SUDDENLY INTEXAS WITH REGIMENT New York Officer Stricken With Apoplexy Soon After He Joked at Dinner, | Special to The Rvening Worlt.) | MeALLIEN, Tex., Jan, 16.-Col, Na+ thaniel Blunt Thurston, commanding ‘eventy-fourth New York Infan- Buffalo and for try of erly Deputy York, last night of apo- Police Commissioner of New lied at 1 o'clock plex) in the Twelfth New York Thurston was in the best and spirits. With a dozen f the Seventy-fourth’s officers he was the guest at dinner of Lieut, Col orge H. White, also of the Seventy- rth, but now attached the fth New York Infantry dinner Col. ‘Thurston stood Last night mess Col of health to HEARING -+-—____. LAWSON, ANGRY, CHARGES THAT EITHER HE OR HENRY HAS COMMITTED PERIURY eS el Says He Got Information From the Congressman That Von Bernstorff Had Made $2,000,000 Out of Ad- vance Information on Peace Note.. WOMAN LETTER WRITER MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS Nelson S$. Spencer, President of the! WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—J. P. Morgan, J. S. Bache, Frank A. {City Club, Friday, Jan, 26, was fixed) Vanderlip, Arthu Jipper and C. S. . nei % lam the time when there would be a Dr t Lipper and Wexler were ordered to be sub hearing and when Mr. Swann may | Poenaed to-day by the House Rules Committee investigating the alleged WHITMAN TOHEAR CHARGES AGAINST SWANN JAN. 26 Governor Sends Notice to Dis- trict Attorney of City Club’s Accusations. OFFER A DEFENSE. | More Witnesses Taken Before! Grand Jury in the “Stolen Papers” Case. Gov. Whitman took offictal cogniz- ance of the charges of fraud and mis- use of his office preferred against District Attorney Edward A. Swann to-day by acknowledging the receipt} | joffer his defense. | “leak” to Wall Street of the President's peace note. The following is the text of the is j ; : IGovernor’a notice to Mr. Swann: Congressman Harrison, who made the motion, said he wanted the "You are hereby notified that! bankers to be called in order to get “some useful information.” Mrs, Visconti, the woman whose letter involves Secretary Tumulty charges have n preferred against you and that your removal from the office of District Attorney of the). rice " » + . and Correspondent Price, has evaded all effo: ) I Celts dep aNaWaTOne Theron ShRR d Corresponde ice ed all efforts to tind her to testify |beon asked by the City Club of New | before the committee. York, which charges are signed by —*? Thomas W. Lawson early in the pros | 3. Spe t« | Nelson S. Spencer, as president of the ceedings to-day directly charged that SlUB mnA duly vest bet: By Bias WARBURG SAYS LAWSON J) 01... geniat of « hairman Henry of th “A copy of such charges in hereby WILL BEINALUNATIC Yh joc con : e served upon you | nmi made either Mr, ASYLUM | “thereby fix Friday, tho 26th day TWO YEARS |} tony ot himseit “a rank perjurer.” of eniiary cat noon, ax the date an LAN) PPS Os Lawson was referring to Chairman lor before which your answer to sate yo ng | Henry's statement th Tho on" 9 an ine # state hat he (Hen |charges shall be filed with me, and |{ Thomas W. Lawson “will be an in (Henry), mate of an asylum within twof| had not mentioned the name of a |you are further notified that on said 26th day or | day or days as may be appointed by years,” according to Paul M. War- ure, Thomas W. Lawsca mentioned yesterday at the House la, |} Cabinet member in connection with of January, or on such whom | the stock operations in Wall Street as ™ you will be afforded an oppor 4@ result of the alleged “leak.” jtunity of being heard in your || @k probe : dbtanna.s “Tam profoundly convinced of [| Asked to tell what he told publish- Mr. Spencer embodied in his charges ie man's insanity," Werbura ers following the conference with | those previously Informally made by |} “4 Tey rth re was to take 1) Henry, at which, Lawson claims, former Judge Delehanty accusing Mr,|{ ‘0 Stand this afternoon |Henry named @ Cabinet member, “In a streak of insani rt . wildly ation to rKes. This Swann of fraud upon the Court of | General Sessions in that he had rec-| ommended the dismissal of twenty elght labor leaders for inciting east| side disorders without having investt. | gated the cases in tho manner in| | | Lawson said: | “I asked them whether I should go further with the case or drop it,” said | Lawson. “And I gave them a minute | reproduction of everything that hap- dashing on from one another, Lawson ma He ts obviously unt is my only explanation.’ » his oh lanced : 4 {with his back to the roaring fire and Tanzer said that on Oct. 17, 1914, she | * ua —-- - -—— = ened when 1 He: ” amiled at “a man who had followed {tll stories in his inimitable way for} which the court had been led to be- | bi Another porte) ry Bie mornii subway station at Columbus Circle, |* “Butt” in New York while running! The City Club charges added al told him “Count von Bi eft a 10, 01" phe went on, “and when 4 | Hitt: Col White to pay @ call in the| the powers of his office in an attempt | aden |that he made over $3,000 pots saved’ binv chat uit manne he aula CIE ‘An hour Jeter he ¢ nmplalned | to intimidate former peclal Amsist- || awson Doesn't Believe 1 Made} “Well, 'm willing to admit Lawson. ash : K evling ill, and went back to hisjant District Attorney Lu 8.| Nt Oliver Osborne 5 | < 10.00 ithe old Mr. Cosgrave of The 8 y nd he took me home ae yess a by Lieut. Col. White jwitness cited by former Judge Dele. | He Says @ alleged conversation, even though to our apartment in Aldus atrect,| Sor Walter I. Montgomery, aur- | nants | WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Cou said it was in confidence,” fh ORE BEAM Ime itt wouldn't | So", of the Soventy-fourth, was) Swann apparently intends to make| yon fHernatorft, the German Am Ilenry interrupted, b like to dine with h and £ wala 1| culled, and advised Col, Thurston to} use of the alloged “stolen papers” | ieseador, refused to-day to dignity p then recounted meeting would, #0 I got dressed and met him to bed. In a few minutes he spoke | matter In combatting the Delehanty-| tne chargea of Thomas W. Lawson | John O'Hara Cosgrave, editor of Tha ST aRERIRGa, AA eer rigger n s chest and sat up on| City Club charges, and in prosecuting eth aia s denial. The Ambassa- | Sunday World; Herman J, Ridgeway, cl Roca Hae ; | le of his bed n, without a) Mr. Breckinridge, who, the District | i ak Bis ee Donald 3m The next time I met Oliver was ; vag | Attorney alleges, bought the papers) sytp, Lawaon says he doesn’t believe | Ponald, Boston financtal writer, and the next Sunday, in the morning. He! .‘ nody goee to New| two years after they had been 'eN) 1 made the $2,900,000 of whiob telling them the alleged conversation eaeatad that wa. trip to. | York to-day, escorted to the station| by a burglar from the safe of tne _ AR Minis | with Henry : ® ed that we take a trip to officers In the New York| Garment Workers’ Union, kt ele abet il lhe aa her to New Haven, But it was | believe it ithe | Lawson said he and Henry agreed wether t w Hav a bed and his own regiment, whioh| The District Attorney tntimates mbassador Hernatorff declare 1 t id too far to go so L iggested a boat i} Amb ad f A red ) 4 statement to be given out by fr a0 ha: no of the best in the ser-|in the stolen papers case that he | “refuses to lake auch charge Us Henry after their conference, but thai tie Gom the. Battery vice, Major Montgomery w om-| could not p ite because or to believe the public would take| ieney presented only : | When we got down t we found |, Rnd a ake. oroeit found that chief evidence nem serious! Benry: 5 ated only his own aid@ ald’ mlauad’ dhe boat 10'Ollver aakad dict capers’ al tha “union = n he announced the statement, «© whether yon the Jersey Co bought by ney's Ref the Henry cc tral would be all right. T said 1} r forty years had been a| He hold a } . Hienenshr thought it would and k a 12.0) Stancil ia Nkw Koc Nalinnalll 6 Grand re P RT! | One or the other of us hes j train for Plainfele mem me . a") garding the st con committed perjury — deliberate, ) handed to |Guar tinued ay sxe dba: rank perjury. Wax wore he inted Col. Thurston | whone names ‘ ; ; ; M I It pd Col. ‘Thu whose in ' r your Chairman said these 1) Kirst Deputy Po Comm yner on| taken tn German Comma rin Chief Laid 1 ‘6 , oh f et 1 in Octob District-Att wan | , A 4 a rank perjurer, unfit to ju? ned. Hi Suaac ¢ H ! Up at Army 5 99 anywhere outside the bare of a ne : i? |aumo ye resignes ® tive, appeared at the D A With Se pr pointed Honorary Chief of ney’s offi » deay the stator Maye Leeann foie | ore you t Pha ire Dopartment t printed I yester-| | LONDON, Jan, 16,—Finld Marshal! oa easy that che core nueeeme train, what talk \ w Re pranae gets day. t BR Lie lckeereaat pate: (a cal moaea tee time wry that the comaal toe caine i (Goutinuse ont ) drilling firomer that “uasa etoile Ho aid | Herlln Bourse to he lald up at heads | ME MANOre UM j tN = survived by his wife, who! they were brou A Union rters WIth a severe oh Accord. ‘1 M No, 343 West N man, who so far as he kuow, had the Ing to an A rdam despateh to the Henry replied, aocording SOCONY KEROSENE, For todays advertieanent me Page 2.—Adrt, right to sell them, Exchange Telegraph Company, to Lawson, that he would be “with