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5 oa SCOPE FOR PEACE “LEAK” INQUIRY _PRIOE ONE CENT. AVL EDITION Te “Coprrienty 1917, by The Press Tubtishing (The New York Worl. LEW ‘YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1917. 16 “Circulation Books Open to Books Open to All.” | ibd To-Day’s Weather—FAIR; WARMER. AL ' EDITION Bhecdbotherded PRICE. “ONE CENT. _ GERMAN RAIDER ON ATLAN TIC INKS OR CAPTURES 23 SHIPS CONGRESS ‘LEA cemnlieinen Lawson Is Roundly Denounced on the Floor and Inquiry Is Called a Huge Farce. HEARING IS POSTPONED. Mrs. Visconti Subpoenaed, and She and Big Banking Men Will Testify To-Morrow. WASHINGTO?! 1%. -- The House of Representatives this after- moon by unanimous consent author- Jan. Swed the Peace Note “Leak Com-/ mittee to employ counsel and ac- countants and hold hearings “or “elsewhere.” ‘The elsewhere, it is believed here, ‘will be in Wall Street, New York. After a preliminary delay in the Representative Pou of the ‘Huse Rules Committee, asked unani- mous consent to extend the life of the committee thirty days. This re- quest was also granted. “I have heard suggested in connec- tion with the employment of a coun- nel,” said Representative Moore of Pennsylvania, “the namé of Samuel untermyer, but I suggest that Ch « Evans Hughes might be a good man for the committee to consider ‘This drew laughter from the Demo- cratic side and a ripple of applguse from the Republicans, In the inter- ruption a Democrat shouted, “who is het” Representative Garrett, Democrat, replying to questions, told the House thaht while there were differ ences of views within the Rules Com- | mittee, all its members agreed that they had not gone far enough to en- able it to make a report “as intelli- gent” and “of the character” that they believed the House expected. Representative Howard of Georgia opposed the employment of Unter- myer. “The services of Samuel Un- termyer will not be*satisfactory to ™me nor to ninety per cent. of my constituents,” Howard declared. Howard declared Thomas W. Law- son had virtually arranged with Un- termyer to conduct the hearings and he objected to permitting “the de- fendant's counsel to choose the wit- nesses.” He also characterized Law- #on's story as a “myth,” Representative Moore, gested Mr, Hugh who insisted sug: that Howard make some comment on his, proposal. “I have been taught by my mothe to speak respectfully of th: replied Howard amid laughter from both sides. Republican Leader Mann declared “Lam convinced that the employment of’ either Samuel Untermyer or Mr, | Hughes would be an act of such gross impropriety that it would not be con- dead roars of} sidered for a moment by the commit. | Mann | will! tee. I hope and believe,” Mr. added, “that the investigation show that no public places has been guilty of that which would be treason to the country and the people through the betrayal of a| trust.” Representative Caldwell New York called the investigation a fishing! excursion. “Samuel he aid, “for many years has been trying to get some legislative body to employ Untermyer," @ontinued on Second Page) 4 here | official in high | K COMMITTEE Rat TANZER LOST She Also Admits That She Was ; First to Smile at Initial Meeting. BRITISH FIRM GETS HOLDS TO HER STORY. GETS EXTENSION OF 30 DAYS; A ere MAY INVADE WALL STREET Declares Under Cross Examin- ation It Was James W, Os- borne Who Wooed Her. $3,141,000 SHELL ORDER FROM. 5. Daniels Announces _ Inability to Get American Concerns | to Reduce Bids. On the stand to-day at the Safford perjury trial Rae Tanger continued to insist that it was James W. Osborne, the lawyer, and not Charles W. Wax, the adventurer, who wooed her and (promised to marry her. She admit- ted that when she met the man who WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Had-] wes known to her “Oliver fields Limited, an English munition| Osborne" she was the first to smile. company, was awarded a contract to-| She also declared that she lost her day by Secretary Daniels for armor- | heart to him in ten minutes and that Piercing navy projectiles of the four-| within an hour or so she agreed to be |teen and sixteen inch types totalling |). wige, $3,141,000. The agreement calls for| 4,500 fourteen inch and 3,000 sixteen inch shells. later as Benjamin Slade, her counsel, asked the witness her inquiries to learn more of the identity of the Os-| about | tic opapant ten: ils mel | porn who had made her acquaint- manufacturers, principally the | ae, lehem Steel Company, Hadflelds far)" wavy cneyar I wanted to find out maateola th m. Su Suet Inch! who he she said, “he always api a a paired eaght ‘On| Said ‘Now don’t let's dispute, don't | let's quarrel, | fourteen-Inch Bee pene glee The girl, throughout her thstimony | $356, a the lowest American price} |r rred to “Oliver Osborne” as Jamea| was $500. Y 1 3 tary | W: Osborne and frequently in a some- | lr ANH uy bala asa ‘TY| what loud tone. She was so eager Poin sceevery effort to mecure ve_| With her answers that Judge Hana | had made every effort to sec * Sheinbibeis a |ductions in prices which would en-|%8¢ to caution her not to make re-} | i Fae tenet toan Amen, | Plies after she had been told not to} een but had failed to ob-| 2U8¥er | an satisfactory bide, ‘The small use| @ When did Mr. Osborne go to din. a vine peter AF by the British] 2" !n your home? A. James W. feet so far is the wat is supposed|OSborne came there in November, to afford opportunity for. Englisn|1l4. My sister Dora, my cousin Tillie makers to work on foreign contracts, | Oseher and a vere present, | Commenting recently on the shel] & Where did you sit? A, We all bids, Eugene C, Grace, President of the| S&t in the sitting room till dinner Bethlehem Stee! Company, anid time and then went into the dining “Tam unable to state the basis upon | 7°™ . Sain ie English bid was made. This} Here Mr. Slade introduced and had entified a pair of thick white cur- as for a specific shell, samples of | identi Did. waa Sof & F ; s. Miss Tanzer said they were which @ being sent over for test. Two years ago We took an order for|the ones which had hung on the 2,400 fourteen-inch armor-piercing|4ning room window. Mrs, Mildred Stiverstono, the sole new witness the | prosecution presented, testified sev- | eral days ago that she had looked from her apartment, across the air- shaft from the Tanzer flat, and had| Wax, whom she identified, at dinner there, Q. Were these dining room window borne was in A. Yes, L drew when we | shells at a contract price of $768,000. | ‘In placing the particular order tho Navy Department altered the angle | at which the tested shells must plerce armor plate, The proposition was new. The result has been absolute inability on our part, or of any other | manufacturers, to produ in any quantity, shells which will meet these novel tests. | The result 1s that up to now on | that contract of $768,000 we have put | ctual operating expense $447, d have been penalized for non- | y $495,7 tot f $945,625, with no recol ‘U.S, COWBOYS FIRED ON, | KILL SIX MEXICANS seen curtains over the when Mr, Os- | your apartment? | them across myself | went in to dinner so that no one could have seen in, @. How long did Mr. Osborne stay in your home? A. About two hours, | We went to a moving picture show afterward SAYS TWO VISITORS WANTED HER TO “SETTLE.” | | | | Q. Did you ever go to Mr. Os- | borne's office? A. Yes, several times, ; Americans Attacked Near Nogales} but 1 didn't find him there, I went | While Herding Back Cattle | tere in February, 1915, but he wasn't i in, “Rustled” Across Border, | Q. You recall a visit paid to you in | NOGALES, Aris, Jan. 17,-six| February, 1919, by Mr. Haskins and Mexicans were killed Sunday by two| Mr. Hawley? A. Yes, they came to | American cowboys thirty miles west, the place { worked on February’ 18. |of here when they were fired upon) Mr. Haskins showed me a badge and while herding back cattle “rustlea” | sald to me, “I'm from Police Head- by the Mexicans, according to re- quarters, Do you know Mr, Jamos ‘ports t) the Sheriff's office here W. Osborne?” 1 told him I did. He} A troop of Utah cavalry, stationed | made me very nervous. He showed | here, is on the way to the ranch of me a letter whieh didn’t: have | the Aravaca Land and Cattle Com. #tamp on i pany, on t American side of the The le uced before her by Mr, | border, owners ¢ cattle sla e witness identified as one i OF 08 Cayie rit é' For Racing Entries See Page 4, | (Continued on Second Page.) | pathy NEUTRAL SINGER DOVE OF PEACE IN SONGBIRDS’ ROW Court Appoints Amato to Take Daughter From Matzenauer to Fontana. DISCORD DUE TO WAR, Contralto Suing Italian for Di- vorce Opposed His Efforts to See Little Girl. Justice Cohalan decided this after- noon that Edward Ferrarri-Fontana, the celebrated tenor, who York on special leave of absence from in New the Italian army granted by the King, i to defend a divorce suit brought by his) wife, Mn Matzenauer, Metropolitan Opera House has a right to see his three-year-<ld daughter Adrian The Court issued an order ing that Mme, Matzeno liver two or three times a w the direct- wer shall de- daughter to the custody of Pasquale Amato, the baritone godfather of child, and that Amato is to take Httle one to her father and be re- | the sponsible for her safe return to her] was voted to send a popular commis- ston to ull the Entente countries, prob: ably in April, to ex) Japan's sym for the wounded and other war sufferers. A al w nade throughout the empire for in an effort to raise a4 large a fund as for be sbseriptions possible. > ash Found in atte k While walking t Battery Park shortly before 10 o'clock this morning William Lawrence, a E b ne foreman, suddenly came upon nex ploded three-inch He turned F to the police ¢ fic A at Bat P Beem oe Marana tot Caen bustibles Was notiled. contralte ote | the} MME. MATZENAUER, | WHO MUST LET HER | HUSBAND SEE CHILD| BRITISH ADMIT (12 VESSELS LOST IN SOUTHERN RAID) |Ten Sunk pe eee Two mae by German Raider, Ad- miralty Announces. 3 5 LONDON, Jan. 17.—The British Ad- miralty to-day announced the sinking of elght Britivh and two Frenvh mer- vhantmen in the South Atlantic by o German raider. ‘Two other veysels are announced as captured. The Admiralty anouncement waa made following the receipt of din-| patches from Buenos Ayres. It de- clared the Japanese steamship Hud- son Maru landed the masters and 237 men of the crews of the merchantmen ' | MME. MATZENAUER | @riomcin sTOBIe SEND AID; 'M TO BE SHOT, WIRES WOMAN IN MEXICO Is Prisoner at Chihuahua Charge of Being a Spy for Villa L PASO, Tex y on ig Following ts the official announce- ment: “For some time past it had been assumed that the following Brit- Jan, 17.--"For God's! smother. Jako send nid! I'm to be ish and French merchant ships It Ia the war in Europe that has| | es re rapeale ne eater | which had fong been overdue had made necessary a court order to en-| i/o. nore to-day from Mre, Hon. | een gunk by a German raider able Fontana to ace his child. Prior tie ert oa German eorear any] Bettish—-Drainatiat, Radnorshire, to the eruption of hostilities abrond | iit" Numer, & German woman Minieh, Netherby Hall, Mount Fontana and his temperamental wifo| 4 "ty eine a Ville ang : Temple, King George, Georgie, lived in peace, too, although she isan} Friends have appealed to the ¢ Voltaire, French — Nantes and Austrian and a most pronounced /man Consul at Kl Paso and have Asnleres. Definite information patriot i" gies Pei fia in Chihuahua City, has now been received from Per- When the war broke out Fontana! Bee an Abrsated Deg, nambuco confirming this assump- could not believe that the Central! tion, Powers were right, and his wife fre -| “WHO IS REPRESENTING US | “On the evening of Monday the quently announced that Italy was| | Japanese steamer Hudson Maru wrong, and after a while Fontana! ABROAD?” ASKS SENATOR arrtvea oft Pernambuco, neving went away to Italy to join the army, | estes i | on board the masters and 7 Mme. Matzenauer in the course of | men of the crews of somo of the time brought suit for divorce, spect-) Works of California Introduces the} lost vessels, which were sunk on fying five women. ‘The new: Query in a Resolution in the | Yariou# dates between Dec, 12 reached Fonfana on the Austrian Upper Hous | dition the steamer Mt @ont. Obtaining leave of absence, : of 48g - | ‘Pheodore was captured and a he hurried to Rome, and, aft WASHINGTON, Jan, 17.—Senator! prize crew put on board, and th offort, obtained permission to visit] Werks (Californtay this atternoon| jteamor Yarrowdale was cap- New York and fight the action, jntroduced In the Benate a resolu: | FUreG and tan rey Von arate Not having seen his baby for more isk:ng Secretary Lansing who is! the sunk vessels—who were to be than @ year, Fontana sent, through | ing this Government or the! Janded, No further news has yet Amato, who, although an Italian, hag | Pesident in forelen countries | m received, of Mame’ Wheres remained on friendly terms with Mme,|_Work# denied the resolution ap-) abouta! Matzenauer—possibly because they |Piles to Col. B. M. House, the Presi- are only friende—a requent to his wife U°8'% Personal friend and advise OH, WELL, IT'S NOT SUCH that he be allowed to visit the ciaid, |""9 Nas made trips to Hurope am al Mine, Matsenaver sont back a refusal reRrerentative of President Wilson | A GOLD WORLD, AFTER ALL In court the other day she expressed | thn Senate consider the. resolution | eepaeiineadte the fear that her husband would kid-| but on iotion of Senator Hitchcock! G14 Man, Who Only Knows the nap littl Adrian and take her to Italy wan Givarred $0 the Foreign: Holas| net : i Through his counsel, Nicholas Sel- |“)! w thout uc tion. Tombs as His Ho Finds vaggi, Fontana sucd out a writ of|wa sala Bellations “Warmth” Outside habeas corpus and Justice Cohalan|in M ‘Two men, one young the heard the arguments to-day. Fon yoth diacharged prisoners auaiitied a tak ceasaar bie daughter on Centre Street early to-day. The as his wife, because the wife has jold man, John Kennedy, had just An gone on motor pont rides and in ished a nix tor 3 |dulged in other amusements against r Hal pee He clothes his wishes. h the beer shortage problem haveland shivered from the cold > ted th nt whieh may bel “L hate to at,” he remarked to Japanere (o Rate Fund for Athen! istomer to ones |tne young “Lam atraid 1 will TOKIO, Japan, Jan, 17.—At a gather- | tyres ais nH | frean harlen Albert, of ing of representative Japanese to-day, | ‘I stomer | xy eet, a chauffeur, among whom was Premier Terauchi, it haa d jays’ term for warmly clad nsive overcoat be a ted sweate popu |, Where do you | he asked the Woman Burned in Bakers 2 joke,” was the reply Mrs, Marie Kunkel of nbs is the only home L Franklin nue, Brooklyn, | know again ve in the| Albert took off his overcoat and to-l gave it to the old man. ‘Then he “ MEd et y WA8 | tipy nto the latter's hand me 810,000 Verdict for Anto Death $10,000 damages -_ TUE WORLD TRAVEL HERE AD Sane oa me aire red » Bus this morning { Sider tte eile seobous’ Beekman 4000-—- pieme Court, Brooklyn, which were destroyed by the raider. | 237 VICTIMS LANDED; RAIDER STILL AT LARGE Steamer, Believed to Be the Cruiser Vineta, Dodges Allied Fleets and Dashes From North to South Atlantic, , Destroying Shipping. TERROR OF THE SEA wviRAS BEEN OUT A MONTH y the United Pre: BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 17.—Twenty-three mer- chant ships have been sunk or captured by a new German ) raider whose exploits, revealed to-day, surpass any hereto- | fore recorded in the world’s naval history. | The commerce destroyer, believed to be the protected | cruiser Vineta, probably eluded British patrols around Ger- | many and raided from north to south across every trans- |atlantic ocean steamship pathway. | Some of the survivors of ships sunk, landed to-day at Pernambuco, | | had been aboard the raider twenty-eight days, indicating that the raider | must have been operating for at least four weeks. Probably she has been | at large ruaming the seas for six weeks or more, and is still at large. One report from Rio de Janeiro to-day said an additional English steamer iad been sunk with a loss of 400 lives, but this had not been | confirmed up to this afternoon, [Most of the vessels named in the Admiralty and Buenos Ayres announcements were last reported in South American waters. The Voltaire and the Georgic must have be@® sunk in the Northern At- lantic while the raider was on her way south. {No mention of loss of life is made in the British Admiralty report, which states that 400 persons, in addition to the 237 landed in Brazil, were placed aboard the British ship Yarrowdale. The: is supposed, are to be put ashore at some South American port. It is possible the Yarrowdale is the ship reported in despatches from Buenos Ayres as having been sunk without warning with a loss of 400 lives, This vessel is listed at Buenos Ayres as having been sunk, The British Admiralty says the steamer was captured. ] | [It is rested in some reports that the two captured ships— | the Yarrowdal: and St, Theodore—-have also been turned into raiders, | A late despatch from Rio Janeiro says the raider’s name is “Vinex’ and says the number of ships sunk there is reported as twenty-two, less than the number given in other despatches u First news of the raider came in despatches from Pernambuco, de- tailing the landing there by the Japanese steamer Hudson Maru of saile | ors from five steamers sunk by the Teutonic commerce destroyer thirty ff Pernambuco. he British mile. The ships which fell victims were said to have Dramatisi and Radnorshire, the latter bound ind London, and other French and Allied mer- | included steamers from Bahia to Havre chantmen, iL A despatch from Rio added the steamships Samara, Drina, Ortega tims. !and Hammershus to the list of vic | In all, 237 curvivors fro mthe victims of the German raiders were landed at Pernambuco, the despatch said Rio information to-day was that the raider had also torpedoed the French schooners Nantes and Asnieres, and added the following ships te the list which had been sunk Steamers Newportiand, Nouant, S| npel, San Giorgio, Nesser, King George, Yarrowdale, St, Hiodor, Michsnethiel, St, Sael, Snowdon Grange | and Gailiy, the latter of Norweigan register. | Among the sailors landed were many Indians, according to advices | reac hing here, who contradicted the earlier report from Pernambuco as |to the Identity of the raider, They asserted that the vessel's name was indecipherable, owing to the fact that she was painted a dead black, e survivors described the ralder as armed with twelve cannon and to! pedo tube: A tate Rio message to-day quotes the steamship Helherby as authority for the information that “another English ship has been sunk, without warning, and with a loss of 400. The despgtch did not make ¢leag