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» t ! .' Be ~ Auto Dealer Burned ‘ Sixty Cars; Got $110,000 | j EDITION GP ¢ | | “ Cireulation Books Open to All.’ PRICE ONE CENT. Comrriggt, LF05 Ne Tore Worle ——— — M OEWE ARMS NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1917. l [ “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ 20 TWO BIG PRIZE SHIPS; rio. nsurance WEATHER—Fair to-night and to-morrow, ‘ —_—_—=s. EDITION j PRICE PAGES ONE OENT. ALL THREE JOIN IN RAIDING COMMERCE vy DEALER BURNED 60 AUTOS, | | | GOT INSURANCE OF $110,000 BY FRAUD, Frederick ' Strobel Reveals! Wholesale Arson Plot at Ex- Partner’s Trial. P THREE YEARS.| KEPT U Collections Made On Same} Cars From Different Com- | panies, Witness Says. Frederick G. Strobel, former man- ager of the Moon Apto Sales Com- pany, Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, told & fury before Judge Nott in General Seasions to-day, during the trial of William Stark of Union Course, L. 1, that during the last three years ho had burned between fifty-five and sixty automobiles and collected nearly $110,000 from different insurance com- | panies. Strobel pleaded guilty re- cently to an indictment charging the Presentation of a false insurance claim. Stark is on trial on a charge of col- Tecting a claim on a car which was burned July 9 last. Strobel appeared a8 @ witness against him. He said that the Moon Auto Sales Company was composed of himself, Max Wolf, now dead, and Stark. Tho company until three years ago did a thriving but at the suggestion of Wolf, so Strobel sald, they went into the business of de- stroying cars for the purpose of col- leoting false clainis. “When we destroyed a car," Strobel testified, “we collected both the fire fmsurance and the theft insurance. We would register the license num-| ber in the theft insurance and the manufacturer's number in the fire in- surance. In some instances we bought | the damaged car after we collected the insurance from adjusters and used the same car to defraud the @ompany from which we bought it.” Crosa-examined by Attorney Fran- eis X. Caffrey, counsel for Stark, Gtrobel said “he was honest until he met Wolf.” “Why put the blame upon a dead man?” shouted Assistant District At- torney Weller, in objecting to the question. “Because,” replied Mr. Caffrey with heat, “he was to blame for all of it.” Judge Nott instructed the jury to disregard Mr, Weller's remark, One witness before Strobel testified that one automobile bought originally for $350 brought the conspirators nearly $6,000 from insurance com- panies through fake claims. eee Ea a PRESIDENT URGES SPEED. Wai wren WASHINGTON, Jan, 1 -In an ef- fort to olear the legislative calendar of Administration measures before the next House comes into power, President Wilson conferred for two hours to-day with the Senate Steering Committee. The President urged speed, laying particular stress upon the Railroad Labor Measures. He said he desired enactment of the whole before March 4. In addition to railroad and revenue legislation, he urged action on a Cor- Fupt Practices Bill, the Webb Bill to permit domestic corporations to main- tain collective foreign selling agen- cles, with power and mineral land leasing measires and the Porto Rican ‘Citizenship Bill, programme Piet ee Tennessee Houne Vote to Wome NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 19.—The HE CONFESSES WOMAN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT IN SENATE Poindexter Urges No One Shall Be Debarred From Voting Because of Race, Sex or Color. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Sencstor Poindexter, Washington, offered a Woman Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution to-day: His amendment provides that no one shall be prevented from voting be- cause of “race, sex or color.” —— FRESH E66S 60 DOWN EIGHT CENTS IN A WEEK Wholesale Price Cut, but Not All, Retail Dealers Give Consumers Benefit of It. Fresh eggs: right from the farm, have dropped eig ents a dozen wholesale since last Monday, Ex- Perts say there should be a similar drop in the price to the consumer not} later than to-morrow, and in some Stores it should have been put into effect yesterday. The reduction is| the biggest in ten years for the! ssonth of January, Fresh gathered eggs are coming in| 80 plentifully now that it is predicted | storage eggs will go down five cents in another week, The present wholesale market Price quoted on the exchanges for fresh gathered firsts 1s 45 cents, Last Monday fresh gathered firsts sold for 58 cents, ‘The drop came gradually, ‘The retail price quoted in west side stores 1s 52 cents a dozen for fresh gathered, or seven cents above| the actual wholesale cost to-day by the dozen, Yesterday retailers were dmanding and getting 64 cents al dozen, though the market had al ready dropped eight cents on the wholesale cost, Record Prices for Veals, Lambs and Hogs. BUFFALO, Jan. 19.—Record prices for veals, calves, lambs and hogs were ex- | tablished on the East Buffalo live stock | market to-day. Choice lambs sold at! $14.65, which is an advance of 100 per| cent. over the price of five years ago. Tho best veals brought $16 and heavy hogs sold at $11.75 per hundred pounds, | both new high records for East Buffalo. | Calves, Special Guard in load of CHICAGO, Jan celal train, with Colorado potatoes 1s en route here from Lucerne, Colorado, A special | armed guard rides in each car of the shipment to protect the “spuds,” U-BOAT RIDDLED STEAMER | THAT MADE ESCAPE GOOD. Fifteen Out of 50 Shots Hit the Palm Branch in Chase in the | English Channel, | PORTLAND, Me, Jan. 19.—Onticers | of the British steamer Palen Branch, which arrived here yesterday from Cardiff v ew York, reported that a submarine fired fifty shots at the ves sel while In the English Channel early | in November. Ten or twelve shots took effect, they | sald, one passing entirely through th ship above the water line, steamer escaped by suddenly c ing her course. slightly injured, The Palm Branch returned to Car- 19, forty-five A de luxe spe- care of A boy was struck and| House of Representatives to-day passed the bill allowing women to vote in city and Presidential elections, \diff for repairs and the officers said| ‘they learned that the submarine later wae captured and sunk, | ‘Tanzer, Wax | arrival | the | had told nim you had been drunk for SAFORD NAMES OSBORNE AGAIN A G'S COMPANION Hotel Clerk Repeats Lawyer Was “Oliver” Who Regis- tered Rae Tanzer as Wife. DENIE Admits Untrue Story About See- He Told Detective ing James W. Franklin D. Safford, the Plainfield hotel clerk on trial for perjury in having identified James W. Osborne as the companion of Rae Tanzer at the hotel on October 18, 1914, was called to the witness stand to-day, In all the testimony about Rae the self-confessed ad- venturer “Oliver Osborne” and James W. Osborne, judge, Jury, attorneys and spectators seemed to have for- gotten all about the silm grey man at the end of the counsel table, It was to get from him the detailed recital of the visit of “O. Osborne” and “Mrs. O. Osborne” to the Kensington Hotel that Sunday tn October and his sub- sequent identification of “O, Osborne” as the former Assistant District At- torney, that Safford was dragged from his obscurity, Safford told again the story he has already related three times of the of “O. Osborne” and “the lady, the small little person” at the Kensington, of his conversations with “Osborne” about real estate, fornia and other things and then about as- signing to them Room 15 with a door fn an alcove. Safford said he had told “Osborne” he was breaking a rule of the house to give a room to patrons without baggage. : TELLS WHEN HE FIRST RECOG- NIZED JAMES W. OSBORNE. “So he went down to register,” Saf- ‘MISSING’ WITNESS IN HIDING, TURNS | Bail, Alleged to Have “Changed His Attitude.” 'CALLED A ‘GO-BETWEEN’ Reported Now Ready to Tes- tify Against District Attor- ney’s Former Assistant. ‘There was a scurrying of the friends and lawyers of former Judge Jaines A. Delehanty and former Special As- sistant District Attorney Luclan 8. Breckinridge to-day when they learned A. L, Wilson, held as a material wit- ness against Breckinridge by District against Breckinridge, had been re- leased on $10,000 ball last night. Inqulrers were told unofficially that Wilson, whose whereabouts are kept secret by the District Attorney, had changed his attitude that he knew nothing damaging to Breckinridge and had agreed to be a willing witness for the Prosecutor. The $10,000 bond was signed by Judge Mulqueen Wednesday night tn his chambers, It was not filed so that Wilson could be released unti! yester- day. Lloyd Stryker, Wilson's attorney, did not know his client was out of the Tombs until to-day, Neither did Mar tin W. Littleton, counsel for Breckin- ridge. Wilson was quoted to-day as say- ing that Stryker was no longer his lawyer and that he meant to engage ford continued his narrative, “and ne wrote the first life ‘O, Osborne”, When 1 asked him to put his wife's name under it, he wrote ‘Mrs, O. Osborne, New York.” While Safford was testifying Wax was ordered taken from the court- room, Safford related how David Slade the attorney, and McCullough, the de tective, brought him to New York He slept two nights In Slade's hous and then, accompanied by MeCul- lough, went to the hearing before Commissioner Houghton in the Fed eral building. Q. When you were in Commissioner Houghton’s courtroom you saw James W. Osborne? A. I did, and recognized him, also Q. When you took the witness stand that day you identified James W. Os borne as the man who had been at tha hotel? A. Yos, I did Deseribing his appearance before] Commissioner Houghton, Safford said “McCullough and IT went into the room together and he nudged me in the side to indicate Mr, Kitchen, pro prietor of the Kensington, Mr Kitchen and I had a little argument over Mr. Osborne, and I sald to him ‘that’s the duck.’ He said it wasn't, but I was sure.” NEVER SAW WAX EXCEPT COURT ROOM. Q. Are you positive to-day that James W. Osborne was the man with Rae Tanzer at the Kensing- ton Hotel? A. Yes, | am. Q. Did you ever see Charles H, Wax until he came into this court- room? A. No, never in my life, . Q. Iqd you hear Mr witnesses, testify IN here that you a week when brought to his office? A. Yes Q- Have you ever been drunk? A Baker, one of | (Continued on Becond Page.) Hub Cloth Adve --ONBRECKINRIDGE A. L. Wilson, Freed in $10,000 Attorney Swann in his proceeding | | BOSTON LAWYER WHO IS Tu CONDUCT tie a Strikers Reserves Are Called. Attack Workers Williamsburg Plant and PEACE “LEAK” INQUIRY 100 GIRL RIOTERS PULL HAIR IN FIGHT AT FACTORY DOORS kirk and black BETHLEHEM STEEL GOES DOWN T0386; FRICTION RUMORED War Bride Touches Lowest Mark Since Boom Started Two Years Ago. SCHWAB IS) OPPOSED. Bethlenem Steel their wide fluctuations to-day on the | Stock Exchange, making thelr range cRMAN 1. Vem of quotations one of the curtosities of the market. Just two years ago, in January, 1916, Rethlehem Steel was selling at 46 1-2, Within a few months it shot up to 600, and by the close of tho year fell back 150 points. Getting a fresh start dur ing 1916, the stock rose to its highest | point, 700, on Nov, 18 last. ‘Then, un- |der the fear of peace, it started slip- | ping back down the scale. To-day tt | sold down to 396, its lowest price since the original nearly two years ago. Differences of opinion in the man- agement of the company are reported rise started at new counsel within a day or two. in Wall Street, some of the large Wilson told a story a week ago of stockholders demanding an increase being kidnapped on Broadway by two| A riot In which over a hundred} ye Gividend and opposing the men posing as detectives who carried |Youns girls tore and scratched at) poticy of Charles M. Schwab in bold- him to Yonkers and kept him there|each other until the police forced) ing back distribution of the enormous questioning him nearly all night. This} thom apart was started In front of/ profits, Mr. Schwab has a programme was after Wilson had been released! i, factory of Bob & Daskind, at|of new construction Involving an ex in $1,000 bail, When he returned and} : csrenp | PeHAlture of $100,000,000, which Is more was brought Into court by Detective | Kent Avenue and North Ninth Streets iii oo necousitate @ bond issue than Clinton Wood his bail was increased | Williamsburg at 7 o'clock this MTN | Helon to $10,000, as Judge Mulqueen said, |Ing when strikers on picket duty @t-!" Gosain in Wall Street is that Mr “for his own protection.” [tacked girly on their way to Works! sonwab was offered $1,000 a share tor Assistant District Attorney Dool-| Many who had reported for work ran) iis stock holdings in the company Ing, who Is preparing the case for|from the factory and fought the 1%) Vour nut refused it, Profity for the prosecution of Breckinridge, was | pickets 1916 are catimated at $55,000,000, Th called to the Tombs Wednesday af-| The few men who had been With | sarnings, if all distributed, would a ternoon by Wilson, who 1s alleged to|the striking girls fled in the fury of proximate the present price of the have said he had changed his attitude | the fight, A eall for the rese ¥"* common stock and would make a div of insisting he knew nothin: of alaent to the Bedford Avenue Station | aang of 400 per cent, instead of the fund of manufacturers an! mer-|and when Sergt, Gillen arrived With | resent 30 per cent chants presented to Breckinridge to| several men he found the street a Pi ohlan it influence him in prosecuting East/mass of struggling women pullin ders, It had been ch 1 that Wil-|faces with thelr nails, son was the “go-betwe who hands Four of the most active of tf! OF $15,000 FOR BROWER led the alleged fund. Jstrikers were arrested and t fis all ate According to the District Attorney's| » The girls tare) | ' re : is assistants, Wilson talked with Dooling| Tessie Anqua, nineteen years old, of dicted in Connection With | for two hours, making frank state-| No. 30 Ten Eyck Street; Nellie Schat ! Flogging of Boy Re ments regarding everything he knew |s! enty-three, of No. 122 North ‘aad Basen the Tom of the case and promised to repeat| Seventh Street; Annie Tush Kk 7 these statements in court. Mr, Doo-| twenty-two, of No, 422 Grand Street By agreement with District Attor ling arranged to have Max M. Hart,| and Mary Palsky, twenty-two, of No.| ney Swann, counsel for Oliver @ contractor and builder, who has|22 Soft! Sixt ft . Phaw's arr been much before tho public ay al or _ nt for conspiring w nt in realty cases, and his wife GIR LEAPS 10 DEATH > up Freder G become sureties for Wilson, They| if ot Kansas City, provided a ton Avenue and Seventy-third Street Z eased f the 1 The t \ and at Chrystie and Houston Streets| BRI’ Uieiesd' = kta’ Laporte | formie ne ON worth $240,000. ge {is gua by ‘Tha A pecullarity of the situation is that! uniientif imped from n Hart is @ Heutenant of Sam Marx,|d ' ninth Street 1 la \ Democratic leader the Thirty-first | the tracks front of an t n van Tha Assembly District, who has alway ning north-bound Joeal at 1.25 och sued of flog ‘i been known as a © friend of\t ne nd was insta Bite in th MeAlpin 1 former Judge Delehanty 1 k the 1 1H ; — > Jatten 1 uh mt er Ww lisay . | forward it a th ef Last Two Days of Big Sale, |{""' a ' ; $10 Men's Overcoats and Suits, $5.95. | jo.) 1 \ The “Huby Clothing Comer,’ Broad. |!) ; ae Bulising’ will sell to-day cand’ Satacay X For Racing Entries See Page 7.) the balance of their $10 & $12 6 Win . fe — \ter Overcoats & Suits, blacks, fancy minutes THE WOKLD TRAVEL HERBAL grays, browns & dark mixed, in plainor| The girl w f tal ‘ pinched backs; all sizes, 34 to 44. Our welehed | ound 4 \spectal price ‘for to-day : i 95 & $6.9! pen urday night tll to. | dark “ w lordare for 'tale, “Kelepuctie leckmas 4000, Adve, & shares continued | ———-+-+—_—_—— ORTEGA AND ST. THEODORE TAKE ON GERMAN SAILORS: PREY ON ALLIED SHIPPING |Captain of the Radnorshire, One of the Destroyed Ships, in Graphic Story Says Moving Pictures Were Taken as Vessels Were Blown Up. 20 ALLIED WARSHIPS HUNT FOR SEA TERRORS By Charles P. Stewart. (Copyright, 1917, by the United Press.) « 1 BUENOS AYRES, Jan, 19.—Not only-the raider, tow betleved to” be the Moewe, but two or more German commerce déstroyers are still somewhere around South America and by this time have probably taken further toll of Allied shipping. The greatest sea hunt in history ts on in the South Atlantic. Allied warships are concentrating to sweep the most dangerous menace to Allied shipping that has yet sailed the high seas into a corner and destroy her. Ut {s reported from Norfolk that at least twenty Allied war- ships are scouring the southern seas for the German raider. Other cruisers are being hurried from Europe, Wireless communication between the warships is constantly kept up.) A United Press despatch from Rio de Janeiro to-day stated that, survivors from the Japanese steamer Hudson Maru had declared the British merchantman St. Theodore, first of the captures made by the German raider, had been armed and outfitted. The Theodore was used as a consort, the survivors landed at Per- nambuco said. That she and the German raider steamed together in marauding operations was also confirmed In the log of the captain of the British steamer Radnorshire, which mentioned being pursued, and then captured by “two strangers.” INSTRUCTED TO SPARE LARGE STEAMERS. The same log mentioned the German commander of the raider as explaining his instructions were to spare vessels carrying large cargoes. This was taken here to mean he was Instructed to take his pick of big vessels and use them as auxillary raiders, If necessary. The British steamer Ortega, of 8,000 tons and known as a speedy | vessel, has not yet been accounted for in any of the stories told by sur vivors. It may be that she has also been pressed into service as a raider mm account of her special fitness for such work In speed, size and sea- It is known she was among the number overhauled and aptured by the raider. The belief that there are a number of ralders now operating was expressed in shipping circles here to-day. That the same opinion was entertained in other South American ports was evident from the care with | ! ers or masters of Allied ships measured their chances of getting port. A number of sailings were indefinitely postponed. The wortniness. Frenc teamer Sequana, which sailed yesterday from Rio de Janeiro for Bordeaux, dropped her anchor at Cobras Isle, and stopped, awaiting further ordeers. Evi how id is the fear of further depredations, and the grudging adn corded the raider’s or raiders’ activities, juespatches from Santiago, ¢ ili, on the Pacific Ocean side of South America, said a f sailings of allied merchantmen there had been because of the fear that raiders might rat e ern Pacific ZILIAN PRESS DENOUNCES RAIDS, The | ess to-day united in denunciation of the German nid e ) waters adjacent to South America, They pointed seriously interfering with South Ameri- liate internment of the Japanese steamer H y ¢ ambuco under the German flag and Ci is one of the raider’s prizes, | the [ritish steamer Radnorshire, in United Press pa Perna via Rio de Jangiro to-day, amplitied his log \ {ers when 100 miles east of Pemambuco, and © to watch out for commerce destroyers imme- | \ ess call for help, stating our position and the fact ‘ !, When one of the raiders had overhauled us and was a mile di he tired a shot across our bows, We lay to at once, ‘ rs 1 | |