The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1917, Page 1

AL ' EDITION be _[*Gircatats irculation Books | Books Open to All.”’| to All.’’ ~ SE Tous Will Sail: Denied Convoy by U. S. ‘Warshi ip __PRICE 0 ONE ‘CENT. Copsright, 1917) by (The New York World) The Press Publishing NEW. YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1% “Circulation Books Open 1917. 1 6 ILLEGAL, BUT |, Government Acts on Policy| Americans Have inalienable Right on High Sea. HALTS ALL (American Line Advises Appli- cants for Passage to Use White Star Vessels. BOOKINGS. | Armed convoy of the Amerfcan| had steamship St. Louls through the fan danger zone wan to-day re- | | ans by the State Department, ac- cording to R statement anade this Vaan PA. 8. F ails, Need | of the International Mercantile Me rine, Tfe added that his egent \ Washington had sent wort taat the} State Department was forwarding «| note explaining its decli \ Mr, Franklin reiterat tainly sail from this port | “I have called a meeting of the di-| rectors and dopa | “and 1t will there be decided whothe ve vessel shall be armed or palnte th f the German preser be determined until papote from the State Depart H ‘The number of first cliss passengers from 110 to #5 by the cancellation of | bookings by Americans. The remaining G,while including a few Americans, The American Line sent a telegram | this afternoon to its agents through- out the country ordering them to re in| aceordance tion or go just as of sailing will not ne receipt of the nt.” noon that the St. Louis would cer-| ment heads of the company,” he said, she is. The time om the St. Louis has been reduced by are mainly English and Canadians, fuse, until further notice, all pas-| bf wenger bookings by the , ast cannot now designate si dates, | " The sane te! advised agents to not ft for age that the White & 5 taining its sailing schedule and t passengers sailing on its venemts receiving the protectiog of the British Government while passing through the German danger zone. | In denying a convoy, the Govern. | ment is acting on the poliey that Americans have an inallenable right to traverse the high sea, that the German submarine blockade is e tirely illegal and that any sinking o! American ships in contravention of law would immediately lead to hos- | Robert | the hospital. ‘SHP WILL SAL ONE DEAD, 3 HURT AS AUTO HITS CAR OF BESSIE ABOTT nae Steamship Man, Killed in Collision on Riverside Drive. Robert Barber, thirty years 614, son! of Herbert founder of the Barber Steamship Company of No. 17! -day In Barber, Battery Place, died early St. Luke's Hospital, the victim of an automobile at Riverside Drive and One Hundred and Eleventh Street. The accident occurred about | 1 o'clock this morning. | Mr. Barber was hurled twenty feet and landed against an ‘ron railing. His skull was fractured and he died without recovering consciousness. collision In the other machine was Mrs, Bessie Story, better known as Bessie Abott, the opera singer. Mra, Story was} only slightly injured. Two young women who were pas- sengers in the Barber car were picked up unconscious, and also taken to They are described to the police as Madeline Smith, twenty bam PARENTS NOW *HELDIN MYSTERY OF SLASHED BOY | Father Arresled Atle After Conflict | ing Statements—Neighbors | Praise Accused Mother. | |NO CLUE TO STRANGER. } |Mother Remanded Bail After Hearing on Charge of Felonious Assault. at parents of little John Blac- the five-year-old boy found in lime cellar of his home at No, 102 |agle Avenue, the Bronx, with his jthroat slayhed, are now in Jail as | result of the District Attorney's 1 ventigation. | Mrs. Blaccoct was arraigned in the Morrisanta Court to-day on a charge of felonious assault and held without all PPisauie, the boy's father, was ar- rested early to-day and is being held as a material witness because of con- flicting st nts, At Lincoln Hos- pital It was said to-day the boy's jury is not as serious as it was first stated to be, Meanwhile the police, who h been Investigating the family’s rec- jord in the neighborhood, have re- * celved nothing but favorable reports who was concerning Mrs, BI arrested last night after [in her story that John had told her “a man had stabbed hin.” The police declare John told them his mother directed him to say a ma had injured him. The mystery as to why the mother should want to injure her child ts all the greater because of the stories her neighbors tell of her great affection for her son, These neighbors say thaw John was his mother's favorite, her two other chil- years old, of No, 132 West Porty- Afth Street, a cabaret winger at|dren and the two youngsters that Chuchill’s restaurant, and Piny Ha-|oard with the family receiving no man, twenty years old, of No, 604] 8Uch affection as he did. The child's Seventh Avenue, Astoria, L. L, a| life was insured for $50, it !s sald. show girl at tho Winter Garden. Her| The police theory that the mother New York address ix said to be No, | Mew into 4 rage and attacked th 300 West Fe ninth Street. s the netgh her y Luke © Hospital the superin lingneas to take care of ty aia EAR A ER 1 Miwa? children shows she was not was out of danger, but that |!@cking In patience Mins Haman had been seriously in-| “80 far we have found no one who jured and wan atill'in a preearioua{sew the strange ean the mother condition, Misi Smith is suffering |#Peeks about,” said Assistant District Attorney Mork. “It 1s one of the rom brulaes and shock. she may be » hospital in a able to leave few days. Miss Haman has several brok en ribs and is thought to have suf- fered internal inj 8 At the Winter ( got word rden the manage- ment early this morning {that the injured chorus girl was one known to the Winter Garden em had to deal queerest cases we have with in @ long while.” > §00,000 WOMEN OF N, Y, OFFER SERVICES TO STATE Mrs. Whitehouse Greeted by Gov, | ployees as Clementine Clayman, She Aiities, had a minor part in the choruses, | Whitman, Who Thanks Her ntmen = win} The Churchill's management said] for the Proposal. ‘axe of War, | Miss Smith had been employed there (Special from a Staff dent It was lea urned | for six weeks as a dancer andébinger ALBANY, Feb Norm to-day at the Charlestown Navy Yard} The Barber car was driven by Wil-| whitehouse of New York, to-< that plans in detailgire In the hands} jiam H. Lewis of No, 601 West One| an interview with Gov, Whitman @f the Navy Yard officials for the! Hundred and Thirty-fitth Street. Mrs {during which she gave him resolu arming of merchantmen v Is in| story's chauffeur was Charles T. i ms adopted by the New York Wo: case this country Is drawn into the) James of No. 481 West One Hundred | men'g Suffrage party offering 1h MThewe merchant ships will be ysed | A2Md Fitty-ninth Street, The police | services of Its members to the State ! manera erchank amine, will Pe vaed | oc th to the West One Hundred | during the war crists in any capacity ) Sabeasarics to naval bases and Amer. nty-fifth str Station and| which the State deemed them fit to fean war craft and also cargoes to ed them with homielde. serve neutral Ports, Mrs, Ste who feinted but was re- She sald that half a million women MEOW, A TAK ON CATS! vived, told I eman Hanover that}of the State were already organize she had just taken sume guests home |The Knglis Premier and his fellow un and was returning to No, Park | offictals had declared that the w Avenue, where sho Hyves with her|could not be prosecuted by Great Brit ecu yew 6 Seartive mother, Mrs, Waldo Story, Her lim-!ain without the aid of the women, ALBANY, Feb, 7,.—The combined eat oustic, she said, was going at a mode Lam inore than glad to see you population of the © of New York! rate and turned out of the/and thank you for your « 1 will now + d to its claws for! muin drive to take the cut to One| the Governor. “Of course ‘ Benator Doug's n Hundred and Tenth Street when the me the he an eme The Senator tc Lewi th bound Barber car collided a will suc . Maintained int! With the milk of milk and th faba —_——-— (oe Rasing Entriea Sse Page 8.) Without | GERARD OUT OF GERMANY: WILSON STANDING FIRM AND ASKING NO FAVORS —E |U.S. Ambassador to Spain Gets Mes-; | sage From Gerard at Berne,Switz- erland, Following Reports That He} | Had Been Detained. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Ambassador Willard at Madrid reported] | to the State Department to-day that he had received a despatch trom Am- Lassador Gerard, sent from Berne, Switzerland. Although no word came from Ambassador Gerard himself, or from American Minister Stovall at Berne, the State Department interpreted Mr. Willard’s despatch as indicating that Mr. Gerard had left Berlin and had proceeded as far as the Swiss capital. The rent exp that Mr. Gerard was Danae coupled with the p saibitity that | he may have sent a despatch to Berne to be transmitted Aimbassador Willard, makeu it possible that Mr. Gerard has not left Germany The State Department hud sent to| Ambassador Willard a ¢ forwarded to Ambassade A "Betlin | which would be of value only in case | Mr. Gerard still w in the German ca Ambassador Willard replied he had received a despatch from Mr. Gerard | Frederik aie tds at Berne and w J instructions as | to whether ld forward the | Department's de h to him there. direct report has been received n Mr, Gerard or from | the Ame Minister there, but | WASHINGTON, word is expected during the day /Ctal of the | which will clarify the situation, ‘The| Line has arranged last despatch from Mr. Gerard at) of Count Hienstort and Berlin was dated Feb. 5. A Havas despatch from Barcelona, Halifax for Inspection by British. pa N from Berne fr om. Feb. Scandinavian-American the salling bu party from New York next Tuesdey Tan rican for von advices from Washington detaiiing |t® Christiania will put in at Halifax, |the arrangements made for the safe N. 8, for inspection by British naval departure int von Bernetorff. authorities Great Britain gave pass- te ka 1 to-day that on |BOFt for the party on condition that | they proceed home by the most direct javailable route, and the Fredertk | VIII, will proceed to Norway by the |northerly rpute without entering the war gone, ‘The stop at Halifax has | Monday t long despa out for the missed German State Department sent a giving the plans worked departure of the dis- Ambassador and his sulte Any plans German officials | been arranged for #o that the ship might have entertained to restrain! nay be subjected to the usual re the departure of Mr. Gerard Were | strictions of the British blockade. then, of course, dropped | Tentative arrangements have been » German Government's action made for a tered by t ‘ount von Ler yeciai train, to be char Government, to take natorff and his suite to have been more in the is believed to |nature of an to compel a safe | return of von Rernstorff through the |New York next Monday afternoon. Allied blocka: ther than any step) Should the number warrant, a speolal | against Mr, Ge the United train will be procured, Otherwise spe. State | clal cars will be provided on a regular While g that Germany will | passenger trair amend at program: saa ernment of to-day made it pla Halvor Jacobsen, tc agent of the they d want the » of the Seandinavian-American Line, stated United Sta underestimate the | to-day that se ary of Lans babilit war ing had made @ formal request The P advisers are rick VIII, be t 1 ove to stand | nothing to | the German Ambassador and his su provoke | continue! top the trip to Germany to mak for d be joan | Seandinay port. Mr b nd w m1 nex. | cabled the home ottice for pern ges with the Berlin ¢ to charter the bp, and ox t BMA’ OF, HINGED | that the author n will be went a Y sinter aa soon as the toe receives: off to rematy cial contir n trom Great Brita ur will of the rep nat the ship , w be forced hirkw Vrges Pwo te Vax on THE WOKLD ERAN BL Olona ragarine Vare iow, N.Y, x A y x Committee “ed a ck asd cents ‘mon a he | ineans of" favressing the Tevenus. Gideon tin ale, “Telephone Bookman CARTER TERS VESSEL Must Stop at} on ‘rede VILL Confereners Spain, says that Ambassador Gerard the Frederik VIL ni will sail from that t for the United | Were held with Dr, Paul Ritter, the es on a Spa liner. Swiss Minister, who has taken over ym European sources outside of | the diplomatic interests of Germany | Germany the Government learned {0 thls country; Minister Brun of {that the Ger » Government Denmark, and ofMictals of the State! tually did consider Mr. Gerard prac- , Department. tically as a host until it received | The Frederik VILL on the voyage BRAZIL PROTESTS STRONGLY AGAINST U BOAT WARFARE Will Hold Gi Germany Re sponsible if One of Her Merchantmen Suffers, BOLIVIA IS WITH U. Chili Will Follow Lead Brazil in Protest to Germany. of RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb, 7.—Brazi!'s jformal protest against Germany's plu: Jof unlimited exercise of mubmarine warfare was sent to Berlin to-day. According authoritative infor- mation, the note protests against the violation of international law involved {0 the submarine blockade and points jout that such a blockade could, tt} effective, close the entire high seas— }@ situation which could not be per- | mittod, The note protests by anticipa- tion againet any hostile act from which @ Brazilian merchant ship should suffer by virtue of the blockade and holds Germany re- sponsible for such acts. Dr. Lauro Muller, Foreign Minister, will confer again to-day with the rep resentatives of the other South Amer fean countries, It Ix understood that , Chile and Argentina will refuse to jadhere to the terms of the Brazilian | note Argentina is said to hold that the breach of relations between the Unit led States and Germany has been de | layed too long. ) South American | republic will make an independent re ply to Germany, between the Latin-American will continue, SANTIAGO, Feb, 7.—@hil will fol low Brazil in making proteat to Ger- many over the German gubmarine warfare, according to #emt-oM ‘ficial information here to-day LIMA, Peru, Feb. 7.—The Peruvian press is unanimous in condemning the rmany in respect of naval to States vction of warfare, Several newspapers deman hat Peru declare itself on the aide f the United States, ‘The mn ment is with other American the object of forn communteating frequently Hating | policy. BUENOS AIRES. is to support the stand against Germany, according to in Rio de Ja neiro to-day by Bolivian Mints. j ter there, His statement follow |despatch of Brazil's note of f protest to Berlin against the ( unitm So far Feb, 7.—Rolivia nade the announcement rman ed submarine policy Bolivia alone of American republics has definit nounced its the taken by the United States The attitude, therefore, of tho three powerful “A BC" 1 difference of opinion ine will apparent to Pr Wilson's plan for tlon le approval of nations shows a Rep y refuse its su sident joint by on Bras likely to ely toa f Careanen tte latory Mew MEXICO CEPY, be v * of Maperor William's birthday, Jan. 27, but the pourparlers countries with | 4 common | United States in tts | al | WEATHER=-8now or rain to-night. orl, PR to oks Open to All.”’| PAG ES 2 PRICE ONE CENT. LINER SUNK WITHOUT WARNING; UBOATS DESTROY 10 MORE SHIPS ~ GONVOY S DENED ST. LOUS, US. HOLDING THE BLOCKADE ALL PASSENGERS RESCUED "FROM PORT ADELAIDE WHEN UNSEEN U BOAT SANK HER | | British Government Says Attack on Big Liner Is Emphatic Notice by Germany That She Has With- drawn Her Pledges to U. S. 46 SHIPS, 100,000 TONNAGE, SUNK IN NEW BLOCKADE LONDON, Feb. 7.—The Commonwealth & Dominion passenger Kiner Port Adelaide, reported yesterday as having been sunk by a U boat ou Saturday while on the way from London to Australia, was attacked without warning, according to an official statement fssued to-day by the British Government. The announcement says: “The British steamer Port Adelaide, carrying pae- sengers from London to Australia, was torpedoed without warning on Saturday by a German submarine. The pas- sengers were rescued by the Dutch steamer Samarinda and landed at Vigo. The master, however, was made prisoner aboard the submarine. | “Germany's withdrawal from her pledge to the United |States not to sink passenger ships without due warning |thus has been emphasized. “The Peruvian sailing vessel Lorton, on a Passage from Callao, was sunk by an enemy submarine Monday inside Spanish territorial waters. “It is interesting to note that on the very day this dual affront to two neutral states was perpetrated a German wireless press message was boasting of the consideration shown 1 Germany to the interests of aeutrals,” DENMARK REFUSES TO FOLLOW U. SIN BREAK Note Will Be Sent to W tshington | Stating Position of That Country, ‘® Ten more veasels sunk ~including four British steamships, one Peru- ‘vlan bark, one unclassified stes a two Britieh ateam trawlers and two Ashing boate—te the toll of the Ger man submarines ao far reported for the day. Their total tonnage is over 2,000, ‘This makes a total of forty-six ves- CHRISTIANIA, Feb. © (via Lone don). -Norway will net agree to|#l# Sunk since Germany announced |lresident Wilson's avggestion tn re- |! new blockade on Feb. 1 and 24, ward to breaking relato: th Ger- | destroyed since the expiration of the many, the Aftenpont aays, This news-| five days’ grace given to pauper asserts that lust decide on Germany * neutrals. Duropean neutrals | The total tonnage loss in seven da: their policy toward | lalowae Jan.tee ‘according to their own tn- teresta, not according Amertoan Following are the nationalities of the seven daye: British, 23; Danish, 8 Spanish, 8; Greek, 3; to sentiments.” the ships sunk tn COPENHAGEN (via LONDON, | American, one; Feb, 7.—It {9 stated in reliable quar ters that the Danish Government has Norwegian, 10; lecided that tt cannot follow the ex- | Deltan, 1; Rusalan, 2 ample United “sin break-| The firet sinking reported to-day jing relatwas with ny {Was that of the Saxon Briton, 1,937 A noty will be to Washington | tons, a British steamship, explaining ou of Denmark : uatlp. Two of hor |crew were kill and calling jon to the fact that when she was torpe- SP cerp eh sentatives |doed, The captain and fourteen mem- of the thr indinavian countries | bers of the crew were safely landed. 8 tu the national interests are| On the sume vessel that bro ight In ing continued at Stockholm |the survivors of the Saxo xon Briton SWITCHMEN DELAY STRIKE |The al eee ee tons, also sunk earlier in the day. A ' Other steamships sent to the bottom Honds, were the British steamships Crown ce d r jue ;|Point and Vestr., The Vestra was a wilh , el screw Vessel of 1,021 (ons, regis- ries x Nenad, jeer rangemouth and owned by . a J. 'T. Salvesen & Co, The Crown Point was a steel serew ear 218 tons, registered at Liverp nd owned by Norfole and North American Steam Shipping i ra with our orgua- “Ubany ete The einking of the steamer Jvc- ‘ ‘ SO eal