The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1917, Page 1

Py tack p that > eta Sheahan anne BRITAIN AND FRANCE GIVE BERNSTORFE SAFE CONDUC = AL EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. Copyright, 19 Co. (The New The is | “Circulation Books Open to All.’ | y The Press Publishing York World). MERICAN IS KILLED AS U BOATS SI SIX MORE SHIPS; WILSON ASKS FOR NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1917. 16 PAGES WEATHER—Probably snow; much colder. JAVE EDITION f Circulation Books Open to All.”’ | 8 PRICE ONE CENT. \ ‘GUNNERS WANTED FOR SHIPS, AMERICAN LINE ANNOUNCES: ‘abcahaliieaae! Secretary Lansing as to Ves- sels’ Rights on the Se CHALLENGE TO KAISER. Publication of All Barred to Keep Germans From Getting Cargo Data. Officials of the American Line an- Bounced to-day that the company has semployment for men experienced in the bandling of guns aboard ship. Bx-gunner’ of the United States ivy willing to take a chance are in demand at the offices of the Americ: eoen as the news gets around, This announcement prob: means that the American Line has decided to place qune aboard the St. Louis and send her into the danger zone with instructions to the captain to defend himself against attack by German subma- rim If the St. Louis is armed, the St Paul, which arrived last Sunday from Liverpool and is scheduled to start back next Saturday, will also be armed, and the Philadelphia, now at Liverpool and due to start for New York on Saturday, will likewise equipped with guns for protection Beyond the information that the company is looking for men know how to handle and fire big guns who the company has made no statements of Its intentions. COMPANY EXPECTED TO ACCEPT “MINT GIVEN BY LANSING. x ver, it is considered safe in shipping circles to assume that the directors of the line, who meet to-day, have no course open but to follow the hint contained in the message re- eeived from Secretary Lansing yes- He advised the company, in a indirect way, that it has the right to take any measures necessary to protect its ships from unlawful at- The directors of the company feel they would be taking orders from the German Government they to paint stripes on their vessels and follow the course laid down by Germany through the danger zone Inasmuch as the United States has refused to convoy the American liners and American liners must sail or confess that Germany has put a blockade on American ships in American ports, shipping men expect to see the St. Louis putting to sea with guns fore and aft and gunners on board to man them. WOULD VIRTUALLY MEAN A DECLARATION OF WAR, The issue ts the most interesting development of the local situation to- day. If the St. Louis starts for Eng- land armed for protection against German submarines, her departure will amount to notification to the German Government that the St, Louis will sink a German submarine whould said submarine show any dis- position to attack the ship. In other words, the equipment ef the St. Louis with guns, pur- quant to the acquiescence, if not the direct ioe, of the Govern- ment would amount in the opin- were Manifests | be} ST. LOUIS MAY SAIL ARMED D by. The JAne, and it ta probable these offices oq with freight for export, in this! will be swamped with applicants as yard, and the fire is only 17. feet from \ | | | be the proper » | ne proper Company Follows Hint of | BURSTING OIL PIPE SETS Flames Reach to Within 175 Feet of 2,000 Loaded rs in | D., L. & W. Yard | Crude oll gushing from the great Standard O!! pipe line which extends from Pittsburgh to the fineries at Bayonne spread over the Jersey meadows near Snake Hill this afternoon and was set on fire by a spark from a passing locomotive. The blazing oil great clouds of dense b k sm whic! gave rise to the report that n| with oll and powder we ein! the D., L. and W. storage yards near © nearly 2,000 cars, load - a break In produced ke, the northernmost tracks, Switch en- | gines pulled all the cars in the vicin- {ty of the fire to points of safety Employees of the Standard Ot Company said there was nothing to do but let the fire burn itself out The nearest shut-off in the pine line is eighty miles away from the fire Instructions were sent to close off th flow. DOHENY OFFERS SHIPS, In Case of War the President Can! Have Fleet of Tankers and Storage Facilities. WASHINGTON, Feb, 8.—The Mext can Petroleum Company, through its President, E, L. Dohen to-day offered the case of war the use of Its ten tankers and five million barrels of fuel oil stored at Tamptco. In addition to this help it will do- nate Doheny’s private yacht Casiana and the company's storage facilities | at Portland, Me.; Tampa, Fla; Car teret, N. J.; Providence, New Orleans, Christabel, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, MEN'S GOATS WILL LOOK LIE SKIRTS THIS SPRING Los Angeles, vernment Must Be | her at | They onger and Hig! the Waist Line. COLL MB Feb, 8. will lon: Fashion Decrees Mue Men's er, high a and shoulde coats m the waist line s will be| wider with season, no padding according to styles set here to-day by the imittee of the International Custom Cutters As- | this coming Fashions Cc soctation Cutters say trousers will be wider, | vests will be cut low and wit bel tight at the waist lin Browns will ade for spring ¢ The Norfolk jacket will again | ular ‘GERMANS REMOVED = ~~ FROM COAST GUARD WASHINGTON, Feb, 8.—All Ger. man enlisted men on vessels of the United States Coast Guard Service| were dismissed Tuesday, it was |learned at the Coast Guard here to-| day. in of shinning men toadeciara- | Hitty-cight men have been dis- jon of war. | For that reason the attention of the | onium) (0 Ul 1 MAS alatods and) maritime interests of the country are |) OO* mole lisciiises may for centred on the St. Louis at this time! ne’ gnin wan s wey @ontinued on Second Page.) No diMfculty ha filling the Vacancies, | with the understanding that the com- | OIL AND HIS OWN YACHT: MRS, VISCONTI’ SINKING OF LINER LEAK STORY BASED CALIFORNIA IS NOT ONA CHILD'S TALK VERT ACT’ OF WAR Defies Only One Man Aboard Claimed to Be an American Citizen—He Was in Crew. “Woman of Mystery” Committee and Gives Name Only in Secret Session. — | $1,060. SANK IN SEVEN MINUTES. SLLS ABOUT ‘orty-seven Persons Still Miss- ing—She Was Attacked By Two Submarines. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The Con- | WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—On the gressional “leak” investigating com- basis of reports received on the de- struction of the California and other ships so far, {t authori- information on which she reported to | tatively that none of the cases con. pe . stitutes the overt a:t which will lead Thomas W Official and others had profited in were eecene pesotay jopenly express the belief, however, Adimits Report Might Be Due to Chance Remark by One | of His Famliy mittee to-day asked Mrs, Ryth ‘Thomason Visconti who gave her the stated is Lawson that Secretary t Tumulty om the stock market on advance infor- | that the overt act is merely @ ques- mation of President Wilson's neutral- | iy j tlon of time. f It was stated by officials to-day re that owlfig {0 Indications that Ger- committee went) many would very soon commit this Into exocutive session. Then she #8VC| overt act, it might be best to con serve this country’s naval resources note. Visconti refused to answer the question until the & name to the committee in confidence, writing It upon a piece of paper, but! hy Keeping the navy intact. All hope, if nay ever existed, that mittee may, if it deems advisable, later | yerma ight modify her z W. W, Pre Germany might modify her campaign correspondent, who Mrs. Visconti told vanished. Tho for |only effect so far as the destruction e the name public of ruthlessness, has acted as a “go-between’ was recalled. Laws Tumulty, of the California has been to quicken Counsel Whipple asked Price: “Did|the preparations the Government is you at any time between Dec. 18 and | have any conversations with etary Tumulty on the mutter of President's peace note making for the expected eventuality. Firm belief is held that the next | few days will determine whether or | not there is to be peace or war. “None at all,” declared Price | In this connection some officials to- Being questioned about his finan-! gay expreased belief that perhaps affairs after turning bin bank-| Germany would be careful not tu 8 over to the committee, Price| commit any bvert act until Bern- broke down and wept storff and his party have reached Counsel Whipple demanded to know where Price got $1,060, which he de- posited at a local bank last month, Consul Frost said both the Call- “LE got it Price fornia and the Eaveston were sunk * very cheaply at home, and! without warning, The from sulary, and|ing a British ‘coliler, was subject to » a little out of real estate trans-|an unwarned attack, ‘The State Department was advised that the California mounted one three but held “the question of Germany and Gerard and his party are well on their way to America. honestly, sobbed, my said he was always careful rate his work from his “stde|inch gun, Germany's offense. “AT ARE STILL MISSING FROM THE CALIFORNIA brokerage houses, He admitted recet ing from of these firms $! a month, and sald one had sent him a ‘Christmas p: of $25. It came out in the executive session of the committee and not in the rec- several sent ord, that tho name Mrs, Visconti wrote on the paper was that of a, She Sank in Seven Minutes After child who repeated a remark made by | Being Hit—The Passen- one of Price's children 3 Prico said he had talked about the ger Were Cool, note to his family, but LONDON, Feb. 8 (5.07 P, M).—A extent of his remark was to cording to information obtained from a at If he had had money to risk! i wivors, the Press Association saya he would have made profits but 1 eee feet 8 not wenty-eight members of the Cali Have you any doubt that the| fornia’s créw and nineteen passengers arges brought before this commit-{ are missing. Five persons were killed were founded on som re Tk) and about twenty injured by the ex made by a member of, fam | plosion, The injured are doing well veston, be- | | | i | New Anti-Aircraft Gun Mounted COOP DEHE » 9 ¢ 3 ® 4 Brit POOOO+ On Dreadno ught Pennsylvania ey oy £:04,6400G-6-996-06460045.494 $44-4:0400-640960004 | to Pass—Washington Be- lieves Trouble Will End. By Carl W. Ackerman, 8 (United Press). BERLIN, jobs" of supplying “tips” to Chicago | armament orders does not mitigate The German Government will not per mit Ame ! omeials |spondents o} basay, rican of the Ambassador United newspaper American American in and France Allow Him Gerard, States corre citizens t leave Germany until It receives Infor mation that safe conduct has beer granted German Ambassador Herr storff and his staff, Passports to Amerteans aro als contingent upon Berlin: ascertaintn Washington's attitude toward the ol Prussian treaty, permitting ettize Germany and of United nine months after a cessation of diy lomatie relation tween the two na \tions In which to adjust thelr bust ness. The American Embassy and Amer can Consulates throughout German are besieged American citizen see information and advice, Great numbers find th os Ww ut clent funds with which to pay pa A. I now have suspicions of that Q. Do you connect this informatiog| Three women and two children are with som remark, chance or other-| reported to have been among those wise, that some member of your Jost, Sur » Algoe gnd Assistant family made? A. I think so Purser ad 0 were lost, Eadie's —— | body was brought to land. MORE SIEGE GUNS FOR CITY ae ee ean Pala th aaiaaiees * weather was clear when the Cal West Point pe AM Avatianbie 2A 8% pe dund that there v six Rifle a submarir each side of the WEST POINT, N. Y., Feb. #.—an| steam Escape was impossible. A the available six-inch siege guns at| cording to his account the California West Point were shipped to New York | remained afloat only seven minutes to-day for use at the forts protecting! The Central News says the Call-| the oily ° \fornia’s lifeboats on the port side iia were launched and that some of the recipe for aray hair: To half pint of way on thom. A few who fell into add 1 of, Bay Rum, a small box of Barbo the water Were rescued. ‘There was Compound and A 0% of Kiveerine, Any no panic, and although several pas for making and use come in each box of calm and cour ous manner, After Te will ny oF greasy and utinued og Second Page.) « sage Ger ot G HOLDING OF DUE TO FALSE REPORT “ na ol WASH M Sei nued GERARD Second Page. a a GERARD HELD AS HOSTAGE: SAFETY FO ® R BERNSTORFT WRITES OF “LONG JOURNEY ” | THEN JUMPS OFF BRIDGE | Foreigner Cries He Knows What He's Doing as He Leaps From Williamsburg Structure. A man who cried out in broken English that he “knew what he was doing” leaped to his death from the Willlamsburg Bridge this In one pocket of the shat fternoon. y overcont | ONE NK REPORT ————_ ++. AIDERS CONVERT ONE SHIP INTO RECEIVING VESSEL FOR _GREWS OF THOSE THEY SANK —_-—_<-4— ‘Six Killed on Two of Four British Steamships Torpedoed To-Day— Their Loss Adds 12,143 to Total of Tonnage Sent to Bottom. CREW WAS NINE HOURS IN OPEN BOATS IN GALE LONDON, Feb. 8.—One American was among the six who lost their lives in the sinking of six more ships to-day by German sub- marines. He was George Washington, a negro fireman on the British steamship Turino, Another American on the Turino, Calvin Ray. File inore, of Utah, was saved, The total tonnage of the ships sunk to-day was 12,143, making tne total tonnage destroyed since February 1, when Germany's new blockade order went into effect, over 127,000, In all 64 vessels have veen sunk since then, At least 29 lives have been lost on them. The Havas Agency in Paris reports that six men of the crew of the British vessel Dauntless have been picked up after she was torpedoed. Two members of the crew were killed and the captain seriously wounded, WILSON ASKS REPORT ON | beh spa ing oe Ge Sella pect KILLING OF AMERICAN | ship Hollinside, 2,682 tons gross. The ‘ Wants All Facts Regarding Death ; crew of twenty-two left the vessel in boats and their fate isin doubt, The of U.S. Citizen When Turino Was Torpedoed. ptain has been landed. Next came the news of the sinking WASHINGTON, Feb, 8,—President Wiison was in the executive offices | of the steamship Turino with the loas of life on board her. The Turino was |Iast reported from Norfolk, whence she natled for Liverpool on Jan. 19, Later Lloyds reported the sinking when the news of the submarine at- of the British steamship Boyne C tack on the Turino with the killing | tie, 245 tons gross, and the Swedish of an American negro was communt-| steamship Varing, 2.296 tons. The cated to him | Varing was lant reported on her de- Ho immediately issued instructions | parture from Savannah, Jan. 13, for that facts be wathered 48] tHolsingborg. promptly as possible t | t came news of the sinking of ‘The Premdent at once went to the! tne Norwegian sailing vensel Songelv State, War and Navy Building | DEFENSE WORKS <= Statements by survivors of vessels recently sunk show that in one case submarine operating in the war zone employed a steamer which tt Bees seized as a place of temporary which the suicide left on the south refuge for crews of other vessels at- bridge was « brown| | tabkee and sunk avie saying that “R.| The survivors who told of this W." was * ns on a Jong journey," ) | Procedure were from the Songelv Wendel” was writ on one side of} | and the Turino, The crews of note, In other pockets were two both vessels, the survivors relate, ‘ andwiches, a local Germar | were on board an unarmed Ital- newspaper and a pipe and tobacco, | | ian steamer for two da The Th man was of um = bulld — <> —— German submarine operating here five feet seven inches t ‘ ; . used this vessel which it had wore a smal Legislature Urged to Take| armed and provided with a crew a" Up at Once the Ceding of | of six men, as 0 ship to stand by Twenty minutes later, Capt. 1 ‘ | and receive the crews of sunken n the Health Department Land at Rockaway. | ships Riverside, picked up a still w —_——--—— Women from the Songely and Tur. ly floating under the Manhattan Special fran # Ataff Corempondent ) ino were finally transfered to the ige. In general deserl, At oar ALBANY, Feb, 8—U. 8. Senato’ sh steamer Penmount, whieh responded with the man who had| James W. Wadsworth to-day tele red to take them to port. sped from the Williamsburg Bridge. | graphed the party leaders of the Sen- The Germans also transferred from apt, A \urried the body to the ate and Assembly, saying that it was| the submarine to the Penmount Capt f Market 8 EV aid anh an tmpera to expedite the legislation Smailes of the steam Hollinstd : eee n an ; rneur ceding to the Federal Government the who had been taken on board the capital but vay body lands at Rockaway upon which the! submarine as a prisoner when his nt to the Morgu new fortifications proposed by the, vessel was sunk. His crew of twen- _— War Department are to puilt ty-two were left in open boats, he U. S. SAILORS IN WHEAT PIT, the message said that the army| reported, and are stil! missi officers considered it necessary to! T Intention of the submarine § of Tende ( rs Naval He-| begin building the coast defense bat-| was to sink the Italian vessel before 7" la f ireat Lakes " " anied b: I) tte f i was packed to the do The new batteries are New ,York City shelling Jes at once. } to protect from | fleet, arriages which will per- returning to Germany, according to survivors. ign and harb by Ne ng range Seventeen Dantsh sailors were killed when the Danish steamer Lara Kruse, chartered as a Belgian relief ship, was torpedoed and sunk by @ German submarine Feb. 6, according to a despatch from Copenhagen, Word received to-day declared that the captain entered the “barred sone” established by Germany Ignorant of eel |the new warfare decreed by Berlin, For Racing Entries See Page & | The Lars Kruse was carrying gray 1 hostile gun nit an elev w of 45 degrees are to R As the practical elevation of a bat. gun: about 19 degrees, equal calibre at the new land will outrange attacking a long distance, stalled ckaway at nar hip's mum guns by