The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1917, Page 1

5 | \}) LANE EDITION Copyright, 1017, by Co. (The New Yerk W Che __| “Circulation Books Open to Al. ‘The Press Pablishing ——— 14). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, hachodheden 1, 1917. WEATHER—Fair to-night; colder to-morrow, 12° PAGES PRIOR ‘ONE CENT. BROTHER OF CZAR IS RUL RULER UNTIL PEOPLE HOLD ELECTION ~ BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM, UT AT ELEVENTH HOUR RAILROAD STRIKE IS PUT OFF Plea That Tie-Up Might Lead to Gov- erriment Operation of the Roads Fails—New Haven Cancels}T'wo Finest Trains — Injunction in Pennsylvania. At a joint conference between a sub-committee of railroad ananagers, Brotherhood Chiels Lee, Carter, Sheppard and Stone and President Wil Lane and Wilson and President Daniel Willard ofthe Baltimore and Ohio the union leaders late this afternoon agreed to postpone the culling of the great railroad strike for torty-eight hours son's mediators, Secretaries 3e- fore the expiration of that time the mediators hope to find a common ground upon which both sides to the controversy can stand The strike wa$ to have begun at 7 o'clock to-night, Eastern time The union leaders agreed to a postponement of the strike because Secretaries Lane and Wilson, both graduates from the ranks of organized labor, urged them that the mediators had not been given sufficient time to accomplish all the things possible in the circumstances The labor men spectfied that the postponement does not carry any PUBECS an agr nt that the ike will not be called Monday even ing unless th ten hours is Secretary 1 nand for an eight-hour granted ne bad 5 day at wages equivalent to pay for A few minutes before the postponement* was gained tating t ‘hopeful. ued a stat he was In announcing the outcome of the conferences the mediators issued the following statement At our request and out of appre-iation of the national situation, Brviheriood sud the ratiroad managers have resumed negotiations and in the hope (hat some adjustment may be had that will avoid the necessity foy a strike, the Brotherhoods have wired or telephoned their general chatr- men asking that all action be prior to that time under the a postponed for forty-eight hours, advised of a settlement, the given,” and unk men will leave the service ithority already See announce- rs will be etary Lane supplemented the official statement with the ment that conferences between the disputants and the med rerumed to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock “The situation he sald, “looks somewhat hopeful At the time of making his statement Secretary after bourse of arduous effort, in bringing together, in joint conference, #ix members of the Railroad Mani s’ Conference Committee and the Four Brotherhood chiefs in room 250 of the Hotel Biltmore. adjoining, were the other members of the Board of Ratlroad Managers. Lane had succeeded, Secretary Lane had so manoeuvred@ | that the joint conference began im Pour Brotherh 1 ch » Lee, Carter, mediately after all hands had par td and Stone, from 10 o'clock | : intil nearly 1,30 o'clock, He pointed tuken of a stout and savory luncheon. out to them that a strike would prob ably lead to public operation of the ownership and| railroads and that) pUbita BWAARINIAITE HBL eandilalnn ta | union growth...Finally he asked them | to oall off the strike order for ten days and, receiving no encouragement, begged that final action in the matter served at the expense of the United States Government There had been, previously, separ ate conferences between the medi ators and the brotherhood ohiefs and the mediators and the railway man- agers. The managers, before meeting with the mediators, had been in structed by eight of the foremost railroad presidents in the country | to “stand pat” on sais Lk shen | tion to refer the who! hour | and wage dispute to shy cele Commission. The situation at the hour Secretary (Continued on Fourth Page.) COCCHI ESCAPES oo SOON AFTER POLICE lane made his statement unless the brotherhood cheifs b cked down would eventually be strike, o ratiroad managers were without power to offer or accept an compromise. | NEW YORK PREPARES TO PRO- | | rie Detective ng under the dir TECT STATIONS. han nt Distr Police Commissioner Woods as eigned to Chief Schmi ger this} Pool b ¥ ‘ efternoon the arrangement of details | Cocchi, the motorcycle who for police protection of railroad sta-|fied when the a im tions, yards and engine houses in the | Feb. 15 about t n city, Reserves will t eld for}home of Ruth Cruger tw ¢ special railroad duty all precincts 18, w ica at hi in which railroad stations. yards pluce f ir of skates other property which mig een-| Friends han ed by Bdge angered are located | yesterday of the steps taken Secretary Lane struggied with the detectives (o arrest Cocchi in In room 249, | | | vessel U BOATS TRY TWICE WOMAN STRANGLED TODEATH, BRIS CAPTURE TO SINK LAPLAND; MISSED BY 1OFEET British Patrol Boat Destroys Submarine After the First Attack. FIRED AT IN Torpedo Only Few Yards Dis- tant Seen by Officers of the Liner. MERSEY. | Lap-| The Wh steamship nd, which arrived here to-day Liverpool, was attacked by @ | man submarine off the coast of Ire-| Star from end on her Iasi eastward voyage,! according to a narrative by officers of the ship, who then watched th siuking of the submersible by a Brit- ish patrol boat A few hours later, when the land was at the mouth of the Me wuiting a pilot to take her | Live the Germans made a aec-| ond attempt to sink ber, ‘This t a torpedo fired at her passed wi n feet of her stern Instantly, without further waiting! tor he pilot, Cap Bradshaw had} e ship put at full speed and raced] ap the river out ' When the first att t was made | sink the Lapiond a wan sub- | nersible suddenly appeared directly er bow, Cap: sig- ed his engine room for full sp ) awing the vessel apout, Aft thy moment a British patrol boat a peared, her three-inch ¢ blozing | » who} the | shots | t, penetrating | away at the submersible, ‘Th: were on the Lapland’s deck a tin 1 that several of these struck the German cr und sinking her, The liner earlier was made attempt to destroy off Moviile the harbor. She had taken the course far to the north of Ireland to escape submar- sailed trom Liverpool | © morning « suddenly | hanged her course put into Mo There she re ed all day, | venturing forth dead of| and then with all her lights] ved out | Lapland 1s the first British | to come in fore and aft ' Her passage across the Atlantic| was without other incident save the | shting of the Bultic in mid-ocean Then both vessels indulged in @ little practice, each turning #0 o bring thelr stern guns upen e her aa an indication of what they might have had to do in other elreum- | with guns both} stances. The and brought forty-four | first three and forty; four t r ‘8. wat N.. 2. Q warned him, When detective , to the hotel| in whieh the belie ve has ben hid ing they found ‘his ) vacant. But the did obtain a friend of hi 1 back of the Palisades over Hundred and who liv looking West One Twenty-fifth Street and took him un der voluntary detention to the Dis trict Attorney's office, where he was| juestioned throughout to-day by M Dooling Mra. ( who has been lef ner two children to manage her hus- | pand's business as best she can, nas ome very much worked up by th state Mra. Cruger, the missing her. She is willing to do| sue can to aid the police in if it will relieve Mrs! Cruger’s ess, which has brouh about a ¢ ete Dreakdown of 1 with Mr. Dooling to - > --——- (Racing Entries on Page 8.) —_——— WEAK AND RUN DOWN? Bulla up with Father Jonas Medicine aavt. at Br ~BAPAUME, KEY 10 GERMAN DEFENSE Von Hindénburg’s “Gibraltar ROBBED OF $250 IN ENELS IN ROOMAT THENARTINQE eeisatoat maa the Body of Mrs.| VIS RIPOREED APIRE Helair 24 Hours After Police Got! Description of Both Missing Wife Further Retirement of Kaiser ‘ anges Forces Admitted in Official and Murder Victim. Berlin Report. LONDON the March 17.—Bapaume, on front Twenty-four hours after Harry J. Helair had reported the disappear ince of his wife to the police and had given them an accurate deseription he identified as her woman who was found dead yesterd Franeo- Belgian haw been of her, o'clock this afternoon that of the Hotel Martinique, ame time body at 1 Agency announces Reuter’ a the morning in the Battal correspondent at the Coroner's Her and Thirty-second St Mrs, About the had way Headquarters in F that the towns of Latransloy Achlet-le-Petit « found@ - be 2S TRPPELIN SHOT telegraphs une physician reported that Helair been strangled to death and money and $2,500 In jewels are missing also are reported to in the hands of the British. Despatches Although ® woman w front on Field Mar from the orted her disappear Thursday, the two cases were 9 tu the pol coupled with i] con ed until Helair read in a shal Halg'a succinct official state kewspaper a description of the dead ' ment, prepared the public, in woman and came to Manhattan and « measure, for the news of capture of en ibed he y the, German stronghold—dubbed by The autops: performed b De . losed the imprint of two fingers o Gibraltar of the western front.” the woman's throat, and Dr. Schultz On Thursday British for were expressed the opinion that she had reported within a few hundred yards jbeen strangled by a powerful pe of the Bapaume fortifications son, prob + oman wo wom aie Baupaume was the key of the Ger sleeping in adjoining rooma in the Altship Crippled by Gunfire at) man detenses against which the new | H 7 T Ilalg fensive on the western front hotel heard not the slightest aig during the night, and the p Height of More Than ad been hammering for weeks. Two Miles. ‘The city is considered @ position of vital military importance. It lies at the limit of the Artois hills, which afford support for the defense in at- tacka from the west and south, for brought down in the Comptegne to-| beyond it lay the plains of Flanders, Heve murderer seized the pt and strangled her bi the while she sl wo. fore she could cry out LEFT HOME AFTER MYSTERIOUS PHONE CALL, PARIS, March 17.—A Zeppe parently returning from Englan: —_ on RUSSIAN EMPEROR TELLS IN MANIFESTO HE YIELDED SO THE WAR WOULD BE WON = ¢2_—_____ |Not a Single Shot Fired in Moscow in Effecting the Change of Gov- ernment — Executive Committee Now Rules the Nation. IMPERIAL COAT OF ARMS ceptured by the British, HaMIRE'A BURN IED ATP PETROGRAD, LONDON, March 17.-Grand Duke Michael has accepted the throne “until such time, whieh will follow. with as little delay as possible,” the country “shall by universal, direct and equal suffrage” express the will of the people as to new form of government. The declaration made by the Grand Duke on his accept reads as follows has come to me at the voluntary ce of tl throne, ag given out by the news agency, Tile heavy responsibility request of my brother, who has transferred the imperial throne to me during a period of warfare which is accompanied with unprece- dented popular disturbances. the thought that the of adopted the firm resolution’ to 1 “Moved by which Is in the minds of the entire the I have spt the supreme power only if this be the will of our great people who, by a plebiscite organized by their representatives in @ constituent assembly, shall establish « form of government and new fundamental laws for the Russian people, good country {s paramount, state. “Consequently, invoking the benediction of our Lord, I urge ail citizens of Russia to submit to the provisional Government established upon the initiative of the Duma and invested with full plenary powers, which will follow with as littie delay as possible, as the constituent assembly, on a basis of secret suffrage, shall, by jts decision 8s to the new form of government, express the will of the people.” The the Duma {n Russia as the de facto Russian Government, until such time, universal, direct, equal anc British Government is dealing with the provisional committee of it was announced to-day PETROGRAD, via London, March 17.—The following is the text of the Imperial manifesto in which the Russian Emperor announced his abdication and that of his son; "We, Nicholas 11, by Russias, Czar of Poland and Grand known *o all our faithful subjects againet a foreign foe élave our country, painfu! trial “Interior troubles threaten to have a fatal repercussion on the # the grace of God Emperor of all the Duke of Finland, @c, make In the day of the great struggle who has been striving for three years to en God has wished to send to Russia @ new and Two hours before the woman left : a na Taal Clinton Street, | 44% The airship’ fell from a great|with Cambrai, Valenciennes and Brooklyn, acco! © relatives, she belght. ‘The crew was burned to death. | Poual in view. Its capture probably appeared ex er receiving The following official atatement was| Wl! serve to make Peronne unten- phone message and sald she was! gt . ble and render St. Questin an un joing to Manhattan on a shopping| vee, ante Binge IOrctie AnSItaR Gt ths: Car going 7. “A Zeppelin was bronght down this] man staff. trip. She dressed immediately and eft the house. ‘This telep! cal]| Morning ot Complogne by anti-alr-| Bapaume, which had a population s being traced and 1s regarded as| craft y while flying over the} 0! 3.900 before the war, is a p | historic note, It was the ace the most Important clue in the pos- | towr of more than twol.. ia hattis between the French session of the police |mites. It r {ned flying in the alr rr “Prude mile emaines Ge during the Franco-Pruss 8. Helair regtaterec the hotel} . Mit. HAGAN? deep aiepsonminaresn for & moment and then fell, atriking| War, on Jan. 3, 1871, the Germans, shortly after 0 jock POORY 1 oian wall: aah WiOue ti te ifter the struggle, falling back be afternoon, slening on the register hind the Somme. Armies have | ¢ ston." Delt | the bomba were thrown over-|” } eae Flore Grey, Boston.” A bellh av WW’ Gy struggled in ov near it in wars since who 0s her to her room, No.| board during the f They dropped] the time of 1 ¥ pth enth floor, has informed | on yacant ground. Most of them did] “Our troops entered Bapaume thin the police that when she tipped him} ot explode morning, after, stiff fighting,” Reu- he notied several diamond rings on er’ spondent telegrap’ r Angert. He alao acid her nurve| “Several of the crew jumped out] ters ¢ ponent telegraphs "The her finger Also: GG her (puras | Niadaath, place waa in flames, the Germans appeared well filled with money j And were crushed to death, The otf) naving evidently made all plans for A maid who went to the room yea-| ors burned." setting fire to it when forced to re terday morning to ayrange it found) 7 »polin brought down was the| treat body of the woman, attired only|)_, rt ident occurred, adda} “Our troops are reported to in 4 nightgown, stretched across the < yond the town There was a little bic 4 : , — her lips and the hotel physi waid| , ' ay ne t parural deat iornan oioplanex were wrought down) TOQ INTERNED GERMANS r elry found in the room rday by the Fren " | In a purse 14 cents in cash was found Estes It was stated at the hotel, one of DED RCERD ABS SUA DER Ob Ate dered f t a IX el, one : , iment Ordered From Bo ) @ most conservative establishments a aovounted for by this pilot to : i mney n Broadway, that the woman had | 1 Sailors In Two Georgia not received any visitors at the | wae alghted short Army Post jduring ber short stay, and that the Def 4 was reached 5 ig pings ed no telephone raft guns at a great. WASHINGTO H eranh imadeeaan to hat hal hetwht, 1 y three mites, The| seven hundred inte na Pa HA A iokce (rabip fire and the wreckage,|ore at the Philade Yard ages gr aed yepnte with the od dodies of the crew,| will be moved ere Mu y had been married tit-| ; miles eventeenth Infantry was 1 years but had no cildrer northanst of I me. piered fro Mie bands a HAPPILY MARRIED FIFTEEN \ prenumat TY) nere and - YEARS, SAYS HUSBAND LONDON, Mar ald r The whole afta 1 deep in st night wa t of 9 me,” Mr, Helaty 1 af pelina . ' 1 Shamrock morgue. “I it se any excttement even Pres my wife rex Pat the nong the negoing theatregoors e House om H assumed ‘name * a The raiders were favored by « dor f anamreok te ~- ‘ eBay Sent to the Whire House by? (Continued on Fou and mooniess night. Redmond, (ne Irish Nationalioc Leader final outcome of the war. The destinies of Russia and the honor of our dear fatherland require that the war be prosecuted at all costs torlous end, The cruel enemy fs making his last effort and when our in concert with those will definitely chastise the foe. days in the life of Russta we believe our people should have the closest union and organization of all their forces for the realization of speedy victory. For this reason, dn accord with the Duma of the Empire, we have considered tt de sirable to abdicate the throne of Russia and lay aside our supreme the woment is near allant army, of our glorious allies, “In these decisly: power, Not wishing to be separated from our loved son, we leave our heritage to our brother, the Grand Duke Michael Alexan- jrovitch, blessing his advent to the throne of Russia. We hand over the Government to our brother in ful) union with the repre- sentatives of the nation who are seated in the legislative cham- bers, t this step with an inviolable oath {n the name of our well beloved countr We call on all faithful sacred patriotic us of the fatherland to fulfil their this painful moment of national trial and representatives of the nation in bring- duty in to aid our brother and the ig Russia into the of prosperity and glory May God aid Rusata Phe Czar has disappeared, If the jals of the new Provisional Gov- eroment know nereabouts of posed ruler and the Czarina, they refuse to muke the information public q A report Duke Alexts has been current here since early last night that the Grek Nicholaevitch, thirteen-yearold son of the Czar and hele 4