The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1917, Page 1

ES { EDITION mi Copy right, PRICE ONE CENT. ALIES DRNE AT ST FROM THREE SIDES: — oe ry Che British Capture More Towns— DEMAND Now Two and a Hall ( Miles Away. FOR FLAGS Makers. \ By William Phillip Simms (Steff Correspondent United Press.) ) WITH THE BRITISH ARMIbS AFIELD, April 2.—British forces t ing the last forty-eight hours mull brings in of flags. y advanced to within two and ‘ Fl e days t Hal€! Willesef Gon Quentin ba a ey) * i A Thels jiucs were’ thrust forward! of 7 a Pe fom the west to this near approach — | ip olty'e thea One firm northwest of the city to-d « towns of Att ind Viilecholles on approximate {the railroad }ine running from Roisel of all wi opened to-day factory ernment contract The advance from the nort! is more gradual, heless con: | | Quentin ! but neve and the by Public BY GERMANS, REPORT AS MORE TOWNS ARE TAKEN LONDON, April \ have captured Crotsiites perate defense by the Ren. | f ter’s correspondent at British Head quarters réports. @he Towns of Longatte « 68 biso have been captur Y British, who took some pr The immediate fall of S * has added to | a The British} after a rmans, A. E N mn Q J., Has Somme has now been cleared of Ger- man troops and the main German letreticth Is now holding, or attempt- to hold, the Hindonburg line, ere is every reason to believe they pe flanked out of it shortly. The fine old mediaeval city of ing on Wednesday Commisstoner by son. Commissioner phia a, tice last Satur full month ago the Germans be- Z Vy manu: BREAKS ALL RECORDS) BEREMRSADMITS LOSS,/ON Firm of Makers Tuming ut 2,000,000 a week Starts a New Plant Says Retreat Was Under Ore} PaCee ders and That Foe Suf- sls (a: Aillng prders,: Never ia th 2 fered Heavily. history of muking flags, American t wd flags, big and Ittle, has there been uch @ demand for the patriotic coi ors In all sizes and all forms as dur- Every sh orders to makers} submi sources is turning out mand for té the city believed to be one of the | flaws of all ras reached su win points in the Iindenburg line, | Vol! that nono of the fag cor In’ the meantime Brit can make even a rough estl- for 2,000,000 s, in three a new downtown to handie a Gov- exceeding $100,000, and flag inges, for the army, navy postal departinents and tho transport The output of the button hole Is enormous. It is the least ex sive schools, all kinds, have been ro. worn flags with new ar. the in THREATENS WILSOW'S LIFE: HELD IN $20,000 BAL W. D. Summers, of Woodbine, Been Under Arrest Adolph E. Nod sabidh' is considered a vital link Since Saturda jthe indenburg lime, is forecast CAMDEN, N. » April 2. } Bfitish correspondents in| W. PD. Simmers of Woodbine, } i said to be a German, was to-day held The entire Department of the! under $20,000 bail for a further hear United States Joline on a charge of threatening the life of President Wil No testimony was taken by the Acting on instruction from Wash Bt, Quentin will be # complete ington not to discuss arrosts made wieek when the Germane give it | %U"98 nternational crisis, Federal up Philip Gibbs, etaff corres- agents refused » make public any pondent of the London Daily Tele- | “*tws In the cas { graph at the front, wires that a Simmers was arrested by @ Philadel nt of the Department of Jus Circulation Books s Open to Alll.”| to All?’ 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). NEW “YORK, “MONDAY, HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK NEAR TO CARPATHIA WITH LOSS OF 167 Liner Arrives Here Safely| After Missing U Boat by | Half an Hour. BRINGS 99 PASSENGERS. {Doctor Tells of Being on Dis- abled Horse Ship Close to Sinking Laconia. The Cunard Uner Carpathia, Capt. ]W. Protehro, arrived to-day from a port in England with ninety-nine passengers and a tale of missing a erman* submarine off the coast of and by about half an hour. The happened on ong ine March 21, The picked up a message from a hospital adventure Carpathia’s wireless operator ship that had just been torpedoed. Half an hour later the hospital sighted, a beach he had been run ashore on The neighborhood swarmed the with patrol boats and submarine had disappeared. The Carpathia’s pas- sengers heard later that 167 lives had been lost on the hospital ship which was transferring wounded goldicrs from France to England On board the Carpat Edward Hensley of this Feb. 13, left Newport mouth, England, is 4 tho Norse transport Lexing ton, a British vessel. The Lexington carried 1,030 horses and 112 men, “One night, off the Irish coast,” said Dr. Hensley, “so bottom dropped out of the circulation pump tn the engine room and the engines stopped. Ma was Dr ity, who on| News for Aven- ip's. surgeon aboar We rolled helpless in @ heavy sea, “Half an bh after our engines broke down and before we could lo- cate the trouble we caught a wire less message from the Laconia, She was just elght miles away from our position and was sinking. Then we picked up messages from patrol boats, “Of course We knew there w: German submarine close by, It took eight hours to repalr the damage in the engine room, All that time we mofe than a hulk, and d. When we were noth n anxious peri it was sf that vicinity as fast as we could and reached port in safety.” Int erage of the Carpathia wero sixty-four horse handlers, went across on the Lexington Amer All AOR Is REPORTED ship was| ¢ 4 started the engines again we got out| ¢ who] op APRIL 2, 191 SENATOR LODGE PUNCHES PACIFIST IN ThE CAPITOL; HAD CALLED Knocks Down Member 0} Delegation Asking Him to Vote Against War Resolution, FIRST CALLS HIM A LIAR. Pacifists Issue a Statement Claiming That the Senator Was Floored. WASHINGTON, April 2.—A personal encounter between Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and Alexander Bann-| a formor wart of Dorchester, Mass., bail player, in which the Senator, who i nt is more than sixty old, to have knocked his opponc years is leged of the Capitol, Bannwart, with the Rev ris Drake of Christ Chureh, Dorches- and several other men and wom- eu of pacifist delegations called Sen- ator Lodge to the door of bis com ter, mittee room and asked him to vote of war with| ainst a declaration many. Senator Lodge replied if President Wilson asked that tor eh a declaration he certainly would => down, occurred to-day in the corridor Pau! Har- HIM A COWARD BORDER INVASION, REPORTED PLAN OF MEXICO PLOTTERS Miliary Party, Pro-German, Trying to Bring Carranza Around to Its Views. LAREDO, Tex., April polities, used as a lever In an effort to reg 2.—Internal te the Mexican course in in ternational affairs, have created a situation of the utmost gravity in that republic, ording to travellers just tal These travellors arrived from the Mexican capl- say the Constitu- tional arty, now holding the reins of government, ts divided into a so- called “clvil” group and a military ty embracing many of the chiefs the a Tremendous pressure | 1s being brought to bear on Gen. Car- | Panga each party, but the Prest ort it 1 Aaah ; poe dent-elect so far has not definitely Was trying to get away from F ins 8 y aligned himself with the policy of them, They were very violent, I said 2 althouat i ; either, although it ts known he de- ell, We must agree to diffe sitY8 |g to curb the undue activities of Senator tn a formal statement afters "You are hen the man, whom I ward learned was Bannwart, sald, addressing me . damn coward,’ the military arrivals according to the revent these men say, PEM | Ag stron opposed to any alliance sonully, I went forward, close up to! with Germany against the United him, and sald ‘You are a liar’ He) states and is standing firm for a struck me and I struck him, Then policy of ne in the event of thy whole party rushed at me and) the entr ted States into pushed me against the wall the European conft “A young man from Arizona, who The Military Party, according vas In the corridor, my secretaries! {o these stories, is strongly pro- ind Senator Stone's messenger, in-) German and advocates the entry tervened for my protection and drove| of Mexico into hostilities against them off." ites northern neighbor, with all Pacifist headquarters gave out a| that such entry implies, statement about the affair, which The reports brought from Mex: part was as follows of ssachusetts » gathering y Senator Lodge, After by Alexander Bannwart Boston, an American, and of Swis: udden group the M husetts man replied call you one,’ or word f Lodge struck ut ce, The Hosto ba knocking were ico City assert that German in- fluence and money has been ac- tive among certain of the Mili- tary Party and that certain mem bers have in contemplation and preparation plans for an extra active invasion of the border States after the United States has been goaded into making the first active hostile move, n their ruthless destruction of Uirice and hogan Bietepnoteey as an the city, blowing up and burning er SAFE IN BRITISH PORT and beat Bunnwart, striking also, | jn | hundreds of buildings, “Its FRENCH WAIT ACTION hether not acel tl Young) the large ¥) ee sesianssmneonanl woman am¢ delegates, who was} tuel suply tinued on Fourth P Page.) Zig ge: $ > Liner Again| trying to exp! The st # been brougt oj CGeatinued on Fo « OF WILSON ON WAR Biggest Transatlantic Liner Again) tryine nate presented a decidediy| pone ney Coe Meuimilian, Kaus a * WHEAT Is AT Eludes U Boats — Sailed | battered appearance when tt assem rman-Moxican mma. has b HIGHEST FUTURE sane PARIS, April. &—What Ahat arch 24 ollen face and fe congratu ty tt will be pa Wilson will say to the American Con-| The White Star offices in New York | nay walked In with an-arm in a and. Sonora QBICAGO, §$ April —May wheat] gress and what Congress holds | "ecetved &@ cablegram to-d stating Knox had his right be In hed $1.99 1-3 a bushel at noon to-|puptic attention in E to-day | that the Adriatic arrived safely at nd shook hands wit the highest price of any wheatlimore than any other nent | British port last night, ‘The Adriatic | § n of California with oe i eee ee au soa ginen th ae! largest ship in the transatlan- | an ie E MILITIA CALLED OUT, Verdun. ‘Tho nowspapers give ox-| tie service, She lett March 24 loaded | wuttenge Silent Sentinels Again on coe traordinary prominence to every | to capacity Duty at the White Hours, inform Ger | word of the telegram from Wash| All Germau submarine com-| WASHINGTON, April 2 pman Suf that if the ricans now de a otal in Federal service WOW Ce cca Maw York fore sting Pres}-|manders have explicit orders to get meat wate 7 ,” ir | tained in Germany are not beck in the Boise ° “peaceful” picketing he White! United States within the next few dent Wilson's message and the prob Adriatic, but thus far she has| Pes ‘4 : . : WASHINGTON, April Addittonat | °°? ‘ He gates to-day er effort) weeks, then American s¢ 4 will jtional Guardsmen were ordered out | on of Cong ot sundo President | nt p= | com t the declared the Rey 4 py for police protection duty. They | ne rench people are being | | ra t the Suffrage Constitutional Ame Dr W. Mustard, | pastor, of | the @ Becond Virginia Infantry, the ne ea ne Con ania y ‘ ° furth Virginia Infantry and Battery los mi} Ree ane ROGRAD, April \ att iF a the delive | rerrocr \p @ London) THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAC . Painia Fietd Arulier he Presideniial addr 1 Gu An atta Russian position ie Word)’ Bauding ; he units called out to-day bvir ional Ipon a Roumanian fron rda hi number of guardsmen now in arm \ an flags have 1 made [peaten ba t was announced off _> dm Pederas service vy eo aperoas [ready for diaplay wienever the news On the RussosGalician front (Racing Results on Page 2: Entries day 49,000, Warrants ib there was no fighUng of importance: on Page 4.) LSON TO SPEAK IN CONGRESS TO-NIGHT To-Day’s Weather—-CLOUDY; RAIN TONIGHT, LANE EDITION 7. 18 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. PAGIFISTS DRIVEN FROM THE CAPITOL STEPS BY POLICE low—Jordan Tries to See Wilson. NO PARADE PERMITTED, “War Protest” Meetings Held in Offices of Senators by Delegations. (Special Prom a Staff Oorrmpondent of the Frrening World.) WASHINGTON, April by hysterical pacifists, sembled at noon to-da. for war. David President Leland Stanford University, Harassed Congress as- Starr Jordan, of and one made an ef. Wilson of the leading pacifists, fort to see President this morning, but the President was busy tion was rebuked by Senator Wads worth, when one of soveral speakers said America had been ‘false friend” to Germany at's calling my country a pretty harsh name. I don't care to bear any moro of it,” sald Senator Wadsworth in terminating the interview About « ousand of the pacifists assembled on the steps of the entrance at the Capitol and became ~ that squads of police drove them to the broad plaza while small delegations of the pilgrims jeered and hooted. There were a few clashes be tween the two parties, but nothing tn nature of serious fighting main so act IETS ICT TT PLEA FOR PATRIOTISM IN OPENING PRAYER OF HOUSE CHAPLAIN WASHINGTON, — April A lain included in his pra a plea for patriotism | Diplomacy as failed | }] prayed, "Moral suas sf been swept amd "Wo ab ar and Pilgrims Jeer and Clashes Fol-| and organized | Delegations of pacifists held “war protest” meetings in thelr respective] Senators’ offices, Ono such del HOLDS UP WAR MESSAGE GiT FOR PETTY PATRONAGE UENTI ERMANS PREPARE DESPERATE STAND WON GOES TO CONGRESS WITH HIS WAR MESSAGE AT 8 O'CLOCK TO-NlGhT President’s Address to Express Hope for Early Peace on Basis. of Equality of Nations, Free Seas and Restriction of Autocracies. RESOLUTION DECLARES “STATE OF WAR EXISTS” Samuel M. Williams. Special Staff Correspondent of The Preaing World.) WASHINGTON, April 2.—A petty patronage contest held up President Wilson’s war message to Congress this afternoon after Speaker Clark had been re-elected in less than two hours by a vote of 217 to 205 R. Mann, the defeated Republican candidate, demanded a roll call on all the minor offices. He refused to give way so that the Presi- James dent might hasten to Congress South Trimble, Democrat, finally was re-elected Clerk by six ma- and Garret of Tennessee appealed again for one ballot on all’ re- maining offices. Mann again said no, jority, The Republicans saw a chance to capture one little office, that of Chief Doorkeeper, because of some personal unpopularity of Joseph Sinnott, present Incumbent International affairs and the nation’s fate were held up for hours while the picayune contest was continued by the small-minded Mann. The President will address Congress at 8 o'clock to-night, ‘This was officially announced at the White House after Representative Kitehin, the delay Democratic floor leader, had recommended the plan, in view of in the organization of the House. Throughout the day the President had remained fn his study waiting for the House orgs nization to become completed, When Kitehin's suggestion was given him by Secretary Tumulty, the President immediately expressed his willingness to comply The Administration war resolution follows: Some of those in tho crowd persisted in breaking through the police Mnes and mounting the steps. Pol serves were enlleg and t were forced back a considera ance the plaza. ‘Then thom began to leave, seattering about the city, One or two were sean to remove t armbands a Want Peace—Pennsylvanta and stuff thom in their pocket departing. Four or five however, remained. ‘Th Capitol grounds kor wearing pacifist nla ont Senate ymerene of Ohio, tt nant over arguments of an pacifist delegation visiting him, told ther You are tho best allies the Kaiser! othe pacifist swarm that wandered t th Wa | (Contir nd Page.) “Whereas the recent course of the Imperial German Government is in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; “Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the State of belligerency between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared, and “That the President be and is hereby authorized to take immediate steps not only to put the country in thorough state of defense but also to exert all of its power and employ all of its resources to carry on war against the Imperial German Government and to bring the conflict te a successful termina- tion.” tary T ut read hi the public print beyond saying that it wa: th sage t imulty wa the White House early to-day and The Secretary personally took uulty refused to comment on the document ually long to the me T “unu went out The President then golf links for a game with ! place the blame for a state of war on the shoul ed to express the profound hope that n bases of equality of nations, ind limited armaments, it Russian developments Jemocracy and the waning influence ments—always possible—the war f war exists between Germany and President to use the armed forces ions of the foe and use any means y waging the war and hastening peace. \ Mee