The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1917, Page 1

——— 80 GIRLS KILLE ce \ | DITION a —== = es . “ PRICE ONE CENT. Coole, (rhe 'New York World). ne re = — Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1917. E DAMAGES LINER To-Day'’e Weather—FAIR AND WARMER, f “Circulation Books Open to All.”’ 18 PAGES PRICE == —— ONE CENT. NEW YORK GERMANS LOSE 9,000 MEN AND 40 GUNS ALL PASSENGERS TAKEN OFF LINER NEW YORK AFTER SHIP HITS MINE NEAR LIVERPOOL rms oT R TELLS WILSON wos HS PLAN TO RASE sew oe am ARMY FOR FRANGE British Port. Among Passengers and | esident and ex-President For- LEFT HERE ON MARCH 29. Many in the Crew. A ee om vurk steak a| Set Political Differences and mérican liner New York struck a * { : mine at 7.40 o'clock last night five Confer at White House. miles off Liverpool Bar, No casual pas aie Wee Cass tles were reported. The vessel l.ter WASHINGTON, April 10.—Eager to proceeded to Liverpool. tead an American army to France and Consul Washington at Livrpool, re exerting all his influence in favor of porting the incident to the State De ‘. partment to-day, sald velt called upon President Wilson at “The American liner New York the White House to-day and later atruck a mine at 7.40 o'clock Inst night, conferred with leading members of five miles off Liverpoo! Bar Com Congress. pany reports passengers landed at Liv-| In going to the White House, the + on | Colonel discarded all political aif. erpool except four, who are still On| 0. oices of the past and allened him thé ship. y casualties, Vessel p self w servedly w the President, ceeded under her own steam and is begging only for opportunity to be tn the front rank fighting Germany. The two men meeting in the entrance hall now (1 o'clock thi her dock.” morning), entering A cablegram from t tof. 1 of the White House clasped hands tn ier ies the. Asnaniaan road cordial greetings and going to the in New York 11 o'clock to-day | Green Room engaged for half an hour states that ex ination of the New In earnest conversation. York at her dock shows the dumage| Co! Roosevelt sald on leaving the nicted t il Age | White House nfileted by the mine Is slight, The] Me eee aestring to neo the eaplosion occurred ut a point of the} po iaene personally to reiterate what hull outside hold No, 4, but the me: T had sald about Bin tonumaas tei Gan a mde 4 pagal gdelaall gress, and to lay before him in detail 3 was on the port or stachoard | jist what I desired to have bis direc side ion to do in the case of the army divi- It was my earnest rope and bellef that it would be well SEVEN AS PASSENGERS France at an early moment Che New York left sion for nee. “The President recetved me with the utmost courtesy and consider her North Kiver|ution and doubtless in his own due | time will come to a decision. { ha | eady been in communication with Secretary of War Baker on the eub- | ject her guns and late that night or early!” “1 am heart and soul for the pro Sunday morning passed | posal of the Administration for uni eeeees Shannel versal military training and for uni 5 versal military e New York carried fAftoen first TNs ow i serried 86 frst) Call it conscription or what you wil pler shortly aft March 31 end Bay to take on ammunition for r noon on Saturday She anchored in Graves- out through obligatory service clase, nineteen second class and} and it won't scare me. I would favor twenty-five steerage passengers.| it if the demand were for 3,000,000 There were ten women passengers, | men “The division I have asked permis and four in the | sion to raise would be raised by vol six in the first cabi second. There were only seven! untary enlistment, but In no way to American citizons on the passenger inrertore with the universal service Mat, : Pee |plan. The division would be recrui The New York, like her aister| «4 outside those liable for conacrip ships, {8 armed with three six-inch | 41, naval guns, two forward, port and) Roosevelt's plans contemplate thr starboard, and one aft, The guns sending to France of an army corps, were in charge of a lieutenant of th navy and each gun was manned by four expert gunners from the battle ship Oklahoma, Just before the word was received of the safe arrival of the St. Louts at her port of desti- nation in Great Britain. The 6t Louis was the first of the American Minera to arm and start for the dan- ger pone, She left New York on ff which his division A regular army officer, preferably n, Wood, would command the corp with Roosevelt sery $ subordinate commander of a division specially en ated by him, a second Rough Ride New York left port |composed principally of infantry | Thousands of men alread: are infor only waiting the word to mobilize. The dominant idea inspiring Co! Roosevelt t# that the American flag must wave on the battlefields of France, carried by American soldiers (Oontinued on Dieventh Page.) pecectec > eaenaneey (Fer Racing Resuite See Page 2) t universal military service, Col. Rose. | | organization on an enlarged scale, but | mally enrolled in the Roosevelt army, | FEAR OF SERVICE. "IN WAR IS SEEN NN RUSH TO WED {City Clerk Scully's Diagnosis of the Many Cases Presented at the Marriage Bureau. The run «4 the Marriage License Bureau, which began last Saturday and seems to be growing by the hour. was responsible for an outburst of Indignation to-day from City Clerk P. J. Scully, who declared that he believed a very largo majority of the male applicants rushing into matrimony with the deliberate inten- are tion of escaping military service “I have reluctantly come to the conclusion,” said the City Clerk, “tha this unprecedented increase in the number of applications for marriage licenses is due In a very great degre to the recent an suncement that all single men between the age of ninv- t and ‘wenty-five years may be selected by drafting. Any man who thus secks to hide behind a woman's skirts js a moral and a physical cow ard. He is certainly not worthy of the freedom and the advantages that his parents sought when they came to these shores. “When the record was broken or Easter Saturday I was of the opin fon that the season had something to do with it. Monday's record, low ever, proved that such was not th case. ‘The increase was out of ail proportion. There was nothing indicate that was On the other hand piicants for show that the male ap enses clearly of gel large majority marr! a very them are between the ages of nine teen and twenty-five “AIL my clerks who have heard a word droppr and there, and who even have udmiss from e brides-to-be © with me that |the proposition draft unmarried young men iriving hundreds |them into hasty marriage ‘I have been asked If there is a remedy for thi apparently deplorable | condition of affairs, There is no that I know of 2 are open to public in spection. If there are any United States Army or Navy recruiting off cers who want to look at my book may do #0, I extend the invita tion with pleasure, On ny books they | will flind the na ge and so forth Jof every man who has applied for marriage license since the announce 200 ARE REPORTED KILLED IN MUNITIONS EXPLOSION; SEVERAL HUNDRED INJURED Tragedy Is Believed to Be the Result of a Plot—Plant Was Busy Manufacturing Shrapnel Shells for Russia. CHESTER, Pa., April 10.—A terrific explosion at the great plant of the Eddystone Munitions Corporation at Eddystone, Pa., a mile from this city and ten miles from Philadelphia, ts reported to have killed from 126. to 250 pertons and injured at least 300 more to-day. A railroad official asserts that nearly 300 were kilicd, but this estimate could not be con- firmed late this afternoon and the police were of the opinion that there were about 200 dead At the undertaking place of Coroner White there are eighty bodies of girls. Thousands of girls were employed at tho plant, curred soon after ® eer The explosion ¢ 0 ofelock tn th pellet room of the | shrapnel building, where about 100|{ PLOT TO BLOW UP sirls were employed putting the fin CAPITOL REPORTED; shing touches on shells. In a build , J INCREASED Ing adjoining approximately 0,000 GUARD IS INCRE. xhells were stored. A second explosion Jemolished this building and sca WASHINGLON, April 10.—Re- ered the shells in every direction ports of a plot to blow up the Immediately calls were sent for | Capitol, received by secret service outside ald and phystelans, firemen | operatives in New York, resulted and policemen from surrounding [in increasing the guard on the owns arrived in great numbers, The T Ga iitol grounce to-daz buildings In which the explostons ot Fitty officers will be on duty at rred caught tire, and by strenuous work the flames, which burned two || Mlgat and no ono will be allowed ours, were confined to these struc to enter the grounds after sunset tures without a pass. The two main hospitals of the city were soon filled, and others injured ind a frame tabernacle recently ed here for relighous serviec ORDERED TO LEAVE CITY yficlal of the company was the expionion, ‘there wern wninpere| BY FRENCH AUTHORITIES explosion, ‘There were whispers f 4 plot to destroy the plant. ‘There lence nore Berne bot mployed ID) Germans Have Been Waging a ip plant The place has been thoroughly Powerful Offensive Northeast dud night and day, and afte of the Town very portion of the ground as NEBL tis tocday Jered evacuation of as da Itheims by the civil population In addition Secret Serv men and ives work in t various de Fo: t ust few days the Germans partments disguised as munitions | have n waging @ werful offen naker ive no east of Rheams Order for | ment of the proposed drafting The Eddystone plant, though owned Civil evacuation of the clty may b Thaddeus C. Wasserman and Thom |»y the Baldwin Locomotive Works ue to a desire to save needless sac 19 J. Dougles, who conduct the mar-| was not operated by t company © of clyili No wbardment of ria told an Evening Wor was taken over by th ny the Ge becaune reporter they were convir at Commission when the |of unusual military st yout to large majority of the young men w Nddystone Munitions Company fallea | taken there, . have very rece applied for ieenses} iy tive up to its contracts last sep > “The girls make no bones about! it that time by which the Baldw It," declared Wasserman, who {x bead] Company should releape lal Two GRAIN ELEVATORS lor the Chapel. “Many of them volur . povalty each shell i teer the information that they have] eee = af hak aaa — induced thelr young men to get mar- | percentage on cost of o | Loss Will Be Nearly $500,000—Sey- |ried right away to escape conscrip- | and production of as many shells 4 Others w unbluch-| the Anglo-Russian Commission could eral Explosions Heard Before om to save enches aries te CARMANIA ARRIVES. MINNEAPOLIS, Ay » 350 1 matt evatora were destroyed tb we da Th ard Mner Carmania th ved to t leant he bu mee 3 ' . r 4 " i tay the i assang: will nearly 500,00 {to then was 815 on June 1914, the! ° Na nal Guardsmen patrolling ne day the PULSSN Wes One 1,000,000 ¥ fiat reported that th tr Mrs, Sanger ( Preach Birth tracted For by U. &, rapes egies tobe i andy v4 Control in A 7 | CHICAGO, Aprit 10.—The Government |! the structures before the flames ALBANY, April 10.—Police authort- |hes already contracted for 1,000,000 paira| Were discovered \eles teeued orders to-day prohibiting a! of Army shoes at prices ranging from| More than » bushels of grain in lecture on birth contro! wh had bean | $4.85 to, $5.19. it wae stated At one of | box cara on side tracks near the ele (arranged for to-night by Mra Margaret | tho, eve ordered in st. | VAtOrs, valued at $100,000, were dam Sanger of New York |aged by fire and water NAVY TAKES STEPS TO AID ALLIES RID SEA OF U BOATS |Naval Patrol Will Relieve Al- lied Warships Now Guard- ing Atlantic Coast. By Samuel M. Williams. ‘Special Start Commnendent ot The Brening WASHINGTON, April 10.—The Gov ernment is rushing its material and economic reserves to the front to carry out the new tactics that modern war- fare has developed, along lines of co- operation that will help the Allies best. Although the nation is weak in trained soldiers, it is mighty in money, industry and in supplies, without which the largest army tn the world could not exist, It 1s these very things that the Huropean Allies need most, and it Is these things that America can furnish freely and quickly, In common cause with England. France and Russia against Prussian militarism, the United St s Govern ment plans to strengthen tho batt lines in France, and the harassed, needy hordes of the new Russian democracy. The developments of the | day are these: A corimission of, English offi- clals is on the way to Washington and an American Commission is nearing London to arrange tails of practical naval, iallitary and industrial co-operation. AVY WILL GUARD THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC, The United States Navy will take up patrol of the Atlantic sea board from Nova Scotia to the Panama Canal and around the West Indies, This will relieve the do- | | N large number of British and | French ships now on this aide of | the Atlantic so they may return to home waters. Secretary of the Treasury Me | Adoo announced details of the | forthcoming five billion dollar bond Issue, of which three biilions are to be loaned to the Allies for | the purchase of supplies in this | country. | American experts, principally tn railroad transportation and indu | trial organization, i go to Rus | Sla’s assistance and endeavor to | bring order out of the chase cre ated by the Czar's treacuerous Government Great quantities of muntitt | steel, copper and raw materials | will be hurried Europe. | Allies are u tood ad more than on inforcements H more than in WAR PLANS DEBATED IN HOUSE AND SENATE over a wile | eat gene | In the House }was doveted neceastty of rea thet of an adequate the senate the de irned pally on the ques’ nervice p 1 I gray to w t will ag hited ator t epublica I do not know " emulate Canada in 4 « soldiers T tbe al 5 (Continued on Second P BERLIN ADMITS BIG LOSS “AS BRITISH DRIVE AHEAD AT EVERY PONT ON FRONT +: Success of Canadians in Capturing Vimy Ridge May Force Enemy to Give Up Hold Upon Manufactur: ing Districts of Northern France VILLAGE OF FAMPOUX TAKEN BY ASSAULT TO-DAY LONDON, April 10.—The British. offensive between Lens an¢ St. Quentin, with which the spring operations have been opened anc which is still in progress, has proved even more successful than the earlier accounts indicated. The actual battle line is now about thirty-five mile: long. Gen. Sir Douglas Halg to-day reports that yesterday's capture: exceeded 9,000 men, while forty guris fell into the hands of his troops One correspondent says German prisoners may number 15,000. (In its report to-day the Berlin War Office admits heavy losses, but says the British did not break through the line.) The Canadians, who had one of the hardest bits of the front tc contend with, are now in complete occupation of the Vimy Ridge, ever the eastern slopes of the ridge having been cleared of Germans, Canadians also have repulsed German counter attacks. These reactions by the Germans indicate the importance they al tach to this position, whence the conquerors look down over the plain of Douai. With Vimy Ridge gone®he whole German line covering the | French towns and industrial districts to the north becomes a wavering jone, and any leisurely retreat the Germans may have planned is made uncertain and precarious. TWO MORE BATTALIONS OF 230 OFF FOR WAR DUTY s and Sweethearts Hysterical Guardsmen Leave Their Armory, The First and Second Battalions The 4 With the capture of the Vimy Ridge | the Britivh made a considerable stride along the road to Dounl, while the | Capture of the bigh ground northwest Jof St. Quentin tightens the chain whioh the Anglo-French forces are drawing around that town. A German diversion southeast of Ypres, according to Gen. Haig’s re- Port, met with no success. Field Marshal Hale's offensive to day extended northward, A despatch | received from his headquarters men- 4 from the armory at Bedford| tine aghting near a Bassee, x least twelve miles north of the latest | Mother | 4 | ot the Twenty-third New York Infantry | march and Atlantic Avenue at a little after) 1 o'clock to-day for fleld duty. Their/ statement concerning offensive fight- © followed a Kreat gathering ‘8 ' here, wives and sweethearts at i@rrtene Manon? OF THE BRITISH WAR OFFICE, . wht clined te h Tho British have seized the village ul ay the flow * were Kiven,|of Fampoux and the neighboring de di walt aa the ment ses north and south of the Searpe | sl bend harass kin tha aiseat Kiver Near St. Quentin the Ge ; mans have been driven from the high wed by the ol WMD) ground between Le Verguler and and started down Paelf cot |Hargtcourt, Following is the official , mT TE wus to Carlton | statement of the War Office: As ry ‘ nib th inka ‘During the aight there was se pres All the factories along | Vere fighting at the northern end of Vimy Ridge, where the enemy rere suspended work and) had retained ~ footing. He was ‘ ) leaned out of win ed, and an attempted counter- dow na owded fl attack failed to materia The T ta eas n al of the ridge has been ’ A A eared of the enemy and counter- 1 un to entra ttacks repulsed k ; nt the headquarters ‘Our troops advanced and seized and ma in are tore-| tho village of Yampoux and neigh- nain at the armory with Col, Frank! boring defenses north and south H. Norton. machine gun eom-| of t arpe yw ater join the & nd Bat “The number of prisoners taken . Tho headquarters company,| yesterday exceeds 9,000, and over \ of the regimental! forty guns have been captured rae rderiies and the band, “In the neighborhood of St will rematn at the armory indefinttely, | Norton making frequent visite to | scatfared unite of his command, | Quentin the enemy has been driven from the high ground between Le Verguler ard Hargicourt Wight: t be EXPLOSION 4 H ee —"_—__ errr Se Oe So ee