The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1917, Page 1

4 ' U.S. T0 BRIOGE ATLANTIC. WITH 3,000 WOODEN SHPS LANG d EDITION PRICE ONE CE ae Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publi ‘Co, (The New York World), Che “ Cireulation Books n to All.’’ | NEW YORK, THURS DA ¥Y, APRIL 12, 1 f “Circulation Books Open to All.”’ | 917. To-Day’s Weather—CLOUDY AND COLDER LANE EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. L IN ADMITS LOSS TO HAIG: LLIES GAIN AT TEN POINTS BRITISH MILLIONS CONVOYED SAFELY BY AERIAL FLEET TO SMASH U BOAT BLOCKADE 2.2: i225 <0 —_—— 150,000 Workmen Called to) Start Building Fleet That | Will Reach to Europe. | VESSEL EVERY 3 MILES. 35,000 Men and Gunners to| Handle “Pontoon” — Goe- * thalsin Charge of Task, | WASHINGTON, April 12 (United Prees).—To smash Germany's U boat Wlockade the United States will vir- tually bridge the Auantic. Plans for! the construction of 3,000 smal! wooden | doate—the most chant ship building programme ever undertaken—have i ‘The boats will be used to transport food and supplies to Entente ports. ‘The Government shipping has sent out @ call for 150,000 lum- bermen and wood workers the task at once. tremendous mer- | en comple board to begin The first thousand ships are to be completed within! eighteen months and immediately | thereafter 2,000 more will be ordered, | Each vessel will be of 8,000 tons with | & peed of ten knots, and with extra engines to develop sixteen knots in emergency. Each will cost about $300,000. It 1s the purpose to run the: such fashion that they will const @ veritable pontoon bridge across the sea—one boat every three miles, The tremendous number is expected to exhaust the most valiant efforts of U boat comma off sup plies from France, Work on ways for the ships has al- ready begun at Jacksonville, Fla; | Beaumont, Texas, and a half dozen other points, President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor hae promised all co-operation in sup plying labor. Complete mobilizat rs to cut gland and on of fhdustry in putting the scheme through has been announced, Commencing Nov. 1, three ships a day will sail into service Standardization of design so far as practicable is planned to expedite construction. The ships will be built by private ship yards under contract for their purchase when completed by the ship- ping board. Later the shipping board may then either resell the ships, charter them or operate them At least 70 per cent, of the first year's programme will be Pacific coast. The new be then brought through ¢ Canal with lumber cargoes service at present freight rates, they will earn $40,001 apiece—more than enough to pay for the trip, 1 trips abroad and return, the officl for w uch estimate will more than pay for the entire cost of the vessels, Thirty-five thousand additional men will be needed to man the new flee besides adequate gun crews ship, A call for college into immediate training for this latter work is being considered by the board All workmen, crews and gunners, it fw practically assured, will be exempt ed from any universal military ser- vice which may be adopted, Eight- hour law regulations, under present plans, will be suspended to rush programme to completion Gen. Goethals, who directed the con- struction of the Panama Canal superintendent the construction of the TROOP C, FIRST CAVALRY, OFF FOR WAR SERVICE Commands From Albany and Syracuse Also Move to Con- centration Point. Troop C of the First New York Cav- alry, under command of Capt. Back- house, moved from its armory in Brooklyn to-day to go on duty with the Twentythird New York Infantry, of which the last two battalions left yesterday. The cavalrymen marched to the Atlantic Avenue Station of the subway for Manhattan to entrain for their destination, Tho streets about the armory were crowded with friends and relatives as the men marched out ‘Their horses had preceded them Troops E and D, from Albany and Syracuse, moved to the concentration point early this morning, ‘Troop A, under Capt contingent, It is understood the othor two squadrons of the regiment wiil not be called for muster into the Fed- eral service until horses for them have been collected here by the War De- partment. Seaeeneillineceeeeeeenoe TO TAX ALL BRANCHES OF MOVIE INDUSTRY Bills Representing Result of Wheeler Investigation Introduced in Both Houses, Special to The Eveuing World.) ALBANY, April 12.—-Bills were tn- troduced in both Houses to-day tax- ing all departments of the moving picture industry. These bills are identical and rep- resent the work of the Wheeler com mitte tected against Ot Lenght mines. We have thirteen naval dis Under the bills a single headed |tricts on our coasts, Every one of commission 1s created which has the | them needs more airplanes than there | power to lcense all four branches of] are in this whole country to-day with the business, A tax is proposed on| capable tors films, levied against each foot and| Tho Aero Ald Soctety agreod to] ranging from a quarter of a cent al raise the funds to equip and train a) foot to four and one-quarter cents a] unit of twelve young men, to be foot, depending upon the cost of the| selected from thé colleges, for sea- negative coast seaplane duty at the disposi Producers and distributers taxed $200 each. Operators are re- | ‘hose present Be mast py for ners quired to pay $2 each and the thea Wise Wood, Mra, Charles Carscailen are taxed on seating capacity ranging | \y'"* Sharies Baker and Mra, Charles trom $5 to $200. Ban MAY WHEAT UP TO $2.191/.. New Rec rd on Reports of Big Ex- port Basiness, Donaldson, will join the rest of the squadron to-morrow. Major E. J. McLeer will go with to-morrow's e, which Investigated the movies Transport Across Channel and | Women Take Up Work Here. | | ‘The ability of the British Govern- | | ment to transport unlimited numbers of quantities of supplies to the battle front | last men and across the chan without losses was explained | | |night by Henry Woodhouse, a Gov- | jernor of the Aero Club of America, | to a group of patriotic women who later organized the Aerial Ald So- clety at the home of Mrs. Henry Slayback at No, 375 Park Avenue. “Up to Oct. 30, 1916," said Mr.| Woodhouse, “the !tritish had moved across the channe| 8,000,000 men (in- cluding those returned from the front and later sent back), 9,420,000 tons of explosives, 47,504,000 gallons of gaso- line, 1,000,000 sick and wounded and over 100,000,000 horses, mules and the Like without losses due to enemy attack. This was made possible by the protection of the ships by enormous body of sea planes dirigibles, which protected the voys, not only from raiders, but from submarines beneath the surface and even from mines. “In the first eighteen days of Feb- ruary 6,076 ships arrived in the ports of the United Kingdom and 5,873 sailed. Every one which came In was examined by scores of seaplanes far out at sea and then convoyed In, Every outgoing ship was convoyed by them, “The cost to Great Britain of her air defenses so tar has been $350,000,- 000, of which one-half has been ex- pended in naval protection and the an and con- coast patrol, It was worth every cent it cost What would Great Britain have suffered had she ne- glected this air protection which has proved its efficiency? “The United States ts undertaking | to ship billions of dollars’ worth of supplies to tt allies, Great Britain | has proved t ching tests how | these great cargoes may best be pro- | undersea boats and) tion of the Navy Department, Among - 5 NEWSPRINT PAPER MAKERS UNDER INDICTMENT HERE CHICAGO, Apri] 12.—Assertions that export business was being done on 4 much larger scale than public announs al Grand Jury this after- | ments would indicate did much to-day a’ petunia’ (An. jndletmant amainat to bring about unusually sharp upturns Newsprint Manufacture Associa n the price of wheat. May delivery a eached a new record, $2.19% ion and seven. members saene Steep advances were mud tly nmitter ation Reports were currer man At of distilleries would be y the uinbridge Government exclusively f ma h na facture of denatured alcohol needed tor | wut military explosives. It was inferred thu 4 big ease of the demand for com| — ; would reault, May corn went from|, to $1.35 b Pope Won't Act for Pea v atte Rea 12.—Austria is pressing t to move rents, # i athe ny Ue report in Vati Corriere Della h ove to-day, de 1 | BLUNDERS scapes Toasts Drunk to Wilson at} Luncheon Celebrating the | American Entry. | AS LESSON. Premier Declares U. S. Will Do Well to Study the Mis- takes of the British. LONDON, April 12.—Addressing the! American Luncheon Club to-day, Pre- | mier Lloyd George sald tho advent of the United States into the war had given the final stamp and seal to the character of the conflict, which was a struggle against military autocracy. Early in the war, Mr, Lloyd George continued, the United States did not comprehend what had been endured in Europe for years from the mili- tury caste in Prussia, Tho Premier sald he was:happy in| the position of being the first British Minister of the Crown speaking on behalf of the people of the country to salute the American nation as comrades in arms, “In three years we tried every kind of blunder,” said Mr. Lloyd George. “We got into every bunker, but now we have got a good niblick stroke and we are right out into the course. “It is worth Am while to study our blunders and begin where we are now. Iam so glad the United States is sending naval and military experts to this country to exchan) views with men who bave be through three anxious yeu:» of war.’ Absolute assurance of victory, the Premier said, was to be found in the word “ships.” He saw that the United States realized this fully and had arranged to build a thousand ships for the Atlantic Field Marshal von Hindenburg, the Premier went on, had declared that German submarines would put Eng loa's land out of business before the United States was ready “He does not know America,” the Premier declared. ‘I can see peace coming now,” the Premier declared, Ho said it would not be @ peace which would o ndless preparation for strife bloodshed, but “a real peace which this old world has never known Strange things had happened in thiy war, the Premier added, and strange things were To-day devastating war was being perhaps not a di ‘To-morrow stant to morrow—war might be abolished for ever from the category of human crime The luncheon held to celebrate the sulshe ‘ ” The t “ ver \ ne we A ador Page, in in ‘ , a HPAL EH PREPAREDNESS, ‘ ‘ a:nes M # veer Wood \ouss,—adre, | U.S, PUT FINAL SEAL ON WAR. SAYS PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE: SEES PERMANENT PEACE NEAR SOCIETY SLUMMING TO END NIGHT COURT, FOR WOMEN HERE \ssembly Passes Bill Giving Magistrates Option to Try Cases in Daytime. Soctety lk who have adopted the custom of going to the Women's Night Court after supper or the theatre and lstening to the sordid details of policemen's testimony against women who prowl the streets or sell themselves under other cir- USED FORGERY 10 GET ON SEIZED SHIP cialis, Confesses He Tried to Join Crew “Under Orders’—Al- leged Accomplice Seized. The vigilance and care with which the applications of seafaring men for employment as crews on the German ships in the harbor which were seized upon the declaration of war was jus- tifled to-day, when Walter H. 8, Grif- fice of Collector Dudley Field Malone and confessed he had presented forged credentials and recommenda- tions for the purpose of getting on the ships in the interest of the Ger- man Government. John C. Bolden, was Inter arrested in Collector Malon office charged with the actual forgery of the papers presented by Griffiths. Bolden gave as his address No. West One Hun dred and Fifty-elghth str Thomas B, Hoffler, business repre sentative of the Collector, received the application of Grifiths. Among others was a letter from the Antilles Murine Corporation, of which Deputy Dock cumstances are to be deprived of |Commissioner Eastman is a director their favorite after-dark pastime The Meyer bill, which in effect does away with the Women's Night Court, passed the Assembly to-day, The bill was drawn and fathered by Chief Magistrate McAdoo, who is of the opinion Night Court has sore. that become It serves to attract a crowd of the Women's an open abnormal persons who would not ap- pear In the daytime. “By the term said Chief Ma of the Meyer bin," trate McAdoo to-day, “it Is left to the discretion of the Chief Magistrate whether the ses- sions of this court dealing with women shall the daytime. that this court open Nght of d that night sessions they can be restored “I know, and the attracts morbid crow Court has been and by people whose motives are not en tirely disinterested, Slumming In the Night Court has become a fad among morbid-minded soclety wo: men, There !# more dramatic in terest about 4 fallen woman stand ing befo Magistrate at midnight | than there is about the same woman standing in the same place at mid The Night Court was established Jo away with the ‘fessional It has accomplished its | und I don't think the pro- | bondsman evil can ever be and sale raids on disorderly es, which packed station houses with women who were the prey of professional bondamen, don’t hap: M ne cit Women's ght tat war ot ' ed by “ 1 ght fe Penfield Arrives at be held at night or I am of the opinion hould be out in the If tt should prove are Paris on in necessary, Magistrates who ait there know, that the Night Court | The Night belng exploited | nicd Way | It said Griffiths had acted as captatr of the yacht owned by that company. Eastman was sent for. Meanwhile Grifiths his certificate as a master in steam and sail and asked to be assigne officer on one of the ( The moment Mr. Eastman saw the man he recognized him as a former employee who had urged upon the An- tilles Company a project for smug gling contraband into Germany at a Condor, presented ay a deck erinan ships. great profit and another heme for supplying arms and munitions to the rebels in Santo Domingo are | fighting United States Marines. Both | plans were rejected The clerks in Heffler's oMice were instructed to watch Griffiths without his knowledge while he was loft alone with the papers he had offered t Hoeffler, Almost immediately one of them reported GriMfitha had ab stracted a letter from the bunch Heffler re-entered the room and de manded the paper back. Griffiths de having taken it. He ¥ Jtold Heffler knew it’ to be a letter | purporting to be signed A. d Wilde, Vice President of the Kepubl Steam#hip Company of No, 29 Brow Street, Griffiths denied ever having bad such a paper Chief Henry of the lo et Ser vice Bureau was called downstairs | and searched Griffiths letter, torn to bits, was found in bh | pocket. The t 6 Wild | had been chewed | Griffiths then broke down and con |fessed he was a German agent w had forged the de Wild der to get on one of the seleed shig to do whatever } German service in th untry or red him to di Men were we , 1s Wilde five rm He d i Less of @ Hash ut Marriage License Bareuu :-% aK ry wed ! formed, AGENT OF GERMANY fths was put under arrest in tho ot- | —_——- + GERMANS LOSE TRENCHES ~ FROM LENS TO CHAMPAGNE TO THE BRITISH AND FRENCH Fighting Grows in: Intensity Before British Front, Where Germans Are Massing Reinforcements in Effort to Regain Vimy Ridge. NEW CANADIAN DRIVE ALONG A MILE FRONT BERLIN (via London), April 12—After frequent fruitless as- saults by the enemy, Monchy was lost to us,” said to-day’s official report. South of the Scarpe the enemy thrust strongly against us. LONDON, April 12,—Official despatches from the British Head- quarters in France and from the French War Office in Paris indicate big gains at many points along the line from the vicinity of Lens to the Champagne region, both the English and French armies sharing in the successes. Everywhere the fighting is increasing in intensity. A statement by Gen. F, B. Maurice, British Director of Military Operations, indicates the belief that the battle on the St. Quentin-Cambrai front is developing into the greatest engagement of the war. The Germans appear to have been reinforced in the positions upon which the British assaults have driver them back, and are offering desper- ate resistance, | Despatches from the fronts show contact at about ten different points on the long line in which the British and French troops were uccessful either in winning trenches or in repulsing German attacks. In the operations to-day Field Marshal Haig extended his offensive further north of the Vimy Ridge. In smashing attacks his forces this morning swept the Germans out of two important positions and they are |}now astride the Deule River at Souchez, a few miles southwest of Lens. known as Piople, was taken che, a mile further northward, was also captured, Germans are making desperate attacks on the eastern slopes of Vimy | Ridge, but are unable to gain headway. At one point the British stormed jand captured a German trench, South of the Ridge Canadian troops ad- | vanced on a mile front and took nearly a mile of German trenches, The | Germans are fighting bitterly to regain Monchy, north of t | Cambrai, but the British still hold the towr | Despatches from Paris say that in an attack last night on the new \tront below St, Quentin, between Coucy the French |drove back the Germans to the sou ipper Coucy Forest, capturing several important pcsitions. Champagne the Germans were ejected from trenches east of Say BLAGK TOM PLOTTER |" welts". GETS OVER THREE YEARS| i “0? ase | and st | we attacked ptured 1: cterpast | Jerse city for) | | A strongly defended hill near Givench) road to ind Quincy-Ba hwe Haig’s tinues wet ning two the Vimy river at Sentenced in ant p Py 1 mbs Having Explosives and of prisoners in Hoboken i te rite K who was convicted off attack new pos kK high explosives ' 1 of nin Hoboken, wa nef oR ; t i by Judge M A ¥ . 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