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

LANE EDITION Che === = = thd a ONE CENT. 17, by The Press Publishing (The New York World), NEW ‘YorK, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, ‘191 : ‘Cirenlation Book: Open. to All. a 16 _PAGES WEATHER—Falr and warmer. ' LANE % EDITION eerie ———— ‘PRICE ONE ‘OENT. — U BOAT FIRES ON U.S. DESTROYER 100 MILES SOUTH OF NEW YORK BRITISH GAN ANOTHER MILE: FRENCH REPULSE ATTACKS; Laon and La Fere Added to List of| Cities That May Soon Fall—Ger-} mans Fight Vainly to Check) me #300000 ts tet to found tne French Advance. LONDON, April 17.—Five key-points to the Hindenburg line were| struck at so savagely by the great Franco-British drive to-day that their Continuation in the enemy’s hand much longer seems impossible, Of the five Lens, St. Quentin and Lafere may fall to the allied ‘onslaught at almost any hour, Cambrai and Laon are less closely enve- loped, but the menace of the drive was none the less potent, Gen. Haig’s report to-day told of another gain of a mile to the! south of Cambrai, around Epehy, aimed at Le Catelet, eleven miles south of Cambrai, Parls’ official statement more than confirmed the most sanguine | by her first marriage, « similar trust thopes of success in the joint offensive entertained here. Gen. Nivelle reported a desperate German attempt at Ailles to| te so back into the estate. stem the French forward rush at Laon. south of Laon. against the German lines. Unofficial despatches estimate the’ German loss to the French in the first twenty-four hours of fighting at 100,000 in killed, wounded and captured. Paris of- ficially reported that 10,000 pris- oners were taken, P A despatch from Berlin says the War Office announces that one of Frenoh failed to break through. The Soissons-to-Rheims battle front, selected by the French staff as the is ideal for It ts a slightly rolling country, permitting the opera- tion of vast forces and sufficiently spot in which to strike, offensive fighting. clear to enable best manoeuvring. Aside from the favorable nature of the country itself, the spot is strate- gicully well situated, since every blow there is a jar to the German line The Ger- man line makes a vast blunt angle around La Fere, heading on an almost The base of on the new Hindenburg northwest to the Channel straight line to Verdun this angle- Mne—is Laon. The French blow is directly against this point. Gen. Haig's report to-day shows that all the way from Fayet, « scant two miles north of St. Quentin, to Epehy—eleven miles north—the British now are estab- lished within two miles of the Bt. Quentin-Cambrai highroad. The r really the artery ing life to the German forces at St. Quentin and La Fere. Once it ie cut, the cities below must fall, British now hold Fayet, le-Petit, Pontru, Le Verguler, Villeret, ground near Hargicourt, Ronssoy and, to-day, ground near Epehy, All are nearly equi-distant from this “Hindenburg line’ of Cambral-St, Quentin, More than 10,000 prisoners were] taken by tlm French yesterday. Tats added to the 13,000 captured in th last (Continued on si VEN LS, Ne work Venus annot do.—Advt, Fresney- | The counter-attack was repulsed by the French, \ts Gen, Nivelle’s forces withstood another powerful German counter. | $10,000. \4 attack at Courcy, four miles north of Rheims. It is in these two sections, apparently, that the French wedge has been thrust furthest forward) pitat in Baltimore to waintain the |U. 8. DESTROYER | SMITH AND HER GUN CREW FRIENDS GET BRADY “GEMS: $3,000,000 TN Y, Y.HOSPTAL PGE D4 EG SOSS ROOEE $300,000 Left to Johns | ? Hopkins Laboratory. | By the will of James Buchanan Brady—"Diamond Jim"—filed for pro- bate to-day, the bulk of his estate, | James Buchanan Brady Urological | Foundation in the New York Hospital. This amount will be the residue after the testator's many bequests are paid. To his brother, Daniel M. Brady from whom he was estranged for more }than nineteen years on account of business differences, Brady left $100, the will saying “My brother is a wealthy mai A there is no neves- sity to leavo him any property or|/ @ | money.” To his sister, Mrs. Hattie Matthieu | Brady leaves a trust fund of $26,000, the interest on which ts to be paid to her annually. To his only nephew | Glendyn Cloran, Mrs, Matthieu’s son | fund is devised, In each case the fund, TORPEDO FIRED AT ‘SMITH? MISSES BY THIRTY YARDS: | upon the death of the beneficiary, ts Brady's aunt, Mrs. C. T. McArdle | of No. 486 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, remembered with a bequest of Ailles lies just seven miles to the! | A trust fund of $300,000 ts left to {| the trustees of Johns Hopkins Hos James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute he founded there three | years ago as @ testimonial of his| gratitude after the doctors of Johns | Hopkins had saved his life. | Se Workers in Metal, Munitions, Wood and Other Plants | Bequests of $10,000 each are left to the following: The Roman Catholic ithe Newsboys Lodging House, New | York, the Railroad Employees’ Hos pital in New York City, the Children's Ald Society in New York, the Fresh Air Fund of w York City and to Mr. Brady left $25,000 apiece to his | friends and business partners, John | Lexington Ave. and 34th St,|M- Hansen and Robert L, Gordon, | , . is secretary, Richard C. Crowley, and Cars Collide When Motor- Dit Ses niary 4 |bought many Jems, Robert H. Klitz | of No, 1 Maiden Lane, He also leaves | $25,000 “to my friend, Miss Catherine Glaser,” who is not otherwise de New York City the Actors’ Fund of America. jto the jeweler upon whose advice he man Falls From Platform. Eleven persons, five of whom were taken to Bellevue Hospital, were in- | scribed. Walk Out To-Day. jured at noon to-day when a south-| The famous Jewels with which = “Diamond Jim" advertised and| COPENHAGEN, April 11.—The bound Lexington Avenue car, from} which the motorman had tallen, crashed into an eastbound Thirty- fourth Street trolley. amused himself for years are to be divided among his friends as follows: | c. 8. en, the emerald, diamond and ruby ring; F. D. Underwood, the | Portation employees ts the first con emerald and diamond link buttons; | siderable 1a strike called yesterday in Berlin of metal and wood workers and trans or trouble in the German Of the five removed to the hospital th + aevlnaie anit Sanat |A: He Smith, turquoise and diamond |eapital since the munition workers ne most seriously hurt was Samue Goldman, of No. 456 M: a a Unk byttont) oF: a petra two) struck when Dr. Karl Liebknecht was zoldman, of No. 456 Myrtle Avenue, | emerald aha aadar Wt Ades Y emerald and GiAmond ernds leonvicted of treason, At that time Brooklyn, with @ sprained back and laceration of the kneecap. The other | pin; four were George LaForrest, No. | 1320 Fulton Avenue, Willlam | ares De ' $50,000, 000 U.S, SHIP Donald, turquoise and diamond scart J. M. Hansen, cats-eye ring; H,|@!most 100,000 men were idle for three days, The cause of the pr apparently the reduction in the bread ration, the newspapers for several (Continued 98, Be90s Second Page.) nt strike is Bronx; Tenth Avenue, motorman of Thirty-fourth Street days past hinting at the possibility of car; Rebecea Cohen, No, 314 East| CORPORATION CHARTERED such a demonstration. If, however, | « | like the previou the present Ninety-first Street; Cornelius Shee- walkout has bi RIOT AND STRIKES IN BERLIN OVER CUT IN FOOD SUPPLY “Various meetings of workmen, | which were attended by large num- bers of women, were held in Berlin | of food supply | sion of the day's events: yesterday and discussed the question Afterward the work- ers marched tn processton to the cen- tre of the city past the castle and along the Unter den Hen, The demonstrators behaved In the most orderly manner and the police did not need to interfere “An overwhelming majority of the Berlin workmen refused to share in the demonstration because they were convinced that ‘everything ts being Jone to counterbalance the decrease in the bread ration by an Increase of meat and potato suppiles.’ " BERNHARDT GAINS STRENGTH sfortable Night Actress, om Mount 8i- Says PPREPD BIDEOEDEO EH DEE bbb dren 8, SPORES ITO RE ORE EIE IES Rees Serer eye y ee GIRL GETS HIM PARDON IN ORDER TO WED HIM Harry Hoppe Freed by Whitman on Plea by Mary Fairchild of Elmhurst, L. 1. (Sorchal to The Prenlne World) ALBANY, April 17,—Miss itary fairehild, of Elmhurst, 1. 1, af red before Governor Whitman. to ny and urged a pardon for Harry Hoppe, convicted in New York tn 1915 and sentenced to three years for carrying a pistol I intend to marry him as soon as he ts release ehe sald, “Granted,” ta the Governor, BILL REPEALING BOXING LAW FAILS TO PASS ASSEMBLY | Republicans Able to Muster Only 74 | Votes, 76 Being Necessary— —Measure Tabled Speelal to The Evening World.) ALBANY, April 17 repealing the State boxing law fatled to pass the Assembly this afternoon After @ long fight the Republican leaders could only muster seventy- four votes for it. There were fift votes aguinst the measure six were required to insure its pas 1 Dill, on the first ca! wot the required sev tem. jately, Assemblymen Hush and hanged the! to the sure of the roll, enty-aix It Was then laid on the table until such time as a suffictent number of the absenteey may be coralled to pus It through. FIRE NEAR TWo HOSPITALS. Mach Apparatus Called Out—No Px- han, No, 1704 Third Avenue, motor-| First Work Will Be Building of | Radical Socialists, there is no doubt |! os conaition. of man of Lexington Avenue car Fleet of Wooden Boats to that it has the nature of a peace Siri! Tie Tue eran See , be - damonstration, 4 on we dyiPoadpny According to Capt. Robrig of the . 3, Mi fi J Kidney seemed to make @ eriti- ( ‘ood to Alli East Thirty-fifth Street Station, who arry Food to Allie The German newspapers intimated | oieration immediately necessary was at the scene with a squad of men| WASHINGTON, Apri! 17.—The|that the agitation among the work- 1 had passed a comfortable shortly after the crash, Sheehan was! United States Shipping Board Emer was in evidence elsewhere in t and Was resting easil seized with an attack of vertigo as|Kency Fleet Corporation was incor-|the empire, p: y in Leipsic.| 4 situation of physicians and aur Rint kates ling down the hilt{porated here to-day with a capital of |N@ reports have eo far been received | , last evening decided that the that starts ot Thirty-fifth Street, | $50,000,000, All its officers and dir here in regard to this phase of the | o; might be postponed trom hour| Sheehan fell over the side of the car|tors are members or employecs of | Situation. ? rye eeaUareys. Usa haps ars hoe : he. Federal Shipping. Hoard, and| LONDON. April 17—An A ritieally ntened, so that] to the street, and the car raced down if rn Peel se Araciteh ta the Gaudi J peggy | |the incline and crashed into the tpavailers Holland M Thirty-fourth Street The corporation's first work will b saniat Nae rey W wan ste ee 7 the building of the great fle « Ma ' 1 { ‘ | wooden ships to carry American sup an capital, 9 \ and Was gain (For Racing Results See Page 2.) | plies to the Allies \ & Reuter despatch gives this ver- ing strength A hot little fire this plant of the National works, at Weat End Avenue and Fift ninth Street, which extended to th stable of the Sheffeld Farms-Slawson Decker milk concern at Nos. 248 and 260 West Sixtieth Street, brought out the apparatus called for by two alarma and also Chief Kenlon, The plentitude of apparatis ~ Masbenity tenpitet dated Gus tank Th line which fe proof doors id her ho excitement in the hospitals The Davis bili | x| Seventy. | of Wake of Missile Crossing Bow of U8. Warship Plainly Seen — Su rine Disappears After Firing bee | Believed to Indicate Blockadewi: ier einol ) val boo MANY TOWNS ALONG mi COAST UNPROTECTED 110 00.¢2) WASHINGTON, April 17—A German submarine, today fired on the Destroyer Smith about 100 miles south of New York. The presence of enemy submersibles in American walsry. in- _ dicates that the threatened German submarine blockade ofiAmers *-*— of noi ican Atlantic ports has begun. alidedta This sanicubeteient wee taile-at tio Wavy Dapohinatys “Reported from Fire Island Lightship to the naval” stations at Boston and New York at 3.30 A. M. on the! ; 17th an enemy submarine was sighted by the U. S. S. “i Smith running apparently submerged. Submarine fired T° a torpedo at the U. S. S. Smith, which missed her by | thirty yards. The wake of the torpedo was plainly seen crossing the bow. Submarine disappeared.” | FIRST NEWS IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY. | First information of the encounter came to the Navy Department in -|a roundabout way from the Boston Navy Yard, which picked up the Smith’s report saying she had been fired upon by a German U boat. The Navy Department after communicating with Fire Island, Boston, |New York and some other points on the Atlantic Coast, announced that | the report of the Smith's encounter had been substantiated by official | BY esses oR, Onticlals believe the presence of the German submarine foreshadows ja raid such as the U-53 conducted off the New England coast or is the signal for the beginning of a general submarine blockade of the Atlantic coast, The attack by the U boat 1s Germany's first recognition of the state lof war declared by the United States, It was stated in Germany soon jafter the action of Congress that no aggressive steps would be taken against the United States. Practically no American officials believed this statement, however, and steps to meet aggressive steps were at once taken. Submarine attack on unprotected seaboard cities and towns and raids on shipping within sight of American shores were expected. Reports to the Boston naval station indicated that the submarine was |hovering off the coast midway between Fire Island and Asbury Park. | Last week word came to Washington in a roundabout way that Germany was about to declare a prohibited submarine zone about the harbors at Boston, New York, the Delaware Capes, Chesapeake Bay, |Charleston and Savannah, This would have included all the important ports on the Atlantic seaboard. It was said then that an official warning to neutrals of the prohibited zone would be issued from Berlin. DISINCLINED TO CREDIT U BOAT REPORTS, Some American officials were disinclined to credit the report, but tne Entente diplomatic corps here believed in it, and predicted that Ger- many would soon carry the submarine campaign to this side of the At- lantic, principally for the purpose of scaring neutral shipping away from American harbors and to raid the great squadron of merchant ships which are moving food and supplies to America’s allies on the European battle fronts, Some officials are inclined to believe that the lack of a declaration of a prohibited zone in American waters may be due to the crippled con- uition of communication with Germany since the United States entered the war. Without such a declaration, they point out, Germany will incur great claims of damages to neutrals and will carry on a new campaign without the color of legal authority which she contends the declaration off 4 barred zone lends to it The destroyer Smith is of the class, built in 1909, with a length! of 288 feet and a displacement of 700 tons, Her speed is 29% knots am |’ i |