The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1917, Page 1

PRICE ONE | DITION CENT. 1917, by The Press (The New York Work Che f { Circulation Books n to Al: | Pablishing a). HAIG AND NIVEL _ 40,000 GERMANS DIE IN DRIVE NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1917. U.S. FXING OF ASKED OF SEN Secretary of Agriculture Urges $25,000,000 Appropriation to Carry Out Plans. SURVEY FOR NATIONAL Declares Food Mate $145,000,000 Are Us Manufacture of Liquor. —fBecre- WASHINGTON, April 2 4a#y Houston to-duy recommended to the Senate that the Council of Rational De‘onse be empowered to fix minimy food Prices. Houston hinted at possible Intion or prohibition of the facture of liquors by saying “Some European nations have and maximum regu manu cured a considerable addition to the food supply by reducing production Blot malt Mquors or by reducing or prohibiting production of distilled Jiquors. It has been roughly esti- mated that the value of food mate rials entering into manufacture ‘of alcoholic beverages in this country the in one year is approximately $145 000,000," To meet the food situation Secre- tary Houston told the Senate, the Department of Agriculture needs the folowing authority and power: “To make a complete survey of the food supply of the nation with a view to secure full information as to fts location, ownership and where it fe needed, and complete knowledge as to the instrumentalities and agencies that own, control, :nanu facture and distribute food products. “To license and supervise the opera tion of ai plants, mills, packing houses, canneries, slaughterhouses, bvrewerles, dist"leries, storage or other establishments or factorier in which food or feeds, agricultural {implements and machinery and materia's therefor, and other articles required for agriculturad purposes are prepared, manufactured or kept for sale or distribution, This power should include to rules and regulations governing the ‘use and operation of such enterprises. “To require the preference ment by the common crrriers of the United States of seeds, fertilizers and farm {mpliments or machinery, or the materials required in their manu facture. “Po enlarge the existing telegraphic market news service of the depart ment, which now covers live stock and meats and certain foods, vexe- tables und other perishables, in order to aastst, by securing comprehensive information from all shipplug areas, in the distribution of products accord ing to the proportionate requirements of the consuming centers, Enlarge ment of this service would also tend to prevent undue sbortage in any con- suming centre and provide against wastes due to temporary oversupply of perishables in particular com- munities “In case of Government show purchase, store and subsequently pose of food products to groups of pech'o or communities organised houses authority make move: extreme emergency, the ower ts gPontinued on Second Page.) FOOD PRICES AND CONTROL OF SUPPLIES ATE BY HOUSTON 4,000 IN LONDON CATHEDRAL HAIL ENTRY IN AR Leaders of Nation Attend Im- pressive Ceremony of Wel- come to America. LONDON, April 20—The British people and Americans in this country celebrated America's in the world war by a religious service to-day in St, Paul's Cathedral, at- tended by the official heads of the na- partnership tion and a great congregation. which inelu hundreds of Americans and prominent British men and There was a great display of American flags in London and all many women, other English towns and a popular demonstration by the crowds which surrounded the Cathedral, The Stars and Stripes floated from the highest tower of the Parliament buildings at w flag was ever displayed on that em!- all Govern- ninster—the first time a foreign nence—and flew above ment buildings in the British capital, The seats nearly 4,000 people and was filled to its further- h hundreds looking Cathedral most recesses, W down from the balconies and niches high in the vault, All seats were oc- cupled when King George and Queen Mary ente d, followed by the Mayors and Aldermen of the twenty-six bor- oughs of London. The American Embassy and Con- sular staffs occupied front seats with of the Pilgrims, the Society, the American | Luncheon Club, and the American |Chamber of Commerce, In the Diplo- |matic section officers in the | uniform of France, Russia, Italy, Bel |gium, Servia, Montenegro, Roumania and Japan Everywhere throughout the Cathe dral the army khaki and the navy lblue were conspicuous, In the re seats there were a large num- | representative | American were serve |ner of wounded officers and soldiers, | jincluding many Canadians and » | eral Americans who are serving with \the Dominion forces, Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law represented the Cabinet in the absence of Pre mier Lloyd George and the Parlia mentary delegation was large. The clergy of St. Paul's conducted the service, assisted by the Arch bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop the American Civil War,» who (Continued on Fourth Page.) aia The “HUB” Clothing Corner, Broad- corner Barclay Street (Opp. Wool. ng), will sell to-day and men's ani ung men's and te, Ulues, eens, xrays and fancy mtxed: double breasted, pinched oF backs, sash or patch pockets very latest models; some silk ned; all os. | Our special price for to-day f uturday, $9.95. Open Saturday night till 16. Hub Clothiers, Broadway, cor. Barclay st.—Advt. $15 Men’s Suit or Topcoat,$9.95 | UNCLE SAM AVERTS VEGETABLE FAMINE HEREIN 30 MINUTE President’s Anti-Strike Order } Invoked for First Time Against Teamsters. For a few hours this morning New York was threatened with a complete famine of fresh vegetables and fruit. |The danger ended at 7 o'clock whea \Benjam'n and John Popp and Jere- miah Sullivan, officers of the New York Commission Drivers, Chauffeurs \and Helpers’ Local No. 202 of the In- ternational Teamsters’ Union were actified by @ ...amittee of produce merchants In the presence of United ‘ates Secret Service mé that they faced arrest If the strike ordered by them wes not ended in thirty min- utes. It Was the first instance of invok- ing the authority of the proclamation of the President forbidding in- terference with movements of foodstuffs and was of added effect be- cause a large quantity of produce ef- the any the fected was destined for Navy Yard and garrisons and camps of the army The the ending of the strike would not gation of the secret service men said that terminate thelr inv: motives of the men who called ft, According the Popp brothers, the trouble was caused by the action of the Pennsylvania Ratlroad in posting an order forbidding the car- rying or hand-trucking of crates and barrels of vegetables at Piers No, 27, 28 and 29, North River, between Hu- bert and Laight Streets, to the wag- ons of consignees, The rallroad or- dered all produce put on the wagon Jat the point where it was set down when put on the plier, The reason for the order was that Jin the confusion caused when hun |dreds of drivers were trundling their produce out of the pler much mer |chanise was stolen The drt |complained that when they had go: | to to the e pile for a barrel of lettuce they had to drive away from the pier and go to the foot of a line of wagons waiting their turn for cauliflower and t © Was an unjus. tiflable loss of tim The strike was declared at 3 o'clock morning. Not driver ap- proached the piers, though thousands of trucks were massed in West Street and the sido streets. The contents of 125 cars was walting delivery President P. P. Walla ult and Produce Dealers’ and his associates, Charles Pape, P. W Nix and William Vorhees, had a hur- \ried meeting and went and }rounded up the Popps and Sullivan this a Associa the tion, them out d sent for the secret service mon |Then there wasn't any strike. | The produce men estir that they mis: One lost over $20,000 + morning deliveries, y early man said he ah An Aan lost $500 fa strawberries alone, There One of the most picturesque of the|W!!! be @ conference lave to-day to Jnumerous processions to St. Paul’s|#JJust the comp’ of the team- |was a group of twenty-two veterans |*'o"% a “TURKISH GRAND VIZIER GOES TO SEE BETHMANN LONDON, April 20.—Despatches re celved here from Holland and Switz land say Talaat Bey, the Turk grand Vizier, ts due or has arrived Berlin to confer with Beth weg, the Imperial Chancellor The despat sadd Talaat a 4 visit ko Wiulam, nn-Holl ror John | MENIN GREAT KRUPP WORKS. ~ JOIN MUNITION STRIKE IN PLANTS ALL OVER GERMANY ——— Strikers Against New Food Order Wring Many Conces- sions From Government. THIS NEW YORK BOY CAPTURED FIRST HONORS OF WEST POINT CLASS AMSTERDAM, April 20 (via Lon- don.)—Strikes have broken in varlous munitions factories in Ger- many, including the Krupps, the Telegraaf says it has learned from out German sources. LONDON, April wrung from the Government have caused the return to work of the} strikers who quit because of the new order reducing the food rations. The concessions include explicit as- 20, — Concessions surances of adequate food rations and | effective measures aguinst evasion» of | the food regulations by the rich, com- pliance with the demands of the union for tho establishment of a standing! of representatives which will have a voice in the food distribution in Greater Berlin and a} promise that strikers will not be pun- ished by being sent to the front pbsibise Cacti GERMANY BROKEN DOWN; EVEN ARMY OFFICERS SHOWING DISCONTENT | Returning American Tells of Con- ditions He Saw—Predictions of War's End in Four Months. An American citizen of German ox commission labor traction who has spent many yoars at} of American importers of celluloid] in Strassburg, Germany, as the ag: novelties, reached New York to-day | Jon @ steamship from ® port in sour) | ern Europe with the information that | the belief prevails in southern Ger-| many and in Switzerland that war will end within four n He is Alfred Stetmann of Chicago a he left Strassburg early in February pede (iene | AIRPLANE 1S WRECKED | AT WEST POINT EXERCISES “Germany has broken The | ‘ 7 | nths, RRIS JONES veral week down in ! ternally,” Mr. Stetmann ne Government controlled newspapers n said | longer influence public opinion Germans are a reading people and aduation of Men In Class of the press has been a powerful facto 1917 Held Six W Ahead jin shaping thelr opinions ut the | war, but the optimistic ar t | |spired press has been discounted by| WEST POINT Ay An | | wounded soldiers returning to their tirplane two Signa! | homes on furlough Corps Lins, W Kilner and “These men have brought back the} farvid S Martir flown he fact that the British and French and fron Talacd United | Ruasians are as good fighters shai eat |Germans. They havo, inadverte i bese bs, aroused discontent ‘ ne Pbalag n the officers of the German|. 3 pda and army are discontented, I was told of ; me Hiaadases three who were shot at Great Head eae a | quarters riticising the Crown Prince's conduct of his sec rasa © hundre L Jbattlefront, Officers and soldic were , turning from the front are no longer ig greeted enthustastically in Germar os ¢ cities and towns In the Interior, The a2 M i jenthusiasm of the nation has oogeg L'OPhY Point. 7 an away sf before "There 1s a great deal of malignant, | Po. $08 GUby . ull the toxt shortage in Germany Is eaaggerated.” ‘ Weather—WARMER TO-NIGHT. rio. f €irculation Books Open to Al | 22 PAGES PRI LE WIN AGAIN; CONSCRIPTION BILL | PUT AREAD OF ALL ELSE IN THE SENATE EDITION CENT. CE ONE — += AISNE FORTS ABANDONED, BERLIN OFFICIALLY ADMITS; Through. | 2 WASHINGTON, April over possibility that opposition to the Alarm Administration's spy and censorship bill might block all other war legisla- | tion caused Senate leaders to sud- denly switch thetr plains to-day and| announce that of the President's selective conseription army measure will be shoved In ahead of ail other jegisiation pending. While no systematic attempt hi been made to canvass individual sentiment among the members of the House, Representatives Kahn, Gard- | ner azd otLer leaders in the fight for Conscription expressed the opinion that the Dent amendment will be re- | jected and that the Government bill | providing for selective draft will pass | by a majority of more than two to) . ’, pe | Paris reports violent fighting in There is not the slightest doubt of | the pi je of the bill in the shape! ‘ submitted by the Government in the! ing their victory of yesterday in ¢. Senate by odds approximating five or| wel) as ihe fort itself; several lines sin to one, In order to clear up this misunder- consideration CAPTUR LONDON, April 20.—While northwest of Soissons last night, F of rest, struck out again, gaining g Two Complete Divisions Said to Have Been Destroyed in One Drive | Against Nivelle’s Recently Cap- tured Positions East of Craonne. 228 GERMAN GUNS ED BY BRITISH the French were smashing forward jeld Marshal Haig, after several days round in the neighborhood of Villers Guislain, seven and a half miles from. Cambrai. the course of which the French made further gains in the regions of Laffaux and the Vauclere Plateau, clinch-. apturing towns near Fort Conde as of trenches east of Loivre were cap | tured, Heavy counter attacks by the Germans in the Champagne were standing it ts not improbable that| repulsed, severe losses being inflicted on the enemy. The French line within the next two or three days|, iva sig the Prealdent or Secreary of War witt| 20W runs solidly along the heights issue a statement addrensed to the| of which Fort Conde was the chie people of the country, pointing out| been wiped out. the advantages of the system favored . : ty the Reet ena (ik ainsi: | In confirmation of the reports ¢ vantages of the volunteer method. | mans, a despatch from the front to- comprising 40,000 men, who made F g . | miles éast of Craonne, had been w ALLIES’ PROFITS OM WHEAT $3,500,000 IN TWO MONTHS Make Big Gains in Chicago Market by Changing From One Option to the Other ARMISTICE BY RUSSIA | IND GERMANY REPORTED CHICAGO, April 20 allied | governments, dealing 1 Chi-| cago t “4, are edited to-day| Buenos Ayres Says Rumor Comes with having made a profit of more in Cipher Message Received than $3,500,000 in the last two months | | : at Rio Janiero. in “turns” on the grain market by| at Rio Janier changing from one option to the] BUENOS AYRES, April 19—A other, ipher message received by the Span- is profit, 1t is said, was made by]ish legation at Rio Janiero declares selling a line of July wheat and] Russia and Germany have signed an buying the September option at alarmistice, according to a despatch price approxims thirty cents be-| from the Braaliian capital this after- low the July option. | noon 4 flights of wheat values sur 1 all previous reco It 1s suggesterd that the rumor 1 delivery in particular |™Mleht have originated through cared nearly 18 cents at one time|*trong German influences tn Rio tror low polnt reached on a tem-| known to be in close touch with the siliodlice " ‘ip ro-German Party tn Spain. rary setback. Traders seemed ial, nave gone Wild over reports of ha ee ates oe |W SUBMARINES FIRE ON ente Allies and t r went t $1.49, an againat 179 to 174% at ye NORWEGIAN LIFEBOATS y's finish, May at Ju - aptains of Two Steamers Report EXPORTS. Such Attacks and the Killing to New of Sailors, _— CABINET TAKES UP train Being uu 20.—A Reuter's de- HINGTON, Apr fent | Spa ania says that an f regulatin 1 exports | wegian atea The Star, has re. ern ne fa the attacking v sree bmarine tired the lifeboats as ae " od. Afterward ' " Gormat ted the steamer. ny ad 1 patch also says that the , 1 oof rwegian steamer W ’ that a submarine « f sailors. He » TRAVEL BURRAD ittackers the tue Word), Hulidiag ¥, City ‘ Ain > a we b \ Gren Any aud ight “Trarellare’ ‘checks and ‘onep BANKS gt Phe RIALTO. Grien (or sale. “Telephone Weaken 40W0.—Adra miverary Week, Apell S5.—-Jart, north of the Aisne River, the tongue f part held by the Germans having of the tremendous losses of the Ger- day said that two complete divisions, a counter-attack at Juvincourt, four iped out. In its statement to-day the Berlin War Office admits abandonment of positions on the Aisne River between Conde and Soupir, ———_—_—_—_———- The British smash around Ville | Guisiain ls the second formidable | thrust in tits same section. Des- Patches to-day indicated the British plan of paralleling the line of com. | munteations from St. Quentin to Cam- brat was still being followed hy Malg’s forces, while to the north of the city there were preparations in- dicating nutcracker tactics about to be adopted in smashing this key-ofty of the Hindenburg line, Tho British have captured 228 Ger- man cannon, one-third of the guns the Teutons had massed @long that front —_>—- SCORE OF TOWNS TAKEN IN DRIVE OF FRENCH DURING LAST FIVE DAYS To-Day’s War Office Report De- scribes Further Gains and Re pulse of Attack, PARIS, April 20.—Despatches trom |the front confirm previous reports of |staggering losses by the Germans, It is said that two complete divistons< (40,000) men which made a@ counter attack on Juvincourt were literally wiped out by the French artillery alone. Demoralization ts spreading jamong the Germans—even among | their cers nt Poa troo| last five days Gen, Nivelle’s have progressed over @ front of nearly forty miles to a depth of from three-quarters of a mile to four full miles, A score of villages ahd towns have been taken, Following 1# the statement issued to-day by the French War Office: South of St, Quentin the en- emy's artillery kept up a beayy fire, to which our batteries re plied vigorously, During the night patrol encounters occurred north of Urvillers, In the region ot.