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PAVE EDITION PRICE Hudson Covnty, ¥ T ONE CENT tn Greater New York and WO CENTS elsewhere, Wortd NEW YORK, S Ships Held on Charge ot Aiding U Boa The “ Cirenlation Books Open to Copyright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New ¥ TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1917. WEATHER—Rain to-night; to-morrow falr, cool |. AL EDITION ONE CENT in Greater Hudson County, N. 18 ‘PAGES "PRICE! $1,000,000,000 TRADE FLEET TO NULLIFY U BOAT WARFARE FOOD SUPPLIES OF N.Y. STATE PUT IN HANDS OF COMMISSION BYEMERGENCY WAR MEASURE a Senate Bill Enables Members| of the New Board to Reg- ulate Prices Prices, MAY SEIZE AND SELL. Evening World’s Suggestions for Distribution and Pasteuri- zation Are Incorporated. Yrrsiel Femme 9 Sialt Cermepentent ef They ALBANY, May 8 bree food Ue- tators, clothed with the most sweep- ing power, will have charge of the State's market resources under the terms of a war measure that came from the Senate War Committee at|of the spegtacular than when before | being an early hour to-day ‘Tho bill was Introduced by Senator Brown and will be rushed to pass- age Many of its provisions follow the recommendations of The Eve-| ning World, At the suggestion of Sophie Irene Loeb of Evening World, Senator Towner added to bill which permits the commisa tablish dairy and pasteurization plants throughout the State, The purposes of the “The investigation, encouragement, de opment, regulation and control by the a clause on to es- act are: State to the end that while a state of | war exists the people of the State may have an adequate supply of pure and wholesome food, their health be pro tected, their energies conserved, and that they shall not suffer reasonable prices for the mities of life. The Commission Uhrough un- food neces- empowered to ‘regulate the accumulation, storage and distribution of foods and food} materials, including feeding stuffs, apparatus and a cultural machinery and all other commodities used the production of food and may direct and authorize such method of distri- tn bution thereof in any part of t State as will prevent waste and dis erimination and provide for the sux ply of foods, food erials and con modities to producers at a just and reasonable rate.” The members of the C charged to obtain the supply of & and are oaths and cal) It 1s propounded + momts: informa em witnesses. sion shall be called into play by 4 clamation of the Governor wheneve he thinks an em y exists eon of a fore) art t the operation of body. The bill carries an appropriatio $1,500,000, The details of tt wers of Commission include To limit pcOuIn U storage of food To p t holding such produ increase the prices To regulate the ution of ¢ machinery. To direct the sale of food t 1 sumers To fix a maximum price at which much food can be sold To selz and distribute ito re Heve public necessity hat of th jarmed forces of thy Stat To compe! common carriers to preference to food trans To encourage ti (Cpntinued on Second Page.) \WCTORY FOR ALLES CERTAIN, BALFOUR TELLS THE 5 THE SENATE German Militarism Doomed, He Declares Amid Ort- bursts of Applause. (Special From p Sisit carremondent ot The ening World.) WASHINGTON, May 8 With less |the House of Representatives last week, | but with greater vigor pression and appeal, Forelgn Si Be addressed the United States Senate to-day. He stood beside | Vice President Marshall |trum while members Mission were seated fore him, tary on the r Britt the well be- the All the Senators were in their places, while crowds pucked th leries and broke re j the decorum of the Senate with out bursts of applause In his adkiress Mr. Balfour empha sized two predictions, One was th the cordial reception and opera t given by the United States to the British and French Mission w Jhave lasting effects he future of | clvi n The second, whict | wr ms of applause from S was that milita destructi even with ve power of ¢ defeat of succes about the Bulfour, “a confi marine | warf and the Allies are ‘T speak wit e” sald med to ow ¢ fide confidence fence that is redoubled’ since have thrown In your lot with those who have been fighting since 1914 I do not wish to minimize the ji ot be settled by the sinking of mer . ed by hard fighting tg ins, British and Fre beon 11 r ; B ' Ry t ¥ . 1 “they L new 6} ations fre untries The two addrenae he veteran » stat i ator wu aver 1 Stat i 1 t und f Jo and ap preci realla f : } that the tw Jerata iu ' M and Americans. ‘SCHOOL SET AFIRE BY THREE BOYS; 3,000 IN PERIL Brothers Said to Confess Start | ing Two Blazes Because They | Didn’t Like to Study. Richard Hes thirten years old, 203 We | Thirteenth Street, One Hundred and} this afternoon ad- | ed to Fire Marshal Prial that he |and his two Fred, Jand Karl, nine, were responsible for | | mi brothers, eleven, two attempts made yesterday to set! ew to Public | Hundred nad Seventeenth Street and | st Nigholas Avenue, a big double structure that shelters 3,500 pupils. Richard sald he and his brothe wanted to burn Lo. building so they School No. 10 at One| would not nave tego to school any U BOATS IN ATL BY U.S. SHIPS, CHARGE MAD BY CREW OF VESSEL HELD UP | Three Vessels of the American Transatlantic Company Are Detained at Virgin Islands. WASHINGTON, May 8.—The Gov- ernment is investigating the activities of the steamer Manitowoc and other vessels of the American Transatiantio Company, which are sald to have car- rled supplies to German submarines in the Atlantic., This was disclosed at the Navy Department to-day,, but no detafle of the steps taken were, given out, | nore, Two other attempts © made’ to The American Transatlantic Com pany bas offices in New York and| Boston and Its ships fly the American ae pst packed iavintenpdien flag. Officials here will not say what had aroused thelr suspicions, but ad- vesponsible for them. In Mill ties that the ehipe bad’ been held four cases of fires started In waste | ro. investigation at St. Thomas, Vir tts at recess the, were extin- | cin Islands, by order of the Navy ushed by the superintendent, JobD | Department. Both the Senate and The first blaze yesterday | yustion Departmonts have beon taking covered Just he noon | dart in the investigation on the third floor! gAN JUAN, Porto Rico, May § ard was a pupil, and the! (Correspondence of the Associated footed -aftee:% .c/si0s | Prema) —There are German subina a the stalre leading to rines tn the Atlantic and until very mer |recently they have been supplied 1, 4 Dr. Ernest R.| trom the United States by ships fly- th ul, and Fire Mar- ling the American flag, according to he started the frst) statements by members of the crew fir Jered Karl to tart the of the steamer Manitowoc, which se ie officials ey, ACtCD | several weeks was detatned In the harbor at St. Thomas. Twenty-one t blaze of the crew are returning to the ording to) United States after difficulties with to the | capt, Hogstead, master of the achool by na aught! ship. him playing e fret) The Manttow Muskegon and fires Dr tendent | aliaguash, all belonging to the same EM rchers have Deen | jine, shortly before the Danish Isl atch on the pupils. ands became the Virgin mids, t Mis ys entered A, put into the harbor at st t ir when ‘phomas, bound from Buenos Aires to their class hard and al, where he re nard had they Sunday er is Reingold Hippe is su tendent family f = WHAT IT WILL COST INDIVIDUALS TO HELP FINANCE THE WAR x N i Ly Ind to ne H se W and Means ae "! s | their manifests New York, supposedly to “await or ders.” ey were ait for orders when the is! is were transferred to the United States, According t all and other Members of woe says al) with contrab: rines, three ships car fuel supplies of the Manite 4 were loaded ried ooal the for “When we left New York last we were supposed » have a cargo of oal exclusively,” sid one of the crew, “Underneath the coal were ull sorts of and food suppiles 8 diy t urko Ww Thoma we German , w ad cargo when we reached Bu Ayres,” At Buenos Ayres the three whty und other fuel supplies, which we f tons of coul, the Manitow id, 0. M v toed tw ANTIC AIDED UUBOAT SINKS SHI FROM NEW YCRK; LOSS 15 $3,000,000: Greek Vessel Parth Parthenon Car ried Rich Cargo--No Word of Crew’s Fate. Tho Greek steamship Parthenon, which left New York on April 14 for Havre, has been sunk by a German submar! © vith a loss of more than $3,000,000 in vessel and cargo, accord- ing to & despatch received here to- day "he Parthenon, a ship of 2,984 tons gro wan under charter to the Royal Belgian Lic April the French ¢ d, Tho vessel waa oft destroyed . presumably The only information received hy D. J. Theophilatos, No. the non, 17 New York agent for was State tr Parth: a brief message from London agents telling of ts Jestruc tion, The fact that no mention was made of the crew leads Mr, ‘Theopht- latos to believe that they were saved The Parthenon curried a Greek crew of twenty-two. x0] was commanded by Capt. Nicholax Mano- lapos and was valued at $1, 0, The cargo was valued at more than $2,000,000, It was made up of general merchandls The Parthen wee bullt in England in 1904, With three other was the rty of D. Staghatos of Athena SHIP COMPANY'S HEAD DENIES VESSELS TOOK SUPPLIES TO U BOATS vessels it n ny te wre of the « De M woe att ' aud r 1 probably because “t ew wa aruntied Government in wating Ww, wo di aid W a High rig live balivcos, 4 BULLETS HIT AUTO, SHOTS ASE, ¢ TO QNERT PRODUGT OF EVERY STEEL PLANT FOR GREAT MERCHANT MARINE ROME, May 8&—Kalser Wilhelm had Shipping Board Plans the Con- @ narrow escape from an assassin’ struction of From 5,000,000 to bullet while motoring to Berlin, it |e ch tet Cote bia “| 6,000,000 Tons of Vessels in the An opiniones man fired three shot) Next Two Years. es ae ee PRIVATE CONTRACTS E TO BE CANCELLED Te waa arrested. The despatch said tim police Were silent }on the Incident. WASHINGTON, May 8.—Congress will be asked to appropriate $1,000,000,000 for the building of the great American merchant fleet | which Is to overcome the submarine menace, The programme, evolved by the Shipping Board, contemplates the diversion to Government uses of the products of every steel mill in the country, cancellation of existing contracts between those mills and private REPORT IN ROME Assailant Said to Have Besa Captured but Is Not Yet Identified. Great precautions have always bean | taken © giard the Kaincr from at- jtack. When he ts at the front lives In @ Bombproof house without {any Insignia thereon by which hostile aviators might loarn of his where- abouts, Circumstantial stories have told of special precautions taken during his frequent automobile trips such as an extra car made up to resemble @ bag- he gage automobile tn which the Kaiser jMetually rides, while preceding it is| Consumers and where necessary payment of damages by the Government hia gorgeous decorated automobile, | t4 the parties whose contracts are cancelled with a man resembling the Kalser seated inalde, Estimates of the Shipping Board are that 5,000,000 te 6,000,000 The newspaper Corrioro d'Italia is the clerical srean itt in Ke NO ESCAPE FOR § SLACKERS tons of steel and wooden vessels will be constructed by the Government during the next two years The only manuf cturers of steel to | British Gov pes Seeks Power to Enable to Recruit From Its | IN A W A ACKS. |Promptly that the flrat ef the ehip- ie in United State | bullding operations may be in motion LONDON, May &—In Houwe of | within two weeks, Commons to-day James tan Mac |, Just how the $1,000,000,000 will be Pherson, Parliamentary Secretary. t | Provided 4g not to be left to Congress, i famentary Secreta rf #4 ee jug the War Office, introduced @ bill to ut ny) programm calle enable the K sy oats ems for an additional issue of bonds, ¢ Mw by an D n Co-operation of the labor ¢ i} 2 oar ronventions Hf / | wanisa cll he cas met — ; We bi ™*|Paris War Office Announces} tions has already been pledged, it te which may be made with Allied or . Sees snineie toni ERE understood, and there wil be other States wa to mutual Habitites! Continued Successin Fight. | jyieyon Ane hes peesast neat ot BB: bjeo' ad 4 { | F ' British subjects and at ing on Road to Laon. K ne Is changed, looking to the itizens of Allied or other _ drafting of the labor necessary to nilltary service carry out the plan This bill is designed to obtain for| PARIS. May 8.—German counter: | he only other exception to the the army Britlon subjects ving | attacks near Vauxalilon and along | general ¢ eiiationa of private con- abr oe and ma: arenes for allen® tne Chemin-des-Dames last night | tracts with stecl mills will be those te tin England to joln the arm ies ada ‘Gtaat eins bs 7 incl: piu 4h vet were repulsed by the French, the War |! TMllroads, Steel mills, it ts con. Office announce Violent artillery | ‘Plated, brian aes $0) 8p A bill is pending es sekantn (Gonusrel .¥ | ply ther with the minimum amount ting the reerul womente urred on the Vau-} o¢ produc with which the 1 the United State cleroc Plateau and in the region of an get along x ie countries wh Graanne, idustries Kindred to the —— Following ta the text of the Fr rin which the oe of Secret Service for New York State Qi le | largely will be af. tiev me ad fi legislation. ALBANY. May & A Between Somme and the r cir losses, the pa 4 e tw Mart ih at Owe active art ory Uetting o« Adu 4 ‘ en $60,000 ¢ SRE f of our posts in the region wu w t of ap- al, may, under the ‘ # dire qiIBBb Gaia hembialin wasn iar dare| ellation of public ‘safety: und) jus and ut Vauxai and on the | It may be u essary for the Gov- porint for this purpose 1 Chemin near Lo Pan r wctually to take over the Fa WIENOUE: | theon N fr t be yacds of the country and : 1 wners under strict Gov= t : " ~_ t n the ‘ Vau r prog contemplates the Vrance Now Orders ‘Two Mentions in: the if tot ximu f every re. Daye a Week eal \ ae, ‘ia # " 1 l ie . 6 1 3 sin Gs ¥ A ye woek 1 tak r or i Ke oxy 1 iN , i a Adon to meet the German subs =_- na 1 4 ’ * « ‘ nen shipbuilding facilities spy it ' ro United States Steel ' Lied programme to control the f the country In 1s plans, — carried to (For Racing Results See Page 2.) (Wontinued on Fifth Page) the extent ijdicated,