The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1917, Page 1

PRICE(3 Ned ledeon Count NE CENT in Greater New York on or Cans eleewhere. %. t; Rega rr _NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, “MAY 9, [ “Circulation Books Open to am" 1917. ins Ground at F resnoy 18 RAGES PRICE "REESE oe New York and TWO CENTS elsewhere. CITY HAILS JOFFRE AND VIVIANI ~ $710,000 000 I NEW TAXES PUT ON INCOMES IN WAR | BL OF $1,800,000,000 Every Movie Fan, Traveller, Theatre-Goer, Smoker and Drinker Will Have to Help Finance War—Tax on Cof- fee and Tea Is Added, Exemptions om-Incomes Re- duced to $1,000 and $2,000, but Burden Falls Heaviest on Rich, Those With $500,- 000 Paying 33 Per Cent. Inheritance Taxes Are In- creased One-Third, Tariff ts Raised and the Free List Dropped—House Takes Up Bill To-Morrow. .By Samuel M. Williams (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World). WASHINGTON, May 9.—The new revenue bill imposing the heaviest tames America ever knew was pre- sented to the House this afternoon. It will be called up for action morrow. At the last moment taxes om tea and coffee were written into the act, 1 cent a pound on coffee and 2 cents per pound on tea levied on the importer and all stocks in the hands of wholesalers to-day, Retail! dealers’ stocks are exempted. Tt was also decided that a retro active tax covering the year 1916 whould be laid on all individual and corporation income taxes, adding one-third, to their present assess- ment. The effect of this will be as follows: A person having received from the internal revenue collector a bill calling for payment of $100 income tax not later than June 15 next, for his income derived in 1916, will receive an additional bill for $33.33. The original tax of $100 must be paid before June 16, but an extension of time un- til Sept. 15 will be given on the additional amount. This retroactive tax does not apply to the excess profit tax laid on cor- porations, but it does apply to indi- vidual and corporation incomes taxes on the prevailing rates. The income taxes to be paid next year will more than double the present rates ‘The new bill provides as follows: On incomes between $1,000 and $8,000 for single persons and be- tween $2,000 and $4,000 for mar- ried persons the rate will be 2 per gent, On all incomes above th amounts the normal or basic rate will be 4 per cent. with super taxes added for all incom $5,000, The with 1 per cent. between $5,000 and $7,500 and increase 1 per cent. for each $2,500 up to $15,000, after be (Continued on Second Page.) —_—_— ITALY WILL SPEND $10,000,000 HERE FOR HER RAILWAYS War Mission Coming to United States Will Buy Locomo- tives, Cars and Rails. WASHINGTON, May 9.— Negot ations looking to the purchase of more than $100,000,000 worth of ratl- way locomotives, cars, rails and other equipment in the Unitee States will be one of tie main purposes of the Italian War Commission which is ex- pected to reach this country in about | three weeks, Italian railways, which are Govera- ment owned and operated, are re- ported to be suffering greatly trom to- | lack of equipment, since most indus- trial plants formerly supplying the roads now are making munitions. Coal and foodstuffs and means of transporting them through the sub- marine blockade will form other im- portant subjects for discussion with American officials. The proposed purchases are contingent on the amount of the additional credit which | may be arranged between the two Governments. CHICAGO, May 9.—Railroa‘s of the United States are reclaiming aban- doned locomotives and freight cars as a result of the war demand for the mobilization of all available rolling stock, according to Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and head of the Railroad Commission of the National Council for Defense, LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 9.—Ways and means of co-ordinating the various branches of railway work coming un der their purview, so as to offer the t possible assistance to the Gov- will form the e discussions at the v sions of a three days’ National Railway Developme: clations which began here to-day. MAY WHEAT UP TO $3.14. | Eighteen Cents Above Yo Highent CHICAGO, aly wheat Asso erday’s mn Record Clowtny. May 9,—Influenced by the| extren bullish Government report, May opened to-day at $3.11— 15 cents over last night's close—setting ‘a new high record. All wheat and corn| futures were up sharply. Wheat continued [ta sensational rise advanced to $3.14, at which it 49. was up. 18% cents; Sep- 2.08, up 144 cont POLIS, Minn., May 9,-—Jul wheat jumped np 24% Cents to-day, go- ing to $2 | Biggest Man tn Navy to Wed Widow of American Sailor I WASHINGTON, May 9%.—Mrs. Eliza- |beth Eopolucct, widow of Frank Eopo. luect, the first American naval seaman |to die while defending an armed Amer- | jean merchantman against a man | () boat, will be married to-night, Will um Rader of Cleveland, O., the biggest man in the naval service, will be the groom, Rader stands six fect vix inches and weighs $00 pounds, LEADS FIRST U. 8. FORCE 10 FRONT Edward T ‘ane in Command| of Armed Detachment Which Left Paris To-Day. PARIS, May 9%—The Stars and Stripes appeared on the streets of Paris as the battle flag of an armed force this morning when the flag and fifty men of the American Field Ser- vice under it on thelr way to the raifroad station for the frent we acclaimed enthusiastically along the route, he contingent had just been re- vlewed by Col. Girard, head of the automobile section of the French army, in the presence of other French officers and Prof. A. Piatt Andrews, 4 of the American Field Service. he parade ground near the head- quarters of the medical section of the fleld se » was surrounded by @ large and enthusiastic crowd eager to see the Americans carrying arms in service for Fr: under the Star Spangled Banner. Thirty-one members of the contin- gent are from ( a graduate of Cornell, Tinkham of Montclai ce, nce Edward N. J., as in command, with R Soully, a Princeton man from Pittsburgh, as his assistant. his is the first detachment of the American Field § to bear arms and is detailed for the transportation rvice af munitions to the front “Extraordinary bravery and dis- tinguished contempt of danger” is what brought the to George 8. Dock of the American Ambulance Corps, according to offi- cial announcement to-d The citation of the day declared the St, Louls boy had “volunteered for all dangerous missions from July 28 to Dec. 8, 1916; carried out many. difficult evac of the wounded over routes incessantly bom- barded” and had otherwise distin- guished himself. GARLSTROM AND STUDENT AVIATOR DASHED TO DEATH NEWPORT NEW May 9. Victor Caristrom, aviation instructor at the Atlantic Coast aeronautical station here, and Carey B. Epes of Newport News, an army student avi. ator, were instantly killed to-day when thelr machin ed at an Hundreds of persons throughout the city saw the accident und children at one of the watching th filers dur were pantie: giving Epes first were flying smoothly ne chine suddenly ed up and plunged downward it fell ob servers saw the right wir after it It ad gy caused the ler of the collapse his fame when } to New York Before that he port to stop, country. fying the American re pilot and one ended to @ remain plane to m re News position 4 k last ornell University, and } French War Cros | Force of Von Hindenburg’s Blow of Yesterday Has Already Been Spent. LONDON, ‘May 9,—The tics Me er tle about Fresnoy wo. ¢ Ing’ day in favor of the See halt Marchal Haig realigned his forces and threw them into new and fu ri persistent fighting there. tremendous drive of yesterday against| the Canadians in an effort to stom | the tide of British victory ily spent its force and all his lavish ex- sp penditure of men and material bids! Already the Brit- strongly that most of the ground lost in the vicin-| ity of Fresnoy has been regained, The |Germans still are clinging to the vil- fair to be wasted ish have reacted so |lage itself but thelr hold upon it is 80 insecure that its recapture and the entire restoration of the British posl- tion appear imminent. [The Berlin War Office in its report to-day claims that Fresnoy | has been held against British | attack.) Gen. Haig, in his official report, sald: “Around Fresnoy hostile forces concentrating for an attack to the north were dispersed by our artillery, To the west we im- proved our position, and a night attack regained us a por- tion of the ground lost yesterday | counter | morning | “At night slightly northeast of Hargicourt we advanced our po sition, Northeast of village yesterday evening the en emy attacked but was broken up Gavrelle | | by our barrage and machine gun fire, belng completely repulsed. | “East of Armentieres early this | morning an enemy raiding party | was driven off.” North of Fr y tho enemy was seen to be ntrating for further attacks, but the British artillery }came into play and dispersed all the hostile forces. The Germans are not yet through with their ¢ reattacks against Gavrelle, Under cover of a very heavy bombardment they to-day as saulted the Gavrelle windmill and an | outpost of the village which already had changed hands about ten times The attacks were broken quickly by artillery ne gun fire. | The Germans put a heavy barrage against the British positions nd mac down ern and western portions court late k with in n with Br ered through it, The hos! posts gradually veing absorbed, and a number of prigoners are being take German counter ks force all the |delivered with greater after intensive artillery flre fro, at concentra f Kuns, These are very costly efforts, but so song a8 they continue the fighting will (Continued on Highth Page.) ,|Steps toward \existing ¢onfusion over WONTCLAR NAN” FRESNOY TIDE SWINGS BACK; CANADIANS REGAN GROUND; FRENCH TAKE NEW TRENCHES GOVERNMENT ASKS BARUCH 10 HEAD BUSINESS STAFF Field Marshal von Hindenbure's) With Rosenwald of Chicago, New Yorker Will Lead Na- tion’s Industrial Forces, Special tro WASHINGTC | side the of war we Gov auxiliary M. Baruch Rosenwald of talions of big already ) re revi New Chi busin Stat May York, KO. the taken to-day nment centralized Correspondent 9.—First bringing order out of business when authority a d Julius These two The y | men will be commanders of the bat- have recruited @ notable company in which every man is a captain of | industry, Business men desirous of assisti..g the Government have complained that there Was apparently no central au- thority for The move tion th 1 Counell Cabinet, chosen chiefs. have for its hi to whom they this reason thee of National posed of leading members of the announced the se | series of committees of foremost mon | in the country to serve under the two | deal with @ particular o was could go, a lows of | Valuable time and endiess confusion made to-day ends the fric- hos existed for between political officials and business | | volunteers, 7 committee he leadin, [in that particular industry 3 and time tion of will | Defense, a modity and man The Nation's industries needed tn war are divided into two general groups. Baruch takes ec and of munitions, metala and raw materials, nwald is chief of the fabr i The order t luty of supervish st ness and further to 0 n of industries in support the Government's progectulon of 1 tbordinates assigned to Mr fi und Mr, Rosenwald are from foremost business men of the ert H, Gary, Chairs ut the 1 1 States Steel ( \ W lairman s naAVINK 4 i 40 f the principal a! ne sncerna, Including == Ch H f the Bethlehem A Redford, President Standard Oil Company of sey, Will be Chairman of t Ra HW ‘ ‘ Othe pounced later, oman BOAT SIGHTED ‘BOUND WESTWARD IN MID-ATLANTIC Passengers on Ship Arriving To- Day Tell of Big Submarine Headed Toward America. Tho fact that a German submarine of the nowest and most formidable tyPO Was seen last Saturday in mid- Atlantic headed toward our shore wan related. torday by four pas#en- gers who arrived on a steamship from wngland. The steamébip's Captam declines to discuss the matter, but the four passengers tell a clear and convincing story. Otto Purunen, a Finn, who bad beon third engineer on the steamship Pad- eridge, with food trom Morocco, tor- pedoed off Plymouth on April 8 told |the story. His fellow passengers stood by and confirmed it “We were five cay: out,” he said, “and half way across the ocean a It- Ue after noon laut Saturday when | big submarine was sighted three miles off our port bow. She Was as big a9 the Deutschland, the under- sea cargo ship tha no here last year, Every deck saw her clearly, with ours, and riding high as a sub- marine ever goes, We vould not make out any deck gun on her “Our Captain swung his ship off to starboard as soon as he naw the submarine, in order to bring his six inch stern gun to bear on her, a |that was the only gun aboard. But |by the time the gun was pointed tn | her direction the submarine had dived out of sight | "Next day our ship got messages from four other English |whips that they had sighted a big submarine similar to the one we saw Probably {t was the sume |them took pot shots at hor, but #0 |far as they knew did not hit." | Purunen confirmed th story that |German submarines are taking away |the fighting men they English ships. tuin of the Pederidge taken aboard that sank her, ‘FIRST INTERNED GERMAN _ SHIP SAILS UNDER U, S, FLAG, capture on and sx gunners were the submarine Laden With Supplies for Gets Fine Send-Oft | Way to Sea | A Geran steamslht w h refuge from British wers tn port In August, 1914, steamed ¢ to-day with the American flag flying from her taffratl 8 s bound to a port in Europe with a curgo of sup- plies The steamship depart Is 1 the efi ne menace, A ved Jowly down the crowded Upper Bay every arn aft passed gave a Out through the Narrows, the Lower I Ambrose Chap she wus recomnized and greeted by in the eu ate aptured and sent on her way and Stripes, under the 8 © Was on @ course parallel} | > TR. AMENDMENT T0 60 wireless Two of | He said that the Cap. | HERO OFTHE MARNE ARRNES IS WELCOMED AT CITY HALL. BY CHEERING THOUSANDS Mayor Extends Formal Greeting to French War Mission—American Flags Waved by 4,000 Schoolgirls —Triumphal Progress. ~ France's. war ‘mission to the United*'States arrived in New York late this afternoon. Tens of thousands turned out to greet Marshal Joffre, hero of the Marne, ex-Premier Viviani and others of the party. The tribute to Joffre, especially, surpassed anything of the kind seen in New York since the great Dewey pageant at the close of the Spanish- American war, The sidewalks from the Battery to the City Hall, where the first feature of the official welcome to the distinguished Frenchman was ex- tended, were jammed with people, who cheered the visitors as they passed, while thousands waved enthusiastic greetings from roofs and | windows of skyscrapers and other buildings along the route. City Hall Park was one dense mass of vociferous humanity, —_—_oo rrr The bands played, children shouted DRAFT BILL OUT 10 MORROW: in delight and grown-ups added -| y| huszahs to the mighty welcome. Everywhere the tri-colors of France waved in unison with the Stars and | | Stripes, Here and there also were | Conferees Fix Ages for Conscription | °° British colors in honor of the A jcommisaion sent by England, headed | at From 21 to 34 in Ad- by A. J. Balfour, which arrives Fri- | justing Differences, day, WASHINGTON, May 9.—House and Senate Conferees on the selective ser- vice army bill are rapidly adjusting their differences, it was learned after a long session to-day, and a report jon the measure may be expected by | sii, there went up a tre! mendous to-morrow, |cheer from the great throng assem- | As the measure will be acrec4 upon, | pied in Battery Park according to information available, | OFFICIAL WELCOME EXTENDED | the Roosevelt division amendment | AT THE CITY HALL. will be eliminated; the age for ser-| kecorted by Squadron A, two | vice will be fixed at from twenty-one | troops of mounted police and a com: | to thirty-one years and the army pro-| mittee of distinguished citizens, the { hibition amendment will remain, but | commission proceeded through modified 70 @® to attach A penalty | roadway to the City Hall, The Frenchmen were met in Jerney City by @ reception committee and procesded to the Battery on board the police boat Patrol. As Marshal Joffre stepped from this little craft, and for the first time stood upon New York only to the sale of Nquor to men in! After the preliminary welcome in uniform, As the measure stood|the Mayor's reception room, the originally, the penalty would apply to| party repaired to the Aldermanic “selling, furnishing or giving away” Chanyber, where Mayor Mitchel de- | Nauor to @ aoldier t~ uniform livered the official welcome and Jo- —-- veph H, Choate, Chairman of the ‘BIG lL TANKER SUNK | stay »’s Reception Committee, also ext led greetings to the visitors, M Viviant replied on behalf of him- and his colleagues. Fully 1,500 perhons attended these ceremonies. Mombers of the Veteran Corps of Arullery were drawn up at each end ON WAY FROM MEXICO | Fate of the Forty-Ei San Urbano, ht Men on the 6,458 Tons, Is : of the City Hall Bullding, under Unknown, Lieut. Col. Joba R, Delafield. Flank- The 6468 ton British tank steam-| in the steps of the structure were ship San Urbano, which left a Mexi-| the Old Guard in their gorgeous full on ofl port April 12 for the United | dress uniforms, under Major Ardolph Kingdom, has been sunk by a sub-|1. Kline, Members of the Veteran narine, according to cable advices| Corps also formed an honorary guard received here to-day by her owners,|inside the Hal Anglo pany, T American Petroleum Com- e sinking occurred prior to id no mention was made fate of the forty-eight men A court of honor enciroling the fountain was surmounted by a great April 20 red and gold banner bearing the 4s to the Blashfield medallion of France and rd. Great e ban Urbano was bullt in 1918/4000 SCHOOLGIRLS WAVE AMER. t tong, and| ICAN FLAGS, 900 tons of off in| Within the Court of Honor ranged 4 high blue background were '4,000 schoolgirls dressed in white, and adv, grouped on @ pyramidal platform 500 gainst cus, cannot Ne work pole AA enc! } y