The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1917, Page 1

pee Bip ihn ienrlnnan neni amar oe eT P LS HE ie hekey se as “Cire lation Books Open to All.” | PRICE ‘ NEW YORK, “TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1917. {ONE C8 Grenter New York and " Coportant, 1917, by The Press nial (Hudson County, N. J. TWO CENTS eleewhore. ONE CRIT tn Greater New York Go, (The New York World). PRICE |i ireater New and Mutoss Deenty, B. TWO CENTS coowners —— VON HINDENBURG FAILS IN GREAT DRIVES; - BRITISH AND FRENCH FIRMLY HOLD LINES PRESIDENT TAKES ACTION TO SPEED CONGRESS IN ITS WORK ON FOOD REGULATION He Calls a and House Leaders to Important Confer- ence in the White House. 3,390,046,000 NO DEFINITE PLAN YET FOR ARN NAVY DYING DUMB GIRL SPOKE: ‘WAR 10 END NEXT SEPTEMBER’ Remarkable Prophecy Report- ed by G. V. McNeir at Bank Directors’ Meeting. At a meeting of the Board of Di rectors of the Bank of the Metropolis, George V. MeNetr, the Vice President who holds a similar office in the W ARMY BILL TO BE REPORTED, INCLUDING THE PLAN FOR ROOSEVELT'S VOLUNTEERS |r. R.’S SON, THE MAJOR, IN HIS TOGS OF WAR AT PLATTSBURG CAMP Leaves This Chau Clause Optional for Approval or Veto By | President W son, i} RUSSIAN HARMONY NEAR; COUNCIL T0 CONFER WT WITH DUMA 4 vevsecna Cometh Government Issues | Proclamation That It Will | Stick to Its Task. | PE ROGRAD, ‘8 and Soldiers’ E May 15.—The Work- | mittee to-day formed a commission to negotiate with the V’rovisional Goy- utive Com- es GERMANS LAUNCH ATTACKS ON THE BRITISH AND FRENCH WITH REINFORCED ARMIES Successive Waves at Bullecourt and North of the Aisne Met With and J. Sloane Company, related a| WASHINGTON, May 15.—Seuate| ¢ |srnment on tho question of @ coall Machine-Gun Fire—lInsignificant and House conferees on the Army} tion of forces. remarkuble story of a ten-year-old ¢ | Bit: f W eas . bill to-day agreed to report ie me 4 | ptiations, s jounced, | ie) aroun On.” Friction on Every Side and Re- girl, dumb since birth, gyho spoke on vine ashes bis The negotiations, it was announced, tah ’ teat had aba thi be ‘redMled the war's Ure with provision authorising the ‘would be over such “fundamental organization ot Legislation ler death bed and pr 4 the war's | 4 “or end in September of this year | President to raise the volunteer divi= | ? nelples” as Russia's foreign policy, NEW ATTACK NEAR LOOS to Smooth It Away. Mr. MeNeir said the girl was born foe Col, Roosevelt desires to icud to} 4 + | peace as soon as possible and without elas : Aah ‘ to wealthy parents, living just out- | France. : : " ‘ Largest Appropriation Bill of] sjae- New York City. she was ex-| No other changes in the bit were| 4 Baneeation ‘or tadematty) the eer CHECKED BY HAIG’S MEN By Samuel M. Williams. lis Kind Reported by Sen ceedingly bright as an infant, but | Made by the conferees. 7 of all nations to work out their own {The Eveuing s GO REPOTEE BY Oe she Was totally dumb, not beihg able| They accepted without chenge tho| 4 ; |destinies, und decisive measures to ‘ 7 ; WASHINGTON, May 15.—Rew ate Committee. erin to ions he fa the of most | House provision for the Roosoveli| ? democratise the army as well as to LONDON, May 15.—Germany launched a concerted counter-ate at last the crisis confronting both Go persons bereft of voic Volunteers, As the Senate by a large} + reinforce Russia's military strength! tack on both the French and British fronts to-day of such force as to cramept and couatey, the. President! WASHINGTON, May 15—All ap-' At the ago of five ye the ehita | Vote previously approved the volun: | * Reg ikea rac ‘tural Propriations records of Congress were | 4¢¥eloped a physical weakners and | tee force, its final adoption by both 4 aoa suggest almost a general coynter-offensive movement. The attacks were has called a conference of agricultural Prepriations records o} ; ret ee | Houawe oe, Celarese “I The committee reconsidered its ac- ah pecame an invalid, but partly -e-| Houses of Congress Is regarded as) | ( tish nch forces officials, experts and bers of Con- broken to-day when tha.Senate ADp-| coined her health later. Sho studied |certaln unless something unexpectedly! > | tom ofitdet “weak, when, by a vote of repelled for the most part, but both the Bal and the French f gress for to-night at the White House Propriations Committee reported 1° +! continually and showed considerable | (evelops in the Ser The full force 2 to 22, coulition tn government with | Were compelled to relinquish insignificant bits of ground, to devise some consolidated plan of | War, Army and Navy Deficieney Bill,| mental powers. held mpl aR bit he ade the Duma members was rejected Hindenburg’s army has been strongly reinforced, but no mention : When the war began in 1914 her in- Vhether Col, Roosevelt and » What Is Ic*t of the provisional min- Z carry lag a total of $3,390,048,000, in- | ga hat Is 1e°t of the pr : , os a wacicrss Ha iding $400,000,000 for construction | terest in It was so keen she devoured |unteer force go abroad or not r ? lotry met to-day at the home of|is made in the official despatches of the participation in the attacks of here {# much confusion, con mepgredte yt.) an Americin mee. | all reading matter on the subject that |for the President to decide, as the pro- Prince Lvoff the Premier, to discuss] 4, > i ’ 4 ' ase of an A * the 600,000 German troops reported to have been brought from Ru: and rivalry in the food control sitU-| Cnont marine, reach. She had a| vision agreed to by the co: 5 a fom of coalition which will save . ation | Tne committee added $563,%92,000 te ter grasp Upon its intricacies | Makes It optional and not mandatory) » Russia from disinte;:ation, Previ-|/te the western front. There were rumors from other sources that these shiek 3, te » LVverage read grow ». | Upon him. S rc ter Miltukof: A Hervert Hoover, the Belgian Rellef| Wie House bill, Among Ml He eS Te ee 0 Mele lene oanrareaa Geoloecabciarcioned (a Famer Sete saan attntemt t,| troops had already begun to take part in the great struggle. who come to Wash- | Increases were $500,000 for the spent hours writir bid bytes ’ 1 n desputesed to the ba Ns ? iba seer many Whe DOs : Me | PNK ELGcat Datastae $1,000,000 ns of th eat conflict, but was | other queltions, The conscription ’ mec! the soldiers a 4 plead wtih them Field Marshal Haig’s report de ington with compri Wl eention’ andoiitemied Gachan never able to utter a syllable, though {remains Yrom twenty-one to thirty) ¢ j to show @ united front to the enemy tailed a tremendous Gorman bom- Besiling the: easel it 2 eat kas thasdiastobes aca pees her emotion over what she | mea inolualy g se i$ ja 1 to stand firm Mirupacuine | bardment of the positions his troops and agricultural departinenst offiotais, | 9 for heavy army ordnance. | HAY I noha ta have the Bib Anas | \o beats ae “ieee have gained on the Hindenburg ling Hoover wants to have a f 4 eveyone American fleet being. dans fal 4 k girl seri-|by. both Houses and sen the| % ‘The Workmen's and Soldiers’ Coun- and particularly at Bullecourt, fol- ebip with himself as dictator enti a ni a appre me ja Hon of nusly tll and was put to bed. At the | President |? cil to-day tssued another appeal to | !owed by atiweking waves, There was independent of the Agri witurat De pain si authorized $350,000, he fi ry illne aan trer ’ Jehe a to flght vigorously against heavy fighting. In the northern part partment Administration. Naturally | (0? more for uye later as an “ere cane are GEN, BRUSSILOFF, RUSSIA'S . | the enemy, wring Germany and of the village the British commander this docs not meet with Secretary | &?ey shipping fund out eather | H her imperialistic autocracy {# secking in chief frankly stated Britiwh ad- Hotmtcn'a<idene and: there ta a dead>| ’ 4 Governme ; bearing a} CHT § § > to destroy free Russia and reduce her vanced posts had been “forced back fact nd | ‘ aii lock. Hoover 1 pular backing. | t° Y r actories flowe »bed her foot | GREAT Fi ER, RE IGN ° lpe ple Into slavery. The appeal] @ short distance.” Houston has offic rt oF the products of w nd 1 ob indy and mae | 4 warned against fraternizing with en- ‘The French official report showed Meanwhile the number of food bills ’ ane DYGK Oxle me I lding » the floor. Mor the ‘first | W as Commander Who Drove the} 2 ‘ soldiers, ———__— a violent bombardment of Gen, Ni- introduced in Congress, the atacks of| Contracts of private individuale Siitge Tha. suid CAR aie i is : The Provisional Government has] -~ ate aroe;| velle’s recently gained positions on suggestions and the torrents of pro-|foreign governments, Cohstruetion | "| Austrians Out of Galicia—-Ge ¢ sued a proclamation regarding the| General Foch, One of Heroes! 'i. chemin des Dames (Ladies High- cs facii saying ‘ 13 1 » Fi A ei testa pouring in from the country| facilities taken over aro to be pald | in otner, you have broken Gurko Also Quits. \% resignation of Minister of War! of Marne, Appointed Chief | way) and a powerful German attack have created a condition of chaos out| for at a reasonable price, Refusal of ad eoliiht tae fesetal® PPTROGRAD, May 15 (via Lon-|@ Guchkoff, in which it saya: f Staff over a wide front near La Bouvelle. of which there has not come yet a] Persons to deliver requisitioned fac astonishment was tn-|don).—It became known here to-day |+-0+0o« “M, Guchkoff thought It feasible! of otal, The assault was repulsed by ma- ingle specific to stop extortions or tories or establishments would be) june ie child was smiling|that just before the resignation ‘ personally to leav) the Provisional | chine gun fire except in one spot relieve the public. penalized. eee ees es thames Se thal the Sreviaines! Winintev'el Wan Gs Government and divest hinself of| PARIS, May 15.—Gen. Petain was}]where a small advance trench was It 18 with a view of co-ordinating} Anot He eee WO. OMT ORL MAS ie ind its conte » mother | Guchkoff, was announced yesterda responsibility for the destinies of}to.day named Generalissimo of the} cupled. these scaticred programmes for re-| shipbuilding programme provides for ; her if sha had spoken, but|Gen. Alexis Brussiloft Amand Ruasta, ‘The Provisional Government,| pronch armies, with supreme com- (The German War Office to-day Hef and mobilizing the reliever at| compulsory contracts at a reasonab! Uke : GhiavGhl tka Hussians kcmian Gn which te fully aware of the danger at \ claimed that troops of the Ger the President has summoned Senate | price meapeieit tite’ ais (ACUI WAMEANeRaRe: ene: Gan GueNc present facing Russa after the trou. | mand of the forces In the feld. man Crown Prince had captured and Hot Committees on foul Other provisions were ; Ge the mother fo | the Commander of tie Russian w bles the country hus one through, en. Foch, one of the heroes of the| thy farm of Ste. Berthe, east of ture, officials of the department and} For arm pti ‘ “ mite vase, hop-|¢r front, asked to be. re considers that !t has no right to shift] Marne, who commanded the French| Fort de Malmaison, on the Aisae some others to the White House co ee , ; m ine it i © phenomena, r comuand rh Br the burden of pow and 19 remain: | ¢¢ ntre at that memorable battle, was! front.) ference for tornight Canal fortifications, $1 M Is |The mother fol ructions, but | these two a officer its pont |named to succeod Petain as Chiet of| The text of Field Marshal Halg’a Congress is confused over this food Sarat Me 2 500, 006 reat Neen ae ha wech, | sidered after the su ng | he Provisional Government | report to the War Office follows situation, Tt ts ur find ju in tores, $2,000,000; nav Scania aball |Guehkoft haw been i , ba | is confident that the participa. | Staff “Small engagements botweer what the executive branch t . Nd ising $10,( 1,000; Hampt ’ Mn uethAtea tie S : * tion by new representatives of | Gen, Nivelle, who has been in com-| outposts, in which our troops were Government wants, Pending a r tal’ SONAtHclOn AV EM OGY RAAT |” teeo dave later 4hp aisl’ Galled heel eArane aa: thie mane ik democracy in the responsible task | inund of the French eld forces, will| successful, took place during the ganization of t programme and Man BHA PROAIS DE aN veseat Syaeear bia se The | Russian. generals. nc Cove ; of government will re-establish | lave comunand of certain army! night southeast of Epehy. Early word from the President ine | $3,000,000; Eastern Marine Corpa| ig i Hes HN eas 4 on. | mand of Russia's inost suceessfu sovernment Frames Measure that unity and fulfillment of |sroups, this morning the enemy heavily ig to be followed, consideration of the | posts, $2,500,000. | startle oma bil fensive—that by which the Austri That Will Be Made Public power in which the country will The sweeping changes in the com-| pombarded positions in Bullee food problem and high price bill Seductions of $79,000,000 were made | ting 1» ber Bor Relea eRe ee Addy re , find its salvation.” mands of the French fighting forces! court and the Hindenburg line are held up. Dranense end forificatcne | Mother," she sai 8” UN | Etusie'e eruthaanern arine ott in House on Monday, | Phe speech of Minister of War| Were decided upon at a session of the| and again delivered two deters Similar confusion of programme 000 for manufacture of '» | to die within a few hours. tam tise ad lsaranaky ito Congre ff Depu-| Council of Miniaters, mined counter attacks. His ate exists in regard to munitions mate wder for the navy thankful this dreadful war will ONDON, May 15.—Pren I 1| ties trom troope at the f in which oe tempt m the Hindenburg line rials and supplies f. aimy, navy a > — — end in September, 1917 | HOLLWES REFUSES , ended? hanite RBAVARDISHAd cS | Gen, Petain, who was a retired col-| ompietely tailed, An E ae . She adjusted pillow and smil ree will transn erma of a set-|he pleaded for unity and ed tha at the outbreak o: e 8 M ¥ ship buildings THREE BIG LINERS SUNK? Ju i emt " lull should “work for peace by .the| NSFOAN OF. Si Is) his attack was repulsed af One of the foremost men f th ae . in ald her tou ‘ Twe 10 TALK OF PEACE nt of the Iri vu 1 devised | ST ENC Pe ted to| the man to whom many Frenchmen or Gahting | ne Bae Council of Defense nis-] Maritime late tead trom causes ONY ent to Irlab leaders|pove a marked offe . have been looking for the tnittative atau inn aid today ave That Gia | not her dumbness, rnc In the course of his speech the| Wheb would win a decisive succeas village were foreaa got to be done, an When an Eve World r porter | German ( hancellor Sa tw Cha ; Banas | Mintetst eaid on the French front. To him more be de ” \_ | Exchange to-day that three great trar flice In the W. & Com f ul sad T came to you beca lactive service with the French the z ; atlantic liners, one a Cunarder, one| pany, Mifth Avenue a rty-sey Countr legend of success attach: He b tatorship in j foun f aperty of nter=| tive a 1 add 1 BERLIN (via Lond M r tion that we teontious | © & por Aes M nid ta ‘ Elis in i ij W Char i " sunn, I \ Yi r la oe ol ; ” T dia : 1 r 1 f ra , . ' 1 , . ‘ rt at i of 1 \[ COLD SPRING IS OVER, w wing int Ru ; ae by British Retiienis and-Gonats re les|| WEATHER BUREAU SAYS; Rape " eevee 5 ut} A ’ 5 tacks, which, though Bilis s euiat ad ‘|| SUMMER TIME 1S HERE, Hor sa ' ia ‘ in was pl | suet frightful losens, have tala heavy pun ner ipor positon of ae ) ' i aw alfa ® grou i rake « Krip MAHDUIALOHE Of pel ‘ SC) ourt of Appeals Hutes Oral Betting WASHINGTON, M inclusion of , ! id 1 fy, | a ee , \ . F nd legislation that will pted ® Crime, f ‘ I ue - : y WILL SUPERVISE EXCHANGES| AILANY, May 1 Jude Hure 1 ean t W if sahil ged 1 wh ght be ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, ting Joseph Tortora pk f Se eileen 1 aan. + : Map eau ex ia on the While vit ft Congre fman of Now ¥ 1 eCer the ¢ t ' <j an mins Village, on and 6 4 1 ‘ °° & a ‘aes re ts . ele | VENUS PENCILS, ay a Doe IT ShoDe @Montinued on Second Page.) will curtail public betting. ns tp pal proposals debate. i (Continued on Secuud Page.) Ne work Venus P eennel dom—ad Their fight through the village was