The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1917, Page 1

‘ 4 q ‘ rant making © positive statement as te the exact cause of the accident That will be determined in an inquiry | {te be made by @ Naval Board, I am IP informed, and that inquiry will be| eld as soon as possible in order to avoid delaying the ship. Major Besley added that an in formal Inquiry had been held aboard | the vessel lasting until 1 o'clovk this| t, morping ond that all statements} * made were taken down in affidavit| | frm. When asked as to the nature of the wounds which killed the nurses | he said: GUN NOT INJURED, DECLARES MAJOR BESLEY. “We found pieces of a copper de ‘ tonating cap in thelr wounds ond on the deck. The Navy Department will | doubtless be able to determine what | caused the explosion, The gun was not injured and the members of the gun crew did not know what had nappened until we conveyed word to the officer In charge that one of the shelis had killed two women and tn- jured a third, \ ‘| have just received a telegram ¥? (Continued on Bizhth Page.) - > onyeNs AERRIEED, « GkArE Atitex. Deve", Mud Fultoo $t.. N.Y. Phone sont tewe, sant nga a ONE CENT in Greater New PRICE| Hadeon County, N. J, TWO CENTS elsewhere. York and Coprright, 1917, by The Press Gs {The 'New York World). ip Press Pablishing NEW YORK MONDAY, MAY 21, * BRITISH, FRENCH AND ITALIANS | GAIN: Kills Two Nurses “Circulation Books Open t to. All.” WEATHER—Cloudy to-night; probably rain. 1917. 14 PAGES tba ng ae ah A N. an I TO HINDENBURG LINE IS CROSSED BY HAIG j RED GROSS NURSES KILLED AS FAULTY SHELL [S FIRED IN TARGET PRACTICE AT SEA Fragments of Steel Hurled Among Group of 400 Workers on Way to France —Third Nurse Severely Wounded—Ship Puts Back. The explosion of a shell which had just been fired aboard an easi- bound American steamship by a naval crew from a naval gun at target practice on the Atlantic Ocean, killed two Red Cross nurses and wounded another yesterday. The steamship returned to-day to an American port flag at half mast and landed the bodies of the dead nurses and turned the wounded nurse over to a shore hospital. Mrs. Edith Ayers, thirty-seven years old, of No. 2112 Sedgwick Street, Chicago, a graduate of Cook County Hospital, and Miss Helen Burnett Woods,"of No. 1144 ShermaiAvemie, Evanston, Ill, a ‘graduate Of the Illinois Training School for Nurses, were instantly killed by the explosion, They were members of Red Cross Saso Hospital Group No. 12, recruited at Northwestern University, Chi and consisting of xty-flve nurse: twenty-five doctors and 153 ambu- lance drivers and stretcher bearers, bound for tleld service in Franc Major Frederick Besley, professor of surgery, Northwestern Unzversity, director in charge of the division, and he made the following statement on the arrival of the vessel to-day: | “Target practice aboard the steam- | ship on which we were pas was begun about 2 o'clock Sunday | afteryoon, All the nurses were on the | upper deck, about midway of the ship. | The Chief Officer and T were standing | with the nurses and we were all lean- ing over the rail watching the shots| from the gun deck below WAS STANDING BETWEEN THE TWO WOMEN KILLED, "Two shots had been fired from a forwerd gun, Then wor that The injured nurse is Miss Emma Matzen of Chicago. -UTTLE GIRL FAVORITE OF YACHTSMEN DROWNS BATHING TEDDY BEAR neers |Boat Club Members Work i Vain to Restore Three-Year- Old Virginia Peterson, Little Virginia Peterson, a curly haired youngster of three and a half years, lost her life to-day when she fell overboard from a float anchored at the Club, laremont Boat One IRELAND IS ASKED TO FORMULATE HER diate Convention to Deal With New Proposal. LONDON, May 21.—It was an- nounced by Premier Lloyd George in the House of Commons to-day that the Government proposed to sum- mon immediately a convention of representative Irishmen in Ireland to submit to the British Parliament a constitution for the future government of Ireland. He stated to-day that the chairman of the convention will be nominated by the Crown. There was a rumor that it might be the Duke of Con- naught. “If a substantial agreement ts reached regarding the character and scope of the constitution framed by the convention,” said the Premier, “thé Government will take the neces- sary steps to enable the Imperial Parliament to give legislative effect thereto. The convention will be held ‘behind closed doors.” The convention, said the Premier, would be representative of the local governing bodies, the churches, the trade unions and commercial and educational interests and would in- clude Sinn Meiners: the delegates to be chosen by the respeotive bodies. John Redmond, the Nationalist leader, speaking after the Premier had made his announcoment, sald that for the first time in her history Ireland has been asked virtually to settle a problom for herself, “I take it for granted,” he added, “that all sections of Irishmen will feel it their duty to come In,” Four unsuccessful Mr. Redmond, had three successive reach a settlement, attempts, been aid made by Governments to but the present proposal was entircly novel, Ireland was asked herself to draft a mati tution for her country. That proposal carried with It the that G Impl t Britain w 1 obligation vuld_ be only 00 & gun was to be fired on our slde of| Hundred and Eichth Street and North|slad to accept the decisions arrived the ship--« gun meunied of t waa | Rive r, while she was ~iving a bath to ote “ standing between Mrs, Ayers and), aia op : ave the sure hope,” Mr. Red ‘eddy Bear. Tte d M Tooda and Mivs Matzen was| y Tte ttle girl and) ond continued, “that the result of the to the Ieft of Mrs. Ayers. Jher mother, Mrs, Mabel Peterson,} convention will be a blessed one for Bimultaneously with the dis» [lived at the Boat Club, where Mrs,| Ireland and the Umpire. With all my charge of the gun the three | Pcierson was employed, heart I hope the convention will be nurees fell | Virginia was known to afl the | animated by the true spirit of concilla Miss Woods collapsed into a | tion among Irishmen deck chair, No one else in the vicinity. was touched. Fragments of the shell picked out these three women. "ANT can say is that we were at fight angles to the course of the shell There ts no accurate evidence to war- Blood ¥ yachtsmen along the river, for she would stand on the float and wave her hands to them as they went by. Last week Mrs. McDonald Club presented the girl @ teddy bear, To-day Margaret of the Boat to she was on the float when the teddy bear slipped from her arms. The child pi of th cked it up and toddled t the side float, where she les over, intending to give it bath. Sh ost her balanes and fell overboard Members from the club uted to} Robert Harris of No, 201 West Twen 1 Street, who was in a rowboat roy, He dived and brought up Virginia after ghe had sunk the sec. ne and then swam with her to the float, where clubmembers frantic. lly applied artificial respiration. Dr Mills was called from Knickerbocker Hospital and applied a pulmotor for » hour in a vain effort to the child > LES DARCY NEAR DEATH. resuscitate ning Resnits From fected Tooth and Tons MEMPHIS, May 21.—Les Darey, the Australian boxer, was barely alive to-day, according to his physician, is likely to die at any moment, the same time his wonderful may pull him through,” the Tenn, He but at vitality physician said Darey's condition due to an tn- fected tooth and tonsil trouble resulted in blood poisoning spreading through- out bis system, Mr. Redmond said the shrink from a comprom could obtain a substantial agreement it would be worth all the heartburnings and postponements of the last thirty must not e, and if they or forty years Sir John Lonsdal retary and whip of the Irish Lt party, sald In addressing the House that the Ulster party would submit the lentire proposal to the e of UI |ster and recommend ‘eful con sideration, He and h gues, 1 devlared, would not take the respon sibility for sing tt Joc upon the experiment. + Earl Curzon mad ate the House ilar to the Premier's in t 1 of Commons. He said teh subject ne which led for restrai r ath and forbearance “It would be w o added, “if on the presnt no attempt orles which and some- were made to re are charged witt times remorseful ful »ciations.” RAPS ANTI-DRAFT PLOTTERS, Jadge in Declares Little Short of Trattors | DALLAS, Tex to oppose the enforcer service is but litt! of treason, \Federal District Judge Jack, of the |Northern Texas District, charged the Texas Them May 21 ent of selective short grand jury when he impanolled it here to-day Seven indictments charging con- spiracy to oppose the United States Government ying out the pro visions of the ve se: vice meas- jure, were returned b. a grand jury \in. San Angelo last week, and a further sweeping investigation was ordered to-day. ‘ DWN CONSTITUTION scitanatianina | Lloyd George Calls for Imme- | SEGOND DIVISION FOR FRANCE, TAKING IN NEW YORK MILITIA, BEING SPEEDED INTO SHAP | National Guardsmen Who Had Hard Training at the Border Are to Follow. By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Btaft Conrgpendent of The Evening forid.) WASHINGTON, May 21.—The first division of regular troops already or- dered to France will be reinforced by @ second division of regulars, to follow 4s soon as it can be rushed into shape. Report has been made to the War Department that there are between fifty and seventy-five thousand Na- tional Guardsmen in the service who had hard training expertence last year on the Mexican border, who can be made nearly as fit as the regulars after six weeks in southern training amps. This includes between 18,00 and 20,000 New Yorkers. It 8 estimated that by Oct. 1 the United States can have 100,000 well trained soldiers on the French front without seriously draining Its de- fensive strength, Whether any but| the two divisions of regulars will bel ¢ despatched this year is a question not yet fully decided. While the United States may be weak just at present in trained fight- ing men, compared to the vast armies of England and France, this country fs quickly marshalling divisions of industrial soldiers whose work behind | the lines will be of incalcuable value! to the Allies, reinforcing them where they are weakest, In addition to the regiments of en- gineers now being formed, a second army of experienced railway workers was called for to-day to rebuild and operate the transportation lines of France. Fairfax Harrison, President of the Southern Railway and Chair- man of the Ratlroad War Board, made this announcement to-day. Ten thousand American raliroad | men will be organized into nine reg! ments, under command of an officer of the regular army engineer corps, with experienced railway officials in| subordinate command. The men will| be enlisted as soldiers, but their duly will be Industrial, w Five regiments will be construction | organizations to rebuild the French railways, Three regiments will be engineers und trainmen to operate the lines, One regiment will be com- posed of shop men. | Plans are made to prevent this drain of 10,000 men from Interfering | with the operation of the already| heavily burdened American lin Train schedules are to be reduc cutting out unnecessary service, at extra men are (taken on to fill vacated places. ‘ PARIS PAYS A DOLLAR A POUND FOR BEEF The Inauguration of Two Meatle Days a Week Causes a Rush to Buy. PARIS, May With the inaug uration of the regime of two meat less days a week beef went dollar a pound to-day, and tables and fish followed. the tendency. The rush for meat supplies to « to one vege upward arry over until Wednesday swamped th butchers, although they had lald i extra amounts, There was good deal of crowding, and some sharp talk was heard against rich buyers who pafd any price the dealers asked sending the quotations too high for modest purses. Beef on the hoof at the stockyards was higher than last week, although the receipts were larger, Whic salers appear to take the view that the new regulations will not reduce eonsumption. otherwise properly assembling those! son and Haviland of the La chosen will take nearly two months, ayaa. Bacddrille jso that {t will not be possible until ayette gEscadrille MR. CHOATE'S WIL DIVES ESTATE ~ WORTH$3,000,000, Son and Daughial Are Resid- | uary Legatees — Several Bequests for Charity. Local Officers Expect to Leave ‘ as Draft Army Goes Into Training. The wiU of Joseph Hf. Choate, filed in the Surrogate’s Court this after. noon, disposes of an estate estimated lat $3,000,000, To his widow Mr. New York National Guard ex-/ Choate left $250,000 outright, $75,000 pects to be in the trenches on the| year and the use for life of his European battlefront before next win-| home in Manhattan and his country ter's first snowfall. It will go into| residence in Stockbridge, Mass, action as tro Sixth Division. This 18} To George UC, 8, Choate in left the the prediction made to-day by high ditiidey, autdories we bees thety|OOme of @ trust fund of 9360,000 belief on a very significant announce- | for life. ' Joseph H. Choate jr, a ment which bas just apeared in the |", recelved $100,000 outright, and Army and Navy Journal, Announce-! his wife, Cora Oliver Choate, also Mehts In this publication are regard od |Tecelves $100,000, 46 semi-official by regular army of-| The four children of Joseph H. prs | Choate jr. are beneiiclaries to the ex- In commenting on the disp 1n/ tent of $50,000 each, to be given to of. the Nationa! Guard generally, the | them at the of twenty-one. Mr, Arty sad‘ ‘avy Journal says: Choate'a three piceps, Margaret M., “After # short stay at local armor-| Mary K. and Caroline Choate reveive tes to permit the receipt and dis- | $10,000 each. tribution of essential equipment the! Mr. Choate left $10,000 to cach of Guard will be sent to Divisional Can-| the following; Stato Charities Aid tonment Camps, This will be the! Association, New York Avsociation for same that--as soon as the National) the Blind, St. Paul's Church, Stock- Guard has been trained and with-| bridge; Stockbridge Library Associa drawn—will house troops of the new tion, The Lewal Ald Society and the National Anny.” | Woman's Assoviation This means there will be no delay| of the City of New York. at" State camps, of the estate tx divided ‘The deduction made from the fore | squaliy between his son Joseph’H. jr going announcement by both Na-| ong daughter, Mubel et Choa tlonal Guard and regular army offi- se ints Seeitcatin Sor can army whice io OGG (OMORS OF GIVEN TO U. S, AIR FIGHTERS to he recruited by the selective draft) Prison system will take place on June 5. According to Secretary of War Baker | the work of eliminating the undesir- ables from, a military standpoint and| War Cross and Palm Go to John Sept. 1 to begin sending the con-| PARIS. May 2 More boners for scripts to the camps. American aviators in tho Lafayette Meanwhile, the National Guard will! & drille were announced this after have had practieally two months of| noon in the ¢ or the [a \tensive training at the camps they! Sergt. C. . tohnoun St. Louis aro to vacate for the conscripts. In-| and Sergt. Willie Haviland of Minne amnuch as no provis hus been! apolis were both awarded the War made elsewhere for the accommoda-| Cross with a palm in recognition of on of the National Guard when they} the uumber of enemy inachines they loave the southeastern encampment, ell informed officers have concluded they will be sent to Europe on} transports, | > have brought down Adjt. Raow Lufberry of New York, the only “ace” in the American fly ing squadron, was granted un addi | tional palm to his war cross. mynarles HH. Dolan of Boston, ad- to the Lafayette Squadron FOOD STRIKE AT BELLEVUE; STAFF FF REFUSES TO EAT| emi jaa wee, wan groin rte Re >me in Boston, where his mother | il Haviland 1» and | Butter, Milk and Meat Cut Off, | twenty-six Attack sili ay jand has been a member of t ttaches Charge in Complaint |drille for nearly a yeur, Jo’ ‘0 Superir twenty-seven and ts @ son to Superintendent Oc Tokbeant en " The high cost of livin s Dolar twenty-tw arn of ag TIGERS ee ge nd has been in training F Hospital, For 1 Sen he ae eal ‘ th office staff, pauffeurs « ¢d butter, milk or meat, Be d wront make up the tirse of luncheon. At supper a Sayn State Dep mi put in th offee WASHINGTON, May 2 A The attaches rebelled to-day and| between American borde p efused to eat what was served, They! Mexicans was reported officially urched in a body to the office of Dr, the State Department today ge O'Hanlon, Medical Superin A group of tiltbi 4 to the nt, and complained, Dr. O'Han-| American wide 1 They | 0 id he had no idea ey were, were captured by America army being treated in the manner do-/men and Customs oMcers, Included | ribed and promised to speak in those captured we Holmes, said to be designa dietitian merical a Manuet Vera Howard, the dietitian, it was! fiurit nectat ary ent me on Friday inaugurated = the employees , : two cents a day, a cut of ten! TAX ON AUTOS TO STAND, enils ia what they got for er House Relerts Proposal to stetke bread. Prior to Friday bacon an If Out By Vote of BB to 1, RK, ik, bread and butter a WASHINGTON, a A coffee made up the meal, by Representative Kelley of pees For luncheon the staff had beans,/to #trike o of the wer coffee, bread without ‘utter and!s per cent. tax on aute at th chocolate pudding, The amployees factory Was rejected tn t 1 said they always had chops or st by & vote of 85 to 4s | for luncheon, butter and all the milk k “eh oe | they wanted. The supper last nig Debste then began on aren consisted of cold beans and ketchup, amendment to levy the tax on coffee and each. bread six strawberries, manufacturers earning more than & pe cent. on their capital stock. |p 4 | i } |Gen. Haig Follows S UpH His Offensive, Begun Yesterday, While Nivelle rt : : Strikes Heavily at Crown Prince; Shelters Filled With Dead LONDON, May 24.—British, Frenel} and Italian Armies, under Haig, Nivelle and Cadorna, continued té-day their smashing blows on the Arras, Laon, Champagne and Austrian fronts. Important. gains are reported in every battle, and their claitziy are to a great extent confirmed by official reports from the Berlin War. Office. Haig continued the offensive begun yestertlay with a gain on a mule front on the road to Cambrai. He reported to-day the capture of a German support trench behind the Hindenburg line. About 150 pris oners were taken, Paris announces that Nivelle’s new offensive began to-day and met with tremendous success, Capture of several Jines of German trenches in the Moronvilliers sector, on the northern slopes of Carnillet, with soo prisoners, is reported. The Rome War Office says Italian troops yesterday took a hill between Palliova and Britovo in their cffensive on the Julian front and also extended their positions on the Vodice, oOo [In Ite anneunsement: terday the Berlin War Office admits CONG F | by the British and | French, It says the ermans on the Arras front maintained their positions except in one demol- ished trench which was evacu- ated during the British attack | Sunday on an eight and one-half mile front. It says the Frenoh yesterday obtained a foothold on Mont Carnillet and on Mont Keil, is RE but adds that the Germans asnatetee c | brought down fourteen Entente Federal Commission Fells of | sirplanss on the western front.) In bis report to the British War | Doctored Books Among Op- | omice Gen. Haig said: : "ao ‘ “Our operations in the Hinden erators to Force Prices, buss thea Setwae Meteor one Fontaine-Lez-Crotsilles were con- WASHINGTON, May 21.—Deciering | tinued with success during the that coal mine operators are charg-| night. Our troons, who had car- ing exorbitant prices—otten several! ried a front trench in the Hinden- times the coat of thelr produetion—| burg line yesterday morning and © Federal Trade Commission to-day] had repefied several counter-at- urged Congress to establish control] tacks, renewed the attack in the by governmental agencies which may| evening, «..d after hand-to-hand fix . fighting captured @ support trench tT Commission declared that Dn. se onl operators have “doctored” thelr Hostile counter-attacks were k v discrepancies being| again beaten off w! 1) heavy losses found in actual prices at the | to the enemy, ‘hose troops were 1 recorded prices, engaged in the open by our { coal distribution| Jortillery, A large number youth of the mine to the} of the enemy’s dead were found ute consumer—with authority! in the captured positions, About at quantities of i to various! 160 prisoners have so far been * of consumers--was also| taken by us in these operations. ‘ | Two German divisions have beer There ts and has been an “ample"| engaged in the fighting in this productive capacity of coal tn the} netghborhood since yesterday country, the Commission declared. morning. Other than extortionate price fixing, “We carried out successfully « the minission blames failure of | raid last might near Loos, Early sijroads to furnish sulticilent car {his mornii. © 40 enemy party en ‘ and deavored to enter our trenches ee ae ay} southwest of Messines, but w r ! in unpre | driven off.” vi | PARIS, May 21.--Following ts the deg Gov. | text of to-day's War Office report ' Kulations the commission “On the Chemin des Pomes the FA eee tice a tegainbrove | artillery fighting continued dur anaportation facilities, prossrve the | aight in the region Gay meee ADS one SOREEe | of Braye-en-Laonnote - - | and on the front between Cerny THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU | and Hurtebise, A German attack Mas es Pern tL one. | near Froidmont farm was checked before the enemy was able to ny AT K 5 reach our lines, ‘The enemy tees. "Telephone Bertone 4000—han, undertook no further atteck after , i al