The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1917, Page 2

-——— WIDE PLOT {STORM KILLS 248 TTHEDRAFT:, AND MAIMS 1,207 NORE ARRESTS IN MIDDLE WEST Federal Agents eal. Cleveland] Series of Peeriedoes Makes! Busy; Riots and Many Wide Sweep Over Eight Prisoners in Chicago. States In Three Days. OIT, MICH. May %%—Ao-| CHICAGO, May 28.—Revised figures| of treason in rapeoajeet Rebsen on dead and injured in the storms, Ration-wide anti-conscriD: | o> ine iant three days in Illinois, In-| conspiracy, five Detroiters were Bted to-day by Federal'agents. diana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mjssourl, LT. THAW FALLS IN PLANE GOING 140 MILES AN HOR prisoners are Horman Eberly,| Tennessee, Alabama and Kansa ‘Wadman, Philip Shavis, John) show a total of 248 dead and 1,2 @& and Paul Parker. specific offense for which they injured. The casualties are held was distribution of hand- Dead. Injured bearing the caption “Kill the} Tlinois 1150 and announcing Socialist} indiana 220 meeting to this end for Juno 3. CAGO, Iil.,.May 28.—While 6,000] Kansas te, Bocialists, hoboes and An-| Kentucky “0 60 stormed the Auditorium yes-| Missouri ......, 1 ‘ 5 in a “peace” demonstration,| ‘Tennessee | Lieut. WILLIAM THAW tempted to hold an overflow 7 Mie ot 'orakt Park. At frat the| Alabama. 3 ( | With Another American and a crowd seemed orderly and merély tad es Ly French Aviator He Has a amusing. Then « huge baghngiesst Total .. teeeese MMM Miraculous Escape. Fost himeslt above the beads} prot, Henry Cox, Director of the PARIS, May %.—Lieutenant Wil- liam Thaw of Pittsburgh and Corporal Harold Willis of Boston, with ptain Thenault, all of the Lafayette Esca- drille of the French Air Service, had 4 miraculous escape from death in a fall at the front, according to word reaching here to-di Their plano crashed to earth after attaining a sy estimated at 140 miles an hour. None of the trio was y should American workmen| Bited Btates Weather Bureau here, the workmen of Germany for | #aid to-day that the storms were due —— in the White House?” he} to great humidity and low barometer, cammon in this territory a Coutts. rritory in May and June, ‘air was filled with policemen’s ~ that cracked down upon reaps | P. Bicknell, Director of the Men sbrieked imprecations,| Department of Civilian Relief of the du bit“ and tched the po.| 8ed Cross at Washington, is in con- stant touch with Red ¢ licemen, malcontents howled threats ows workers a : and “Down with the Government!" |! the storm-swept area seriously injured, but the machine ana Wile Waal John J O'Connor, Director of was literally splintered. The cause of speech! Iman hour the crowd was dispersed, Patrol wagons and commandeered | here, 18 at Mattoon, Ul., with Walter taxicabs darted jn and out with their) ©. Davidson and W. M. Thurber, in Joads of prisoners and the remnant| "sponse (o the telegraphed request of the mob was galloping up the near- | for trained workers, C, M. Hubbard aa alleys, of Bt. Louis and T. J, Kdmonds of CLEVELAND, 0., May 28.—Trouble| Cincinnat!, representing institutional started on the Public Square yés-| members of the American Red Cross, Central Division, with headyuarters | tHe accident is not known, Recent des from Henry} Wood, who visited the Americana in the Lata: French Government's plan to furnish this corps with Freneh battle pianes of the newest and speediest type. The state HL ptte Excadrille, told of the|} ut that the wrecked plane | | 1 sal . THE BVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY. [RAILROAD SHARES SOAR IN STOCK MARKET BOOM Holders of Steel Common Unload and It Recedes Prom New High Mark to 132 1-4, Railroad stoeks, which were sil«ht | 6d by the public In the market boon | of last week, came -into thelr own to-day and practically every railroad | security on the list registered pro-_ nounced gains in Value. @tandard | | rails all closed with gains while most | industrials closed to net loewe# on the | day. Bte 9s, coppers and other in- dustriais which may dépend for extra ' profits ou (ae war led to-day's ad- Vancing market at the opening, but suffered a slump at the end of a tempestuous hour when there was! circulated a statement setting forth leading stocks, These gains were out ot all proportion to those registered by other stocks as intrinsically valuable Many holders of Steel common ua- loaded in a hurry and that stook re- ceded from a new high at 186 to 192%, recovering later to about 133%. steel closed at 132%. Speotulators who realized on industrials which have gained from 12 to 15 points within a week sold out and invested their profits in #tandard rails and some industrials which have not hit such high spots, The trading for the day amounted to 1,362,900 shares, ——o=—- CLOSING QUOTATIONS. | ‘With et changes from previous closing, leew, Laat, cry hy | yy be \ | ry |i, \s & at 140 miles an hour terday afternoon when Soctalist or-| were also sent. n the party may have heen NM ators began to stir up anti-war] Nine Red Cross nurses were sent! © new type, probably trying tt ‘ frenzy. Police Captain Martineo|from here with six crates of hospital | out bevind the lines, & % jumped to the rostrum and dragged | supplies and trained nurses were also : ea i Pa down-« Sodlalist who bad defied the] despatched from other nearby points.| Where Bloomington and other cities $B on ety Government to make him register for| ‘The heaviest loss of life was in| Were hard hit. : fe Ta amayisarrice. Mattoon, a, city of 1090 population, | Algbama, Tennesnes, Arkansas and be tt | The! crowd attacked the policeman | where Satarday- dfterhoon’s atorm tucky were visited yesterday aft- eet {R] ‘and but for a drive made by police-| exacted a toll of 68 known dead and | €P00H and last night, while another tt 7S! men, detectives and secret service| injured 500, The property lous In that | tornado struck Murphysboro and Wil-| amas Nor"iy. ” we + Bi" agents, both Martinec and his prison. | city and the surrounding couatry is | US¥ie, In Southern Ilinots. Thaplration : ied ee might have been killed. estimated at. $2,000,000, Militia has been called out tn the] Interior Cou. = ih) ‘A mob followed the two tv Police] \ ‘The latorms began Friday in Kon. | Stricken district and te aiding in re-| Hiinoia’ Geatrah.. Headquarters and charged upon the|sas, where Andale was wiped out| Hef work and ae oe Nee of property. | ine: Papere:.. doors, throwing stones and defying | with 26 dead and 60 injured, Late} Mayor Swan of Mattoon hag aps | Kan. cig soullien the autborities. The crowd fought police Saturday a worles of tornadoes started In the vicinity of St. Louls and swont | extending nary of to Chicago and 24 So crossing the State line into Indiana, ©” killed.” "Money I needed,” he concluded. “It must bo had." At Mattoon the storm played tricks, It blew @ woman and a child through the window of their home and landed | them unhurt at the entrance of a cel- lur in which Mra, George Kemper and several of her neighbors had sought refuge. Harry Beavers emorged from the cellar and led the woman and child to safety. A tow minutes iater he # cue others and was killed By being struck pn the bead by a flying plans The Stara and Stripes and the pole | they Mew on in front of the home of | aid. He sald that more are homeless the bread han two and that winners have reserves and several more arrests were made|northward and eastward, before mounted police arrived and|northward nearly cleared the streets, Your Guarantee of Purity" Bayer-Tablets * zy |G. M. Metcalfe were earried four Th : +4 blocks in the wind the staft ere 1s , | i n planted firmly in the lawn fronting | the hope of Raymond Coon, The flag | still He fying. eq “BRAZIL WILL ABANDCN NEUTRALITY AND FIGHT % Rill Betore Congress Lines Her Up The trademark i PD re As an Ally of America “Aspirin” (Rex. U.S, j in War. Pat. Off.) is a guar J | antee that the mono- heat nf RIO JANEIRO, Braxil, May 2A bon ae sear y ny Wiad hd 4 bili ebrogating the neutrality procia- lets and capau! of the reliable Bayer manulacture, » Issued K that April 25 and virtualy Praxil enters (he war wainst Germany aa an ally of the United States has been framed by the Affairs Comimittes of the ot Representatives, | measure empowers tho President to adopt w measures he proper to protect Brazilian Interosts, President Hraz has urged Congross to use German ships tied Brazilian ports, The members of Congress from Rio Foreig: Houso Grande do Sul favor cancelling the neutrality proclamation, 100,000 Ars » to Mrwte of Kr 1 AYRDS, Argentina, May hundred thousand Agen- tinians took part in @ parade here in onor of Italy. Buildings were decor- ated with flags of the Allies and the ational songs of the Allied countries were played by bands. "THE dumbest oyster can make a better peari than the bright- Guar UTICA, May 2. A member o man. The oyster an eoeer teens ap ear o-day he snapped his uses Nature’s methods, nto early fo a snapped is rk on @ pipe Iine, kill- ATURE SAYS smoking tobacco is at its best ag. after two years’ ageing. That is why Velvet 1s “aged in the wood” two years—the natural wry, the slow way and the sure w ivi ing Naval Commander Littlefield Dead, 2DGARTOWN, Mas May 28 on Littlefield, Acting Commander he United States Navy during the Civil War, and a retired senior captain of the revenue cutter service, now the um guard, died to-day aged eighty pealed to the people of Milnols for| rted out to res | ‘The | deems | up in}, Rife, Kite a! tet Mer, Marine ct. Mer) Marine Metican Peieoléuin | et | Reabound Ait I | Seats ls Stone. ett ern Halwa & | »| ahaa Maint fg Wet Maryland Wortlrg CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN MARKET. WHEAT Previous iT uy 1s Sept \ 1 Ju i He ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. | and Manufac- Westinghouse Electric turing Company--Year ended Mareh 31 | Breckinridge again resigned. SWANN IS CALLED BEFORE INQUIRY 10 REFUTE CHARGES Prosecutor on ah a, Tells How His Predecessor Left Labor Cases for Him. District Attorney Raward Swann was called to the witness stand to-day |as @ witness in his own behalf at the hearing of the City Club charges against him before Commissioner George L. Ingraham. Mr, Swann said he had first had hin | the phenomenal gains made by #om | strontion directed to the “old charges” | effective relationship. n the labor cases when they came on the calendar for trial in January, 1916, and said they were all on for trlal then except the Liebowitz mur- case, which bad been tried in October, 1916. Mr. Swann said he had asked his | predecesor, Mr. Perkins, to try asl labor cases before he took office and that Mr, Perkins had replied that the reason the cases appeared on Mr. Swann's calendar was that he (F kins) didn’t have time to try them. “I found,” continued Mr. Swann. der |that Brama, who had been held for months as a witness, had een dis- charged the day before I became Dis- | triot Attorney and that ‘Dopey | Benny’ had been sent to the City Prison, On top of that, on Dec. 31,! 1915--the day before I took office— Mr, Breckinridge resigned.” The District at Mr. Attorney said It was Perkins's suggestion that he He had been but , which he a special held out I said 1 would have to accept his torms, but that 1 wanted all his time,” said Mr, Swann. ‘The District Attorney explained that on the day before the labor cases were to come to trial, March 1916, Mr He said he had repeatedly asked Mr. Dooling to do the best he could to have the cases advanced for trial, and that he had not the remotest idea Breckin- jtidge was going to resign until he got) | his letter “There had never been a word be- tween us or between him and any of ansistant far as I could find said Mr, Swan . Swann then said that the wit- nesses for the State in the cases against the labor men were such that | their testimony would not have counted for much, and he ciiod ‘Dopey Benny” Feln as an example. Tt war true, he said, that some of the Indigted men. had offered to plead gullty, byt, he continued, “I said I 1, | would’ not accept pleas of gullty from | wink’ « men who maintained they were inno- | cent, and whom I believed, on th evidence we had, should not be tried “As to why he recommended the di charge of bail, Mr, Swann said he it under his own discretion as District Attorney. He said he did uot believe now, and never had believed, any of the witnesses in the labor cases could have been witnesses agains: bim On cross examination Mr. Swann | said he didn't see how Mg, Breckin- ridge or Mr. Delehanty could be wits | nesses against him. | “In understood that the only ques- | # tlon involver whether I own judgment and ‘discretion nd it was for me only to say whether the charges in the labor cases sould out jor not.” FRENCH AIRSHIPS WING NINE GERMAN PLANES Drop More Than 15,000 Pounds of Projectiles on Military Establish- ments and Railroads, PARIS, May 28.—A statement from the War Office to-day gives the fol- lowing account of tho aerial activities ‘Thero was very great aerial activity yesterday and last night, Enemy alr- planes dropped bombs in the regions of Raccarat, Nancy and Point St. Vincent causing no important damage “Our squadrons made numerous sor- ties, in the course of which they threw down nearly 7,000 kidograms (15,400 pounds) of projectiles on enemy mil {tary establishments and railroads, par. ticularly in the Champagne and in the region of Chonville, “Nine enemy airplanes were brought down and two were compelled to land within our lines. Others, badly dam- aged, were forced to land back of the enemy lines.” surplus after charges $14,079,489 equal to | = $15.10 earned on capital atock compared | th $8.63 earned in previous Kannecott Copper Company—Quar terly dividend of $1.50 « share. Rrooklyn Rapid ‘Transit Comp: Regular quarterly dividend of 11 er gent age Company teriy dividend of 1 3-4 per | ferred stock and a ne of 2 per cent. on common, both payable Tuly 2 to stock of revord June 18. a JAMAICA RESULTS. FIRST RACE two-yeur-oldas with $600 ndded furiongs.—June ‘Bug, 112 (Troxler): Ho kd to Band 2 to 6, first; Dianthes 1i2'(Klseger), 10 to 1, 4 to Land 8 to 6: second; Confircation, 112 (Knapp), § to teven and 1 to 3 third, Time-t.0 |¥ocabulary, . Discontent Grey’ JJonsie A. ahd Allcen 0. wlso’ran SOND RACE—For three-year-olds | five and half | racuer), 16 Regular quar nt, on pre mniral divider fillies five For maiden 8) and upward; fires $500: furlong 7.8 at nt, 98 CW Soarpla 1, und 8 tu 5 Chowan), 10 Time, 1.10. and Ale also ran JANKING AND FINANCIAL. Stocks of the Hour Favorable situations, having gon the welfare af the companies, are reflected in the market action of their stocks Submarine Boat Lake Torpedo Wright Martin Recent developments merit your attention, on the above and other stocks, analyzed im our Bulletin No. 24—that will interest you-—write for it SCHMIDT & DEE.vY 30 Broad St, N.Y. feversn% Broad 5242 HH ates ve" . ne . a FONSPIRACY AGA INST DRAFT ALLEGED TO BE NA ATION WID WHITMAN SENDS NOTE TO FRENCH PRESIDENT Delivered In Paris To-Day by John Finley, Who Also Con- sults Educators. PARIS, May 28,~John H. Sreauecete of Education. tate of New York, t to Prealdent Poincare a message sent |by Gov. Whitman. The President | xproased great pleasure at the re- | celpt of the message. Dr. Finley presented to the Faculty Of the Sorbonne greetings from more | than 100 universities and colle ot the United States. A large number of members of various faculties as- | sembied to Ilaten to the reading of the messages from their American col- leagues, which were received with many evidences of enthusiasm. There followed a discussion as to the most practical means of bringing the universities of France and the into closer and more GOETHALS AND DENMAN AGREE UPON SHIP PLAN Clear Up Differences and Will Rush Programme—200 Vessels of Wood, Rest of Steel. WASHINGTON, May %.—Any dif- ferences between Chairman Denman of tho Shipping Board and Major Gen. Goethals over construction of the great merchant fleet have been en- tirely cleared away, it was atated to- day, and both officials are in agres- ment for harmonious action waish will result in the apeedy building of ships to thwart the#ubmarine campaign. Smouldering differences over wheth- er the fleet should be of wood or atoel and the plans of procedure were brought to a climax by Gen. Goeth. als’s striking speech in New Yorx last week anid by an equally striking state- ment issued last night by Charman Denman. Gen. Goethals returned to the capi- tal to-day, and soon afterward it was made known that the two officials had rooms decorated with American flags.| composed any differences. Under The girls sang “The Star Spangled | present plans, aa previously an- Banner” in French, nounced, probably 200 of the ships will ‘ACQUIRING OR OR HOLDING bo ot Wood and the othery of wel “FOOD MAY BE PENALIZED| °° y-o2000 INCOME TAX | Bill, Proposed That May Reach | IN SECOND M. Y, DISTRICT | Those Who Try to Control Collector Edwards Urges Protnpt Supply of Necessaries. Payment to Avoid Swamping | WASHINGTON, May 28.—A bill by Office on Last Day. Senator Poindexter of Washington,| Anticipating the heavy rush to to punish malicious storing of fo0d-| 14y income taxes which usually pre- ae ipties hoderrr igs beni cedes June 15, the last day to pay | Penalties of from si xmonths to thre . |years imprisonment, was favorably |‘4X¢8 without Inourring @ penal Teported to-day by the Senate Ju-|Collector William H. Edwards of the diclary Committee. |second collection district of New | It Would penalize persons w he | York has issued @ notice requesting hold, destroy or make taxpayers to make prompt payment “store, acquire, away With" food, fuel or other neces- | purpose of limiting the |!m order that his office ma. swamped during the last week, Finley, of the jay presented United States When Dr, FF visited the Ly- ceum for Girls he found the class- < saries for th public supply or enhancing market said the , Collector Edwards estimates that| bill is ar re Wanee where {the total in the second district will tho existing law is of doubtful appli- | be $65,000,000, Of this the corpora- | tion income and the will yield $30,000,000 individual tax $35,000,000, of common kne port, “that specul and dealers « yughout the coun- For the previous year there was col- try are taking advantage of the | lected $24,000,000, of which corpora- present economic situation to extort! tions paid $10,000,000 and individuals Unreasonable profit from consumers. | §14 990,000, These offenses are particularly | F alnpudin taien:ot wary The number of returns filed for the Phe bill is distinct and year 1916 exceed that of 1915 by ding ood leeislation |8,000, and it ia the opinion of Cole tor Edwards that this is due to th | from other pe | prosperous condition of the country. _—_——S— | GERMANS ENRAGE !RISH. - | Stntctne of Fishing Fleet Causes| BERGER PROTESTS IN VAIN. Revalsion of Feelin LONDON, May 28.—According to! © stories printed in the morning papers there has been a complete revulsion of \feeling toward the war in the south jand southwest of Ireland as a conse- | | quence of the reeent attacks by German t Move x From St Regarding Passports. WASHINGTON, May Victor Berger, Milwaukee Socialist and former member of Congress, protested in vain |submarines on Iria fishing fleets, jto-day to Secretary Lansing against ‘A number of flehing boats have been |the Government's decision to issue no d the victims of one attack off| merican @ociasts in- Baltimore say that the Gern 1 tiripate in tne. Soctailat them. th had already sunk the! | Bas Kinsale and | Waterford | fleets | and * get passport, but he Lycie see DAE A Irae Pease thee | |id "Hearn tha: the Government had not nent fish to Kngland, — ‘They also |Changed tts policy. atened (o shell villages on the|, Mr Berger said later that he had one \he was unwilling to. abandon his | TREE Fe Jefforts, m Bark Sinks Norwegian)’ “ut.” he, added, "1! am a food BA American and a good Bortaltse —_———— Serum From Gon: ved here nd reported that | 'TINOPLE, May 28. —Dr. sevetided with the Norwegian steam. {Servet Klamil, bacteriologist and chief oif Hatteras on May ‘The|aurgeon of the Red Cross Hospital in wegian bark jeteamer Was sunk and th ia} Sivas, claims to have obtained extraor- aboard t Stifinder Th Jinary reaults with @ phus serum ob- lord of @ steamer (alge from goats. For the Great and CHOCOLATES High Class Bons are of the ing for this great day. 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