The evening world. Newspaper, May 31, 1917, Page 1

; EO E ( ietece counts, Node TWO CENTS cleewhere, NEW YORK, “THURSDAY, “MAY 31, DEFEATED ‘BY F RENCH AND ITALIANS { “Cirenlation Books Open to All.” 1917. 18 PAGES a a Or Rah ied Weather—Cloudy To-Night and To-Morrows Warmer, PRICE | grecexts BARNARD GIRL AND TWO COLUMBIA MEN - SEIZED AS ANTI-DRAFT PLOT LEADERS © Also to Tax Substitutes fy for Tea and Coffee Cent. Abolished—Reached Through Excess Profits WASHINGTON, May 31.—The S ate Finance Commitice tc ya } * @ed to provide in the War Tax b | Sb TAIBE $80,000,000 by consumption { fea. of two cents a pound Hi woffes, five cents on teu, one-half | On sugar and three chnis Bpon js the elimination of tue p ent tax of 12% per « Muhitions, now raising $25,000,000. From the new « the n be raised: Bugar $50,000,000, « tea $3,000,000 and cocoa ¥ f€e and tea taxes will be levied Arra t ments are ighasers from importers in ad ©! Patter to pay the taxes. Howse bill it was propo coffee 1 cent a pound and « Bubstitutes for tea and colee ) will be taxed Phe decision to abolish jecial tax of 123 per flunitions was said Veasons—diminishing imposition of increase. « on all corporat the munitions year'a revenue tax was estimated to yield $24 Vreasury experts to i{ would be much x Another revision by the comm taxation aleol beer and reducing in the mahing 0 such alcohol becomes commercial purposes The committee did not d praposed postal increass ‘ class publications, KIDNAPPERS STEAL BABY Taken While Parents Were Dance—Bloodhounds Put on the Trail SPRINGFIELD, Mo, M Lioyé, fourteen months old son of H. Keet, Vice Prosiden while his parents were John 1, Gumpor fagiurer, in busin o-day on Ity for Wearing ¢ MeL’ anid the Justice . k a ii Senate Committee Decide {CHANGE ON MUNITIONS 4 ‘Present Impost of 121-2 Per| Piece Important change agreed ent. tax on war estimates the following revenue w made to take care of limp utract made before May 1 by requiring pi OF MISSOURI BANKER diand Banking Company, was k a dance at the Country Club sal tw 00 000 TAX ON TEA “UOTE COCOA AND SUGAR _PUTINTO WAR FINANCE BILL BROKERS MANAGER ; ARRESTED, ADMITS Sol, 00 DEFICIT Robert ners Specifically Charged With Larceny ot | $65,000 From Craig & Co, Robert Moore, employed in the and coffee departments of W ig & Co. brokers, at No. 26 Broad Street, was arrested this after- accused of @ serious shortage * aovounts, Members of th n, whic) does a large business on Stock Exchange as well as th 1 other exchanges, de are us and untrue @ story 8! Be of $1,000,000. In a state Ar thorough examination | of our bus! shed that, a volved ta sub ess as No. 202 Woo NINEDAYS GIVEN “ALIENS TO ENROLL, | BUT RUSH GOES ON Attorney pen on Presi-| dent’s Order, Issues Exten- | | sion of Time Notice. Because of the unanticipated rush of German aliens for permits to re- side withiy or pass through forbidden tones about forts, armories and other Federal or State properties ‘the time | |for the Issuance of such permits, | which expired to-day according to the original order of the President, has been extended to June 9 Attor- y General Gregory notified United marshals of this vicinity by | wire early to-day of the extension of | ume. Expecting that this would be the last day on which permits might be obtained thousands of Germans be- jsioged the offices of United States Marshal McCarthy in the Federal ullding, Manhattan, and United |States Marshal Powers in the Fed- eral Building, Brooklyn, to-day. There were hundreds in line when the offices opened ‘The announcement that the time | for registration and procurement of permits had been extended nine days had little effect Most of the Ger- ns in line appeared to think that] the change in plan was some sort of/ a trick on! Under the time extension there will be no difficulty in registering all Ger- man aliens who apply for permits. The machinery is working smoothly nd applicants are being examined, to. day in Manhattan and Brooklyn. at (he rate of about 200 an hour, About | 95,000 alien Germans have applied for | in Manhattan and 16,000 in| German and Austrian attacks by the | GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS FAIL IN CHAMPAGNE AND ISONZO: ITALIANS WIN IN ALBAN, Four Attacks With F Poison Gas Shells Repulsed by the | French Troops. LONDON, May 31.—I feat ot tho| | | French, Itallans and British in the Champagne, Isonzo and Arras fronts |and gains tn Albania, are reported | to-day by the War Offices in Paris, Rome and London. Attacks were particularly severe on the Champagne and Isonzo fronts. The Hritish repelled raids south of Armentileres, There was considerablo | artillery activity at Bulle Court and on the right bank of the Scarpe River PARIS, May 31.—Attacking with poison shells spreading great quanti- ties of deadly vapors, German troops at several points on the Champagne front last night joined In a powerful counter-gffensive movement. ‘The French @ficiul statement of to-day declared ‘the enemy was everywhere repulsed with heavy losses ‘The German infantry assaults were preceded by a violent bombardment | of the French positions. ‘The text of the War Office statement. follows "There was pronounced activity by the artillery south of St. Quen; tin and on the Chemin des Dames. north of Jouy, near Cerny and in the vicinity of Hurtebise, where a number of patrol encounters al: “In the Champagne the en | | oveurred, | | | ‘ herford, N. J., and his o de sharp attacks at several atfon as sales manager, ‘The and about two-thirds of the: ma ‘ « a et asia \ ne war an swiiiita teenie, | points on our front during the varwes larceny of $65,000 ee cre ny night, following violent: bombard anit “etek pik (Gene ea ment in which poisonous gas she ; as s beli h atom thous} ear | alien Germans in Greater New ; . clean-eu “ ae SAI eek fase were discharg nwest 0 ’ one neanite, The veauirement,| Auberive and at Mont Blond ull Dae Meked Me tO ee eee der promulgated by Presie| the German efforts were checked " Jent Wilson have been widely ex- f Fhe: eperny ‘airaexes! ‘ mn ncern Lint the German langure wewe.| with particular strength our pos re ny at the ‘Teton, tie Casque and ‘ Mont Haut, We repulsed for NEW ANGLES ARE ADDED hth ; vata \ uk, $100 a week TO GREAT AMERICAN PIE | «> ‘ ’ bayonet, the attacking troops ew uy savings, ‘Phen [diy nt Now Hts Cut in Seven Portion me were hurled back in dis a pe ores Instead of Six—Quarter Sli trenches whence they can and in som 1a powe = Soldat Cent aving attort neu f Are Sold at Ten Cen ly at one point on the front a ell int nan ‘The spe CHICAGO, May 31--Ples cut in| tacked, northeam of Moft Ha ' priced 1 to-day. A few! a number of pr whon years ago r of a pie could two are officers. But | be f Then they began ‘On the left bank he Mouse accountant and 1 have. been {acute they mad x ithe yeas kas heiping them ever since to got things! ‘The restaura * claim cares 1 f straightened out, 1 don’t think ; angi - ny mF shortage in 10, more than | temngenl® ROME, M Violent At ‘( nined from 18 to 25 cents w A cuctacaiack t ‘ ns arra Mag-| week and that they are obliged to/ coin olesn fan w nis afternoon and was held for the! tin any proft at a nickel a cut ported in the off Grand Jur ain any 3 Gen, Cadorhe apparently was awe is Z A few restaurants have restored |)" Hpi is e quarter 5 band are charging (Ny suypiie i atte MORE SEIZED ENEMY SHIPS | 2° ons> : imption of the off TO BE USED BY UNCLE SAM) Cirretans te tine +© cupied the villages of ( V - CLEVELAND, ©, 3 » stim: | 869 ona and Alb, G e Navy; Eight O diate nee he army and Ravy be-|held by Italian fe Phet : for Colliers and Merchantmen, {fore a honor” 1 i : eu nays WASHINGTON, May 31.—In add high k will range then 1 Ma ' i und 4 n ‘ en i i na | * One ' : ng ; Weat I ‘ t & ' , ' dyed and forty -t Hot 1 \ » Blumberg, Ve — nuinber ¢ Bae ’ u and Saxonia WAHING SIGNALS Munerive the | ppe. | p ——— For Racing Results See Page 2.)g, trom Father John's Modicine,—Adyi,, \ ng raid }Of These 25, ‘BRITISH CASUALTIES IN MAY TOTAL 114,118 838 Men and 1,552} Officers Were Killed—Total Wounded 79,480. LONDON, May 31.—British tles published during May totalled to- | day 114,118 officers and men killed, ual~ wounded and missing The detatls showed Killed. Wounded, Missing Ofticers 828 Men 6,420 | Total 79,480 748 IL was recently reported British that their los! were 50 per cent, aa battle of Ue Kom thé fact ‘ha! gaged. Th first thre jer than in the notwithstanding forces are en- nities recorded in the nonth C casualties were 127,04 with IMs f May month of the Arras battle .of the April casualties ha een made ITALY TO MERGE WITH U, S. Or $100,000,004 Orders This Count WASHINGTON, May a1 " Comn ners 1 4 it " McA Huly has u er i wi 1 1 with raed U BOATS KEEP UP RAIDS ON NORWEGIAN SHIPS AMERIGAN GIVES PRIZES FOR SINKING SUBMARINES May SUCCEBD MAYO AS COMMANDER OF THE ATLANTIC FLEET all lines set for a general clean-up of anti. Winer ime AER a pea nas |New York before June 5, the Department of Justice to-day \first blow against pacitist plotters in this city A young woman and two men, charged with equ probably will be commander of the |the military conseription law, were arrested at Columbia t tiversil) Buropean war Reat Admiral Winteghalter was American. tet MIAN LONG SOUGHT IN BUYING COMMISSION m THE RUTH CRUGER "CASE NOW IN ITALY S. Consul ton chi Arrived There Late haughty silence, declar- were martyra to “th t are expected within the wenty-four hours. United States Attorney League, with headquar- DRWEY'S WEN, 401K V1 THREE STUDENTS ARRESTED “ASSTART OF WIDE CAMPAIGN TO ROUND UP PASTS HERE Members of Anti-Militaristic League Held for Federal Grand Jury for Circulating Pamphlet Against Conscription. \URGED ALL TO RESIST DRAFT EVEN IF JAILED msctipti rusk it Pituey to viola will be called Monday an {held under $1,500 bail to await the action of a Federal Grand Jury w ¢ arrested are Eleanor Wilson Parker, twenty-two years old Barnard College; Owen Cattell, twenty-two 1 n of Mckay Cattell, of Columbia, and a student at the Universit ul S Francis Phillips, twenty-three, another Columbia student resid est End Avenue, ’ before United — conte stoner Hitchcock in| Mise pa has t Building shortly after) figure in the und ‘ ¥ epi the three adopted @f) Barnard Colleg poidy tered that institut cause.” uated from th rl’ High School 1913 with igh honors, captiM scholarships in on Cornell and Adel ne ae ear unst the) parnard ‘ fore the Commissioner.) Last year ‘The Challe: rod hey, us @ commit-/| monthly publtcation started * made its appearance on 5 way, bad gone | Univeraity « : I May 24 and| jarnard . ud to resiat | \y ipon the eoting studen ‘ . rganizations at the Anti | Cal I 10 90. 8 League's headquarters an k ‘ener ting slacy of the fond ’ od edge to go to pete tha ; | fix bail at $1,500, sald | Part ' 1 1 w figure in considera inci of Barnard t thet sand be 1 I t ' va fu t e " n w MA OW : ) these organtzatiore SD a ey