The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1917, Page 1

opi aig aS Seok) <i OENT im Greater New York and County, N. J. RAT tet Banton Copyright, 1917, by The Press Ca. (The 'New York World). NEW YORK, F “PRESIDENT WARNS ARMY SLACKERS FRIDAY, JUN! iD “191%. 3 88. PAG! EDITION wT col ONE CENT tn Greater N. Hudson County, Nd. TAF CONTR ae 7. THEY CAN’T ESCAPE REGISTRATION Y. STATE WILL HOLD U $2,000,000 APPROPRIAT FOR ROCKAWAY FORT LAND \ Attorney General Finds Most of Prop- Db erty toHave Been Purchased From Rockaway Pacific Corporation ActuallyBelongs toNew York City of this growing beach, to say nothing of the recent upheaval with pa- triotism as the subject, which resulted in a hearing on the Senate floor, in whieh Mayor Mitchel and Senator Wagner were the principal figures, the Ay orney General's office now in its preliminary report sets forth if the opinion that much of the property taken for the fort belongs to the ( | City of New York. i; { ¥ ‘After continuous negotiations concerning Rockaway Point by the 2 tity, and after various attempts by real estate operators to secure control y ' ae eee ae ot hn ee ' IY Se Fore site very hte wit vcety ROBBER IN SKYSCRAPER ‘be paid to present claimants of title ae compared with cTims | heretofore made. B there are good grounds for future de termination that the State owns GETS $4,200 IN GEMS | Fights Off jewel A After Taking the territory te the end of the | Diamonds From Safe, Descends point weet of the site. 13 Stories and Escapes Pursuers. It has further deve! 1 that the A title bas been 6 : . with past| “4 Young man about twenty years | old, dressed in brown, entered the of- Jawaults auc questionable deeds that te would have been most difficult, i¢| 1 of Lebling & Cohen, manutac- pot impossible, for the Rockaway Pa turing jewelers, on the thirteenth 4 H cific Corporation to have trensferred floor of No, 71 Nassau Street this/| the prperty with a full assurance of | “fternoon and, taking advantage of y title the momentary absence of Benja- ' a4; min Cohen, took from the safe a Gy Also th atter will yet need | q Aefinitely determine the ‘ous| mounted diamonds valued at $4,200, { - e e . MMe auestions of title. An exhaustive/ The thief then ran down the stairs ) esearch of title is being continued in|‘? (he street and got away, his es- y + the Attorney General's office by Title} “APS 4 ded ‘by the fatiure of a burg- \ Szaminer Henry H. Cameron under) '#F alarm to work the direction of Deputy Attorneys! Cohen, returning to the office from i ral Anson Getman and Alfred L, | the workshop, saw the man leaving iy Ger the safe. He grabbed him but the Beoke: ‘Aw to this matter of ownership by| thief shok him off. His brother, Nene State, two auesiions are debat-| Michael Coben, caught up with the} | J ‘ef outside the dor, but the young ble: has not been formed by the an- | nexation to the point of a bar or island, which formed in the sea, and which continued notwith ‘anding its merging into the point, to the property of the State of New York. ‘The Rockaway Pacific s im posses! jon of the end of the point west of the fort, but the State | Lis pl ing to pet up the claim that te the true owner, The question as 10 the title pelow high mark has at important bearing on the area Tee value of the premises, for the fall The thief left the building by the| ‘John Street aide and ran to Broad- | way. A soore of persons followd him, | but h lost himsif in th crowd ‘BRITISH AIR RAIDERS Corporation LONDON, June 1, aaa tons of | bombs have been dropped by British aircraft on the Belgian towns of| | Ostend, Zeebrugge and Bruges with good results, says an offeia! water state arcane Copeers many age na] ment issued this afternoon by the| act, nearty one-half of the land) pi war Department within the fort site; and at high tide) 4); the British aircraft returned x {ses are cut up Into trregu-| yafely to thelr bases ile prem! coves or bays extending | we vie yc adbl Bay, If these coves do| !mpolite Treatment of Pre-German rs . oetor, PB ict belong to tho Rockaway Pacific] waneno, Wis.. June 1.—Because he Jorporation, but to the city or the joa young men they were “fools to tate; it is very damaging to the val-|make manure and cannon fodder of Hugo Miller of Laona, nt physician on an In: aed by citizens into the river, hauled at the head of a pa Nye of the uplands, which do belong ‘0 the Rockaway Pacifle Company. UST WHAT LANDS CITY CLAIMS RIGHTS TO 1 town carrying “an The city has no povsible m of|American flag. He was made to kneel tie to tha uplands, or to lands below [kias the flax and retrast his utterunee igh Water mark on the ocean side, he claim of the city relates to lands DRAFT REGISTRATION tweer high and low water mark mad Bay side of the fort feo Tamatcn Bay cide oe weer || Questions and Answers, of interest to all who are affected law, which requires doubt- of the fort site, and the city will Ypfew cl.im nearly one-half by the new attention on June 5, will be found on Page 14 of The Evening World to-day. (Coatinued on Fourth Page) a —— — | (Por Racing Resuits See P Firet—Whether the Rockaway man brushed him aside. The Cohens oific Corporation, the city or “ished the button of the burglar| the State owns the lands wnich ilarm and then ran to the windows | are veithin the fort site but below and cried “Stop Thief!" This cry, high water mark ‘oming from the building, whose six- Second — Whether a consider teen floors are oceupied by jewelry able portion of the present point oncerns, brought a big crowd to the} | scene. | DROP TONS OF BOMBS| 700000 BRITONS INU S- RECRUTING BUREAU OPEN HERE Enlistments for American Army on Increase With New York in the Lead. Active preparations for opening! enrollment offices in the old Stewart | Building, No. 280 Broadway, adjoin- ing the suite now occupied by Col Waleh, in charge of recruiting for the United States Army, were begun | this afternoon by Brig.-Gen, W. A. White of the British service and his otaff. ‘They will be quartered on the third floor until the paperers and plae- torers have fitted up their permanent quarters on the first floor. There are now in the United States, Gen. White told’ an Evening World reporter, an| estimated unnaturalized British pop- | ulation of 700,000. “Every British subject in this coun- try, from eighteen to forty-five years of age, is eligible for enrolimen sald a Bfitish officer, “Dut so f there is no compulsion for tion. That is why we have cated our} depot ‘The British Recruiting, Mis- ston.’ ' ‘Phe British Mission will work with | Col, Walsh and the other American registration authorities. The name/ of every man throughout the country | who registers on June 5 and claims | British birth will be given to Gen. | White's staff, and the man will be urged personally THREES. SHIPS SUNK BY U BOATS, CREWS ARE SAVED pean Abdi Dirigo and Frances M., Which Sailed From New York, and Barbara Destroyed. LONDON, of three American sailing vessels—the Dirigo, Frances M, and the Barbara. AN the members of the érews except one have been safely landed. John Ray, first mate of the Dirigo, was drowned as the small boats were be- ing launched. The Dirigo was attacked without warning at 7 o'clock on the morning of May 31. The weather was fine, al- though hazy. The men were rescued before 9 o'clock. Joseph G. Stephens, American Consul at Plymouth, is caring for the survivors, Capt. Urgubart of the Dirigo was asleep in the chart room when the attack wie made, deck to find the mate giving orders to abandon the ship. One boat with | eleven men war in the water ag the Dirigo was still under way, and it was while he was attempting to reach the boat that Third Mate Kay fel! overboard, drifted aster and was | drowned The Dirigo was hit by the third shot fired from (ie submarine. the U boat commander alongside the submarine American boat was used carry and to an and by clrculariza- tion to “join.” | Committees from the Atlantic | the Pacific are now being formed for this work, In many cases the men-| bers of these bodies will be of Am r- | ican birth, but working for the Alued | cause. ‘The Marine Corps stil! leads the enrollment list for all branches of the service, Oui of 30,000 men needed to} | bring it up to its added strength, | 22,000 have been enrolled. New York City is up-to-date, ahead of any other| | to} district. Manhattan's toll the past] month was 417, as against 380 tn] April, Cleveland comes next with 218] recruits, while Philadelphia is third with 193 men A persistent recruit who was ac- cepted by Sergeant PF. Beller for service in the Marines to-day | William H. Holland, of No |Jessup Avenue, the Bronx, A year ago to-day Holland tried to enlist mut was rejected because he was five | pounds under the required . eight of| |ier lbs, By dint of physical culture} | exercises and careful living he man-| } aged to gain the required avoirdn-| pois, however, and half a pound over, | and has now been accepted ‘The sight of the Marine Corps re tapi posters and bunting proved uch for the patriotic emotions ie William Haugh of 237 East Thirty- | | third Street, when as motorman of | a Twenty-third Street crosstown car, | he passed the registration depot. He| | hopped from his car and headed for Major Frank E. Evans’ office. Hel | was ordered into the doctor's quarters and was in the middle of his physical examination when a policeman burat | into the place and demanded to know why traffic was being blocked by Haugh's deserted car. Haugh will come back to-night to complete his enlistment To correct @ popular error tn re- | gard to registration Adj.-Gen. McCain of the army, has sent out the fol- lowing: “Registration is no bar to enlist- ment. Men drafted for the army can- not be accepted for enlistment. Men of registration age accepted for en- | |listment prior to June 5 but not ctually enlisted before that date must register | Army enlistment figures | show 3,210 men enroll Steamehip Stranded Chilean Coast. VALPARAISO, Chile, June 1—The $100-ton British steamship Australian ngpart We stranded neer Coronel, on the ¢ lee” coast | Britten jally picked up by {and carried a orew of thirty-one men, |the west coast of Africa for politan District, as April. The district 4 | roll 10,800 men. i¥ DS | German sallore to the Dirigo, which was blown up by bombs after all her papers had been seized “Steer by the wind; the land is not far off," was the parting salutation t the submarine commander to the Dirigo's crew. The sailors were fin- a fishing boat and taken to Plymouth, The Frances M, was attacked by | gunfire on the morning of May 18, according to the report from Cadiz given out to-day by the Admiralty. All the members of the crew are at Cadiz. The Barbara was attacked by gun- fire of a German submarine’ at 7 o'clock on the morning of May %4, All the members of the crew were landed at Gibraltar, The Dirigo was a four-masted sail- ing ship of 3,005 tons formerly owned by A. Sewall & Co. of Maine but re- cently sold to C. C, Mengell Brothers of Louisville, Ky She sailed trom New York on May 3% for Havre in command of Capt. J. A. Urguhart nine of whom were American c! The records of the United States Commissioner of Shipping in New York give the following names of the ittzens. Americans in the crew: Donald E. McDonald, mate, Nova Scotia, natur alized; A, Anderson, second mate, Danish, naturalized; J. M. Ray, third mate, Maryland; Y, Yucasta, engineer, No. 96 Madison Avenue, New York; J. P. Shields, boatswatn. New York; A. Winter, seaman, No. 326 State Street, Brooklyn; Harry Barim, Cheater seaman, French, naturalized; Wright, seaman, McAllister, Okla.; J. Trate, seaman, Sizty-second Street, New Y. The Dirigo was insured for her full value She was enroute to mahog any logs and carried a miscellaneous cargo valued at $500,000 for an Buro- pean port The Frances M (Continued xth Page.) — $15 Men’s Blue Serge Suits,$9.95 | The “HUB" Clothing Corner, Broad- way, corner Barclay Street (Opp. Wool. worth Buildin ), Will sell to-day and Saturday, 2,000 men's and young men's Royal lus Berges . also brown, groens, grayy and fancy mixed; single of double’ breasted, pinched or belied backs, lash or patch pocketa: very latest. mod- els; some aille 1 al clal price for to-day and Open Saturday night till 10 lore, Broadway, cor sizes, Our spa- Saturday $0208, Hub Cloth. Barclay St -—Adve June 1—The Admiralty! announces the sinking by submarines | He yushed for the! ‘Then | ordered her} formerly owned py PRESIDENT IN PROCLAMATION GIVES WARNING TO SLACKERS WASHINGTON, June 1.—President Wiison to-day issued the fol- lowing proclamation: wy arenes, the President, in a proclamation Issued on the 18th of May, 1917, set apart the Sth day of June, 1917, between the hours of 7 A. M. and 9 P. M., for the registration of all male persons between the ages of twenty-one and thirty, both inclusive, who may be subject to registration in accordance with the Act of Congress approved May 18, 1917, author- izing the President to increase temporarily the miltary estab- lishment of the United States; “Now. THERPFORE, I, Woodrow W'!son, President of the United States of America, do hereby give warning that all persons subject to registration under the provisions of the said Act of Congress and the proclamation of the President, who shall withdraw from the jurisdiction of the United States for the purpose of evading such registration, expose themselves on their return to the jurisdiction of the United States to prose cution for such evasion of registration, pursuant to Section 6 of the Act of Congress, approved May 18, 1917, which enacts that ‘any person who shall wilfully fail or refuse to present himself for registration or to submit thereto as herein pro- vided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon con- viction in a district court of the United States having jurisdic tion thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall thereupon be duly registered.’ 'N WITNESS WHERBOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ONE at the City of Washington the 26th day of May, in Year of Our Lord, 1917, and of the Independence of the United States of America 141. WOODROW WILSON,” “ Ce ee nee THREE U. S. GRAND JURIES TO INDICT DRAFT PLOTTERS AY PORT CLOSED re NNEHOURS TODAY BY NAVAL ORDER Wholesale Arrests of Agitators and Dodgers Planned—Stu- dents’ Cases Postponed. Three Federal Grand Jurtes more if necessary ew York for the, of anti-consertp- simultaneously in prompt indtetment Uonists who defy the law on Regis: | tration Day Declaring that the Department of | rest pain Ban on Ship- Justice and the United States At- e Sing a F torney's offico te proparea for att| Ping Since the Declaration emergencies, even widespread riots, | of War. this announcement was made to-day | by Assistant United States Attorney| New York Harbor was absolutely Eenac |closed to outbound shipping and par- Content as the chief Gov- t Ually closed to inbound shipping from | ernment prosecutor in actions against daylight until ‘@lock this afternoon pacifists and anti-draft conspirators. |The order closing the port war issued Mr. Content asserted that the Govern-|at Brooklyn Navy Yard some time ment was only waiting for the actual application of the registration law on June > to make wholesdJe seizures during the night The port has heen closed frum sun- set to sunrise since the severance of | of agitators throughout the city diplomatic relations between the! Upon the request of the defendants’ | ('nited States and many and ape- attorneys, the hearing of Mias Eleanor | cia) restrictions have been tn force Wilson Parker, Charles Francis Phil- {ps and Owen Cattell, the three stu- ents arrested in an anti-draft con- since the declaration of war, but this is the first time that shipping has not been allowed to move in and out of “An additional Grand Jury for June will be sworn in on Monday and on announcement concerning the closing | of the New York Harbor to-day nays | the “action was taken by New York | Navy Yard officials on thelr own (Continued on Sixth Page.) authority,” and that the report of a twhat had been done, did not expluin DEY EY's Wine RACE ANY ABLE. the rea. for which the port 168 Fula et. N. ¥ na 8001 "Con han, cloe lepiracy yesterday, was postponed by |New York Harbor in daylight hours United States Commissioner Hitoh The embargo on inbound and out cock to-day unt!] to-morrow morning | bound traffic was effective at the! at 10 o'clock. Mr. Content said this|Narrows and at about the point | did not. signify there would be delay| where the East Rive: enters Long in the prosecution Island Sound | Speaking of the preparations of the | No advance intimation that there Department of Jus and the Prose- | was to be a bar on outward sbipping cutor's office, Mr. Content sald: was nent to steamship or towing com ‘Our legal machinery 1s !n shape for | panies | work, which we expect to begin Tues By noon there was a great con- lay. We ex 4 great number of | gestion and confusion of shipping tn| arrests, not only of Ameripans who|the harbor above the Nurro attempt to evade registration but of | thick fog added to the mix aliens who attempt to dodge the law. |taking out barges of garb or Aliens, even those regarded as ene-| material for filling-in improveinents must register Although the] in Jamaica Bay temporarily lost con ilittes are they will not be con-| trol of their tows in the ebb tide ted for military service, the pen-|and the Narrows, for a time, was a sity for violating e registration law |olutter of v ant, unzteerabie craft, | will be the same that imposed upon | The skippers of some of the tu leitizens wanted to take hei tower into!y not be discharged, WASHINGTON, Jun 1.—Official a DRAFT SLACKERS WHO FLEE TO AVOID REGISTRY MUST GO 10 JAIL IF THEY RETURN ‘Plotters Who Oppose the Selective | Service Plan May Be Accused of | Treason, Which Makes Them | Liable to the Penalty of Death. MANY ARE UNDER ARREST; VIGILANTES ARE SUGGESTED By Samuel M., Williams. | (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) | WASHINGTON, June 1.—All young men between the ages of twenty-one and thirly-one years are practically interned within the United States during theig, Wability for compabev'y military service. Barriers were erectéd-around thé country’s borders to-day by orders of the Gov- crament to render ineffective any attempts to. escape military duty by flight. * The State Department gave notice that no passports for foreigh travel will be issued to men in the prescribed clas$ unless the War Depart- ment certifies that it has no objection. There is no specific law forbid- ding any person from leaving the United States, but world-wide war conditions have made passports necessary before steamships will carry him away or other countries will permit him to enter upon their country. Fhus the simple expedient of the State Department withholding passports | becomes an effective restraint. ‘The Department of Justice bas \stretched the law even further and forcibly detained persons attempting flight before registration, on the |sround that they are violating the registration act. One young man was takem @ff @ ship when seeking to leave California, bound for Mexico. But there ts some legal doubt as to the extent to which this ruling may be carried. Conditional permits are issued un- der the passport regulations to those whose business or duty requires thew to leave, but drastic restrictions are Imposed. MUST REGISTER BEFORE THE! CAN LEAVE AMERICA. If the departure is before June & U.S. MAY FACE GERMANY ALONE,” GERARD WARNS This Situation Likely If Kaiser Wins Present War, or It Ends a Draw. “The Germans mobilized 8,000,000 men in ten days less the time it would \take to mobilize 20,000 men in this |country," said Ex-Ambassador Gerard |to-day at the luncheon on the Broad- way Association at the Hotel Astor. “Jewelers in Germany never sold 90 many jewels before the war as #ince it started,” he said, “and while many jose money in war many earn @ g00d | the applicant must have registered in deal advance. If after that date he must The former Ambassador said Herr|prove that he bas registered and Werthelm, owner of the largest de- 7 |partment store in Germany, told him | rust hold himeelf ready to return if his business was better during the war than before, Mr, Gerard's con- clusiona were that even after two | years of war the buying power of the Germans was not curtatled. He declared it was his belief that the war would last at least two years longer. He urged the saving of food, especially wheat, Mr, Gerard sug ested that, in order to save food, the raea be cut down. After this war, if Germany !s su Regulations laid down by the State Department, acting !m 00-operation with the War Department, describe the following obligation after prelim- inary registration requirements are completed: Before issuing © passport to a per- json within the presoribed age limits jthe State Department requires that asful or the war is a draw, we may |he present with his application for a t Germany alone,” Mr. | passport a signed statement from the Gera d, “In Germany,, said | war Department to the effect that Mr . “twelve to thirteen mil- lion responded to the call to the| ‘ke War Department has no objection iors, One million and @ halt were|to the Issuance of a passport, Hed, 600,000 taken prisoners, 500, He must satisfy the War Depart. ment that he has registered. After registration be is Hable 000 permanently disabled and 600,000 were wounded.” to fraft {MUST LEARN FOR HIMSELF ON NOW-CITIZENS OF U, $,| 7» iron oo ine naa e absent as to whether or not he i. eae | “ WASHINGTON, June 1.—! bal Sretied: Fate RATE a Gov. Glynn of New York and former] [¢ drafted he may be required to Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston to-daylreturn to the United States at his propow ene ithe oe Som lown expense to appear before an alien In t 1 States wt nption board or to be examined t expre tention to bee tlitary service, American citizen. They said a To obtain consent of the War De- vag Rites aiatan weoita te ‘axempt tration day, an elaborate routine is prescribed for obtaining @ certificats trom the County Clerk, or in citie trom the City Clerk, which must be Aiial 2 Bee 4) Be. | went to the Provost Marshal General ‘eres | Washington. After registration it ee is necessary only to eend the appli- > — ipa eranas | THE WwoRLD SCN | aes ee: