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STATEAND U. §. AUTHORITIES i os c 7’ ~ (New York City for slackers. Incomplete figures show that about 550,000 se CENT tn Greater County, N. J. ‘right, 101 ben Oe. (The ICE New York and ‘TWO CENTS cleewhere, NE by T New York Wer Wend). ii BOAT SUNK BY U.S.GUNNERS; BATTLE LASTS 90 MINUTES Ww YORK, WEDNES SDAY, JUNE 6, hal Circulation Books Open to All.” 16 P A G ho 8 PRICE| ONE CENT in Greater New York Hudson County, N. J. TWO CENTS cleowhere, CANVASS FOR DRAFT LAW VIOLATORS 1S BEGUN BY CITY, Columbia Student and Anarchist Who Openly Refused to Register Indicted on Conspiracy Charge— New York City Enrolled 550,000. Moving with a promptness and dispatch made possible by weeks ot Preparation, Federal, State and city authorities to-day started combing Yegistered here yesterday. The total for the nation is above 10,000,000. Quick, stern justice to all violators of registration, as required under the Selective Draft Law, was taken as the Federal motto. Every branch of Federal service throughout the New York district was in action, aided materially by the police and Home Defense men, in house to house | Canvasses. Lists of enlisted men were requis!- @—————- | Fanaa ccte ee ei rauitaey “corast’ | KINDERGARTEN TOTS MARGH | SAFELY FROM SCHOOL FIRE’ zations subject to Federal service, the members of which were exempt from| registration, COLUMBIA STUDENT AND AN- ARCHIST INDICTED. A practical demonstration of the | | 183 Children Leave Burning Build-| ing in Flushing Without | men to compose the new army. fate which awaits registration dod- gers was given by Assistant United| Btates Attorney Harold A. Content in obtaining tho immediate indictment | of Charles Francls Phillips, the Col- | umbla student and Louis Kramer, Anarchist, the only two who openly | dofied the law and refused to register. They were arraigned before Indge | (Mayer and pleaded not guilty, Phil- Ups was held in $10,000 bail in ad- dition to the $3,000 bond already given for him and $10,000 was added to the $2,500 required of Krani sureties, Trial was set for Monday. As he came from the courtroom Phillips was embraced by an elder! ‘woman, who began to sob over him, erying: “My poor, poor boy!” H assumed an intensification of his at-| titude of heroic martyrdom, pushed her to one side and walked on, His lawyers said he might change his plea | fo “guilty” later in the day. | Eleanor Wilson Parker, the Bar-| hard College senior, and Owen Cat- tell, another Columbia student, are to be tried with Phillips on conspiracy | charges. Kramer will have as his co-| defendants, Louis Sternberg, Joseph WASHINGTON, June 6.—Toys, Walker and Morris Becker, the latter|P@tent medicines, pleasure boats and also an Anarchist, and all charged|C#merms will be taxed for war, if the with anti-conscription activity at a pacifist meeting at Madison Square Garden last Thursday night. Kramer and Phillips, If convicted im- two may be sentenced to three years’ prisonment and years, Miss Parker's bond of $1,500 may| ot the others to d defiance ities decla be revoked for a seco! the Jaw, Federal authe In fixing Miss Parker's bail! last week, Judge Mayer named the low figure on condition that she re main at her parents’ home in Asbury Park, N. J. It was sald Miss Parker openly came New York yeste and visited Cattell and Phillips. United States Marshal Thomas D. McCarthy stated this afternoon that it probably will be two days before his deputies will start the actual arrests of slackers, They will then ‘be rounded up and their cases hurried to trial, Two Grand Jurles are sitting to deal with all registration violators. The May Jury was held over after > (Continued on Second Page.} | of Sign of Panic. Fire destroyed the entire interior of Public School No, 24 at Robertson and Queens Avenues, Flushing, to- day, but all of the 183 pupils, many thera of only kindergarten age, were marched out in safety. The fire started in the attic and discovered by Mrs, Nellie Pur- chase, who was holding class on the second floor, She sent one of her 98 with a note to Miss Isabel Lin- In, the principal, who sounded the fire drill signal, A carpenter at work on the roof discovered the fire also jand called down to a workman, who sent in a fire alarm, amounted to $10,000, eneennettescniemes: TOYS, PATENT MEDICINES, CAMERAS TO PAY TAXES Pleasure Boats With Capacity of Five Tons or Over Must Add To War Treasure Chest. The damage nate Finance Committee's recom- mendations agreed on to-day go hrough Congress An eighth of one per cent, levy on every five cents invested in toys was imposed The House tax on patent medicines | UVe operation of the military forces, was adopted or the maintenance of national in- boats are taxed 50 cents| terest during the emergency, and NI five te n and over craft] those in a status with respect to per- sels between 50 A ed “Fl sons dependent upon them for sup- oot for those over 100 feet “| port, which renders thelr exclusion ras will be assessed all the|or discharge advisable.” by n 62 cents for $5 machines to) yt is not the intention of the Gov- | 30 for those wo 20 and ove One Year for German Captain Who} included in the above classification, | sunk the Iiebenfels, The rule has been laid down that HARLESTON, §. C., June 6.—Capt.| each case will have to be considered | J. R, Klattenhoff of the former German] ypon its merits, The boards must sntman Liebenfels, now the U.8.| decide what persons and how many ship Houston, was sentenced to-day tolare needed in industries, and alyo| one year in the Federal Penitentiar t| how pressing ts the f ly dependence | Atlanta and to a fine of $500, Capt. | in either Klattenhoff pleaded guilty to sinking| The P! rdest task to- ordinate office © servi | tions governin aption procedure, suboret otf is Ore serving terms If it were a mere mathematical prop-| 06,0: 7ORs each Op She same charge, Jem, as the army experts would Iike tol beaicapenastien: thet have it, simple, hard and fast rules i beatae m3 td L Taree. could be prescribed, but @ great deal Horstord's le. A teaspoonful of policy and consideration for the| ter fa vor? it im plage eireahing 19'the month lemons, Buy a bortie, FIRST ARMY DRAFT BY PRESIDENT WILL BE ABOUT JULY 1 More Than a Million Men to Be Assembled in the Initial Summons to Arms. By Samuel M. Williams. | (Special Btatt Compspondent of The Evening WASHINGTON, June 6.—Indica- tions now are that owing to registra- tion day success, the President will issue, within a few days, his proc- lamation promulgating rules and reg- ulations governing draft and exemp- tion, and also arrange for the appointment of the numerous boards who will supervise the work. Some time will be necessitated in getting all this machinery into oper- ation, so that actual drawing of names is scarcely likely to begin be- fore July 1. ‘The entire summer will be given to this task of selecting the They cannot be put into service, however, before Sept. 1, ay the training camps will not be ready for them until that | date, In every county and city there will be appointed by the President a local board of civillans to govern the draft and exemption, Over them will be @ Board of Review, also appointed by the President, for each Federal judl- celal district, The President's proclamation ‘will Prescribe the number of men to be selected by draft. The precise num- ber has not yet been fixed, but it Wil be something more than a million, The actual number required for army service at present 1s 625,000, but more than that will be drawn to allow for exemptions and discharge, It has been finally decided that drafting will come first and exemp- tion afterward, The whole number of men registered will not be sifted out by examination, but only those whose names are drawn, Those who are not drawn will have nothing to do, nor will they be called upon for duty at present, They will still be held liable, however, for future calls in case more men are needed, Tho most difficult part of the draft work will be passing upon claims for exemption, ‘The conscription law provides that certain persons shall be wholly exempt, such as public offi- clals, workmen in navy yards and arsenals, pilots, mariners, ministers and certain persons of religious creeds having tlons to war, The most ever, will relate to t conscientious objec- difficult question, how- following par- agraph of the exemption section: “Persons engaged in industries, in- cluding agricult found to be necessary to the maintenance of the military establishment, or the effec- human equation enters into the prob. tem, $200,000 THIEF TELLS WHOLE STORY, ACCUSING WOMAN sili ialaat, Mrs. Briggs, Lawyer’s Wife, Hears Foye Say She Prompted Crime and Got $21,000. Neighbors of Mrs. Briggs, the wife of a Brooklyn law- yer, who was arrested last Iriday at her home, No, 978 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, charged with receiving from James DB. Foye, an ex-convict, $21,000 of the $200,000 he stole from a New York and Philacelphia bank- ing firm, packed Centre Street Court to-day when she was brought up for examination before Magistrate Krotel. Because of thelr presence John B. Doyle, Mrs. Briggs's lawyer, asked the court to hear the case in private. Magistrate Krotel denied the request. Mrs. Briggs, a striking looking bru- nette of thirty-seven, mother of two children, kept her head buried in ‘her hands during most of the proceeding, weeping softly as Foye told the de- tails of their relations and virtt lly charged her with having encourage ‘him to steal the money which sii ed in his serving a term in the East- ern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, After Foye and two bank clerks had testified an adjournment was taken | until Friday. Mrs. Briggs refused to! make any statement. F, Fossett Briggs, was not in court. Elizabeth C,) Her husband | — LINER MAKES State Department Officially An-| nounces That Last Shell From Armed American Steamer Hit! U Boat, Which Raised Clear Out; of Water and Then Disappeared. BOLD STAND AGAINST THE SUBMARINE Story Cabled by U.S. Consul Says Liner Fired ‘Twenty-Five Shots to Thirty-Five by Raider—Name | Withheld, but Is Known Not to Be Mongolia. WASHINGTON, June 6.—In an hour and a half the last shot pierced the U boat, which reared out of the disappearing from sight. | the Navy Degertnne is convinced that in this case there ‘SIX GERMAN AIRPLANES IN ENGLISH RAID DESTROYED, Bombard | Fleet of 18 Started to 'BELCIUM WILL SEND! running fight between an American armed merchantman and a German submarine the merchantman sank the submersible, ionins ees State Depart- ment to-day. oe The submarine, flying no flag, fired 35 shots and the steamer 25. Accortitiy to State Department reports, water, stern up, standing upright for a few seconds, then The steamer captain and the comrhander of the A merican armed guard believe the submarine was sunk and is no question the U boat was bagged. “The Department of State is advised by telegraph of an engage- ment between an armed American steamer and a submarine. The guns of the steamer were manned by an American naval crew, “The submarine was first seen at about seven thousand yards. The State Department official announcement of the engagement said: Foye, a tall, debonair, florid com-| Britis) Coast—Casualties, plexioned man, thirty-eight years old, | Killed, 36 Injured. was recently pardoned by Gov. Brum- | baugh, His mother, through whose! !ONDON, June 6.—The official efforts Mrs, Briggs was located while | nouncement to-day says that at lea he was in prison, accompanied him! to court, 12 Ix German atrplanes were destroyed Foye said that in 1913 he was em-|!" the Seet of eighteen that made Ployed by the Farmers’ Loan and, the raid yesterday over the Essex Trust Company as a clerk at $15 aland Kent sections of the English month, He was married, but had) coast separated from his wife, Ho testified e total an Ities tn the ald that he first inct Mrs, Briggs, who ears ' ra was then Mrs, Austin of Boston, a/¥°re: Killed, twelve; injured, thirty- widow, on Christmas Day, at 3t.|s John's Place and Rogers Avenue,| “Yesterday afternoon four Royal Brooklyn, They were waiting tor a Naval Air Service pilots on patrol off trolley, at that point and following a seemed : firtation exchanged cards, | Dunkirk observed about eighteen en “I went away during the summer of /™Y alrcratt off Ostend, well out at 1918 and did not see her again until |i Proceeding in a northwesterly di- Labor Day,” continued Foye, “We, etn. Indective engaementa took renewed our acquaintance, visiting all | Pllc# and the enemy were chased to the restaurants and places of enter- Fingland ‘On their return journey the enemy tainment in the Broadway district: | We both loved to dance. Late In| Wer PUrsued and engaged by « naval dantembor we lett Buatanotie ona | machine & an alr station on the afternoon and went to the Grand| Kentish coast. Two enemy aircraft Union Hotel, where wo registered aa| We? 1 turn attacked and driven man and wife. down by this pilot, who then landed Mra, Briggs’s sobbing was almost |°t Dunkirk, Other engngements bo audible at this point, It had no ef- ‘Wee? Royal Naval Air Service mu fect on Foye, He sald that while érom home stations and tl they were at the Grand Union he told miso took place over the 7 Th stua her he was only making $75 a month | 1 ™me9 Estuary and was not able to Go all he would Later ten naval pilots from Dun like to for her, kirk encountered sixteen hostile atr “I told her 1 could make a good craft off Ostend, returning from thetr deal more if I wanted to be crooked," {FU on England, and numerous said Foye. ‘She asked mo how much | "88 took place, Two of these hos- I could make, I told her maybo| aircraft were completely d $10,000, maybe $100,000. She sald; |*toyed and four others were driven ‘That sounds good to me.’ I gald;|40¥" Out of control, of which two ‘I’m Mable to go to prison.’ are considered also to have been de Foye says they stroyed,” he had tn mind long afterward he discussed the plan He says that not “borrowed” stock — LAWS STAND, SAYS WILSON, from the safe deposit vauits of the postal Farmers’ Loan end Trust Company, | Preatdent nat Helaxing Safe-| took it to Chandler Bros, & Co, wonrdn wn About Lahor, bankers, Philadelphia oMce, and got WASHINGTON, June 6.—President $10,000 on it, the first of a series Wil80n to-day, in a letter to Gov. Brum of operations which ultimately sue of Pe penly expressed reached $200,000. ae opened an ac ‘eguards have tent ane ps it count in the Knickerbocker Trust |isnor, as @ war measure Company in this city, depositing I feel that there is no necessity fo $100,000. such action,” wrote the President, “and “After I got the first $10,000 I calied ‘it would lead to a slackening of the her up and we had dinner together,” jenergy of the Nation, rather than to an jisorease of it, besides being very unfair UContinued on Becond Page.) to the laboring people themselves. A MISSION 10 U. 8. WITHIN FEW WEEKS She had a six inch gun forward and another aft. She flew no flag. Upon sight of the submarine, the steamer hoisted the American flag and waited about ten minutes, As the submarine approached the teamer fired. The submarine responded. The steamer kept a . re speed that would permit the submarine to come within range. Then Headed by Former Minister to| ibid iat 8 i ? s A followed a fight lasting for an hour and a half. This Country, Who Wed , ; ; ; ’ The submarine came to distance of about 2,300 yards. By that Daughter of Gen, Clayton. WASHINGTON, will time the submarine had fired thirty-five shots and the steamer twen- ty-five. The last shot of the steamer apparently struck the sub- marine which raised clear out of the water and stood stern end up for a few seconds. Then she disappeared. The captain of the steamer and the commander of the guard believe that the submarine was sunk, The steamer suffered no damage.” The name of the steamer is withheld by the State Department, but it is known that the vessel above referred to was not the Mongolia, re- ported in press dispatches to have had a brush with submarines on June 1 while eastward bound, The Mongolia, it was believed here, was singled out for German retri- bution because of her attack of a previous voyage against a submarine, so the name of this second ship is suppressed lest Germany try its fright- June 6 send an official Mission to the United States, headed by Baron Mon- cheur, former Minister here, Tt will | arrive within the next three weoks. Belgium regirds the United States as her great benefactor and is eager to Belgium express her appreciation in the most whole-hearted way Baron Moncheur is now chief of the political bureau of the Belgium Foreign Office at Havre. His wife is American, daughter of Gen, Powell yton, once United States Minister to Mexico, At the outbreak of the| fulness op this ship, war Baron Moncheur was Uelgian The Department report came from a Consul abroad who ascertained Minister to Turkey, ' 5 Peer via Gen, Lesleroq te also a Commis. | "is facts carefully before reporting. sioner. He formerly commanded the | ~~~ RAND RIS first division of Belgian o M, Hector Cariter, couns: Commission, is a banker, Major Osterrieth was formerly mill tary attache at the Belgian legation in Petrograd. valry r of the | NO PEAGE FOR FRANCE | SINKING OF A U BOAT WITHOUT VicTORY| TOLD BY NOTE IN BOTTLE Message Picked U Up O1 of Heligoland The fifth member of the mission| Gut Premier "Ribot Declares That Save British Criteer Dy 4 ts Count Louts Dursel, first cousin of/ Nation in Entire Accord | “4¥S British Cruiser Destroye the Duke Dursel, He Is a leutenan With United States. Submarine March 16, in the Belgian Army CHRISTIANIA, June 6.—A British aheabo'es | PARIS, June 6.—Announcing France y | ase AGEGLE HEDRCaAa Cae Watinca|la ih aAHine accord wiih the Uiniaa |(CrRaa? Sank & GAImAD suneeee | States, Premler Itibot this afternoon | March 16, according to a message in WASHIN The fr | declared to “a spex sitting of the| closed in a bottle picked up off Heli~ ficial report of an arrest for failure | Hena that there “can be no peace and t ew of a steamer ar- register received at the | without a victory jtiving bere to Sustion came from Dee “Alsace and Lorraine must be re ¥ where Anton M an, Was) rurnec sald. “No Frenchman | 25,000 Filip Offered tor placed tn jail for non-compliance with} qarey say there can peace until Service, the law. lf at is accomplished, We do not w nt} WASHINGTON, June 6.—A foree of —_—>— |indemnities, but reparation for di 26,000 EYiipino troops wherever they Prince Udine Much Improved ages. may be needed was offered to President “ _ - THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU ASHINGTON, June 6.—Th» condi Wilson to-day by Manuel Quezono, for- tion of the Prince of Udine, head of the meade, Wullteer (Wetid)” Baudunge mer Filipino Delegate in Congress and Itallan mission, showed marked im- sh Pern now President of the Philippine Senate, provement to-day, it was ofMctally an be ees | |Mr. Quegon said the force now was nounced in @ bulletin twsued by Dr. Reanahlo lines Rs rom ‘being organised and could be made Floria of the embassy, oo aire, ready,.in ten months, { nian