The evening world. Newspaper, June 12, 1917, Page 1

{ ONE CENT tn Greater New York and u Hudson County, N. J. TWO © ENTS elsewhere, PRICE " Coprriehty ai, by The _ebe - ress Publishing orld). N iow York Pr oernn i tas Ta A tA EW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 191 “ Cire’ 7. 18 PAGE ulation Books Open to All”? |_ To-Night’s Weather—OVERC, ST; MILO, PRICE (sonore os 413 NAVY GUNNERS MISSING | FROM U.S. SHIP SUNK BY UBOAT > 5,000 | MAY BE SEIZED HERE IN NATION-WIDE ROUND UP OF SLACKERS BEGUN TO-DAY a i ) Period of Leniency Ended and All| Men of Draft Age Who Have No Registration Cards Will Be Put in Jail at Once. Uncle Sam is rounding up the slackers to-day. Every man of draft age who cannot show a registration card is liable to arrest, Federal author- Iles think as many as be found in the nationwide hunt and ‘a gil will be locked up at By letters, telephone and in various other ways, U. S. Attomey John %. Knox and U. S. Marshal McCarthy have received the names of nearly 3,000 New Yorkers who, the informants declare, have failed to register. | More than 1,500 such names wave sent in to-day. All have been tumed over to Capt. William M. Offley of the Department of Justice. 20,000 may once. “GET-RICH-QUICK” PLANT BLOWS UP. THOUSANDS VANISH peaene te Investors in Mrs, Ray Hyman’s} Concern Talk of Losses of Over $100,000. Seven agitated men and one weep- ing woman met at noon to-day in the office and garage of the Ajax Oil and No. 170 West Sixty-fifth Street, and besought Edward Gross- man to tell them what has become of Mrs. Ray Hyman, They said she had taken their money to lend out to the needy and had beon in the habit of giving them from 6 to 150 per cent. interest a month on it until she disappeared a few days ago “You were her agent,” (aey wailed, “Where is she?” Grease Co. ‘Me? cried Mr. Grossman, trem- bling violenuy, “Me! Why, I'm out $88,000 by her. Here's my friend, Leonard Bapp, a very nice man, He's out $18,000 by her already.” Mr, Bapp also trembled ell you,” Mr. Gro one : comparatively little infantry oppost Marshal McCarthy said the total number of slackers in New York tell you,” Mr. Grossman con-| wealth into Government bonds ao as | y § tnued, “I think she went to New-lto avoid having Wall Street shame |tion, the British to-day were cross City would n ‘4 exceed Serer ve burgh this morning with F. Stark-lene rest of the country. The Treas-|ing by patrols well to the east of ‘ad pacied of leniency ended ‘ i man, who is in for $5,000; Sol Simon, | ury hopes that it will not have to fall | positions in the recently won battle st night order a oO or $5,000, and rry EB = bh Beck last nls whe scat the “RENT RAISES DUE TO WAR” | we ts! tor $8,000, ana tarry Bber-|pacK on the men of the metropolis |r ateariace ante, torney Genere who nM | man, who has | $40,000 in this spec-| who stand ready to pour still dt ae the country detective with them to help look forlun any deficiency attempted only one heavy counter-at erebel as Ca by paltenmaes aie : fetes aii Ea the money New York has already passed the|tack. Evidence at hand, such as ob eee PP ATURTED, CROSS AYR epresentative Emersor From the eight quivering specula- | §759,900,000 figure. It is expected that | servation of aeroplanes and testimony ) * gen and members of the Home Defer for Enactment of Bill to Prevent | tors The Evening World roporter got] the total will be $1,000,000,000 by Fri- of newly taken prisoners, would seem arene: See busy. soon enter th fA Increases D x Hostilitie the Is « »w they had come tol day to indicate that the Germans have ee nae eres Wee ft babii) ete Invest their money with Mrs. Hyman s in Pittsburgh not yet reorganized after the stag J , ‘the Emma Goldm ting. Of the! WASHINGTON, June 12.—A cam-| She lives at No. 300 East Fifty-six ee inleetioe iow Gant Blumer® Baond @irty or more men + there, nine | paign to determine whether landlords | Street, in a third-floor tenement, Her| British F aaiivarad Aauliee tha ' ‘ | his campaign in Baltimore, whic 18 British Army deliver guin a I were d ed. have attempted to increase rents “be- | husband is a tailor's clerk and their|heen in the front rank of kers, last Thursday Three of the anti-coi *| cayse of the war" and to prevent such | nineteen-year-old son works in a de In wapapers in Ba are print The seven fleld guns reported by Were arra 1 before Un lincreases during hostilities will be| partment store, but for the last two ing sarcastic references to Maryland, | Field Marshal Haig as taken yester Commissioner Hitchcock to-day and| begun in the House to-day by Repre- | years a select few of her friends have) yyy Maryland,” being so far behind day were captured by patrols, The hald in $6,000 bail for the Grand Jury. | sentative Henry I, Emerson of Oblo.|been permitted to know that she was in both contributions to the Liberty |German gunners took fright at the Waskow and William Herrguth. ‘They | wiil introduce a bill asking an inves. lending their money so advantageous-| the army und fled precipitately, evidently fear waived hearing tigation of rent raising and passage|ly that she a paid them enor-| ‘ne Treasury to-day issued a slogan |!t nother British massed attack gthourn surprised by the sudden-| of a law similar to that enacted by| mous int p anti: PUM lonlicroe aiety damite dn oine Tiaiten | LVALIAN poRItiona wake undax vie of the Provost Marshal ¢ . bia es Bi a Jcall fo yt ni n } EPH apa geben nahee a RS Britain forbidding rent in | Who doubted soon forgot to doubt] states to take a hundred lar bond, us German shell-fire to-day, but the | mt boot 1 man STRSAAN OREN ha Wel when they received sa the] which would make an even tw tiles were for the most part pin Deed | a i diy sy sie oe end of a month for $100 they had 4n-/jiong in subscriptions, The loan js| from long-range guns horities in this city were re Z 1 vested 4 month befor olng to be a success and probably| Wield Marshal Haig to-day issued eel "COTTON AT S125 A BALE: : lee phoainei Q Hyman ts forty-five years old, ska anwihad hac lal order of the day, congratu \ For the last few days policemen N Glande aedecheaied, ana’ wood lok: | Senet ee nee ee Gen. Plumer the army ing. She wears rich bu Showy | the final effort is to get it m wide ler him for its 4, which he office upward of 150 slackers a day. ; fPhese prisoners were released on ; clothing and a lot of fine diamonds] jy distributed in small allotments 1 was “an earnest of an eventual |All Records Since 1871 Broken—|—not fiashy diamonds, understand,| “phe pundred-dollar mily call is tory for the A ou promise to register. Many of thoso| ' but the real rich, old r blue-whit “The full efect of th tor @athered in yesterday face arrest, In- July and October Options Pass Beene Lee See ee TANS for this purpose he fu lect of the victory 4 se | . stones like the artstoc wear, She] A request will be made to-morrow | cannot yet be estimated,” the @amuch as they did not intend to 25 Cent Pound 25 Cents a Pound. gave no recetpts for the money nor} by the ‘Treasury that British Commander in Chief de register until to-day and went home , 1€ easury that every bank in Py ts Excitement among traders on the| entered into any cont SsiMDIY lithe country keep seis clared, “but that it will be great fm the bellef the booths would be r u } nidnix open this morning. | Cotton Exchange almost reached the | took t ash and 4, back | Thursday, the last night of the ca is certain, The British losses from Those picked up beginning to-day | Panic stage this afternoon when July} at the end of the month and [ll give| paign, to receive loan sub : a battle of such magnitude were will be sent to the Tombs and other| “04 October options passed the twen-] You so Wall Stree tatial - qratifyingly light. @ity prisons to await trial. The"pen-|‘tY-fve-cent mark and broke all price] The K Mr. Gross-] gioomy after nightfal Ave Nothing can save the enemy @ity for failure to register is one ord» since 1871, ‘To-day's fe h| man's office declared that Mrs. Hy-| bright lights in all its grea from complete defeat, Brave and Year in jail and enforcea registration, | ding was a continuation of yester-] man must have taken hundreds of | houses tenacious as the German troops Evidence has been obtained by the| y's big advane: in two] thousands of dollars f nvestment pane a it is only a question of how Board of Elections proving many reg-| @¢Ys has jump e pri of cotton] They all called this after » Dis much longer they can endure a the case to a larger extent in ‘Phila: | realized in this morning’s sales. torney, Bernard Sandler, and were re. A ancament was mu t day "Y@eipbia and other big cities. Many! rp advances in Div ool, the| ferred to Assistant District Attorney WITHIN $250,000,000 he total numbe fp ners Dereons have complained that their|coverins of shorts, the big demands!/Coinon, in charge of t complaint ne aid y @ards were stolen or lost from the trade and the fact that the] bureau, who will investigate thelr OF IT. ARK FOR LOAN 6 Canadians wa » uding New York's registration will be 33 jcrop is backward and known to be|charges, The alleged | 4 and thetr ne m B00 higher than early figures in-| light were the responsible reason for| alleged losses are ed $750,000,000 Total | INDON, June Fielu Ma @icated, according to city iMclals.| the wild trading ortly the| Joseph Fox, N 6 West One H " It r 4 The Government estimate was 580,000] opening of the market this morning|dred and Forty-firs 00: G Yo-Day—Drive 1 ater 1 and the now figures will be in the] July contracts sold up to the 25 cent| Levy, N the Bronx 4 Billion Pre er we su Betghborhood of 613,000 mark and October speedily went to| $10,000; D. nal, No. 98 Union| w i he recighoen’ a oa Ignorance of the registrat | 24.49, these being advances of from 58| Avenue, the B H. Lillen-| pedera Neuve ¢ ea And intoxication were not accept 62 points or prac $3 a bale| thal, $1,000; | | and north of pre @s excuses for failure to register he Mra. K, I c Hun. | to-d mated that sut ers we ed, a num fa ek from st night's closing figures ) fons United States C G dred and Forty M, | tor © $730,000 n eh { 4 i e mmissioner Gray In) with cotton at 25 cents a pound it| Fishkin, N ndred | mark 4 we pr Brooklyn to-day, in the cases of| means that the stan devia oa ae aaa ee,| 1 a an 7 Walter G ' 16 5 ne t h Aple 1s sell 4| M i AnpAS billion dollars to be raised befor eighth Stree klyn, and Steph " : a i 000 | wits, N $1,600 Liberty Loan Committee j as x Ostege of Far Rockawa The we expe aul i r $ he ¢ ting Apen Total Registen for New York | of the loat ; a brought before the Commissioner | ; ci 4 State 15,4088 i s kul 1 a istant t 1 i. | SANY G Vhitman Me 4 ud | Assistan t A n ites "| | ALBANY, J i einaacel van Gui eadaqu. { Smith and United f Marsh | A wuth Mae a . M Powers. Commissioner Gray paroled| “ | Jay that New | # rte, 9 Monda i ott om the men until June | y rary 100,000 had ribed in fs After their hearing they were regis: | ¢ ure 1,086,498, | district. 7 san inerea 5 of a tered, but told they repor 1 I " imates ; Rieti wa dune 21 just the same, (Continued on Sccund Page.) repulsed by ou unter attack LIBERTY LOAN BEING SAVED BY NEW YORK CITY; MID-WEST AND SQUTH FALL FAR BEHIND ARE DEMORALIZED: CANNOT HIT BACK Grand Wind-Up. British Patrols Cross Well to the East of the Mes- sines Ridge. By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, June 12.—New York City is saving the Liberty Loan Indications to-day are that at least one-half of the $2,000,000,000 bond issue The worst financial slackers are in the) will be taken by the metropolis. prosperous and selfishly secure cities of the South and Middle West, whi are falling behind in their allotted | quota. Endeavors are being made by the Treasury Department to arouse these regions into putting more of their WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, June 12. very In the face of heavy fire, but artillery with POLICEMAN CHOS: FROM 700 TO DRIVE AMBULANCE IN F RANC. OWENS CHOSEN TO DRIVE POLICE AMBULANCE Selected rie 700 Members of | Honor Legion, Qualifying in Every Detail | Acting Detective Sergeant Martin |S. Owens, attached to the auto squad O] ON BOARD THE PETROLITE DESTROYED BY SUBMARINE: ONLY 20 KNOWN TO BE SAFE Two Boats, Carrying Capt. McKel- lum of Brooklyn, 18 of His Crew and Probably Naval Gunners, Have Not Yet Reached Land. SHIP WAS ONCE HELD UP BY AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE WASHINGTON, June 12,.—The American steamer Petrolite has been sunk by a German submarine, Consular reports which brought news of the disaster to-day said one boat with eighteen men, the third mate and the chief engineer, had been Tainted and two boats with an unstated number of mgn—probably thirty- one—were missing. The time and place of the attack were not given in the despatches The Petrolite, a tank steamer, first figured in the news on Dee. 5, at Police F adquarters, was selected | 12!5, am attack upon her by an Austrian submarine threatening diplo- to-day by Commissioner Woods to | matic relations between the Vienna Government and the United States, drive the ambulance which the Honor! The ship was shelled by the submarine and men aboard her were Legion will send to France in a f wounded. ns, Candid the assign ment were confined to the 700 mem The submarine sent a crew aboard the vessel and removed a large bers of the Legion, the contest for] quantity of supplies. She then was permitted to proceed. The incident the Job narrowing down to twenty-| ; ‘ lave men under t nmissioner’s | WaS the subject of a series of notes between the United States and the order that thes seted would Austrian Government. have to be without tents. ‘There |was great rivalry among the eligible ‘The Petrolite, a vessel of 3,710 tons, was owned by the Standard Ol} i ngee o Ay 0 wnt chap, quat. | COMPany of { New York. She sailed from Gibraltar yesterday for New York itled tho Inst de He comes | after delivering a cargo of oll at Savona and Leghorn. She sailed from [pretty near typitying the ideal New | this port for Italy on April 30, in command of Capt. Thomas McKellum, | York policeman, He rt of Brooklyn, who ‘has not yet been accounted for. Jyears old and has been on,the force ben bean: do-| ‘She carried @ crew of thirty-eight men,and a gun detachment of thir. por t ng| teen men put aboard by | ed with \ 1 | performances, On May 9, 1911 | rescued a numiber of w \ Juren from a burning nent in B Iridge Street “at a great personal | risk"—that's the way the report reads ent Medal and 1 ft | Automobile Club ‘of A H | was nded t for h Jwork In rounding “500 INTERNED BELGIANS DEAD OF STARVATION A rel Nea Sa (i Staten HAVE, France ( 1 | 1 urvAy is described the Navy Department to serve her guns. Of the crew of thirty-eight men, ten were Americans. ‘The Petrolite was formerly the eteamship Excelsior | flag, and transferred to American registry Standard Oil fleet early in the 1498. She carried of] in bulk At the office of the Standard Oil Company it wa sumed thal her crew Was the same as manned t York, They receive under the German with other ships of the She was bullt at Stettin, was war Germany, tn s said today they as when she left New vesse had no details of th SUBMARINE. SINKINGS ARE REPORTED HEAVIER sinking DISABLED U BOAT TOWED 10 SPANISH PORT London Paper Says Recent Losses Damaged by Gunsh Which Had Are Above Average for Struck Her Engines—Likely Four Week Be , LONDON, June 12.—The Chronicle's ADIZ, Spain (via Paris), June 12, I amentary correspondent declares The Spanish tor oat No, 6 yes am aused by the t ta ‘ove the German sub ed + well rimmed es. He ab rine was towed into Cadiz and is "i has been stripped of her wireless apparatus so 4 a mbating the/that the essel could not communi. with iU-submarir te w v f the Central Pow. 1 » the fact tha st German submarine losses a 1 450 * and be if n the bov that Suns vort e Ad ralty wil — 4 numbe ft ORT WINE @ OLIVE nd Hi pS) Y [a intice Bey, |