The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1917, Page 1

eae 4 rence Heer bake ST a EMER Rr a re { ONE CENT in Great Uftudson PRICE Circulation Books Open to All.’ Copyright, 1917, by The Frese Publishing ‘New York World). NEW ‘YORK, “SATURDAY, JUNE 16, Saree” 19 ONE CENT in Great Hudson Sonny N 17. ‘PRICE| tan in Riot Over Draft in City Hall Park 1,350,000 PURCHASE BONDS JURVINS] 000000 INTHE NEW YORK DISTR SWELLING TOTAL OF NATION hind Mark Set. The latest f Liberty Loan. No one in touch with the gigantic = ¥ gerk of tabulating the figures doubts that complete returns om Monday OW Rtefnoon will show that one-half of the total number of subscribers in the United States were furnished by the Second District and of that figure close to 1,000,000 Liberty Bond buyers are in Greater New York The dual system of tabulating makes it possible for the commit to keep track of the number scribers and the of sub- subscriptions as the work goes on. The wlators, under the direction of Frank H. Gregory of the National City Bank, will be com- pelled to work night and day until Monday Ten thousand from banks and corporations in this district and twenty thousand letters reached Liberty Loan headquarters this morning and all contained sub- ecriptions. Dispatches from Washington this afternoon estimated the total of subscriptions to the loan from all over the country at $2,951,000,- 000. This was based on official figures already tabulated. The New York district on p figures 1s $450,000,000 ahead of its ficial allotment and $50,000,000 beyond its self-imposed allotment of $1,000,- 000,000. The great oversubscription tn the istrict all came from New York City, ‘The State outside the city was short $60,000,000 of its minimum quota on the early morning figures, and the districts outside the city and State were $20,000,000 behind, but these fig * ures have been cut down somewhat by later returns, TOTAL INCREASED — $20,000,000 DURING FEW HOURS, At noon the early $1,020,000,000 for raised to $1,0 of the $20,000,00 by Arthur M. Anderson, Chairman of the Executive Committec, who re- ceived nowspapermen in his office at J. P. Morgan & Co. “The best figure I can give on the total number of subs Gistrict is 1,350,000, said. “That m prooably will show 1, this district made the scription possible. “For instance, the Corn Bank, which has twenty branches in this city, located among the working- morning fig this ure of district was 100,000, announcement ribers for this Mr ans that Anderson fing totals big oversub- Exchange » being made| 00 persons in| ires, given out at noon to-day by the Liberty Loan Committee for the Second Federal Reserve District, show that 1,350,000 persons in New York State, Northern New Jersey and Fairfield County, | Conn., made it possible for the district to raise $1,050,000,000 of the -+=- Quota Here Is Exceeded by $450,-, 000,000 Through City’s Response) | which has been trying her $1,000,000) to Call, Rest of State Falling Be-| NEW YORK DISTRICT DID BETTER THAN ALL GERMANY ON FIRST LOAN The Federal Reserve District of New York has furnished more sub- scriptions for the Liberty Loan of 1917 than the entire German Em- pire did for its first®war loan in 1914 SECOND BOND ISSUE telegrams | BEING PLANNED FOR EARLY SEPTEMBER Extraordinary Success of First| Calla Guaranty of Quick Results for Next Appeal By Samuel M. Williams. | (Special Staff Correspondent of The) Evening World.) WASHINGTO. June 16. tions for another issue . Prepara- | of Liberty Loan bonds were started to-day the Treasury, although definite fig- | by} ures of the first issue have not yet been received. | Advance reports confirm beyond all question that there bas been a large over-subscription, but its exact amount cannot be figured before next What is week serves to delay the ot fifty and one hundred dollar subscrip tions that poured the chiefly through the instalment plan adopted for industrial establishments the count the enormous number in last, According to latest estimates, average subscription will be $1,000 ‘The number of indlyi is approximately of their tions the $ amount subser 1,000,000, Ruth Law, who met With an ac dent while flying as a boomer for men and the middle classes, reported| Liberty Loan, telegraphed Secretary 80,000 subscribers, of whem 22,000| McAdoo to-day from Chicago: “Ar- bought $50 and $109 bonds, That is| rived in Chicago safe after many the best record we have of small| hardships on the last leg of the jou gubscribers, and we know they are|ney. Tremendous success of I all wage earners, to whom the Baby! Loan repeated at every stop Bonds made an especial appeal, One-|accopt my heartiest atulations third of the bank's depositors sub-| for the great success of your nation- seribed, On that basis we figure that| wide campaign.” 1,600,000 men, women and children! Although the second installment of purchased throughout the district." | Liberty Loan amounting to $3,000,000, Mr, Anderson explained bow the |000 more will probably not be put out Montinued on Second Page.) My (Continuedon Gecond Page) | Uon at 1.15 this afternoon. The jurors | proved, mand for a settlement before the bringing of the action An important charge was that nning’s defense that Miss O'Brien never intended to wed her aged |wooer had not been established. This had been Manning’s chief de- WOMEN IN RIOT ‘LOVESUITCHARGED. IN CTY HALL PARK Instructed to Award Damages in Keeping With Manning’s | Financial Standing. | After a charge strongly favoring! Miss Honora May O'Brien, the jury | breach of promise suit against mil- lionaire John B. Manning, the octo- senarian broker, retired for delibera- spent fifteen minutes talking ove: the case in their room in the Supreme Court Building, Long Island City, nd then decided to have lunch. They resumed deliberations at 2.15. Justice Cropsey's charge was little Short of a direction to the jury to re-| beauty. | “The proof-in this, case,” the Court | said, “is t there was an agreement to marry and that it was valid, bind-| ing and effective. That agreement the defendant. The proof shows that and the defendant's counsel admits it was broken by “There is no iegal excuse or justif- | cation for breaking it, These ques- tions n settled for! nh you only to deter- mine whether the plaintiff has been damaged and in what amount, It is! for you gentlemen to consider com- pensatory damages the light of| the d t's financial and soctal | standing, the humiliation which the Plaintiff suffered, her wounded pride nd her affections.” have you, and it in nda The Court explained that punitive damages or “smart money" could be essed by the jury, if it desired, and that exemp! damages, too, might be taken into consideration, As to the charge by Manning that the suit was begun by Miss O'Brien to get money without marriage, Jus. tice Cropsey said this had not been He ruled also that there had been no proof of the plaintifrs de- fense, Never has a million dollars had a | woman. | man in Chambers Street, One Thousand Call to Protesi to Mayor and Attack Police. A thousand or more women, gathered at City Hall at 1 o'clock to- | day to petition the Mayor against the | military census, became ugly when told the Mayor was not at City Hall, | and refused to obey police orders to At half-past | ne o'clock a woman began screaming | defiance against Policeman Wagner) in front of the City Court building. | keep the walks clear. Wilson went to Wagner's ald| structed him to arrest the She seized Wagner's hand, bit his fingers until they bled and Sergt. and 4 ~| stabbed his legs with a hat pin, Other | turn @ verdict in favor of the Irish| policemen went to his ald and pe-! tween four of them, .the prisoner, screaming that she was being mur- dered, and biting and scratching, was carried to the City Hall station. | The rest of the women fell upon| Sergt. Wilson in a body. He was) scratched and his cap knocked off. As he stooped to recover it he was) knocked down and his trousers were | torn before a hundred policemen held | in reserve ran to his aid | Reports spread through the crowd | that the police had beaten an inof-| fensive woman and dragged the lockup. Immediately afterward] her to | a crowd of women attacked a police and as many of five hundred as could reach him clung to him like a swarm of bees while he tried to fight them off, work ing his way out into the plaza north | of the Municipal Building | When the fighting was police had three prisoners Himmel, of No. 1174, Wes Road; Bertha Ampel of No, 106 West! One Hundred and Fourteenth Street, and Mrs, Jennie Barron, of No. 60 Willard Street. Mrs, Barron's four teen-year-old daughter clung to her mothers skirts and could not be made to let go. She refused to walk and 90 was dragged on the walk to the station while hundreds of women screamed “They beat little girls and women, The trouble started after the yo lice thought all danger was past. Before the rioting began groups of woman, many of them wearing shawls over Farms} ‘Ruth Cruger, Whose Disappearance! Was One of City’s Deep Mysteries FORTHERANT VER THE ORT HAIG KEEPS GRIP ON MESSINES LINE; REPULSES ATTACK Germans aerate an Advance | (ERMAN TROOPS FAIL After Artillery Battle but | MISSING HARLEM GIRL SLAIN | AND BURIED BENEATH SHOP. ~ PROPRETOR FLED TO ITALY += ————_ -- Cellar Dug Up on “Tip” to Grace Humiston, Lawyer for Cruger Family—First Find Corset Cover and Glove. DISAPPEARED ON FEB. 13; ’ SEARCH WAS NATION-WIDE The body of Ruth Cruger was found at 3.10 o'clock this after- noon under the cellar flooring of the motorcycle repair shop of | Alfredo Cocchi, No. 542 West One Hundred and Twentyiareats Street, the last place in which she was seen alive. Cocchi, who fled from the city two days after Ruth Cruger’s mysterious disappearance on Feb. 13, has been located in Bologna. | Italy, and steps have already been taken to bring him back to this country. | The body was found five feet beneath the flooring of the igging in the hope of finding it has been under way It was fully clothed, but the girl’s arms had ts been bound to her breast by strong rope. | | | cellar where since Monday last Ever since the digging in the Cocchi cellar has been in progress Mrs. cchi has sought in every way to prevent or hinder it, telling the police { the diggers that they were fools to hunt there, that they would find nothing. Hindenburg line was taken, and un Micial advices early to-day indicated District Attorney Swann, when informed of the finding of the body, hot fighting still in progress there, the Germans vainly endeavoring to |Said extraordinary efforts would be made to bring Cocchi back to this break the British grip a4 3 fi BERLIN, June 16 (via London), | Country if it was shown that he murdered the girl. He said that under Fresh engagements between British Harts ‘ ; : 4 o and German forces developed early (UF ¢xisting treaties with Italy a fugitive cannot be brought back, the to-day in the Bullecourt region and | evidence being forwarded to Italy, where the man is placed on trial for east of Monchy, says the official! statement issued to-day by the Ger-|the crime, Mr. Swann said that, in view of the fact Italy is now our ally, man army hei meagiarters staff, | the Italian Government might return Cocchi as a matter of courtesy, The digging was continued severa| @————————————————ee | aaye thraugh le affdeta of Mrs. rece been dea" up cand: pewe kee a IN ATTACK AT VERDUN | i ~ Humiston, the attorney engaged by ™ brisker bout than the stakes In thig|over thelr reads, crowded Into City Fail to Gain. seinlae shea ; z ; 4 masa of rubbish, sensational case; never has a miliion-| Hall Park from all its eastern en —_—_ sae |e Cruger family to prasecute the) ‘Tho fret things the diggers unceve aire been given a swifter run for hig|trances and assembled in front of the| yoxnon. June 16-British forces | 2¢¥eral R tids Repulsed, Says Paris | search for their missing daughter. At] ered were bundies of rage and old |money. It took Just two days to try|City Hall. Capt, Maurice Hannon of| i001 | 100 UC tan War -Artillery Battle various times during the excavation | clothes mixed with the usual rubbish the case. Justice Cropsey has broken|the Elizabeth Street Station picked |” fon ente | ' ; , P nn leces of clothing have been fot of @ shop. det the record for trials of this kind, out Mrs, Josephine Campbell Nixon of| Might from the Germans south of | at Craon f nc: of @ ahop. At ® depth of abeut Geum Martin Littleton, orney for the| No. 50 West Ninety-sixth Street, as a| Ypres were hotly attacked yester-| PARIS, June 16-—The French re- ut cou 4 not be identified as belong- | feet they came upon a blue hat. ‘This defendant, occupied an hour and a| leader, and asked what she and her|qay afternoon, Field Marshal Haig | pulsed several raids in the region of ‘8 to Ruth Cruger. | waa at once recognized as being at half in his address to the jury, after| friends wanted | reported to-day | Hill 204, on the Heights of the Meuse Mrs, Humiston atarted the search| jeast like the one which Ruth Cruger which a short recess was taken, and| “We are @ few hundred women,| |. Pegi . meia, {of the cellar on @ mysterious “tip”| x04 wo fe Mr, Baldwin began his summing up| representing the. women of New| The counter-assault was marked by | last nis oe eer pd EO Giga ay rir inde 2 | bed’ worn the Gay she <egppeae for the tif, York,” she said, “and we have come|beavy artillery fire, but the few Ger. | * nent srom the War ice this io iald J | After digging another foot, or at ® Mr, Littleton characterized the suit| to petition His Honor, the Mayor. We! mans who succeeded in penetrating rl te rene’ Heeler buried there. | depth of five feet, the shovels encoune of Miss O'Brien as @ burlesque and| wish to ask him for the repeal of the/th» British curtain of fire and {and i at eal “3 “raonne| ‘This afternoon Peter McEntee, a| tered @ pair of tan shoes, And when the amount she demanded as ridic-| Registration Law.” | | nt Caro was lively sborer, wan digging in the cellar| these had been uncovered it wae » said wwphe Mayor is not here to-day, |feached the front British trenehes | | found that they were still on the body, ulous, He # under the supervision of Joséph J “It Ia a travesty on love, an at-| said Capt. Hannon, were immediately driven out and the * ITALIANS “GIPTURE ym | A few more shovelfuls of rubbish and tempt to hoodwink this old man out| The women gave Capt, Hannonjentire attack completely repulse Keon, manager of @ detective agency | rags brought Ruth Cruger’s body te ire not here for the pose of @is-|""As women, as creators of life, we ar) Crugers to run down every clue that} ‘The last trace the police and the tributing this old man’s money. Jare anti-militarists, opposed to the r ee nted {taelf, Detective Sergeant | fmily had of Ruth Cruger was thas 7‘ nia etbeckan? | linn ae dk Ae pore a The positions we captured on War Department Announces an on the day she disappeared, Feb, 1% Is this woman hea n ‘0, | destruction 8 ank McGee, of the Fourth Branch Does she love this man? No. With|internationalists, we feel that the| Thursday evening south of the Important $ ; “ ; | last, she went from her home, No, 30% | ureau, was al the cell e emo reyele . sm of cold scorn she answered! people of our country have no quarre!| Ypres-Comines Canal were at- Eastern 7 a 1, was also: én collar when} Claremont Avenue. to the mata rong wa i SEN thaaennla CHES SIEM AGURIHR | LASvadi te Iba anany afar neaye | ashe tt was decided to remove a tool chest | shop of Cocchi to get a pair of skates He then read the questions he put| “We therefore demand your support| artillery preparation, A few Ger ROMP, Jus 6 (Via ton) the south east corner of the c she had left there to be sharpened, to Miss O' regarding the state|in the repeal of this unjust ‘and un-| mans who suc aching | Malian forces} carried Corno eg __...._|From that moment she vanished an@ ate | in A ’ Ca y r \ an and dig under It, because an excava-| ioe has been a world-wide sear heart 1 wanted to know! constitutional law © ont tren at on : ‘ ding toward the rear of the| . Aye f was cr > ki driven out, a t v tn € t tin » lea a | for her ever since ron ury was eryir a : § MF eibert Wants House Cofamittee on tack was mE rer at a Hela ate hi store had been discovered, | police questioned Cocchi closes iv a ; ins ea Aeronautics. aa Renta 1 “ 1 r f Prk REPRE AA, the girl but he denied all j WASHINGTON, June 16 sen hia ro lpaniaread nd Under | Knowledge of beyond the fact moneys the taay |Ativ® Murray Hulburt of oth Binet eines Mos w a4 1, with with boarding, Under) iit she had called for a palr of Mr, Baldwin laid s fan on the fact to-day introduced a res sking = f : booty hest It was mound that the] siaies, ‘Then came reports that the th M Ma and s O'B: stitu on oO! io i ° n| © 4 alg yeaterday ust his hat Mr. anning rien | institution of a Hous Ae Spiny flee tech - boarding had been broken and re-'girl had been seen leaving Cocehi'e Aeronautics to consist of twenty-one forces for north sulle- | = . (Continued on Second Page) members, court. More of the “impregnabie’ (For Racing Results See Page 2.) placed. The conerete under it had place in a taxicab or motor car, All ‘ / \ 4 4 -