The evening world. Newspaper, June 25, 1917, Page 1

on! York PRICE {iictsce County, Node TWO CENTS tlaewhere, Copyright, 1 ce. (Te “ Circulation Books Open to All,”’ | bY, The, Press es Febiichiog ‘New York World). ‘NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1917. 14 PAGE i New York and TWO CENTS elsewhere. j PRICE SLSR es Te r CRUGER IN VAIN IMPLORED DETECTIVES TO SEARCH IN COCCHIS SHOP FOR BODY SUNARNE| [5 BLOWN APART ~ FACHEEND SINKS SEPARATELY BRITISH GUNNER REPORTS ‘U Boat’s Shots Fall Short, but Twelfth Shell From English Ship Sends It to Bottom—Reports an American Ship Sunk. AN ATLANTIC-PORT, June 25.—Members of the crew of a British steamer which arrived here to-day reported having sunk an attacking German submarine. The British vessel sent a shell into the U boat's magazine, causing an explosion which parted the undersea boat about amidships. Each end sank separately The British steamer was unin- ’ The submarine was five miles distant and ruvnig away after having ‘ettacked the Britisher nearly 400 miles off the coast of Ireland. ‘Aécording to the story told by the® gunner of the British steamer, the | sel was about thirty miles to the hen she| #0Uth of us and I do not know how gubmarine was first seen w pitied bac sent # shell at the steamer from a ate] Wetter cenit aa ee nie tance of about 3,000 yards. It fell /omcers would not discuss the battle short, and the steamer immediately | but confirmation of the gunner's Against Taxes and Rules That Mean Confiscation. | representations have been made by the United States and the British Governments to the Carranza Gov- ernment, it was announced to-day, on account of the situation in the Tampico oll fields, It is important for the Allies to secure an increased supply of Mexican oil in order to meet the increased demand and make up for the shortage now developing in American oil fields, The Carranza Government is put- ting many restrictions on British and American corporations operating tn Tampico fields, If American aero- planes are to conquer Germany joy- riding in this country will have to bo stopped so that there will be suf- fictent gasoline to operate the air mo- tors, Unless the Mexican fields are quickly relieved from Carranza inter- ference there will soon be only enough gasoline in the United States for the aeroplane service and motor trucks. |story was obtained from other mem-| Pleasure cars will have to be laid u > that her stern d up. was swung around ee Ing the |PeTR of the crow Secretary Lansing said to-day that was toward the U boat, getting th AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 25.—| requirements of the ofl companies naval gun at work Eleven sbots| Fourteen shots fired by gunners|had been severe and had been the succession and|aboard the British steamer Manches- in rapid | away false rigging on a were fired each struck very close to the German, | ter Port tore | subject of diplomatic correspondence, The Secretary stated that no joint [German U boat disguised as a fish-| note had been sent by the United “1 knew I had the range after the | in. smack and sank the boat, accord-| States, England and France. It 1s eecond shot, and so did the German,” | ing to the belief of the crew arriving| understood, however, that England ts aid the British gunner he Ger-|here to-day, The Manchester Port { 1 complete accord with the mans were using their two guns, fore; was not struck in the exchange of! united ‘Sta and has made similar gunfire, Her sailors said almost every one of the vessel disguised subm and aft, while we had only one, but the shells were falling short and hi started to run. I followed him with) shots struck the| representations to Carranza, On July 10 next the new tax imposed by the Carranza Gov- The Port’ virel " shells, and tho twelfth—the one that) ais yeporting the fight were heard| ernment on oil exportations are gent him down—struck just abaft the| hy the Liner Norlina which last week| scheduled to go into effect. The: periscope. He was then more than/arrived and reported having sunk a] range from 80 to 100 per cent. ad submersible, 9,000 yards away “We could all see the boat break tn two and go down, disappearing with- in a few minutes. I sent four more shots Into the water at the spot where ehe disappeared to let any of the boches who might have escaped know that we were still around and would take care of them if they appeared “At the same time our battle was going on the wireless operator picked up the call of an American vessel | (one that arrived at an Atlantic port GAPTAIN IS DECORATED FOR KILLING CHILOREN Germany Gives Order Pour le Merite to Commander of Air Raiders. LONDON, June despatch to the Time: An Amaterdam says that Capt Brandenburg, who conducted the Ger- valorem in different kinds of oil and gasoline. In addition, there is the impending law of denation- alization of oil companies in Mex- ico, which is almost equivalent to confiscation, This law would practically bar for- eign compantes from Mextco, While the American ‘and English ofl inter- ests could stand the new tax tm- posed they see in it but the beginning sy of steady strangulation, being subjected also to | last Friday) and also caught a mes-| 114, air raid on London June 13, in|@ variety of interferences. Four gage that another American ship had ch a large number of persons, most-| men were killed and one wounded been torpedoed and was sinking. T hool, children, were killed and] last week on American oll properties aaa aa nded, has received the Order Pou ; ‘ as . mepenge sald that the German wa Merite from the ‘German “Boren! ab Tecanion tn whet ned ai) the evs fring on the lifeboats, That ves-' ment dence of an instigated reign of ter- rorism, A strike was stimulated also on one of the large properties which required strenuous efforts to adjust It is ch ed by the operators that German ganda is responsible form any of the a nees and mi- . nor outrages in the oil fields and that the German Consulate in Tampico ®@/\s headquarters for persons known to be prowling ab © fields, t of policy is to THE REAL SITUATION AT THE BATTLE FRONT Told To-Morrow Morning in THE WORLD | By ARNO DOSCH-FLEUROT The First Story From the Forces in the Field * ORDER OF NEWSDEALER TO-NIGHT of the oll wells much a8 possible D presentations made by the United States and England have Jbeen a nes, ‘The first re lates ew taxation scheme. The A nments have advised | the oil s to be prepared to P ix under protest and mean | while they would endeavor to ob- tain a p jement in tha there ma ficial inquiry the of ments, The nd 6 ated Sa tne | CALLS SIX GUARD COMPANIES } WASHINGTON, June x be artillery M k Y “ New Yc Niagara, Regimental Hesdguartera ead one batialion Second New York, {Special From a Statt Correspondent of The toning World. WASHINGION, June 25.—Strong) ARMY ‘DODGERS’ Shortage Under Registration More Than Offset by 600,- 000 Already Enlisted. (Gpeciat Stall Commpondent of ‘The } WASHINGTON, June 25.—Offictal | figures of the army registration of men between the ages of twenty-one Brening and thirty-one were announced to- day as follows: Total number of men registered, 9,659,382, Number of white citizens, 7,347,749. Colored, 953,899, Unnaturalized foreigners ther than Germans, 1,239,865, Unnaturalized Germans, including declarants who have taken out first 823. €,001, New York State registration: Total registration 1,054,302, of which unnaturalized Germans num- ber 80,870, New Jersey—total 302,202, of whom 4,956 are unnaturalized Germans. Connecticut—total 159,761, with 1,126 unnaturalized Germans, White registration fell 413,000 short of the census estimates of the popu- lation within the designated years, but the apparept shortage is more than accounted for by the 600,000 men already in military service who | were not required to register, GOVERNMENT IS NOW PREPAR: | ING FOR THE DRAFT. indicate that there has been any gen- eral attempt at evasion of registra- tion by any important element of the Western States. Michigan leads in All reports have been received, ex- cepting from Niagara County, N. Y and three precincts un Wyoming With these figures as the ba the Government is now preparing for the draft, ALL DRAWINGS WILL BE MADE BY NUMBER. June 30 is the last day of the volunteer system of national defens Regular army recruiting week begins to-day and closes Saturday. A that no more credit on draft ments will be given to the States on account of voluntary either in the reg army or the tlonal Guard While specific ing exemptions have not yet been promuls following plans of are made publi: | 1, All drawings for the entire country will be made in Washing | ton and the names forwarded to local boards in the cities and counties, Numbers, not names, will be drawn, each person regis enlistments, war Na regulations govern from conscription Pane 2.) muda steamaiin Lines womm day ond wi wow " “There is nothing in the returns to], the excess of |" BRITANBAGKS U.S. PRESIDENT'SDRAFT 29- Year-Old Girl Lands Here INWARNING MEXICO RULES WILL BLOCK $ NOT TOCUT OFF OL Strong Representations Sent | On Flying Trip From Buffalo To Washington for Red Cross POOR HEODODOOS HATHERINE STINSONT ), BP BELG ODDS IEEADADOHE ODODE | —— |Started Yesterday, Spent Night : | in Albany and Lunches on $ Governor's Island. | | Miss Katherine Stinson, jnineteen-year-old girl |Miss., in a Curtiss military tractor, |landed on Governor's Island at 12.17 a pretty of Jackson, + | o'clock to-day on her way to Wash- |ington from Buffalo with news that |the up-State city had oversubscribed |its Red Cross allotment of $1,500,000 jond carrying with her the first check paid in the subscription Miss Stinson handled the big m chine as If it worked on ball bearings, She was sighted from the Island at 2.10 o'clock, She circled the Statue ‘WILUAM THAW WINGS A GERMAN MONOPLANE The largest shortage appears ta jof Liberty toward South Brooklya, the State of Washington, which | then made a slant for the island at a registered only 49.8 per cent. of the/ Harold Mills, Pathe American, | sharp angle and landed on the parade estimate, followed by other Far) Puts New Type of Tri- ground without the slightest Jar Western States, Oregon, North and} : leas Major John Howard of the Twenty- South Dakota, Wyoming and Nevada, | Plane to Flight. second Infantry, with a guard, made all considerable below the line. | PARIS, June 25.—Lieut, William |for the machina on @ run, and the The Census Bureau announces: | Pittsburgh, one of the two|suard was thrown around It. In the Thaw of “oon wake of the saldiers was a group of reporters and photographers, mem- bers of the Aero Club of America and of the Red Cross. the brought down a German a recent fight, acc from the front Lafayette Escadrille, monoplane in ig to dispatches machine The enemy then cried: “All ready, shoot.” of the Lafayette don Vseadriile still near death. ome registration over estimates by 294/74 ayutant 1 Lufberry, just elted| As she stepped out of the machine, per cent., followed by Connecticut,|;o, bringing down his tenth enemy |her brother Edward reached her side Montana, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Mas-j plane, was to-day formally invested | with extended hand sachusetts, New Hampshire, New|by British officers with the British! “#ello, Kate," he sald Jersey, North Carolina and Wiscon- | Military Cross, awarded by We British! «aren't you going to kins me?" sho ein, all above the line. Government | demanded, and threw her arms about e Off came the aviation equipment nd Miss Stinson appeared in a light ‘EMBARGO COUNGIL CREATED |” slim figure admirably She ts only a WIFE OF COCCHI FATHER GAVE POLICE CLUE DAY AFTER GIRL VANISHED; ALARM HELD UP FOR HOURS Detective Bureau Records Fail to Show Report Cruger’s Friend Made Night of Disappearance— Appealedat Three Station Houses. ALL MOTOR POLICEMEN SUMMONED FOR INQUIRY That Henry D, Cruger, the father of Ruth Cruger, had besought the police to make a careful search of Alfredo Cocchi’s motorcycle shop the day after she disappeared was brought out to-day in Mr, Cruger’s own testimony before Commissioner of Accounts ra who is in- vestigating the bungling police work on the case. Mr. Cruger stated that he had called up the Fourth Branch Detective Bureau on the afternoon of Feb, 14, the day after Ruth's disappearance, and told of the location of Cocchi’s shop as the last place his daughter had been seen, On the following day he demanded ieee the shop be searched, as Helen |Cruger, the missing girl's sister, had | made four visits to the shop on Feb. \14, only finding it open and Cocchi) the on the fourth visit at 2.30 eves This Mee DY, aroused Mr, WILL IDENTIFY is KC HLT Cruger Pom ho told him of reports that | ie te character was not of the best. The detective replied, Mr. Cru. ger declared, that Cocchi was a per- fectly respectable man. The testimony of Arthur M. Brown, Says He Didn't Bec Become Citi zen, but Saved Money to Go tol Live in Italy. | population.” ‘The shortages in some | vas attempting an attack on Harland, | “Look Bisaseat, please!” cried the Z a friend and business associate of the States are made up by surplus In| Corp], Harold Willis of Boston, an- | photographers, " “5 2 Crugers, that he went to the Fourth other States, Discrepancies are ac-| other member of the Lafayette Esca-| “Are you going to snap me? asked| Mrs. Cocchi, the wife of the seif | Branch Bureau at midnight on Feb. counted for by shifting of population | a attacked and put to Mght a new|the girl. “One moment, please,” and | conte ssed slayer of Ruth Cruger,|13 showed that the Police had made since the 1910 census Was taken, par- |(ype German trl-plane Now? York, [He ducked under the hood of the ma-| made hor first public statement to-|M° Fecord of this visit or the request i 2 ; Lincoln H, Chatkoff of New’ York./onine and powdered her nose, and ticularly of young men from the far | | min 3, Chatkar of Hew Tom lobine and. pawpared. her and! gay, She talked to reporters in the|*t ‘hat time for a search for Ruth, |the first book ent District Attorney's OMce. It is prou-|ing dated Teo. in Se ee ‘own also able that sho will be released in the | reported the disappearance at three or police stations on the night of Feb. 13. sho has told all she knows and she|, Mi Cocchi In & statement to re- | porters to-day said she often noted the intimate relations that existed custody of her counsel in a few days, as the District Attorney is confident cannot be used as a witness against her husband, t between her husband Mra, Cocch! said her husband nevor| motorcycle policemen, pial, took out citizenship papers. He cher- | said mike cases wus ambitious to make enough money to enable him to return to Italy and spend the rest of bis days ished an ambition to make a fortune return to Italy and live dn luxurious idleness. Aiwnye,* sald Mra, Cocchi, “ne |i? ones “living ike @ prince worked hard to got mone toe | She hae advised her busbang, could go gto Siwy aud live, Re | through @ relative, she said, to make Tee He Sha eee ne | clea breast of the Cruger case and not keep away from women, 7 " ord, who is Investigating the Motoryeyele Gquad slip of a girl, with curls of dark Ss of Grain and Coal! brown and eyes to match. Her hair] Will Be First to f was tied at the back with a black ribbon Restricted Miss Stinson paid that she left Buf. WASHINGTON falo at noon yesterday, expecting to Ww to-d reach New York last night, But when N she neared Albany the sky looked #> hobiity thr ning, she decided to remain| . , in the Capitel Clty for the night, She The Pes arted to fly from Albany at 10,10 it this morning, and stopped at Gover p ve r’s Island fer gas enough to car Ag ser to Philadelphia Ww he will r n, to d atte {take on another supply for Wash ' it x> | ington ba b ¥ Do you expect to re Washing nd : for vicag A A ny M S “ t ko Red MeAdoo Aga andfother b. Hal e A fed rN y Miss 3 \ ‘ WP Hud " : : M from A 6 MRictier ct (Continued on Fourth Page.) Praca ie 9s he atarted @ little and. the obarees: sgalnes eeme cite Boe eee arate eta tt Seventy-tfth | members, to-day orde the entire were policemen around hi : ta ate THAR OF LNEIy DAteCinen Boe Eee Ms places of | sergeants to report at (P business. I have entered means $0. Feper Police Head his shops | quarters this afternoon with all thelr es a ae je qian is King | reports, summons books and stubs heard wDAS they wore sayin Haves jfor the past two ye ore ha addition, did not talk \ hen I was aroun . or other oMfcers who F ve fin i me n x of time saw serv ¢ catwaar now of es or bicycles but ‘ oA “4 Pp husband | poy duty have also been ; SAE h_po-| ordered eport with thelr ®eoks . 1 7 , — vey A ; As for Fau Is still engaged pipigg ; J P « dow he white slave é wt tell re is furnished by Mrs, Grace Hum otas I. was stated at his office tha ripepes done Giiecel Sari s was being made, but A ' em f the nature of the Whitm st ithe oes .w would be permitted. fe Department oak 1 The same crowd—individually tden- iA TREMCCEE é ate \ many cases-—crowded the ex- s hay nination room long before Commis. with District ran’ ia toner Wa fn appeared, but there effort to have extradited from | Were more women In it than during Ttaly, ‘Friday's opening session, A number Sat