The evening world. Newspaper, August 17, 1917, Page 1

STRAIGHT FIGHT ON BETWEEN $500 DEMANDED FUSION AND TAMMANY, WITH UT OF THE RACE MEAT NOWABOVE CROPSEY 0 Hylan Backed Exclusively by Democrats and Mitchel Almost | Wholly by Republicans. JUDGE HITS “INTERESTS” Will Outline His Campaign Issuesgn His Return to City, Sunday or Monday. ‘With Justice Cropsey out of the Face, the coming municipal campaign fe going to be a straight-out fight be- @ween the Fusion ticket beaded by enn Purroy Mitchel, and = th Vusion ticket headed by John F Hylan, The term “Fusion” doesn't —_ —_— Coprriemt, » CIVIL WAR PRICES AND STILL CLIMBING. Porterhouse Steak at 60 Cents) a Pound Predicted by Chicago Dealers. CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—Civil War Prices for meats were outdone to-day. | |CouRimers-were paying the highest AT, ty The Pree. '* Cireulation Books Open to All.” U. S. TROOPS OR wd Gives Vanguard of 69th Great Send Off } BAVARIANS AND PRUSSIANS © Vek Wert) IN WHITE SLAVE” PLOT, HE ASSERTS Ewtng Accuses Two Men, Who, He Says, Posed as Agents of Federal Government. Tho full details of the plan to black mail William Baer Ewing, President of the Ford Minneapolis, Minn., out of $5,000 we Tractor Company of disclosed to-day at a hearing hefore United States Commissioner S. M Hitchcock, at the arraignment of Ed- ward L. Kelly, otherwise known as “Hollahan,” alleged to be one of the bogus Government oificers engaged in running down violators of the Mann “White Slave” Law. Dante! Finn, also known as “Do- herty,” the other alleged biackmailer, having secured $2,509 bail, was not at the preliminary examination. Since his arrest late Wodnesday Kelly, un- able :o obtain a bendsmaa, bas been amount to much, ‘cause the Mitchel) prices in history for beefsteak, beef \°CKed Up in the Tombs, ‘ ticket is overwhelmingly Republican | and the Hylan ticket is straight Dem- ocrat. Outside of purely local issues and issues which may be raised by the war, the fight is to be primarily between the Democratic and Repub- can organizations of Greater New| York, and there are @ lot of sore- heads on both sides. Justice Cropsey in a statement !s- sued last night said he had decided not to enter the race for the Mayor- | alty because he would stand all alone in the Board of Estimate should he be elected, regardless of the result of the election otherwise. One of the factors prompting Mr. Cropsey’s withdrawal was the inabil~ ity of his campaign managers to find} @ Manhattan Republican of proper tanding who would consent to run on the ticket with him for Comp- troller. Judge Hylan, who promises to be @ picturesque figure in the campaign, is in Saratoga and will not return to New York until Sunday or Mon- day. Immediately on his arrival he will get out a statement outlining what he thinks should be or are the ues of the campaign. MAIN ISSUE IS BIG FINANCIAL INTERESTS, SAYS HYLAN. In an interview in Saratoga last night he said he thought the main issue is the allied financial interests which, he claims, dominates the Mitchel Administration, He did not refer especially, he said, to the Rocke- feller Foundation interests, but to big financial interests generally. In his campaign Judge Hylan will dwell on the Rockaway Park offair and other real estate transactions of the Mitchel administration in which] the Mayor's friend, ex-Senator Rey- nolds, is said to have been interested. He will discuss in detail the New York Central west side contract and the court house site affair, the last subject from a new angle, Judge Hylan 1s forty-nine y ara old, roasts, pork loin, ham, bacon and] lamb, according to leading Chicago retailers, | Relief from the steadily advancing Prices can only come with a reduc-| tion in grain prices, now in the hands) of Herbert Hoover, they said Wholesalers can sco only one rea- | son aside from supply and demand} for these increases, They said the Western grazing lands have had an bundance éf rain and afford the best pasturing in years, Cattle raisers are therefore presumed to be holding back the supply, fattening them for still higher prices. ‘This, then, is the answer to the much propounded inquiry: “Will prices go higher?” They will. Retatlers will not be surprised to see prices for porterhouse—now scll- ing at 40 cents a pound—5 cents higher than ten days ago, soon reach 60 and 60 cents a pound. Hogs continued to soar to-day, sell- ing at $18.60 a hundred pounds, 45 cents higher than yesterday's record. Tho advance was relatively than on previous days this week. EAST ST. LOUIS, IIL, Aug. 17.— Hog prices continued to rise at the National Stock Yards to-day, several shipments selling at $18.75. KANSAS CITY, Aug. reache more 11,—Hogs $18.50 to-day, 25 cents above | yesterday's market. —_——_ FIRST BAFF MURDERER IS SENTENCED 10 DIE| Joseph Cohen to Meet Fate Chair Week of Oct. 1—Long Term for Abraham Graff. Joseph Cohen was sentenced to-day by Justice Tompkins in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing in the jWeek of October 1 for the murder of in stoutly built and full of energy. He is a self-made man and proud of it, He was born on a farm and worked] as a section hand on a railroad in the country, came to New York and got a job on the old Brooklyn “L” road as a fireman and worked his we to the job of engineer. While employed on the “I.” road he studied law in Now York University President Wilson, then a professor of constitutional law in the univers: was one of his instructors. He ran (Continued on Fourth Page.) Mee ar ale ald (For Racing Results See Page 2.) a BURBAU, THE WORLD TRAY Areal Bornet Baff. Abraham Graff, convicted jwith Cohen for conspiracy to murder, was senten to serve from ten to twenty Years at Sing Sing. Motions |for appeal and new trials were made |by counsel for both men, and these }will bo argued later | Cohen struggled to control his feel- jing when ordered to stand and say| anything that he had to say why sen tence should not be passed. He said] he respected the courts and the laws *|but could not understand why the jury had “accepted the testimony of de- generates.” He snid he still hoped to prove his Innocence Graft asked for leniency, saying ie | was the sole support of hi ehilar the family of the condemn "rs Most in eases Hike thi surf mart 10 take Horsford'y veaspoon looholis, + | Street, | th Lawyer Robert Moore, at the ar- raigament, demanded an examination in the case of Kel'y, and Assistant United States District Attorney John C. Knox then called Ewing as the Government's chief witness. The President of the Ford Tract- tor Company, who was recontly im- dicted by the Federal Grand Jury for mail frauds in connection with the exploitation of the company’s stock, testified that soon after he returned to his apartments in the Astor Court Building, No. 210 West Ninetieth on Monday evening he wan called upon by two men giving their names as “Hollahan” and “Doherty” and representing themselves to be “Government men.” The visitors, after showing gilt badges, told him, according to his story, to “Get his hat and come along with them.” When he asked the rea- son, Ewing said they replied: “You know the Mann White Slave Law?” Ewing said he went with the men to Riverside Drive and Fughty-ninth Street, and there on @ park bench had a talk Ewing said the men told him they would keep quiet some information they hai about him for $5,000, They would accept $2,500 as a first pay- ment and appointed a place of meet- ing. Later Ewing told Mrs, Ewing about the occurrence and failed to keep the appointment with his vis- Stors. ‘The next day they wrote to him, he said, and he agreed to meet them t Elghth Avenue and Forty-first Street, where he said he gave one a package containing $50 in marked bills and some paper. The two officers of the Department of Justice arrested m Under cross-examination, Ewing said that he was married and came to this city on June 15, He said that he was staying at the apartments of Mrs, Irene Taylor at No, 210 West Ninetieth Street. He admitted know- ing Mrs, Taylor in Minneapolis, but declared that she came here before in Pasquale Pigniuolo of the of Justice, who arrested isked the prisoner Ewing was living t his wife, and he knew all abou got the Informa~ the vhen y, testitled he how he with a we eplied that I nim and must hav jon from Detective testified th andy knew that som next witness, taken into ims he han United States M | MeCarthy for twenty-five years, and declared he| could not expla w he came to be mixed up with Ewing. Mrs, Taylor, alt h in the court oom, W un - . RUINAM FADE DYFS, 100, 4 Bach Fackase Colors 4) Goods Drugsiste, Seen known | REPEATEDLY DRIVEN BACK IN Bend the Canadian Line in One As- sault, but the Maple Leaf Fighters Regain and Hold Their Positions —French Also Repulse Attacks. sv 3te|LANGEMARCK RETAKEN, |THE CLAIM OF BERLIN IN OFFICIAL REPORT News Despatches From the British Front Declire the Allies Are Holding Positions. BERLIN, Aug. 17 (vit London). German advanced posts along tho Yser Canal, near Belgium, were overrun yosterday by troops of the Entente Allies, says the German official statement issued to- day. The enemy captured ground north and east of Bixschoote At St. Jullien and at many points further south to Warneton, the state- ment adds, Entente allied fo! pene- trated the new German battle zone, “By evening Langemarck and our lost positions,” the German General Staff reports, “was again in our hands.” ([Langemarck was captured by the British forces after desperate fighting yesterday morning. The British in thetr offensive pushed well beyond the town and, accord- WITH BRITISH ARMIES IN THE WIELD, Aug. 17.—Hill 70 day with the blood of visions, sacrificed in repeated efforts | German 4i-| to recapture this important dominat- | ing height from the sturdy Canadians. Along the entire new Lens battle- front desperate fighting has been ii! progress for the last twelve hours. The Canadians have repulsed ali! attacks, They have retaken positions | west of Cite St, Auguste, from whic they were forced by sheer weight of numbers during the night. Prisoners continue to arrive behind the British lines, The total will prob- ably prove to be greater than firs believed. In addition the Germans left a considerable number of guns in the mud. It is impossible to give the| number thus captured. Over the flaming, bloody fleld Brit- ish aeroplanes have been accomplish- ing miracles, They are acting as dc spatch riders between the advancing infantry and headquarters, Battle planes guard them as they fly through a @hell-filled sky, carrying orders and reports from the front lines to com- manding officers to the rear. The Canadians, in whose ranks are Dreigrachten, in also many from the United States, fought Ma sae the ae reports tom il ritish sources, fighting was st vallantly, hanging on to every post id geal in progress to the east of the tion with bulldog-like tenacity. The Bavarlans opgned the counter- attacks on the outskirts of Lens They charged and counter-charged headlong against the Canndians in their mad endeavor to re-take Hill 7 After the Bavarians came the Prus- position] In all tho other sectors the English assaults collapsed before tiie Teuton entanglements. “In spite of heavy sacrifices,” tho German statement says, “the English have accomplished nothing. By this sian Guards. repulse we gained a full victory: headed straight] on Aas war sone Tt nover| UPSh@ken and with high spirits our q front stands ready for new batth reached the line, Shells broke over ; ; ae 5 tine) BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE the advancing hole Rapoiaia AND BELGIUM (By tho Ansoctated gun fire ripped through their ran| Press), Aug. 17.-There w little ‘Tho Bavarians wavered, then fel ' Hitec cld ameter aaah hange this morning aloug the front EY Fasten reas Garman inane © new British offensive begun yesterday morning fh Belgium. Sev- dashed out from their trenches, Prussian Guard moved up the sk eral German repulsed in attacks the counter were the course of night They went the way of the Bavarlans.) 114 @gnting is continuing with Then came more and still more Ger | rytente Allies holding tenaciously mans always rolling up the eastern! i. nowitions which they accured yes- slope of Hill 70, terday and carrying out consolida They came in thick waves tbls! ony time. By sheer momentum t a oeniaeeeilianemaae forced back the Canadian posts to] - tho lett of the uve that was bei'| FOURTEENTH GETS ORDERS ‘Thursday morning, but they did not remain the victors long. TO RECRUIT UP 10 3,600 The Canadians, with determine shed forward toward the | i" positions’ they bad "been forced to|B‘0oKlyn Regiment, Off for relinquish. With bayonet and » Sheepshead Bay , to At. they charged over the shell-torn| tain French War Strength ground, There was a sharp fi Q brags, > then the enemy began to give w ™ Fourteonth Regiment of B: 0: Slowly at first. Then they went down |s," 3/690, the arenes ata ae the slopo which they had just cle ie MRAusiCahe ton ite kitore at heavy coat, Their with be- se AUATAGA Witisanih air came a confused retreat, t » at 10 o'clock this morning [Canadians were soon re-establishir camp at Sheepshead Pay |their positions west of Cite 4 About fifty men from the Sixty-nin Auguste and rectifying and con ave he the Fourteenth ana it dating their lines along the remaind | weifth and the F t |of the entire front. ne tha PGE b 4 A — ulred stret Haig Reports s Held Against apout 2.6 faAn leks und F pus Attacks, earts of the Guardsmen t IONDON, Aug. 17.—British ay Fourteenth Regtment French troops are holding thei: men started for their Sh ad Bay against strong German attacks on the camp. The soldiers assembld on tho —_— floor of the armory at 9.30 in high Continued og Second Page ‘mpirhan, EFFORTS 10 REGAIN HILL 70 SES T0 © Carlo. 17, 1917. ‘ | was a big crush of men, wor | children [- ireutotion Books Open MILITARY TRANSIT EXPERT CHOSEN TO HEAD | CoL CHAS, FINE. FIRST OF BOTH OFF FOR MINEOLA GETS GREAT OVATION Cheering Crowds Jam Streets and Station as Company Leaves to Prepare Camp. With the departure this afternoon of Company L of the Sixty-ninth Reg- tent for Mineola the camp for the coming of the regiment, to prepare was coupled the announcement that Col, Charles De Lano Hine, now Col- charge of trains for the Sixth Division, had been one! of Infantry and in made Colonel of the rogiment. Company L, in command of Capt. Merle-Smith, and headed by the band of the Sixty-ninth, left the armory at Lexington Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street shortly after 3 o'clock and marched down to Fifth Avenue to Forty-fourth Street and across to Hight Avenue, and down to the Penn- sylvania depot. The line of march was thronged with peoplo. Tho re- port spread that the entire regiment was on Its way to Mineola, and there was a wild rush to get a last view of the soldiers Cheers rent along the air the avenue and was accorded as hearty a reception as only this big city can cxtend to ta favorite sons, The Pennsylvania depot | at every atep the company en and and the great concourse echoed with the shouts and cries of the assemblage, which made the band | sound lke a ukulele. At present Col. Hine ts stationed in the Armory at Park Avenue and! Ninety-fourth Street. His appoint ment has already been confirmed at shington. | With the possit xception of Major Gen. O’Ryan recommended ame known am N, Haskell wou! main aide de camp to Major Gen. J Franklin Bell, none of t was aware that Hino w for the post » have t staff officers Up to to-day eral f was ba Je Alth 10ng lead igh Col (Continued i Page.) on nuaTBEM SQRR, BORN BYELE an, ANAD 10 PAGES TO FRANC i NEW ENGLAND TO FURNISH > eerrngmmny IAN WEATHER—Pertiy Cloudy Te Night ond Te ro | \" ee SP | ] ions Le to an.” | NeW DIVISION OF TROOPS FOR THE FIGHTING FROM | ' Second “Rainbows,” Composed of the | National Guard of Down Easters, to Accompany to France the First Division Already Selected. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The War Department has ordered thiat a second Rainbow Division, to be composed of former National Guard regiments from the New England States, shall be assembled and equipped without delay. This division will be comrflanded by Major Gen. Clarenge Edwards and will probably start for the battle front in France at the same time as the First Rainbow Division, of which the Sixty-ninth New York Regiment is a part. ae The second Rainbow Diviston wit probably betsseintled at's In New England. It will be composed of 19,000 men and officers, First Rainbow Division will be of the same strength. When both | sions are formed they will number 40,000 men, including the units necessary to the comfort and added efficiency of the actual fighting forces. ARSHPS COLL, NEW YORKER DES W 600.FOT FALL Machines Come Together ai| High Speed—Two Avi- ators Lose Lives. ‘These 40,000 will form the next ég- beditionary force to France. The sag. ond Rainbow Division will be mage Up of the pick of the National Guat of Now England. The decision of the War Deperte ment to send a second Rainbow Divi- jon to France was reached within the last few hours. Only yesterday general orders were issued assigning troops and officers of the former Na- tlonal Guard to training camps in the South. - These orders included the assigue ment of the Now England soldievs, | forming the Twenty-sixth Df to Camp Greene, at Charlotte, N. under command of Major Gen, B4- wards, who has been, up to this ttme, commander of the Department of the Northeast, with headquarters i Boston. Whether this shift means the abandonment of Camp Greone has not been announced, It is possible that the camp will be used for other purposes than the training of the New England troops. The New Eng- landers will be trained tn France with the units of the first Rainbow Diviston, Organization of approximately 8,500 men under 162 officers, including three majors, into three army unite to re palr motor and other transportation the army will use in France and elae- where, Was ordered to-day, but no hint of thelr disposition was made They protably are designed for use back of European battle fronts. TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 17.—Two alr. | planes flying at high speed crashed together 800 fect in the air at the Armour Heights Aviation Camp to- day, one of the machines bursting into flames and plunging to earth, killing the aviator, Cadet 8. H. J. New York. Tho victim's neck was broken and his body badly burned Dorr’s noxt of kin 1# Stephen H Dorr of Dorr of New Jersey. Tho other aviator, whose name ts withheld by the Royal Flying Corps, was able to manage his machine and reached oarth safely, He 1s bolleved to be a native of New Jersey William 8. Gallis of Winnipeg was also killed to-day when another ma- Shine craked nie hist teat By ho|, Another order dirscts that in addt- wan foakine ailanaine tion to the numerous schools for | cooks and bakers, alréady organised, & temporary school of that character will be established at each cantom~ it or camp of the National Army or National Guard. a POOR OUTLOOK FOR PEACE DEPRESSES THE POPE seat Unfavorable Reception of His Pro-| PERSHING’S MEN ALL SAFE, posal Causes Him to Keep to Amertcans Reported Woun Are ‘ Canadian and British Armies, His Apartments. LONDON, Aug. ~American soldiers Aug. 17-—Pope Benedict t#| reported to have been wounded and to be greatly depressed over|taken to hospitels at Bath were not the general unfavorable reception ag-| members of Porshing’s expedition, coréed his appeal for peace. They were individual Americans serve ‘The Pontift is said to be epending|!ns in the Cenadian and Bagi | armies most of his time tn his apartment - > alone. Kussinn Torpedo Boat Destroyer = ‘onal Sunk by German Mi Bi | PETROGRAD, Aug. 17.—The Ruse q AUB" Ch hing Cemen ited, | Bourakocf hae been sunk by « Gere way, corner Barclay ‘oolworth | man ne In the Baltic Sea near the mie | Alana go. It was following suuadron of de was Lie t Lebedoelt, Minister ' ai o rice for day & Saturday, $5.95 & $6.98. Open Sat- yaa night tll 10. Hub Clothier BS + Gorner Barclay Btrest.—advi, 38, Bafa Cad as Waste ee rovers, on ome of | of Marine i