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

sane one Meteo te trenton wr PRICE York ane NTP eteew howe te NEW AUSTRIAN LINE ~ PRESIDENT ORDERS. ARMY MADE UP OF AS FAR AS SINGLE MEN HTS POSSIBLE Oe Writes Secretary Baker That Heads of Families Should Be Excused,Ex- * Pe cept in Cases Where There Are Incomes toProvide for Dependents WASHINGTON, Aug. Presi- dent Wilson to-da Jared that the * first draft of 687,000 citizen soldiers should be made up of men who are not heads of families, In a letter to Secretary Baker he efi that the only exception to this) rule should be in the case of a man) 26 seeking exemption or his dependents | having sufficient Income to supply the | needs of those dependents. The | view that single men should be | President expressed the jaken where it is possible. Tho President's action is expected to result in a modification of the rules | recently promulgated by Provost subject, | empowered by General Crowder As the President Is the draft law to make the regulations under which it will be carried out, the effect of his letter to Secretary Baker on the to throw his influence toward a jore liberal policy for exemption of married men than heretofore has been pursued by the eral's office. It is no secret that the view {s in open conflict with the terpretation placed Provost Marshal Gen- President's in- at present on the law by army officers who are ad-| ministering it, They contend thaf, as the history of the law shows that Congress yoted down amendments to | exempt married men, they have no| legal authority to exempt them ex- | cept alone. President Wilson's view, as forecast his recent letter to Senator Weeks, se that the taking of marriedsmen and heads of families should be avoided at Teast on the first draft on the grounds of dependency REOPEN FIGHT TO TAK WAR PROFITS 80 PER GENT, Conference of Senato: to New Proposal for Higher Levy WASHINGTON, Aug. 25,--Sena favoring higher Income and war taxes in © to-day agreed reopen the Monday by proposing to take a flat S0 per ofits, COLUMBIA HOSPITAL AGGEPTED AS N3. 1 Army Orders Published To-Day Designate It as Place Where Se- t. of war pr 218 rious Cases Will Be Treated. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Columbla Hospital, New York City, which was accepted as a War hospital by the Gov ernment some time ago, signa. as United States Army General Hos- pital No. ariny orders published to-day. It will be one of a series of big hos pitals where serious cases will be ught when treatm equires such time that the men cannot kept in any of the field or other hospitals \\:.h- out clogging the machinery for caring | for the wounded, f | were TWO TAXI BANDITS “SLUG PAYMASTE, ROB HIM F200 ctim Found Unconscious on Outskirts of Rutherford With Open Bag Nearby. Bird S. Dennett, paymaster for Max G. Glahn & Co., Rutherford, N J., was this morning knocked down by two thugs, then, with a satchel he carried containing nearly thrown into a taxle away and later found skirts of Rutherford, on the out- Jumped out, one of them pointing a revolver at his head, The paymaster made an effort to draw his own weapon, when the second man struck him on the head with a bludgeon and Knocked him unconscious. Dennett was thrown into the cab driven away, according t# by- standers whd saw the assault bat powerless to interfere, The paymaster remembered nothing after he was hit until he revived at Police Headquarters, In the bag was $70.19 overlooked by the highwaymen. They got about $2,100, A general alarm out for the tax!, but the believe that the rothers, after changing the cab's number, made a getaway Evidently the robbers were far with the routine of the ter For years he had the trip every Saturday tween the Rutherford pany and the factory $8,000,000 A YEAR GIVEN TO RAILROAD MEN = and was sent police Heense famil- paymas been taking morning be Trust Com | Raise in Wages Granted to Em- ployees on Lines in Southeastern Territory WASHINGTON, Aug aggregating $8, 85.-—A 00,000 annually Rranted the 26,000 shop em: the railroads in South- n territory, it was announced to- increase has been ploy enst day This Secretary called in ts since both sides settlement of Labor mediato 1 was affected Wilson, after ruary her. by who was repeated failed to Cardinal Lint LISBON, Aug. 2 Mendes Bello, the ets Ord re in Five Days “ardinal to Leave Anthon Patriarch of Lisbon, hay ‘been given five days by the Por A decree issued to-day forbide the Car- dinal to reside In Lisbon or the auburt for one year. ig $2,200, | b, driven rapidly | with the open! wage JERSEY CITY MAN HELD WITH DOCTOR AS DRAFT PLOTTER | Goldfarb, Passed mm Home Board, Exempted in Brooklyn —Third Man Arrested. A relationship was established to n two cases of alleged con against the Draft Act. ase of Dr, Albert Fritz spiracy One is the a vol unteer assistant of Local Board No. 59 in Brooklyn, accused of offering to sell an exemption for $300. The other is the case of Harry Goldfarb of No. 309 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, Goldfarb son of a wealthy merchant. YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, io ireulation Rooks Open 1917 10 PAGES to All’ ones Me coe WEY to tavater New York ins Tee Frome SHED BY ITALIANS President Exempts Heads of Families From Draft ALL SUBWAY TRAFFIC HALTED BY POWERHOUSE SHUTDOWN DUE TO SHORTAGE OF COAL’ Trains Able to Reach Stations and/| Discharge Passengers, but Ticket! Sale Is Stopped—*: ” Lines Are Swamped by Overflow. Trouble in the powér house at Fifty-ninth Street and the North | River crippled the electrical supply sy: tem of the subway branch of the is accused of using improper methods | Interborough this afternoon and temporarily put that important branch of to secure his own exemption—and the | peculiar fact that Goldfarb, al- though a resident.ot Jergey City, took Mis physical examination in Brooklyn and was rejected by Dr. Fritz. Sullivi Local Board No. 1 in Jersey City, is It was Leo 8 1, Chairman of who revealed the connection between the two ce sos, Testifying before United | States Commissioner Carpenter in Jersey City, Sullivan made this state- ment “On Aug. 7 Goldfarb and asked to be transferr board on the east side In New Y I knew he was very anxious to be exempted apd I refused the transfer. 1 ordered him on Aug. 10 | for examination. TRANSFERRED TO BOARD NO, to appear bag beside him 59 IN BROOKLYN. Mr. Dennett was returning from the} “On Aug. 9 I was called upon by Rutherford Trust Company with|Jullus Wohlegemuth of No, 1941 | money for the payroll, and when! Kighty-first Street, Brooklyn, who j within a tf of his factory, a taxt) brought an affidavit stating that stopped in front of him and two men|Goldfarb was living in the Benson- Brooklyn, and was too examination, On I recetved a com- munication from Local Board 59 in Brooklyn saying that board had transferred Goldfarb to its jurisdic- tion would/ examine him, 1 judged that the Hrooklyn board had no right to make such a transfer and Jaccordingly our board certifted Gold- |hurst Hotel, il to appear for the following day and farb for service in the army Records of the Brooklyn board were produced before Commissioner Car- penter showing that Goldfarb had been examined and exempted for epilepsy and bad vision after exam- ination by Dr. Fritz and Dr. Allen Hull. The evidence included an af- Jacob L. Rosenstein | fdavit from Dr of No, 135 Wayne Street ey City, corroborating the epilepsy report It was testified by Dr. Edward Mulvany of Jersey City that Goldfarb on Aug nsulted him with Ja view to exempt je used a different name," Dr, @fulvany said, “but it was the same man. I told him he was a coward, Jand that he was physically fit. pened to know that he had re. 1 examination had been al- aan passed a physi for life insur lowed a $10,000 pollc A detective sald tt tered at the Bi 8 and 9 but record of his pr 10, Goldfarb both accused of out on $10,000 t before Commiss nee and lyn hotel on was no ce there on Aug. and Wohlegemuth are conspiracy and are The hearing er Carpenter 1s to t there |be continued on Monday | Men exempted by Board No, 59,| | which sits in the New Utrecht High | School, Bath Beach, are being re- examined to-day as the result of the arrest of Dr, Fritz The Federal he fact that Di member of the |. | member of the (Continued tles emphasize was not a board and that no concerned ip boa md Page.) on ldfarb had} | transportation out of commission, The Public Service Commission reported that the shutdown was caused by # shortage of coal in the power house, which caused the abandonment for steam mak- ing purposes of several of the big boi Interborough offic: stated at 3.30 o'clock that a bargeload of coal had reached the power house and would soon be unloaded and that the trains would be started again probably in about an hour. The power at the time of the tie-up was sufficient to move empty trains and to enable loaded trains to get to station platforms, but rain lights were weak and in many Instances they went out al wether and the cars were illuminated only by the emergency lights fed fro mstorage batteries, Passengers who were compelled to leave the sub way because of the tle-up were fur nished with tickets good on the ¢ vated lines and these swamped by the swarms of lers bound uptown As soon as It bec the must were travy! soon me apparent that rs in th for movement of ¢ suoway be indefinite pertod the Interborough mani requested Police Headquarters send policemen to all express stations to aid in maintaining order, As rapid! As possible reserves were sent to the most {mportant stations and they had their hands full The heat, the unexpected failure of stopped an ment the electric current, the semi-dark ness and the peremptory orders that all passengers leave trains ¢ d | conditions approaching pane at 1 points. Thousands of passen jfused to leave the trains unt!l the lights were turned off, The job of | supplying the subway pa th "L" tickets was heavier than could be handled by some of the tic office forces, and thousands who had paid fares hurried out of the subway rather than stand in line | ELEVATED LINES 8WAMPED BY RUSH FROM SUBWAY. The bulk of the overflow went the Third and Sixth Avenue ¢ below Fifty-ninth Street and to the {Ninth Avenue “L" uptown. r Ninth Avenue ” ed with passengers bound homew or to the Polo Grounds and t \forms were Jammed with irri | tated and perspiring peo already was crowd soon So many people were sent out of the subway to scatter through the elty and so many were kept from entering that the natural flock of rumors was soon afloat. One rep was that there was a big strike of powerhouse men, Another was tha there bad been a big exp 1 Somebody started a rumor t th jsubway had been taken afternoon by the United ver for the ates Gov- The power house failure developed at 2 o'clock and was so serious that telephone orders were sent to all ticket agents to refuse tickets to persons seeking to board trains and to instruct all train crews to discharge passengers. PLUNGES TO DEATH FROM HIGH WINDOW WITH BABY IN ARMS James Byrne Commits Suicide After Quarrel With Wife— Tiny Daughter Dying. ARTIST LABERDURE IS DYING OF RABIES: | NEGLECT CHARGED. Health — Authorities of Edye- N. Blamed for Not Exa xamining Dog. Alphonse La Rerdure, seventy-one years old, a port nit painter of No 498 West One Hundred and Twenty Witlard and th fourth Street, ix dying in | Parker Hospital of rabies | hospital speciatiats say his life will b a bacrifice to neglect on the part of |the health officials of Hdgowater, N. J. Herdure was bitten by a dog in Edgewater July 9. Although the animal ‘was forming | at the mouth and plainty irene | it was buried without any Invest tion after a policeman had killed It. Had Berdure been bitten in this eity a determination as to whether it had beeh suffering from —hydrophobla| would have been reached within twenty-four hours hen Berdure could have taken the Pasteur treat ment and cur As it came about, Berdure appeared, at the Board of Health last Monday complaining of pains in his hand and showing scars made by the teeth of the dog. He was sent to Willard] Parker Hospital, that he was be Pasteur tre can do now where it was found ‘ond the reach of the| All the # try to lessen the of his last hours. 'MITCHEL NAMES DOYLE "FOR TEN YEAR BENCH TERM tment doctors agony | | At a fifth-story window at No, 305 | Kast Ono Hundred and Twenty firth | Also Appoints Clark for Short | Street, James Byrne, who lived there, | Period as Queensboro stood at noon to-day with his two- | Magistrate. year-old daughter, Mary, in his arms.| Mayor Mitchel retleved the anxiety of | The child was crying many Queens Borough politicians this The man climbed over the sill | afternoon by announcing the appoint- awkwardly, because his arms were ment of Magistrate Thomas F. Doyle to occupled with the little girl-and sat, ten-year term on the bench he now} thFe for a moment, his legs swing. | Occuples and Edward R. Clark as Magis ing over the street. His other daugh }trate for the short term whitch will ex pire Jan, 1 next, Magintrate Doyle was ter, five-year-old Marte, was in the | appointed last May to fill the vacancy treet playing Byrne looked at her| caused by the death of Magistrate and then, still holding the younger | Joseph Fffch. Since then Magistrate James J. Conway retired ld, he leaped. He died 4 fow min: There has been considerable specula utes later in the Harlem Ho: pital, | tlon as to who would tothe appoint and the little girl is dying there with ments. At the time he na:med Doyle Mayor Mitchel stated that he was only 1 fractured skull lon probation. The Mayor has been a In an effort to reconstruct the |cused of holding up the two appoint tory, the climax of which was the | ments for political purposes, and his p, the police have been success: political opponents in Queens have been nly in part. Byrne and his wife, | making it an lesue learned, had been quarreling all| The Mayor sald to-day he w nt trophic lute x concerned about getting the ablest men ¥ bile) bi ® nelghbors said for the bench and that Magistrate Dy th was nothing unusual in that » wife had been struck in the this time, and the janitor's wife eye Kate had made good and was therefor titled to the long term. Brown, had interfered and taken Mrs. | his d a few minutes later ee IN OREGON FORESTS of Morent Lan ———— i Sdake. Any Persons Suspected of Setting er t fire 1s burning | Idaho Fires to Be Shot on forest reserve near Dixte, ninety miles teh (edag eave enlace Is Command n n burned o' PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. ach ments of troops started into th ents ent for @ secret movement of |of Oregon to-day with orders to shoot Idlers: lon sight any persons caught setting The Fourteenth Stree und Cen. | fires. tral and Seventy-second: Stree The order for the troopa to 1 the we ntres of disturbance forests wae isdued by Col. Clarence F hour, and the Ninety-sixth Street /pentier, commanding the west s bet anster point between | Military District United States A 3rondway and the x lines.| upon request of James With or period The value of timber in ¢ fined a Jat $12,000,000, It is needed ve (For Racing Results See Page 2.) just now for shipbuilding purposes. To Start for Europe Two or | Dutch ships in New York harbor wilt [FOUGHT TO SAVE CAMPANA. GERMANS BEATEN AT YPRES, BERLIN ADMITS; MORE GROUND +- ' FRENCH WI NEAR VERDUN ‘Canadians Push Deeper Into Lens, Capture Railwayand Take Trench 1,000 Yards Beyond—Austrian Line Broken by Italians. The Berlin official report to-slay admits that the Gernfan line in the The Canadians have driven furth and a trench 1,000 yards beyond it. ) region of the Ypres-Menin road has been pushed back by the British. er into Lens, capturing the railway The progress was achieved in France's fesumed, offensive in the |the brain of the Animal would have Verdun sector north of Hill 304 to-day, been sent to the Board of Health and) taken and 1,200 more prisoners, making the total 8,101. The Austrian line on the Isonzo points by the Italians, Between Tol are now pursuing the Austrians, who yard by yard. One of the most bri capture of Monte Santo, 2,245 feet hi Three German works were front has been broken at several mino and the Adriatic the Italians are defending the difficult ground Hiant feats of the Italians was the igh. This peak, seven miles north of Gorizia, dominates the broad plain beyond that city. * BERLIN, Aug. % (via London).— The Germ line on the northern fringe of Herenthag Road, in the re- FIFTYDUTCHSHIPS 2 es-Menin Road, hag peen pushed back somewhat by the | British, the War Office announces, The rmans are reported to have aptured Gillemont Farm, south of WHEAT FOR BELGIUM === fortified works near Bethincourt were —shesiliaeniasinn « Three at a Time Beginning |, Early Next Week. WASHINGTON, Aug. The fifty be started to Europe two or three at a time, beginning early next week, Chey Van Rappard, the Holland stated to-day, The first to will be those | Yet with wheat Belgian rellof. Inspectors went over thetr cargoes to-day if the wheat haa de- terlorated during the long delay in the har! Many aller Minister, move for to see or of the boats are loaded with ed cargoes which will have aded m uni to be The Minister stated that a working agreement has been made with the Exports Council, the basis of which will be negotiations for virtually every shipment that leaves this coun. try for Holland. PARIS, Aug. 25.—A ‘ench steamer © of the Ameri an steamship Campana, which was orpedaed and by French the assistan un 6 f fi by Vessel was both torpedo and gunfire, | , taken & submarine | 25 Vendbuilie. PARIS, Aug. 25. on north The French scored the Verdun front last night of Hill 304, Three paptured. has ‘The number of prisoners been increased to 4,101. he number of Germans taken In the lighting at Verdun on Monday was 6,700 men and 201 officers. Following 1s the text of to-day’s War Office report: “In Belgium there’ were rather violent artillery engagéments in the region of Bixschoote. “South of St. Quentin our de- tachinents penetrated a German yesterday evening and brought back thirty-one prisoners. Another ratd west of Pantheon also resulted in the taking of pris- oners. “In the Champagne the artillery fighting became intense in the region of the helghts, Enemy sur- prise attacks near Vanquols and northeast of Avocourt were com- On the left bank of the Meuse our troops made new progress north of Hill 804. In a brill » last night they carried three fortified works in the vicinity of Bethincourt. ‘The num- ber of unwounded prisoners taken on the left bank of the river yes- terday was 450. This brings up the total to 6,101 ON THE FRENCH FRONT, Aug. (by the ‘Associated Press),—Men trench pletely repulsed nt a from the German Emperor's favorite units from Brand nburg were cap- ar oat ess a * tured in the latest French attack at : preceding days comprise 1,145 men and On the arrival at an Amertean port! 30 officers of the Twentieth Regt- this week. of forty-six survivors of| ment, 1,089 men and 2 officers of the the Campana It was reported that the ibmarine which sank the veasel and took prisoner her captain and five of the gun crew was destroyed on the | f same day by 4 French patrol cruiser Twenty-fourth’ and 11 officers from the Thirty-fitth Regiment, 1,656 men Regiment, The number of officers taken was surprisingly high, showing - , ker Killed When Hin Car Skida,| the morale in the higher yanks ts CHATHAM, Mass, Aug Joseph | diminishing Shattuck, @ banker of Rye, N. ¥., who The attack yesterday began early had @ summer home in this town, was|in the morning eastward from Avd= \ ‘ automo! dent at Yar-| court Wood to the west of Lafayette Inthe hinhwaye wtde | Creek, but the enemy thought the wavy orning rain, the} assault would occupy @ larger front, raed are tnd, crushed! ay the artillery was busy on both : aK'P® sides. When Gen, Petain's St. Morel's 0 a Ce Se ee