The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1917, Page 1

BRITISH AND FRENCH REPULSE GERMANS —_————___—__- — PRICE (ren eT CORN CROP TO BE FAILURE T0 GET SIGNATURE LEAVES MAYOR'S NAME ALONE UNDER THE FUSION EMBLEM oe Prendergast, Adamson and Others on the Straight G. O. P. Ticket Only. (ALTER SOLDIER BALLOTS Unintenticnal Omission Corrigan’s Is Caught Just in Time to Make the Addition. Fusion has failed so far to put in independent nomination by petition any of its chosen candidates for mu- nicipal offices excepting Mayor Mitchel For him alone hove the mecessary number of signatures been filed with the Board of Vlections. All the others on the ticket, Includ- ing William A Comptroller, and President of the appear to have Prendergast for Robert Adamson for Board of Aldernicn, been neglected and forgotten. They are having an ex- perience similar to that of Mayor Mitchel !n the Republican primary In their case, however, positions are reversed. They have been nominated by the Republicans, but not by their own backers, The City Party, founded by Martin W. Littleton wontro! of the Democratic organiza- tion, suffers likewise from lack of signed petitions, having filed only 126 names to date, whereas 3,000 are nec essary for an independent Muyoralty nomination Tis emblem the rooster, but the rooster ititled to crow on the ballot. On the “soldier ballots” which have been already printed the name of Mayor Mitohe! alone carries the Fu- sion emblem of the bull's eye. His associates on the Fusion ticket appear only as etraight Republicans, inchid- fog Adamson, Democrat, and their to overthrow Tammany's is not en- names carry only the Republican eagle. @WLL TIME TO REMEDY THE DEFICIENCY. Phere is atill time to remedy this @afictency on the local ballots which faave not yet been prin The law gallows unt!! Oct. 17 for the filing of independent nomination petitions: (By the narrowest inargin (he omnis sion of the name of Magistrate Jo Geph Corrigan ax independent candi date for District Attorney ha r caught in time. Throws work on the part of the TB 1 of E tions, the Secretary of Sta printers and the me t take the ballots lo Franc in néction by telephone, arrangements were made this afternoon t Jar ballots sen the will be just timo to get the j OM the selected steamer President Hoyle, uf the bourd, said to-day, “We assunio ability for the Corriyan omission, It oveurred through the accidental mis placing of a paper during salon and excitement Mayoralty recount proceedings, when « large part of our force was viliged to d il regular work and dev t tlon to the inspection of M Bennett ballots in the Republican pi mary “The Secretary of State tifled us that, in order to hove t ridier i time, the re could ve the names noon © w ve hima 6 names offleal ' @ontinued on Fourth Page.) New Fork and [*Cirealation Books Open to All.”’ by The Press Publishing (The New York Wert), Coprvigrt, ENTE eter where CAUGHT IN PAF ~ BY UNARMED SHP Men From the Seeadler Cup- tured Near the Fiji Islands | Without a Fight LONDON, Oct, §.—An Bxchange Me FIRST OF SEVEN Telegraph despatch from urne the raider Seeadler has » in the vicinity of the Fiji Islands. The boat contained a gun and mi ays, and the G they had been de- Beeadler to make uns, the despatch mans a KEET KIDNAPPING \Piersol Declared Head of Band That Abducted Banker's Baby and Killed It. MARSHFIELD, Mo. Oct. &—Th¢ trial of Claude J. Plersol, charged and overco’ with kidnapping Lloyd Keet, the In eal fant son of @ Springfield, Mo, banker, i opened in Circut Court here to-da: tailed from the raids A steamer whi Wakaya Island sighted the ) Was approaching was sald to armed whale boat. The steamer bore down upon the vessel and signalled it to surrender, ‘The! Germans did so. They were surprised ¢ with anger when they their captor was entirely have presence two German sea | Piergol, who is only twenty yearn! Paldera in the South Pacific was mude| known In despatches from Samoa to uld, 1s alleged to have headed a bands | the Navy Department last week. Both two of whom are charged with Nim) vessels were sald to. have been| in the abduction of the, Keet bahy| manned by the crew of the Seradler. NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, eee TOTAL NOW $216,859,000; MORE SPEED, a e BIGGEST CORN CROP Mayor Opens Women’s ‘Bank’ for Sale of Bonds in Madison Square. | pee | Spurred by the knowledge that ap- proximately $70,000,000 a day must be| subscribed in the New York district] from pow until tow close of the cum-| pai three weeks hence If the district | top” of the $1,500,- | 000,000 alloted to it, the second week f the big drive for the Second Liberty Loan s is to go “o er the | arted to-day with the managers confident that lost ground would be picked up before next Saturday, ' While subscript) one bundred schedule that “6 wre more than bebind the malatained if millions must be the New York district is to take the Maximum share of the $5,000,000,000 loan, thone in chargo of the under- taking are not a bit doubtful as to the result in this district " ‘ All the elaborate machinery for and four others of whom are accosed, | Several merchantmen are reported to}, “1 1 MA Or ; cin ‘: 5 have been sunk. The Seeadler was RAE ENS Seren tny OF FeRICs = with the trio, of @ plot to abduct a) (81 000 Nin in Atiantio. Int {the district to the new bonds Is now Jeweller of Springfield spring, sinking cleven merchantmen|!" operation, thia work having taken Although the death of the child, | there. the greater part of the first week. | ‘ro! o-day of 1 his whose body was found In an aban ae eye jrrom tocdey ee the Bete : 9 | tremendous advertising campaign will) doned cistern, does not figure to the MURPHY 10 RETIRE? ba manitast dy he food of Obey charge against Ptersot, convictich for “ ” from small Investors that Is ex-| kidnapping, or attempting to kidnap, LOOK AT ME, HE SAYS pected to flow into headquarter | carries a life sentence in Missourt, -- — ;ORDERS FROM SMALL _IN- | The abduction of Baby Keet| Tammany Chief Questioned About | VESTORS SWAMP ACCOUNTANTS ‘i a See i le The total subseription for the dis- | aroused nation-wide Interest. While Story That He Would ltrict up to date $216,859,000, a feure | the child's parents were attending “Quit Temporarily, | that is expected to expand rapidly @ ball on the night of May 30, 1917,] Gharten F, Murphy, when asked to-| before to-morrow mornt he first the baby was stolen from bis crib|day if he would confirm or deny the| big subscription to-day, one of story published yesterday that he was | $1,000,000, was made by the United in the family home. No threats had to retire an Leader been made to the Keet of Tammany Hall) family pre-land then be rechosen after election, vious to the abduction, but on the] asked following morning Mr. Keot received] | “Whnt, dors the story say T aven'y) © note threatening mutilation to the! “It said you were going to retire and | infant if a ransom of $6,000 was not| efter tion that iy shit? to hei | b to the leadership,” it wae - paid the following night’ Mr. Keet| DM" 4 La endeavored to comply, but failed tol” qt also eaid that T was to retire be- meet the kidnappers Various re-| cause of ll-health. Didn't t?” asked wards were offered, but these were | Murphy followed up by w letter to the father| When the reporters told him that that |the Aetna Life States Rubber Company through Kuhn, Loob & Co. A subscription for $1,000,000 was also received from Adolph Lewisohn. Other subscribers to-day were Will fam F. Hutton & Co., $260,000, and Jesup & Lamont, $109,000. Word reached the offices of the Loan Cam mittee of a $3,000,000 subscription from Insurance Company of Hartford, but this will be to the Boston District CITY'SSLOGAN EVEN WITH LOSS 37,000,00 BU Department of Agriculture I timates the Total Yield at 3,210,795,000. WASHINGTON, an. estimated loxy Oct. 8.—Deapite of 37,000,000 bush els during Septemt the country's corn crop still will be the greatest in s history, Latest Mgures issued by he Department o re to-day the (210,795,000 and also that despite an es- vated lows of 9,000,000 bushels dur- month the spring wheat crop will exceed lant The spring wheat cop 242,450,000 bushels, The total mated spring and winter wheat 1s 659,797,000 husheln Inst yoar's crop of Agricult 10w crop will ‘be t ing the year total ontl. yierd com- 429, will this year 856,000 Other to crops will be 1,580,714,000 ushels, increase 1 of 47,382,000 bushels. 201,659,000 hushels, decrease Oats since Sept Barley 2,180,000. bushels, de- Buckwheat—17,895,000 erease 2,881,000 1917, weaTnen— > | [“Cireulation Books Open to All. 16 PAGES EST EVER HARVESTED | Must Get $70,000,000 a Day for War Loan Here | §) GERMAN RADERS EW YORK'S LIBERTY LOAN MISS WEBB ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED TO SON OF MAJ. GEN. GOEBTHALS Many ARR gre awees ‘The engamement of Miss Mary Ad- | dison Webb, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Henry Randall Webb, to Dr Rodman Goethals, sun of Maj.-Gen George W. Goethals and Mra. Goethals, has been Washington, Dr. G announced in thals is in France ‘FOUR MORE. INDICTED IN PRIMARY FRAUDS camel Bench Warrants Promptly Issued by Judge Mulqueen for Ac- cused Inspectors Bench warrants were issued today by Judge Mulaueen for inspectors of election, charged with vio lation of the made a false canvas of the mary vote, the arrest of four primary Iawa In having recent pri which is « felony White Potatoes. 929,000 bushels,| ‘Tha action followed Abcveana 4.605. G08 brought by tho grand jury. Distrtet Sweet Potatoes—87,244,000 bushels,| Attorney Swann, through hin ansiat- decrease 907,000 ants, Mosars. Olcott and Wallace, aub- Flax—11,995,000 bushels, increase] mitted evidence against twonty-olxht 378,000. Inspectors in seven districts, But, ow- Ri 33,256,000 bushels. increase |ing to the absence of employees of the 1,019,000. Election Board, who are necessary wit- ‘Tobucco—1,248,028,000 pounla, in-{s#ea, the grand jury acted In only . one district. To-day's warrants were create 21,887, given to Detectives Reynes and Cunift Cotton—12,047,000 daler, decrease! fo serve 462,000 No action was taken against the Ae- Pears—10,848,000 bushels, iMorease|sembly District leader who, with his 00. non, {s sald to have interfered with an that the ransom fee would be in-| Was the finport of the story, the Chief] Many orders for bonds from wane Apples—176,620,000 bushels, decrease | *lection inspector in the performanos of creased from $8,000 to $10,000. = Raia lemrnera ware vecelved to-day, the |687,008. his duty. ae ‘The German plot angle entered the| ar. “se ceny never looked healthier jn | ™M@!l which accumulated over Sunday] Sugar Boats—7,832,000 tons, decrease se, according to the alleged state-| 11. tite than he looked to-day being so heavy that the statinticlans | 118,000 ment by Plersol, that a man had em- | cane | were not prepared to give the tote Beans—16,814,000 ls, decrease Clementa, ‘The man was said to (QUEENS LEANS TO BENNETT [sae Ot eee ihteen days of the| ‘The condition of corn on Oct. 1 was saad | have received orders from a German] Kings Nepabiican Orwantaation |“ ™PAlgn that remain a efforts | 75.9 ua compared with 75.2, the ten | flan Casualty List Also Ir Jagent in St. Louie and to have prom-| aise Ready to Endorse Him, of those working bonds | year average anadian Casual i a |!sed Pierrol he might be called upon! mg preoutive Committee of the | Will be centred on the me 1 w | pail | cludes Two Gassed—~Missing jto kidnap persons in Canada Queens Cour Republican organization (OM whose $50 and $100 sul plior EXPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS Man Back in Unit |Mexico as well as in the United |wiit meet Wednesday to discuns the | are depended on to make t an a] Btate Mitchel- Benne pminations. Joseph | success, ( rations, busines 4 OTTAWA, Ont, Oct &—The follow After the finding of the baby's body | De Bragke man, said to-day that d men and women of wealth are 5 ing Americans are Juded tn to-day's | and men and wor | ’ ' | excitement, in Springfeld became eo |he saw no other consistent course than | responding to the w | _ camualty Mn | great that a mob stormed the cy AP griaceas t as nominee of the! wodiness that the mang f the| Bulk of Cam Killed in a A. Mct’herson, jail, demanding that the prisoners)" iiiy attitude is Indicative of Republ)- |!0an realtze tht . ! f | Hockland, Me who were being held there be turned | can organization acrosa the East River, | Needs no urging —lnicrease in Fresh Beef Wounded: 1D Hellb eee ered over to shen sh they might avenge | in vontrast to rte of Manhattan Tt is to men and women of small Is 500 Per Cent Mass.; Beret. F FO Ma arbon v's death, |Republicans last week in refusing to| earning capacity that a cor ‘| wasHINeT ‘ | Sheriff Webb attempted to spirit! endorse Benne *n_| WASHINGTON, Oot. 8.-Auguat ex- | dale, Pe peal will be made to show the r ts of whe: core. 6 mineral ofts| Gassed: ©. Barden a. Wyo. his prisoners away in an automobile.| Leaders of the party in Brooklyn, | tem by lending the Government a share | decrenaed to @ marked rile ex. |J ndman, Chicago The ob pursued a c: | eaded by Senator Calder, are to e be nee e rked ox t, while ex- pei i gioreyea ae Baally Adee ference to-night Pi th | of their weekly pay. 4 Of Oata doubled and fresh beet| Reported missing, now rejolavd m at Stockton, Mo., twenty-olght | Oo some plan of straightening out | “Speed up!” was the advice Jed m 600 per cont. increase, the |J. Rogers, Mochost y north of Springfeld, where they |? oe d situation, ‘The Kings | from dquarters to-day to ¢ D tment of Comme announced to: =e 30k Fersol from the Sher! ana te ; E vee is dis ne are vulk Oo: s went I m the Sheriff ‘County Rex . mittee ts ready lof the vast army of worké ! THs eNeAE DUI went NO VACATION FOR WILSON. nt through movements of a | (5 yote an # g of Bennett tr the war bond pat ing party n to stringing the | —- jin selling 1 4 Hreadstutfs to the va $45,000,000 way fears wae MAYOR OPENS “LIBERTY BANK,’ exported ¢ 1 Hematn in Washing risoner from tree mb. Plerac | \* xpor tur © mon an se Was M limb. Plersol| $15,000,000 TO BRITAIN, CONDUCTED BY WONEN nerease of. $10,00 veer ana ree War Work old ix original story and dented — atason Milshal. Gia leadi ° WASHINGTON Pree at ho Was responsible for the Keet|Makes ‘Total of $2,585,400,000/ Mayor se Mw flee oh dean « saneeaees | S¥ilasn pla nfan cath, ‘The mob surrendered Loaned to the Allies, | speaker to-day at the r tle of trom 0 to $63, ‘i = ve mi of wheat s " im t Sher 1 the prisoners| WASHINGTON, Oct. §—The Treasury | 5 exported, w 11,000,000 iw e lodged in t tockt Depar to-day announced another | (Continued on . were lodged in the Stoekton jail, = / & Year ago and dairy « ‘ ‘ ey « to Great Britain, mak. | aerene | | products worth $24,601 were ex-|ing wa Te nes { $1,250,000 odvanced to| THE WORLD TRAVEL BUIMAU esl, $5,000,000 17, The P Next year's primary may be asim: | tha ee | yeh eden as i cane he portant as was the last one, Register| ‘This makes « erand total of $2,545, 88-63 Pare Row, N.Y. Ciy al exports of breudatufte, meat and | ber to-day and enrc| at th 000 + the All BAB | renets, reservations, anilivgs, de. vie el Nath producta, cotton and ood | but am by 9 same time. | 40 0 to oe | voeds. Comat wise tral and 6% rt and mineral olls wer $155.07 an leans } Polls are open f on 5.30 P. M. to 10.30! REDU TOUR WRG nT steatnahp ome by ed h put oer ., npared with $108,420.58) » Avamuat, t ul r1G and night. Travellers’ cheo 2 vmust, | centennta pM on BL SF Horas Wt ects 0s wooded den, CPt tee ealtsTelophomwe Peekman Wer adTh, 1h, foundation PRICE “IN BELGIUM AN DEFEATED BY + 4 OnE colder te morrow | DITION rater Som Verh wm . eon out, Ss Tw ORS TERRIFIC COUNTER DRIVES D FRANCE ARE ALLIED TROOPS |French and Belgians Expected to Join the British in Artillery Pr |BRITISH GUNS DRIVE BACK FOE IN MACEDONIA Offensive in the Salonica Sector Shown by To-Day's Official London Reports. | LONDON, Oct. §.—The violenee of Rritish artillery tire bas compelled the enemy's evacuation of Ostankarntia, In Thomas the Salonica fighting sector, an official statement asserted to-day Ostankamila does pot show on any available maps here all village lated “Doar ta village Tt has been forecast that the British troops on the Salonica (Macedonian) front would shortly start ap offensive but to-day's report ts tho first official) indication of much « drive. | The programme of war by atirition of | |Germany’s forces was exp and ts probably « ‘Tho Serbian name, trans little station,” indicates it d to be | |adopted by Great Hiritain afier Gen. | Maude's victory on the Mesopotam|a front had shown that the Central pires were now concentrating men on | the weat front and ware unable | quately to defend other lines If they were | subjected to a determined assault Bau eh voowinenee/ BASEBALL COMMISSION =, IN TRAIN WRECK; UNHURT |Pennsylvania Limited, Coming From Chicago, Crashes Into Freight Near Beaver Falls. PITTSBURGH, Oct, §.—Members of the National Baseball Commission were on the Pennsylvania Limited on their Way from Chicago to New York when the train was wrecked by crashing into |a freight train near Beaver Fall of here this morning. None of the Com mission was burt. All tracks were blocked by the wreck of the freight train, and while one |track was being vpened, physician tended to the Injured, which they soon | discovered were confined to th crewe. Four of these men were badly} burt and were removed to a hospital at Rochester, Pa The passengers on the limited. ine members of the were brought to Pittsburgh « 10 o'clock and continued thei nat. i} weet engine the commission. | GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER IS DAMAGED BY A MINE | many Jin thought to be New Advance— eparation Fore- | shadows Battle on Great Scale. (a t LONDON, Oct. 8—In an apparent effort to frustrate a resumption ef the British in Finnders the Germans last night attacked the new- ly won positions east of Ypres, but failed to make headway. 3 “An infantry attack developed against our positions east Polygon Wood after the had put down « heavy barrage yesterday at dusk on our n between Hollebeke and & soins reported to- beaten off by our fire, a few prisoners re- maining in our hands. We sue- cessfully raided the enemy’s line east of Monchy last night.” Paris reports that German att 4gainst Fronoh outposts in Cra and the Champagne were thi back, In Belgium and the Alsme drive day. |fectors the Paris War Office reported | artillery active on both sides, } + despatches from the western front have Indicated 4 heavy artillery fire from both Beit. ish and French guns. On the Britha front the Germans repiiéd wil bombardment of only slightly tensity. The unabated violence of the For two days now pre: | fire led to considerable specul here to-day that the British French were starting the arti! preparation for a combined assault. Belgian forces are likely to take part in the attacks, A battle on a stupendous scale, from the North Sea to the Swiss is believed to be om the cards in immediate future, Tho great forward’ surge of ‘the British on the Ypres front appears te have been but the beginning of the winter campaign. It showed more than anything before has done the \ 1 morale of the German forces, and It forced the Kalser to withdraw ot his crack divisions for e+ aperation. This weakening of the German Ine what the Allied com- we nanders aw fore attacking ty areat for ne the line, “Re ports from every point to-day indi fire is being ight enehes by Bel tery, and a it is deltewea Helglun and French armies, in months, will Jola Lritish, who recently for the first time nands with th Uhree Officers and Twenty Sailors Reported to Ha Been | Drowned on Trial Run | DON, © "Very \ ale at An | m from Mu ave to the F go Teles have been engaging the Germans is bellowed. forward thrust id spell te sweep. ce, and may the ground Aliled com» rains alone, ft va t u thelr winter ne ®, too, hus fallen tn Vosg Artillery Active Ab © Batire Italian Fromt, TOME, Oct, &—"Activity was com t ‘ » the artillery along . says to-day's offf ‘On Bainsters t ur patrols tock a few pila On the Carso enemy pateols were driven oft,