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err NT te Crenter New Vorm and wants, §. 4. TWO CENTS cleewhere by Courts 1087, te ¢ (the ‘ew Yo Mover Weed of Sugar Famine by Trust He KERENSKY HAS ARMY NEAR PETROGRA - SUGAR SHORTAGE FORESEEN AND HOOVER WARNED BY BABST, HEAD OF THE TRUST CROZIER RE REFUTED. BY CONGRESSMAN BACK FROM FRONT neti He McCormic vs There Was Shortage of Arms for Expeditionary Force. ‘Too uh Bites Sine. Exported, Witness Says He Told Food Administrator in June. NO-ACTION WAS TAKEN. | Only Two Shipments Were) Made Abroad Since That Time. WASHINGTON, Dec. |§ —Sugar men saw the danger of a shortaye catty last spring bocause of stories of @ fictitious famine and later when! Says New THUGS GET $6,000 No. 8 Washington Place ‘ee |“ Clreulation Booka Open to All.” | NEw Pree forte World), ROB MESSENGER OF BANK IN ELEVATOR Victim's Nerve Results in Cap- ture of One in Washington Place Hold-Up. Charies Scattron, messenger for ihe State Bank at Grand Norfolk Ntreets, was robbed o4 wiore than $6,- and 000 of the bank's money at noon to- day in the elevator of a duilding at The robbery, in which at leaat three nen are believed to have taken part, was one of the most daring in recent police records. Gt used, bound, and ropes were two men were overpowered and neighborhood the ensuing chase. and the wh was aroused in Because of the nerve of Scatiron one (ey began to realize the large| WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—Repre-| of the robbers was caught, But the! ‘emoante being sent abroad, Har! als ntative Medili McCormick of Illi-] money has disappeared Mabe, President of the American! 20's. who has just returned from a} Seattron carried the -noney iu a! @agar Refining Compeny, to-day tes-| Tip to France, was (he principal wit-| brown leather bug in his right hand Bed before the Sonate Investiguting | MSs before the Senate Army Tnvesti-| He had been doing a number of Comumittes. gating Committes to-day errands for the bank, making large} abet said that in May he warned] He direct refuted tementas| collections and delivering payroll! Feod Administrator Hoover that fam-|made during the last four days by|money, He was about to deliver the ine stories circulated in February and| Director of Ordnance Crozier $1,000 payroll of the Gotham Fe March would bave a serious effect and| He testified that the American Cx-]Company at No, 8 Washington Pia qgain in June predicted to Mr. Huover| peditionary force in France was de-|when the robbery rred @ shortage this fall because so much| ficient in the supply of arms and oth “As I stepped into the elevator,|! sugar was being sent abr equipment Seattron sald, “two Ptalians stepped Babst pointed out that his company] Big guns were #1) an well n|in after me, The Seats asartea ! rin, e nara the car and we got as high as the wertined cxtensively during the| smaller ordnance ea ee ee tintana. dew gummer that there was no prospret of! Henry Gatling. son of the late R.J.| cine, | was held up with one and & shortage if people would not hoard, | Gatling, inventor of the Gatling #UD,| the operator with the other. The man and added that his company took| also testified. ming at me took my gun from my daly two foreign orders after June 28.) Gatling, who with ht father was! oven oat pocket and snatched the ‘These, he said, were filled at the|in close touch with the war machines | jones bag . earnest plea of the British Royal|of England, Germany, Italy and other | wpye other robber stopped the car Commmission that some sugar was|European nations, showed by com-| a+ the fourth floor and opened tho feeded there. The total shipped |parison, it is sald, where the Ameri. | goo, The bag was thrown out there broad this year. he testified, was|can War Department was lacking,| to a confederate, 1 presume, Then 483,000 ton» especially in ordnance. the door was closed and the car went “Foreign buyers lave down| Senator Chamberlain, Chairman of] yy partway betw the fourth and United States supply of Cuban raw jthe committee again to-day voiced | ary foore. ‘There the robbers pro- sugar 450,000,000 pounds,” said Bavst.|nis opposition to executive sessions | gyced ropes and begun to bind us, “The great preserving can just |which were decided upon by the com- I clenched the muscles my arms @ummer took 900,000,000 pounds more | mittee. aad deay ao that by relaxing, afters he van than is usually ning period.” consumed in “1 think the public should have ail the facts,” he declared One of the first questions Se: | “Innumerable delays and almost in- Reed asked Babs: was jconceivable blunders” have marked "Is the American Sugar Refs |/America'’s war preparations, Senator consolidation of many Company «a smaller ones’? “T don't know Babst. n of New Jersey commenting on lied | the military probe ‘It 1s to be hoped the President will stated results of about that, Senate “Don't you, as President, know of/cut the red tape or cut off some bu- the organization of your company?” | reauchatic heads. hed Reed The testimony before our commit- "Well, all it's mubsidiary sugar re-|tee has developed these things Mueries are operated as one com-| “Much of the work we ure now pany,” Babst admitted. doing ought to have been begun two “At how many places does it own|years before It was. We are paying or control refineries?” asked Reed the penalty for that delay. “It bas refineries tn it’s own name| “If preparedness steps had been at Boston, Jersey City and New Or when they should have been feana, with subsidiary companies at|we might have had the boys out of Philadelphia and Brooklyn, We have|the trenches by Christmas. Now two subsidiary refineries at Philadel ral Christmasse, 1 fear, | phia, the Spreckels and the Franklin will be accomplished, | refining companies.” stigation t# not for He denied that the American Sugar se of punishing any one. If mon Refining Company controlled or owed | ymental ‘blunders have been moe Dractically all the susur plants in the} sng President doubtless ert country. Independents contro! 60 p: * sponsible, ent. of the cane sugar business, he stimony has shown the war ma testified. | y e loxged by red tape. It ix to! Twenty thousand stockholders in|), d President will the Trust are women, largely Now i ae Se Te red tape or cut off some bureaucra’ eads, Hl Preling England schoo! teachers, he very sugar refinery in th with five exceptions, was closed before Oct. 24 on account of lack of raw sugar, he concluded At the opening of the session HH bert Hoover, through his couns fadge Lindley, repeated his request t testified cou lysen is one of the R ers of put leidod inue i he heard immediately Woman a Themaetyves “We'll hear Mr. Hoover when he Rat comes back from New York. ned t Maria Senator Reed, committee chalrmun naciiad er ed to committed suleide in. the county (ontinued on Second Page.) Jail early to-day by hanging thems ward the bonds would be loose. When we were both tied the car was run to the fifth floor, where the robbers jumped out and 1 running down the stairs. ‘By this time | t etty nearly released myself, and I finished the Job in about four secor I van out and chased the men Stop thief!’ and gathering a number of men to help me “As I reached wne ground floor I saw the Italiane leave the front door When I reached door they had sep. one running north, the other south, The one running north was nearer, so I ed him, T lost him at Pig But Policeman O'Connor of Trame C learned that the man had been seen to enter a4 build t No, 40 East Street. He found the fugitive on the top floor washroom. The revolver wa He gavo the na f Joneph Salva tore, twe d, No, 35 Watt Streot c man seen by| Scat ' ax tall and of powerful buile | - U. 8. to Tanere Invited ota WASHIN I Tt Is as. sumed at t 1 t that the reply of A jor Franc aM overn Mr f 1 be sen ba peEREABE Sy osP Mi! Par eaten aa 8? a YORK, “TUESDAY, , DECEMBER 18 NEW DRIVE TO OVERTHROW BOLSHEVIK! RULE IN RUSSIA HEADED BY FORMER PREMIER “eR ANENONENT OW UPTOSTATES to Petrograd. d of according to a de |Time Limit of Seven Years Is Accepted as Within the COPENHAGEN, Dec Premier Kerensky has the thousand troops, Petrograd at several spatch via Haparanda The despatch as: Bolsheviki had sent out to meet d that the! ned force counter-revolu this newest tion against them. Kerensky was last reported in Constitution little village in Finland, to which he| _— had escaped despite u price on his] WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 6 on head set by the Trotaky-Lenino Gov-latintional amendment for national ernment. 3 ; : sinauiy, eel Recent election to tie Constitnent Ms _ was 16: nes ! Assembly showed that the former |!\ted Congress to the States for Premier had been elected to that pody|ratification or rejection within seven by the city of Samara as well as bY] years, ‘The Senate pleted. Con: the noutheastern troops ireikiank oni we |adeeorson’ eae With Kerensky orted im the fleld, two separate and distinct co lution as passed yesterday by th revolutionary movements ar Mouse, 17 ty 8 without a roll call ing waged against the Holaheviki.| !mmediately afier the Senate con ‘The other is the Cossack-Cadet party|Yened Sens Sheppard of ‘Texas revolt, under Gens. Kaledine and Ix called up the amendment and moved nlloff, which Is operating for the most|that the Senate concur in the Hous part in Southeastern Russia amendment The Coasack revolt has been repu-| Vico President Marshal: ruled that diated by the Social Democrats two-third vote would be required spite the latter's intense deatre to seo | for concurrence the Bolshevik! unseated, because of} Senator Borah, Idaho, made a briot suspicion that the monarchi. are}but vigorous fight a inet the pro- pehind Kaledine and Korniloff vision requiring ratification of the a ry” amendment within seven years Comsnoks Recaptare Lost Stronk-| iy throe-fourtha of the States, Borah hold From Bolshevits red Congress had no right to PETROGRAD, Dec. 18.—The Cos limit the time within which Consti- sacks reoccupied Rostoff to-day, Ite- tutional amendments shall be ratified. porta received here declare they dis-| wpne Constitution does not. limit armed the Red Guards of the Bol-111, time” said Borah, “States may shovikt. ratify any time they see fit, The ree Rostoff-on-the-Don is one of the iit of this provision, would be that the courts would hold in my opision, most important commercial cities of piace be enaiard x ip ee ee it invalidated the submission of the Siege belt : nai OF a re rat or) amendments. evenees sr Apel When other amendmenia are ie Geran da Austrian | e ad ed | C yr win onths, Ministers, Dr, von Kueh!mar ‘ beeipos “hae Mr Pap Count Czernin, have notifio hl fon, c URRRSRAC RAAT Rol thte. So) Gay srotamy the Boles i rare 1 minions? wihGHE “eaganperine (ei ister, that they will arrive at Bre 7 submission of this important qu Litovsk to-day to begin neg a n of mportant Qu: for a general Buropean peace. Sonate, @hep bard Canara ig Wewanepers’ afHoN : ad fought this question out thorough- Trotzky has notified the Allied liy and decided | the right to bassies that the armistice has Cl Acie definite results and that peace nvm . 5 Borah indicated that tlations will begin and asking then aetialpat atiia iw ort will be made to have t urts nda pee bes whother Congress has the right ® . put the seven yea nit on ‘Twenty-Six Provinces Refnse to Ree- |! feation ognize Bolshevikt, Only a andful « r workers STOCKHOLM, De 18. The Max it as ORO rwr “ y Cor imalist regime is tottering. 1 Hf . information reaching here to-d t the dicates even th longer supports government “maby GALLS Mm ALL Twenty-six of, Russia's MEN FROM 18 TO 43 YEARS land territories have forma | recognition of the Bolshevik ment. nent Raise A me provinees of Bessarabia its for Fighting A i aluga, h Nishni-Nove Oren Austro-Ge i Riagian, 8 I Sunda tT " Tver, Tobol h b 1 he territo . , Kutar et _— Senate Decides to Take Neves itrase iy te ‘Neied Chris i WASHIN ' vote of 4) to 3. . ® brie! discuss "| IN NEW YORK IN 24 HOURS “Circulation Books Open to All.””| 22 PAGES 1917. | CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR | WHOSE HOUSE WAS MADE A WRECK BY BOMB ‘DOES A WOMAN KNOW HER HUSBAND? COURT TO SAY’ This One Declares She Does, but}! Man in Question Asserts She Is Crazy iward Nadler of 265 West Sth Stree, was haled before Magis- | trate Fuchs to-day by Mamie Moore of the same address, on « charge of |devertion and annoying her. She |aaid she was married to Nadler ten |yeare ago, and that, while ho lett He has mo driven away from my kK, and at night he takes the putty . ey WeathemUneettieds warmer to-night and te merrell PRICE(%" CONT tw Oeater % | Hedeen County, Bd TW as eS ES GOV, STEPHENS ATTACKS ENEMY ALIENS IN SPEECH: BOMB EXPLODES IN HOME He and His Wife and Servants in House at Time of Explosion, but All Escape Injury—Two Men No- ticed Running From the Scene. } SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. 18.—What Is believed to have been an attempt to kill Gov. William D. Stephens by means of a powerful ex. plosive bomb just after midnight this morning resulted in the wrecking of | the executive mansion, the entire rear end of the building being blown out. The Governor and Mrs. Stephens, as well as the household servants,” were asleep at the time, and all escaped injury, Two men were seen fleeing from the house immediately after thie | ‘splosion. The police believe the bomb was fired by pro-Germans. | ————~# Tie police up to noon to-day hed US. oF i bed ; fons ties 5 sotee he Court-Martialed for Drinking With Enlisted Men and Sent Home to reject the theory that the explosive was thrown against the bullding from an alley, because of a high fence. Nothing has been shown to indicate the bomb was “planted.” The last } | Under Guard. ‘person admitted to the Mxeoutive WITH ‘THE AMERICAN ARMY IN| Mansion was a Chinese servant, who | FRANCE, Dec. 18 (by the Associated| came in about 11.30 P.M. The polles ) Preas).—From several recent trials by|*4¥ the explosion occurred betwoem her two years ago and has failed to| court-martial it ts evident that sobriety | that time and midnight { support her since, he wouldn't let! eng proper conduct on the part of of-| Gov. Stephens returned last night her alone. | Moors will be insisted upon at all times,|from Los Angeles, where he had de~ Nadler produced @ wife in court.) he jatest case ia that of a Lieuten-|livered an address in which he advo- saying that he had never heard of/ant of the Medical Reserve, who was|cated sterner methods In suppressing Mamio Mahl until a few m apd convicted of drinking with enlisted men) enemy agents and enemy propaganda. aKo. ¢ also showed @ marriage | boristicate aaa pala hel bad a ehiié jana Aiegractng the military servico by| The detonation of the explosion was befng intoxicated while In uniform, The | Lieutenant has been dismissed from the army and ent back to the United heard ail over the city and windows were broken by the force of it two or of my windows and tries tol gtates under guard three blocks away. It was believed thor me,” said Mre, Moore, Nadler stale as pee ml that from twenty to twenty-five sticks declared he had been married three of dynamite were used. sara and ran a newsstand at 724/QERMANS KEEP UP FIRE GOVERNOR AND HIS WIFE ARE Street and Broadway BADLY SHOCKED. His namo 1# Richard Moore,” as OW OLD AMERICAN LINE) Governor and ars. Stephens were im nerted the complainant, “and he ithe wing of the house: adjetmina' ae works at No. 102 West 101at Street oh ak cana | spot whore the explosion occurred, but He Isn't married to this woman.’ | Paris Reports Heavy Artillery Action | beyond a nervous shock they were Nadler asked that an examination Th ; Sokasmad: be made as to the woman's sanity jere — Quiet on the (epg Ca pert te ‘ “Don't you think 1 know the man British Front, | riers was being voaagud’ 42 ame married," Mrs oxolalme | euare cing © : an git ‘<r a letter from yrird PARIS. Dec, 18.—Heavy artillery|sen, one of the watchm was the Upton saying ho was in the army.” |"shting continues on the eastern end/ frst on the scene, having passed the She produced a letter slaned, “Rich-] °F the front, near the Rhono-Rhine| Hot but a few minutes before the ex- ard Moore,” which the defendant de pose ee eee ce American | piosion occurred. Claussen said he nied writing, A subpoena was issued! “our patrols carried out operations| Vee certain there wus nothing tm for another witness, and the was usual occurring on the grounds, He postponed. Mrs, Moore was lc Her's charge < of tnsan. 49 PNEUMONIA I DEATHS ked up on in the region of Bt. Quentin and brought | back prisoners,” to-day's official com- | ¢*Pressed the opinion that the explo munication says, ‘South of Juvincourt | sive was thrown from an ailey which enemy efforts directed against our small| runs along from the rear of the posts were repulsed by our fire."* house at a dist of about forty feet LONDON, Deo. 18.—"'There ts nothing |¢rom the porch, under which the of special interest to report,” day's official communication ENGINEER DIES IN CRASH OAE9 te fares was set off A hole several feet | Jleast five feet wide w ferened beneath Jepth and at s torn to th dow at the a bay wi |}Second Highest Record tor Last | Twenty-Five » 8a | City Health Official According to the fic ued by the Department of Health to-day the num ber of deaths in the fror Monday noon unt ” eached 218. Of this, nine ttribu table p pneumonia ‘The detail figures show that in Man f which were fram monia; In thy ‘ona, thirty-nin xf aw Brooklyn, nin twenty-four om pheumonia 4 R mond, nm, with no. pr r aves Fe Boldu . 1 , 1 ure way t 1 " 1 the last twer . ark Waa rea ist week, when per a d - wee" iN on ay 5 Ale. Avs. a awa ar of the structure, ana the entire OF NEW YORK EXPRESS | wail tp. op the anrons Hore aa |away. The neighborhood was aroused j |sray. she was on the scene a few Collision Takes Place on Grand! minutes after the explosion occurred. Trunk With Freight Train | There was scarcely a house in the block which was not affected A clew to the perpetrators waa given to the police by the Rev. Fraser Crossing the Main Line, HAMILTON Ont., Dec William Walsh, an engineer, and Percy Ramsay, Langford, pastor of a church, who 4 trainman, were fatally injured when| reported that four months ago @ mam n Ne ork-Chica press train w York-Chicako express train on| was noticed lurking about the exeous the Grand Trunk Railroad, travelling two hours late, crashed into a freight|'#¥@ mansion, and that be continued tain Which Was crossing the main line‘? baunt th cality until: alee near Staney Creek early to-day, ago, when he disappeared. The poles Walsh fs dead and Ramsay cannot re- are of th jon that the attempt r, doctors say. Passnegers were was made by pro-Germans. but none was injured. GOVERNOR HAD MADE MANY on ean os a PATRIOTIC SPEECHES, Heol Clint apiure of Part , o Chniare of According to my Judgment" gala nent. Ib (via London), | 20%: Stephens, “the was thrown Ws mich cei Eee from the alleyway about forty feet te A Suciik: GbAOuleve At the rear of the mansion and did not says the War Office report. “Bast of{lght as far under the house as $i» Monte Sclurolo parts of an enemy pos|-| owner had intended. I am strength. tion were taken.” Jened in this statement by the: feet ‘that the back gates were both locked a8 usual, and the watchman had wise WHEN YOU ‘on J Tabs sata Joba's Me She. as B08, — Aare, tnitors. They were inclined, howewery # —— eS L... er