The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1918, Page 1

f \ o ‘ ' Have You Given All You Can to the Red Cross? THINK IT OVER. THIS IS THE LAST DAY! Oe ~ “NEW. YORK, MONDAY, | MAY 27, PUTSFREIGHT UP25 PER CENT. \ AND FARES TO Biggest Increase i in History a 2,000,000 Railroad Men Get More Pay. IN EFFECT NEXT MONTH. Advance Will Apply Generally | to Class and Commod- ity Rates. WASHINGTON, May 27.—Direct ir General of Railroads McAdoo to-dry made, public bis order raising rail- roaa freight, passenger and baggage fates, which was deemed necessary to meet the expenses of operation of the railroads and steamship lines taken under Federal control. It is estimated that the programme will bring between $800,000,000 and $900,000,000 more revenues to the ra roads within the next year. It repre- 4 aents by far the biggest rate increase in the history of railroads It follows directly his announcemen: of general pay increases for near! 000,000 raiiroad employees aggregating 9800,000,000 @ year, half of which will be distributed within a few weeks a8 back pay in sums ranging from $100 to about $200 each NEW PASSENGER RATES IN EF- FECT ON JUNE 10. The increase in railroad passenger rates becomes effective June 10, and ip freight rates June 1918, In his announcement Mr. McAdoo says the imoreases are made with the approval | of the President Director General McAdoo telegraphed Chairmen of State Ra road Commissions, notifying them © the increased rates and asked the to co-operate by suggesting readjur' ments or changes. It was said at the offices of road Administration that M Rail ‘pelleves no State commission can over rule any of the new rates. Any changes that may be ordered by the| Interstate Commerce after full investigation will be promptly and willingly by tor General, however The new regulations provide for an fmcrease of 25 per cent, in all inter- etate and intrastate class rates on freight, subject to technical modifi- cations. It is stated that the order con- cerning passenger fares and baggage charges shall apply to all interstate nd {ntrastate pussenger fares of railroads under Federal control. It is provided that no existing fare equal te or in excess of three cents per mile hall be reduced. Ali fares now con- structed on a lower basis than threo cents per mile sail be advanced to 4 basis of three cents per mile, All » fares which are on # lower basis than the existing or advanced fares, such as mileage or excursion tickets, sball be discontinued, with minor excep- | ‘tions. THIRD RATE FARE FOR THOSE IN WAR SERVICE. Round trip tourist fares shall be established on a reasonable basis bearing proper relation to the one- way fares authorized by this order, it 1s provided, and a rate of one cent a mile in each direction may he charged for the National Encamp- ment of the G. A. PR Portiand, Ore, and the Confederate Veterans’ ma the Dire (Contiiued ve Tenis Page) M Adoo | Commission SCENTS AMILE ith O'LEARY HELD NS100,000 BAL ~—NSEDITION CASE Ke Charged With ~ Aiding His Brother Jeremiah to Es- cape From City. of O'Le in the Government's pro: importance the f sed om cases was emphasized to-day when John J, O'Leary was Jheia fo Commissioner ie AM Ue ock r $100,000 | ba With one exception, this ts the \! bo! er required tn this F Jeral jurisdict O'Leary ts 1 with conspiracy in aiding his brother who is Indletment nd se ances In hia 1» “Rul#’ to escape from the urisdiction of the ¢ The overt act charged tn the com- plaint against John O'eLary ix that he prepared on May 4 a power of at- torney authorizing him to transact his brother's business and handle all his affairs, 7 contends that this power of attorney indicated Government | guilty knowledge of Jeremlah's inten- tion to evade justice. It was executed | about the time Jeremiah O'Leary was | last seen by his family When ernl Court and associates, ed two weeks la 8 case was ca the Fede was missing and his $2,500 bond was i | |tators in the little eo! n amazement, | “In a case of th kind missioner Hitchcock after brief de liberation, “I don't think that amount ‘$900,000.00 RATE RAISE WILSON GALLS ON CONGRESS FOR NEW WAR TAX AT ONCE: WARNS AGAINST LOBBYING TWO MEN HELD UP Principal Increases on Incomes War Profits and Luxuries, Says Presi President. “POE ITICS ADJO' ADJOURNED.” Declares Profiteering Must Be | Met by the New Legislation. STRIKING PARAGRAPHS O'Leary urtroom sat up | di * said Com- IN WILSON’S ADDRESS! Profiteering tha cannot be got at’ by restraint of conscience and love of *\ country can be got at by taration The fall will see America's greatest bond issue floated Politics .is .adjourned tions Will go to those iho think least of it. We shalt naturatly turn to war profits and incomes and lururies for ~\ the additional tazes. The and bonds The by iniquitics edted, Th ready and country must know what and to save to prepare for its taxes present tas 6 marred whion nice ay ought to be rem people of this country are den and undergo any sacrifice neces sary to win WASHINGTON May Just as e the man eanr were thundering | thelr herald of the renewed offensive on the western battle front, President Wilson to-day appeared unexpectedly before Congress and nded that, ¢ political considerations and all “es ns emain in session 1 it has ¢ {new war tax Inwa to finance the ng cost of the forteited. war and prepare the untry for the After O'Leary was arraigned Col.) burden it must bea Thomas B. Felder, O'Leary's counsel,| At one point in his addresy rhe asked for a preliminary hearing. Mr.| President, pausing, laid bis hand over | Barnes wanted a postponement on the| his manuscript and added another ground that the Government was not| precedent breakey te long list he yet ready, Commissioner Hitchcock | had established tn his dealings with inquired what bail was asked. Congress, He addressed the asserm- ‘Une nundred tnousand doilars,” | © extemporaneously, spealting sald Mr, Barnes, The score of spec- | 1 fo while his au- ra sat in a rapt and surprised si nee was greeted w 4 speech he inti | Presiden | cheers when d almost at e outset that new willing fo bear any bur-| | ith he “1918, GERMANS STRIKE NEW BLOW _ ON 40 MILE LINE ABOVE AISNE “IN ELEVATOR AND ROBBED OF $20,000 | Attacked in Dua Duane Street Building While on Their Way to a Bank. Two employees of the Melville Ship ping Company at No. 121 Duane Street were held up tn the elevator of the | buliding at 105 o'clock this afternoon men with revolvers and robbed 00. by tw | of between $20,000 and $25 | O'Brien and Montgomery are names of the employees, The office of the fifth ‘The company makes the collections from the Rival and Ward chains of the the company ts on Noor. shoe stores throughout the city and the was deposit re employees were on their of the stores in the Irving Bank A negro atlendant was running the elevator as O'Brien and Montgomery |stepped into the cage from the fifth At the fourth floor twe Aw it reached the {oor strar lers entered the car ground floor they presented thelr re volvers at the heads of the employees and demanded the money Reports differ as to wha At po! that immediate t O'Brien Montgomery put up a battle and we ly followed. Aquarters it was reported and badly beaten. From other sources it was learned that they were to hand over the bag and did so ¢ persuasion of the two rev ordered The negro elevator operator was then ordered to keep his mouth shy: The negro obeyed the orders and the men got clean away with the money before any one dared give the alarm, ‘The money, it was suid, was all in currency As soon ¢ the flash was Aved at Police Headqua 0 Ine |spector Cray and a score of de tives swarmed (o the butiding in Duane reet wo men ran into I is excessive. enue would be drawn from warjand south to Church & where Col, Felder declared that in thirty- | profits, incomes a they were lost to sight Iter Me- five years of practice he had never| ‘The crowded the | Intyre, the elevator operator, told the | heard of such a thing as $100,000 ball | House and hecred | police the holdup men for more thx | for an offense punishable by only :wo|toudly when ciared that hun-]a week past had ridden up and down years in the penitentiary Jdreds of thousands of Armerican|the elevator nearly every 4 | Commissioner H cock refused io|troops in the field and in ships are ow ond asked for the offic ywer the amount, and, as he made|crowding to the front with regiment H. Walsh, who has a stations: the order fixing it, he said that if it/agter regiment to join them “until|store at No. 197 Church Stree was excessive O'L could obtain|the enemy shall be beaten and] A good description of t men was ja readjustment before any United |prought to a reckoning with man-|furnished the police by McIntyre and States District or Apr Jud |uina?’ & general ‘alarm: hus been ser t e oft mark Tam a ja Ru 'GUYNEMER’S PARTNER WINS 20TH AIR BATTLE 1 Capt. De Ullin’s Latest Victory An- nounced by the French Government. PARIS, May 27.—Capt. Da Uilin, it ts ennounced, has won his twentiech aerial victory The t te Cap {partner of the The Pres! Ned upon Congress] Leuts. Birm nao am and Kane of In > eliminate afr apoctor Cray's and six detect eration. Politics, he aided by several policem ourned.”’ i neighbo “i owithou It would be manifest The traf eman at Dus 1, tow Broadway saw the men running mooning wha 4s tied up in the tratfle jam Pres 84 was com- ontinued on Seventh Page.) ss THE WORLD TRAVEL BURFAD, Arrade Pu itear (World) Building W063 bark Rew N. Ech 9 Revie 6008, the time he waa ait of it isappe ACING ESULTS, Page 2 NTRIES, Page ! w the rei Germans in Their New Offensive $09-6-00-4-4-46.0-0.0- 26-00 (weceververrey yr rrr) syvauw ROY “ FPDP ODER APOC or THHo Shee OTs em Peres EEE ODE- 86-404 09-4099 08-55 448-08 29H04448910094-849OP 10040 On this front the Crown Prince was defeated on one of his notable drives, and the French have made many gains, NATION'S RED CROSS DRIVE NOW TOTALS $114, 489,342 E PARIS IS AGAIN SHELLED City Must Exceed Its Quota in Proportion to Country's Oversubscription. President Poincare Visits Families of Victims of the Bom- bardment PARIS, May visited the families of the victims of, jay's ton, ‘ange bombaniment, (This te the firat mention of any casualties in the The nation has raised $114,- 489,342 for the Red Cross Second War Fund, so it w: nnounced at the campaign headquarters here Every district except the one centring on New Orleans either has met or p: id its quota and that district is 91 T.=-President Poincare at noon to-day, long-range bom bardment of Paris, which wan re- Per cent. subscribed. sumed by the Gormans this rnorn- The Red Cross drive 15g) with is Coming to & Three of the long-range mune, stat! toned near St. Gobain, were revorted| to have been destroved by French ar| Ulery and bombs, and there had been! a ton in the shelling for several) days, Sholis have been falling at inter- vals of fifteen minutes aince the bom- whirlwind finish, . HT in the elty ed to be near the $30,000,000 mark its subscription and every hour bringing in a flood of added money. The whole of the heart of Manhat- sin the grip of thousands of tan @irls weartng the white me uni- | bardment began. form and carrying the white boxes | - —_>-— which would not be denied wove LIEUT, BAER, AMERICAN ACE, 8 straining every nerve to n that the deficit white million to cover I$ POSTED AS MISSING’ sai | Brilliant Aviator, Cited by May Be Captive Germans a7 boxer ike borough and invaded that borough a loeu French, army f the Fifth Avenue from Madison Square to th mobilization ie Plaza boasted a PARIS, May Mobile, Alu rain on the|4a missing since Ma Paul F Baer 4 of from fifteen to fifty workers to the | of aviator, 14 po. piock, Every e 4 It ia hope andthe and {de {8 alive, as he may have been taken prisoner Interboroug stor for three lines Broadway subways had # co each car Lieut. Baer ina member of the Amer tean Flying Corps and formerly be longed to the famous Lafayette aquad ron He is one of the moat brilliant American aviators and is an ace, He elted by the French early thie month after bringing down ‘his fifth German machine TURKS SELLING GIRLS TO SAVE FOOD COST QENEVA, May 217.—Half the popula- | Pa Knickerbocker's old wallet ia get | hour | Not thinner thinner De and each and by midnight it will be fat. inti] ali the team capta 4, the ndus workers canvassers rporationa and the u vuKe nitteos, ott houne-t or the Waldorf to |the millions amassed be called. wind-up dinner at the night will the final rot! of Then K pledge and \\°* humble dollar-a-w the pulssant half miillon contribution , - tlon of Constantinopie is starving, ac f a giant ration will stend before the shrine of “The Greatest |COPding to @ wealthy Turk who arrived 4 Awan |from that city to-day er th the Worle Armenian and Syrian girls are belong Ww mC. Breed, Chairman of the | sold on the streets, he sald. because thei os Committee in New ¥ Turkish masters cannot afford to feed mace this statement shortiy before |them. Food prices, he anid, are enor- | mourly high, sont apa Con KILLED IN AERIAL BATTLE. 18 PAGES Are on the Scenes of Many Defeats WITH LONG RANGE GUN | ew War Tax at Once, Wilson Asks Congress WEATHER—Cloudy To-Morrow. EDITION PRICE “TWO CENTS. a —_——-+ -——___——_ INFANTRY ATTACKS FOLLOW TREMENDOUS BOMBARDMENT FROM SOISSONS TO RHEIMS Hindenburg Shifts Big Attack to Old Aisne Front and Finds British Co- operating With French— Local Actions at Other Points—Offen- sive in Italy May Also Be On. LONDON, May 27.~The long expected new German offen- sive is apparently under way. Reports from British Headquar- ters in France and from the Paris War Office announce an attack on British and French forces following a bombardment of great | intensity on the front between Soissons and Rheims, a distance of forty miles. No mention of the result of the battle is made in Haig’s report, but the French War Office says the Allied troops are valiantly resisting and that the battle is continuing. The loca- | tion of the offensive is well to the south and east of the Picardy front, in which region or around Arras or in Flanders the Ger- mans were expected to strike. This great blow may bear some relation to the reports from | Reme of intense fighting on the Italian front. There have been | rumors of a great Austrian offensive simultaneous with the Ger- man drive in France. In addition to the main stroke of tne German forces numerous ac- | tions of lesser importance are reported. London announces that the Ger+ | mans this morning attacked the French positions between Locre and Voor- mezecle in the Mont Kemmel region on the Northern Flanders salient, Paris mentions artillery attacks in the Champagne, around Verdun, in Apremont Forest and in the Woevre, all to the east of the main offen- | sive. At some of these fronts American troops are located. The first intimation that British troops have been shifted below tre | Avre River in Picardy comes with the announcement of the attack d:- tween Soissons and Rheims, It is accepted as further indication of Gen. | Foch’s policy of co-ordinating all the Allied forces. Ii may also mean that if the Germans intended to attack the siege alone at a supposedly | weak point they miscalculated Foch’s watchfulness. SLIGHT GERMAN GAINS NEAR KEMMEL. | WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, May (Associate! {Press).—The German attack against the Entente positions northwest of |Kemme! was launched at 4,30 o'clock this morning after a heavy bom- | | bardment The latest reports show that the Germans have made some {small progress in places. The attack seemed to be di lg ground captured by the French on May 20. | here was great activity on the part of the enemy in several sector \between Arras and Albert early this morning, but no infantry movemen: had been reported up to 10 o'clock. ted against t re ene ee ene | Belgian troops have recorded fresh victories over Germans On Saturday night they repulsed Teuton attacks or big raids on three ‘sectors of their fronts —-4-—_— FRENCH AND BRITISH TROOPS MAKING A VALIANT FIGHT French Line Under Sharp Attack at Many Points Beyond the Main Battle Front. [FRENCH REPORT] PARIS, May 27,—Following is the tex y the War Office: “In the latter part of the night the Germans opened a very violent Statement issued to ‘as bombardment ali along the front between the forest of Pingn and Rheims. his morning an enemy attack is in progress along a very extended fron;