The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1918, Page 5

OWNER OF MAIL BUYER WAS TOLD —_ Niles Said He Was Referred to Former Ambassador’s Lawyer. “RUMELY A FIGUREH ZAD’ ' Former City Editor to Tell Grand Jury Story of Who Was “Boss.” ' Wiliam Wirt Mills, former city efitor of the Evening Mall and now Seerttary of the City Board of Standards and Appeals, wtf to-day ve invited to repeat to Assistant United States Attorney Harper, and possibly to the Grand Jury, the story of how it was generally believed soon after Dr. Edward A. Rumely took charge that German Ambassador Bernstorff was “the boss." Dr Rumety’s office in the Mail Building, he sala, was called “Little Germany.” Mr. Mills’s statement includes the story of how George W. Perkins re ceived severa! thousand dollars of the German slush fund without knowing where it came from. It seems that * THE EVENING “WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 138, ‘VON BERNSTORFF HOW SOME OF THE LEADING SOCIETY WOMEN AT NEWPORT DRESS THIS SUMMER MRS J PRR. PimmsON JR Henry L. Stoddard in 1900, while MISS MARION TIFFANY: MISS ROTH Hinks owner of the siock and most of the — — a MSs BARBARA LOEW ener ave. WARE C-S. CHISHOLM bonds of the Mail and Express Com- having a careful search made pany, borrowed from Mr. Perkins, them, who was h several (housand dollars, putting up more concerning thi amount due him. Mr. Perkins sata |*"foush Heinrich Alpert. to-day he was not told who was buy vg alana ne aoe” RUMELY NOT TO APPEAR in a talk with re housand dollar and said that it Was not increased when the Mail supported the Progre: tn which Mr. Perkins was gr in Case at Request of Depart- terested in 1%12. Francis P. Garvan, New York representative of A ment of Justice Mitchel! Palmer, Custodian of Alien! WASHINGTON, July Th Property, said be thought the amount Senate Judiciary Committee will no: was $10,000 or more. The story of Mr. Milis, thus far! the New York Evening Mail. told ony to repor is th weeks ' Dr, Rumely took posses-| ownership, S son of paper went to Mr. Per kins to warn him, as one of the for ex ator King of Uta jwaid t chic | wired financta) backers, that the publica-|iigy regs Liebe ilar chuse of the Mall King said to-di | tion of invest erman hands and was losing c reulation, thought he ought to know how matte rd, although T was io fonger connected with the paper,” he suid 1 announced that I would ave t pro- mosphere, and wa valu now considering King’s bill for by Dr. Rumely immediately thereaf-|? ter, Lexplained the sittiacion to Mr. | King. however, will press his mo- is net rad He Bild tion f gation of the for| ‘Oh, don't worry about me. I made] sD @ portion of them buy back every scrap of paper 1] “bict said to-day, has been “in- had! Of course, Mr. Perkins had no] tensely disloyal.” ea at (be time of the transaction] The Department gf Justice to-day where {he money came from to reim-| notified Senator Walsh, chairman of Maude Leslie of he burse him the sub-committee considering Kins Mr. Mills said that, although nel-] b' that it would prefer that the ther Mr. Stoddard nor the other] sub-committee re bondholders seemed suspicious that} 4nto the Rumely ¢ German money was entering the con- — cern, practically every man on the] Ramely Aska staff was convinced that the funds Witne: came indirectly from Berlin, When] WASHINGTON, July 13.—Dr. E@ Dr, Rumely took possession they were! ward A. Rumely, former publisher of more than ever convinced. the New York Evening Mail, may ap- “Three weeks before the actual! pear as a witness before the Senate transfer,” said Mr, Mills, “L asked T.| judiciary Sub-Committee Niles, the managing editor, to see] with it Mr, Stoddard would not sell the] newspapers. He has volunteered to Paper to several of us, who would] come without being summoned. have raised the money in forty-eight] The Judiciary Sub-Committee will hours, The others interested besides sider the offer of Dr. Rumely to- Mr. Niles were J. E, Chamberlin, the investigating the activities of Ghiee editorial writer, and John C,| foreign-language newspapers, Cook, the business manager. Mr. ape would not sel] to us or any one else.” SAYS STODDARD'S MAN NAMED IS BURNED T0 DEATH BERNSTORFF AS OWNER. Within @ short time thase men lefi| is the employment of the Mail becaase | Believed to Have Set Fire to Cloth- of the German atmosphere. ing While Looking for Some- Shortly after America entered the ; rapa : war, Mr. Niles said, he thought he thing With Lighted Match, might be able to buy the Mail from Ellen Colbert, a paralytic, sixty Rumely, a8 the German Government old, was burned to death in the could have little further use for the of her Mrs, Brigid Bohar publication. He was about to call on Avenue, the Bronx, to Rumely, be says, when he met Daniel | day were seen coming from Nicoll, ‘secreteary to Mr, Stoddard,| the front window by John Murphy. of and told him of his aims, “He added: | yo 1416 Longfeliow Avenue, who ran “Then don't go to, Rumely, for bel intg ine house and found the woma s only a figurehead,’ said Nic . me. ‘I'he real owner of the Mail is| 'Y Count von Bernstorff, Go see 8, Wal-| The fire department made short work ter Kaufmann, bis American repre-|of the blaze but Mrs, Colbert was dead sentative.” Mrs, Bohan told Medical Examine Mr, Mills consulted Bainbridge| Roigeiman she had been out only half Colby and, accepting his advice that| a, hour she supposed her sister the time Was not propitious for buy- ing a newspaper, he let the matter t trop. 8. Walter Kaufmann is a mem-|match which set tire to her clothing ber of the law firm of Hays, Kauf-|In he Mann & Lindheim, attorneys for the|herself and may h Garman Embassy at the time thelon the bed to smother the flamea Mail was transferred. Dr Beran reeiriaa «& vat ot ‘Atter he had lost his position, Mr} cigental death Mills aid, Kaufmann sent for him |“ and offered him the job of secretary to District Attorney Perkins, He did} 6,000 WIN PAY INCREASE. not want the post, Mr. Niles's name was ™ tioned and he was engaged. = Mr Kaufmann has been identified |9!5 Mere e Mosth G Miy politics and is credited with be-| Marine Workers in This Port. ing a close fi ain from going investigating foreign-language lying on a bed eny oped in flame: one of quartet to leave the Mail| and Captains, have been granted an in suffered — fir tally s were | crease in wages of $15 a month by the placed in better paying jobs, largely | Tocal Adjustment Board, it was an- through the influence of Mr. Stod-| pouncea yesterday. The raise goon into dard. ffect as from June 1, accordin, sodda e ne 1, ac iB to Mr, Stoddard said that, s0 far 91 James Moran, Business Manager of the the Mail w concerned © GOv~| Consolidated 'Marins Engineers’ Bene- ernment’s ca: had been close Tie | ficial Association Londholders would, he explained, con-| Moran said that the Board of Esti- duct the publication from now on, mate has granted a six day week and This optimistic statement was not | Wage increases amounting to $93,000 to wholly borne out by Mr, Harper, who | §bout 2,000 engineers, and pilots ‘in the said the Mail is still under investiga- | Goploy oe Stifojna sour won the tion, He is particularly interested in| pang down a decision re; raged the pro-German and antl-British edi- |frersaves for transatlantic and. fouse toriale and articles published and te marine engineers, numbering about 6,000, Hee LLL LLL actor a for 1,000 machinists and 260 tootmakers NEW MOVING PICTURE OF KAISER AFTER WAR; SCENARIO BY ROSKER Delves Into Physics, Chemistry and Farming and Harnesses Rays of the Sun! AMSTERDAM, J German Emperor pictures the friend and neighbor,| At the same time a strict investi- * gation is being made to determine fund with which bonds of the company 4s collateral.’ the Mail was bought. The Govern- in 1915, when Dr, Rumely bought the Ment asserts that this was furnished paper, Mr. Perkins was paid the/>Y Ambassador von Bernstortf, 300° machinists E m SRE cP ‘OL Dogs CALL ae 200 MEN FOR LAUNDRY SERVICE Problems ‘VIOLA, COMEHO FLASH IN MOVIES T0 ait AD HUNT FOR GIRL Detectives Search for Miss- ing Miss Davidson. 800 men were sent an qualify can be obtained ral Employment offiees the Women's calls for wor formerly were employed in this cap 1 $64.90 a month. women bookk: O'LEARY TO BE CONFRONTED BY BARONESS DE VICTORICA Woman Spy Suspects Work May Be Revealed at Trial ot Irish Leader. Jeremiah A, O'Leary takes the + Federal Court again Mon- Vietortca will jlink in a “series of wilful ve movement, | Judiciary Committee Will Pass Up} of Germany is recorded by Solved by ment Bureau. Karl Rosner of the One evening, after a busy day surveying operations from a chain of observation posts, the Emperor, ting with his entourage, glowing enthusiasm, says Rosner, of the time when the loose on destruction, would again be ed in the service of p He sketohed far- vances in the technical Lokal- Ange ‘The police, roused by the charges ot | gence, to-day concentrated the > CLOSING stock QUOTATIONS. | [call Edward A. Rumely, formerly of spoke with t six/amination regarding the paper's forces how Employ men day Rumely — yesterday! paserves on the » of fifteen-year- nator King offering to tes- rding alleged German pur- 200 laundrymen he has no inten-/ ting Rumely’s case unless Rumely can tell something of the sub-committee which ts sup- given my notice| Pression of the foreign language Edward Davidson, No. 92 ycoupy a seat within the inclosure, Empedor forecast that eas, who is being held by the Gov m both drafts ters from their of German: would be covered trate from the ernment @# @ spy suspect, will be asked by extracting ni- Bureau, sent a description of the th of the commanders of can- vicinity of New York Intelligence Bu to arise in the course of O'Leary's cross examination to be identified as the per- tonments in the jaundrymen marvellous possibilities” gas motors and how purified waste waters from metal works would serve to fertilize the ficids so that spl Will bloom like roses and make 4 self-supporting It will be the first time these two per- ons, whom the Government alleges were tendent of the O'Leary's fight to Washington. al reasons fo! was his fear that the . deprived of a drug to which was sald to be who bas general charg , directed Miss “With daring fights « tinues Rosner, undivided atten- It was Mrs, cmperor predictud ase of Viola O'Grady too who called upon the jen reserves. » harnessing of thi recovery of the ocean's inners | requires: experion off this vital m health anti tt funeral GOLD M ‘This will all come peror assured his hearers, many secure which he is wor » police failure Sir Roger Casement Commissioner ness de Victol a and Carl Rodiger as Senate + | work was $1 an hour strong peace” of Missing | has caused M an immediate ription in the report and de- e of every missing charged | }a man qualified for director of | Commissions cxaminer in Charge of Farm Labor right has ordered : x n Charge of Farm | | to why a gener case of Viola Davidson. organization |farm work THREE SLAYERS PAROLED. | iH appointment » began work on thi with Miss Les' » is physically Men Serving nent Service vieted of man mated yesterday ODDO ADO RTO its meeting yes- ® motion picture nd va broken thi Mazzucea of Bigger, Brighter Better Than: Ever the screen between pictures It British Drop Bom op Constnati- acting with the to recogniz 1 Jul TTELCCe eee ne) stantinople on July e Admiralty to-day “Speed Enables | Destroyers to Get Subs. Out in the danger zone 4 suddenly changes course, water and lets go t was announci looked for something with a lighted condition she was unable to help | thrown herself | Six Pages of Automobile Tour Maps again the deser every loyal American mechanie disappearanc flies thru the depth charge mated te We have ple of beautiful homes r Sin MA RD iend of Republican| Six thousand marine workers in the ele KOE il spread on the County Chairman 8, 8. Koenig. Not | Port of New York, including engineers «ds report another safe Next day the arrival in Fran The speed of the EDWARDS IS HOST TO 6,000. ine His Stag Families at Luna, A big. roomy Hundreds of Announcements of Hotels, Boarding Houses, Resorts for the Summer Vacationists. venue for t 3,000 workers of hia for thearts at Lu the men ure proud of this w« contributed the General Electrie entertained th @ permanent Company offer you to |and their wiv and @ permanent j ‘asa loyal American n experienced machinist or foundry man you are ni steam turbines | stride more destroyers glide off the ways. |on @ postal and address it to the Hm- ployment Office, General Electric Co., rie, Pa Advts estimated he was host to about 6,000 y in be proud Jes ringing the bell achine every | PRICE FIVE CENTS—2y Mait Ten Cents. For Sale at All World Offices and Your Nearest Liggett Drug Store. The World Summer Resort Bureau e Sam is building destroyers in constantly increasing numbers in|day as the ship yards get time he hit it Made a speech, Which he sald*that his force hed ban ied the greater during the Ae 2g | So the call comes to Eris. bimes, more turbines,” and ” World Building, N. ¥¢ rie calle to, ——$—$ rrr TO BETRAY BRITISH : FLEET NOW FOUND" Sanders and Wunnenburg, Re-‘ porters Who Pleaded Guilty, Called Before Jury, That the Government has found | | the real instigators of the not to) send newspaper men as sptes to ing. } land to locate the British Grand Fleet ; and communicate its whereabouts to German spies in Holland, was ind'- ated to-day when United States At~ \torney Ben A, Matthews appeared before Judge Martin T, Manton ta the Federal District Court and asked } for a writ summoning Albert 0. Sanders and Charles 'N. Wunnen-+ herg, now in prison, before a Fed- eral Grand Jury The name of W. L. Wirblauer te” mentioned in connection with the tn- vestigution now being carried on., Sanders, a dramatic eritic, and Wun- nenberg, & marine engineer, pleaded | guilty to being principals In the plot in March, 1917, Their plea was @ surprise and a disappointment to the Government officials, who expected to gain information leading to the; “men higher up” in the course of’ the trial, he prosecutor, John C, Knox, asked the court to impose a severe penalty, in aymuch as the plea of guilty plainly was meant to conceal the to hind the plot. The men were sentenced to two years in prisom: fined $2,500, George V. Bacon and Charles E. Hastings, newspaper men arrested on their return from ngland, were sentenced to @ year ach. It developed that the men sent to Kngland were t communicate the form sieaned (here by means of invisib! ink " That this enterprise was but @ deliberate and premeditated — violations of American laws, intended to serve the purposes of Germany,” was the state- ment of pment officials at the time the were sentenced, In the application presented by Mat- thews to-day it was stated: : e is now being made an looking to the prose tion of W. 1. Wirblauer for alleged violation of Section ‘That Charles N, Wunnenberg and Ibert O. 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