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

7, “If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ __ PRICE TWO. “CENTS. [* Circulation Books Open to All”? id Copyright, 1018, by ‘The Presa Publishing Co, (The New York World). NEW yoRK, ‘SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918, “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ 12 PAGES WEATHER—Fair To-Night and Sunday. PRICE TWO _CEN “NEW BLOW AT CROWN PRINCE BY AMERICANS AND FRENCH GERMAN, HELD WITH OTHERS, CHARGES VERE CONFESSES PLOTTO BLOW UP: MUNITION PLANT IN JERSEY Arrested at Gould @® Eberhardt Fac-| tory in Irvington by Detectives) Who Nipped Scheme— Teuton- Born Kin Accomplice — Find Lighted Bomb. * Fred W. Bischoff, a German, living at No. 9272 Springfield Avenue, Irvington, N. J., confessed to-day to a plot to blow up the plant of the Gould & Eberhardt Company, makers of munition machinery, on Chancellor Avenue, at Irvington, late last night. The plot was nipped in the bud early this morning by Chief of Police Long of Newark, who with United States Attorney Lynch and a corp of detectives, shadowed Bischoff and William Heine- man of Newark, his brother-in-law, to the plant. The fuse of the bomb was nipped in the nick of time and the men ar- rested at the point of a pistol.4 When Heineman was arrested he gave no street address in Newark Both said they were born in Germany. Bischoff admitted he was aa alien, Heineman’s only comment, when asked if he was naturalized, was that he never voted in this country. Both were arraig: United States Commissioner Feeney this morning and held in bail each. A third man arrested, only indi-,@+ vas Bruno Reichert, No. 310. atone. (BRITISH SHIP ATTACKED BY U BOAT OFF U.S. COAST 0,000 was Bruno Reichelt, clair Avenue, Newark, a patent law- yer. He is accused of conspiring with | Bischoff in violation of the Espionag 10,000 bail. | Act and was bed in § | of the Regular Transatlantic Lane. freight ste Other arrests are expected. Bischoff and Reichelt time by agents of have bgen | A British tacked by a watched for a long amer was at- the Department of Justice, On Thurs- bofore | ° | collections. all Os C aie coment Come from Vitinity finding homes 4 | pro-Ge submarine off the! | Atlantic coast e acconting day night of this week the plans of |) Tio ee vet | Rischoft and Heineman to bIOW UD | nore the war plant overheard, The hour was fixed efor 9 o'clock last! se night, but it was after midnt | fore the pair saw appa hance to approach the plant unseen. | The United States District Attor- | ORDWAY SUCCEEDS STRAUSS. ney and the Chiéf of Police had gone » the plant at an earlier hour, taking | @ with them a squad of ed ¢ tives, The watchers were conc where they could observe the proach of t known, planned to creep up along the railroad, Bischoff and Heineman appeared at Just and were carrying their bomb which is now in the possession of the Federal authorities. As they lighted heir ov, Whitman Appotnts to Pablic Service Comminn! ALBANY, N. Y man to-day announc 1th pombers, who, it was | of Samuel H. Ordwa: | fist Stree | 1860, was Brown Uni the fuse—Heineman says it was he | versity and p ily ee who light letectives closed | yard Law den n. They w <1 to put out the.| tifed with t fuse. Heineman tried to stamp it o: Dut Bischoff pushed hi d the fuse with is said. WOMEN DRIVE DETECTIVES TO THE MARKED PLANT. Th Feder t ap order to disguise Huge Levy on Catfle of Baron Miler's anand Este. i 5 of the AN FRANCISCO, Cal, J n y f Henry M California 1 t $108 \ | I 1st B t f fe eliey Horan 1 w 1 mb, whieh ray App wv nstructed, An Mo. h y they fo a ft by M $42 Exclusive of lHabil va (Continued on Second Page.) placed at $35,000,000, h was! books ¥¢/ did not keep any books | turned in $100,000, ‘» INHERITANCE TAX$10,000,000 RAISED $100,000 PROPAGANDA FUND Becker Says He Sent Out Col- lection Agents Soon After U,.S. Entered War. One hundred thousand dollars for} in German propaganda work in America has been collected by George Sylvester Vie and gullible Americans since this | country entered the war, according | to an announcement made to-day by Deputy Attorney General Alfred L. nie " wR a Becker, Viereck has admitted, ac-| 4” X4mination of the clothing by THE AIGNE-MARNE FRONT, July ‘ i the manager of a local hotei indi-|27 (Associated Press).—The Franoc cording to sten hi es fh ihe: L J Me i VF » zh LA to ograp notes of his been eh examination by Mr. Be received $26,000 of this and spent it! . propaganda | ° publishing books, The collection was made uise of an organ the Agricultural and Industrial La- bor Relief which ed by Viereck in April, 19) ew days this country went to war with Germany. Agents of tho organiza- tion travelled all over the country collecting sums ranging from §800 down to $5. “Viereck started this organization when his supply of German under the ion known as ney furnished | by the German Government ran out and he could not get any more be wuse we were at war with Ger-| ny," said Mr, Be “The or-| ganization was incorporated 1 Viereck was practically the W thing in it to 40 per cent He paid agents from commission for their “To persons who were not known to | be pro-German t ed that the organi: 1 classes of n nts represent | tion would help men, | hed | Kaiser | dy laboring d jobs for them. ns the agents were cc to solicit money to ‘help the and the Fatherland.’ We have of these agents. confronted with them he admitted that he received $26,000, which aid he spent in publishing different and pamphlets, He said and could he show they he for vgent’s records, the money however, not account ‘The last of the agents quit Viereck a Short time ago, after two of them had been arrested bec of their association with known ( gents then saw trou | Mystery in Death of Supposed ck from pro-Germans | 1 | the jand Richard off the confessions from most | * the name When Viereck was | {he 1a ‘BODIES LASHED TOGETHER AFLOAT -AT BAR HARBOR 3oston Couple Who Left Hotel There July 8. BAR HARBOR, Me., July 27.—The bodies of a man and a woman, lashed together with rope, were picked up in » harbor to-day by a patrol boat of val Coast Patrol R They 100 yards below erve were found floating the breakwater. » bodies had been 1 days, apparently in the water cated that the bodies were and Mrs, H. H e and his wife of Boston were guests Morse at the hotel on July 8 and left a few days later for another summer resort ‘The first suggestion was that the man and woman were lost fron some nemy on the be man Gloucester swbmarine. ‘This w st of am offiver of the submarine which sank fishing schooner that they had sunk a big sh days earlier and wore the fat n doubt as to} of the crew NEW SHIP*RUNS AGROUND. Nahma on Madbank © After La having y at the lding edintely en successfully | of the yards rpors Persistent as wan the German| rom wrance have begun to arrivo IP. off at high s| rearguard defense, howeter, Ae Italy, Gen, March also anno 1 t damaged emy's most intense ts tu aold Neither the number nor the 5 1 his lines are still being put forth on| Where they are to be used haw been i communicated to the War Depart. .|bis flanks in the Rheims and Sois- ment, the General said . 1,| sons regions. With troops sent Mist week, of which was chosen by > the number of American soldiers Mra, Woodrow Wilxo pil U BOAT RAMS LIFEBOATS transported overseas during July is | 0 cord of 300,000, reck has been questi times in the course of the yropaganda investigation which is be ng conducted by Deputy Attorney General Becker and Capt, Cha’ Lioyd of the Army Intelligenc yeast of Chateau-Thierry have driv ‘| ‘land early to-day the the U.S. GUNS AND ARTILLERY DRIVE ONWARD NORTH OF MARNE RIVER FRANCO-AMERICAN TROOPS. DRIVING GERMANS FROM WOODS _ AND CLOSING IN ON FERE Advance Through Rain Soaked Fields and) Hills on Outskirts of the Dense Forest Against Determined Resistance. , WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON > American forces on the front north Pershing the Germans almost entirely out | === TROIS WILY punishment of stubbornly defending. sure is being constantly mai enemy by artillery fire Under was re Arey agrs Americans Sent Abroad—July Shipments to Reach 300,000, sumed with added vigor guns the Fran cover of the big American troops again began crawling forward The advance i bringing the Allies) wWasHinGTON, July, 27.—Two ud- nearer to the Important road JunctlOn| Ws, American army Corps have fe FerecencR Al Ie is pee been organized in France Mareh, Jcarried out throuxh the remainder of eee nn tocday at the dense woods in this region and his confere n over the rain soaked fields and hills, nce with newspaper n Sth, « oe W are the 4th and anded by Major Gens, ¢ on their outskirts. ly retreating teed and the Germans are fighting stubbornly Omar Bundy, respectively ax they retire Trained combatant American troops WITH THE AMERICAN ___|MARNE, July 27 (Associated Press).—The Germans were slowly yielding at midday along the southern arc of the Marne salient. endian omens Orders ARMY heavy German machine gun fire. The French have also moved their positions ahead somewhat, with every indication that their progress would continue. , The Germans were still occupied to-day in shifting the main body PARIS, July 27.—Further advances were scored by the French last night in the region immediately to the north of the Marne in the district where the Germans have been clinging to The War Office announced to-day that the French the river. of their forces northward. lines were advanced to the north of Port-a-Binson. They have tightened this tip of the pocket until it is less than five mile: French and American avi in width. TS. i ON road south of Fismes, blocked all traffic for eleven hours. On the Champagne front the French carried out a local oper- ation in the region south of the mountain without a name, as a |result of which their lines were advanced nearly two-thirds of a mile on a front of approximately two miles. The French took 200 prisoners in this operation. M oh that whereas the enemy but a few days ago wa forty miles from Paris, he has now been hurled back until he is their furthest thrust toward Pa miles distant from the capital. PERSHING BRINGS UP MORE TROOPS, MOONEY GETS REPRIEVE. Gen, Mareh - AFTER SINKING STEAMSHIP nto, Milltary | Caltfornta Governor Grants Stay oe e iy i oe Vatit Dee Tries to Destroy All Traces of ae bo Ce inst phens French Vessel—40 of Crew ee J] of 46 Missing. Bie a stay mans had made 8 SANTANDER, Spain, July o7 A t formation A that he took submarine, after torpedving *¥O New arin . Gen f Me ioean ct. | the five corps in France, as follows y traces of the sinking,| First Corp, Major Gen, Hunter | more than fifty Forty of the crew w of 46 are missing rps, Major Gen, Robort BREAK IN FERRY PARTIES, — BANJO PLAYER RUNS CITY Times Crea MOR Sens WAND nosis moving tip | tn Must Get Of and Bay (Continued on Second Page.d toward the Marne Hoe tL kee TO-DAY IN BATHING SUIT : had received $100,000 from various | Upper ss bi aganda work. He also declared Commis. Send a Page to City Island i erty bonds because stoc he held hac ymplete. t y bonds becau stocks he held Wad Mayor on Busine completed their ated and he was. short vot | WOK Over, BY AMERICAN TROOPS Later he admitted that he| pounced @ A ‘TMtlan haired young man whove blow 48 worth $80,000 to $100,000 lacve cha heaevat tha: enc worst vice ts banjo-playing 1s Actin man i made $80,000 out of the publi- | purchase new tlekets on Mayor of New York City to-da If YOU! Concealed Near f Nor ist of ering ation f your magazine and those! some other craft ‘. want bin a hu a : « books?" he was asked. while a deck col- |nave him py a Chateau-Thierry, and Fort No, I had « r ways of maki fares on bourd with Alderma he bad pu ARIS, July v utr Mt beli 1t o knew Etogur Vice Cha. 1 Mora "A K d fig fi nning € ed, I n u“ mA ' ‘ A Nan ! \ ‘ day by ” a ¥ | advertisen : Y I (For Entries See Page 2) commercial houses oa cars, the Franco-American front to-day say New American Troops and Guns to the Battle Line—30,000 Prisoners Taken So Far by Allies—French Gain in the Champagne. - THE The American troops in this sector con- tinued pressing forward, with artillery support, against a tors, bombing the main high- Premier Clemenceau’s newspaper L’Homme Libre dwells |upon the value of the Allied advance in the region where the Ger- It points out ittle more than y that Gen, Persh- ‘large numbers of fresh troops and countless guns” front salient to and for Ar @ enemy, ican troc raining, will be relied Bs resistance everywhere in the me Kaiser, pri nacing rs tr ym. the oners give up the salient ps, “pocket” iy Despiig. é Allies are pressing their ae itial phase of the fighting, without tremen- complete de- say » eva ¢ it will be an admission of ne vever, pr the line of the y P ut the front Am illery ibject Which 400,000 Germans ated, Vester to apparent that Gen, Foch will not permit the Allied offensive ip end until he has inflicted the greatest pos: fs who have on fo drive home the Allied Soissotiss | :