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+4 GLO. LEADERS HOW + TURNING TO HOVER Success of the Californian Frightetis the Republican Mone yed Interests. MUST BE HEADED OFF Old Guard Hopes Mysterious .. Penrose Will Come Out in the Open. (Special from a Staft of The Bren. ‘ing World.) WASHINGTON, April 23.—It ap- Pears that the “post mortems’’ which have recently been held over Herbert Hoover are somewhat premature. In- formation reaching Washington is to the effect that big business interests have become thoroughly alarmed over the muddled situation in the Republi- can organization, as made apparent by ‘tho inability of the professional politicians to concentrate on a can- didate in advance of the Chicago convention, ‘The report further says that what practically amounts to an ultimatum has been served or will soon be served on the Republican machine leaders that steps must be taken at once to ingure the party becoming the bene- ficiary of the Hoover sentiment which has been “sensed” in all sections of the country by those who make it their business to keep their ears to the ground. The representatives of “big business," according to the same report, have been waiting with more or less impatience for the Republican “whippers-in" to make some signs that they had an intélligent idea where the droves of delegates they are rounding up are to be driven. Their impatience has become genu- ine irritation following the spectacle of Senator Hiram Johnson, like the proverbial bull in the china shop, rypning at large and smashing the old guard organization right and left if a series of whirlwind attacks. Johnson's latest victory in Nebraska is said to have brought matters to a fécus among the big business group which {s expected to provide the sin- eWs of war for the Republican cam- Paign. "The report to-day, which is backed by cireumstanti»! proof, is that the representative. of those industries which have a paramount interest in Republican success have definitely determined that Herbert Hoover is the only man on the political horizon whose nomination by the Republicans would be equivalent to victory. ‘The business group, it is said, have been watching all developments with a microscope and are convinced that neither Senator Harding, Gov. Low- den nor even Gen, Wood can turn the trick. Either Harding or. Low- den would have suited this element admirably, but neither has*shown the | running qualities required of a win- ner. On the other hand, Gen. Wood, who has been favored by an influ- ential business group, headed by Col. William Procter, the Cincinnati mil- Honaire, has shown himself incapable of the task of heading off Johnson. His advocacy of compulsory military training has made him entirely un- available, owing to existing condi tions. Reports from New Jersey, Maryland and other astern States which indi- cate that Johnson is about to repeat his Western successes in the prefer- ential primaries have brought matters to a head, it was learned to-day. A certain element of Republican leaders who have felt that ultimately a dark horse would have to be brought forward for the Presidential sweep- stakes were disappointed by the show- ing of Gen. Pershing in Nebraska. Had the former commander of the A. BE. F. carried Nebraska; where a strong effort was made by personal friends to “put him over.” he might now be in the strategic position to be- | come the beneficiary of the inability) of the organization to agree on a con- servative candidate. Pershing talk seems to be at an end. Hoover is now viewed by the moneyed group as the only outstanding national figure on whom the Chicago Convention might | agree with a reasonable expectation of success in November. ‘As a result of all these develop- ments, it is expected that there will be a number of conferences of Re- publican leaders very shortly which will be of nation-wide significance. ‘The success of Johnson has had the effect of encouraging the so-called Progressives in Congress to believe after all,they can control the Chi- cago Convention. As a result, men like Kenyon, Borah, Norris. and others have packed their suitcases and gone on the hustings for John- son, Their attitude is rapidly ap- proaching that of the Bull Moosers of 1912 as to Roosevelt—"You must take Johnson or be defeeted.” ‘Until recently some of the leaders in Washington have counseled pa- | tience, intimating that Senator Pen- rose would have a definite message for the smaller chieftains when he re- turned from Florida, He has been back nearly two weeks and the magic word is not yet forthcoming. ‘Anyone interested in the answer to he tpeanization take Hoover against its | will at the dictation of the moneyed group?” may receive a reliable an- | swer to the query by watching the ripples of the water In Senator Pen- ros weeks, Thrilling Story of the Liberty And Heroism of Her Daring Skipper : | Shed Lustre on U.S. Merchant Marine al ia O~- brought by ‘MISS PHPPS. IN HER $50 000 SUT Girl’s Action Against Tenafly , Grocer Goes to Jury To-Day. Both sides in the $50,000 love stit’ Mise Lillian Phipps, against William Russell Smith, Ten-! afly grocer, rested to-day after sev- oral additional witnesses had been _ MAN AT86NOT IN: ANYBODY’S WAY — CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW | uestion, “Will the Republican | Phipps and her uncle and aunt,’ Irv- ing 8, Van Loan and Mrs. Van Loan, had testified. The case is expected to go to the jyry late this afternoon. Despite/the character of the evi- denee given yesterday, fully half of in the Bergen County Circuit Court when, the trial was resumed this called by the attorney for me) the count that packed the court TOO; annual dinner on May 1 at the Hotel Astor. letter that life is not so hard in old Kaintuck as Maree Henr: Secretary follow: bat the 5 our little friend Ham was It Maobethmaybe O ter who, the fact being, t! thought of a long journey to carouse is little short of appa do pity you boys! Not even light’ and wines! Why don’t you get insurrection? \ ‘ “Lam a Prohibitionist—with me ¥ fications—a female suffragi limitations—but not whol; fool! Forgive the garrulity of * ; I might have put it in a word or $ of familiar affection, like "Go to Col, Henry Watterson, dean of| my ae naelte te bortiae aee Greeley’s! [ am still, let me ‘one of the boys’—a bit battered American journalists, likes New York, likes the Press Club, likes the! out of the ring—but I can e’en sit | and take notice, and I like to see old newspaper gang, but by the great) hornspooner at the age of eighty he isn't strong for a long journey to a “dry carouse” and so respectfully de- clines an invitation to the Press Club | Pities Dry | New York Hints Things Are Not So Bad in Kentucky in Declining Press Club Invitation, going on! Good-by boys, md and God bless you! Fatthfpily, a ‘4 HENRY WA’ 3 . ———— YOUNG “HOLD-UPS” CAUG Ran Away from Home te Make Living by fe y Tony Sandor, twelve, and his pal Joseph Garcia, fourteen, are to-day coms pletely cured of their desire to #0 to Bridgeport, Conn. and make an easy — living by holding up men and women with lots of money, Sandor ran away from his home, Nov 438 Claremont Avenue, Jersey City, yess taking with him found under his mother's pillow. There is just a hint in the Colonel's it be on Broadway. | "s letter, addressed to P. Howard, reads “THE Courier-Journal. “Jeffersontown, Jefferson County, Ky, April 12, 1920, No Romance of the Sea Ever Contained More Thrills Than This Accurate Account of the Wreck of the Stout Ship That Was a Hog Is- land Product and Blown Up by a Hidden German Mine and Saved Single-Handed by Capt. Stousland. Blown in two by the explosion 'of a German mine, beached on a lee shore, ‘battered by four successive storms and swept by fire as she lay on the beach, the U. S. S. Liberty ,» United States merchant vessel, will goon be ready to put to sea again. Seldom has any vessel been put to So gevere a test, and the salvaging of the Liberty Glo is regarded by ex- perts as one of the most remarkable feats in the history of modern ship- ping. BEFORE THE WRECK OOTTEO LINEAT PONT WHERE SHE BROKE IN TWO the forward well deck and hurling a| Capt. Strousland leaped voleano of oil, baled cotton and torn and twisted wreckage high above the masthead. Water rushed in through the twisted plates and instantly the ship began to sink, settling by the head. Her stern rose in the air, but by closing the water-tight compart- ments she was kept afloat, An S O § call was sent broadcast, and goon word came from the Coast Guard stations, “Coming.” That res- cue never came. The wind had risen to a gale, the racing combers tossed and twisted the helpless ship whirling before the hurricane. It was raining now. and the crew, fearing that the vessel would sink at any minute, wished to abandon ship. But Capt. Stousland, remembering his duty to the owners, determined to reach the land. Down in the engine room George H. W. Weston, chief engineer officer, who later died of exposure in the boats, toiled above his driving turbine and encouraged the “black gang" force as the wallowing derelict plunged on slowly toward the coast. Only the thin plates of No. 3 bulkhead held the North Sea waters from the dim lit en- gine pit where they toiled, yet the men stood by their posts and brought the Liberty Glo in. | from exposure—had made the Isle 2 mornitt women. The first for nothing newe into a life net held for him, ‘The gale waa driv- ing the hulk of the Liberty Glo higher on the sand, and when it abated she lay at the tide line. Of the fore part of the vessel only the tip of the mast still showed above the water. During the day Capt. Stousland learned that of the four boats that had got away in the night two had got in through the surf at Ameland, one — with Chief Engineer ‘Weston and three of the crew dead Juist, and another was still missing: This last boat had been picked up by a German tramp steamer, and was later landed at Bremen. To-day the Liberty Glo is at Rotterdam, a new bow is being grafted on to her strong girders, and soon she will again be ready to sail the sea under Capt. Stousland. Since the day of the wreck she has been battered oy four storms on the beach, threatened once when fire swept her cargo, but was finally relaunched and towed into dry dock, where she was repaired. This is the story of the Liberty Glo. To date the Hog Island shipyards have launched 102 other such ships— ships that will be manned by Amert- can crews and officers of Capt. Stous- standing. office. consisted of girle and witness was Robert Jefferson of Englewood, N. J. who testified that he had been employed by the Van Loans first as a painter their automobile and later as “butler.” He described visits of Sinith to the Van Loans, but brought out Dr. 8. J. Nelson of New York testi- fied that he had known the Vab Loans for several years, that ho had never been intimate with Mrs. Loan, as had been charged by other witnesses, and that he had exomined Miss Phipps as late as last August and fownd no signs that she was about to become a mother, although on August 10 she is alleged to have asserted this to various persons, ac- cording to testimony at the trtal. The doctor's testimony went into great detail, but the girls and women in the courtroom sat through it. Miss Phipp’s face remained impassive, Donaid McRae and Ruth Coleman testified that their the Van Loan’s had been of long Miss Coleman Loans secretary in his friendship with She testified she had never heard Miss Phipps swear. "Who ever said she did?" askea one ofgthe attorneys for Smith. ay Smith testified that Miss pps’ language disgusted him,” re- plied Frank McDermott, attorney for the Van Loans and their niece. “Have you never heard of simpro- per language oytside of swearing?” asked the opposing counsel. CoM. DERPEW rennamees Everybody Glad He'Got So Far And Wants to Congratulate Him, Says Ogtogenarian. Surrounded by roses, quite unable to give’ much attention to business, , Chauncey M. Depew sat in hie office ta day receiving the congratulations of his army of friends upon reaching his eighty-sixth birthday. The door of his room In the executive offices of the New York Central never remained closed for more than a minute at a time; it was elther @ messenger coming in with an- other box of flowers or another visitor. Mr. Depew was called on the tele- Phone by The Evening World and co’ gratulated on his anniversary, to whicn he replied: “Thanks very much. I want to thank ‘The Evening World also for the excel- lent picture it printed of me in over- Alls, ‘That was fine! “Am I going to see the overails pa- rade? Indeed I am. I shan't pe in it, but I'll be there to applaud. “1'll tell you one thing, when @ man gets to be as old as I am to-day a birth: day |s a great thing. When a man gets to be eighty-six he's not in anybody's way, not in the way of any one's ambi- tions and that sort of thing. Therefore everybody's glad he's got on so far and glad to congratulate him. “The scientists said yesterday that they had arranged to communicate with Mars. This morning ‘The World said that they had failed. That waan't true at ail, The scientiss didn't fail. Didn't r that terrific thunderstorm morning? Well, that was congraulating me on’ my birth- A. Van is Van New York early th Mari oo McDer- Youngster Kiled By Motor Truck. ‘CUT FROM WATERLINE TO WA- land's courage. The thrilling romance of the sea was told for the finst time yesterday when Matthew C. Brush, President/ of the American International Ship- building Corporation, placed the case before Admiral W. S. Benson of the Shipping Board, and commended Capt. J. I. Stousland, Master of the Liberty Glo, for courage, perseve: ance, loyalty and_ability, in the sal- vaging of his wrecked vessel. Capt. Stousiand lives at Orient Way, Rutherford. It was on Dec. 5 No. 2 Glos was blown in two by the exblo-| sion of a submerged mine. Twenty miles from shore on a lee beach, his shattered vessel sinking under him and a mutinous crew fighting to |reach the boats, Capt. Stousland de- termined to save his vessel by navi- gating her to shoal water. The Lib- erty Glo was sinking fast. When still | far from shore she broke in two com pletely, the entire 130 feet of the fore- castle dropping into the sea. It was midnight, and the gale was increas- ing. The crew deserted the ship, and four men died in the attempt to reach the’shore in open boats, But Capt. Stousland, the only man on the half of the vessel that still floated, stayed at his post while she went in through the mountainous breakers and crashed on the storm-tossed ‘beach. NO BRAVER PAGE IN MERCHANT MARINE'S HISTORY. The story of the Liberty Glo is one that shows the stuff of the men and ships of the United States Merchant Marine. The Liberty Glo was the thirty-sixth ship to be built at Hog Island, She was a frieghter, a 7,800 ton vessel with 390 foot overall. On completion she was placed on the transatlantic run between New York and Bordeaux, Pallice, Manseilles and La Havre. Lieut. Commander J. 1. Stousland, U. S..N. R. F, was her first master, Captain Stousland was a merchant marine officer, Born in Norway, he had come to this country as a boy, and had sailed in American mer- chant ships for years. But the swift, seaworthy Liberty Glo was one of his finest commands, and he loved the ship as a living thing. It was on Nov. 20 that she sailed from New York for Hamburg, Ger many, with a cre wof 30 and a alirgo of oil and cotton, Fifteen days later, on Dec. 5, she was feeling her way down the coast of Holland, ten hours from her destination. It was dirty weather. The sky was overcast and a short, choppy sea was running. for an observation of past few hours, and th® Captain was proceeding carefully, for he knew that there were still many unswept mine flelds in thts vicinity, and that a week before a ship had been blown up and sunk near thia spot. THE BLOW THAT RIPPED UP. THE LIBERTY GLO, It was at 2.15 P, M. that without warning the explosion came. The big freighter had hit on the nine well aft, below No, 2 hatch, here was a sudden crash, a concus- he sun in the ‘s vicinity during the next few) sion that shook the vessel and a roar [es the mine exploded, ripping open jean be that the Liberty|0Ut a call for assistance; but no There had been no chance | TERLINE, DECK PLATES STICK. Although cut from waterline to waterline just forward of the bridge, the deck plates held the ship togethe till thay reached shoal water. At 8 P. M. they anchored in seven fathoms outside the white line of the breakers. It was still raining and the wind had increased. From this point the story told in the words of Capt. Stousland's report to the Shipping Board, “At 10 P. M. she commericed to break up—bulwarks gradually opened up—I knew she was doomed. I sent Dubon, lator, went son, N. J. ceived a te result, “Did you ever as a boy, see-saw? Well, that was just what the motion reminded me of. “[ never knew what held her to- gether so long. You could see the bow go down—and the stern the same way. She was wriggling like ake, but still she held he crew without exception were panicstricken and it was only by using strong language that I got them away from th» boats. After anchoring trey would run to the boat every time they heard her cracking. “It was a hellish night, the roar of the breakers, the grinding of the deck plates, beams and ginters, and the noise of escaping steam as the pipes broke, AY # P. M. the men lowered the boats, in all kinds of gon. fusion, bent upon the one thing, getting away from the ship, and I will admit she Was not a very desirable place to be in ‘I told them to remain under t stern and if the ship was remain| all night to come back, but they cut the painter and disappeared in the darkness. ALONE ON A SINKING SHIP ON A NIGHT OF HELL, 4 ‘The nedy when quenock las' ure defense. Killed “It flashed in my mind, as the men VETERAN 0} eal as His Auto Hits Tree. POUGHKEEPSIE, April R. Manning of No. 350 Broadway, Al- north of this city. (Someial to The Brening World.) WINSTED, Conn., April 23.—John A. seventy-six, civil war veteran tobacco grower and formen State Legis- to New York Wednesday and met Miss Gertrude Kennedy, thirty- six, to whom he was married at Pater- Relatives of Mr. gram from him from Atlantic City asking their blessing and forgiveness. ocuple will spend. their honey- moon in Atlantic City and Washington. Mr, Dubon was introduced to Miss she was it February. was the sentence imposed to-day Jacob Glickman, Carroll Street, of Special Sessions in Brooklyn, for fall- to provide heat, had been convicted on a similar charge last February and fined $100, said the Mayor's Committee told him that if he limited his rent increase to $3, he could limit his heat supply to hot wate: Justice Salmon said that this a Brooklyn, in Curve in the Post Road, about a mile Manning's skull was F 76 WINS BRIDE. tlantic City visiting in Po- landlord, of 1496 Glickman, 23.—George mitt made no ansewer, Fred H. Harrington testified he had known the Van Loans eighteen years. When asked what general reputation they bore among their friends and neighbors satd he did not know. He was withdrawn. for Miss Phipps, and William B, Gur- ley, associated with A. C, Hart, coun- sel for Smith, made the closing ad- @rcss for the defendant. Dick Donovan, the New Rochelle college youth, whose alleged relations with Miss Phipps were said to have caused Smith to break the engage- ment, took the stand late yesterday afternoon in defense of the girl. He denied having had improper relations Dubon re- | yesterday en- JAIL, FINE FOR LANDLORD. |" Ser nrecuiyn Owier Diawt erevsae|CHURCH SLAYER IN TOMBS Heat for Tena: le —_—— Ten days in jail with a fine of $250 | Marder First Degree Charged on Against Dr. Markoe Slayer. ‘Thomas W. Simpkin, the former in- mate of several insane hospitals, who last Sunday shot and killed Dr. James Wright Markoe in St, George's Dplecopal Church, Stuyvesant Square, was re- moved to-day from Yorkville Jail to Tombs Prison under indictment for murder in the Oret degree. Wenring cotfar and tie for the first time since Monday, but showing that no razor had touched him since his arrest, Simpkin was brought before Magistrate Koenig in Yorkviile Court on the whort the Court who bany, was instantly killed Jate yester- day when an automobile which he was | ftdevit_upon__which he _waa held ving struck a tree on the Roosevelt | orminally. On motion trict Attorney O'Shaugnessy, the little printer was discharged of this complaint » 7 » did| fractured. It is believed that he be- 4 Clear the breakers and drifted out. to | came contused on the curve, and immediately rearrested on the in- sea and was boarded by fishermen, 1| Pecn_the scene of similar acc SET would want to be there, and as I had 7 only a few geconds to’ make up my mind I decided to stay so that the boat ‘could not be claimed as salvage “I wa alone, standing on the for- q ward part of the lower bridge watch- ing her death struggle, and it wonderfully impressive sight. The iron girders, beams and deck plates, struggling for supremacy against the elements—she twisted and bent one way and then the other, and finally at 40 A. M. she broke in two, With @ tremendous roar of protest. the after part split from the bow and gradually drifted down toward aj 5 TTS - gleaming white outline in the dark- Old Fashioned Jubjub | Milk Chocolate Dates | Super Assorted Cho» ness, looking like the white teeth of | Jellies—neal Old Fash |—Large Persian bet colates —An u naur- a wolf waiting to devour her—the joned Fruit flavored, | ties, the very choicest peenee a mortment oft breakers. IB} crystailized go0dtes,| of the Orient, are sani-| para yea, deliles, | non. zed 01 3 d 8, frult flavored cen. quite ery eat | chocked full of juscious | tary picked and washed tres and other appe aling happened so fast. 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The dead boy lived at No. 211 Hast 46th Street. “My dear Mr. Howard: “L wish it were posible. But I am just writing the Kentucky Society of New York, who had arranged what they called a “a banquet” in my honor—which in an unguarded mo- ment of gratitued and vanity I had accepted—to recall to mind and to say that when a man has reached four score he is immune, You don't want me more than I want you, “I have ome right to claim a part paternity in the ew York Press Club—at least I stood by its cradle. made my living—not at Delmonico’ —aixty years ago ag an all around reporter in New York—not a space writer, dod ding ‘em—yet, sorter a space writer!—and it would dome good to rub my old bones agin your young bones, But, dear boys, to quote Scripture, I ain't ekle to it.” The “pain ia the back” and the ‘stitch in the side” and the bone in the leg” with which I sometimes evade the obildren at met Joseph, who lives at No. 428 on the same street, and they decided to em- bark on a life of adventure. Last P they entered the house of Basilio Ped= nexdy, No. 176 Culver Avenue, Jersey, City, taking @ heavy revolver, * waich and. some. handkerch with® which to make masks, ‘The police of New York early iy arrested the pair at the foot of 4 érine Street, where they were about to — embark for’ Bridgeport. 7s a ———— AUTO PLUNGES INTO SEWER An automobile driven by Otto Gref, of No, 349 Bast 148th Street, plunged into a sewer excavation in which se¥~ eral mon were at work at 147th and Bergen Avenue, the Bronx, afternoon. Francis Quin and Patrick MoF* 1 Show der and McFarley with « disiova- th ht arm. “eet and Patt Hebat, of 534 East 14ist the car, , the Street, owner of the oi Ai ‘vison ee r NN , Was teaching Univer were placed under arrest. nobody phonograph that soundy best to you is Jf ogo eed pclfoegh ear the CRESCENT =? Sold through authorized dealers only. Crescent T: Machine Co.. Inc. New York. jablished 1913 Thirty-fourth Street Men’s' The Store is closed at 5 P. 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