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SIXTEENTH YEAR. NO. 2 13.
Russ Drive Stopped, Turks Perform
HUGHES GAIHS IH STRENGTH
GERMAN CIVILIANS CM
EAT NO MEAT FOR EIGHT
WEEKS, SAYS OICTATOR
Must Hoard Supply for
Winter, Declares
Herr Von Batocki
9
STARVATION IS
IMPOSSIBLE
If Harvest Is Medium,
Conditions Will Soon
Improve
BY CARL W. ACKERMAN
{Staff Corretpnndent United Preat.)
BERIJN (Via Wireless to Hay-
Vllle, L I.), May 27. (Delayed)
Civilians In Germany must eat no
meat for the next eight weeks. Herr
Adolph Von Batocki, Germany's new
•'food dictator.” now holding one ot
the most Important posts In the em
pire, told the United Press today in
a frank discussion of the food situa
tion as he found it upon assuming
Office last week.
This regulation, the new food min
ister said, should cause no alarm in
Germany and no elation in the
camps of Germany’s enemies.
"If the coming harvest Is only me
dium.” he said, "the starvation ot
Germany through the British block
ade is out of question.”
The “siege” of Germany. Herr
Von Batocki said, has Just begun.
The coming eight weeks may cause
gome discomfort to those Germans
who are fond of meat. Furthermore,
the meat shortage is apt to continue
for at least three months, he de
clared frankly.
"The cattle are lean now because
of a poor harvest In 1916," he said.
•’They cannot be slaughtered now.
We must wait until they are fat
tened on pasturage. But. meanwhile,
we have enough meat for our mili
tary hospital* and places where It
Is urgently needed.
“At all events there Is enough
food In Germany, but It Is necessary
that civilians eat no meat for the
next eight weeks. Starvation is out
of question, but we must consider
(OsatlssH ea Face Tw«)
2 CHILDREN
BURNTODEATH
Tots Perish In Bunting Fish
Shinty Near Port
Austin
PORT AUSTIN, Mich., June 5. —
Accidentally setting fire to the fish
ehanty In which they were at play,
the four-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Loucks and the llre
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Scherbranskl were burned
to death on the lake shore at Orlnds
tone City, Sunday. Efforts of the
terror-stricken children to escape
were futile as the dry timber In
the shanty burned rapidly.
THE WEATHER
' OtlroH and vlclaltjri I'aa#tflr<t
with rala lata MoaSay nlgkt and
Tabular| MiHlrratr «*laS« ahlftlaa to
easterly.
loitrr Mlrhlaani I'aaettleA weather
probably lata MoaSay nlabt aaS
TNss4i|^t
I i*l*ar l.aknt Moderate variable,
Mostly aa«t wtnSa oa ■epartor, and
Modarata variable. baaoMlap east and
twereaslna oa l.ahaa Mh-blgan and
Harom anaattlad t»al«bt and Taes
dayt probably rain Taaaday.
l,onar l.ahaai Wodarala waat and
nortbwaat wlndai partly aloady
waatbar Wonday nlabt and Taaaday i
probably rala on l.aba Kata Taaaday.
Hl|'<ar’ tamyaratara tbla data In
fba past W > raw, np la ixbbi 100 ant.
41 la (MSS aad ItM.
Tontrs Trwrr.n iti hkn.
« a. m St lb a. m 0d
r a. .V, ft a. a» HT
Aa. a* At 12 aaoa. **7
• a. a* .«!- ns t p. m «*
Oaa yaar aaa today i Highest tam
paratara. 77 1 laorat. .V4 l aiaaa. Hdi
alaar wantbar.
Tba aaa aata Woaday at AAM p. n».
aad rtaan Taaaday at liST a. a».
Tba taooa aata Maaday at IfiSS p.
Ptt.tfk MtbAUAKWAOIIIj
•Sksm i2s
ASKS MONEY
FOR BRIDGE
ENGINEER
D. P. W. Head Wants
Council to Appropri
ate $15,000
SAYS McCORMICK
IS TOO BUSY
New Man Would Pre
pare Plans for Per
manent Structure
George H. Fenkell, commissioner
of public wotks, will send a com
munication to the common council.
Tuesday night, recommending that
$16,000 be appropriated from
contingency fund for the employ
ment of a competent engineer and a
corps of assistants to prepare plans
and estimates for anew permanent
bridge to be constructed on the site
of the old bridge to Belle Isle.
The commissioner wants to cre
ate a bridge engineering department
separate from the city engineer's of
flee. He says that City Engineer
Frank McCormick is too busy with
other work to give time to the de
velopment of bridge plans.
"It Is my Idea to have two or
three sets of plans and estimates
prepared for submission to the coun
cil,” said Commissioner Fenkell. "It
will be up to the council to decide
on the style of bridge to be built-
If the plans and estimates can be
prepared In ttmeyl would like to see
the bridge propcraltlon again submit
ted to the electors at the fall elec
tion."
The council adopted a resolution
Nov. 23, 1915, instructing the com
missioner of public works to pre
pare plans for a permanent bridge.
The temporary bridge, which is now
being built west of the old site at a
cost of approximately SIOO,OOO. will
not be completed as soon as the com
missioner figured. Scarcity of mate
rial and labor have delayed the con
tractors. It Is not likely that the
bridge will be ready for travel un
til the middle of July, or even later.
MAYOR'S ACTION
IS PROTESTED
Another Poolroom Proprietor
Starts Legal Proceedings
Against Marx
The clean-up of disorderly pool
rooms brought anoiher legal proust,
Monday morning, when Mayor Marx
was made respondent In mandamus
proceedings started by Solomon
Nelmer, the purchaser of a poolroom
at No. 159 St. Antolne-st. east, which
was closed under the proprietorship
of Robert Thomas. Nelmer says
♦ hat the mayor's office refused to Is
sue a license for an amuaement hall
at that address, Irrespective of own
ership. He claims the loss of an In
vestmenl of S6OO.
This Is the second protest that has
followed the crusade on poolrooms.
Oeorge Para, whose poolroom at No.
449 Clalrpolnte-ave. was one of those
closed hv the mayor recently, ob
tained a restraining order and Is
still operating his place.
The hearing on Nelmers petlflon
la bet for June 9.
Prtatlaf-UM plain seat khi«—4bat
fta sill Tkws M nipt 1— «B9b.
DETROIT TIMES
Os Interest Only to Forty-two Aldermen
Who—The News to the Contrary, Not
withstanding -- Are Still in Charge of
the City’s Business.
_it -
With Apologie# for Trangressing Upon the Space of Our
Readers Who Are Not Interested in Newspaper Enmities
and Competitions.
To the Aldermen:
The News charges you with permitting the taxpayers to be "soaked" to the tune of $20,000 last
year because vnu awarded the publication of the council proceedings to The Times, the only bidder. Fit
cents an inch or 15 cents below The Times' regular commercial rate and at the same rate as The
Times secured the county piintiny in competition with two other Detroit newspapers, who bid $1.26 an
* nCh The News insists vou are going to permit the taxpayers to be soaked again this year if you award
the same work to The Times again the only bidder within the meaning of the specifications—at 60
cents an Inch, or 24 cents below The Times’ regular commercial rate and 24 cents below what the
county is paying The Times, which secured the contract from the board of county auditors in competi
♦ ion with the other newspapers of the city, whose bid again was $1.26 an inch.
What The News tells you to do, in order to save yourselves from the shame and reproach of per
mitting the citv to be "soaked” again, is to give the contract to the Legal News, a class publication of
nominal circulation whose limited function it is to print and post the legal notices required by the court
in the probating of estates, mortgage sales, chancery notices, etc.
At the instigation of the News this publication (which is, no doubt, of tangible professional service
within its circumscribed field) has offered a bid for the city printing at 33 1-3 cents per inch— tho News,
/-suddenly turned benefactor agreeing, in all probability, to set the type for its protege at a price that will
erhtble it to get out whole.
/ It i„ n ot necessary to go into the motive that prompts Detroit’s newspaper dictator to seek to de
prive The Times of this contract. That relates to the News’ familiar dog-in-tlie-mnnger strategy of keep
ing from a competitor something it cannot grab for itself, and no public service is involved in repeating
what everybody knows.
When the Tribune gave up the ghost, It tried to foist a municipal newspaper upon the city, but the
people turned the fantastic project down a year ago.
Equally familiar to you is the aspiration of the News to be the boss of this town.
And equally bootless is it tu dwell upon Its vain pretensions.
Neither the placing of relatives and employes In public jobs or the threat of editorial vengeance
enabled it to prevail in its attempted bosship of the street railway purchase situation or the police com
mission.
Its attempt to coerce your HCtlon in the matter of the printing contract, now that the death from
senility and impaired circulation of Its morning edition has taken It out of the bidding, will be equally
futile, we feel sure, when you appreciate the fact that It Is trying to put over one of its charactorlstic
counting-room conspiracies, aided and abetted in this instance by Grandmother Me-too. of Lafayette
blvd.. also snarling over a piece of business It is too heavily gorged Just now to assimilate.
The only pertinent thing that calls for emphasis here is the hollowness of the News’ condemnation
of your body for securing the publicity of official business required by the charter at the actual cost of
producing the same.
If it is soaking the city a pastime the News seems fiercely intent upon fastening upon somebody
else since it stopped that process through its flood of booze advertising—to charge fin cents an inch for
space, what sort of arcli conspiracy was the News hatching in 1907 when it tendered si bid of 92 cents
for the same contract, or when it proposes to charge (as It did in its proposal this year) $1.95 an inch
for additional official printing?
And If it is a scandalous soaking process to pay fin cents an Inch for The Times when space can be
bought In the Legal News for 33 1-3 cents, what sinister indictment rests against the integrity of ad
vertising agents and managers who hat’e been placing orders with the News for years at upwards of
$2.00 an inch while all the time the Legal News’ pages were open to them at small fraction of this outlay?
Doesn’t this suggest a stupendous soaking of the advertisers?
And why stop at saving $20,000? By cutting out the publication of official proceedings entirely,
twice that amount can be saved and the people kept in blissful ignorance of municipal doings.
Unless the News Is faking, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been filched from Detroit busi
ness men by awarding business publicity to the highest bidder; but we refrain from setting the News
down f*s a soaker—especially “inco it sobered up in Its advertising columns.
It Is only a fakir in this furious Intercession in behalf of the taxpayer.
It understands fully the ineligibility of the bidder that It is trying to use as a catspaw in its amiable
little ruse.
It knows that the charter w isely seeks to Inform the people of what is going on In the council cham
ber; that full publicity Is the wise modern policy of both municipal and private corporations.
It knows that the specifications call for "general circulation” and for a "home edition.” and It
knows that the Legal News has neither, no matter how- suddenly its array of stockholders becomes en
titled to editorial prominence in the columns of the News.
And. lastly. Mr. Aldermen. If the Legal News werp a general new-spaper It would be a competitor of
the News, and no competitor of the News ever received editorial approval or first page laudation, and
you know- it.
Recently the News offered the munificent prize of SIOO to the artists of America for a drawing that
would visualize Its claim to second place in the total amount of advertising carried In 1915.
The award went to an artist who depicted a hand thrust upward from Detroit standing out against
the map of Michigan. The hand showed two fingers upraised—a reminder of the digital invitation of
school days to go take a bath in the millpond. Avery subtle suggestion of the character of much of the
advertising that went into that next-to-the-highest number of inches!
In the earlier years of Its history The Times coveted the city printing to take the place of the
rotten advertising It was quite willing the News should have a monopoly of.
Now that its circulation has doubled and the bPlievers in clean advertising have greatly Increased,
while the cost of newspaper production has advanced by leaps and bounds, The Times does not believe
It is called upon to serve the city at a loss any longer.
It Is willing, however, to give the public the complete publicity of municipal legislation it is entitled
to, at actual cost.
And It announces right hen* Its readiness to bestow the entire profits of the city printing contract
the coming year upon the American artist who will produce a design doing full justice to the two pros
perous newspaper ownerships of Detroit who, Inhibited from seeking the official advertising of the city
themselves by an embarrassment of higher-priced business, resort to conspiracy, calumny and falsehood
—and to the bossing of the common council—to keep a competitor from getting It.
We will leave It to you, Ms. Aldermen: Do you think anyone but a painter of the lower animals,
a speclallzer In snorts and bristles, would hive a ghost of a show of winning the award?
THINK LICENSE
MARRIES THEM
Ford Investigators Find Pair
With Babe, Who Thought
They Were Wedded
The visits of Ford investigators
to the hotuea of the plant’s employes
are bringing Into the Juaiice courts
foreign couples who have obtained
licenses from the county clerk’s of
fice, but who have neglected the
marriage ceremony.
A man with a wife is supposed to
be given preference over single
men, In accepting applications for
Jobs, and a close check is kept on
all the homes of the company's
workmen.
"At some time or another the In
vestigators go to the home of every
employe," declared Justice Felix A.
Lemkte. He hdk married two such
couplet In the last few weeks.
**A demand la always made for
the marriage certificate, and If they
MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1916.
are unable to show It, the couple
are brought down to the Justice
court to be married. In most of the
cases before me, the people were
more or less Illiterate, and didn’t
know that a ceremony was neces
sary.
Andrew Dropek and Paronlka Wis
iarz were married recently, after
living together in blissful Ignorance
of the fart that they were unmar
ried for almost a year. They have
one child.
Woman, Well-Known Here Dies.
Mrs Harriet Dawes Kisenherg. of
Norristown, Pa., well known In I>e
trolt, died In Jefferson hospi.al. Phil
adelphia, as the rrsult of an opera
tion She was the mother of Kdwln
Klarnberg. of Kimball-Eisenherg,
plunders, of this city, and of L>r.
John 1,. Elsenbcrg, of Norristown.
Mrs. Risen berg was a member of
the Daughters of the Revolution, and
was prominent In various charitable
Organizations, being president of the
Woman’s auxiliary of <Tharlty hospi
tal of Norrlatown. which Inrtitutlon
she aided her husbimd In founding.
She was a director of the Chlldren’a
Aid society and the Y. W. C. A., of
Norristown.
HIT BY AUTO,
LOSESMEMORY
Man Found In Front of Prov
idence Hospital Uncon
scious, Puzzles Doctors
Authorities of thr Provldonee hos
pital nr* puzzled to account for the
manner in which Ted Moltz, 2(1
years old. of No. Ixd hrop-st. re
ceived the Injury that caused him to
lie semi-conscious on the sidewalk
in front of the hosnltsl at art enny
hour Sunday morning.
Automobile tracks to the curb
when he was found lead the police
to believe that Molt* was struck by
a machine. While he is only half
conscious, Molt* is able to lalk, but
cannot remember what happened to
him. Physicians at the hospital be
lieve that he has a clot of blooo on
his brain, and will hold an x-ray ex
Aminat ion. Ills condition, Monday
was said to bo grave.
. Prtathir—lkf aids arat klut—tk««
la rt«*t— Tlmm iak l>e*t.—Hals IBM
NOMINATION OF HUGHES OH EAHLV
BALLOT CERTAIH, IS HITCHCOCK j
STATEMENT; OLD GUARD FOR HIM
Boomlets! Why Do They Bloom
In Chicago? They’re the Pole
That Knocks Down the Persimmon
BY CHAS. EDWARD RUSSELL.
(Noted American economist and po
litical expert attending Republi
can convention for The Times.
(< upirlgbl lIHO by Newspaper Kutcr-
Itrlnc A amor tu I lon 1
Chicago. June 0.
Sing a song of bunco.
A pocket full of guff.
Four tend twenty boomlets
Are more thttn enough.
Why is a favorite son?
Also, who in the mischief :s he?
Who Is Henry D. Ksti brcok’’ No
body knows! Who is T. Coleman Du-
Pont? Something to do v/ith Dela
ware, 1 think. Or Is it Rhode Isl
FREHCH AT
VERDUN ARE
CONFIDENT
Officers Sure They Can
Hold Fortress
City
ATTACKS ON
SUNDAY FAIL
Teutons Take Trenches
But Are in Turn
Driven Out
BERLIN, (via wireless to
Sayvillc, L. I.), June 5. —Turk-
ish troops opposing the Russian
expedition into A6ia Minor,
have driven the czar's soldiers
back about 25 miles, according
to the report of the Constant!-
nople war office yesterday.
PARIS, June s.—The Germans
launched several hot infantry at
tacks against Fort Vaux last
night, employing liquid fire, but
despite this the attacks were re
pulsed, says the French official
communique today- Elsewhere
along the line east of the Meuse
the fighting was heavy, but the
Germans were unable to gain a
yard, the statement says.
BY UNITED PRESS.
PARIS, June s.—Tht* armies of
the crown prince buttling for Ver
dun continued violent assaults in
the region of Dead Mans hill, Hill
304, Tort Douaumont and Fort Vaux.
all Sunday and were repulsed, offi
clal reports to the F’rench war office
say. It is believed here that the
Germans are making their mighty
efforts at Verdun to give strengt'i
to the increase in spirit of the Ger
man people aroused by the North
Sea naval battle.
A German infantry attack late
Sunday, according to the report,
wrested sonm of the French line
trenches front the holders in the re
gion between Damloup and F’ort
Vaux. The Invaders were quickly
dilven out by a fierce counter- at
tack
Despite the recent German sur
er' s .around Verdun. the officers In
command of the men remain so
hii'T e)y confident the city will not
bo taken. It Is hfld that the Oer
(Contlnnrd on rn«e Two)
The New York giand eommandery
of the Knights Templar will assent
ble in New York city today for Its
annual conclave.
A HBAt.THFt'I. TtflM«T Qt KRK ItKR
Horwford's Arid l'hn»pbnlf
A t**H*r>onnful in a Kin** of water
tn refrei<ntnir and Invigorating. ITuy
a bottle.-—Adv.
and? Who Is John W. Weeks?
Somebody told me he ran lor office
borne where once, hut lie lor gotten
what it was. Who Is this man they
call Brumbaugh, or something like
that? I heard a man say he used
to be mayor of Philadelphia. Who
is W. J. Calhoun? Echo answers
“Who?” and that with sad and well
ing voice.
Who are nil there oilier candidates
that have been dragged from a
fathomless obscurity to be thrust by
main strength upon reluctant ntten
<Continued on l*age Tw#)
R. R. TARO
MASTERS
IH SESSION
Annual Convention
In Detroit For
Five Bay3
WILL INSPECT
M. C. TUNNEL
Judge Murphy, Edwin
Denby and Others to
Addre33 Meeting
For what they believe will ba the
mos* Instructive convention in the
history of the organization, the
L'nited Yard Masters’
opened its annual meeting in the
Hotel Tuller, Monday afternoon,
(4'i»iitlnii«-d on Pna** Two.)
Geo. W. Perkins Is
T. R.s Advance Scout
~0~
llric t inc thief financier of the
Htil| Moose party In 1912, taken Just
after he atepped off the train to "put
over'* the Dull Moose candidate at
the G. O. P. convention in l)li
ONE CENT.
Not Enthused by Jul
tice, But Must EUmi»aj
nate T. R. '' M
JURIST STILL 1
KEEPS SELENfI
No Statement Conteiu-J
plated, Declares 1
Secretary I
WASHINGTON, June B.—’iW'J
ateadlly Increasing oall tnmsm
Chicago for a statement fremj]
Justice Hughes regarding M» .j|
willingness to accept th# ftepillj
I lean nomination, and regarding $j
hia position on varies* I—ttawll
has net affected the justice Ml J
the least, apparently.
“No statement Is oontemplli |j
ed," his secretary said today. 3
CHICAGO. June t.—JvMSSM
Hughes’ nomination “on an NUrtn
ballot is Inevitable.’* Prank |jj|
Hitchcock, unofficial Hughes keaNMl
er. declared, in a statement this sB»J
ternoon.
“Justice Hughes will receive mwi
i votes on the first ballot than tIML
I combined strength of the
sons candidates, and hla nominatHNt
I on an early ballot Is lnevitable,“ ths*
I announcement concluded.
While heralded In advance eg|
| Hitchcock’s clslm of Hughes’
1 strength, the statement proved a-'
i tabulation ofdMat he regards to kt<
I the strength, with th#’,
j added of Hughes’ ••nil
cess.
“The maximum strength of the
vorite sons’ states,” the statemOMfl
said, “is as follows: Delaware, six!
for Duront Idaho, eight for BorahfiJ
Illinois, 58 for Sherman; In4laaki|
30 for Fairbanks; lows, 26 for
mins: Massachusetts, 36 for Weekirf
Ohio, 48 for Burton; Wisconsin, ill
for La Follette: total, 227. (
“In the remaining states,
. gates are Instructed for the favorite
sons’ candidates as follows:
i “Kentucky, eight for Fairbanks}
Michigan, 30 for HenflPfkml; Mis*
| fiesdta. 24 for Cummins; Montaag.
eight for Cummins; Nebraska, Id
for Cummins; North Dakota, 10 sos
F'ollefte: South Dakota, 10 fOr
j Cummins; total. 106.
j “Scattering. 12.
"This makes a total of 34S t&»
l sfructrd for favorite sons' eandk*
jc’atrs. It will require 493 to noa*'
nate.”
Then followed the predictloa of
Hughes’ success.
The Old Guard made its first della* 1
(CoNllanH #«• I’u* Twwl
GERMAN WRITES
C OLONEL HE’LL |
SUPPORT HlHfi
BY 1/yiTSD PRESS.
OYSTER BAY, • . I„ June 5
Theodore Roost velt was
gratified” today with a letter he rs '
ceivcd from W. F. Zierath, Os
bovgan. Wia., saying:
"I hope to have the pleasure of i
voting for you either as the nomUMO?
of the Republican party or aa tbO '
head of another party—an Amerton&J
party, if anyone believes the (Mr*-:;
man American alliance (hostile 10 •:
Roosevelt i la the spokesman fOC tO*'
Americans of German birth th«7a**2
misinformed.” i
Ziernth identified htmaolf as dfl
“man of German descent and djfl
much Teuton blood.” j
Roosevelt will leave hla |vtl|M|
telephone line which conneotl I|H§
directly with hts lieutenants ftfcfjflH
cago for the first time' tooMfiSn
w hen he will vlalt hla dentist
York.
George ». Corteljrou, RnumH
former secretary and csMoit
her. called on the colonel tfflm
left Immediately for ChldagO*' V
colonel maintained an tbioMlfS
lence on jiolitlral