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??rTcannavy
plans biggest
ships afloat
May Ask Congress for
Two Great 36,000-Ton
Fighting Craft.
EACH COULD CARRY
TEN 16-INCH GUNS
Daniels Wants Measures Taken
to Prevent Export of Steel
Needed at Home.
Washington- Nov. IS. Tentative plan?
?re being considered. Secretary Daniel?
?aid today, far two IMOtVtM battle?
ship? to be included in the first year'?
p?rt of the five yeiir building pro
aMSaSM I si ?"?'?a wl" ^c asksd to ap?
prove. Ibtrs ore Lo largar warship?
?float ar.y*here in the world, e.nd the
bi(rc*?t B*/tt <i"?iimed for the Amen?
tar, navy are the S.'.OOO-ton craft of
the California class, two of which were
authorized last ye?r and bid? for which
have just been received.
Tart of the it.creased displacement
in the newest ships will be due to
charged hull construction to provide
?d<!itional torpedo defence bulkhead?.
While t?s gaaaral characteristics of
the shin? have not been disclosed, it
Is probable that t.hey will have in?
creased armament and speed.
The navy ha? developed a 16-inch
rifle of which no use hr.s yet been
Bade, and the new ships may carry
Un or more of these if developments
in the European war indicate the wis?
dom of mounting them. The largaat
?fiai afloat are the 15-inch weapons
.' I tropean navies, which the 14-inch
can rifle is said to equal for al!
ra ?ties] purpose?.
Maximum speed of American battle
ihips no-.v building or authorized is
less thun twenty-one knots, although
European first line ?hips go consider?
ably above that. It is considered prob?
able that a speed of perhaps twenty
five knots will be sought hereafter.
Secretary Ilaniels has received no
report as yet on the examination of
private bids received yesterday for
battleships Nos. IS and 44. all of
wh ch appeared to be above the limit
f.xp.i by CoagTBSa. It is understood,
however, that a careful analysis of the
exceptions to advertised specifications
bears out the indication that priva
builder? will not attempt to conatru
the hull? and machinery of the shi]
within the $7.800,000 limit
Neither ship can be laid down b<
fore next summer, it is said, for la<
of structural steel, the war havir
?wept the American steel market dea
Secretary Daniele showed considerab
concern to-day over this fact. Ho int
mated that unies? some arrangemei
could be made with steel plants to ii
.mre preference for government order
Congress might be asked to act. A
embargo on exportation of steel ont
the government's wants are suppllf
h?? been ?uggested,
t Mr. Daniels said the annor bids f<
the new ?hips showed that America
trade armor wa? not in such great di
mand abroad as structural steel, sine
1 there was no increase in price over
| year ago. or any delay in delivery sii|
? ge0 ted. Ha will again urge Congres
? however, to authorize construction <
a government armor plant, and wi
aUo seek appropriations to tit the Phi
adeluhia and Mare Island yards fo
battleship building.
ASKS BARNARD GIRLS
TO POSEJN GOWN!
, Department Store Issues Call fo
College Models.
The educational system in vogue a
. Burnard Bad Teachers colleges, 01
Momingside Heights, has slipped bac]
to the formative stage, according t<
thr- way developments in those temple
of learniii). shaped up yesterday.
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dents of Barnard and Teachen
colleges Informing them that a depart
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and he was kept busv answering thi
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SEA RAIDERS SURGEON DIES
Dr. Francis L Gall Was on tJie Ala?
bama?An Amazon Explorer.
St. Paul, Nov. 18.?Dr. Francis L.
Gait, surgeon of the Confederate cruis?
er Alabama during the Civil War, died
tit Cpperville, Va., last night, accord?
ing to word received to-day by his ion,
H. H. Gait, of St. Paul. Arthur Sin?
clair, of Baltimore, is now the sole
survivor of the officers' mess of the
famous sea raider.
Dr. Galt, who was eighty-three years
I old, was a member of Admiral Tuck?
er's party which first explored tho
headwaters of the Amazon Kiver for
the Peruvian government.
Besid.s ail son. Dr. Gait is sur?
vived by a wife, who was I.ucy Ran?
dolph, of Virginia.' and a daughter,
I Mr?. Henrv Neville, of Virginia.
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CLARK TO LEAD
DEFENCE FIGHT
Contest Between Speaker
and Bryan Likely to
Force Clear Line-Up.
EXPECTED TO SWING
MANY HOUSE VOTES
Speaker's Influence and Popu?
larity Believed Greater
than Nebraskan's.
[From Tbo Trtb'ja* Buroaa I
Washington, Nov. 18.?Champ Clark,
Speaker of the Hous?, will lead the
I fight for the President's defence pro
: gramme, according to reliable infor
I mation reaching Washington to-day.
{ He is on his way here to tell the Pres
: ident he will support the defence
plans.
While Speaker Clark cannot take tha
; floor leadership for the military and
naval bills, as the fight for the army
' bill is always In charge of the chair
: man of the Military Affairs Commit
; tee and the naval bill ?n charge of the
chairman of the Naval Affairs Commit
j tee, he will take the actual leadership
! and is expected to wage much the samo
I kind of a fight that he did against the
| canal tolls bill.
The Speaker'? groa* personal popu
1 larity is expected to swing many votes
1 in th?- House and to make smooth what
; might otherwise be the rough places
' caused by the defection of the floor
leader, Mr. Kitchin, of North Carolina,
' and such of the Bryan followers as
agree with the Commoner on the need
| lesBness of national defence. Speaker
i Clark is one of the mont forceful ora
| tors in tho House, and his opponents
| have always dreaded the effect of his
| speeches.
It is not the floor oratory of the
j Speaker which the administration is
: so pleased to gain on its side In the
defence fight, however, but his influ?
ence. It is doubtful if his followers
will prove fewer in the House than
those of Bryan.
Many Representatives long have been
regarded as followers of both men.
The present fight, therefore, led on one
side by Champ Clark and on the other
by Bryan, will be extremely interest
; ing in forcing a clear-cut line-up.
Friends of the Speaker arc not lacking
! who declare that should this line-up
coin?1 the power of Bryan in Congress
?rill be largely discounted for some
I time to come, as it will be demon
'? strated that the ex-SecHtary's follow?
I ing will be cut to a fraction when
Speaker Clark is not with him.
Purely incidentally, since the Speak?
er is not taking up the fight for na?
tional defence to make war on Bryan,
but because he believes in prepared
j ness, this fight will be the first real
I conflict between the two since the Bal?
timore Convention. Clark'? friends
have never forgotten? and it may be
I taken for granted that the Speaker has
not forgotten? what they regard as
the treachery of Bryan at that time,
when, as a delegate instructed for
Clark, lip swung to Wilson at a time
when Clark still liad more votes in the
convention than Wilson.
The defence of Bryan, that he was
i instructed to turn to Wilson as sec
, ond choice and that he could not stand
for Clark if the latter were supported
by the Tammany-controlled New York
delegation, has always been ?alt in th"
wounds of the Clark men, who *hink it
was Bryan's duty under the instruc?
tions of the Nebraska primary to stay
I for Clark until his chances wer,- hope
; less, and then turn to Wilson. No
candidate, they declare, cou'd be con?
sidered hopeless while leading all
others in the nctua! number of rot?
1 in the convention.
GRAVE CRISISWITH
AUSTRIA AT HAND
( onllniK-d from i>H?e I
! again to have to meet an excuse such
: as was offered in the Arabic case,
I when the chanring of the liner's
course, though she was still at a con
'. siderable distance and, as it was later
proved, unaware that a submarin.- was
near, was interpreted by the German
officer as an attemnt to ram.
One point believed to have been
i cleared up by Dr. Greil'? satement is
i the nationality of the submarine.
| There 'had been a suspicion that
i Austria had evaded stating definitely
the submarine was hers, and manv
I official? believed this indicated that
; the vessel was a German and wa? !,<?
ing shielded because of the Kaiser's
pledge to this country. I>r. Grid's
I description of the Bag flown li taken
! as conclusive, if not of the nationality
j of the rosso! and crew, at lea.U of the
i nation --he was representing and the
I one which must bear the responsi
? bility.
Dr. Greil's Statement.
The text of the message with Dr.
Oriel's statement which was tent by !
American Coninl Mason, of Alpen,
fallowa i
"Cecilia Grelle (Grell), intelllfsnt, I
impartial witness, deposition not con- ,
elusive as to whether any effort wai
made to escape by Aneona. First in
Matat?as* danger when she was in din?
ing saloon. Disturbance on deck, '
stoppage or blowing of whistle, followed :
shortly by shots which struck vesiel. (
"Testimony pre?ase i probably means
proves, that bombardment lasted forty- |
live minutes and was continued after
vessel had stopped, killing and wound?
ing many persons. She taw destruction
vefsel by torpedo; saw red and white
flag and six cannon on lubmarinc.
Knows nothing as to other Americans.
"information Algiers and Biserta
considered to demonstrate conclusively
that thirteen vessels were sunk from
3d to 7th November by submarines,
going from GibralUr toward Aneona."
NAVY INFRINGEMENT
ON PATENT UPHELD
Government Has Right to Usa
Any Device, Court Decides.
The government has a right to make
temporary use of sny device upon
which a patent II granted, according to
a ruling made yesterday by Judge
Charles M. Hough in tiie federal Court
in an injunction action brought by the
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
against Basil J. Simon, a radio engi?
neer, of 94H Broadway. Judge Hough
said:
"The Navy Department has employed
?Simon to construct radio apparatus
?without which certain war vessels now
approaching completion cannot go into
coinmi"sion. If Simon doe? not com?
plete the articles for which he has con?
tracted injury to the naral arm of the
government will result; therefore, be
i causo of the assumption that Simon is
1 an lnfringer, the ordinary remedy
against him would injure an arm of
the government of the greatest im?
portance. No injunction will be is?
sue,!."
The Marcori company will appeal
from the decision. Kdward J: Nally,
vice-president of the wireless concern,
said:
"This decision raises a question
which Is of interest to all manufaetur
! ers of patented apparatus which may
1 he Bead by ?Brisas departments of the
'I'nited States government, and if
; Judge Hough's opinion is correct it is
? believer! that It will have an effect not
only on those engaged In wireless
telegraphy but also in many other
branches of industry."
WILSON DENOUNCED
BY J. BRISBEN WALKER
Peace Man Hints President Se?
cretly Aids Allies.
John Brisben Walker, national chair?
man of th<- Society "f tin- Friends of
I'eace. for two hours denounced Pr?si?
dent Wilson in a seventeen-page type?
written speech at Cooper I'nion last
' night. His theme wa< "Woodrow Wi!
. sun: Ha? He Stood for 'America
First V "
"Suppore a President should desire to
aid F.ngland and her Allies," said Mr.
I Walker. "Although he might have for
; hidden the construction of ships of war
' for nations engaged in the conflict, he
'? could connive at the secret, manufac
; turo of submarines in sections to be
transported out of the country and put
' together in Canada. He could allow
American ships sailing betwenn Ameri?
can ports to be seized and carried
away by an English cruiser."
"Outrage!" shouted a man in the au
i dience.
"Mr. Wilson has not hesitated to
quote the Baltimore platform when it
served his purpose," continued Mr.
Walker, "but he has publicly declared
that the declaration in it os to a sec?
ond term means nothing."
"But he won't get it," cried a man
near the platform. "He won't even get
a nomination," answered the speaker.
"He will one day stand exposed as
Roosevelt stands exposed to-day."
GARY COMMITTEE NAMED
Principals Appointed to Investigate
Workings of Plan in T*>o School?.
Thomas W. Churchill, president of
the Board of Education, announced
yeeterday the appointment of a seas?
Btittee Of principals to investigate the
operation "f the (Jury school plan in
Public School 8'J. III Brooklyn, and
Public School 43. in The Bronx. The
action was the result of the following
, t ion adopted recently by the
Brooklyn Principal.-,' Association;
'Reoolveo, That ,t is the consensus of
opinion of the Brooklyn Principals'
Association thai the Gary plan should
not be farther introduced into the
school system af Ni'-v Vork City until
its tdap'tatioii to our needs, practical
i value and superiority be demonstrated
j in the experiment now in progress."
The committee includes Linie A.
Rector, P. S. 4; Herman S. Platt. P. S.
i 46; Edward R. McGuiro, P. S. 8$, and
Helen A. Stein, of P. S. 159, Manhat
; tan; Loui? Marks, of P. S. 43, Bronx;
John W. Rafferty, P. S 19; Oswald
I Sehloekow, P. B. 109; Margaret Laing,
. P. S. 154, of Brooklyn; G. W. Dorland,
P. S. 27, Queens, and John J. Driscoll,
P. S. 10. Richmond.
FRENCH URGE USE OF GAS
, Senate Committee Favors Adoption of
Lerman Method,
Paris. Nov. 18. The Senate Army
i and NaT? Committee, presided over by
! GeorgCl Clemenceau, has passed a res
, olution urging the unrestricted use of
asphyxiating gas by French troops.
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CHIEFS SOUGHT
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Meloy, Held in Passport
Fraud, Reported Will?
ing to Tell All.
MORE IS LEARNED
OF VON NUBER MOVES
Information Expected to Lead to
Further Indictments, Depart?
ment of Justice Announces.
That government agents were close
i on the trsil of the leaders of thst
branch of th? German eon?plracy
which had for its especial mis?ion the
embroiling of this country with Mex?
ico was indicated yesterday after the
Federal Building had been buzzing for
hours with rumors that Andrew D.
Meloy, under indictment for alleged
connivance in passport frauds, wa?
seeking to make a "dicker" with those
who arc to prosecute hint. A correlated
, report was that should Meloy s ad?
vances meet with favor, Franz Rinte
len-Gates-Gasrhe-Hanson, now under
arrest in England, might sl?o have in?
teresting information to divulge.
Joseph M. I'roskauer, Meloy'? lawyer,
wa? surprised when the question of
hi? client's alleged willingness to talk
was put to him. Proikauer at first de?
nied he had visited II. Snowden Mar
| ?hall, I'nited States District Attorney.
? recently. Later, it was said, he ad?
mitted the visits.
It is believed that Meloy, should lie
decide to talk, might greatly increase
the government's ?tock of information
bearing on the successfully nipped
Huerta uprising. Rintelen, who is held
as a spy in England, is believed to
hive come to the United States to
foment trouble with Mexico, which
would have turned the output of Amer?
ican munitions into channels leading to
points nearer home. It -abb soon after
the plot was tupposed to have been
1 hatched in Barcelona that General
| Muerta emerged from retirement In
I that city.
Might Like to Return.
While Kintelen is under indictment
I in connection with the passport frauds,
; the offence is BOl extraditable. Dow?
! ever, the extremely delicate situation
in which he finds himself in Knjrland,
where thp cnortalitv rate BSBOnf ipy
suspects is notably high, tends to lend
color to reports -.f l.:s willingness 'o
return to the I'nited States.
With the reports in regard to Meloy
and Kintelen then ?TON SVfdoBOOS Of
, unusual activity in the Podara] Build?
ing. Assistant I'nited States Attorneys
Wood, Knox and Sarfaty, who are m
charge o? various prosecutions growing
out of German conspiracy expos?s, held
a conference with -Superintendent Will?
iam OfTley and other officials of the De?
partment of Justice's bureau of inves?
tigation.
A clew to the direction taken by the
conference was supplied by a transla?
tion of the wur book of the German
. General Staff, which was obtained from
Judge E. Henry LoCOBsbo, of tho Fed?
eral court, and repeatedly consulted by
1 the eoafemes. At the eloss o? the
meeti.ig these paragraphs [aj the trans?
lation were found to have been under?
scored:
"Bribery of the enemy's subjects
with the object of obtaining military
advantages, acceptance of offers of
treachery, reception of deserters, uti?
lization of the discontented element in
the population, support of pretenders
and the like are permissible. Indeed,
; international law is in no way opposed
' to the exploitation of the crimes of
: third parties assassination, incendiar
1 ism, robbery and the like to the preju?
dice of the enemy.
| Must Not Let Advantages Slip.
"Considerations of chivalry, generos
? ity and honor mav denounce in such
1 cases a hasty and unsparing exploits
tion of such advantage? as indecent
and dishonorable, but lav, whieh is
l?*s touchy, sllowi it. The ugly and
inherently immoral BSPOCt St IB a
method* cannot affect the recognition
of their lawfolaees. The necessary ala?
, of war gives ;he bollis*erea1 'In- right
'and iii.po.-.-- -.u .?n him according to
circumstances the duty BOl to 1st slifl
thp important it may be d.-eisive ad?
vantages to 94 ICBifMd kf *:it'l> means."
Another report In eireolation was
that Special Ag.rat McG.e. of the De?
partment of Justice, had located in a
| iiouse on the Last Side documents eOO?
? necting secret agents of the Central
Powers with recent strikes and explo?
sions in munitions plant*. Like the
? other rumors this could not be veri
: fied. All that came from official sources
i was a hint that "Italian Secret Service
. men are very busy."
Alexander von Nuber de Pereked,
'? Austro-Hungarian consul in Now YoA,
: took occasion briefly to deny reports
that his recall was immminent. Orar
the telephone iros? his quarters in the
' Metropolitan (Tub. he said:
"I know nothing about it. Bad I
i am too busy to bother nth BJOSsia."
More May Be Indicted
in Passport Plots
Washington. Nov. 1*. Further la?
: < ?stigation of the activitie. of Aus
! trian I onsul General vor. Nabar and
his associates will be made by th S
Department of Justice BS a result of
yesterday's conference in New York
between A. Bruce Bielaski, fjaief of tin
Bureau of Investigations, and Dr.
.Joseph Coricar. former Austrian COB?
sul. A department statement announc
I ing this to-night also Mid that infor?
mation had been obtained which prob
l ably would lead to further indictments
I for passport frauds. The announce?
ment follows:
?'Mr. Bielaski. chief of the bureau of
, investigations of the Department^ o?
? Justice, returned this morning ai'er
' his visit to New York, during whicn he
? conferred with Mr. Rathom, editor of
?The Providence Journal.' and Dr. Gor
1 icar. While Dr. Gorie.ir may not bo
' able to testify directly to sll matten
undrr investigation, much information
of a ralnabts nature was obtoiotd eoa
cerning the activities of Austrian''on?
sul General von Nubcr sad I ill as?oci
atrs. the deta'!- of svhich cannot, bt dis?
do ed at present. Prompt in.estiga
tion. however, will b<- BSBOt. Ir.torma
! tior." lilao wa? obtained which probably
Will load to further indictments for
parsport fraud.-."
Formal denial of all these allegations
? was made to the State Department SBV?
! eral days ago by the Austro-llungariun
Kmbassy. and thi? was followed to-day
by a dispatch from Baron Bunan, Aiu
> trian Foreign Minister, authorizing
Baron SwiodiaOB, charge of the Km
bassy, to make "categorical and official
denial of these invention?." Ths mes?
sage follows:
pr. t'oncar recently charged, in puh
liahed ?tetessoBl ?, 'hut the Aostro-Raa?
ganan conaular servie?- in this coun
1 try. under th?? diriction of ?onsul Gen?
eral von Nuber and CoOBl von Peru*
storrT. German Ambsvsador, carried on
propaganda for fomenting strikes m
munition? plants.
"According to Leuter | Reuter Tele?
gram t'ompenyi former Au?tro-Hun
garian CobsbI Garlear, '-a- made
! totall- falso statements ?B "Pro-, idenec
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tee of the American Ked Cross, mak
?i correction of recently published i
ports concerning the shipment of an
tetanus serum to Austria. Mr. Tl
points out that the reports have ll
mated that the Austrian Consulate
I New York plotted to obtain possessi
of the cases of scrum, which had be'
;>repare<l by the New York City Boa
of Health. In justice to the Austrii
Consul (ieneral, Mr. Taft, on behalf
the Bed Cross, denies the intimati?
,ii" the published reports.
"The American Red Cross," says M
Taft in his statement, "had a consig
ment of eleven boxes of anti-tetpm
serum prepared by the New York Cil
Hoard of Health for the Austrian Hi
Cross. Eight boxes only ware receivi
in time r'or shipment, the remainir
hrt-e box<?s arriving a day or tu
late. . . . The Red Cross agei
telephoned to the Austrian Consula
asking if it could find some means ?
sending over these additional thn
boxes. The consulate, through the coui
tesy of Mrs. Hurd and Mr. V.'edl, wi
able to make arrangements for th
shipment. The steamer was to sail o
June 1. early in the morning. May 3
was a holiday, and our agent recueste
that these boxes be taken by the cor
mu?ate on Saturday. ... It wai
therefore, in compliance with the rt
iiuest of the uger.t of the Red Cros
that the consulate sent for the boxe
mi Saturday, holding them until earl;
; Tuesday, when they were sent to th
-teamer."
Washington Hears Plots
Caused Fires at Bethlehem
!By T?lf?r?,?i to Tr.a Trillin. 1
Washington. Nov. 18. Department ol
Justice agents were dispatched to Beth?
lehem to-day to investigate what is
tailed direct evidence that the Bethle?
hem Works shop ten days ago was de
itroysfl as the result ?f a plot.
This inquiry was undertaken after
A. ?rute Biel?tki had a talk with Dr.
Josef fioricnr, ex-Austro-Hunganan
I'ousul. and is based on information
gathered bv Chief of the Secret Service
rlvnn. If the inquiry verities the data
?here trill be several arrests and a num?
ber of foreign consul? will be invited
ta depart. The agents will also go to
1 Kddystone after a visit to Bethlehem,
? as the search leads directly from the
Bethlehem fire to the fire at the Bald
' win locomotive Works munition plant
I there. It is declared both !':re? were
' the work of the same plot and due to
? propaganda which had its iiir?ption
? in the activities of Dr. Dumba, the re
1 called Austrian Ambassador.
TOO PROUD TO DIG.
THEY'LL WAR NO MORE
Cavalry That Disdained En?
trenching Tool Cut Down.
Dunkirk, France, Oct. 31. Next to
his rifle, every soldier values most of
all his intrenching tool, which consist?
? of a small wooden handle not" quite
two feet long and a detachable iron
cross-piece with a pick at one end and
a sharp, narrow spade at the other.
Men cling to their intrenching tools
when they have had to discard nearly
every other article of equipment. A
, roan without an intrenching tool feels
1 that he is of rather less value as a
soldier than if he had no uniform.
Without this little pick and spade he
; must lie out in the open after an ad?
vance, instead of scraping for himself
a little mound for cover.
Frequently the tired infantryman,
after ten or twelve hours of fighting,
must struggle from dusk to midnight
with his intrenching tools. Not until
his cover is snug does the soldier
dare to curl himself up in his pit and
take the coveted forty winks in prep?
aration for the counter attack which is
almost certain to come before dusk.
, A soldier's letter tells about a Brit?
ish regiment that boasted they did not
dig. "It was a very gallant regiment,"
? he writes, "with a large share in the
? battle honors of Britain's past wars.
, They had charged at Balaclava; ?hey
had fought in every corner of the
globe. But they nad not been taught
'. to dig; it was beneath them. They
were nominally a cavalry regiment,
with a cavalry regiment's foolish ideas
of caste. , .
"And here is what happened to them,
not far from Mons. The regiment h*^
been rushed into a gap to cover the
flank of an infantry brigade Because
they were dismounted, an infantry offi?
cer offered them some friendly ad?
vice, urging them to provide them?
selves with some kind of cover.
"But they laughed. tm>k their posi
' 'ion. and lay down in the open. Poor,
gallant fellows! Ten minutes later a1
battery' found them and sprayed them
"ttort cupa in a round,
more lov la a cup."
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ITALIAN SAILINGS CANCELLED
Order Pouted by Agent? Affect? All
Line's Ships Here.
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Italian Line, posted I notice in that!
offices, 1 State Street, last evening v. h;rii
stated that all sailing! ef their liai
out of thi? port for foreign potts have
been cancelled until further notice.
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