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BUSINESS CHANCES IN BRAZIL.
Roger W. Babion writes entertainingly in
next Sunday's SUN of the wonderful
natural reiourcea of this huge
South American country.
THE WEATi
wt
AST. '
morrow J
Showers to
settfl
light
.Winds.
Highest temperature
k.. . . . 1 4 .
Detailed wen'har, mall
rtfftnteportB on page 13.
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yOU LXXXII. NO. 304.
OSE REJECTS
MRS. BECKER'S
PLEA FOR HELP
uamwer Tens Jiow Last
M mm -t-e -.- .
Sfossngc From "Cliariie''
Never Was Delivered.
IX SCHEPPS'S STOKE
U'ked Nerve Later Even to
'all the Doomed Man's
Wife on Phone.
"If a word from mc would free Decker
from the death house I would say thnt
word gladly," said Jack Hose, the bald
ti.tramhler nnd Informer, n he nnl lnt
night In tho home of Hcglnald Wright
L'.Mtfmon Ihn ,l , r I ., h ( nn.l IahU.1
with nil the force of hid unique person-
Kitty llmt Decker's conviction was the
result nf a "frnltieiin."
"1 testified nt three trial nnd I told
inn aniTinn. nv ma unr,,a u in i.i'di an
jrcflnger. "I tuld the truth and I any
again, Decker instigated the murder
1 ltOHcnthal. I nm sorry for him, sorry
i 1 am for any man In tho death
nn.1 If f rt .1.1 tittt.t him t u.n..1,l
II lllill LUII J UU J 1 Ulll IIUL UCUHCr B
rsocutor, neither am I his liberator,
merely have told the truth."
Thee the desire to answer nil the
Hacks thnt have been made on him
Hiring the last singes of the fight to
nvo Decker's life broke down the bar-
' icr,of reserve thai Itose has main
tained so long nnd he poured forth a
alo that held the writer of fiction silent
In ndmlratlon of Its climaxes.
Hose told of the weeks In which mcs
enger after messenger from Decker's
I'rlends came to him with appeals to do
omethlng to aid the man he had helped
I 'nil to tho chair, his emotions as he
A fused them because he felt ho could
7 nothing without committing perjury,
II id finally of last Sunday when Mrs.
-cker went to him with a final mes-
ge from "Charlie," a message which
is never delivered.
Telia About Meeting.
nose was moved to reveal this because
' the publication In an evening paper
stcrday of a story that he had met
rs. Decker and promised to go to Gov.
hitman In an attempt to get clem-
cy for her husband. Hose charac-
'..rlzed tho story as preposterous the
'ay It wax printed, and then made his
wn explanation of the meeting with
"I had not been In New York for five
tnilM until lnat MaftirHnt h. at.1.1
1 'having spent all my time In Medford,
'Mas?., and Honton. working In connec
tion with my moving picture business.
Hut all this time agents and messengers
from tho Decker camn have come to me
isKinf me tn neln Hecuer. Ttiev nnvitr
iinu IHA ntlltllfIA innl no wn nnr mnrnllv
guilty, but that a way out could be
fill, nit f.it him tl.r,,ih n I n ,r ( 1 tdnhnlnul.
(.now what It was.
J "It was not In my agreement with the
' ilstrlct Attorney thnt 1 should have any
mnectton with the case after I finished
-siuying, uiui i siiiuiiu ue uccKer a per--uior,
that I should help In earning
the order of the court. Time heals
li wounds and I would gladly help
lecker, lui . 1 was forced to tell them
nil lu nil iv iiuwuiiK..
"Then last Saturday I enme here on
iiiiiivoi i,ii. i nun i.ivi iitui uiicinuvii
another agent of Reciter's. I cannot
II u'hfi ha H" u aTPant In Iha T 1 ! f r I r'i
ttorney. 1 will tell him if he wishes to
tints.' Till. n.vt ilfiv Sllltwlm Him
-cnopps caueu me up ai my noiei unu
lure in fcit-iuu uvi-iiue. i nciiL or
mil Ihnrn 1 rriiiml him tnllrlnrr ivltt, nn.
.....
"1 talked with them some time, lean-
iig on the counter, my back to the door.
nu then I noticed that tho men stopped
liking and turned tow j id the door."
Ill Voire Ilrenks.
Hose's voice, which Is deep nnd res
nant, and which had been swinging
. (..nu In lha naAmnnua tV.n mnlru l.ln.
ne to whom It Is a pleasure to listen,
P.1A nrt.1 Via milns 1 .nr.... An,
.ui.w u . i v. ..v rtu.'vu ..win. tti,
"I turned around .and there In the
Vloorwny saw Mrs. Becker." he went on.
"ou can Imagine how I felt. It was
the drst time I had seen her since th
trl.il. I stood there faring her. unable
to talk. I don't know how long It was
tiut It seemed ages. Finally I spoke to
1 wnmen io see ; ou. sue saw, ana
ne iibkfu me to uo .suuieiiuiig lor
lecker. I told ho as I told all the
thcrs that 1 could do nothing, 'Hut you
now my nusuann is innocent, sno salu.
t hllV'm1 thit t'n.t lrti.,n l.nx- t
! i."i?d three times ycu know It would
Like me out to be a perjurer,' I told
" 'I have admired jou for your loyalty,
r your love for your husband,' I suld
, her, 'as every one has mlmlred you
ml respected you. Hut this meeting
ss none of my ch' oslng, and now you
llmt stand for the conpeiiuenres,' I said,
Von know that Decker la guilty as
ll I added
"Vou must have a dictograph In heie
o talk like that,' she slid, anil I told
er that 1 didn't have a dictograph, that
even know that I was cnnilng
til Sohepns nailed me, and that
i Idea of seeing her. After a
said 'I want to talk to ynu,
up at my house, I can't
' I arked her why. nnd she
ward nnd whispered, '1 have
from nmllo.' "
time KaufYintin was leaning
II orgettlng to smoke, listening
-M ils mlpl Itoiie was perched
' I n.. IV .1.... .. I. I.. I. I
III II iihu in iiib at'llli 111
i tier ling and brnlien, He
nder thu stresi of emotion and
tild hi-ar whs the beating of the
lil(i. Itoxc heard It too, and lis
r a miimeiii, then straightened
went on
.lemen. 1 nm human nnd there
.ne situations that are utmost too
much to bear. I wanted to get nway, get
away from the most uncomfortable sit
uation I have ever been In. I could nut
stand It any longer. So I told fier that
I would not go to her house, but that If
she would give me her telephone num
ber I would call her up the next day
and she could deliver the message, t
took It" Hose pulled nn envclopo from
his pocket nn-1 read from the back of It
Die number he had Jotted down..
"Dut when Monday came I could not
do It," he went on. "I waited all day
trying to make up my mind to telephone,
but couldn't. Then the next day I
nsked 'Inch, my friend here, to call up
the number and tell whoever answered
It that the person who wns to have
called up the dny before would not call"
up and could not meet her. That wa.
all there was to thu story that I called
up Mrs. Decker and offered to go to (lov.
W hitman. I would have given anything
to have avoided the meeting. I could
not help her. How the meeting was
arranged 1 do not know yet. Schcpps
said he didn't know anything about It.
"As for tho chargo of 'frame up,'
these people forget all that 1 did at
first In trying to exculpate Decker. The
day after the shooting Decker told me
to go Into hiding, and 1 did. I signed an
allldavlt saying that he had nothing to
do with It. When I gave myself up 1
still denied thnt Decker wns Implicated.
At the District Attorney's otllce I said
the only statement 1 wanted to malto
wag that I did not know Decker except
as a man who raided my gambling
house.
"In the Tombs Plltt, Decker's mes
senger, kept coming to me, nnd 1 told
him to tell Charlie not to worry. I
had been raised In an environment In
which It was the law that "Thou shall
not squeal.' nnd I Intended to live up
to It. Does nil thnt look ns If there
hnd been u 'frnmeup'?
"I did not turn against Decker until
I found that everybody was getting
from under, that he felt safe behind
that allldavlt of mine, that I was being
abandoned, nnd the Instinct of setr.
preservation asserted Itself. I went In
with Webber when he decided to tell,
and from that time on I told tho truth."
Mnrtln T. Mnnton, Decker's lawyer,
will go to Albany to-day to uen (lov.
Whitman.
BANKER IS KILLED BY
PTOMAINES-IN CHEESE
Col. Mntlicwson of Nonvulk,
Conn., Dead Ten Others
Critically 111.
South N'orwalk, Conn., June 30.
Col. Edwin II. Mnthewson. a prominent
shoe manufacturer and banker and con
sidered the wealthiest man In Norwalk.
died this noon of ptomaine poisoning
caused by eating cream cheese. Ten
other residents of the city are critically
III from the same cause.
The cheese was eaten at dinner last
evening, nnd soon afterward Col.
Mnthtwson became 111 and was In great
pnln. Three doctors worked nil night
In an effort to save his life, but he died '
Juat before noon to-day. Miss Maude
Evans, a servant, also ate some of the
cheese and became seriously III, but re
sponded to treatment.
The other victims nre Mr. nnd Mrs.
Albert Wellnlts, their son nnd daughter,
Lena and William ; Frank McOulrk. Miss
Ellen Merrill, Henry W. Merrill. Mies
Maude Evans and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Stevenson. Early in the day It was be
lieved some of them would die, but after
constant medical attention It Is thought
to-night that they will recover.
Col. Mathewson was G7 years old and
had been long a resident of Norwalk.
He was head of Kounsbury, Mathewson
t Co., a large shoe manufacturing Ilrm:
wns president of the City Natlonnl Hank
and of several other organizations, and
was connected with many more. He was
prominent socially here.
Col. Mnthewson was a Colonel on the
staff of (lov. I'hlneas I.bunsbury. Ha
was n member of many clubs, Including
the New York Athletic Club.
"INDIANS" HURT IN MOVIE WAR
Woman and Man Hntlly InJlirril
When Horses Dear nnd Fall.
Hackknhaci;, N, J., June .10. Sirs.
I.otlle Aldrldge, 28, an expert rider,
fresh from the West, and Alexander
Hall, both movie actors In tho employ
of the l'eerless Film Company of Fort
I.re, were badly Injured during nn
Inllnn war cene enacted along tlio
I'alhades near Fort I.ee early Inst eve
ning. Mrs. Aldrldge Is believed to be fatally
Injured. She waa taking the part of an
Inrt'an princess in the battle, Dresso-J
In a characteristic buckskin costume, with
feathers nnd war paint, she rode a
spirited horse, on which wan only :i
blanket. During the shooting the horco
reared, fell over, backward and landed
on lis rider. Hall, too, waa hurt by a
falling hortto. He Is sevorely bruised
nnd Buffers from a severe laceration on
the right "houMer. Doth patients are 4n
Knglewood Hospital.
OLDEST ALUMNUS DIES.
lr. .f. F, Mralpk, lOti, Iterelted
lluttters Diploma In INII4,
New Dbunbwick, N. J., June 30. Dr.
John F. Meslck, who died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs, John dross, In
Yotk, I'a.i to-day, was the oldest col
lege graduate In this country. I In died
at the aqn of 102 years and was vuledlc
toilan nf his class In 1X31 at Itulgcm
CollegH heie.
Dr. .Meslclt was Iwrn In Albany, N.
V. Following his graduation he en
tered the Theological Seminary lure nnd
was graduated In 1S37. At the time of
j his dentil he had been In the ministry
! seventy-eight years,
WALL STREET VS. SING SING.
Stock r.xi'liHnitr Employees In I'lay
llnsrlinll With Convicts.
The New York Stock Exchange, em
ployees' baseball team Is Kolng to r'.ny
tho Sing Sing "nine" on July 4 o.i tho
hitter's home grounds. The arrange
ments were completed yeste-day by n
letter reeeUed at the exchange from
Hugh McDonald, president of tho Mu
tual Welfare League of Sing Sing,
Ariangemenls have been made fur the
Stock Hxchango employees to be met nt
the nation nnd conducted to the prison
grpiiuil'.
UHKAl litCAH 8fRIN WATKB.
lie. th cms ( six (Ims stepysreU tattles,
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1915 . Copyright, 11C, by the Hint Printing
DOWNPOUR FLOODS
HOMES; STARTS FIRE
riKlci'iiiiiicd (Ins 1 ii iii Ignited
Subwny Doliipod nt
Times Square.
MOIIK THAN INCH OK HAIX
Sewers Hack l'p nnd Houses in
West End Avenue Dis
trict Suffer.
All the boroughs and a large section
of the Atlantic Coast States were flooded
last night by one of the worst storms,
unattended by electrical display, that
have Ht New York In many months1. The
rainfall In two hours ending nt 11 o'clock
wns mora than nn Inch and the local
prophet said he could not tell when the
hole In the sky might be plugged.
Sharp squalls from the south, south
cast and east drove the water In spin
drift suggestive clouds ntong the as
phalted streets, making them momen
tarily resemble rivers.
The torrents of rain ran Into a sewer
excavation In West Thirtieth street, be
tween Seventh and Eighth avenues, and
undermined the supports of a partly ex
posed six Inch gas main, which brolie
shortly after 11 o'clock last night with
a crash and roar as the gas became
Ignited by a street lamp.
Firemen found that on the south side
or the street was the Martinique Renting
Auto nnd Qnrage, containing several
barrels of gasolene nnd many automo
biles. The gas line was covered nnd
the cars pushed to safety. Across the
street Is the Church of St. John tni
Daptlst, from which the sisters were as
sisted. The pollen also ordered All resi
dents of tho block out of their hoUMt,
fearing more explosions.
Just ns the lost of these left twenty
five ftt of sidewalk In front of 219
West Thirtieth street, undermined alto
by the water, caved In, leaving a pit
several feet deep. It was over an hour
before the gas main cutoff could be
found, and meantime firemen continued
to play water on the main to keep It
cool, but were unable to control the
sheet of flame from the lighted gas
which rose twenty-five feet In the air
mil drew a big crowd.
When the storm was at Its height the
sewers tn the Longacrn 'Building nt the
corner of Fort) -second :reet and Broad
way backed up and se..t a flood of two
Inches of water over th ground floor
nnd Into the uptown station of the sub
way, which connects directly with the
building. The flood poured from the
sinks and basins of the barber shop on
the basement floor, as well as from the
subway lavatory.
Hundreds of theatregoers waiting on
the subway platform were caught In
the flood and soaked. Workmen were
called In a. hurry to push the water Into
the roadbed of the subway with boards,
but the Jnpour was so great that no
headway could be made until the storm
let up nearly an hour later. Outside
of the soaking of patrons with low cut
shoes, no damage was done. The flood
entered the engine room of the building,
but owing to the dynamos being ele
vated, the lights were not put out.
A wedding party of about eighty per
sons In the rathskeller of Max Voll's
Alhambra Garden, beneath the Alhambrn
Theatre, 126th street and Seventh ave
nue, wa broken up by the backing up of n
sewer. In n short time twenty Inches or
water was In the room. The wedding
party was for Otto Voll. brother of the
proprietor, who yesterday married Miss
IxjuIsc Keyser of llrooklyn. The men
carried the women to the theatre floor
and out Into the street.
Overcharged sewers backed up In the
district bounded by Amsterdam and
West End avenues and Fifty-ninth and
Sixty-eighth streets and water flowed
Into many basements and cellars. Tim
apartments of numerous Janitors were
flooded.
The nautical forecasters say that
there will be more water from aloft to
day and that it will be "unsettled"
to-morrow, which may mean stilt more
rain.
CRIME RAMPANT IN RAIN.
.Murder, StabliluR and Bomb Ki
l"loli i the East Hide,
Here are a few of the Incidents of a
inlny night on the East Side:
At 10:50 o'clock Oldvunnl Donatl, 510
East Eleventh street, was stabbed In
front of 17S First u venue and tukeu to
llellevuB Hospltnl. His assailant got
away.
At 10:55 Ave shots were heHrd In Eliz
abeth stivet. nnd a man was found In
the rain tilled gutter nenr Illeecker
street, dead, with three bullet wounds In
his body. He had a wooden left leg.
At 11 :10 a bomb went off In the base
ment of 17 Stanton street and blew out
the front of a store.
TENNIS CHAMPION ARRESTED.
(ins. mvp Tout'liard llrlil for Theft
nf (ioir Units Worth W-iNH.
Oustave Touchnrd, former national In-
, door tennis champion, was nrrested last
evening by Detectives .Medium nnd Dl
vanney of the second brunch, charged
with stealing $288 worth of golf balls
from the firm of Abercromble & Fitch,
dealers In sporting goods at 53 West
Thirty-sixth street, where he Is em
plo)ed ns n salesman,
It was charged that Touchard took
tho balls out of the store In large quan
tities In u suitcase, He wns freed on
ball of 11.000.
Mr. Touchnrd Is a son-in-law of Jablsh
Holmes of 10S Enst Seventy. eighth
street. Ills wife, thp former Miss Eme
tine Williams Holmes, died on May 30,
1914, The couple were married on Oc
tober 11, inn.
Tnucliard filed a petition In bank
luptry In 1912, giving his liabilities as
$3,0.13 and his assets as $12, He has
figured largely In tennis affairs. He Is
20 years old.
WHITE HOUSE LETTERS; CELL.
Austrian Nnlesmnii Arrested by
I. M. Hverrt Service Aiienls.
Itudulph Malik, an Austrian saler
man, who recently came to this cnuntrv,
was arrested Inst night nt his home, 1489
First avenue, by I'nlted States seoret
servlco agents, uud locked up In Iho
Oreenwlch street police station.
Onlers for Malik's nrrnit came fr tin
Chief Flynn In Washington. It was said
that the Austrian will ha rburged with
sending threatening letters to the White
House.
ART CRITIC KILLED IN BATTLE.
Dr. Hans (Ireren, Well Knnnn
Here as Expert on Paintings.
W. E. D. Stokes yesterday received
news that Dr. Hans Qreven, Lieutenant
of the Iteserve In the German nrmy, nnd
known as one of the youngest nnd most
advanced art critics, was killed In action
on May 20.
Dr. Qreven was well known In Ameri
can art circles, having paid frequent
visits to this country to study. Ills
father Is an Intimate friend of Mr.
Stokes. He was the Inventor of the
photographic process by which Imitations
of famous paintings can be detected by
enlarging the paintings' twenty times,
the authenticity being established by
the unmlstnkable Individual "stroke" of
the respective masters.
RECRUITING PLOT WIDENS,
tl. Condnrtlns; Inquiries Else
where Than In California.
Wasiiinoton, June 30. The Depart
ment of Justice to-day admitted that
other Federal Grand Juries besides that
In California have been Investigating
the recruiting of soldiers for the Euro
pean war.
Only as arrests are mndc will tho
extent of the Inquiry be revealed. That
Immenie sums have been spent Is the
Departments theory, based on the ap
parent outlay In California nlone, where
there Is said to be evidence of lno,000
being used.
Representatives of foreign Govern
ments who Inquired to-day wcro In
formed that the return of reservists to
the colors constitutes no violation of
neutrality, the American law Intervening
only when the recruiting of othera Is
attempted.
200,000 MAY BE IDLE
IN CHICAGO TO-DAY
Building Material Makers to
Lock Out Their Men to
Break Cnrpenters Strike.
Ciiicaoo, June JO. Chicago must be
Cln to-morrow to bear an economic loss
of more than $500,000 a day. Unless the
building contractors and material men
surrender the loss threatens to continue
Until the Chicago carpenters' union agrees
to general arbitration. Both sides nre
determined they shall not yield. The
situation affects almost all business men
and 26,000 homes In the city and
suburbs. Employers estimate that even
tually 200.000 men will be made Idle.
Preparations for the big shutdown to
morrow, night of the plants of the allied
building construction material Interests
were made to-day by the members of the
executive committee In charge of the
lockout.
The committee met In the rooms of
the ButldeiA Club In the Chamber of
Commerce Building and mado all neces
sary arrangements for laying off men,
shutting off fires In lime kilns and brick
yards, shipment of horses to pasture and
for watchmen to serve during the nhut
down period.
Members of the committee made care
ful estimates of the number of em
ployees to be laid otT. In the neighbor
hood of 10,000 men directly employed
by the material Interests, It was said,
will be effected by the closing of the
plants. This Includes more than 1,000
teamsters and automobile truck drivers.
That the shutdown will be piuctlcally
airtight was shown by the number of
lumber yards and brick yards which will
close. The yaids are those of the big-
fest companies In Chicago. The list
noludes forty-three lumber yards and
sixty-five common and face brick estab
lishments. Closing of these lumber and brick
concerns alone has the effect of practi
cally shutting off all building construc
tion work. Without lumber and brick
contractors are unable to continue oper
ations. This will throw out of woik auto
matically all building trades crafts In
Chicago and Cook county an soon ns
the material the contractors have on
hand now Is used up.
Unless the Independent carpenter con
tractors, who have signed up with the
union on the basis of "u cents nn
hour, are enabled to Import supplies
from other cities, tho shutdown will
throw out of work the 11,000 carpenters
who luivo returned to work since the
strike began.
GIRL IS SEASIDE MAYOR.
Atlantic City's Comptroller, Miss
Tonnaend, Is tetlliK Executive.
Atlantic Citv, N. J June 30. Miss
Bessie May Townsend, the only girl
comptroller In the United States, to-day
had the distinction of being acting
Mayor.
Mayor William Middle, In celebration
of his lUty-flfth birthday, took Ills
brother commissioners off on a flshlmt
trip trom which they will not return
until to-morrow. Miss Townsend. as tlu
next ofllclnl In line became Mayor. She
nssumed her honors modestly. The oniy
thlng In the dny's routine nt which she
balked was marrying a happy couple
who rought her out. She lef erred them
to Recorder (iasklll.
SHELLS POOR; 43 LOSE JOBS.
Charges Hade nt (ieriuan ln
ftnrncra In Coiim-i'tliMit Fiit'tory.
WATriinuitT, Conn., June 30. Olllcers
of the Scovllle Company here became
suspicious of forty-three men at work
In one room of tho factory to-dny and
discharged all of them. The men had
been employed In mnklng shrapnel shells
for the Allies. There were twenty-two
women nl work In the loom nnd they
went on strike when they learned of the
treatment of their fellow workers.
Many of the shells manufactured by
the Scovllle Company hnve been tefused
by the British Inspectors, nnd It has
been said openly that Herman Influences
were responsible for conditions nt the
factory.
Thero were four large lots, ench u
4,000 shells, sent tn Capo Cod I'plnt,
The value was $70,000 and out nf n
standard lot thirty were tested and found
wanting. Nearly all exploited prema
turely, showing, the Inspectors said, thnt
they had been tampered with In piocess"
of manufacture ou the benches.
BERLIN CENSORSHIP
PASSES PEACE PLEA
Socialist Party Issues Serond
Appeal Cull luff for End
of War.
WANT XO TEIMMTOKY
Doeiiinent Says French nnd
llolfrian Socialists Oppose
Settlement.
nf.iu.iv, Juno 30. The governing
board of the Socialist party Issued to
day ii mnnlfesto, passed by tho censor,
calling upon the Government In tho namo
of ''humanity nnd culture" to begin
pence negotiations. The nppent Is nn
nmpllflcat Ion of the one whloh nriieorenl
recently In t'ortenrrfa, the ofllclal organ
of tho party, for which that newsiier
wns suppressed by the Government.
The Soolnllstn of nil natlona which
are fighting Germany are called upon to
Join with tho German SoclallHts In nn
endeavor to bring about it settlement of
tho Issues for which the war Is wag).
The efforts of the German Socialist lead
ors to prevent war are reviewed nnd
regret Is expressed that these efforts
were too weak "to litem the tide of the
world conflagration." It Is said that
the advance mndc to the Soclallnta of
Great Britain have) been recelve.1 In
good part, but thnt tluwi directed to the
Socialists of France nnd Belgium have
been met with disdain.
"Tho German Socialists," the nppenl
says, 'Vxpcot that their frlontbt In other
belligerent countries will tnko the name
steps. French and Belgian Socialist
leaders stubbornly demand tho destruc
tion of Germany, njl In eplte of some
peaceful groui tho large massos nml
the leaders of the Socialist parties In
those countries appear rlrmly resolved to
continue the war until Germany is com
pletely defeated.
The German Socialist party baa
loyally kept Its word to stand by the
people nnd the Fnthorlnnd. The fate of
East 1'ruaxla nt the hands of the Rus
sians shows what threatened a disunited
Gormany."
The statement repeats that the Ger
irnn Socialists are opposed to war for
tho purpose of annexation and explains
that the publication was planned for nn
earlier date hut wns postponed because
of the declaration of war between Aus
trla and Italy.
Balancing the effect of this statement
by the Socialists the Oversens Neivs
Akgoncy has Issued the following :
"The Socialist liMder Dr. Kolb 4y.is
published a pamphlet In which he says
that the Socialist party Is at the parting
of the. ways. He declares that the- wjfir
has tied a new band around the wkple
Oernxin people and the monarchy. Tlu
Socialists, ho says, should cease to flght
against so-called mllltnrlsm, as they
should be convinced that their advocacy
of a mllltla system for the nrmy Is no
longer tenable. They sliould realize
that their task Is above all national,
thnt they must become capable uf par
liamentary action, as the party Is other
wise doomed to absolute and perpetuil
lack of Influence,"
When the first Socialist appeal to thft
Government to boa In peace negotiations
was published In roncnerfs the paper
was Immediately suspended by the Gov
rrnu.ent on th ground that the appeal
was detrimental to the Intere.ts of the
empire.
The nppeil demanded that no attempt
be made on the part of the Government
to ncqulif new territory. The document
contained nn exposition of the attitude
of Hi.- Socialist party throughout the
war. The statement published ester
day with the consent of the ceiifor Is
In substance a repetition of the first ap
peal h hleli was suppressed, Consider
able significance naturally nttaoh-s
Itself to the fact that tho appeal w.i
passed by the censor.
SIGNS OF WAR'S ErD
SEEN BY SOCIALISTS
Lenders lleri- (live Vlt-vin on
IM-iil Immii'iI In (termini) .
Tile appeal made by the German
Socialists to their Government to begin
peace negotiations was received with
keen satisfaction by leaders of social
ist thought In this city. They agree
that tho union taken by the govern
ing board of the German Socialist party
Is really the first Indication that the
war can be ended In the iiear,fiUi!re,
the. Ilrst sigh that Germany, ns well as
other natlona Involved, Is weary of
the terrible sacrifice of men and money
and economic resourcea.
Allan 1,. Benson, one of the best
known socialist authois, .Morris 1 1111
qnlt, a lender of the Soclnllst party In
this country, and Congressman .Meyer
Loudon believe the fai l that the mnnl
festo of the Germnii Socialists was per
mitted by the German Government to
go to the public after being silenced
previously Is highly Nlgiilllciuit us prob
ably indicating that the German Gov
ernment Is now willing to consider
peace negotiations, These leaders think
there Is nn excellent chance that
Socialists in countries fighting Gerniaiiy
wlll fall III line with the proposals
made by the German Socialists.
"The manifesto liullcntes to mu," said
.Mr. Benson at Ills homo in Vonkeis yes
terday, "that tho Gorman people are
really In favor of pence, Their nttl
tude Is In i-outradlhtlnctlou to the attl
lure of Him ruling class of Gernmii.
Imposed I'piui, lie a.
"Hitherto nil classes In Get'iniiny
hnve been united through fear fear
that their national existence wax in
danger. If the German people and the
German Socialists hnd known before
the war began that their own ruling
clnss and not Kuglaiul or Kronen or
Itussla was their real enemy there could
have been no war.
"Hut tint people mid the Socialists
were imposed upon, They didn't want
war. but they were, told over uud over
again and Dually made to bolleve that
Germany waa being attacked nnd that
the Katheiiand was In peril nf destruc
tion. Now that Hiieh nn nigiiuient can
no lunger have the slightest force It Is
only natural that the people generally
nnd the Socialists In particular lire be-
Coiiflnticd on Second i'uys.
ami Piiblhhing Aociatlon.
NINETEEN AMERICANS LOST
WITH SHIP FROM U. S PORT
SUNK IN SUBMARINE WAR
PRESIDENT WILL NOT ACT
TILL HE LEARNS ALL FACTS
WiNDSon, Vt June 30. President Wilson will suspend judRmcnt
nnd action regarding the reported torpedoing of the Armenian off Cornwall,
hngland, with loss of American lives, until all the farts arc fully and officially
determined,
Unofficial advices of the ship's loss were received by the President
to-night. In the absence of complete and official Information regarding
the reported complication no comment was forthcoming from the President.
Washington authorities, it was believed, were delaying communication
with the President until the exact status of the British vessel is established.
Thero was no indication to-night that the President would summarily
end his vacation ahead of time and return to the capitnl because of the
new complication In the German submarine warfare negotiations.
Secretary of State Lansing passed through New Yk to-night en route
from Amherst, Mass., to Washington. It was stated at Hurlnkenden that
no word had come from him. Mr. Lansing will determine whether tho
President's presence in Washington is necessary or desirable.
Up to the time the President retired at 10 o'clock no word from Wash
ington had been received regarding the Armenian's loss, and it was stuted
that any telegrams arriving later would not be brought to his attention
until to-morrow.
-
6,000 Turks Die as Allies
Take 7 Lines of Trenches
Most Important Victory Since Land Operations at the
Dardanelles Were Begun Is Officially Announced
by London and Paris War Offices.
POSITIONS CAPTURED
Sprrlol Cablf Dmpalrfi to Trm SI'.
1.0NPON, June 30. Olllclal reports Is
sued In Paris and London this afternoon
nnnounced the moat Important victory
so far for the Allies on the Galllpoll
I'enlneiula. Under a very heavy artil
lery tire by the French guns the Hrltlsh
troops advanced on June 27 west of the
Saghlr Hlver In the neighborhood of
Krlthta for a distance variously an
nounced nt from 1.000 yards to a little
less than one mile. The olllclal state
ment of tho W'nr Otllco here ay 1.000
yards. The French communique place
It at 1,500 meters ( 1.0CC yards).
In the advance the troops occupied
four lines of trenches, which wet-e
found to be full of Turkish dead, the
result of the effective French artillery
lire. They occupied n height west of
Krlthla. In all. an Athens despatch
comments, fully C.000 Turks were killed.
Announcement of the victory has been
received with great rejoicing, for It has
bfen weeks since any satisfaction could
be gained from the despatches from the
Dardanelles. Instead the operations
have been criticised not only In the
press but In the House of Commons.
It was known that the Allies were
held by the Turkish forces ery close
to the point of landing and that they
haw been suffering terribly Neither
the warahlp". which take up the dally
iiiuiid of bombarding, nor the tWd;
iirtlllery seemed fo be able to iincowr
the Turkish buttoiles ur dislodge the
tHOl.
Trrnclirs riled With llrsd.
The Anglo-Flench move began early
Monday morning, when the French ar
tillery opened the bombardment with
eery gun In position. They swept the
trenches with shell and shrapnel, si
lencing all the Turkish guns. Then the
ltrltlwh went forward, the Infantry tak
ing three trenches with little opposition,
finding them piled high with the dead.
Tho few survivors surrendered. Then
to the east a Scottish regiment went In
nnd took two trenches before It wns
chirked. The Funlllers captuied two
more trenches by a charge through a
lavlne and took two lines, after which
the Ghurkas wrenched a knoll from the
enemy
A counter attack made later In the
day was desperate but Ineffective.
There Is tin positive declaration that
these gains han been held.
The otllciul communique Issued lo
dny by the Fieneh Ministry of .Marine
regarding the operations says;
"Since our victory of June 21 the
French troops have been engaged only
In detail operations, with the object of
consolidating and extending their ad
vances. They have occupied several
new trenches nnd dug saps, uniting the
conquered ground to the Hues pievlously
held. Several counter attacks have
been repulsed.
"On June 27 the Hrltlsh left wing,
supported by out- artillery obtained a
great triumph. After nn Intense bom
bnrdmeut the Dritlsh carried by as
sault at ceitnln points four Tmklsh
lines of trenches and advanced about
l,,1uo meters (a lit tl short of one
mile).
"On the extreme left they occupied a
small elevation ou the heights of
Krlthla and took ISO prisoner A foice
of the enemy which dellveieil a coun
ter attack last night was annihilated,
The losses of the enemy have been con
siderable." The Hrltlsh Itennrl.
The text of the ntll lat leport follows:
"General Sir Inn Hamilton leportn
that the plan of operations ou the 2Mb
wns to throw forward the left line
southeast of Krlthla. The pivoting
point wan about a tulle, from the sea,
After advancing upon the oxtrcmo left
about half a mile we were to estnbllsli
a new line facing the east on the ground
gained, The plan entailed the, capture
In succession of two lines of Turkish
trenches east nf Snghlrdere mid live
lines ou the western side. The Austra
lian corps was ordered to cooperate In
itialling a vigorous demonstration,
"The action opened at i) o'clock with
a hoinUirdtnent with heavy artillery,
iisalstiince being given by the French.
This bombardment proved very effective.
Ily Id :! o'clock the Held artlllety had
opened lire, destroying the bnibed wlie
entanglements In front of the Turkish
trenches. The accurate fire nf the war.
ships Talbot, Scorpion an- Wulvurlu
AT POINT OF BAYONET
succeeded lu keeping down the enemy's
. the from that quarter.
"A small Turkish advanced work nt
I Snghlrdere known ns 'boomerang re
I doubt' wns violently assaulted. This
little work wns very strong and cleverlv
protected by barbed wire entntiglemonts.
It had been long a source of trouble
to us. After a special bombardment
of the work by a Flench mortnr. the
attack wus delivered. At the exact mo
ment the troops leaped from the
trenches as one man and, like a pack
of hounds In full cry. raced across the
Intervening ground and brilliantly cap
.tired the work."
After this preliminary success tho
inaln attack wns not lung delayed. At
1 1 o'clock the guns were ordered to
lengthen their range, to shoot over the
heads of the charging 'troop and cut
off the Turkish reinforcements. Then
the Infantry charged along the whole
line.
II n.i nt siota , Chnrm-.
"W.-st of Saghlr Dereh." f.n.s the
repot I. "threo lines of trenches w ere
captuied wltli mile opposition. Th.'v
wer full f dead Turks. .Many had
been burled bv the bombardment. One
bundled iirlimiiHi'v i.-..r..
tof the Saghlr Helen ravine the Itowil
1 sts made a tine charge, capturing
two lluex of trenches, which had been
'assigned as their objective, but the re-
iiuiiiiier oi me iirigiule ou their right
met with severe opposition and was
unable to get foiward,"
Half an hour wus then allowed the
troops ( iest nml strengthen, themselves
in the position,! they had captured, the
artlllei) meanwhile poundliiK the Tuik
Ish linen. Then the attack w.ik lemmed
west nf the ravine
"The rtujal Fulllei." the upmi con
tinues, "led the biigacle In tl. econl
Phase of the. attack The bi Ignite ad
vanced with gie.it steadiness and resnlu
Hon through the trenches nlieady cap-
tilled and Oil actus. ttu, imwii I-.I.-I...P
more trenches and reached Hie objective
iiiiuiieii iiinti. rne i.ancnslilte I'uslllers
Inclined half to the right and funned a
line to connect with our new positions
east f the lavlne.
"The nortliermnoM objective hnd now
been obtained, but the Gurkhn, pressing
on under the cliffs, actually captured an
Important knoll still further forwntd,
due west of Kiltltln. This thev fortlfle
and held dm lug the night, mnklng our
total gain on the left precisely l.tiiin
yards.
"During the afternoon the trenches
on the ilKht, a small poitlon of which
lemiilncd lincaptiiieil, weie altacltid
but the enemy held on stilbbormv
ii tut the attacks did not succeed.
During Hie night a counter attack on
the furthest trenches gained wus rs
pulsed with heavy loss, A paity o'
Turks who penetrated from the liaint
between the two lines of c ipture I
tiniches was .subjected to niachlii'
gnu fire at dasbieak and suffered hea.
Ily, the miii vl nrs sunemlerlng.
"Kxcept for n small portion ..f
trenches slill held hj the eiienn ip
and mole than was hoped for from the
operations has been gained All en
gaged did well, but certainly the chli f
factor In the Mieces.s was the splendid
attack by the Tw ent -ninth Division,
hoe conduct was beyond pialne"
A L L IKS RKENFORCED.
Miens Hears Important Kvenl at
Mrnll re Imminent,
prn,ll I tlhlr llnp,Urh l Till!
I.I1N0ON. June .10 -The public disquiet
regarding the I in rdtiuclles was reflected
In the House of Commons this afternoon
by deminils on the Guveinment that
complete Information be suppllul on t'ie
operations then- It was slated lint
such lufoimatinu cannot h supplied it
Ibis time, but that It will be as soon as
the national Interests permit. Another
despatch rioiuflcii. Sir Inn Hamilton, it
Is epected, will appear In the otllclal
(lii'.rllr soon,
The Dally .Wiiw learns from Its Co
peiihagen cot respondent that the Colimnn
lliwrtte publishes a despatch from
conespondf nt nt Athens, who says It Is
rumored In the Greek capllnl that l,.e
Allle have been strongly lecnforcul nt
tho Dardanelles and that decisive en
gagements are Impending
The )) .Veil' quotes an Kngllsh
man. holding an infliientla' position nt
Constantinople, who has arrived here, ns
saying that the Turks are very short
of petroleum, which Is a serious mat
ter, ns a gnat ninny of the pcoplo uso
Continual en Third Pag.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
lli'itisli SI pa hum Armenian,
With 31 lift Cargo, nit
by r-:i.
DETAILS DELAYED RY
EXdLisii rExsoiismr
Slnlc Department Awaits
Report of Consul at
Bristol.
31 A V 3IAKE TT HARDER
TO DEAL WITH BERLIN
Officials. However. TliinK
Vessel Was in British
Service.
WariiiN(iton .tune .10. Nineteen
American citizens, must of thorn
negroes, nre missing nnd presumably
are dead us the n-Miilt of tho torpedo
Ing of tho Hrltlsh steamship Armenian,
bound from Newport News, . Vn., to
' Avoniiioutli, Kngland, with a cargo of
' horses nml mules. Tho vessel was de
stroyed by tlm Oermntt mibtnnrln
j l'-38, according to Stnto IX-partmcnl
iiilvlccs,
Tlu Arnienlnn vn sunk on Juno 21,
but apparently, owing to tho Hrltlsh
censorship, tho first news of It WM
received In Statu Department (lea
patches to-dny. Conaul Armstrong; at
llrlstol forwarded several mrsna gen, la
eluding tlm list of thosoimlsslng.
While olllclnla aro fart from n, con
elusion iih to tho action required by
tho I'nlted Stntr.s In this enso, tho seri
tittsnfss of the nffnlr ivns Instantly
recognized, nt tho Stato Department.
Ofllclnls fear thnt the sinking; ot th
Armor.4nn will inako It more difficult
than ever for the United States Gov.
ernment to accept tho compromise1
suggestions which Germnny li io
ported to Intend offering In her forth
coming reply to tho President's coto
of June li on tho submarine lsauo,
A null Consul's llepnrt.
oillcldl opinion will bo nuppen3t4
until tin Stuto Department has re
ceived from consul Armstrong Infor
niatlon milking clean points now lit
uoiiin. v ntcr mining tneso js inu qucs.
i Hon of whether or not tho Armenian
wus under charter to tin Hrltlsh Gov
frnment. There is no doubt here that
If this was the case thu Germans will
promptly allege thnt tho Armenian
I was pructlcnlly n HUtlsli auxiliary, ft
truiisort In the service of tho enemy
Government, nnd therefore jrocrly
subject to destitution, by German
nuvsil forci wbeiever encountered.
Wiishlngtoii otlklnls mil ill t that there
might be some force to this contention,
but n.-M'i't, on til" other hand, that the
Germans would hatdly have the right to
Iguoro the obligation of putting tho crew
of the Armenian In a place of safety
before sinking the vessel, unless It could
by proved that the Armenian actually
had the status of a Government ship. It
wus legaided ns doubtful that the facts
of the charter of tho Aimeulan, If she
was under cliartei, would give her ths
stHtus of a public ship.
other points for which the Depart'
ment has called on Consul Armstrong
for nioio detailed Information nre
it bother or not the vessel was arme-l
mid resisted the German submarine. Of
ficials detdro to know whether sho was
called on to stop and submit to search
or whither tne HiitiiiiarliiK began tiring
without notice
Musi lime Mielleil .hip.
The Consul's Htntnment that n shot
carried away the wireless houso of tho
Armenian Is taken here to Indicate that
the siibniariiiK must have shelled the
Arnienlnn, and It Is desired to have more
details regarding this
Thtro Is some confusion in Consul
AtmstionK's inetsaue. lie makes It
clear that the vessel was torpedoed at
s o'clock lii the evening, twenty miles
west by north of Tievose Head, Corn
wall, and that twnty-nln men wer
lost nnd ten Injure 1. HI list of ths
Amei leans misting Is nut clear, however.
II Is not certain that nil weie negroes
and the full names and addressed of
thoM. mentioned are not given In all
cases I In speaks of four of tlm Ameri
cans leported as missing nn hnvlng been
picked up by a submarine, whether the
l'-:is or not he does not sny, whlln
other sun Ivors were brought Into llrls
tol lust night after having been picked
up b a lielglan trawler and Hrltlsh
destroyers
Ill-pa rime n Cm Mm temr ill,
Tho Slate Department gavo o;.; thu
following with legnrd In the case of
tint Armenian:
"Tho Department has received cable,
ginns from the American Consul
llrlstol, England, repotting Hint the Do
minion Line steamship Arnienlnn, from
Newport NVws, whs torpedoed nnd sunk
nt s 1'. .M June 2S twenty miles west
by north of Tievose Head, Cornwall, by
the Germaii submarine l'.3d; thnt the
.Marconi house was struck by a shot
mid lh.it twenty-nine men wero lost nnd
ten Injured The following American
horse attendants are missing
K WH.I.IAMfOX, mlilriM, unknonn
.!. .11 AlONItOH. Nw Orlennn.
II. M. (iUANIIKHHV, (US Vahlnt'in
slrret, MnnlKnniery, Ala.
P. It. iHTTUN, Cartcrv Hie, Va.