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By L. V. B. RUCKER,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Officials of
the Interborough Rapid Transit Com
pany announced today that prepara
tions have been completed for the
prosecution on the charge of criminal
conspiracy of labor leaders, who,
without legitimate cause, encourage
sympathetic strikes. This announce
ment followed the Centrade Trades
Union recommendation for a strike of
80,000 workers in sympathy with th(’,‘
carmen who are seeking to ohtain!
recognition from the companles. |
In addition, a general boycott of
transportation lines affected by the
strike on the part of the 800,000 union
workers in the city has been decreed.
If this, together with the immediate
:sfrlkn of the 80,000 men whose work
“is keeping traction cars running,”
does not bring victory to the unions,
resolutions passed by the Central Fed
erated Union threaten to call out all
of the 800,000 organized workers in
this area.
It became known that ransit offi
cials have been keeping a close watch
on the labor leaders, and have collect
ed a mass of evidence that they are
brepared to lay before the District
Attorney whenever it appears that the
proper time has arrived for such ac
tion
Merchants Watching, Too.
Reports came from another source
that a committee of five, which called
upon the Mayor and Chairman Straus,
of the Uublie Service Commission,
lasi Thursday as representatives ofl
the Merchants’ Assoclation and other
bodies, also was watching conditions
with a view to appealing to Uis'l'll'ti
Attorney Swann. |
Ernest Bohm, secretary of the Ceme |
tral Federated Union, declgred today
that SO,OOO men whose work was en
abling the transit companies to con
tinue to operate would go out imme
diately, |
Members of the Tidewater Rnn!‘
Seamen’s Union and the longshore- |
men declared that 21,000 machinists
Would also go out today. |
\ committee of five has been named
to handle the general strike. Early
today those men were busily engaged
in Organizing pickets and sending no
tifications to an members that the
Strike had been declared. Beginning
""”Ehh mass meetings will be held in
Union square,
Bohm gajq today that the unions
responding to the strike call would be
Supported financially,
Strikebreakers Let Out.
Notwithstanding the calling of the
S¥mpathetic strike, President Shonts,
of the Interborough, ordered that 900
firikebreakers be paid off and dis
tharged today,
All of these men were hired as
fll'”‘h for subway ana elecated trains.,
':: ‘\ officials declared today that
= 44 enough workers to man both
of these divisions, and were satisfied
tat the strike had been broken, as
far ae subway and elevated service
Was concerned.
The ‘mpany was devoting its ef
forts ¢ breaking the strike on the
'”"\"“" lines, It was stated
"r'\::""*h'»’ and elevated service con
'w‘.‘ ' hormal during the rush hours
Uthough the trains were
rowded because of the tie-up of
Mar irface cars. rPactically no
t“wleuue Was reported.
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(By #nternational News Service.)
LONDON, Sept. 16.—Vice Admiral
Sir David Beatty, whose wife was
Miss Ethel Field, daughter of the late
Marsnall Field, of Chicago, was to
day' created a knight of the Grand
Cross of the Order of the Bath, the
highest honor the king can confer
upon a commoner,
The knighthood comes to Vice Ad
Son of Ear] Wounded
.
In Battle in France
IZONDON, Sept. l_&t}xrig—udipr Gen
eral Lord Brooke, of the Canadian
forces, eldest son of the Earl of War
wick, has been wounded in France,
according to reports received by the
Wa'r Office.
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services as commander of the battle
cruiser gquadron in the battle of Jut
land.
Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, com
mander-in-chief of the North Sea
fleet, received the order of merit, and
Rear Admiral Sir F. C. D. Sturdee was
made a companion of St. Michael and
St. George.
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So He ange It
(By International News Service.)
DENHAM SPRINGS, LA., Sept. 18,
Charles Deadhead is going to petition
the next session of the Louisiana
Legislature to allow him to change
his name to “Charles Head.”
Deadhead says his name has been
the bane of his life, that he has been
joked at, teased, made fun of and
ridiculed at every turn.
Recently, he says, a conductor on
the Illinois Central Railroad refused
to allow him on the train until he
showed a ticket, because he was re
ferred to as “Deadhead.” He says he
has troubie with telegraph and tele
phone companies and Is worried al
most to death.
T. R., Taft and Root
NEW YORK, Sept. 16—-Two ex-
Presidents and a presidential possi
bility—Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
William H. Taft and Elihu Root—ali
on the stump simultaneously for
Charles E. Hughes, was a combina
tion that today had O. K. Davis,
chairman of the Republican National
Committee speakers’ bureau, almost
delirious.
Colonel Roosevelt, abandoning his
decision of yesterday, has consented
to make speeches both in California
and Washington in behalf of Hugheg
and Hiram Johnson in the former
and Hughes and United States Sena
tor Miles Poindexter in the latter,
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By CHARLES F. BERTELLI,
Staff Correspondent of International
News Service.
PARIS, Sept. 16.—Fresh counter at
tacks launched by the Germans in
efforts to regain ground captured by
the French on the Somme front have
been repulsed, the War Office an
nounced today.
The unsuccessful German assaults
were made to the west of Clery and at
Berny.
The official communique states that
the French,are consolidating their
captured positions.
Enthusiasm prevails here over the
success won by the British in their
drive against the German front in
the region of Bapaume.
According to reports reaching here,
the British have taken 2,500 prison
ers. The Germans captured by the
French on the Somme front yester
day numbered 400.
Survivor of Triangle
.
Duel Gets Life Term
DOTHAN, ALA. Sept. 16 —Jeff
Newman, 55, lone survivor of a three
cornered pistol battle in which his
son, John Newman, and Deputy Sher
iff Alvan North were killed when the
two Newmans shot up Justice of the
Peace Brown’'s court at Ardilla on
August 10, was given a life sentence
in the penitentiary here yesterday by
a jury in Houston County Circuit
Court on a charge of murdering
North.
Deputy North had arrested New
man’s young son, Bob, for riding on a
freight train. The youth was taken
before Justice Brown and fined $1
and costs. When Jeff Newman heard
of his son’s arrest he and another
son, John, armed themselves and
went to the store where Justice
Brown hel dcourt. After a few words
with his son, Bob, Jeff Newman
opened fire upon Deputy North
through a window. North returned
the fire, mortally wounding John
Newman, who died in a short while.
North was shot through the arm and
body, and died next day. Jeff New
man escaped unhurt,
Detectives to Ri
etect to Ride
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On Cars Free Again
City detectives were singling
nickles Saturday, which they knew
the street car company would not get,
arrangements having been made by
Police Board Chairman Andy King
and Councilmen Edwin Johnson and
Inman, with Preston Arkwiighi, of
the Georgia Railway and Power CCom
pany te allow the plainclothes men
to “show their badges” on cars
This arrangement was made after
Mayor Woodward declined to sign a
voucher for S2OO to buy street car
tickets for the detective force
.
Atlanta Clothier
.
Hurt in New York
I Springer, clothier, of No. 95
Whitehall street, was recovering Sat
urday from injuries sustained ten
days ago in New Yorek when struck
by a street car at Fifth avenus and
Thirty-fourth street
The car was in charge of a strike
breaker, Mr. Springer believes.
Downhill Sweep forßritishin
Charge With Armored Cars
By FREDERICK PALMER,
Accredited Representative With the
British Armies of the Press of
the United States.
AT THE BRITISH FRONT,
Sept. 15 (via London), Sept. 16.—
Officers are universally speaking
of this as the best day for the
British arms since the offensive
began. With the exception of
that of July 1, this morning’s at
tack was the most extensive dur
ing the ten weeks of the battle
of the Somme.
Today, for the first time, new
armored motor cars of ingenious
pattern suitable for crossing
trenches and shell holes, com
peted with the infantry and today ;
the British swept down from the
ridges on to the lower ground to
ward Bapaume. At this writing
they are Bevond the village of
Flers, which they took early in the
morning, and are established in
Martinpuich and Courcelette,
The slow plodding work of re
cent weeks, which included the
taking of Ginchy and Guille
mont, had for its object the con
trol of all the high ground from
the region of Thiepval to the
junction with the French on the
right.
The Germans fought hard for
every foot of it. Delville, or
Devil’'s Wood, and the high wood
and rib of earth, windmill
crowned, beyvond Porsieres have
been steeped with blood of men
and mixed with flesh of men
fallen there under the longest
and heaviest orgy of shell fire in
the history of the war, as ex
perts agree.
Wrestle for Mastery.
German wrestled with Briton,
not for a piece of farm lind, but
for the military and human mas
tery. Today the British advance
was largely downhill. They [')ut
behind them the high ground
where the slopes give them shel
ter for their guns, #nd whose
crest gives them observation for
their artillery fire.
Evidently the Germans did not
expect the attack, considering
that the British offensive was
over and that the British would
settle down for the winter in theiir
new and more advantageous po
sitions.
Never before, probably, were
more guns playing over the same
length of front than were in use
over the six miles where the Brit
ish made their advance on July
1, and where they have continued
their offengive with phlegmatic
and dogged persistence. The Ger
mans have kept bringing up guns |
until they have a thousand in this
short sector, and yesterday the ‘
Only Sister of
P . d t
(By International News Service.)
NEW LONDON, Sept. 16—Mrs.
Annle M. Howe, only sister of Presi
dent Woodrow Wilson, died early to
day after a long illness. She suf
fered a severe sinking spell at dawn,
and sank rapidly. Opiates were ad
ministered to deaden the pain caused
by peritonitis.
Mrs. Howe was unconscious most
of the time as the end approached,
but at intervals was able to recog
nize members of the family who had
gathered about the bedside when It
becamo certain that death was immi
nent. These !ncluded her brother Jo
seph, her sons Wilson and George,
her daughter and her nlecs, Miss
Margaret Wilson, daughter of the
iPn-nMont
President Wilson was immediately
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-eorrespondent, moving over the
region of devastated villages and
shell-torn earth, intersected by
new roads, saw how enormously
the Britsih had increased their
artillery. Sun-tanned and weath
er-beaten are the gunners after
their ten weeks’ work. There
seemed lines and parks and clus
ters of guns. Rows of batteries
were firing with something like
the regularity and mechanical
workmanship of the needles of a
loom weaving cloth. Alongside
each other were British and
French batteries. The gunners of
neither ally could speak the lan
guage of the other, yet both were
going on with their parts accord
ing to charted instructions.
Everything Ready.
At midnight last night the cor
respondent, walking again among
the gunners on their night shift,
saw the gunners’ figures illumi
nated by the flashes. Except for
the guns, which know no rest, the
army for the most part seemed
silent ‘'and aslcep. Everybody
and everything was in its place
‘and ready, including those
strange and grotesque armored
cars which were to have their
baptism of fire in the morning.
“We keep on learning; we keep
on learning; we of the new
army,” said one of the young of
ficers, “and with every show, we
do a little better. Battle is a
great teacher.”
The guns never stopped their
car-wrecking noise from day
light to darkness and from dark
ness to dawn; only when dawn
came, where here and there some
kéy .of that strident piano had
béen striking a chord, all the keys
bégan. to bang at once.
But before the general attack
began there had been a hellish
little preliminary sideshow near
Thiepval. The Germans here had
constructed deep dugouts and gal.
leries. Before daylight the Brit
ish got in under cover of the gun
fire and bombed thelr way. They
bombed their way through the
galleries, which soon became cat
acombs, and made themselves
masters of the position after
hours of ugly work.
Took All Before Them.
Then also before sunup and
only an hour before the time set
for the British attack, the Ger
mans, who apparently had no idea
that the British were coming on
in antther big push, made a small
attack in the neighhorhood of
Moquet Farm. They took a sec
tion of trenches and they were
holding it at the moment when
that wave of British, six miles
long, overwhelmed them and
notified of the death of his sister, but
it was expected that he would not
come here. Mrs. Howe's body will
be taken South for burial, and it is
probable that the President will join
the funeral party en route.
Mrs. Howe was born at Hampden-
Sydney College, Virginia, and was
educated in that State at the Augus
ta County Female Seminary. Her
early married life was spent at Co
lumbia, 8. C,, but later the family re
sided at Raleigh, N. C,
.
President Shocked
At Death of Sisteor
(By International News Service.)
SHADOW LAWN, LONG BRANCH,
N. J., Sept. 16.—News of the death
of his sister, Mrs. Annie M. Howe,
came as a great shock to President
Wilson today, despite the fact that
no hope of her recovery had been
entersined. He received word of her
death a few minutes after she passed
AWAY.
The President had hoped to see
his sitser once more before she died,
as it had been expected sh might lin
&r for several days,
ee e eet et
PAY NO MORR
ON TRAINS. 5 CENTN
British reserves in this part of
the attack swept over hoth Ger
mans and their own men strug
gling with Germans and reached
the objective, which has been set
for the day’s work.
A chill autumn morning mist,
preceding.a. day of brilliant sun
shine, hid the actual attack which
officers think was the most skill
ful the British army ever made.
Behind them .the British were
putting not only the ridge, but
old second as well as first line
trenches, which they had strug
gled so hard to gain, and going
against a new third llne which
the Germans had bheen building
under unceasing British shell fire.
With the infantry went these
new motar cars, across trenches
and shell craters. So ludicrous
are they in appearance that Brit
ish soldiers laughed at them in
the midst of the charge and
cheered them as they poured their
streams of machine gun bullets.
d4ike some prehistoric monsters
they must have seemed to the
Germans, who were forced to seek
safety in flight or hunt their dug
outs or try to surrender,
Only Ginchy Held.
So far as reports indicate to
night, the British everywhere
gained possession of new Ger
man trenches, except opposite
Ginchy. Here the Germans clung
with desperate courage and with
dog-to-bone tenacity to retain
that bit of high ground. Ther e
he still keeps up the struggle, at
last accounts. Again, in the
High Wood, he had kept a re
doubt nest of machine guns,
which the armored motor cars
engaged, machine gun against
machine gun, while the British
infantry passed around it and un
der a rock in a flood.
Among the prisoners are six
celonels. One of these had the
honor of being captured by the
newest waepon, which has added
picturesqueness to present-day
warfare,
One of these motor cars which
cross trenches and shell holes ran
over the colonel's dug-out. He
surrendered to the crew, who
took him on board, and after the
fight was over delivered him to
an infantry guard. In one case
a hundred Germans surrendered
in a body to one of the armored
motor cars. Again, an aeroplane
reported one moving up the
street of the village of Flers,
while wildly yelling British In
fantrymen followed.
The aeroplanes descended very
low during the battle, and never
were there more fights or more
vicious ones than those today.
Altogether, the British brought
down thirteen German planes,
Huge Mexi
Gives G.O.P
wes G.U.I'.
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 16,—Consterna
tion and near panic threatened (he‘
Republican national headquarters
here Friday when a very big .\lexh‘an.!
half-covered with bandages, Hlfllk('d‘
into the information bureau and, in
growling, guttural tones, demanded
to know Is anybody “habla espanol?”
Clerks and stenographers were
seeking the fire escapes when a Span
ish-speaking member of the bureau
ascertained that the visitor was Gen
eral Jose Mariano, chief of staff to
Emiliano Zapata, the bandit chief,
now encamped within 30 miles of
Mexico City, and perhaps Venustia
no Carranza’'s most serious opponent
at the moment
Marlano explained that he was here
at the behest of Zapata to oppose the
Mexican-American settlement plans
AFTERNOON
EDITION
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Sept. 16—A Saloniki
dispatch to the Central News states
that French and Russian troops en
tered Florina last night.
Monastir Evacuated.
ROME, Sept. 16.—Monastir, the
base of the Bulgarian army in West -
ern Macedonia, is reported to have
l'evn evacuated by the Bulgarians.
New Serbian Victory.
SALONIKI, Sept. 16.—Pressing
forward in their pursuit of the Bul
garians on the western end of the
Macedonian front, the Serbian army
has inflicted another defeat on the re
treating enemy and are approaching
Florina
The following official report on the
Serbian operations was issued here
today:
“The Bulgarians have been defeat
[od in the region of Florina. They
‘suf‘fnrnd enormous losses.”
| Owing to the heavy blows suffered
by the Bulgarians it is expectad that
they will be unable to defend Florina
‘lnnn and the capture of that town is
regarded as imminent by the Allles
leaders in Saloniki
From Florina the way will be open
against Monastir, which hag been
held by the Bulgarians for many
monthns,
Kaiser Wires Wife
Of ‘Decisive Victory’
(By International News Serbice.)
BERLIN, Sept. 16.—~Emperor Wil
liam, it was officially anounced to
day, has sent the following dispatch
to the Empress:
“Field Marshal von Mackensen has
Just sent me a communication that
the Bulgarian, Turkish and German
troops have obtained a decisive vie
tory ove rthe Roumanian and Rus
sian troops.”
. .
Spain Tells Kaiser
.
To Curb His U-Boats
(By International News Service.)
MADRID, Sept. 16.—Spain has
made a sharp protest to Germany
agalinst Its practice of sinking peace
ful Spanish ships, it was announced
tgday and has demanded that there
be a modication of the submarine
campaign
The Government took this action
after three Spanish steamers, in
cluding the Olazzari, 2,586 tons, had
been torpedoed in two days,
Zaimis Urges King
.
To Call on Venizelos
(By International News Service.)
ATHENS, Sept. 16.—Ex-Premier
Zalmis was summoned by King Con
stantine today for a discussion of the
ministerial crisis. Zaimis urged the
King to ask Eleutherios Venizelos to
form a Cabinet
proposed by the joint commission ap
pointed by President Wilson and
First Chief Carranza, now in session
at New London.
The Republican headquarters chiefs
halled Mariano with joy, but were
uncertain whether to send him to
New London with a demand for a
hearing or to embody his comp Mints
in the 21 Mexican questions being
prepared for submission to President
Wilson in reply to the Demoeratic
national text-book.