i,L' J.Wi;;jiM.miW3W4M'.'''i V) "UIWHJM'" '" r Jy?rt -pf-4W 'j ' ill1 J"kffM ' ' W, if r, "y itj, r y-jqfcty i lgj'iij'yyfi ' FINANCIAL EDITION ffie&ger NIGHT EXTRA. NIGHT EXTRA icimung 1 c-r VOL. I-NO. 210 PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1015. Constant, 1014. Bt iitt rotuo Lidou Coitrixr. PRICE ORE GENT AUSTRIAN FLEET AND AIRMEN QUICK NEWS JWff SHELL ITALIAN COAST TOWNS Airships Drop Shells on VeniceTor pedo Boats Fire on Ancona In At tempt to Destroy Railway Line. Italy's Troops Force Foe to With draw at Frontier. Germany Serves Formal Notice of Hostilities on Rome Prussian Soldiers Rushed to Reinforce Tyrol Lines Italians Seize $20,000,000 Worth of Teuton Ships in Harbors Rumania to Enter Conflict. Austria today delivered the first real 6010 in her war with Italy, when wr aviators and torpedoboat .flotilla bombarded Venice, Ancona, Port Cortlnl, BarVtta and Gcsi, all on the cast coast of Italy, No serious damage teat done, but several bombs jell near the military and naval storehouses at 'nice. i, An Austrian fleet of torpedoboats appeqred off Ancona and bombarded it Wlono range. Shells were also dropped on other towns, but no damage was nfiirted In the oOtclal statement. Wf'Along the Trcntlno border the Austrlans have fallen back behind their Mis ol intrenchments and arc waiting for the Italians to assume the offensive. Germany also officially entered the conflict with a declaration that a state it uar exists with Italy. There have already been clashes between border iuardi. but officially the war commenced today. V' Italy's first official blow was to seize German and Austrian ships, valued At more than $20,000,000, which lay in her harbors. The Austrian Ambassa- f'itr and the Consul General quit Home today, and the German Ambassador iilll leave within a few hours. The Turkish envoy is still in Itomc. if' X formal declaration of war by Turkey is expected today, and the Italian (Hmlatsador at Constantinople ts reported to have already quit liis post. Ru fwnto Is certain to cast In her lot with Italy, while Greece and Bulgaria may '(Uo decide to enter the conflict against the Teutonic nations. g Austrian troops have torn up the railways at the irontlcr and blown up t trldgcs. Prussian and Bavarian troops have reinforced the Austrlans fonj the Tyrol border, and at several .points there have been outpost actions. ROME, Mjiy 24. .uitrli's naval and nlr forces have !inicV Irm first blow In the Austro- Siullin war. Official announcement this fKrnoon detailed a bombardment by an ilflltrlaa fleet of Ancona and several fllrlitlo coast towns. About the same flour Austrian aviators bombarded the iHtillm arsenal at Venice and the aero- cpane Hangars at jcsi. ViDtttroyers and torpedoboats partlcl- Irfittd In tho naval raid on the coast f.Snrnt The warships attempted to de- ilroy the railway from Ancona to rorto Coilnt, but official reports said this after noon that only slight damage was done. .The bombardment began at 4 a. m. and fiuiea ior mo nours. ino wursnips men Stisjfd south, hurling shells at other Milt towns. tlire this afternoon. It was reported sev- iy.ril tinmh wrA hnrli.il nl 4h nutof fort guarding Venice from the sea and tilt bombs fell In the lagoon. The en- imj airmen are reported to have been anren on. Ait Austrlans are everywhere falling MINISTER FELLED BY THUG IN CHURCH VESTIBULE 1 r "Jill a I IBsFS&ss Jmkt.. && ' " e, .gtgtgtgaasOMMgttgtgtgtgtK IK ' HPHs JH iiLH II kkkkMmW:? , . jKHBBtH HKi KwKax Mill ' f tfmffWtmamfmiiL t- ? , jRSveI ! MJJ, I, ' ! , ImmKM RHWBKWMlilPt --vi BrfTS k - ...' VM-' - V&w '- ' '--., ; " V-J'- - ' " ' ' I NEW JAPANESE DEMANDS ON CHINA TOKIO, May 24. PoHtlcnl opponents of the Government rtre clamoring for more concessions from Chlnn. They will carry the fight Into the Diet rmd will try to foice the Cabinet to reopen tho question. Among the concessions demanded from China by this fac tion are: Employment by China of Japanese to act ns financial, political and military advlsois; light of Japanese to own lands In China; China shall be forced to buy Its munitions from Japan; Japan ehall have right to build railways and work mines In China; Japa nese shall have right to piopagate Buddhism In China. PACKERS AND COTTON MEN UNITE IN PROTEST AGAINST BRITISH ORDER Concluded an rage Two, Column Flto THE WEATHER KcLOUDY i 'ilr.ltahi hn nn,t th )( jjU4 croued the Ttublcon of war. w.inperor Franz bewails the"crime," wnugh's enough without some more. KannBal conclave thousands strong Templar Knights bring brilliant Mr'daj. VMhundred trips within a year, ine putKo Service ruling says. VmPfnmtudes vent their wrath to- iJWM lor rarest pleasure built Wjwe the stage for tragedy, ii'!?. ana re, and more, and more 5ir : y...w wjnn wic4Q ncivay jiuyej. -JUiCnat's the nddnf Tke ;nlhrr IBjlflr our heart resentment rages. B-' FORECAST m$ Philadelphia and vicinity fflr and probably thunderstorms gjafsrnoo,, or tonight; Tuesday SSi""n fair; moderate tempera l2Hi gentle, variable winds. EX dttails, see page 2. Observations at Philadelphia 8 A. M. pnatur. "". 10.00 o tt.it....... 56 jjgywa UK u hours , , in M i(mt;.t;,,:' W ZEltn. '-. " p(- tviuutraiure AlntlH.a 1.9 At T !M& ' ""ol' Ul u,e "V 7!'' Umorrnw a.Ht tomorroy . ::;:::.':: American Industries Gravely Affected by De cree of Council Promul gated to Starve Out Ger many. WASHINGTON. May 24. President Wilson will be asked to take steps to secure the British order In coun cil's suspension so far as It affects American exports to neutral countries contiguous to Germany. The country's great packing Industries are effecting a combination with the Southern cotton Interests. The aim Is to secure concerted action, thus impressing the Administra tion with nn Idea of tho damage that Is being done to American trade by the attempt of England and her allies to starve Germany out. Threat Is made to cut off England's importation of meat from tho United States. In order to do so, It is complained that England has virtually stopped American shipments to the neutral Scandinavian countries, nearly every vessel carrying cither meat products or cotton to Scandi navia or Holland having been held up on tho high seas by Drltlah or French war ships and taken Into port. The owners of vessels and cargoes have been com pelled to tight for their rights In tho British prize courts, and there have been delays that have caused them serious financial loss. President Wilson la to be asked to de mand, In the name of the United States, that this be stopped. Representatives of the big packing houses are here or on their way to appeal to him and confer An unidentified man, cornering the Rev. Dr. David Sncnccr, pastor of tho Lehigh Avenue Bnptist Church, in a dark hallway in tho church, knocked him unconscious. Tho clergyman stood nt the place marked X and his assailant at the spot marked with a circle. Tho stranger stood with his face in shadow, tho only light in the room coming from a dim gas lamp across the street. PRESIDENT POINTS WAY TO CLOSER RELATIONS WITH LATIN AMERICA Welcomes Delegates to Financial Congress With Statement That Commer cial Rivalry Does Not Involve Aggression. GIRL WEEPS IN CELL, STILL LOVING YOUTH SHE SHOT TO DEATH Concluded on Tare Two, Column Four ASQUITH FINDS DIFFICULTY ' IN REORGANIZING CABINET WASHINGTON, May It With the ex pressed hope that the AmerlcaB may point the way to permanent world peace by showing a commercial rivalry that docs not Involve aggression, President Wilson welcomed the delegates to the Pan-American Financial Congress here today. Probably the most significant utterance of tho Presidential address was this: "One of the main things in our wal ls the physical lack of means of com munication, the lack of vehicles, tho lack of ships and established routes of trade. "I am perfectly clear In my own Judg ment that If private capital cannot enter soon upon the venture of establishing these means of communication, the Gov ernment must undertake to do so." These words were received with a burst of applause from the delegates and from Cabinet members on the platform with the speaker. MAT DE PERMANENT TEACE. "It Is a source of mortification to me," said the Chief Executive also, "that a conference like this was so long delayed; that It required a crisis of the world to show the Americans that they are truly neighbors. If there Is any happy cir cumstances arising out of the present dis tressing events of the world It Is that they have revealed to us what we are tu one another. "I cannot help harboring the hope, the Tells How Dread of Ques tions Her Unborn Child Would As"k Drove Her to Shoot Down Her Scorn ful Lover. AGED MINISTER BEATEN AND LEFT UNCONSCIOUS BY THUG IN HIS CHURCH GERMANS FAIL TO PASS DUBISSA FETKOGRAD, May 24. In the Russian .province of Kovno the Germans ate making new efforts to cioss the Dublssa, but each attempt has been beaten back. ANGLO-FRENCH TAKE MORA GALLIP0LI DEFENSES ATHENS, May 24. The Anglo-Fiench allies have captured more fortified positions of the Turks, on the Gallipoll peninsula, and futile attempts of the Turks to reenpture them resulted In heavy los&e& for the Ottoman foices, according to official dibpatches from Vice Admiral Michael de Kobeck, commander of tho British fleet at the Dardanelles. PHILLIES-CINCINNATI GAME CALLED OFF The Phillies will have another day of rest today as a result of postponing this nfternoon's match, the nnul fray of the present series with the Cincinnati Heds. Shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon Manager Pat Mornn looked the Held ocr, and althoUKh It wns not rnlnlnp. lie decided that the Rrounds were entirely too Met and the day too raw to stage the contest. 7:18 p, m. 4:37 . m. 2.03 a. ni. EWr CK' The Tides PORT UICHMONP. 2H- tomorrow : ::::::::: 'sss: "ir tomorrow 10.17 a. m. "JE3TNLT STOEET WKARS". M tomarrnu, ' J2' Jl itr tomorrow. REEDY iSLANn nttmr K?r Sf'W tomorrow , ..",'"' BREAKWATER. ri. m. 6:20 a. ni . 10.33 a. m. 7.00 p. m. 1 :1S a. in. TZt a.m. 10:23 p. m. 140a m 10:42 a. m Kg' f "morrow M tomorrow . . On the Pacific Coast UtO l either .loudv Tmn. SS Weather iloudy Toax. ftS Lamps to Re I.fvhioft ! " vehicle 7s?5 p. m. Churchill Resignation Reported. Fisher Demands Absolute Power. LONDON, May 21, Sta&gerlne difficulties are besettlns Premier Asqulth In his efforts to reor ganize the Government and constitute a national Cabinet. Baron Fisher of Kll verstone, first sea lord of the Admiralty, lias refused to serve unless given abso lute power. Although official confirmation Is still lacking, it Is generally known now that Winston Churchill has resigned as llrst lord of the Admiralty. The Evening Standard states that Mr. Churchill Is pre paring to go to the front. He will prpb abiy Join the Oxfordshire Yeomen, In which he holds a commission. The Times predicts that Lord Curzon of Kedleston, former Viceroy of India, and Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster lead er, will both have places in the new Cabinet. The Daily Mall has replied to Us critics by delivering another attack against Lord Kitchener, Secretary of War, declaring that he erred In sending the wrong kind of artillery ammunition to the front and that facts which the public should know were being kept secret by the War Office. KILLED IN SALOON BRAWL Youth of 20 Held for Causing Death of Man Twice His Age, A youth charged wlih manslaughter, growing out of the death of John JUn. Ian 49 years old, during a saloon brawl Saturday night, was held by Magistrate Carson at the Central Police "Court to day to await the further action of the Coroner. Hairy Sulser. SO years old. J418 Stiles street. Is the man accused, of kill ing the man twice his age. According to the police, the two became engaged In an argument about the respective merits of ihe Pulladelphla b teams .iriirtural lumber Tloiber. Immedlat d UvrU "". Veplu St. WJ.r.-a. Concluded on rase Two, Column Six Arrested as He Quits Prison Fifteen seconds after he was released from the County Prison at Holmesburg this morning, Edward Clark, alias "Am brose," was again under arrest. Clarke finished a three-month sentence for shop lifting at 8 o'clock this morning, As he stepped from the prison he was arrested on a warrant sworn out in Kansas City, Mo. He Is charged with larceny and ball defaulting. Clark will bo taken West today. Ida niehl. tho 17-yenr-oM girl that shot and killed Edmond C. Hnuptfuhrer when ho answered her frantic demands for marriage by sneering nt her and telling her he was engaged ta another girl, sobbed out her tragic story today. "I couldn't bear to bring my baby Into the world without a name or without a father. I wouldn't have known what to tell It when It got old enough to ask me nucstlons. I wns almost crazy with wondering what I could do to make Ed inond marry me. I had dono wrong, I knew, but I trusted him and It doesn't seem posslblo that I could have shot him, because 1 love him so still." The wide, gray, trusting eyes of Ida Itlchl filled with tears. Her voico quavered and the storm that she has been trying so hnrd to hold back could not be stayed. Her whole form shook with the suppressed robs. They had Just brought her out of tho cell In City Hall, where she will be kept until tho Coroner a Inquest Friday morn ing, and the officials that have her In charge made no effort to keep the sym pathy from their usually impassive faces. The caso of Ida Jllchl la one to arouse the sympathy of the most callous. Look Inc at her. It would be Impossible to think of her as a bad glrL She Isn't of the type. Her face, with the soft dark hair framing Its clear, high brow, has a Madonna. like purity that speaks for It self. Sho "loved not wisely, but too well " "He said It wouldn't matter," the girl went on, clasping her hands nervously ngaln and again, "He said he loved me dearly. He would never love any one else as long as he lived and as soon as we could get things fixed up he would marry me. I believed him, of course. Why shouldn't I? It's perfectly natural to believe the man you love. If you didn't believe him you wouldn't marry him or love him either." The girl's plight la rendered more pa thetic because she has no near and dear woman relative to whom she can go In her greatest hour of need. Her mother Is dead. She has never had a Bister. Her Dr. David Spencer Narrow ly Escaped Death by As sailant Believed Hired By Enemies Told to Re sign, Then Struck. A thug, believed to hne been hired by enemies of the Tlcv. Dr. David Spencer to kill htm or to terrorize him Into re signing the pastorate of the Lehigh Ave- nut Bnptist Church, attacked the 76-year-old clergyman In a dark vestibule of tho church and left him unconscious on the floor. Half nn hour later Doctor Spencer was found by tho church Janitor. The blow which felled him narrowly missed strik ing over the heart. Tho police have no cluo to the thug's identity. Today, In an interview with an Kven ino I.EDORit representative, tho minister told for the first time how he wns lured Into a dark hall and cursed and slugged by the thug. The attack was mado Thursday night, April 22. It has been kept secret In the hope of being able to find some trace of the assailant. Two weeks ago, when he reported the crime to Lieutenant Tloycr, of the Park nnd Lehigh avenues police station. Doctor Spencer nsked that no public record be made. The lieutenant assigned a man to the case, but the affair Is still burled In mystery. GUARD ATTENDS MINISTER. The attack has left the aged minister shaken In health and so fearful for his safety that he Is attended by a guard after nightfall and when he talks to strangers. In spite of his nerve-racking experience, however, he declares he can not be frightened Into giving up leader ship of a prosperous church whose 650 RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP SUNK IN IJLACK SEA; 1400 LOST HIOULIN, May 4. Tho Russian man-of-war I'antclelmon was sunk In 'he Dlack Sea, with a loss of 1-100 lives, accordltiK to dispatches received hero today from Bucharest. The l'anlclclnion was a battleship of 12.480 tons. Her complement was 731 men. Tho additional number on board may hnvo been soldiers. SUBMARINE SINKS. BRITISH SHIP; ANOTHER ESCAPES NEW CASTLE, England, May 24. Tho mull steamship Iris reported today that It wns unsuccessfully attacked by n German submarlno on Saturday a hundred miles off tlicmoiith of the Tyne. The steamship escaped from tho submarine and later rescued 50 men of the steamship Mlnern, which the sub marine had torpedoed. VICTIM OF MOTORCAR ACCIDENT DIES Henry Blanchnrd, CO jeurj old. 3S31 North Sjtlenham street, died In tho Samaritan Hospital as tho result of being utrtick by a motorcar at Broad street and Allegheny avenue early today. Tho machine, a Inrgo touring- car. which was speeding, did not stop after it struck tho man. Tho police havo no cluo to the Identity of tho occupants. A patrol of the 4th street nnd Lehigh avenue police station took the Injured man to tho hospital. CARUSO AND PUCCINI TURN OVER VILLAS TO RED CROSS ROME, May 24. Enrico Caruso todny notified tho Italian Red Cross that ills villa. Alia I'nnche, neur Florence, Is nt Its disposal for tho period of tho war. A similar message i amo from Cilacomo Puccini, tho composer, who has a magnificent villa npar Milan. PUGILIST TRIES FIVE TIMES TO FIRE A SHIP NEW YORK, May 24. James Harple. a local pugilist, was arrested today when the. liner New Yoik docked and wns taken to Ellis Island for observa tion as to ills sanity. O ill verb of the liner reported thnt ho tried flve times, to set tiro to the ship while It was proceeding to America from England. F-l NOW ONLY 108 FEET BELOW SURFACE WASHINGTON, May 1M. Admiral Mooro notified the Navy Department from Honolulu today that --submarine F-4 had been raised to within 108 feet of the surface nnd could be seen through water glasses.' "Seems intact," said the message, It was added that the work probably would be completeofThursday. Concluded on I'afe Three, Column Two AEROPLANI E NAVI AUSTRIACHE BOMBARDANO LA COSTA D'lTALIA Anche la Germania Ha Dichiarato lo Stato di Guerra Con Vltalia. Si Attende a Roma Una Simile Dichiarazione dal Governo Ottomano. , Concluded on Page Two, Column Two U. of P. Instructor Promoted Dr. Howard B. Lewis, an Instructor In physiological chemistry at tho University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed to an associate professorship by the trustees of the University of Illinois. Doctor Lewis Is only 28 years old. He will leave for his new position In the fall. TWINS, THREE DAYS OLD, GIVEN TEA AND DIE Hot tea given 3-day-old twins is said to have caused their death when they were seized with acute indigestion. They were Eva and Mary Wienol tleg, 1904' South 6th street, Camden. ZEPPELIN FLEET SENT TO ITALIAN FRONTIER GENEVA. May 24. A German air fleet, made up of Zeppelins of the latest type and a large number of Taubes, has Joined a large body of Ger man troops concentrated In the Adlgo Valley, near the Italian frontier. The Germans, according to advices received here todny, are equipped with heavy artillery for the bombardment of Italian forts guarding the Tyrolean passes The Kensingtonian Says: Have you heard Charlie Kuehnle and Cy Evans, the knockabout comedians of Kensington postojfice, sing their latest song, "If business teas as good last week as it was next week, I'm a humming bird, I hope so"! Le citta itallane hanno comlnclato oggl a sentlre 1 priml effettl delta guerra, quando alcunt, aeroplant austrlacl hanno lasclato cadere bombe .su Venezla, Porto Corslnl, Ancona e Barletta. SI Ignora ancora quail dannt abblano prodotto gll aero plant nemlcl. Un comunlcato uftlclale pubbllcato oggl dice che la flotta austrlaca ha bom- tardato parecchle citta Itallane deU'Adrlatlco mentre gll avlatorl bombardavano Ancona e Jesl. . A Roma si attende da un momento all'altro che comlnclno le ostlllta sul confine tra I'ltaUa e l'Auntria, essendo le due najlonl ormal ufHclalmente in guerra. Anche la Germania Vltalia sono in guerra, in segulto a dichiarazione uftlclale fatta in Berluio. SI attende ora. la dichiarazione dl guerra della Turchta. II Mlnlitero della Guerra mantlene la plu atretta. centrum sulle comunlcazlonl telegraflche e postal!, cotilcche non e stato posslblle avere la conferma dl una notlzla secondo cut si era gla avuto uno scontro tra un reparto dl truppe auttriache ed uno dl Alplnl Itallanl e che l"plml erano stati resplntl. A Roma si dice che re Vlttorlo Emmanuele, seguendo I'esemplo del re del Belgto e dl uo nonno, Vlttorlo Emmanuele II, twumira 11 comando In capo delle frza U terra, operant! contra lAustr'a LOST AND FOUND LOST Pulldog, an KnglUh terrier, U!j yeara old. brlmlle and white, anauera to name or Ouiter; Schenectady and Hartford dos tage atiachid to collar; plat and collar reada. ri am J. A Duraton'a dos. whoa dotr are jour' lleturn lo H a. DOLfiK. IM1I Walnut it.. I'hlla.. or do: Duel ave., Narbertti. and recelto liberal reward. STRANGE MAN SHOOTS WO.MAN DEAD AND WOUNDS GIRL PITTSBURGH, May 24. Mrs, Angela Ponzo wus shot and instantly killed anil her daughter. Angela, 19, fatally shot here today by an uni dentified man, who escaped, Nn motive la known for the murder. PINNED UNDER AUTO AND FATALLY BURNED The vlctlpi of a fatal automobile accident, Harry Welsh, 33 years old, of 620 S,outh 21st street, died today In Cooper Hospital, Camden. He as one of the fho Philadelphlans in an automobile which turned turtle at Berlin, Camden County, Tuesday, and was pinned under the blazing machine. Ha inhaled the flames. Joteph Kelly. 34 jeara old, of 224! Wood street, a memberr cf the party, Is still In the hospital, but Is expected to recover. The others escaped with minor Injuries. LOST Somewhere between Darby and Locan, gold watch fob 4 in. lony, woven chain, mon key climbing chain. (5 reward l( returned, ) M llunu. 6433 Woodland a., Phlla. ON SAIVnDAMay 22. probably between Wanamaker'a and 30th at , lad'a gold watch. Elgin, gold handa, monogram M. 11 I'., re ward for return. C 921). Ledger Office LOST ON SUNDAY MOnNINQ. CUBAN parrot, red breaet green body white head, blue wlnaa. Rard if returned A. Water fall. 42 Manbelm at . derrnantown. LOST Gentleman's tc)rpJn, pearl, going iroi Oxford; reward. diamond and pearl, going from 23d and; Hilton to 34th and wi ypmmpia. ava LOST Wrlat watch, Sunday afternoon: i and ua Reward. be tween Boring Uardta and Barinr ata. Return to 43U ix ilia at LOST -Bed leather notebook with poetry copied Inalda Phono Germaniown bWi Oltitr ctflKed advertiacmcafj en Fag if BOY'S SKULL FRACTURED ON A "DARE" Joseph Petrlck, 7 years pld, 122S South Hancock street. Is In a seriqus condition at the Mount SInal Hospital today, suffering: from a fracture skull received as the result of a dare. The boy was playing at Front and Federal streets with Thomas Spratt, U years old, yesterday and dared the latter to hit him with a stone thrown from a certain distance. Spratt tried a1d hit Pet rick near the temple. Spratt la being hejd by the police to await tits outcome of the boy's Injuries. 7 -" '-" ' ' 'Wr SWEDISH STEAMSHIP SUNK BY MlNEJNORT,H SEA STOCKHOLM. May !4. The Swefllsh steamship, lrnpata. -ltaa inlne sunk in the North Sea, Sunday. Her crew of 22 took to IKef'WgttF&nd we- Shipping records show no Swedish ship named, the Herrjr eppjjently was made in cable transmission. t VC m V i-1 - . && "T i fli'TU I-ii1l1iliglilffa-illii:f-alli jiftHlMr