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W«jp THE EVENING ENTERPRISE p S o ^ ~ 1 3 0 0 ^ 3 0 1 JOB PRINTING THE ENTERPRISE JOB PRINTING DEPT. 283 MAIN STREET UNITED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1»17. Fair toniflht and Tuesday. TWO CENTS, A COPY WILSON’S DRAFT RULES READY N .V. WILL ROUND UP DEGENEBRTES Finding of Ruth Cruger^s Body in the Cellar of Cocchi’s Little Shop, Rouses That City to Action. !EN WHO PREY UPON YOUNG GIRLS NUMEROUS, LAWYER SAYS Irs. Grace Humiston Hints at An Organized Clique of Procurers Who Lounge in Shops Near High Schools. NEW YORK, June 18 — ^The grand jury this afternoon returned an indictment charging Alfredo Cocchi -with the murder of Ruth Cruger, 18-year-old high school girl, who disappeared three monts ago and whose body Was found buried beneath Cocchi’s b icycle repair shop here Saturday. New York, June 18.— The hand ►f the law 3 from here today to dra Ered Cocchi', the Italian whoho iss believedelieved to ‘havhave draw hack taly Al- from her( fred Cocc w i b to ‘ murder* and mutilated the long missing Ruth, Cruger, whose body, skull crushed and abdomen slashed, was found buried in the basement of Coc\hi’s shoip. Tliree official investigations, one • the police, one iby the district torney’s office and one by the cor ner, delved tward the bottom of one of the most revolting crimes that has ever shocked New York. The wife and two friends of the missi: Italian were held in heavy hall by !W \ 1 wife and two friends of the mis thirty -E-ix witnesses were rounded up to appear before the grand jury probe of the case today. The State Department has cabled Italian authorities to hold Cocchi. Mrs. Grace Humiston, the woman la-RYer, whose shrewdness led to the finding of Ruth Cruger’s body to day hinted at an or'ganized clique of procurers and declared she knows the location of twenty-two other cellars where high sichool girls have been lured and ruined. This statement, promise of a shake up in the police department equal to that following Police Lieutenan.t Becker’s conviction for the murder of Herman Rosenthal •’s state - and the district attorney' ment that he hasas sufficient'ufc evidence ponon whichhich to tryry Cocchioi were swift s up w to t C developments in the case. “There are little, harmless look ing shops scattered all around some of the high schoola and puhlic schools,” said Mrs. Humiston. Doungers of the most depraved type infest these places and watch the girls going to and from school. W*hen a girl enters one of the shops She is insul'tied. “There are other cellars in New York lioldiag .secrets ju s t as hideous as the one Cocchi hurried away to Italy from. But if told names and locations before my evidence is i comiplete, • jthe-*'cHmlnalg I want! would get away. New York does not yet realize, how systematized is the danger for Ihe girls who live in it. “The public readily says, when a girl disappears, it was as much her fault as the man’s.” I know better. “When a girl is in.sulted in one of these places, she usually broods over the horror of db. Never would she tell her parents, for she feels she is partly to Iblame. Little by little her seducers hatter down her moral stamina and ®oon another girl is ‘m'iS'S.ing.’ “With -the sort of assistants, I could show you a case equal in hor ror to that of Ruth Cruger’s every month in the year.” Discussing the case of the CruA ger girl, Mrs: Humiston expressed the belief that she was attacked by more than one degenerate. The au topsy revealed what she 'termed “a lust murder, a ‘ripper* crime of the worst kind.” Examining physicians agreed with her. “Pro'bably Ruth on her visits to the 'shep or while passing it at tracted many men,” said Mrs. Hum- istion. I think there had been spec ulation and plans about her.” (Continued on page two.) BRITAIS ASK AIR REPRISALS Many Want Their Air men to Drop Bombs on Berlin or Frankfort. liondon, June 18—Public demand for reprisals against Germany for her aerial murder raids today reached such a point that it was believed the government would’ be forced to take cognizance. A tremendous i>opular sentiment for a Prenco- British raid on some such German city as Berlin or ih-ankfort to avenge the murders of British women and children by German aeroplane and Zeppelin piracy of the past week has developed. A mass meeting Sunday in the London opera house demanding such reprls.^! was attended by thousands. A British ainnan, 'Commander Pemperton Bill ing, M. P. declared with England’s sitpremacy in the air on the westex-n front such raids over open Geman towns could he'easily accomplished. British air forces accounted f( their second Zeppelin within seven ■days In Sunday morning’s }Ge(rmaT| raid over the east coast. The prev ious dirigible destroyed was over the North, S'Ca early in the week. Damage from the airship raid Sunday morning was negligible. It was the first time that the Germans had utilized Zep pelins for an aerial attack in more than a ni'Onth' RED CROSS . WEEK. Sacrifice Devotion “Bind up the Nation’s wounds. Care for him who shall have borne the battle.” Abraham Lincoln, in his second Inaugural Address, March 4th, 1865. “The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together.” President Wilson, April 15, 1917. If you oan’t enlist in the army and navy, you can enlist in‘this Red Cross campaign. Your part will be important because Theodore Roosevelt, who has red bloods in his veins, said on Flag Day, that the Red Cross was next in importance to the army. Ares you a patriot? Will :^ou permit others to fight on land and sea and risk their lives while you do nothing? We want to raise $50,000 by the 25th of June as our part of the national $100,000,000 Red Cross War Council Fund. The Red Cross must see that nothing is lacking to make the allied soldiers healthy, happy and efficient. Hospital and medical equipment, recreation and rest facilities behind the firing line must be -provided. We -are meeting with success at the start. All the daily papers have donated their most valuable space for publicity during the We ask you to give one-half of your wages or salary or income for -a week, or 1 per cent, of your anual income. , ^ Remember, Company K and our Poughkeepsie boys and show them that they will not be neglected. The' undersigned have become members of the commitee, and each has subscribed a t least one per cent, of his income. Make a sacrifice to do this. If you have suscribed, give enough more to make up your share. Subscribe as liberally as you can. Pay your subscriptions at banks or newspaper offices. Make up your mind now. Some one will Call at your home during the week with a pledge card. Come and poin our committee. Workers r (.port at Y. W. C. A. Building, 59 Cannon street. No campaign or other expenses of any kin^ to be taken from your subscription. War Council Fund Committee for City of Poughkeepsie: F. L. SWEETSER, Chairman. FRANK L. GARDNER. JOSEPH MORSCHAUSER. p l WILLIAM A. ADRIANCE. ^ESONE. HAROLD W. SHERRILL. RALPH E. BUTTS. , PETER H. TROY. (Others to be added.) Humanity Patriotism \ f l l l t ttMtf MMt i l l l t f f t f Mittf t t t t t t- 3 \AMERICANS” AT C ^E N C E Goldfarb, Reinstein and Davidovitch at Stock holm for Peape Rally, Stockholm, June 18.— ^Three American socialist delegates to the international socialist peace con ference -were announced by the Dutch Scandinavian Committee as having arrived today, ready for a conferenic© Tuesd'ay, The Amer ican delegates ^r.e Max Goldfarb, Boris Reinstein and D. David ovitch. No exlanation was vouchsafed as to how the three named received credentials from American social ist® or what powers they have re ceived. Boston Celebrates Bunker Hill Day Boston, une 18.—Greater Boston is 'tloday celebrating the 142nd an- ■ of the 'battle of Bunker PMNU.S.A1R NAVY OF 30,000 PLANES IN YEAR American Automobile Plants Will be Utilized to Construct Flying C r a f t Government Wants. has put all his liffiuence behind the greatest air fleet building program in history. It was in the evening of October 17, 1908, that the German, emperor stood on thqf Bornstedter field and watched the sdaring biplane of Orvill Wright, American inventor, conquer of 'c.hq air. It was the kaiser’s first sight of such a craft. The prediction is made today by government officials that “before the year Is out the kaiser may once more see the American aeroplane, bristling its defiance soaring over the Father land, the signal of defeat for Ger many”. BANKER BACK OF BIG PROGRAM niversi 3 at iChairlestoiwn British Union Jack— its first Hill. In the elaborate military pa rade at iChairlestoiwn will appear the pearance on Bunker Hill since thal memorable day itself: TAXr, I44Z Good cabs; satisfaction guaranteed, W. C. M o r e h o u se, 42 M a rket St. Phone 1442. inl4-Jel4 Washington, June 18—Ani American air navy of 30,000 machines is the government’s aeroplane program for the first year of the war it was of ficially learned today. iHow to produce this number of air craft when the eight small! American aeroplane factories were unable to fill half the government’s order Ijst year has been worked out by the air craft production board of the Council of National .Defense and Is now told by the United Press for the' first time. The United States will make three main classes of war aeroplanes: . Training planes, bombing machines and observation aircraft. The speedier allied battle planes will continue to . be made almost en tirely by France and Great Britain where this type of machine 'has al ready been perfected. American autoplants In part will be advised to make the standardized en gines for the 30,0()0 aeroplanes the first year. Furniture factories, typewriter plants and other mills equipped for the work, will manufacture the -wings and other parts. Theser arrangements, already per fected by 'Chairman 'Howard Coffin of the b'oard, only await the passage by Congress of the ?600,000,01)0 aviation appropriation to be asked. ’Three training schools for aviators for the new air navy are already un der construction” at Dayton, Ohio, 'Champagne, Ills., and Detroit, Mich. Six others, and more if necessary, will be established. Each aeroplane will cost about $18,000. They will be of the slower type with a speed of from 70 to 100 miles an hour. The baijle planes be ing made in France and Great Brit ain are capable of a speed up to 150 The use of portions of American auto plants in thp manufacture of ai^roplanes may cut down on the pro duction of pleasure cars, it is regard e-d as likely by offlclajs. In the belief that Aiiiierican air u n it s can do m o r e to turn the scale In Europe, Secretary of War Baker m $ 20,000 FOR INJURIES Kingsley R. Farnum Sues the Gamer Print Works and Bleachery in Court Here. Supreme court continued in this city today with Justice Morschauser presiding. The calender was called and only one case, Kingsley R. Far- num against the Garner Print Works and Bleachery, was ready. A jury was selected and the case will start to morrow morning. As no other case was ready for trial the remaining juixjrs.were dismissed until Thursday, June 28. The 'Faimum vs. Garner Print Works and Bleachery case is an action brought by the youth to recover dam ages to the amount of $ 20,000 for an Injury received while an employee of th e ,company In OCtO'ber last an bringing the action Farnum al leges that on October 31, 1916 he was employed 'by the coinpany In what is known as the fetarch Room. -He was running cloth through a mangle ma chine when his apron caught in au unprotected and unguarded revolving shaft. He was drawn into the ma chine and received injuries of severe and unusual nature. He is 20 iyeara old. The defense alleges that they are not liable for the damages as the in jury comes -under Workmen’s Com pensation Ojaw. John Mack repre sents ’the plaintiff while tlhe action will be defended by Thomas 'Curran. 'Corporation Counsel of \yonkers. LAW N M OW E R S SH A R P E N E B Called ’for and delivered, $1.00. Bicycle Shop. Gall 343-J. ■ tf PENMANSHIP SURVEY MADE IN SQlOOiS Result Shows Gratify ing Progress in Speed and Form. OmCIALS MUST HLE NEWOATHS Have Until Tomorrow to Comply With New State : Law Passed May 19. I EVEN THE MAYOR DIDN’T KNOW IT The Evening Enterprise leamefi to day that all public officers and em ployees in civil service of the state, counties, cities, villages and towns must refile their constitutional oath of office. This Is in -aecordance with chapte 33 574, Laws of 1M7, which was signed by Governor '■'ATiilman and be came a law 'May Mth. The law fur ther states that all oaths muet be in within thirty days after the signing of the law. This means that every office holder and employee of state, counties, cities, villages and tow n s have oly until tomorrow to refile their oaths of office. T h e n e w law w h ich dem a n d s th is Is as follows: Chapter 574, Laws of 1917. which ■was signed by the Governor and be came a law May 19, 1917, adds a new section to the iCIvil 'Stervice [Law, as follows:. “30. 'Person employed by staate or .its civil divisions cities to take and file constitutional oatl^, Every person ‘hereafter employed^ by the state or any of its civil divisions or cities, except In the labor class as defined in this chapter, before he shall be entitled to enter upon the dis charge of any of his duties, shall take anid file -an oath or affirmation In the form and language prescribed by the constitution for executive, legislative and judicial officers, which may he administered by any officer author ized to take, within fhe state, the-ac knowledgement o fthe execution of a deed of real property, or by an of ficer in whqse office the oath is re quired to be filed. The oath of every (Continued on page six.) AUTHORITIES MUCH PUEASED QUALITY. Nothing but all wool, 100 per cent, _____ __________ can get In pur clothes. The style, ing' of the 'technical side of the prp- G. iH. \VanVechten supervisor of penmanship In t ie public schools has just ■completed a suirey of the work in. penmanship in the fifth, sixth, seventlh aand eighth grades of the city and has comjKJed a number of in teresting charts as the result of the survey. The survey was started a/bout .three months ago and has but recently been completed. It was based upon both speed and form. At the beginning of the test the pupils of the fifth,,sixth, seventh and elgh.th grades of the city were given a short selection to commit to memory without being told t'»e purpose to which it was to be put. After the selection had been mem- crized the pupils we,re given pen, ink an'd paper and were instructed to I write the selection from memory as a test o>f both speed and form In pen manship. The test was continued for exactly two minutes. At the end of the two minutes all were required to s'top. The pqpers were collected and turned in. The papers -were graded on speed according to the amount accomplish ed in the two minutes. They were also marked on form wihleh was based ui)bn charts which had been prepared in advance by Mr. VanVechten. All work was marked on the same basiis, the object being to show the progress made in both speed .and form from the fifth to the eighth grades. The general result -was of a most gratifying nature. A marked Increase in speed with a cerrespon-ding im provement in form was shown. Mr. VanVechten ihas prepared one chart ivhlch shows in a graphic man ner the development in both speed and form in each of the four grades In each of the schools where the tests were taken. 'A second graphic' chart shows the compaTlson between the work done 'by the respective teachers along this Both of these charts are Interesting, even to the layman who knows noth- PROCLAIIUTION SOON TO BE ISSUED ft Tells in Detail How the Fate of Every Man Eligible For Army Service Will Be Decided. PERSONNEL OF LOCAL EXEMPTION BOARDS IN 20 STATES DECIDED Provost Marshal General Crowder Plans Great Lottery Which Will Call Many Men From Their Homes First Week of M y . Washington, June 18.—The American war machine which is to grind out 626,000 soldiers for service in France, is geared up and ready to start work today. President Wilson’s proclamation of regulations, which will start the machiiue by puttin.g into operation the actual/draft of men, is completed and req>dy to he issued. This proclamation tells in detail how the fate of every man eligible for army service ■will be decided.'. It directly affects every American on the registration lists. (Since Saturday the President and Secretary Baker have been going over the final draft of the regulations, prepared by a special advisory board. Within 2df hours the rules will probably be promulgated and the most vital phase of the selective conscription will begin. The regula tions create two classes of exemption hoards, outline their duties and enunciate the general rules for exemption or draft. ‘ The personnel of exemption hoards in twenty states 'was decided today. They will he announced withjn 48 hours. / President Wilson’s proclamation does not set an exacf day for the great lottery which 'will result in themen f'o’r\America’s first armies be- injg siunmoned from thousands of homes. But all Provost Marshal General Crowder’s plans are placed upon conducting this momentous lottery during the first week of July. the fit and Tvorkmanship ,are ail blem involved. .guaranteed. P r ices m o d e r a te. J4®ara. T h e resu lt s o f th e su r v e y w e r e of the TallOl', 20 Washington St.' tf suck a gratifying nature that the local HWDAINtAFE FIOrrCASE Disorderly C o n d u c t Charge Made as Re sult of Qyarrel Late Saturday Night. iHenfy M. iMoVgan of 157 Main street,'-^aniei -Braught of 156 Maain street, Frank Simpson of 192 Main street and (Charles Mplta of 11 Tal- madgc street were arrai'gned in the city 5>urf before Judge Overocker this morning on charges of disorderly conduct and their cases were ad journed for trial until Monday, June k. The four men were arrested late iSaturday night by (Patrolmen Amato following a free-for-all in the Yale 'Cafe at 157 Main street. It Is al leged Simpson and Morgan, who is proprietor of the saloon, got In a quarrel and fhe latter tried to put him otTT. The proprietor was as sisted iby Braught. Moffa was the victim of ''butting in.” He happened along \at the time of the battle and stepped into the salOon to witness the fracas. \When the policeman, ar rived he was also placed under ar- ,Crane His ©wn Waiter in Russia Petrograd, June 18—Charles R. Crane, millionaire American manu facturer and one of the members of the American mission to Russia, had to make his own bed, act as his OAvn waiter 'and wash his own breakfast, lunch and dinner dis'hes today. With hundreds of other guests at Petrograd hotels 'Crauce was a ■victim of a general strike of waiters. They are demandtog part ownership of all hotels and restaurants. authorities are planning to ha-ve an article describing the survey, with cuts of the charts, published in ana Of the national educational journals TO that others may know what Is be ing done along this line in the local schools. HODRA MAY OTOEN GETS $225,000 BALM 28-Year Old W o man Wins S u i t A g a i n s t A ged J ohn R. M an- ning. SEALED VERDICT OPENED TODAY New York, June 18—^Miss Honora May O’B'rien was todaay gmted $'22'5,~ 000 damages in her breach of prom ise suit brought against aged John R. M'anning. The decision of the jury which heard t^Te evidence in the strange case of the 28 yeaar old “Irish Rose” gaainst the 85 year old millionaire was announced when the sealed verdict was opened before Judge Cropsey. Two hundred’ thousand dollars of the a'ward was for the sufferings the Irish Rose because her .courtship w ith th'9 old gentleman was dragged through tihe public prints and the marri'age balked; and the other $25,000 represented The price the jury figured the old man ought to pay be cause he was so “smart” in his an swers on the witness stag'd. The $200,000 was termed \damages ’ and the $25,000 “punitive damages”. T h e jury estim -ated that M anning's “smart” answers damaged Miss O’Brien $2)5,000 ivorth. The pretty complainant was not in court. She went' to work as usual today ”as secre'tary to a New York newspaperman, 'Manning, the 84 (correct) year old wooer who feigned palsy and decrepi tude to -win the sympathy of the jury against Miss 'Honora 'May, led all his relatives in a spry sprint for a taxi cab to get away from the courtroom as soon as he heard the verdict. His face twitched when the verdict was read, but liis Irish smile didn’t ap- Argumei^ on a Tnotlon for appeal of the case will be heard 'Wednesday. Miss Mary Manning and Dr. John Manning, dlkughteT and son of Die octogenarian hope wrecker, accom panied Mm to court. None of them would comment on the verdict. James O’Brien, brother of Miss Honora May Obrien was In court. He said that every cent of the award would go to his sister. MRS. SEFRIDGE LEAVES $30:000 Harry J. Seilfridge, Hus- and, and Willard C. 'Selfridge, Sony A r e the Beneficiaries. The will of Florence -C. Selfridg< 5 i late wife of Harry J. Selfridge, was today admitted to probate by Surro gate Gleason, The instrument dis poses of an estate of over $3O,-00C and names as beneficiaries Harry J. •Selfridge of this city, husband, and Williard 'C. Selfridge of New Haven, IConn,, son. The building, lot and stvbles at 24 South Hamilton street are left to Willard 'C. iSelfridge, while the build ing on the north westerly corner oi Cannon and South Hamilton streets is left to the-h'uS'band. The remain der of the estate is to he divided in equal shares between husband and son. The hushaifd ®-nd son were also made executors by the will. m il ACT ( i MAYOR’S VETO Much interest in firemanic circlei l5 centering around the meeting of the Common Council which is to be held at the city hall at 8 o’clock to- At that time the mayor’s veto oI the council’s action on the purchase of a triple combination motor pump er fr O. H. Booth 'Hose 'Company will be brought up for action. As the first vote on the question stood 8-0 in favor of the American •LOFrance machine, it seems hardly probably that the original action can be carried over the head of the head of the mayor. It is expected that there will be^ hot fight 111 the meeting tonight and no doubt there will bo a large audience present to see ■what action will be finally taken. IF YOUR SHOES NEED REPAIRING '• p h o n e 168 . Goodyear Shoe- Repairing Company, 229 Main St. D R . T H p S . L E O M A H O N E Y H a s m o v e d h i s office a n d resld a n p # to 92 C a n n o n St,\* city^ H -
