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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
Plenty of Places to Go to
Today to Spend Sane Fourth

Lend an ear, We joy-lovers!
Everybody's doing it. Some Of them
have already gone, other are just
going. Where are you? If you're
home where you ought not to be on
a day like this, just hike yourself
out into the kitchen pantry and
throw a can of Heinz's beans, a few
sweet pickles and a loaf of bread
into a basket, cover it over with
a few napkins. put a clean dress on
little sister and grab jitney and
beat it somewhere where they are
having a grand time.
There's Pottawatomie and Spring
brook parks; Diamond. Hudson.
Eagle and Indian lakes, and the
Country club. Take your choice.
There's going to be a big time at
all of them.
Big Time at POttawatomie.
Pottawatomie will be going from
10 o'clock this morning until 6
o'clock this evening. Races. games,
exhibitions, speeches, music, every
thing imaginable for a good time.
The athletic program will be run
in the forenoon. Ii will consist of
volley hall, baseball. indoor. the
grand free-for-a all pig chase, pole
walk, and pillow fight, and several
dancing exhibitions. 4 two hour
and a half recess will then be taken
in order TO give everybody a chance
TO spread their picnic lunches out
under some shady tree and eat IN
til their hearts content.
At $3.50 o'clock the afternoons
program viii begin. There will be
band concerts and singing. speeches,
an address by the Hon. J. A Wat
son, patriotic songs and a magnifi-
cent tableaux staged at the park
flag staff.
Horse Racing at SpringbrOOk.
Springbrook offers an endless
chain Of amusements. Horse racing.
bicycle races, a balloon ascension
with an exciting parachute drop,
band concerts and fireworks will be
added to the regular park attrac-
tons Five pacing and trotting
events will be staged on the half
mile track. More than 20 riders are
entered in the wheelman's speed
contest. The fireworks display in the
evening viii be particularly elab-
crate and OF a patriotic nature. The
display viii be given early in the
evening so as 10 allow the children
TO be taken home early II desired.
The many park concessions and
rides will be ready 70 care for the
crowds and Tie Dreamland dancing
pavilion will be open.
vt Country Club.
A dansant in the afternoon as
well as a dinner dance IN the even
ing. a blind DOGGY contest and an
Is hole golf tournament will be
the chief attractions at the Chain
O'-Iakes Country club.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
BRITISH REPORT
SUCCESSFUL RAIDS

International News Service:
LONDON. July 3.-The report
from British headquarters in France.
issued at noon today says:
I'VE successfully raided west OF
Havrincourt and north OF Newport,
capturing a few prisoners last night.
South Of the Cojeul river the enemy
attacked our advance posts but
were driven OF"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
FOTrR AMERICANS DECORATED

international News Service;
PARIS. July 3.-Four more am
buIance drivers OF the American
aeld service were decorated with the
war cross for bravery. They are
Rrowlee GrouI. Toledo o.: II. W.
Ruxinkam. Chicago: r. Butler
and John Grierson- g., OF New York.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
KING GEORGE ORDERS
AMERICAN FLAG FLOWN

LONDON. July 3.-King George
has ordered the American flag flown
from the tower OF the houses OF par
lament on the Fourth OF July.
American independence day.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
AMERICAN DESTROYERS BEAT
OFF FOE IN NIGHT BATTLE.
Navy Department Announces at Least One
Submarine Sun -E.fective Work
Of i. S. Gunners Sends
Foe Scattering.
BULLETIN.

FRENCH SEAPORT July 3-The last units of the Americas
exPeOnay force, comprising vessels loaded with supplies and
horses arrived here today amid the screechng of whistles and
moaning of sirens. Their coming week after the first
landed greeted warmly
themselves because complete of the under
taking.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
Associated Press Service:


WASHINGTON July Observation-Disclosures conveying trans
ports with troops for France fought off two
The first of the fights given out late today by the
mee public information with formal the
safe arrival of the last of the transports with their conveys
AT least submarine sunk Both of the attacks were
made in force, showing that the
coming of the transports and planned to get them
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
BULLETIN.


PARIS July 3-The American troops French port viii
begin going training for instructions behind the lines by
the end of this week, announced this morning The
contingent thence after the Fourth of July celebration.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
NAVY DEPARTMENT GIVES NEWS.

This announcement issued:
The navy department at O'Clock this afternoon received word
the safe arrival French port the last contingent of Gen
PerShingS expedonay force At the time the information was
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
At Country Club.

A dansant in the afternoon as
well as dinner dance IN the even
ing a blind DOGGY contest and an
IS hole golf tournament will De
the chief attractions at the Chain
o'-L.akes Country club.
Picnic dinners, boat and foot
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-04
THE WEATHER

Indiana and Lower Michigan
Fair wednesday and Thursday
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New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Joint Report on
War Budget Adopted
Amendment Recommending
That Goethals Build Ships
Excluded by Both Houses

Washington, June 1.-The House
adopted to-day the conference report
on the S3.000.000,O00 war budget with
out the disputed Senate amendment
directing the expenditure Of S75O,OOG,-
600 for shipbuilding and requiring the
President 10 make General Goethals re-
sponsible for this work.
The Senate also adopted the con-
ference report, with the exception
roted. and agreed 70 further CON
ferences on the matter in dispute. II
is the opinion here that the Senate Will
carry its point, and that General
Goethals. not the Shipping Board. will
have full charge and responsibility for
spending Ihe $3.50, 100000.
The conference report was not
adopted in the House until several
members had expressed their opinion
Of the Council of National Defence for
its manner of letting public contracts.
Republican Leader Mann declared he
understood the requirement of competi-
tive bidding had been waived in some
cases, and he warned the House that
such policy gave opportunity for cor
ruption.
Representative Madden declared that
in buying cots for the army the Council
had declined the offer Of q manufact-
urer and continued TO deal with job
ter.
Chairman Fitzgerald Of the Appro-
priations Committee defended the Coun-
ell
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Kent Motors Brokers
Charged with Fraud
Used Mails 10 Sell Defunct
Corporations Stock, II
Is Alleged

Frederick J. Nagel and John A.
Simpson. proprietors Of a stock broker.
age concern at 1870 Broadway through
which, il is alleged, the securities Of
the defunct Kent Motors Corporation
were sold, testified yesterday in bank.
ruptcy proceedings before United
States Commissioner Gilchrist, in the
Federal Building, concerning the
finances Of the bankrupt concern.
After testifying they were taken to
Newark and charged with conspiracy
to defraud through use Of the mails.
They were each held in $1,000 bail for
examination on June II and, failing to
find bondsmen, were locked up.
Nagel told Commissioner Gilchrist
that he had sold $4,000 worth Of Ken,
Motor stock at $3.50 a share, receiving
Sl.50 share commission.
Would you be surprised TO learn
that the Kent corporation has no six
teen-acre plant, with warehouses as
sembling plant, testing sheds, factory,
docks. ETC., at Belleylle. " J., as
stated in it's advertisng?" asked the
Commissioner.
81 should be amazed" said Nagel
The corporation, according 20 wit
nesses, owns only two small shops al
Belleville. each capable Of holding two
automobiles.
Frederick II. Clarke, president Of the
bankrupt corporation, ard Or. Henry
c. Clarke, the treasurer, are being held
in $500 bail for examination June II.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Old Maids Lot Not So Bad, He Says
Sunday "Mugged,"
Measured and Finger
Printed by Police

Billy Sunday was "mugged.' meas
ured and fnger-printed yesterday al
Police Headquarters, which he visited
as the guest of Inspector Joseph
Faurot. lie went through the regula-
tion ordeal that prisoners follow A,
the conclusion he declared he had had
the time of my life"
Commissioner Woods and two of his
deputies, Lord and O'Daniel, met the
evangelist and showed him through the
big building. He WINGED at the grue-
some records and effects IN the bureau
of unidentified dead, but was keenly
interested in the Rogues' Gallery
where the portraits Of well known IN
ternational criminals were pointed out
In the Bertillon room, Sunday said
he would not mind going through the
ordeal and so the experts took him IN
hand, measured his head with calipers
counted his teeth, noted the shape OF
his head, performed other duties OF
Bertillon expert, and then, before Sun
day knew il. he was facing camera
and full face and profile portrait had
been taken.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Il Known Dead
AS Tornado Hits
3 States in West
Heavier Losses Feared in
Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri

Kansas City. No, June Twenty
one known dead, more than one hun
dred injured and unestimated property
damage were caused by a series of tor
nadoes that swept several towns and
sections Of Southeastern Kansas, North
Central Oklahoma and Southern Mis-
sour. latc to-day and tonight.
With 400 houses reported destroyed
at Coalgate, Okla, a town of $500 in
habitauts, and possibly 200 at Coffey-
Vile, Kan, it was feared that the death
total al these two places would be
high. One message said that thirteen
bodies had been counted at Coalgate,
and that the business section Of the
town was virtually destroyed.
Three persons were killed. several
seriously injured and much property
was damaged by a tornado which
struck Moore, five miles southeast Of
Olathe. Kan.
Unconfrmed reports from Buffalo,
No. told of considerable damage there.
Another storm was reported 10 have
passed between Springfield and Leba-
non, Mo. All wires were down in both
directions. At Drake, Okla, five
known deaths were reported.
Nine persons were injured, two per
haps fatally, by the tornado which
passed north of the town Of Seminole,
Okla.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Steals $4,000 Gems
From Skyscraper Shop
Thief Escapes After Chase
in Nassau Street
Building

For more than an hour yesterday siter-
noon the police searched the oihees'
corridors and stairways Of the Je~e''
lers Building, at 7l-73 Nassau Street
for a daring thief who entered the
Offices Of D. lie Bange & Cohen
jewellers, on the thirteenth hoor. ana
escaped with wallet containing %'VOO
worth of diamonds.
Benjamin and Michael Cohen, mem
bers Of the firm. were cutting diamoncs
in the workshop at the rear when pen,
jamin heard some one IN the man
Office. lie entered in time 20 see
well dressed young man leaving, 'hti
open safe. in which were thousands o.
dollars worth of gems.
The thief fed into the corridor py'
sued by score Of men. On w W
eleventh aoor he disappeared. pI pe,ssI,
tives and uniformed men seare'nis.
every floor, but no trace Of the ius."''
was found
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Pictured as a Tough,
Boy Wins $500 Suit

Through a compromise effected in
the Supreme Court yesterday James
Ryan, sixteen years old, of 667 Elev-
enth Avenue, will receive $500 from the
Russell Sage Foundation and the Sur
vey Associates, Inc, for being pictured
as a tough boy.
Two years ago the defendants pub
lished a book entitled "Boyhood and
Lawlessness" The publishers set
forth that it presented juvenile life in
a part of the city alleged TO have a
reputation for violence and crime and
in which the worst elements ruled the
streets. Jimmie Ryan, then fourteen
years old. was snapped while at play on
North River dock and his picture was
used in the book labelled, IAN Embryo
Gsngster,' although his name was not
printed.
Thomas Ryan, the boys father. sued
for $4,000 damages for libel Justice
BLUR yesterday signed an order per-
mitting the elder Ryan, as guardian,
to compromise his suit for $500.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Mothers Spurned
Suitor Confesses
He Slew Her Son
Fails in Suicide Attempt
When He Slashes Wrists
and Jumps Into Water

Michael Koerber, a building con-
tractor, stopped to mail letter Thurs
day night on his way from 27l East
Seyenty-eighth Street, where he had
called to get ffteen-year-old Frederick
Stcinmiller, to his own room in the
apartment Of Mrs. Lena Bauer, at 4l4
In the same street.
The letter was addressed to friend
of Kocrbers, Frank Fultz. In it the
writer explained that Mrs. Louise
Steinmiller, the boys mother, had
transferred her affections TO another
man, and that in revenge he was abou;
to do something which she would
never be able TO forget"
That Something was accomplished
before Fultz got the letter. At S
o'clock yesterday morning Mrs. Stein
miller, whose son had not returned
home after leaving with Koerber, went
to the Bauer flat She and Mrs. Bauer
opened the door of Koerber's room
with a pass key. as;e- Waiting in vain
for a response 10 their knocks.
The boys body lay on the bed.
Under it was a razor with which the
head had been nearly severed from
the trunk
Soon after general alarm had been
sent out for Koerber, Captain Relth,
Of the Grand Avenue station IN AS
toria, reported that a man answering
the description of Koerber had slashed
his wrists with a penknife while sit
ting on the rail of the North Beach
board walk. had toppled into shallow
water, been fshed out, and was then IN
St. Johns Hospital, Long Island City.
Reith's man proved 70 be hoerber
himself. Before he had been trans
ferred to Bellevue Hospital, prisoner
charged with homicide, he had con-
fessed to the murder of the Steinmiller
boz, according to the police.
Koerber will recover. He is thirty
three years old and has a business at
North Bergen, y. j., operated under
the firm name of Bernett & Koerber.
Last December. shortly after his atten-
tions to Mrs Steinmiller had ,sd her
husband TO leave her, Koerber went to
board in her home. Another boarder
won more of Mrs. Steinmiller's smiles
and Koerber changed his living quar-
ters, threatening TO get even if he
went to the electric chair" it is al
legged.
lie continued his friendship with the
Steinmiller boy. however, and lured
him from home with the promise of a
chest Of tools, II is charged.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
u. S. Lets Contracts
For $3.50, 900
Pairs of Shoes
Army and Navy Will Be Sup
piled at Cost Of About
$4.84 a Pair
Hmm Tie Tdhnne Rur,ul

Washington, June 1.-The Council of
National Defence announced the award
of contracts to-day for 3,450,000 pairs
Of shoes, the largest shoe contract ever
negotiated by the government. The
contracts provide 100000 pairs Of
shoes for the army and $4,000 for the
navy. Virtually the entire shoe in
dustry Of the country VIII participate
in the contract.
The shoes for the navy are the regu-
lation high-cut black calfskin, and the
average price is about 81 SO. The War
Department contracts for 100000
pairs were awarded to nineteen out Of
forty-scven bidders, and the average
price is S4.85.
The quartermaster' department OF
the army and the Bureau of Supplies
and Accounts Of the navy cooperated IN
arranging these contracts with the com
mittee on supplies of the Council or
National Defence. This committee, OF
" men JULIUS lNONtllN d4Alf VI NhANHbN " -
chairman, obtained options from the
principal producers on the leather re-
quired. Then the shoe manufacturers
with proper facilities were invited to
submit bids, based on the prices in the
options. They can buy leather from
any other source or can make lower
prices, but the arrangement with the
tanners allows the shoe manufacturers
TO secure material at the option prices.
"There was wide competition in the
bidding" said Admiral McGowan, pay
master general of the navy, bids for
1880 pairs being received on the
navy contracts. which were awarded to
the lowest bidders. Deliveries are 20
be completed in eight months. The
quantity will probably supply the navy
for the rest Of the year.
THE original schedules called for 625.-
COO pairs. but as the prices secured
were so satisfactory the quantity was
increased to $4,000 pairs"
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Client-Friend Who Pro6,.l
by His Speculations To
Be Questioned
Received $1,000 Month
Defendants False Entr;..
Aided Customer, Author.
tiles Believe

After an all-day investigation OF u.
books of the brokerage firm Of " D
Craig G. Co, of % Broad Street. bv ~
pert accountants information rea,L,.
the District Attorney yesterday H..
the shortage in the accounts Of Robs,.
Moore, the firms commodity mars,..
arrested on charges Of forgery s,s
grand larceny on Thursday. amounted
to 81 Sl,03O,65O.
Close on this revelation the Di,,ri,,
Attorney was informed that a client q,
the company who had two account,
there was the recipient Of sl.2Oo =.
month on one of the accounts for SON.
time. Within twenty-four hour, h,
probably will be called upon to tell a,
his business relations with Moore. !,
is known that the two had been on
terms of close business intimacy "a,
several years.
When arrested Moore made the vol.
untary statement that he alone was IA
blame for the shortage. But the belle,
that he was alone in his wheat specu.
lations is not shared by the Dis,ric;
Attorneys office.
Thus far the examination Of N.
books shows that the client-friend Of
Moore made large profits during a par,
Of the time that the manager Of The
commodities department was speculst
ing.
Moore was released in $4,000 bail
which was accepted by a magistrate 0.
the night court, but it was not known
at the time that his losses were NOR,
than $4,000, the amount specified il
the charge against him.
The bail was given by Robert H
Davis, Of 5 East Forty-fourth Street
who offered as security his boarding
house and restaurant at ll5 West
Forty-ifth Street
The home of Moore. in Rutherford
N. j., was closed last night It is IN.
derstood that he is living with his
father, Robert r. Moore, president Of
the Commercial Trust Company, at rs
Riverside Drive.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Woman's Phone Call
Uncovers Suicide
In Broadway Hotel
Boston Man Wrote Relative,
w'll Be Dead When
You Get This"
81 wish 20 sneak TO Mr.. King"

i WISH 20 speak 10 MI hlnE.
II was a woman's voice that came to
the telephone operator at the Broad
way Central Hotel last evening.
"Just a minute"
The phone in Room $40, where Rob-
ert (. King was staying, rang, but there
was no reply.
please send somebody to the room
the voice directed. 81 have just re
ceived letter that makes me think
that something has happened to him.
Employees of the hotel found 4 pass
key and entered the room. Kings body
was lying on the bed. There was a re-
volver by his side and a bullet hole
through his head.
On the hotel register it was discov-
cred that the man had written merely
king. Boston" He is believed 20 be
a stock broker.
While detectives were still in the
room the woman who had telephoned
reached the hotel She identified the
man as her brother-in-law. and said
West Sixty-eight Street
Kings wife died, she said. six months
ego. Since then, she continued. her
brother-in-law had been despondent. i'll
and worried over business matters.
This evening ! received IA letter
from him." she went en-. IL did not
know until then that he was in town.
He told me he was at the Broadway
Central Hotel. He then wrote: When
you receive this | will be dead"
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Cloak Model Asks
100000 as Cure
For Broken Heart
Hulda Van Ahlstrand Sues D. G.
Frank, Beneficiary of
$II5,00O Trust

You who have went over the woes Of
Bertha, the Beautiful Cloak Model"
reserve an extra sob for the tale of
Hulda Won Ahlstrand, also a cloak
model.
The first chapter Of the story was un-
folded yesterday in the Supreme Court,
where Miss Won Ahlstrand is seeking
justice for her broken heart and $780,
600 from Daniel Gordon Frank, who,
she alleges, broke IT,
Miss Won Ahlstrand met Frank. she
says, when he was practically pennl-
less. From time 20 time, she alleges,
she loaned him as much as $50. He
promised to marry her, and she can
prove it, she asserts, for she has his
promise in his own handwriting.
81 promise 20 marry you, Hulda Won
Ahlstrand, as soon as | possibly can.
D. G. F." This is the basis for the
models 100000 suit.
"As soon as | possibly can" meant.
according 70 the plaintiff, as soon as
Frank got money enough. Recently he
became beneficiary of a Sll5,000 tru t
fund created by his father, linen
merchant.
In court yesterday George Gordon
Battle told the jurors that his client,
Frank, had written the promise when
intoxicated. Later, the lawyer claimed,
Frank regretted his action and tore the
paper in half.
The plaintiff explains the fact that
the paper is iE two pieces by saying
that she kept it between the leaves of a
limp leather book, and tore it while
bending the volume back and forth.
She said further that she first met
Frank at the Hotel Martinique. Later,
she says, he called on her seven times
week, and proposed to her verbally
several times, as we'll as setting down
his intentions in black and white.
She also introduced a letter signed
yours in misery. Gordon" The mis-
cry" she said, referred TO the fact that
she had been accepting flowers and
candy from other men.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-02
Almonds Become
Cocktails at Fest
OF the Magicians
Men and Women of Mystery
Make Merry at Annual
Dinner

The food behaved most unseemly last
night at the thirteenth annual fool
fest" of the Society of American Ma
gicians at the Hotel McAlpin. The but
ter started things going by sliding off
the plates into some 800 laps.
"See, ladies and gentlemen an
nounced President Richard Van Dien,
"the hand is quicker than the eye ana
so are salted almonds"
Three hundred pairs OF eyes strayed
to where the salted almonds had re-
posed beside each plate, and, presto
there stood 300 Martini cocktails. The
almonds had vanished.
There were the amateur maglclans OF
society, whose skill is little known out
side Of exclusive drawing rooms. Ihere
were others whose names are blazoned
on twenty-four sheets, and, hnaIiy
came DR.. Samuel Hooker, with his long
flowing white maglcian's beard, from
his home in Remsen Street, BrooKIyn.
Then there was Theodore Bamberg, d
Dutch magician, a seventh son, VINO
made a set Of child's alphabetical blocks
leap about on a table at his command
and spell all sorts OF words.
See" he exclaimed, 81 have aDso-
lutely no connection with the blocks
yet | have absolute control. IL cost me
$4,000 70 make those blocks perform.
Homer Rodeheaver, Billy Sunday
choirmaster, gave a demonstration OF
converting 300 sleight-of-hand per
formers into a real live chorus, singing
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
But before the song was sung Mr.
Rodeheaver tied three handkerchief
together and changed them into an
American flag.
Harry Houdini, the "handcuf king,
made a wager with Harry Kellar that
he could handcuf him so he couldn't
free himself, and then he made
speech which augurs I'll for Germany.
"The Naval Advisory Board mas
turned TO the inventors 70 combat The
submarine peril, instead of calling
upon u.s." he said. "We are the fellow.
~ cope with these U-boats. They
should be properly classed as hidder
stuff. | am going 70 spend the mex
three months inyenting a method OF
making them disappear into Day!
Jones's locker"
Among others who performed foi
the benefit of their fellow magician.
were Mrs Adelaide Hermann. widow o
Hermann the Great; De Biere, thu
French Hermann, and Carter the Great