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KJawc Inanchnic WaslilnRt.m was tbe busiest city In the United States last week. All details of the draft
nCWS OnapSllOlS were competed. and the physical examinations of those called were got under way
Of thp Wplf Secretary McAdoo submitted to the senate finance committee estimates of the cost of
VFI IIIC TTCeii the next ear ()f WJjr ,it thl8 COUIltry nig request that arranjteuients be made to
provide $o.(KtO,000.000 shows that the ( nl'e.l SUitrs Is in the war o a victorious finish. The row in the shipbuild
ing board was ended when the presllr.' a'.-enteu tie reslcnption nf (ieneral Goettals. general manager, and re
quested the resignation of YVMlam lentna:i . u,nn. l!ear Aomi-hl Washington I.. Capps sc-' eeds 'ioethals. and
Edward N. Ilurl.ey succeeds Ienman. Hd'nbrWIt.- :! v -;i new member. Itio's in Pussia continued, and the Ger
mans, under Prince Leopold of Kavarta. mail" ti iimim- uvlns. Kc-ensky war made dictator and announces that be
will rule with a blood and Iron policy. Nationalism : 1 n en f many states were sworn into federal service
TO RUSH WORK ON
MERCHANT FLEET
President Ends Row In the
Board of Builders.
$5,000,000,000 IS NEEDED
8crtary McAdoo Submit EatimaU
to Probablo Cost of On Yoar of
War Brigadiar Goneral Squior 8aya
Amarica la Going to Roach Berlin
Via th Air Rout Othor Capital
Goasip.
Special Correspondence" of The Ga
zt t
WASHINGTON. D. C. July 30.
The ship building program,
which had been long delayed by
disagreements between Chairman
William Deninan and (Ieneral Cioe
thals, general manager, is expected to
be pushed with all possible speed
from now on.
i'.ie president ended tne controversy
by accepting the resignation of General
Goethals. which had been tendered
several days prior to Its acceptance.
At the same time Mr. Wilson requested
the resignation of Chairman Demnan.
Rear Admiral Washington L. Capps
was appointed general manager, and
Edward N. Hurley was appointed chair
man. Balnbrldge Colby, a New York
attorney, was also named a member of
the board. With the new men in charge
and all frlcllon eliminated, it is ex
pected that the program will be im
mediately carried out, and it has al
ready leen announced that several con
tracts have been let.
America to the Reecue.
Only America's billions and prodigious
man power can save the allies from de
feat and win the war with Germany.
This was the belief that crystallized
with magical rapidity in official Wash
ington, following the startling call of
the war department for an additional
$5,000,000,000 and the report that Unit
ed States army observers Just back
from France advised that the United
States must throw 2,000,000 men into
the war immediately.
The whole conception of the part
America must play in the war under
went a lightning change when it be
came known that the reason behind
the unexpected demand for an addition
al war credit of $5,000,000,000 was the
critical financial and military situation
of the allies. Senator Smoot voiced
the transformed vision of America's
role when he declared in the senate:
"The appropriations already granted
and asked for will total nearer $17,
000,000,000 than the $14,000,000,000
nrhich I stated yesterday. No doubt
$2,000,005,000 more will be required to
be lent to foreljrn countries who are en
gaged In the war with Germany.
$17,000,000,000 e a Total.
The total appropriations required
wfll approximate $17,000,000,000. And
our appropriations will continue to
grow. It la significant that A. Bbnar
Law In discussing the war in the Brit
ish house of commons called attention
to the fact that the entrance of this
country Into the conflict had solved the
financial problem for the allies."
Discussing war expenditures. Sena
tor Sherman of Illinois said:
"The last known estimate of national
wealth in this country was $187,000,
000,000. Counting the Increase that has
come with such prosperity as the war
brought prior to 1917, we have at this
time, Xajfly estimated, no mors than
$250,000,000,000. When we reach $20,
000000,000 of taxes or Indebtedness we
U1 bar & per cent of the aggregate.
Ttaat moans if we keep It up that In
iTo and one-half years wt would by
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CREWY MgAPQQS AMITRlCAh ScLCRS.L EK&BSLtJ
GENERAL 6. 0. SQU1ER
Commander of Signal Corps
Says America Will Raid
Berlin From the Air.
Photo by American Presa Aaeodatlon.
the taxing power reach every dollar
that Is In private ownership hi the
United States.
"Twelve and one-half years! The
Napoleonic wars lasted that long. The
press reports from across the ocean are
not especially reassuring for an early
peace, however ardently we desire It
We ought to begin right here in con
gress to save all we can in taxation."
It was frankly stated at the treasury
department that there was little or no
probability that the appropriation
granted and asked for, huge as the to
tals are to date, would exceed the ex
penditures: that there would le little or
nothing left over at the end of tbe year.
In and out of official circles the esti
mates that within a short time tbe
United States would lie spending on
the war as much every day as even
England that is to say approximately
$33.000.000 were made freely and ac
cepted as even conservative.
The call of the war department for
an additional appropriation of $5,000,
000,000 was taken everywhere as the
forerunner of another call for perhaps
a similar or greater amount in the near
future. This was intimated in the
treasury department with as little ef
fort at reticence as by the financial ex
perts in the senate and house.
To Berlin Via the Air.
Berlin will be entered by the air
route, and the United States is stack
ing up its resources behind the allies
to furnish enough machines to make
the conquest rosslble.
This is the declaration of Brigadier
General George O. Squier, commander
of the signal corps. He said:
"I am not here to make public our
plans or to Indulge in prophetic figures.
The closest estimate I can give about
our aeroplane plans is that the deter
mination of the allied governments is
to enter Germany by the air route, and
the United States government is going
to provide enough machines to make
itself felt In putting this program
through.
"This Is not saying that we will con
struct 22.000 airplanes or 1,000.000 or
ten or a dozen. If I knew how many
machines we would construct or could
construct In a year I wouldn't tell, be
ta use that would be telling Ton Hln-
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denburg, aud he'd tliank us for the in
formation. The best time to tell the
enemy about any military program Is
after that program has been carried
out and put into effect.
"Germany announced her forty-two
centimeter guns by hauling them up to
the battle line and firing shells of Hith
erto unheard of caliber into Belgium.
After the guns were built and placed
and In operation she encouraged the
press in glorifying the results. The
Germans are a nation of press agents,
but they never let publicity tamper
with a government secret.
"Of course tbe public wants to know
what we are going to do with the $tM0.-'
000,000 which congress has appropriat
ed for the aviation Bervlce. Well, it's
safe to say -that we will spend that
money and probably much more on the
air route Into Germany."
Alien Slackers, Attention!
Allen slackers of the United Spates
will have short shrift under plans
which took shape rapidly in congress.
Supporters of measures designed to
force the slackers into service declared
that legislation would le under way
very soon. In the meantime the entire
problem was put up to the state de
partment for an opinion. If the de
partment delays in advising congress
as to what effect the legislation will
have internationally congress will move
on Us own Initiative.
Senator Cliamlterlaln, chairman of
the military affairs committee and au
thor of the resolution which would
draft alien slnckers without interna
tional formality, declared that his com
mittee would uct on the measure at
once. The Mil bad been in the hands
of the state department for several
dnys, and Senator Chamberlain expect
ed a report within a day or two. He
said:
"The bill cannot be held up. We
should act arid act at once. If there Is
nr unnecessary delav in getting inror
matlon from the state department we
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will act without tnat lnionnauon.
Food Reeerve For France.
Th Red Cross war council has ap
i.ronriaterf 1.500.000 for foodstuffs to
be sent to France as an emergency re
serve for use next winter by either
American forces or civilian populations.
The action was in response to a plea
from Major Grayson Murphy, head of
the Bed Cross commission in Maine,
saying:
"We must l e-i'i to prepare for the
comlnjr haul winter, mid you cannot
possibly send us more than we need of
the following: Twenty four-ton motor
trucks, Wi.ihhi yards of flannel, con
densed mill;. Hour, dried or preserved
vegetables, coined beef, canned beef,
preserved fruits, shoes, blankets, knit
ting wool and heavy white cotton sheet
1ng."
Supplies will lx- purchased for the
Bed Cross by the Commission For Be
lief In Belgium, and siecial arrange
ments have been made for speedy shii
ment. They will be transported to
storage places in France by a new Red
Cross fleet of motor trucks.
Demand For Engineers.
It developed in a recent debate that
not more than half the ordinary ap
propriations could be expended upon
certain government work because
there was such a demand for govern
ment engineers in connection with the
war nreoa rations. Perhaps that ac
counts for a river and harbor bill o
. .. fw lA4AnV r9 r n
less tnan ov,uou,j ummu ui uv.
that sum.
Rankled Deep.
Scarcely anything has ever so rankled
a majority of senators as the fact that
a few men self appointed for the most
part got together and decided upon
what kind of a food control bill should
pass. Several senators referred sneer
in gly to these men as "leaders."
It recalled the days when the "Big
Six" of the senate ran things tbelr
own way. Tho Big Six were Aldrlch,
Hal and Allison, wltn three others of
their choosing. '
ONCE IN THE
Being Tales of Those Who
and Then Dropped
XAX I'ATTEIWOX.
Of "Flmladora" Fame.
When the "Floradora"' sextet had
but Its original six members (before
tho number was augmented to a
hundred times tnat many by Inde
fatigable press agents ) Nan Patterson
was said by many to be the most ap
pealing of the half dozen.
Nan had but lately entered the the-'
atrlcal set of New ork, coming from
Washington. Virtually unheralded,
she had entered the chorus and by
reason of her beauty and quick ton
gue had gained the attention of the
wealthy men who seemingly had lit
tle else to do but to scrape an ac
quaintanceship with pretty girls in
Broadway productions.
Among this group of men who
spent a great deal of time with the
nextet was Caesar Young, a wealthy
horseman. He gained favor with the
young woman and within a .-iu.i t tln.r
after he had first met her he was
recognized as her close friend.
There were complications In the
case, however. Young had a wire,
while Nan Patterson had married, in
the days before she achieved noto
riety, a young clerk named Leon Mar
tin. in May, 1904, Young was found
dead in New Yoik City Inside a cab.
Karlier in the evening Nan bad teen
seen to enter the cab with him, and
although when arrested she asserted
that Young had committed suicide
because of inability to divorce hts
wife, tho District Attorney declared
he believed it a case of murder.
When Nan was finally placed on
trial evidence was Introduced to
show that she and Young had been
more Intimate in their relations than
was at first suspected and so, while
the Jury were making up their itlnds
as to whether she should be freed,
her husband got a divorce.
The jury disagreed and she was
discharged, only later to be arrested
once more and placed on trial again.
But aside from evidence bringing out
the fact that Young had kept her
plentifully supplied with funds there
was nothing to indicate that she was
responsible for the crime. The re
sult was that she was discharged
and the mystery as to how Caesar
Young met his death Is as far from
solution today as it ever was.
Nan quickly obtained a theatrical
engagement and west on the road
after her acquittal, while her former
husband also came to her support and
remarried her. Ill-health shortly
after .sent him to California, where
he urged her to join him. It was but
a month or so after his arrival tbere
that his condition became worse and
the doctor In charge told him he had
little chance of recovery.
The chorus girl was Informed of the
condition of her husband, In (act, lie
sent her money with which she might
come to his side. he started on her
wav and reached Pittsburgh, where
she met some friends.
The result was that she stayed at
a house on the outskirts of the
Smoky City for several days and,
while in the meantime her husband
died, she spent lavishly the money
he had sent her to go out to the
const.
Nan Patterson had been In Pitts
burgh but a few days when she en
snared a young millionaire to such
an extent as to cause him to leave
his wife. Ills family Informed the
police and the chorus girl was order
ed to leave town.
She departed for her parents'
home In Washington and apparently
had forgotten her past when she be
came Involved In the shooting of a
Washington bank clerk. She was
never held In connection with the
shooting and it appeared not to Inter
fere w ith her marriage in 1910 to the
son of a wealthy Chicago manufac
turer. They settled In Seattle a
short time later, where they havr
lived without notoriety.
FIMtF.XCF, III UXH.
In 1!oi, in the Bedford section of
Brooklyn. N. Y., there operated a
group of young men, known as the
"Bedford Gang. Some of the mem
hers were six-dollar-a-week clerks,
others were the sons of wealthy par
ents. but all uere addicted to flashy
clothes and a desire for notoriety.
Their chief diversion was to stand
on the stret corners and try to a;
trait the attention of youm: girls
who were passinz. If he girl was
foolish enough to stop, the meeting
generalh resulted in a trip to Coney
Island and tlie ultimate disgrace of
the Kirl.
Florence Burns by temperament
was unfitted for the Puritanical
home atmosphere which surrounded
her. She longed for th.e bright
lights. )n her way home ffni schoo
one day she stopped to talk to the
leader of the Bedford Gang. Hand
some Harry Casey, and from that
time on her career was a checkered
She began to deceive her nlother
about where she had been. On vari
mis nretexts she absented herself
from home, and at the age of nine
teen she was well known about vari
ous restaurants of questionable cnar
acter.
Handsome Harry introduced Flor
ence to Walter Brooks, a youth of
some 20 years. Brooks fell desper
ately in love with her and wanted to
marrv her. He Introduced her to his
parents, who were respectable people
of comfortable means, and it began
to look as if marriage was more than
a oossible outcome.
One night Brooks brought Florence
Burns to his home. She appeared to
be ill and Breoks told his mother
.that the Burns family had turned the
girl out. The Brooks family cared
for the girl and during the period of
recuperation overheard a conversa
tion which- led them to believe the
relations between their son and
Florence had not been ideal.
A quarrel ensued. In which Flor
ence Burns asserted that her heaitn
had been undermined" and that she
"did not know what to do." Brooks
told her to secure a position and that
he would help bar out a best he
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could. .
A day or two later Brooks was tak
en very 111 with a violent fever and,;
in his delirium he kept saying that
he "would not leave home." '
This brought forth rather bitter
comment from Florence and the next V
day she left the Brooks house. She
returned from time to time, however,
to see how her sweetheart' was set,
ting on, but there was aefdom any
w ord spoken betw een aer nd the
boy 's mother. -..':.' - - ':
On one of the visits 'the fact was V
made plain by Mrs. Brook! that iho ,
would never give her consent to the
marriage, and this ended all inter-
course between the girl ana tne
Brooks family.
In spite of this opposition, Waiter
Brooks made an attempt to get a
minister to marry them, but tho
youth of both parties made It lmpos- '
Ible. .
The members of the Burns family,
Incensed that their daughter, had
wasted" so much time waiting, for '
young Brooks, and in a heated argu
ment ordered her to leave home for .
the second time.
She secured board and room In
house In Manhattan, where Brooks"!
called on her frequently, generally
going out somewhere with her, but '
always returning before midnight.
Another woman entered the case.
She was Ruth Dunn, a girl of about
the same age as Florence and her
boon companion. Florence Introduc
ed Brooks to Ruth Dunn and Brooks
evidently made quite an Impression '
on the girl, for he was with her al
most every afternoon and with Flor
ence every night. ,
On Thursday, February 13, 190X, v
Florence Burns called at Brooks' of-
flee and left a note Informing him
that she was going to Detroit the
following day and asked to see him
that night.
Brooks discovered the note upon ,
his return to the office and told his
partner that Florence was going to
Detroit and that he wouLA meet htm
later that night at a certain elevated
station in Brooklyn.
Some two hours later Brooks and a
woman entered the Glen Island Ho
tel and registered as "John WUion
and wife, Brooklyn." The pair wars
assigned to room 12 on the third
floor. At 10 o'clock the Annunciator
rang from room No. 12 and a bellboy.
George Washington, went to answer i
It. The woman in room 12 asked
him to bring up a lemon soda. The 1
soda was brought and that was the
last heard from the room. In tat
room overhead Anthony Bolti, a po
liceman, who resided In the hotel,
was present all evening and heard
nothing.
About midnight Washington, on
another trip upstairs, smelied gas
nd located It In room 12. He notlu- .
ed the clerk and upon Investigation,?
Brooks was lying unlressed on tbe 1
bed with the gas streaming from an '
open Jet. '
A doctor was called and treated
Brooks for asphyxiation. The room
was rather dark and Brooks seemed
to.be reviving when the doctor no
ticed a small wound in the young
man's head. Had the room been
lighter the doctor might have discov
ered the fact that the wound was
made by a bullet.
In the mbrnlng when the clerk
went to ascertain the man's condi
tion he found the pillow stained with
blood and the patient very weak. A
policeman was called and upon inves
tigation found papers indicating tas '
Injured man was Walter Brooks.
Ills partner was notified and he in
turn informed the boy's parents. A
half hour after their arrival Brooks
was dead.
The obvious thing was to find the
woman who accompanied Brooks to
tho hotel. Te description given to
the police by the clerk and bellboy
seemed to tally exactly w ith Florence
Burns.
Florence Burns was arrested and
Insisted that she had not seen-Brooks
since two niehts before thf crime.
The hotel bellboy positively Identifi
ed her as Brooks' companion. A
comb found In the hotel room was
Identified by Mrs. Brooks as fne very
comb that the girl had while she was
staying at the Brooks home.
It began to look as if the district
attorney had woven an almost indis
putable case around the unfortunate
girl yet she sat in the Tombs, comb-
ing iier beautiful golden hair, as If
nothing In the world had happened.
The pistol with which BrooKs was
shot was never found. No one could .
say that Florence Burns had ever
owned or had one in her possession, t-if'
I'nder the grilling cross-examination v':'
of the defense the bellboy, w no waai ?
the State's principal witness, failed
to convince the jury that he could
identifv Florence.
Finally he said he thought the girl
was dark. Florence Burns was the
lightest kind of blonde and a.'ter five
weeks' trial the jury brought In a
verdict of "Not guilty.'.'
After her acqultal the girl went on
the stage at a large salary and was
married to Charles W. WildricK. .
When her popularity as an actress ,
began to wane she tired of her hus
band and in 190 8 sued him for di
vorce. In 1910 she and a man named Ed
ward H. Brooks were convicted or
trying to blackmail a Brooklyn man
by means of a "badger" game. They
were both sentenced to seven years
and six months in Sing Sing.
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