The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1917, Page 8

Acquires Speedway. ay Harkness has become sole | of the Sheepshead Bay Speed. The property consists of » grand stand, buildings pro faving Ocean A Satisfaction Giacntead wee to It that our The three is all pure, fresh, you Ea kee with a unique flavor of qua ty. Your Grocer has it. 10, 18° & 35° pkt.| ‘The property ed by the Sheeprhen ¢ porporation: and n ox | eral acres on tivated for wowing potatoes, (Continued from Firat Page.) Our now is ships principles we invented,” sald Secre- jtary Lane. Exceptional Reductions—M isses’ Dept., Third Floor. PPENHEIM, GLLINS & © 34th Street—New York O Important Sale Thursday To Close Out 175 Misses’ Tailored Suits Sizes 14, 16 and 18 years, suitable for women to 36 bust. Tailored and Semi-Dress Suits; of Super- ior Plain and Fancy Materials; an Accu- mulation of This Season’s Best Models. 18.00 Formerly sold at 25.00, 29.76 and 35.00 165 Misses’ Coats—to Close out Of Velour Cloth, Burella Cloth, Gabardine, | 1 8 00 Serge, Taffeta and Silk Poplin. Reduced to . "an NE down the morale of the concern is to one need of America and the Allies “This is ® war of principle, and France and ltaly are fighting for the} “The United States now is a mother country and our children are fighting for principles Iaid down in the Declaration of Independence. | tt that Declaration of Fitepend: | e@ce that made democracy possible W Secrotary er asked the representatives to co-operate | the Government in putting into oper- atleh the Army Draft Law. He told of military and industrial prepara- tions and described diMoultics the Government faces, “In obtaining supplies for the army,” said Secretary Baker, “we }are baving to organize through the |Counell of National Defense and through you all the way back to our raw resources. We are raising the @reatest army in the country’s his- tory and the Defense Counci! has had }to go into the factories dnd back of the factories to the sheep on the farms for supplies, Wo have found there are not enough factories in the country making army cloth to supply our forces. We are getting tho help of the country’s business men and are arranging to supply our armies with all they need as rapidiy as possible.” Secretary Buker said nothing d rectly conderning an early exped tionary force abroad, but deciar vhat the American military. policy was subject to change at short notice. ‘The States, Secretary Baker sald, port to the draft, aiding recruiting and secing to it tnat proper exertions pod enforced and that men needed at hand or our left hand, but with both hands, and every man in the country can aid.” Secretary Daniels asked the aid of the States in recruiting the naval per- sonnel to 150,000 men after the new bill is passed. NEW SELECTIVE DRAFT SYSTEM 18 EXPLAINED. There was extended discussion and explanation of the new selective draft system with the following information given by War Department official: On the day the Conscription Bill is signed the President will issue a Proclamation ordering registration of all citizens within the prescribed |; age limits, to be taken within fifteen days. The War Department at the same time will issue regulations and send out blank formes prescribing the methods to be used, The voting precinct will be the unit of area and much of the election ma- chinery process will be followed Bach county will have a supervising board with the Sheriff at tho head. The Governor of each State will be in general charge assisted by a special bureau for details, After registration ts completed and checked up, selection by draft will follow. The jury wheel system of choosing by lot will be adopted, ‘The War Department will not tn- dicate specific classes of trades who shall be exempted. Nogulations will be drawn by the Governmont governing the gseral character of exemptions, but the ap- plication will be left largely to ap- plication by local boards, so that each |community may determino what par- jar classes of workers are BH. Altman & Cn. Very Unusual Valuesare now obtainablein Misses’ Street & Afternoon Dresses exceptionally priced as follows: Dresses of wool fabrics, $14.50 & 18.75 Dresses of silk fabrics, 19,50 & 28.00 (Misses’ Department, Second Floor) at . . . Slip-on Blouses of oration . . . Women’s Seasonable Coats representing all styles about to be closed out of stock, reduced to $21.00, $28.00, $48.00, $18.50, upward Lace-trimmed Blouses of white voile, thefollowing: Women’s Summer Blouses (on the Second Floor) specially priced. Hand-embroidered Blouses of white voile, $2.65 2.85 or Open-front linen, Blouses of net; both having soutache dece each $5.50 Women’s Sweater Suits, | Travel Suits and Sports Suits (Sizes incomplete) Higher-cost Coats and Wraps, comprising practically the entire remaining stock, have | at the extraordinarily low price of mee marked at appreciable price reduce | $16.75 (Women's Coats, Third Floor) in the Rea ly-to-wear Women’s One-piece Dresses will be on Speclal Sale, commencing to-morrow (T' at $23.85 (Slzes 34 to 44, Inclusive) Women’s Ready-to-wear Dresses, Third Fioor, FOR FURS, RUGS SAFE STORAGE AND Fitth Aveuue- Madison Avenue. made of soft, lustrous satin or of satin combined with Georgette, in Dep't on ti black and mavy blue, hursday) ioe DRAPER Himes rw York for military service. 1 enabie ana wie may bet be spargt Twenty-five enlisted met’ out of each regiment of National Guard now in servico will be designated by thei: | commanding officer to attend officers’ | BG MIGHT FOR FRENCH of Marines SAILORS AND MARINES |“ Mr can assist the Government by giving! training camps as candidates for com- misatona, Present not be excused for this purpose, but must stay with their commands, Membership in home guard organi- zations will not excuse any man lia- ble to the draft Home guards will not be armed) with high-power military rifles, but with riot guns and ordinary police weapons, The registration of approximately 7,000,000 men wil! be completed within fifteen days after the War Depart- ment’s machinery has been motion. registration cards h yors many cides and towns, period of fifteen days will inter- ve the call and the cpening of the re; tration. Five days will be allows complete registration, in Washington, to conserve the grain supply for food was recommended to the of representatives of State defense councils, Pays Tribute to Rescuers, Chairman Oscar 8. Straus, of the Pub- lc Service Commission, to-day wrote Norman B, Jett of No, 349 Ninety-third Street, Brooklyn, that he and his three companions who figured in @ rescue fol- lowing a subway cave-in “gave evi- dence of heroism fully as great as any soldier upon the battlefield.” The cave- in occurred April 17 at St. Felix Street and Hanson Place, Brooklyn. ‘Those who share in Chairman Straue’s praise are Michael Higgins, Joseph Basile and Arthur Robingon. Jett and his companions rescued John Nornifia, another workman who eg beaw) Heth alive, In order to reach tl ood be heard, i Nd teil way beneath he fount ‘wed their way’ benea antion “ot a pardally “collapsed” Dulld- ing. FOUND DEAD, NECK BROKEN. Man Held Boasted of Being Jia a Owen Owens, second steamship North Cambria, lying at the Broken. Christopher” Karklin, a. Rus- omicide, arrested on a charge of Karklin, according to m: crew, made statements that with, knowled: He gee it ensu bases —_—»—_——— SPY EATS “THE PAPERS.” at ericks, an alleged Ger: sted here this morning. his person. one of three Germans who escap from a Canadian internment cam days ago and swam the Niagara Freder admitted anxious “bit” and was on his way to Mexico, —— He told the police he wi Missing Wom The body of Imma Vie forty years old, who disappeared fron Smith, at. January, Was found off Sailors Snug Harbor, Sti about two hundred feet’ fr where Miss Smith's coat « recovered the day after Miss Smith, a stenograp! il from overwork. Linn vanished. tional Guard officers wilt! vy the Census Bureau to » probably, between the issue ot to and within thirty days the completed roll will be National prohibition during the war ‘ouneil in resolutions presented by a committee i HEROES OF SUBWAY CAVE-IN, Chairman Straus of P. 8. Board Mae faint cries ee mate of the foot of Thirty-fifth Street, South Brooklyn, found dead this morning on a nea! barge. His neck was sian sajlor on the steamship, was later bers of the night to © of | k any Welshman disagrecd with | it 1s said, and Rochester ROOHBSTER, May 2.— ita Frea- | mn spy, was Before he taken into custody he chewed up and swallowed several documents on | iver | he was for Germany Body Feand ta) torla Smith, the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, had been James McCreery & Co. 5th Avenne {Vaudeville and Boxing “Show in Their Honor in Madison Square Garden To-Morrow Night. A monster vaudeville entertainment in which sufficient stage stars to |form a constellation will participate will be held at Madison Square Gar- den to-morrow night in honor of French sailors and marines who manned the ships that brought the French Commission to this city, Be- sides the vaudeville, the marines will be treated to examples of American boxing. Billy Gibson Is arranging to have Johnny Kilbane, the clever featherweight chamion, and other luminaries of the ring erform, The citizens of New York will give the show under the qusplees of the Mayor’s Committee on National De- fense. Dudley Field Malone, Col- lector of the Port, will be Chair- man, and Alexander T, Hemphill will direct the entertainment, Admission will be free to the public, ‘That the French tars may find the Garden without diffoulty, Admiral Usher, Commandant of the Brooklyn Will Close Out Tomorrow At Remarkable Clearance Reductions Tailored & Dressy Suits: Former Prices to $39.50 17.50 selected from regular stock, iodels, ‘aid trimmed or hand embroid- ered, of Poiret twill, gunniburl, gabardine, or men’s wear serge; excellently tailored. Silk & Cloth Suits Former Prices to $55.00 25.00 Superbly tailored models of taffeta sillc, tricotine, gunniburl, burella cloth, men’s wear serge and gabardine; included are a large number of authorized Paris reproductions. Additional models, Former Prices to $39.50 25.00 Of satin, burella cloth and men’s wear serge; silk lined and half lined; a number of beautiful models. ‘Smart Spring Coats Former Prices to $29.50 16.75 Executed in burella, men’s wear serge, covert cloth, gunniburl, velour and gabardine, some silk lined; others half lined or unlined. Afternoon Dresses——— Former Prices to $18.50 10.00 Of Georgette crepe combined with satin, taffeta sill, men’s wear serge and gabardine, for all occasions of daytime wear. ——Silk Afternoon Dresses-—— 1 Former Prices to $39.50 15.00 Of Georgette crepe, crepe de chine, crepe meteor, taffeta silk; also a few dresses of gabardine and serge included. 34th Street ON THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Special Three-Day Sale SPRING SUITS For Large Men $22.75 F abrics: —Vailored of materials especially selected for their wearing qualities, including finished and unfinished Worsteds and smooth faced Cassimeres, Patterns:— eat and conseryative—the kind that will not accentuate the fullness of the figure, Tailoring:—finish and workmanship are the hest obtainable; beautiful trimmings; Coats are full or quarter silk lined, Sizes: —From 38 to 52, including stouts” and * $ ** stouts,”’ ‘short stou “long MEN'S CLOTIEING DEP'T- 5TH FLOOR