The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1917, Page 3

“ , THREE WOMEN LAY $49,000 THEFTS 10. 1D. VON EDWARDS’ Lawyer se Mrs. WAS Sueigte my) Wanted to Aid Germany— “Ym. Irish,” Her Reply. Dr.” Karl von Brooks, Wallace, this afternoon on the ¢ stole $95,000, worth of Airs. Minnie K. Strangman, Widow of a Buffalo brewer. The prisoner had the surprise © his life when he found himself con- fronted by three women instead of one. Miss Cora Milan, No, 606 West} USth Street, an actress, was one of| the new accusers. The other Mise May Ward, also an actress, of Morsemere, N. J. ‘The three—strangers to each other had met a little earlier in the office ef Assistant District Attorney Me van and got ac Inted. Miss Ward @ald: “He got about $1,500 worth of Jewels from me.” ‘He cost me 985,000 and I don't know how much more in the expense of tracing him all over the country interposed Mrs. Strangman, T'd hate to tell what | Rim,” sald Miss Milan, worked me for $12,590." Mrs, Strangman was the first wit- fess. She told of meeting von Hd- wards in Buffalo and his following her to New York when she came here last winter to dv some shopping. allas trial dwards, cic, faced ree that he jewels from wealthy of he think “but “I trusted him with my mesh bag with the jewels tn i ® sald, ‘while I went into @ Pifth Avenue shop. When I came out he war gone.” Then came Mis Milan’ ary “Hoe was ‘Brooks’ when I met him two yeare ago,” she sald, "Tt was in Seattle. He followed me to Kansas City, posed as a the pal om Unlike Suedes, they are right-side-out and — oe y vigor Bay Fownes are also, washable, — kept fresh and sanitary with ordinary soap and water. Style, comfort and war-time economy lead inevitably to Fe and to the conclusion, ’s all you need to know about a GLOVE. B. Altman & Cn. A Special Selection of Women’s Blouses in four different n ing style feats ures be placed on sale t was | oemorrow (Tuesday) offering exceptionally good value at sald he would make an Ellen Terry of me.” ieee, got confidence of td such an extent that she es “hi in charge of her property. | As soon as he gag it he disappeared, | Mother — I were lett stranded.” | as ‘Wellace’ when I met him jin dines last november,” sald Mi Ward. “He was ‘Wallace, the great playwright. He said he had made |many actresses and would make me. | iret of all, he would write @ play for | the my ine. Second, he would take care of ny jewels for me. Third, he disap- |e ured.” It was Miss Ward who identified | the prisoner a few days ago in d man- | ner that surprised the police, A @vzen | | men were ranged before her, and she was asked to place her hand on the shoulder of the man who had taken her jewels, She walked slowly along | the line, reached the prisoner and | slapped him hard in the face. | Von Edwards's attorney, Walter | | Walter, Deuell, said to an Evening | lw ‘orld reporter: shall prove that Mra, Strang- man delivered her jewels to my cliont for @ wat purpose, She was under German-American influences and the Jewels were to finance plans for the | destruction of munition plants, Em- ; ployment agencies were to be started so that selected men could be placed | Inside these plants with bombs, Mrs, Strangman laughed when she heard of this defenae. “That's a crazy defense—I'm Irish,” she said. 73 PAY FINES OF $2,500 | IN DAY FOR SPEEDING Ac- Joan Sawyer One of Drivers cused, but Case Is Postponed by Her Illness. raigned before Mag’ Traffic trate House {p Court to-day were speed vio- lators. ‘They pald fines approximat- ing $2.6 Abraham Greenberg, an attorney, of No. 61 Chambern eet, appeared for . the dancer, She had been | summoned r driving ot the rate thirty miles an hour on Broadway from | Seventy-ninth to Elghty-ascond Street. ; Her counsel told the Court Mite Sawyer is sick at her home, No. 160 Weat Ninety-fifth Street, and her case wer postponed untll Nov. Joan Sawye four men they anid were going thirty | to thirty-three milea an hour up Edee- | ‘ombe Avenue ul 150th Streets. William Mason » Xo. | 113 Wert 15lat Str 8 West Street, | were The fourth ‘A Davis. 87 West inth Street cnught and fined $90 each. mun escaped ——— WIFE “A TERRIBLE COOK.” ears ago icdeis, al! illustrat- of the seeson, will | compriss " sultabi for all following the 31.45 1.95 place on | Filth Avene -Madison Avriue FAth and 15th Streets Nes: Bork 6é Knitter’s Face’? Is a 1 Fighting Face, The 1917 Face of All American Women, 4. Badge of Honor and Less a Facial Disfigurement Than a Sign of a Lofty Spirit—And It’s Prevalent the Whole Country Over—But, Young Man, When You Hear Mystic Purl” Time for Your Proposal. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. | you have not I' you are a woman, yet made the ultimate sacrific your country unless you have tracted knitter's face, According to news despatches, Patriotic disease apparently has reached But for has been us pr lent in New an election fev On the subwa the theatre, commuters’ at Suffray ings, even in home and n Knitter's face tr ™ Motorcycle patrolmen yeaterday chased | Made its appearance as the first of war's disfigurements to come under American eyes. Of couree, it is not a very dreadful disfigurement. And, of course, it {s a badge of patriotism as unmistakable The knitting ike their proto- Revolution, are tonder- a Liberty button. women of America, u types of the Frene noble exponents « womanly Separation suit, Saya | ness, of the etornal motherly desire to Is the make ws 1 comfortabie the un fy wife dooen't need w separation | iy adve ‘ous fons of men, it's just @ whim of here.” explained our women did not take their William Corcoran in the Supre sabe hg so seriously tney would not Court, Brooklyn, to-day, in opposing | be sutering from Knitter's face, ‘The A wutt brought by Mrs. Clara Core: tng, with a knit] sand wants relasation. SES PO UAE GACH OD Pim cruel, doen ching V t head and with almost |rible cook: Justice “Callaghan ee Sea ay Rowe ne Bah sak ers face as she clicks | —_ at the purple or watermelon in Dien After Long) pink sweater she is fashioning for Hiner herseir | CHICAGO, Oct Charles Martin Democrat, serving his firet term in| PPNITTER'S £ ead among es from Chicago, dled to-duy | the wo who are des Biracuses We rite itt! perately: determined that ono sleeve when contr diseuse. ‘The concentration on tusk tho fervent in the the “ One - Two - Three- Choose Some Other | e for con- this Just | it eva- York yy at] ains, neet- your mine, has nied by Woman's newest |ready to uppea her} Knitter Is some- f | trated mystery Chicago, | trated myster weeks | read her Bible or the weekly paper while her steel needles clicked fault- lessly. She did not have knitier's face But then, she had been knitting since the time she was a little girl this was, knitting was unpene- to the women of this gwenerath No wonder take it hard! . ND after all, isn’t Knitter's face a desirable successor to the bridge face of five y ago? ‘That too was and muscle drawn, It ing more. Women who long afternoons in hot, stuffy dr ing rooms, fighting with cards for a stake of money or some trumpery prize, acquired cortain factal charac teristics Which are absent from her who knits in order that cold, far-oft soldier boys may be warmed and cheered. The bridge face was not merely set firm; it was shrewish, even sly, Vin- dictive across the an we nse someth Hghtnings might leap from it an card table at partner, About the tration of the bridge face th was nothing noble; it was the sign and seal of a little ‘spirit extravagantly interested in little things. Perhaps Uf rigidity of the knitt face Is not due wholly to the bus of counting the stitches, — Perhay tho tensity of the knitting woman is a fine Spartan ar and unpa' thoughts bel ending cone ter's not the thoughts 1 the bridge ce Child wives and swee ae Elta masquerading in women's have truly become wor nthe last troublous months and years, and therefore they have put away child- ish things, The knitter’s face—what is it but the fighting face of the women of America? —_—> — MEANS-KING CASE PUT of their soldier's sweater shall be no longer other, and that a BEFORE GRAND JURY pair of hall consist of two du y It is problems like these — hich keep downcast the eyelids of a Assistant District Attorney Dooling knitter, which—but } Lins sum up the of New. York al Concord (0 ymptoms of knitter's face BER ae) ue. eows tens knit, Trem Testify. eyes glancing thoughtfully downward. CONCORD, N. ©. Oct, 29.—The case Item, lips puckered anxiously. Item,|of Gaston B. Means, held for the shoot chin and Jaw fitn set, Item, gen-|ing of Mrs. Maude A. King. the w al expression of fixed and solemn widow whose senational death here 4 August led to Investix t the face but the whole States. went to-day befor vert 5 nd Jury. whieh » ed | upper portion of the body of the con- bane Se | scientious knitter is to be held eae a, pes at a stiff and slightly unnatural angle. | clement | Elbow Choe: 10, sides, and all! Ansistant District Attorne John 7 j the arm mus down to the wrists, | Dooling « Dr. Otto Schu' are still and unyieldin, A pathologist to t Ate ‘ar be it from to compare knit-|torney Swann’ seeks Dr ace to that sdusa ov a gor-| Willan H. Burn + Coroner's Ph < nething vise 60 horrible, Yer| "sian of Cook mM alo exan gat GF anYNAE © |imed the woman's body aster it was T cannot help wondering how many] aio eat cuteago for burinl: William] proposals have tried to get uttered! Jonos of New York, a pistol cxpert and feebly n back into the vold,/and a number of local witnesses were GIRL LEAPS BEFORE TRAIN thing sur Ono cannot gos- aber tana cor ; FATHER HURT bread. (i the injlst of the story of ——- one's life or of one's latest love af) Stelia Bescher Had Just Left S nes ayatic mutter— | . Went t Seman aa haven't! tarium, Too Nervous to Re- quoted wre I as © pardon | turn by Auto. of the knit | amy constitutionally | In Resener, 2) capa avning thelr tongue or|or No, #2 Cliff Avent ask.) in the stamf Host Sure 1 f us remember 4) ford, Conn., to-day. She lew grand tholy knit mit-|of an electric engine there yete tens for us, kings, and who| and dr her t Cha ————— Besetior, wit é 1, |Ously injured i Mr. and Mrs, Besoher ” | d to bring ey | who & month ' 4 |#t Dr, Bar 4 sanitarium. + |objected to making the : et | 4 her futher ot | by train, —_—~»—_—- WOMAN STRICKEN IN STREET. | tonne Une Card Gives | Name of . Pilot | | A woman ‘ 1 Jott of Ci tou For THROAT b tiian ene ale ats TROUBLES |) fice hlivus ton ¢ she is a are a BUILDS YOU UP coe pu Until | «|| anether card ‘Tifis ia the ca women, en’ tion's army ing the I ask every sign this week: “PLED! STA’ “If you have this on to f "To the "TL accept United States F and pledge mye suggestions of Kach signer that 1 in reed of the Ki rd nd ib CARD FOR FOOD ADMINIS: TRATIC uready ineenenecaaieaanabeiet Pledge the New York ° Women Sign To-Day 0 New York od as part of the Na- of 500,000 women ald- od Administration, will New York housewife to UNITED ened, pasa Administration: the membership od Administration ‘ood trator so far as I am able. y . State, |] “There are no dues or feos. in the If to carry out the Adminis- and it is expected ,000 of them tained in New York Ci ceive an official membership card the Food Administration and entitled “The Wor tebi wi ty Il be ob- WUl ree SIX U, S, AMBULANCE MEN GIVEN FRENCH WAR CROSS, Townsend Marti Hall of New in Martin and (e Son on List | PARI been 1 the n fo ine ow award) Ambulanes ix grain and + philanthropte war Howine ptton and for oe + SAM PAUL ASS'N FOR HYLAN. Manner Str ed Prom Clobeo Reads “Our Choice for Mayor. It war announced at headau of the Mitchel Furion ( 0 lay that t ¢ d come 0 Judge Mylan Sam Pau harles B.} York and Patten’s cross hy Ameri nd darings during th sround Hill 904 In ¢ harles KF. Paxton jena, Cal Charles B. Mall, New it wil. un kk Ieominster, Mass: John | L. Latten, Evanston, Mh, Townsend | | Martin, New York City, and William i) PF. tlughes, Newport, R. 1 CHICAGO, Oct, 24. Join L. Patten Evanston, « suburb, mentioned song these who have received t Var is the onl moof James \ Patten, widely known as a dealer Buckner the firat St FERRY WORKERS ON STRIKE. SHOT SELF THROUGH GRIEF. |: Killed zon ards Detailed, Men and Iries Satcide-Som by Aute And Indicates an Intense Patriotism NEW YORK S TOTAL FORWARLOANPU ATS] 800000 With Complete Figures Lack- ing, Maximum Exceeded by $150,000,000. Conservative qstimatas to-day by local managers of the tremendously euccessful second Liberty Loan drive, which closed at midnight Saturday, placed the New York district's sub- scription to the world's greatest war fund at about $1,650,000,000, or $150,- .000 above the maximum allotment expected from the district. Figures from the Treasury Depart- ment at Washington indicate that the $5,000,000,000 national goal has been passed, and some of the more optl- inistlc members of the loan commit- tee in thin city think the final figures show that the New York district subseribed more than one-third of the country's total. Of the amount subscribed In this district applications representing $1,- 395,196,400 had posed through the ond Federal Reserve Bank at noon y. This was an increase of over 50 as compared with the oft. cial figures announced by the bank at noon yesterday. Anything definite in the way of @ total for the New York district or any of the othae eleven Federal Re- nerve Districts, will not be available until early next week, the tabulators in all districts being buried under the avalanche of bond orders that poured during the the campaign. The 1,000 banks of this district have until Friday to make their final reports to the Second Vederal Reserve Bank, and the latter until Monday to make thelr complete returns to the Treasury Department, Nearly 9,000,000 persons bought the bonds in this district, according to) the estima of the managers, It is believed the complete result will) show (hat Manhattan Borough aub- scribed considerably more than a Be in ‘billion of the amount raised In this | jwhich full payment is to be made by district, The new bonds» opened at par on the Stock Exchange to-day and sold as high as 100.2. Tuxedo, N. Y., in claiming the record for the country with @ total subscription of $735,000 by 955 of its 2,600 residents, Every person in the village was reached by the canvas- | fers. One butler is credited with} getting 125 subscribers, | The Rev, Patrick J Hayes, rector} of St. Stephen's Roman Catholte Church in Kast Twenty-eighth Streot and auxiliary bishop of New York, bought a $1,000 bond in the name of the the income from the bond to help pay | for @ scholarship. | Among the late subscriptions to the Joan announced to-day Gar-| field National Bank, (addi- tional); ‘Transatlantic ‘ust ('o., $741,- 100; the Fleischmann Company, $200, 000, In the nation’s total are subserip- tions from the United States Army and the soldiers in the draft camps aimounting to $82,000,000. ashing’s wen in France have uted $5,784,000, Brooklyn Navy Yard, ith subscriptions of $618,000, leads | he navy yards. In New York City! alone $53,600,000 worth of bo: sold outright for cash and anothe $54,820,830 was sold under a plan by | Noy, 15, ——— } SALE OF SHORT TIME NOTES BREAKS RECORD folal for Three Days Is $395,241,- 000—Subsecription Books Still Open Out WASHINGTON, 29.—The third day's subscription to the Government's latest offering of short time certificacs | of indebtedness of an indefinite amount | was $180,444,000, making @ total sub- iption thus far to the Issue of $89,- 41,000. ‘The mubscription books an Stull open. These subscriptions bring the total of outstanding « ates of indebted ness, Issued ag a p f the Liber [ financing programme, up to £2,029,466,000, the lurgest amount re orded. ‘Tha entire sum wil have to be retired out of receipts from the Aecond Liberty bond tnsue th 41,000 | District Short of mo in Lo Tobulators ve Oot re. tasks tod baoriptions to th Loan In the Ke umed the! Vederal Re serve District, Althous lal ve turns probably I not be available before to-morrow night, estimates to-day are that the district will fal a grifle short of the maximum allot Mt of $700,000,000, 4 « gure for purch ng $61,000,000 CiileaKo exceeds of $180,000,000, estimates of er ubscription ranging {10m $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. i Town of Nautacket © Liberty Loan (hamplon: nt an average ‘ mat and child o and last hours of -= 1,000 pupils of the parochial school, | | would be n Eight Guiding Ru‘es To Saving and Satety a COUNT MINOTTO CALLED INTIMATE OF BERNSTORFF lalernment of Friends Here Led to Seizure of Packer \ Swift’s Son-in-Law. Cornell: Med the Russel) Suge Ins ology, Frederick FE. food © the City have been given out Breithut, pre mistry of the of New Yorn, Uy (of five per. sons) buy meat until It has bought three quarts of intik, the Protein fuod Save the cream and cat oleomarg table oils, oll taki eapest | ‘That the arrest of Count | Minotto, Italian nobleman and ‘aw of Louls PF, Swift, vd and vego- Olive oll or cotte butter James won-ine the packer, Whe a With cabbage, lettuce or J] Waa taken into custody Saturday at beet tops iv excellent “d, in was ordered after certain many wayn Imitating sal ed here among the effects Pat more sparingly, rich or Kuhn and George von See= poor, laborer and ind nt alike nterned allen enemies, had beta Meat does not increase th lar power, When a pers Posed to re. recone ‘perused by Government agents, wae announced to-day by a Federal o cla. t cold meat may he ded, for it warms The sane official declared that = ¥ more than « food. In hot | Count Minotto was very intimate with eather, for the same reason, it | Count von Bernstorff and that he had causes increased sweating and dis. comfort, In general twice as much meat t# used as ts right, “4, Eat corn bread New England ancestors trom star. tion. Ifswe eat it we can send wheat to Wrance. Eat oatmeal, “6. Drink no alcohol. In many familien 10 per cent, of the income in spent for drink, or a sum which, if spent for other food, would greatly Improve the welfare of the family. “6. Eat syrup on corn bread. It will sugar, Eat raising in ric for raisins contain sugar. Kat fresh fish, it and vegetables." attended several secret conferences with the former German Ambassador at the latter's summer home at Cedare hurst, These, it was sald, all ¢eok place before the outbreak of hostile ties between this country and Gere many. |, That Minotto was also on intimate terms with Kuhn and von Seebeck was verified by the same authority, | Kubn in said to have lived tn a ments close to the quarters of vom | Bernstorff at the Ritz-Carlton. It is |the belief of Federal officials that with von Seebeck and Count Minotto Kuhn conferred with von Bernstori® in the height of that official's activie ties in this country. | Kuhn and von Seebeck are known j to have accompanied Count Mi on his honeymoon trip to a Amerivan port, after having attended him at his marriage. The Federa! agents have since been on the wateh for a third attendant at the wedding 4 German, who In believed to bave escaped to Germany ‘The belief that Count Minotto wilt not be deported prevailed to-day im It saved our cereals or on Spare the pudding, MITCHEL AND HYLAX FORCES. AY FIGHT 1S WITH HILLQUI ; Federal circles, The nobleman im Both Sides Declare the Socialist] charged specifically with only & vies oo A lation of the immigration laws. Factor Is the Main One offvet the apparent lightness of the to Combat charge against him, the Government . . han “Axed his. bail after at $60,000 ordering that his case be thoroughly investigated. ‘The Federal Informant alao deci that in all probability Count Minott Americanism was brought to the front again to-day by the Mitchel Pus sion forces 4 the paramount issue in would be tried in this city, Minotte tho cloving week of the municipal cam-| yen ee on a warrant fr m Lute paign F. Pont, Acting Secreti bor. . , WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—The It is mado the tasue by the rapid] o¢ Sunt Jamon stinotto at pane th of the Socialist at monde on evidence gathe growth of jo Socialist strength and paves, Bondage os Py Nore, Hillquit’s dectarations on peace,” said Emory R. Buckner, Chairman of the the Navy Daniels ald aaa Be iias alls Mle a Vuston forces. “The Might ts now be- PRINTING STRIKEOF3 000 tween Mitchel and Hillquit ’ “We agree.’ sald Manager McBride lof the Democratic forces, “that the ts- HALTS WORK ON BALLOTS fue is between Mitchel and Hillquit, but for the second place. ¢ “E th After 9,000 pressmen’s assistemtm T thought the people had once repu-| AUST a senticen had struck diated Mr. Mitchel’s attempt to inject the Americanism issue iuto the cam- paign to hide his administration behind | flag." | morning, a hasty conference of the Ase sociation of Employing Printers waa ed in the Flatiron Building, The most serious immediate problens Hopublican Fustonists say Mitchel {s| the man to Ket behind to beat Hiliquit, | Rt rahi ian belo be peliad pese ile Tammany asserts th / ; the while ‘Tammany aseerts that Hylan in) the Dallote printed for the —_ the only man who ts certain to soundly! &% defout the Socialiats. | Chambers Street, hy hat contract, an@ Both «ldes announced that there) his men amon; thee, who bave ‘ed. ident hange in the last week's! Ine-up of opposing forces, The four| andidates are in the field to stay, re. kardloss of consequences a CHILD IS KILLED BY AUTO. m= Island Boy Dies in of Vractured Sku years old, of have déelded unanimou: fight to a fini. ‘he strike is ao of ontenct tha, toes hot exgire October, 19 e men have a flat increase of $4 a week, and cannot meet it. Mma rgd conditions cai 0 offered increases whieh the minimum wage lean do no more St John Rockatraw, seven consider, the fight | No, 224 Fourth Avenue, New Brighton,! court ene, we BL, died in the Staten Island Hospital| MM" CRU" fulfil {ta com ‘ se hv i This afternoon employers early this morning of @ fractured ekuil.| This afternoon ‘The boy wae crossing in front of No, 7 Jersey Street, New Brighton, early ast evening when an automobile owned und operated by Martin Meyerowits of} | John f. Mine, Maid the w jVa Avenue, Kovebank, atruck him.| 1%" Yeaien and that they would | Meyerowits was arrested on « technical | ceat with any individual employer, charge of manslaughtor, ‘nly with the assoclation of @ HOW TO VOTE THE FUSION TICKET To vote for Mitchel and the entire Fusion Ticket, put a cross (X) in the square vl to the right of each and every Bull's Eye on the ballot. => Don't rub out or otherwise erase your ballot. If you make a mis- take, return your ballot and ask for anew one. You are entitled to it VOTE FOR THE FUSION unction against the strikers end titer, for the enforcement. of the come tract. John P. Mines, business represent The Fusion Emblem For Mayor John Purroy Mitchel For Comptroller President Board Aldermen Wm. G. Prendergast Robert W. Adamson For Borough President Marcus M. Marks Lewis H. Pounds Thomas W. Whittle Frank S. Gannon, Jr. Richmond Robert W. Higbie Queens FUSION COMMITTEE OF 1917 i Manhattan Brooklyn Bronx