The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1917, Page 4

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[tb My conmnt the triple bond of forpis f , shi r- nA 4 Miviinr Feputtionn Meal, by harmon f aie « " 71 STATES Chou aeniention for International fume WH appr in ine Ss Years 110% | tee and an equal deste for extended Of hE Cfficiay forenn land fraternal Pan Amertoantam, both ansctile Ree ; . i i | | q AMORE fheome Wieeady eieed are had to meet on the same ade in thie HHBTNAEA Freetinee from King Peter | definite atrugate for iherty OF GAPA, Promidont Guerra of Moneta | Ctignedy FRLICIANO VIERA, GRA Prewident Viers of Cromumy | Premdent of the he jo of Urueway.” THEY Kee 8 follows “T congratolate the official bulletin “| pend to the American people my |i the New Year sincerely hoping that Grdiat «greetings, with «omy beet) 1914 will neo the final triumph of dem- Wishes for thoie prosperity and mic. | corattc countries that, fighting for the ene if every Undertaking in the New | immutable principles of law and jus- Feat. The entry of the United Staten | tice, have written their names with Hite the War haw Piaddened all the| honor and glory in the world’s history. (Signed) PROPER Hho AFORE to defend libert MN Tiaics, nad capeciatty vethe JOSE GUTIPRREZ GUERRA, MEAN ONee—becaune it affords new! President of the Republic of Bolivia.” ————<$ #tarantics for the realization of our Rational axpirations in a fieht againat| Piro Misses Pole, Nreat, 1. the medieval Austro<ierman feudal], °™ 4. Murphy, forty. attached to i the Coked Engine 28, at No, 220 West 37th Street, ae ev a re ; ed at 4 hagas attempting to slide down the pole while Bas given un great material help, for responding to an alarm early to-da: Which we are very thankful minced his hold and fell to the first foo; “The United States has energetically path tte ee ee aot beets aa ODLEO1 49494 949090 66O0-0066-54140666606-0-00-00066600004 Three women and nine men) Beach yesterday and played medicine plunged into the ocean at Brighton | ball and beach hockey for two hours 3 He was taken to Hellevue Hospital, au fering « possible fracture of the skull Soldiers of she Switchboard \ “Wi E HAVE HELPED, and helped mightily during the past year. “Day and night we have been at our posts speeding on the Telephonic Messages of the Millions. “With our fighting equipment of cords and plugs and flashing signal lights, we have cleared and directed the channels of the Nation's Speech. “Our orders have come from the highest of authorities — from average Americans using the Ten Million Telephones in the homes and offices in Our Country. “Faster and faster they have come, passing swiftly through our switchboards where the insistent, twinkling, flashing, firefly lights summon us to action, “Throughout Our Country thirty million times a day we have been called; we have answered, and we have obeyed. “Government, Army, Navy, Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Citizen — we have helped them all—and it is well «For we are the §oldiers of the Switchboard, welcoming the NEW YEAR for its duties, its responsibilities, and its oppor- tunities to contribute our share to American VICTORY.” ¢ Their Dip ines Di NB GREETING $ | ® * & 04 2090-00 | on the ice strewn shore, The tempera- ture of the water was 32; the air they braved in bathing sults was 4 below, Crowds that usually Polar Bears and Snow Birds from| the boardwalk were absent. One of two or three spectators in fur over- | coats offered Charles Eberhart, } 2848 Cortland Street, Coney Island, | and Samuel Stivery of the Bronx $5 it they could stay in the water three minutes. They offered to make the bet a cigar apiece, and won it. The| three women who dipped in the surf were Charlotte Boyle, swimming champion from Sea Gate, Alice Blon- ton and Bessie Minerly. Polar Bears and Snow Birds prom- ise to be out at midnight to-night to! compete for the honor of taking the first dip of the new year. > | NOW-CITIZEN GERMAN MEN | MUST REGISTER FEB, 4 Does Not Apply to Persous Born | Here of Alien Parents o1 Those Who Have Been Naturalized, WASHINGTON, Dee. 31.—In announe- ing regulations governing the nation- | wide registration of Germans the week | of Feb. 4, the Department of Justice to- watch the day {ssued @ memorandum of tho classes) affected. | German men who have never been| naturalized or who have obtained only first naturalization papers will be sub- fect to registration, which tn cities of| more than 5,000 population, according to} the 1910 census, will be with police and tn other communities with the post-| master. Women are not affected, nor children under the age of fourteen. | Though many former residents of| Alsace-Lorraine are French by blood an mpathy, they are to be regarded allen enemies if born in that territory after May 10, 1871, when the treaty transferring the provinces to Germany was ratified. The same rule applies to Schleswig- Holstein. The registration wil! not apply to per- |sons born in this country of unnatural-| ised German parents, nor in Germany of parents who became naturalized in the United States while the person was a minor, nor a man born in Germany of American parents. GEN, ANSON 6, M’COOK DIES OF PLEURISY, AT 82 Was Head of Famous “Fighting} McCooks” and in Public Ser- | vice Many Years, THR HVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 41, 1917. IN CITY WILL BE of Celebration and War +Spirit will Prevail, The National colors will predom- inate at every New Years celebra- tion of consequence In New York to- night. The chimes of Old Trinity and of St. Patrick's Cathedral will wel- come 1918 with “The Star Spangled Banner,” and at every board will be drunk the success of American arms abroad. The new and the retiring adminis- trations have decreed that 1 o'clock shall be the closing hour. It is go- ing to be the most patriotic New Year's celebration in New Yor memory, and already there are thou. ands of soldiers and sailors here to aid. Tho new year is to be received with the spirit of victory. In many churches it will be ushered in with prayers for the success of American arms. While the police aro prepared for large crowds, it ix certain the greet- ing to 1918 Will be less nolay than usual, Some of the larger hotels and restaurants have banned liquor for the evening and will have patriotic airs instead of the usual cabaret songs. Mr. Hoover belic ‘es {t will be some- thing of a feastiess affair, “The people of America,” he said, “are too sober for the usual frivolity, I be- Neve the usual flow of champagne and expensive food will be absent this time. _— WAR LOAVES SOON IN AMERICAN HOMES Wheat Must Be Shipped to the Allies to Supply Them With Bread Fit to Eat. WASHINGTON, Dec, 31,—America ta eating its last white bread until war is over. New Government milling regula- tions necessitated by the world wheat shortage and poor crop prospects mean war bread in eve American home, be- ginning early in 1918, officials say. There is no white bread in Burope. There hasn't been for a long time, rica's bread box must be robbed to upply the Allies bread fit to eat They're sending people to prison for wasting bread in England Germany's vile war bread has caused appendicitis and Intestinal epidemics among the people A special scientific wumission tried to better it, but gave it ‘Officiants followed that with the tement that crop prospects promise no relief. America’s great recourse will be corn- meal, There aro thirty bushels of corn apie person in the land {n the Ordinarily we eat about co a year, Under the new milling reguitions flour will be flour. No spe " cholce grades will be obt SENT $100 TO MITCHEL FUND, BUT WORKED FOR TAMMANY Watcher Credited With Getting $30 Says He Was Not Paid Any Money. One witness who contributed to both the Mitchel and Tammany cam- palgn funds and another who declared he did not know who was running for Mayor at the last election were among those examined to-day in the District Attorney's inquiry into the Mitchel ‘Slush fund.” James McGinley, chief examiner In the office of Commissioner of Ac- counts, was asked by Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Kilroe if he had not been a worker in the ihterests of the Mitchel fund. No, I worked for Tammany,” an- swered McGinley, “but I did send a check for $100 to the Mitchel fund.” John J. O'Netl, a leader of the City Democracy in the Twelfth Assembly Distrt luded among his expen- dituy for $30 paid to Bianey Mm Firat Avenue, an election watcher. Checking up this tement, Assistant District Attorney Hlack summoned Pfeifer and asked him Tho funeral of Gen. Anson G. Mc- Cook, President of the New York Law| Publishing Company and publisher of the New York Law Journal, will be held at 8 o'clock to-morrow afternoon from the family home, No. 83 We: 84th Street, where he died of pleurisy yesterday, at the age of eighty-two. Gen, McCook was born in Steuben- ville, ©, When the Civil War began, he organized a company of soldic ra, | became its Captain and joined the Second Ohio Regiment. He served with distinguished bravery, and when the war ended was brevetied a Brig- adier General of Volunteers. Gen, McCook was United States As- sessor of Internal Revenue in Ohio from 1866 to 1872. In 1873 he came to New York. Hoe represented the Bighth New York District in Con- gress 1877 to 188; From 1884 to 1893 he was 5 tary of the United Staien Senate, He was City Cham. berlain here from 1895 to 1897 in Mayor Strong's Administration. Surviving Gen, McCook, the head of the family of “Fighting MoCooks," are his widow, his daughter, Mra, | Catherine McCook Knox, wife of the son of Philander ©, Knox, and his son, Lieut. George A. McCook, who was on duty at Camp Upton at the time of his father’s death, Cotton Exchange Closes | Coal | The Cotton Machange closed at noor to-day until Wednesday morning. Th Toarg of Managers decide this Bep in order to suprh? and because @f the fact tos, row is @ holiday, if he got the $30. I wasn't a watcher," Pfeifer testified Nobody gave me any money. A man I didn't Know mot me in front of a polling pl nd asked me to ‘stick around for ‘I don't know who he wah. en know who was running for Idi may a DAVID BONNER DEAD; WAS FAMOUS HORSEM David Bon for many years re- arded as one of the best judges of trot- né horses in the World, died yestorday eumonia at the home of his d Mra. William N, Beach, No. aged, elghty years Yor » days when Broadway north of fourth Street was the unpaved Ki Mr. Bonner drove Hverless, Pocahontas, Dexter and other amoug trotters in impromptu races to wagon and to leigh, Among bis rival relliwinen. were Commodore Vanderbilt, mM. Tweed, “Prince Hal" Genet, x Capt, ‘Isaiah Reynd: d nons brothers, own Lottery, For many years he President of the National and was an of- Association of the Trotting Association, fei of the National Trotting Horse Breedera and of American Register Association Mr, Bonner is survived by a widow, eo daughters and two sons. ww CASTORIA For Infants and Children in Use For Over 30 Yeara, cenina Cacftllletoe the 1 Bignature of PATRIOTIC: ONE) WITH HEAVY GUNS ational Airs Will Be Feature | no} were put In evidence. TOEQUIPULS.ARMY (Continued from First Page.) | ty-three times and had no parts broken. The board held the Lewis gun inferior to the Vickers or Ben- net-Mereler, No other Lewis gun, Gen. Crozier suid, was submitted for a test until April 1, 1916, The War Department previously asked for a Lewis gun to teat, but the Savage Arms Company the manufacturers, stated none wos available. In the tests of April, 19 Gen. Crozier said the manufactur withdrew the guns because it was sald they were not in condition js formed to test mi jen. Crozier pointed o were not subject to his jurisdiction, The board in April, 1916, found the Lewis gun had many desirable fea- tures and offered to again test it| when perfected. He produced a let-| ter from President A, E. Horio of the| Savage Arms Company, stating that| the board's action had been “entirely | ‘unpartial.” | In the summer of 1916, Gen said, on his own initiative out funds having been app he bought 350 Lewis guns for use with British ammunition on the Mexican border. Letters from officers having charge of the funds criticising the Lewis guns adversely, were produced, and Gen. Crogier said that in the bor- der service the Lewis gun was ge ner- | ally proved inferior to tho Bennet- | | Crogier Mercier and Vickers MOSKETRY SCHOOL DECLARED LEWIS GUN UNSATISFACTORY. | A report tast January from the Army School of Musketry stating that the Lewis gun “as at present | developed is not a satisfactory arm" also was produced Gen, Crozier Congressional appropriations machine guns prior to 1916, after t declaration of war, when $12,00,000 was authorized, Gen. Crozier sald, “had been very re.” Because o' machine gun development and th large 1916 appropriation, Gen, Croz said Secreta: Baker decided to a point a special board, organ September, 1916, and which arr for the tests of May, 1918, In the meantime . Crogier sald, the board ordered 4,600 Vickers guns, suspended the order at the request of the Lewis people, but later took 4,00 Vickers guns in September, 1916. Th Vickers gun at that time, C Ci . were being made in with British ammunition and poor Lewis guns were boing made In this country. When war with pany became Imminent, Gen. Crozier sald he asked for 5,000 Lewis guns. On April id, 1,800 Lewis guns we 4:400 more on June nd June 18, hie shows,” sald “that as soon as the L developed for 1 th munition, lar diately given.’ Letters from summer asking for sible production” of last Porshing the greatest pos- Vickers guns Gen, Pershing specinily asked for Lewis guns for aviation, Demands for Lewis guns in the latter service, Gen. Crozier sald, probably will result in continued orders for them “There 1s good prospect that our forces in Europe will not be lacking machine guns in any wa: said Gen. Crozigr. Seventy-five hundred machine guns are available for training pur- poses in this country. Turning to the charges by Col, Lewts that Gen, Crozier had been, prejudiced against him, Gen. Crozer showed that @ board which investigated charges ex- onerated him, Aassertiong that he had opposed adoption of Col. Lewis's range finder were categorically denied by Gen. Crozier. More than 200,000 now are under order, Crozier stated, Thirty-six thousand of them are from French manufacturers, Deliveries of these will insure perfect equipment of all American troops abroad with both heavy machine guns and auto- matic rifles, ‘The French Govern- ment, Crozier said, displayed the same willingness to ‘supply machine guns as artiller: machine guns| ALLIES PROMISED POSLAM MADE TO HEAL YOUR BROKEN-OUT SKIN | 1 you attend to Pimples, Rashes | and al skin trouvles with Pos! and Thy do so promptly, they will not develop and spread. ‘Unless you have actually seen Poslam's work and know how re it takes hold, stopping the Itehing at once, you will hardly believe its ef- fects possible in so short « time. 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