The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1918, Page 8

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‘e HENKES SCORNED BY THRONGS ON HAY TO PRON Former Army Captain, Now Man Without a Country, May Not Outlive Sentence. blouse had been whorn of the buttons bade her and was held together with safety pine. i | The two silver bars of rank had bee mpped from his sh lders. t p As he was led along the walk the Governor's Island prison to ferry, oficers and men made no fort to conceal their contempt him, He made tho trip across the bay on the after deck of the ferry- |" °°! boat. Enlisted men and civilians dis- cussed him in undertones, and offi cers on the upper deck did not even glance at him. It was impossible for the two vet- eran Sergeants to conceal the iden | Uty of their prisoner on reaching the Pennsylvania Btation concourse. There was o two-hour walt for their train, A curious about them and husband Roodby e morning on the and thit note not United States ¢ probably never will ive the pubile, » official. confirmation could alned to-day of a report that in in Castle Willlame ts a Chap gular Ar t baek rehing on a finite at against Henkes. ‘The Army a y Register of Washington re said a Chaplain had been sent n such a charge. It is not be 1 likely anything will be said about the cage until it has been dis. posed of by court martial for f @ some, especially the | as O59. women, began to vestions. Ap parently thoy ail had tead the ndwa.| HAVANA, Feb. 26.—Julius Maaser, a paper account of the prisoner's down. | German mining engineer of Santiago de fall. | Cuba, has been arrested by Federal of- The stares and sneers obviously an-|cere and interned in noyed the man whose khaki uniform | vortress, charged with 6s was fastened with pins, and when the| propaganda among laborers in an effort throng had increased to several hun dred the Sergeants asked station of- ficiais if there was not some A man without a country, David A Henkes, recently a Captain in the 16th United States Infantry with the Per- shing expedition, is to-day nearing the prison, where a court martial said he must serve twenty-five years at hard labor. As he is past forty, this may virtually amount to @ life sen- tence. Henkes, convicted of violating his oath of loyalty by attempting to avold service against bie country’s foe, left late yesterday for the Fort} crop tion They were shown to a small room| in the office part of the station, and Ran Down at Jamestown, there Henkes was kept in seclusion Doring Snow Storm, and safety until train time. A crowd mM, ON ‘ oe Pare | JAMESTOWN, N.Y. Feb, 26.—A, bung ebout the dodr, howexer, until! siwood and his eon, Ereell, were in- tats In charge | the party emerged, and the Sergeants , sap haar Merona bee Pa had to rush their prisoner through it|stantly killed by @ trolley car on the | wWarren-Jamestown treet line this of two Sergeants of the 224 Infantry. 11, the platform. Ho will be delivered Ho wore what once was the uniform|to the prison to-morrow. morning, while walking on the track in é a Winding enowstorm Stern Brothers West 42nd Street Between 5th and 6th Avenues West 43rd Street Y¥ Commencing Friday, the March Sale of China, Glassware and Lamps At Savings of 15 to 60% The sale goods will be shown beginning To-day on the Fourth Floor, and advance selections may be made, which will be held for delivery until the opening day of the sale. American Rugs, Carpets and Linoleums At prices that compel attention—To-morrow Worsted Wilton Rugs Wideloom Chenille Carpet From 27x54 yet $5.15 In taupe, blue, gray, rose and tete de negre; widths up to fifteen feet; To 1134x15 feet at 79.50 Square yard Regularly $7.00 to 110.00 at $9.75 Seamless Velvet Carpet 9 feet wide, in natural color, Inlaid Linoleum in wood and tile effects, Regularly $1.25 to $1.95 yd. at 95c to $155 $4.50 to 14.00 . The Oriental Rug Sale now in progress offers opportunities for selection of high grade weaves at greatly reduced prices. Square yard at $2.75 Mohair Rugs in popular colorings, from 18 by 36 to 36 by 63 inches, + eat Odd Pieces in Chamber, Dining Room and Living Room Furniture Will be closed out during the last days of the February Sale at Half Price. Buffet, 18th Century Finish, formerly $38.00, at Mahogany Serving Tables, formerly $55.00,........+..+ at $27.50 Mahogany Arm Chairs, in Velour; formerly $70.00, $19.00 at $35.00 Mahogany Rockers, ia in Damask; formerly $47.00, at $23.50 ed Mahogany Davenports, Mahogany Library Table, in Cretonne; formerly $95.00, at $47.50 formerly $35.00, at $17.50 Imported Walnut Hall Settee, in Cane; formerly $180.00, at Mahogany Davenports, in Velour’ formerly 275.00, at 137.50 $90.00 $220.00 Walnut Living Room Suite, 3 pes, at $110.00 $110.00 American Walnut Twin Bedsteads, pair $55.00 Imported Settee, formerly $250.00, Satinwood, at 125.00 Mahogany Bureau, formerly $85.00,..... Mahogany Dining Table, formerly $88.00, Cheval at Circassian Walnut $ at $44.00 | Glass, formerly $210.00, 10.00 Mahogany China Closet, Antique Ivory Chiffonier, formerly $50.00, formerly $80.00, at $25.00 Black Enamelled Bureaus, formerly #50.00, at $40.00 Antique Ivory Bedstead, formerly $50.00,.......++++++ .. at 925,00 at $20.00 $70.00 Walnut and Oak Wardrobes, mirror door, $35.00 £30.00 Jacobean Oak Console Table and Glass, $15.00 * we. Sst ae, lem, ae: he ® crowd gathered | ¢eeman Engineer Interned tm Cuba Cabanas © jOnage An r 4 Prohicrrupt the handling of the sugar % lace eae where they would not attract arten. CAR KILLS FATHER AND SON. THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, EEO H OEE EGE 4-2 + MRS, JOHN B, KERFOOT, $46-60-0, Wedding a Year Ago to Ker- foot Revealed in Action Over Alimony. Mrs. Anna Belleville Hunter, who two years ago divorced Frederik William Hunter, a wealthy lawyer, has been for a year the wife of John | Barrett Kerfoot, novelist and Mterary editor of Life, who was named as co- respondent in a counter sult for di- vores brought by Hunter and lost. The secret marriage, which took place in Florida on Feb. 1, 1917, be- came known yesterday when Hunter asked the Supreme Court to relieve him of the payment of further all- mony to his former wife. Hunter has been paying her $33 a month, and hg asked tho court to vacate the order under which he has been making tho payments without knowledge of the marriage of his former wife to Ker- fo Hunter and ‘Kerfoot were class- mates at ¢ ia and were gradu. ated in 1887, K first wife, now dead, was Hunt sister, In the divorce proceedings, Mrs. Hunter ad mitted that Kerfoot had lived in the Hunter home in this city and at Freehold J, for twenty years without pa r lodging, markoting and that he oney im from the onth allow by Hunter for 1 expenses. She said she Kerfoot $117.50 a month for the fled he had seen Mrs. Hunter in her room Wearing tights and that Ker- ‘as with hor. counter suit for divorce was dismissed, the court holding that a case had not been made, Hunter sued Kerfoot for $50,000 for the n of Mrs, Hunter's affections. defen that M n for her hus: greed. The Ker- foots ha Pennsylvania es HAIR COMING OUT? Dandruff causes a feverish irrita- tion of the scalp, the hair roots shrink, loosen and then the hair comes out fast. To stop falling bair at once and rid the scalp of every particle of dan- druff, get « small bottle of Danderine a little in your hand and rub it into the scalp the hair stops coming out and you can’t find any dandruff.—Advt. RUB NEURALGIA | Instant relief from nerve tor- ture and misery with old “St. Jacobs Liniment” Get a small trial bottlet Rub this soothing, penetrating lni- ment right into the sore, inflamed nerves, and like magic neuralgia diss appears, “St. Jacobs Liniment” con- will be absolut ache and buifle please you more will not come back No difference whether your pain or neuralgia misery is in the face, head or any part of the body, you get in- stant relief and without injury.— Advt free from pain, » but what will hat the misery SPLCEAD BAWGAINS in BAny CARRIAGES CRANDALL’S io Man. Pda tn th ents. in Ric An Pool and asked no accounting ccording to the testimony, Mrs. Hunter caressed Kerfoot in the ab- | Hunter, and a butler testi- oo Uving in| at any drug store for a few cents, pour | s After several applications | « AWAY END PAIN quers pain, It is a harmless neuralgia relief which doesn’t burn or discolor the skin, Don't suffer! It's so needless, Get n small trial bottle from any drug store and gently rub the “aching | nerves” and in ‘ust a moment you babe POD EMIOPEIIESORECOD POGIBIOEHGO9609-0O $ 998490 009O0000000 FIST BLOW KILLS MAN IN FIGHT AT SUBWAY STATION General Alarm Sent Out by Police for Little Man With Blackened Eye. é New York's entire police force is searching little man with a dlack This unidentified man, detectives of the First Branch say, turned upon George A. Wigman of No, 249A Brooklyn Avenue, Brook- lyn, on the Canal Street subway plat- form yesterday noon after Wigman had blackened his eye and sent the latter crashing to the concrete floor, where he was found with a fractured skull. Wiseman was taken to the Hudson Street Hospital, where he died two hours later. The man who knocked him down dashed up the subway |stairs and disappeared. Or he may for a eye. | | have slipped into another subway train that pulled up just after the assault—accounts of his escape dis- agree A third person participated in the dispute which is said to have pre. ceded the fight. Witnesses abs: |him from striking any of the blows, and Detectives Kiley and Morrissey of the First Branch, who are on the case, hope he may come forward and so énable them to arrest the man who felled Wigman Wigman 1s described to the police as a much Digger man than the as- sailant who felled him, Fellow pas- rs in the sam: bway car say two were in rgument came to b the train drew into the ‘anal Street Station, about 1 o'clock. Before the train stopped, Wigman blackened the other man's eye. On the Canal Street platform the two: men are de 9 peeling off their ove v the third man, who seem have @ passive interest in the argument, looked on The little fist and Wig: crete. No enough to Wigman w ico as a salesman thirty-flve, and lived and little daughter PREMIER BORDEN MEETS WITH EARL READING British and A Conference S | Canadian ( ‘ON, Borden of ¢ ada b ferences here to-da 1 up with his ed to the -on- quick —witted man, by the po- He was about with his wife 1 Officials at id to Concern dit Here. ». 26.—Premier F gan a series of con- with Darl Reading, the British Ambassador; Chairman of the Canadian Sir Charles Gordon, Vice the British War Mission, and some American officials, The question of @ Canadian credit in this country 1s sald to be the subject under discussion. | yarl Reading has announced the fol- lowing appointments man Lever, K. CR, Finans Treasury, to be matters ree Henry Babington assistant commis- joner in other matters, with the per= sonal rank of minister plenipotentiary. Sir Richard Crawiord, K, C, B,, to be commercial commissioner, FEBRUARY 26, 1918. ‘Divorced Wife of Lawyer Hunter _ F.M, GUNTHER T0 MARRY; | Secret Bride of His Former Chum _ ONGE IN DIPLOMATIC CLASH » who was Becretary of the 2 on board the American yacht Pauline | op his ieense, » during the international regatta. The| all overcharg | ta ir aster of Christiania requ | ins" uuling to change her anchorage, |SIX COURSES FOR SOLDIERS. ace being reserved for the Ger- Emperors acht Meteor. Tt was| Hmergese; ‘eohmical |charged at the time that Mr. Gunther | ytd , | Struck the Harbor Master’ and knocked | a sect. Secretary of American Embassy in| nis cap off. ‘This was denied by M men “for vedhnlcal ‘ocompetia on a4 1 nel Gunther. riny have been propared by London Figured in Incident | The thetdant Wa idl on Ate Board for vocational edues and will be distributed to Indirectly Involving Kaiser. ‘ frivere and LONDON, Feb. is announced of |when the American apologized to the 6 and Mr. Gunther wrote an apol- 26.—The engagement) an Loule Hunnewat, | Ofte emithing, sheet met = dauwhies OF Hunnewell of Welles. |°Y to the harbor master Mr. Gunther | ing and pipe fitting; for elect bH ley, Mase, and Mra J. S. Tooker of |! thirty-three years old and has beun | telephone repair men, linemen an splicers; for gas engine, motofear ervice ten years. how MMbiabbniclh ambe | motorcycle repairmen: for Foxwarren Park, Surrey, to Franklin M. |!" ‘he diplomat qxy-a or { the 5 agian ag | welders, and f fi Gunther, First Secretary of the Amer! wel and for alfplane m ion, can Embassy in London. |Amaterdam (%. Y.) Denter Loses Gad chabe malal weemetereee clggers Franklin M. Gunther was born tn Food License. | —_ Aes New York and was the centre of a dip-| WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The license) University of Spectal lomatio incident in which the German |of Moses Newberger of Amsterdam, N. Course to Amerfeahs, has been revoked e United 8 WASHINGTON, Feb. 26~Th Emperor also figured indi ly a tow | Y.. has been revoked, the United States o e Gaye before the outhrenk of the Europe. |Food Administration announced to-day, | versity of Paria, le pr by an war, On July 21, 1914, Mr. Gunther, | because of sugar sales at more than| guage, literature, art and Ristory, of American | reasonable figures ‘The revocation be- | of Education y ch ; a comes. effective . No diploma Legation in Christiania, was @ guest | iy apply af ven, as it is merely tptended tom e immédiate needs of American stus “rt is Pleasant and Profitable Work’”’ That’s why telephone operating attracts and holds some of the brightest and most capable young women in business to-day. The telephone Spetatar works in pleasant surroundings, in light, clean central offices having modern dining-rooms and cozy sitting rooms for her use when she is off duty, She is paid a good salary, even while she is a student in ‘ the Training Department, has frequent increases in salary while an operator, and has many opportunities for advancement to higher pos- itions with correspondingly higher salaries after she has shown that she has the necessary qualifications for promotion. ‘ , Not only is she well cared for during her working hours, but she is protected in case of sickness by a liberal Benefit Plan with- out cost to her. All of these features combine to make telephone operating an attractive profession for intelligent young women between the ages of 16 and 23. ‘ If you would like to become a telephone operator or are in- terested in this most attractive profession, telephone, write or call at our nearest Commercial Office and ask for a free copy of “An Ideal Occupation for Young Women,” Stern Brothers West 42nd Street (Belween 5th and 6th Avenues) West 43rd Street Sale To-morrow of $60 and $70 Men’s London Overcoats In tweeds, cheviots and homespuns $35.00 and 40.00 They are high grade imported models— the product of four of London’s leading coat makers—and the prices quoted represent next season’s wholesale cost. A choice of several styles—all sizes up to 50

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