The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1918, Page 8

— se we r ee ne ae ee pie Search for a German who drove a Drown sedan automobiie and visited F MMrs. Margaret Voorhees at the apart- SEEK A GERMAN in Freeport Spy Hunt. SEL saecacagunciedani nena eet mere r ns ' ment at No, was begun to-day by Assistant Dis jtrtet Att | 536 West 111th Street} tian Ferlgand an the Simone two young women iy; Sliverman, o oy | acquaintances of Mrs, Voorheos. T : jlearn something of the source of het | poidiers will be asked to reveal th % funds nature of the conversat the 1 & The man is described as abont forty-| with the two young women . | five years old, bald, with a mustache} siggy Ferigand told Mr, Smith, he ae nd small imperial beard and of UN-| said, that ghe was born in Russian x mistdkable military bearing. He 1®| poland and not in. Fraitec was y A d to have passed little time at the gated at the time ae ql Japartment and to have taken Mrs | figure in the in 19 ——_ | Voorhees in the auto for his confer-|inan commander in the re ts ‘ j ences with ber, tory befriended her, and sev > Man of Military Bearing Who| an ttatian army omcer and a Jap-| months obtained for her pet 2. anese who also lived at ‘he apartment | through Germany to reach America Drove Brown Sedan Hunted | may become factors in the investiga- | She obtained employment for her cousin, Miss Sil in a Free tion, The Japanese 1s said to be in Chicago with a woman who was sup- posed to have been the wite of the oftcer. Soldiers from Camp Mills are to be brought {n to-morrow to !dentify Lil. port. L. 1, photographer's shop near a bungalow rented by Mrs. Voorhee Chrough this emp! many soldiers, prin men going to the p their pictures, A wealthy woman of title residing ugh the rs for “ght back from Philadelphia and described as jy *U)"'%) H Drive, y Mr on Riverside the ¢ to supply was brought into Smith as being able » missing links. ntl other- ed with jelon. by persons bre OTY-MIDEDRWE ANISTOBRNGOLT THE WOMAN VOTE Suffragists Plan — House to-} House Canvass—Will Coii- duct Political C Sses. At a conference yesterduy of lead- Jers and workers of the New York City Woman Suffrage Party at No. 3 East Mth Street Suffrngists pledged them- selves to conduct a big political drive during the week of Oct. 7, consisting Bell, TRY TO STOP PETTY GRIMES AS MEANS ~_ TO EVADE SERVICE | Judge Rosalsky Issues State- ment Defending Jail-to- Army Action, When informed to-day that he had | been criticised by Gen. J, Franklin commander of the Department my of the East, for offering yesterday to obtain from Gov. Whitman a pardon that a convicted thief could be in- ducted into the army, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky of the Court of Sessions said: “There have been forty-five or fifty instances in which General Sessions General MOVE TO EXHUME BODY OF BROTHER OF HRS, SKEELS Hudson County Authorities Begin Action to Solve Deaths in Family of Nurse. Pierre Garvin, District Attorney of | Hudson County, N. J., applied to-day to Essex County authorities for per- | mission to cxhume the body of Al- bert J. H. Wilkens to determine | whéther he died of poison. He was! nursed in his last illness by his sis- | ter, Mrs, Bessie May Skeels, who js | now under arrest on a charge of | murdering Miss Florence Gay at Andover, Mass, | The action to exhume the body was taken at the request of Dr. Bert M Daly, County Physictan of Hudson ProcraM for the CONSERVATION of ¢ TELEPHONE SERVICE Aucust 15, 1918, the Postmaster General issued an order to all telephone companies “to confine extensions and betterments to imperative and unavoidable work to meet war requirements and the vital commercial needs of the country”. ALL COMPANIES were directed to “adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to accom- plish this result because of the difficulties incident to war condi- ofa en vot how rs during which o-house canvass of wom- 400,000 circu- Judges have suspended sentences so that men could get into the army. There have been several instances County, after an investigation of the case, lars will be distributed urging women to register for the fall elections, In order to counteract rumors, It] has been decided in district meetings | to give as much publicity as possible to the fact that the city Suffrage Par- ty intends to keep its forces intact until the Federal Suffrage Amendment whe: area re I hi ¢ followed that course. In every case the action was carefully considered “There have been instances of men who have served time in prison going into the army and making good. There mber of men under indictment Mr. Garvin said to-day that if evi- dence of poisoning were found he would exhume the bodies of M Mrs. Amos id Wilkens of a sister, who also were nursed by Mrs. Skcels. Harvard chemists reported they had found poison in the stomach of M Gay, a school teacher of Andover, Mass., who was nursed by Mrs. Skeels. ture, sary the n is ratified by the Now York Legisla- | and as long thereafter as neces- to help women perform their | political duties, The programme of the oarty for the | next few weeks will, therefore, fea- | |ture meetings for women inspectors and poll clerks at which the electidn | |law will be studied. dnesday even Free classes for artisan political instruction | n voters will also be held| in New York County who are now in the army and whose cases have been put on the deferred calendar for trial. “The point is, that in certain cases, which we have considered well, we have come to the conclusion that the prisoner at bar should become an asset rather than a ability. We are trying to see to it that no man escapes mili- tary service merely by committing a trivial crime. Hundreds have been admitted to the army with the consent The nurse also is accused of stealing | Jewelry belonging to Miss Gay. ————— ILL, ACCOUNTANT KILLS SELF Herbert F. Guthrie, thirty-five, of | No. 602 East Seventy-seventh Street, Mother! If your Child’s Tongue is Coated. I£ Cross, Feverish, Constipated, Bilious, and the Stomach out of Order, give “California Syrup of Figs.” A laxative to-day saves a bill 8 | constipation-poison, sour bile and fer child to-morrow. Children simply will] menting waste-matter will gent not take the time from play to empty | move out of the bowels, and you their bowels, which become clogged|have a healthy, playful child again. up with waste; then the liver grows] A thorough le cleansing” is oft- sluggish, and the stomach is dis-| times all that is necessary. It should ordered. be the first treatment given in any Look at the tongue, mother! If| sickness. an accountant, committed suicide this morning by inhaling gas. A rubber tube from which gas was flowing was tuund near his body Guthrie formerly was employed by J. F, Whitney & Co., steamship agents, of No. 8 Bridge Street. His health tions of securing adequate supplies, labor and transportation’’, In COMPLIANCE with this order, this company will under- take to provide service as promptly as conditions will permit for essential war work and vital commercial needs. Wuere IT IS NOT OBVIOUS that applicants for service fall within these classes, evidence will be required that the serv- ice requested is of such importance in war production work or is of such vital commercial necessity as to warrant service being established. PossEssion of government contracts, priority shipping priv- ileges or a letter or other form of advice from the chief of a government department certifying to the necessity for the estab- lishment of service, will be accepted as evidence, No APPLICATIONS for service except those permitted under the order of the Postmaster General will be accepted. In VIEW OF CONDITIONS brought about by the war, it is particularly desirable that telephone service be conserved in every possible way for use by the government and essential war indus- tries and activities. YOUR COOPERATION WILL BE OF GREAT HELP TO THIS COMPANY IN COMPLYING WITH THE ORDER OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY Ee Fringed Dresses BROOKLYN OPPENHEIM, CLLINS & © Fulton Street, Brooklyn Announce Sale of | | | Women’s and Misses’ Satin | | Depicting New Fall Styles New straight line silhouettes (as illus- trated) of Satin, fringe trimmed; other models of men’s wear serge and Jer- sey, effectively trimmed or embroidered. Offering Very Special and Unusual Values at 25.00 |the building and is now under double, |letter sent to the | tantry ) deaiv Gop 16 State registration does i, beginning t No, 3 East y with 4 88 of their local boards.” bes gan to fail early in the year and hi Suicide is attributed to that cause. MAN HELD AS BANK ROBBER MAKES WILD DASH TO ESCAPE Melvin Kepford Flees From Sheriff's Office While Hearing on His Sanity Is Being Held. Melvin Kepford, who took a long chance Aug. 21 and almost succeeded in getting away with $15,000 in bills which he seized at a cashier's window in the Atlantic National Bank, took another long chance in trying to es- cape from the Sheriff's office in the Criminal Court Building about noon to- day, but was captured at the door of xuard Kepford's effort to eecape was made in the course of an insanity hearing when Deputy Sherift Levy, who had him in custody, was called to a tele- Phone, Kepford, who was sitting near @ door dashed out of the room. Several men started in pursult, Levy dropping the telephone receiver to join them. Ho tripped on a step, fell and sprained his ankle. Others kept up the chase with Kepford racing before . Knocking out of his way other ions on the stairs, Patrolmen John and Thomas Phale. stopped After Kepford was indicted for high- way robbery, his attorney, Jacob Lasker, asked Judge Malone to ap- paint an insanity commission for his Client —_———_____ 920 STREET FERRY TO QUIT SEPT. 28 UNLESS CITY ACTS Company Notifies Astoria Residents It Cannot Continue Service— Up to Estimate Board. A letter announcing that operation of the 92d Si ferry, between East 92d Street, Manhattan, and Fulton Avenue, Astoria, will be suspended on Sept. 28, m the East River Ferry by Wiliam H. Thomp- 119 Fulton Avenue, Long President of the Astoria tee ferry company has been | not been able to make h money to meet its operating ex- Penses, Six months ago service between 10 P.M. and 6.30 A. M. was suspended. Astoria Ferry Committee was formed to assist the company to obtain financial assitance from th Vor a year th omplaining it ha day Borough Queens requested that a hearing on the | company's application for aid be given | at the board's next meeting on Sept. 20, | > BEGINS TO LIKE BATTLES, Wounded Serweant From King Writes ree Wife in two-year-old daughter at No, 41 Old Broadway before re-enlisting with the old 12th New York Infantry when the United States entered the war, He wad later assigned to Company F, 307th In. In letters received by his wife he stated that he had been 1n several bat- tles and that th; » battles he parti- cipated in the bettor he was becoming to ke it, He described his injuries in a etter written in the King George Hose pital in London, Private Lawrence B. Trimble of Com- pany K, 107th Infantry, was severely wounded on Aug. 17, according to. word| received by “his mother, Mra Trimble, of No. 250 16th ‘Str Point. i twenty years listed’ in the 12th Regiment after war was declared, He w * trans- ferred to the 17th at Spartanburg last > Every man of eighteen to forty-five years old, except those already regis tored, must re: for the ive not count, "T guess Im~ deserted” Ia the greatmess high with patriotism. Don’t miss tiese short stories THAT THE BLIND MAY SEE Dorothy Canfield's story of the most beautiful honeymoon ! “A Honeymoon & I'Americaine” in egonized France—s honeymoon so unusual, 9o generous, aod so Rereed that lt seems a fairy tale— ut it sctually happened. of two hearts there is @ story that brings « lump to your thwoat, and your heart beats THE VILLAGE CUT-UP By George Weston ee et coated, or your child is listless, cross, feverish, with tainted breath, restless, doesn't eat heartily, or has a gold, throat, or any other children’s ment, nonful of * F then don't se it is a perfectly harm- nd in @ few hours all this Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask your druggist for Botte ‘of genuine “California Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna,” made by the Call- fornia Fig Syrup Co., which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. —Advt. Sit had heard of she had never realized what it meant, before. The audacity of the married man, the father of beautiful children, hus- band of a devoted and virtuous woman, to dare—to dare to send her such a letter. His terms were — hideous! “Why, but I can’t own husband,—he can’t mean it!” But he did. heart, her awakening, happiness, out of the AMERICA'S GREATEST For October—out today ‘The Pictoriel Review Company New York At ners tangs re “THE LUCK OF GERALDINE LAIRD” Kathleen Norris’s absorbing story of modern marriage, of stumbles and hurts and high courage, be- and gins this month in the Pictorial Review. This searching story of a woman's triumphant rebirth by which she wins independence and self-respect, even riage, is full of the drama and climax so characteristic of Kathleen Norris, Begin her fascinating story in the October issue. The first installment moves with a rush, And the story grows more compelling in each of the four issues PICTORIAL REVIEW it all her life, but pecting public. 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