The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1918, Page 4

PWERRIEST OF ALL NEW YORK RISTMASES 15 PLANNED ~ FOR 30,000 MEN IN SERVICE Many Organizations Have|iudge' party wil rocetve'a reat Chriss Elaborate Programmes for |Pomen'who serve wn agnce Cane Feasting and Giving. women who serve as dance partners, To-morrow morning at 8.30 o'clock Father Knickerbocker wil! be Santa to almost 000 soldiers and & breakfast for poldiers and sailors “eallora to-night, Most of them have will be served at the Brooklyn Central Y¥. M. ©, A. Ali men in uniform will be admitted free of charge. Between now and the time for Christmas din- ner, the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. will act o9 & clearing house in directing sol- returned from Sige tog diers and sallore to homes where & beyond repair. ot holiday dinner awaits them. Fast phone Prospect 8000 to make @ “date.” A chance still remains to contribute to the comfort of 500 sick saliors in a navy hospital near New York, The opportunity is afforded through the Comforts Committee of the Navy League. Bage containing almost any- thing which will cheer the boys are desirable. Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee is chairman of the league, with head- quarters at No. 405 Madison Avenue. The State Defense Council hes made an urgent appeal to every man, woman and child in the State to pro- Mote al! possible forms ot recreation during the holidays for the soldiers and eallors. Mayors, Chiefs of Police and policemen throughout the @tate have been asked to take special steps to see that the boys are protected Women's organizations of the coun- cll will also ald in the entertainment of the boys. To-night will be a big time in Madi- son Square. Under the auspices of the War Camp Community Service, the Tree of Light will be raised to shed its radiance among the peoples of all the Alited Nations, Through the various national or- fasisations in the city, invitations ve been sent to all the Allied chil- dren, and they have been informed that they may bring soldiers and ma- tines as their guests, The 69th Regi- ment Band will play during the fes- tivities, which will begin at 6 P. M. Flegn of the Allies will be placed Around the tree, and the children of the various nations will rally around their own flags, singing their national anthems. The Bowling Green Neighborhood Association, founded by the business men of Wall Street on becoming in- terested in the people living near their offices, will have an elaborate o bration. To-night every boy and girl in that age-old section of the city will receive a eat. the gift of some banker or broker, Capt. William W. Duggan of the East Bist Street Police Station has raised 000 among the merchants and residents of his vicinity with which to buy toys, clothing and candy for the children in his precinct, The ae, Will be distributed around a ig Chri: | characteristic snow and sleigh bells, ‘Christmas promises to be the hap- - ever apent in New York. " To-day ts the last chance the people ‘metropolis have of heeding the of The Evening World and far Camp Cominunity Service by ‘a sock for a soldier or sallor filling it with cigarettes, shaving handkerchiefs, chewing gum candy. mt was made at the Camp headquarters, No, 16 East Street, last night that the neces- 10,000 filled socks had already received, However, there will be more soldiers and sailors in to-night than were first antici- ; #0 those who have not yet it mocks can do #6 to their hearts’ 2 gocks should be well! wrapped gent to the War Camp at the KA address. They will then be ~ ate among aii the military hog fand wherever the soldiers ~ gallors will eleep to-night. When 4 all awake to-morrow morning | each will find a Christmas stocking a by his bedside. American Red Cross, the “er tt mother in the world,” has ; a: jolly day for all the men im aniform, They will also present E _ filled with = Christmas hs ‘$0 as to bring the minds of E the boys back to their boyhood days fat home. Christmas trees will be in each of the hospital wards, | ‘Wherever there are wounded mon | the Red Cross will provide Christmas | es to cheer them. Every man | will receive presenta, auch as @ cane, | a fountain pen, &o. | ‘The War Camp Community Service also provided 3,000 pounds of made fudge and an equal hich will be dis- = cake, wi | morning. Army and navy canteens will hold the attention of the New Lork City Wor- an Suffrage Party, as well as scedy children. The children wih be reached through Mad ong stations, clubs, hos- pitals and from the usual house-to- house canvasses, The women will assist the police of the West 67th Street Station in distributing $1,500 wort of presents, The women will be on hand to lmpart cheer at prac- tically every political club, police sta- tion and canteen In the city.. Bellevue Hospital is planni for a by celebration, Every ward will | have its own tree, heayily Iaden witn gifts, Distribution-of the presenta will be in charge of the Employees’ Association, and every one in the hospital will be remembered. Brooklyn will have a community Christmas tree to-night at the dedi- cation of the New Flatbush and Lafayette Avenues and Behermerhorn Street. The Central Y. M, C. A. will sponsor the celebra- tion from funds rained from residents and merohants of the vicinity. Ap- ropriate exercises will be conducted gy the children. Flowers and Christmas wees loaded with gifts for soldiers and sailors in hospitals, dances and theatre parties and turkey dinner® for those able to be about are holiday testimonials of the admiration of the National League for Woman's Service for the Ameri- cans who served in the world war, Distribution of flowers and gifts begins to-day but the two larger hos- pitals in Greenhut's old store and the Grand Central Palace will not be visited until to-morrow. The League and ‘Transportation Club together will entertain 100 men at Keith's to~ day and to-morrow night there will be a dance at the Sailors’, Soldiers’ and Marines’ Club, The Red Cross, Salvation Army and other organizations plan to distribute thousands of gifts to the wounded in Debarkation Hospital No. 3 the old Greenhut store, Evergreens and( holly deck the horpttal to-day from roof to cellar, A mammoth Christmas tree stands in the rotunda * Soon after midnight Santa Claur will tour the wards. Tn the morning euch wounded man wil! find hanging beside his bed « large red stocking filled with Christmas gifts and goodies, There will also be a walk- Ing cane, These are all the gifts of the Red Cross, A “wonderful” dinner is being pre- pared for the veterans, ‘There will be turkey and “all it fixin's.” In the afternoon John McCormack will ring in the auditorium. The main Christ- mas feature |x to be staged in the evening by the Red Cross, There will bé 1,000 giff packages from the Woman's Home Companion, distrib- uted in memory of the mothere who died in France. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has made a large. contri- bution in memory of her son Quentin. ‘The veterans are to be entertained by a jars band and the Grace Church choir. A programme of theatricals ts also achoduled, ‘To-morrow between 3 and SF. M. in the Clvic League Bujlding, No, 181 Went 135th Street, the Woma: Aux- illary of the old 1th Regiment (now the 269th), wit have a Victory Christmas tree. Children of members of the regiment as well as other de- pendents and el! of the returned sol- diers are invited to the celebration Dinner will be served at 56 P.M. All returned members of the regiment are urged ster their names vad tree in the station, be- ginnin: 9 o'clock on Christmas In 1919? whether you get a real start or not. metropolis ? after week, and you will surely use and one-half million times daily. sults at a low cost. May we have an opportunity soon to tell he the Telephone Directory to reach the fl Directory Advertising Department Do You Want More Business RE seems to be no doubt about it. 1919 will be the big year for business. It will be an index year —the first of the read- justment period—the year that will determine Are you going after the big New York market ? fet pa going to take full advantage of the un- usual opportunities for business right here in the Then yqu will, of course, advertise. You will drive home your sales message day after day, and week that goes into practically every home, every office, every store, every factory, every club—the medium that reaches all New York and is consulted two For the NEW York CITY TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, with its circulation of nearly a million copies an issue, is a distinctive advertising medium used by more than 1,000 advertisers who .are getting re- Ree lew York Market? NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY Room 1106, 15 Dey Street, New York City } What New York Advertising Medium t» Consulted Two and OneHalf Million Times Dally ? to regi with the Woman's Auxiliary at No. 2217 Seventh Avenue. the medium you can use ‘emple Place at | THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1918. LUDENDORF XL HNDENBURG. KEP ‘IN ARY COMMAND Armiral Hipper, Who Arranged for German Fleet’s Sur- render, Dismissed. BPRLIN, Dec. 24.—Gome of the foremost exponents of German mili- tarlem, on land and sea, are now definitely known to have followed the | Kaiser into exile, | Gen, Ludendorff, former Com- |mander-in-Chief of the German) Armies, is biding in Sweden, it was) | revealed to-day, Admiral yon Tirpita, father of sub- | marine “frightfuines recently fled to Switzerland, where he ts living in seclusion, The location of his resl- dence {s kept secret, Several of Germany's principal espi- onage and fropaganda agents also have left Germany, Capt. von Papen, former Military Attache of the Ger- }man Embasay in Washington, t9 still serving with the army and is sup- posed to be in Constantinople, Von Papen's co-worker, Capt. Boy- Ed, former Naval Attache at Wash- ington, left the Foreign Office sev- eral months ago as commander of a warship in the Baltic. Hi Ddalleved to have retired to some island in that sea. BASLH, Dec. 24.-An agreement has been reached betweon the Berlin Government and the German Gen- eral Steff by whioh Field Marshal von Hindendurg and Gen, Groener, the Chief Quartermaster General, re- tain their offices, according to the Lokal Anseiger of Berlin. It ts reported from Berlin that par- loys between the Majority Socialists snd the Independent Socialists con- cerning clections to the National As- sembly have failed and that the In- jependonts have decided to nominate candidates in all iste. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 24.—Vice Ad- miral Hipper, Commander in Chief of the German High Seas Fleet; Vice Admiral Bachmann, Commander of the Baltic fleet, and Capt. Hinke, dl- rector of the dockyards at Kiel, have been dismissed, according to a tele- gram from Berlin, {Vice Admiral Hipper headed the German delegation which ar- ranged the plans for the surrender of the German ships to the Allied nav recently in the North Bea. Admiral Bachmann had been in command the Baltic flost for weveral years.) 3,205 HELD BY BOLSHEVIK! IN ONE PETROGRAD PRISON 1,108 Already Condemned and Hundreds Kept for Months Under No Specific Charge. LONDON, Dec. 24.—In the Kresti Penitentiary, one of the prisons of Pets» rograd, 3,205 persons are being detained by the Bolshevik authorities, according to Russian vices received by Reuters Limited. The prisoners comprise the following: Condemned by Peoples’ Tribunals, 1,108; awaiting trial on accusation of breaking Bolshevik decrees, $30; arreated by the Bolshevik authorities without bo- ing accused of any specific crime, 1,604; arrested and no accusation made for more than two months, 260; (hprinoned for more than two month: id authority for arrest unknown, th) Among the prisoners are % Bour- geolze, 8 Monarchists, 210 Socia! Demo- crate, 311 Social Revolutionaries, 32 Social Communists, five Anarchists, $65 Bolshevik! and 661 of no dofinite party. MYSTERIOUS GERMAN ARRESTED IN PARIS Came From Former German Head- quarters and Claimed to Be Mem- ber of Armistice Commission, _ PARIS, Dec, 24.~Some mystery at- taches to the arrest of @ man who ar- rived at the Grand Hote! yesterday. Speaking correct French, he asked for & room, and when asked to show his Papers he produced them. ‘They gave his name as Rudolph von Hanover, « native of Berlin, and showed him to be coming from Spa, the former Germ headquarters where the international armistice commission now sits, He de- clared himself to be a member of that commiasion. COPENHAGEN, Monda, Ignace Jan Paderewski, the famous Pollah pianist and prominent in the work of Polish rehabilitation, arrived jay on board a British cruiser that had been placed st his disposal by the British Government. ‘The cruiser continued her voyage for Danalx (the former port of outlet of Poland on thi with 1 and Dec, 23.~ MPELBOURNE, Dec. lature of Victoria has passed a bill re- quiring that all goods sold there be Legia- marked clea: rly with the couats An “ith the soustry os to | plained that unnecossary blowin “MRS, BRUGUIERE MARRIED TO PETER COOPER HEWITT | INPATERSON, W. J, DEG, 21 Wedding Ceremony Performed by the Rev, O. M, Demcott at Third Presbyterian Church. Howitt-Bruguiere—On Dec. 21, 1918, at the Third Presbyterian Church, Paterson, N. J, by the Rev, O. M. Demcott, Peter Cooper Hewitt of Ringwood Manor, N, J., to Maryon J. Brugulere, daughter of the late Tunstall T. Androws of Virginia. Three weeks aftcr Peter Cooper Hewitt and his wife, Mrs, Lucy Works Howitt, were divorced, and three days after Mrs, Hewitt sailed for Europe to engage in war work Mr. Hewitt and Mrs, Maryon J. Brugulere wero! married, The above marriage notice published to-day breaks the silence of the families concerning the report which became current last Thursday. No details of the Hewitt divorce | were made public. Poter Cooper Hewitt and Miss Lucy Worka, daughter of Frank Works, a wealthy New Yorker, were married April 27, 1887. Mr. Hewitt's second wife was mar- ried to Dr, Pedar Brugulere of Call- fornia, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Bruguiere of New York and Newport. Dr. Bruguiere and Mrs. Bruguiere were divorced-and each was remar- ried, Mrs. Bruguiere to Stewart Den- ning of New York. Later the legality of the Bruguiere divorce was ques- tioned and Mrs, Bruguiere declared that it was Invalid. She theroupon procured an annulment of her mar- riage to Denning. Mrs. Brugutere lived at No. 25 East 74th Street, at the time of her mar- riage to Mr. Hewitt. GERMANY MAY WAR ON DICTATED PEACE, BERLIN EDITOR SAYS Wolff Asseris Teutons Place Re- liance on President to Help in Influencing Entente. ndliahing ing World.) LONDON, Dec. — Reliance on President Wilson to persuade the Entente Powers to deal with Germany so that a stable, orderly government may be assured, is urged by Theodor Woilff, editor of the Berlin Tageblatt, in a remarkable interview given by bim to the correspondent of the Copenhagen Politik. “Had we supposed we were to be given over to brutal might,” he said, “our course might have been dif- ferent, Our front was unbroken at the time of the armistice, “We stand fast by President Wil- son's programme, counting on real peace negotiations, not on the dicta- tion 6f peace terms, and we count on the President to persist in that pro- grammé, “We shall demand that Alsace- Lorraine be given the privilege of voting and détermining for itself its future government, and we shall urge the same privileges for the German Fastern provinces and for German Austria, “If the Entente supposes that Ger- many has been so humbled as to be powerless, it is @ mistaken reckon- ing, for people will not be cowed ini by threats. Ger- many will rise again and will be @ strong factor in the European family, Her central and she cuinot be held down,” BLAMES MONGOLIA PILOT. oh Saye He # . ‘Tree pilot of the transport Mongolia is to blame for her going off her course, according to Acting Police Commiasion- er John A, Leach, and not the blasts of the police boat Patrol’s sirens, The Navy. Department had Co, 40,000,000 definitely com: of the alice bor whiatic almost caused the Mongolia to Kround. The Commissioner guid any Navy Department orders con- cerning. the greeting of transports id be scrupulously observed here- American Jows, headed by Rabbi their ery pre’ iy aier pave the Customs jee, ie feed Nass anal, ture ane thelr owners to rue will fermi in rep 2 Sei w | powition in dominating | [son on shipping subjects. ! HOVER TO ~ FOOD RATONER FOR UROPEANS Original Plans for Feeding Devastated Regions Likely | to Be Followed. PARIS, Dec, 24.—Herbert C. | er, American Food Administrator, and| Edward N. Hurley, Chairman of the| American Shipping Board, conferred | yesterday with President Wilson by} appointment. Mr in connection with Hoov- Hoover's visit was) the problem of provisioning sections of Europe where | Great food shortage exists or is) threatened as the result of the ovor-| running of the country by German| troops, or by exhaustion, to the ina-! bility of thé inhabitants to find labor} to till the soil. | Suggestions that relief work in these sections be placed in the hands of an International Committee have come from some Entente countrie: but it now seems assured that the original plans of the Administration io this matter will be adhered to. It ts probable that the work of suoply- ing food will be retained unde: one! head In tho interest of rapidity of ac- tion and efficiency. This head, it seems certain, will be Mr. Hoover, who has prepared tentative plans for the extension of the machinery ho has already created for the relief of devastated portions of Belgium and France. Mr. Hurley talked with Mr, Wil- One fea-| ture of the problem undér consider- | ation Is the application of the French Government for permission to reha- bilitate its merchant marine through | the use of great American shipbuild- ing plants which were developed to! meet war needs. ithe ‘BOY, BY HOARDING TINFOIL, MAKES SOLDIERS HAPPY Buys 1,200 Cigarettes, Wi Distributes to Wounded in Base Hospital. Joe Fair is eleven yoars old and lives at No. 267 West 143d Street He goes to Public School No. 5 and is a Boy Scout. During the war he begged and saved cigarette coupons and the tinfoil on the cigarette packages until he had enough to buy a comfort kit for a sol- dier in France. With his coupons he obtained in ell four kits, each of which | went to an American soldier. | Joe's father is a checker ut the army, pier in Hoboken. He was there when the transport came home with the sick and wounded, and he told his son of the boys who had gone to the war hale and hearty and had coine back maimed Little Joe was all sympathy and tears He still had the tinfoil ho had collected and yesterday, without any hint from any one, he sold it and with the pro- ceeds bought 1,200 cigarettes. Then he told his mothe? he wanted to go to the base hospital on Gun Hill Road and dis- tribute the cigarettes. He delivered his Christmas gifts this morning and wis rewarded with smiles and thanks from the soldier boys. — BRINGING CHRISTMAS GIFTS, SHE FINDS HUSBAND DEA\ Gas Escaping From Slove Also | Killed the Four-Year-Old Son of Mrs. Kerns, Her arma filled with Christmas| packa, » Mra. Martha orns of No. 183 Jerome Street, Brooklyn, gently | turned the doorknob of her apartment! last evening, intending to sip in| quietly and hide her packages. When she opened the door she was) met by @ wave of gas that almost overpowered her. In the kitchen she | found her husband, Joseph, forty- eight, seated in a rocking chair be-| fore ‘a gas stuve dead. Korna then discovered her four- old non | Paul dead on the bedroom floor, | Since her husband was siricken with paralysis soy months ago | Mrs. Kerns has supported the family. | Kerna feared he would become blind| and the police believe he disconnected the tube from the gus stove in order to commit suicide. | B. R. T. STRAW VOTE STOPS. Ofticta d Co Jel Silent About| tribution of Cards, Brooklyn Rapid Tm officials and counsel were wilent to-day regarding the distribution yesterday of cards ask- ing an expression of optnion from the Company's patrons on thé holding of officials for the Malbone Street tunnel wreck in which ninety lives were lost The distribution is resarded as pre liminary to #n attempt to Ket a change of venue for the Indicted officials, The work # said to have stopped shortly after noon a # result of the newspaper publicity it called forth, > SIX OVERCOME IN $25 FIRE.’ Sixty Families Driven to Street y Denne Smoke. fix firemen were overcome and sixty families were driven into the street by a fire in the basement of No. 59 Cherry Street shortly before midnight last night, which caused a loss of only $25, ‘The building is @ six-story tenement, ; n ovcupled by Italians. Cal jan Autonomy Plan Drawn, BARCELONA, Dec, %4.—Catilonian Deputies, who recently withdrew from an autonomy plan for the province of Catalonia, which will be presented to the Government, it was reported to-day, th Spanish Parliament, have shown up| en EXPORTS TO LATIN AMERICA, o Shipments of Many T% ed, VASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Retaxation estrictions on export of foodstuffs, ers and feeds to Latin America was announced by the War Trade Board to- day. Only wheat and wheat flour, corn, coffee, su CHANCELLOR EBERT HEAD OF THE PRESENT GERMAN GOVERNMENT be obtained in certain eh official channels, Mlk Z Creamélies:790 oS Think What It Saves You! (CREAMETTES, the new Americon macaroni preduct, is much mor: | | economical than most foods. You can buy more nourishment in Creamettes ib ten cents than in almost any other Creamettes is not only nourishing and whole | tome, but appetizing and delicious. Prove thix for yourself by buying a package of Creamett | from your grocer and trying the following recipe | | Creamettes and Checse Blebeinteldeintefeieieteteleivieteleteieteletels EBERT FEARS FRANCE — WILL TRY TO ANNEX = ‘LEFT BANK OF RHINE arated e canna le with ‘cheese and Wake If your grocer cannot’ supply you with Creamettes, ask him to order for you. The Creamette Company Minneapolis Polish Aspirations in East Prussia | Also Cause Alarm to Ger- | man Chancellor ILIN, Dec dbert RE cellor aspirations in learned to-day, It tained he believes tempt to annex Rhine. 28 (Delayed).—Chan { Polisi Prussia, it was also ascer- 1 will loft f the the result The Christmas Dinner Table with its savory dishes, skilfully East was | bank \ ad aan ate prepared—will be a_ better, dittate vik beetehotites F Cor bet merrier, more inviting board if ganda designed to xhow that the Ger- | Q@ Prominent place is given to mans were endeavoring to spread ” Bolshevist doctrines in Poland, Count "Edd Kessler, German Min'ster, who was Us expelled from Warsaw, told the , soe) OLD ENGLISA sryue Dali MADE IN U. S. A. At Grocers and Delicatessen Storer E. Pritchard, 331 Spring St., N. Y. United Press to- “It was unneces to br tions," Kessler said. "Tho was entirely due to propyganda Are more Mti-Boishevik eyen the Poles. They hope to go to th peace conference with territory t have seized from Germany.” EBERT AND HOLLAND DISOUSS FORMER KAISER Excha Communications About William, but Result Is Not Made Publi AMSTERDAM, De Ebert was reported t changed communications Dutch_ Go nent regarding mer Kaiser. The result is not «nown We than | Py A Very MERRY CHRISTMAS to evéry one of you from 3.7 FIFTH AVE,, N.Y, Near 31st Street re 24.—Chancellor day to have ex with the for ine Property of Ex-Kat sil | i] | Valued at 900,001 BASLE, Dec, 24 owned by the Prussian (the Hohenzolierns) would pre intely the sum of 900 nz to figur rt Nachri BRITAIN ADDED 517 SHIPS TO HER NAVY DURING WAR Seven Battleships, Five Battle Cruts- | ers and 230 Destroyers Included. Selaure of property royal family Xmas Tree Outfits Electric Appliances | teatronol, tet Frankfo: q Complete with Yanga | ten Lamp for 110 vort igi 224 Elecite Supply Co 36th Bt., stan w 1K TDON, nteen the British Navy singe was announced to: The new vessels in ships, five batile cruisers, 17 monitors “2 minesweepers a craft VICTORY FOR SINN at @ hundred and | been added August, t4, it | Dec le fev cruisers » desir “FEIN. Prof, MacNet!t Represent Dab! it Baco Rubb are DUBLIN, Monday, T ‘The Sinn | ‘i Fein scored a marked victory to-day py | scarce this winter, Your the election of Prof. John MacNeili, of | dealer may have them, Dublin University Ask anyway, 9 representative A eared colic. ’ NEW YORK $ Fatabiiahed 195% 1 vernment amnesty en | Very Fine BOLSHEVIK TROOPS GAINING. | _ Selection of Bush Ahead tn WATCHES, JEWELRY and FINE DIAMONDS AT MODERATE, PRICES F. SCHNEIDER 395 Sizth Ave., »,.x Frrenngs Open. mans Fall &, STOCKHOLM, Dec. ik! are making con: ith their penetration of Hsthonian 1 etatercent Mond iderable Bevwren and w fr ont, jerman forces in tbls tinuing to fall back upon _ FY Opporen Occupa- ‘ ¥ Allien, BERLIN, Dec. 23 (delayed),—The Hungarian Ministry, was reported to. | day to have asked the Allies if they intend to occupy the entire country, ening to re: in a bi it answer ts affirmative, Lecpdibnceeel 6 Betvans Hot water Sure Relief Hungarian Min NH