The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1918, Page 9

HOKEY POKEY MAN, |°"° HIS FLAT BOMBED ; NOT A BIT AFRAID -_o—— . “Everybody Is My Friend,” He Declares, Believing Loaded Pipe Put at Wrong Door. Big, good natured Giusepp! Greeco, | > No. 323 East 106th Street, hokey! @ pokey man of his neighborhood, be- loved by all the children, simply will hot believe that he has an enemy, al- though Inst night a gas-pipe bomb ‘was exploded in the hallway outside of his two-room flat, blowing a panel of the door dangerously near his two sleeping children and fright- ening 100 other occupants of the tenement. No threatening letters have been| { received by Grecco or his wife “Everybody is my friend,” he says He beamed on detectives Caputo and Enright to-day who were sent to investigate the explosion. It ‘would seem so, for during the winter he peddies vegetables and his smiling, g00d humored countenance has won and kept for him the greater portion of the trade among the housewives of his neighborhood. Among the hundreds who rushed to ‘he scene after the explosion were Scores of children, ‘They tried to Pill our ice man,” they cried to one another. Anx-| ENGLAND IN FREEDOM \? cream | @¢ Grecco ho one injured and ran away to bed, angry that any one should try to hurt the hokey pokey man. Grecco smilingly treats the whole) affair us a joke, but he thinks that perhaps some one had it in for some other occupant of the tenement house in plac and made a mistake ing the and piper wade into each end nt of the explos' ff rat harm beyond blow was not do any § told the Cham- OF THE SEAS MATTER *: , | swer THE EVENING WORLD, bb Les DECEMBER 30, wn Prince of Belgium Riding in Paris Street With Premier Clemenceau on Recent Visit There ODT DDOOOES4- 0905 90000H09HH 0066069 $6S8998104G00-5505-6-4 Tuesday mort sion of the Premier Clem indicated that the formation of a/#! | League of Nations might be carried |q full term of te put coincidentally with the drafting of treaty of peace, Renaudel, Socialist vbout this statement by expre regret that the Allies had Jed not to organize the League unt fter peace i brought | ared the s Clemenceau of M. CLEMENCEAU SAID HE WAS out the thin panel in the door Says that th Greeco rooms are on the first to and the country what they should | READY TO RESIGN. and the door only a short distance “his words should be re - ' raicntt ge a By eh Ae hee It was| cP (old and words should be read! “whether this Chamber gives me easy for the bomber to touch off the|@nd meditated upon by the whole}a v of confidence or not, I am fuss and escape to the str land ready to resign office," he continued, | "y “This debate says|“i¢ you have a mint hesitation, | GAS EXPLODES | IN CONDUIT, te Journas |now ts the time to change your pilot. old patriot wh > well! You cannot do it when we are under Flying Manhole how to make war the ne au-| way." p bu oltement, thority to conclude a good peace." Excitement was caused in the neigh- [tis understood that the text of the borhood of 37th Street and 10th Ave- Pre 3 h will be telographed | y nue this morning when the tops of sev- | t lent Wilson | eral manholes of the Edison Company Chamber ed its con shot up in the air in front of No. siderat th st 6 atalonh West 37th Street. Explosion of an ac- “\" s eumulat gas is believed to| this t by an ove whelming maj | hours of virtually cont Tha D a have been the ‘The noise bled a bombardment for a few but only slight damage no one was injured. “Seein’ Things At Night” TO MOTHERS! Guard your kiddies against torpid liver, sour stomach, constipated bowels which generate poisons. These “‘inside’’ poisons circulate to the brain, producing bad dreams, then & feverish head. Unless you ‘‘work’’ out these poisons you will have a real sick youngster shortly. Cascarets are a candy cathartic, ideal for children. Cost only 10 cents a box. 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Kirk & Co., New York, N.Y. i we — <) mendous pr =| whic T/ submitted to the nation at any time at 9 When your | You needn't coax even cfoss, sick children to | OLD CROW RYE STRENGTH AND QUALITY AS, AS ALWAYS| Just Replying to charges mado by Al-| wh¢ bert Thomas, Socialist leader, that] the had kept the Chamber without in- tion, Premier Clemenceau sald he question of peace is a tre- plem. It is a question h is one of the most difficult ever In a few days a conference of dele- gates will meet at Paris which will settle the fate of nations in all parts of the world, | “People say: ‘Premier Lloyd George |has spoken, President Wilson bas | spoken, but you have said nothing.’ I have given explanations whenever you have asked me. But it isn't be- vuse Mr. Lloyd George has spoken, or because Mr, Wilson has arrived from America with elevated thoughts that I am obliged to explain myself and keep running to the speaker's) rostrum, “France was in an especially dif-| ficult situation, It was the country nearest Germany America was far away and took her time to come Into |the w: England came at once the call of Mr. Asquith, We suffe and fought; our men were mowed down and our towns and villages were destroyed. | “There is an old system of alliances Hed the ‘balance of power.’ It nem to be condemned nowadays, but palance had preceded :he gland, the United States, and Italy had agreed, say,| attacked one of them war, If France |that whoever ittacked the whole world, the war |would not have occurred, This sys- }tem of alllances, which I do not ra- nounce, will be my guiding thought at the Peace Conference if your con- | tie nds me there.” ve been reproached with de-| ceiving President Wilson, I do not] erstand why. I have made it aj but to let him| | not to question him, develop his views, That is what he] | did esident Wilson, to whom cer- jtain persons, in the of their parties, attribute in’ perhaps, are not his, he nd and has inspired respect th speech and the nobility of ‘gl dent Wilson said to me: ‘I to convince you, but perhaps | his simple will you will convince me. DROP IN FLU" CASES. | aygseral | | as Agninat day. NTO on Sal total influenza eases reported to line Health Department for Sunday and | |Monday were 154 as against 370 re- | |ported Saturday, ‘The total deaths from influenza for the two days were 74 as ainst 36 reported Saturday pneumonia for “Sunda day apd | Monday total 44 ng one |number reported unday The aths from ja for Sunda onday wer increa, a VORHEES MAY QUIT RACE. Had KA Been Mentioned County Bench, It is rumored in Brooklyn that Justice A. V. B, Vorhees of the Count of Special Sessions, who has been mentioned as \ appointee to the bench of th Co. Pty Court of Kings in the place re- i for apoken of County Ju «| FORD WANTS VOTE RECOUNT. |: w Cross of Legion of Honor for Gen ARIS, ommanded the French armies in arged for joining labor Champagr int final caval hat the working hours of \ of the war, has b 1 the G vd much too long. ‘They Cross of the Legion of Honor. sk for higher wages, | | | i} ——Wanamaker’s-— Store Closed Wednesday NewYear’s Day TOCHANGE A NAME | -COSTS$3, ELSERE | ~ LOSES HIS PHONE A. Kraus Makes Complaint About Charge for Trans- » " > | fer of Contract. 7) ll al Ih 3] 3. A. Krnus, propristor of th 4 a rTM $l Knickerbocker Multigraphing Com La (nutett —_ > | pany, No. Trinity Place, com 7 > | plained to Svening World to-day | that the local management of the Telephone Company ordered his 2 | Phone discontinued wt noon because |he had refused to pay a charge of $% Zltor the transfer of the tol >\contract from J. 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