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. a iY THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1918. , THE PRINCE AND KIDDIE KLUB PERFORMERS IN “THE WISHING RING” 20,408 SOLDIERS ee t : | po B Oh merce: May ABOARD 16 SHIPS Moccasin, Carmania, Bellatrix and Tjisondari Scheduled to = Arrive Here To-Day, Searchers Fear eat Other Victims | + Are Buried in Ruins of Post Office. NO FIRE DEPARTMENT. There are due at New York and Newport News during the week fourteen transports and two méfe ch ficer: Building Used as Evening Meeting Place for Villagers and Farmers. nt liners, having on board 904 of+ and 196 incitad= 4 enilsted me ing many sick and wounded, Nine bodies had been recovered to- Due to-day at this port are tne @ay from the ruins of the Lebanon, N. J., Post Office building, which was wrecked by an explosion and fire Moccasin, with forty-seven officers and seven men; Carmania, wita cam ual officers; Bellatrix, with one case ua! officer; Tjisondar!, with eighteen officers and seventy men, The Acolur is duc at Newport pws to-day with 3.940 officers end men, of whom fifty are riddan, forty with tuberculosis, twelve with montal trouble and 2,982 requiring ao eclal medical attention, Also due at Newport News is the Rigndam, with 3,022 men, including the 1th and 404th Casual Companies, 34 Brigade Headquarters Coast Artile Jory; Ith Anti-Aireraft Sector (iS per cent. bound for Fort Totten); th Anti-Aircraft Sector 11th Am- munition Train with Brig. Gem Charles Zimmerman. There are sev- enty-four bedridden ten tus berculosia and 985 requiring no spe cial medical attention. The French liner Expagne is due to-morrow with ten casual officers. Thursday the Samland is due with eight casual officers, On the same day the Princess Matoika should reach Newport w w ninety~ two officers and 2,775 men, including the td and 3d Battalions of the 37th Regiment of the Coast Artillery and Casual Companies 10%, 109 and 110, In addition there are the Mist Ma- chine Gun Battalion and detachme: | from the 153d, 164th, 155th and 156th Infantry Regiments from the 39th Di viston; 140th and 142d Machine € .> Battalions; 1th Supply Train last night. The death list may be larger, for the building had been used as a Meeting place for the villagers and for farmers for miles around, and it is not known how many persons were in it when the blast occurred, At least one man is missing from his home and is believed to be a victim. Four of the bodies have been identi- fied, The others were burned beyond recognition | The known dead, all from Lebanon fnd vicinity, are: Henry Bragg, carpenter; Joseph C. Stryker, proprietor of a general store fn the building; John Smock, clerk in the store; Ovxsca Apzar, carpe! r Furman Alps carpenter; W. Bind, Peter 8. Niper, undertaker; Kt sell Hockenberry, farmer and Clarence Emmons, carpenter The only survivors of the expl ®o far ccounted for are Geor wno Was blown through the | 11 of the building and picked ‘up ecross the and Leslie Apgar, arn of one of the d Manni: in the Somerset Hospital at Summer- vihe ond Apgar is being attentet at the Lebancn Hotel, Both are expected | to ale. ‘The flames finally were extinguished by an engine | | | company from Clinton, | four miles distant, ands a chemical Y Lah Supply Train Headqua Heads ‘ : . | Se q ery of the 20th Brigade Coast company from Highbridge, five miles S quarters Se: 1 a Artillery, Major Gen. 8. T, Hencher; away. Digging for bodies started as soon as it was possible to enter the| ruins, and it is being continued. rn ‘ There were two blasts, the first Th J f Hi IPPpy Ki dd blowing off the roof and the second ron 8 0 a, U tes completing the. destruction of the building. The country was shaken for miles around and slight damage| Qf annattan pera ouse was done at a distance of six miles, | An acetylene tank in the ement e , of the building, which suppiled ges fi E Wi Id Pl for the block, expioaea, but toon) LOR MUCNRING oria s ay and county offic gating the cause are puzzled hecaus they cannot understand how th THE Qoe HER coury AND 133 bedridd n cases, 295 mental and forty-eight tuberculosis, orthern Pacife is due at this hursday ith 148 officers and ficers and 470 men; 8th ‘Trench More ar Battery; sick and wounded, seve enty-three officers and 1 men, ’ On Friday the Matsonia ts due at i} New York with 124 officers and 3,197 men, including Batteries C, D, BE and F of the 143d Field Artillery, Heade quarters and Supply Companies and ordnance and medical detachments; Pereerere er detaila from Casual Companies 1 als who are investi. | ‘There Are Thousands of Them, All Mem- tank could have produced such ‘| bers of the Klub, With Parents, Guardians | rifle force. Nothing else Rescuers Unable to Reacir|® # §.and 6 of the 144th Field Arti. plosive fiature was known to be in| i > lery: three officers and 140, sick and the building. | and Friends, Each Bent on a Joyous a } Cuthbert Mills After Gaso- "c unded —ppeaptlntappeeet edegert ee ee Te [STRIKERS NOW ACGUSE GLASS GALLS ON U. S. “TOO MANY OPERATE CARS | tine Tank Explodes. |, Amun, ue uy eur ¥ 44 officers and 2.534 men, ine ; This is the day. omaraauitae? ; , with 13 i the Central Itailroad of New Jersey.| awousanas of someraault 1 Queen} Be ibas no fire department and, aie|_crousnnds, of New York Hldgies| Blesnor, (Cousin Bleancr Scborer),| MILITARY AUTHORITIES) 10 KEEP ON SAVING WHO'RE DRUNK,” SAYS JUDGE} 4 sncct of ame preventea res-| tatanity Regiments of the 760m Divi Te i. AND ATTENDANTS és tie Soipnat ee th | Whe have found much happiness | with a twinkle in her bright eyes | r ime ° though th sitiets worl ne ivi, through the Kiddie Klub of The Eve-| Gibson Southwell, the “Archbishop,” | a 2 : T0 PAY DEBT OF WAR = uers from reaching Cuthbert MiNs,| sion; 301st, 302d and 3034 Machine mreneie EDAD 86s Pyare CxUDRWUSS | ning World awoke this morning |grinned and continued his antics| TWO Soldiers in Uniform Arrested Then He Sentenced Saloonkeeper|. civilian aviator, as he sat strapped} Gun Battalions, 301st Ammunition © flames and to rescue wf} ; 4 : ‘lh : See pha ‘ ae : f sated papel : Resi ‘ | thrilled with eager anticipation of the |when the rehearsal did not require for Taking Part it | for Killing a Mother an | a biplane late last evening after} TTR and Casual Company 402 of t those within, the structure was &/ cent event, |his serious attention, | M4 une Part in | Ending of Hostilities Not the Time | ga ny d nS Re ee ning after) coq Regiment Coast Artillery. The complete los | This is the day to which the Kiddies} But this morning there was no| Picketing, Daughter. he machine had crashed to earth at) aula is due with seven officers, ‘The The Postmaster, Carl Church, to Lay Aside Patriotism, | "1th that there are too many | ‘tempotead, I, T. Mills's charred) Virginian and Hwahjah are due at have been looking forward for weeks. | “leap frog, no improm 4 dancing Amalgamated Clothing W i had just closed for the night when | 1 og nefore 10 o'clock this morning, | in the wings of the i nhattan Opera] !asucd a statement last night He Tells Nation | people operating cars while they P| vody later was removed from tho] Newport News, the former with nine the explosion came, The roof of the! in. nour set for the assembling of the|House stage. All was earnest at-| ng that military authorities had at WASHINGTON, Dec, 31.—Busi- | intoxicated, and operating them In 4 | mahine officers and the latter with ninetoen structure—which embraced the Ben /atty participants in The Evening] tention to the tremendous affair in| vested two discharged nessmen, educators and publicists | ceckiess manner. If there is anything | aqui, vért ‘ler, had keen Re ea hen tae alata cae alll LINER ee pos ‘Tato the aie World's Christmas Holiday play, the | hand ro taking part in | {IN the twelve Federal Reserve /a man should not do itis to atten Parenti ba , - ve aie bales ‘i port News Suturday with 88 officers Bnd landed a masa of debris on thes 70%# 8nd sitle selected by Cousln) The great day had come : ng demonstration” in| districts who will have charge of |run an automobile when he is drunk. | MK r Lakeview in a plone] and 2,741 men, including the 338th froodwork, which already had | ed, | Hieanor began to gather on the stage} This is the day; the day the Kid-! connection with the clothing strike the 1919 War Savings and Thrift’ | 1 think there is too ch of this going | invented by Dr. W. W. Christmas of | Meld Artillery, 126th Field Artillery | of the Manhattan Opera House, dies of The Evening World Klub have| It is said (hat the purpose of the! amp campaign were welcomed 4th Battalion of the 109th Ammuni- ays, and in sentencing thin] Amityville, and reputed to be ihe t was in Stryker'’s store that the loss , 1 DB ROW RE tion ‘Train, Hospital Casualty Com- 44 Tyee ry All the little actors, actresses and|been waiting for, determined to do arrests is to make a test case, Ac-| t@ a conference yesterday by |iman an important example in to be| fastest machine that ever flew, I] heny NO AST Camp unutes Couns 3 in the street said they haa |@RCers Were eager, alert and some-|eredit to the Kiddie Klub Korner cording to tho union's statement,; Secretary of the Treasury Glass, {yet for others, and that is, that this| F Jennings, a view reaidont,|alty. Detachment and aick and ereons bs ’ had) what restless, Also, the devoted/and Cousin Eleanor. cretary of War Baker haw de-| with a request that they press their | wiipne a warning to others that they | Was Watching the Mier, who was just | wounded, ethelas Fabia Leonel feb tas women and men who have given thelr wuntmuerite Rainsford, | to whom |oreod that picketing by men in uni-| Work on the basis that the war leeanEe ¥ rattan while they |o¥erhead, when he heard a cracking et yee gers ork and although they screamed for | ‘ yas given the. most responsibility t the cannot operate automol ile they p Jrelp they could not fo to their rescue [Dest efforts to preparing the little ones| iq tne beautiful fairy play of. the frm Is ‘improper and indiscreet, "| will not be over until the United |r. intoxicated.” ound and saw a wing drop from| HOLT ON PEACE MISSION, for the great event looked a little|“Wishing Ring,” aside ‘from Cousin It has aiso been reported that ihe| es hag met its every commit a the airplane. ‘The machine started . without losing their own lives. It} le | . Bb ROpOM OR: CHAE «Ut ¥ Thus sp Justice Tompkins of t pla ‘ ir : |tired, though still bravely determined | Eleanor and the directors, shuwed War Department has adopted the| t. He added | tumbling, but Mills apparently ra-| Sélte as Representa was with great dIMICUItY even toa et ene in ear thelr atrength |Berself a very serious little lady as Y par ' The eas nw haw ceanea — |SUPFEme Court this morning when he , Loustn 4a Maiee the bucket brigade could get water | °° sential tea |the final preparations were begun, ,%Me attitude toward the employ | ne AMHR UE ne Tas 986 jventenced Adolph Friar, a on- | tained contro! of it milton Holt, editor of the Indew the flames ke the success of the play, | though Marguerite, in the rehearsals, ment dischar tiers in uni- | and we are all of us confident | keeper of Williamsbri found guilty! JUSt before he was ready to land] : te cay AS tho Oda Foie! There Were no manitestations of|was ever guy and’ confident, form as strike-breakers. this will not be renewed, We F : : Fi Yi nin car struck a tall cheatnut tree, | Penden Higgs: yesterday for Livery ere was one in the Odd Fel Aiihtanihecans |. The responsibility resting upon the my, . zi anaes in joder Gaelic aeons manslaughter in running down rrebee pool on the White Star liner Baltic as lows’ Hall, over the Post Office, when | |ehiidish exuberance thiy morning In boys and girls, and men and women,| 78° Amalgamated claimed it did bye every: caason. fo ‘beliey Jand killing Mra, Louise Thompson | Anally hit the ground and skidded |) oe wentative of the League to File the expicsion occurred, All of the‘! the preparations for the actual | intruted with the production of the | Not know the names of the men ar the President 1g going #0 to ind her ten-year-old daughter, Mar-| toward the home of Queen Porssrt,|® Teprestntauive of te leaawue to Fa A ha peer rete: re y{ Play, in the p nee of a great|}"Wishing Ring” as The ning | rested, At the oflice of the Provos impress himself upon the Bu gery, in Yonkers on the night of Nov. | saveral ndred yard away. As it} (orce Peace at a of conferenaag: mail in the institution was destroyed | | udience of Kiddies and their parents | World's Christmas week event for|Guard last night an officer told a| ropean statesmen that his 7, when the false news of the signing | struck the earth there was a loud ox. |‘ # held in Paris betweon Ameri¢ag as well as some money which was in f |the Kiddie Klub, has been tremen-|\ se } ¢ the armistice was being celebrated, | wl and European delegates concerned the drawers of the 0 office desk. Jand guardians, differed strikingly | gous, Of the fifty Kiddies in the| Word reporter that the discharg views will 5 Vand that we 10) ging Sing Prison, plosion and the plane broke into | 2% rig a he ; 2 des! : e dies in the lows ne SI o teanuater outieue |from the final rehearsal yesterday |cast, there are ten under five years |soldiers had not been arrested by 1 mall have a League of Peace | “yuatice Tompkins Imposed an inde | tame # It was evident that the gas |" | ee aey ere Are my in afternoon, There the children, con- jof age, some of them playing import- | d tment, but that the arrest mig which will not endanger the | terminate sentence of three to ix} tank had exploded : n a - 4 Si ' ma hat HONOR ROLL FOR $1 \iees of their developed ability ang |Air, paris | Set, all are prepared to been made by another secticn SODIneRK Oe Tiililre Renan year and six months in Sing Sing) Jonnings, with Por nd the lat: | "Gur purpose in sending @ ‘Soman expert guidance of those in charge | fideg ee ee pat aioe pronans he guard | Cn peer ury wan out four hours before | {74 80% Frank, tried to rescue tha [tee he said, “ia to co-operate with nizations of England, harmonizing our We may act in port of the Peace 1 for the world’s publie disported themsolves ike | This is the day, and every litt! > wa not over #0 far {it found Friar guilty on one indict. | "¥er from the straps which bound | simili of t World Klub LUNN DELAYS TAX BILL a © Treasury Department is Iment, There are two oth indict im to his seat, but the flames drove | PF" t bravely, enthusiastically, mnderned: Miwa ullllon dole lents pen against Friar, one for | ther: hey then t . IS GALLED LARGENY |= ="! althy, happy boys and girls in the | intervals of rehearsing, pack, ‘I a id ie Jambitiously, All ‘wore sure of t yee : | Senator Borah Hits Sending f | ould a Mig Jars a month are being spent | Manslaughter for the killing or Mar-| srom thelr i Advertisements to Soldiers [Tore noua macotm of he! pls IN POSTAL ZONE FIGHT) '",,2 memes eine amen eery” and the otnor tor lola Jinan etore to put e | 1 State statute by running away from as flam| Under U.S, Frank, THIRTY HOURS THE CAPTIVE SEIZED WHEN HE GALLS Insists That House Get Chance to} sald itis net amioult tism t cene of the accident without re " ow 1 dance to n PORTA 1h SOSEHe Goll could inake ne nee WASHINGTCN, Dec. 31.—Sendir OF SHOPKEEPER, BOY SAYS. \ A tr t delirium of war f the hen t blaze had burned itself i nip 7 sal sal | ote on Senate Amengment— r f , my ork Office ed for B under Government frank of aaver-| AT RESERVE BANK HERE nate Amendmen the Cotsen of ar or 2 | ao Bitwe GLEAN POLI |snt Riis tee Ske hereto a? rl Omron | v Reaveng Usements for honor rolls to relatives | omennpemen s | Distrust a p tion's call but it is more diffi Ito > Ha elhurst Field for an ambulance | Virst, Lieut Fre ; ker ef of soldiers whose names appear in! Angry Man Locked Him in C jt Who Expects {0 Get Cash! WASHINGTON, Dec, 31 t after the ¢ of howe ken in Pra endlits driver recognized the machine asthe 115th infantry has been awarded the the casualty lists was criticised in| eae Ts : Peele 30 bans: beiBD Kk najority. te | tititie | Healy Waiting for Owner, belonging to Dr, Christmas of Amity-| Distinguished Service Cross for exe the Senate yesterday by Se nator | ‘Youngster sserts, bul Dealer | tor Stolen $1,000 Certificate, House of Representatives, to give the The 1919 War Sa campaign |,, if the soldier who lost s camera en} vi ts Invento | raordinary heroism in action, near Vere Borah of dato i Denies the Story, | Gets Arrested Instead, House @ chance to vote on the postal] will be opened a by a Na. | the ¢ a Sie MEDAL -- “yaad MH SB y Tord ine lars dl LUNE sia je read a letter signed by the Am- ed of uit | zone amendment to the Revenue Salde calabrat en pmunicate with John Bar-| Academy und later gruduaied from} white leading his platoon In the Bol deican Honor Roll Company of r, d of kidnapping Luigi Rupolo,| Detectives Mayer and Brown of si 4 ited enue) tion. wid: Jan. I | atta ¢ 20 Hast 212th Strect he} Cornell most of bis time Cosenvoye in’ an ack ft | z y of Hart! nine, of No, 6509 New Utrecht Avenue, | peputy Commissioncr Lahey's staff ar- | Lil! yesterday resulte another threo! the voraary of the birth ef |can recover his proper em travellin yund the | 2° i : k ageing ford, Conn., agreeing for $1 to send Brooklyn and locking him In @ collar ; ed’ Shani Gahan Ga NI int “Idaya’ ac tor the measure, Repre-| pon ia Z oan: .freover: “Nis nfeperty: | Plotuee mother, the widow of | emy machine gun ne toh wen un honor roi! to the recipient of the/ for thirty hours betwen 0 A. M, jigs |Peurth Street, Brooklyn, in Federal 4 oF miheneoiady amera. and must have a sentimental , b Wall Street broker, | Sivanes std ted inom tenance letter. The letter, ho said, was re-| Powis ‘a storek at! Reserve Bank ut Nassau and Pine a with § the point, and @ 9 eat for the ma them who Clod. severe! Yeats fee | position t Eek 1 1 t | No. 5uu6 New Utrecht Avenue, was held | Street tera 4 Hight i foreshadowed for ‘Thursday n000 by Life Compahy for Old Rarratta the camera and n which Mills was | Pour oe Cae tan eayel op fra n i he office | 0 by Magistrate McGuire in "sha | Srreets yeaterdas nat srnoen He weal feds ae arkhurst Chur ked sing World” to CW had de- ° e Adjutant General and sent un- Court sterday for) ie with belng a fugitive ‘om |" Th rat Presbyterian Church in the st military planes in| 4 vy der Government frank. |further examination, Lewis pleaded | J and with receiving stolen Kood: Ki esterds House to! ¢ ath a Tesaivna ace an Haseliurat Field | Youew Te ran ¢ Out the Chame 4 adil !hot guilty j Dec. % Cohen. presented at the | ive ypanur \ y ons . ee "Ne had a maximum | ag eee Benator Hora ld this was aj “ppt boy’ says his mother sent him to|bank a certificate of ‘indebtedness with Benute's Committee, Kahn of Court yesterday to] Hus Kes hour. Mills| LONDON, Dee. 31. — Disturbances “pleayunisi petit larceny system to| the store last Saturday, to buy & vase. |#L0N. “rhe certificate wa of 105,000 (it & derpinds at the Houwe idison Avenue Churet \gar of Dr, |at Constantinople continue and great nen he entered, Lewis was eating alin’ certiftcates when five men'on Dave @ chance 3 e bono-dr th rat Chure det hy > j » get a dollar out of tho kin of thosc| Meat Me took up the money for the | En Reed’ ie Asoo Btate ane a nt, and Wiacone renuret Church Christmas to call on his aviator | tires have broken out in the Parmaks wounded in this * and added that|¥ but paid no further atiention to) A and Keating of ‘ Virat. Presb friend Hagelhu kapol quarter of Pera, across the his purpose in : “|i. the boy says. When Luigi geew | Co a re from the Federal | Hou id hay , from the co _ Golden Horn from the city peo; 6 purpose | = ent, he charges, Lewis” struck | Bank act wae tole th call cate 1 lat ) m4. sitchin Madison A he ‘ wo Walters’ Strike Called om,|and in the suburo of Kadi Keul, age Maattention of ang ine locked him in the cellar/in a few “dave. ‘the ‘Treasure {9 these requests, | Oud Firat terlan and the Univers | p ina yas hope AGO, Dec. MThe cooks! and Hoarding to advics from Athens. athe that the Jui office the boy's charges and! certificate had been stolen, A letter H onferees in a fight on the Sen- |. ‘The proc ‘of the pule will go to| termiaed Pastiesa nai Me sivke in Ch hoteis and | Turkle i Chamber a an \o would know how t is being d trumped them up to eave Cohen brought him to the bank ye ate f Jiu und perhaps y t, improve. th erty of the new cons! Investigation dent is being off to-day, Joy will bo | port ‘0 ha 5 Tae’ -* ‘a \hi mseif a beating at home for his tardi- day. afternucn. ‘Tho detectives” were [uun sald hu Would not conse + gregation on Fifth Avenue, betweun conducted by als at Belmont turned heduled to-uight in! OPP Young: Tay Paes teal }ess in returning from his errand, waiting. ting the bill go to conference. dith and 12t) Streets, Park the cljy's eating and drinking palaces, ,utle: iJ { y 5} , , } § ae . . r nets