The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1919, Page 16

THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, “MAY ‘76, 1919. Hearings Will Begin on 500,000) 1), which failed tn the last Senate,’ Army sil. has been redrafted and reported, Pho WASHINGTON, May 2#,—Action on | committee decided this at its 7 Wegislation defining the permanent] meeting yester Hearings on fhilitary policy of the country will be| measure, which will ptovide 108 i a Aeferred by the House Military Com-| temporary army of 500,000, will start Mittee until after the Appropriation| immediately. nncres Childhood craves sweets. The pleasant sweetness of Grape-Nuts CANADIAN CITIES STILL TIED UP BY | LABOR WALK-OUTS Cabinet Minister Says Few, Radical Leaders Are Re- | sponsible for Unrest. | OTTAWA, May %8.—Strikes contin- ued In many parts of Canada to-day, with others threatened. According to reports here, the situation ts as fol- lows: | Winnipeg—General strike situation unrelieved. Toronto—Forty-five thousand men threaten to strike Friday unless eight | hour day is granted. Edmonton—Strikes said to have! comes from nm sugar, Tore die whaleecrne °ce- veloped by the long bed ing of wheat and malted barley. Never disturbs digestion Children love Grape-Nuts | vice employees on strike In Winnipeg and elsewhere could not be permitted to dislocate the public service and Ali Rugs Reduced For One Day’s Special Selling.at New York Floor Covering Co. 60 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn Closed All Day Friday, Degoration Day $40 9x12 Axminster Rugs $40 9x12 Seamler” Velvet Rugs.... $40 ¢x12 Best Seamless Brussels . : 25.50 $30 9x11 Seamless Velvet Rugs Handsome Ru iece, making it doubl, bea saltabtt tes cuvvaiaar Gi bide, rose ted brows 22.50 $30 9x12 Seamless Brussels | $55 9x12 SeamlessAxminster Heavy all-wool Rugs. Excellent | Extra high pile, close woven Rugs. Rug for ing rooms or bed- Very large assortment of All-ove rooms. Wonder- sige it g pattern: ful value. Special 22.50 39.98 morrow $13 9x12 Extra Heavy one of these to- this sale $5.00 1.6x7.6 Heavy Grass Rugs Suitable for pear 3.49 Best patterns; all col- ors; very special. Very special Linoleum Rugs at Half Price Mill Seconds, at LESS THAN HALF REGULAR PRICE, SANITARY RUGS, Known from Coast to Coast * 98 red 4.6x6, spore! $1.98 | $8.75, 6x9, special. 17.00, 9x18, speci 1 Block from New York Floor Cove Corner 60 Flatbush Av.* Livingston BROOKLYN Manhattan Subway to Nevins St. Station, Brooklyn—!{ Block from Station == Brooklyn’ sBiggest 219, 221, 223, 225, 227 Grand Street | %::' Smith Street Cor. Driggs Ave. BROOKLYN Cor. Wyckoff St. $100 \/ORTH OF FURNITURE $1 WEEKLY Panne eS a The Wid Keliable House of WHALEN BRUTHERS carries the biggest stock of medium ‘apd high rd goods and gives the easiest and best terms of any house in the trade. Credit House 164, 166, 168 and 170 aries, ne Afivertions r Get ‘Your Six Ven cen, Pvc Creat "Purvtse Wien Opening a New Ac= We b have beautiful finely fine ed Di Hoom Suites in ot Refrigerators , a weil known | makes |Premier Borden said law and order =| dying $1 Cumberland Street Hospital practically tied up the city Calgary—Fifteen hundred men re- | ported out. Lethbridge—Mine workers struck. Brandon—Strikers claim to have paralyzed the city. Ottawa—Gmall strike of machinists, ; partly settled. Saskatoon—General strike ordered. Montreal—Labor men talk of a vote on & general strike. | At Regina and Moose Jaw there is general strike talk. G, D, Robertson, Minister of Labor, blames the “one big union" idea for the trouble, and declares a few radi-) cals are the leaders, secking to over- throw constituted authority. Questioned in Commons last night, must be maintained at all costs, that postal employees and other civil ser- | must resume work or be dismissed, | Collective bargaining, he aswerted, | which was the basis of the Winnipes | | trouble, could not be unreservedly ,Secepted until its full meaning had ‘been defined. ‘The Government's per- | manent policy, he stated, depends on | the findings of the commission now investigating relations between capi- tal and labor. | In Winnipeg the strikers are sdia| | to be holding out for collective bar- | gaining. A Citizens Committee |s maintaining order, Striking postal, | Government telephone and civic em- | ployees have been discharged, and | the striking firemen replaced by per- | manent employees who must sign an | agreement not to engage in sym-| pathy strikes or cgase work without | | 30 days’ notice after arbitration. | | Mail deliveries in Winnipeg are be- (ing resumed, ‘The council planned to decide to-day whether to attempt to run‘street cars. The mayor has said he is ready to Invoke martial law If necessary. The western railway mail clerks are reported to have voted to quit work. WINNIPBG, Man., May 28.—A com~- plete telegraphic and mail tie up is the first step contemplated in a sym- pathetic strike, ‘labor leaders said to-day, intended to sweep all West- ern Canada, All of the postal work- ers between Port Arthur and Van- couver were notified to quit work by | noon to-day Commercial and press telegraphers in cities where favora- ble strike votes were recorded were | ordered to leave their keys at noon, The strike may result tn a political it was indloated to-day. Strike editors and Government off- clals id that failure to lower the cost of living may result in a bitter political struggle. Living costs form the die factor in the strike, Strikers say they have begn joined by many non-unionists, who see in the move- ment a battle against high prices. Food is higher now than at any time in four yet Labor rs charge that foods are coming to Winnipeg in great quanti- tles, but that dealers are storing them, holding for still higher prices, SHOTS FIRED BY GANG KILL MAN; WOUND CHILD Stray Bullet Strikes Seven-Year-Old Brooklyn Boy—Ship Calker Dead, Seven-yeur-old Alphonse Consino of | No, % Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, 1s to-day from the effects of a stray bul- let fired by three men last night at Joseph Fitzgerald, No, 2% Carlton Ave- hue, at Cariton and Park Avenues, Fits yerald is a Navy Yard ship calker. Fitagerald, who was hit by three of | (he five shots, died in the hospital early (his morning. A band of men attacked him in the neighborhood on April 15 and | several shots ware fired, one of which | struck a bystander, Fitzgerald was alone on the sidewalk in front of a billiard room yesterday | when three men approached him and began firing without warning. Fita- gerald walked to his home and fell on | the doorstep, The Consino boy, who was playing In the street, dropped with | @ bullet In his abdomen, ” —_———>- GUESSES AT BRITISH ENVOY. | PARIS, May 28.-—The names of the Duke of Devonshire and Gen, Jun Chris: | Uan Smuts are among those now men- | Uoned as possible appointees as British | Ambassador to Washington, | The Duke of Devonshire was Finan- eal Secretary to the ‘Treasury from | to 1908, Gince 1916 he has been | Governor-General of Canada. He is ono | of the largest landholders in England. Gen, Smuts has for many years cal life of South Africa, the Boer War and in 1907 lonial Secretary for the Transvaal commanded Hritish troops in Bast Af in 1916 and 1917, later go- He Brivan ing to B 4, where he was’ appointed South Afri ‘epresentative in the Im- perial War inet, In the delibera~ tions of the Peace Conference at Paria Doula of tha kage ni Nesioas FIRST MEMORIAL SHAFT OF GREAT WAR IN CITY TO BE DEDICATED FRIDAY west ween cee pomneeroonee Monument Is Erected as Tribute to Bronx Men Who Lost Their Lives. The first memorial monument of the | @ great war in New York City will be dedicated Memorial Day at 139th Street where Third Avenue, shaft EVER before has the girls’ department boast- ed of such an array of pretty Dresses, fashioned of Net, Chiffon, Georgette Crepe, Voile or Crepe de Chine, Quaint and de- murely simple in surplice, flounced and ruffled ef- fects, smocked, ribbon or lace trimmed. Specially Priced 9.75 0 25.00 iW Extra Specials for Thursday Children’s Ready-to-wear HATS at 69¢ Regular prices $1.29 and $1.48 Fine assortment of shapes in solid and com- bination colors with long ribbon BROOKLYN |OPPENHEIM, CLLINS & C Fulton Street, Brooklyn For Graduation and Confirmation Girlish Frocks of Sheer Fabrics Sizes 10 to 16 years SOoooeoosooeooooooos BROOKLYN oeooooooooooeooooes | The Largest Millinery Store in America LGOX'S MYRTLE AVE. AND BRIDGE ST. granite has been erected tn tribtite to the Brong mén who gave their lives. Although a memoria! to all the Bronx DUQUESNE ESCAPE FROM BELLEVUE ~—ADEEP LAID PLOT soldiers, It represents the work of Local Board No. 2 members, this board being “champion the f the mation in draft! ea parade preced| remonies will Chairman George W. i | Mohr of the local board and others ac- tive in the memorial committee | BISHOP POTTEA'S BODY CREMATED IN SECRET Conspirators Fearing Exposure ——— | Whisked Murder Prisoner {Public Had Supposed It Rested in} Away in Auto, Police Sa Sarcophagus in Memorial Chapel | Lilie ede 0, Folice Say. of Cathedral German plotters who feared ex- It became known to-day that the) nogure of thgir war activities here bay of Bishop Henry ©, Fottes, 9s) 144 in sngiand by Frite Duquestie, cremated. It has been supposed by the public that the body of Bishop! #r@ held responsible for his daring es- Potter rested within the sarcophagus cape from the prison ward of Belle- in the Potter Memorial Chapel of the! vue Hospital early yesterday, within Cathedral of St. John the Divine, — | a few days ac 01 ong- Instead, within the genotaph in the % days of his extradition to Rag. land to face a charge of murer In blowing up a British steamship Agents now on Duquesne’s trail, | working to head him off from México, sarcophagus is a small sealed urn which contains the ashes of Bishop Potter, who was Sixth Bishop of New York and head of this See from 1883 until his death in 1908. So far as | scale which they believe is his goal, to-day) disappeared in August, 11 intimated that powerful interests | note threatening to o were back of the escape. They are satisfied that an automo-|{P, MAKING GOC AT SIXTY-F 4 he bars of a window in the prison ward, : Whether they have succeeded in trac- | ing the auto, and whether it left } Manhattan jsland, are points not re- t vealed. \ i An elaborate system of checking up } autos leaving the city, particularly at night and in the early morning hours, is relied on to help in recap- turing Dujuesne. The record of his visitors, while 4| aaa hearty and able to “de your prelpiens oer in the prison |wnen you were a young fellew. a ward, has been fully checked up ie , idneys saws he used. Th the detectives @ay, may ptained weeks aso—Duquesne en a prisoner thera since D nd may have been taken in by some one visiting another patient, One tieory considered is that a Prisoner-patient was an accomplice, and being held on some minor arge, managed to have visitors un- ss strict supervision than might in’ the case of a notorious aracter@ike Duquesne, salt rae goed’ es the all Wow epirite will be rejuvenated, strong and your mind heen any task, GOLD MEDAL Haarlem On © | will de the work. But be sure original imperted GOLD MEDAL agg Oll Caprulcs, They are reliable and te Re ae "mec areegens i" sealed packages three simon —Advt William Lustgarten, fs former presi- jen of the Tax Lien Company, who known this is the only case where the body of an Bpiseopal bishop was cremated. Bishop Potter strongly approved cremation and members of his family ; carried out his wishes, Visitors at 1329-1331 : the Cathedral, when they ask ques- BROADWAY itions, are told “the remains” of Bish- op Potter are in the sarcophagus. Near Gates Avenue RS APE, Brooklyn WILL RETAIN RIDGWAY. | Chief Engineer of Subway to Work | Under New Comminstoner. | ALBANY, N. Y.,, May 28.—John H Delaney, who was this week appoint- ed Rapid Transit Construction Com-} missioner in the reorganized Public | service Commission in New York City, will assume office Monday ‘According to announcement of the | to-day, Robert Ridgway, faa chief engineer of the aub- way construction under the old com- Mission, Will be retained by the new of Commissioner. 2-95 $15.00 1-95 Sport $5.00 Trimmed Dress HATS $ 1* Mostly transparent brims, of hair 2.95 4.95 SLIP braid, net and chiffon with milan SPORT (ov heap, milan, dap and har, Crowns ——— black, white and colors. You could not get greater value. There is not # hat in this lot worth less than $8.00 at wholesale wool Zephyr Yarn, in various complete your Summer wardrobe, Novelty Knit Effects, Round one skin animal effect, in Poiret and V Neck Collar Soffects. or Taupe color, richly silk lined. Value Extraordinary “SALE AT THREE BROOKLYN STORE FULTON STREET, Cor. of BRIDGE STREET. 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GEORGETTE VOILE FROCKS Daintiest of patterns, Developed in Flowered and Fancy Figured Georgette Voile, Surplice, Draped and Adaptations of high priced Georgette | Models. 10:75 =: 13.75 3:95 G75 and u 5.00 67 10°75 15-% au. SUMMER FURS One of these Fox Scarfs will Value Extraordinary 16:75 ea ener See Sever SENET ANE INTE NEVEU REN SIRETRT RW CSTE TTS Br