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venting the Unitea States Nation lawn T Association. They “apected to play to-morrow at New port and next week in the national) doubles and then go to Southampton, The singles championship tour- t Forest Hills the week wh nament of A ts Civilian. Passengers Here on Liverpool. " ) Austration tennis team, com- ot Major Norman FE. Brookes, ' Gérald L. Patterson, Randotph Lycett fc today on re htcarmenty Adyiat on te a ie i le Joseph Dombeck, thirty-five, of 1% Stanton Street, lost-his footing to- day while cleaning second-story dows at No. to the street, He was removed t¢ Rooar Fepre-| hi skull was fractured, Coca-Cola is a perfect answer to thirst that no imitation can satisfy. Coca-Cola quality, recorded in the public taste, is what holds it above imitations. / ‘ Demand the ‘genuine by full name —aicknames encourage substitution. THe Coca-Cota Co, QT Py ATLANTA, GA. 4 win- 1743 Broadway and fell velt Hospital where It was found AUTO GRASH KILLS YOUNG WOMAN ON MIDNIGHT TOUR , Three Companions Hurt When Car Hits Pole; Other Woman May Die. Mra, Willis Boardman Zink, wife of No, 200 Fiita Mamaroneck a sales manager at Avenue, motoring to early Mra. men, was instantly killed when the this morning with her aunt, Roger Brown, and with two motor car struck an iron trolley poi in Yonkers Avenue, near the Empire City race track. Mrs. Brown is also said to be dying. One of the men was Harry C. Rice, publicity director of the Universal Film Company. The other said he was Max Rozan. The two:men gave the same address, “No. 224 Wést 624 Street,” and there is no such number, Rozan called the dead woman “Ethel Wright” and sald she lived at No. i Fast 19th Street. This is the National | Mrs. Brown's home, He sald he un- | | derstood that Mr. Brown wag travel- | ling und that te was either in Chicago rin petro! “The hocident was caused by Kthel,” Rozan told the Yonkers po- lice, By “Ethel” he meant the woman afterward identified as Mrs, Zink. “She insisted on stepping on the ac: colerator,” he continued, “I was driv- ing and { warned her not to do it, ‘The last time she did the car plunged, ahead, skidded and struck the pole,” The two men suffered only lacera tions and bruises, byt were su shocked | that their examination in detail has been postponed. They are held in $2,000 bail each on charges of reck~- less driving. ‘They told the police! that thelr’ wives were out of town, A peculiar side light on the case was revealed when an Evening World | roporter first culled at the National | Arts Club to inquife about “Miss Ethel Wright.” “There is no Kthel Wright here,” the telephone operator said, “' there is a Miss Adeline Wright, who has a studio, She was indignant last News and Gossip of To-Day’s Market—Present and Fu- ture Prices. There was another downward ten- dency in the stock market to-day after the first few minutes of trading. The strike on the B. R. T. seems to have brought home to the financial district the growing agitation of labor against capital. This, however, was iy Olle 44 1-2—8-4 125; Vuloan Oli, 12 1-218 1-2; ritt OM, 98 1-226 1- Sinclair Gulf, 565-866; Vie~ 21-8-23-8; Island Olt, Glehrock ON Pe ; Omar O11, 7—| of preciation, $111,598; $41,618; wet income, $5,094; previous surplus, oi total Kus, 5 18,244 {emanate . Sirus P. - i Lay tay) $1,283,200, months dea 3 June ho, st 9, $1,985,641; it of sales, §: gross profits. 4 operating ex- ee, £165,685 it + pronte before 1 taxes, $41 Burns Brothers, repoit it two Months ended May 31, 1919, ret sales pense: cost of coal sold, Profits, $940,913; ing exbenses $811, bal: bond interest, ix | 3 Niles Bement Pond Company, ree- 4 Wlar quarterly of 1 1-2 per cent. om? oa: | preferred and 2 per cent. on common night when she received a telephone invitation from a man who wanted her to go motoring. She asked him ye he was and he said, “This is ax.’ She told him she did not know) not the only factor that contributed to the Yecline, the reported anti-Trust suits against the packers also helptag to cause a fecling of uneasiness, The stocks, preferred " eancga Aug. 20 ana f —— Whitney Py Company, regular 71; Amal. Binclair Gulf, ie stock, payable) ‘ae 0 him and hung up the receiver.” Arts Club and is the addr ous of the Zink couple. The two women were young nd pretty. Mrs. Brown appeare to be about thirty-two and Mra. Zink was twenty-two. How they happened to meet the two men and take thew tow- ard Mamaroneck has not been brought out. Rozan merely told the police that the whole party were on their way to GENUINE in the OUNG LOOKING Sit ies oh nk beoeecadheccee nad eve ty Ly ty ea ata i re Na Medion mena lgpel ld just this way — Why not you? Removes dandruff, too. money back at your dealer's if not satisfactory. Always ask for and get ith Advertising Gains For July (f: Morning and Sunday Total ; 1918 1919 1, 116,896 1 394/074 Gain 277,178. | Evening World Total 1918 1919 271, 71,969 476,218 Gain 204,249. _ “Circulation Books Open to All.” e World Fully Covers New York | oA Wl. Dia - \ an Dyww~~w R 40TH YEAR AUGUST SALE l Carats jmumediately appearance of of me vai Awe. oan ‘S, and wetat te mging Puyias large diamonds ‘tor the ine can you bay a % ‘offen ‘this sale, ag? “These “diamonds, GU URW ek A Bt ay Me rience stands, heck iene specials will Ko advised, ha AE st preiny. LIED. Here jew of the special vuluce in= are but a fe cluded in thin sale: SEreaaaae Et Ei BTH|2 aurea tha al tene than double « ou it pe of it—wil OUR GUARANTEE rehased from us cam be ox: It value or returned f Om within one seer of date ef oa BGUTTERS SONS > ANASSAI U Stcsmess tga CITY HALL 1679 HEN you go on your va- cation this Summer have your favorite paper mailed to latter news item caused @ four point | In the early part of the session U. | 8. Rubber was bid up sharply and at one time showed a gain of 6 points lover last night's close. A later reac- MEN STRIKE HERE: tion, however, more than wiped out ’ | this gain. B. R. P. acted surprising: | ly well, only ytelding a fraction of y dies, it guined 7 points and at the , high of the day was up over 15 points . trom last week's low. f ih ” * Rumors of a merger of the Cast (Continued’ From First Page.) Iron Pipe and Ventral Foudéry Com- a am paniev caused a substantial buying | ported out, including 1,800 ak Wavhe, Wide. sultan gain of 2 points, while Ameri- | I . cun Hide and Leather, whose destinies | BOSTON, Aug. 7.—Passenger service us far as thu market {s concerned is! on some of the suburban lines of the pemgas ped ofhrafory'd interests as New York, New Haven & Hartford 2fe manipulating Cast Iron Pipa was Rallroad entering this olty will be “pre steel mtsciee” is y will be ‘Tho steel stocks led a sharp mid- strike of mechanies. leading. ‘The company showed @ Reports received at union Sheaa- Lael report for the June quarter, y-} quarters, this afternoon indicated *U!IUS amounting to less than cents per share on the outstand: that more than 6,000 mun in this stock, U. 8. Steel broke to ining vicinity had quit work. Virtually the what commission houses called a entire local mechanical force of 4,000 bear raid, while Crucible joined the Practically the entire list joined 1,000 men in the terminal diviston in the downward move and bulls who of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and were congratulating themselves on @ few hundred workers in the lo shops and yards of the Boston & Atbany had struck, it was said, Car couplors, car inspectors and | Station, which is used jointly by the New Haven and Boston & Albany Kaflroads, went out along with the Mechanics and it was their absence which led New Haven officials to an- nounce the cancellation of suburban service in the interests of safety. either railroad but of the Boston Terminal Company. Workmen at the Boston & Maine railroad shops in Concord, N. H., also struck to-day, At Springfield and Worcester, Boston & Albany shop- men went out, but Boston & Maine CHICAGO, Aug, 7.—Railway freight traffic on the Chicago-Northwestern Railroad was suspended to-day on the Iowa and Minnesota Division because of the shypmen's strike. trains on the’ Northwestern are run- ning with irregularity. Neighbors Ratsy Fund to Help Mra, Wents Offer Reward. Neighbors have raised a fund of $600 for Mrs, August Wents of No, 125 Home Street, the Bronx, to offer as a reward for the recovery of her seven-weeks'-old son, Arthur Philip Went, stolen from All public appeals have failed to locate the child. The police have not been able to trace the baby. After a brave fight to conceal his emotion, the father of the boy collapsed yesterday and he id now in bed under the care of Dr, Julius Bondy. His con- |decline in Wilson & Co, point. Another issue to attract is | movement in the former and a re- suspended to-night as a result of the afternoon reaction with Midvale of the New Haven system, about Procession with a decline of 3 points, other termina} workers at the South ‘These men are not in the employ of employees remained at work. cites rar asl $500 FOR RETURN OF BABY. @ baby carriage nearly two weeks ago. dition Is sald to be serious. you every day. Evening World, 19¢ per week Dally World, 19 per week Sunday World, 6c per Sunday Passenger | .|know the facts. jholding on through Monday’s weak| market again began to shun: the margin clerk. The volume of trad- ing also increased and transactions j for the first four hours’ were over the | milion mark. | Railroad and copper shares at- tracted but little attention and up to the last hour were practically un- |changed. Texas Pacific was the most active. ‘The tobacco stocks were higher, LAggett and Meyers at one »time showed a gain of nine points and | Lorillard was up two. The money market was slightly | higher with time money being offered more freely than for gome days. YesteMay's pronounced demonstra- tion of’ stock market strength has caused a complete reversal! of specu- lative opinion and bull pools have made plans for further sharp uplift in prices. Fresh reports are being circulated of extra cash dividends, stock divi- dends and of important consolida- tions, Directors of the United States Rubber Company meet late to-day. During the past four months the com- mon stock of the company has had an almost perpendicular advance; it has about trebled in price. Yester- day it shot up 14 points and was the market leader, There have been numerous repdrts of greatly increased usiness and record breakin~ profits, but directors have not furnished any late. figures to stockholders or the public, “It is now reported that at to-day's meeting past dividends will be re- sumed on the common stock, the rate discussed being eight per cent. per annum. Also it ie said in order to raise new money to adequately handie the rapidly expanding business new jock will be offered to shareholders 100. The issue now selling at about 130, it is presumed that yalua- ble “rights” will accrue. That there will be further import- ant tobacco company consolidation is asserted by interests in a position to Rumors have it that the Tobacco Products Company will take over the Lorillard Company. It will probably be found, however, that in the near future stockholders of the Lorillard Company will be invited to excaange their stock for shares of the New Retail Stores. As tar as can be learned the basis of exchange has not been definitely determined. Important holders of Lorillard expect to receive not SPECIAL This Weeki RAINCOATS FOR MEN & WOMEN i ,350 Coats ! Suitable |i" for All Seasons 1 (77 54 3-4— Btackatr Consolt Cities Service Bank shares, Simms. Pet, %2--83; Beeascty Seestes, 44 1-245; Shell 70 1-2—70 3- a steady, Sinclair cea <™ Ry: Prete 3- ey . 8. Stent Veh Carper, ba raping peor 91-200; Submarine Beat, , Wright-Martin, 43-4 3 1-24, 99.40, off 08; let 4s, 94.08, UP | _ 5 14; Allied Packers, 6163; Brit» 02; 2d 48, 98.26, wp .08; 24 41-48, 99.82, Am. Tob. coupon, 22 1-2—23; Asphalt, off .08; Sd 41-45, 95.06, off .02; 4th ; : ert Victory $ 34s, | 884: Hupp Motor, 121-2—8-4; Car 1-4, 93.44, off .13; ry 8, Light, 47-8—65 1- Lehigh Valley pt Me —— Ses 90; Savold Tire, 67—6! =| Martin-Parry, 29—80;° Boston-Mon- than 21-2 shares of Retail Stores for | tana, 83—8! tall easy. Pressman Tire, Opened firm. LIBERTY BONDS. each share of this stock. As Stores is now selling at 113, thi —— worth about 282; itis wat 240. A few weeks ago it ‘yen sel! around 170. Boa' 16 3-: 4—18 3 Easier money conditions also en-|—401-2; Prof Shar §—31 courage bull pools. Call rates have | 9 3-4—101-4; Col Tire, 4} dropped ag low as 3 1-2per cent. com- | Allied Packers, 59—61;; Fisk 41 1- abe with recent high of 20 per|421-2; Un Retail Candy, 26-29; cent., but it should fo understood | Brit Chem, §—9 1-2; Savold: 65—T: that the current ease in money rates| 2 Pp. M. pace dull. Retail stores is largely superficial and is not likely Rights, 19 1 ‘obacco » to continue. "Time money is practi-| Cram. 195 a 205; Altied Feckars, 0a cally even at the u 2; Am. Ship & Com. 2; As- i| The Bank of Enetane’s minimum 4is- gunt rate remaing unchanged at 5 per The Cottee oe RSS ana nee EXCAVATION OF NORTH TUBE: OF NEW TUNNEL FINISHED: Second Bore of + of 14th | Street Sub. way to be Holed Through Next Week, Excavation work in the north tube ef the 14th Street rapid transit tunnel under the East River was comploted to-day when Transit Construction Com+ missioner John H. Delaney fired the ; shot which holed through the last pices of rock between the tunnel heading» | from Brooklyn and Manhattan. By this © final blast it was thade possible to wait through the tunnel from the foot 14th Street in Manhattan to the foot North Seventh Street, Williamsburg, The contract for the Ith Street tans nel work calls for the boring of t tunnels from Mth Street and Avenue the vicinity of Bedford Avenue and forth Seventh Street, Brooklyn, a dis- tance of 7.089 feet, of which 3,000 fect is under the Hast River. In the centre of the river the tunnel is 110 feet. be- low mean high water. The cost Is to be unobtainable usually high rate of 7 per cent. Ban! agree ‘@ new bull campaign at this time will almost surely result in materially higher call money rat partiqularly as the withdrawals funds by interior banks will shortly be in full swjng. LAWLER BOMB OUTRAGE” SUSPECT LEAPS TO DEATH Plunges From Eleventh Story Win- dow When Told He Is to Be Indicted. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 7.— Charles H. McGwire, an assistant en- sineer in the employ of the city, who committed suicide here last night by leaping from the office of District At- torney Thomas L. Woolwine on the eleventh for of the Hall of Records, was held responsible to-day by public oMciais for the dynamiting last Sun- 4 ay of the home of Oscar Lawler, prominent attorney. McGwire had Seen told that he was to be indicted. Confronted with evidence that officials said pointes Lyoeag to ane? b- or the dynam Peete Sy ‘rat Br "Saat MecOw! a window wisr, ire. e and hurled: nimpett to Torte pavement: LEFKOWITZ FREED AGAIN. Man Whose Auto Annoyed Hylan In Discharged. Herman Lefkowits of No. 164 De- lancey Street, whose automebile once checked the impetuous rush of Mayor Hylan for the City Hail in the early morning, was in court again this morn- Ing to answer the sixth summons served on him since the untoward event. In less than one minute Magistrate W. Bruce Cobb in the Traf™lc Court had dismissed ee charge of ouatraetine. chi wi ih low! aul fe in front of his store fae terentovoiget minutes. Policeman nor testified that the machine had stood eighteen minutes and the Mas- id that in view of the testimony Ire would have to discharge Yotkowits. _—_——S— SARATOGA RESULTS. FIRGT RACE—For three-year-olds and ; puree #08140; six furlongs.— Dinding Tie, 9% (Boyle), firats Efficient, 108 (Ambrose), second; Poacher, 15 (Fator), third, Time, 1142-5. Sammy Meekin, Neots ewete, ‘The Desert, Nelle S8DCOND Racer three: nzecsole) non-winners of arse mile. Thunderclap, rw Srorother). first; Srosn Gone, Wi wense), seco! Audacious, 12 (Loftus), 1,42 1-46. Thu) inderstorm. renown, Day Bue, War Kiss also ran. Time 1.42 1-6. jasc ss ail a $7,000,000 THEFTS TRACED. Robberies Reported Near. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7.—Investigation by the secret. service of the United States Railroad Administration into al- leged thefts of merchandise from freight cars amounting to, more than, $7,000,000 ia centering Sires SR aie gue Pi Pittaburgh Ey ~ to-day. ot ee ‘made soon Freight Traftie Cut Feer-Fifths In Washington. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—-Because of the railroad shopmen's strike only one-fifth of the customary number hg ot topite roughestne Beton Mgrs Pare’ e’Rorth and South during the. past Swenty tour hours, Pas" senger traffic still was normal. —_—— Four Injured in (rash of Commuters’ strict, Arrests BOSTON, Aug. 7.—Four persons were injured in @ panic on board tl Nantasket Beach steamer Marty Chi hen ans souides ith the Nor- et a the a “in ‘the | 3 phalt, $13; Chalmers, in ‘Writing Paper, 13 1- 15 1-20.16 1-2. 2.30 P. M. prices st Retail Candy, ‘Martin Pare int. Runt Rubber, 20-221; Agere 4 6 “i $—6; Savold, o—6: 41 2-61-25 N, Y. Ship, 55—5! of. Shar. 3— 1- reactionary. Tobac- ister close er, nT aay Ale lied Packers, 58, off 31- United Re- tall Stores rights, 173-4, off 2; Am. Ship. Co., 421-8, off 3-8. (96. 629,000. It is expected that the south tube will be holed through next week and the tunnel ready for track laying in tem moni FIRST CLASHES OCCUR IW PATERSON SILK STRIKE PATERSON, WN. J., Aug. 7.—First vies lence in the newest silk strike occurred | this morning when striking dyers tried ! to get more men out In the Riverside section, Four strikers were arrested, Leaders of the Amalgamated Textile | Workers:of America, the radical faation, sald oo tehred thay Sine, der muc! avers of the 6.008 her heres AGGREGATE Loreal BARN- ‘Washington fe Commerce Commission reports earnings of 185 railroads and 17 switching and ter- owl minal roads as follows: June total | irike. operating revenue, $426,227,748, In- rease, $31,026,892; net opera! e, senza inetease, ‘aba 785; net operating income, $62,720, re ' the total ‘a increase, stigaseaT ite Breathe to¢al saedtaipg 20,290; ‘eg “operating decrease, CT tgee| = 159, eee me aber yt 669, inerease ponaene.ts 65. MONEY. Call money, mixed collateral, 41-2 per cent.; ell industrial 6 per cent. For’the first time in many weeks quite a lot of time money appeared in the market to-day, It was readily loaned at 7 per cent. for the sixty- day period on all Laegsam ap trepapess’ road demand for fixed money dontinues, ‘and borrowers are bidding 1 per cent. for loans of all dates. Mixed. money is 6 per cent. bid for all periods. EXCHANGE. ‘There was unabated pressure on francs during the morning. The check rate was 7.83, & new low. Offerings of commercial bills on Paris in large quantities coupled with an extremely light demand was re- rT ise this weakness. wpcapible bed Pegs Pemend ecks, rallied to 8.92 } Stockholm cables Ly peseta terting 7.80; 1a, ce “Salary $7,500; Income $10,000” There were many hundreds of income tax Teports that read some- ta te ire, re, che cables, 19; Sw cables, Van hat lire cables, 8.90; 37 1-8, G7) cab! guilders 4 GRAIN. Trend for the day at Chicago: wt 1 iio i Ba ae 1” a iN A a 78% 48.15 mi 45.00 atoo ay 31,30 Corn—September, off 14 May, off 11-. 1, Oats—September, off 3-8-1 pert off 1—8-4; May, off 11-8— Tal Briad BNO Tel. Murray Hilt T120 NEW YORK Pittebargs Philedeiphia § —- Detroit Chienge Divest Private Wires Masten 20. oo 0 « 20.8900; January, 4 83—5; March, 20.! fe aay “hori, 20.78— points. BARNINGS. - F. W. Woolworth Company, July, 98,717,025, ine, $11 months, $59,776,929, inc... $5,174,897. Central Foundry, tow weeks. pe- riod to May 17, 1919, total earnings,

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