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Sn on ne neem nortan eae eR “ene Ta a ORNL i an ne someone sits hy ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1919. ~ . POE HG Teo Ate Cats on it’s PavrolISHAMOES SON MOCHA, |S== === SSR BAND ACCUSED OF n-n-n-Save, Thousands to the Taxpayers Hal WOOD WAR, NOT WORLD'S END, mcrae necam aennman ac “BlG THEFTS HERE ANCUST OFLVNG) SEENINTHESKES 3S, Kr ea Ban Bn ER were transferred yesterday to Clinton's new Warden, $ "Getter Chocolates aka Lower Price” Many Robberies Traced to Or- i a oo Own Workers Quit .Woollen|Weather Experts Scan Heav- i , Sanized Group — Two Mills to. Welcome Him to ens, but See no Alarming Lawrence, Signs There, Policemen i in Jail, | HELP BRING CHRISTMAS $420,000 FURS STOLEN. ‘CHEER TO THE POOR ‘Chauffeur Says Men in Uni- FREE oo Oinpe FREE a Load Truck On December 23d we will distribute tree oi co eon charge 500 pounds of candy to the five Sunday my Schools, Churches, or Charitable organiza- tions receiving the greatest number of votes. Fill.in blank coupon below and mail or deliver to any of our stores most convenient to you, All votes must be received on or belore December 23, 1919 o72® LAWRENCE, Mass, Deo. 17.—Fit- WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Experts teen thousand Lawrence mill workers| Who keep the weather under official left their spindles and looms to-day! surveillance for the Government to greet William M, Wood, President | s¢anned the heavens and the weather of the American Woolen Company. reports in vain to-day for any sign alleged solar conspiracy be- Masses of men, women and chil-| that dren, without order, but all with tween the planets Neptune, Jupiter, Information that two or more po- Noemen working with known crimi- ‘nals bad planned and carried out the | friendly intent, representing an out-|¢ al, was about to produce storms pouring of operatives from the four| Which would bring the world to @ lants of the company here, welcomed | Sten end. the company’s diph , "s The best the weather men could President Wood came as an apostle| ake out of the signs as they read i robbery of the fur store of Starobin & Dubin at No. 715 Herkimer Street, “Brooklyn, Nov. 0 last, and other t@milar robberies was in the hands of District Attorney Lewis to-day. ‘Two policemen, Peter Ruger and Herman Crouse of the Atlantic Ave- ‘ue Btation, were sted last night. , ‘They were taken into custody after statements made to the District At- | : tormey and detectives by Edwin Werle of No. 103 Charles Street, ; Manhattan, who is charged with bel ‘WS one of the robbers who shot a \oselle, N. J., policeman in the $3,000, of the Roselle bank several yeeks ago; Edward Cannon of No. M4 Dean Street, Brooklyn, a chauf- j (BaF Philip Brown of No. 455 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, and Samuel Singer No. 27 Whipple Street. ‘According to the District Attorney's of Cannon's statement the of lower living costa. His visit was for’ them was that low pressure areas the purpose of holding a conference off the North Atlantic coast and in with the Chamber of Gammerceincon.)th® ff northwest had combined to nection with his. demand that the|PfM® low temperatures generally throughout the country, except along the southwestern border. The outlook for to-night and to- morrow, the official forecaster said. MET Cane CY. | GuNTLEMEN: | THINK THE MOST WORTHY ORGANIZATION [8 . prices of necessaries in the retail stores be reduced. He had announced that unless such a mark down was made he would set up a big general! was for local snowstorms in the Great store at which American Woolen Com-| taxes regibn and fair weather else- pany employees could buy all neces-| where east of the Mississipp! River. frat adép 8 paar aera ai ' I Home for Incurables 118 | Catholic Protectory............84 The operatives who greeted him to- WHISTLES’ SHRIEKS START $ Bronx Church House. 82 | Church of the Transfiguration 48 day are receiving the highest wages END OF THE WORLD SCARE Watch for Contest Results of 10 Leaders In To-Morrow's Evening World PL PPLOODGL GG LDOLD _ POSTEO LOLOL LL LIS CVSS LLY .173 , Hebrew Orphan y doante 11182 | Boys’ Club Ave. A... .122 | Henry Street in the history of the textile industry and in come cases their appearance showed corresponding improvement. The women, who predominated in the crowds, included many wearing coats of fur. Bearing flags of the United States, Italy and France, one group of § Indianapolis Aroused by Din Due to Stuck Throttle in a Roundhouse, INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 17.—One long, weird shrieking whistle, then others eral hundred operatives went ahead |less strident, finally practically aff” si- and was the first to meet the mill |rens in the city, mingled with the ring- owner as he drove up ‘Essex Street |!ng @f a number of bells, broke the atiliness of the early morning in Indla- Extra Special Holiday Offering To Churches, Sunday Schools, Etc. Special’ Manhattan Mixiure 30 In a 30 Pound Container STUMP and NIGGER DODD PED ®OP DOD OBHPODVDOL DOD ~~ 19660000006. He Agured in a heroic rescue of And All Stump and Nigger toa Get Out of It Is GRAND JURY GETS Their Board. 4 fa bringing furs from the store cea NEW POLICEMAN THWARTS OBGDIHOOGGOH lection of Pure ©: gar sweets co nee’ Welsne, Biche on appealing dainties. ane? will tickle t bp Palateof every boy and girl. There's Gum Drops, Clear Fruit juares, Fig Jeliles, tga Hon Fry Squares and Crystal Hard Cand’ Packed in 30- pound cases, enn, Spectat ‘The police records.show that both ) Grouse and Ruger were “off duty” on ) the night of the robbéry. Asked if the policemen had made a —* District Attorney Lewis s". | “Brom one policeman I have a state- ‘ent which is sufficient proof to show “that both of them were tnvolved in Halts Driver in Motor. Truck Who ‘He Charges Tried to Escape With Loot. Frank Franzone, a new poticeman, frustrated a silk robbery at No. 51 Bond Street about 10 o'clock last night and in the storeroom of the Board of Education, at Park Avenue and 69th Street, are listed in the city budget for $6.50 a quarter for maintenance. the item yesterday in conversation with President Prall of the Board of Education and laughed as he has not His Honor the Mayor came across -——— in an automobile. Later, after a brief speech, Mr.|napolis to-day. This was followed by ROBBERY OF 8 000 SILKS Stump and Nigger, two cats who Wood proceeded to the conference|the continual jangling of telephone fl p are the guardians of ‘the books with the merchants, while the work- IF HE TAKES J0B ers began to drift back to the mills. profiteering at the expense of the ‘The business men protested against | "01% the charge ‘that they had been|_ 't developed that a throttle on a mill operatives by advancing prices Dan A. Donahue, one of the mer-|knowing ezactiy why. bella and inquiries about the end of the world. ial Broad Mixt ee eo kee ee ffering le the supreme delight of, our Tg het, The nupgets of sweets are masterpieces — Pounds candy, ratty comprising. Old. Fashioned Net Weight .|whistie at a railroad roundhouse had | become stuck, starting the din, in which Adviser Refuses to Explain chants, said they were not question- ing the good faith of President Wood, but that they did feel he was Ne Need to © edded Nuage a hot of giner Fruit cute Acidulated Gandy, ci sistted chocdl 9.60 Gnecemse here) Caram ra snr Extra Special co mention, * When “i pound holly acres Bake chris & laughed since the impanelment of ith H tae . | misinformed, _ . robbery and in other robberies.” |°Susbt @ truck driver, who is accused | iAushed since the _lmpancimel Conditions Outlined — For. *tvéod, requesting that ali| PITTSBURGH, Dec. Preside Dr. Frank several months,” Mr. Lewis|°%f Pen one of the would-be bursiars.| It was a good joke, he thought, but| mally Notified by Swann, | the statements which the merchants Schlesinger, dircotor of the Allegheny ewis \rhe robbers had put the silk in seven| Mr. Prall assured him that It was no could make to prove their contentions | Observatory, was busy this morning have had information ‘hat |sacks, one of which was already on the| joke at all; that it was purely a mat- be submitted to him in writing, said| answering telephone calls from anx- policemen were work-|truck. ‘The goods were valued at $8,000, ter of business, and that as a matter! Joseph M. Proskauer, appointed ais information that local pricoa were) ious persons in all parts of Weatern ‘A week or more ago I of fact Stump and Nigger, as the i unreasonably high was “voluminous”| Pennsylvania, who wanted a letter which drew my at lente em 2 man come out of the | nigh cost of living goes nowadays, | Special District Attorney by District |nnd was specific as to places, prices| y entrance and throw a long sack into! were underpaid but not underfed.| ate, Swann on the edeignation:of | and names. to the Herkimer Street rob-|the truck. He waited and the man ap-|His Honor referred the matter to | Attorney i. nation of |" Only in New “Rery in this connection. With my |peared with another. About that time|Commiss.oner of Accounts Hirsch-| Gov. Smith, as adviser to the Extra-| face of his figu its | esund wony execs 10, Beinn. Shristrae, Wfboinests Dee Sree Special 2, 3 or 5 lb. Boxes Assorted Milk Chocolates Dream confections of pyre Mitt nocolate, comprising Choco! covered, Caramels, ‘Chocolate cov: d Cocoanut | Tricklets and Chocolate cov ered Fruits, A tu know world” he “end of th He was unable tell vised them to go about ding that red red “ielites, reropued ort ¥ ork, he said, on the! , are living costs the driver saw him and started his ma-| field, who is also the Mayor's Mas- 3 higherthan in Lawrence, was really coming they M 1 L c E R kelect_ special for topintant, Albert Conway, I started Hees Chanzety in the High Cost of jordinary Grand Jury, received his|highethan in Lawrence. | | Would know it without consulting am CS R'S | select special tor am investigation and on going to the'chine, but Franzone held his revolver | HT .0s AGrial aupeininen nacaiacterme tor es L Ser ar | astronome noleseur, againet the windshield until he stopped. ts. a 0 ment in bc of the business: men, a ENT STORES . @etective bureau I found the police |°*™! ow SHEE Ae: SOU e Investigation developed the fact} his subscription to the oath of office| which will be presented to Mr, W00d.| Urgen fad Street Ferry Renewal. ENIENT ST Extra Special ‘were also working along the same| The ther man fled into the building | that the cats and their ancestors | ¢, District Att iw py | Later it was announced that the| ‘Gommirat : 4 trad 2mguno 80c 742, Broadway They followed the advice of |2"4 @isappeared. The raided loft is|have been the custodians of $800,000 rom MEESC ERS tLOrNSy Ve Wand DY I Ghamber of CoMmmarce Gad (ueited jommissioner of Plant and Structures fa raul ny TO-DAY ‘nes. oo Senew e advice Of owned by Max Steinberg. The pris-| Worth of the city’s schoolbooks for | messenger to-day. the State Commission on the Neces-|Grover Whalen announced to-day he s-POUND 1.17 44, ‘My, Conway and yesterday's results! oer said he was Harry Lederman,|tWenty years and more, and statis-| Mr, Proskauer did not at once ac-] xaries of Life to hold a hearing here | ¥uld recommend to the Board of Bsti- ry cma 7 Cc ‘fellowed. Nearly all of the $20,000 t thirty-two, of No. 160 Ludlow Stre sate Lorde Ber ray pave Fa tend Ae cept the appointment, but dictated a] with a view to making comparisons | mate that the 92d Street ferry be op- 95 Pound Box ‘werth of furs taken from the Herki-| Otto, manager of the Crown Dye-|city thousands of dollars. ‘ore the es in Lawren $ $ $ $ $ ; § $ $e $ $ and in_other {erated as a municipal Une, ‘The terry d ing ‘and Cleaning Company, with a fac-|year 1907, to go ‘way back, the| letter to the Grand Jury explaining} 0f pr t Specified Weight Does Not Include Street Fecov cities, and that the commission had |!8, ¢ ‘ ntainer., Mail Orders Filled RLare. ee ered last |tory at Lafayette and Garrison Ave-|schoolbooks, and especially the geog-| under what conditions he was willing 2 | River Ferry. C \is owned by the ew York and agre 0 eC thi eek | pany, and its operation Send remittance, including Parcel Postage cost, with orde: Sight in Manhattan. I have no in- yee. Hee erenas teported SSA eae raphies, were the prey of myriads of} (4 accept the appointment and desig- —— My oy ome here within a w: |ron ialae entinued Deg, 1, 1918 because ig 4 formation as yet that the same crew |irom the company yesterday” ae eae anc ce the georraphies because | Nation. He declined to describe these ft with the Merchants" | Wigton plana a 5-cent round trip tare, Soe wh ane ee ee ee ‘@ robbers committed burglaries in the leaves were stuck together with| terms for publication until he had an el had ” . ny : , , e : the United (Maahattan. ACCUSED OF FORGERY. | muciiage, which is especially palata-| answer from the Grand Jury. Reere ane Of lant gun ‘The total losses by Brooklyn firms ‘Anthony Wahle, who has been inj APpointment of Mr. Proskauer as|the average yearly expense for a f the operations of the band,| Attempting to Cash Traveller's} charge of the storeroom for twenty- | Special District Attorney to be ad-| family in Lawrence js higher than Mr, Lewis said, would amount to hun- Cheek, M Arrested. eight years, put two cats in the cel-| viser of the Grand Jury according to|'" other ™m a Lc a aice win @reds of thousands of dollars, An-| William B. Nelson, who said he was|lar one night early in 1907. They! 4 statement made by Gov. Smith, rep- hee WT abLeE a years in Fall ‘Other robbery under investigation to- | 4 Pookkeeper and lived at No. 438 West | howled and howled and howled at thelr. confinement. and wondered | "esented the Governor's utmost effort| River $1,320.84; Manchester, $1,370.80, ‘taken after thieves had climbed a lad-| 6, sept. 19, Capt. R. J. Sanborn, an| The mice were about to play, and|@ppoint as an assistant any man ' MISSING; POLICE NOTIFIED a, img. There was also a robbery three ‘checks for $100 ‘each stolen from his| Na York. ‘The cats must have re-|@nd the Governor had named Mr. leone) ‘ 4 f t J, | @kins were stolen and which the Dis- % ™an tried to cash one of them. Wil- lives, ~~ Mr. Swann had carried out the it ai fi stormy night, Commissioner West-| ment but without requiring from Mr.| A request that the police make a “We have no information,” Mr,|Capt. Sanborn is in South America. made plain as day to him, For aps \ The Store is closed at 5 P, 5_P. M. daily charge of forgery by Magistrate Levine] scratch and the tabbies exchanged | Gove ey ‘ @ammer $20,000 worth of fura were |chrse of forgery by Ma Bran ane tet Governor said, made a flat offer to BAYONNE SCHOOL TEACHER brand-new geography at the map of imer Street, in which 4,000 beaver |at the box office of the Ziegfeld Follies,| the most pleasurable night of their|torney at his word. Breakdown. The police say Nelson confessed.| secret of the city’s finances was rane 3 this morning @ay was of a store on Nostrand Ave- he yabtaadd estat mee Laradplges to-| what they had done to deserve such| to further the processes of the Grand| and Boston $1,438.13 ue near Bergen Street, where Jast/%#Y for examination Monday on 4/4 ‘ate, pretty soon there was | Jury. District Attorney Swann, the der and disconnected the burglar/army officer assigned to the Shipping|the cats watched them until a rat named by the Governor. No such of- alatm gong on the front of the build-| Board, had a number af ‘travellers'|°™ersed from his hut and opened | fer came from the Attorney General ) Weeks ago of the fur dressing house of ovefvoat at a Broadway theatre. He re-|eognized some alleys ca pense, ory Proskauer without consultation with Principal Alarmed at Mysterious . Kat. v i 2 2. ¥ “Zowie!” they turn joose and ha¢ ae atric . ‘i =] Alexander M. Katsky at No. 778 Herk- |ported his loss to the police, Yesterday | “Zowie!” they Mr. Swann, taking the District At Disappearance—Fear Nervous att Kurth, the ffict er,| . Twenty years later, on a dark and| agreement by making the appoint- trict Attorney intimated might be |Gentified apleture in the Rogue's ‘Gal om teaced to some of the men now lery as that of the man who had tried] man of the Board of Education hap-| Proskauer any ‘pledge of loyalty or|search for Mi Baleahaker, a jaan ahs se Fi 3 ; under |toeasn the check, pened in the storeroom and the dark | subordination. idea lirneaes the fourth MADISON AVENUE - FIFTH AVENUR, NEW YORK 1, at Bell Ave- Lewis said, in answer to questions, “that ‘any man higher up’ in the Po- With the operations of this burglar- Policeman series of thefts.” ‘There was also an intimation that @e alleged band had taken part in {the recent $30,000 Sheffield Farms Mee Department had anything to do DENTIST GOES TO JAIL. Gets 60 Days for Operat of Offices Miler ‘Clarence R. Salter Brooklyn, oper- ator af a chain of dental ‘parlors’ here and in Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark and New Brunswick, N, J., was sen- were not the same crts, to be sure. but were descended from sire to son. from mother to Maria, as it were. But they did the work. 10 cents’ worth of liver and some milk The Commissioner learned that for twenty years Wahle had been buying for the black cats. All the cats were black, perhaps for the reason that ss : H twenty years Anthony Wahle_had CLUBW| ME ON NIGH T0 nue, Bayonne, ae kept the’two cats on the job. ‘They ty N T TOUR by the horning by the Principal, Mrs. Thirty-two Eating Convince Dockmen End of World Is Here After All. Jennie L. Potter. No. 10 West 19th Street, Whitestone, eCntral Station in a taxicab. There, t [a gaid. she checked @ sult cane Azcording to Mrs, Pott baker has suQered a nervo Miss Bolenbaker left her home at} this, morning, and went to the Grand Miss Bolen. Goer of socoune of over work. She hed been connected with various war work Thirty-fourth Street . Thirty -fifth Street The Department for } Mr. Lewis criticised the action of |tenced in Brooklyn last night to siaty |they were afl born in the dark of the) wnen they dropped into Joe's place | *uxiliaries, | She has no known rela- | ‘ « cellar. Immediately the Commission- tives in this vicinity, and relatives In ‘ e } VMagistrate McCloskey in releasing days in the workhouse for Weaal prac, cr insisted that the servitor of the at the corner oF Chambers and West Rhinebeck, N.Y. have been communi- A a O ue erc an ise an Crouse last night on $5,000 of the Stute Board of Dental Examiners, | school store room put in s pill for the | thts Hl & Bock thik morting and lien received from them. : saying he thought the Magistrate @nnounced to-day. Foainvenence 6 3 . s women on the SIXTH FLOOR The Board revoked Salter'’s license | did. “leathering into’ flapjacks, ham and * f busi At wi d. Opposition, He said the letter of | ("ae i" business, it was charge frult and produce wagons thought there | G@vernor's Mother Well on Way should have given the District At-.jast September for operating dental es- aa eggs and coffee, the night workers on} SMITH GOES TO TO ALBANY, FS eR a8 RED BALL uP FOR SKATING might, after all, be something to this ‘Toward Resevery y's office a chance to be heard tablishments illegally, ‘but Salter, con- docks and the early-bird drivers of the Mayor to Deputy Commissioner Lahey commending the activity ot| GETS $7,500 HEART BALM. IN THREE BROOKLYN PARKS; talk of the end of the world coming on| Gov, Smith departs for Albany th MZ sivs ines in the case ¥ Sear SH Dee. 17, 1919. afternoon with the prospects before is bountifully stocked with smart, up-to-date Was entirely justified by what the eye eee eee ee er cen THRONGS ENJOY FIRST IGE! _vomen were members of the|him of a busy session in catching up Stewardens, fe Cha \. > ft as Sanh ; é 4 intad while . = q Se eee ec eret ate Civic Committee of the Federation of| with work that accumulated while he Clothes for Men, Women and the Younger Set, as | Sees oth tent af the @oree Mra, Mary Anderson, No, 16 Berkeley Women's Clubs. Led by State Chatr-|was detained at his mother's sick bed fat ive Lieut. McCurdy re-|Place, Brooklyn, was awanted 00 loor Sport Hoping |men, Mrs. William H. Purdy, of Mount|at her home, No, 9 Middagh Street, i al 4 eatect sbi casera atctt leat vee hah bertve wiaten Oroneer | ORoIE of “Outdoor S| port Hoping ae ad tcenteanioa’ bo, coos: | Srasmire ices well as a large and varied selection of Wa MoGuire in Gates Avenue Court to-|in the ;Gupreme Court in Brooklyn, in} for Continued Cold Weather— |acntatives of the State Department of | prMe, Governor, sald to-day that both - day on additional charges and he her suit against Mrs, Margaret Currie, Lakes Nearly Ready. Farms and Markets and the New York| Health Department and Dr, John Reb 4 i Was held without bail for forty-eight ror the alienation of the affections of , Health Department, they left the Hotel |ad told him that his mother showed Policeman Louis J. Hohorat of the Mi, Andersons husband, Lieut, John] ry4HE Department of Parks 18 laanhattan one hour atler midnight on {2 Muchyimerovsmnersh® gat ects seful and Decorative Articles rty Avenue Station, Brooklyn, | pe aetare aati ike ncalenn wae Brooklyn announced to-day |, sight-seeing tour that might be caljed|rid of all traces of pleuriay and pneu- } ‘was held to- in $500 bail on a ed on the United Fr that the red ball was up for |“How the City Gets its Food," monia and now needs only rest and ‘ charge of larceny and $500 more on a Abairate, on which ays Currie was also] gkating in three of the parks ) charge ryii . employed as a stewardess a — Rite alleged. that. Hoborst walle : where tennis courts were flooded. yards, 30th Street and 1th Avenue, y Slayers Usceution Stayed, e , : ; I duty but still in uniform jimmied| Secemotive Bursts; One Killed. A large number of devotees 1 I mi, BePPly) The execution next week of Phillip . in, The: IM » | gs, . & showcase in front of a dry goods} NBWCASTLE, Pa, Dec, 17,—One| Went to Highland, McKinley and [Eye yn Thiy saw more milk at the !scnitiing, murderer xf ie bari at no ae ocd gat and | man was killed, another perhaps fatally | Dyker Heights parks last night | crossed Willlamsburg Bridge to the|Patrick J. Ryan in look two pairs of huitted slipper: 4 . ‘1 ° e Brooklyn plant of the SheMeld Farms|16 last was stayed to-day by a writ of one pair of corsets and one black s.1k eyed Pe a eeear Fonte bari aud. enioyed the Ara Shiner Company. Another visit to Erie Ferry | error. The Court of Errors an¢ Ap nls okirt, train exploded one mile weat of here| *kating of the season, and if the | was followed by the “ham and” break: |hag dirseted Judge Martin of the Court ‘At Hohorst's home, No. 458 Van-|iast night. The dead man was W, F./ cold weather keeps up, it is be- | fast Nice Seneticlal'! Mine, Dandy walk ttle Comiuon Pleas to forward all the tes- dérbilt. Avenue, Brooklyn, it was | Skelly, Painesville, O, Meved thet the large lakes will c timony .he case before Jan, 2. Warned that this is the eighth apni © ares the trip, and “it gave us lots to think = pa ait ry of his marriage, and ¢ Roosevelt Butler Seed by Wite. New Haven ¢ Be ereeinetatcipmanne te throngs of skaters. > . Mrs, Bugenle B; Dupre filed suit In Accidentally Killed by Gas. ay. Christmas presents. His family | the County Clerk's office to-day for|4 18 the Borough of Queens, Bais- John Kennedy of No. 344 West 21st} The New York, New Haven & Hart- yabes, ae out ee a "A. Dupre, a| \leys Lake, Jamaica and the lake | street was accidentally asphyxiated by ford Railroad announced to-day that fohorst has been a member of the pubis employed, hes by Sonn Be in Kissena Park, Flushing, are lumi gas at hio residence it will r train service early tmorning. He was next Sunda: with. the exception of department ‘for nine yeare and -his inate Dupre ix France in| D@Bpand it was announced the | O0t' cod dead by De, Kramer of Row ian! No. is, selonving Stamford at as mat to-day has Deon good. | 1901. ‘She all desertion, : ico in perfect condition York, i wee oe A Mt New Haven In the New York Central freight | Nourishment for home or personal use, and especially desirable for Christmas giving. i All are marked at prices that will appeal to the economical purchaser ’ about.”” soon be ready to receive the Rei e Full service