The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1920, Page 4

R DECORATIONS WOTY i PARK © and One Croix de Guerre, 4 Awarded. : Distinguished Service @nd one Croix de Guerre ‘awarded to former officers and men of the American Army in City Hall Square this afternoon. @eremony of decoration, which yentiyened by the music of a mil- band, was conducted by Col. W. Atkinson, Recruiting Officer the New York District, assis.ed Lieut. John Kiley. ‘woman was in the line of and civilians who in right sunshine before the award- ofticers, She was Mrs. Harry ‘of Cobbleskill, N. Y. Her boy, in Karker, who served with the Infantry,\ was kiled in France. address was dolfvered by Pres- La Guardia of the Board of ‘The men who received Distinguished Service Crosses R. 6tern of No. 61 Broad- y, First Lieut., Co. H Siith Infan- who, although severely wounded Vieville-en-Haye, on Sept. 20, held his platoon in position un- ‘an enemy ‘attack had been \ye~ ‘Gharies F. Friazell of No. 84 Wil-| . Btreet, First Lieutenant, 38th , Third Division, wounded & personal reconnalsance in of the lines near Le Char- ‘on July 22, 1918, refused aid until patra’, bearing information he had ; should return for him, He! taken prisoner by the advancing | D ATTACK THAT CAPTURED PRISONERS AND GUNS. ‘H. McGay of No. 3046 Terrace, Second Lieu- 23d Infantry, With twenty he attacked a strongly en- position near Thiacourt on 12, 1918, and under heavy) _ eaptured the position, taking ty-three prisoners and four ma- Polk Buell of No. 29 Wash- Square, Fitet Lieutenant, 107th nfantry, 27th Division, led his com- y in the face of point blank ma-| gun fire and captured a trench the Hindenburg Line on Sept. 1918, falling wounded thirty yards | hola oe of his men. ‘ Kjeliberg of No. 153 West 84th Becond Lieut. Machine Gun y, 1024 Infantry, 26th Division, tinued in command of his platoon Trugny, on July 2, ivté, though iy wounded, firing a ma hine himself until wounded a second “Arthur Talbot, of No, 68 West 87th Firet Lieut. 101th Infantry, led daylight patrol! under severe ma- gun near La Roux Farm, w, silenced two machine ins and enabled the American lines advance 1,000 yards without se- losses. Andrew C. Otto jr, of No. 267/ ¢o, ps Avenue, with thirty men took enemy position in Vauxcas- t south of Solssons, July 18, 1918, 330 prisohers and fifteen | mach! guns. On two occasions he d machine gun nests single- killing or capturing the Moskowitz of No. 625 Main ’ Passaic, N. J., private Com- y C, 312th Infantry, 78th Division, tly volunteered to carry mes- through dangerous ones. ough lame from an accident, be d messages through a heavy! until wounded by a shell ‘Durst, in action near Talma Hill, Oct. 1918. FT SHELTER TO GO TO AID OF OFFICER. “Philip De, M. Vosburgh of No, 13 cele New Brighton, Sergeant, y K, 107th Infantry, 27th Di- wision, left a place of shelter to go » | Jualgor 188th Street, Bergeant, Company F, $8th Infantry, 34 Divinion, while a private exposed himself to Intense artillery and machine gun fire, guid- ing support platoons to the front line on July 15, 1918, near Moulin. On Oct. 9 during the Mouse-Argonne offensive he led four other soldiers im an attack on a trench which ‘HE. BABY ASKS $50,000 OF INTERBOROUGH | FOR LOSS OF EYE t prisoners and New dork City, Corporai, Company 0, 166th Infantry, expo himself to shell and machine gun fire to obtain ammunition for. his company near Landres-et-St. Georges, Oct. 16, 1918, making repeated trips over the bat- to gather ammunition from the dead until Bie entire company had been suppl Seite’ ves, of No, 18% Fast 43d Street, Corporal, Company F, 308th Infantry, exposed himself to machine gun fire while crawling out to rescue wounded comrade near St. Juvin, . 15, 1918, Erwin J. Marks of No, 1835 Park ace, Brooklyn, private, dical De- tachment, 7th Infantry, $d Division, went out under heavy fire on his own injtiative and carried in, oni @ time, three men wounded by obine gun while crossing a cle: ing 500 yai ‘h advance of p= gt aga near Le Charmel, fuly 22, 1918. * ‘ lerbert Bascom of No. 167 West 2ist Street, private, Company E. 127th Infantry, $24 Division, although wounded three times by shell fire near Badricourt, Alsace, July 9, 1918, carried a \‘meseage through artillery rages to company headquar' and returned with reinforceme He refused first aid until the raid a platoon sector had been repulsed. TURNED CAPTURED GUN UPON THE ENEMY. Earl Wallace Bailey, priv chine Gun Company, 88th 1ifu ad Division, crawled Lottie ptt og tor vere machine gun and rifie f.re ne July 22, 1918, and killed two members of an enemy machine gun crew, immediately turning the cap- tured gun upon the cnemy, enabliag an infantry company to advance. Francis R. Copeland of No. 28 South Bergen Place, Freeport, L. I., mechanic, Company B, 107th Infantry, 27th Divi- sion, with @ companion left a trench ‘under heavy machine gun and grenade fire near Honssoy, Sept. 2% 1418, to rescue a wourded soldier in advance of-the line’. Copeland's companion was killed ‘as they ‘returned, but Copeland dragged the wounded man to satety. Jonn M. Ward, No, 107 Hudson Street, Hoboken, private, Medical Le- tachment 314, Infantry, waded through a swamp near Fiabis, Nov. 10, 1918, under heavy fire, adminis- tered first aid to @ wounaed soldier and then carried him to safety. John Murphy, No. 420 East 139th Street, Corporal, Company ©, 107th Infantry, rescued a wounded man who lay in front o fthe lines gear Ronssoy 8 29, 1918. George Young of Olean, N. Y., Corporal, Company A, Ninth Machine Gun Battalion, The award of the Croix de Guerre was to Charles Edward Gaynier i" i, private, Company C, 105th infantry. The five following posthumous awards of Distinguished Service Crosses were made: George Blessing of Sidney, N. Y., corporal, Company B, 88th Infantry, killed by shell fire near -Moulin, July 15, 1938, while encouraging his mun 4o repulse an enemy attempt to cross the Marne in boats. The resistance of his unit prevented an enemy foot- at @ critical point in the Amer- ican line. Jack Karker of Cobleskill, N. Y. Company C, 107th Infantry, 27th Division, killed near Ronssoy Sept. 29, 1918, while giving first aid to a wounded pomrade, whom hy dragged into a 6) loumpied to shield wi Harold Ferguson o! ells, N. Yo Company H, 107th Infantry, 2ith Divisi killed “near , Ronssoy Bept. 29, 1 leading a platoon at- tack on tl indenburg Line after the officers and senior non-commis- sioned officers had become casualties. He was struck down just as the ob- jective was attained. gmpany L, 307th Infantry, th Division, killed near Binarville, Oct. 8, 1918, leading his men in an at- tack after bei: wounded the day before and refusing to go to the rear it. John Andres, of Cheetowaga, Y.. Private, 8th Machine Gun talion, killed - near Cierges, Oc' ‘hile going into attack with a gun abandoned b; As @ runner he had fre- quently carried messages through heavy fire. Oe DENIES THROWING KNIFE. Harry Pariser, of Now York City, |cormara, Ci a wounded After denying that he was a knife thrower and that he had tried to dl- voree his wife with an axe and then breaking out in a tirade against his wife's counsel because the latter asked him if he had not had trouble with the Children's Soclety over his children by his first wife, Philip J. Haffner of No. $38 Lefferts Avenue, Brooklyn, was or- dered to pay $7 a week alimony and his wife was granted @ separation, ——.— - Hodgson Re-Klected Mayor of St. . Paal, t the aid of a wounded officer, ex-| himeelf to direct fire, near , Sept, 28, 1918. He was struck the knee by a bullet as he reached officer, but dragged the latter the trench as he fell. William J. Steiper of No. 426 Bast ST. PAUL, Minn., May 5.—Mayor L. C. Hodgson was re-elected by more than 2,400 votes over William Manoney, Labor candidate, in yesterday's city Slection, | With ax, precinct’ missing out of 13a, on had 20,763 votes, the | Henry Yoos jn, three years ‘old through his father, Henry Yoos, is suink the Third Avenue Railroad Company for $50,000 in Justice Donnelly's Part of Supreme Court. A glowing stee splin- ter from the bit of a drilling machine on the tracks montha-old spady's eye, it le charged and destroyed tts sight. Trial was abruptly halted yesterday by the fainting of the chila’s mothe while dencribing the accident, She tou the Court that she was wheelMm the baby across the street in Its carriage when the hot steel particle struck the baby's eye. ( J Millon 'Speiser of Spelver & ‘Speier ip counsel for the child. | The nied venue Railroa Company is represent edb ‘apeclal Counsel George ys ut tis,” former Assistant Corpor Counsel. This photograph was taken before the baby's accident. 200 AGREE TO CUT CLOTHING PRICES Retailers Promise U. S. Flying Squadron to Sell Goods at Cost, At luncheon In a restaurant in Went §3d Street last evening, Armin W Riley, Chief of the Government's “Flying Squadron” of agente enfore- ing the Lever act, and his assistant 4. J. Price, talked to 200 rbers of the Retall Clothiers’ fation on profiteering in foodstuffs and cloth- ing. Mr. Riley told of the work of his aquadron and how It reduced the cost of food in this city. He sald the Lever act also applied to the cost of on clothing and sald profiteers in that line could be prosecuted as well as food merchants. Tho clothiers agreed to help the Government reduce the cost of ap- ‘omiged to reduce the rs to 26 cents and ala the price of ks, Others volunteered to sell cloth cost to assist th: Government, Federal effort had helped them to live cheaper in so far an foodstuff are concerned. pyar! Td ee 10 TO HGH COST OF MEN'S CLOTANG (Continued From First Page.) product for $47 a yard, He may have some good reason, probably he has, but he certainly can’t blaine us. | were wiped out of the transaction’ when he paid us $86. We don't figure in the other $130 Involved in the transaction.” TRACING SUIT FROM SHEEP TO ULTIMATE WEARER. From this it would appear that the manufacturer of cloth is almost a philanthropist, for the books and cost! heets and labof sheets and other records of the American Woolen Co. show that Mt, Wood tells the truth when he places the average profit of his corporation at 75 cents on the cluth that goes Into a sult of clothes. It is also true that @ tallor charges for a sult of clothes about four times the actual value of the cloth. the tailor invests in trimmings, but- tons, thread and the other materials of a suit will be:treated in another article. Thies article is the first of a series describing the cost prog- ress of a suit of wi from the back of thi back of the—1 wa: Franklin Simon s Co Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets Children’s, Girls’ and Boys’ SOCKS AND STOCKINGS In Weights and Weaves for NOW VALUE APPARENT IN THE QUALITY BECOMES EVIDENT IN THE WEAR SILK LISLE SOCKS in white, navy, reen or gold. izes 5 to 9% SILK LISLE SOCKS in white with striped tops of assorted colors. Sizes 5 to 9% SILK LISLE SOCKS in cadet, tan or navy, with fancy tops. Sizes 6 to 9% G : i, » Fiank G.-Maguire ‘Beginning Thursday—For One Week Only 4th Anniversary Sale 15% Off Our Regular Prices MEN’S AND YOUNG MEN'S SUITS and TOPCOATS _ Anniversary Prices $34 to $68 "FURNISHINGS AND HATS Also s bje.t to r : are thie 15% Discount Ls, hats and furnishings iat ora ie ae RIBBED COTTON HOSE Fine ribbed, in black. Sizes 8% to 10%. (Ac- cording, to size.) .0 to .65 RIBBED COTTON HOSE Broad ribbed, self turnover tops. Black, navy, khaki or Breen. Sizes8to 10. (Accord- ing to size.) 1.50 and 1.75 copen, rose, O20 3 pair 1.00 Sizes 5 to oo 3 pair 1.00 38 to size.) SUPERIOR SILK LISLE SOCKS in white, with fancy tops of assorted col Ors. 9% .50 to .75 SILK LISLE SOCKS in cadet, tan, black or green, with fancy tops. Sizes 7 to 9 55 to .05 PURE THREAD SILK SOCKS in white or light blue. Sizes 5 to 9%. (According, 1.000 1.50 RIBBED Corton Hos Broad ribbed, in black, white or cordovan. BOYS’ and GIRLS’ THREE-QUARTER OR GOLF HOSE MERCERIZED COTTON HOSE Two-tone ribbed, with self turnover cuff tops. . Black and white, black and navy, navy and green, or Habana and old. id Sizes 7 to10,(According,tosize.) 1.50 to 1.75 (According, to size.) Sizes 6 to 10 65 RIBBED COTTON HOSE Broad ribbed, in black with striped cuff tops. Sizes8 to10. .75 to 95 CHILDREN’S HOSIERY SHOP--Main Floor We What sucker—man who buys the suit, | cost of men’s clothes whether the suit be tailor made o— Raw mai | or bought. “off the shelf.” The citizen who is accustomed to ever Lau gl war taxes aye be ys a buying his clothes from a tailor has the selling price jelways paid more per suit or over- produces, manu- coat than the citizen who has bought his clothes in a shop where su-called ready-made or ,wemi-tailored suits ahd overcoats are sold. To reach the j understanding and attract the atten- ‘ton of both ciasses it is necessary [to get down to a basis of averags. Fundamentaily there isn't much dif-| fevence between the state of the man who paid his tailor $100 for a suit two years ago and is now asked $165 | for a sult of the same quality of cloth and the state of the man who | | le. BI ly, Corporation of individual, engaged in the man- ufacturi o welll business, has maintained oa i an jroducers, the man- ‘loth all middle: | fitust out be amps th illustration, which will be amplis (Continued on Fifth Page.) beught a serviceable ready-made suit for $40 in 1917 and ts now asked to | | pay $65 for a similar suit. The per- centage of increase is about the | same. IT was instructed by the managing editor of The Evening World to find out why the increased cost of cloth- ing has led to a stage in the history of the United States which has bred the advocacy of wearing overalls as outél raiment and restricted the de- |mand for new suits of clothes to |such an extent that retail clothing merchants are alarmed. , REASONS FOR HIGH COST OF CLOTHING. I think I have fulfilled my mission, but not to my own satisfaction, be- cause I can suggest no remedy for existent conditions as they apply to clothing. Perhaps the readers of The Evening World who prove game enough to follow what I am writing about these conditions will be able to Reputation is baile pes. bang "That's Why. oe Flore. Astok Corres | has educated scotes of thousands of people to know what real cofien tastes like, that’s from Hotel Aster Coffee, Economical for there are an “' More cupe te the pound” ve some constructive ideas, ere are the reasons for the high Pele aed eal “f Franklin Simon 8 Co, Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets BOYS' AND GIRLS’ Light Weight KNIT UNDERWEAR The Time to Change is Now EVERY GARMENT IS AN EXAMPLE OF COMFORT, QUALITY AND WORKMANSHIP; EVERY PRICE IS AN EXAMPLE OF VALUE SRANKLIN SIMON & CO. under- 8 wear for children is shaped for % comfort and designed to keep everythin}, worn on top of it comfort- ably adjusted. These underthings are made for the comfort of children and are priced for the satisfaction ‘of mothers. For Girls GAUZE WOOL AND COTTON (MIXED) SHIRTS OR PANTS Shirts low neck, short sleeves; pants knee or trunk length. 2 to 16 yrs. (According to size) 1.65 to 2.30 RIBBED COTTON UNION SUITS, low neck, sleeveless, knee length. 4 to 16 years. (According, to size.) 90 to 1.25 FINE CHECKED NAINSOOK UNION SUITS with elastic at knee. 4 to 12 years. 1,00 RIBBED COTTON SHIRTS OR PANTS. Shirts low neck, short sleeves; pants knee length. 2 to 16 years. (Ac- cording, to size) 55 to .90 1.25 CHILDREN'S KNIT UNDERWEAR SHOP—Main Floor For Boys GAUZE WOOL AND COTTON (MIXED) SHIRTS, PANTS, DRAWERS. Shirts high neck, short sleeves; pants or drawers knee length. 2 to 16 yrs. (According, to’ size). 1.65. to 2.30 FINE RIBBED COTTON UNION SUITS, athletic style. 4 to 16 yrs. (Accord- ing to size) 1.10 to 1.40 CHECKED MADRAS ATHLE- TIC UNION SUITS, athletic style. 8 to 16 years, 1.50 BOYS' OR GIRLS’ RIBBED COT. TON UNION SUITS; fine ribbed, with taped buttons attached to waist. “2 to 12 years. panes.) ane