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P| rt | SPECIAL SESSION xe tive Said to Fear Knox Resolution Might Complicate af Present Situation. ORAH SCENTS PERIL. rreconcilables Apprehensive That Delay Will Favor , League of Nations. jal From a Staff Correspondent ‘ of The Evening World.) “, y WASHINGTON, March §.—The ~ of President Harding during eampaign to bring about early with Germany—perhaps the positive pledge he made—has @ most embarrassing situa- and brought on complications may make it necessary to call ai] the Administration's doctors. @ three-hour conference at the White House jast night, the date ‘&B extra session of Congress Is as im the air as at any time since <November election, President, ling told newspaper men that the of the extraordinary segsion “will ‘De earlier than April 4.” ‘Tt is understood that Mr. Harding arrived at a/ realization of the Wact that an carly extra session, the passage of a resolution de- peace with Germany would ly be firat on the Legisiative would be of doubtful ex- ta ae 7, ‘Pee “irgeconcilables” favor the fate peace plan which they feel nullify all prospect of the United later being dragged into the ague of Nations “by the back belief prevails in some quarters Secretary of State Hughes does eonsider the Knox peace proposal, } its present form, to be feasible, has revised his views on bject of desirability ot rushing ® peace’ resolution in the commission h $9 a to Barone within the next lew weeks and sound out the Allied a8 to the best method of ex- ‘ the United States from the ications incident to the failure matify the treaty of Versailles. a ES LN ee a ae SILK TAFFETAS $ CANTON CREPES CREPE SATINS — TRICOTINES ‘ CREPE DE CHINES COMBINATIONS —y can be little doubt that the) ,q, “SEPARATE PEACE LEGION MEETING PLAN MAY PUT OFF | PLANNED T0 OFFSET “RHINE HORRORS” “Americans for America’ Mass Gathering Set for March 18 at the Garden, Col. F. W, Galbraith, Commander of the American Legion, National will announce at a dinner to be given in his honor by the New York County Committee at the Hote! Pennsylvania to-night the plans for the “Americans for America” mass meeting to be held in Madison Square Garden March 18. The Garden had been reserved for that date by the Amateur Athletic Union for the amateur boxing cham- pionship bouts, hut the A. A. U, en- tusiastically gave way to the Amer- jean Legion when the object of the Proposed mass meeting was explained. The mass meeting committee of citizens fs in charge of Col. Gal- braith, Chairman; Miss Anne Mor- gan of the American Committee for Devastated France is Trensuser and Ralph M. Easley of the Civic Feder- ation ls Secretary, The arrange- ments are under the direction of Robert Grier Cooke of the Fifth Ave- nue Association, assisted by Thomas 8. Bosworth of E. P. Dutton & Co. Miss Maude Wetmore of the League for Women's Service, Mrs. Douglas Robinson of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, Thomas J. Vivian of the United States Chamber of Com- merce and others. ‘The object of the inceting will be to teil the rid that the “Horrors of the ih meeting of Dr. von Mach and similar gatherings in the interest of alien interests are not representatively American or toler- able to good Americans. On the counse! of Father Francia P. Duffy, Chaplain of the 165th Infantry, @ meeting of officers of the 69th New York Infantry and former officers of the 165th, called to consider censuring Lieut. Col, Alexander E. Anderson for appearing at the Von Mach meeting and speaking sympathetically of the German conduct of the war, dropped the proposal and burned a set of reso- lutions directed against Col. Ander- n. Father Duffy, describing himself as “pro and decidelly anti-Ger- mi in pointing out that Col. An- derson had not assumed to speak og a representative of the regime: and id “Anderson ‘made a fool of himself by goin gto that fool mecting and his views do not express the views of the oy He would not have gone had he with me first.” ni Father Duffy then recited the fcr cused officer's record as a fighter as an effective friend of the enli ‘men, and warned the meeting that an effort to besmirch hia loyalty “for a |, fool act” would be repudiated by the regiment. West Thirty-Fourth Street—New York Brooklyn—Fulton Street near Hoyt. { Sale at Au Three Stores ‘ Ultra-Fashionable Street and Afternoon Styles In Exceptional Pre-Easter Selling ! High Grade Easter Frocks e Dress Salon presents tomorrow a particularly brilliant and diversified col- om of ultra-fashionable new afternoon and sen’ oh aeleerad _ Every correct. mode was entitled to his own opinions, a course which is understood to | * street creations of aristocratic color—for all the world like Fifth Avenue’s » youthful silhouettes and novel elaborations, ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1981. TZAPERCENT. CUT -INPAY OF 100,000 ~ TNPACKING TRADE \To Take Effect on March 4—| Big Meeting of Employees | to Be Called. CHICAGO, March %—Wage de- creases of approximately 12 1-2 per cent, affecting more than 100,000 em- ployees of the packing industry In all parts of the country, were oM- clally announced to-day. The reduc- tlons are effective on March 14, i revision of working hours, time and one-half for overtime being paid only | after ten hours’ labor in any one day | or after fifty-four hours in any one week. Double time will be paid for Sundays and holidays. The new wage scale reduces thc wage rate of all hourly pald em- pioyees 8 cents per hour, The piece work rates are reduced 121-2 per cent It was aiso announced that the packers are now working out pians te establish closer relations between | the workers and the management of the various plants with a view to giving the employees a voice in ail matters of mutual interest. “The reduction of 121-2 per cent in wages is very small in view of the! fact that packing house wages aver- age three times as much to-day as they did before the war,” said J. Ogden Armour, President of Armour & Co, in discussing the decreases. “The values of our raw materials | and of our meat and by-products have | suffered the most severe decline ever experienced,” said the announcement by Swift & Company. ‘Our expenses of doing business are s{ill at the war level. They are almost three times us high as in 1914. Our profits have fallen continuously since 1917." A meeting of the packing house em- ployees from all parts of the country ‘will be held in Omaha, Neb., Wednes- day and Thursday to consider the re- ductions and the abrogatién of the arbitration agreements, EXPRESS CARS WRECKED. Fifteen Pil BORANTON, Pa. March and Western express train No. 11 was ear Bactoryville Station, re. reported that something with the engine and trackm, the express The three main tracks of ‘anna were ripped up for Pe aeveral, hundred feet. up all traffic of the compan of Scranton, an went hat It cars tytn Nort | Newark—Broad Street & West Park. | N. J. SALOONKEEPERS WIN IN TEST CASE | Former Brewers Lose Point in Fight | to Collect $1,000,000 fo: Fixtures. The New Jersey Refrigerating Com- pany, formerly the Lemback @ Bets Hagie Brewing Company, lost the first round of ity fight to recover $1,000,000 from ealoon keepers of Hudson, Mon- mouth and Middlesex Counties in ths Jersey City Court of Chancery yester- day afternoon, issued a restraining order preventing tho company from prosecuting ite suit for $5,118 in Supreme Court againat Ed- ward Grant of No, 319 Grove Street, Jersey City, which was to be a test case, ‘The company sued to recover for fix- tures installed In the saloons while the saloon keepers were buying jts beer. At a final hearing the court will decide if & note nd chattel mortgage for the At the same time there will be & | ristures should be cancelled or if the} company in entitled to any compensa- tion. The saloon keepers allege the company was not to receive payment for fixtures #0 long as the saloons con- Unued to buy tts beer. aia TO PUT TAXI MEN IN POLICE CONTROL Chauffeur Licensing Bill Urged by McAdoo Is Introduced at Albany, ALBANY, March 8.—At the request of Chief Magistrate Willlam MoAdoo of New York, Assemblyman Steinberg has introduced fn the Assembly « bill trans- ferring the licensing of public chaut- feurs from the City Licensing Bureau to the Pollce Department, says the police are in @ better position than the Licensing Bureau to know whether an applicant for a chauffeur's Hcense is unfit because of a criminal past, In a letter to Assemblyman Steinbors McAdoo sald that there is a and antecedents ure to operate taxicabs, He sald that the Licensing Bureau sent ist of applicants to the police for ex- amination, but that adverse reports had been disregarded. Vice Chancellor Lewis | Mr. Steinberg | spicion that men utterly | |TURK NATIONALISTS | REPORTED IN BATUM Moslem Troops Occupy Gateway | to Armenia Before Russian } | Troops Can Arrive. | LONDON, March §.—Turkish Na- tonaliet forces have occupied Batum, says a Reuter's dispatch from Con- stantinople. Batum ia a strongly fortified seaport | | On the eastern shore of the Black Sea, and one of the chief shipping points for petroleum produced in the Caucasus region of Ruswla. it formerly was « Turkish possession, but was ceded to Russta in 1878. t dispatches have indicated the Russian Bolshevik forces in the Cau- casus were attempting to reach Batum before the Turkish Nationalteus occupled the city. Batum is the chief Avenue of supply for Armenta,-and It has been declared if the eity should be In control of the Nationalists, Russian | | ccoupation of Armenia would be impos- wible. | WANTS 500 OPERA BACKERS. | Mary Garden, joago Director, | | Gecks Business Men as Well | an Others. | | CHICAGO, March 8.—Spearman Lewin, the new publicity director of | the Ohicago Opera Company, who has | | just returned from New York after a| | conference with Miss Mary Garden, the director, deciared that the problem of | | the organization “is to transfer the sponsorship of grand opera from the social register to the telephone bool. “Miss Garden believes this can best be done by the creation of a group of 500 «underwriters, representing ery | phase of Chicago's business, social, 1n- | dustrial, financial and educational fife," pian athe taal NEW ENGLAND MILLS OPEN. << | | Textile PH Rh | (Special to The Evening We GLEN FALLS, Conn., March 8.—ive | | Woolen mills here and the old Fietcher | Mills at Central Village wre running once more, this morning. Windham Count; ic plants, are now $ again, The great new cotton mills o Nyanza Mills Company in Woonso » started up this morning, adding 200' to the list of textile workers on @ payroll once more, FARA RAL taporiers Since RIOR Mc Gibbon & Cn. AND 3 WEST 37TH ST. “ONE DOOR FROM FIFTH AVENUE FURNITURE OF QUALITY CONSISTENTLY PRICED Solid Mahogany Desk; Secretary and Boudoir Desk; Refectory and Davenport Tables, Sofa End, Console, Gateleg and Tipleaf Tables. Carved Oak Arm and Side Chairs, Windsor Arm, Side and Rockin Chairs, Overstuff Sofas, Arm and Side Chairs, Wing and Slip- per Chairs, Chaise ongues and Day Beds. NOTE—An attractive assemblage of Floor and Table Lamps and Shades. Interestingly Priced. FRUTCHEY SILK SHOP | 4. WEST. 40TH STREET NEAR FIFTH AVENUE $1.95 yard—Old Fashion Remnant Sale ~Short ends (1!; to 6 yards), six weeks’ accumulation of Canton Crepes, Taffeta, Crepe de Chine, Spring Foulards, Char- meuse, Satins, Plain and Printed Radiums, Sportsilks, Chiffons—Wed- nesday, March th, 1921, 9 A. M. sharp. This Old Fashion Remnant Sale is not a sale of old-fash- ion remnants. Mr. Frutchey emphasizes it. You get—as long as they last—fresh qualities, wanted colors, at a price that reminds you of days gone by. Reason? To make friends and to make room. Thirty-fourth Street 4 (heavy Size 2x2 yards ‘ Size 2x214 yards ; Size 2x3 yards . Table Napk (circula! Size 2x2 yards | Size 2x2!4 yards . Size 2x3 yards 5 Size 22x22 inches, per Size 24x24 inches, per Guest size . Room size, per dozen Household Linens of superior quality taken from regular stock and specially re- priced to meet the inevitable demand for Spring replenishment. All-linen Damask Table Cloths Sizes 22x22 inches, per doz. Sizes 24x24 inches, per doz. Double Satin Damask Table Cloths #. Altman & Cao. MADISON AVENUE = FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK weight) each $7.50 & 9.00 | each 9.00 & 10.75 each 10.50 & 12.75 ins to match $9.00 & 9,75 10.75 .& 11.50 r designs) each $10.50 & 11.50 ~ each 12.50 & 14.50 each 14.50 & 17.50 Table Napkins to match $10.50: & 13.25 12.75 & 14.50 doz. doz. All-linen Huckaback Towels (hemstitched) per dozen $9.00 & 11.00 12.00, 15.00 & 18.00 : (Fourth Floor, Madison Avenue section) 3 8. Thirty-fifth Street _ For to-morrow (Wednesday) and Thursday Bed Furnishings of the reliable sort from stock and marked at decided concessions from regular prices. taken White Biankets Cotton-and-wool, per pair, $5.50, 6.75, 9.50 Genuinely all wool per pair + « « $11.50, 13.50, 22.50 Comfortables: Figured silkoline, cotton-filled, Tussah silk, wool-filled B each $3.75 each 10.50 White Bedspreads Crochet . . «© «© «~ each $2.95 Crinkled Dimity (hemmed) i Size 2 x234 yards » «+ each $2.15 Size 244x234 yards » «+ + each 2.75 Satin-finish (scalloped) Size 2 x254 yards A . each $6.00 Size 244x234 yards ~ «+ each 7,50 Also Muslin Sheets and Pillow Cases at value-giving prices ds Hts (mh 420—Jardiniere of Geese, si 7 dnches tn div. Price $10. VINGTON’S has been known for three gen- erations as the shop for fine china and glassware. Ovington’s is also known as the shop for distinctive gifts whose novelty js as refreshing as their taste is faultless. 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