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to the Senate, after 6 Aight against the traction nto When it canie to the count- fing Of the votes, the Senatbr wasn't ‘Were He voted to ndvance the bill jew York forget the friends who sx00d up in the Aght for home . in addition to the five Repub- who. stood in the breach, all have been against the ‘from the start, and their names Senators James J. Walker, Joho lan, Marty McCuc, Peter J, Me- , Daniel F. Farrell, Jeremiah F. , Bernard Downing, Nathan Jt, Salvatore A. Cotillo, Henry ‘Bhackho, John J, Dunnigan. “Mh addition to the Democrats and Republicans is Edmund Seldel, the ‘fie Bocialist in the Senate, who has ‘been Againat the bill from the begin- re I ) . Bieven Democrats, one Socialist and Sx Republicans formed tho phalanx went down to defeat with the ‘traction bili. The majority party got 26 Votes on’ the advancement of the} | Measure, which brought It to where Mt is to-day—in line for final passage. “The loss of the friends of New York among their own people came the defection of Schuyler Meyer William T. Simpson and their with the vote of Senator Burlingame. Mr. Bur- was in the seat of the Presi- the Benate when Senator moved that the enacting the bill be stricken out. The the question was a rising as Senator Burlingame put question, Senator James asked the Chair how he returned Senator a simile, and his the eighteenth against the eight short of the number which ‘would have killed the mcasure. Hot shot was poured into the pro- ponents of the bill during the debate its advancement yesterday, and ‘opposed to it certainly made it that neither Senator Lusk nor Knight of the Public Ser- mittee, knew what they were talking about; that the bill was @imply a party measure, which had to be passed under orders because the traction companies, in whose interests ‘the bill appears to have been drawn, ‘want It passed. Mr. Knight, until a few days ago, ERTERE? ry i Ht y the subway only as ‘the thing that all the ting was about.’ Clayton Lusk, majority leader, de- ¢lared that there must be a change in Subway, in the increase of fares, because of immorality the crowd- @4 condition of the subways was Producing. Senator Marty McCue re- @ponded to his plaint that he sup- that increased fares would keep 6 poor people out of the sub- ways, and that the result would be st the poor girls and women would ‘be _no longer subjected to temptation, ‘The big fight that the G. O, P. lead- have been making over night is More votes from Greater New fork. They have been on the trail of Burlingame and claim that already have Maxwell Harris. have given up all hope of get- the votes of Lockwood, Duggan, Tolbert and Katlin, in their trious Dead,” and the Rt the 27th, delivered the eulogy. are men who went over with the 27th a TTRBUTE AT PER |e HONORS DEAD FROM OVERSEAS Impressive Service Over 1,609 More Bodies Brought From Battlefield Graves. Memorial services for 1,009 more! American soldiers killed in battle In France were held to-day on mortuary pler No, 4, Hoboken, | Battalions of honor from every Na- tional Guard regiment in New York | st od at attention throughout the services conducted by four former army chaplaina and attended by rep- resentutives of nearly every post of the American Legion in Greater New York, former officers of the 27th and | 77th Divisions and more than a hun- dred mothers who had lost sons in the war, | American flags draped every one of | the 1,473 caskets which had already | been removed from the Army Trani port Somme, on which the bodies had been brought from France, In Sec- tion D, where the services were held, were 120 caskets, mostly of men who had gone over with the 27th and 77th, New York's divisions, the 30th and the Ist and 24 Divisions. | ‘The wervices were opened with “Nearer My God to Thee," played by the 23d Regiment, Brooklyn Nativnal Guard, band, and Rabbi Lee J. Levin ger, formerly a chaplain of the 77th, delivered the invocation, Father Peter Hoey, formerly chaplain of the 107th, read the ritual for the dead, after which the band played “Our Iilus- . Dr, Her- bert Shipman of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, formerly chaplain of These soldiers. gaid Dr, Shipman, fought the fight and won for us, vindicating the honor and the man- hood of America. It is not right we share in their victory unless we share with them in their sacrifices. Rey. Frank J, Hanscom, formerly of the 106th Infantry, pronounced the} benediction. The band played “After the Battle,” and as the buglers sound- ed “Taps” the big crowd on the pier stood, the pauses between the notes broken by the sobbing of mothers in the audience, Two hundred and fifty of the dead and thirty-six are former 77th men. Only 137 of the 1,609 are unidentified. One of them, it was announced, i known as the “soldier with the ring. His body waa dininterred in the Ver- dun sector which had been fought over by the 35th Division, composed of troops from Kansas and Missouri strengthen ‘heir position by that the majority of the Re- of Greater New York are in of the bill. realize that if Greater Net showed a solid front against the the up-State Senators would not pass it. ‘ Traction Bill provides for a ‘Transit Commission, members of must be residents of New York, which is to be charged with the duty of reorganizing the traction in New York City, with the of unifying them and ultimate members of the commission be appointed by the Governor serve for a term of five years. mey, however, be removed by When their work is Servi resent Public Service Com- of the ist and 2d Districts, Transit Construction Com- of New York are abolished their place a single State- commission of five members is two of whom are from New York City, w= ice _ ‘The members of the commission ‘will be appointed by the Governor eS cat cen eects may ‘be removed only on a two-thirds vote of the Senate and Assembly, The Rew commission will have furisdic . thon over all public utilities and will tho: to increase as well as rates for service, regardless restrictions, if, in the it of the commission, the in- is warranted. 2 AMENDMENTS ARE _ VOTED DOWN IN THE ASSEMBLY Bven One Designed to Prevent Immediate Raise On Pare, Is Killed. AUBANY, March 16.—When the ‘Traction bill came up for advance- i i National Guard. There was no cross over his grave, no tags on his body, no marks of any kind that could lead to hie identification, nothing but a small gold signet ring, evidently a hich school class ring, bearing the inscription “M, H. 8. 1910." The soldier was dressed as an officer and was 6 feet 10 inches tall, Bodies will be turned over to rel- atives beginning to-morrow, accom- panied by a soldier escort, and will remain draped until placed in their final burying ground. COTILLO BILL WINS IN SENATE HEARING Opposition to Measure Designed to Protect Aliens Here With- drawn. ALBANY, March 16,—Billa for State supervision of dealers in stocks and bonds are to be sent to the scrap heap. The legislative Committees on Banks has decided to junk two measures of the blue-sky brand. The bosses bave agreed that this year, with a depressed market and hart money, is a bad time to upset con- ditions in Wall Street. The Duell bill, which prohibits a broker from charging more than 6 per cent. on call loans, is also acheduled for defeat. About the only popular bit of bank- ing legislation that will have smooth sailing is that urged by Senator Cotillo and The Bvening World. At a hear- ing to-day representatives of express and steamship companies agreed to a proposal to subject agents accepting money for transmission to fore; countries to superyision of the State. Senator Cotilio insisted ‘Lat unless they did #o he would ask that the right to transmit money be taken away from them. Cotillo will amend his bill so that steamship and express agents shall have to file a bond with the State Comptroller and report the exact sum received for tranamission and the amount of the commission. @ent in the Assembly, Minority Leader Charles D, Donohue offered Chree amendments, intended to pro- ‘Yide for referendum at the Novem- ‘ber election on the propositian to in- Grease fares in New York City. Wor the election of the three mem- ‘ars of the proposed commission, ‘The Governor would nae three members to werve until Jan. 1, 1°22, when the @lected commissioners would assume Por the municipal operation of the transit lines. __ All three amendments were rejected, first and second by a vote of 90 4 ‘65, and the third hy 103 to 41. Assemblyman Jesee then offered his iments, which had been voted ‘@t the conference of Republican ms earlier in the day. : Jesse amendments were host by Wote of 88 to 60, _ Assemblyman “Marion G. ro, i of New York, submitted pico ctihe Deanna PINT OF BEER EVERY 10 DAYS No Change Rale Here Uniess Washington Says So. Charles KR, O'Connor, director of pro- hibition, announced to-day that not- withstanding former Attorney General Palmer's ruling which permits phyai- clans to prescribe beer in unlimited quantities, he would not chi the restriction in force here until he re elved direct orders from Washington. ‘This means that until such orders are received doctors will be permitted to prescribe for a patient only onw pint of beer in ten days. Connecticut Bars Savin; HARTFORD, Conn., March 16.—Day- Hight saving time in Connecticut to be fixed by local ordinance was denied all ities and towns by the General As sembly to-day. The Senate adopted, 19 to 14, the bill of the Agricultural Committée, wi reaffirms Standard ‘Time moms be the only time in Con- An DaylMebt } | In $10,000,000 LOAN FROM STATE FOR HOUSING PLANNED (Continued From First Page.) with a sub-committee in each city with a population of 600,000 or more, which will administer the fund and allot building loans. The committee would finance two kinds of residential projects—small one or two family dwellings and big multi-famfly houses. The home- seeker applying for aid would fur- nish the lot free and clear. ! The Lae ete SERV) FoR THe Socom Ay PER 4 HOBpoKEN SLEEP SICKNESS MICROBE FOUND, Head of Swedish Laboratory Said to Have Discovered Disease Is Infectious. STOCKHOLM, March 16. R, KLING, head of the State Bacteriological Laboratory, is reported to have dis- covered the microbe of “sleeping sickness” and to have established that the disease is infectious. Dr. Kling inoculated rabbits with brain matter from persons who died of the disease. Mesmeric Eye of Ship’s Doctor Bests Lanky Bob Fighting Kangaroo Had Things His Own Way Until Optic Was commission would then advance « building loan for the full value of the house, but not in excess of 80 per cent. of the combined value of the land and building. The Ioan could be covered by a 6 fer cent. first nortgage equal to the amount of the building loan plus the land. Semi-annual payments would run for fifteen or twenty years. Upon| completion of the building the mort- gage would be offered to the public fag @ tax-exempt, 51-2 per cent. hous- ing bond and the proceeds made} avaliable for reinvestment. | All houses under this plan would be built under the direct supervision of a State architect, The half of 1 per cent. profit on the transactions, it is figured, would pay au the expenses of the commission and its staff, Mr. Hirsch's announcement follows! a resolution adopted by the Central ‘Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York, which is pushing the movement. The labor representatives working on the plan with Mr. Hirsch, Dr, Copeland and Mr. Gompers are Edward I. Hannah, William Kehoe, John Coughlin, James Costello and John Sullivan. The committee will meet again March 19 at ihe Mar- seilles Hotel. —>—- PAY OF 10,000 TO BE CUT. Weatcheater and Greenwich © tractors Announce 13 Per Cen Reduction. ‘The Westchester County Bullding 8 Employers’ Association, com- prinag all contractors in the county and Greenwich, Conn, announced to- day that they had unanimously voted to cut the wayes of all skilled and un- akilled labor 13 per cent. Goble, Chairman of the association, paid the cut would be put into otfect April 1. Nearly 10,000 employees will be affect al k The only class of workers excepted is the masons. They will continue to recelve $9 a day, maid Mr. Goble, ‘The labor unions are expected to oppese the reduction, WAR RAGES OVER PEANUTS. League ef Nations Not Consulted by Rival Carb Merchants, A dispassionate survey of the retail peanut business, which rages daily in the gutter at South Fourth and Have- meyer Streets, Brooklyn, to-day estab- lished the fact there is commercial rivalry among the magnates of the trade, and the advantages of arbitration cs percial disputes ls not recognized the nels! ‘ood, If there had been arbitration George Pellotes, Noo. 135 Grand Street, a prom- Inent peanut merchant, would not have been soaked on the jaw with a club George Korkeas would not have been ar rested for assault, tho peanut would not have been upset, and some the bows of the vicinity would have ee. caped the stomach aches that come from too many peanuts taken internally, The le was cach merchant claimed exclusive rights to the gutter market, phe lt Murder of Py Pwo Sentenced f lee man, Cy Oberson of Ridgefield Park and William Gleason, who wei involved in the murder of Policeman John necticut, Will now goes to Goy. 4 ————— Killea By Escaping Gas. sear Arete a at, No. 65 an uncapped ‘stub ot @ pipe in ar | wast Ritter of that place, were sentenced in Hackensack to State Prison to- day. Oberson, who confessed that he fired the shot which killed the po- licoman on the night of Sept. 6 laa sent to prison for life. Gleason ‘was sent to prisoh tewen' thirty years, Focused on Him. . “Lanky Bob,” the boxing kangaroo of the Shipp & Feltus Circus, bound to-day for Rio de Janiero from Ho- boken on the Lampert and Holt line vessel Vestris, licked his trainer, Tuin Follins, sent the crew scampering and delayed the sailing of the ehip until he was vanquished by the mesmeric eye of the ship's doctor, Amon Jen- kins, | ‘Tom Collins, who was once an Eug- ish antamweight, took “Lanky| Bob" from his cage to show htm off] to an acquaintance, “Lanky Bob") made « pass at Tom, who dodged, but not sufficiently to avoid a swish | of Bob's tail, which sent him spraw- ling to the deck. Then “Lanky Bob” turned to meet woomers, but they were all going. fle hopped to the stern of the Vestris and held at bay all who attemptod to induce him to return to the cage, brandishing his dukes and tall ter- rifyingly. "The crew went for Dr. Jenkins, who sald later he used to be a mesmerist, and he walked calmly to “Lanky Bob's" corner, fastened his glims on him and then led Bob, a meek kankaroo now, to his cage, and the Vestris went away from here, ——————_—__. ARTIST SUES FOR GEMS. Friend of FH. Peabody Flagg Nad Bequeathed Them to Girls, SYRACUSE, March 16.—H. Peabody Fiags, landscape painter of New York, whose canvases have been xhibited both in Europe and the United States, -|uppeared before Surrogate Sadler to- day to obtain possession of two din- monds in possession of the estate of Hiram R. Converse of Jordan. The diamonds wih be produced In court by Alfred L. Lewis of Jordan, executor of the will which gave the gems to Emily and Caroline Beecher of New York. Miss Emily Beecher is a Vassar College graduate and her sister a Vassar senior. ‘They lived in New Haven, Conn,, when Mr. Converse drew his will, but now make their home in New York. Loans were made to the artist by Mr. Converse and the latter was given the gems ax security. | Converse dis- Posed of them in ha will becuse he bad not seen his friend, Mr. Flagg. in several yeara and belleved Mim dead, dali RY ae ae CALLED TO RUSSIA. Dancing Master Asked Kronstadt Rebelito “invitation was received here to by Ivan’ Narodny, Russian dancing master and author, he sald, to go tm mediately to Kronstadt to take charge of tho antl-Bolshevist rebellion there. Mr, Narodny was prominent in the 1905 rebellion and later escaped to the United States. ‘The invitation rodny said, ‘by te Lead An was sent, Mr, Na- the “Counef of the Kronstadt whose spectal measénger left |, Esthonia, two weeks ago with a report of the recent uprising, the general meaning of which is the rebels have risen against the prevailing soviet regime solely’ to oa tablish the United States of Russia.” you #UW pownr ain Pes THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAROH 16, 19 BABY GUY STILLMAN HALTS ATTEMPT 10 CALL OFF LAWSUIT rhc nchiimnnet (Continued From First Page young and beautiful two-year-old child. A little later Mr. Stiliman went to Florida on his yacht “Modesty” and remained several weeks, Cornelius J. Sullivan of Mr. Still- man’s counsel departed from his rule of not talking about his clients to- day to the extent of denying a press association despatch to the effect that Mr. Stillman was in consultation with his wife to-day at Lakewood. He sald the Stillmans had not met re- cently at Lakewood or anywhere else. Mr. Mack is not concerned at all with the stories current in West- chester and Dutchess Counties as to the reasons for the abrupt postpone- ment of the divorce action for an in- definite time except as they Indicate that his baby client's interests are imperilied. Reports as to the con- tents of the amended answer, pre- woman with @ 21. w York’s Soldier Dead From Fields of France; Migh School Ring Only Clue to Identity of One Hero in this settlement abd will accept no other terms, No ‘quict divorce’ in come other country or State will tm- prove his staras, nor can it be used to sanction another marriage which might decrease his share of the In- heritance, Nor will he, through me, pt any settlement involving a payment In exchange for his honorable right to his name.” James Stitiman is living tn this city and Is attending a boy's school. Misa Anne Stillman ts ut boarding a Alexander Stillman, eleven years old, is with his mother and Guy Stillman at Lakewood. ‘The New York household, according to friends of the family, was broken up when Mr, Stillman first made charges aguinst his wife a year ago. There was an open quarrel between James and his father. Mrs. Stillman discharged all of the household ser- vanta under her control in the Park Avenue apartment and went to live at Poeantiog Hills, The daughter divides her school va- cations between her parents; it. is sald to be at her instance that Mrs. Stillman at first decided to make a negutive defense to her husband's charges, presenting evidence that they were untrue and it was fot un- til she found herself involved before the public in the charges involving the French Canadian woodsman that she consented to allow her lawyers to formulate into charges the open gos- p affecting a former chorus girl with a two-year-old baby who has been living in luxury in an east side apartment and at an expensive hotel. Brssctitinasor scl LIVED ON POTATOES AND DOGS IN RUSSIA Former Moscow Manufacturer Ar- rives Here After Arduous Escape ‘From Soviet Capital. Lew Joffe, formerty a rion sugar refiner “and paper manufacturer of pared for filling in Mrs. Stillman’s be- half and not filed as the result of the last moment adjustment, are freely made the subject of gossip in Pough- keepsie and White Plains; the per- son named as co-respondent in Mrs. Stillman's answer is known by word of mouth; inquiries in places where she has llved during the last year or two have indicated that the legiti- macy of another infant might have been brought into controversy had the ease been allowed to pursue its course, ;HE'LL PROTECT BOY'S NAME AND PROSPECTIVE WEALTH. ‘Whether these are the inducements | which have led to the temporary end- ing of legal hostilities between Mr. and Mrs. Stillman, or whether a money sgttlement has been reached, which made it unnecessary for her to press her claim for $25,000 counsel fee and $120,000 a year alimony, does not appeal to Mr. Mack as hav-| ing anything to do with the property rights of Guy Stillman or his future good name. Under the will of James Stillman, the banker’s father, an estate esti- mated at from 40,000,000 to $50,000,- 000 was disposed of. Certain large sums are understood to have been given outright to his children before his death, The will left to his two daughters, Mrs. W. G. and Mrs. Percy A. Rockefeller, in trust, the income of $3,500,000. In the event of the death of either of them the interest of $1,000,- 000 of her $3,500,000 principal was to be divided among her lineal descend- ants, The interest of the remainder was to ibe added to the incomes of his three sous, James A., Charles Chaun- cey and Ernest G, Stillman, from the interest on the residuary estate, It was estimated that each of them would draw interes from a@ trust fund of §7,500,000, uuu that this in- come would continue to be divided among their children. ‘Thus, Mr. Mack explains, under the will little Guy Stillman has a pre- sumptive interest in the income of one-fourth of $7,500,000 or more on the deuth of James A. Stillman, un- Jess his legitimacy ls successfully con- tested. It inight be brought into question many years from now by any of the other children, of whom there ure three, or by their children, on the basis of the action in the pend- ing suit making Quy Stillman @ co- defendant with his mother. Mr, Mack is known among the members of the bar of the Ninth Judicial District as a@ relentless lighter, He takes the ground openly that no ettlement to the temporary advantage of Mrs. Stillman or her husband, elther financially-or in the elimination of scandal, ts binding upon the child by Stillman, “Phe legitimacy of this child has been questioned by the man legally assumed to be his father,” he has told his associates at the bar. ‘The case has been brought, The charge is to be proved or disproved now follow him and his heirs through the years affecting their good name and thelr material possessions. My duty tw that little boy is to insist that every bit of evidence affecting his legitimacy be brought into court or else that a declaration forever bind- ioe om all scorers is made by bis father, acknowledging Guy man he record. through while it is fresh and not to be left to} Moscow, Russia, landed in New York to-day from the steamship Drottning- holm, of the Swodish-American line, and told a strange story of his escape from Russia, He sald he and his wife and daughter had ltved on dogs and potatoes for six months In Moscow after the confisca- tlon of their fortune and business by the Seviet government. His father and other relatives, he safd, were shot as they tried to escape. Later Joffe, his wife and daughter, walked to the suburbs of the city, found a motor car which the Bolshe- vists had been using, got into it and sped away. They drove at top speed until the gasoline gave out, then walked, They walked at night and hid by day | and eventually ruached safety at Rixa, | where Joffe left the two women whilc he came to Amerie: some money in Am banks and will soon bri here. He fs at th ing his fai eC re Hi > RED TAPE BARS AID | TO HERO WOUNDED Witness at Legion’s Inquiry Cites Many Cases of Nation’s Neglect. The Investigating Committee of the American Legion, Department of New York, resumed its hearing in the City Hall yesterday and adjourned till 3 Pp. M. next Tuesday. Col, Wicker- sham acted as Chairman, Harold A. Littledale of the staff of the New York Evening Post, who served as a private in the army dur- ing the war, appeared before the! committee and told of the treatment of disabled ex-service men by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the) United States Public Health Service| and the Federal Board for Vocational Training He made an investigation lastir ny months. of the billion dollars that spent presumably in re-~ habilitating disabled soldiers, and cited case after case where disubled soldiers had been left without hos- pital or medical treatment, without training and without compensation, because of the red tape involved, which was due to the dhree-system method of handling the cases. TEA ROOM RAIDED BY DRY DETECTIVES Mrs. Thornton, Actor’s Wife, and a Waiter Arrested After Officers Say They Bought Drinks. fhe Green ‘Tea Room, conducted in the basement of a building in West 48th Street by Mra, Josephine Thornton, wife of Jimmie Thornton, actor, was raided last night by detectives of Inspector Samuel Belton’s Special Service Squad. Mra Thornton was arrested on a charge of maintaining & public nuisance, and a walter employed by hes, Waiter Mart- zen, thirty-one, of No. 193 Sinclair Ave~ nue, Princess Bay, 8. L, way arrested charged with violating the Volsted act, ‘The arrests were made ufter detec- tives allege they purchased four drinky of whiskey for $4, Seti Dies From Tew-Story Fall, James Cummings, twenty-six years old, of No. 2646 Bighth Avenue, died at Flower Hospital to-day from in juries he received when he, fell from he tenth floor of the building under construction late yeste: bul 300 Park Avenue oan HNTS THAT STOES WILL NOT TESTI -——TOMELPHS CSE (Continued Fron? First Page.) twice Mr. Wallace was knew Mr. Wallace. Q. When you saw Mra. Stokes in Wallace's room what was the state of her clothing? A. She generally wore a kimono. Under cross-exumination ness anid she remembered there. Sho the wit- very dis- Unetly her first visit to Wallac wpartment just before Christma: 1917." Both Wallace and Mrs. Stokes were in the apartment that day, she sald. Since spring of 1918, she etated, over the amendment of the Stokes complaint tu admit Wallace as a co- rexpondent. LYONS SHOWED HER PICTURE OF WOMAN, The witness said that a i;an named Lyons had taken her from Mr. Well- man’s office to the court. Q Did Lyons ever ask you if you had seen & woman in Wallace's apart- ment? A. He asked me if 1 remem- bered seeing any one. \ Q. Did he show you a photograph of a woman? A. Yeu Q. When Lyons showed you the pie- ture did he tell you who it was? A. He didn't have to. I knew the pic- ture as that of the woman I had| served meals to in Wallace's apart-| ment Q. Did you know her name? A. I only knew her as “Helen.” Leslie 8, Petrie, secretary and cashier to Mr. Stokes, succeeded on the stand and was asked by Mr. Wellman to state when Mr. Stokes went to his Kentucky farm in 1918. Mr. Littleton objected, retorting that Mr, Stokes could best answer “if | you'll put him on!” Mr. Wellman no rejoinder to this made r. Littleton says call Mr. Stokes,’ Mr, Wellman interjected, “and if 1| do he'll eay all the defendant can} testify to ie the date of t marriage.” ‘Oh, no, Mr. Wellman,” the oppos- ing attorney replied, to his acts of cruelty, Mr, Wellman did his best to get Petrie’s testimony on the record, but Mr. Littleton’s objections, sustained by the Court, were an effective bar- ner. Petrie had a large and formid- ably thick volume which apparently recorded the comings and goings of W. EB D. Stokes, but he made no use of it other than to pack it under his arm and leave the stand. Joseph A. Thornton, a colored man who used to be Superintendent of No. 13 Bast 36th Street, said that he had seen Mra. Stokes come to the house ia 1914 and 1916. Q. How many times? A. So many times I couldn’t tell—about two dozen tumes. I didn't keep count. Q. Are you sure of the identity of the woman? A. Yes. She used to call me Joe. I never called her anything. Q. Did you get taxis for her? A. Yes, at 34th Street and Park Avenue. Q. How did you know she wanted) “He can testify a taxi?) A. From the maid or Mr. Wallace's asking me to get one.| (This question and unswer were stricken out) Q. What time did the taxis come? A. In the alternoon and sometimes at night. Q. Who got into the taxi? Stokes. Q. Did she give any address as to where she was to be taken? A. Not in my presence. The witness, who said he lived in Spring Valley, stated in answer to questions by Mr, Littleton, that he met Mr. Stokes last Api That day, he said, Stokes came to see hin at No, 135 Fifth Avenue, But he didn’t know Stokes nor of the exist- ence of the case of Stokes vs. Stokes. Last September or October Stokes took him to a court room in the County Courthouse and there pointed out to him a man on a@ third row bench, Q. Who was the man? A.1 don't remember his name now, but he was a friend of Mr. Wallace's. ‘ Thornton testified that he had made # statement in April, 1920, to Mr, Stokes, who took it down. Later this ‘was signed and sworn to, Q. Did you know there was a Stokes ve, Stokes case in existence then? A. 1 did not, Q. Didn't you mow the A. Mra. the top of the page. Q. Did he shew you a picture of a woman? A. Yes. Q. Was sho dreseet? A. Yes. Q Did you engage to do any work for Mr. Stokes? A, Yes, I looked two people he wanted to locate, cy were Lillie Brown, who was maid to Mr, Waftace, and Maggio Johnson, who worked for me at the 35th Street _houve. Q. Did Stokes pay you anything? A. Two dollars for carfare, Q. Has he promised you anything in case be wins this onse? A. No. ‘The witness said he brought both women to eee Stokes and they made Signed statements, Q. When did you see Mra. Stokes first after having seen her, as you say, at the 36th Street house? A. Here in court tust » T had not seen her since May or June, 1916. ‘Then ghe was getting out of a taxi- cab and going into No. 18 Past 35th Street. Q. When did you first Mrs. Stokes there? A. In the ner of 1914, when «he came in vxi with Mr. Wallace. They t all duy in the house. Mr. Littleton tried to pin the wit- ness down to dates when be saw ‘Mra. Stokes at the 35th Street house, but Thornton could only generalize He said. he was sure he had secn her in the autumn of 1914, Sometimes she came alone, be said, and sometimes “with other ladies’ He said be saw her in August, 1914, and about three weeks later, about Sept. 7, he thought. Q. Will you swear that the woman you saw in September, 1914, w the game one who is now sitting nere (in- dicating Mrs. Stokes)? A. Yes, I wiil. Q. Did. you know that Mrs. Stokes she had pe seen Me Stokes until bout Lire: weeks in Justice | fords Court during (he argument the Navy Ya either by passing through the gaté at Sands Street « scaling the ten-foot wall. Guards the gate said Clark and the ( did not leave by th ESCAPE OF MARINE. “AND GUARD UNDER INQURY BY NAVY Clark, Accused of Deserting in Germany, Believed to Have Scaled Wall. A board of Inquiry was appointed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to-day to bs. Clark of the Marine Corps, said to be the son of wealthy. New Haven parents, escaped from the yard Mon day night at the sane time this Kuard, said to he Private Mills, disappeared Private Churk was under changes of désertion from the 6th Regimen: |of Marinéé at Honningen, Germany jon June 5 last We an reported to have deserted to vis jis home, but was caught in Paris Ut, 8, having failed to secure passage to America He was returned to his regiment and determine low Private Lewis eventually sent here for court martial While awaiting trial bis lawyer, Emery Weller, caused his produc tion before Federal Judge Garvin on Monday in hubeas corpus proveed- ings, Weller claimed that youth's enlistment term hud expired he could not be held, Dut the cour ruled it could set no such precedent and sent Clark back to the naval au- thorities, After returning to the Navy Yard Clark complained of feeling il) ana us sent the dispensary unde guard. Neither he nor the guard ha deen seen since, The guard's rifle and bayonet also are missing. There are but two ways of leaving the at way LOSES HIS TAXI Sidney Joust of No, 945 Hast 1624 Street, started in the tax! business last night with a brand now car and lost it at the end of his first trip early two-day. Joust picked up his first fare at 119th Street and Broadway, according to bie story to the police. He says his passun- ger asked to be driven to 162d Street and Third Avenue, where the fare In- vited him to have a drink, As soon as his feet were settled on the brass rail, Joust says, his passenger nodded to two men at the door, who jumped into the taxi and drove It awa: ‘As Joust saw the tail lights disappe he grabbed his man and yelled for the police. Detective McCarton took Joust’s prisoner to the station house. ‘The name of the prisoner {3 given by the police as Max Schultz, chauffeur of No, $52 Dawson Street, who, It ts sald, owns four taxicabs in the Bronx. that on the eleventh of that month she gaye birth to a child? A. f did not. Q. Did you sen her come to th: house in the Summer of 19 A. Ye She came in a_ privat ntor cat There was a lady witn her, On at other occasion, one or two weeks later to the house ‘but did not go ‘allace, according to the wil- ness, coming out to talk with her Q. Don't you know, haven't you learned that Mrs. Stokes left New York for Lexington, Ky. in June, 1916, and did not return until Octobe 1915? ‘A. I have not learned. Q You said that you saw her in the summer of 1915. A. 1 saw her during the warm weather. Q. When did you see her again after the warm weather? A. I didn't wee her in cold weather ‘because T wasn't on the street then. a Don’t confuse Price with Valuet $10 is certainly low for a good low shoe, but at the “four corners,”” _‘there’s Quality at every step! As strict about “‘all- leather for shoes’ as we are about “all-wool - for clothes.” O. “Composite Derbies, whic re a composite of our ost becoming styles, conform without “conform. ing’’--flexible where they touch the head. *Registered Trademark ROGERS PEET COMPANY Broadway Broadway at 13th St. “Four at 34th St. Convenient Broadway Comers” Fifth Ave, at Warren at 41st Sp. ‘was in Denver in September, 1914, and