The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1921, Page 10

«the purchasing power of the dollar 1 FYLAN KLS BL ~AIING WAGES OF CTY POLE FORE T (Continued From First Page.) ‘ether city officials in the last two spears. The Legislature likewise knew @oat it was responsible for the deficit fm the school budget and also re- sponsible for the tremendous increase fn the tax rate and the precarious condition of our municipal finances @ue to mandatory legisiation. “Is the little house owner t> have ‘his home confiscated which he has Striggicd to provide for his wife and children, by being taxed to death? ‘Is the wage earner, now on reduced ‘wages and faced with the menace of gmemployment, which is rapidly in- creasing, to be confronted with evic- tion through inability to meet the increased rents which the landivrd emands to help pay the Increased taxes? These are consequences which follow in the wake of mandatory leg- islation and the disregard of home rule at Albany. | “The great mass of police have an amterest in the welfare of the people of the city and do not expect another Increase at this time, particularly so knowing the financial condition of the ity. “it our Albany legislators continue the Niagara of mandatory legislation dt spells bankruptcy for the City of New York. “The present indications are that is increasing. Nevertheless, there ‘wil! be no disposition on the part of fhe present Board of Estimate and Apportionment, as far as I am con-/ cerned, to reduce the salaries of city ‘employees who have received gener- ‘ous increases, although instances are @t hand that private employers have taken a less liberal attitude. “It has been sald that it would be food politics for me to approve this |bill. T will not play politics with the 's money. Pomc is not an agreeable duty ty with- hold my approval from this measure, for I have a very genuine apprecia- ion of the value and merit of the men of ‘the Police Department. The consciousness of my official duty im- pels me in the best interests of the ctty to return the measure disap- ee 4 REN SH ~ FOR MAKING WAR ON CROWN FORCES | @Continued From First Page.) fwh High Court in Ireland and the British Ministry recognized the state of war existing, the executions would contravene civilized warfare and the Wictates of common humanity. Cop- fes of the resolutions were sent to President Harding and Pope Bene- Aict. BELFAST, Ireland, April 28.— @pirit and grocery stores on New- townards Road were attacked last night by a mob, which carried off everything portable. The street mistreatment ef women by the Brit- ish forces in Ireland. Mrs, Lawrence relates her experiences during a visit to that country. “I talked to women and girls who declared their bedrooms had beon raided at night,” she says. “One woman who was assaulted told me her story. Her plea that she expected S00n to become mother was disre- garded, I have her sworn statement. She went to a priest the next morn- ing, was sent by him to a solicitor. and now her case ‘has been brought formally to headquarters. “A White Cross investigator told me of a woman whose house had been raided a few days before the birth of her child was expected. Because the military had not found her husband at home, everything in the house was burned, including her clothes and her children’s clothes. When an officer scized the little bundle of clothes for the expected baby the woman pleaded on her knees that she had no means of replacing them. They threw the garments into the fire, beat the woman with thelr rifles and turn her into the streets with her two chii- dren, all of them in bare fect and night clothes.” ————>_— MRS. STOKES GLAD SHE SCRATCHED UP FACE OF HUSBAND (Continued From First Paige.) know the amounts nor the dates of de- posits, “But Mr. Stokes did ask me to walt until after April 1911 for the $1,500 monthly allowance,” she added, “say- ing that he wanted to do this on ac- count of this finances.” Q. Tho total amount given to you and deposited to your account for the 102 months from your marriage to Sept. 5, 1917, was $86, , an ave- rage of $847.97 per month; isn’t that so? A. I'd have to figure it out be- fore I couldanswor , Before we wert married Mr. Stokes promised to give me $1,500 a month. But I ceased fighting over the amount and ac- cepted what he gave me. WROTE HE WAS A_ DEAR SWEET THING. Referring again to the affectionate terma in ‘which Mrs, [Stokes oon- tinued to address her husband, Mr. Smyth read a letter from her dated Oct. 26, 1916, in which she wrote in part: “If you wero here I'd treat you like a child. I'd give you a spanking and put you to bed . . . Bye-bye. Don't stew. In spite of your faults you are a dear, sweet thing.” Q. With allhi s faults you consid- ered Mr, Stokes a dear, sweet thing? A.I may havo written on amusing letter m which I eaid that. Q. Did you mean it? A.I loved him more than he ever Joved me. Mr. Stokes was not in court to hear this as he was {ll at home and sent word he would not be able to be out until to-morrow, Q. Do you remember that in 1913 and which was the scene of the disorder ‘was the centre of the exciting events oft last Jnly and August, The section of the city where riots ocurred yesterday was invested by tilitary forces this morning. After poantily clad occupants of the houses In that neighborhood, which were, for the most part, boarding establish- ments, had had breakfast, they were frdered to the streets while a search was made of the buildings. a BRITISH ABUSE IRISH WOMEN, IS CHARGE LONDON, April 28—A story 1s printed in the Daily News in which Mrs, Pethick Lawrence, who with her Qusdand formerly took an active part im the Suffragette movement, alleges THE HALL MARK. OF QUALITY FOR NINETY YEARS EVERYTHING IN BEDDING~ FRANK AHALL &50N5 25.W-45' ST. NY: ’ “Lost and Found” articles ad in The World or reported to “Lost and Found Bureau.” Room . World Buiiding,.will be leted thirty days, These lists can bo een at any of The World's Offices. “Lost and Found" advertisements ean 00 left at any of The World's W. & J. SLOANE FIFTH AVENUE AND 47th STREET Summer Rugs For Bungalows, Camps, Breakfast Rooms, Sun Parlors and Porches For several years we have sought to secure a Summer Rug of the rush variety, which would not alone be durable and decorative, but which could be sold at a moderate and attractive price. Miami Himalaya Traymore THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1921. ~ afterward you became suspicious that Mr. Stokes was not getting all your letters, that Mr. Tom Stokes, ails brother, waa gotting them and keep- ing them? A. I only know what Mr. W. E. D. Stokes told me, Mr. Smyth then took Mra. Stokes's diary and read from it an entry dated April 17, 1918, which said “I tried to get to Tom but was prevented.” Q. That was the time you allege Mr, Stokes pinned you against the wall, but isn't it a fact that when you tried to got at ‘Tom your bus- band held you until his brother could get away? A, Oh, nonsens: Q. You knew that ‘Tom Stokea was practically a paralytic? A. Weil, practically, but his ‘own daughters couldn't live with him, and you know it. . Mrs, Stokes was asked about her trip to White Sulphur Springs in the fall of 1916 and the events in tl city which followed it, The witness replied that when she came back to the city on Nov. 20, 1916, she went to stay with Mrs. Yerkes at No, 105 West 72d Street, preferring that to weturning to the Ansonia, Then she telephoned her husband and asked him to call on her at Mrs, Yerkus's home. When he arrived Mrs, Stokes broached to him the plan of living elsewhere than at the Ansonia, Mr, Stokes objected. Q. You flew into a rage, didn’t you? A. No, tut Mr. Stokes did and I had to defend myself. Q. Don't you know that Mr, Stokes was confined to his room at the An- sonia for five days after the attack you made on hi at day and that ho bears the scars to this day? A. Not at all. He had me by the throat and in defending myself 1 scratched his face. It was the only part of him 1 coukl reach: HOPES SHE SCRATCHED HIM GoopD. Q. You seratehed him good and plenty, didn't you? A. I hope T did. Mr. Smyth questioned Mrs, Stokes very closely about bh to live at the A NOOO Special Sale! Smart Canton Crepe Frocks for $19.95 Other materials includ- ing Satins, Tricotines, Crepes de Chine, Serges, Taffetas and Georgettes. LUTON eNO You can save as much as $15 in this sale, as many of these dresses sold for as high as $30 to $35. HAWMLTON GARMENT CO. 307 Fifth Avenue Near Sist Street cata caw ("25") $19.95 | stated, an attorney had at the time THOUSANDS KILLED advised her to return to her husband at that hotel. “[ did not want elther of my ebildren to be born in the Ansonia,” Mrs. Stokes declared. Q. Didn't your husband write to you complaining that he did not even know when the children were going to be born? A. He put that on paper, but it didn’t mean anything. Mrs. Stokes admitted that at the! time of the birth of both her children Mr. Stokes had been most solicitous about her, She emphasized “at the time.” Q. Didn't you write to your mother when one of your children was born, “If it had not been for Will I don't know what I'd have done?” A. I wrote that directly after [ came out| by of the ether. Tv answer caused a taugh throushout the court room. ‘A telegram from Mr. Stokes to his| recently from directing Jewish wife in Denver, dated Sept. 11, 1914, when Jimmie, the first baby, was Teart and soul with you, Cheer up. Start for Denver to-day.” PONZI TO BE TRIED IN STATE COURT Federal Court Concours in Opinion | brook, a detective of Bridgeport, Conn., He is Subject to Prosecu- tion. BOSTON, April who is serving a five-year sentence as a Federal prisoner In Plymouth County Jail for using the mails to defraud, was|ment, had charged that Holbrook was arraigned in the Superior Court to-day | paid $600 by James G. y Bridgeport, a defendant. the State's many hn a to stand trial on charges against him. The Sheriff was technically arrested for his position that Ponzi as a Federal | arrest in conection with the alleged plot. prisoner was not subject to trial in the courts of the State. however, concurred in the petition of ttorney General. ctual proceedings were brict. nounced they would deny fon of the court, and next was read into the record a8 fol-/| moat’ horrible perpetrated in late years, 28.—Charles Ponat,| alleged international automobile theft The Federal Court, | show. co-operation between Bridgeport |and Detroit officers, and dec! | roughs will be shown to have aided the police in uncovering, the ring.” |no guilty knowledge of the conspiracy charged by the Government. IN RUSSIAN POGROM Cable to Jewish Relief Says Living Victims of Gomel Outbreak Exceed 60,000. A pogrom In the Province of Gomel, White Russia, whose living victims num- ber more than 60,000 and whose dead are estimated at several thousand, was reported to the American Jewish Rellet Committee here jast nlght from its di- ka every man, woman and child was murdered by the bandits, with the exception of two babtes."” Dr, Frank Rosenblatt, who returned rollet work {n Russia for the Joint Distribu- tlon Commit cable, chart and who gave out the erized the pogrom as the ‘This most recent anti-Jewish outbreak as well as others committed In the last few months in White Russia, Is the act of bands of peasant bandits, according to Dr. Rosenblatt. nes DENIES HE GOT HUSH MONEY. DETROIT, Apri 28.—Frank H. Hol- testifying last night as a defenge witness in the trial of five men charged with conspiracy, denied he had received “hush money" from members of the “ring.” Almon C. 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