The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1921, Page 5

+ MEVER HUNTING UP BRIBE OF $14,000 ON CONTRACT 1B His Committee Also Wants All Cancelled Pay Warrants of City’s Heads. To-day's developments in the Meyer legislative committee's probe of the | Hylan administration are: 1, Demand on Comptroller Craig for information concerning alleged bribe of $14,000 paid a city official in connection with a contract, 2, Subpoena of all cancelled pay warrants for members of the Board of Estimate since 1918, including that of former Governor Alfred E. Smith when he was Aldermanic President, and excepting the late Frank L. Dowl- ing, who was Manhattan Borough President. 3. Subpoena for the cancelled pay warrants of every Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner in the city, including those of all the Borough Presidents. 4..A probe into the purchase of 206 auto trucks for the Department of Street Cleaning at a cost of $5,453 @ truck, when, it is alleged, the main portions of these vehicles were listed at $5,000 apiece. 6. Decision to begin an investiga- tion in the Department of Docks on Monday with a corps of accountants under Leonard Walistein, of counsel to the committee, The return to the city to-day of ex- Senator Elon R. Brown, chief counsel to the committee, with result, it is stated by Democratic members in the abandonment of the plan adopted by Associate Counse! Wallstein and Ber- ger of holding executive sessions by | sub-committees consisting of a single Republican member. Mr. Brown, it is reported, is in favor of open sessions for taking testimony, and points to the record of the Lockwood commit- tee as substantiation of his position ‘The investigation of conditions in Queens, particularly those surround ing sewer work, will take up con- siderable time, Subpoenas have also ‘been served on the Comptroller for testimony of T. F. Purcell, a bonding man, and concerning a paving and grading job in Queens in which the name of the Holding Realty Company figures. Al) engineers and assistant engineers of the Queens Borough Government wiill be subpoenaed. Commissioner of Accounts Hirsh- field declared in a statement to-day that if Mayor Hylan had “sold out the people to the traction interests’ ne would be a millionaire to-da He added: “Neediess to had consented to higher fares there would have been no Almirall Grand Jury inquiry or legislative investig4- tion.” ——o7— POLES AND GERMANS CONTINUE FIGHTING Drastic Steps Taken to Stop Loot- ing—Firing Squads Kept Busy. OPPELN, Silesia, June 4 (Asso- ciated Press).—Fighting between Ger- mans and Poles continues in the vicinity of Schimischow, about five miles northwest of Gross-Strehlity The castle owned by Count Stahwitz has been burned. The British are gradually rein- forcing their troops in the plebiscite area, bringing in fresh soldiers and many tanks. KATTOWITZ, Silesi June 4 (As. pd Press). —Dri st aken by the of P insurgents near this busy times re- executed In plundering. Firing every morning a cently six men ha at one tine for ¥ spite of the Poles continue are re ported to have robbed food convoys. ————— CRAZED, KILLS HIS FRIEND, THEN SELF Foreman in Fifth Ave. Coach Cam- pany’s Barn Had Permit to Carry Revolver. Sudden insanity was the only the- ory to-day of the police, relatiy: friends in connection with I Fitzgerald's murder of Micha nerty and suicide at the Fifth Avenue Coach Company's barn, No. 10 Kast 102d Street, last night, Fitzce forty-five, lived at No. 518 West 178th Street and was night foreman. Fi nerty, forty-two, lived at No, 1260 4th Street, Brooklyn, and was the chief of the company's employment bureau. The men had_been employed fifteen years by the and J friends. y was married and wife und two sons, one ten ht. His family could throw no light on the shooting. Fitz- gerald was single. cL Do ASKED $10, TOOK $25. Alleged Hold Up Men Held for Rob- bing and Beating Restaurateur, John White, forty-two years old, of (No, 246 East 87th Street; John I mond, thirty years old, of No, 166 Bas: 67th Street, and Frank Sullivan, twer six years old, of No. 185 Bast § Street, were held In $10,000 each to-day company lived ant of J Second A rielur uv: Pe White, {is charge he owner refused and teman w was d and rob: f igged veil, | at Nocor ding to have alleged Fran and police stolen from Mayer was found on White | Mol eut. 1 the $25 been HAYWARD SWORN IN; TRUCE ENDS LADIES’ GARMENT STRIKE| “LET’S GO,” MOTTO New U. S. District Attorney As- Unions Guarantee Production—|! sumes Duties—No Bed of Biiployees Retain 44-Hour Week Roses, Judge Tells Him. and Minimum Pay. | Col. William Hayward, who com-) A temporary 1 pro- manded the 15th, New York's n vides for iner moby) Tegiment, in France, took the oath union members ani we the dis-| to-day and assumed his duties as charge efficient workers was| United States District Attorney. Waen signed yesterday between ropresen-| asked if he had anything to gay tatives of the International Ladies about his new job, Col. Hayward re- Garment Workers’ Union and the plied: | Cloak, and Skirt Manufacture “Let's go.” Association. The agree- Which, he prociaimed later, will b+, Ment ends—unt!! November, at least— his motto in office as it was the unrest ‘n the industry, which has motto of the American Army at the| had more thin tw front. Within ten minutes after tak-| Since Ins: Octobor, ing the oath In the chambers of} Ina J statement Issued by the Hand, Col, Hayward he union it w Plannin ol Nmission of three against violators of the laws ¢ United States. | “You sire not going into a bel of sald Judge Hand to Hay- ward, “but your ‘record shows ‘hat you have proved yourself able to discharge more dangerous duties than those you are taking up to-day.” aianinanaljinaicosnies roses, FOR FLIGHT TO U. S. England's Largest Airship, Bought by America, Can Fly 5,000 Miles Without a Stop. LONDON, June 4.--Over 700 long and able to lift eighty-three tons, the R-38, Britain's latest and biggest airship, recently purchased by the United States, has been rechristencd the ZR-2 and is ubout ready to fy from England to America. “Yesterday 1 saw the ZR-2 in her shed at the Royal Airship Works at Cardington, near Bedford," writes Major W. ‘T. Blake, the ly News aviation correspondent ne is fitted with six Sunbeam engines, totalling 2,100 horse-power, which give her a speed of sixty-nine miles an hour an enable a non-stop flight of 5,000 mile. to be inusle.” a ee NO ONE-PIECE SUITS FOR BRONX BATHERS They Wouldn't Wear Them Any- how, Says Park Conumissioner, Hennessey, as Resorts Open, Orchard Beach and Pelham Bay the Bronx bathing beaches, draw a high class of bathers that yu ne on bathing costumes ary Park Commissioner Joseph sey dechired to-day when the beaches were t for the scasa ntic City and even As! might find it adv linane hav of costume loxa! class of peopie need to be told not to wear one-piece aking certain t » but the the Bronx do not sul The. cans to duty Inat eraft fo! i patrol to-d ieee HAD A CONEY “DATE.” Jacob Davidoff, No. Metropolitar Avenue, Brooklyn, bookkeeper for the Brook Munutacturing Wompony, N 150 India Street, Brooklyn, was held in $2,000 bail in the “ana Cou to-day on a charge 1 He ix accused of it The police plained that h t Coney Isline _— Soccer Gamen at Ce morrow, The annual outing ar Kerrymen's P. and B fj t Ready foi be held at Celtic Park t || use. No milk, er 2 er Bute Lee air saa |[needed. A wholesome bevera Reo. ia Fills every want for coffee, will battl ? Cavan \ Junior foot ontest: Kerry Kilkenny will clash in a hurling mat and Werry and Clare will meet in senior football game. Fur Storage | Absolute Protection at moderate cost. Repair- ing at during | Protect! BEST ®: 4-ROOM APARTMENT BEST 8500 VALUE SeROOM APARTMENT TEST 8700 VALUE ‘ur Liberal Terms ry ) reement th REV. DR. HERVEY, 82, "7"! 28, {itl ot Chetatian . . ’ » | Sclence Parents, WEDS AUTHORESS, 45. .?* Sere P. Mord, Deputy Medica! , aminer for Staten Island, will hold Jan Inquest to-day into the death of Former President of St. Lawrence | Martha Isabelle DeGross, the four- nln i é year-old daughter of Mr. and Mre, Ed University Marries Hanna Rion, | ward Pectose. No. 80 Crescent ck . oe nue. was being tre: by English Writer. nee practitioner, but | it died physicians The Rev. Dr. Alpheus Baker Hervey, c They diagnosed the case eighty-two yeara old, former President |‘ See The irene ian ‘ é The inquiry is to de- of St. Lawrence University, and Hanna e a neglect on the Rion, an English authoress, forty-five. he s oth who seldom used her family name of Verbeck, were married in Bath, Me. Wednesday, according to advices re-| Yi - ceived here to-day. | Dr. Hervey’s first wife died in 1884. | She was Miss Sarah Eliza Andrew of [ial Malone, N. ¥., and they were married | in 1862, His bride has been a spe w on Lord Northeliffe's Weekly Dispatch, and in 1917 she wae appointed matron of a maternity hospit in Lon- | don, having been instrumental In estab- lishing eleven maternity hospitals in England. , Dr, Hervey from the aH : , UPEN EVENINGS TILE 9, Lawrence Universit Liberty Bends Acceoted at Fab was pastor of Fase Value, New York, 3 4 ery | 1s Fy His son, Charles S. Hervey of Brook » Page | i lyn, formerly Deputy City Comp. | troller and a member of the Public Scr- " yf Vice Commission | i | a Fi | ZR-2 NEARLY READY Special : sa Holzwasser Home Talks No, 471 Values BOGS der DPN esos oseccoccneczceczoncacrco a cammemenicm A Quaint | ZOD 8 t dames MeCreery & Go, dctep/.ones fitz --oy 5440 mms of payment Furniture bought now mey bec in our warebouse storave i (‘THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1921, will be a vere June WOMAN resozntyes 1 fen the VEILY BEST er for_#ix months. a cam 0 ue from Broad APAKTMENM) go Ws vancr 924 $375 $585 st. Up ‘0 tk Un te $M us apply also to New dork Jerey end Counriiert Heliver by Aalto Prien Direc to Your Door, Littlg Home highway ty FOOD PRODUCTS CO, Barchy Sty New) York pecial rates he Summer. ° Broadway at Ninth Street, New York. Business Hours 9 to 5. Telephone Stuyvesant 4700 aM Electric Fans $6 to $42 6 in., 8 in., 10 in. 12 in. and 16 in. sizes. Westinghouse, Western Electric, Crocker-Wheeler, General Electric, Rob- bins & Myers....Some are for alternating current; some for direct current. Seventh Gallery, New Buliding Four Special SALE EVENTS Monday in the Down-stairs Store L Georgette Blouses At the original | cost price..... 494.50 Georgette blouses—as fresh and lovely as a June rose. We told the maker that these June Sales were to be extraor- dinary events, and that we wanted good Georgette blouses at the original wholesale cost. He was willing to help us; and here are the blouses. * * * Overblouses, tie-backs, and the regulation models; some with wide frills; or wide lace trimming; or elaborate embroidery ; or wide silk braid. Many charming styles—- in flesh, white and bisque. Downstatrs Store, Old Building ... Dresses... Were $9.75 to) $8.75 $13.75 .. 62. Summer dresses—the very kinds that are wanted for immediate wear—reduced to this price for Monday's sale. About 100 in all—our own good stock, consisting of two models of genuine ramie linen, in copen, rose, brown and white; and one model in figured voile—brown and navy colorings. These are excellent dre ( s—well made—attractive in every fashion feature. pownstairs Store, Old Building A big round-up of Women’s Skirts The lovely siik styles that are always wanted for Summer wear $22 men $10 $12.75 to grades Here is another surprise and a good one. skirts Ik skirts—sports skirts; the light, dainty, dr uninie kirts that every woman wants for summer wear Crepes de chine, Milano pes. Baronet satins, and other beautiful weaves-—in so many colorings that we can't be- gin to deseribe them Plenty in plain white all ; of happy stripes; and some rich ,dark coloring: Ve gh- grade skirts at this sale price—pleated, shirred. Women's Downstairs Store, Ol Building Standard Bed Sheets reduced in price These are our well-known “Millrose” sheets and pillow cases. They were considered the best sheets to be had in New York at the regular prices; but we have reduced the regular prices still more for this Monday Llousewives will readily see how fine and firm they ar inch inch inch inch inch s inch inch s inch inch s inch size The 2x36 inch size 19x36 inch size 5Ox88'y inch 54x90 68x90 81x108 90x99 90x 108 Sample Fashionable Capes for tiny girls We picture both models, for each is so delightfully original, and adorable, and new, that we didn’t want you to miss seeing either one (although the capes loo’ so very much better than the picture). The little cape at the left is as clever as it can be; a beau- tiful soft felt—in gorgeous searlet, edges frfnged—now what could be more delicious than the saucy little dog em- broidered in black? A cunning little hat matches the cape, which may be had also in other lovely high shades. et, $13.50. The charming little wrap at the right is a very modish knitted affair of wool in de- lightful colorings; with soft fuzzy border of white angora wool; $10.9 Tam to match, $2.50, Third Floor, Old Building Coats,$29.75,$39.50 These prices are exceptionally low No matter where a young girl spends her summer she will need this type of coat. It is the all- around coat that is suitable for town wear on cool da well as for at the seashore, \ j in the moun- Trt tains, or for \\ travelling and \ | \ motoring. #: A Moreover, many girls never give cosideration to any but this type of coat. Are of soft wool velour; in natural color and are fashioned with tuxedo fronts and narrow tie gir- dle. Lined with plain peau de eygne, Coats at $39.50 Camel's hair cloth-—in the new caramel shade, taupe or natural color--in model illustrated. Lined with plain peau de cygne. Leather buttons are an- other nice detail. Second Floor, Old Buliding Bed-coverings for ‘seashore homes | At aPrice | BLANKETS—40 pairs at $5 pair; 50 p . wool in the filling; w blue pink borde hed s COMPORTE 50, at ¥ wool-filled, figured ‘tops backs, and’ plain sateen borders, large COMFORTERS—50, at $2.90; cotton-filled, figur ilkoline coverings, plain border Fourth Gallery, New Building 200 White Sateen Petticoats, $1.95 Extra Size A low price, you will | agree, for a well made pet- ticoat of this type. Fash- ioned after good-looking tailored model with hem- stitched hem, designed es- pecially for large women, Fits well, ha generously hadow mple lines, rough th panels back them su make Third Fleor, Old Building Formerly A. REPL WE ND Rag OEE NEAT ad, . Stewart & Co. Oriental Rugs at HALF Their Import Cost MONDAY, JUNE 6th The prices are only a little more than the duty paid on the rugs | $24.50 For Turkish rugs averaging in size 3x5 ft, $35 For Turkish rugs averaging in size 4x6 ft. range of designs. any half-way measures, The superfine black horse hair will be made up into 54x 76 in, mattresses to sell for $43; the pure black horse hair into mattresses, 54x76 in., to sell for $43; the mane horse hair into mattresses, 54x76 in., to sell for $36, All made in one part. Purchasers may select their own ticking cover from our The $33 box-springs ar? 4!¢x 6% ft. upholstered tufted top, SO spirals, made to tit either wood or metal bedstea!s. The $27 box-springs are 4'4x tu ft., with upholstered top, not tufted, 63 spirals, pecteily). same prices. Most mirrors domestic a few ported. Almost sort of mirror made is in the lot, including beautiful Eng lish, French, Ital- un, Karly Amer: iean period mirrors, them reproductions models, of the are of make; are im- every mahogany, hand-carved | machine turned; painted hand-carved wood, some or finished with metal leaf, Single panel upright mirror: ~single and three panel hori zontal mirrors—folding three panel mirrors —long, shallow over mantel mirr mirror to hang over hall er dining- room buffets--over Ue | brary mantels—over living room | console over drawing ro« tea table | \ 375 mirror which is $50 in | thi Je is illustrated, It is I™ the quality, fashion and fair price of the goods in the store which make value and give lasting satisfaction. 240 Rugs, just unbaled The rugs only came out of bonded warehouse two days ago—all Turkish rugs, pure wool, of course, in a colorful They were imported about eight months ago. This week the importers decided they must turn them into cash. And they went about the business of doing this without Monday morning, in the Oriental Rug Salons. An Extraordinary Purchase of South American Horsehair permits us to offer Monday G Our $64 Mattresses for $48 Our $58 Mattresses for $43 Our $48 Mattresses for $36 The horsehair in this offer is the same grade as the lair we use in our famous Wanamaker-made mattresses. We got it below market price because of our great buying power. The amount is limited, of course. It totals up to 25,000 Ibs. of pure South American horsehair 14,000 Ibs. of pure black horsehair 11,000 Ibs. of superfine black horsehair In addition Our $40.75 box-springs .............+...for $33 Our $33.75 box-springs ..............-.for $27 22x30 in. pillows, imported goose feathers, $6.50 22x30 in, pillows, mixed feathers 100 Mirrors, Monday Third to Half less We bought 40, very advantageously (and quite unez- The prices at which we can sell them clashed with the prices of 60 mirrors in our stock—same grades. So we reduced the 60 and put them in with the 40 at the - Pay $10 to $175, Monday, For $15 to $300 Mirrors is not big type and big talk in the newspapers—but $29.50 For Turkish rugs averseng in size 3%x6 ft $49 For Turkish rugs averaging in size 4x7 ft. ‘Third Gallery, New Bullding regular assortment of tickings. We shall make these mat- tresses in our own factory, and guarantee them to clean, comfortable and durable, Smaller sizes will be made, if desired; and the prices will be at savings proportionate to the savings on the 54x76 in. size, + $3.50 Smaller sizes of box-springs at proportiomate savings. The $6.50 pillows weigh 2% pounds, The $3.50 pillows weigh 8 pounds, Sixth Gallery, New Bullding from an Adam design; frame of gilt with bur- nished ornaments, A few others Venetian mir- ror, hand-carved wood frame, cov- ered with met: leaf, $60 grade— for $40, Several hand-carved mahog- any over console mirrors, long upright panels; $100 and $135 wrades—for $60, Large Chinese Chippendale, three-panel mirror, for over mantel use, gilt frame, with burnished ornaments; $150 grade—for $90, Flower paneled mirror, Eng- style, shallow and long; $150 grade—for $110, Beautiful reproduction of a small antique Italian mirror, heavy, hand-carved wood frame, gold leaf; $85 grade—for $15, A group of oblong panel mir- rors, medium size, gilt and bur- nished gilt frames, also colored frames; $15 grade—for $10, Eighth Gallery, New Building