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a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 131:. BIXBYS A A BROWN SHOE POLISH FOR DARK TAN BROWN SHOES.

Easiest to use Made for army officers shoes, Now at leading stores. Liquid 25 c. Dauber, bottle. ON uonger bound by agreements entered into for "the continuation the war." It is hoped, they said, that the action will swing public opinion their way and aid in securing their demands for a 30-hour week and 60 per cent. increase pay, failure of which has resulted in an order for a strike of all bituminous coal miners on Nov.

1. at International headquarteraTicial" today would not hazard an opinion 10 what action will be taken the executive body when it mects here tomorrow, although it has been stated that a reply to the President's demand probably would be drawn up, BROOKLYN MEMBERS ABSENT FROM HOUSE Eagle Bureau, 901 Colorado Building. Washington, Oct. 28-Nine out of ten of the Brooklyn and Long Island Representatives in Congress were absent yesterday when the House voted to override the President's veto of wartime prohibition. The only member present was Representative Cleary, Democrat, who voted to sustain the veto.

The absentees were: Hicks, MacCrate, Rowe and Haskell, Republicans; Caldwell, Cullen, Johnson, Maher and O'Connell, Democrats. The failure of nine out of ten of the local Brooklyn and Long Island Representatives and twenty-two out of twenty-four in the Greater City to be on hand yesterday when the House 100 action over-riding the President's veto is another sin which has been laid at the door of the "drys." Brooklyn Congressmen who were dumbfounded yesterday to learn that a snap vote had called their absence were lound in their denunciation today of the tactics of their and declared that an unprecedented advantage had been taken of their absence. The Greater City Representatives had been under the impression that no Action would be taken until Thursday. That they were caught napping, it was explained today, was because the "drys" had violated an unwritten rule of the House providing for a fortyeight hour intermission before taking action on a vetoed Even Reuben L. Haskell, the "wet" champion on the Brooklyn Republican ticket, was caught off his guard.

Haskell was on the train last night speeding for Washington when the action of the House was taken. Representative John B. Johnston. the Democratic candidate for District Attorney. had his ticket bought and was to be in Washington today.

He had been in communication with Washington by telephone. and understordany. action taken Most of the other Congres men absent were engaged in duties incident to the campaign. Congressional courand the courtesy generally observed in all deliberative bodies recuired that they be given a chance to appear. but this was not done.

reason by Congressman Cleary of Brooklyn happened to be on hand because the Bay Ridge Congressman mole his home at the Capitol during the Congressioral sessions. BUDGET WORKDELAYS JAMAICA BAY ACTION No action will be taken by the Committen on Fnance and Budget of the Board of Estimate on General Burr's letter asking for a conferonce with the city authorities on the Jamaica Bay Improvement until after the board has finished consideration of the 1920 budget. This statement wa. made at ty Hall today in reply to a question as to how soon the city may be expected to comply army enginecr's request for a conference. 11 is understood that General Burr is acting under War Department orders to determine by examination of the record whether the present city administration is actually in earnest about the improvement of Jamaica Bay and whether its request to the Rivers and Harbors Committee for a 30fool entrance channel and a 30-foot main interior trone Barren Island to Mill Basin was in good ta th.

Among those in close touch with the situation there strong feeling that if the city fails to, meet General Bure promptly he will not be in a position to report favorably upon the request for the deeper channels. The survey which the War Department has ordered of the Jamaica Bay waters is progressing and will be completed in ample time for the writing of a report before Dec. 1, when Congress meets for its regular session. It is believed, however, that unless the city Authorities put their cards on the table before General Burr and show that they mean to go forward with the Jamaica Bay improvement a along the lines outlined by Murray Hulbert, director port and commisbioner of docks, there can be no hope for a favorable report from the army Authorities. Members of the Board of Estimate who were asked about the requested conference, were should inclined be to held agree without that delay.

It was pointed out that Controller Craig chairman of the Vin ace cod Budget Committee is in fall control of the situation and that un'ess he chooses to bring the matter of a conference up at an early meetirg of his committee the matter is likely to 80 by default. SHOPLIFTERS SENTENCED. Two women, arrested in a Fulton st. store on a charge of having tried steal silk valued at $236, were entenced to the penitentiary today County Judge McDermott. They -ere Mrs.

Sarah Fiskin, 38. of 1425 ave, and Mrs. Fannie Hitner, of 71 Hart st. District Attorney Lewis found that they had been in trouble with the Do lice in other cities but had never betore been sent to jail. DIVIDING TURKEY IS AN UNSAVORY TASK BEFORE CONFERENCE Wild Scramble for War Spoils.

U. S. Has No Part in Baltic Blockade. Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon. By GUY HICKOK.

(By Wireless to The Eagle.) (Copyright by The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1919.) Paris, Oct. 28-The Peace Conference is beginning to realize that the partition of the Turkish Empire will be an unsavory task. It is now generally understood that America will Asian accept Minor -a any fact large which responsibility the in leaves settlement between Britain, Italy, France and Greece. Among these Powers it is becoming increasingly plain that the only motive permanent occupation of territory must be a desire to exploit the country. It is to be simply a scramble for the spoils of war, without even the shadow of the high principles governing the early part of the Conference.

It is pointed out that there 1 is no Italian population in Syria and that the Italian claim a foothold there is simply a claim for war plunder. Britain's only pretext for keeping Mesopotamia is that she wants a fer there. France has a. natural interest in French money invested in Turkish bonds, but little other legitimate claim. The occupation of Smyrna by Greece is said to be entirely against the wishes of the population.

Moreover, the situation is complicated by the existence of a number of Entente secret agreements, not treaties. "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" being the basis of these pacts. A number of these have become embarrassingly well known. The more hopeful however, anticipate the prognosticators, the Turkish treaty during the early winter. Russian Blockade a Bad Blunder.

That Germany's refusal to join the blockade against the Bolsheviki will be without result so far as getting food into Russia is concerned is the belief of the Supreme Council of the Peace Conference. Nevertheless the opinion is gaining ground that the request inviting Germany to join was very illadvised. Once the Treaty becomes operative the Allies can use no more pressure against Germany than they can against the neutrals involved in the blockade. For the present, however, the fact that armistice conditions are still in force and that the blockade against Germany still exists in part, gives the Conference certain leverage. If Germany continues to defy the Allies and tries to send food to Bolshevist Russia, her ships will simply be turned back by the Baltic Sea patrol, as in the case with ships now.

The peculiar position of the can Mission in this emergency is diffcult to define. While President Wilson was heading the mission the policy of not sending food to the Bolsheviki ade has American sanction, and our was adopted. This much of the blockpart in it consists in refusing to permit ships to leave American ports with supplies bound for Soviet ports. With the naval blockade in the Baltic, however, America has nothing to do. Many efforts have been made by the other Allies to get American sanc.

tion to the principle of turning back ships from neutral ports bound for Russia, all without success. The American Mission's position is that America has never recognized the so-called Pacific blockade, namely an It is pointed out here that this was a with which we are a not legally at war. actual blockade against a country principle that America stood out for previous to declaring war against Germany. There was continual disagreement between America and Britain as to what constituted a blockade and how far neutral vessels might be dealt with by a blockading fleet. as at that time.

the actual enforcement of the blockade is being carried out principally by British ships and according to British methods. Berlin, Monday, Octo. 27 (By the Associated -Renunciation of the Baltic blockade by the Entente powers must "not be taken too seriously," says the Tageblatt, which says an official announcement declares that: Although coastal transportation is now possible, traffic with neutral nations and deep sea fishing still cannot be carried on. German ships confiscated by the Entente have not as yet been returned, the newspapers say, and the Government will urge a limifation of the blockade to the utmost degrec. TODAY.

Georgia Southern and Florida first EXand second preferred, Mullins Body preferred, $2, pera common, 76c. LEADER OF MINERS WHO REFUSES TO AVERT STRIKE, JOHN L. LEWIS John L. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers of America has returned to his home field, after refusing in Washington to avert a coal strike. Mr.

Lewis defends his right to by an appeal to patriotism and glories in the belief that Americans are free born. He also trusts that the power of the Government will not be directed to "throttle the toiler, but improve his welfare." 3,000 DOCK WORKERS ARE ON JOBS TODAY After their repulse by the police yesterday the striking longshoremen in South Brooklyn made no organized attempt to keep such of the mend from working as wanted to do so the entire Bay Ridge waterfront today had returned to normal conditions, More than a 3,000 men were occupied along the docks of the Army base at 58th South Brooklyn, the Bush Terminal and elsewhere in South Brooklyn. In preparation for any outbreak that might follow the first battle of the "little war" yesterday, Police Capt. James Gillen of the 4th ave. station had been assigned extra patrolmen from other precincts early this morning.

At the "shake up" at 7 o'clock, however, the striking longshoremen had not gathered at 42d st. and 1st according to their custom, apparently having got enough of the police clubs yesterday. Later they gathered in small groups, but were quickly dispersed. The extra policemen were returned to their own stations and 30 were left patroling the waterfront between 39th and 45th sts. Capt.

Gillen made a tour of the docks and was satisfied that he could handle any situation that is likely to arise. The shipping people report that they can get all the men they need, and only the Italians are holding out for further concessions. Army Transports Carry Mails. As long as the longshoremen's strike continues to hold up U. S.

mail for Europe, Government transports will be used to' transport the thousands of bags that filter into this port for shipment across the Atlantic. Some accumulated mail is already on the seas on Government ships. This announcement was given a out by the New York Merchants Association today. association some time ago telegraphed Washington, declaring that the strike was holding up important mails and dislocating foreign business, and requesting the Post Office Department to take steps to forward the accumulated mail on transports. The following reply was received from Maj.

Gen. George W. Burr, assistant chief of staff and director of purchase, storage and traffic: to inform you that the War Department is co-operating with the Postoftice Department in regard to the dispatch of mails to Europe via U. S. Army transports.

Mail has already been dispatched by transports and use will be made of these vessels, through co-operation of the two departments, as long as 1 the strike conditions in New York make such action necessary." Change in The longshoremen's strike situation, as regards oceanroing craft, was unchanger this morning. The whistles blew at 7 o'clock, but men had gathered in front of the piers a of the steamship companies made attempt to go to work, nor did 'they respond to the second call an hour later. There was no work whatever being done early this morning on steamship piers from W. 14th to W. 23d on the North River.

Admiral de Robeck, on board the Iron Duke, has left Malta for Navarino, and Constantinople, where he will assume the High Commissionership. Italy Near a Political -Radical Rule In Chamber Threatens Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon. By GUY HICKOK. (By Wireless to The Eagle.) Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1919.) (Corsrigot by The 28-The forecast of a Paris, Oct.

complete change in the political completion of the Italian Parliament is observers here with being made by be a sound basis in what appears to fact. are that less than oneIndications of the present Chamber of Deputiles will be that re-elected. 130 members Rome dis- of patches reveal the present Parliament are quitting without any attempt at reoutright and that about twenty more, election, defeat dropped out of the foreseeing their campaigns were well fight after started. Three strong groups will make a struggle for dominance, each reprecrucial problem in the life senting a the nation. The first of these of seeks land reforms; the secgroups ond military strength territorial control (the group back of D' Annunzio and his Fiume coup), and the third, ja cating strong radical imperialistic industrial group, reforms.

is advoland problem exists in many of Italy, where the land is owned parts large estates. So acute has the in grown that daily reports of feeling peasants' riots reach Paris, recounting burning of farms, destruction of I crops and the cutting down of vineyards an attempt to enforce divi. sion sole the large estates into small parcels of privately owned land. The militarist group is striving for BIG SHEWAN PLANT IS TIED UP TIGHT AS 2,200 WALK OUT Ship Repair Shops at Foot of 27th Street Idle-Two Ships in Drydock. As the result of a walkout of 2,200 boilermakers, rivetters, burners, holders on and helpers, the ship repair plant of James Shewan Son, foot of 27th was completely tied today, the unions declared.

oJhn up Curley, general manager of the yard, stated that the men left yesterday afternoon, leaving two ships on the drydocks, nearly ready to slip back into the bay. Although it is understood the men have not presented formal demands, Mr. Curley said they had asked for a 44-hour week and 25 per cent. wage increase. This is the same set of demands presented by the machinists on Oct.

1. The boilermakers decided to quit at a meeting in Saengerbund Hall yesterday. They say 14,000 will De affected. Other workers from New York were brought over in tugs and partially re- the striking boilermakers at Shewan's plant. For a long while the boilermakers throughout the port had refused to join in the agitation of tno machinists for the Saturday halfholiday, which resulted in a lockout against all who quit work one Saturday afternoon in September.

Their action took owners by surprise. Tieup Complete, Men Predict. The other Brooklyn yards reported that they were working full crews, but union men predicted that by nightfall Brooklyn's drydocks would be completely tied up. About 100 ironworkers in Tietjen Lang's yard, in Hoboken, quit this morning. The men had the 44-hour week during the summer, but with the return of autumn, under the Macy award, they were to take up the 48- hour week.

Efforts of the machinists to force the short week on the owners last September fell flat. The machinists claimed this was due to the failure of the boilermakers to join them. With pipefitters, carpenters, boilermakers, caulkers and others out, ship repair work would be brought to a standstill. If the boilermakers decide to quit the other yards, the machinists claim it will a victory and the end of the lockout against them. Mr.

Curley said the owners did not object to the principle of the Saturday half holiday, "What the men really want is the overtime for a Saturday afternoon, not the holiday," he stated today. "Mechanics earn from $80 to $130 a week; their helpers rake in $65 to $90. Still they are not satisfied. The regular wage is $6 a day, but as our work is generally emergency work, frequently men work a whole 24 hours before quitting. They then get four days' addition to the regular daily wage, or $30." It was claimed by officials at the Shewan plant that the men on quitting threw stones through office windows and forcibly restrained three carpenters from returning to their posts.

Six policemen from the 4th ave. station patroled the approaches to the yard today, but the men hanging around idle were in a peaceful mood. One union official, commenting on the recent statement of Henry C. Hunter, counsel for the Atlantic Coast Shipbuilding Association, which announced that no more concessions would be made to shipyard workers' demands, characterized the announcement as "propaganda." "They will think differently when they see their yards shut down," he declared. Owners refused to state what action was contemplated in the event of a general shipyard strike.

At this time, due to the labor tieup, many steamship owners are throwing their ships into dry docks. This means the yards can ill afford tieup. Julius Meyer, a delegate from Local 1276, has called a mass meeting for next Thursday at Saengerbund Hall, at which union on officials expect fully 5,000 men to decide on the campaign to be followed. Yard Owner Sees Collapse of Strike. A representative of the owner of one of Brooklyn's largest yards said it was his opinion that the boilermakers had joined the machinists in an erort to force some of the smaller yards to acquiesce in the short week program.

He said the failure of the unions to make progress in the 44-hour matter with the larger drydock companies had brought about this last stand. If it failed, the whole agitation of recent months by shipyard unions would collapse. EAGLE TOPICS TALKS The warm wave did not prevent a very large crowd from filling The Eagle Auditorium today to hear the weekly talks on current topics by Eagle men. George A. Currie gave a very illuminating short talk on the harbor strike; Maurice E.

McLaughlin discussed the impending coal strike and the ins and outs of the sugar situation, and H. V. Kaltenborn summed up international topics of importance, making a particularly fine word-picture of the situation regarding the proposed trial of the Kaiser, comparing it with the trial and sentence of Napoleon in a most interesting way. The talks will be given as usual next Tuesday, Election Day. FREDERICK FISHEL DIES Frederick Eugene Fishel, 59 years old, of 382 St.

John's a wellknown trial lawyer in Manhattan for 35 years, with offices at 2 Rector died on Monday at his home, of asthenia. Mr. Fishel was born in Patchogue, L. the son of Andrew a and Julia Ketcham Fishel. He was 'educated Cornell University, graduating in the Class of 1880, and soon after took a course in the Columbia Law School.

He was formerly, before entering private practice, attorney for the Maryland Casualty ComHe was a charter member of pany. Fort Greene Council, No. 1048. R. Mr.

Fishel is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katharine A. Carroll Fishel; two sisters, Bertha and Madeline; and a brother, Ernest Fishel. Hindenburg to Have Voice In Fixing Guilt for War Berlin, Monday, Oct. 27 (By the Associated Press) -Field Marshal von Hindenburg and Gen.

Ludendorff will probably participate in the deliberations of the committee investigating guilt of those responsible for the war when it reconvenes on Oct. 3-, to hear the testimony of Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, former Imperial Chancellor, according to the Tageblatt. Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets) can be taken by anyone without causing nervousness or rin.ing in the head. There is only GROVE'S one "Bromo Quinine." E.

W. signature on the box, A Quinine That Does Not Affect Head VOTE FOR James J. Browne FOR SHERIFF KINGS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE HEAVY ENROLLMENT IN ROOSEVELT DRIVE Brooklyn Going Fast Toward Its Full Quota for the National Memorial. Frederic E. Gunnison, chairman of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, said today that the prolongation of the drive through Saturday has already been justified by the returns.

The mail this morning was heavy with letters containing subscriptions and it begins to look as though the amount money that will be raised in this boro will compare favorably with any quota in the entire Nation. The response among industrial plants to the drive has been most gratifying. The American Tobacco Company plant on Park ave. returned 906 subscriptions. The Brooklyn Navy Yard returned 300 enrollments, and the work there is still in progress.

All of the banks and trust companies in Brooklyn are receiving heavy subscriptions, it is reported. Those wishing to enroll may secure blanks at leading hotels and at the following stores: Abraham Straus, Balch, Price I. Namm Sons. Any store wishing to assist in the drive can get enrollment blanks at headquarters, Room 33, Garfield Building, 26 Court st. From across the Atlantic came word today of the great enthusiasm manifested in foreign countries in the interests of the drive.

Marshal Foch of France, Adolfo Appolni, Mayor Rome; Lord Northeliffe, Lord Burnham, Lord Leo and Maj. Wrench all sent word of their hearty support. "I can never forget," Marshal Foch cabled, "the sentiments which inspired Col. Roosevelt in regard to the French people. His memory will always be fresh in the hearts of Frenchmen." The Speakers' Byroare has discontinued will be no meetings except those independent the Roosevelt Memorial Association.

the drive has now assumed the complexion of an effort by the legion of friends and admirers of Col. Roosevelt to swell the roster of the association. BROTHERS I NHOSPITAL. Frank and George Knapp, brothers, of 1209 St. Mark's are today in St.

Mary's Hospital. The boys were giving a party at their house, when a mixup took place. Deteetives Van Duzer, Brady and McLoughlin arrested James Farrell, 48, of 0102 Chauncey and Mason Bloomberg, of 995 Intervale Bronx, who were arraigned in the Gates A Avenue Court today. Magistrate Brown held them. P.

S. C. WILL PROBE "CAR-AHEAD" PLAN The practice of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company in requiring passengers on the Flatbush ave. line to leave its cars at the second fare point, at Nostrand and Flatbush and there either board the shuttle for the lower end of Flatbush av. or the shuttle in the direction of Bergen Beach, is to be made the subject of an investigation by the Public Service Commission at a hearing on Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock.

The hearing was directed today by Commissioner Lewis Nixon as the result of an inspection by the Commission's Transit Bureau, and as the result of a call upon the Commission by representatives of the Flatbush Property Owners Association. It was shown, as the result of statethe this commission's inspectors, that ments of property owners and while passengers are obliged to leave the Flatbush ave. cars at Nostrand the cars, after the passengers leave, continue on down Flatbush ave. to the carbarns at Avenue N. It is the contention of residents of Flatlands that passengers could be carried in the direction of Bergen Beach, at least as far as the carbarns, without a change of cars being necessary.

It is also contended that passengers desiring to reach the lower end of Flatbush ave. could be carried as far as the junction of Flatbush ave. and Avenue without change. The investigation of the commission will be broad enough to cover other questions which have arisen and which may arise in the near future, in regard to the service and equipment provided generally over the Brooklyn City Railroad Company's lines. DOGGIE BY BE CONT TO MAKE MONEY, IS LEAVITT STATEMENT White Lead Manufacturer Says He Secured 1,300,000 Lbs.

Supply for That Purpose. Louis Leavitt. the white lead manufacturer, caught by Federal Attorney Leroy W. Ross with 1,800.000 pounds of bacon for speculative purposes in his possession, and held yesterday in $10,000 bail by Federal Commissioner Michael F. McGoldrick on a charge of violating Section 6 of the Food and Fuel Control Act, stated frankly tothat he had bought the food to "make money." "You have a floating capital that you invest from time to time?" he was asked.

have." "Why did you buy this bacon?" "To make money." Federal Attorney Ross was asked what importance he attaches to the fact that it was the United States Army that sold him the bacon, for the purchase of which he now is charged by the United States Federal ney's office, a branch of the GovernI ment, with hoarding. "This is the situation at a glance," said Prosecutor Ross. "If Leavitt had been in the business of handling bacon it would be a different matter. If it was a butcher who had purchased the bacon it would be legitimate. But he is a manufacturer of whitie lead." Leavitt agreed that he was a manufacturer of white lead.

Today he is free on bail furnished by Sylvan Levy. An April 1, 1917, Leavitt purchased the assets of the Automobile Supply Manufacturing Company. A petition of involuntary bankruptcy had been filed against this concern Oct. 31, 1916. Leavitt's offer of $137,500 at the time was said to be pleasing to the creditors, who were represented by Oscar A.

Lewis. Judge Chatfeld said today that Leavitt gave $25,000 in excess of what the creditors hoped to receive for the assets. Federal Attorney Ross continued his investigation today. Agents of the Department of Justice, headed by John Gillies, are making a thorough sourch of Brooklyn warehouses. Eggs just now concern the operatives, BIG COASTER RACER IN STATE OF SIEGE Realty Concern and Luna Park Company in Clash Over ership.

Who owns the "Chase Through the Clouds," the giant coaster racer at Brighton Beach? This is a question that is puzzling the Coney Island police and has brought the Luna Park Amusement Realty Company into a state that may Company and the Joseph A P. Day almost be described as open warfare. Both companies claim to have purchased the coaster from John Rogers of Chicago, its former owner. The agents of the Joseph P. Day Realty Company are in possession of the coaster.

A gang of workmen employed by the Luna Park Amusement Company to transfer the coaster to Luna Park has the agents of the realty company practically in a state of siege. The Coney Island police officials have adopted a policy of neutrality and watchful waiting, ready to lend their aid to both sides or neither side, but not to either side. The trouble all started yesterday afternoon. The Luna Park Amusement Company, through James Savalle, the assistant manager of the resort, claims to have purchased the coaster from John Rogers, a former Chicago Alderman, president of the Chicago Amusement Company, which originally owned the property. The Luna officials assert they purchased the coaster from Mr.

Rogers about a month ago, paying $8,000 for it. The coaster was to be dismantled and rebuilt about the outside walls of Luna Park, at an estimated cost of $3,000. To have the attraction ready for service next season, the Luna officials engaged contractors to tear down the coaster an drebuild it, and ordered them to begin work yesterday. When Luna workmen. with their trucks and wrecking machinery, arrived in front of the coaster, at Brighton Beach, they found Charles Keene, superintendent of the Day Realty Company's property, wreckers on guard.

He informed the that he had orders to protect the property and that anyone who attempted to dismantle the coaster would be arrested and prosecuted as a trespasser. When an appeal for a change of instructions to the caretaker was made to H. S. Sayres, counsel for the Day Company. the Luna officials were informed that the Day Company had purchased the coaster from Mr.

Rogers shortly after the Brighton Beach fire, last April, at the same time that it had purchased another portion of Brighton Beach from Chauncey B. Marshall, president of the Brighton Beach Development Company. MAURETANIA BRINGS GOLD. The steamer Mauretania, which ar. rived on Monday from Southampton, brought 13 boxes of gold bars consigned to Kuhn, Loeb Co; 10,000 Ural Refugees Live In Box Cars at Irkutsk (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Irkutsk, Siberia, Oct.

5-Ten thousand refugees from the Ural Mountain districts of European Russia and Siberia have for weeks filled the yards of Irkutsk with their railway cars. Forced to flee from their homes in Perm, Ekaterinburg and other cities of western Siberia, because of the menace of the Bolsheviki, they took refuge in railway box cars provided by the Omsk government and started eastward. Irkutsk, midway between Omsk and Vladivostok, has felt the full impact of the enormous tide of refugees. Thousands have been sent on eastward, but they still remain in and around this district--an extraordinary number of people who have no homes but box cars or hovels somewhere along the railroad line. A week ago it was estimated by an officer of the American Railroad Corps, which is attempting rehabilitate the Transiberian service, that no fewer than 35,000 cars of refugees were massed in and around Omsk.

Train after train rolled in from the westward and for some time it was virtually a blockade at Omsk before the tracks could be cleared and some of the hundreds of trains sent on east. Nearly 1,000 families of railway workers are now living in box cars in the Irkutsk yards. These workmen were brought from the Ural districts to be given employment in middle or eastern Siberia in railroad work. WE ARE MAKING Building and Permanent Loans IN QUEENS AND NASSAU COUNTIES First Mortgage Guarantee Company Bridge Plaza, Long Island City Call or Telephone 1150 Astoria Hare Solved the High Cost of Living so far as GRAPE FRUIT OR ORANGES are concerned We offer. you all that your family vill consume for.

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Grant, Pres. STUART ADMITS HE MOTORED WITH "DOT" As Witness in Wife's Divorce Action He Says He Drove Mrs. Hallenback to The trial of the divorce suit brought by Mrs. Rose E. Stuart against her husband, Harry T.

Stuart, attracted a large crowd of well dressed women to Justice Cropsey's part of the Supreme today, they lots of highly interesting testimony about Stuart's arips about town with Mrs. Dorothy Hallenback, pretty and petite wife of a former army captain, who is named as corespondent. Stuart on the witness stand admitted his acquaintance and friendship with Mrs. Hallenback and said that he often drove her from her home in Manhattan Beach, near his own home, to the insurance office in Manhattan where she was employed last summer while her husband was in France. Witnesses told of the trailing of Stuart and his big motorcar with a fleetwood body and testified that pretty Mrs.

Hallenback was frequently the lone passenger while Stuart drove. On July 17, last, according to witnesses, Mrs. Hallenback decided it was too warm for the office and went shopping instead. Stuart dropped her at the Waldorf at about noon and then proceeded to his own office at Broadway and Franklin Manhattan, where he is the head of the cotton goods firm of Stuart, Milliken Co. At 4 o'clock Mrs.

Hallenback came to the office and entered the motorcar, which was standing before the. door. A few moments later Stuart and his partner, Milliken, came down and the trio. drove off, trailed by Mrs. Stuart in another motorcar, with detectives, witnesses, to find out what would happen.

The trio were followed to Milliken's bachelor apartment at. 264 5th Manhattan. Then they went to. a restaurant for dinner and then they drove about some more in Stuart's high -priced motorcar. Milliken got off uptown somewhere and then "Dot," as Mrs.

Hallenback was referred to frequently in the testimony, and Stuart, unaccompanied, went back to the bachelor apartment. They arrived there at 9 p.m. and about an hour later Mrs. Stuart, detectives. witnesses, "rushed" Milliken's bachelor apartment.

They testifled that they saw Stuart there minus his coat. Mrs. Stuart slapped his face, pulled his necktie and demanded to see. "the woman." Stuart called to "Dot," according to the witnesses, to come out and "Dot" emerged from the inner room, looking very much at home. Mrs.

Hallenback sat in the third row of the spectators' benches and seemed much perturbed over the testimony. Her husband sat beside her, listening and patting her hand affectionately throughout the morning. The scene attending the serving of the divorce papers on Stuart at his home in Manhattan Beach, several days after the incident at the bachelor apartment was also described by the witnesses. They testified that Stuart, when he was handed the divorce papers, declared: "I expected it. Thank God it has come! I have spent 000 on Mrs.

Stuart and still she-is not satisfied. If it is a divorce you want, you can have it, or anything you want, if you will only leave Dorothy Hallenback's name out of it." After that he cried, the- witnesses said, and expressed himself as sorry for what he had said. Then he handed out cigars to the men who were in the visiting party and told them all to leave at once. Stuart in his testimony denied that he had ever done anything wrong and said that he and Mrs. Hallenback went to the bachelor apartment that night to wait for his partner, Mr.

Milliken, He insisted he had been there but five minutes when the raiders entered. He also denied that he had made the statements attributed to, him at the time the papers were served but readily admitted that he had frequently driven young Mrs. Hallenback to town in the morning and back again at night. Stuart in his testimony his wife was a woman impossible to get along with and said that "her natural character asserted itself" so often that their differences were frequent and violent. Mrs.

Stuart, who is tall and willowy and young, sat over in a far corner of the She wore a picture hat and a costume of dark material, trimmed with fur. It is expected the trial will take. up the rest of the day. HYLAN PATRONAGE MAY PLAY PART IN SMITH HEARST ROW the extension of the victory of Italian arms against the old Austro-Hungarian Empire and advances the retention of Fiume, despite American opposition, the annexation of as much as possible of the Dalmatian Coast ano the Adriatic islands, and the seizure of as large a sphere as possble in Syria. This group comprises the official kingdom of the army and concerns itself with internal problems.

The third group consists of Socialists, centered principally in the cities, where industrial conditions have grown worse since the war because of the shortage of money, food and raw materials. This party in its recent annual convention voted 3 to 1 for an out-and-out Bolshevist program, including the nationalization of mines, water power, industries and banks. They also indorsed the Russian revolution and voted to work for a similar revolution, rather than to attempt to obtain their ends through Parliamentary association. Candidates, though running for office, are to use their office only for "propaganda purposes." A combination of Agrarians and Socialists against the militarist group in Parliament will almost surely give a radical majority, which will result in the disappearance of the old policies Tittoni, Sonnino, Crespi, OrBarzilai and others who have become known all over the world through their connection with the Peace Conference. espoused.

Thus far the Jugoslavs have ceeded in avoiding the clash with Italian forces in Fiume, upon which D'Annunzio and his supporters have relied for consolidating Italian sentiment behind them. There is little doubt that if he can provoke such a clash and produce the impression of an Italy threatened by war, he can go far toward strengthening the position of the military parties in the government. Evidences of a possible break in the close friendship which has marked the political and personal relations of Mayor Hylan and William Randolph Hearst were seen today by many Democrats in the appointment yesterday by the Mayor of Mrs. Jean H. Norris as a City Magistrate for a 30-day term.

Mrs. Norris is one of the co-district leaders of the Tammany organization in Manhattan and it was even stated that in appointing her the Mayor passed over a candidate whom the Hearst forces had expressed a preference. Moreover, Mrs. Norris, in ail interview today, made it emphatically plain that she is supporting Robert L. Luce and James A.

Foley, the two Tammany judiciary candidates against whom the Hearst papers have been conducting a vigorous campaign. The war between the Governor and the publisher, which threatens to involve the Mayor and the Brooklyn Democratic organization as well as Tammany Hall, continued today, Sc far the conflict has been confined largely to newspaper skirmishing, but a real battle is promised for tomornight at Carnegie Hall, where the Governor has promised to appear at a meeting specially arranged by his friends and open up on Hearst in a manner which will make his first tack upon the publisher -politician a little more than a week ago appear tame in comparison. BANKRUPTCY PETITIONS. 8541. Max and Joe Salon, trading as Salon Salon, reta'l dry goods, 261 Wekoff 111- voluntary petition.

Petitioning creditors and their cla'ma are: R. Lasher $561.04. 8842. Harry Rubin, manufacturer of cloaks and suite, 470 13th involuntary petition. Petitioning creditors and their claims are: B.

Greenberg. Sople Sobel, $255; Charica Sobel, $1,035..