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FOOD PRICES TO DROP NEXT, OFFICIAL VIEW! t OUTLAW" MILK STRIKE ENDED BY DRIVERS a TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER Urtiettled; 3hawr.; TO-MORROW8 WEATHER Occasional 8hown. I 'J n ( To Be Sure The EvemSmi er In 1 Your Vol. lx. no. 21,438 MX STRIKE IS FULL SUPPLY ' Unanimous Vote Is Taken to '. Go Back to Work At Once. ' MEN FEARED PUBLIC Decide to Settle Differences Within Ranks and Avoid . General Hostility. The milk driver, otter one of the. shortest and most remarkable ?w!Uk avfa ever known In this city, voted unanimously to roturn to their wagons at noon to-day. At a meeting: In Sokal Hall In Hast ltd Street near First Avenue, 600' of the strikers ossombled .shortly after XI o'clock to take counsel for the con-K'tlnua-tlon and re-tnforceraent of Yhe Astrlkc. The majority had. no Idea '-W.f calling it off. Louis Etler, Max Sobarf and others 'addressed them. Etler told them they had gonq abou the settlement of their grievances in the wrong way: that they had antagonized the public when they needed the .public with them. Secretary Scharf, whose grievance at being Illegally ousted ftom his po sition was perhaps one of the strong est, spoke In similar vein. He said i that after talking the matter over bis confreres and members of the press, the conclusion was inevitable that they should tight their fight from inside the union and npt on the out side to the detriment and inconveni ence of the public ii' Both he and Etler urged the taking up of the matter and threshing It out Uo a finish at the regular meeting of t thermion In Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn, .to-morrow afternoon. They awed it i to their employers, as well as tho 'public, to do tblfl. I 'When a jgrte was taken tho strikers ' ..nnmlmrvtla In .filling fl fT thp .strange strike, and all haste was made Lto notify the dairies that all bands were ua iiiur y imu w .wi. The men at the 67th Street stables i reported back for work promptly. John P. Pedennan, superintendent at tbe JBth Street distributing station, '.eaid eornu of the men had returned to ' work, but that most of them had gone ' home for some sleep and bad prom- ' iaed to be on hand In the morning. I Chairman Kehoe pf the District ) Council of the Teamsters' Union was 'told the men feared "rough work" at 'ithe reconciliation mooting to-morrow .which is to bo addressed byXuditor George Burke of the International Union and President StablnBky of the local union, against whoso authority ip men revolted. fit there'o any rough-houso star'eu. Kehoe eald. "It will be those follows who start It. Wo intend to give tjvory 'body a square deal." f Many of the returning strikers said thy would not attend the meeting or 'J be. bound iby Its action unless Stubln- aky was forced to give a run account ' of hlmaolf along tho lines tho Insur gents have demanded. A nlti-.hri huttln at Thronn Avpnnn vpd Madison Street, Brooklyn, this r Aomlng between strikers and drive' h pt the Hy-Qround Dairy Compiin . 'ended In a victory for tho hitter with trie aid of the police. Bottles were thrown and fists flow, but no arrests wero made. I In tho Bronx extraordinary precau I .lions wern taken by the companies to protect their drivers from the strikers' 1 'flying squadrons." All wagons wero kept at tho distributing stations un til after daylight. 1UQ IU0UI&CU.O wuu ncui IU Jrooklya failed to get out u smglu as far as could be learned. ivbout two hundred of them in vai.s nd toxicabs wept to the Sheffield arms station at Fulton Street and w York Avenue about 5 A. SI., but police ordered them qway. aud y weiit. 1 Order m Aavamce worn Newsdealer :: :: fl Qettairng fronm daily. Capyrlsht, M20, Co. (The CALLED OFF ASSURED CITY HONEYMOON TRIP ' OF THIS BRIDE TO BEGIN IN CLOUDS Aviator Has Special Biplane Built for Two to Fly Here From Boston.. BOSTON. .May 20." THU "Honeymoon Express," the latest thing here in, con veyances for newlywcds. 3 being. tuned up toMlay In prepara tion for Its maiden trip, it is a two-passenger biplane, finished in whlte'enamel and with "Ifaney moon Express" lettered on the fu selage. Edward, A. TerhuneJr,, who was a naval aviator during the war, had the piano built fcr his bride, who desired a honeymnu.-i in the clouds. They will leave here to morrow " with Tertiuno piloting the machine to Springfield, Sbw Vork and Atlantic City. SAYS "CAVE MAN" FORCED HER TO WED Sent After Ceremony to Prepare Bridegroom's Dinner; Ran to District Attorney Instead. . Aneclo Fezza of No. 3t5 36th Street. Brooklyn, awaits examination undW J1.600 bail fixed bv Magistrate Folwnll In Adams Street Court on charge of using cave man methods to make Mia Catherine Gormloy of No. 33J Third Street hli wife Mrs. Fuzza told her story In tears to Assistant District Attorney Uolen xrcCormlek Monday afternoon. She had relected Fcxza -a score of times, iihe said. Hut he had waylaid her on the Sands Street elevated' station as she -was going o work In the American Can Factory, aha declared, and had threatened her with ua instant and painful death In public tf she did not marry him at 6nce. Terrorized, 'she permitted the cere mony to bo performed In Brooklyn Bor ough Hall by Deputy City Clerk Quaylv. Kezjau told her to go to his homo and start dinner. 8he went to the District Attorney instead. , CARRANZA STILL DODGES PURSUERS Reported to Have Been Going; in Direction of'Tuxpam Oil Dis trict Yesterday. WASHINGTON. May 20.Mexico City papers yesterday reported that Oarrnnza was at Xacatlan, east of Mex ico City In the direction of the Tuxpam oil district, to-day's State Department summary said. Tb'cy also -reported Gon. Obregon a returning to Mexico City from San Lutf Potosl without having completed his proposed trip to Tanvplco for conference there with Gens. Arnulfo Gomez and Manuel Palacz. BOSTON. May 20. The destroyc-s Itodgers and Converse have been or dtyed to t occed to Mexican waters to relieve c ils now on duty there. The Kodgcrs- was on her way to-day and the Converse was preparing to sail to morrow Classified Advertiser, Important ClasKlfled advertldnii copy loi The Sunday World should t- In The World ofllce On or Before Friday Preceding Publttatton Karly copy receive the prfferenoe when Sunday advertising Iiom to b omitted. Late advertising Is now omitted for lack of tlmo to et It. TUB WOHUJ. TO u Circulation. Books Open to AIL" 1t The rrew 1'nbtUhiai New York World). ALL OVER IRELAND: I Fatal Clash Follows an Attack in Limerick on a Meeting of Masons. NAVAL BRIGADE LANDS. Soldiers Prevent NeW Out breaks at Londonderry and . Also at Skibbereen. . DUBLIN, May 20. Cavalry puiro's wore active throughout Ireland last night and early to-day. A squadron of hussars replaced constables In po licing the Bray district. . Troops patrolled Londonderry to prevent a renewal of rioting. The mil-' Itnry also was reported active n the, vicinity of Skibbereen. A detach ment from' a' 'naval brigade arrived with three guns to take orer tha bar racks. One man was killed and a jwoman nnd girl wounded in clasbes between civilians and police and soldiers last night in Limerick. Streets were pa trolled by the military to-day. Fighting started List night when crowds attacked a hall where tho Ma sonic society wns meeting. Stones .vere hurled through the i windows. of Iho building. Troops hitherto have been used hmcrely as additional police officers. In fights which have occurred at police barracks the attackers have generally been ten times more num roiis than the defenders andj as thi-y have also been well armed, the con tent has been unequal. Many recent murders of polrcemcn have occurred on patrols where the routes of tho officers were known, many being shot from ambush. It will be more difficult In future for raiders to carry on this sort of war fare, as armored cars will be used. Tho wholesalo burning of police li.irracks in the recent past appeared tn be mere wantonness, hut now It appear these acts were attributable to tho foresight of Sinn FelnJoadcrs. It wm anticipated that an Atcnslon of military activity was contemplated by Otb overnmcnt and that these barracks would bn used hy" detach ttienLs o soldiers. .Difficulty i.h prrhended In finding ' lodgings for soldiers In remote districts. Some pri vate houses have been token over for this purpose. A proclamation signed by "Presi dent" De Valera of the ';irlsh' Republic" and Dull El rearm, the Nationalist "Parliament." hoa been clculatod In the South and Went of tho Island authorizing tbe setting up of arbitration land courts to settle dispute, and end tho land wiir. "Wo arc engorged In a life and death struggle," the proclamation said, "with independence on the one side opposing wealth, power and tho armed legions of an unscrupulous empire on tho other. Tile courage and raith of our long-sdffcrlng but un conquerable race Is necessary. Every hand and brain Is needed In tbe flgbt. When it Is won Dall Klreann will sec that Justice Is dono'to all." U. S. GIVES WARNING TO .THE AUSTRIANS Must Not Turn Communists Over to Russia Without Reciprocal Release of Americans. WASHINGTON. May 20. Hungarian t ummunlsts held by the 'Auntrlan au thorities must not be transferred to Itussla without the reciprocal release J o' till Amrrlcsini now detained In Sc;-!t ItUMla. thu Department of State to-day informed tho American CommUsloner In Vienna. w H at is scutE iii:i.n;i mn it's lillaaa itr latlUts. 44ft. OfflG CONMES MORE TR00PS11U NEW YORK, THURSDAY,, MAY 20, 1920. WOMAN CHARITY WORKER ORDERED HELD AS SWINDLER Warrants Out for Mrs. Betty Lee, Accused of Passing Bad Checks in Newark, VANISHED AFTER LOAN. Had Interested Clubwomen in , $800,000 Plan for Work ing Girls' Hotel, Circulars were Issued by tho New ark police to-day asking fjr the ar rest of Mrs. Betty Lee of Cnlcago, n prepossessing organizer of philan thropies. It was stated that warrants Had been Issued for her arrest on charges of Issuing worthless checks and the misuse of -funds. Mrs. Leo about six weeks ago be gan Interesting women of the New ark Federation of Churches tn a plan for an $800,000 hotel for working women. It 'was enthusiastically re ceived. Among others who were im pressed were C. Wenhara Smith, an organist, and his wlfo. About throe weeks ago Mrs. Leo, volunteered to ffet tho aid of Senator Cummins, whose secretary? she said, was her close friend, 1n gottlng" ticket for a European trip for tho Wcnham Smiths. She showed thorn a letter signed iby the name of a man named Woodson "who, she Ud, was tho Sen ator's secretary, promising to procure the tickets and passports cm receipt uf K4 each to pay for the tickets. Mr. Smith gave her two chroks.- Mrs. Leo left Newark Thursdnj last, giving up her apartment at the Afbcrdcen Hotel. Josopb Fink, fl broker and active church worker, was .t ne only one' to whom she had spoken tbout going away. 'She borrowed 1150 from him to visit "a sick inter in Chicago.", Early this week Detective Farrell, wba guards department stores. In Newark," was consulted by a merchant who told him that the store, which had already suffered $50 loss by ac cepting checks from Mrs. Loo, hud now on hand two apparently cortlfled checks for JW4 each inado to hor by Wcnham Smith and was doubtful about Uiom. Farrell learned not only that the checks were genuine, but thut Wenham Smith was tho father-in-law of Police Commissioner Ford. Since then tho Federal Trust Com pany of Newark ha had returned t" It from Trenton a worthless check for f 15 made out to Mrs. Lee and has declined to cash another for $100 which came to It from a bank In Southoid, N. Y.. which has no account in Mrs. Lee's name. Therti was a large attendance at a meeting of tho Federation last Tuesday, at which Mrs. Lee was to huvn apoken. She did not appear and court action followed. STOCK DIVIDEND TAX FOR SOLDIER BONUS Congress Committer Votes Impost o )0 Per Cent.; Refuses to In crease War Profits Levy. WASHINGTON. May 20 A 10 per rent, pix on stock dividends, retroactive Lu last March lb. was approved to-day oy tho House Ways and Means Commit l"e as u part of the taxation scheme for financing xoldler rellof legislation. Adoption of tihe tax provision by a margin of onevote precipitated such u fight In the committee that favorable report on the bill was delayed, with op ponents of tiie stock tax seeking recon sideration The ernunlttee also refufod by n stilrt party voto to accept an 80 per l ent, re troactive war profits tax. proposed by Democratic Committeemen. "lloruiiiini," .ho Llcccit musical cnidy fell la town, at th Centur Tbaatra, Adrt, SOCIETY BEAUTY WHO- DIVORCES N. Y. SPORTSMAN (Coprtifki, CDtrtl New. MRS. WILLIAM A. SLATER JR. J. A. SLATER E FROM MILLIONAIRE Society Woman Gets Custody of Son for Nine Months . Each Year. RENO," Nev.. May 20. Mrs.. Mudc line Allen Slater has bepn granted a divorce from William A. Slater Jr, of New Tork, and Is allowed to resume her maiden name. Madeline Allen, and to have custody of their son. born tn 1914, for nlno months In each year. They were -trrled In 1913. In April," 1914, before the son wss born, Mrs. Slater said In her com plaint that her husband left her and that she did nut hear from him for some time. He spent his time at clubs and with discreditable associates and surroundings, she said, and upbraided her for not wishing to Join him In this kind of a life. She was a nurse overjeas and on her return her husband forced ber to Ivo with bis parents, sho sold. In tbe fall of 1316 sho threatened to leave her husband, but her father asked her not to obtain a divorce during his Mfntine and sho acquiesced, and she was a "nominal wlfo to tbo defendant but not a wlfo In fact" until the spring of 1919, when her father died. Ul'lllnm A. Slntrr l Heir ta Mnr Millions. Slater, tbe on of Mrs. William A. Slates, of Washington. l. C .vU though owner of yachts, automobiles and fast horses and heir to many millions. In 1911 astonished the social set by going to work as a day laborer In tho Slater Mills at Jewctt City, near Norwich, Conn, for a salary o' 16 per week. He bad just left col lege and expressed a desire to learn the tcxtilo trade. Ills grandfather, John T. Slater, founder of the mills, established tho million dollar negro school fund In tho South. Youug Slater on Aug. 10, 1913, married Miss Madeline V. Howe Allen at York Harbor. Maine. The couple spent their honeymoon In Europe. Mrs. William A. Slater Jr. la con sidered one of tho most beautiful women in Washington society. . She is young, tall, with light hair, blue eyes and a clear complexion. She and hor husband took an atftlva part In so ciety. DAYLIGHT SAVING STANDS; GOVERNOR VETOES REPEAL ALBANY, May 20. DAYLIGHT saving will remain tn effect In New York Btate. Uov. Suuth to-day vetoed the Fowler hill designed to repeal tho Daylight Saving Law. Sit llrll-aiu. bot water, Bars BtUef. Ugtt't furs;. Adrt. IS WINS RENO DIVOR "Circulation Books Opjn KottfTd M Strand-CtAM I'.rt Office,. New FOOD PRICES DOWN IN STRIKE OF BUYERS FREIGHT 11G IN CITY FASTER; New York Central Lines Re port Conditions 70 Per Cent, of Normal. In the wake of tho wholesale slash ing of prices all over tbo nation comoH nows of Improvement In the freight situation which will havo a tendency to keep prices down, If not bring about a still further reduction. "Freight conditions on the New Tork Central lines," said an official of that company to-day, "ore now within 70 per cent, of normal. The trouble has not been ln4ho New York yards. It Is tbe reflection of the trouble which started with the strike at Pittsburgh and extended to, the yards of Buffalo and Detroit. Be cause of theso conditions wo have taken no more freight than we can handle, but are delivering what wc do accept with the expedition of former days. The interstate Com merce Commission, In my opinion, will clear up the situation In ten days at the latest" At the ofllces of. the Now York. New Haven and Hartford Company It was stated that freight conditions uro within 80 per cent of normal and that all thu freight 'offered Is being accepted. The TOO "vacationists" of the New York and Now England Railroad Company, a subsidiary of the New York and New Haven, at a meeting to-day In the Bronx decided to stand by their delegates to the Chicago wage convention and remain Idle un til granted recognition. , Officials of the Pennsylvania line denied vtnphatlcally a statement that there was a 48-hour embargo on foodstuffs. They declaro that all per ishable stuffs are being moved with regularity, as Is coal, and that freight Is being moved East and Wesrt. More than 600 carloads of freight started West yesterday, they said. A "conference will be held this after noon between roprwentatlves of the Merchants' Association and tho coast wise longshoremen, the latter being represented oy Thomas V. O'Connor, President of tbe International Long shoremen, who oold, he would call nut the Boston longshoremen to-day. This will mean that every union port (Continued on Second Page.) RAILWAY UNION ABANDONS STRIKE AS NOW OBSOLETE Station Agents in Biennial Meeting Decide to Utilize U. S. Labor Board in Future. PrTTSBURaii, May 20. TIIE "strike" clause ju the by laws of tho Order of Kullrojl Station Agents n us been eliminated, and hereafter griev ance will 1)0 taken up for settle ment with tho Fedunn Italllro-id Ibor Hoard. H II. Morton, Presi dent of the order, . announced to day. The agents, meeting In biennial 4 convenUon, have voted to do away with tho clauno authorizing tho calling of strikes to enforce de mands of tho workers, Mr. Morton said. He said the strike weapon I. ad become obsolete. In the opin ion of majority of the areata. NO FOOD EMBARGO J! to All." MatUf York, N. T. PRICE TWO CENTS a ojikatkb nkw xork Messages From All Over Country ; Call on Congress for Aid, and Sena tor. Kenyon Urges Organization of Anti-Profiteering Societies. WASHINGTON, May 20. Food prices soon will feel the effects of the great "buyers' strike," officials predicted to-day. Reductions were '. forcast in meats, dairy products and poultry if consumers hold back on : purchases as they are now doing with regard to clothes and merchandise. ' Telegrams pouring in to Senators and Representatives from all parts , of the country to-day were" an indication oPhow thoroughly the people . are aroused. These messages denounced profiteers and urged Congres- ' sional help. Senator Kenvon to.dnv in n in. Y VALENTINE' 11 Confession Reveals Work of Expert Cracksmen in Wall Street District. The confession made this afternoon by Richard Armstrong, expert snXe opener, of the "Jimmy Valentine" type, made just before going to trial in General Sessions, disclosed the op erations of a gamr of eleven cracks men In robbing safes In the financial district of more than 11,200.000 In Jewelry, cash and securities In two months. Armstrong had plcadod not guilty to the charge and thu Jury for the trial had been completed, but when the case was culled Annntrong changed his pica and revealed all tho workings of the gang. According to Armstrong's dramatic story told to tho polleo, he wan the leader of the group, a sort of ag grandized "Jlmmlo Valentine." In -ho many Hafo "Jabs" completed by the gang In the two months tlioy oper ated, he said, they never "blow" a iafe. All wero opened by his long fingers, which, the police nay, lmvu been sandpapered down to a razor like thinness on the ends, his nulls having been clipped to aid him at his trade. Tho safe robberies named as tbosu fn which his gang took part Include, one pf 1143,000 tn securities and Jew elry, taken from Che firm of Dcerlng and Dcerlng, 135 Broadway, in Febru ary, The gang's hlggeat haul. Armstrong said In his confession, was (250,000 from the Fifth Avemie Building last January. With tho acceptance by Judge lt salsky of tho teaser ple.i, Armstrong' pledged hlmsetf to uld the police In recovering tho stolen goods. Only 136,000 of tho entire um has been found up to this tlmo iby the police, it was said to-day. 'l'botje held under arrest by the po lice in connection with tho safe rob ouries are Henry Miller, Edward Sheridan,, now out on boll; Thomas Corcoran, -whose brother John died at tils home threo weeks ago after toeing permitted to leave the Tomrw .bccatiso of hla lUneHM; the White tirotlhers, who ore tn the Raymond Street Jail in 'Brooklyn, and William Baruclough, who, tho police say, has also made a confemlon which corroborates the Annstrouir talc. Airs. Nelllo Lloyd, .Mrs. John Elsls and the hitter's husband are held as material witnesses In the House of Detention. The pbllco began to-day the scaroh for tho missing Jewelry And. bonds taken by tho tang of safe robbers. JIM BARS 200.000 SAFE ROBBING JOBS .T.V.'.Y MAX EDITiON AV.V.7 ti;reb ccktj rl8kwiikiib terview called for organization of anti-profiteering societies in every section to carry on tho strike against unreasonable prices. ' Senator Kenyon said these organizations should pledaa their members not to purchase goods from dealers charging exorbitant prices and calling for social ostra cism of profiteers. Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, an nounced bo would seek action to-day ! on resolution for appointment of of a Senate committee to ascertain the relations between high prices and the concentration of wealth In the hands of u few people In the United State. N The railroad congestion Is the only retarding element In tho opinion of most otllclals. Congestion of trafflo Is likely to create artificial shortage of commodities In some districts, It is feared. The Interstate Commerce Commission Is taking active steps to reduce the cur congestion and rail officials are co-operating. Exportation of American meats is I'kely to bo largely reduced within the next fow weeks. This would throw great quantities of meat Into the United Statu. markets, a condition tending toward price reductions.. Director Julius Barnes of the Unltoif States Grain Corporation scouted pre dictions thut breud will bb forced to 25 cunts a loo.f soon by rising wiejt prices. South America has an enor mous wheat crop In prospect, Btrnet said, Indicating thu United Stutes will nut be culled on to export the usual quantity of grnlh. Secretary Alexander of the Com merce Department 'said: "The pyra miding of prices could not go on In definitely. It, is best for merchants to effect gradual ' reductions themselvA ttiun for prices to tumble precipi tately. I am Inclined to believe reduc tions now being made will not greatly Interfere wltb normal healthy pro flta." 10 TO 25 P. C. CUT IN ALL FACTORY PRODUCTS PLANNED National Association of Manufactur ers Joins Movement to Cut Price of Commodities. Out of the welter of reports of price cutting throughout the country comes u definite word of encouragement from tho National Assoc) .ton of Manufacturers, consisting of f,400 members with (,000,000 employees, who have boon In session at the Waldorf-Astoria. -A resolution passed by that body expresses hearty accord with all sensible efforta to reduce tbo price of commodities and urgea Its members to co-operate. It was pointed out that owing to tho great variety of articles turned out It was impossible to fix upon any specific figures In suggested reduc tions, but the members stated that the price cutting would be from 10 to 25 per cent, to begin In September. James W. Edgerton, President of the Tennessee Manufacturers, speak ing of the matter, said: "I believe h time baa com when prices, must take 1 . - ... t 1 . . JL.