EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MABOH 27, 101C BIG ALLIED WAR COUNCIL PLANS TO CRUSH FOES Aeroplanes Guard Leaders of Seven Nations From Zeppelin Raiders ENGLAND PLEDGES FUNDS Italians Reveal Attempts by Germany to Win Her Away From Entente PAIUS. March 27. Vast plans by which tho Kntente Pow ers hope to end tho war before the end of the present year aro being- made by the Grand Allied Council of War which began here today. Tho first session waH opened at the foreign Olllce at 10 o'clock, with repre sentatives of seven nntlons present. In connection with the Council of Wni office, discussion of economic matters will be held during the week. Extraordinary precautions to guard ngalnst a great Zeppelin raid on Paris while the council Ih In session, were taken by tho French military authorities today. The greatest Ileet of aeroplanes that hai maneuvered above the capital In many months took the air promptly at dawn 1 1 patrol tho skies. Lines of air scouts ex tended far outside the city, oVer the north ern suburbs. Helays of aviators kept ijonstnnt watch for Zeppelins from the tils. trlct north of Complcgne. NATIONAL, LBADHUS PIIKSKNT All the nations represented and those representing them follow: Franco Premier Drland, General Charles rtoques, the Minister of War; General Castelnau, Chief of the French General Sinn, and General Joseph JofTrc. the French Mlnlster-ln-Chlef. England Premier Asqutth. Sir Kdwnrd Crt. tho Foreign Minister; Lord Kltch-i Kb Cmba n9 Utntn tnm Wn r fifnenrtx I vnai, oct-tctntj ui uuw ' ,...... air Oouglas Halg, commander or me Ornish troops on tho Continent, and Gen 1 Robertson, cMef of the British Gen rI SUIT. Russia M. Iswolskv. llusslan Ambas- j tador to France, nni General GIMnsHy. aide-de-camp to Czar Nicholas. Hty frcmler Snlandrn. Baron Son mnn. the Forelon Minister: General Dall Olio. Minister of Munitions, nnd Llcuten- ant General Count Lulgl Cadorna. chief of Italian General Staff. Belgium-Baron Broquevllle. Premier and War Minister and Baron Hcyens. For- lam viiilr ' Serbia Crown Prince Alexander and Premier Pachltoch. Japan Baron Matsu, Japanese Am bassador to Paris. The chief aim of the war council, it Is believed. Is to Inaugurate n genernl of fensive against the Gcrmnn Allies In nn effort to deliver a finishing blow. So confident are the Allies of scoring a decislvo victory over the Central Powers that the delegates to the economic confer ences are looking beyond tho end of the war to the readjustments which will fol low peace. England. It Is said, has pledged herself to furnish money to any of the Allied countries which Is likley to bo hampered by lack of funds In preparing for a general 'offensive. Germany hag been making desperate effort to detach Italy from the ranks of the Allies. This was learned today when the War Council met. ITALY REVEALS ATTEMPT. Information came from a most reliable Italian source. The Germans It was learned, planned by shrewd propaganda and by a triumph nt Verdun to creato such dissatisfaction In Italy that the Government would reconsider Its plan to help "close tho steel ring" "around the Central Empires by joining In the Paris program for concerted action. The Germans, the United Press was in formed learped of plans for the super war council several weeks ago. Alarmed at the prospects that the Allies would frame a program for the closest military, diplomatic and ecunomlc collaboration for maximum offensive efficiency, the Kaiser decided on an attempt to tnke Verdun, believing the moral effect of such a defeat on the Allies would halt the conference. At the same time he sent a shrewd band of propagandists Into Italy and began a campaign designed to foment trouble in Italy, In the German newspapers. The Germans particularly feared that an Im portant result of the Paris conference would be the appearance of Italian troops on other fronts, knowing that the moun tainous nature of much of the Austro Italian front prevents the use of all Italy's forces. The, Italian Government was on the alert and took quick steps to counteract the effect of this German propaganda. The Germans' failure to take Verdun dealt a final blow to the scheme, one of the most ambitious attempts to create a breach in the ranks of the Allies since the beginning of the war , , I THE advertising- value of a news paper is measured entirely by its hold upon its readers, rather than by the number of copies it circulates. Judged by this supreme test, the Public LedgQM a large factor in, the daily life jjf the kpmes of great purchasing power ir. II I- hid Go Philadelphia. i n - H II - CI u I I h-p 1 Jpi mi in '" I" i ii i'1 ,IL J'""" .. I " ITIhwi mil iii ' St " JllffiH-!JL "IT "- n.-w,T. i - --.-n-r-. .. . """"""""-'-- w.'i.i.ni.mi ,,mm7 &T WsW'Muj" '"''" .i arr,T1ffl.,w,,,Li .., j.,-, ,, .,..7T , ,-...,. ' W . J -i- , " S -MOVIE CENSORS PLAY POLITICS; TO BE SUED Continued from Pate One Picture Hoard of Trade of America, came to Philadelphia from New Yprk today, and conferred with Stanley V. Mastbaum re gardlng the elimination of the caption. Mr. Alexander declared that the practice of the Pennsylvania board In employing political censorship was n menace not only to the freedom of tho screen, but to nil of the fundamentals of a free government. The cartoon, which was cut by the Pennsylvania board. Is known as the "Censorship Cartoon." In the animated form the cartoon shows In Its Initial panel tho first page of a newspaper. A black hand, supposed to represent censorship, comes tip And blots nut much of tho Im portant news of the day. The cnptlon reads: "Would you stand for this?" The second panel shows a speaker In the net of delivering nn address from a public rostrum, when two "black hands" of censorship close over his mouth. The caption Is: "Or this?" The third panel shown the motion-picture screen. An Individual rises Up and blots out the picture from the lew of tho audience. Mr. Alexander pointed out that the law governing censorship of mov ing plcturo In Pennsylwmln did not give I the Stale board the right to make polltl- j cal censorships. i WHAT ''HI-: LAW ,SAS The law says: "The board shah umiiiiIiip or MiipcixWe the examinations of all films, leels or views to ho exhibited or used in Pennsyl vania, and shall approve such films, reels or lews which are moral and proper, ami shall disapprove such as are sacrilegious, obscene. Indecent or Immoral, or such as tend, in the judgment nf the board to de base or corrupt morals. This taction shall not a'iply to announcements or advertising slides " This Is the second Instance within a few weeks in which the Pennsylvania Ktatc Hoard of c'cn.sors lias gone outside its Jurisdiction and made, political cen sorships, It Is declared. In the William 11. Durborough Herman war pictures, which were shown at the Chestnut Street j opera House, the board eliminated "close- up" pictures of the Kaiser and of General xo Jlindenburg. .Search of the statute I )0oks reeals no legal authority for such I action i ,j. i,uls Drcltlngcr. chairman of the ' .stale Board of Censors, made this nniwer I when asked concerning the cllmlnull.in "f the subtitle In the Macauley cartoon, "We . nnt'nt i1t(.nnod ti t Vi Inrr tt'lt li flifi never discuss itn thing with the news- papers." Mrs. i:. Xlxer, vice chairman of the board, said: "Vou will have to take this matter with Mr. Ilreltlncer." up "But Mr. Brcltlnger said that you never discussed nuythlng with the newpnp?rs." "Well. I can't s.iy anything about It. i Why don t you call on Llils P. Oberholtzer. I secrctnn j" Mr. Oberholtzer was not quite so reticent about the matter. , "' "a"? 't k''ow, much about it." ,0 M- hut ' ,"! n, h. nmitZ 'K 'T' '" tl,c 'lands of the Attorney General's department Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown said the matter had not reached hhn. Ho said: "I have not henrd anything about It." I It was considered signlllcant that rc I cently the couit has found occasion to i overrule several of the censorship de cisions of the State board. Following Is a partial list of pictures oidcred out by the censors, the decisions being overruled by tho courts: "The Fool's Ilevcngc." "The Serpent." "The Kreulzer Sonata." 'The Iron Cross." ADVISES MEN BEHIND BARS Director Wilson Tells Prisoners Get in Tune With Society to Director Wilson and his brother, tjie Rev. John G. Wilson, pastor of the Union ! Methodist Church, spoke at the cell serv ices In City Hull yetterday afternoon. J "Be u man and do not hide behind ox- , cuses. ' the Director of Public Safety told a score of prisoners at the Central .Station. "Behove that the aerage man is your friend," he continued, "and you will get In tune with the society about you Every man can raise himself from the slough of despair. It is only when he falls to find his proper placo in society that the germ ot the criminal finds a place in his sys tem." v At the end of the service, when the Itev. Wilson pleaded for "trail-hitters.." hands were thrust through the bars of the cells ns a signal that penitents wanted the minister to pray for them. Divorces Granted Court of Common Pleas No. I today granted the following divorces: lry A. lliim-rli- from Kmll T. Haut-rle Muhrda It inline frum Lenli I Vounu L'lur-t Scdlmejer from Anton S leilmex r A nulla II itiiu from John A. H.m IMIu Jtudcm from John J. Mu.lsctt. Itohert II. Whlt from Mnrimret V Whin-. Caroline llranilenburir from llarrj llranuVn- burg Katlo Hoiomon from Jlorrls Solomon. Alice J. UVller from Charlf A WVIIer Mien Hwarthout from Chmti-r K. Hwarthout. (ieorse II. Wolf from Amelia Wolf. Ailelo S Fleming from (Jeorue N Firming. Martha SI. O'lmnni'll from Francla J. O'Dun- nell. Ada Kuufmi, om Slfjue) J Kaufman Mari-aret i: llama from William I Darren. Frank S. Hall from Wllhvlmhm Hall WYOMING VALLEY SCENE OF VIOLENT CAR STRIKE RIOTING Wilkes-Barre Police Defied, Service Interrupted and Prop erty Destroyed in City and Outlying Sections EMPLOYES BADLY BEATEN WILKES-HAimE, Pa., March 27: GcorRd F. Huss, Sheriff of Luzerne County, today Issued a proclamation in which he declares that "a condition exists at this moment in this commu nity which Is In violation of every principle of law and order in flagrant disregard of the motives and purposes which prompted the wise fathers to nrcnare for our use. Guidance and ob- , . , . .1 servance a Inlnjr code of socinl and political conditions. I sincerely conse crate m official position and personal influence to bringing about a condition nf affairs in this community which will compel the lawlessly inclined and the criminally active to observe scrupulously the supreme majesty of the law." WILKKS-IIAURR, Pa. March 28. Fol lowing riotous demonstrations of Satur day night and yesterday by sympathizers with the strikers at the Wllkes-Itarre Street Hallway Company. In which a num ber of patrons nnd employes of the road wero Injured and a number of cars In this city and at other points In the Wyoming Valley wero wrecked, disorders stnrted afresh today. Sympathizers with the strik ing carmen attacked the first two cars tent ocr tho Grove and Brown division of tho company, battering In windows mid hentlng the motormen and conduc tors, one nf them very seriously. No policemen were on the scene nnd by the time word of tho trouble reached head quarters nnd special men wero sent out, the damage had been done. No nrrcsts were made. Tho Grove and Brown division Is manned by residents of the Wyoming Val ley. These employes are called permanent ,;,i,.OJ ., .,, ,,,,. w hen the first ..... rrll,.hc ,. ,ormIIUH Ci rowd of scv- oral hundred men and boys and a few women pelted the car with nil sorts of things. The crew wan forced to leave the car and aH they alighted rioters pounced upon them nnd beat them. One of the crew suffered two broken ribs and his face and bend were badly cut and bruised. Tho next car over tho line was attacked in the same way. The crew was com pelled to abandon the car and leave It to the mob. Conductor and motormen were clouted with sticks, clubs nnd fists until they begged for mercy. SllpTS EXCHANGED. At Westmoor. late last, night, shots wero exchanged between carbarn guards and rioters. At least 1!0 shots were fired ' after a mob of several hundred had bnt- tercd the car windows. No one was In- ' Jured, but reports are that a boy was shot In the crowd and that rioters carried him away. The riots of jestcrduy and today are considered by the Muyor and municipal authorities as a direct challenge to the Law iu mI Order League, which was re cently formed. For a period of several weeks order has been maintained, but the announcement late last night that 000 citizens had secretly formed tho Law and Order League and that they intended to see that riotous scenes of several weeks ago were not repeated. Is said by tho authorities to have stirred resentment. A secret meeting of several prominent residents was held late yesterday. Mayor John V. Kosek was called into the meeting and Informed that unless he preserved peace mid order a cnll would go out to the Governor for military law. It was said rioters had delled the law in this city nnd valley and that tho citizens had reached the conclusion that municipal au thorities were unable to copo with the sit uation and could not prevent the reign of disorder. TOO I.ATK rillt CI.ASMFICATIOX IjnLPWANTKI) l'KMALK COMPANION Middle-aged woman to care for Invalid: will be treated as member of fam- lly; reference. P. M.. Ardmore. I'a. llltr.HSMAKlIH wants rxperlvnced'walat trim mer. wklrt drapers. lsl'J t'hestnut at. Glllll neat, white, wanted for downstairs uork and cooking: references required. Phone (lln. 4U33. Apply 3IU Lincoln drive. UIKI.S WANTIII) to operato machines anil rack cans American Can Co., lleach and Palmer sts. lli).si:UY Kxv. knitters and tnpta:s; also lfrer. paid while learn. IfllO N. Lawrence. HKI.I' WANTI'.II JIAI.K MAN AND WIFK Man butler or chauffeur, wlfi cook. French or UtiRilsh preferred: must hae rets.; place llrjn Mnwr. Call JOi Urexel Hide . at 10.3H a.m.. Wed. or Thurs. Oilier Clai-ltled Ads on I'ucrs II and IS BKTHLEIIEM MAKES APPEAL AGAINST U, S. ARMOH PLANT Steel Company Opens Its Publicity Campaign SOUTH BETHLEHKM. Pa., March 27. Tho Bethlehem steel Company, "recog nising Its, obligation In n matter of na tional defense and national economy, as well as a duty to Its stockholders," Is pre paring to wnge nn active publicity cam paign against tho Senate bill providing for tho construction of a Government ar mor plant. In the flr-nt nt n nfla nt n(nr.mAnla Issued today, the company contends that there are only two reasons, for a Government-owned armor plant Insufficient ca pacity of existing private armor plants, or tho ability of the Government to produco nrmor at a lower price than the private plants. The Bethlehem company main tains that neither of these reasons Is vnlld. CHILD LABOR LAW EXPLAINED Continuation Schools nnd Vocational Guidance Also Subjects nt Monday Conference At today's meeting of the Monday Con ference In the Curtis Building the subject ior consiacrniiou win oe ine of tho New Child Labor Law.1 for consideration will be "The Working Louis N. Nusbnum, director of voca llonal education, will talk on "Progress In Ustabtlshlng Continuation Schools." Tho subject nf Henry .1. Gideon. Chief of tho Bureau of Compulsory Education, will he "Ifnw the Certificate Provisions Work Out In Practice." Other speakers will be Milton ,T. Townsend, employment super visor, who will talk on "Vocational Guid ance," and George L. Kprngue. executive secretary of the Public Education and Child Labor Association of Pennsylvania. Ho will consider tho "Interpretation of tho Law." VI ? Killed by Holler Explosion I.nXINGTON. Ky.. Mnrch 27. Five men wcie scalded to death nnd 12 wero badly Injured In a boiler explosion at I'eter Crcelt, Pike County, today. Tho men were employed In a grist mill nnd had Just started work when the explosion occurred. BT555 1 :r ' JUDGES WILL VIEW -"MOVIE!' IN PRIVATE Plan to Avoid Spectacle Court on Appeal From Board of Censors in Despite the procedure In some of the other Common Pleas Courts In relation to nppeals In moving picture cases. President .T ml re Atidcnrled and Judge' Cnrr, after a conference with counsel today, decided not to have nn exhibition In the courtroom of the film entitled "Dollnrs and the Woman," from which certain eliminations of scenes nnd subtitles were ordered by the Hoard of Censors. Deputy Attorney General Joseph L. Kun, after a sldc-bnr talk with tllo judges, stated that Friday morning nt 10 o'clock hnd been fixed for the hearing of testimony of the Lubln Company's nppcal from tho action of the Hoard of Censors on the picture. At that time tho censors will be com pelled to point out tho alleged objection ablo features of the picture from the standpoint of pubtlo morals, nnd If the Judges are not satisfied with the testi mony ns a menus of determining the Issue, they will then view Hip picture themselves prlvntely at some convenient place. "Tho Judges will go to the private display, not In their official capacity, hut Incog," said Mr. Kun. When tho nppcal of the Lubln Company was called In Court No I. Frank J. Mnneely nppenred for the appellants nnd tho Hoard of Censors was represented by J Louis Hroltlnger, and the Common wealth by Mr. Kun. The court was In formed that tho Pennsylvania Htnto Uoard of Censors prohibited the exhibition, with out certain eliminations, of the nix-net photoplay, madn by tho Lubln Company from Albert Payson Terhnnc's magazliio serial, "Dollnrs and Cents " The censors went on record as objecting to the screen ing of any scene in photoplays that In dlcato birth. that Vassar College was located at Yonkers, New York. We knew better, of course. It was just a slip: one of those obvious mistakes that everybody sees when it is too lafe. The mistake was made in the small est kind of type, like this- . Yonkeri, New We got 5,000 letters telling us that Vassar College was located at Poughkeepsie. We were glad to be corrected, but we were particularly lad to realize we were so carefully read that a mistake printed in the smallest type failed not only to "get by" but 5,000 persons took the pains to tell us. It says a good deal when a mag azine is , so carefully read. If you wonder why, just get a copy of i . i ihe Ladies' HOME JOURNAL It's only 1$ cents j. - rfl WILSON'S THIRD GRANDCHILD Elcnnor Axfeon Sayre, Born Yester day, "Receives" at Hospital Eleanor Axson Snyre. the second grand daughter and third grandchild of Presi dent Wilson, "received" today at the Jef ferson Hospital, where she was born early yesterday. The lsltor was her father, Francis Howe Sayre, nsslstnnt to President Gnr fleld, of Williams College, who camo all tho way from Wllllamstown, Mass., to see the second child born to hli'n and his wife, who was Miss Jessie Wilson. Tho baby. Is named affer President Wilson's first wife. Mrs. Hayro came to this city several weeks ngo. slnylng nt the homo of her hunt, Mrs. Anna Wilson Howe, tho President's sister, at 1.127 Spruce street, until Snturday, when she went to the hospital. When Mr. Wilson was here last week he visited her at his sister's home. Tho President's first grandchild, Francis Woodrow Kayre, was born nt tho White Hoilso more than n year ngo. The second grandchild, Ulennor McAdoo, also named after tho first Mrs. Wilson, was born In Washington several months ngo. STABS HIMSELF IN PRISON Mnn Accused of Breaking Parole At tempts Suicide After Rearrest O.srar Wlster, H paroled prisoner who wns icarresled late yesterday, attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself In tho neck with a penknife while In the re ceiving ward of tho Knstern Penitentiary. Wlster, who Is 28 years old nnd give's his nddress n North 16th street near Brown, wns sentenced to six years' Im prisonment about three years ago. lie was accused, of breaking his parole. After stabbing himself Winter wns sent to the Hahnemann Hospital, where It wns said his condition wns not serious. Two-ycnr-old Drinks Insect Poison Lrotia Andtows, two-year-old girl, of 1912 Salmon street, Is in tho Frnnltford Hospital In a serious condition from pois oning. During tho tempornry nbsenco of tho mothor she climbed onto a chair, got n bottle of Insect poison from n cupboard, nnd drank a quantity of It. once York BRUMBAUGH AWAITS MOVE BY "OTHER SW Governor Soya His Attitude T J "mu "s uandldncy Hasn't Changed t.l0T,eahTp0roV?hlh!lpCulbl?I"e?, flM hrj Mtlnn In -.";.."'? "ePUDllcan n..i 1 The Governor eav nn, J I "v5ru.mMih. J nt Atlantic City last nlglu "t e?w said that his attitude In VlV. lhl9 h.1 not changed Blnce the nrt oU" "l"1 "S J self a candidate 'tot OTriYlSSS?"4 Wn" , "There Is nothlpg ?ur?w ?".? .. tho Governor, "t S-ni.."' to "W MM clearlv In m i.u .J". J Position vf-1 tccmnn Wnsson wh ch was mL.m,?IN some time ago, nnd my TttUnAl wb"i altered one whit Jl,. TV."!? lnd has aet rne latest development In ii .u .. W s the statement ffffi tan cnnirman in Hunt ngdon Coiin presume there will be nothing Ifff'J' the other side makes lUmove?" '" Unttl inn opyacr niaiemcnt referred to brik. Governor wns ssued R.ih.j,.. 1. "? the Huntingdon County chalrmM? ifT ' Spyker flatly declared that iS ? 'A will not trade or deal, sell out or t iu!SB out.' that ho will carry the lcn taM reunited nartv tn Dm nri "5 .".."'lVu .Senator Penrose or any one else 6 '' J his program for unity, he would b 1 ?., J with as "a dlsorganlzer nnd an intil. ,fi fnctlonalfst." I n lntWs'j Congressman Wlllnm a. Vare an i. . torncy General Francis Shunk Twt enlled upon the Governor i .,.".' yesterday. They declined to dlwMtS , conference, nnd nsserted that nolltui.. ' not uiscussed. -...,, Charter for New Steel Compant 1 llOVKIl. Del.. March 27. A .I,.,,.. 3 wnh filed hero at tho State Department 1! W day for the Brlnrfleld Arms Cotnn.it Philadelphia, to mRnufacturilmiTSIk.l or other metals. Capital 12.800,000 is - Oorporators, F. n. Hansen. PhlladeiiAlV 4 ueorgo ii. is. Martin nnd 3. C, Stvm7 A Camden, N. J. "ymgiwvl ,l tl i:, r T "J"
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