.wmjiim nw -irWXWy W' V 3 - ". j T I J MONDAY March 5, 1917 i- s MONDAY March 5, 1917 I cuemttij gfiHw tiragFr p- SR s? ;iv '$, if: GYPSIES ORDERED TO ABANDON CITY "Kings" Confer as to Place of Operation After Next Wednesday JOE EPIIRON OVERLOOKED Facts About "Joe" Ephrnn; "King" of Canadian (7sc.s' OPERATES fortune-tollinn parlor at 3937 Lancaster nvriuie. Police snv Kphron is worth $60,000, of which $25,000 is on de posit in n Chicago National Hank. Paid $0000 for a gypsy bride for his fourteen-year-old son. When gypsy bride wiip stolen Ephron paid $1000 ransom to get her back for his son. Has option on thousands of horses he is trying to sell to Canadian Gov crnment to bo used on European battlefields. Ephron's parlor, which he rents for $25 a month, is opposite Thirtj, ninth street and Lancaster nvenuo police station, in charge of Lieu tenant Savage. Captain Kenny failed to raid Ephron's place when wholesale ar rests were made Friday night of gypsy fortune tellers. AMATEUR PLAYERS REHEARSE AT KENESETH ISRAEL ALUMNI BUILDING t if" jy V""1 v --s ' H f" 1 I l W.Lr ftJU-w ;B ml v rj Ik 0k i '' W fr. ma Bv f 3f f T.. W . W V v J J - J It ( v ...w j.-s5yi,i, ; j' . Is 4 if .7'J WW f i$Lti r fire -"W - Detective "Charlev" Lee. of the vice quad, ami a corps of detei lives arc serving notices upon the g)psy fortune tellers that they mut leave tho city b) next WnliirB day The lespertH'e "KliiKS," icprcfrciitlns the lliazlllan. ltunsari.in, Seililati luicl l!u Blan tribes, niv confeirlnj; today at Mil lolls fortune-telllns parlois to decide Jii!-! vliciu they will ko. Uusliands of the nM'sico under anest hay they iil remain lure until the. charcei against their vles hae been dl!-poed of. Others say they must remain heio because they hae paid their lent from two to three months In advance A careful survey of the zone where the fortune-tcllliiR "pailon" are operatliiR dlt clofed today that one very Important "par lor" was overlooked It may have been an accident. Ah Information for the police this "parlor" If at S'jil Lancaster avenue. It Is Just opposite the Thll ty-nlnth stree and Lancaster avenue police station This Ktatton Is commanded by Lieutenant .Savasc. The "parlor" Is opeiated by Joo L'phron. who at the I'etectlve llureau Is known as the "fclnK" of the Canadian, faction of the Cypfjr foitune-tellcra noiv In I'hllarielphla. Uphron's vvlfe was busy reading palms last Saturday afternoon. Mothers, fair maidens and youths vlsltd the p'ace. Not only was Mis Kphron kept busy, but her daughter-lti-lau, who is sixteen eais old. assisted. rimciiASKD $6ooij wire roi: son This daiiKhter-ln-law was iiiircliaed as a wife by Kphron for his fourteen-year-old son, scveial months nco. Th prion paid by Kphron for the bride was JCOOO. He ad mits this Just as calmly as ho admits that he owis a J9D0 automobile. The car was boiiRht b) Kphron a few class ap) at a Droad and Callow hill i-treets automobile place Kphron has been heie only tvvu months. The home of the Kphron family which has reven children, many cousins, many friends is In a store at the Lancaster avenue ad dress. The placu rents for J23 a month. Kphron admits b-lns a rich man, but laughs heartily and says "No, No. 1 no king" when asked whether lie is tho "King" of the Canadian t-'Misy faction Fortune telltiiK' Is an art accord I nc to Kphron. He says his wife Is talented in that profession Ho denies that any person was ever robbed in Ills place As for the leaving of Jewelry and money with his wife by Innocent persons, Kphron -as that Is a part of the business "But an) body who leavej anjthliu; with my wife can Bet it back," said Kphron, "they leave It behind so that the. devils won't set it If .voti have our forturm 4rtlrl n,il tilirtllll d,wl,Jn t,i In i. .. . ..in ...n...... here, you can do bo and ou can get It uacK sliouiu .von care to come. A VVANDf.ltKi:. liL'T WtJllTII J2.".U00 Detectives Kreund ami lleckmau, who know Kphron and who helped him to ie rover his sixteen-) ear-old ilauKliter-iii-lavv when she vias kidnapped by a gypsy b.nnl ray that Kphron is the recognized head of the Canad an faction of the gypsy fortune tellers here. The police wiy he dspM)cd to tnent a bank book Miouing that he had $15,000 on. deposit In a Chicago bank Kphron Is also Interested In puicliashig horses for tho Canadian (,ov eminent Kphion and some of the men who live with him were among those who crowded Cen tral station vi hen the eighteen women wcie arraigned there last Saturda.v. "I don't have other places." said Kphron when a reporler called on him "1 am a try poor man. and have little moiie) )es. J did buy an automobile for Jlt'in Hut all the American people have automobiles, si that Is nothing strange " Kphron said he was born in Seibla lie aJd he came to this country when ;i lad. In Canada he married. On the hone) moon he discovered that his wife possessed talent so he sa)s the kind of talent vvh'ch ought to develop her Into a gooil foituno teller He said that since then he and his family have been traveling nround the coun try. But Kphron doesn't read palms. He Rives his occupation as that of a copper-amlth. ARMY AND NAVY HOYS 1JEST The Rev. Robert O. Uoyle Pays Tribute to First Pennsylvania The men In (he army aiid nav) nre the best boss In the land, according In the Jlev Robert O Uoyle, pastor of .St. John's Jleformed Church, Fortieth and Spring Oar den streets. At the regular weekly meet ing of he Ministerial Association of the Ileformed Church held todaj, at Fifteenth and Itace streets, the IJev. .Mr. l!o)le nar rated his experiences as ilmplaln of the TMrnt T'entlRVlV flnla lteclmeilt Wllltn tilling i thn Mexican border. He said. The morale or tne men in tne army and navy has changed during the lust twenty five yeais. They are tho best boys In the land. During the. five months I was on theT border I distributed more than COO khakl-covered Bibles." PRUGG1ST UNDER BAIL Clerk Accused of Mistaking Poison for Lotion in Child's Death A drug cleric, who, the pollen say, mb. took a poison for n healing lotion to mix In fa.' prescription, which, according to Deputy i. , Coroner Schultz. caused the death of a four- i t-day-old baby Ju the Howard l:5.-pltal. aa' field I" IJ00O ball for court today by Ixputy Coroner Frank Paul, silting us a MBttnlttlnK Magistrate. Mm stork. Maurice Stem, twehty-two oi jooa-jvjuii,.,viarimi street. .wf "www .iii htoui ami FOOD PARADE CALLED OFF ON COMPROMISE ! Women's Protective Lcukuo Wins Place:; on Mayor's Com mission Dunns n leitgiln cinfcicm v with nine li prracntiitlves of the Women- l'loteitlve I.enKiie mill vailnus Injmr bod.es, Mnvi;i Smith tod. i) nK?eed to appuint three of their number to the food c immlsslon suggested list week by the Clumber of Commeic" the first meeting of which will be held at City Hall iomoriow nftetnoon nt :i 'Ml o'cloi k Thrt new membeis will make a total of fot t -two in the commission As a result of the inference t'u' plans for a general paiiidc of piutcst on i'll Hall by nt hast Hi.iiuO persons wcie called oil "for Hie tune btlng," nccirdlUB t one of the lommlttie win said that imil had bein waiting nt various uu'etllig places to slait the parade toda) In case the .Mn.vor had piovtd linMilc The full till,, of the i oniniillee Is. "Laboi Conferttice foi Atitl-Illg!i-Cost-of-Livlng via All Housewives Protective League Against the I Hull Coot of Food " The cnli teienie with the Ma)or lasted more than an hour nnd u half The thice menilieis of the committee to bo appointed to the lleneral Food Commis sion me .Mis Lena I .lalfe and Mrs. I'aulluu liildlpeig, leiucseiitlng the Women's pro tective LetiBue. and Joseph K Cohen, n uitmbei of the Tvpngraphlcal t'nlon, repie sentiiig labor iuttieslK. iilher meiiibeiH of the committee toda.v wero Mrs .Heck) I'.uratelii. Mrs. J. HancMn, Mis. li itoldberg, of tho Women's League, Cli.ir'cs S'hl. luenihei of tlie Sen lallst putv ami of the Mac'iinlsts' I'uioii. Allart Fln kelsteln and Mollis Ivaslafsky, of the Woikmen'n Click The meuibefs cliiluied the) lepiesent about 1 iwn.tiiii) of I'll ladel phla's iiopLilation All nine membeis of the committee joined In the ideas to the Maoi. Thej suggested that the c t use the powers it nllea'l.v pos sesses more tffctlivel) lo lelleve the food sltiiathm and to ask t'le Stale Lcgslatuie foi further pown The striugist point of their request was that $6.0011.01111 lie nppieprlnted foi estab lishment of permanent ujtetieles nnd mun c ipal markets to sell f mil. y ml and other i itiruuii necessitfcR at cost Mnvor Smith said that he N being swamped with telpgrams from nun In till parts of th- country offering to sell food commodities He promise! the commltteo to nerinc the advice of Cltv KTillcltor Con nellv to learn the full extent of the powers if Hip food commission to act Immediately IHieclor of Supplier MaeLaughlln was ailed 111 by the Mayor during the i mtei- JAPANESE NEWSPAPER ASSAILS UNITED STATES Anjjry That Mikado's .Subjects Here Should Ho Treated "Worse Thnn Ncki'ocs" TiiKIu. MiikIi ' Hitler ntlin l on Hie I'niKil .Slat"s for American discrimination HBalti-t the Japanese was the most Hignlll cant pari of edlloilal coimiient hei e toda) on the i in man plot lo align Mclio and Japan with Heniiany iigainst the I idled Sllll"' The attnik was l Hie newsiaiei i isnka Mai-N'lchl llevlalions of the plot. It lie ilaied. Illuslialed the weakness of Ameti can dlrloinai") lowanl Ueinianv." and con tinuing It criticism along this line, added "The I'lilKd Stales of Amerlui today Heals the Japanese vvoise tlniii negioes Wo advise the Onv i nimeiit to take the op-p-irtimlt) t" open negotiations to coirect this unfair attitude on the pirt of Amciica." K.ceit for this comment from the Osaka newspaper the piess and public were gen erally unconcerned over the Herman "plot." The Tokio newspiner .N'lclil N'lehi was the only one In addition to Hie Mal-Nlehl which commented edltoriall.v on the mat ter at all. Th N'lclil Nlehl could not for bear admiring the "Ingenuit)" of the Her mans In this connection. IIUSINESS MKN HERE AID U. S. 1'ive Philadclphians Help Pass on Slu.OQO.OOQ Supply Bills b'lve pionilnenl Phllad'ehihla business men will serve as an adls"l) board foi the tiovernment In rat-sing iiuon lilds for moie than i iri.liilrt.nifl worth of war supplies The b'ds, which will be opened toilnv b Colonel Heorg 11 Penrose, commandant of the Sehu)Iklll Arsenal, are for i lathing, h.nd waie am', si" piles of many desciliitions. The members of the ndvlsnry board, vvhkh Is the first of Its kind in the history of the United Stales, nre Howell CiimmhiBS, pies. dent of the John P., Stetson Compaii). A. C. Dinkey, president of the Mldvale Slcel C'ouunny; L. It. Klunaid, of thu Hell Tele iilione t'omiiany: Calvin M. .Sm,vtli, tifthe Vouug :m)th. Field Company, nnd Kly K. ;!al (t ' ce president of Iho A. 11, Klrsch baum Cormpany. RAIN, SNOW AND SLEET MAKE STREETS A MESS Highways Transformed Into Canals of Slush and More Is Threatened line mm and a woman ale dead, sevetal were In Hired, tialllc was geiieiall) dela.ved and shipping viitually broiigbt l a stand still In Philadelphia In the last tweulv four bonis a" a lesult of (he sloini of snow, wlcet and lain .Much colder wi.itlier Is piedlcted foi late inil.iv or tnmnriow- 'Phe sloi in was so seveie that many clt) utieets jestcrdav vlrtii'ill.v weie deseited. Tralllc niithoi Itles said It was Hie quietest Sunday Philadelphia had had In )cars. The steady fall of snow or lain wa such than In many sections of the clt) ciosslng the stieets on foot was nenily Impossible on account of the deep pools of slush After walking in Hie heavy snow. Alex ander Malonc sixty )c.us old, of ifil.' Moi ris stieet, slippul mid fell within one block of Ills home He died In St. Agnes's Hos pital. Heart disease tanscd his death, It was said, and the ceitloti of walking In the heavy snow piobably hastened tho at ta. k. An unidentified woman was found dead In an alley at .Seventeenth and Naiidaln stieets Her death Is believed to have been caused by exposiiie. The woman, who was about forty .vears old, was well diessed In black. Nothing was found on the body which would Identify her. The body was dls (oveied by Mrs. Sarah Stanley, of G20 South Seventeenth stieet. As n lesull of the storm sluggish wires impeded telegraph and long-distance tele phone service today, but the alisetu e of wind fit evented set lous breaks in the Ice laden wiles. Wire men of all stations i nngr.ittil.ited tin inselves over weather conditions that weie Ideal compared with those of M.uch ,", liui.i, the day after Piesldent Taffs liiaugu lal. when wires were down throughout the I last. Todnv. in the telegraph and tele phone woild. is tlie eighth nnniversaiy of that event, familial l known as the ' lil'.ttik-etv-blauk ilav " The Dill and Keystone Telephone (Jompanles lepoited slight trouide. veiv Utile nbove normal, this moinlng ll of this n.ih out of town, wlieie the wnes nre epo-ed The Wcstnn Ciilou, Poilal and I'll l.nlelplila and Head ing telegraph line.- weie foiced to utilize more electrii powei lo oveitome the le sisliince cui-ed b.v the damp, cold weather. CAME IIEIIE TO DIE IN 1837. SHE'S NOW 101 YEARS OLD Mrs Elizabeth Browne Calls Wilson "Wonderful Man" Doesn't Like Women's t'lothcs of 1917 Inning Hie spring of t S 17. a devottd hus band biouglit hl. voung wife trom Pitts burgh to Philadelphia so she might die In Hie ill) of her blilh Tomnuow the same woman w ill celehiate heio 101st hiithdav iiiiinvtMs.iry. She is Mrs. Kli. ilieth Hrow ne. or in Hi North Twentieth stiett While on-a visit eight) vears ago. Mis Plow no became dangerousU ill and le-riiip-ted hei husbaiid to In lug her to Phila delphia The trip was made h) stage. Afu-i she iimiIkiI this el'y she made laiild ie coveiy Mis. I'.iow-iic was bin i ,uid lived many years befoie lallioail, telegraih and tivle phoini services vcre iiiaugiiiated. At that lime there were no sk.vserapeis and no militant suff. agists Mis I'.rowne has pio uouueed views on imhlli questions in which she lakes gieat interest In lur opinion President Wilson is "a woudeiful man" and she Indorses virtually all his actions. Mrs Prow no calls the women's clothes ot I'M" "abominable, being reiiher high enough at the top nor low ei'ough at the bottom " Although Mrs. Iliowne lias been foiced to discontinue at tending services at the Zlou Kpiscopil Church, her minJ Is keen and her e.veslght icmalns iinlmpalied. Ph.vsIeiaiiJ say she may have several more blithda) nnnlveisarles Kiom left to rijrht nre I'rancisca Uaer, Iluth Mandel, Marie Leopold, Julia Silverman, Edna David, Julia Freeman, Dorothy Citeenbaum, Madeline Strousso urn Hita Hacharach. In the circle is Helen Mandel, who has a solo duticinp; part. ill toHi ' I. flHfKli I'.-., I ' is ( i u ? :'-' zw i v t7 Wr m J y ? FIRE-FIGHTERS GAME, BUT AUDUBON'S MUD WAS JUST A BIT TOO MUCH E. H. Barch's Bungalow Burns While Plucky Lads, Stuck on Highway, Rave in Impotence Haddon Heights Boys Also Blocked on the Way IT It wcie not roi the mud on the Audubon loads and the gieat distance of the llie house from the home of K. H. Hatch, the hitter's house might still be In existence The Haddon Heights mud Is also slightly responsible for the catastrophe and there is not enough of the Hatch home left to put In a coal scuttle If the Audubon ;iml Hie Haddon Heights compan.v had an acioplanc engine, hosecart. etc. all might have been dlffeient. Il.il ch was slei pli.g when a cloud of smoke suddenb buist Into his beiHooin. It awakened him He looked out the window and I cubed for Ids clothes. Ilarch told Chief of Polke M.uMiillln about It and the chief told the Audubon 1'lre Company. It slatted out with Us shining motor apparatus and good Intentions Hut the mud took a grip on tho wheel and would not let go The llremen saldlt was the muddiest mud they ever saw. The loinblned engine, hnscciit nnd tliick stallnl half a ine fiom the burn ing Darch bungalow and lefused to budge The Haddon Heights Compan.v managed to squeeze a little farther It was tor P'docd about one quaiter mile from the cr-tillagiatinii. It was suggested that some one get off and phone the fire that they wouldn't be there, but this could not be done as theie weie no houses near the point of the stall-a-tlon Those who lisd gathered about the fire to see the liieladdles in action heaid bells in the distance. Hut they never got nearer. The flreflgliteis of Haddon Heights showed that the) 'meant well. They detached the hose and curled It in snakellke fashion on their shoulders for a quaiter mile to the sialic Tnen the hose was attached to a lltcplug Hut tho fire had kept burning during the ilelajs, so when the llremen n.uhed the seem- thcie was nothing to put out but the ashes. The Hatch homo was valued at $3I00. .No one knows what slaited the blaze Plans were made some time ago to mac adamize the loads of Audubon, but the wi.itlier dela.ved the start CITY NEWS IN BRIEF I. M. W. speakers nililred a nii-iiieet-lug'of sugar stilkers at Hie Labor l.vccum The addl es-.es weie made In Lithuanian. Polish nnd KnglMi. The chaiiiiian was Inseph Weltzer who said that "all Is go ng viell with Hie strike aim inc u-inu-ia lie begging mr leiinn. Ing vi ell will 'oon Itich Tennessee Oil Lands Found LANCASTKIS. V, . Marc 1 5. Vast sti etches of land near Maiksvllle. Tenn owned h) piomlnent Lancaster citizens, are expected to produce great quantities of oil. It was learned todav after Ilepic sentatlve A 11. Hess relumed from a Hip lo tlie tei rltor.v lie Is fliiaiiclajl) Interested In the land Theie are more than SO.OUH acres holding valuable hard wood, nnd oil has been stiuck lately on land bordeifng the trad on all sides Viitually the cntiro stretch Is owned by Lanuister persons. Lawyer Argues Insurrection ltefore the Presb)terlan Ministerial As. soclation's weekly meeting this morning Wllmer W. MaoKlrce, an attorney of West Chester. Pa., undertook ln strictly legal language to prove that the Christ really rose fiom tho dead, "That," said Mr MacKhee. "Is the way to speak to the aveiagn man In the pew about Hie matter. Show him tho truth of the resurrection in languago that he knows," MIKED AUTOIST TO SUE CITY Suit will be nird today against the city In Common Pleas Court, according to Charles W, Toebe. of 6130 Catharine street, whose automobile became fast In the inlre of a street vthlch Is undergoing repalis. to determine vciiether the city can be held re sponsible for damages, ".My car has been damaged b the city's nwtllgenee, nnd I am going tjtry ta find oilt If I have re dress," he said, The machine, with four occupants, be came' ln)bedded in the niud at Kitty-ninth street And Cedar avenue Saturday night. tjol. Walter Kattc Dies at 86 NIJW YOHK. .March 5. Colonel Walter Katte, from 1877 to 1S80 the engineer In charge of the building of this city's ele vated railway died here yesterday Jt his eighty-sixth year. He superintended the construction of Kads bridge across the Mia. slsslppk In 1857 he was ritate engineer of' Canals In Pennsylvania, He was born In London, Kngland. Stranded Ship Floated NJJW,"YOK, March t..After going ashore near Ilarncgat late last night, Hlu . . ....niv vnnvT ItllltlNON has Is sued ordeis to the police to enfo-ie the oidlnance that foodstuffs and beverages d'splaved ill Hie open shall e coveted. The police' also have been Instructed to see thai the venders on the stieet arc provided with licenses Tin; ni:. mii.i.iam ' l'"uv' ""' new Iv appointed pastor of the liliard Ave nue 'fnltailan Church, has taken chaige. Mi. Pan) was formeily a minister of the Methodist Kplscopal Chuicji, .IIHIN l. ll)Ki;i'i;Ll.i;it, !". llsi led that Philadelphia has New Yoik "beaten a mile" when It comes to Hible classes This tribute was paid )eMeidav In an au di cs befoie the lliblo class of St Lukes Methodist Kplscopal Chinch. Broad and .Jackson streets. Mr. P.oekcfeller v Isl ed three of the largest Hible classes, delivering brief addi esses before each, lie was ac companied b.v five membeis uf his New Voik Ulblo Class IMIMIOM; IIIMIINoN1 vlre preldent of the Hathoi'o National Hauls. Is recovering fiom Injuries tecelved In an automobile collision The accident oecuired on Old York road at Willow lliovo and Robin son's car was wrecked Witnesses of tin accident obtained the license number ot the other machine, said lo have been issued to a member oi a ivesi inn.iic,,tn. ,,,, j. Tin; MKTiii.r.iinu vri:i:i, iompwv has enrolled twenty-flve or Its executives lii the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. .... t. , imnin siblnhuildlnc Company ine i i-iuic.. -- - has entered four of its men and about fortv-two other concerns ciih.ikcii in nu,,ui twciiD-nve dlffeient lines of business. Joined the trade body last week during nnd of tho busiest periods the membership bu reau has experienced since the reorganisa tion of the chamber There appears little likelihood that Philadelphia will soon lose tho distinction of naving mo laigcsi com meicial organization In the woild. Ill'TTIHlS KI.OWKH -wllli milk thin morning when n trolley car smashed nnd demolished a milk wagon at Third and Montrose streets. Tho driver of the wagon, be Cordeslk.. of 912 SiutH Klfth street, was thrown out and badly cut. He was taken to Mount h'lnal Hosp'tal. - HOSKS OK IIVIIIIV VAIMI'.TY Unnnn In this country wl 1 bo on exhibition at tho National Hose Festival ot the American noRe Society In the First Iteghnent Armory, i," ail and Callowhlll streets. March 20-21- This will be the first Independent shgw bv the society, of which S. S. Pennock, of Philadelphia, Is president. Virtual y every rose grower of Importan6o tln the country has been Invited to compete for the thou sands of dollarB in gold and trophies offered as prizes. BELIEF IN SHIRK'S SUICIDE GROWS Theory That Lebanon Banker Was Murdered Losing Supporters WIDOW CLINGS TO IT Truth Hinges on Proof That Bul let in Brain Does Not Cause Instant Death 11 heroesgiveI . LIVES FOR OTHJj Coast Guards Drowned Attempt to Reach" Stranded Vessel?! CAMDEN Tliev are Harrv Adams, four years old, of :: Kog.irty avenue, l.'dwaid AVIlson, thirty nine vents old of 131 J5o)cis court, nnd I'loieme Hicak twrnty-two )ears old, of TT'i Svcamoie street I'lANsVU M. ItAll.llOAII Clinpirr, Women's Division for National Prepared ness will hold nu all-day meeting tomor low nt the P. P. it. V. M. C. A.. Third and Mb Me stieets Tho pioginni Includes a pnicrl post sale and quilting paity. The ploceeds will be used to pay for material to be used 111 making Ited Cross equip, ments for, base hospitals. t'VMIIHN I'Ol'.STY Medical tnrlety will hold its monthly meeting tomorrow night lir. H H. Hrnee will open n discussion on "Diabetes Mellltus," Other speakeis are His. Thomas K Lewis, J. Lynn Mahaffey, Kdwaul C. Pechln and I-". William Shafer ruoi'osHNTs or thi; moi;mi;nt to have a normal school in Camden County will have a chance to advance their aigu ments before the Appropiiations Commit, tee of the Assembly tomorrow nt 10:30 o'clock at Tientoii Tho hearing has been ni ranged by Assemblyman Charles A. AVol ve'.'tou, WHITMW I'AKU Improvement Assorln tlon has adopted a series of resolutions calling on the Mayor and members of City Council to do all In their power looking to the reduction to the high cost of living. HATTHKV II, lllll.n .MlTIM.Kiiv, num. berlng HO men with 100 horses, under the command of Captain Samuel CI. Har nard, left last night to attend the Inaugura tion nt Washington ono bundled Demo ciats left In the afternoon to attend tho Inauguration. Wtl.I.AIil) TIU:i:t. h ngimn emnloved by the Heading Hallway, whllo shovel'lng snow at the Atlantic avenue crossing. vas struck by n train nnd lecelved n fracture' nt Hie skull. He was taken to tho West Jcisey Homeopathic Hospital $500,000 -HOT-EL FOR WOfiKEHS Bethlehem Steel Offlcials Inspect Sites nt Somers Point, N'. J, ROMKHS POINT. N. J.. Maich 5, It has been learned on good avilhorlty that offl cials of the Bethlehem .Steel Company were here a fevv dajs ago Inspecting sites along the water front, to constiuct a 1500,000 hotel. The company Is deslrouj, according to In formation, of obtaining a site that will be close to its gun proving grounds, so its em ployes nnd guests can be housed without sending them to Atlantic City, if a slto is found here it Is expected the company will construct a large whlirf and run a boat dally to and from tho proving grounds to carry the workers. Liner Chicago Safe at Bordeaux NI'AV .YOltlv. March 5. The French Line steamship Chicago, which sailed from this port February 10 with 141 passeneera, mf y ".vm. T,.y in",(ivinj, jiaa &z trW ."".' """""r IW l!u n Stiff Corrrtioiiifnit LHHAXON. Pa . -Man It r. The only way In which the death of Howard C. Shirk. Lehanmi National Hank president and leader of the count) bar. can be detei mined as murder Is for ph)lci.ins to establish ab solutely that a man cannot live for a mo ment with a bullet In his brain. t nless that is true It 1 almost ceitaln the lawver killed himself. Shirks widow Is now the mil) peion who clings steadfastly to the minder theoi). Tlie teller of the dead man's bunk. Waller Mail!!, is said today lo have Identi fied Hie levolver which was found by the boilv as having belonged to the bank He would not admit or deny it when questioned, but ltfeited the questioners to V. S Deckel, vice president. Mr lleiker was willing to discuss any feature but that. "We will pass that over." he said Distrltt Attorney Adams knew who owned the revohei. but wouldnt tell. vi rtiiiwn Slut k She and not the authorities has possession of Hie weapon. Tlie levels,, nal uiallv would be tho case If 11 murder In vestigation was being made Just why every one Is so anxious to con cent the owneisblp of the weapon cannot be detei milled It seems that the onlv leasou the mur der theoiv vins listened to by county of Ilcials was tespect for Mis Shirk's opinion and her giief She Is convinced that her husband did not kill himself, even though all rlicunistances point to death by his own hand. Thus. He had been III and despondent nu ac count of his poor health. Mi. Heckei, who was closei to htm than iinv one outside his famll). is nuthoritv for that He also had been In the Pennsylvania Hospital oil account of his tun-down condition only a year ago and has not been well since. The shooting took plaio on 11 landing ot the thild floor of his olllce building It Is In full sight of an) one who enters tho build ing and would baldly be chosen for a inui der Miss Lutz a stenographer on the second floor, who was greeted on the stairs by SI1I1 k. heard a sound like a shot and then another sound like a body falling to the floor. She heanl no one come downstalts, as a murdeier would have had to The shooting- li.inoriieil at 1 11. in 1 Kvcr) thing about the shooting makes It look like a suicide, except the doubts of phvslcians who examined him and who said the first wound would have i.iused death lniindlatcl) One bullet entered the light ear by the canal and flattened 1telf against the skull. The other entered beneath the ear and wniked downwaid to file ba'se of the brain The iloctois sa) tlie 111 si wound would have made It Impossible lo coik the gun and shoot again. Hut A J Aulen bach, a gunsmith, who examined the weapon, said It was easy to crick, piovlded a man had any stiength nt all, and would take haidlv a moment It was er) old st)le. made in 1872 by Hopkins A: Allen, Norwich, Conn , and of .11 callhci. Mr Hecker, while not saying so outright, docs not believe Mr. Slink was nuiiderei! He sa.vs absolutely that he was not muideied by a former Lebanon business man who was known to hate the dead man. and Dlstilct Attorney Adams has said that If this suspect is eliminated, there Is no leason to subset Ihc to the muidei theory any longer. As far as can be learned there was no financial or domestic leason for Mr. Shii k's despondency, only 111 health due to oveiwoik It Is likely theie will be a formal an nouncement by count) nlllcials soon that tho death was due to suicide, and thus end the speculation which has been the chief topic of conversation all day. Coioner Light has not believed In the minder theory from Us beginning. Neither have mosl othei Lebanon people Police Court Chronicle And there's still another one who wants to cute the high cost of living This time it Is William Queer, who, the police pay. Is not unlike his name. Wll liam has been keeping tabs 011 the sugges tions handed out by vailous persons to fight the food game, and, In his own lan guage, "the) 're all up a tiec " Instead of skipping a meal or using the city streets for farm land, Queer believes in cutting out nil the fancy stuff In the selling and distributing of food His plan would throw thousands of salesmen, clerks and ehauffeius out of work nnd put a large eilmp in tlie paper business. "William was so carried away with his thought that he Insisted 011 Impressing It upon dozens of householders In the neigh borhood of Hlchmond and Clearfield streets after getting them nut of bed at nu un earthly hour. His scheme briefly Is to have n hundred persons In each nelghbnihood hire an autotruck once a week and haul the food for the community In one big load. Unfortunately. Qjieer was In an uncertain condition as he attempted to unfold his suggestion, and in two or three cases he was assisted to tho middle of the street without waste of words. Policeman Chick Hartley, who used to be a baseball player, found William sitting in the street and brought him to the Belgrade and Clearfield streets station so he wouldn't caicn com, " ' " said Queer. "Tell It to the Judge," said the cop It was wltb mtlell Inrllirnntlnn !... .. .- ..,- ...... ..... ...-.,.' 11, i vutei told of his treatment by the people when he was really trying to help them to live "You can't blame them," the Judge as serted, "If any ono got me out of bed nt 3 a. m. to tell me the best way to 1 educe the high cost of living I don't know what I'd do" jtvn, 1 muni nave w alien- till a little imer," agreed Queer. -vou nceii tiniu to get your campaign mapped out on proper lines." ald the Judge, "so I'll let ou think out ypur plans where you will not be disturbed, Youj can lest at the House of Correction for the next four weeks." . Sugar Futures Arc Firmer NKW.YOltK. .March C Tho market for sugar futures developed a firm undertone at the start today, with leading comrnls slon houses and Kuropean interests on ihe buying side. Tlie early trading was In fluenced by tho fit m spot market and by rumors that the strike nt thS reHneiics was Bhovvlng Improvement. Prices on the call showed advance of 3 to G points, with first transactions 4U0O tons. Aged 'Minister Dead ALLKNTOWN. Pa., March 5 The Itev A. D. Koplln, of Hellertowp, fifth oldest pastor of the Iteformcd Church In the United Btates. for four decadea pastor of a charge at and about Hellertowp pnd father of the' Phoebe Deaconess Jlome In this cuy. q.iwi.iHi'v.w'iuii. jfiB.wtis ornajj RESCUE BOATS CAPS Crew of Cutter Yarn'! Bravely Go to Their-DclTh at Sea WASHINGTON" March B, Ei, lost their lives earl) todny In nn tu2l tt.scue the rew- of the oil lanl(or ," gmunded on Winter Quarters 8hMi, Virginia coast ll were rnembttTS chvv of the coast guaids cutter TiVj P.ipntts to the coat guard asrvlciv quaiters this afternoon IndlcntM Uu' Louisiana was solidly grounded w crew In no danger Four of the Yi, men vvhji went to the rescue of thii indes when the first surfboat from th,' ter. containing nine men. capslied 1 their w locked ciaft ashoro at 0in1 Va this morning All were ier.ort(Ji In n serious condition n Following the ovei turning of (d uscue boat a second, containing t, was sent out from the Yamacraw t 'i'"i in uu- uiKii seas nnu nolh h( pants were di owned. a The names of the missing men. ef , out 111 coast guard headquarters lifr afternoon, ate II Harris, gunner. It ,1 Hindi, nrisler at arms. ' M Kambarn. quatteimaRter. ii (latvis, seaman 1 H J. Cairlsh, D Kulker n. SlmmSi L. Austin and T 1. Midget, ordlnin men - J ,1. A 1 lugger, ho), first class, 1 W. It. llognith. boy second claw The last two weie lost from the t bout. j The survivors, who landed at Oceu are Hoatswaln H Fiedler, Klectrlcl. Miller; bny second class J )lcy,i and bnj. first class, r; Wvnn. , None ,of the bodies of the drowm- been lecoveied. 5 due Philadelphia!! was among thi 1 teen seamen of the coast guard Yamni-iaw wlio perished In Ihe rath oft Winter Shoals, Va las: night Itobeit llrad). Jr. twenty-flve )r a son of a former city fit email, reld 919 South Sixtieth street The mn eight of the dead seamen have 1101 lcai ned. CLERGYMEN CRITICIZl DAWDLING SENAT Filibustering Tactics Condei by Protestant and Met odist Episcopal Meeting Ciitlclsm of the Senators vvhosj fllu ing tactics at Washington defeat' aimed neutiallt) lilt I was expressed bv clergymen of the Protestant Ep and MUiodlst episcopal Churches. I t.ons were adopted by ministers 0 ihuiihes expiessing regret at tin ac the penee-at-any-prlce legislators In the lcsolutlon adopted by Uv cFtant Kplscopal clergy at their 11 dinner In the Chuich House, the pr was in ged to use the full power th b.v tho constitution to protect tha of this country and piepare thonat eiry emeigeui.v The clergy also 1 their heai t.v suppirt The rcsolutli Intiodticed h J. DeWolt Perry A lesoliition was introduced at a met the Methodist ministers at the Hulldlng. Seventeenth nnd Arch str. Hlshop Xeely offered excuses for tlou or the Senators and said It for the country that there was at Ie legislative body that could not be to a decision on such a vital questio The twelve I'nlted States Senate refused to suppoit the armed ship bl were described as being "men w;io red blood." bj the Itev Pr Alexar Leo, pastor of tho .Methodist Kl Church, Mascher street above Susqu aenue. The Itev. Mr Leo made inaiks at the luncheon of the City I Club, held nt the Hotel Adelphla. ,1 marks were cheered b.v the diners. "In the ptesent crisis," said tr Mr Leo, "the President of the Slates should be supported Tlie Senators who refused to stand by tin dent lack ical led blood" After concluding his temarks 11 Mr. Leo Intioduced a motion thaL tloi, be dtnvvn by the president ot t nnd sent to President Wilson, In 1 members of the City Huslness Club It.dorse the Piesldent's stand. The LEDGER PRINTERS GIV1 FIRST ANNUAL BAN Columnist T. Daly Directs Fes at The Bingham Guests Number 150 The first annual dinner, under t pices of the composing rooms oftl gers, was held yesterday afternoon Hotel Hlnghnm. The affnlr was an unqualified succ der Hid wise and wltty.dlrectlon of 1 1st T. Daly.i Speeches 'were made b H. K. Curtis. William Young im Callan, nnd dauodlls were contrU Louis' Loth. A recitation by Mrs. Young was much appreciated. A delightful musical cntertalnmi furnished under tho leadership Shaw. The guests numbered 150. l the wives of members of the Ledgf FOOD FAIR OPENS Retail Grocers Plan to Instruct in Economy Heononiy In food preparation, tho slogan of the food economist!, v tell tho women of Philadelphia Wha' nnd how to prepare food In order b the greatest nutritive value durlnK ' fair which opened today In Horti Hnl. The fair will be conduct' the ausp'ces of the Retail Grocer elation during the next two weeks Leading manufacturers of '' have placed special exhibits at th" have expe't demonstrators to r them. Tho Hroccrs' A'soclatlofi gaged the scrvlcis of more than of food economists to Instruct vton to reducq thetcost of l.vlng. ."We aim to reduce the h'gh coat ' by educating our housewives In M preparing food for family comu' .said Heno Schoch, tecretary of P elation. Tho officers In chnreo of the eW fair are Aiireu Kaiser, imimwi; urer. 01 me jieiau urocr " w ?irmtwm! m. 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