mtfTrm 1 W3-fSt EVENING LEDGERr-PHIDADELrHlA, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1917 J STATE TO ENROLL FULL ARMY QUOTA Registration Indicates Pa triotic Response to Call for Conscription NO DISORDER REPORTED Aliens in Many Towns First to Reach Polling Places Aid for the Sick HAimiSBURCI. June 6. Registration throughout Pennsylvania I proceeding an quietly arid ns systematically as an election. Compliance with the con erintlon law appears to bo general At noon reoorts Indicated that lrtually eory man in Pennshanla, within the age limits, would enrolled when the registration booths are closed at 9 o'clock tonight. Not one disturbance had been reported to rt'nual headquarter? here Registration began early In eery county In several of the larger proclncts of Harris burg as many as twentj nung men were In line before 7 o'clock In the morning, each tnxlous for the honor of enrolling first In his dl'trlct Automobiles In largo numbers Vere at tho sen Ice of thoso who were too 111 to go to the polling places, and a number of registrations wer5 taken In the hospitals At the army recruiting headquarters here nearly 100 men, most of them of foreign birth. ho came In on n. morning train, answered the questions before donning tho uniform of th- regular army Throughout the day the fire bells struck the hours to remind delinquents of their duty Local returns show that while married men "1th dependents nearly all claim ex emption the number taking advantage of this clause Is considerably smaller than had been expected There Is no means of estimating the num ber of men who wilt hi enrolled, and It may be a week before full returns are In the hands of the State registration ofTlcers at the Capitol SMILES That Came With Registration Day Don at Eighth and Balnbrldge streets llmior flowed freely today. Onlj two things were neccsary before a parched throat could bo greased with a little ' red eye" or pome "amber llqud," and aen a mixed drink was not out of place Before the barkeep would serv gratis a registration certificate had to be show n, this being one of the stipulations, while the other was that cards received other than In the Fourth Ward were not honored with free drinks If you qualified the best In the houso was yours. While there were no signs any where about the saloon, which Is conducted by John Di Nubile, the news that free liquor could be had soon spread around the neigh borhood and there were soon a number of parched throats that needed "a little oil " "What's the date'" a registrar at 813 Locust street had to ask the first man in line before he could fill out the registration blank , A Tollsh wonlan. of the Eleventh Ward, was overjoyed when she saw her son smerge from a registration station she threw her arms around him and pressed him fervently to her breast Some one said here was an example of true patriotism "No, that was not the reason she hugged him so," explained friends of tho woman "She thought he had Joined the army." William Leroy McKlnley, of 4G08 Frank ford avenue six feet In height and a nephew of William McKlnley. tho Philadelphia politician, asked exemption, although ho ad mitted he worked on a farm In South Jer sey McKlnley savs ho has physical defects In one arm and one leg An aged negro with gray hair, so feeble he tottered along with the help of a cane, .tood for fifteen minutes outside tho polls on Ridge avenue below Oxford street A policeman n.skcd him what he wanted "I dont know whether I ought to go In and register " said the negro, "I don't know how old I am " "Tou'd better go home," advised tho policeman The old man was Malachl John ion, of 2054 Redner street Registration Flashes Early this morning In the twelfth division of the Fourteenth Ward there entered a (trapping big individual with smiling face He answered the various questions down to the one regarding dependents. When he as asked If he had any he said "no" in uch a way that the registrar thought he htd not understood, so ho repeated the question a second time The "soldler-to-be lingered "No one except a couple or three saloons and some crap games," and he went out Rilling When John Foley, 4066 nidge avenue, a huaky-bullt young man of thirty years. u registering at the ninth division of the Thirty-eighth Ward. 4127 Ridge ave nue, his friend the registrar asked Josh Injly 'Have you lost any of our limbs?" To which Foley replied "Not yet, but oon, maybe." A workman at the Laurel Hill Cemetery Hurrying to register at the nineteenth dlvl Ion of the Thirty-eighth AVard, Twenty Meond street and Indiana avenue, brought this story with him- As he was going through the graveyard he found a placard puled on a tombstone. It read as fol lows: 5 "Waks up ' Your country needs you "' Of HO prisoners In the House of Correc J'on, a majority requested exemption when "ey registered, asserting they were the oie aupport of mothers and children. Registration Is no bar to enlistment In ny arm of the Federal or National 'Guard ervlce, It was said today by Major John ndy Hall, of the Second Regiment. N "P.. who also Is Assistant United States Attorney Italians of the Sicilian colony near Twen-y-econd street and Indiana avenue poured out in such numbers to register at the Nine """ DUIslon of the Thirty-eighth Waid ny today that registration officials wero impelled to line them up, each awaiting ,' turn. More than 200, most of whom cards naallzed' 8!BneJ thel' names to the k.Y'k'01' M"lm' 12 Gay street, Manayunk, ..t . 1 ,n tnls country for ten years, but neglected to become naturalized, t ,. nm Bn,5r- " ald as he registered at l " ?""'ln "ivision of the Twenty-flrst ' hLhlr" ? you want to K t the front?" j n -was asked. Sure." h t-nii.i it. i- .. . .yJUM old and a P. R. T, motorman. ft., keeroes who dM not know what age E.Bmltl the conscription armv law Imposed. '5 hi. ? "U.le.lr own "e. save lots of trou. "iiBirara throughout the city. Two Klllea When Auto Turns Turtle kto iftMDAtnaviLLB- Jl" 5 -Trying lW.L.1? Li trar ho8 n the road near m.;'."1. jway, an automobile, turned ai VaIu "Hi Pengers, Roy McBurr.ey Vii i.f Jrl mn' b'n" IntaiJtly killed ..""'" ouuer seriously cut and W car ngiM d,owrt an embank J iyK4kji(& CONFESSES PLOTS TO TIP OFF BERLIN New York Suspect Said to Have Revealed Wireless and Mail Schemes GERMAN SAILORS USED U. S. Agents Believe Big Radio in Mexico Told of Sailing of Flotilla , NEW YORK. June 6 Confession by Honry F Frencke, forty one years old, of Brooklyn, has revealed further details of the mall plot svstcms which were discovered Sunday after the arrest of three alleged fierman agents and their subsequent Indictment by the Federal Grand Jury tho police nnnounced today The arrest of Frencke. who according to tho police, admits that on sixteen occasions he received letters from Germans In this city, Urooklyn and Hoboken and gave them to German sailors to ho delivered to Ger many, Is the latest link in the chain of evidence against the "underground" mall plotters Frencke was emplojed up until a jear ago as an engineer for tho Hamburg-American Steamship Company Information supplied hy Frencke has dis closed the fact that agents for the German Government have been assembling and con structing wireless apparatus since last No v ember In a shop In Greenwich street The police refuse to divulge the names of these agents These disclosures have also led to the belief that one man O K 'd alt the bills of the concern Investigation of tho premises led to the discovery of ISO plans and blue prints of machinery ucd In wireless con struction , Tho police also say tho have positive In formation that tho head of the wireless construction company came here from Ger many last winter to supervise construction of wireless and Its shipment to situation points At present he Is believed to be In Mexico. NEW YORK, June 5 The shipment of quantities of wireless apparatus to ports In Mexico, with the object of erecting several stations, has been discovered by Police Captain Tunney and Federal officials It has been reported tnat at least on German wireless station, powerful enough to send messages to Germany,ls In opera tion In Mexico United States Commis sioner Hitchcock In holding the three prison ers under heavy ball, said "After this country had dispatched a flo tilla of warships ncross the Atlantic the news of their departure and of their point of destination was sent to Germany at least four days before the arrival of the ships on the other side, and I believe that counsel for the Government had it in mind that this may be part and parcel of the same Iniquity In tho circumstances I feel called upon to fix heavy ball" One of the prisoners arrested by Captain Tunney's men, It was learned, was Harry F Perlssl, who Is the New York representa tive of the greatest German corporation in existence, the Allgemelne-Electrlcitats-Ge-scllschaft. or German General Electric Com pany. The second was Irving Bonaparte, a clerk, employed by Perlssl The third was George Melchar, a saloonkeeper, of Ml East I22d street NEW MEMBERSHIP RECORD FOR REFORMED CHURCH Increase of 7826 in Year Brings Total for Nation Up to 132,172 ASBURY PARK. N J . Juno 5 The membership of the Reformed Church In America Increased last year by 7826. bring ing the total to 132,172, a new record The report on the state of tho churches de livered to the General Synod today by Dr Peter Moerdyke. of Holland, Mich, showed 731 churches throughout the country, a gain of seven for the vear Fifteen new ministers were ordained In the course of the j ear There are 73,373 families afflll nted with the church Although there were seven Sunday schools suspended durln gthe ear the membership showed a gain of 585, bringing the total enrollment to 132,748 Church finances showed encouraging In creases For denominational objects there was raised $571,151, a gain of $100,000, for congregational purposes, $1,830,883, a gain of $175,000, for other purposes, $121,493, a gain of $30,000 VETERAN RAILROADMAN DIES Frederick H. Brown, Assistant Train master for P. and R., Succumbs to Illness NORRISTOWN, Pa. June 5 Frederick H Brown assistant trainmaster on the New York division of the Philadelphia and Read Ing Railway, is dead at his home, 704 Stan bridge street, this city, after an Illness of several months He died on Friday evening, June 1, after a relapse suffered following his return to work after an attack of bron chitis Mr Brown was born near Brandywlne. Delaware County, July 4, 1872 He entered the employ of the Pennshanla Railroad at the age of sixteen and received his first appointment nt Brandywlne Summit After a course In telegraphy he held posts at Concordvllle, Morton, West Chester and Media In June. 1897, he married Miss Mabel C Tavlor. of West Chester In 1891 Mr Brown entered the employ of the Phila delphia and Reading Railway and had re mained with that company until the time of his death Mr Brown Is survived by a widow and six children The funeral will take place on Thursday Interment will be at Montgomery Cemetery, this city SCORNS FIGHTING FOR U. S. Would Rather Return to Russia, Says Shell Maker "I'd go back to Russia rather than fight for the United States." declared a Russian who makes amunltion at Eddj stone, when he registered at Lehigh avenuo and Emery street, the eleventh division of the Twentj fifth Ward Tho alien gave his name as Anthon Yakutehlck, twenty-four years old, 2727 East Thompson street JST -T rrirlE tone and dignity of your house is ex. pressed by the papers used in your printed literature. Ask your printer or con sult the Service Depart ment of Charles Beck Co. Papara for All Klnda o! liooo rrtnting- 4A609 Chestnut Street, rwrzn Phtiaaeipnia 199u - i. THREE GERMAN CoprlKht International rum ST l f Reading from left to right nre Harry Perissi, Irving Bonapnrte nnd George Melcher. These three, with n mysterious fourth mnn also under arrest, are accused of sending secret information to Germany nitlctt by a certain steamship company. Perissi nnd Bonaparte are held in $25,000 bail and Melcher in $20,000 bail after nrrnignment in New York. CAR LINE STILL SOUGHT ON FIFTY-SIXTH STREET West Philadelphians More De termined, Despite Delay Before Commission Tho fight of the West Philadelphia busi- r ness organizations to faco the I'hlldaephla liapm Transit Company to imiKtiurt the much - promised and long-delaod Klftj Klxth street iros-town lino will bo continued heforo tho Public Service Commission In spite of the tllvippnliilmcnts of steid,'s hearing In lhirrMiurg, when tho cai-c was entlrel) omitted from tlin lominlsslou's printed schedule and as a tesult several of the men who went to Hiirrishurg had no opportunity to i-peak I'dward It Martin, counsel for the twont-ono organizations banded together to urge the construction of the line, tod.i Bent a letter to each of the six members of the commission, calling attention to a letter written in 1014 by E T Stntesbun. chairman of the board of directors of the Transit Company This letter promised the construction of the lino ns soon as the finances of tho P R T Improved to such an extent that it would be possible John M McGare, a West Phllidclphin real cstato dealer, who has the letter In his posesslon, attended the hearing j ester day with fh" intention of submitting the letter and explaining to tho commission that Mr htotcsburj. over his own signature, was morally, If not legally, committed to con struction of the line As the caso was not scheduled and conse quently was called last on vesterdays list It was nfter 5 o'clock before oven the attor nejs wero called Mr McGaivej due to the confusion had no opportunity to speak and In order that the commission might have the letter ns ovidence In tho case It was forwarded todnv by Mr Martin Frank V Mathers, another of the dele gation, who hid no opportunity to speak, declared todaj that no matter what ruling the commission may make tho c.imi will be continued until tho line is nrtunll) built and under operation HUNDREDS WAIT IN LINE AT WILMINGTON POLLS Keen Desire to Be First to Register Displayed by Young Men of City WILMI.NC'ION, Del. June .', Long be fore the registration offices opened here to day hundreds of oung men stood In line waiting a chance to be tho first to enroll their names No arrests for anti-conscription activity were reported here, and all saloons in the State were closed at the request of Governor Townsend Hundreds of Boy Scouts assisi. ed In the registration work WED FIVE DAYS, HE'S MISSING Bride Tells Police She Knows No Rea son Why Husband Left Disappearance of her husband after five das of married life was reported to the police today hi Mrs Ray Warren of 118 South Nineteenth street Mrs Warren, who could name no cause for her husband's disappearance, told De tective Joseph Shay that she matrled Joseph H Warren, forty-nine ears old, May 2 He left May 7 and she has not heard from him since He formerly lived at 1520 Sum mer street MBSHHBS3 illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllinUllllllfi uiywnjp j vJ VSO ZS Zs vsc vto vc i w I WE MAKE THEM Uf&N ERiBELTS 18 THEIWORLD f .i -oi liter) thing In Mill Supplies -t COMPANY m 520 Arch Street n-7tiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimimimimmii-(! mmmmm tS)3 rNJ s& ?! kJW i if IfiS KgAJ-r W WtfM H vju 1 1 Li nSPl- Q, 125 fttona Cafe UAiglon (I BREEZY WITH ICED ZEPHYRS (I ABLOOM WITH FLORAL GAYETY C AGLOW IN SUMMER ATTIRE a DANCING ON THE MEZZANINE L CARE-FREE WITH COMFORT. a MUSIC CONTINUOUS Recent costly Installation of famous "Typhoon Hrattm." haa mad fate tWlglon tbe "NEAREST NEIGHBOR l' s - j n i lfi'aMfittiiiiii mil I till I "'ifiiitfil-M'iMVliiiI'M n mV'- -'-T-Miialili"Jr.li"l i ,i-ft In. a 11 SPY SUSPECTS "" ENVOYS DELAY VISIT; RECEPTION PLANS GO ON Local Italians Continue to Pre pare for Coming of War Mission The Italian War Mission's visit to Thll adelphla has been postponed on account of tho lllnes of Prince I'dlne. head nf tho delegation Word of the Prince's Illness was wlied to Major Smith last night by Secretary Ems Ing Tho Prince, It Is said. Is suffering from catarrhal tonsillitis Dcsplto the dcla the Italians of the city are going ahead with the plans for t lie visit of tho envojs A big meeting will be held tonight at Beneficial Hall. 'MO South Eighth street, where plans for entertaining the vlsltots will bo discussed In lepresen tatlves of vatlous Italian organization Thoso present will nso dlvrustt wavs of raising funds for the Italian Red ('ros- Manv of the Italian organizations of the ilty villi dispense with their usual enter tainments nnd demonstrations during the summer and glio the mime used for suih purposes to the fund It Is believed tint Prince I dine will be able to statt the tour plinned liv the envois within the next week Ibis will clelav the dato of his visit here about ten dais Mrs. Wilson dives Doll to Charity Mrs Woodrow Wilson Iiiih named and donated a doll which will be sold this after noon nt the annual fete for the hopital at Latham I'nik. It has been nnincd Edith Boiling Wilson Tho rnlr is being given to raise $ri000 needed foi an Isolation ward .Members of the Ilij Scout troop of Vn coto will assist a group of soclctj women at tho bazaar Mrs ritz Eugene lllxon Is chairman of tho committee in charge Ready Money. United States Loan Society 117 North Isroarl Sf. ! 1411 S. fith ft. 2SIS Orm.ntown ht. Foot Comfort Corns Removed 25c Each Hon t suffer I nhoalthy feet Irritate, ths neries Paiul'Rs nnllseptlr methods II A ATM A I'lilll. " l.entllnjc hlroimilM HA1MNA s : ,3"' xnnvom St.. ANo lldi tlietnut M URADBURN BJF Correct Tailors for Dreai To Mireud the fame of -f -. our fHutlleK. tailoring urn- I. MM ft Ice, we will mske to our " k -&B B measure, for a brief time- JfiVf onlj, special two-piece K w blue serge suit for 13th & Sansom Sts. ? SPECIAL JUNE SALE noo sse $ioo Washing Machine $85 Cash $90.00 $10 on Delivery, $5 Per Month frs'l One double duty p Kr.r, Benjamin riug with - each washer. CENTRAL ELECTRIC & LOCK CO. Everything Electrical 12 N. 13th St. TO TIIE NORTH POLE' Ok &mgZS?& SHIPPERS ASK REPARATION Poultry, Dairy and Meat Men Seek $225,000 From Railroads WASHINGTON June 5 Hie poultr and dairy shippers' traffic associations de mand $200 000 as trparntlou for over charges l nil rallroHds operating east of tho Mississippi and north of the Ohio In a complaint filed with the Interstate Com merce Commission todnv In a separate complaint Morris & Co. ment packets, ask for $25,000 Tho complaints nre of n series expected to como ns a result nf the decision of two weeks ngo holding that chatges being inado by railroads operating east of tho Missis, xlppl nml north of the Ohio foi refrigera tion of poultry butter, eces anil ibeen were Illegal $10,000 FIRE IN FLEETWOOD Flames Damage Industrial Plants and Imperil Entire Borough , BEADING Pa June .". Fleetwood was 'hrentened with destruction by fire this . morning Miortlj after .' o clock, when tl.imcs hi the Fleetwood Metal Hod. Works burned lout patt of that plant nnd two others l,n. sides endangering part of the borough be foro the arrival of fire companies from Itendlng and nearby towns In addition to the metal bod works, the P Merkel farm Implements nnd marfilnn works were destroved nml the Fleewood t.rnnite Works were damaged Hanmgo will amount to about $10,000 Hammonton Polls Crowded Early IIAMMONTON V J, J,,,,,, ft , ,n in lore the registrars at all four pieclncts lite had eniolled more thin 4r pet cent of the males between twent-one and thirty one recorded In the census made bv the afetv Committee Twelve of theso were aliens All taverns were ordered closed until 0 o clock tonight J E- Caldwell (p. Chestnut Juniper South Penn Squara FOLDING CLOCKS of Sterling Silver Luminous Dials If W-II It is difficult to believe that a car with the class and performing ability of the Pullman could cost less than fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars. The luxurious, roomy body and the great est collection of standardized expensive accessories ever furnished a car of its class make the Pullman an automobile value you simply cannot overlook 5 Passenger Four 4 Passenger Roadster Immediate Delivery Standard Motor Car Co. JOHN W DAVID. Manaser 668-70-72 N R-d St. 1 CTCFirsinfKrJKvSTTKTSISaSJSfJJWHra WKjl.l-l"r. --" A.'jnHV..' ".j. 'wn. toMrMlll AnAi-my (TPT a A sir ' of 13,OOOMessengers Fully equipped and ready to answer double quick to tbe forward call of business, these messengers are yours to command at any hour of any day and night. They form an essential part of WESTERN UNION SERVICE Telegrams Day Letters Night Letters Cablegrams Honey Transerred by Wire THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO i i i i aaaaMwiawg '&, WAR CALLS TO WOMEN, GRADUATES ARE TOLD Twenty-five Girls Receive Di plomas at Jersey Protestant, Episcopal School BIR1.INOTON. oiing women of Marj's Hall, tho N J . June S The the senior class of St New Jersey Protestant iplscopsl College foi girl", weto told by lllshon Ilhlnelnnder of Philadelphia, at the annual commencement exercises tills morn ing, that America today was calling them, as well ns Its oimg manhood, to war service Diplomas were nwarded tiient-flie grad uates h Bishop Paul Matthews, of New Jersey The graduates nre Marthi Evans Antrim, Uertruilo Ruth Cue New Jersev : Helen Mc Clure Cnhenour, Ohio, Helen Cnrolin Cope, New .lersej . Julia Caroline Wplev 1'orr. Minn . Alice I.oulse Cnrr. New Jcrsej , Eugenia (tllpln Unison Mai.vland, Anna William Knight. New Jersey; Margaret Cook Kuhns, Man land, Marie Noel l,or linger Illinois Edith Anna Eukens New Jetse.i . Mary Mclviwell enable Minor. North Carolina, imrothi fonieis,. Palmer Pennsilianln i Teresa Margaretla Pearcv West Vlrglnl-i. Phyllis Magee Pet tine. New Jersey, Jessio Louise Porter, Klorli'a , Jlar Jolle Knapp Prophet Ni w Yolk. Helen Elizabeth Rothiiell, Horoth Insklp Shreve Harriet Stevens Smith New Jersei ; Hor othi Eiclvn Stewart West Virginia: Emll Maud Waterwoith. Josephine WcttMeln .New York. Marian Orare Wilson Virginia Dorothv Winders, uhlo War Posters Torn Down at Hazlcton HAZIiEroV. Pa June 5 Unidentified persons tore down war posters In front of he local recruiting station and elsewhere Army registration notices were destroed in three districts nf Hazlcton and Bank townships Eight-Day Movements iS5SS ISII1III1I m i $ 860 vm i'.'v'.v?.Ti-.ti.ifTirMi4'y vji" T,1.- M2& 233 : GIRLDROWNSTHYING TO SAVE YOUNGS Strong Wind Upset Canoe and He Could Not r Swim HAVBV, Pa. Juno C In attimptlnt to rescue her companion, Miss EmntA-, Olcnucr (Iron tied b the upsetting of a canty while crossing the Delnwnre Wer at Lacks wnxen, In company with Itnsmond Otxrt, eighteen ears old of I'mitialc, N J Mis Gleascr. only daughter of thdpro prletor of the Delawure House, at Lackh uaxen, wan coming across from the Xew York State lde to tlo some shopping in l.ackauaxcu Ullage A strong wind sent a heny wn,e against the tanoe. tipsett'"R It Mlns Oleaiser tried to rescue the uns man who could not Srtlni, hut heo.ime exhausted before help could reach her nnd disappeared Obert was unconscious when picked up The girl's pireiils hae resided In I.acKn waxen only 1x months and purihased the hotel for her benefit Perry Popular Priced Summer Suits have scored An Exemption! J They've escaped much of the tax of soar ing prices because we secured most of the fabrics as far back as a year ago! CfWe can't buy the same or similar wool ens today for anything like what we got these for! J And we don't know when the prices of woolens are coming down ! Going np is the order of the day! I Our advice to any man is stock up on Perry Suits while you may! Buy a couple for yourself and for each of the boys! I $15, $18, $20 or $25 invested in these Suits will be big dividend earners! IBlue Serges at fif teen and twenty dollars that you'll not match at those prices for a good while after these are gone! J Belters in a number of varieties from plain fastened half belts to an all-around belt made to button under or over the coat front. I Summer weight fab rics tailored for Sum mer wear! PERRY & CD. "N. B. T." 16th & Chc4tit TTW 5. ""
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