fr'iynvWWfft WNr',f "''" -t) ' i II' CRUGER MURDER GANG GETS ANOTHER VICTIM Girl Who Told Where Body Lay Jumps From Apartment Window ATTACKED, SHE DECLARES t SIJW YORK. June 10. Deeper channels of crime apparently enened today as police, private detective nd the District Attorney's otneo itched Into the sordid pools which swept the pretty chool Ctrl, lluth Cruger. to her death. Shortly after midnight this morning. Consuelo La Huo, a young woman who Mild he had furnished Mrs. Grace tlumlsion with the Information which led to the finding of the Cruger girl's body, was found hysterical nnd maimed, In a vacant lot be side an apartment building at 115 West Eightieth street Screams brought n policeman running to the spot Miss La Iluo vvns half-clad Her left leg was broken In two places Sho had Jumped from a second-r.ory window lie's up there." she moaned Akcl what she meant, she said: "Tho men. Two men came and paid they had a telegram for me. One grabbed me by tho throat and tald 'I guoss you'll not tell any more ' I jumped out of the dining room window I preferred that death to tho kind they gao Ruth Cruger Then the young woman asked that Mm Humlston bo notified, that tho "girl who gave her the tip on whero Hutli Cruger s body would be found wanted her." Mrs. Humlston was notified. One report Is that tho woman lawyer went to the hospital where Miss Lr. Hue was taken, but ' was ordered from tho room by the po'lec She Is said to hac declared she hud known Miss La lluo for some time At the hos pital all Information was icfuscd early to day, and from police sources camo the sug gestion that tho La Iluo girl's mind had been unbalanced by reading of tho Ctugir crime. In addition to this gllmpso of the hand of the white slave "ring," Mrs Humlston asserts It Is trapping, debauching nnd mur dering girls llko Kuth Cruger in New York every day. strong links In tho chain of evi dence against believed Mayers of Ruth Cruger were forged today A motorcycle uniform found burled with the roped body of the high school girl under the cellar of tho Cocchl shop was tried on the unusually tall form of Victor Ulady. a chauffeur held In connection with tho crime. Although ho is 6 feet 5 Inches tall, the suit fit him perfectly. Close questioning com pelled Blady to admit he lied at tho Investi gation In March In saying he was not In Cocchi's shop tho day lluth Cruger was murdered. Questioned by Assistant District Attorney Doollng, Blady admitted having been In Cocchi's shop tho night of February 11 This Is tho samo night Cocchl Is believed to havo let tho roped body down into tho cellar through a trap door he cut in tho floor of his shop and to havo started digging tho girl's grave, Blady svvoro ho left the shop at 9:30 that night Ho admitted threo other men wero there, and he gave their names to Doollng. Blady Is catalogued as raw of Cocchi's close friends. Ho said ho drovo Cocchl to his home that night when ho left at u-30. Meantime ghoulish curio hunters slipped Into the Morgue whero Ituth Cruger's body lay and stole a gold stickpin nnd five shell hairpins from the little bundle of trinkets placed besldo her body on tho slab. At the samo time city, State and Govern ment officials tho Italian authorities at Rome and Bologna and brought all posslblo Influence to bear to get Cocchl back hero to answer tho Indictment chniglng him with tho murder of Ruth Cruger. Close scrutiny of the Cocchl shop re vealed what the authorities consider un mistakable evidence that Cocchl and prob ably two or threo accomplices butchered the little school girl. In tho closet washroom, where the actual killing Is believed to havo occurred, pieces of tin had been newly tacked over what ap pear to be splotches of blood. A thin coat of fresh White paint had been applied to other splotches on the wall Scrapings of the stains have been oent to nnalylsts Removal of a square of galvanized Iron from tho floor of tho shop disclosed a new trap door which It was necessary to cut for tho murderer to get the girl's body Into the basement without taking It out doors and down tho cellar steps. Tills trap door had been rejoined, the saw mark puttied, tho whole lloor freshly whitewash ed and the metal plate laid over It. The body of Ruth Ciliger was bulled to. day "somewhere In the country." Morbid curiosity was given no gllmpso of the. funeral cortege Quito alone tho father, mother and sisters of tho murdered girl followed her body to tho grave. BIGGEST YEAR FOR BOOZE AND TOBACCO INTERESTS Records Broken on Amounts Consumed and Revenues Obtained by U. S. Treasury WASHINGTON. June 10. .The fiscal ar of 1917, ending Juno 30, has been tho banner year of the nation's history for liquor and tobacco Interests. International revenue figures for eleven months of the fiscal year mado' public to day show that the figures on both the amount of liquor and tobacco consumed nd the amount of taxes collected never nave been surpassed T!3 on "stlllcd tplrlts brought $17S,. 000.000 into the Federal treasury Ono 21?i!'ert and "fty-four million gallons of oistuied spirits were produced The taxes on 150,000.000 barrels of beer Produced amounted to $94,000,000. Wine na brandy taxes produced J5.000.000 In revenue. "THE GEISHA" GIVEN Ada Turner Kurtz Directs Musical Play at Broad Street Theatre i,-PlslnB Performance of "The Geisha," Under direction of Ada Turner Kurtz, was 5 iJH Vl tne Broad Street Theatre last night "The Spirit of 1917" was Introduced a novelty feature between the two acts directed muslcal play' Mrs- Kum The cast of "The Geisha" follows: Niml"0.'; ??,n' 5 "let O.l.ha Phebe Mackav "mi an attendant Geisha Leono rurcell MX OEISHA ? ot!'L Eleanor Moor. O Kink, ",' ' ' ' v " I"ow'll KomS? iJtSaJ Eleanor Innea Na?aaki .n"n Leonutte llehfu.s O ftokow.S?.. Bather Caaaell Udy r?VSSan,., -Marlon Schnerf (An fill M.hC.Y.ynn?' i rtitia Schul'el cht.) h vl,ltor 'a Japan, traveling In her 'VQUSTANCEiF3' QUESTS F LADY CON- Mul fK!S S'o'thlnrton. . . .Madelene Watroua Ml" A'fcl ""rat irma Hchlucter ' Mont s.?m,5i Marjorle Cha.e Jlltt i Hi...0 J'"" I-nveJoy (PreSch "rW'.'.V v v- v ""' Wilson ' Urpretr.J ""ached to the Tea House aa omcEns or ii. m s. -run turtle- Dick c!,n'itlnRJglnaM Fairfax... Qeora-e Hottel CaBtaiimn!ngnam.i Leater Purcell Arthur rEJSS,nv"'e Jack Paln"r Seoral ri?.y. Cha rlea Cualck Jam'a Th1m,ion William Uanler John fw.5?Ki. Udward Hoyt &mm si?nft.'rby..;jv. : -Chance Spearlnjr MaroulS'lSl . Idhlpmtte . Mabel Vurcef WaBaHUlVlWIvKv.- Walker Cleeland &ovln?f.V Cnletf Police and Oovernor of tha tana.' Captain of the Covernor'a Ouard Temln b..... . - .t Horace Kntricken """ Srant of the Governor'! Cluard ' TYun.Hi ni., Owen Jonei tv. nChlnaman' Proprietor of the ELtaa. ??.:?? deora-e Younr frlaalat ctor Harry Kalrlelgh " ,MI Louise Heltern - "SPIRIT OP 1817" gro'.! Nun ., . ..... neatrlce Crowley Spirit of v " Ilom Irea Ilurnlna" , te fit It K.-Vci Ethel Bmellier raaj 5.ir!ciU; v Cb.n?e SPearln. 1AVW 1UU BiriTM ITnlauarl TaA ITurlftlll -WtbU,, n.,.jlllM' ..Kftthryn iicUK .- r,-,',., JOSEPH II. RICHARDSON Former Philadelphia pilot, who was the first naval volunteer in the Civil War, is now dying at his home in Burlington, N. .1. Captain Richardson, who is eighty-eight years old, enlisted April 17, 1801. Allies Occupy Thessaly; Seize Greek Railway Continued from Tiute One plications nnd fresh dangers confront the Allies In Macedonia ONLY RAIDING OPERATIONS REPORTED BY GEN. IIAIG I.UNDON". June 11 riRhtltis on tho British front was confined to raiding operations, aeenrdinR to I'ield Marshal HalR's repoit today. "Southwest of I.everguler nnd In tho neighborhood of the Hapaumc-Cninbr.il wo raided enemy positions at nlRht." he 'said "Sevetal of tho enemy wero killed; duKouts was destroyed and cloven wero taken pris oner." FRENCH GUNS BREAK DOWN VIOLENT ATTACK PAHIS. Juno 19. A violent German attack on French posi tions taken Monday between Mont Hlond and Mont Cornlllet. In the Champaitne sec tor w.18 broken down In the Trench de fensive llio, toilav s olllcl.il report asserted. The War OIHce described the preliminary artillery struKRle to this attack as "most violent" nnd the enemy assault as ,1 strong ono. Tho (lerman waves wero thrown back with heavy loses nnd tho Kronen defenders took a number of prisoners "N'oith of St Quentln toward Calonno enemy nttacks on small posts wore stopped." tho statement continued "In tho forest of Parrolx, in patrol engagements we took seveial prisoners" Berlin Still Aims at Russian Peace Continued from I'n?e One tour of tho battle lines to stir his soldiers up to fiRhtliiR spirit and to restore rigid discipline, Is meeting with enthusiastic re ceptions every vv here. The Congress of tho old fJreek Church party at Moscow today adopted resolu tions firmly insisting that Russia should mako war to tho bitter end against Ger many Tho meeting telegraphed Minister of War Kerentky "You are Russia's foremost outpost In the field of liberty " I'kialnlan delegates In the niacin Iron and coal mines havo met and adopted res olutions declaring their Independence and repudiation of Russia's war debts Members of the American mKslon havo been exceedingly busy In conference with various provisional government heads Major Genetal Scott, the military chief of the mlsIon, was to leave today for a vlt-lt to tho Russian front Rear Admiral Olen non was with the Russian battle fleet In the mack Sea Tho members of the rail road commission, headed by John F. Stevens, have been In almost uninterrupted conference with Russian transportation ex perts fetevens has been 111 from car trouble and unable to participate, but was expected to be up and about within a few days Former Senator Root and tho other civ Ulan commissioners of tho diplomatic mlsMon havo been engaged In a series of confer ences with various members of the Min istry. $123,000 Loss in Mysterious Blast ST PAUL, June ID A mysterious ex plosion early todav resulted In $125,000 loss when tho A J Krank candv factory here was distroyed and a dozen other buildings endangered. ". W tj 1 W-jW'Y J " 4oo,ooo Jj J J Messages j, j 1 . xzJVg?l3eh23t 1 sP Every 24 hours, more than 400,000 mes sages are sent by WESTERN UNION to 26,000 cities, towns and hamlets. Over 40.000 employees give them faithful and efficient attention. Telegrams Day Letters-Night Letters Cablegrams Money Transferred by Wire THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. EVENiyg LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917 STOCKHOLM WITHOUT AMERICAN SOCIALISTS Delegates From U. S. in Swedish Capital Do Not Represent Socialist Party Here TWO RUSSIAN CITIZENS STOCKHOLM, June 19. N'nt one of tho three American delegates to the International Socialist peace con ference was born In tho United States and onlv ono of them Is a naturalized Ameri can. All were born In Russln. Tho three, who arrived hero today, are Max Ooldfarb. labor editor of the Yiddish newspaper For wnrd In Xevv York city; Doris Relnsteln, of nufTnlo, nnd V. Davldovitch. nlso of Wvv York. Relnsteln Is nnturallzrd This was the day set for the delegates roprpcntli!g tho United Slntes to confer wtth the Hutch-Scandinavian committee. Thf foregoing dispatch Is rather ml ! nding Ooldfarb is a Russian citizen but b does not represent tho Socialist plrty "f the United Stntes. Follow Ing the uc eful Russian revolution, ho was called back to Russia from N'ew York by the lew-lsh revolutionary organization In Rus. "la He was also nrdeied to represent the "llund" nt Stockholm whllo on his way t i Russia He received his credentials bv telegraph from Petrogrnd and cnrrles no nedcntlnls from any Amcilcan Soclnllt organisation. Roris Relnsteln Is nn American citizen of Russian birth He represents tho Socialist Lnbor party, the minor Socialist oiganlz.i tlon of the United States. This Is not the organization which was to have been repre sented by Moirls Hlllqult. Victor Ilergpr and Algernon I.ce, who havo been denied passports by tho State Dnpnrtment. Reln steln evidently went to Stockholm dcsplto tho older of the Stnto Department prohibit ing American socialists to be represented nt Stockholm Pavldovltch liken Iso does not represent the Socialist party. Ho represents tho Jewish Soelallst-Torrllorlalh-t organization, an International body, Willi ofllces In many countries, and which Is given representa tion nt International Soclnllst congrexM-s The Socialist Party of Amerh.i, there fore, .still remains unrepresented at Stock holm nnd will remain t-o, unless the State Department reverses lis decision on the passport question Tho Socialist Party of America Is the real American Socialist or ganization recognized bv the International Socialist Rure.ui at tho Hague. 200 MEN ASK PLACES IN NEW TRAINING CAMP Applications Will Bo Received Until July 15 for Offi cers' School Moro than 200 men have applied for ad mittance to the second olllccrs' training camp nt Fort Renjnmln Harrison. I ml Applications will be lecelvcd until July 15 by Captain Richard H Williams. U. S. A., at tho Colonnade Hotel Applicants must ho nt least twenty venrs and nine months old ; but for this camp men of moro than thirty-one years will havo the prefer ence Nino hundred Pennsvlv.inlatis will bo picked for training QUALIFICATIONS FOR ENTRANCE Rrlelly, tho qualifications arc: Members of the olllccrs icscrvo corps (line sections) who, through no fault of their own, wero unablo to attend the first series of camps, also reserve ofllcers of staff corps under fifty years of ago with at least two month' eervlca In ar and who havo had experience, in Infantry, cav alry or artillery. Noncommissioned olTlcers of the regular army recommended In March, 1917, for temporary appointment In case of war and who, through no fault of their own, wero unahlo to attend the training schools for regular army noncommissioned olfl ers In April, 1017. Maximum ago limit, fifty years. Resigned ofllcers of the regular army. Maximum ago limit, fifty jears. Men of proper qualifications made ellglblo for tho ofllcers' reserve corps by the army appropriation of May 12, 1917, Maximum ago limit, fifty years Men who have qualified for commls slons under general orders No. 42, War Department, 1915. Maximum ago limit, fifty years Citizens of tho United States who have had war service In the present army as ofllcers or noncommissioned ofllcers of tho lino In tho armies of allied powers. Maxi mum age limit, forty-four ears. Men of exceptional qualifications who tendered their tervlces to tho Government prior to Juno 5, 1917, nnd who havo been listed under general order 37. War Department- Maximum ago limit, fifty v ears. EXPERIENCED MEN Citizens with valuable military expe rience nnd adaptability for commissioned grade, or citizens who have demon strated martted ability and capacity for leadership and aro clearly adapted for military service in commissioned grade. Malmum age limit, forty-four jears. Accepted applicants unless they are re servo ofllcers or members of tho regular army or National Guard In Federal serv ice, will bo required to enllt for a period of threo months, under section 54, Na tional definso act, and will agree to ne cept Mich coiniiilKiilnnH In the nrtny of the United States ns nmy be tendered by the fecreiary of War. The enlistment obli gates ono to serv Ice In the training camp only ABaykWork J 'Men Wanted!' Allies' Cry Across Ocean Continued from rate On camps, within the miell of war, behind the line of battle As to the second reason- The Iloche dlvl. slon today varies from 10 nOO to 13,000 men, comprising every branch of dlvlslonnl service Infantry, cavalry, engineers, arlll. ley Thirteen thousand Is the maximum, but I'd rather take that flguro as n point of departure thnn 10 000. There are in arms as ino capable lighting force of Her mipy (save In round figures a little less than 2,000,000 undesirables, bovs under six teen nnd men too old or physlcnilv unlit, tlie last-gasp resource) 233 divisions. This exdudrs the nrmles of Austria, ltulgarln and Turkey, because they do not apply to tho western or Rus-lan fronts They nio left out In all calculations of tho French and English general BtafTs Wo havo to do then, with 231 divisions Three are on the Rumanian front. Slxtj. six wero on tho Russian front until the last offensive. Hlcven of this sixty-six were permanently transferred to tho western front. Moro nrtunllj. but these were re turned. Cloven actually nro now added to the force 'onfrontlng France, F.UKtatid nnd lielglum as Just iint from the Russian front. Therefore, ngalnst tho Allies on the west are K-4 Ocrmnn divisions. Of this number 154 aro active and ten arc kept for mobile emergency Forty-three are mobile resi-rve moved fiom plnie to place as occasion or need demands, of these 151 forty-one were used against the English and forty-four against tho French In this offensive Some thing moro than half of nctlve, mobile re servo nnd mobile emergency Five of tho forty-ono against England and four of the forty-four against France were used twice that is, withdrawn from action and re turned later In less strength through loss mo Angio-ercnoii divisional strength is greater How much greater It would bo lese mnjesto to say Uut It can be said that It Is not sufficiently greatu to lout the Roche. And It can also be said that If 250.000 Amcrlians had been in nuns upon the Allied sldo a f"-'...:jht ago the Allied approach toward Oermany would be now decreased by n number of kilometers. ALLIES RELY OX UNITED STATES! In action a division, llermnn or Ally, Is Usui for everv Kilometer of breadth that Is approximate live eights ' a mil". And a division is ulthduiwn nnd sent to the rear when approximattly .' per cent loss occuis. that Is from .'000 to .'500 men Therefore that the Roche umhI nlno dlvl- H Immediate slons twlco has significance It proves tho eflklent Roche fighting strength Rut that the Allies did not get further also proves their fighting strength They need men less badly than Germany, much less badly, as they have the enemy on tho defensive Thev nro In nothing like desperate straits, having untold untrained reserve man power across tho sea In a word, the Allies will need a big army nlno months from now ns much as they need a proper additional nrmy now n qunrtcr of n million men nt least If they wero In France, tho Roche's finish would come quicker.. Until they come, tho finish won't come. Thero will be gains, constant offensives bv France and England, constant ceunter-attnrks by tho Roches And so It will go until ted American blood Is on tho Job And nlso, every day's delay means new sorrow for a new mother, n wlfo, n sifter, because the war will Inst longer bv that ovorj day nnd tho every dav to fol low. For aside from her fighting strength, (lermany has upon certain portions of tho front the advantage of a natural condition In September. 1914. Germany was much In the samo position between Kolssons nnd Rhelms that sho Is In to day, relatively speaking At that time. It was ntd It was only a question of artillery Well, we have tho artillery have had It for eighteen months It hns performed wonders, It has and Is pouring tons and hundreds of tons, avo thousands of tons of Iron Into the Roche lines between Solssous nnd Rhelms with relatively llttlo rain In ground Tho reason the country thereabouts Is a network of quarries You um shell to desti union nnv construction of mnn, but vou cannot do exceeding damage to qunr tles. Tho heaviest shell has llttlo more effect than n baseball bat upon the hide of an elephant These quarries arc deep enough big enough, numerous enough. to shelter nil tho Hoiho divisions on the front as sort of natural abrls between Sols sons nnd Rhelms. Such sections of them as havo been wrested from tho Itocho havo been wicsted by tho power of man force Frenchmen havo gone forth In wonderful nttm K and tuKcn terrltorv that artillery had but prepared (o a certain extent, und that without materially reducing the man power of tho IttHlm until cold steel nnd rlflo bullet did their part So men are WHiitcd From o has not got them America hns If she bad them hero NOW, to the tuno of a quarter million, tho Roche could be ut once pushed nearer the Rhine Con siderably so And incidentally, what Is left of mart.vred Rhelms could be fe.nvcd. THE RUSSIAN SITUATION Another polnl The Russian situation Is far from oncouinglng, despite icasmiranccs. I feel, so far as a military condition is con cerned, that Russia Is nil Ptrhapa that ? ALargerCai1! BeiierNaierials! Lower F sice ! The wheelbase is 112 inches it seats five big people in perfect comfort. 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Rut thn ultimate end Is not yet It might bo brought nearer, more quickly renllzed with moro men now. Not next month, or In four months, but now 250.000 of 'cm It would mean u quicker lean-up. And that Is the objectlvo of nil the world. Tho full qunrtcr of a million minimum Not a division One division of splcndla American regulnrrt won't cut much of a figure on the fight liu line, desplto tremen dous moral cfTcit, eveM In Hocheland Rut one or two additional divisions from Ger man's Russian front would Immediately off set It. The need Is for enough American divisions to completely outohisn any remain ing possibility of tho available Roche nrmy, that It may be forced to glvo way In the fuller sense than nt any stage of the war's work thus far; despite the magnificent ar tillery work of the Al'les. the valor of the splendid young English soldier, the superb, ncvcr-to-be-cqualed fighting stuff of which he Is made the pollu of France Men me wanted Men of vigor and youth ninl strength, not n division or three divi sions, but a quarter of a million and now Every man now Is worth three in three or six months They exist In tho United States They even have uniforms They are half trained, perhaps, and certnlnly In some part full trained In both cases knowing something of tactics, something of what n soldier is Hut they know absolutely nothing of mod ern scientific warfare They wont Win what scientific warfare Is In Plattshurgh or in any American training camp Thej would lenrn quli kl hero in France What Is going to be done about It' Kntls Life on Hearing Friend Is Head A black-boidered envelope, postmarked Italv. found In tho coat pocket pf Francis Llpor.t, tlftv-seven vears old, 1028 South Randolph sttcct, who last evening shot and killed himself, todav furnlMicd the prob able motive of l.lpera's suicide The ietter continued tho news that Llperu s thum In H.l1 had died Mrs Llpcra said to day her husband had been despondent be cause of his friend s Illness. - i this car lower than any other car so beautiful, so powerful, so economical, so easy riding and of such comfort able size because for years we havo produced the famous 35 horsepower Overland in larger quantities than any other similar car is produced It is value unequalled get yours now A &C 13 MAIN LINE nURGLAK HUNTW) Police and Civilians After Man Wfco Shot L. 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