N I . I: I m MAKES PLANS FOR FOUKlli UF JULY flVoungest Boy to Enter High Pt ?i..,i TCxcmnted From J Examinations f OTHER CITY NEWS BRIEFS tfrthern Liberties' Church to He yortn Prlntini? House After Meeting 11 . .-.it.' standing Fourth of July Com- I cou,if which John H- Uniziey is cnnir r litre, of """ i ,., .,. fn, ii, P"1 i r,lVl.rntlon In Independence square, ""remittee nlso ngiecd to put on tho ; , Wiernm religious services to ie hem ' k rnu l"lne Street Prcsbyterlnn Church, S h. the OW I ie ,,,. t.iRtinii Iterrv of f f'ihodliit Kplscopnl' Church, nnd Ulsliop HK nf the Protestnnt Kplscopnl , Hinn"" ... ..-i, ni iliia Hprvirn. Bineli"" nl Ul ,,.,., urcti. " jponkciK nt the Independence THe ln'"?J'n ,.i i,e judge John M h Hmllh ,, Mr Ualztcy f J,,"rr.",n.kB brief addresses. Patriotic L ". .till he sunjr by school children from if ""if,,, sec Ions of the city, nn.l the Dccla ! "Jl? oflndejiomlcnce will he rcn.l by R r ff'ffdl Drown Jr. n graduate of the South L jiadelphla High nooi in me cia-s 01 Lad of 10 in Scholarship Record Ti.ufe of his high standing In his Because BphlrU !en ..,, ol(i i418 f Etharine street, has been exempted from ' ill examinations at the James Wilson k tiiool Twelfth and Wharton streets Jgna ix bcnuvi( t. ...nt , i. r iios. According io iwuiric, ...i .. !' wuiigest student who ever entered the high r icdooi. - Farewell Service for Church 1 ' Farewell services will be conducted next ' luniiay evening at the old"Northcrn Llber- L 0U1IUO 1....,..,.1 f..nn l.an. ti.a cnurcii. on uuiiii c-.n... ..,.... glxth street The church which Is 104 wan old. has been sold to Craig, Finley & Co printers, who will remodel It Into n Minting plant It was decided to sell tho chore!) because the neighborhood was ul ready "oe -churched" with Protestant thurches, doing tho work which ono might accomplish. Major Martin's Son Commissioned Thomas S Martin. 3d, son of Major Thomas S Jfnrtln. secretary of the Fair mount Park Commission, has received his commission ns first lieutenant of the ofTl rs' reserve corps and has been nsslgncd ft to duty In the Frankfoid Arsenal. Leaps to Death in Delaware !t ' The body of a middle-aged man who leaped Into tho Delaware uiver irom me foot of Washington nvenue. last ecnlng. teday Is awaiting Identillcatlon at the mdrgue In one of the pockets of the dead man's clothtnR was found n vMtlng card tearing the Inscription. "H. O. Ilcrdol ihelmers, 809 N'orth Seventeenth street." t Van Stable Chief Asked to Resign p William II C Ned", for five years super- lnindent of the city an stables, and Ly- I nan T). Cairns, assistant superintendent of the stables, have been glcn four days to I resign by Plrector Wilson, of tho Depart- f ment of Public Safety. Charges made t against them Included one that "they did i" not weigh the oats " It Is claimed undcr- p weight loads of grain were delivered and i receipted for 1 f NenT was appointeu superinienuent or ino ' tan Btables by former Mayor mankenburg, k August !. 191. Will Ask Mayor for Open Avenue t A committee of thirty men has been ap pointed to call upon Mayor Smith and urRB him to Indorse the movement for the open ing of Susquehanna avenue through the L American Mechanics Cemeteiy from Twen ty-second street to Twenty-eighth. At n meeting of the Citizens' League and Perma nent Improvement Association of the Thlr tv.ponrt Wnnl Inst nvpnlni? the pnmmlttAo Vas appointed. Gives Life for Honeysuckle His desire to obtain n honeysuckle caused the death of eight-year-old William Cronin, , ef 2335 North Van Pelt'street, who In rcach , big for the Mower lost his balance and fell Into the Schuylkill near the Falls of Schuyl kill bridge The boy's body was found to day by the crew of the nollce boat Itescue. . The spot where the bo fell was pointed ; ut by two jomignicrs who weie with liltn at the time of the accident. Potatoes Up 18 Cents a' Barrel The wholesale price of potatoes today Is 11.14 a barrel, which Is eighteen cents higher than for the last week. if Pitch Pot Roils Over. Kirrs Foncp The boiling 'over of a pitch-pot in the back yard of the home of Wllllnm Frlsby, IIOS need street, caused a small fire nnd much excitement this morning:. The back fence caught fire, but nn alarm was sent In and the blaza wa extinguished beforo any serious damage was done. Lecture on "A Gallic Birthright" The relation of France to tho present war and what the French ipirlt means In this day will be told by Dr. A. Ouyot Cameron Iqa lecture on 'A CJalllc rtlrthrlght," which he will deliver beforo the University Kxten (lion Socety nt Its annua! meeting tomor row afternoon at 3 15 In Westminster U.ill Wtherspoon nulldlng. Doctor Cameron la one of tho most noted French scholars of the present time, and It was fTffough his efforts that the French language and the Itudy of French literature was put on a found basis In Yale nnd Princeton L'nlcr lltles. Mrs. Mary Ferguson Dies Mrs. Mary Ferguson, wife of Robert K. FerrUSOn Phlftf elAi-tr tf 1it MofrU II. & CenSe Ttllf-Afllt fllA.I Imln.i In II.. a..... WF .. -., .....i luuuj ill lllu illl'liluil mJ" P ' nf,er a two weeks' Illness follow tB "ig a stroke She was past sixty years of I1 II i 'CI"euson, who lived nt 2015 North -- .,,, ,,, ,ma Ueen mnrrieu more wan-forty years, but liad no.chlldren Her nuaband Is n well-known flguro around City "all. He has been connected with the Or Iti' CoUrt for tu'enty-no years nnd head J the Marriage License Bureau for six rears. Funeral arrangements will be an Bounced lfit- IB ; u. o, aubmarinc Chaser Destroyed 'BOSTON, Juno 21 Fire destroyed n uub raarine chaser, formerly the powerboat eilLy' Hu" today. Members of the Crew nnH nil ... . w' "i uuiiiuiimion auoara mo Doai W "lnt been determined The Naval Reserve knows no reverse but tho Paragon Reverse Gear; no marine headquarters but F.VANDERHRRnHFN'c; cnisit; 1 North Water Street, Philadelphia "At the Sign of tht Ball" Anjrtlitni- for a Moat I 1 Heady Money. jjMted States Loan Society 417 Marti, Imi Ct, I WILLIAM CRONIN Eight - year - old boy who was drowned in tho bchuylkill Hiver yesterday when he lost his balance while teaching lor a (lower nnd fell iiiio the water. VICE PRESIDENT AND WIFE ENTERTAIN JANITOR'S BABY Surround Child With Comforts While Mother Works for Money to Itedccm Furniture WASHINUTON, Juno 21. Fnjin u humbly lurnlshcd room up to n inMslily appointed apartment In u fashionable hotel Is a long Jump. This contrast, howcer, l a small matter In the young lite 01 Claienco Ignatius Morrison, ten-month-old son of 'ho Janitor of St. Paul's lectory, who today wah tho guest of Vice 1'iesnlciit and .uv. Thomas 1(. .Marshall. Mtantliue, u honowful mother Is wonder ing how Inst hliu can cam money to ndecm her fHimluro (loin u stuiagu room, Miclc it wn ilactd u few mouth ago. Mnttlicw Alonlsun, tu ciulil h tulhcr, was tmiuiain. today when he Ni.d that he would not consent to hac the child adopted. "1 Ii.inu no thought of adopting the child," said .Mi.-. .Marshall. 'I am meiciy Keeping It Willie tho mother tries to earn tnougn to meet tho expenses of her littlo hout.e hold. ' 31.5 MILES OF TOLL ROADS BOUGHT BY STATE Berks and Dauphin Turnpike Acquired, Kemoving Fourteen Tollgatcs I IIAUaiSUL'UC:, Juno 21 Tho State Highway Department has concluded nego tiations for the purchase oi me Herns, aim Dauphin turnpike between Hummelstown and Werncrsvllle, thus lieclnc; 31 5 miles of what linn been toll load between Harris iiuig ami Philadelphia on the route by way. of Heading The loll charges were $1.0 J for the dis tance. Fouiteen toll gates are removed. Tho road becomes flee August 13. AMERICANS LEAD IN LOANS Records Broken by 3,000,000 Taking ?1000 Average WASHINGTON. Juno 21. Tho United States Is leading the International Loan F.oaters' League with a batting nverago of l.OOfl, ns shown by figures available at Lib erty Loan headquarteis today. The nverago subscription of the approximately ,'1,000,000 subscribers to the loan was $1000. tler many in nil live loans so far has "batted" only $7 1 S per subi-criber. In her last loan KiiK and batted een less, with an ncrago of $fit0 per subscriber. The largest loan floated by any of the warring nations to dato was for Jfi.ll'j, 058,000 by Ungland In Apill, 1916. "American" Socialists Aid Foe's Plan STOCKHOLM, Juno 21. The self-styled "American delegates" to the (Jerinan-called Socialist peace conference played directly Into the hands of the Germans today They notified tho Dutch-Scandinavian committee that they would recommend that the pres ent conference be made permanent through out tho period of the war. This fits exactly into (let man plans, which aim to have tho meetings hero drag nlong In order that Prussian peace plotting may bo continually cairli-tl on. Ten Per Cent Bonus for Employes NKW YOniC, Juno 21. Directors of the Sinclair Oil nnd Keflnlng Company voted a wage bonus of 10 per cent to nil regular employes receiving less than $2600 per an num. Tho order is effective ns of April 1 and will bo paid quarterly ; that Is. at the end of each quarter each employe affected, will lecelve 2 '4 per cent of his jeurly sal-ary. roi'Mi:i inns The Provident I.lfe nnd Trut Company of l'lilloitelphln J'ayj intereMt oil drpoilM- antl aaScuuardi thrm scrupulously. rofHTit an' cirrsT.Ncr stiibkts FOOT and LEG TROUBLES Dntfklr flltMil hr 9itr nInl nrrli aun nnrfii mtcil unri ml luMrii hv iiprr(nt Our K t n m I mk IClHHtlo IloiUrr tha most romfortabla eunport for vnrtcnsi ilTia. Ifr ulcer, wo)ln llrnhn weak TruPV". Momlnl and athutia HPnortM-i i of nil klnrtit La re it manufao. turera of dformltx' npntnrra In lha world. rillLAIIKT.rifM OIITHOrKlHO CO . 49 N. I3li 8lrt FountainPen? It's the Point that Satisfies When fitted to your hand by the specialist. AM. MAltn.1 ItKI'AIIIKU Allowance on old pens. W. G. Nichol, Agent tniftForWaterman's Pens Much estnut Save Gas "nd for rlrcular ducrlblnff the flue on our a rane top. It's a moni-ver. ItnllAm Vlaw Mhuwltir Flu rattoUd nnd mrntd by -3 w&,H, PEARC& CO. EVENING LEDGES-PHILADELPHIA', THTJESDAY, JUNE 2T, 1917 COCCHI ARRESTED IN ITALY IN MURDER CASE Seized at Bologna Death Threat for Now York Girl Who Accused White Slavers IIOMH. June 21. Alfredo Cocchl. wanted by the New York nuthorltles for trial on the charge of mur jleilng nuth Cruger, wns nrrested nt Ho logna this nfternoon Cocchl has been under obsenntlnn for several weeks rue Italian authorities moved promptly on iccclpt of ndvlccs through American Ambassador Page.' NHW YORK. June 21. -An unsigned note. ihiMieMlng denih was tossed Int.. the room In the- Polyclinic Hospital where Miss Con bum.1 i La line, who figured prominently In the Huth ruger murder mystery, is con- ..im. il iih jpnrneu louay. The nolo wns thrown through n window rrom the roof of an adjoining building. It wns written In Spanish nnd warned the dnrk-eeil beauty, who wns the victim of n mysierlous nttnek by two men following her disclosures in the Cruger case, thnt sho would be killed If she mndo further expos ure about hwlto slavery. The note was hnnded to District Attorney Swann and two policemen assigned to guard Miss La Hue Despite this threat. Miss La nuo has given to the police the nddresses of four alleged headquarters of bnnds of white slave agents. Ono of these Is In Washing ton Heights, the residential section between the Hudson nnd Hnrlem Hlvers. Detectives were set nt work at once to Invostlgato the girl's story that young girls were lured to these places and then shipped to dens of vice In South American countries. Tho incfllclency shown by the pollco de partment In handling the case of the miss ing Huth Cruger was tho subject of n con ference today between Mayor Mltchel nnd Police Commissioner Woods. Tho Mayor had before hlni a letter from Henry D Cruger, father of the slain high-school girl, demanding the removal of Woods. Mayor Mltchel afterward announced thnt the commissioner's resignation had not been asked. "At the suggestion, of Mr. Wood V said the Mayor, "I hnve directed the commis sioner of nccountB to begin nn Immediate investigation of pollco activities in con nection with the 'Cruder case." Tho Major addressed n letter to Mr. Cruger. promising punishment for pollco culpability In the case, but defending the Pollco Department. J - E Caldwell (p. Chestnut Juniper South Penn Squar Bow Knot Bar Pins Diamonds contrasted with Black Onyx 7T FOUNDED 1858 DeweeS Quality and Standard Famous Over Half Century June Clearance Sale Remarkable Reductions in AH Departments A Mo3t Necessary Summer Garment Sport Skirts Wonderful Variety S5.00 aid S5.50 Very Special June Clearance. Two Good Styles Regular Price $4.00. June Clearance S2.G5 One or two of these will be most useful for hot days B . F . Dewees , 1122 chestnut st . VSy THE DAYLIGHT STORE -JV J: For Your Summer pr Home Or Camp For outdoor entertaining or dancing )j during the summer a Victrola is ab- vft solutely indispensable. . Leave your large machine at home - and buy a "Vacation Size" tomor- ZZ-- J. row. We prepay charges and send . your records. dLJ Victrolas $15 to $400 I Easieit of Term " Talking Machine Co. r I Victor Distributors THE DAYLIGHT STORE SAILOR IN A HOSPITAL WITIMIIS THROAT CUT Polico Sny Nnvy Yard Man Attempted to Kill Woman and Himself The condition of Itlchard Berry, n sailor nt the Philadelphia Navy Yard, who Is nl leged to hne slnshcd his thront after nt tempting to kill Mrs. Agnes Ilynn, of 130S Pnrrlsh street, with tho same wenpon Inst night, was reported today to be rcrlous at St. Joseph's Hospital. The llyan woman, suffering from knife wounds In tho throat, la confined nt tho same hospital. llerry, whose homo Is In Savnnnnh. Oa., called on Mrs. Itynn last evening. He found thnt she had gono out with another man, It Is nsserted. He waited until she returned nnd then nttacked her with his service knife, pollco allege. NAUTICAL SCHOOL BILL NOW BEFORE GOVERNOR Mensuro Passed Unanimously by House, Following Senate's Action HAIHSUUrtQ June 21 Tim Vme bill to re-estnbllsh the Pennsylvania Nautical School Is now In the hands of Governor Brumbaugh. The measure finally passed the Legislature Inst night, when the House of Representatives passed It unanimously on third reading. Tho bill grants n State appropriation of JBO.000 provided tho city of Philadelphia npproprlntes the nmc amount for the next two years. REGIMENT OF RUSSIAN WOMEN READY FOR WAR Slnv Amazons to Leave for Minsk Front in About Two Weeks PKTIIOOIIAD. June 21. The regiment of women raised by Vera Hucharkcff will leave for the front In about two weeks and will tnke ove ra portion of the fighting front In the Minsk sector. The members of the regiment range from eigh teen to twenty-five jears in age and drill nine hours dally. Their regiment has received the name of "the command of death." The women wear the regulation uniform nnd are armed with regulation accoutrements. " SUMMER SEASON HERE AT LAST, LADEN WITH SOLSTITIAL JOyS AND HEATS Incidentally, Arrival Is on Year's Longest Day, With Fifteen Hours of Light But That's Nothing to Bardo, Norway, or Even to Petrograd Summer has at last decided to be with us nnd remain for the season. Although today, June 21, Is the date of nrrlnl. she will not get hero officially until 7.1 1 o'clock tonight Just after im Iihw finished ,oiir dinnei. Summer stnrted very considerately. A glnnco nt the thermometer, which usually begins to get real busy nt 10 o'clock, showed thnt It registered 76 degrees nt that hour. Gradually It climbed nnd by 2 o'clock tills afternoon had reached 81. A humidity of Rt per cent helped to emphasize the. fact thnt summer wns but a few hours off. Incldenlnlly, this Is the longest day of the year too. That Is. In the northern hemi sphere Ilelow the equator It Is tho short est and tbrro instead of Its being summer for the next three months It is winter, with all the nrriimpanlments of the reason The summer solstice which marks the beginning of summer Is. astronomically speaking, tho lime when the sun seems to enter the Tropic of Cnncer. This is true, of course, only In the northern hemisphere, ns In the southern half of the world the sun's entrance, Into Cnncer mnrks the be ginning of winter nnd into Capricorn thnt of faMj a They're Filling Up the War Gaps IN hundreds of offices, before the declara tion of war, a good many men were dic tating to big forces of stenographers. After enlistments antl the instruction camps began to make great gaps in these big office staffs, a few men had to shoulder the burdens of those who had left. Yet in hundreds of these offices, with no more ex ecutives antl with same number of stenographers, they found the way to produce a Far Bigger Volume of Correspondence for the Same Money How? By enlisting the Edison Correspondence Engineers. We are on duty all the time. Call us in on your office war problem. An initial survey will cost you nothing. We get our results by aid of the genuine EDISON Dictating Machine built by the staff of engineers under the supervision ot the commander of nil engineers Thomas A. Edison. Phohe us for details or appointment Walnut 3135 or Main 976. Edison Dictating Machine summer From cnow on. In this part of the world, the days will begin to grow shorter. The longest day In Philadelphia Inats nbout fifteen hours. Montreal has ft. slxteen-hour day. In Finland the sun will shine today for nbout twenty-two hours Of the great cltlen of the world. Petrograd has the longest day. nineteen hours, while Stockholm's day Is now nbout eighteen nnd three-qunrfer hours In duration. At Ilnrdo Norway, tho sun hns been shining un interruptedly for n month, nnd will con tinue to bo on the Job n month longer. At ltclkjavlk, the capital of Iceland, thr day Is twenty hours long, nnd in the northern part of Iceland the sun will continue above the horizon for n week. In fnr northern climes the festival of the Midnight Sun Is now being celebrated. In pnst years thousands of Americans nnd Kuropeans flocked to Norway In June. Owing to the war. the Norwegian tourist crop Is virtually nil tills year, rind the men who sell postcards nnd souen!rs nt Trond hjem nre not likely to do much business. Tho festhal of the Midnight Sun Is nlso celebrated annually at Fairbanks. Alaska. Last year n feature 'was a midnight baseball game, which was witnessed by more than n thousand fans. b ) . ii m i We have only One Iron in the Fire, and That's The making and selling of Men's Clothes f A customer said the other day, as he walked through our store and saw our stocks of Summer Suits "I never in my life saw so many suits of clothes in one place!" q That's an established characteristic of , Perry's ! C Our sole business is the making and selling of Men's clothes. J We provide such a stock of them each sea son that every man is bound to find among them just the suit he is looking for. J Here are conserva- -tive models for the man of quiet taste; slim waisted models on smart and clever lines for the Young Fellow; fashionable suits with plenty of ease, comfort and "give" in them for the man of full figure but young ideas; and large sizes whose lines help their wearers to get away with the im pression of twenty pounds less avoirdu pois than they carry! 1 It's a wonderful stock of Summer Suits, no matter how you look at it-r but the most con vincing way is just to drop around and see! PERRY&C(X "N. B. T." 16th &Cheitnut SU. feltf'" m- '.&& 'wrfc 'r . 53. c " k r m il ' i l -.'T " I ft1 f$ ' fl Ji rW yvi Mn.iMw n JH7A.Cjtwit 5tMt - J . Umbr . 1 't;. t C"'
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