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Hew York Italian Confesses
"When Quizzed at Bologna,
Police Learn
SECRET SERVICE IN HUNT
i ROME, June 23.
"" ,The confession of Alfredo Cocchl that
fc had murdered Ruth Crujrcr In New
TfVk early In February was formally
rifortcd to American Ambassador Page
from Bologna today.
i .'Ik view of the request of the United
States Government for extradition,
J P'a'gc was preparing official papers to
1 sh an end for submission to the Ital-
iri Ministry of Justice.
NEW "YORK. June 23.
Alfredo Cocchl, proprietor of the motor
ffel ahop where the body of seventeen-year-0.4
Ttuth Crug-er waa found, has confessed
thai he attacked nnd killed tho girl, the
police were Informed In a dispatch from
Bbtojna, Italy. Cocchl In under arrest nt
Sotorna.
The frail text of Cocchl's confeiclon Id
ipected before night. The news from
Bologna came'as a distinct surprise. The
police bad been Informed In earlier dls-
' jafches that Cocchl had protested his In
IKKience and had retained a lawyer to
1 fight extradition. Since he has confcal
' it Is believed the Italian Government will
place no obstacles In the way of his re-
1 ttjlrn to New York to face trial.
Cocchl was employed as a mechanic when
found In Hologna He flrM said lie left
New York because of trouble with his wife,
and denied any connection with I'uth
Cruger's disappearance. Tho news that
the, missing girl's body had been dug up
In, the' cellar of his shop plainly startled
tirn, and he appeared greatly depressed the
early dispatches said
The Importance which the flnverninent
attaches to the disclosures was v lilfncci'
by the fact that William .1 Klvnn. chief
of the. United States Secret Service, has
taken charge of the investigation here
Chief Flynn Is delving Into the t-tory of
white slave traffic told by Mli t'onsuelo
La. Rue, the girl who was mysteriously at
tacked by two men after she had made Im
portant revelations In tho Cruger mystery.
Though the Federal authorities are main
taining absolute secrecy. It Is reported that
Miss La Hue was investigating the. Inter
national white. slave tralllc as tho seciet
" agent of a South American Government
when she was attacked In tier apartment
It Is known that khe has received large
uma of money, and that Joe A. Del
Campo, a Latin-American consul, has been
making Inquiries about her condition Del
Campo refured to glvo an Information
about Miss La Hue. except to Bay that
"she comes from one of the best families in
Argentina."
Police Magistrate Koenlg early today Is
ued a warrant for the arrest of a man al
leged to belong to a gang that kidnapped
young girls and sold them to resorts ill
South America. This man nnd his asso,
elates are held responsible for tho attempt
on Miss La Hue's life.
The man Is wanted on an abduction
charge. A sixteen-year-old girl, who dls.
appeared, was last seen In his evinpapy.
Federal authorities have Information that
the girl was sold into 11 house In llucnoa
Aires.
Spurred on by bitter criticisms of their
handling of tiro Cruger case, the police are
making strenuous efforts to connect Cocchl
with this International band of white
slavers and to arrest tho gang leaders. Two
more girls who were subjected to Insults
by Cocchl were found last night Cocchl
and his associates systematically plotted
the ruin of young schoolgirls, the police
are now convinced, planning to ship them
to Latin-American countries after they bad
teen disgraced.
Henry D. Cruger. father of the murdered
girl, will be tho principal witness when
Commissioner of Accounts Wallsteln re
sumes the Inquiry Into police activities In
the Cruger case Monday. Cruger, It Is
rumored, will make sensational charges
gainst the police
The Inquiry thus far has developed that
the police arrived nt an early conclusion
that Iluth Cruger had gone away with a
man and virtually abandoned work on the
case after reaching that decision.
DOCTOR CONDON LOCKED
IN MERCER COUNTY JAIL
Alleged Murderer of James Piper
Brought to Trenton, N. J., From
Tennessee
TRENTd.V, June 23. Hecause the Mid
dlesex Cotfnty" Jail at New Brunswick is
undergoing reconstruction and Is considered
Inadequate, Dr. W. 3 Condon, of New
Brunswick, the alleged murderer of James
Piper, was brought to this city today nnd
was lodged In the Mercer County Jail hero.
A requisition for Condon was Issued a few
days ago by Governor Kdge on the Gover
nor of Tennessee.
Condon arrived hero shortly after 12
o'clock and was taken In an nutoinobllu
to the jail, where he was locked In 11 cell
without preliminary hearing. Ho was ac
companied from Chattanooga. Ton 11 . where
he was arrested, by Middlesex County De
tective Richard Peltlar, who went after
him armed with Governor I'dgo's requisition,
and by Detective Harry Law-son. of Chatta
nooga. Condon appeared to be calm and took his
Incarceration In the jail without any out
ward sign of perturbance.
BERLIN PLANNED U-BOAT
BASE ON MEXICO'S COAST
Scheme to Attack American Shipping
From This Side Frustrated by
Carranza Officials
NEW YOrtK, June 23 That Oermany
planned to establish a submarine base on
the east coast of Mexico for U-boat opera
tions against tho United States was learned
here today.
The scheme was blocked, however, by the
vigilance of Mexican ofllclals, who were
i determined that Mexico's strict adherence
to neutrality should not be violated.
From a reliable source It was learned
, that Hckhardt, the German Minister to
Mexico, planned to purchase a ranch from
: Mexicans In the Mexican State of Tama-
, taupls. on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico
, The Germans, It was said, wanted a place
Jar Matamoroa or Brownsville, where they
euld establish, when necessary, a subma-
. line base. Opportune intervention by Car-
t jwnza, officials, who had gottenvvlnd of th
plain, foiled the tlermans' scheme.
Dynamite Coat Higher at Alines
JUZLETON. Pa.. June 23. Anthracite
atnpanle nd stripping contractors re-
ved notice of another advance In
- price of dynamite, making the fourth
ce the war began. More explosives are
ng used In the mines just now than at
"Mir timo in the history of the Industry,
wine to the demand for fuel, '
Acre frf Spinach Going to Waste
JfOOBESTOWN. N J-. June 23.. Hun
40s of acres of spinach are going to
yeiati on loft lrna in ujih bcvwuii vn au
nt of ft I0K pi marKet anq picKtrs.
have Bfcen .pnKM to oujr ntir
a mn n o or w,
Flour Sold at $200
a Barrel In Greece
ATHENS, June 23.
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for n
barrel of flourl Thnt price, rrnid
by n wealthy Greek, shows how
acute the food shortage 13 in
Greece. The Allies arc taking steps
to remedy it.
MEMORIAL CHURCH
TO BE DEDICATED
Building at 57th Street and
Washington Avenue, the Gift
of Craig N. Ligget
The new church erected for the Ninth
Presbyterian Church nt Fifty-seventh street
nnd Washington avenue by Craig N Llggct
In memory of his son. John D Taggart
Llgget, will be dedicated tomorrow morning
The ceremony will be conducted by the
Rev. Dr. John Axford Hlggons. pastor of
the church, nnd tho dedicatory sermon will
be preached by the Rev. Dr. George N Luc
cock, now of Wooster, O, who was for
merly pastor of the Chicago church with
which Mr. Llggefs son wns connected, and
the evening KArrnon will be preached b.' tho
Rev Dr. David S Kennedy, editor of the
Presbyterian.
The Ninth Cmirrli was located at Six
teenth and Hansom street for nearly three
quarters of a century, and for nearly a
quarter of a century before that held serv
ices at other downtown location. The new
buildings of Gothic design built of granite
and trimmed with limestone The Interior
Is finished In hardwood throughout, the
celling being of the open-truss type I no
seating capacity Is 800 In the basement
are two large rooms for classes In Illble
dtuily. accommodating about 70" Tim new
building completes the group that will be In
use by the Ninth Church
Mr Llggel has been 3- (Mr, ,.f the
chinch fur mote than t went v -five ve.irs
Sundav school superintendent for morn than
tlility veais .1 member or . fainllj tin 11..
nent lii the rluin h hltorv His place of
business. Robert Llgget & ' Meel nnd
iron. Is Tblileenth street Just above Arch.
In which lot'iilltv, was the first building used
by the Ninth Church
CONSCIENCE FIXES PRICE,
POTATODEALER ASSERTS
Will Rate Go Up? Well, Nobody
Seems to Know About
That
Commission merchants of this cltv. nilved
today about the reported further It.creaso In
the price of potatoes next week, declared It
was Impossible to predict any rise or fall in
tho market and that they were governed
merely by the supply and demand.
Various causes were given by the com
mission men for the latet advance In price.
Some blamed It on the dry weather of last
July Others bald the railroads wero short
of car, 'hat the available supply was being
used to feed the army and navy or that the
Inrrcateil acreage planted this year resulted
In a great demand for potatoes as seed. All
agreed that the present crop was good
Toe wholesale pint of potatoes Is now
$10 50 a barrel for the best, and as low as
51 11 barrel for reo-nds. for which the con
sumer pays twenty-five cents a quarter peck
Virtually all the potatoes In the markets
of this city are shipped from tho South.
Shipments from New Jersey will start In a
few weeks.
"How do you know what price to ask for
vour stuff?" was asked of one wholesaler.
"(lur consciences tell us." he said. "We
get whatever we can." he added without a
pause. "Sometimes wc make fifty cents,
sometimes $3 on n barrel Not long ago we
made $1800 on three carloads."
The branch of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture In this city reported
delay in rail shipments to Phlladcphla.
Sixty carloads a day Is tho normal con
sumption. DELAY CALLING GUARD
INTO FEDERAL SERVICE
Original Plans Would Work Injustice
to Many Officers, It Is
Believed
WASHINGTON, June 23 Drafting of
the National Guard Into the Federnl armies
for war service may be delayed until Au
gust 5, because It has been found that
under the present plans for drafting the
Guard in three increments July lfr July
25 and August 0. tho relative rank of Its
olllcers would be established on an unfair
basis. Tho national defense act provides
that National Guard officers shall take rank
as of the dato of draft
The additional time gained by postpon
ing the draft until August 5 would bo val
uable to the department in making ready
the divisional camp sites at which the State
forces will be mobilized and also would
permit the assembling of additional equip
ment for the troops.
The desires of various parts of tho
country ns to the time when the Guard
shall have been assembled have been con
flicting. The department has received nu
merous requests, on the one hand, for early
drafting of forces from some States, mem
bers of Congress Btatlng that the troops
were ready and eager for tho call, while
from other sections, notably agricultural
regions, requests for delay have come, as
the loss of tho number of men Involved
during harvest period might create a labor
shortage.
Drops Dead After Playing Golf
Henry Pascball Dixon, who was In the
heater and range business nt 1313 Arch
street for more than thirty years, dropped
dead from apoplexy as he was returning to
the Springhavn County Club House after
a game of golf on Thursday. Mr IMjum was
seventy-one years old He was a member
of tho Union league, Philadelphia Country
Club. Hose Tree Hunt Wilmington Coun
try Club nnd Sprlnghaven Country Club.
HEALTH BISCUITS
Assist the liver to act regu
larly, thus preventing bilious at
tacks and headaches. .
RELIEVE CONSTIPATION
Never use medicinal laxatives for
constipation. Correct the cause
of the trouble. Strengthen your
digestion by eating this laxative
food, Children love them.
CONTAIN NO MEDICINE
At all drug and ne p.
grocery stores . vu a A t-B
or direct from
Dr. Von's Health Biscuit Co.,
ttlS-ZO Market St., 1'bUadtlphU. Pa.
Jccommoufdl by rhyticlans
EVENING LEDGEtt-PHILAPELPHIA, SATURDAY; JUNE 23, 1017
LA RUSSIA SI MUOVE
VERSO LWENSIVA
La Gormnnia Ha Gia Trasfcrito
Divisioni dalla Frpnto Occidcn-
talc a Quella Oricntale
ATTACCIIERA' IN GALIZIA?
ROMA, 23 Giugno.
II Ministero della Gucrra annuncia
chc ncH'ofrensiva dl martcdl scorso con.
tro le posizloni ntiatrlaclic dcll'Ortignra,
nel sctjorc di Asiago, gli italianl cat
lurarono quattrn cannoni.1.1 mitrnglla
trici, un migliaio di fucili cd una grande
quantita' di matcrlnle da gucrra di ognl
gencre. Altro materiale cd armi cat
turate rimangono ancora da contare.
IIOMA. 2.1 Giugno
VI sono oggl Indlcaslonl 'h le forre
russe stannn per rlprendere se imn propria
una uffeti!la contro gll Imperl ccntrall. al
ineno 1 nttegglamento ostlle eho dee pure
Klere a qualclu cosn. ail alleggerlre le form
trdesche ed nuntrl.11. lie sulle fruntl ill
Kranrla e d'ltnlla
A Vienna e" stato annunclato che negll
ultlml tro glornl I'attivlta' delle urtlgllerle
russe. compiee quelle dl grosso eallbro. e'
and.ita aumentatido sulU fronte dell.i
Gallzia. II che mostra die I russl liannu
nutnerus batterle, ubbondantl munltlonl o
buoiia vclonta' dl nttaccaro Herllno an
nuncia pure attlvlta delle batterle msse nel
i-eltoro dl Lutxrk c Costantlnopoll parla ill
attlvlta' da parte del iiissi nel settoro ill
Krzlngan, nel Caucaeo So I iusl stanno
per premere dl nuovo sulle loro frontl di
battaglla. U staglone estiva atluale d-ira"
aurora inline offensive e nuove vlttorle da
parte drgll alleatl deirintesa
Oral da Loiulrn letin la nntizla lie
i pateci'hle division! tedesrhe che furono tolte
dalla fronte rusa ilopo la rlvoluzlonc
cotitrlbulrono ad arrestare I'orfrrmlin anglo
frnncco sono state ilmandate alia fronte
orlentale Noli e' Imposslhlle se I russl st
nostroranno plu' attlvl che rmn in quesli
ultlml meal, che trlr,--hl ,sl austilail slano
costrettl a trasfem,' buntia
pint delle
dlilslnnl urn 1 ul nv,voii f.itm fmnte alio
offensive di llnlg e di I'admn,
Certo e ancou Imposiblle dire in quale
misuiu la rlorganlzrazluMc dell eserrlto
russu e' stata nnipluta dnpn la ilvnluzione,
nia senibra ie molto si e gia falto, e
sembra che le truppe della Gall7la e della
Pololila slano bene organlZJntu v discipli
ning, nun toln, m.i abblano una stlina.
llllmltntn del genernle HrusllolT die 1'aiino
HcnrM) illede loro la vlttorla e 1 he ora '
cmnatid.inte In capo ill tutte le foize russe.
Hccii II testo del rapporto del generate
Cadom.i pubbllrato leri sera ilal Ministero
della Gucrra clri.i l uperazionl del "D
con ente-
Nella glornata ill lei I 20 Giugno nel
settore della valle Costcan.i-Ampezzo noi
fucemmo csplodeie una potente mlna din
era stata scavata con nnormn dllllcolta'
sotto lo sperotie del Lagazuol Piccolo
l.'nsploslone fece saltare la poslzlone e
dlstrusse la guarnlglone austrlaca
Sublto dopo 1'osploslone le nostre truppe
nlplne, nppogglato dall'artlgllcila, 0011
quistarono con un brlllanle attaccu la
sommlta' della Quota 2068. Mil Laga
zuol Piccolo, c vl si stablllrono salda
mente. Sill rlmanento della fronte si sono avute
soltanto le polite nzlonl di nrtlgllerla.
I'n telegramma da Amsterdam dice che
11 prcsldente del Conslgllo austrlaco Clam
Jlartlnlc non e' rlusclto a formare II nuovo
gablnetto ed ha cblesto all'lmperatoro Carlo
dl lncarlcare qualche altro pcrsonagglo dl
formare II gablnetto Clo' mostra che la
'tuazlono polltlca In Austria e' tuttora
serla. La caduta del gablnetto Clam fu
dovuta all'opposlzlone dell'clcmento polacco
che recentcmente si rlbello' nel Rclchsrath e
rlfluto' dl votare per I credltl mllltarl
Race with the Hare
Hunt with the Hounds
You can in your Peerless Eight for it has two separate
and distinct power ranges that give it a "dual personality."
The
U.
Jtojdfingr
Mjane
In Its "loafing" range you may "race
with the hare." You have the nimble
"getaway" for quick acceleration at all
speeds, you have the soft, smooth, pur
ring motor that will winrTit8 way through
traffic taking the slow crawl or the swift
spurt, or the smooth, even gait every
thing required in ordinary driving with
the utmost grace and distinction.
You would imagine that the car was de
signed and built onfy for that kindof work
nnd to utterly excel in it. In ordinary
driving itperforms entirely in it8"loafing"
range at half rations, using fuel so spar
ingly 03 to shame many a six of less,
power even many a four.
Let us demonstrate what it means to drive a car ca
pable of almost unbelievable contrasts of performance, a car
that will maximize your pleasure yet minimize your expense.
Girard Automobile Company
2314-16-18 CHESTNUT STREET
PHONE BELL, SPRUCE 1446
The Peerless Motor Car Co.,' Cleveland. Ohio
$3,000,000 CAMP
FOR CITY TROOPS
New York Concern Gets
Contract for Cantonment
at Annapolis Junction
SPEEDING UP DUCK MILLS
Ptl o Rtoff Correspondent
WASHINGTON. June 23
Construction of the cantonment at Ann
apolis Junction. Md , where all of the Phila
delphia and Pittsburgh men who are drafted
Into the military service of the I'nlted
States will be trhlned. Is to begin within
the next few das. The War Department
toda announced the award of the contract
for building the cantonment to Smith.
Hauser. and M F Isaac, of New York,
thercbv turning down local contractors who
had attempted to get the work
The 1 onstrmtlon of more than 1100 build
ings the laving of miles of sewer nnd the
building of roads In the cantonment will
cost more than $3,000,000 The contractor
will receive 1 per cent profit on the cost of
Isbor and materials, making a pioflt of
JJ10.000 on a $1,000,000 contract It Is
estimated that the net profit will be only
half thnt, thn other $10ri.000 e-olng for over
bead expenses Between .1000 and 600a
men will be employed In constructing the
'uarrarks
Most of the barracks will be two Horles
high housing 200 soldiers earh There will
be thirty-three men to a room In these
buildings I'nllke the one-story tunnel
shaped barracks constructed at the ofllrets'
ttalnlng camps, the kitchen anil mess hall
will be attached to the sleeping quarters
At the oltlcers' training famps the cotn
panv kltihens are sepatated
Another change Is that the soldiers ate
not to sleep on double-deck beds, one mnii
sleeping above the other, the Surgeon Gen
eral's office maintains that such a housing
ortnngenient Is lnanltai All of the men
will sleep on the same level ,,n individual
J lion bul
The last step In a long series of negotia
tions diiei'ted tjivard speeding up tho
(quipping of cantonments foi a million men
has been completed by the Committee on
Supplies, of the Council of National De
fense Sl weeks ago It Is made known, flftv
million Minis of iliult for tents, mutnitiuck
covpiliiKs. hgglugs, baveis.icku and other
equipment were needed at once by the
Government The duik mills of the entire
(Oiintrv were unable to pioduce more than
twenty million v arils befoie the first of
next Junutirv The remaining thirty million
jards needed the Committee of Supplies
uncle t tool, to get by encouraging manu
f:u Hirers who were iiuiKing catpets and
otliei Kinds of cotton teitlles to turn their
plants to making duck Ilundieds of looms
were changed and builders' stocks were
altered so extensively that many mills
without facilities for making .varns en
countered a serious shortage of them It
therefore became necessaiy lo obtain the
o-oper.ttlon of the makeis of arn
111 order to avoid sharp rlhes In prices
and the disarrangement of existing Govern
ment prices for duck, which would occur if
the Government went Into the market for
the sixteen million pounds of hard cotton
yarn needed, the Committee on Supplies
asked the yarn makers to mobilize their
forces to help the mills A jam committee
has been organized at a meeting of rep
resentatives of twenty major spinning
manufacturers and dealers This com
mittee, composed of Andrew S. Webb, of
Philadelphia, chairman ; W. It. Moore, of
Yorkvllle, S C , and J. A Mandevllle. of
Carrollton, Gn., with ofllces In New York
city, will be charged with the entire respon
sibility of adjusting the yarn supply to the
needs of the mills.
"All that the
name implies'
99
AMERICAN COMMERCE
MAKES NEW RECORDS
Exports and Imports for May
Total Huge, Sums, Despite
' U-Boivt Activity
WASHINGTON. June 23.
More new records for American com
merce were hung up during May and for
the twelve months ending with May, It was
announced 'at the Department of Commerce
this afternoon Hxports fo: the month
were valued at $551,000,000 nearly $21.
000.000 more than In April. For the ear
ending in May tho total was $U. 18.1,000,000.
the largest In the hlstorv of the country.
Imports during May totnled $281,000,000.
making It he greatet single month In this
respect on record. In spite of submarine
activity For the vear ending In , May,
Imports totaled $2. 600.000.000 Seventy
ono per 1 ent of Imports entered free of
duty In Mav and CO 1 for the ear
Gold linpnits In Muv were $52 000,000
and exports $58 nou.ooo. mostly drawn by
Japan, Spain nnd Mexho Net Imports
for the ear weie $77ii 11OO nflft
ALLEGED GAS-SAVING
DEVICE FOUND DELUSIVE
Its Inventor Arrnipned on Charge of
Falsp Preten.se nnd Impersonating
Federal Officer
Smile- ami handshakes weie passed
about aiming the ship's company aboard
the power launch Absalom D III the belief
that the bsalom D was running on eight
cent kerosene Instead of twenty-slx-cent
gas This would have been due to the new
carburetor Installed bv Harold II. Montague.
If It had only been true but In renlltv, so
'tis said, there wns a steady flow of gaso
line running Into the laihuretor That
was the secret part of Montagues Inven
tion. It wns testified before I'nlted States
Commissioner Long tod.iv when Montague
was anolgned on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses nnd Imper
sonating a Federal olflcei
The Federal iiiflcer Montague was accused
vf Impersonating Is 'submarine Inspector '
It said so on the large badge he showed
the launch's ownei at the time he Hist men
tioned his new fuel-saving Invention The
badge bore the words "Submarine ,Itispectm
No I. Chief of Construction. Hvdro Sub
marine Corporation "
Montague, it wjs testified, sold the al
leged carburetor to Rodney Morlson, assist
ant secretary, treasurei and general man
ager of the West Jeisey Sand and Gavel
Companv, for use on board Mr Moilson's
boat On the trial trip everything went
smoothly until It was found that nn Incon
spicuous pipe admitted gasoline Into the
carburetor and that the engine wns using
about the usual quantltv Montague, who
lived nt 20.12 Arch street, was held unile
$500 ball
No Wage Increase for Schoolteachers
NORTH WALKS, Pa . June 2.1. North
Wales fchoolteachers will not be granted
the 20 per cent Increase In salary asked for
In personal letters sent to each school direc
tor last week. The school board claims It
cannot grant the request with tho funds
available. Last year's snlarles amounted
to about $7000. Several of the teachers
have signed contracts for the coming term
while others arc still undecided what action
to take In the matter
W. C. T. U.s "Safety-First" Poster
The Philadelphia W C. T V has placed
an order with the Hlllpostlng Company of
Philadelphia for fifty large posters, with
Inscriptions such as "Safety First Means
No Alcohol. Kven Moderate Drinking
Means Slower Thinking." The placards are
on exhibition at 1703 Arch street, In charge
of Ml3s Gertrude Pennington, who superin
tends their distribution
The
Spdirfimr
ft
jtJXMgrer
But when you want to "hunt with
the hounds" you have o brute of a car
ready to pace the best of the pack. You
have only to open your throttle wider
to call upon your "sporting" range and
utterly change the character of your
motor.
That same softly purring motor now
utters o deep growl of brute power. No
ordinary car can hold with you now. You
have unleashed eighty horsepower on full
rations and few indeed are the cars that
can contend with you only the few that
ore built especially for thundering Bpced
and prodigious feats of power without re
gard for the gentler virtues which tlio
Peerless exhibits in its "loafing" range.
WOMEN PLEDGE WAR
ON VICE IN CAMPS
Association of College Alumnae
Plans Campaign of Sup
pression 1 .
One hundred thount.d women all over the
country have pledged themselves to take
active measures to suppress vice li the
army and navy training camps. The As
sociation of College Alumnae Is responsible
for the movement, according to Mm. Wil
liam I Hull, of Swarthmore She wus one
of the originators of tlio plan and has
called upon every women's organization In
the clt.v to further Its success.
"The conditions In .Mexico last summer
were Intolerable." said Mrs Hull, "and the
situation In Knglntid Is appalling. It re
mains for the good women of tho land to
see that nothing of the sort occurs bote
We nie going to appeal to Washington, ask
ing the men In authority to take steps to
establish p afety zone around the camps
and lo establish moral sanitation.
"We have adopted resolutions, and we
have asked every women s organization to
adopt them also and send them to President
Wilson the Secretary or War, the medical
section of the Council for National Defens,
R. I). Fosdick chairman of the Commission
of Trailing Camp Actlvllles the Women's
Advisory Committee Council of National
Defense. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, chair man.
and Governors of each State
"It Is unthinkable that dissolute women
should exist In the neighborhood of the
enmps, or that liquor should lie sold In the
vicinity
"I'nlcss laws arc made and enforced our
boys will be exposed to tho worst sort of
temptations There Is no time to be lost
We want these measures passed befote any
mole camps are established"
The Philadelphia branch of the Woman's
Suffrage party experts to Hdopt the lesu
lutlon at Its meeting on Monday.
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GHEKCK HARD HIT Y U-BOATS
Submarines Sink One-Fifteenth of Na
tion's Tonnage in Three Months
WASHINGTON. June 2.1 German sub
marines nre taking a heavy toll of Greel;
shipping An olllclal report to the Stale De
partment today stated that nearly one-fifteenth
of the entire Greek tonnage has heou
sent to tho bottom III the last three month
Since Apt II 12 ships representing a ton
nage of 31,542 have been torpedoed and
sunk by German and Austrian tT-boats
The ships nie valued nt $4,592,000 The
latest blow was tho sinking of the Nestoe.
of 4000 tons, loaded with grnln.
Seventeen Taken in Crap ttnme Haiti
Seventeen men were arrested In a shed
In the rear of the residence of William Wll
fong. Fifty eighth and Market streets last
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DANIELS DECLARES
Tells Senators Supplies May
Be Commandeered in
Crisis
FUEL SHORTAGE FEARED
WASHINGTON. June 23
Declaring It n "question of a ver.v short
timo before the Government must com
mandeer all oil and coal In tho country,'
Secretary Daniels today told the Senate
Public .Lands Committee that the oil situa.
Hon In the country Is serious
While Daniels was testifying at the Cap!
tol, President Wilson called personally on
the Federal Trade Commission, presumably
to discuss the proposition made by Daniels
and chnliman Denman, of the Shipping
Honrd that the commission fix fuel ana
steel prices,
Daniels told the Senators that if the
commandeering was not done negotiations
must be entered Into at once b the rjov.
eminent lo require the opening up of oil
and coal fields, lie said the fuel -uppiy
must he regulated and the Government em.
poweied to fix plces on both oil nnd coal
The navy oil reserves must be saved. (,
said, for the future whlih we annot
foresee "
With 200 oll-huriilng ships now being bur.
iledly built, Danlals ndmltted he doesn't
know what the available oil supplv of the
country Is llo suggested a Government
survey of nil oil fields to determine where
fresh supplies might originate He said
the Government was going to get n mueii
of Its oil as possible from outside the
I'nlted Slates "In order to cunscre nur
own "
"If the war goes on for a vear or two it
would be absolutely vital that the oil in this
countiy be materially Increased, bei ausu
tho deniand would be inoiensing'v greater '
li declared "In other vvotds ml is th
basis of conducting this war. Kvervthing
depends on It."
If Mexico were cut off as ,1 source of
supply, he declared, the drain on tin- coun
try would be tremendous, and the need of
the Government assuming control of oil
supplies nnil enfouing Its 1 onscrvatlon
would be immediate
Daniels protested vigoiously against open.
Ing up the present naval oil reserve in
California until pending ll'lgatloo has been
pressed to termination. He declared son
of the men on the reserve 11 1 i,ing
titles In the names of "dummies" if n
Is opened he urged that tho opening b
under direction of the Government or .ome
agency and "not by men with fraudulent
title.'
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