i'j?'i' J" m EJEfc rj. ni ft i J &' ., t J" ' ""G jS ,XP . ' -'" m " kb - c- ar Light Vote Cast ? .. ,-,,'. UGHEST VOTE IN MANY YEARS IS CAST TODAY Little Interest Is Shown in Primary Fight for Control -lW VTFTTT WATIT THR CENTER fr;e?y Contests in )lIore Than a Score of Wards THE poll opened at 7 o'clock this morning and will remain open until 7 o'clock this evening. All voters who enrolled when they registered this fall are entitled to vote for party candidates. All others who registered, but did not give their party affiliations, can vote only for the candidates for Judge, whoso names will appear on the non partisan ballot The principal contests for control of wards are In tfre Fifth and Twenty-eighth wards. Councilmanlc and ward contents also aro lively in the Third, Fourth, Fifteenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty lecond, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-ninth, Thlrty-eecond, Thirty third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth. For tieth,, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh wards. The saloons closed at 6 o'clock this morning and will remain closed until 8 o'clock tonight With the primary election today develop ing Into little more than a factional tight between the Vare-Smlth and the Penrose McNIchol faction of the llepubllcan Organ liatlon for control of wards, voting- waa llfht throughout the city. From the time the polls opened at 7 o'clock this morning, the primary caused the election ofneers little work In nearly every ward the smallest number of 'voters appeared of any election In Philadelphia for years. Only about one-half of the 272,360 regis tered voters had cast their ballots by the middle of the afternoon, except In wards where the factional contests are bitter. The slate la going through easily," said State Senator Kdwln H Vara this after noon. "Outside of the Fifth Ward there Is no trouble anywhere. In every ward the Organisation la getting out a big- vote for Us candidates, and thero Is little cutting of the Organization ticket " In the "Bloody Fifth" Ward, of course, both sides got out their vote early. The ama was true In the Twenty-eighth and In the Third and Eighteenth Wards. The two factions of the llepubllcan ma chine are battling In twenty-two wards that Include the most populous In the city The usual last-hour rush Is expected In all of them late this afternoon. The principal contests centered around control of the Fifth Ward and the efTort to oust Mayor Smith from control In his home ward, the Twenty-eighth. In the Fifth Ward the Vare forces, who are en deavoring to seat Common Councilman Isaac Deutsch In the saddle In place of Mercantile Appraiser James A. Carey, made just as strenuous efforts during the first few hours of voting as did the Carey division leaders to bring out a heavy vote arly. Aside from the rioting In the "Bloody .Fifth." few Instances of trouble were re ported throughout the city. In the Twenty eighth Ward, where the Penrose-McNlchol leaders have been attacking the Mayor's leadership, there was no disturbance at the polls today. A little trouble occurred In the Third Ward, where Harry J. Trainer, a Penrose lieutenant. Is leader. The Vares, under Richard Nolte, ore contesting his leader ship today. Two men, John French, 75 South Twelfth street, a registrar In the Fifteenth Division of Trainer's Ward, and James Stevens. 770 South Twelfth street, a clork Jn the office of the Receiver of Taxes, were arrested on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. The charge was preferred by Louis Downey, 1311 Catharine street, a Trainer follower. The men were released by Magistrate Persch on copies of the chances, and will have a hearing at Cen tral Station tomorrow morning. Charges were made by the Independents In the Twenty-sixth Ward, the home ward of Congressman William S. Vare, that James P. Chambers, chief clerk In the Bureau of'Mghways and Vare leader In the second division of the ward, had stolen the specimen ballots of the Inde pendents. Daniel McBrlde, Sr., and Daniel J. Me Bride, Jr., a policeman under suspension, were arrested on a charge of attacking an Independent watcher who demanded the return of the specimen ballots. The watcher disappeared and did not appear against the McBrldes. Charges that the llepubllcan Organisa tion leaders are attempting to steal the Democratic and Independent nominations In the Forty-sixth Ward, one of the largest independent wards In the city, were made by John J. McQuald, a Democratic leader and candidate for magistrate, soon after the polls opened. "The Democratlo specimen ballots for the ward mysteriously disappeared during the night," said McQuald. 'They were later found In the possession of Harry Mackey'a Organization workers and division leaders. The Republican Organization leaders distributed Democratlo ballots marked for Louis A. Ladner, Joseph S. Boyle ana James Howard, and also for all of the llepubllcan Organization candidates for Councils. They also are distributing fraudulent circulars from the Woodrow Wilson League, with several, fictitious Democratlo signatures, calling upon the Democrats to support the Republican candidates for Com mon Council. ' ' "The Democrats and Independents of 'the ward have Indorsed for Common Council the following men: Franklin A. Smith, Jr., Gustavo Becker. Clinton Woodcraft, Charles P, Nagle and Herman A pot hake r. 'The action of the Mackey division lead ers Is nothing but a bold attempt' to steal the Democratlo nominations. They regis tered many of their followers as Democrats, and these men are voting for the Repub lican candidates on the Democratlo ballot" With the Republican Organization united, except In a few scattered wards, on the four Row offices to be filled, and on Com mon Pleas Judgeship candidates and the aadldates for magistrate, the fights for iwarel control and for the nomination of unctlmanlo candidates held the boards. QIBBONETS STRENGTH SURPRISING The exceptions occurred In the McNIchol ward, -where the ward leader could not, or would not, put a atop to the knifing of Wotht Jlotan for District Attorney and Weehan for Register of Will Gtbboney, opposing Rotan for the Repub lican nomination, showed mors strength In tfe early voting than the Organisation lesxlers expected. The opposition to Sheehan was the result of report that ha had formed too close an aUUnce with the Vares when the Row offlos late of the Organization was formed. Tt FaetroM-HcNIchol follower: todav jtofau to ft t that McNIchol failed to M to the further fact Iwttdinc to recover tb IJf y $$d2mlj Throughout City could be withdrawn by the men who started It. THE VATtE-McNICHOL CONTEST In the ward contests, outside of the Fifth and Twenty-eighth Wards, the Vares are seeking control In the Third. Twenty-fourth, Thirty-fourth, Forty-third. Forty-fourth and Forty-seventh Wards The Penrose-Mc-Nlchol forces are trying to overthrow the Vares In the Fourth, Fifteenth. Eighteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-eighth. Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-sixth, Thirty seventh, Thirty-eighth, Fortieth, Forty-third and Forty-sixth Wards In mnny of the larger and more Inde pendent wards the Democrats and Inde pendents have united behind Independent candidates for Council The light reglstra tlon, however. Is seriously cutting down the size of their vote, and the leadem of the Independents, are Issuing calls to the voters who nre not controlled by the Organization to go to the polls and cast their ballots. The only Interesting contest In the Demo cratic primary Is for the selection of two candidates for magistrate. Magistrate Eisenbrown and Boris have been Indorsed by all factions and wings of the minority party for re-election The party Is to nomi nate four candidates, but with the Organiza tion having almost Its entire stre.-.gth en rolled It can hope to elect at the most only the three minority magistrates The contest for the other two nomina tions, and for the third place on the minority slate, Is close, with John J. Mc Quald, Magistrate Joseph S. Boyle, Alexan der Hamilton Brooke, ex-State Senator Richard V. Farley, ex-Magistrate John J. Qrella and Alexis J. Llmehurner sharing the honors In the early balloting. FOUR IMPORTANT NOMINATIONS Tho voters of the city today are nominat ing party candidates for Receiver of Taxes, District Attorney Register of Wills and City Treasurer They are also nominating the candidates, on a nonpartisan ticket, for eight vacancies in the Courts of Common Pleas. In addition to this, they are nomi nating candidates for twenty-four Select Councllmen, all of Common Council, Judges of elections, school visitors and constables Seven magistrates alsw aro to be elected on November 6, and each party Is nominat ing four candidates. There are fifty-five candidates on the Republican ticket, and a score more on the others Six parties are holding their primary elections They are the Republican, Demo cratic, Washington, Socialist, Prohibition and Roosevelt Progressive THE JUDGESHIP CONTESTS Interest In the contest for the judgeship nominations, which ran high a few weeks ago, before the present eight Incumbents were Indorsed for re-election by the Bar Association of Philadelphia and by the Re publican Organization, centers around the efforts of Municipal Court Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell and Frederick S. Drake to defeat Judges Monaghan and Staake for Court No. 5 The principal candidates for the Common Pleas vacancies follow: Court No 1. F Amedee Bregy, present Judge. Court No 3 William C Ferguson and Charles B McMlchaol, incumbents. Court No 4 Charles Y Audenreld, pres cnt Judge Court No C John Monaghan and Wil liam II. Staake, Incumbents, and Eugene C. Uonniwell and Frederick, S Drake Orphans' Court Edward A Anderson and Joseph F. Ldmorelle, Incumbents Stickers bearing the name of Michael J. McEnery. Assistant City Solicitor, for Court No. 6, made their appearance early The managers of Judge Bonnlwell's campaign as serted that they were used to cut down the size of his vote. EXPECT TO END CITY BOND SALE THIS WEEK Officials Believe Entire Issue Will Be Taken "Over the Counter" With the half-way mark passed In the sale of the 4 per cent thlrty-ear bonds of the cltj's new loan of 37,275,700, today, the third day of the sale, opened with but a few private Individuals on hand. Sales today amounted to 31,393,100 The sales of the bonds at the close of business, which are being offered at par, "over the counter" nt the City Treasury, brought the total subscriptions up to 35,424,100, exclusive of $1,000,000 worth of the bonds which the Sinking Fund Com missioners will take. City Treasury ofllclals predicted that be fore the end of the week the entire Issue would be sold. At previous sales of city 4s at par for popular subscription, the ap plications on the first days of the sale were generally large, they said. The total sale of the bonds yesterday amounted to 31,014,300, BOYS ARE HELD AGAINST WISHES OF PROSECUTOR Many Thefts Cause Magistrate to Re fuse Release of Youths Accused of Stealing Auto Four boys, accused of stealing an auto mobile belonging to John Blakely, of the Commonwealth Building, wero arraigned before Magistrate Carson, at the Park and Lehigh avenues station, today and held, de spite the prosecutor's request that they be discharged. Tho prisoners are William Garner, 18 years old, of Thirteenth and Venango streets; Austin Selb, 16, of Thirteenth and Tioga streets: Fred Mondeau, 10, of Venango and Watts streets, and Clarence Short, 15, of Thirteenth and Tioga streets. The magistrate said, In view of the fact that numerous cars were being stolen datlj , he could not discharge the youthful prison ers. Garner and Selb were held in 3600 ball for court, and Mondeau and Short were held for the Juvenile Court. BALTIMORE TAILORS ON STRIKE Walkout of 1800 Men Ties Up 120 Shops BALTIMORE, Sept 19 Demanding a flat increase of 10 per cent, approximately 1800 tailors, membera of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, went on strike here today, tying up about 120 con tract and mall order shops According to Hyman Blumberg, head of the Amalgamated, fifteen shops that the union had not figured on Joined the strike These belong to the Lithuanian Clothing Workers' Union. Virtually the entire merchant tailoring Industry of the city is affected by the strike. SCENTS PLOT IN LANCASTER McClain Sees Scheme to Beat Down Wheat Prices LANCASTER. Pa., Sept. 19. Lieutenant Governor McClain, a member of the Xooa supply committee of the Pennsylvania Com mission of Public Safety, in a communica tion here, expresses the belief that the farmers of Lancaster County are being made victims of a combination to beat down the price of their wheat. He declares a cry has been raised bj Interested persons to make It appear that Lancaster County wheat Is of reduced qual ity by excessive moisture, and blda for It as low as 3.1.30 per bushel have been of fered. Short Cut Costs Man's Life CHESTER. Fa.. Sept. It. Walklnr In front of an express train on the Baltimore n4 Ohio Railroad an unidentified whit M was struck and Instantly killed. The KM say tne man trespass swn EYKOTNG, LBDOEKr-PHILiU)ELl?HIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, in Fall Primaries : - FOUR SOCIALIST CHIEFS SURRENDER Alleged Ringleaders of Anti Draft Propaganda Are Under Arrest HELD IN $2500 BAIL Indictment Charges ViolationNof Espionage Act Accused Plead Not Guilty Four members of the executive committee of the Socialist party In this city, cno of whom Is a woman, and who, tho Govern ment charges, were mainly responsible for the propaganda against the draft, gave theme-lives Up today to United States Dep uty Marshals James J Kenney and Mat thew Kelly, and were held under 12500 ball each by Judge Dickinson for trial on charges of violating the espionage act The number cf defendants against whom the Government has brought prosecutions Is now eleven. The four who surrendered today were Indicted on Saturday with Charles T Schenck, secretary of the So cialist party, on a charge of conspiracy to violate the espionage law Accompanied by their counsel, Henry John Nelson, the four Socialists submitted to technical arrest this morning They are Dr Kllzabeth Baer, 129 South Eight eenth street, secretary of the executive commltteo of the Socialist party, and the three men who are members of tho com mittee are Jacob H. Root, 2529 North Mars ton street; William J Hlgglns, Jr 5720 Do Lancey street, and Charles Sehl, 2820 North Nineteenth street As tho executive committee of the So cialists, these four defendants. It Is as serted, drew up the circular denouncing the draft as unconstitutional, gave direc tions for having It printed by the Jewish World, and paid for the mailing of a large number of them to men who had been se lected In the draft for military service Tho fact that these four members of tho Executive Committee had been Indicted with Schenck was kept secret until they were arrested, or until they voluntarily sui rendcrcd They went Immediately Into court today, pleaded not guilty to the In dlctment against them, and Judge Dickin son tlxed ball for them pending trial They were accompanied by bondsmen and, within n short time, were able to procure their lelcave Schenck, regarded by the Federal au thorities as the leader In the Socialist pro test against the draft, la under 310,000 ball He and six others were arrestc recently In a raid on the headquarters and book store of the Socialist party at 1328 Arch street The Government Is prepared to present Its full iaK against tho eleven defendants, and I'nlted States Attorney Kane will make .in effort to have them tried some time next w eeU EIGHT HELD ON CHARGE OF POSSESSING "DOPE" Contents of Packages Found on Prisoners Taken in Dragnet to Be Analyzed night men were held under ball ranging from 3400 to 3800 on the charge of having "dope" In their possession and trying to dispose of the drugs, by Magistrate Imber, In Central Station, today. Ralph Waller, of Ninth and Walnut streets, had several packages concealed In his clothing when he was arrested last night The police believed the packages contained drugs and turned them over to City Chemist Roberts for analysis Waller was held under 3800 ball for a further hear ing Monday Charles Barney, a negro, of 927 Wood street; John Lombardo, of 438 North Franklin street, and Lawrence Wllllngton, of South Bethlehem, Pa. were arrested In n saloon at Eighth and Spring Garden streets on a charge of having drugs In their possession and of selling them. They were held under 3600 each for a hearing Mondaj In the meantime several pack ages thought to be narotlc drugs will bo analyzed John Lampe, Stamper lane and Joseph Davis 615 South Twelfth street, were held under 3400 ball for court for having drugs and selling them Policeman O'Connor, of the Third and Dickinson streets station, appeared against them. Robeit Kills, 829 Locust street, and Wil liam Heexe 608 North Seventh street, nlso were held under 3400 ball for court for having Mope" In their possession. They were arrested last night by Policeman Rogers, of the Third and Dickinson streets station. DATESMAN NAMES ENGINEERS Changes in Bureau of Surveys Makes Places for New Men Changes In the Bureau of Surveys today caused Director George V Datesman, of the Department nt Pnhllr. Wn.lr. n .i... the following appointments of engineers miiiam ii ii ugaen, 16J North Twenty eighth street, salary 32000; Joseph C Barn ard. 1 Knmerton nA.nii. 19onft. rpi.n.- Buckley. 1511 Foulkrod street, 31800; ucurHa oncsug, ivti ixorxn xwenty-slxth street, 31800, and Edward Dauner, 1600 West Lehigh avenue, 31800, Other municipal appointments announced today Include Joseph P Halloran, 1322 McKean street, pilot. Bureau of Police, 31350. Samuel Shearer 1941 v-aa -o.i, street, helper. Bureau of Fire, 9900 ; Robert ucan. iou wen uigniana avenue, Inspec tor, Bureau of Highways. 31200, and Fran cis A Oilman, 4513 Osage avenue, inspee, tor, 3ureau of Highways, 382.50 per month. NATURALIZED GERMAN HELD Produces Papers and Registration Card When Arraigned as Suspect A naturalised German, JohnTolkers, who said his brother was a member of the crew of the seized aerman raider, Kronprlnz WIN litlm, was arrested early today and Is being held under 3100 ball for further hearlng'as a ausplclour character, Folkers, who said that he formerly Jived near Second and Moravian streets, was ar rested at Eighth street and Washington avenue by Policeman Waters, of the Sev enth and Carpenter streets station. Before Magistrate Coward Folkers produced nat uralisation papers, registration card and credsntlals, but because he was registered at Jacksonville, Fla., he waa held for an Investigation. He formtrly worked on an oil barge and at the Baldwin Locomotive Works. York War Gardens Show Profits YORK, Pa,, Sept 1. War gardens In this city proved profitable at an -expenditure of 3500 on the part of the municipality for plowing. According to Calvin A. Boyer. superintendent of the Department of Streets and Publlo Improvements, there wer raised by the amateur farmers 2300 bushels of potatoes, 1(0 bushels of red beets, 400 bushels of corn, (0 bushela of soup beans, SO bushela of string beans, tW btuhela or tomatoes, 140 bushels of sweet potato. Jit boskets of onions, m kv4s of gWjm fjjitaiks of try, l astattOM n Four Socialist Chiefs Now in the EXEMPTED MEN MAY NOT ENLIST New Order Prohibits Those Discharged in Draft From Entering Service- BOARDS RUSH THEIR WORK Surplus Certification Lists Being Prepared as Reserve to Fill Rejection Gaps Voluntary enlistment Is prohibited by Secretary of War Raker to men discharged or exempted through the draft .machinery, In an order Issued today to the recruiting officers and commanders of national mili tary camps. This reverses a former order. The Philadelphia district appeal boards have for some time been refusing to exempt ment to allow them to enlist In some pre ferred branch other than the draft army, a provision also Included In the present order. Secretary Baker's Instructions state that a person called by a local board may not thereafter enlist, even after he has ben exempted or discharged from military serv ice This ruling, the order adds may be modified by the President after all quotas are filed. Furthermore, the Provost Marshal Gen eral's department maintains that an appli cation of an exempted or discharged man to enlist Is evidence that there was no reason for his dismissal by the draft or district appeal boards, and opens the question of revoking his exemption. Certification of the Initial quotas to the local draft boards by the two district ap peal boards Is past history today, but they are rushing on with the work of certifying the complement, which Is expected to reach 1G or more per cent above the 100 mark to establish a reserve supply It Is taken for granted that some of the men sent to the mobilisation camps will be turned down by the army physicians and sent back. The surplus certification lists will then be drawn upon to fill the gaps. District Appeal Board No. 1 Is so thor oughly organized that It did not have to In terrupt Its regular routine system In order to comply with the eleventh-hour demand for an Increased Initial contingent It is continuing In the regular course today, but it Is adding night sessions for a few days this week In order to entirely clean up mat ter on hand District Appeal Board, No 2, however, has returned today to Its program of con sidering appeals and claims as well as ap proving lists of names already certified. It Interrupted its ordinary schedule when the emergency demand for a larger proportion of draft men came, to give Its entire atten tion to releasing the lists of certified names piled up In Its office, and dropped all con sideration of appeals or Industrial claims INVESTORS EXPLAIN HOW THEY LOST THEIR MONEY Men Who Put Money in Defunct Company Testify Against Brokers Nine Investors who lost an aggregate of 364,000 In the defunct International Gas and Electric Company testified today against Clawson Bachman, Joseph T. Haden and Amos H. Nlssley, who. comprising the firm of Bachman & Co , Investment brokers, are on trial before Judge Dickinson In the Fed eral Court, accused of using the malls to defrud In the sale of the company's stock Bachman & Co. occupied the same offices with the International Gas and Electric Company, In the Stock Exchange Building, and had no connection whatever with the banking firm of II r Bachman & Co, 1612 Chestnut streut The testimony given today was cumu lative of that given jesterday, when seven Investors declared that they had lost nearly 314,000 through the stock transactions. Up to the present stage of the trial It has been shown that a comparatively few of the stockholders lost nearly $78,000 In the manipulation of the plan. Bach man, Hajden and Nlssley are declired to have obtained nearly all of the 31 500,000 capital stock of the International (Ms and Electric Company. GOODBY BIDS GOOD-BY TO TEETH AND VOICE Double Loss Leads Him Into Trouble, but Police Are Sympa thetic Charles Goodby had said good-by to his false teeth and attempted to drown his sorrow In the usual way Policeman Brad ley, of the Eleventh and Winter streets station, found Charles on a still hunt for the lost molars at Thirteenth and Com meico streets Me was crawling along on his handR and knee3 His teeth play an important part In his life Without them he Is speechless When questioned by the policeman, his teeth being among things of the past, only queer noises Issued from his mouth The officer decided that the sergeant might be able to understand these noises and could deter mine whether the man wai prostrate under the load of sorrow or only a plain ordinary everyday load of liquid. On being escorted to the station house he Indicated a desire to write. Pencil and paper being produced, he wrote, "Where are my false teeth?" The sergeant scratched his head, ri nally he produced three pairs of false teeth kept on hand m case of emergency How ever Goodby could not Identify any of them as his. He refused to have anything to do with them The police suggested that he mlgth have left his own In a steak In a nearby restaurant One wiseacre sug gested that perhaps he had swallowed them, thus accounting for his inability to speak Taking pity on his hard luck, the sergeant said good-by to Goodby and sent him out to round up his wandering molars. STEAMSHIP .PLATURIA TORPEDOED AND SUNK Captain and Eight Men iPerish When Standard Oil Vessel Goes to the Bottom LONDON, Sept. 1 The American steamship Platurla was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of the captain and eight mem bers of the crew, the Admiralty announced today. Forty-five survivors from the Pla turla were rescued. The Platurla was ownejl by the Standard ,011 Company of New Jersey, She was 'a steel screw steamship of 8445 tons and reg istered from the port of New York. Will Sell Belting Company Assets BOSTON, Bept !. Th stockholders of the Boston Belting Company have voted, by 8333 shares to lit, to accept the recent offer of WllUt. Bears A Co, to purchase all tht assets of the company at tht equivalent of 3133.50 a share, of which 181.50 will bt Jn cash ana MO In prtferrtd stock of a new auur ta bt organized under law. chUM law m A law ana to be- Known as tht p-. QWOHUsm P. R. T. STOCKHOLDERS' BURDEN "TOO HEAVY" Report at the Annual Meeting Touches on Present Tran- , sit Situation Reference to the transit situation was made at the annual meeting of the Phila delphia Rapid Transit Company, held nt Eighth and Dauphin streets today. No mention was made of the Smith Mitten leata either nt the meeting or In the annual report The announcement In the report, signed by T. 1J Mitten, chair man of the executive committee, said The position taken by tho Stotcsbury management has been to contribute most to the city. However, If the burden is too heavy the company cannot bear it. A fair return must be assured to the stockholders The annual report showed gross pas senger earnings for the last year td he 327.504,010.(8, an Increase of 32,714,270 44 over the previous year. This Increase Is due to the continued commercial and In dustrial prosperity of the city resulting from the naval and military preparations following the entry of the nation In the war, according to Chairman T E Mitten E T Stotesbury and H. G Lloyd were re-elected as directors for a term of four years Following the meeting of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, the annual meet ing of the Union Traction Compnny was held. The entire board of directors of the company was re-elected They nre J J Sullivan, Charles E. Heed, T. E Mitten B A McManus, William P Datz, Edward M. Story, Henry Fcrnbergcr, Jo&eph Oil Everybody wants quality Vou're sue of it hi our all-wool clothes W4ien you decide to get the most for the money you spend for clothes, the next step is to decide to have our clothes; that's the way to get the most value. ' . Our label sewed in the coat is your guaran tee of quality. ' Military touches in overcoats and sport suits is the popular idea this fall; There's an easy drape in the . designs, combined with military smartness in pock ety belts, and plaits. Ask to sec the many variations. ' Hart Schaftner & Marx Good Clothes Makers Straw bridge .,'& Clothier. JSwHSbF "C jJaI!?! rJgjMJMjJasn. 1017 Toils : P. R. T. nilan, James II, Gay, John II. Chestnut and John C. Gilpin. Tho meeting was opened by Jeremiah J Sullivan nnd presided over by James G lleckman The semiannual dividend of 3 per cent was declared, . Kluabeth Snyder, stormy petrel nmong the stockholders was present. When she moved that tho rending of tho annual report be dispensed with. Ellis Ames Ballard, nttorney for the com pany, congratulated her. She expressed the opinion that the day -aB coming when n woman would sit on tho board of directors The meeting of Philadelphia Rapid Tran sit directors this afternoon for organization resulted In tho re-election of President Thomas E Mitten, Chairman K T. Stotes bury and nil other officers No petition foi changing dividends from a semiannual tnx to n quarterly basis was received and It Is understood that no Immediate change In this respect Is contemplated The matter was not acted on In nny form today ARSENAL IS PROFITING ' BY AMMUNITION PROBE WASHINGTON. Sept 19 Testifying be fore the House Military Affairs Committee today. Major J E. Munroe, of tho Army Ordnance Department, said that defective nmmunltlon turned out nt Krankford was not due entirely to primer trouble "In May of this jear." ha Bald, "we re. Jected about 2,000,000 rounds of ammuni tion because the cartridges functioned t.o poorly, although the primers passed the tests. 'We have not folloucd the proper policy In handling our raw materials After new materials have passed the tests they are put In tho general bin, Instead of being kept separate That Is one lesson we have learned from this Investigation" pisbhs .... vw3.3K25K2sSBMM2w5sSkiffii?Ss3-J"s a&ikgyfeJgW?. Pistributoi Stockholders M j i FRUIT NORMAL 1 AND SUPPLY, IS REPORT Fish Scarce and High, With R0J isuw u.iiij- nurc, Mayor's Commission Says Fruit, both In sunttlv nnd ...i . mtil ai-CArrltncr in tUA .1-.... "Oivi """ "w " ' """ report of r J Russell Smith, chairman 0f tht tjj,' aDmmlRslon of the I'hlladelph a !!, . fenso Committee Grapes nnd "! " now nrrlvlng In Mifflc ent quantities i J V classed as normal ,0 The red Delaware rrapo Lrln ., ,. ' orate of o ght cnrrlcrr whole!. 1 Niagara white grape and ihe Concord t?' gripe bring from 80 to 90 cents E! ' samo slMd carrier Prarhes contlnu. ,1 range nround 75 to 85 cents for a ni.w!' bushel basket melim VKomwni.KB ADUNOANT strrmHon. r.,r i . .Qim.h ecitplnnt r.tilim. Mr . , NonMAI Turnl... orsnse. ,,,,,. Urine hean cuitimtwrn ftnrllo Vrrni. f he-t lemons sweet potntnr. letlmi V.'"Y lima Iwnns cantaloupe Rrnpi s PPtfi, HCAIU'E Apple rofn, tomatoes r..i. pears, bananae, onions bMrkberrl'i 5if,rl'f. Delaware Men Leave for Camn WILMINGTON. Del Sept 19b whistles tooting and flags flylnc nil the city, nearly 500 Delaware men l.f. .'' day for C.imp Dlx. Wrlght-Uown v , Tho Wilmington contingent of 2jj. escorted to the rnllrond depot by i,v,,." platoon or police, Major and x,mn ,' : , A .?ll..l., .i Tl.. t. . " '"option cheeied luntlly At the depot they Z ' Joined by tho drafted men from down Situ 1 iii Copyright Hart Schaffner & Marx t HM B MHMl MMl W JJ4 prHH isJl
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