Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, October 09, 1917, Final, Page 5, Image 5

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ILUONSPOURIN
FOR LIBERTY LOAN
provident Life and Fourth
National, of Philadelphia,
Bach Scores Six Figures
lCRANTON BANK, ALSO
pay'a Total Approaches $10,-
1 000,000 Pennsylvania Railroad
Employes After a Itecord
,.., the bis subscriptions t the Lib-
Nrlr
Mfe anil Trust Com
Totlaem
r i m.lUilelnhl .........
11,000,000
'Jv.i.Mi n.nk of rhiu.
jfrtrth "' "";"" ,.000.000
i -?it ! V.llVn'iiVilsnk of Seranton. 1.000.000
' S,':i ,lJ 1'ont Company 500.000
'"", ...t,.1 Company oa.uuu
?... r Till. ln.urn.ee. Tro.t
"'".""jt ., .It Omnany.
200,000
'.UlKelLneou. -nbieMPiion. "am
na .- u..lnMnn from
K gfrnloo '.i"if. n-
Br".crnn.nyoMVnUa'm.por.
200,000
100,000
50,000
50,000
r.tlon.i Hank of Chester County.
I nt Chester
Dnntan, Hood Company ........
Liberty Loan eubscrlptlonB poured In to.
7rrocnt0Ltfo and Trust Company.
r Philadelphia, camo across with a million.
Fourth National Bank of Philadelphia
Si! ha" a million dollars' worth of bonds
?J Credit Tho Third National Bank of
Keranton did ditto, and other subscriptions
from Parlous sources In Scranten amounted
to JBOO.000
Five bundled thousand was the amount
the Ircnce du Pwtt Company subscribed to.
n-he Northern Trut Company signed up for
Ml 000. having previously taken 260,000.
The integrity Title Insurance. Trust and
Safe Dcpos-lt Company, of Philadelphia,
asked for'liOO.OOO worth.
In all the day's subscriptions ran close
behind tho $10,000,000 record established
on another day.
The Pennsyhanla Railroad Jumped Into
the trench of tbo second Loan offensUo to
day when 200 ofllcors met at tho Y. M. C. A,
and dlhcusiecfplans for conducting tho field
work of taking the subscriptions.
President Samuel Ilea urged the fulj co
operation on te pnrt of all of the em
pires, and pledged tho support of tho man
agement, Other addressee were made by Vice Pres
idents Henry Tatnall, W. II. Myers and A.
J. County, also by Captain John P. Green,
retired lce president; James V. Fahne
stock, treasurer, and It It. O'Donnel, as
sistant general manager. J. C. Johnson,
superintendent of telegraph, presided.
Approximately sixty-live committees will
be organized to coer all portions of tho
railroad "and upward of 1000 men will,
In the next day or two, bo enlisted In the
work of personal solicitation. It Is part
of the plan to make a personal und ln
dnldual appeal, within a week at the
latest, to each of tho 160,000 employes on
the lines east, urging overy one to be
come the purchaser of at least one bond
of the second Liberty Loan.
A lUcly drIo to break the record set by
subscriptions to the first loan, when 63,160
emiilojes of the Pennsylvania lines east of
Pittsburgh and Erie subscribed to bonds
Rorth $3,140,600, has been promised
To make It posslblo for oery employe to
become a bond owner, tho company has
.arranged to undertake tho financing of the
tubscrlptloni Bonds from $50 to $1000
may bo purchased on 10 per cent monthly
Installments, and all agents of the com
pany hao been authorized to rccelvo ap
plications and to nccept the pajments
Proof that the small bank depositor has
enlisted In tho Liberty Loan army was fur
nished today, when smaller subscriptions
from banks started cftmlng in Tho Susque
hanna Trust and Safe Deposit Company,
of Willlamsport, subscribed for $200,000;
the Miners' National Bank of Pottsvllle for
$100,000, and the National Bank of Chester
County, at West Chester, for $60,000 Dun
gan. Hood & Co., of Philadelphia, also put
themseles down for $50,000.
"FOUR MINUTE MEN" BUSY
More than $5000,000 was realized for the
loan In this district yesterday. Boy Scouts
hae agreed to help the Philadelphia school
boys who are soliciting subscriptions.
One of the latest features of tho cam
paign will be the "Four-Minute Men" who
will delher short addresses between the
acts In arIous theatres urging patriots to
lnest In tho bonds.
The Philadelphia Savings Fund, Seventh
and Walnut streets, and tho Western Sav
ings Tund, Tenth and Walnut streets, re
port large numbers of small subscriptions.
During the first week of tho campaign
817 hubtcrlptlons, totaling $138,400, , were
wade at the Philadelphia Savings Fund
The executives of this Institution announce
that bank accounts may be opened there
forthe purpose of buying Liberty Bonds.
This means that an-nccount may he opened
with $1, and continued until the sufficient
amount has been deposited t;o buy a bond.
At that time the account may be closed or
continued, as the depositor Bees fit
J The following statement regarding the
worn done by the Boy Scouts In the. cam
paign was made yesterday by Scout Ex
ecutive George I Bodtne, chairman of the
Boy Scout Committee:
Philadelphia schoolboys have been
asked to bell bonds, and while as good
iU'? W0..,mu'Lt do everything to co
operate with the great national Scout
campaign, we will do--nothing to Inter
fere with tho school campaign here.
.m war fcervice emblem ruling by the
national Boy Scout office Issued to Scout
jnasters five days after the opening of
ine Liberty Loan campaign may or may
?LCS0 deIay and worl a hardship to
schoolboys who are Scouts.
..vhM.L.lberty,LSan Committee did not
JS5 us ,l? worIc for wnr emblems. We
ft iinci' oTK. lor,? Breaier thing for the
If .2J!Sd States Government. Therefore,
Thn I. u.rsea io Keep right on Belling,
ine one colossal Job of every man.
W,,man.d..chlld todav l3 t0 ""I bonds.'
llni IS".1.0 "mash the Hlndenburg
aShi.?." Petty,, matters can easily be
aajusted after the victory,
Yesterday w.as the openlpg date of a cam.
PIgn conducted by the Four-Minute, Men, a
irroup of patrlotio speakers. .These men
hv given their time to tho Government by
waking short speeches betweeh the acts In
Hie theatres, urging the necessity of buying
bonds upon the audiences.
John Lucas & Co.. a paint firm, which has
5pei materially In the upbuilding of the
Made in Philadelphia" campaign, has
i jk an aDDCa to Its employes to sub
scribe to the new loan, offering to finance
subscriptions made on the partial-payment
it u .ABtatement of the war alms of the
united states prefaces the explanation of
the financial side of the Government's
?L, uan1 " ,s urBed that the percentage
"subscriptions equal that of other lndus-
ATTACKED BY U-BOAT
WHILE .BURYING CORPSE
Torpedo Barely Misses British Steam-1
ship .Tintoretta Patrolboat
Scares Submarine Off
t by? ATLANTIC POIIT. Oct. (.-Attacked
com.. G'rman submarine while burying a
torett alK?e?Vlne Brltl8h steamship Tln
wrVnt' Whlch has Just nrrlved here, had a
ilht. fJcap'- When tno submarine was
'"'',h! man uklnfT Part in the burial
mu ov troPded both th0 corps9 and th8
th vJilt0?.1 flr5d a t0-Pdo. -which missed
Bthtn ?' by .a?ut e,nt 'Mt- The ship
srlS. 1" .fuU ,ll, and. during the
?a r rt . tn8 malnder or the day, I?
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0RDEH OF SPARTA ,
ADMITS LARGE DEBTS
Statement in Court Shows Lia
bilities of $163,132.39 and -Assets
of $81,256.78
A statement, showing that the Order of
Sparta, an unincorporated fraternal and
beneficial society, with hundreds of mem
bers, owes $162,132.39 In death benefits,
to meet which It has liabilities of .only
$81,256.78, Is contained In bankruptcy sched
ules filed by John L. Smith, great treasurer
of the order, In tho United States District
Court today.
The Order of Sparta has run the gamut
of court proceedings, culminating In a,
bankruptcy petition being filed against It
by threo widows, beneficiaries of death
boncfit policies, on No ember 23, 1916.
On tho question of Its solvency, tho order
was carried through tho State courts, with
tho Supremo Court deciding that from tho
evidence It had financial stability. It like
wise ran the course In the Federal courts,
up to the Court of Appeals, but tho claims
of creditors, together with the admission
of tho Order that It Is unabte Jo' meet
Its debts, resulted In the financial condition
being set forth today In tho usual schedules.
AlmOBt the entlro Indebtedness Is com
prised In the unsecured claims of bene
ficiaries of death policies. While tho
schedules show tho present condition of the
order, they also contain tho names of
hundreds of living members of tho organi
zation, who have contributed to tho various
funds to obtain benefits, with the statement
that the amounts of their claims are un
known. Benefits would not accrue to tho
bcnaclarlcs, obviously, until tho death of
Iho Insured, and seemingly this Is the
explanation for tho Inability of tho treas
urer to state tho amount of tho claims
of th,o living members.
Other members of tho order endeavored
to hao the bankruptcy proceedings .dis
missed, but failed both In the District Court
and Court of Appeals
In an answer to the petition in bank
ruptcy tho order admitted Its insolvency,
ana aiinuuieu lia emuiniieamciiv ,.
warranted attacks" that had been made
upon It In court proceedings
The assets of the organization consist
of deposits In banks and elsewhere. $72,
877.79: propef-ty In reversion, trust, etc,
$6356.68, and unliquidated claims, $3007 11
CALLAHAN'S ACTIVITY
STIRS COPS' MEETING
Captain's Efforts to Switch Votes to
Gilbert Resented by
Delegates
Delegates assembled In City Hall this
afternoon to elect new officers for the Po
licemen's Beneficiary Association bitterly
resented the activities of Captain Francis
Callahan, of the office of Superintendent of
Pollco Robinson, who asked them to disre
gard their instructions and te for Walter
Gilbert, chief clerk of the Bureau of Police,
as secretary against tho Incumbent, Richard
Bodkin, Manayunk patrol sergeant, who
seeks re-election
Tho Bodkin delegates professed to see
the hand of the now discredited police ad
ministration behind tho activities of Calla
han, who was passing out slips with tho
name of Gilbert on them. Tho Bodkin men
said Callahan did not come as a representa
tive of tho men of tho Superintendents
office, but as representative of the police
administration. Their suspicions were
strengthened by Gilbert's declaration that
ho would serve for $500 a year If elected.
Instead of taking tho regular salary of
$1400.
A year ago Bodkin beat Gilbert for the
place, despite tho fact that Callahan worked
hard for Gilbert.
Thero were many he.itcd arguments be
fore tho voting today. Many delegates
frankly told Callahan that his efforts were
usoless: that they were going to follow
their Instructions; that his position as a
captain would not enable him to move them
to disregard their Instructions.
BETTER PAY FOR PUBLIC
SCHOOL TEACHERS URGED
Dr. George F. Wheeler Says Increase
Is Necessary to Retain Good
Instructors
The necessity of Increasing teachers'
apiaries if cood teachers are to be retained
Lwas again called to the attention of the
committee on Higher ana elementary pcnoois
of tho Board of Kducatlon when it met In
the Board of Education Building, Nine
teenth street above Chestnut, today, by Dr
George P. Wheeler. Ho bald many teachers
were quitting because they were being of
fered more money In educational Institu
tions elsewhere
It was reported that two sets of boys will
bo sent to Adams County to ravo tho apple
crop, which is rotting on the ground Tho
boys had been requested by Franklin Spencer
Edmonds, of tho school mobilization com
mittee Forty-elgfit boys will bo sent from
West Philadelphia High School and forty
eight from Northeast High School. They
will camp and pick apples for two weeks
and will receive $2 a day. The first group
will leave tomorrow, tho second two weeks
later.
Tho appointment of Dr. Frank C. Ncely as
professor of astronomy In the West Phila
delphia High School for Boys to succeed
Dr. George Snyder, resigned, was approved.
COMMITTEE TO TACKLE .
CHILD LABOR PROBLEM
Chairman of Industrial Board Names
Doctor Garber and Two
Others
Tho French and English system for
women who enter Industry waB advocated
by Dr. S. Hammll at a meeting today of
the Industrial Board of tho Department of
Labor and Industry In the North American
Building. In those countries a woman
must pass a physical examination before
being permitted to work, and good working
conditions must be provided by the em
nloycr Other speakers were John Price Jack
son". Commissioner of Labor and Industry:
Dr. John P Garber. city superintendent of
schools, and Associate Superintendents Nuss
baum nnd Cornman and Henry J. Gideon,
chief of the Bureau of Compulsory Lduca-
llnn
Dr. A. L. Garber. chairman of the In
dustrial Board, presided, and appointed the
following committee to assist Doctor Ham
mil In establishing a solution of the In
tricate child labor situation in this State:
Mrs. Samuel Semple, Dr. J. P. Garber and
Mr. William Young.
IMBER'S,AUTO INJURES BOY
yoman Witness Declares High Speed
Responsible
Six-year-old Howard Daley, of 615 Gray's
Ferry avenue, la in the Polyclinic Hospital
suffering from a fractured skull, the result
of kelng run down by Magistrate Harry Im
beds automobile on South street between
Twenty-first and" Twenty-second streets.
Mrs. Mary Stephens, of 608 Gray's Ferry
avenue, declared Magistrate Imber's high
speed wa$ the cause of the accident He,
however, denied he was going faBter than
the legal rate of twelve miles an hour.
Firtt Football Fatalfty
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct 9. -George A.
niwtt. twenty years old, of Los Angeles,
a frwhrnin at the University of California,
died yesterday of Injuries received In a
fortbaH "? Saturday. Blewetfs death
i the first .that has occurred since Amer
?an football was revived at the University
-EVENING j;EI)0ERimiJAI)ELPmA, TUESD, OCXOBEK 9, 1917
TO RUN DOWN ALL
.DRAFT DODGERS
Relentless Search Instituted
by U. S. Authorities for-
Evaders of Duty
MEXICAN IS HELD HERE
The search by Federal authorities for
draft evaders will be relentless, according
to an announcement made today. It was
said that tho Government will bend every
effort to run down each man who evaded
the law, regardless of time or expense.
Mnrcus Salvan, a Mxlcan, today was ar
raigned by Todd Daniel, special agent of
the Department of Justice, for not ap
pearing for examination before his local
board. When nrralgned before United
States Commissioner Howard M. Long,
Salvan said ho thought his Btatus as an
alien excused him from complying with
the law. Mr. Daniel testified that tho
prisoner was duly notified to register. Ho
was held In $100 ball,
Out of a population of ISO, the little town
of McKlnley, along the Old York road, lays
claim to having the largest percentage of
her Inhabitants for military duty. The
number of men wearing the uniform from
that borough Is thirty-one. There were
ninety young men In all who were within
tho ago limit set by the draft Of these
about forty more expect to bo called In the
near future.
On the charge of having failed to register,
William K. Edclman, of tho banking and
brokerage firm of Edclman & Co, had a
hearing beforo United States Commissioner
Long. Edelinan, basing his belief on several
Insuranco policies, claimed he believed his
ago to be thirty-twd.
Officials of tho Department of Justice
found the record of Edolman's baptism In
St Aloyslus's Church, Pottstown, which
gave his dato of birth as 188D, making him
twenty-eight years old Edclman admitted
the authenticity of this record and said
the whole affair was an honest mistake.
He was released on his own recognizance for
a further hearing on Friday
NORSE SHIP TORPEDOED;
TRIED TO DODGE U-BOAT
Third Effort to Evade Rotterdam Block
ade Results in
Sinking
AN' ATLANTIC POUT, Oct. 0. Ger
many Is maintaining a strltt blockade
against all outgoing steamships from Rot
terdam by U-boats and heaplanes, mem
ber of the crew of the Norwegian steam
ship Thomas Krag, a Belgian relief ship
sunk by torpedo, declared on their arrival
here today from England '
Tho Krag sailed from Port Arthur, Tex ,
and delivered her cargo without difficulty
at Rotterdam AVhen she came to sail she
mado threo nttempts to get bejond tho
German cordon Onco her steering gear
was shot away by a U-boat's shell-lire;
again a German plane dropped bombs near
her, and the third time bhe was torpedoed.
J. J. Sullivan, of vBoston, one of the
survivors, said after tho torpedo's explo
sion started the Krag began to settle and
boats wero being lowered tho U-boat
camo close and opened shcll-fiie on them
Ono boat was knocked from the davits and
fell eighteen feet to the water, killing one
of tho men Four were wounded. One
man was killed In the torpedo explosion.
The twenty-six survivors werp picked up
by a British trawler after being afloat
flp hours
Survivors of tho Norwegian steamship
Majorln wero on tho same boat as tho
Krag's crew Their vessel, which sailed
from Philadelphia for Glasgow, August
20, was sunk by shell-firo of a German
submarine oft Tory Island, Irish coast.
When the German commander was asked
In English to tell the survivors their posi
tion ho Ignored them, but when tho ques
tion was repeated In German ho carefully
gave tho exact latitude and longitude.
Tho submarine fired fifty shells.
PEACHES AT $1.50 TO $2
PER BUSHEL WHOLESALE
Market Plentifully Supplied as Canning
Season Draws to a
Closo
Peaches are now selling from $1 50 to $2
for n bushel basket wholesale, and are
cheap and plentiful, according to the dally
food report by J. Russell Smith, chairman
of tho Food Commission of tho Philadelphia
Home Defenso Committee. These como from
New York State and aro tho white free
stone Elberta variety, finely flavored, and
nil good sizes This will probably bo the
last opportunity to put up peaches for win
ter use
Capo May goodies are a good "buy" at
present prices They are selling wholc
salo nt 4 cents to 5 cents a pound. Snap
blues and round trout are selling at 7 cents
to 8 cents a pound, and whiting at 8 cents
to 9 cents. This gives plenty of cheap fish
to choose from.
AntJMNT reaches. cbbEe, squash,
beMB, parsley, carrots and lettuce.
NOHMAI Lemons, cranberries, apples, or
anges, cucumbers, cantaloupes, auerar torn pep.
pers, onions, pumpkin", potatoes, radishes,
spinach, garlic, eggplant, turnips and sweet po
tatoes NUAKCE Tomatoes, celery, string beans.
Hm beans, grapes, plums, pineapples, pears
and bananas
Wholesale fish prices follow:
Pressed weaknsh (medium) 10c to lie
Dressed vreakflsh (large) ja0 to 14c
Round trout .. 7C to 8o
Croakers (medium) 8c to Do
Croakers (large) 0o to lo
Porgles Itkj to lTo
Sett bass ,,, no to "c
Ilutternsh (medium) fio to Ho
Ilutterflsh (large) Mo to llu
Halibut 3(lc to 3.',o
hteak cod lie to K'o
E'V,k? 18c to lr.o
Pollock . Ida to Ho
pound mackerel ib0 to 17c
Haks (targe) loo to Ho
Hake (medium) 8c to no
"luensh 30o to 35c
Dressed eels -,c to H.c
Dressed salmon ;ic to iVo
Dressed catfish (white) '. ... 17c to lso
Dressed catfish (red) , lite to lo
Haddock . .. , io0 to Ho
ltonlto mackerel (large) .., 17c to lRc
Ilonlto mackerel (small) 14a to iro
ISflund 1 12c to Me
Whiting Nc to He
taka clscqes lie to l"io
Hotline rockdsh (large) ;sc to 30c
Rocknsh (medium) Vic. to l"So
Kockflsh (small) 18c to 17c
Pan rockfish ?0o to 21a
Flounders .. 10o to ll!o
Cape May goodies 4o to Kc
Snap blues . 7c to So
Americans in Casualty List
OTTAWA, Ont., Oct 9 The latest Cana
dian casualty list Includes the following:
Wounded, Sergeant F F Manley, Carbon
dale, Pa. ; gassed, C Barden, Sterling, Wyo.,
and J. Godman, Chicago.
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