fcW- v mrtvtv T1 ' W -' " " f; EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1917 Tni7C ni?T MA MFC YJUUU um iimuuu ! ON NEW TllMi ! W-empt Town Meeting ! Party Name for Council men in Several Wards ?ioURT FIGHT IN PROSPECT i preparations Made to Try to jjave Independent Candidates Thrown Uti tne Jianor, t Th. Vare-Smlth forces today made prep L.tlons to tale Into court their efforts to throw OH ' - " - f.ilne nart candidates rvire ward and dlilslon leaders Invaded th. fountl Commissioners' office and there ..Arr the direction of Lee r.llmaker score Try to Representative William S Varc wlrin the names and addresses of signers i;,1' This .s taken to he n prelude to Mlble additional arrests on allegations ot faking and nlliiB of fnlso nomination !L.. i.ijinrtnt wnrkprs nlreadi are new the Lvare-SmltU police to Intimidate workers "A. thfl Town Meeting pirty. Those under : J . Tiif MAYO DISCUSSES WAR WITH WILSON Declares U-Boat Menace Has Been Removed by Aid of United States PLAN GERMAN SEA MOVE k Three Independent workers nlreadi finder arret in what the leaders of the irtv declared was o demonstration In for the Town Meeting pirty rrMl are , I1 Jsmes n Connor, .1 .Mercantile .ii'r.ii-s-r' clerk of "1P Twenty-second Ward Former Magistrate Frank I. IWu, it kT0tar of the Twenty-ninth Ward Charles Wharton of the Tucntj -sixth L Connor appeared oluntaril toda at the BCentral Station and with the two ntherr, Farrteted esteida was held In $1500 ball for a further hearing next Monday. All ire accued of Irregular signing of nom ination petition-" (VAKE MKN FILI1 NEW PARTY rAPKUS , In the Twenty-sixth Ward, It became "known todas the A are fortes hae filed (.papers nominating on the Town Meeting , ratty ticket the four Vnre candidates for I councils James 12 Lennon, Joseph P flnff -' jjjJ Frank B Stooklev and Oeorgc H J Kdiy This Is Congressman Vare's home J vard The Town Meeting party pre-emp-t-iors alio filed papers for the cindldates In. 1 dorsed by the Town Meeting party, but as t. Munter-moe the pre-emptors of the ln- dependent party In the ward signed both I papers f The same thing occurred In the Thirtieth " TTard where ( It Treasurer William Mc- 1 Coach Is the are leaner I The law ommlttee of the Town Meeting party In tho Foi ft -fourth Wnrd met at Liioon toda to discuss their procedure f Illustration of how beneficiaries of tho public payroll aie 'going the limit' to pro cure support for the Vaio-Smltli ticket was jtien esterdi In a letter sent out to eery f voter, In Dlieitm William H Wilson's dll- lion In the Torts -elgbth Ward. The letter is signed by H (i Tjson. holder of a $.'Soo job ns claim adjuster In .the Workmen s Compensation Board, of t which Harr Macke Is chairman P HEIli:S WILSON'S LETTER, A copy of the Icttei. icceled by William . Adam. 2436 hnuth Uainet street, follows t Deir Friend md N Ishbor We arc Mrrroaih Inu in elf 'Inn nhlih londltions hne mule Midi) A ilsstnrdlt Hit committed In a divi sion fchlrh l 'ni one In 13tit has Bhtn our epixmtnts an npiortunlt tu rrmki iolltlcnl p Itil and Inrluti In their crltklim the other U35 dUlJlons in which our V rt Is repre- f iftited If this rltklom were true and Jutl Std could "nv fiirmlmlrd man condemn till Innocent for thr mtlnn of one kuIIIx And we how and trust for the speed) adjustment of aflilrt, which will prove thnt this unfair and unjust comment hns been the maklnff of pn- t lltrcil capital out of an orrurrenre which should hive onl te-n looked upon with sorrow and In our dlviuli n iertnlnly one of the 131 In nocent we hnv for u nelshbor and friend Wil liam II Wllsnn Director of tho Department of Public Safet Mr, NIlKon tins lived his whole llfo in this tectlnn. where to earn mone to paj for his education he Flirted an .1 boy working In f store. His earlv edutatlon was In the public schools of this si 1 Hon and finished in the law I school ot the Inlversltv of IVnnKvlvantn. of i which he tit a graduate Ills reputntlon as a lawer needs no lomment, his lovaltv to his friends und neighbors has never lnen doubted and we Intimate neighbor of his own division I anould at thw time show our confidence and sppretntlon b otlng a straight ticket for the I farlyi with vhbh hi is nfflllated the Keptib ; llcanp;irt therebv showing by our votes for I the Kepubili an part our Indorsement as ntdgh f bors and friends of his to hold up bis hands and assist him to reai h out further In the I Interest of our se tlon Yours verv Hlncerelv, Jl u 1KU. ; The two arrests jestcrdiy came at the 1 ind of a dav marked by what was termed ; tilt) most surprising foray by tho police In the history of the city From man lectlona of Philadelphia Town Meeting I. tjartv workers rennrtpd iillpced nttemnts at intlmfdatlon Rau, a former Magistrate, termed his arrest; a deliberate "frame-up " This case, said Mr TUu, Is an abso lute frame-up and obviously a mera furtherance of the conbplracy between the .Police Department and a political faction to harass and attempt to In timidate the oters and workers who art. representing and striving for honest , rovernment In Philadelphia ' The charges were unsubstantiated In fact, there was n effort and really no Intent to offer any testimony other than that which Attorney Gray succeeded In Injecting Into tho case Tho service of the warrants at a time when It made It Impossible to have other than a night court hearing which of Itself required a postponement and a further hearing, was a palpable proof of tho insincerity of the whole proceeding designed temporarily to distract public attention from the hope lessness of the Vare-Smlth cause The leaders of tho Town Meeting party naturally expected from such sources trand stand nlavs and irallerv tactics: but a their only lesult can be to strengthen pub)lc conviction of the desperation with htch the faction identified with the Fifth Ward atrocity Is attempting to rreak its vengeance In the Third Ward the new Town Meet Irg : men were followed relentlessly, ques Hotted regarding their actions und urged to Blve up their allegiance to the new Party. VATIE MAN SWHARS TO WARRANTS Walter (" TlmidltM, Vnrn xanrtlilllta for S Comtnon Council In' the Twenty-second wan&was the man who swore out the war Nnti. Magistr.ito Carson went to City Hall hn ie learned of the arrests and released the men In OOn V.jll n .. fi,tli,. Iipnrlnr C la the night court At that hearing they 1 wer arraigned before Magistrate Pennock mi vjere held In $1600 ball each for a "r)ng Monday next William A Cray, an attorney, who held J conference yesterday afternoon with offl Ciala of the Denartment nf I'nhllc. Kafetv. ft Jjprtaented Row ditch and tho Republican -y committee The three men are ac cused of the offense in the fact. It was said, "t Wharton filed the papers before Rau, the notary Cnnors, It was understood, a Included because of his olflclal position tjhe ward committee. The papers In QUeitlon. It was hnlil wer thnnA nt pounell- tnanlo candidates In the Twenty-second Ward. tk ie adllefents declared last night that , ''snatures to the papers were bogus ancruiat false affidavits had been filed fcfforta to trace the responsibility of the. ir. activity of the police on behalf of " Vare-Smlth machine were frustrated ei la' y ror tlle simple reason that olrlclaU 'tLJn Dntctlve Bureau and the Bureau of ' anifted the blame, or, In other words Tsed th buck " hu? Detective Lieutenant Wood, who 1V1. d the detectives assigned the duty S,iSlw,nS Tcn Meeting workers, de ''"ti he had merely obeyed orders. DETECTIVES VERY nUSY lUhdredM nf nnmnlolnln .... wsmaU.a jTMfday at headquarters of the Town ff"' Prty Qeorga D. Porter. ex-Dlrec- jj Pbllo Bafety, was an early morning: EDWARD W BOK The executive committee of the Pennsylvania war work council of the Younp; Men's Christian Asso ciation has chosen him its chairman. demanded to know whether or not bo had appeared before a notai y when be attached his signature to Town Meeting partv pipers Mr Porter asserted that he conversed with tho dctettlve from his bedroom window, but refused to give Infoimatlon Later In the dav a defttlvu invaded the headquarters of the Town Meeting p.trtj 11 1 1627 Chestnut street, for the purpose of Interrogating Wanen V Homo, publicity maager The detettlve requested Do.me to sign .1 paper and when be refused to do so the deteitlve wiote iuiosm the paper, "Re fused to nnsvv er ' In rcplj to the 1 barges hat tho police have been thrown link Into politics In a desperate effort to aid the Varo machine, Director Wilson, of the Department of Pub lic Safetv, issued a statement In which he vlrtuallv charged that fraud had been per petiated In the filing of nomination pipers for the Town Meeting pirtv candidates Ho declared It the tlutv of the police to In vestigate sulIi crime Ills statement fol low r rt'hen a mere cursorv examination shows that nominating petitions, required by law ,o be signed bv Individual qualified voters, contain vast numlura of signatures In tho sime handwriting and thousands of ain davits to thcs petitions, which the law re quires shall be made by the affiants ap pealing personv.lv before 1 not.it y public, arc taken In n short space of time before tho t-nme notarj. It becomes npparent that names have been forged and affidavits taken In violation of existing law Such being the case. It Is tin duty of tho bureiu of police to make a most rigid investigation for the purpose of fixing tho guilt "Such an Investlgitlon Is not an Injec tion of police Into politics, but the pel formance of an ollii lal dut which the law casts upon the bureau of police Such an Investigation Is now being mado and will continue until tho last vestige of Informa tion Is obtained " Members of tin Portv -sixth Waid Town Meeting iart will begin a sctles of street meetings In the Interest of good govern ment tomorrow night l'lvp meotlngs will be held slmultaneousiv In different seitmns of the ward at Klftv -second and Chestnut streits, Sixtieth and Chestnut streets, I'lftj sixth nnd Spruce streets. Sixtieth and Cjjtharlne streets, and Fifty-second street and Ualtlmore avenue WASHI.VOTO.N. Oct 19 . The present naval situation In the Euro pean war zne was laid directly before President Wilson In minute detail today by Admiral Mayo, commander of the Atlantic fleet Admiral Mayo, who has Just returned from an Important series of conferences with Allied naval commanders at London, was nccompinled to the White House by Secretary nf tho N'avy Daniels Tho President, was told the exact dispo sition of the American sea lighters In the I hoat zone and of the pfjigrcss that has been made against the Kaisers underwater raft Admiral Mnvos report on tho sub marine situation was even more encouraging than those previously given the President hv Sepretarv Daniels and other naval of ficials The mennce of the submarine virtually has been eliminated through tho co-opera-tlnn of the American del-trover fleet with those of the Allies. Admiral Mao s under stood to have told President Wilson. A ven comprehensive plan for future naval activities igalnst the Kaisers fleets, which was woiked nut at the London con ferences, was revealed to the President by the lommander of the Atlantic fleet The details of the plan. necesirllv. are con 1 paled but the expected operations will be nf unprecedented magnitude und of extreme daring following his conference with the high naval niriclals. President Wilson received the members of the new Japanese Com mercial Mission which has come to the 1'nlled Slates to make n studv nf Amerl- an rillwav development and Industrial life The Japanese Indusl1l.1l experts were pre--rnted to the President b Ambassador Sato. TWO KILLED AS CAR PLUNGES OVER BANK Third Occupant of Racing Car in Accident at Danville Prob ably Mortally Injured DA.VVILLK, Pa, Oct 19. Thomas nyan, State lire marstnl, nnd Harry Swnnk, hoth of Danville, were killed, and Harry Cromwell of Danville, was probably mortally wounded when Crom well's racing automobile went over nn em bankment early today Cromwell Is In the (leorge V C.rclslnger Memorial Hospital in a critical condition The men had been to Sunhury and were returning when tho high-powered car plunged over tho steep embankment 'and catapulted down on the Del vw are, Lacka wanna nnd Western Rallrond traiks Ryan was dead and Swank nnd Cromwell un conscious when other cars found them All nio ptomlnent hero and were unmairled. HARDWARE MEN FAVOR WAR LABOR ADJUSTMENT Adopt Resolution Urging Imme diate Creation of Special Federal Board ELECT C. W. ASBURY HEAD pect of an ample supply of copper for every war requirement, but that the do mestlo supply of steel and Iron will be cut to 40 per cent of normal because of the overwhelming demands of the Government for ship construction He expressed the belief also that the second draft for troops will not call for more than three-quarters or a million men He questioned whether these men would see the other side of the Atlantic before the winter of 191J C. W. Asbury, of Philadelphia. M elected president of tho hardware menu, facturers, succeeding Fayetta R. Plumb, of Philadelphia C Vf, Knapp, of Sioux City, succeeds himself as president of tho National Hardware Association, th job bers' organization. T. James Fernley, of Philadelphia, was re-elected secretary treasurer of tho Jobbers' body for hit twsn-. ty-thlrd successive term. Frederick W Mitchell, of New York, was re-elected eetx retary-treasurer for the manufacturers. AGED CLERGYMAN DIES Nntive Philadelphian Passes at West Chester at Ago of 81 WLST CHHSTHR, Pa. Oct 19 The Rev George I Shaffer died at the home of a son-in-law, Chevnev .1 Davis at Lndcll last night He would have been SI jears old on the 19th of November Por some months ho bad been In poor health, but wos bedfast onlv since Sundav last Ho was born In Philadelphia and ns a Methodist L'plscnpal minister had occupied pulpits In nunieroup places He was sta tioned nt Grove In West Whltclnnd this cunty. fourteen ears ago. that being his last charge It was there that his wife tlyd and following that occurrence he re tired He had provlouslv charges at New London, this county, Newtown, Rucks Cotintv: Parryville, Carbon County, Dethel Jarrettown Montgomery Countv , South Haston. Covenant Church, Reading Front street Philadelphia and Fernwood, Dela ware County Hurl When Car Mils ErclRht Train James Mltihcll, thirty-eight ears old, of 112 Rlavls street Is In the Cooper Hos pital as the result of an nutomoblle smash up at Mozart Crossing near Camden, early today Mitchell's car, according to the police, crashed Into a (.rinding freight train It was badly damaged Mitchell was cut nnd bruised but will recover Crushed Leg Costs I II. It. $2202 ALTOOVA, P.i , nit 11 State Hoard of Conipciihatlnn membeiH. comprising Chair man Ilutrv A Mnil.ev, James ' Leech and John A Siott nut vistird.iv foi the first time nnd considered seven 1 ises The petition of Howard Hall of Jimlit.i, against the Pennsvlvnnlt Itailioad for tommiitatlon of compensation w.is granted Hall had his leg 1 lushed In a shop lie had recelvrd $700 nnd will git $1 '0J the balance due, to lnst In some property REFORMED SYNOD PATRIOTIC Adjourns A'fter Passing Resolutions Warmly Supporting Government 1 LANCASTER, Pa. Oct 19 Tho East ern Svnod of tho Reformed Chuich ad journed after passing resolutions breath ing the most patriotic devotion to their nation, and calling upon ever body con nected with their church to tally to the nation's support It Is vvorthv of note that tho resolutions were the woik of .1 native of Germain tho Rev Dr Theo doio r Herman, of the faculty of the Lancaster ltefotmed Theological Scmlnarv The churches were urged to greater activ ity in securing women for deaconesses woik Wllkes-Rane was chosen for next ear's plate of meeting siu;i;t mi sic of THE GRASS WIDOW FOR su.i: 111 VIEYMANN PIANOS MCTItOLAS l. !.llTIII0 MISICAI. 1108 Chestnut St. WHO WROTE "CHRISTINE"? The publishers have been attacked because they do not know whether Mrs. Cholmondcley's remarkable book is fact or fiction. Is CHRISTINE Fact or Fiction? Many readers have openly ex pressed their opinions of Christine few have denied it to be one of the most truthful books evoked by the great war. 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