3 . Wi r v I I $ -f f i,f. Ail , v iaientna public meager t f ' THE iPkATHkR MIGHT EXTRA. CLOSING STOCK PRICES Washington, Match 13. Cloudy, tilth -J.H,tr probably rain or snow tonight. TKllfEBATllllR AT KACII HOCK V 53i . i W r, . ''Ml I a 1 10 lii 12 I 11 a I 3 i 4 T1 a 44 H 1 8C C8 161 01 162 I i-n -4 . jj' TJIV1 VOL. V. NO. 154 Published Dully KiffDt Rundas HuWrlnllon Prlee ill a Year by Mall. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1919 llntercd 8econd-CI Mntlr nt lh pnslofnrr, at Philadelphia, l , Under tho AC of March H 1H7 PRICE TWO CENTS'" 2 L'npirlghl, lnlo, by Public linger Coinpn. lifc U" i'A IP B& Bi. t ij ii; t, , ?'. M:E. CONFERENCE FAVORS MODIFIED NATIONS LEAGUE Calls Bolshevist Movement , Nothing hut Camouflaged ' Prussianism BACK REVISED CHARTER Praise President and Urge Prayers to Strengthen Him at Peace Table Afternoon Program for; M. E. Conference 2 p. m. Annlversaiv of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 4 p. m. Pentecostal sen Ice, tho Rev. Dr. Charles M. Bosnell In charge. 6 p. m. Annual dinner of tho Educational Society. Methodist ministers committed them selves to tho league of nations, but not In the form presented y President Wll "non, at the second day's session of theli annual conference held In the bprlng . Garden Church today. . They predicted the failure of Bolshe vism In the United States, urged a new . charter for TPhllndelphla and asked that returning soldiers be rrovldedivvltli Jobs They indorsed tho Young Men's Chris tian Association in a resolution express ing confidence In its overseas work and gratitude for what it had accomplished during the war. The expected debate ocr the report of the commission on social service on the league of nations provision did not materialize. Only one amendment wns offered. It was designed to malto the provision "noncommittal" to the cove nant as it now stands This was ac cepted by tho commission and the re port was adopted unanimously "Tho league of nations, vvhlchln some form Is to solve the problems, Is the breaking dovvv of tho middle wall of par ' tltlon and is paving- the way for the vision of Jesus to como true In the establishing of the Kingdom of Clod on earth," the report" says. "We commend the spirit and purpose of President Wil3on nt the pence table of the world and call upon our people to strengthen him with their prajers" raator Aska Amendment When the report was moved foi adop tloh,vthe Rev. Dr. C. lldgar Adamson, of the Slmpton Memorial Church, Sixty first and Jefferson streets, asked that the phrase "which in some form Is to solve the problem" be Inserted Tho amendment was adopted, and the (e port passed. In part, the report savs: "Bolshevism Is a new and, Insidjaus doctrlnefof btov eminent, anarchistic-In spirit and method, that would overturn the experience of the race and, so far as our own loved country is roncerned, make useless the tolls and snuggles of all our fathers In church and state. We find It to be only n 'c motion fed ' Fruitlanlain, maintaining Itself by mili tary methods, ami foranklng lt inucli prorlalraeil democratic principles. "It Is clearly a class movement based on materialistic conception of life. It has not fulfilled its guttering promises and industrial Russia Is (hiding Itself without bread and with a decreasing In dustrial efficiency and a lessening pro duction. "We predict the failure of every so cial program unrelated to a spirit dy namic in Christ. We shall have really lost the war if the spirit of solidarity and service it developed is supplanted In an era of peace and reconstruction b the ancient and dishonorable spirit of self-interest." Commends Interchurch It ork The report then commends the re ligious work done by the Interchurch Federation at Hog Island and la'uds its ' work against commercialized vice in Philadelphia. "We commend a careful study of tho new city charter and recommend the merits thereof be presented to the pub lic by our ministry as being courseu un biased and free from the spirit of spoils and exploitation," the report continues "We, commend t'e proposed legislation to increase the salaries of our public hchool teachers and call upon our min isters and people to use every honor able means to secure its enactment." The report calls upon the people to "assume their full share of responsi bility In helping our returning soldiers and sailors to obtain positions " The Rev. J. O. Dlckerton Is chairman of the commission. The report was read by the Rev. F. M. Thorrpson. Tin, Rev. Dr, Chailes Jr. Rosnell pre sented the report of the Methodist Kplscopal Hospital, which showed that the total Income of the Institution from various sources last year was .'07,105 and that G:.8d: had been added to the endowment fund. The Rev. George H. Lorah. of Oreen Street Church, and Edward J. LafTVrly, Continued on I'ngo Nlileen, t'olunjn One OLD WOUND CAUSES DEATH Patrolman Walter Gideon Shot by Fugutive 10 Years Ago A wound which he received ten ears ,ago, today caused the death of Walter Gideon, a patrolman, at his home, 1819 Js'orth. Twentieth street. In 1909, when attached to the police station at Twentieth and Berks streets, Gideon, with Pntrolmnn Brown, pursued two thieves, James Wilson and George Hlgf Ins Into a blind alley, Hlgglns shot Gideon Just above the heart and escaped. Several yeais later Hlgglns was shot bv a Baltimore policeman, and on his death bed asked that Gideon bo btought to him so that he might ask for forgive ness. Gideon made the trip to Balti more to forgive the man who had shot Gideon wan single, His father, George Gideon,. was a former superintendent of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com. rny. SPEAlvING OF THE WEATHER (Jlaudv with probaNv rain or mow, a t'd you been to tho auto thowt) Qplder tonight too cold, ov far. fjITieii do vou, think you'll oon a cart) A - w-yrt j 5, MISS MAKOARET I.VTHROP LAW Who sailed for France to join the Y. M. C. A. forces at road. She is a graduate of W'Ues'-jj aid vas taking n spe-U) rfluve it tne Uni versity of J'cnntvl'Oiiia when -the United Slates euirrfd llie vtr. She immediately entered 'he School of Horticulture end fUtrd lirraelf as a trainer in the Woirni''s Lund Ami). Miss law is a daught.tr of William A. Law, Unk!.-, 5119. Greene hfeet OarnuTJfvwn COLONEL HOUSE TO MEET WILSON AT FRENCH PORT Hrest Gayly Decorated With Al lied Flags for Arrival of President Tonight Ureal, l'rnnce, Maich :i (U A. V ) Colonel n. M. House and Jules .1. Jus sernnd, Trench Ambassador to the United States, with Madame Jusscrand, havo hi rived In Biest to greet Presi dent Wilson when he lands from tho Oeoige Washington. They were given a luncheon this noon by Georges I -gues, Minister of Marine. In prepaiatlon for the President's ar rival, Brest vvaH gajly decorated, all tho decorations having been put In place before midday. At 8.30 o'clock last night the George Washington was between 400 and G00 ml'es oc the French coast. J'rom the steamer President Wilson sent a wlre IeH3 messago stating that he expected to 'arrive heie sufflclentlv early to start for Paris Thursday evening. The French naval commander an nounced that It was most probable that there would be no cercmon, but that the (President would enter the tialn for Pails almost Immediately utter debaik Ing. It vvaa expected that the steamer would enter port at 8 p m. and tho train would Iav at 9:30 p. in. Four American detroers tho Yur.v nell. Tnrbcl!, Wilscj and le bave picked up the George Washington and are pcortlng her toward this port. SHORE SOLICITOR HOME TODAY Illness in Cincinnati Caused Wootton to Chcretay Vacation Atlantic City, N. J March 13. City Solicitor Harry Wootton today alla.ved fears of his friends for his safety with word that ho expected to be back lute this afternoon. Solicitor Wootton whed Maor Bach arach, In explana'Jon of his extended ab sence, that he had been taken IP in Cincinnati while on a business trip In the West. Solicitor Wootton was granted a two week vacation on February 1, and It wa- extended another fortnight by le quect. Wild rumors followed his fall uie to appear on March ljas no a word had been received by friends either as to his whereabouts or reason for not reporting at that time. Xo action will be taken by the city commission, as the commissioners are satisfied with his explanation In the matter. GALLOWAY TO QUIT BY REQUEST Civil Service Commissioner Will Resign and Tell Why He Docs So WashlngtonMarch 13 (By A V ) Charles M. Galloway, member of the Civil Servlco Commission, whose resig nation has been called for by President Wilson, announced today that ho would resign within a few das "At the proper time," he ndded, "I shall probably make a statement of the real reasons for the request for in resignation." The appointment of a successor to Mr. Galloway has been withheld at the White House pending receipt of his resignation! Successors were appointed yeBterday to the other two members of the commission, Hermon W, Ciaven, whose resignation also was requested, nnd John A. Mcllhenny, who leslgned several weeks ago. CARUSO'S TAX $153,933.70 Tenor Pays First Installment of $38,483.42 tit Collector's Ullicc ew York, March 13 (By A. P.) Enrico Caruso, the tenor, will pay an Income tax of J153.933.70 for 1918, It was revealed at the collector,' office In the Second New York District today, Caruso visited the office In person late jesterday and, taking advantage of the installment payment system, presented a cheel; for 838,483,4.', one-four.th of the total amount. , Permission to print the amount was given by Caruso, ifa the law does not permit the tax collector's office to vol untarily give out the Information, Three Killed us Trolley' Hits Auto llnnmidslKUU. X. Y March 18. (Bv A. !.) Three, persons were killed and four others were Injured when a Roches ter and Kastern car, southbound from Rochester, struck an automobile con taining seven persons at Johnson Cross ing, a fev mlleB north of this city, short ly before midnight, A iMss Fognrty, of Canandalgua, and Mr, Cartrlght, of Hhortsville, were killed, hut the body of another young woman has not been Identified, ; ".j?. . ,, i9 fta Woman Auto Thief Rejects Clemency; Is diven 12 Years i ,. . ... Florence Duke, After Passing of Sentence, Smiles and Says She Now Will Be Near Husband Who Is in Penitentiary l'loi ence Duke, flie pretty joung woman who has confessed the theft of twenty-lit e automobiles, today rejected an offer i clemency. Accordlnglv she was sentenced to not fewer than eleton ears and eight months and nut moce than tweltc jcars on four counts of automobile stealing. She will be committed to the liastein Penitentiary, whein Her husband, named Rnirlngton, already Is sorting a long term. When sentence was pronounced by Jpdge M,ouaghen, in Quarter Sessions Court today, Mrs. Barrlngton, hitherto known as "Mrs" Duke, bore the punish ment unflinching!. She was sentenced to not less than ivvo ears and eleven months, and not more than three jo.trs mi o.i,.h nfilio fni.rrnnnls. the sentences to iuii consecutively. As she was ielng taken from the 'O'littoom the joimg woman, with twclto cars of prison 1 le facing her. looked up at tho court uttendant and smiled. "Well, an how," she said, ' I can see my husband now." i learned Husband Was Crook s xhe refused clemency and went to the ponltentlar" todav to be near llai 'iugton the cling wife said sho turned lo a, life of crime after phe loirned that Harrington was among the mo3t noted . haracters of the underworld When she married him four ears ago I sho supposed him to be a salesman, us Harrington had irpresenten lilmseir to be Not until after the birth of ncr child did she learn that her hucband was a fugitive from tho police a man wanted In half a dozen cities for con fidence games of different torts Sho told the pollco that the shock of this completely changed her life. She came gradually to accept hei husband's sonhlstiles about the ' foollshnets of working hard when there Is plenty of easy money." Last October she was sent to the House of Correction for three months Meantime her husband had been con victed and sent to tie Hastein Pcnl tentlar.v. She determined she told Cap tain of Detectives houder. to steal cncAigh automobiles when she was re- FOOD-PRICE SCALE I TO CONTINUE HIGH May Never Resume Pre- War Status, Says Grocers' Convention Speaker . , . NO EARLY DOWN TREND "Present food pi Ices will continue at least a ear," said Kdttard Cumpson, president of the Xetv York State Whoft snltrvjrocers' Association, todav. He addressed the Trlstate Wholesale Grocers' Asportation convention nt the Bcllevue-Stratford "We nir ii(Vr get back toll pre-war status, and there are man) new pioblems which hate come up tecently," he went on. "While the future Is bright there wa nover a time whin we needed co opeiatlon more." That foodstuffs will be nmong the first necessities to be lowered In price was the opinion of Charles J. Clotker, of Philadelphia Ho said: "There will ultimately be a, steady downward trend In retail groceiy prices, but this cannot be expected very soon Pre-war rates ma not be reached fcr some time. "Food cannot he made the subject of profiteering," declared James Hewitt, of Philadelphia in 1 Is address ' That is one of the four points which the fed eral administration has shown to us Wo have also learned from them the value of stud Ing our stock, which Is almost an Indispensable to sensible dis tribution and the value of co-operation for better service . And lastly we havo learned to regulate our profits for the good of the community rather than' foi Individual gain. "The future of business lies In a com petition of service rather than of price, nnd co-operation will seen become tho watchword of the day." John Herndon, Jr, opened the morning session of describing the new tux ss tem to the members of the association, Ho Is connected tilth tre Guaranty Tins; Company, of Xew Vork, and offered his assistance In the making out of tax re ports at any time BREAKS HIS NECK TRIPPING ON RUG AT PARLORDOOR Aged Mother Sees George Blase Meet Death in Peculiar Acci dent at Home Geoige Blase, thlt ty-tljreo )eais old, 1143 Tioga street, was killed Instantly In the parlor of his home last night when his neck was broken In one of the most peculiar accidents that have come to the attention of the Coroner's office. Blase, according to Deputy Coronei Sayre, was sitting In the parlor of his home -with his aged mother, listening to a phonogiaph When he attempted to stop the machine his foot caught In a rug, thiowlng him forward His head stunk the floor where a small space separates an ornamental pillar fiom the side of the hall doorway. The weight of his body forced his head into the Bpace and snapped the spinal column at the neck. Dr. II K1 Roessler, Voik road and Tioga street, said Blase had died In stantly, HALT AERIAL DUEL Paris Police Protect Those Below. Send Duelists to Sea Purl.. March IS (B-y A. P.--Th Paris police have taken a hand in the iiroposed aerial duel between Leon Vaudocrane and Robert Schreeber, re. cently army aviators. The police give two reasons why the duel should not bo per mitted, namely, that dueling Is forbid den and that people below would be endangered. . , It Is suggested, liower, that the avi ators might conduct their duel over the sea. . t leased fiom the Rouse of Concctlon to care for herself and her child during thHi" lives Vestridnv when she was brought be fore .ltul' Momghau ha explained that her mi inlL'lit bo lightened If she would t 'he persons who helped her steal Uk (.mobile Infn.matlr.n which Captain Detectives Souder had laid btfoio Assistant District Attorney Spel ser convinced the latter tl-at tho oung .. ... . m.i.t.l I. m-,t mnt.rlal rtl.l In rounding up a well-organized gnng of ' She refused to take advantage of this offer. .She explained to the pollco todav, just before the was again brought in tho couttrooni, that her husband had tntight her tl at the cardinal offense of !e criminal world Is to snitch on comrade Xo mention of etcrdav's offer was made during tho proceedings today. llrstrlbra Anln Thefts i'io in Sunder, taking the stand, de scribe 1 the largi vitnber of these, tlicf's whlin bud Ik en tra.'td to the gang of wlili-ii Mrs Duke was a, member. Asked whether she had anything to sav nerorn sentence was Imposed, Mis Duke shook rer heaJ. Mrs Icikj gate her address as Six tieth street near Spruce Sho said she i had begun sieilliig automobiles shortly after she had seived tluec months In tho House of Concctlon for unotfier offense She said hlie di'ote the machines to a garage at MtUilIle X J. She did not attempt to ilUposo of them after taking them to the garage, she said, and did not know who jltlmatel bought thtm Monet foi tho cars, she said, was mulled to her Sixtieth street address Tills money, Mrs Duke said was sent to a fainilv In lrglnl.i which was caring foi her three-ear-old child, she deducting a small amount for her personal needs The foui counts itrr.iliist her weie stenllng automobiles fiom Louis Sickles, 000 Chestnut street; Henry Hall, Pike street and Xoitheist boulevard; Wlllard D Saulmler, 235 South Fifteenth street, and A. .T Powell, 900 Chestnut street. Mrs Duko said sh received between $200 and $230 for each automobile she stole APPEALS TO U. S. TO AID KOREANS Peace Delegate Protests Killing of His Country men by Japanese LAID BEFORE POLK A piotest against further killing or tortutlnff of Korean rAtA!nMn,..,. i... sine JAPanese was sent today to Franks I, 4-oih, acting seciet.uy of State, bv Dr. ,Sngham Rhec. delegate fiom the vorrnn .National Association to the Peace Conference. The United Slates Is nsked to inleicede Doctor Rhee, who Is visiting Philip .....ou,,,! oi ii cnestiiiiL street, tiled hi; M. I nt - .t?lt, "J"1"81 JnP-"iese barbaiitles ' ?"'J 1.1,,nd "celved word that thou- sands of his couutrmen who have risen against Japanese dominance In Korea nave Deen Killed or Inhiimnnlv tortured His message to tho Slate Impairment lends: ' We, the leprcsentallies of the Korean National Association, composed of all the Koreans residing In the United States and Hawaii, la.v before )ou the following facts: "According to private cablegrams re ceived from tho Koiean headquarteis, Shanghai, China, some tlireo million Koreans, Including tho inembcis of three thousand Christian churches in Korea, have declared Independence of Korea on Maich 1, at Seoul, Pyeng)ang, and other centers. "In consequence Japanese authoiltles In Korea have 'arrested more than a thousand men connected with the move ment. Inflicting upon them Inhuman pun ishment. "We take the llbeity to ask you In tho name of humanity, to uso our good offices with the Jnpanesc Government to see that these patriotic men shall not be cruell) treated or their lives, forfltd unjustly." Walling I'litrnportn Doctor Rhee la nw.iltlng passports from Washington to go to Paris Ac coidlng to Doctor Rhee, Secretary Lan sing esterday sent a wire to Mr. Polk, In which he stuted that It was Inad visable at present to have Korean repre sentation nt the Peaco Conference. "President Wilson's position In refer ence to the Korean movement for In dependence," said Doctor Rhee, "Is a very dedicate one lie does not want to affront Japan, which Is against us hav ing such if presentation, afraid that the truth about Korea and Japans treat ment of her will be published to the vt orld "Japan for ten years UaB oppressed Korea In every possible way. She has put in pilson those Koreans, who, like myself nnd Mr, Jalsohn, worked to edu rato the Koreans through the V. M C. A , and the Christian churches, of which we hate now more than three thousund. ( "When some ears ago as ueieguie to the Quadrlennlal Methodist Confei ence In Minneapolis of the Korean church, I bpoke theie for the lemotal of Jnpanese bondage froin my country, I received word that I had Incurred thu displeasure of tho Japanese Goiernment In Korea and that I would be put in prison as soon as I landed, so that am now a ufugee from my native land." ' Dr. Philip Jaisohn, a graduate of Pilnceton and Harvard, wag the first to establish newspapers in ICorea, He returned to his native land as chief counsel to Emperor Yee, at thd time when Korea was still Independent. The Emperor's rule was too weak, says Doc. tor Jalhson, and Japanese Influence be came dominant, When Dr Jnlhson saw that his advice wan not taken, lie broke aJHe ) ears' contract he had with the r.mpcioi, mm, . ."" .a i cm dence In his native country, returned, as he stated toda), to "the land of the free and the home of the brave." "I could have been a millionaire had I staed and yielded tb tho subtle po litical, foreign Influences that were try ing to buy me and make me betray my country. Rather than that I came, thouch a noor man, to this. city, whera I make an honest living and am fat- happier, knotting ut ray family and' rayiei. una nm iu ,.c . ,,cac-. - 'j"" - " - - m if -H nwrnti1 m GERMANS KCKjEUROPE MUST START WORK . H 21 TO AVOID TOTAL COLLAPSE, BBuuvfiTAti, Designate Six Rcpresenta- tivcs'of Present, Regime as Peace Envoys ,1I,'II iivt MPWUDAPli'Rli L,rvLll INbW3rAr'lilt& OPPOSING DEMANDS JDIieiliy IVeprcfieiltiltn OS With- draw From Poscn Parley on Polish Frontier i STAMP OUT MILITARISM Latin-American Countries Ask Billion for Losses Caused by Teuton lh thp i$oualcd I'rest tWImnr, March 13 The Geiman delegates lo the Pnate Conference will bo Count von Biotkdorff-Rnntzau, the roielgn Mlnlslet ; Dr Fduaid David, Majority Socialist and first President of the National Assembly; Dr. Adolph Warburg; Dr. Adolph Muller. Minister to 6w Iteerland ; Professor Walther M. A. Schuecking, of Maiburg Unlvcrsltt, and Hei Gclsbcrg, Minister of Posts nnd Telegraph in the Prussian Minis try (Count von Biockdorff-Itanlzau Is a graduate of the German Imperial dlplomncv, and has been Foreign Min ister since the resignation of Doctor Solf. Doctor David is a member of the German Mlnlstrt without portfolio Tile klpntiM nt rtr AHnlnh Wnt-hnrn- Is uncertain Doctor Muller formerly wns direc tor of the l;ioetilc. Accumulalnr WnrLu nt Herlln, and In Jul), 1915, rece-lted an honorirv degree from the Unl verslt) of Hanover for his work In (let eloping the efficiency of Genmn submarines Professor .Schuecking, late in I91t publlsh-d a litter blaming Russia foi the Hutopean war Herr Gelsberg Is a newcomer In the (Jornnn goteinment 1 Herlln 1'reRs Denoancea Terms Reports from Purls to the effect that the peace tieaty will provldo that Po land shall have Danzig and that a buf fer state sba'l be formed along tho Rhine have stirred up the German press, both conservative and radical I "It Is to be hoped .there Is nobody In Germany who would suffer such a treaty to be signed," sa) s the Beilln Tags blatt The Berlin I.okal Anzelger s.is: "We legard It as absolutely certain that these demands will be rejected. If they are 'made." The newspaper savs that If Danzig were given to the Poles they would get little enJoment fiom it. 'This stolen proper!," It declares, "wou'd bum In their hands" It also sa.vs that Gcriiiuny would be justllled In lefuslng to sign the tieat If it cou- i mini mriu i.uiiimiwin ncitiUK luiui i Piesldent Wilsons program us Justlti- 'cation for the refusal t lined theio conditions setting forth London. Marcfi U (B) P ) The Dally Telegraph sa)s. 'Today Is to see the culmination of tho most notable episode reported so far In the four months' hlstoiy of tho Pece Conference The supreme viar council will foi mall) adopt the text of the terms of Geiman disarmament and abandon ment of conscription is to be required of Gorman). r 'Hint is the destruction of German militarism Yet It Is nn admitted truth that until a few davs ago nothing so bold and declslte was in contemplation in the Innei circle of the conference 'This clean cut to the loot of Inter, national trouble Is the work of one man. and wo ale justified In s)lng that if that man had not been the Pr'me Minister of Great Britain nt this mo ment the chance would Into been missed Premier Stores Point , In discussing etents at the Peace Conference In Paris the Dally Chronicle sa) . ' There Is no doubt that Premier Lloyd George scored a verv Important point In gaining the assent of his colleagues on tho Council of Ten to the principle that conscription shall be abolished In Ger many. The plan adopted will enable the powers on whose shoulders the thief responslbllit) for nnlntalng tho league of nations will rest to bear that burden with a much smaller military effort than would otherwise be needed. 'Thero will he no risk of perpetuating conscription In Great Britain and the United States, nnd wo cannot suppose that France and Italy, hnvlng regard for their economic situation, will care to cumber themselves indefinitely with It. The disarmament of Germany, being compulsory, will have to be watched and enforced for many ears by travel ing ccmmlsslons of the league of na tions vtlth the leagues foico behind them." rrU, March 13 (By A P ) A strong sentiment Is developing in high quarters of the conference toward mak Ing Genet a the olllclal seat of the league of nations The supreme council will meet Friday afternoon, according to the olllclal com. munlque Issued late jesterday It reads The supreme war round! met to dav from 3 to D o'clock p m. The aerial teims to be Imposed on Ger many In the preliminaries of peuce Continued on I'mtt Twenty, Column Three PENN MEN THREATEN NEGRO Students Nearly Mob Man for Cruelty to Horse University of Prnnsyltanla students threatened Daniel Ward, a negro, thlrt) t,V70 J'eais old, of Maiket' street near Fortieth, toda)'. when ho twisted a piece of rope tightly aiound the Jaw of a horse. Only Hie arrival of agents for the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty W Animals, who an cited Ward, saved the man from being roughly handled by the students. Ward was driving a delivery wagon and when the hotse kicked he fastened the rope around the animal's Jaw as a mnns of nunlshment. He was irlin thirty data In the County Prison by Magistrate Hatrls. Magistrate uatris. in "11 mi niiirfiiTiii 1 FRANR Dictatorship Looming Up in Germany; Reds Beaten Noske or Hindenburg May Rule Spartacans Driven From Eastern, Berlin Many Pris oners Executed Women Among Captives By the Associated Pres Inmlnn, Msrch 13 Picturing internal conditions In Oermanv, the Dallv Mall's Berlin (oriespoiidcut snvs that the car nival of senseless prodigality and reck less debiucbert prevalent In the Ger- man capital is a lesult of the complete I breakdown of lie people's nervous s)s tern ' The tension etci where in Germany lis greatti iven than duflng the war," the eoirepomlnt sa)s 'because over the rountry hnngs the shadew of Im pending hotror, c'laos and anarchy com bined, from which many believe the country cannot be saved Faith In Heslme I ades 'Faith in the National Asscmbh Ins almost vanished and hardly nnv one tekes the trouble to read the reports of tho pioicedlngs nt Weimar Still fewer den) that the Scheidcm inn government has proved a failure The posslblllt) of a d'ctalorshlp Is discussed openly and the names of Gustave Noske, Minister of National Defense and Colonel von Let ton -Vorbick, former commander of the WOMAN RUN OVER AT EIGHTH AND CHESTNUT A well chessetl woman, seventy yeais old, wns knocked down by a vvngon and severely injured at Eighth nnd Chestnut streets this afternoon. Charles Smith, ditver of the wagon was aucsted. The hoi&e, after xunnlng down the woman, ran awtij. JAPANESE FAVOR EXTENDING SUFFRAGE WASHINGTON, Mai eh 13 Sentiment in the Japanese Diet, now In besslon, tavots the extension of Japanese buffiage iight3, accoidiug to Fai Eastern advices today. A law is declated to avobecn piopo&cd extending full voting privileges to all edu cated classes and ttrth? urban population. , CAR STRIKERS i - - - w .,,..,.. .-r DIAT I1VT M?W A DU aiv l in iiD vv uiii Stones Fly in Attack on Trolley and Two Men Are Injured CITY MAY TAKE LINE it) the Associated Press -uiirk, N. J. March 13 Shoill) nftei officials of the Publ'c Sen ice Railway Coiporatlon had nnnounced this afternoon that tho controversy involv ing Its striking emplo)es would bu sub mitted to the war laboi boatd in Wash ington tomorrow rlot'ng biol.e out herr A crowd of strikers and s)mpathlzers slormcd two trolle) cars, attacking the crew nnd smashing windows Two men were removed lo a hospital and two strikers and a sjmpathlzcr, the latter a soldier In uniform, were arrested Tho crowds attacked the cais with stones V motorman and n conductor were Injured Toe strike tvmpathlzers had arilved In n motoi truck and fled when police resort es united Majo- Gillen announced the tie-up had become so serious that the idly comnilss'ou would hold a meeting to consider relocation of the corporation franchise so that the cit) could oper ate the tais 12 PERSONS HURT AS CRASH HURLS TRAIN INTO RIVER Firpmen llccue idling From Five Feet of Watrr After iS'evvcjsllc Collision New Co.lle, I'll., March 13 (H) P) A dozen persoim were Injmed six Beilnusl), when the lncomotlte, baggage cai and one eoach of a Pittsburgh and Lake Frie passengei train were knocked over un embankment Into the Shenango lllver by a shifting engine half a mile aoulh of here this morning The accident occurred at a dossing uh-re the engine, bucking out of a steel plunt, crashed Into the train. Firemen used ladders and axes In rescuing pis sengcrs from the cars which fel In about five feet of water Hughes to Ask Army Piobe Ottawa, March 13 (By A. P ) Sir Sam Hughes, formerly Canadian Min ister of Militia, gave notice In the House of Commons jesterday that he would Introduce a. resolution calling for in vestigation by special committees of Parliament of the heay losses suffered hv Canadian troons overseas. Sir Sam I recently mad charges that some otTI- l .. lta tffi.rlllf..il tliall m.n fnf iwr. Wl - B ..... ....... ...... .V. J.V.- sonui giory, . 'w-r " nnn' ' i - 1 - tonal glory, yANDERLIP WARNS Geiman troops m Geiinan Kast Africa, and even of Field Marshal vou Hlnden buig nml General Von Kluck are free!) mentioned ' rim prevalent impresslo-i Is that the division between the IWt and Right Is becoming sh irpei nnd that tho da)s of Miiiorltv Socialism ate numbered The success of Hugo Hnnse, leader cf the Snc-lnllst Mlnorlts. mnv result In com munism or chaos, unless nt the last mo ment silvntlon comes from the new Democratic part) which took practical shape Sunday In the foundation of a new political club, provisionally linden tho presldenc) of Count von Bcrn storff ' Spartaeana Driven Out Get man got eminent forces after Ute 1) fighting hate succeeded In driving the Spartacans out of the cast end sec tion of Berlin Including I.lchtcnbtrg, according to a Berlin dispatch I no uccuminj,t v., uiw -., ,-.., ...- i . message states was s)stemutlcally car-1 "" '"" o comprenenu me serious rled out by the government troops Con- ness of the appalling situation which sld.rable quantities of arms were cap- confronts Furope, and the wreck which tured The losses on the government .. ,,,,,, . , , ., side are declared not to have been I l,,e w hole falr'c of civilization mny be heat) The bestial acts of iruelty b) Contlnurd on Pane Turntv, Column One FEW HERE GREET i , nnT.TYmTs ,TI,n rnn A DDHIMf IH7DA17C! i mini v iiiu iiLiiiujDo fink Oil' nf 105 Pnilllsvl- villi ! VptPfiiiu iMpt b Parents . overdrawn One may say that the temperament and ps) etiology of Gei- ALL WOUNDED OVERSEAS ",1U1V ls "' "-" i '" that coun- tn to Bolshevism Fu'iger can lend an) count rj to Bolshevism and hunger One hundred and live Pennsjlianla Ik wlldt t,n,,ul nuroe ls ,acln' veterans of Chuteau-'lhlerr), crdun. ,"I''e 8l","es V''1" ,our b?,ldlersrl ''! of npparent ample food supplies on the the Argonne Woods und other Fieiichl Hhlne should be taken onlv as tndicnt- battleflelds arrived In Philadelphia this ing lion completely governmental pewer afternoon over food control lias broken down and .. , , . , ,,, how food stocks that are essential ore The vcle.ans detialned i.u a aiding .,,. leckl(.Ma icnsumed pictures In the leai of the i'oinuvicluI Museums that I have received fiom highest quar and inarched aero'-1 the Held to the new ters relative to food conditions In limit hospital I i a section of the old ,"'"""al '"'"l"'. b '" ""' "t Ger . , , ,', ,, , .,.., , '"any, ure sensational The) are sen Phlladelphla lh.'pltal. Thlrt) -fourth , national because the facts are sensa and Spruce stieets. tlonal in tho pait) weie seieial Phlladel- I'rndui tlnn Mut be Iteniimeil phlans, nnd, with the cxecptlon of u 'Whatever Is being done In the nay verj few, all the men wore wound of Hlletlatlng conditions of starvation Is. stripes necessarj, but that Is merely alleviation. .No bands or cheers giccted the heroes I it does not get nt the root of the thing, from overseas and onl) one mother was , That mot runs down Into the ground privileged lo greet her wounded bo5 0f piodiicllon If the situation Is to be No greeting had been planned for the saved, ctery effort must be bent toward bots Bl. when tholr train lolled In living the problem nnd again starting onl) a handful of persons were present , production to extend the welcome of the cit I . .r.,. ., ,, , , , , , The first essential step is fllng the I'nrrnU VI eleiime I'lilluilrlplihi Iloj terms of peace The danger from dc- One foldler, irugh B McBrlde ,of 'ij ennnot be overestimated One mlgljt. 6118 Spruce street, appreciated that he I T,n,.of tho serlou-ness of the flnun was leall) home, for his mother nnd?lal 8l'Vn,'"n ln, "'"nl Luropean coun fathei wtro on hand to greet him I rleH u, ls serious bejonil anything we McBrlde. a member of I. lompani In mxe understood In America Germany the StCth was wounded on Septembei ?a)ins a dailj subvention to a mll- JS. but rejoined his regiment u few, weeks later The 310th Is a unit In the' Libert) Division that ti allied ut Camp, Meade und the Sloth Infamt) has the distinction of losing mote men than any other regiment In the National Armt I Mothei !' eclalmed the soldier when lie caught a glimpse of lift 'I he teterans weie mulching from the ; train platform to tho hospital, but Mo ! Urlde fell out of tine long enough to embrace his paients and assuro them I that he was lit fnlrl) good condition. No Hlreleher (uim lthough seterul of the soldiers limped, tnero vwis, not a strcicrer case in the caitnt and not a man tooic uu- vnntngp of the ambulances that were lined up Fresh fiom tho debarkation hospital In Hobcken the men exhibited little evidence tl at the) had been through; the hardest campaigns of the war. To bo sure they sported wound stripes, I most of them but one , but many of them had two, and two oi three men wore three It Is not likely that man will re main In the Philadelphia hospital many dii)8, for their wounds are about healed and all are anxious to get back Into clill life. City Treasury Ilslanre $14,298,689.27 The weekly report Issued today by City Treasurer Sho)er showed that l!i amount paid t.l was t,2(C.S09.72 and the total paid out was :. 608,208,23. The balance, not including the sinking fund accuum, 13 ii,i,ooj.ii. , "" ''" In -ilrn- i f" iiiiiiiiiAittiBfiiii'i liriiimnrJ i Treaty Terms Should Speed Up Industry, Says Banker CAN BE SAVED BY PRODUCTION '"Hunger" Can Lead Anj Country to Bolshevism,,,' Tfe Declaration AMERICANS BOUND TO STAND BY ALLIES Products Must Be Distributed to Restore Nations to Safe Basis j- llv the Associated Press Vurls, March 13 'I doubt If America facing" said I'rank A Viinderllp yestor day He has been Investigating condi tions In Hnglnnd and France, and will continue his Inquiries In Switzerland and Italy. ' "America was once told thero might be peace without victor)," he Bald. ' What we have is victory without peace. Production has ceased, and unless pro I ductlon can be speedily lesumed one's '' Imnglnntinn cannot comprehend tho chaos which may ensue. I 'There is nothing to be gained by stopping to question who Is to blame, or by finding fault with the way events I nave been guided The great productive SIM I machine of Europe must be started, or J?3 tllA .tirl.1 ..till l.n .nnrnnA.l ...l.t. ? "T H ...uk.. nutii ii3 iiu eAjeiiciicu jida re corded. Here In France everything I rests on the settlement of the qire's l Hon of indemnity and the progress of etents in German). Rach day makes; the prospect of indemnity hwis possible. Pictures Continent a Wretk "f have seen somethlne of the ultter- iwieclc which tho central eirplres ln . fllcted throughout the war zone. It is 'complete no words can picture truly how complete it is. That wreck, haw- J!X i r.liannAl tn lh. amian I...!.- ri.. S?MT Is possible a wreck that will coventall'v Kurope If production is not resumed , tllp linrrrtfk nf wa. mnv Via .rr...l.n .ii i by the horrors of this after period, which, 3?j is neither war nor npnpe. hilt ft hr-nl:. 'J wrt down of the machinery of civilization. 5 In the face of such appalling disaster -- f!U ever partisan consiueration, every Un essential difference of opinion and every personal ambition should be Instantly forgotten ' Unless terms of peace can be speedily ngreed upon, nnd unless these terms' arc such as will permit the resumption or something approaching normal ln- dustrlal life, there Is not .merely i chance, there Is a tUrong probability itussian Bolshevism overrunning ciermanv What Bolshevism Is con never bo really pictured b) a normal mind" V description of It has been """ ",e" ' i"um ,uU1;ouw,; I 000 francs of paper money, the limit of tie latest law having been reached An additional 3 00,000,000 francs will bei authorized, but there Is little advantage In discussing financial, conditions In the ( onllmied on I'UKe Twent, Column Two Wilton Doesn't Oppose Sinking Ships London, Mnich 13 (By A V.) -In the House of Common a member asked V Thomns J MncJ.'nmara, parliamentary ; Herretniv of the admiralty. If hn wftn.'2 nnnrp that President Wilson had riln-tUS sentcd from the proposal to sink tho Qefu,,; man neei. la mis -vir aiac.amara re-"'jj i piled "i am aaviseu mat me answer, U In the negative ' i "Join Us!" Cried the Mobj "Scoundrels'" I shouted. "Tou ate Idiots. I am in) self for peace,, but we will never havo peace with- out driving the Germans, out of Russia." Suddenl) I was Kicked violently? in the back.. Home pne dealt tnaft' second blow frpm the side. ' ,, Fire!" I shouted to my glrU, Jvij several nunurea ruiop rangf t i,, . nii.v cr.J Read Botchkareva's storj' nago 8. m a vr-m I. "3 K i t i -ii1 i tl :! -VB m
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