r$p?tw v v ' riiKir, Hiif v""'. .-?w'F'iv(i.fTpwi-' ! r -,, fr-i -yn;i eeflsjeWSSTtt-et TOTr-tjRyjq . F!"? -- EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEK-PHILADELPHiA, SATURDAY, AUGtJST 16, 191U a fcs t.v friM) f i '. lu N if ; L Pr JttL H0 ire s carbonaied in bottles for fie Home m GOOD old Hires asmuch of a Phil adelphia institution as Fairmount Park and more surely cooling and refreshing, invig orating and healthful. In pint bottles, or by the case, qt your dealer's. AlsQ Hires Ginger Ale H TO Balance of Estate of $214,000 Is Left to George Pratt, Brother of Decedent OTHER WILLS ARE FILED Hospitals and charitable institutions will uhnro n considerable portion of the $214,000 estate left bj Miss Emily Pratt, whose will was probated today. Miss Pratt died August 8 at 132 South Twenty-second street. Her estate, with the excentlon of St 1.000, consists of personal effects The institutions and the amounts be nueathed to each follow ; Contributors of the Pennsylvania Hospital. S-.000. Church Home foi Childien, M000 Philadelphia Oitlinpaedic Hospital and Infirmary foi Nervous Diseises, SS000. Children's Hospital. Twenty -second street below Walnut, $."000 Hoard of Trustees of the American Church Building Fund, ,1000 St. Andrcyv's Protestant Episcopal Church, Eighth nnd Spruce btrccts, $2000 for the endoyyment fund Hospital of the Episcopal Churth, $2000. George Piatt, a hi other of the de cedant is the chief benelic niry of the residuary estate. , Private bequests onh nie contained iu the other wills piobated today. These included the testaments of Grace D. Loycjoy, 3001 Chestnut stielt, $75, 000; J. Newton Foreman, o'lll Chester avenue, Sl.'.OOO; Chiisti.in D. Dienes, 2!W! Allegheny avenue, $'1100; .John II. Clojer, h."") Noith Tluitecuth street, $4000; James Connoi, 3020 Fairmount ayeuiic, $4700, and Remind Sachs, 1701 South 'Iwentv. -fouith stieet, S.1300. The perhonnl'estute of Jacob Hcl bc in was appraised at SOOTS 07. BOMB SCARE GROUNDLESS Simply New Jersey Italians Were Celebrating With Fireworks Rumors of bomb outrages oi a fire in South Jersey weie pievalent down town last night The skv acioss the Delaware liver wus lighted with a bright ml glare and intei mitteut leports of explosions were clearly henid. Newspaper offices and police stntions weie besieged with tele phone culls. It developed that Italian icsidtuits ofi Camden weie conducting a religious festival in honor of the Feast of the Assumption, at Second and Line streets, Camden, a shoit distance from the river, and among the festivities were laigc lueworks displays. JEWISH WELFARE PICNIC Sailors Entertained Today at Ne shaminy Falls "Pretty gills, swell music, free trans portation, amusements, chow, swim ming, boa'ting, baseball." This was the ambitious program set out by the Jewish Welfaie Hoard nnd War Camp Community Service for its outing tliis afternoon to Ncshnminy Falls Park where lfiO sailors were en tertnined and fed. Tomorrow, 100 men fiom the naval home and League Island base hospitnls will leave the Jewish Welfare Hoard headquarters for a sightseeing trip to Vallej Forge in spacious motoi buses. MILLIONS FOR CHURCH WORK Methodists Appropriate $25,000,000 for Social Service An appioprintion of S25, 000,000 lias been ninde by the Methodist Chinch for the eoii'luct of a five- car campuign for gi eater social and commuuitj work. Tbi? amount will be taken from fhc S10.),000.000 fluid raised during I, the Methodist centenary urive, which was begun .limitary 1 and ended June"!. The decision to urate n new field ot ope ration fot chinch vvoih was made at Ussuinmer confeience of city pns tius of the church that have been In session at the Drew Seiiilniiiy, Madi son, N. J I'ndir the direction of tho Rev O. W. Rldiiipled, executive secie tuij of the (oiclgn -speaking work of (lie board of home missions, plans have been arranged for the campaign. He is being assisted by the Rev. W. C. Phil lips and the Rev. George R Dean, both of this city. ELECTRIC IRON STARTS FIRE Tlremen Have Difficulty In Locating Ironing Board Smoke Smoke in the house at 812 South Shtieth street puzzled hiemen early today, until thej solved the mystery b.v tinning olf an electiic ironer which had scoie-lied some tags lu the laundry of the dwelling. xMu Claitc C. Mc-nitt, yvho lives in tile house, wns awakened b.v the smoke nnd called to her brother, William O. Lewis, He vVus unable to find the tire, Theu firemen were summoned. They, too, could not locate the blnzc. and searched the adjoining house. Theu they icturned to the Merritt home and made a ti'tond search. They fouud the elec tric; iron. ,It bad not been turned off Friday evening and had canned the rags 'on ehlch it rested to smoulder. P. R. R. CLERKS PLftN PROTECTIVE LODGE Charter Under Consideration. Men Lay Discrimination Charge to Officials COMPLAIN OF WAGE SCALE Fifty general offieo clerks of the Pennsylvania Rnilrond met last night in the 1'arkwny nutldins to discuss formation of a lodge to be composed only of P. It. II clerks. The general office clerks of the Penn sylvania and Heading sj stems nrc al ready organized In the Rrothcrhood of Railway Clerks, but it l the desire of the Pennsylvania clcrl.s to form a spp. eratc lodge. A blank charter of the proposed or- ganteation was submitted to the meeting but no definite nrtinn wn taken Speakers who urged formation, of the new lodge were (J W. Rstev, and I Theisen, grand ioe presidents of the organization, Joseph Ritchie, Philadel phia reprrsentntivo of the American Federation of Labor, nnd J. F Krhard, general chairman P It R svstem board of adjustment. Although not brought up at the meet ing it is complained bv Mr. Rrhard . . .. ' Hint there is an utter disregard nv an .., . , .. i .i . i f liicu iiittri u' m i" ,1.. v.... ... fices of the Pennsvlvnnln in this cit.y as to seniority rights among the general office clerks It was charged they l either take the letter not the spirit of the regulations, as laid down for nil rait - roads bv Director General Hines, in .iu- iti, i, j..v. lift, lillf. 1.1LU .,11- 11111... it : .i.i i... . r",i,nr,i timi- ,' . , where, heretofore, they have rec cived ycarl.v increases in wages of SO the rail road officials are refusing them that in crense. In place ot the increase, vir Eihard said, the Pennsylvania author!- ties are applying the general increase or S2" a jear, granted to all railroad cm ployes when the government took over the reins, at the rate of ?(! per 5 ear It is nlso complained bv Mr. Hrhurd that the ofBce heads of the Pennsylvania svstem In this citv nre taking "too much advantage" of their power to make se- lections from among the genernl office clerks for higher offices. "Cases are verv frequent," he said "when office heads have selected men from the general office force to fill higher positions, not through the semoiitj rights of the clerks, but through con-! nections. In other words, tl ej sele, t for a higher office a man yvho is n per- sonnl friend, regnrdless of how long he has been iu the employ of the rail road." HONOR RETURNED HEROES Wlsslnomlng Formally Welcomes Boys Heme From War Wissinomingpnld honor to her re turned soldiuw toda, vlien the resi dents assembled in Wissinoming Pink, Cbmly stieet and Frnnkfoid avenue. Theie was u banquet, a ball game and boxing. The people of the town held their annual basket picnic in conjunction with the formal welcome home to the bojs yyho served in the war. Prominent speakers made addresses and the wo men of the town served the banquet to the bojs and their guests. The Muni cipal Hand gave concerts, while nn or chestra furnished musie, for dancing. Alexander J. Martin is chairman of the general committee, and assisting him is nearly every man, woman and child of Wissinoming, TODAY'S MARRIAGE LICENSES Jcscph Valer, SOS N riroad lit and Mary P Mofllnlei SOS N Ilroad St Odorue O llrown JJcls N loth lit , and Mao N I.ahlextron HJOS N 10th at Charlen II Douslas 1R22 Arch t , and Stslla M Hond.lS.'J Arch st David II Goldstein HSS N 16th t , anl Mollla E Katz SSI'S N 7th at John H Schaefer. rii'n W YorK. at . and Cresantla J Ott. 2432 Mfmptlla at laaac Settle 712 S 17th st . and Jeaslej V yviild 0J2 S 15lh at . Harry T V. Shaw 4040 Taekavvanna at . and Margaret II. Wilson. 1300V Seller; at Charles R SchnnrJ. Jr.. 0803 Sprlngneld ate. and Barbara tl. Kronebach. S31J Oreenway ave , Arthur ficliroeder 2412 fi Adams it . and l.oulse rtder. .108 Buttonwood at John K P Ilorner. 2101 W Suaquehanna ave and .Mary a lsiiuan icua i.eicr i Charles E Evans. Camden, N J , and Anna J , and Anna T. Tins,, e'nmdpn. N j TaTnH M Sttnln. IlrOOltlvn. N T and Minnie -""." .: .-r - .v - .. eioldtierB lirooKijn. is ... ndvvard W yVootera Hl Allegheny ave and Marie V. Lenarts- ',401 N 6th st Thomas A. Donovan St Louis Mo and Margaret M Lachall. 7104 N Broad st llllam II t ory, New Tork cl and Cath arine rianican Nevt York citv Charlea S Cohn 1SO0 N 7th st . and Anna V. Ilauch 1507 N l.'th st John V Mullen 7in N 3Sth bU and Lillian II Scv.midt 1118 N VVUUngton at Carl 1" Martlenasen 2140 Columbia aye. and Lillian Eckstein, 31B1 N 7th at Martin (Uer. J41t S lBth st and Clara W Morrow Tort Cnmn N 1 Howard II Hevvett, 7J1S Bryan at , and Maude E Tlrmln 209 S 60th st John II Oentner Tox ''hise Ti and rlor- ence E Parsons 7145 ltlslng aun ave Harry L Martin .12 lath st and Mabel V Dawson 1441 N 00th st Ernest E Hasselqulst Elgin III . and Mary E Tobln Vlles N 12th st Charles D Zllhert 8011 fiermantown ave. I ""I Jennie Sherman, ei3n jenerson si ' yvintam S Jonea Alteona ra and Jennie Lehman m ;v auen st yVllllam II Wood, lieM N Markoe at and I.vdla B Shank RS.l N 41th st John C Bransfprd 241S I)lton at . and May C Holland 2041 nedner at Jesse W BrultU 1127 Pine street, and Cath. arlne Din, 122t-.R5dmKn st John J Fr-nch, 307 E Sterner st.. and Teresa 1) Lanire. 212J N Hancock at Hush Kerr 1033 Arch st and Selah J Spare. 8prlng City, Pa. loseph Kuhar 2121 E Susquehanna ave and Amalle Hoffman, 2121 E Susquehanna ave . Edward Ftlelll 1111 Parrlsh st , and rtosanni Cavanaugh 1110Wrrlsh st Colmnn Campbell 44 Stats st and Delia Iloll."2ni4 Arizona st M Tito Oorlllo 011 H Water st . and Concetta Papa 1240 Ellsworth st . Fillppo. Splca- 1R1.1 S Camao st . and Marie Romano itaddonfleld. N J . Loula F Nudlng, Atlantic Citv, N J and Merlam S Kneise 1717 Jleaddw st Dennla York. 2100 Lombard st and Oc- tavla Pollard 1D12 Christian st Nicola Clamettl 2010 N Lambert at and .urn Clccaflll -'lliiil n iamoerc at Urhlbald Mlchaela 1714 Monument ave . nnu jiaruueriei) peicr mi ..luuuiuvin Nathan Cohen 1M00 N 10th st Katz nill Pine at William T Ryan 3105 N 15th st and Cora and Mary M Htoiicn Hicv ne mn ru Herman Perlltr 034 N Mil at nnd Emllle Ehrbrecht Ills Kershaw at lirmln Salu-so 1411 S rtancroft at , and Anxellna Vasnalto IflCIt Vlfflln at Samuel Aurstadt ansa Manavunk ave and Lorettn 7.0 ll( nttFhumh Pa e hurles V Kaiser Brooklyn N Y nnd Esther M HaTklns 304R B st Jama n Wlster 2S41 Amber st and Kath nine P Frlach 2110 11 IHrrh st Pasquala Peluso 1112 Mercer at and Ma rietiaeava mv.- o nm i James A e'sthey Memphis Tenn Anna C Flnley 1JU Puller st NatalB nonta 10m H Isemlncer st and and Carmela Una 143n Tiicr si . Clarence r Shields 1R4 Fernonst., anl yfarpiorieV Pitt 1fi?4 Fernnn stl Max Kushner -614 W. Montuomery ave . and Municipal nppoinimenis unnouncea i Ann Iirodeky. IMS N. 7th at tndnv included Philip 8. Fisher. 2120 Samuel Aranovltz. 741 Jackson at andM01"1' liitiuuru unn, u, ""lul -J-" , Blanche Hoffman BT10 cheater ave I South Lnmbcrt street, inspector Ru I N' OMdlt 'inbMSiS'l88 Phim?"'" " a"d L" ! renu of Highvv aj s. salary $1300 n j ear ; rs.ries T o1l N" Tork city., and Mat lfau.lt TnVnllf V. "V GIRL STRIKERS JAILED Four Clgarmakers Attacked Workers In Camden Four Cnmilcn slrls, former employes of a Philadelphia clear manufacturing concern, were aricstcd In Camden eto dnv wlicn thej nttemptcel to interfere with emploos of the Sclclciiburi; & Co cignr fnctory, Cnmelrn It is al leged they attacked nn nutomnbilc car rying employes of the Camden fnctory who would not strike One of the glrN was Riven thirty davc in inll and the three others tvventv elajs eni li Nellie Smith, twenty one years old, who, according to the police is the ringleader of the glrl was glen thii t dajs; .Mat i-urcovc, twenty -otic jears old! Jennie Srliult7 twentj voaii , old, and Annie Wallace, tvventv two ' At the hearing Mn". Reorder Staekhnuse in the Camden cit court. It "le I0"" of the case in Court of Corn was testified the girls luiil throw n milk I mon Pleas No fi in which Judge bottles nucl bricks at the autos lip cnrclcr .Stnekliouso gne tlip sentences, bo said as "an example to other girls " MOSQUITO BITE SERIOUS Woman Kills Insect, Then Scratches Breaking Blood Vessel A .lersev mosquito caused n woman in l amelcu to i upture n blond vcnvp on her knee Mrs Anna Dixon, forty four years old, of 17!i) Itailroud -iv otitic, was taken to Coopet Hospital ycstcidu, where tho tlow of blood was stopped with difhcultv She told the pin mi inns that the wns awakened in the night bv a peculiar sensation on her knee She killed a moscpiito and hei leg com mencecl to itch. She scratched until fl.n Mnn.l nBBnl Kl.rct "" "'""" --".- ..,., ne necicieu to go in the linspit.il nflrr .lin liml tnnrle, ..cieienl ,iwiin,t,i.v- fu, c(ror, to,,,top the How of blood bv (the use of hjmc remedies HE JUST "FOUND" AUTO 1 ' Held In $1000 Ball, Howevor, for Theft of Car "' found the ear on the street, and I I when no ownei appeared I took It ,allv" William Wilght Tvventv fifth and iTurnei sheets, was held in .$1000 bail 'ioi conn icmnv v iiiigisii.ni. nim aftei he had given this explanation of ' a marge ot stealing an automoiule De j longing to Miss Emilie I) Huff, of ,"21 , Woodbine avenue, Oveibiook. The mn I ihiae disappeared from Fifteenth and S.insom streets on Fnchiy last , I Patrolman Williams of the Twen tieth nnd Rerks streets station, snw the j cai in Woodstock street above Rerks I lie recognized the license numbear and1 nnestcd Wiiglit, who was driving tin Icar. CAR STOLEN 2 YEARS FOUND ,, . ,. . . . Man Arrested for Theft of Ardmore Citizen's Automobile Two vears after it was stolen the touring car of l.clvvatd 1 leruan. of Aril - more, has been recoveied nt Atlnntie Citv, and the Lower Merion police yesteru.iv uiiesrcei j nomas e.ovvcn. or Sixty-second and Cillovvhill streets, anci enargeci pun vwiu sienung me ma chine The ineiuisitiveness of n detective employed bv a company which insuies antomobiles ngninst theft liiought Tier- nnn s car line K to luni and enured Govv en's nrrest. The detective saw the ma chine in Atlantic City and found that two of the numbeis coincided with those on Tiernnn's machine, but that another had been altered. The man who line ' the ear .liel that he bought it from Govven. NAVY YARD KNIGHTS' HOST I Templars at Conclave Next Month Asked to Pay Vlsft Courtesies of the N'avv Ilcpnitment will he pt. tended to mote tlinn 100,000 Knights Templnis of the United States who attend the tiienninl conclave of the nrgaiiuntioii in this city the week of September 8 Oielers yvcre issued today byjhc sec retary of the navy giving the comman dant of the Fourth naval district full authority to co-operate with the local Rurope, according to Henry II. Rosen committee in ehnrge of the encamp- felt, director of the American Jewish ment arrangements. relief committee. He estimates that the The nnvv yard will be opened for non-Jews id the United States raised the inspection of the delegates on Navj Day, Wednesday, September 10. ' FIRE STARTED BY MATCHES Children at Play Cause Loss of Sev eral Hundred Dollars Children plaing with matches in n rear room at the hoaie of Ma an Pur 7 ski, 12'iO Chestnut street, Camden, today caused n blaze that did several hundred elollars' wortti of eKmagc Pur75ski extinguished the the fiicmen arrived. before Another fire occurred das yvlien nn oil stove den to- tailoring shop of Henry Cohen, exnlodrd Cohen's h ckct street, face were burned, but the lire did little damage to the property LAUNCH SUN BEAM flanrfE IneSaHi OtfKi tfWTand Oil Tanker Leaves Ways at Chester I xt"" " tnr "rl p 7 rn sn?? r .. . innnl. He vv as taken to the hosnital 'ecu The oil tanker, Sun Ream, was launched nt the Sun Shipyard, Chester, this afternoon at 4 :lti o'clock. Mrs. II. C. Higgins, wife of the dis trict manager of the Rmergency Fleet Corporation, was sponsor. The Sun Ream is built on the Iongtl tudinal system of construction. It has a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons of oil It is 430 feet long, fifty-nine feet in width, thirty-nine feet in depth, with a deadweight of 10,500 tons. City Appointments Today ' i Jacob W. l-anzinger, lisle .rvonn .Mar- vine street, ussistant fenelier, Rureau of Recreation, $000 a .year; R. Harold Metz, fiOlli Arch street, caretaker, Ru reau of Rcjieutlon, ifOOO n year, and Samuel Ivell.v, J.tl.l Webster street,1 cook, j ear Rureau of Charities, $720 Gets Private Detective Permit ! Prank L Gaiburino, former Iiend of the I)pai tment of JtistUc in this dtv.i i has been liceni-cd b) Judge McCulJen, iu Quarter Sessions Lourt, as n private de- tectlvc, tinrnnrino was rounccted with (lie Department of Justice for seventeen jejars auel founded the local oSice, TO SUNDAY GOLFERS Sabbath Association Pushes the Fight on Sunday Came3 De spite Loss of Verdict SUPREME COURT AID ASKED Threats of nrrest of Sundav golfers and baseball plavers Is made today by members of the Philadelphia Sablnth Association ' -template,! following! Stnake upheld Sunchv baseball In riiil adelphla parks. The judge, however In his opinion called attcntLj to the fact that the Snbbatharfans have resource to the nenal clausi- .n the "blue laws" nf!Dr 1701, and mav caue prosecution in ithr c riminnl courts Rlton J Rue Kiev, nttornev for the Philadelphia Snbhith Association, said Prohibition ticket. Doctor Stern said he would carrv the injunction proceed he wns not "teetotally" opposed to li ,, , . , ' quor He admitted that he was after mgs against the Fairmount Park Com ..Dreac!lf.r yotc." mission to the Supreme Court, while officials of the snme organization todav made the nrrest threats "Theie will be no attests of in dividual bnseb ill phijerR lmmediatelv, nnd bv that I mean next Sundav," said Dr. W. 11 Forney, assistant secre taiv of the Philidelphia Sabbath As sochtion "One nf the committee will return from his vacntlon next Friday, and we will take no action until we have nn opportunity, to consult with linn ' In the meanwhile vou can sav that steps will be taken to appeal to the t. ... Snhbntaiinns are honeful of obtain ing n tavomnlo decision ogainsr tne I'aik Conunission in the higher courts, as thev sav they will be able to bring witnesses who will testif.y to a dis to ) i .i. oiderlv biseb.ill game ciilminnting in a ght on n recent Sunday afternoon nt i'7ft second street nnd Parkside nve nue Hint ev iclc lice was exc nieieci ai the hearing in Judge Staake's couit. be cause no reference to disorder in con nection with the Sundav gnmes was1 made in the bill of complaint "I'm both disappointed nnd sur prised." Doctor Forney slid, after heixing Judge Slnnke's opinion "1 am sin prised to heni the nntine of the decision. The law Is veiv clear on this subject of Sunchv baseball How ever. I have no iiiticisiu to make of the com t " Mr Rucklev said: "We aie going to appeal to the Su pieine Court We believe that the act of 1701 is just as much nltve as it ever was. and if it is going to be set nside hv pidicial decree, we wnnt it set aside by the highest judicial decree possible. After a perusal ot .lucige MaaKe s . nnin on. I gathered lie takes (lie po I sltion that the act of 1701 has been I innele obsolete bv the chnnge in the nt- I titiide of people in more modern times , ,liU(, ,," ll(lmi of an ,f i)clK r, pe.iled in just that manner yj Theie is no evidence of n iinnni mitv of mind against the act of 1704 An effort was made to have it repealed bv the last Legislature, but the Legis lature refused " The Rev Dr Samuel Zane Ratten, head nf the Rnptist Department of Social Seivice, nid he anticipated the discomfitine of the S ibbntnrians "I think it was a very Ill-advised case," Poctor Ratten snid. "The Church should appeal to the good-will of the people, lather than to the courts, especially when it lias nothing better than a mere technicality to base its case on " Doctor Ratten snici he was unalter ably opposed to commerciali7cd games on Snniliy. hut he saw no objection to harmless games of baseball and ten nis JEWS TO GIVE MEDALS Many Not of That Faith to Be Re- warded for War Service Rionru medals are to be awarded to a number of non-Jews in this country as en appreciation of their services in aiding Jewish people In distress in $20,000,000 for war relief funds for the jews eluriug the several campaigns which were conducted. "Humanity Called and You Nobly Responded," is the enption upon the medal, which was designed by J. Kilenyi, of New York. The face shows a kneeling woman nnd two children grouped before a figure of Columbia, behind whose figure Is an nltor flanked on each side, by n seven-branched candlestick nnd a six -pointed star of David. The names of the recipients nf these medallions have not been dis closed. Guard at Mayor's Office Hurt Robert Cnliahau, Sr., who guards the private office of Major Smith, is in the hospital at AVildwood, X. J., suffering from serious injuries sustained Thurs e'ay when hit by an automobile. Calla han was crossing the street at Pacific and Shellenger avenues when he was I .... !.. i cm ffrtrlntr frftm n .llolnnnfn.1 liniUlll lull-, c......., ....... ,. n.aiuiuiVll shoulder nnd broken head. c6g ipu.lwQW motor ccuu, cmd cf mdfSr cor Mccniai&Msab, Gfo ts topped gn 6ti fluothtfc J cWs Qmcaqpl YOUTH HELD IN $800 BAIL Charged With Taking Auto Without Permission and Damaging It Charles Rlankley, eighteen years old. of West Duval street, Germantown, was held on $800 ball for court todny by Magistrate Pennock, on the charge of uslug without permission and damag- i ing an automobile belonging to Dr James M. Rllicy, of 120 West High . land avenue. The boy was arrested on a warrant served by Detective MacFarland. It is charged he took the automobile from Alexander Allen's garage, ID West Highland avenue, where he was em ployed, last January, and that, after drhlng it a while, he had an accident at Chelten avenue and Greene street It was testified that he abandoned the enr and became a fugitive from justice until arrested yesterday. Doctor Rllzic said IiIr car was damaged to the extent of S'JOO HE'S IN AGAIN! Moses Stern Tosses Hat In Ring for Mayoralty Dr Moses Stern is out for the mnvoialt nomination He filed his petition todav on the Doctor Stern gave his address as 334 South Fifth street, which is in the Fifth I ward topgressman aioorc lives in the same ward The doctor has often run against Mr Moore for Congress On 'one occasion he polled 700 votes. Heretofore he has been a perpetual candidate on the "Liberal Siindnv Law" ticket. AUTO KILLS CAMDEN CHILD! Down. Elght-Year-Old Girl Run Driver Held Clain Stabanskj, eight years 1071 Haildnii avenue, Camden, old. ' stiuck by an automobile nnd killed this noon at the crossing of the Park boule- i ,,.,, ,,,, Ma(.nollll n,pnu(1. The driver of the ,nr Theodore Hen '. '' ,PT ,' T" , lc,'"r' i"?0"0'0 ' . n .. . - - "I , ,"K"1" ""' ,V. alrrcls v-amcien. i picheii up me cnnci nnu rusneci ner to the Cooper Hospital, but it was found that she had died. Coroner Pratt found her skull fractured. Rennett was arrested, He declares that the little girl was with a playmate, who darted across !n front of the car He slowed .up and was just releasing the brakes when the Htnknnsky girl also dashed in front of the car and fell be iH'ath the wheels. PAINTER KILLED IN FALL Man Injured After Plunge From Window He Was Washing One man is dead and auother per haps fatally injured as the result of falls. RobeH Sweeney, a painter, fell from the roof of a three-storj building at 92G South Twenty-third street, jester dav, and was instantly killed. Sween ej's home was at 2123 Mountain street. "Willie washing windows at his home, 327 Greenwich street, Joseph Dilorn fell from the second story. lie is in the Jit. Sinai Hospital, thought to be suffering witli n broken back. U. S. HAND IN CIGAR STRIKE Commissioner Greenawalt to Seek Settlement Steps nre expected to be taken today by Dlmcr R. Greennwalt, United Stntcs commissioner of immigration, acting ns a conciliator, to bring nbout a settlement of the cigarmakets' strike in Philadelphia Mr. Greenawalt has been appointed commissioner of,conciliation by the De partment of Labor. Mr. Greenwalt said he did not know what he could do until he discussed the situation with the representatives of the two sides in the dispute. He will prob ably arrange for a conference at which a compromise can be reached. DAYLIGHT VOTE ON TUESDAY House Probably Will Fall to Override Presidential Veto Washington, Aug. 10. (Ily A. P.) Republican Leader Monde-ll announced today that the House would vote next Tuesdny on the passage of the daylight saving repeal over President Wilson's veto. Proponents of the repeal, while in a majority, are doubtful whether they can obtain the two-thirds majority neces sary to override the veto. STANDARD OIL GIVES BONUS Offer's Employes 10 Per Cent Until Living Cost Is Reduced Dayonne, N. J., Aug. 10. (Ry A. P.) The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey nnd the Tidewater Oil Com pany announced toelaj that a 10 per cent bonus would be given to all their employes, except those on salary , to help them meet the high cost of living. The bonus is to continue until the cost of living is reduced. The Standard Oil Company has 10,000 wage-earners nnd the Tidewater Company, 3200. I George T. Yates Victim of Street Thieves on Sixty-third Near Walnut AUTOMOBILES ARE STOLEN Two highwaymen held up and robbed George T Yates, a letter carrier. In the vicinity of Sixty-third and Walnut streets, nnd, although pursued bv a crowd for several scpiares, made their escape Yates was walking along Sixty third street between Locust and Walnut on his way home, 242 South Hir t street, last night He wns nenr the Klrmv. bridge A. Clothier athletic field when the two men ni-n cinched him Dun nf them ordered Ii,m to throw up his hniich wniie tne other rifled 111 noekrt nf 20 A wnteh worn bv Yah oM'nnpd their notice , . - nnllnn After the men had robbed their vie tim they started to walk away Yates followed them for a distance of a Bquare. One of the hlghvvavmen. turn ing around nnd seeing Yntes. win mil his companion and both stnrtcd to run Men Escape Yates's cries for help soon atti acted a crowd, which started in pursuit The liolelno met, ammrntoit one nntiniimp along toward Sixtieth street and his companion escaped bv limning through nn alley .- ,. , ,, ,. .... . .... I..." . " . ". ' ' '' ', ', . a description of the men. I For the second time in two months I thieves visite'd the fur store of I Perl man, 101." Columbia avenue, and after smashing the window with n bink made ioff with furs valued at 1700 '7 ","".'. """ n ,n. "e rrl". "" " iii ,. ,. i,. f .,. iiiiiiiniiir inn nni nnnr inn iruuii iiiuii " - - ; , awakened bv a pa-serbj Neighbo.s oari1 ""' ,rnf,h of thn falling glass I but neglected to iuvesticnte. ititos Stolen Tho motoicars, valued nt 'eRIVJo, were stolen An SSOO mill hiiie. owned by C C. Thompson, nf 2052 Callow hill street, vjas taken from Ilroad street and Lehigh avenue. Alexander Wolliiigton, of 8 North Twentieth street, missed a ?o25 car from Twentieth and Market streets The dwelling of Martin Davis, of 1720 Rdvvin street, wns robbed of clothing vnlued at $04. A thief hurled a brick through a showcase In front of the store of A. Siegel, 127 North RIghtli street, and made off with raincoats and leathci skins valued nt $54. Thieves obtained $20 worth of eiga rettes from the store of Ibadoie Rose, of 44,")3 Main street. Camden Store Robbed Thieves gained an entrance through a side window in the drvgoeds shop of Austin McDevitt, 1720 Iltoadway, Cam- den. earlv this morning and stole sev .r1 hundred dollars' worth nf silk shjrts and other material. ' ' lllillllf C 4- I Kf esptfll" llilllll I j( i It doesn't matter how high your brow is Or what size you take in easy chairs Or whether you're a champion golfer, A chronic first-nighter, A periodical speedster with a price on your head So September Vanity Fair Everything you'd like to see, from the Prince of Wales in America to Irene Castle in a hew hat. Crantland Rice's golf championship talk Rnkeyser on the market Dorothy Parker on the ncyv plajs. Everything you'd like to read with a chuckle from George S, Chap pell on Prohibition to Pelham Grenville Wode- Where's the Nearest News Stand? SURE CURE FOR H. C. OF L Any One May Try It This Man Did Now He Has Free Food Here's a man who thought he'd found a way to defeat the much discussed High Cost of Living He reallv had. at that, but the police objected and his scheme f(.l through. Now he's found another wav to get around that II. C of L He is living on the citv's hospltnllty in n cell Harry C Martin, n homeless ynn derer. was nrrestecl in the home of Snmuel llnckmour. filOS Whitney ye iiue. where he was making himself ni home. Aftei enteiing through the hack door he exploied the ice chest and evidentlj found that he could obtnln n meal much cheaper than could he purehnscd at a rests irant ' Clothes ore pretty high too ' he thought mid proceeded to trv on some of Mr. Ilaekniniir x suits Meanwhile Mrs llnckmour returned and seeing no untidv kitchen table, called Patrolman Costello. who declare" that he chugged Mnrtln out from under a bed on the sec unci Moor PHILA. MAN SUICIDE IN N. Y. Aiiiiam aM-p. i..mn., er- ka '''TTiiiiy.ivuiiiubUiiwtiii'iaii hattan Bridge A mini believed to be William Wvllni'i son of Mrs Margaret Wv liner 1021 North Tvventv tifth street com nutted suicide in New eirk todav bv jumping l.'tll feet fiom (lie iippionch to the Manhattan budge, ovei East iipi, which sepuintes New enk from Itronk hn His body fell into the stieet Four letters were found in Ins pejekets addressed to relntives here According to the New oik dispatch telling of the suicide. Wvlluei was a salesman, unr ot ins niotliiis snni to dnv that Wvlluei was employed In the .Hiooklvn Itapid Tiai.sit Comp.niv For'"rIp' "" "" t",'lt, ""v cases. this reason, he wis disponed to doubt that the man who committed -uicide wns Ins brother s TO HONOR PATRON SAINT St. Donato's Church Plans Elaborate Program Today St Donato's Catholic Church. Sutv- fourth and Callow hill streets, will eele hrate the feast of its patron St Do- mtto, today with religious and seculnr program beginning at A p in and enel ing at 10 p m At 4pm there will be a parade for -everal squares about the e Inirch The procession will be led b.v the Rojal Italian Rand under the direction of . Professor Sabatini. At 7 in the even- ing there will be a sack lace for the societies connected with the church.. The next nnd most important event on! the program will be the religrinis serv-1 ice in the ohuich. From 8-30 to 10 p. m there will' be a band concert followed bv a display 'of fireworks. These two latter events. are to be held in Cobb s Creek Park, , Sixty-fourth and Race streets. Train Kills Five on Pilgrimage I.lmo. ().. Aug 10. Five persons wcrc instantly killed near here last ""llt "l"'11 "" automobile in which i t,"'T" r' ri,,"" """' -'""-k a ' Western Ohio traction car The victims'had been attending A Catholic , pilgrimage nt Crey, O. long as you're a man, you'll Out Today m die in ra HERE; 2 OF HEnl Increase of 49 Deaths ShoWrlJ in Report Made to Bureau of Health TUBERCULOSIS CLAIMS "38 Two deaths fiom effects of heat tie I included in the weekly mortality report1' to the Rureau of Health The total! number of eleaths was 30.'!, which Is ' forty -nine more than the figures for file previous week, hut fnr below the corre sponding period of 101 S. when fllO' cit nths weie 1 epen ted Chief among the onusus of death wcV'l tuberculosis which claimed 3S adults and li minors Thirty nine children died' j fiom diarrhoea and enteritis. Cancer pioved fatnl,to .'111. while Rrlght'a dts ase cnused 2!1 eleaths I Other causes of death were: Typhoid I fever 2 whooping cough, 1; dipt) I I theria I, simple meningitis, 2; npop-lj lex.v , 2e , heart disease, 24; acute, bron-' ilntis, 2, eliionii liroiu hitis, 4; pneil-) uionin and broncho pneumonia, 18 J" I I appendicitis and typhlitis, 7; hernia, 0; cirrhosis of the liver, (i; noncancerous tumors, 2. puerpenl septicemia, Si ac cidents nf pregnancy, ti congenital de- '' bilitv. III!, senility, .'! , homicide, -', other violent deaths. 22, all other dis- 'ases ill, iinkiiovvn clisenses, i. I lie! e were sixty eight eleaths from transmissible diseases, and nlnetytbirfel f children under one year Twenty two new e-nses of tvnbold fi ver were lepi.rted. nn increascif sli; "-hovvcil .in ine rensc- ot one, ellplitlieria Ml frnm nfM "VP to thirty -six; while eeinsiimptiem showed ninety-five casen. twenty two les- than the previous -j I week Truck Afire In City Hall Plaza Klrp in n ,,,mplt ioluIrd motortruck' nn the wjost siele of City Hall plaza at-' ! traded crowds todav before it wag -' tlngiiislied The tire was caused by , defee tive insulation, vvhleh ignited the' wooelvyork in the front of the truck Philadelphia First City in Right Thinking on the Prob lems of Big Business Prof. Irving Fisher IS OFF. WAV OFF ON STABVLIZ I.NO THE Value of the Dollar ron Furrninn information ADDUKSS The Philadelphia School ef The University of the Wejrld Instituted to Propagate the Philosophy of Americanism njr C. A. nywaher, r. O. Box 1, , Philadelphia. I"a. yH ivant m X. house on the evils of playing golf for money. Women as airplane pilots new touring routes for your car the five most popular motor boat designs six pages of the best of autumn clothes for men celebrities who have recently gone into the movies outdoor dancers by this pngeful Marilynn Miller in n new pose and. Sir Barton on a fast track. :. i t 'i f L, ,a r o V Rjh ! i.1' ',?i II- t-' ' a ;'' a IT fl lift -a ..iM",'i
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