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VOL. VI. NO. 78
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Under the. Act of March 3. 1479.
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SHORE KIDNAPPERS
TRAILED ID INLET
Neyv Clue in Blake Mystery
Starts More Detectives
on Case
HOPE FOR EARLY SOLUTION
OF CHILD'S DISAPPEARANCE
Son of Former Phila. Couple
Torn From Mother Her
Handbag Stolon
, JJu a Staff Corrttpondcnt
Atlantic City.' Doc. 13. Atlantic
City police arc follow ing a trail which
they expect will lend in a few hours to
the kidnappers of the five-year-old son
of James M. Wake, formerly of 10S
East Govven nvenue, Germnntown.
The boy was stolen from his mother
last night in Ventnor, by two negroes,
who nlsrf robbed her and left her lying
In a faint near the home of Benjamin
Fox, 1011 South Cambridge avenue,
Ventnor. ,
The trail of the kidnappers v said
to lend tt the vicinity of the inlet sec
tion of QrientnJ avenue, not far from
the home-gf fRc bov's parents.
Chief Sprague. of the Ventnor police,
and Defectives McDowell and truest un
covered Cclue this morning which wns
Important,enough to warrant a confer
ence withthe county prosecutor. Ad
ditional detectives immediately were
put on the case, and the search was re
sumed wifh greater intensity in the
ncighborlfood of Oriental avenue.
Mrs. Dlake boards at 231 Oricntnl
avenue, ijpd is prostrated there, under
the careTdf a physician. Her husband
lives Mn apartment nt 12.1 South
V.crmoniwnvenuc. around tho corner,
from Mr7 Blake's residence. Living
with hiihinre his two other children, his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Miller, and her
daueb.ter,Miss Agnes Miller, sister of
Mrs. Blake. Miss .Miller refused to
answer a.-question put to her today by
reporterhwi to whether there were any
domtftlt&tiraculties in the family. Tho
kidnapped boy, it is said, was living in
the father's Vermont avenue apartment.
Father litre Today
Mr. Blake, who is a Philadelphia
business map, Is in this city today, but
plans to be in, Atlantic City this after
noon to take part in the search.
The kidnapping was executed with
astonishing boldness. Mr?. Blake, ac
companied by her son, had just alighted
from a trolley car from Atlantic City.
Tho mother and child had no thought
of danger when two negroes darted from
behind a cluster of bushes.
One of them seized Mrs. Blake b
the throat, stilling the cry Bhe uttered.
The other caught Hold of the child.
Mother Faints
That was all Mrs. Blake saw. for she'
fainted In the grasp of her assailant.
"When she regained consciousness the.
kidnappers had disappeared with the
child.
They had taken her handbag and this
'Caused the hope that they were merely
thieves Vho" wouldleave the child un
harmed somewhere after making sure
of thejr escape. The long nnd futile
search last night and today destroyed
this hope.
When Mrs. Blake struggled to her
feet with her throat bruised by the
grasp of the kidnappers, Bhe hurried
for help and shelter to the Fox resi
dence. There, sobbing with grief over
her missing child nnd shaking with ter
ror, she told her story.
Donald Tliddle, son of former Mayor
Illddle, of Atlantic City, informed the
police of what hrfd happened.
Mr. Biake said today he had re
ceived no threats or warnings that
would help in finding an explanation
of the kidnapping and the attack upou
Mrs. Blake. The family moved from
their home in Germantown to Ventnor
about two months ago.
Mr. Blake added that no offer had
bcKmade yet to pay ransom for the
return of the boy.
Hunt Starts in Yrntnor
Chief Sprague, of the Ventnor police,
obtained from the mother all the infor
mation she was able to give, and then
began the search for the boy and the
men who had stolen him. Every police-
man in Ventnor joined in this huntv
The Atlantic City police were at work
upon the case within a few minutes,
and the net set for the kidnappers con-
tmueu to wiueu tnrougnout tne mgiit,
Jt is believed that the two negroes
' cannot move irom tlielr present hiding
place without being captured,
' Not Badly Injured
Mrs. Benjamin Fox, near jvhose home
the kidnapping took place, said she
knew nothing of what had' happened
until Mrs.. Blake appeared at the door,
seeking help. .
"We were nod acquainted with Mrs.
Blake," said Mrs. Fox. "She came to
the house because it was nearest. She
was not badly Injured, but she was ter
ribly frightened. We were able to
Jcarn her name and then, with the help
of the telephone operators, notified her
husband, who came for her.
"Mrs. Blake was too upset to tell
much of what had happened. She said
her l(tt! boy bad become ill on a trolley
car and she bad alighted with him."
When Prosecutor Gaskill, of Atlantic
county, was notified of the kidnapping,
ho assigned County Detective usbaum
to the; case. Detective vNusbaum had
juil returnee irom tiamraonton, wiiere
he took a leading part in the Investi
gation into the disappearance of Billy
Pansey.
The detective s first step was to hurry
fo toe scene of the kidnapping iu an
automobile to study the spot iu search
of clues before It was too late.
Because of the Dausry cose, with Its
tragic, ending, deep interest Is being
taken iu tha Blake kidnapping every
where hx Atlantic rnnnty.
TBTry i woman and child, in th$
oiity 1 on tlw alrt toly( in the
SECTION! RESORT
Killed by Mother
in 'Hbhh t JE"RBaflBHs!sa, HsHHt
JACQUELINE POWELL
Ten-ear-old daughter of "Sirs,
Emily L. Powell, formerly of this
city. She was hot by her mother,
who' Tatcr attempted suirldo In
Den er
TOOTHACHE WARNS OF FIRE
Man Awakens to Find House; Burn
ing One Occupant Overcome
' A man was overcome by smoke and
Lwns rescued by firemen nt 2:30 o'clock
this moraine Snv n fire that damaged
two dwellings at 4474 and 4470 Rich
mond street. A toothache, incidentally,
served as n fire alarm.
Henry Butchler, sixty-fic jears old,
who, witli his sou, Henry, Jr., occu
pied 4474 Richmond street, hnd tooth
ache. It awakeneil him and he found
the house filled with smoke. The blaze,
starting in the cellar, had reached the
second floor.
The flames communicated to the ad
joining house occupied by Fred Rclehcrt.
sixty-five cnrs old. his wife, two adult
tons, Willinm and Charles, and nu adult
daughter, Elizabeth.
Henry Biitchlcr .Jr., wns overcome
by smoke as he was fighting the blaze
before firemen arrived. Hosemen found
him on the second floor and carrier!
htm out. He was revived.
UNITED GAS SELLS INTEREST
Disposes of Holdings In Kansas, City
, Companies
The United Gas Improvement Co.
has sold its controlling interest in the
Kansas City Gas Co., according to a
dispatch from Kansas City todav.
The local corporation was identified
with both the Kansas City, Kansas
Ons Co. and the Kansas City, Missouri
Gas Co. Lewis Lillie, 'third vice presi
dent and general manager of the
United Gas Improvement Co. is a di
rector of one of the western companies.
Mr. Lillie today said "certain nego
tiations have been pending for some
time," over the acquisition of the
local corporation's interests in Kansas
City by financiers of that community.
He said plans are under Way to re
organize the Kansas City property.
BRITISH STEAMSHIP SINKING
Messina Sends SOS Frqm 430 Miles
Off Newfoundland
New York, Dec. 13. (By A. P.)
The British steamship Messina, St. John
for Antwerp, sent out nyi 8. O. R, call.
The steamship Maple Leaf answered,
saying she would reach her iu twenty
hours. Tho Messina gave her position
as latitude 47.22 north and longitude
42.30 west.
This position is approximately 430
miles off the New Foundland coast.
The British steamshin Grangenarlc
an ashore on Long Island seven miles
east of Ambrose channel iignt. A coast
guard cutter was sent to the rescue.
The Cunard Liner Carnlania. in col
lision with the steamer Maryland last
Wednesday", arrived at Halifax with
many Americans aboard. She appeared
to be leaking, The steamer Caronla,
which "had stood by, accompanied her.
BABY, SCALDED, NEAR DEATH
Tipped Kettle of j Soup Off the
Kitchen 8tove
Eleven-months-old .Wesley Leach,
2234 South Fifteenth street, is in a
dangerous condition iu the Methodist
Hospital with scalds on the head, nclk,
shoulders and back, as the result of
upsetting a kettle of hot soup in his
home last night.
Tha baby, who; U just learning to
walk, was alone in the, kitchen 'and
&1W4 UtklWE jtbevntove. MU.
RED HORDE THREATENS
EUROPE WITH ANARCHY
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Radicals Attempt to Force Western Nations of
Continent to Choose -Between Bolshevism
and Murderous Civil War
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By II. F. KOSPOTII
Special rrrpsponi)ent of the. Kvenlnc Public Irfiluer In hwlUerland
Coiurlohf, mm, by
Geneva. Dec. 13. Tho situation in
western Europe is dominated today
a year after the triumph of democ
racy over kaiserlsm by the rapid and
apparently irresistible advauce of bol
shevism.
Instead of honestly co-operating with
the governments that won the war to
bring about the social reforms that are
universally recognized to be just and
inevitable after the terrible ordenl
through which humanity has passed,
many Socialists nnd labor lenders in
France, Italy and England have per
versely devoted themselves to the svs
tematlc sabotage of their countries'
victory and deliberately prevented
economic nnd political reconstruction.
All the exalted hopes of hapffiucss
and prosperity that were awakened by
the victory of democracy are tragically
foundering in the ever-rising tide of
anarchy. Famine nnd pestilence are
more menacing in Europe after n jear
of vpeaci- than thc ever were during
the war.
Class Hatred Grows Dailj
Day by day, the Bolshevik spiilt of
class hatred and Civil strife is growing
in venomous intensitj, spreading every
where confusion, corruption and disor
ganization. Its formenters are daily be
coming bolder. Its secret abettors arc
throwing off their dlf-guls.es.
Scarcely an attempt Is made any
longer to camouflage as legitimate wage
conflicts the levolutiounry strikes cnlled
by the Bolshevik leaders. Respect of
authority is vanishing. Lenine is openly
hailed as tho Messiah of proletarian
revolt. Chaos is in sight.
It is not pleasaut to be a prophet of
evil. I am not by nature a pessimist.
T tnlte Knnie credit to m.vself for having
i.oon inttiiictic In verv dark dn.vs during
the war when many good patriots
ileemetl Hint nil was lost. But U-4S tin
possible, here in Switzerland, to. feel
tlio fevered milse of Euronc wildly beat
ing and not to realize that the crisis of
the Russian moral plague is imminent,
and that the danger to democracy Is
iufinitcly greater than at the time of
Ludendorff's most menacing Invasions.
If kaiserism had, triumphed its jrulc
ivotild not have lasted more than u few
years. But one .vear ouly of bolshe
vism may suffice to deal this stricken,
ruined continent a final deathblow.
The signs are unmistakable in
Europe that the hour- of the supreme
trial of strength between democratic
Brothers Petition Court for Ob
servation by Alienists Den
ver Prosecutor Agrees
SHE MAY BE BROUGHT HERE
Petition for n hearing to determine
her sanity hns been filed in the case of
Mrs. Emily Lippineott Powell, n former
Philudelphlan, who killed her len-year-old
daughter ,Tacque,line, by her broth
ers! Rowland and George Lippiucott,
of this city.
They arrived in Denver vyesterday
afternoon. The petition was nieu ueiore
Judge Rothberger in the county court
of Denver.
The brothers said they could not ac
count for Sirs. Powell's tragic act
Mrs. Powell is still suffering from
injuries ns n result of the nttempt on her
own life after she nad killed her daugh
ter. Her brothers will visit her today
nt St. Luke's Hospital.
No Doubt of Insanity
James D. Benedict, counsel for Mrs.
Powell, said the has been insane for
more than a year. Dr. Albert D. Ben
nett, a criminologist of the district at
torney's office. Bald there was no doubt
of the woman's insanity.
On their arrival in Denver the Lip
pineott brothers Immediately accom
panied Attorney Benedict to the offices
of City Attorney James A. Marsh,
where the three went into conference
with Judge Richmond In preparing the
necessary certificates.
With the papers was filed a state
ment bv Dr. Edmund F. Dean, who is
attending Mrs. Powell, to the effect that
t. i.iu nhservatlons and his treat'
raent of-her since the shooting, he was
hhnilv Ot tne ooilliuu moi nut- ub v
unsound mind. Ditrict Attorney Foley
oinHv having given his consent to
,i ...itli the lunacy filing, it is be
lleved that in accordance with the
W of Mrs, Powell's relatives, the
iudgfi- Will appm- " uruio.
before Monday to sit on the case so that
hearing would take place Tuesday at
St. Luke's Hospital.
Can't Tails to Visitors
Mrs -Powell continued to jlain yestcr
dav 'Doctor Dean said she probably
wilt' return to a normal condition. She
maintains her quiet demeanor and is
not permitted to receive or talk to visi-
Further evidence of her demente1
state was forthcoming yesterday in a
report to the police that she had recently
nurchased an automobile, and a home on
Capitol Hill, and is now not abjo to tell
the exact whereabouts of either,
It IS Virtually !) ipsivuii nut
linw.her brother t" WJr just, ;o
ASKSANITYHEAR1NG HAMIVIONTON POLICE
FOR IS. POWELLl FORCE IS DISMISSED
Publto Ledger Co.
liberty and Bolshevik tvranny is rapidlv
approaching. And this trial of strength,
which may well mean murderous civil
war. is inevitable.
There seems to be no other cure for
th' madness of hatred, envy nnd am
bition that has befallen I.enine's dis
ciples and their dupes. Conciliator
methods, concessions nnd compromises
may retard the tragic rlinint for a
short time, but tJiey are powerless to
prevent it.
Although the world-wide rising, os
tensibly planned for November to com
memorate the anniversary of Lenlne's
advent to power, hung fire in Europe,
the explosion is merely postponed. Per
haps now the winter will pnss before it
comes for snow and sleet were ever
powerful antidotes against revolution
but, come it must at last with all its in
calculablo consequences.
Force Will Decide Issue
A minority of citizens, maddened bv
the ambitious exploiters of p criminal
doctrine, are rc-ohed to seize dictatorial
power, and thej will cither triumph b.v
force or succumb to force. There is no
other alternative.
The progress of bolshevisni in western
Europe may be accurately measured b.v
the development of three dominant
sjmptoms! The open adherence- to
Lenlne's doctrine nnd methods of labor
leaders who hitherto at least pretended
to lepudiate bolshevism ; the now- undis
guised support of Lenine by such
"bourgeois" parties and nevvspapcrs as
were notorious during the war for their
pacifist and pro-German attitude; and
the increasing timidity nnd iuclinntiou
of tho established governments to pacify
the elements of anarchy by "conces
sions." These ominous s.vmpioms, which un
til recently were most mnrked in Eng
land, arc now nlso alarmingly apparent
in l' ranee, wiiere tlic expected retire
ment of the old "Tiger" Clemenccau
the onl man of action iimoiig the Eu
ropean statesmen has unleashed the
whole pack of political j.ickals whom
JYMW'!Wfi5X.f h'MrpjClaw:
lone held in cowed submission and
ws-o,
riv
kti-nlnt. ' "
Opejily Espouse Bolshevism
By nominating as n Socialist cnndl
date for tho French Chamber of Depu-
Continued on I'tiice. Twenty Column One
Action Follows Complaint by
County Detective That They
Wouldn't Aid Dansey Probe
DICTAGRAPH TRAP FAILS
' Rii n Rtntt pAcp'nnMf -n
Ilammonton, N. l, Dec. 13. Dis
missal of the whole police force of
Ilammonton, N. J., shortly nfter they
hnd been verbnlly nttneked bv County
Detective .1. P. Wilson for failing lo
help him. is ore of the side develop
ments in the investigation into the
denth of Billy Dansey.
The discharge of the force was
learned today. The men were dropped
nt the request of the Law nnd Order
Society, which recommended such action
nt its meeting this week.
Many persons in Hnmmnnton were
of the opinion thnt the policemen were
dismissed because of their failure to aid
in the investigation of the cne.
When nsked todny why the men were
dropped, Mnor Bojer said they were
discharged for taking part in a street
fight the other night.
Burdlch Working for White
E. A. Burdick, former chief of police,
whose resignation was requested, is now
working in the employ Ot Edward II.
White, father of the prisoner, Charles
White.
A few davs ago County Detective
AVilson voiced his complaint against the
Ilammonton police. There are three
men on the force. He said they not
only refused to aid him in any way,
but actually appeared to he working
against him and his partner. Detective
Nusbaum, in the investigation of the
case.
Mauv persons are rallving to the
fu port of the prisoners, Charles White
and his housekeeper, Mrs. EdlthToues,
now under arrest io Main Landing jail,
William J. Tulner. a brother-in-law
of Mrs. Jones, said he was on the White
farm the day that Billy Dansey dis
appeared and In touch with White all
Hay, He said he did not believe that
White injured the boy.
Dictagraph Is Installed
Mrs. Charles White visited her hus
band at the jail yesterday and bpent
some time with him. A dictagraph had
been installed by the authorities, it is
paid, in the1 room whejro they met.
After embracing his wife. White, who
still maintains the steady calm that has
charncteilzed his attitude since the ar
rest, told her of his desire to remain
in the jail until every vestige of suspi
cion had been removed from his name.
"They havo Btarted this affair," he
said. "It is how up to them to finish
it,''
. White and his wife are an unusually
affectionate married couple. They met
in a special room fitted up for the in
terview. Their embrace on meeting
was Ions and tender,. the accused hus
band smothering- his wife with kisses.
"VOU don't .haVeo tell we or tW
CuHo W'.Two. Celiuua Ta
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HUM
IN FIGHT OVER 30
Lad, 16, Says Playmate, 14,
Tried to Take Ejght-Year-Old
Brother's Christmas Money
VICTIM IS IN HOSPITAL
IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Youth Arrested Said to Be Solo
Support of Family of Eight.
Father Died Recently
Benjamin Feldmnn. sixteen enrs old.
41'0 North Sixth street, the police
allege, stabbed his playmate, Chnrles
Ilnrtvitk. fourteen yenis old. of 3'JI
Vine street, in the left lung with n
penknife last night, when Chnrles tried
to take thirty cents from Benjamin's
eight-j ear-old brother, Solomon.
The thirty cents wns to have gone
toward the support of the sorely pressed
TVldmau family of seven little chil
dren, whose father died nine dn.vs nsu
of pneumonia.
Benjamin was held in .fOOO bail by
Magistrate Beaton in the Tenth and
Buttonwood streets station today lo
await the result of the boy's injuries
Accoiding to a statement obtained,
from Chnrles, who is in a serious con- i
dltion nt the Roosevelt Hospital. Benja
min stabbed him while they were play
ing with a group of bojs at Sixth and
Noble streets.
The police say Feldmau is the sole
support of a family of eight, his mother
and brothers and sisters, the Inttcr
ranging in ages from two jears old to
sixteen jears,
Solomon was planning to buypost
cards and sell them on the street to help
get things for the family's- Christmas.
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OTNTFAiNThT'STRUE
Huh? Sure! Oh, Boy! Just Like Old i
Times Again
Early morning breakfasters rubbed
their eyes in amazement.
One gradually put out his hand to
see if it were a injth or a reality . j
Gradually his lingers took a grip on
the shln.v white object yes. it was a
sugar bowl. And it contained leal
lR-karat sugar.
A dozen such bowls, fully loaded,
made their appearance in ns many cen
tral restaurants.
"Now ou can s'top raising enne,"
said a waitress facetiously to an cany
morning grouch.
"lien il. leplied the grouch, "nnd
send those little envelopes you used to
pass out to old man Santa, Cluus.
Tin' words, "sugar for ml," was
displayed on placards in thri' windows
of several rc.staui ants, nnd those in
the habit of smotheriug their cereal
with tli" commodity darted inside,
FATAL RIOTS IN, WEST INDIES
British Sailors
Strikers
London. Dec.
Landed and
Are Killed
Two
13. (By A.
P.)
Labor disturbances in the British
islnnds of Trinidad and Tobago, in the
West Indies, lending to rioting during
which men were Innded from the British
warship Calcutta, nnd resulting in sev
eral cnsunlties, are reported in official
dispatches to the colonial office hrre,
From todav's official messages jt ap
pears that the trouble originated in
Tobago, tvvcnt.v -two milrs northeast of
Trinidad. Sramcn from the Calcutta
were lauded there. The police fired
upon the rioters, killing the ringleader.
At-the same time n strike of stevedores
in Trinidad occurred nnd rioting ensued
in which one man was killed.
The labor unrest subsided after in
creased wages hnd been granted the
workers, the. messages report. Today's
advices announce that Port of Spain
is quiet, hut that the country districts
arc still disturbed
GOLDMAN CASE UP MONDAY
Supreme Court Will Then Receive
Withdrawal of Her Appeal
Washington. Dec. 13. (By A.
P. l As the Supreme Court is not iu
session today, formal withdrawal by
Emma Goldman of her application for
an appeal from federal court decrees in
Sew lorK nismifisiog ,naneas corpus
proceedings brought in an effort to pre
vent her deportation to soviet Russia.
cannot be made until next Monda.v.
Harry Weinberger, per counsel, has
written Assistant Attorney General
Stewart, asking that the application be
withdrawn and Mr. Stewart is expected
to notify the court Monday of her de
cision to submit to deportation at the
same time Alexander Berkman is sent
out of the country.
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SEE PEACE BY CHRISTMAS
Believed Berlin Will Sign Protocol
Following New Note From Allies
Paris, Dec, IS. Germany's reply to
the Entente noles relative to the sign
ing of the protocol of the peace treaty
does not constitute an acceptance, al
though couched in conciliatory terms,
according to the Echo de Paris.
It is said the Allies will have lo
send a new note to Germany, but be
lle Is expressed tjjot the Berlip.ov
ei-Kfrumt will yield andUiat the pro
Wmtfil 'ltt iw aferiid about ChrlftttufiH i
CENTS
POLICE SAY
LIFT FUEL STRICTURES
AS MINERS BEGIN WORK
More Trains in Service and Retail Stores Keep
Open Full Day as Coal Famine
Ends
By tho Associated Press
Washington, Dec. 13, The natiou
found partial relief today from the rigid
restrictions on coal consumption en
forced through the railroad administra
tion as n result of the fuel dearth caused
lb the strike of soft-coal miners.
Regional directors of railroads over
! virtual! the entire countr.v hove modi
I fled the restrictions by" niithnrit of
Director General lllnes, who issued an
order lenving the enforcement of the
regulations In their discretion.
Where locnl conditions permitted, the
diieclors nfter receiving the order re
voked the restrictions on coal nnd gave
inert hants an opportunity to rcup the
harvest of the heavy Christmas trade.
Some anxlet had been felt among re
tailers over the limitations of business
hours and industrial plants were facing
heavy losses b.v enforced shut-downs.
President Wilson's attitude as to the
resignation of Kuel Administrator Gar
field was expected to be made known to
ilnv. Although officials at the White
House ndvnncod the opinion that the
resignation would be accepted there
were no indications the President had
SpLDIERS TO GET DELAYED TRUNKS BY CHRISTM-VS
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. Thousands of soldieii .tiunks ccn-
tfilning souvenirs which their owners wished to give as Christ -
mas presents hut which were delayed In the confusion of the
letuvn from Europe, will reach their destination uftie the holi-
' days. Vi ,
JAPAN IS SEEKING
VALPARAISO, Dec,
13.
,i C' !'
themselves iu Chile, particularly In the coalVaudJlion ruining
fldffsnroTecsfiif'in consldoraBleTntereslr T,Af)'isvnlBo'"talk- oT
the opening up of fishing lmlustrTes hifj;e, & Japan io tceking;
an outlet for her excess population. " ,
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NY
EARRING ROBBERY
Say Mrs. Taylor, Hold-Up Vic
tim, Who Accuses Them,
Is Mistaken
UP TO MONTGOMERY JURY
Mrs. Knte In lor. whose earrings
were torn from her by highwaymen Inst
Suiidny night, identified Joseph Gile,
nineteen cnrs old. nnd Wnlter Mel
lon, eighteen jears old, as trie men who
nttneked her.
Cnptnin .tnmes I. Donnghy. of the
Lower Merino station, today expressed
conviction thnt Mrs. Ta.vlor was mis
tnken. He said that the two bo.vs. who
combined outlawry with social activity,
hnd made a full and frank confession
to him, answering truthfullv nil ques
tions. When identified b.v Mrs. Ta.vlor
last night. Captain Donnghv said, the
two bo.vs denied they hnd attacked Mrs
Tavlor and offered nn nlibi, which the
pn'lee are investigating.
Mrs. Ta.vlor who is the wife of
.Incob Tn.vliir, .1122 Snruce street, was
nttneked after she hnd alighted from a
trolley car at Fift.v -fourth and Spruce
streets. She snvs three men jumned
from nn automobile and tore the dia
mond nrnamenlh from her ears.
Captain Donngh told of Mrs. Tnv
lor's identification when the two bo.vs
were taken before Magistrate Howard
S. Stillwagon in the Ardmore police
station this morning No witnesses
were heard.
Held for Grand Jury
After the captain's statement,
Mngistrnte Stillwagon held the two
young prisoners to await the action of
the Montgomery county grand jury
and committed them to the .Norristown
inil. Thev were taken there nfter leav
ing the court.
When Gile nnd Mellon nppenred he
fore the magistrate today they looked
better thnn at anv time since their
arrest. Some one hnd furnished them
with fresh linen and new articles of
.clothing. The presented the appear
ance of two high school bovs, caught
in some sort of mischief, rather than
self-confessed highwajmen.
FOGOLLOWS cold wave
Temperature Rises to 52 Rain Pre
dicted for Today
Fog returned to Philadelphia early
today with the departure of the cold
wave. The mist hung over the river,
but was not dense enough to causo
serious inconvenieuce to shipping.
The temperature todav is much high
er than that of jesterday. The thcr
mometer at 11 o'clock this morniug
showed 57 degrees above rero,
Rain today is predicted by the weath
er bureau. The day began with a light
drizzle
Tomorrow will be a clear and pleas
ant Sunday. The government observers
made n decision. In the event the
resignation wns accepted it was be
lieved the powers of the fuel adminis
trator would be transferred to the rail
road administration.
Operntors. ns n whole, hao not yet
announced their stann on the terms
of the government's proposal, which the
miners accepted as a basix for settle
ment of their grievances, but the oper
ators of the central Penus.vlvnnin dis
trict, one of tho largest in the United
Stntes, accepted the terms under pro
test. New York, Dec. 13. (B.v A. T.)
Railroads running into New York re
sumed operntion today of a number of
second section' of regular trains fol
lowing the action of the ruilroad nd
ministrntlou in easing the fuel conser
vation rules. Resumption of the great
majority of trains which were canceled
altogether has been authorized for next
Monday bv Regional Director A. T.
llnrdin. Mr. Hardin specified, however,
thnt the Twentieth Century Limited
should not resume its runs "until fur-
CnntlnueU on lae Two, Column l'otir
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TO COLONIZE'' CHILE
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Efforts by Japtatoae 'to establish
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MEETING FIZZLES
Gompers's Conference, Which
Meets Today, Pales in View
of Recent "Events
COAL MINERS WON STRIKE
ny CLINTON W.
GILBKRT
lCienlnc rulillr
Man
CorreMwrndent et I he
loiterer
Washington, Dec. 1". Samuel
Gompers' hij lalor conference which
meets todn.v sniinded like a bombshell
when it was called on Octobc" 21. It
sounds like a bit of mild labor propa
ganda ns it meets tndn.v.
No elcctrieit.v hns -jone our of the
industrial atmosphere in the lat six
weeks. When tndnr's conference was
cnlled. President Wilson's Hrt ill-fntecl
industrial conference linil iust eloseil
dramatically. Mr. Gompers' call seem
ed like a reply to the refusal of cupitnl
to accept collective hnrgniuing. It wns
tnken b.v nn excited public ns labor's
detiauce.
Its approach nwakens onlv mild in
terest nmong the officinls here And the
labor lenders biar every murk of hnv
ing a hnrd time to know wlint to do
witli their conference now thnt thev
have it on their hands. Jn reality Mr.
Gompers had to do somethrfig when
labor bolted the industrial conference
It wouldn't do jusl to walk out.
And each da.v since the conference
wns called there has been less reason
for its calling. The excitement has diej.
in i iiie linn in muirunsni in innor
lias diminished. The actual power of life
radicals has gone. Mr Gompers and
his associates aie firmly in their seats
in the counsels of labor Thev never
were stronger apparently thnn they are
now. The Plumb plan is dead. Of the
nationalization of mines nothing now
is likel to be heard.
Had the swing "been in the other di
rection, as many supposed it would be.
and perhaps the chief of the American
Federation of Labor among the num
ber, the conference which meets today
would have proved a setting for the
launching of a radical movement bv
Mr. Gompers. It wns perhaps with this
in mind that the gathering was sum
moned. Injunction Not Effective Weapon
There is no sign now that anything
raoicai win come irom tne laoor confer,
ence. Labor has just won the coal strike,
Iq that strike it has demonstrated that
the iniunrtinn Is not an effective weanon
to curb a nation-wide strike. The coal
strike has been so conducted hs to
calm rather than exeito public opinion.
, There has been po violence. There
have been few or no signs of radicalism
in its conduct, and the one or two state
leaders of the miners who were radical
have been repudiated in effect by Lewis
nnd the other natiopal officers.
The large number of outlaw strlkrs
that were trouhllng the country ii) Oc
tober have mostly failed, A more dlfr
REST IN LABOR
Cat4Bft4? on r 'Two. Miai Iw
PREMIERS SEEK
AID OF AMERICA'
Plan Move to Facilitate Compro
mise Between Parties
in Senate i
PREAMBLE STILL FINDS
OPPOSITION IN EUROPE
England Expected to Intercede
With Wilson to Settle
Adriatic Tangle
By the Associated Press
Paris, Dec. 13. As a result of th
conferences being held at London by
Premiers Lloyd George and Clemen
ccau, the American Government will be
notified that in order to facilitate a
compromise, between adverse parties. In
the American Senate the Allies are
willing to accept, to as great an extent
as possible, some of the reservations
to the Versailles treaty made by the
foreign relations committee, according
to the Matin.
It is said the Allies will do everything
in order that America may participate
in future conferences.
Important problems, the newspaper
says, will henceforth be settled by- a
council of the premiers of France. Eng
land am' Italy. This council will meet
sometime? in Paris, and sometimes in
London, nnd will examine principally
Russian and Turkish problems.
In the presence of John W. Davij,
I'nited States ambassador to Great
Britain, it is said. Premiers Clemenceau
and Llojd George assured Vittorio Rcl
oloia, Italian foreign minister, that'
there was a necessity for "an early set
tlement of the Fiume problem, and in
dicated England would intercede with
I1.A TTntfa.1 C!1.A f- T...1.. '"
IN CONFERENCES
The ftnirit wliieli nrepntlo nf lii T.MsSlt'w
don conference, the Matin Bay. Is ""
good and the necessity for close co-op
eration by.Jhe Allies is re,cogpized. , 'V
iiujwiju' t-iuriiiM rvmuve io me-en-gngements
concluded b.v Clemencead-aud,'
Llovd George at the Conference1 iWIUM?
made about December 15, according 14
the Echo de Paris.
Washington. Dec. 13. (By A. P.)
Frequent conferences between Entents
diplomats here haw indicated that their
governments might be prepared to ac
cept some reservations to the peac
treaty in order to accomplish its rati
fication in the Senate, arid it is under
stood thnt only the illness of President
v ilson hns prevented him from being
so advised by some of theim
It has not been made known here
to what extent the Entente power
might be prepared to go, but it does
appear that there would be final ob
jection to the preamble as proposed by
the Senate foreign relntions committee,
by which others powers would be re
quired to officially record their accept
ance of rcservntious as part of the
treaty in substance.
At present it mny be. stated that
unless express instructions are received
to the contrary none of the Entente
representatives in Washington will take
upon himself the responsibility of a
statement as to the willingness of Ms
government to accept -feservatlons lest
he be charged with improper interfer
ence in the Internal political situation.
tendon. Dec. 13.--(By A. P.) Th
inter-allied conference was resumed to
day In Downing street, with Premiers
Llovd George and Cleinencenu and
other officials of the British. French
nnd Italian Governments presnnt.- The
British conferees included Earl Curzon,
Arthur .1. Balfom and Andrew; Bonr
Law . Jules Camhon attended with
Premier Clemenceau. The Italian
naval attache in London and ower
Italian embassy officials also were
present. ,
It w.is announced that Signor Scia
loia had left for Italy. It was reported
that hi? journey was for the purpose o
consulting his government with refer
ence to nn allied proposition for thf
settlement of the Adriatic problem.
Rome, Dec 13. (By A. P.) Offi
cial announcement concerning an ar
rangement of the Fiume question Is ex"
pected soon. In a sense the It8'""
Government acknowledges the right ol
Fiume to decido its own destiny, ac
cording to the. principle of self-determination,
and promises to do every
thing iu its power to have a decision of
the Flume national council accepted by
the allied and associated powers.
At the same time it is believed 1,1m
Captain Unbrlele a .nnui-zio ana ma
troops, will be pardoned, patriotic ideals
which moved them to cuter Fiume belnr
ideals
t bcinr
ince, V
d thj
nd b'i
taken as a mitigating circumstance
D'Annunnio today expresseu
i,r.o ihnt the Fiume auestlon
u.. BAi..a hafnre Phrlstmns. and
would be enabled to resume preparation
for his flight trom uome to xoaw
After reaching Tokio, D'Annunzio. ia-f
tends to fly to California, touching at
Hawaii.
ITALY WILL NOT MIX
IN RUSSIAN AFFAIRS
Rme, Dec, 13. "I wish It under
stood we do not intend to mix in Rus
sia's internal politics." said Premier
N'tttl In the chamber of deputies, cuV
fussing the diversion by seamen of the
steamship Persia to Fiume, "I Wlalj
the name of Fiume would nofbe. mixed
up in our political discussion. Flums
represents nn ideal sacred to all of us, . '
regardless of party." He denied Utt
tho arms on the Persia were dwtlwJ
for Russia, ,
The premier declared -war maUffp
will continue to be sold, but he Ml
givenlDsUuctions4hatn0thlvaWt.il ' '
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