Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, February 05, 1920, Night Extra Financial, Image 1

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THE WEATHER
WnAhlngton, Feb. D. Snow; Friday
partly cloudy nnd warmer.
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Express Hits Freight Locomo
tiveFour Pullman Sloopors
and Other Coaches Derailed
PIDERS THROWN ABOUT;
SOME CRAWL OUT WINDOWS
Service on Branch Halted Sev
eral Hours Police and Hos-
pitals
Respond to Call
one n woman, worn hurt
rive pcrnn
.BdllTMia traiu service on the Penn
' h Railroad betw.cn this city and
VwYork was disarranged at. 12:4..
.'clock this afternoon when a passenger
nprt struck a freight locomotive scv
ml hundred yards northeast of I-rnnk-b:i
.Tunction.
The impact derailed the passenger lo
comotive, drnwlns Chesapeake laid Ohio
L S Sfo. 102, bound for NcW York
fMm Washington and points south. Four
' Pullman sleepers also were derailed.
Calls to Police and Hospitals
As the big express locomotive left the
rails nnd rolled to the bide of the track
iuth a roar of escaping steam, rails
were sent to police stations and hospitals
for patrol wagons and nmbulanccs.
Passengers were tumbled about in the
cars as the four sleepers left the rails.
Those la the detailed Pullmans struggled
lor aits. Men smashed windows and
assisted women to the snow-banked
ground.
Chen First-Ald Treatment
The woman who was slightly hurt
uas given first -aid treatment and rc
fisod to go to a hospital. None of the
injured required hospital care.
The wreck occurred after Frankford
TuDCtioft hod been passed and -.the c
rreis was approaching the curve tit
Wliwtsneat nine, just miuui i iu
I'rankfnrd creek.
Tlic freight locomotive, No. 1131, was
king shifted to another truck as the
riuwugcr tinin struck it. The express,
which left Washington at 0:03 o'clock,
Imd bceu reported as ten minutes late
at Wilmington, but was on time, ruil
roatl official sas, when it passed the
IVankford .Tunction.
It, h. O'Dounel, general manager of
the Pennsylvania Itailroad, ordered u
sprcwl train made up to lenvo above
4tt"secneof the wrcck.nLO.o'.cJack ibis
tilcnoou. He appoiuted n committee!
of three of his staff to determine the
cause of the collision.
STREET FORCE INCREASE!
Hepburn Hopes to Have Most of
Snow Cleared by Nlfjht
Chief Donald M. .Hepburn, of the
Bureau of .Street Cleaning, this morning
augmented tin" force of teams and
hborers who worked all through the
night in an effort to minimize the ob
itruction to traffic by the storm.
Today he personally supervised the
ttork of l.'OO men and 800 double teams.
removing the snow in every section of
the city
. He wif continually on the jump, civ
il? instructions for the elenriug of
"rV v" L l!! ", ,VW?rl
AVE ARE HURT
IN P.R.R.WRECK
AT FRANKFORD
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eum no removed throughout the city.
SURF ROLLS INTO STREETS
Ocean City, Md., Hard Hit by Fu
rious Storm
Ocean City. Md.. Feb. 5. (By A.
i I the furious northeast storm, which
Mt m Tnevhiv, continued unabated t
y. wnterfront -residents were obliged
to abandon their homes; three summer
cottages have collapsed, and scarcely
a ouilding on the ocean ifront was ex
pected to escape damage Jrom wind and
witT.
..51th ih1 fiurt ro,linK through the city
ttwts and over the strip of land that
s;in.r."rllj'i!'cluri,,tcs the oce' from
r?Me,Dt b"y' h ! two botli3 f water
resemble.) one. The city was deprived
it watrmain!" bW,"iUe
ROPE OFF DANGER POINTS
Pollc
Take Precautions
Damages
In Storm
corner nfn-"5 10?c'1 nff "10 northeast
corner nf Diamond street and Germnn
toa avenue, where a sagging iron
wling. broken by the weights ; of fcS
andsnor,, endangered pedestrians.
1W Ay zo"0,! n," wa established
I' reels ' i uc n."c"weitJi anil Arch
iireets, where the window- nf
Wy was blown iu bthe wlnd".,"
hat iki! SCVT tbcrc lat evening
(!; i,hor,s.0 uml wagon owned by
p5 inji?ry? rt"rncd-- Tho dr,vcr 8-
SIX ACRES OF ROSES RUINED
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Snnut n.
-" v-auscs ureat Hothouse Roof
'o Miiap8e at North WaIes
crash A' n'al('s' Va Feb. B. With a
l,o ho'J.r1 1laV t00( f the mon"
ho co itei lit ,he 1 ' orex Rnrdpns
losiiilf iJ l' tli8 morning, entailing
toss of thousands of dollnr kiJ : A,,,?.
larsest !,. H,,,0,ho",8,0 ia En'I to bo the!
...s norm.
' 'Oolite Yai H?,!!ath lh0 wcKbt
K rtora herl!!,a "C" d"r,nK t,,e
trolley iJJeV'JT aro, -'oscI &
wery count v - " t-"ti?" of Mont'
ed 'pK P. Bck; county is
IiHhlchcmV,rltairC r'lnnn8 on tho
"icncrn iirauch far beh nd schedule.
Oh, Slush!
"2,"'w "llenwon and niyht.
Y "fn-jj. Quito
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cipref:ed the hope to Director Winston I n , 1 0 "and hole 1 w
,7vorth'y nW" ''" 'o'ongl, the wav s do not
heved the worst of the impeding snowlin nt this nolns
entered as Beconfl-Claim Matter
Under tn Act
Year's Worst Storm
Takes Big Toll in City
One man died from fall, and nn
other was killed by train he did not
see becausu of driving snow.
Scores of persons Injured by falls
on ice -covered pavements or by be
ing struck by vehicles hidden from
sight by snow.
All traffic delayed. P. R. T. Co."
rcports resumption of schedules ap
proximating normal after a night of
hard work by every available em
ploye, f
Both the Philadelphia and Read
ing and Pennsylvania branches to
Ocean City were completely blocked
by a high-running tide which piled
ice on the roadbeds, cutting the re
sort completely off from1 the outside
world.
Two Pctinsy trains between New
York nnd Philadelphia were can
celled. Firemen had to fight their way
through heavy drifts on the way to
a fire at Fourth and Porter streets'
early this morning.
Forty passengers are stnlled in a
sn,owhound trniu between Wycombe
and Ivyland, Pa., ou the northeast
branch of the Heading. '
Chief Donald Jr. Hepburn, of the
Bureau of Street Cleaning, is leading
gangs of 1500 workmen and S00 dou
ble teams in clearing the city's
streets of the obstructing snow.
Two trains btalled almost ail
night outside of Camden. Passengers
slept in coaches.
Harbor traffic beginning to raovo
today, after being virtually tied up
for twelve hours. Ferry traffic ac
tive after spusmomc service during
height of btorm.
Tclephouo nnd telegraph wires
down in some places to the coast.
Suburban and country roads
blocked by snow.
Snow will bo intermittent during
daj and night.
Boardwalk Wrecked at Chelsea,
Ventnor and Margate Sea
Wall Saves Longport
CAPE MAY THREATENED
Chelsea, Ventnor and Margate, the
fashionable suburbs of Atlantic City,
arc slowly recovering today from the'
highest and most destructive storm tido
in the history of the resort.
From every seashore resort came
news this morning of. battering seas,
destructive winds and unparalleled high
tides that swept into the towns.
The suburban sections of Atlantic
City suffered most, however. Tlte
Boardwalk in part of Chelsea and
nearly all of Ventnor and Margate, was
wrecked by the sea, lashed into fury
by n forty-milc-nn-kour gale. Long
port, which has suffered most in other
big storms, was protected' by its new
sea wall, which stood the heavy test
well, as whole regiments of angry waves
crete sides
uung inemseives against its sloping con-
TIip ?nlet d of the resort likewise
wns badly dumnced. nnd for n tlm, thi.
ere in danger, I
sween ilireetlv
in at mis point
Streets Wcro Floodod
Throughout Atlantic City and tho ud
jacent resorts the tides swept so high
during the night that street ends every
where wero flooded, and in many cases
the only way to get automobiles out was
to run them on tlic Boardwalk.
The storm and rising tides stopped
trolley service both on Atlantic ave
nue and across the meadows. The
Shore Fast Line to Pleasantville and
Ocean City ran only one train nn hour.
The flooding of the Inlet section nil
but engulfed the electric light and power
plant, which was completely surrounded
by water. The yachtmen's wharf at
the Inlet was carried away almost en
tirely. The heaviest damage was at the other
end of the island, below New Haven
awuuo iu Ventnor. The small Casino
and the adjoining fishing pier in Ventnor
btood tho storm, due to the protection
of heavy piling and roekwork.
All along the Boardwalk heavy iron
lighting standards were snapped off.
The wreckage of tho Boardwalk kept
up a constant hammering of the bulk
heading and threatened to undermine
ocean-front cottages. Heavy timbers,
ripped from the Boardwalk, did dam
age everywhere. In the Lighthouse
section they smashed the basement win
dows of the Vermont avenue apartments
and the waves flooded the lower floor of
these structures. The occupants were
in readiness to leave, but were able to
stay in their houses. Mrs. Anna Stu
pleton, sixty years old, who lives in the
ticket office of the Inlet ball park In
winter, was driven up to the grand
btand by tho rising water and later res
cued. Cape May Menaced
Cape May reported storm conditions
only a little less severe than Atlantic
City. It was feared for a time that
Villa Marie Convent, at the foot of Cape
May avenuo, would be washed away.
Tho building is protected by heavy em
bankment's, ngainst which tho wuves
washed with only slight damago to the
structure.
Buildings in South Capo May wero
menaced, and latest reports were that
tho dunger had not yet ceased. Tho U.
H. coast artillery barracks at Scwell's
Point muy bo swept tiwuy unless the.
storm blows itself out soon.
The central portion of Sea Islo City
was uuder water this morning, after a
night of battering from the rising tide.
Ocean City is reported damnced bv wind
nnd tido, but tho details havo not yet
been learacd. At Homers Point, across
tlic, nay, many small crait wero crushed
bv tho tides and bens.
All along tho roast tho United Stntes
coast guard worked to aid people and
property in danger.
Delaware Breakwater reported a thick
log iiiih morning wiin n strong east
northeast wind blowing. Telecrunli
and telephone wires in the vicinity of
ino urcaKwaipr wero reported uown.
nrtMrniinlnnflnna li.fia.n T.biwa T,..!
uviuwuuitttiiuu, ucnru uvneo, Lri,
and tho Breakwater ceased during the
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STORM MENACES
SHORE R
ESORTS
t tho PnBtofflee. at rbtladelphta, Pa.
of March a, 1870,
2 DEAD, MANY HURT,'
R. R. TRAFFIC IS HIT;
BY SEVEOORi
Ocean City Isolated by Ice'
Blockade of Tracks as Re
sult of High Tide
SNOW WILL CONTINUE
UNTIL NIGHT, FORECAST
All Trains In and Out of Cityj
Late Some Suspended.
Cars Blocked
Two men tire dead, scores were in
jured and traffic has been badly di
stracted as a result of the storm which
began at 0 oVlock yesterday morning.
Intermittent snow and sleet arc ex-
nontnrl until tnnJcrlif
The temperature is rising gradually. t
Tt was 28 at 8 o'clock this morning, aim
21) at 3 this afternoon.
The wind blew eighteen miles an hour
from the northeast this morning, but
later dropped to fifteen miles. Tomor
row is to be partly cloudy nnd warmer.
With more than six inches of heavy
snow nlrcady fallen, railroads and trno
tion companies were faced with the
worst situation in two years, due to the
high winds which swirled the impeding
element into deep drifts, clogging
switches, blocking railway cuts and
causing hnvoc to trnffic generally.
The Pennsylvania Itailroad and
Philadelphia and Heading Railway
lines to Ocean City were both blocked
by nn unusually high tide, which the
wind tossed in over tins marsniuwi ,
causeways, piling ice over the tracks,
and effectually isolating Ocean City
from the mainland. Officials of both
companies said it would be impossible
to stnto when tratlic between tlic resort
and the mninland could be re-established,
as there was little promise of
early abatement from the fury of the
sea.
Western Trains Very Late
All trains from the West ou both
the Pennsylvania and Reading-systems
are delayed from ono to two hours,
while local trains to the suburbs are
being operated with difficulty under a
schedule subject to fifteen minutes' de
lay. Traffic on the Pennsylvania Railroad
was completely blocked on several
branches.
Three Pennsylvania trains, the 10
Tclock train from Philadelphia to New
York, and tho 10 and 11 o'clock train
from New York to Philadelphia, were
annulled, due to (bslructions.
Drifts iu the cuts blocked all traffic
on .the .West .Chester' branch, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, 'and -halted "nil
traffic between Frazier and West Ches
ter. Traffic was-iilso completely para
lyzed on the Columbia and Port Deposit
branch.
The railroads, both in Pennsylvania
nnd New Jersey, were unable to main
tain nnything like n normal schedule,
nnd trains from up-state on the Read
ing were from fine to two hours late.
Storm Covers Wilo Area
The fury of the storm was felt all
through New York and Pennsylvnnin
ns far west as Lake Frio and west -of
Pittsburgh. The snow, which the
Weather Bureau asserts Is one of the
heaviest in consistency in the history of
the bureau, wn lighter through central
and western Pennsylvania. Reports
from Curlisle, Reading and Harrisbufg
indicate n snowfall ot from ten to
eighteen inches.
All through the night the Philndel-
ptuu .iiapifl Transit co. mobilized an
army of laborers nnd its complete snow-
combatting
npparutus, including 100
snowplows,
n an cltort to Keep lines
open.
Uuicf Hepburn, of the bureau of high
ways, took personal charge of a large
force of men detailed to clear the streets
in the heart of the city.
Due to the high wiiur, which beached
two vessels in the harbor, Philadelphia's
coastwise mid foreign trade was brought
to u partial tieup by the storm. Ves
sels would uot venture from th t
lerths, as reports indicated n blindh j
snow at sea, accompanied by an unusu
ally high running tid.
Steamships Aro Delayed
Scleral steamships just arrived in
port were delayed bv the storm. The
eoaiwise steanisuip .Merrimac, carry
ing passengers and freight from Savan
nah, Ga., was thirty hours Into in
reaching this city. Tie chief engineer
reported terrific gales and snow off
the Brcakwnter.
Tho steamship A'crbania was greatlv
dclii pd in getting up the mer from
the Breakwater, due to the blizzard cou
ditions. Tim filoucester ferry, which was not
running early this morning, resumed
its regular schedule at 11 o'clock.
The storm, which includes in its area
most of tho Atlantic stntes, began early
yesterday morning with n mild rain,
which soon changed tn snow nnd then to
bleet. As the wind rose the frozen
pnrtielcs were driven into the faces of
pedestrians with u force that stung like
buckshot.
Tho peculiar weather condition fol-
Contluncd on 1'asre Klshtrrn, Column Four
FIVE NEAR DEATH IN SNOW
Mother and Children Found Helpless
on Frankford Avenuo
A mother nnd four children were
rescued from the snow when In dan
ger of freezing to death last night
through the discovery of their plight bv
a boy, When found tho woman hail
dropped to the street from exhaustion
and the children were huddled about
her not knowing what to do.
Mrs. Mary Vaunln, tho mother, came
from New York last night to visit her
sister at 3113 0 street. She left the
train at the Frankford junction nbout tl
o'clock with her children and walked
to Frankford uvenue, hoping to get n
trolley car there.
But the cars wero tied up by the
btorm, und, after waiting for un hour,
the woman sank to tho sidewalk about
a block from tho station. Soon ufter
wurd the boy found her und notified tlic
police. They took her und the children
to her sister's home.
Shenandoah District Stormbound
'Shenandoah, Ph., Feb. 5. Tho bllz
zard paralyzed all trolley traffic, im
peding steam road traffic, crippling long
distance telephone and telegraph serv
lee. All tho country roads wero shut,
compelling many farmers to remain in
town. If tho storm continues few, if
any, collieries will bo able to work to-day.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1920
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Hk sjIbKs!!L. " i ''iv?,8?8J5i vrf' I
MRS. J,Arui2NS IIAMIIrOK
Bride of (ho grandson of the lato
John I .Morgan. Mic is thirty,
tho bridegroom, Laurens Morgan
Iftiniilluu, her third husband, is
twenty, and a lieutenant on tho
staff of General Edwards at Boston.
IBs parents, .Mr. and Mrs. William
Plerson Hamilton, threaten to dis
own him unless ho gives up his
bride, who won n beauty prize In
St. Iiuls several years ago
ELOPES TO ELKTON
John H. Casanave, Jr., and Miss
t
Louise Harding Figure
in Romance
HE IS 18 AND HIS BRIDE 17
John 11 Casanave, Jr., n student at
Peiin Charter School, eloped with Miss
Louise Harding on Friday, January 'J3.
They wero married at Elktnn, Md..
that day and returned immediately to
their homes, telling their pureuts what
they had done.
Mr. Casanave is eighteen years old i
nnd is tho son -of John II. Casaimc. of i
001T Overhrook avenue.
The bride is seventeen years old, and
is the daughter of Mr. und Mrs. Arthur
Search Harding, pf the Wellington
Apartments, Nineteenth and Walnut
streets. She is now with lier parents,
who aro visiting the shore. Young Mr.
Casanave is continuing his studies at
Penn Charter.
"We had known of the attachment
forsomo timp,'1 cxplaiued Mr. Harding
this 'afternoorfi ''.'Otif objection to mar
riage was, of course, due to tho jouth
of my daughter aud John Casaitave.
"Louise rami; home the afternoon of
her marriage and told us what she had
done. Tho ceremony was performed by
tho Methodist minister in Elkton." '
"Jfr. Harding is a member of the firm
of Lrben-Harding, worsted manufac
turers. Mr. Casanavo was seen this afternoon
at tlic Penn Charter School, where he
had gone to have a talk with his son.
"es, the report of the marriage is
correct," he said, "and I urn ifoing to
move heaven and enrth to have the mar
riage laws of Maryland chnnged."
Young Mrs. Casanave Is a niece of
Mrs. Vi illiaui Moricc.
TRAIN STALLED IN SNOW
Forty Passengers Held In Drifts for
Entire Morning
About forty passengers were stalled
in a snowbound trniu between Wycombe
nnd I v land, Pn today for several
hours. Tin's is ou tlic northeast Penn
sylvania division of the Philadelphia
and Rending road.
The train left Wycombe nt 0:2.1
o dock this morning for Philadelphia,
and was stalled between that place ami
Ivylnnd until nearly 1 o'clock this
afternoon.
Tho road at the section named lies
in a deep cut and snow plows had
much difficulty in clearing a path
Several .venrs ago a traiu was stalled
almost at the same spot for forty hours
Several trolley lines in thlu ..,.,i.;
have been compelled to stop running
for the present on account of tin- storm
No cars are running from Dovlcsimin
om Doylestow n I
to Newtown, Lastou, Bristol or other
uiiiinurii (mmiii.
North-bound traffic is open as far
Hntboro. A train arrived at Hntboro
Sirt "smr "fc. .b"i . "
.V'. ".,".: ."A". Y"";. '"."' noon. i
i'or rue nrsi lime in its Moia-,. . i...
Keystone telephone exchange at'.Ten
kiutnwn was dosed last night, as the
operator was unable to reach the sta
tion on account of tho storm.
PANAMA BUYS FOUR SHIPS !
Vessels Formerly Owned by Ger
mans Sold by U, S. Shipping Boaro
Panama, Fob. .".(By A. P.) Sale
of the former German steamships Gen
eral G. W. Goethals, General W. C
Gorgn-,, General C. F. Hodge and Gen
eral ('. H. Ernst to the Pnnnmn Rail
road Steamship Co. by the United States
shipping board was announced here to
day. Tho purchase prieo of tho ships
vvns given as ?7."i0, 00(1. ,
The four steamships, formerly the
Grimewnld. Prinz Sigismuud, Savoi nnd
Sschsenwnld. aggregating iri.fitl!) tons,
were interned nt Colon by their German
owners at tho beginning of the war, and
were seized by the United States in
1017. They were taken over by the
shipping board and allocated tb the
Panama Railroad Steamship Co, for
operation.
ROB NEW YORK VAULT
Burglars Loot Bank Building In
Heart of Financial District
New York. Feb. fi, (By A. P.)
Tho vault of thn Pittsburgh Steel Co. iu
the Equitublc Buihiiifg, wiis looted last
night by burglars, it was learned today.
A large sum in securities was stoleier
The Equitublo Building, which is iu
the heart of tho financial district, houses
the New York branch Of the, Federal
Reserve Bank.
15 DEAD IN FRENCH WRECK
Dijon, France, Feb. fi, Fifteen per
sons wero killed und thirty Injured to
day in a head-on collision between nn
express train and n freight train stand
ing at Parrleny-sur-l'Ognor,, nbout
twenty-onb tulles cant ot Dijon,
PENN
CHARTER BY
L
ON GREY'S LETTER
. i
Administration Says It Was Not I
Consulted by British
Ambassador i
VISCOUNT'S MOVE DIRECT
BLOW AGAINST PRESIDENT
Premier's Hand Seen in Assist
ing Executive's Foes
in
Treaty Fight
Ity CLINTON W. OILBKUT
Stuff CorrriKnilfnt of Hie Kfnlnc Pulille
loiter
Washington, I'eb. .". The adminis-
tration took steps today to let Great
j Britain know informally of its displeas
ure at the piihlicntion of the Grey let
ter. Tn response to a question it an
nounced at the White House that the
President had not been consulted in
regard to the Grey letter or its subject.
It is pointed out by friends of the
administration that ordinnry diplo-
mntie courtesy required consultation
with the President or the secretary of!
Rtnte upon a matter such as this, uliicli
involved the diplomatic relations be-
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twecn the two nations
Instead of consulting the President,
Viscount Grey consulted with the Presi
dent's bitterest foe, Senator Lodge. The
understanding hero is that the publi
cation of the Grey letter was in pur
suance of it suggestion made by tlic
Massachusetts senator. It is said that
when he was informed by Lord Grej
of Great Britain's attitude on the reser
vation, he said, "hut what good does
that do unless ou let the public know ?"
View Grey Letter as Affront
So Lord Grey, from the, White 1 louse
point of view, not only committed the
i offense of dcnliug with members of
Congress instead of with the Executive,
to whirii he was in-credited, but he also.
(-made it worse by dealing with
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Mr.
Wilson's bitterest personal foe.
He did something more thnu that.'
He interfered iu party politics on the
eve of u national campaign and hns
done his best to destroy the basis on '
which one party was prepariug, if
necessary, lo cuter the campaign, ami;
to erect a firm basis for its opjiotient ,
to go before the people upou. And it
happens to be President Wilson's party i
vvlinsr issue' Lord Grey has destroyed.
Ever since the defeat of the treaty
In November both parties hove been'
trying so lo shape their conduct that
if the treaty went over into the next ,
campaign each could assert that the
failure to make peace and reot a
league of nntious was the fault of (he
other. This lias been particularly true
since' the Jackson Day dinner when'
the President, angry nt Mr. Bryan, of
fered opeuly to make the treaty an issue '
in l'.lL'O.
i -
viscount Aids rresiuent s roes
AVIiiln the President is laying his
plans for party success in ease the
treaty is defeated, Lord Grey, iu the
opinion of friends of the White House,
conspired with the leader of the op
position in the Senate to shape the po
litical issue in case the treaty is de
feated favorably to the opposition.
This was cuect rauier tlmn the in
tent of the publication of the Grey
letter after tn; di-cussioii uctweeu the
t::l. nvni,iil fliiili1d.n(Iii n.,,1 Mm.
Lodge The intent vvns pluin enough
and was equally annoying to the White
House.
The intent of Llojd George, for the
viscount acted for tho British premier,
was to cut tho ground from under
President Wilion and bring about the
acceptance of the treaty.
England Wants V. S. Iu League
AMioM runilif1. anil in n:irtir'iil;tr
l1.. .l.i.iil ,nt.i tile T'nlleil Sttnti.u In'
the League of Nations. It cares littl
nbout the terms under which it come.-,
in. its great concern being that the
United States shall come in, shall par
ticipate in world affairs, shall have
s.,,1;.. In the liiir came which is nrovlnc
too big for England ami Fraure.
Looking at the Mtuation irom across
the water, Llod George saw iu Pros-
ldent VV USOll UK' i'-us yuim-ii- u,
SH tho treaty .wns to be do-
f .,.,! or lone dela.ved it would be be-
' cause of President Wilson's insistence
I that the league covenant should be
I accepted by the United States Senate
without dotting an "i" or crossing
a "t." . .
dentTnn'sViiion: His great eon
Lloyd George saw no merit in I'resi-
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ccrn was that vyc should come iuto the
league; wiiu wmu :','.'""" "" -iuvu
to him a matter of indifference.
The first stepnkenrto let tho nation I
KllOW lliai Cllgianu mm ii" inijrcuuu Hi
Conllnutsl on I'uisp Two,
Column Three,
BRIGHT MAY WITHDRAW
Friends Say He Won't Take U.
Attorney Post Here
Robert S. Bright, of tins city,
is i
understood to have withdrawn as a can-
ilidute for United States attorney for'
the easterrv-ilUtriet of Pennsylvania to'
succeed rraiiois i isner ixuiu-, who re
Kilned recent lv.
Mr. Bright, it is said, has informed
friends iu Washington lie does not feel
he cnu afford to abandon his private
law practice. At his office in this city
this afternoon it was stated ho would
not return until this evening.
DEMOCRATS TO CAUCUS
Members of Party In House Will
Discuss Universal Training
Washington, Feb. .1. (By A. P.l
House Demorruts will hold a caucus
Monday night to decide tho part stand
on universal training and other urni
reorganization bill provisloas, a petition
circulated toda.v having been signed by
more than enough members opposed to
universal training to issue the call.
Iu the Senate Seuator lxlrby, Demo
crat, of Arkausus, Introduced an amend
ment to the army reorganization bill,
which would eliminate nil eompulsorj
military training features.
Cardinal Clbboni Urm Alt C(hollV'
to U. TUB MANUAL OF rilATBRS-ay,
HA
PRIEST
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CopyrlBht. 1D20,
Stop Jazzing and Hit
Profiteers, Says Hepburn
Former Food Official Asserts Extravagance of
Average Man Is Greatest Trouble Blames
Condition on False Prosperity
By GEORGE
"Stop jazzing."
The peremptory words wero not a
command. Their application was to a
general condition and not to a dance or
it species of dance music.
Charles .1. Hepburn, former chief
counsel for the food administration in
Pennsjlvauia, uttered them. They
were aptly descriptive.
It is not genernlly known in Phila
delphia, or even in the state, though
every food administrator in every other
state knew it, that it was Mr. Hepburn
who devised, invented would be better.
the Red Cross penalty for food slackers
and violators in this country wnien
poured millions of dollars into the lap
of that organization during the var.
I had been talking with Mr. Hepburn
about the various attempts that have
been and are being made to halt profi
teering in the necessaries of life. He
had defined the legal status of the priee
tixing committees which nrc being
fornn'd in this and other cities, and had
pointed out their possibilities from his
Intimate knowledge of national food
lawb. As a corollary, he added :
"The people have made the profiteers.
They arc making them today. They ure
in a whirl of extravagance. They are
"jazzing" their money away. There is
but one remedy: stop jazzing."
Universal Condi! ion
It seems to be a universal rondi-
"-' continued Mr. Hepburn. "Cvcn
Oennnuy was caught in the whirl. A
pew months ago American correspond-
ents described how Berlin nnd other
cities had been seized with the spending
innuia. The same stories came from
Paris, where gambling and the most
reckless extravagance pre ailed among
thoi' who had money to spend.
"I have watched the same tendency
PLOT TO OVERTHROW
SALONIKI. Feb. 5. Bulgarian Bolsbeviki have fixed Blay i
as the date of a coup d'etat, by -which the present regime in that
country is to be ousted by violence, according to Sofia ncl vices
which tell of the seizure of Bolshevik documents there. Two
hundred and thirty Communi&ts have been tnken into euvtody
FL0UR-AT MINNEAPOLIS DROPS 50 CENTS A BARREL
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 5. Flour dropped, fifty cents a bar
rel at the local market today, the collapse in foreign exchange
and the slump in the wheat market being grVen as the cause.
Today's quotation is $13.73 a barrel in OB-potind cotton .sack-
BOYS SEEK MOTHER
HELD FOR MURDER
xwo Camden Youngsters ts -
cape From Home and Hunt
Parent in Snow
KILLED HUSBAND, CHARGE
i
Two little boys, sons of it womnn held
n the Camden count) jail, charged with
I Yniinlerini Iipi- husband, esoanod from
' the Home for Friendless Children early
today and began u search through the
." .,, ,........
I The coatless children attracted the
.,-!- .. !.:- l,n..
attention of n patrolman . at Newton
; j iaddon avenues. He stopped them,
, On0 of t. uos i,n,i in his hand this
I note :
"Dear mother: I wish you could
I come home and see me some time.
"How are you?
. "We are all well.
"Me and Johnny wants to go home.
"Will you send me a envelope, paper
and stamp? 1 want to write a loiter.
! "JOSEPH."
The boys are Joseph and John Tin-
I !,: i!.w, .md f.ini vnif-s nlrl l-nviieit' .
mil, linn ..in. .-".. ....... ..... . . .-,.. i .
iv(llj T. mother is uccused of having
killed her husband with n hammer on
(, , , , ,)f xOVembor '2'J at IU."! Line
tr(,t
CAMDEN MAN FATALLY HURT
j Charles Ilouck, forty years old, of
i Third and Market streets, Cumden,
I died from a fiactured skull early to
c ' day in the Cooper Hospital. He was
I helping instulj machinery in a shoe fnc
i torv at Second and Market streets yes-
terday when n heavy piece of metnl
dropped from o,-orhonq
-
FOCH JOINS IMMORTALS
Paris, Fib. .V- iBv A P. I Marshal
Ferdinand Koch, leader of the allied
armies in the final victorious stages of
the world war. todnv joined the ranks
of the immortals. He wus receivrd b.v
the French Academy in the presence of
a lnrgc and brilliant assemblage.
This Motorist Started
Out Ready for Trouble
"Preparedness, that's all!"
The motorist smiled ns he answer
ed the question addressed to him In
regard to a scoop shovel tied to his
front mudguard.
"Not much danger here on Chest
nut street." he admitted, "but lots
of motorists are getting stuck in
snow hanks und drifts in other sec
tions of the city.
"Thut little shovel will Eet ,,
out of nny difficulty of that char-acter."
by I'ublla U-darer Company.
NOX McCAIN i
develop In this country. I have had
experience with it in the course of my
legal practice. It's a mental condition
and is only comparable to some of those
strange frenzies that swept Furope in ,
tho middle uges nnd later. We are ex- !
perienclug a frenzy of extravagance."
"To what do you attribute it?" '
"To the unprecedented conditions
which have followed the war and tho
removal of all restraints. The average
man has never made so much money nor
received such high wages. While much
of it, among the prudent and furseeing.
is being saved, the far greater part is
being spent with reckless prodigality.
The thoughtless and improvident fancy
that present conditions have como to
stay. Merchants of all clashes seem
ingly have been euught in the maze.
"Get all j ou can" may be the motto
of many dealers, but there are thou
sands of them are making little if any
more than they did in pre-war days.
Production Diminished
"That hardly accords with the idea
of profiteering. How do you explain
it?" I asked.
"It is easily explained. Start with
the vastly increased wages paid to
workers mechanics, factory operatives,
furm hands, even laborers and store
sweepers as compared with those paid
before the war. Raw materials hnve
doubled and trebled in price. Prices have
increased not only in proportion, but
production has diminished to a startling
extent.
"The most dangerous tendency, nnd
the one tiling that has sent prices und
the cost of living booming, is that mil
lions of people arc now demanding the
very best of everything, regardless of
price, and are judging the best, not by
quality, but by the price jiskcd. These
Continued on 1'iibo NJnetn Column I'our
BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT
E
COUNCIL JOB FIGHT
,Have
I
Caucus Before Regular1
Session of Body to Block i
Possible Defections '
I
26 POSITIONS ARE INVOLVED1
The eleven administration supporters
iu Council met iu caucus this aft
ernoon in advance of the regular session,
to block any pojsible defections on the
majority program for councilmanic em
ployes. " ,
The caucus was held in tho office of f
n;,.kni v. .i:.. ....... m.,i nt r-.,,i,,..;i i
MR
IN
AN
in iiuui ) rK III) I I -11 ui, wi i niiiii n, , - -
on the fourth floor of City Hall. The, ,!prlilu K(lb- r,.n5v P.l-Fol-prineipal
question at issue was thut of l0iK i, (be list of the persons de
ll secretary to the presideut at $'t."00 manded b.v the Allies for extradition
a year. j ft urn the German government
"We expect no trouble this after- ' Karl Ahoidi. Duke Albrccht of Wur-
noon, said Mr. Wegleiu. I believe
th
entire administration program will
be supported. 1 have heard nnthin,
to make me feel otlierwisi
A threatened battle last Tuesdav over
councilmanic jobs was averted, it was
believed, by the action of Frnucis I",
Burch, finance- chairman, who moved
that a regular stated meeting of tin
council be held this afternoon. Tues
dav is the customary meeting day.
Rumbles of discontent over the pro
gram mapped out by the administration
hnve been heard for more than a week.
Councilman William R. Horn, an Inde
pendent, of the northeast district, ex
prosed himself as opposed to the job
program.
Councilman James A. Develin, of the
West Philadelphia district, also was
said to be opposed-to the measure. Vure
followers in the Council, captained b.v
Couiicilinnn Joseph P. Onffnoy, had
visions of a switch in the mnjorit. at
least on the program to be acted on to
day. Cotincilmnn Horn yesterday conferred
with Mayor Moore. The executive toda.v
held several conferences with Sir. Weg
lein, City Solicitor Smyth and Thomi
W. Cunningham, president of the Re
publican Alliance
imii'iii ..iiiiiiii-
A report reached the administration
aders this morning that the Council
inority had prepare subslilute
ensure to be offered this nflernoon.
lea
mi
men
Tile substitute, it Is said, provides for
twenty Council employes, at salaries
aggregating $,'1-1, ISO a year.
Tho administration measure calls for
twenty-six employes, with salaries ag
gregating $111,100. Among them is a
secretary to the president and three
committee clerkships, ut $.ir00 u ear
each.
Administration supporters toduy
pointed out that $."1,0041 is piovided In
the budget for couurllmniiie employes
this j ear. The budget was prepared
and passed by tho old Councils, with
Mr. Gaffuey us chairman of the finance
committee. Under the majority pro
gram ?.r000 less than the sum uppropri
ated would be used for emploies'
salaries, A
s
PRICE TWO CENTS
BERLIN RESISTANCE;
TO ALLIED DEMAND
RESULTS IN CRISIS
Noske Declares That Extradi
tion of War Guilty Is Vir- ,
tually Impossible
j.
ENTENTE TO TAKE STEPS 1
TO ENFORCE TREATY
Von Bernstorff Among Germany
Whose Surrender for Trial .
Is Asked
IJy the Associated Press
Paris. I'eb. r. Ttelntioni hetwecn tho
allied powers and Germany seem to havo
arrived at a crisis ub a result of the re
fusal of Baron von Lersner, head of the
German delegation here, to forward to
Berlin the numes of Germans whose !
tradition is demanded by the Entente,
This incident apparently finds nn
echo in the attitude of the Berlin cab
inet. which is reported in London digr1
putehes to hnve expressed, through,
Gustav Noske. minister of defense.
seeming defiance to the powers. Baron
von Lersner left for the German capital
I '"st night.
The list of Germans accused of viola
tions of the laws of war whose arraign
ment is contemplated bv the Allies will
be sent to Perlin direct by the council of
ambassadors. It is pointed out hero that
measures intended to compel Germany
to carry out the extradition clauses' o
tho Versailles treaty will be adopted,
but there is no intimation as to tbcic
nature.
1 Interest lias been evoked here in tho
1 revelation that the name of Count Jo
! hunn von Bernstorff. former ambassa
dor to the United States, appears in
the lUt of Germans demanded for trial.
Imdon advices stnte Sir Auckland
Geddes, minister of national service and
reconstruction in the British cabinet,
declared in an address at Andovcr yes
terday that Holland miclit be required
I to put former Emperor William on Borne
J island out of Europe. Whether he ex
pressed the view of the British Govern
ment is not Known.
London. Feb. 3. (By A. T.) "Tilt
surrender of these men is virtually im
possible, turn it how- ou will." said,
Minister of Defense Nosko in an inte?
view with the Daily Mail's Berlin cor
respondent in disenssiug the demands
for the extradition by the allies of
Germans charged with war crimes.
"This demand is an act of revengo,
worse than Shylock's," he continued1.
"Suppose I succeeded in getting them
arrested. Do jou think the train tak-f
ing them to Franco would be allowed to
cross the frontier? Aud if u crowd held
up that train, do you imagine that T
could order Germans shot down sd that
I other Germans should be handed ov?r
, to the revenge of their enemies? Tho
I government might resign, but what
I party could take its pin o'
The correspondent points out that the
( task of arresting and delivering the men
for extradition would fall on Noske. Ho
ndds that passive resistance apparently
win ne me nttituue ot uerinany towar.
"the allied demand.
I Up until (! o'clock last evening-i
i-ovenns note to the extradition list
mt Kit, in i.nn.ili'.i.l ll f l.itrlitl Until flnil1
llieins lire iM'lievi-tl Hi liuvi" utt-ll irujiB
nutted unotliciallv through the corresT
pomlent of the Wolff Bureau ut Ver
sailles, since Baron von Lersner refused
to accept them. A .report is current
that tin- baron indignantly threw tho
note back at Premier Millernnd.
The German cabinet went into session
at li o'clock last night, the ministers,
being in a visibly nervous state.
The Von Lersner episode created sur
prise here, as he said he had been in
structed to forward the list directly
to Berlin and not permit persona
scruples to influence him iu the dia-
h.--; W- ""Jj; lhP Ta(.Rli(KK
Kiindscliau. murks me iieginning ot
the extradition erisN, and the very ex
istence of he German empire depends
upon tiie outcome of the Entente de
mand." LIST OF GERMANS
DEMANDED BY ALLIES
tonberg, Putmiurinc l onunamler Ana
rold ile hi 1'erere. General Count Slxt
von Arnin. General Otto vim 'Below,
Count .Uihann von Bernstorff, former
' ambassador to the United States
Dr. von Betlimanii-IIidlwcg, former
imperial chancellor. General van Bese
! ler, Count Bismarck, General Von.
j 1)1111111. IHIIIIII. 11I .'ll-l.lll.. 1. 1U1I l
Prince Rupprefhl of Bavaria, the Duke,
of MceUouborg.
I Geneial vou Hredow . Brousnrt von
Scliellemlorf, General Otto vou Buclow,
Admiral von Cuprllc. General 4Jroener,
1 General von Duimling.
Euvit Pusliu, Prince Ernst of Sflx-
l ouy. General Fnlkenhnusen, General
Ka'lkonhnyn. Prince Uicdciicl, of Pru-
1 sin. General von Gallwiu. Alfred vou
I Glascunpp, Olto von L Gottberg, Gen
erul von Griivcnitz. Ci-ut-rul Count
Hiieselcr llammerstein. Dr Ilanlel vou
i ilalniliaiisen. the grand duke of Hesse
1'leld Marshal von Himlcnhurg. whofm
II l... I!nnnpl i-.in ItH.ii.ii f-r......
extradition is demanded by Franco anit
Belgium. Prince August of llohenzol
lorn. Prince Eitcl Fricdricli of Hoben
ollern, the crown prince of Gurmuoy,
Prince Oscar lf Ilulienzollern.
General vou llutier. Ismarl Ilalllt
Pasha. General von Kluck. General vqil
I.insingen. licnerni l.uileuuoru, rieU
- , i
, Marshal yon .Miickcnsen.
I General Mutzala. Generi
' Kurt vou Manteurfel. Genera
I Manvttz on Moltke, Ami J
erul Barou:
rul von dec
Moutoelae,
llnliert VI 01 111 11.
Von Oheln. Von der Plauftz. Vo
Uletlenberg, General von Quast, Prince,,
llutibor.
Admiral
burg.' Com
ul Scheer, Von der fkhulfdr
ount Srlivvrrin. Tuluut Pntflitt,
von TIrplltz, General vou Truy
Admiral
Submarine Cominundcr Vuleutlner,
Count Waldersee. Herr Warburg,
Prince Wittgenstein. Count Vltztum,
Herr von Ecktitrdt. Alfred Zlmmernins,
former secretary of foreign affair..
Some of the numes In the list ar'
distorted nnd tho military or civil rank s
of tne persons uesireu is nui iuuirife vj
The list contain, among other, Met vl
.ne ot "Ilellfrltz," which pomIUit i
a telegraphic error, for Dr. Karl HMf"
ferlcb, former minuter if finante,
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