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,V0L.VI.-NO. 126
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Under tho Act of March 3, 187U.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1920
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'
IVY YARD GUARD
LS SAILOR IN
BREAK TO ESCAPE
had
Been Confino'd in "Brig" to
Await MedicalExam
ination ocpiisED ORDER TO HALT;
JUMPED SlUUKHUtWHLL
Fired at While Running for.
Lumber Pile Inquiry
Is Ordered
V
t mrlnfi on guard duty nt tho rbila
1.1.M, Xnvr Yard last night shot and
almost Instantly killed a bailor, who had
eaped tbo wan 01 wc priBuiiv-io ow....
Ie and was escaping.
Th dead sailor is Ell II. Le Chanz,
1'4 years old, a second-class machinist's
Kiate who recently was sent to the
rr !.T.i.. . m,Hi Pnmliiin. Tho
Miame of the marine guard has been
Wthheld Dy mo yaru uuuiuwni.
i, A naval board of inquiry, headed by
(Wain McArthur, was appointed by
Kdmiral Hughes the commandant, today
C i, n thnrnnirh innuir.v into tbo
hooting. Officers at ftbo yard say that
pie marine mcreiy uiu ma -
L lift fnpltlvp.
r. riinni. nppordinc to tho official
retort nt the sard, had been sent to the
.Li,o,i m. "lirie." as tlio sailors all
it to await medical examination. His
t .H ...,. Kimnnnfn1 flirt lln triIC
sppenor omceis BUBjictivu muk u
mbalanced mentally, and tho officer in
ommana at me siocuuuu ua iu9iim.u.u
;o keep an especially careful watch on
hIlist night, nt 10:30 o'clock, Lc
Chaw, who had tho freedom of the
....-J. L..nl o -mt-l nii-nnpnprl tho
iI.0CI.aao wiwuu i;i "i --
try on duty and asked permission to
eare the stockade. This, of course,
ras refused. Le Chanz returned to the
larracks, but a little later reappeared
radi began to wander up nud down the
ard. He moved over tovvurus me wun,
mifthe sentry warned him to keep away
omit.
t rr.o- x.onftri n.vnv. hiir soon
nifln nnnrnacked tho wail, and the
entry again warned him." .The sailor
nddenly jumped to a snow piie, aim,
in spite of the guard's order to halt,
eaped to the wall and swung over, van
ning iu the darkness.
The cuards rushed out of the stock-
Ids in pursuit, calling to him to give
SFunself up. In the darkness they caught
i glimpse ot mm as, no spnnteu tor a
big pile of lumber near the stockade,
ccklng a place to hide.
Une ot the guards tired nt the dim
iwre from the sawed-off pump shot-
iran with which the guards are armed.
J Chanz fell. We was, rubbed to the
obpital. where tho surgeons found that
b dozen buckshot had penetrated his
ac. He lived only a few minutes'.
JOHN J. MORONEY DEAD
He Was a Partner In a Wholesale
Liquor Establishment
John J. Moroney. who for years was
i partner in the wholesale liquor busi
es at aj,j south Thirteenth street,
W yesterday morning at his residence,
132 Shunk street, of nnenmnnhi. TTp
as forty-one years old.
Mr. Moroney, who had retired some
watts ago, was ill five days, and his
wmmon grew gradually worse. JJur
ng baturdav night he had a sinking
Pell, and died nt St.tf. n'nlnpt- Tnctpr.
lay morning.
nt Had been in the wholesale liquor
osuiess in Philadelphia since an early
If. entering the employ of his father,
IDd COntlnninp until n fan. nAntlio
Before his death. He and his brother,
, -ere partners in the establish -lent
on South Thirteenth street.
d Anastasia'Moroney, both deceased.
os wrn in i'hiladelphia, where
e spent Ms entire life. He married
11SS JlaV (llinninrrlinm f CM.fl. TIAn.l
flHtreet. n-hn in.., ...ill. . -r.,..
im t """,n uu oiip son, jonu
" urotner, .lames, of 471f) Chester
Be' ?p'La 6istcr' JIiss MnrJ" JI-
Tl' ,f G0G Wjnnewood road, Ovcr
ok, alio survive.
luneral services for Mr. Jloroney will
ti i? Pt?T,nte,-v fr0I tho houso nt 0
il.. p "cdnesdny morning, with the
ltftr. c.ine, of St. Monica's
?S oficiating. Interment will be
a Holy Cross Cemetery.
MISSING VETERAN LOCATED
'OUnrl l Li i.-. ....
... iiuapiiai wnere rle Is a
Grip Victim
Arthur V. viai... ,noo -it ,....,
oS,,L.llPOllier. who was
Been mUcT. . in ranee, wno hnd
Bras T?s, fl:"J b since Thursday.
Kspi'ai t0,ay iu thc Eplscopil
Kami. S-Ton-yror-old veteran
r;?iiI17lnlrsda.v while on his way
is i InetL ' W"H !,akon to thc bospitnl.
ss saW th.. hnlniT "T " .' A r ': J ?
I earn n... "".'". uuiuuriiieH dm not
"that rr,'('Ct,IVlmo,nml n,W', u'l
otificd. hIs rcll,tivcs were not
'oifce toer,anis ,fanHy had asked thc
aM lL? March fo1' ''. His relatives
frequently sulTered from
PPses.
memory
chHd, 6, Burned to Death
fnlhCham?. six years old. ,, no.
lrned tC.VA'".":' sll:,. was
--I ivu mith riM, I.. it . - -
lody thio w, Ji auuut wo laco and
IhUd'3 SJ fJ?.w. a ffl tow. .Thtf
R? W4 burn 'of tL "fS. .a,mbc".
h into a t,?h nf liU.le Birl nn1 h-ew
Lu, , .1 t'lb of water. nnthvor
L11'UP l nsylvauia Hospital.
A0RDINr' TO Marjorio Clark,
" NAME AND
THE a am j?" '
r'ahi'i nil !.. .
h n. 'ihr'n
EWSt'sfiTt??
Iu"-er louraolf n'ui . . ,1Jr l0
I J0Ur6cir. 'Ihisisthostorvh
Fannin ll..t.
Shch!,1nterrUU'nll'1h'a'WetIc.-'The
LIGHTS SHUT OFF
IN CITY'S CENTER;
GENERATOR BROKEN
Power Fails in District Bounded
by Pine and. Vine Streets,
River and Fifteenth Street '
A ' disabled generator in tho powrcr
plant of the Philadelphia Electric Co.
at' Ninth and Sausom streets dimmed
thousands of lights and cut off power
in-hundreds of' buildings in thocentrnl
part of thc city this afteruoon, at 3:18
o'clock. . .
The district affected by tho breakdown
included everything cast of Fifteenth
street, to thc Delaware river, from Pino
btreft to Vine street.
A largo force of men was immediately
put to work to locate thc trouble and
get the generator in operation. Thou
sands of lights in buildings went out,
causing many shop and office workers
to' btop work until thc repairs to the
power generator had been made.
Hundreds of calls to thc Philadelphia
Electric Co. and tho Electrical Bureau,
inquiring the reason for tbc darkened
lights, were received when tho power
was cut off.
MAN KILLED .BY TROLLEY
Former City Hall Guard Is Crushed
to Death Under Car
George Alford, seventy-eight' years
old. 1227 North Thirtieth street, n re
tired City Hall guard, was crushed to
death under a botithbound trolley car
nt Twenty-ninth and Stiles streets nt
0 o'clock this morning.
Thc motormau on the" car, .Harry
Mojor,' KOO-t Cumberland street, told
the police 'that he did not see .Alford
iu front of tho car, nud stopped only
when he felt an obstruction undpr thc
wheels. Mover was arrested nnd taken
to Central Station, where ho was held
for a further hearing.
Alford s body was for some time un
identified, as there were no distinguish
ing marks on his person. Identification
was finally made at the Morgue 'by a
former fellow-workman of Alford's at
the City Hull.
MAN HURT IN COLLISION
Wagon Crashed Through Trolley
Window When Car Stopped
A trolley passenger was hurt severely
at 2 :45 o'clock this afternoon when the
tongue of a heavily loaded' produce
wagon crashed through the rear winnow
ot the car at Twenty-fourth and Chest
nut streets.
Augustus Schultz, sixty years old,
2701 North Taylor street, thc passenger,
received a severe laceration. of thel scaln.
Polyclinic Hospital physicians say his
skull mny bo fractured.
The produce "vngon was owned and
driven by I. C. Pollosh, twenty-sis
yeurs' old,' 1231 Gcrmantown nvenuc.
He surrendered to the police of the
Fifteenth and Locust streets station.
Pollosh said he was driving behind
the trolley car and when the car ston-
ped suddenly was unable to checki his-
horscs because of the slippery rails.
Schwartz was ou the rear seat of the"
car.
BRITAIN DENIES PEACE STEP
No Truth In Report of Negotiations
With Soviet Russia
London, Feb. 0. (By A. P.) It is
officially stated that there is no truth
in the statement attributed to Adolph
Joffe, head of the soviet delegation
which negotiated peace with Esthonia,
that peace negotiations are proceeding
between Great Britain and soviet Rus
sia. Joffe. before his departure f6r Dor
pat. after tho signing of peace with
Esthonia, .was quoted by the Svcnkn
Dagbladct, of Stockholm, as having
made the statement.
REPEAT REPEATS
Fast Horse Again Romps Home First
at New Orleans
New Orleans, La., Feb. -0. Bepcat
came under the wire-first agaiu today
in thc opening race, three furlongs.
Tho winner, one of thc favorites, paid
fi to 2, 7 to 10 and 1 to 4. Morning
Face ran second and paid 1 to 2 for
place, and Petunie, a long shot, was
third, paying 5"to 2 for show. The
track .was fast and so was the time.
.3.1 4-5.
FIRST TtACE. claiming purse $700, two-veai-olds,
a furloncs:
Repeat, 111. Coltl-
lettl 5to2 7tol0 1 to I
Mornlre Face, 114,
Howard ., 13 to 10 1 to S 1 to B
Petunia, 114, Jlet-
ealfo .. ... SO to 1 6 to 1 5 to i
Time. :3R 4-B. Wanatah. Oner K., Joe
Goodman. Voorln and Centimeter also ran.
SECOND RACiS. claiming, purso JS0O,
four-year-olds anl. up, 0 furlongs:
Con tromp. 103, Col-
tllettl lrt tor, even 1 to 2
Assume. Ill, Stack. . .12 to . 7 to 10 1 to 3
A. N. Akin, 100. Willis. B to 1 2 to 1 4 to 5
Time. 1:12 4-!i. Trusty, Marie Rappold,
Mack Garner and Glffl 11 also ran.
- ROBBED BY HIGHWAYMEN
Three hpld-up men last night robbed
John Klembell. 3114 North Nineteenth
street, of $17 in cash and a gold watch
valued at S49. Tho robbery occurred at
Second and Cambria btrcets. Ono of tho
banditR held a revolver to Klembell's
head, he told tho police, while the others
bcnrched his clothing.
BLIND WOMAN, 71 RESCUED
' BY NEAR SIGHTLESS SON
,
Man, With His Wife, Gropes Way to Mother Who Is Trapped
on Upper Floor of Home by Fire and Smoke
Through tho bravery of Mrs. George
B. Ward, her daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Hannah Ward, n blind invalid, seventy
one ypifrs old, was saved from death to
day during t fire at thp Ward home,
5518 Chester avenue. Ernest Ward, a
son of. Mrs. Ward, who is also partially
blind, assisted his mother .in tho rescue.
Mrs. Ward was preparing luncheon
for ono of her children when she snw
smoke coming from the stairway. She
summoned her eldest son vho was nt
the ' rear ' of the houso and both
groped- their way to tbo third floor,
which vas occupied by the elder Mrs.
Ward.
Twice tho mother and sou wicre
driven back by tho dense smoke, but
tbo realization thut tho life of tho in
valid was -at stako spurred thorn on.
They finally managed to reach the third
floor while Mrs. Ward was endeavoring
to leave the room. She was on tho
verge of collapse.
The rescuers carried tbe old woman
MAYOR UNSHAKEN
IN STAND AGAINST
DEAL IN COUNCIL
Moore Opposed to Compromise
on Jobs Between Independents
Themselves or Witr Vara Men
HE PLACES RESPONSIBILITY
UPON HIS OWN FOLLOWERS
He May Issue Statement to Jus
tify Position Efforts to Re
tain Morrow Cause Discord
By GEOKGE NOX McCAIN
Mayor Moore will stand unshaken In
his decision to bo a party to no deals.
cither with the Insurgent Independents
or with the Vnro contingent, both of
whom arc holding up thc organization
of Council in thc endeavor to force
compromise. A
Thc Mayor has privately declared this
intention :
First, of placing the responsibility for
tho present situation squarely "upon the
Bhoulders of thc Independents, who arc
making-it impossible for Council to pro
ceed with his plans for thc betterment
of tho city.
Second, If their present attitude is
maintained by tbc filibustering Inde
pendents, tho Mayor,may find it neces
sary to go to the public with a state
ment of a somewhat startling character
in justification, before thc citizenship,
of the correctness of thc position he
has taken.
A new I and surprising phase of the
deadlock in Council ulso has come to
light.
It is said that one of the obstructing
councilmen on the majority side has ex
pressed a desire to have a former em
ploye of the old Council, and a Varp
ally, retained in office on the iw-orc'of
efficiency nnd personal use u'aess to
him. The pfficial is the secretary of
thc finance committee, Arthur It. II.
Morrow.
Burcli May Favor Proposal
"While a councilmanic declaration to
this effect has not been publicly made
yet, Chairman Burch, of the finance
committee, has expressed himself favor
ably to other memberri of the majority
on thc subject. "While administration
leaders recognize tho value of Mr. Mor
row's past services they deam it very
unwise to consider such s. proposition.
This, solely on the score of political ex
pediency. Ah for Councilmen Devclin and
Burch, both aro men whoc personal
.integrity is beyond question. It is u
garded, however, from the standpoint of
safety .first in politics, that their mis
taken zeal for reform lias carried them
beyond the danger line. In addition,
they are being made the tools of de
signing politicians on both sides. They
arc embracing the administration and
are playing directly, at thc sa,me time,
into the hands of the Vare members of
Council.
While basing their present action on
the high ground of principle above all
party consideration, they have been in
dustriously engaged in pullhu chestnuts
out of tho fire for the oppositio.i.
y Mayor for Original Program
Mayor Moore, no matter what action
tho finance committee may take tndnv
at its meeting, will insist that the
original schedule of employes for Coun
cil and their salaries, which he believes
represents the absolutely necessarv
clerical force, be adopted. The list was
carefully prepared. Every factor in
volving work and the economy of time
and money was considered at length.
Said one of the Mayor's advisers:
"The objectors emphasize thc fact
that the working force proposed for
Council as to number and salaries ap
proximates that of thc old bulky, bi
cameral body.
"Why shouldn't it? All the work per
formed by the old body has been taken
over by the new. The entire system
has been transformed. One councilman
is now compelled to undertake the work
and correspondence of about seven
former councilmen, and besides must
devote his whole time to other and in
numerable duties that devolve upon
him.
"ThcseTt specious objectors demand
that tho clerical list be cut down and
the number of messengers reduced. They
forget that these messengers must be
employes of n high grade, who can exe
cute commissions, examine records nnd
gather information. A councilmnn can
not turn himself into an errand boy if
the people expect him to give due care
to lus other duties.
"If one janitor only is permitted, I
do not believe you can find a man for
the job at tho salary offered. He will
have to keep the entire fourth floor,
with " tho corridors on tbe Council's
side, including the rooms on the fifth
floor, in perfect order.
"As for stenographers, even under
thc proposed schedule one will be com-
Continued on Taee Twent -three. Column
through the smoke-filled sthtrway to the
first floor. Meanwhile another son bf
Mrs. Ward had notified the uclghbors.
Mrs. Hannah Ward was taken to thc
home of a neighbor nnd a physician
summoned.
When tho firemen arrived they found
it impossiblo to enter tho houso on tho
first , floor and forced an entrance
through tho third-floor windows.
Iu n closet on tho third floor were
several packs of shotgun shells and
powder, and if the fire had reached them
there may have been serious results.
Ernest Ward is a member of tbo
sophomore class at the I'uiversitv of
Pennsylvania. Although almost totally
blind, ho is noted by his fellow class
mates for his pluck and perseverance.
The boy, who is uot quite twenty years
old, is obliged to sttidy by means of
tho Braille raised letter system. He
was injured when a child by thc ex
plosion of n fire-crncker at u Fourth of
July celebration
A
Citizens Who Cast Refuse
in Streets to He Punished
Following it conference with City
Solicitor Smyth and Chief Hepburn
of tho street cleaning bureau, Mayor
Moorp said today:
"Contractors may not have "been
dolngthe work they should. We arc
pushing them in nU directions, but
there is no doubt that citizens arc
partly responsible for conditions in
some of tho streets.
"Wo have Innumerable complaints
that ashes have been thrown out into
streets and nlleys. A lino is provided
for these offenders.
" "We have decided to proceed iu
flagrant cases to make those who
luiirow ashes and garbage into thc
Jtrcct understand they cnunot do it
Twlth impunity."
E
B
Files Nebraska Petition as Ad
ministration's First Blow
at Commoner
WILSON NOW BELIEVED OUT
i
By CLINTON W. GILBERT
Staff Correspondent of llio EienJnj; rnbllo
Ledger
Washington, Feb. 0. Thc filing of
Senator Hitchcock's petition as u can
didate for the presidency in Nebraska
is thc firsj step by tho administration
in the fight upon William J. Bryan.
Mr. Hitchcock becomes a candidate at
the request of members of the adminis
tration, who, since thc Commoner
raised tho treaty issue and the prohi
bition issuo in tho campaign, are deter
mined to give him a good beating.
Thc filing of Mr. Hitchcock's petition
nt the request of members of thc ad
ministration is highly important. It
means, first, that there is to be war
upon, Bryan if he will accept the chal
lenge, nnd, second, so far as members
of. President Wilson's own administra
tion are concerned, it is almost a taking
out of the race of the President him-
Mr. Hitchcock is thc administration
leader on the floor of thc Senate. Ho
would be almost as much embarrassed
in entering thc race for the presidency
until Mr. Wilson has taken himself out
as is ex -secretary McAdoo.
Mr. Hitchcock is put forwnrd at the
urgency of thc President's closest as
sociates politically.
Expect Bryan to Run
Mr. Brvan has not yet filed petitions
i VohrnsWn either as a candidato for
President or ns a Candidate for delcj
Bate, .He is expected to 'file petitiouft
for the" presidency. But' the-filing rof
Senator Hitchcock's petition may pre
vent his doing so. He mny not wish
to try conclusions with Mr. Hitchcock
nud take the beating that the politicians
bclieviV will be his if ho does so.
If he files only as a candidate for
delegate to thc convention, the inten
tion now is to refuse him thnt honor.
Mr. Hitchcock is rather indifferent as
to whether Mr. Bryan sits iu the na
tional convention or not, but Arthur
Mullin, thc Democratic national com
mitteeman from Nebraska, will insist
upon fighting Bryan for delegate.
This is because Bryan is making a
sharp fight upon Mullin personally.
Brvau has only shown his hand so
far as to put W. II. Thompson, of
Grand Island, once a Bryanito candi
date for senator fiom Nebraska, into
the field for national committeeman
against Mullin. , .
Tlintnnsnn was chairman of thc re
pent Brvau meeting in Omaha when
Bryan made the opening speech of his
campaign. This was the meeting at
which Mullin refused to serve on the
committee of arrangements. Mullin is
the chief lieutenant of Senator Hitch
cock. Commoner Must Fight or Yield
Bryan can only avoid an open fight
in Nebraska by running away from thc
issue, by failing to file petitions for the
presidency, nnd by withdrawing his
man Thompson from the race for na
tional committeeman. Iu that case Mr.
Bryan might be allowed to be a delegate
to San Francisco unopposed.
But if the Commoner wants to fight
the administration will be glad to meet
him, and is pleased to do so on such
favorable ground as Nebraska, where
it has in Sir. Hitchcock a popular' can
didate, in Mr. Mullin an efficient politi
cal manager, and where the primary
comes soon and a defeat of Bryan will
have great moral effect upon the peer
less lender iintionalh.
Administration forces will be likely
to withdraw Governor Edwards from
the race in Nebraska, where enthusias
tic wets have proposed his name. The
fight upon Brynn is a serious fight and
no division of th administration's forces
will bo permitted. GoveYnor Edwards
will probably be ready to withdraw,
Nebraska having now a favorite bon
candidate in tbe person of Mr. Hitch
cock. The selection of Mr. Hitchcock to op
poso Bryan in Nebraska is only the first
step in what the administration has got
to do everywhere. As already pointed
out in this correspondence, primaries
urn Hiiruiiriiing.
There must be nn effective opposi
in to Itrynn in tho early primaries ii
tion
jhc two Dakotas, where Brjan mav win
if not properly opposed and thus get
Continued on rata l'lfteen. Column Two"
WHO BELIEVES THIS?
Philadelphia Man!s Family to Eat
Eel for Months, If True
A fourteen -foot eel caught Silas
Hump, n Philadelphia sportsman, fish
ing ut Swurtswood lake, near New
town, N. J., last Saturday, according
to a dispatch received from there.
Hump was fishing at tho falls nt tho
foot of the lake. A strong strike ended
in the lauding of the giant animal. Then
tho fun began. Tho eel, again according
to the Now town dispatch, wrapped Its
fourteen feet of slimy body around
Hump and Irtunlly dared him to be
gin any fiilinv business.
Hump's cries for help see Newtown
dispatch reached the ears of nearby
ico cutters. They ran to the bcene.
Seeing his difficulty they got their Ice
putting tools seventh lino, Newtown
dispatch and cut the eel from arouud
his body.
Whn jrou think nt wrltlnr.
think ot VHITlNa.-a3;:
HITCHCOCK
RA
TO TROUNCE
RYAN
SENATE TAKES UP
TREATY ANO ENDS
IT TO COMMITTEE
Handful of Irreconcilables Alone
Opposes Lodge's Motion to
Resume Debate
STEPS TAKEN TO ABOLISH
EXISTING CLOTURE RULE
Committee Instructed to Report
Pact Back With G. O. P.
Reservations
By tho Associated Press
Washington, Feb. 0. Consideration
of. tho treaty of Versailles was re
sumed iu tbc open Senate today, .Re
publican and Democratic lenders joining
forces to brine it back for debate.
The decision wns reached without
debate, the Senate adopting overwhelm -inHv
it motion bv Senator Lodee. the
Republican lender, to reconsider the
vote by which the treaty was laid aside
ln.t. Nnvpmhpr.
Unanimous consent for thc reconsid
eration had been refused by Senator
Nbrris, Republican, of Nebraska, one
of tho irreconcilables opposing ratifica
tion, and on thc rollcall the irreconcil
able group nneu up in tne negative.
Vote 03 to 0 to Suspend Rules
Tho voto on Senator Lodge's motion
to suspend the rules so the treaty again
could be considered was 03 to 0.
Those voting nguiust the Lodge mo
tion, all Republicans, were: Borah,
Idaho; Braudegee, Connecticut; France,
Mnrvlnml : Gronna. North Dakota;
Knox, Pennsylvania: McCormick and
Sherman, Illinois; rvorris, .eDrasKa,
and Polndetter, Washington.
As soon as tho rules had beeu sus
pended a parliamentary fight developed,
Senator Noiris making a point of or
der against Senator Lodge's motion to
leconsider the vote by which ratifica
tion failed in .November. The objection
was overruled by Vice President Mar
shall, whose decision was upheld by
the Senate by a vote of 02 to 10.
On this roll-call the irreconcilables
again voted in the negative, strength
being augtrentcd by the vote of Sen
ator Sutherland, Republican, West Vir
ginia. Tho Senate by acclamation then
adopted Senator Lodge's motion of re
consideratidn,' and with the treaty for
mally before the Senate, Vice President
Marshall ruled that it had brought back
with if the cloture imposed before the
November vote.
Fight to Remove Cloture
To get rid of the clottlrn restrlpMnn
Senator Lodge moved to recommit the
treaty to the foreia-n rplntlnna onm.
roltt'ee, but Incorporated instructions
that it UevreportcdM)ack"wlth the Re
publican reservations adopted last ses
sion. Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
the Democratic leader, asking modifica
tion of the motion, proposed that the
treaty be referred to the committee with
the ratification resolution only and
without tho reservations.
Senator Lodge replied that his sole
purpose wns to bring the treaty back
before the Senate in the quickest pos
sible way. He declared emphatically
that the reservations had been adopted
in the Senate, the ratification resolu
tion only having been defeated.
Senator Underwood, Democrat, Ala
bama, declared there was no question
but thnt tho Democratic members
wanted the treaty taken up in the
Senate nnd suggested that an effort first
be made to cud the cloture rule by
unanimous consent.
After a half hour's discussion, rinr.
fng which several expedients were pro
posed for uutangling the parliamentary
mix-up about tho treaty, Senator
Hitchcock withdrew his proposal to
amend the motion, which was then car
ried by a viva voce vote.
That put the trcat technically out
of thc Senate- and into the committee,
and ended for the time being discus
sion of the subject ou the floor. Tho
committee is to meet tomorrow, and
membeie expect a report to be made
immediately.
TRACK AND SHOP
STRIKE ORDERED
300,000 Railroad Laborers Or
dered to Quit Work Feb
ruary 17
Detroit. Feb. ft. (By A. P.) A
strike of 300,000 members of tho broth
erhood of maintenance of waj employes
nud railway shop laborers was called
for Tuesday, Februarj 17. at a meet
ing of the general chairmen of the
brotherhood here today.
Decision to order u cessation of work
wns announced by Grand President
Allan E, Barker, following advices fron;
Washington that the negotiations with
the railroad administration for wage
increases offered no hope of a favorable
settlement.
, "I am loath to cull a strike." Mr.
Barker said, "but there i nothing else
wo can do. Our hands hne been forced.
I am tired of tho treatment we have
received .from government officials.
"The order includes station employes,
stationary firemen, stationaij engineers,
steel bridge workers, cinder pit men and
oilers, us well us all other members of
the brotherhood."
At thc convention of the brotherhood
last September u strike wa4 postpoued
in order that President Wilson might
have opportunity to attempt to bring
about i) reduction iu living costs.
Origiual demands of the brotherhood
wero for nu average increase of 40 per
,ceut, the greater increases to go to tbe
lower-paid men.
PLEADsToR AIRPLANE MAIL
Praeger Asks Senators for $3,400,
000 to Continue the Service
Washington, Feb. I). (By A. P.)
Retention of tho airplane mail set vice
for whch the House refused to provide
funds, was urged before the Senate
postofiico committee today by Second
Assistant Postmaster General Praeger
Ho asked thut ?3.400 000 be provided'.
A powerful mail plane, Mr. Prneger
stated, is being developed to cany mail
over the mountains to San Francisco
and a new British trlplane is to bo
tried out between Chicago and Omaha,
Say Nurse 'Adopted9 Child
to Satisfy Mother Love
Newbold Cook Asserts Mrs. William Nagele
Had Lost Baby by Death Detective to
Seek Her Around
A vearning for a baby to replace one
she had lost by death is believed to have
actuated Mrs. William Nagele, a widow,
to obtain possession of Genevieve Leon
ard, ten-month-old daughter of Mrs.
Ruth Leonard. MS North Bambrey
street, nnd flee thc city. A warrant
for the arrest ot Mrs. Nagele will be
sworn out today by the mother.
While acting In thc capacity of a
nurse for Mrs. Richard S. Newbold,
2213 Walnut street, Mrs. Nagele ad
vertised for a baby to udopt. , Mrs.
Leonard, n widow with three children,
wiih rrlnrl of thp onnortunitv to place
Genevieve in a good home. Mrs. Nagele,
it is alleged, posed as the mistress of
thc handsome Newbold home, nnd Mrs.
Leonard, overjoyed nt seeing the beauti
ful plahc in whielf'he'r daughter would
live, readily accepted the offer. So
quickly was the plan carried out that
Mrs. Newbold knpw nothing of tho
transaction till after it hud occurred.
Mrs. Nagele left the Newbold home
on Saturduy taking thc baby with her.
it is said. She is believed to have fled
to the ncichborhood of Stroudsburg. Pu.
Detective Frank Hodge, of City Hall,
will start for that place today in the
hope of finding her.
Fond Hopes Shattered
The rosy hopes which she entertained
for her little girl's future; the dream
picture which she had painted of her
Genevieve eventually being prominent
in the city's exclusive social set were
shattered virtually over night, and Mrs.
Leonard is now on the verge of a col
lapse. Coupled with her despair, how
ever, is thc determination to run down
the woman who is accused of spiriting
off her babe.
A woman answering the description
of Mrs. Nagele and enrtying a baby re
sembling Genevieve was seen in Broad
MISS A- ESTELLE LAUDER ON PRICE BOARD
Miss A. Estelle Lauder, executive secretary of thc Consumers'
Leasuc of eastern Pennsylvania, this afternoon, as named thc
ninth member of tho fair-price committee, which held it tirst
meeting- in the Finance Building. Mis Lauder's appointment
completed the committee. ,
NORTHERN FRANCE MOVES TOWARD REGENERATION
LILLE, Feb. 0. Perceptible progress toward the regenera
tion, of northern France is shown in reports just made public
here. From February 1 to December 1, 1910, 1,250,000,000
irancs wore advanced to manufacturers, and nearly 2,000,000.000
francs were paid as compensation for war damages. .Seed cost
. ing 1,500,000,000 francs' and fertilizers, worth 22,000,000 were
bDUght for farmers, who. in addition, received 18,000 head ol
tones.
T
Seriously Wounds Stepfather
During Quarrel Magistrate
Commends Youth's Action
RELEASED ON $600 BAIL
"hn glnd I shot him. He hnd it com
ing to him. T don't care whether he
gets better or not."
Edward Ferguson, thc Frankford
boy who shot and seriously wounded his
stepfather during a quarrel between
thc stepfather and the boy's mother, ex
pressed uo regret todaj.
"Something like -that was sure to
happen sooner or later," Mrs. William
Jenkins, the mother, said. "I did not
hear the shot. I was unconscious on
the floor, huwng been choked into in
sensibility by my husband.
"When I recovered consciousness he
was Iving be-ide me. He told me he
deserved the shot nnd told me to tell
the police that he shot himself."
The boy bus earned nothing but com-tnonrl-itinn
for hi- action yesterday.
Magistrate Costello held him under $000
bail for a further hearing ou Feb
ruary 22 toda5 .
Magistrate Praises I-ad
"If uo one rl-e goes his bail I will
or will get n friend to do it," lie said
after hearing the evidence. "Any boy
who defends his mother is a real Amer
ican. Any boy who does not is n cow-
John Fulton, one of the biggest tex
tile manufacturers in the northeast,
went the boy's bail. Fulton became in
terested in the case when he heard the
details. The hearing wns set for Feb
ruary 22 to await the outcome of Wil
liam" Jenkins's injuries. He is, in the
Frankford Hospital.
Many women attended the hearing.
Several cried when Mrs. Jenkins got
on the stand nnd told of a tumily broken
up by a fatber'b drunli
tnlltv
I
ness uuu uru-
"T oftpn nlended with him to turn
over u new leaf," she said. "lie would
promise. That was all. When Stewart,
uow three years old, was eight weeks
old, my husbuud sold our household
effects nnd left inc.
"Thut wns all I beard of him uutil
nfter he returned from thc war. Then
ho camo and asked to bo forgiven. I
took him in the home Edward nnd I had
made for ourselves and Stewart and
Lily, our seven-year-old girl.
Choked Her, Wife Says
"He treated the children brutally.
The argument yesterday began when lie
eumo in half drunk and forced snow
down my back because I hud objected
to him giving Stewnrt beer.
"He choked me. and when I awak
ened Edward wns standing there with
his rifle, and my husband was on the
lloor. It was then he told hie to advise
the police he had tried suicide."
Edwnrd, seventeen years old, and
Continued rn ! Two, Column Two
BY LAO HE H
TO AID HIS MOTHER
Stroudsburg
Street Station late on Saturday. This
woman, it is said, bought a ticket for a
place near the Delaware V atcr Gap and
appeared to be well supplied with
money.
A cook In the employ of Mrs. New
bold, who became intimate with Mrs.
Nagele during the -three weeks she was
nf the Knwhnld home, threw light on
the motive which caused the nurse to
take thc child, according to Detective
Hodge. '
Nurso Had Family Troubles
Her family troubles, thc death of her
husband in an ncrident. the death of her
babv and her mother yearning were un
folded to thc cook by Mrs. isagclc, wno
freouently burst into tears. She had
been engaged by Mrs. Newbold to
care for two babies in thc Newbold
home. Tho nurse appeared to be ex
tremely happy with her little charges.
She showed a great fondness, too, for
any of the little babies she encountered
while out for u walk iu Rittenhouse
Square.
The woman was often found in tears.
Thc cook questioned her one day while
she was crjing ami it was then she
poured out her troubles. There were
times also thut she appeared to be some
what erratic, it is said.
Mrs. Leonard said today that she
would appeal to the Detective Bureau to
find Mrs. Naglc and learn what hud
become of her baby.
Mother Tells Story .
"I thought thut Mrs. Nagle was
wealthy," she suid, "and believed that
I was doing best for my child when I
let the womnn take the baby. She mnde
me think that she occupied .the first
lloor ot thc rsewboid home.
Yesterday
I called at the house
and learned that Mrs. Nnglc had been
'employed there for about three weeks
Continued on Page Tlfteen, Column Four
1
IS CITY'S ORDER
Ordinance Found Which Com
pels Citizens to Remove Snow
From Beside Curbs
TO PROSECUTE VIOLATORS
Householders are to be forrcd to com
ply with nu ordinance regarding cleaning
siow from gutters and contractors must
live up to every specification in thpir
agreements with the city iu that rela
tion. This was decided at a conference to
day between Mayor Moore and Chiet
Hepburn, of the street-cleaning bureau.
City Solicitor Snijtli was called in for
advice in enforcing the new order
An ordinance makin
it compulsory
for citucus to keep the gutters around
LEAN
UTTER
ineir homes irra, ot snow and lee wnsiawuj. . ,...,i nf
found. A special deputy solicitor will' Joe Rosenberg sad that a crowi lot
be assigned to the street-clcaninc bu -
reau to look after the enforcement of
the order. lie will prosecute nil vio -
lutions.
Director Cortclyou has been ordered
to have tbe patrolmen in all sections
of tbe city inform the residents on their
respective beats that they are to be held
strictly accountable for the condition of
their gutters, under penalty of the law
nip.in cutters nrnvhle the n.ilnt'til
medium for melted snow to drain off."!
tJhiet Hepburn said, "it thev uro not
free the water resulting from tho melted
snow bucks up and lreezes again, mak
ing conditions worse than ever."
Praises Senator Vare
Chief Hepburn praised Senator Vare
and his organization for the work done
in the central section. The district is
05 per cent clear, he said, and will ap
rroxlmately be normal bv nightfall.
"Senator Vare worked all day jp.s
terday. The work was done under his
personal supervision, ami thc results
were gratifying," Chief Hepburn said.
"He accepted tbc service of Boy Scout
volunteers and employed ns many men
ns he could possibly obtain."
Mr. Hepburn said conditions were
not so good in the northern section of
the city.
Working immature boys at cleaniug
snow and ice from street, a task thut
tests tho strength uud endurance of
strong men, is murder.
Thut is tbo reason assigned bv Super
intendent G. W. Pinker, ot 11. J. &
A. Peoples, for the refusal of that con
tracting corporntiou to employ Boy
Scouts at tho work.
Other contractors employed boys at
I be work vesterdav. At least one firm,
that of Thomas Flanagan, Is working
Boy Scouts todav. The Flanagan con
cern has Troops 31 and 21 nt work with
thn legular street -cleaning brigade.
Their work is satisfactory, it wus said.
With n continuation of fulr weather
predicted by the weatherman, thc con
tractors uud Chief Hepburn are opti
mistic of result to be obtained by
Continued on l'aie Two. Column Ml
TROOPS
REPEL MB
OF LYNCHERS; KILL1
Kentuckians Shot Down
as
They Storm Courthouse to
Get Negro MurdeVer
s;
SLAYER SPIRITED AWAY n
AFTER SPEEDY CONVICTION
Lexington the Scene of Law
lessness State Guardsmen
Summoned A
rms7i
By tlio Associated Press
Lexington, Ky., Feb. 0. Four per
sons were killed and fifteen injured hero
today when n mob, intent upon lynch-
ing William Lockett, n negro, who con
fessed to them murder of ten-year-old
Geneva Hnrdman, charged the court
notice during Lockett's trial and was
fired upon by poliiV nnd state' troopf
and compelled to withdraw. The ring
leaders of the mob carried a rope.
Those reported killed were: B. F.
Carrier, of Lexington; John .Thomas,
of Versailles; William Effington, of
Versailles, and L. M. King, of Lexing
ton. -,
Among those wounded were:
.T. AV. Stnnsell, W. J. Ilees, Otis
Sharp, Emmett Dozier, Irwin Gwyun,
Emniett Danziger, Fred Sowders. H.
c. Weathers, Mrs. E. T. Cross, James
Masevgall,
Several of tho wounded are expected
to die.
The clash with the soldiers held off
the mob while the authorities managed
to slip the negro away to a place of
safety.
While the excitement was going on In
front of the courthouse, a jury in the
courtroom convicted Lockett of first
degree murder and the negro was sen
tenced to be electrocuted March 11.
Military Force Increased
Soldiers and policemen continued on
guard near the courthouse following tho
shooting. Officials feared that another
attempt might be made to lynch Lock
ett should the crowd discover his where
abouts. Four hundred troops from Camp Tay
lor, Ky., have been ordered to Lex
ington to prevent any further trouble,
and are now en route here, officials an
nounced. The additional troops were
requested as it was feared that the
300 militiamen could not handle the
situation.
Trouble was feared by the authori
ties us soon as Lockett was captured
and confessed to the assault and nuirder
of the little girl last Tuesday. The
prisoner was lodged in the state peni
tentiary at Frankfort.
Machine Gun Used On Mob
The mob formed near the courthouse
during the trial, and suddenly made a
rush for thc entrance.
The stjitp trooos attempted to hold
back tbe crowd by a show of arms, but
failed. Then the troopers resorted io
the use of rifles and a machine gun,
which had been mounted at the en
trauop. After several rounds of shots
the mob withdrew, many of their num
ber ling in the street dead and in-
!
iured. The prisoner, who nan just ueeu
entenced, was then ruslied out. a ouciv
way and secretly taueu iu u nuiui. i
safetv. . .. . . . f
P W. Coleman, n lormer meiuuei ui.
the tire department, said he was on
Main street, opposite thc court house,
when the mob made a rush for the en
trance. He said lie J'pl,tei' ,a.?d"
number of the crowd said: M hat s
the matter: have ou a weak back t
Coleman said he was pushed forward
by the surging crowd behind htm to thc
steps of the court house.
He said one man jumped upon the
buck of u soldier having charge of the
machine gun. and another man over
turned the gun to prevent its use. As
he did so a policeman struck him over
the head with bis club nud ut the same
time n captain of the soldiers shot a
man behiud him. The tiring then be
came rapid and tbe .rowd retreated,
leaving the dead and injured upon thc
steps' and iu the street.
Pawnshops Raided for Firearms
Immediately follow iug the elush the
mob, made a rush for pawnshops ami
looted everyone within reach, t. n-
I Hjman. with a shop ou -u ,,.
street,
Mini ; ! r-
I incu came to his place uuu uumuim u
i the guns iu his window.
Thcv seemed
I to be determined to
et them," said
Itoseiilieri.' und I gave them an tne
guns I had. probably fort or lifts .
Frank Block, who has a clothing
store ou Vine street, said the moo
tiowded into his store demaudiug guns
and cartridge-, but that lie hud uono
in stock. His little boy, uooeri, irigiu-
i ...m.l 1., lw imfl. mil into the street
and left thi store emptj until thc father
. arrived.
Ilni-iv Ski. Her. who has n shop on
Smith Limestone street, said the men
came into his store, about twenty -five
or thirty in tho crowd, and demanded
guns, promising to return them "di
reetlj." "Thev started to go through the gate
ut the end of tbe counter," buid Mr.
Skuller, "but I stopped them, fearing
they would damage the store, uud said,
Walt u minute uud I'll give them to
you mj self ' "
He suid he bunded out the guns nu
fast ns he could and thut the mob got
probably fifty or sixty, he wus not sure
of the exact number.
Farmers Menaco Prisoner
Early today hundreds of farmers from
tho surrounding eouutry came to Lex
ington to nttend tho trial.
They gathered in grouns on thn
streets. The state troops closely guard
ed the streets when the negro wan
taken from a truin and rushed to tlm
courthouse. Thc prisoner was brought
here early this morning from Frankfort
ou a special train.
Heavy wires and ropes had been
stretched along thn streets to prevent
thn crowds from charging tho prisoner
with his rallltury escort. Loug before
tho trial begun the courthouse was
crowded to capacity. No onn was per
mitted to enter until ho had been
searched for weapons.
The little Hnrdman girl was found
murdered by schoolmates a abort dis
tance from her home last Tuesday mora'
Ing, just a few minutes after ohe had
left home for a neurbjr schoolhoinie,
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