f ' "-'( V R.C u, it til t. it- Iv i k fr fi i II' o GONTRAG TORS FACE LARGER PENALTIES Chief Hepburn Says Holders Are More Negligent This Moivth Than Last VARE TO PROTEST TODAY Streets Little Belter. Chic Hepburn Admits Chief Hopburu said today that u Might improvement in the condition lot the citj streets as uoticeablc. "They are still very bad, how ever," he said, "and much of the improvement may be credited to the weather." The nine contractors who appear before Director Winston to protest ajainst fines of $10,000 will hnve a hard time convincing the director of the injustice of the fines, the chief said. Street-clean'm? contractors, jtiven a chance today to protest against flues of $10,000 levied for alleged dereliction on contracts durint; January, face far greater fincB for like offenses this month. Chief Hepburn, of the street-cleaninc hureau, says contracts have already been neglected or ignored more this month than all of last, and the contractors will be fined aecordinclj. ! The contractors say they will fight) tbe sm.OOn fines bittcrlv. Senator Vare. who holds the contracts for clean ing the downtown streets and faces fines of about S5000. will make a de termined stand against payment, it is understood. I Senator Vare and the other con-; tractors will be put "on thc mat by i Director Winston, of the Department ot ' Public Works, today. Director Wins ton says he is prepared to show the justice of tbe fines by evidence col lected by inspectors. Mayor's Ultimatum ' As it was for January. Senator Vare 1b expected to face th highest fines for JTcbruary. -Mayor Mqorc tourea tne, downtown streets and found their con d it ion so dirty that he issued an ulti matum to the senator to the effect that the streets must be cleaned at once or the city would hire men and equip ment to do the work and charge it up to the contractor. As the result of the ultimatum, Sena tor Vare has every available man and every available bit ot equipment at work today. And tie other municipal contractors, taking thc tip, also are making every possible effort to get the streets cleaned. Chief Hepburn says no contractor has offered his books for examination to dis "prove.the charge that all of the munici pal contractors are making 100 per cent. All volunteered to show their books, he said, but none has come forward with them.. The Department of Health will in stitute, prosecutions withiu a few days against persons, guilty of littering up the streets. Grip Danger Seen I The importance of forcing tho street contractors to clean up thc city's streets, especially iu South Philadelphia, i and to keep them properly cleaned I hereafter, was emphasized by the Bureau I ot Health in commenting on the grip' . eituation. I Tb? suggestion . yiat the city may I reet a municipal asphalt plant and I operate, it in competition with the con- I tractors caused thc latter a decided" shock; it is said, when the news was ' communicated to them yesterday. Al- I though there has been talk of such n i move for a number of years it was not! generally known that the plans for an flipbalt plant had been completed and that Director Winston, of tbe Depart ment 'of Public Works is readv to ask Council to provid" S17,"),000 to cover the cost of installing it in the rity. By the f.treet cleaning contractors it is regarded as thc first real step to ward the taking over by thc city of all of its street work, including thi cleaning or' the highways. The realiza tion that the prospect of losing the profitable citj contracts is growing more definite, it is said, and had a decided influence on the activities shown ves tcrday. MERION JUSTICES ILL, SNOW CASES DELAYED John R. K. Scott and 24 Other Property Owners Failed to Clear Sidewalks The illness of two magistrates today1 used n no-tnonement of h. i..o !.,..'. , of twerity-five Lower Merion pronertvlin ,n' subject and the importance of I owners, including John R K .Scott, the Third district that business men arc j summoned because snow was not re- ' unwilling to become candidates. moved from the footwalks of their prop- , srtiee, I A representative of Mr. Smti called . the more interesting because it seems at the Ardmore station at ? o'clock effectually to dispose of tbe congrcb this mornini Thief Dnnagliv had not ' sional ambition-, of Isadorc Stern. nriTH j ThP ?fri,Dt '"''Phoned the1 Among thr men discussed lit the con ?i j 5'j ."'"5JW ,h" ''""ns. ference between Cunningham and Coles scheduled for 10 o clo-k. would not be for tbe citv committee were: Third el?;, n . . ,, I ward. Harry J. Trainer: Fourth. Jo After Donachr hntl Unn fiLm,...! u. ,. n.-.m.: : irtttu t...., r the snow bad been shoveled off anv-. how. Ue told Mr. hcott s renrrsenta. I tive n? need Dot wait for the bearing. inm. also candidate for chairman of the l Carney was filling ic for me the first uiher property owners who came to .committee to ucceed Harry Ransley : , time Orlando was given a hearing. I the station Iiouse at 10 o'clock were told I Thirteenth. John F. Flaherty; Eight- instructed that all prisoners, including thef.ame thing leenth. Robert Orier : Twenty -second, I Orlando, but not singling blm out espc- rhe police explained that Richard, W. W Roper, now a member of Citycially. should be brought to my office T. Lewis and Howard S. Stillwairnn ' r,,i,ne11. Twentv-fourlh. Blako D. Xfc. , for Vienrinzti. "r .uerion magistrate', were both confined to then homes bv colds Chief Donugli had no authority to iiMHir-s me r-nmpiaiiiis. ne told the own ens. but he iustrurter I hem to return to their homes or office- SNOW SHUTS COAL MINES Anthraeite Output Cut 85 Per Cent at Hazleton Hatleton, Pa.. Fab. 10. -B a. P.) Only tive mines in the Huzleton dis- Tnci were 'iiirraiiug lonay j lie an tbracite coal output has been cut (V, per cent as a result of the blockiifle caused by a week-end snowstorm. Trolley and tbird-rall traffic U com pletely tied up and railroad trains nre running late. 7ero temperature pre vails. CAUGHT MAKING WINE - in- Plve Men Arrested for Alleged Vio lation of Dry Law Morrlslown, N. .1., Feb. 10. (By A. P.J-r-Flve men were arrested early to ilir In a raid on the home of .Tnlm ( Tilefrlno. where h wine nre b.i lUrrel of wine were seized. All are charged with violation of the national turftnlhlttAn lauv - t:' -".:. . !, Am p tliA fipsi nurtni.. a-.,..) I in ,Hls county under the new statute, i'Mtral agents made the arrests. MEXICAN BANDITS HOLDING AMERICAN Demand Ransom for Mine Su perintendent U. S. Urges Carranza to Act Washinstou. Feb. 1tl. (ftv .. r)- Wilton Welsh Adams, an American, ha been captured" by bandit in Zacntrea. . vi h m held for r.o.ooo I n-na advised today. i Adams homo is in Los Anccles, ' where his Wife nml cMM timv II,.,. ! The American enibaj nt Mexico! i iiy nas oeen instructed by tbe State I ttes rnstrtct attorney ollice ot ni Departmeut to bvius tbe isldnnpnins to Icged iffnrti made by a police llcutcn the attention of tho Mexican authorities, ant to obtain freedom for n man ae- wii.i iur muni mar every stnn hoi taken to secure Adams's release. i iiie American representatives nt , Saltillo and Monterey, in reporting the 1 incident. sHid the authorities in aca teens were endeavoring to learn i the whereabouts of Adams nud bis cap tore and that three columns of Mexican troops had been sent out. The bandits were icportcd to have looted the warehouse of tlif I'rovidencla Mine, operated by the Mincrales and Metales Co., an American concern. Adams was superintendent of the mine. HUNT UNIONTOWN ' DOCTOR'S SLAYERS E-jnrj;n. 0f Dismembered BoHvi'ando and other prisoners had been taken r inaing ot uismemoerea ooay I. o thc Sd jcr nvpniC statJon- Starts Search for Enemies Among Dry Law Violators "g . ......-..-.- ,,, A PROMINENT FIGURE LuionlOHii. Pa., Teh. 10. The dis membered body of a man found yester- Hnv encased in ipi lit Spnripllf. fwelve miles west of here, was identified today i as that of Dr. David Uildncr. aged n.i, , prom nent hockwooo ana rmhouiso phyweian who d Uappcarol mysteri- - f.r - . .v:v-,:v" "t"i The nhvsician left home late at night I last November S to answer a call and I never returned. ' That was tp give the police an op- Persons seeking vengeance because I portunity to have the stuff he was the physician had threatened them with J charged with peddling analyzed." prosecution unless they ceased selling Orlando Was Before Baker liquor illegally are believed to have T , ,.,.,-, waylaid and murdered Doctor Gildner. , "nil February 11 I learned that Or later dismembering the body and hub-,'n,nd? 'ind ecu instructed to go to merging it in a shallow pool. Magistrate Baker s private office. A hat The crime was disolosed late jester- disposition Baker made of the case I day when a dog dragged n human foot 0" know. But I do know -that the up to the residence of Joseph Frost. I PnllcP lo"k Orlando before the United Later the dog led Frost and county I States commissioner and that he was authorities to the body. A watch and ' held for court. T. .. . . a physician's thermometer, found in the' Kfcor3 of , thr United States mar clothing, established identitj. shal s office showed today Orlando had Immediately following Idenlinration I of the body police instituted search for the driver of a taxicab In which Doctor (Jildner rode the night of his disappear ance. Shortly after thc wartime prohibition law went into effect. Doctor Cilduer is me to substitute for him at the 'i wen said to have obtained information that t''h and I cdcral streets station. I certain foreigners were selling liquor, had called up before going there and He is said to have warned them that learned there were prisoners to be ar- nnlouq thev ccfi.rd the illcfirnl nrncticp net would cause their arrest. Since his di rappearance it has been believed that icniics made in this way wr.re I enemies responsible Town Meeting Men , -for Moore Regime r7' Continued from rase One had decided on bini as a national dele irate. It is reported that Mr. Cunningham . and other advisers of the Mayor will confer with Senator Pcnroe and Mayor Moore to get n decision a to whether the Moore followers will indorse M. Lane or tight nm. It is pointed out that m the Second i n!t.!r.t lT ,nl. llnifA" T n. tvtiivVil- t hcl'v.;ro indorsVment a," one "of fh" ! two national delegates from that dis-"'""" a-lm ws several nouses u trict ami the other delegate to be al"5 arraigned pu tho day the blizzard Moore mar began and I didn't think it was right If it is decided to fight Land's .an- j to send hi into Moyumcnsing prison, didacy. it is believed that Mr. Cunning- , ,AInfTay' Carney did exactly what I ham and Judge Brown will be the two Bkcd . .blm to do. lie allowed him to Moore selections. ?&n hi? 7n .nd for a further hear- "We are not paJing much attention L"3K- As for Carney saying T called to national delegates just now," said Mr. Cunningham today .Seeding Moore Successor ' We are busy at present trying to find a" candidate for Congress from tbe Third Congressional district to succeed Sir Moore. We want somebody to run ngainst Harry Ranslcy, the Vare candidate, and are having considerable difficulty getting the right man We would like a business man or a manu facturer, but thtj don" want to get into a fight. We are working on this, however, and will stay right on,,thc job unt-'' "'" KPt the man wp want- 1 '" surnrlMnc In view of thc great interest Politicians found Mr. Cunningham's, nllusion to the candidate for Congress Eiehth. Edward A. Cook : Ninth. James r velv Tenth. Thiimnn W. Piinninir. Cutlghn : Twenty-JlftU, William 1. 'fampbell; Twenty-sixth. Joseph C. Trailer; Thirtieth. James Savage, and rortv-smh. .lohn r isier. TOWING DISABLED VESSEL Coast Guard Cutter Rescues Un named Craft Off North Carolina Beaufort. N. C, Feb. 16. fBy A. p iThe coast guard cutter Itasca re ported bv radio today she was 100 miles cart of Cape Lookout lightship towing it disabled ftearnship iuto port. The !name 0f the steamer was not given An unidentified schooner also was re ported in a hinking condition thirty miles southwest of the lightship. A passing steamer offered to take thc crew off, but they refused, declaring the schooner would make Cnpe Lookout cove before night. RISE IN POSTAL RECEIPTS Tostal receipts at the Postoffirc in .Tnnuarr amounted to S1.SS1.947. as compared with $1,130,277 in January. 1010. There were .181,1 (2 domestic and foreign money orders issued and paid, an increase of 4i,4 over January. lfllO. Total amount involved in money order transactions was S.1.riU).715, as compared with sa.fMtl.HlU last year r.i.n' mnn.v nrrlet'x issued .hmvc,l r.U(H AT .. Uuf .Tiinnarv'a nrnnhtr of about CO per cent, while the number of foreign orders paid increased slightly, fj!f i EVENING PUBLIC i Magistrate Carney Says Police I Lieutenant Stinger Sought Ac- ' cused Bootlegger's Reloase ASSERTS LEADERS MEDDLED Maturate Hilwonl P. Cnrney suld fn.lat lift trnttlil Inform Wrni-tfir nf Public Safety (.'orteI.ou nud the United cuseu 01 onoiiiecina. Lieutenant (Jeorce Stinger, of tho Twentieth mid Federal streets station, Carney asserted, interceded with him for the discharge of Gactnno Orlando, a former saloonkeeper of Twelfth and Moore streets. According to Magistrate Carney, Stinger left his own district and went in u taxlcab to thc Third and Dickin son streets station. That was on Feb ruary 4, he said, after Orlando had Been arrested by thc police of the. Dickiiif-on street station and charged with .bootlegging. Magistrate Carl Raker, who is as signed to that station house, was 111 at the time and had requested Cnruej, elected last November on the Charter party ticket, to substitute for, him. Carney Says Stinger Phoned "Stinger missed me at the Third and; today. "lie telephoned to me at the Fourth street and Snyder avenue sta tion, where T was holding hearings. Or "When Stincer cot mn on the tele nhonc." Carney continued, "he told me he was deeply injerested in Orlando. 'lift if A fwltml nt mtna Ihn llAl.tnAnf told me. Stinger added Carney says that Orlando was a good fellow and that 'he wanted him discharged. I "When I told Stinger that the I Twenty-fifth district police wanted l IS l lltlllll Ul U11UV, fcllU ll4lWinul him held and that I was going to hold him the lieutenant called me a name that wouldn't look well in print. I hung up the receiver as he was still lul'nR- Stinger called me up again while I was at the Twentieth and Buttonwood streets station and tried to have me release Orlando. But I had held the mau for a further hearing I ebruary 11. ur.l".",B,5",i euru"rJ. " "-iure -'- missiouer Mauley and that he had been held for court on a bootlegging charge. "My last experience with Lieutenant Stinger," Carney continued, "was last Saturday. Magistrate Dougherty asked iji-u-u When T got to tbe station house I wa! told !" were no prisoner?, cnt to Lieutenant Stinger, In c I com mand of the district, and asked him where thc prisoners me he had sent Bcnsbaw. Prisoners 'Then the lieutenant added that he 'thad transferred the prisoners at the i requett ot a political leader. He said the leader had told him he didn't want ' the defendants arraigned before me." hunger this afternoon denied he had ,i,ri Turner to Hlschrpn Orlnmln i -Orlando is a friend of mine," the lieiteD3nt .tatcd ..and j dM f him ,what T wouW do or . A d thc circumstunces. j 8implv asked tnc , n,Hff:.,rnt tn llmv dm man tn in ,,:',. Vi, u, V " " - his own bail bond. "Orlando is worth Probably about n". """ " Carney and his friends are trying to frame mo up. I am the only lieu tenant in South Philadelphia who has not been transferred. I have been on tho force for twenty-two years, and my record is clean They have been trying to frame me up for the last eighteen months. 'It is true that 1 sent prisoners on Saturday to Magistrate Rcnsbaw at the Twentieth and I lUwater streets station. I did it because I didn't think I would get a square, deal from Cor- uey. On the day before a woman was arroigned before Carney at this sta- tion house. Two business men accused her of assault and battery, "Carnev discharged the v. heW (h(, - compaiDanls f oman and iiplainanls for assault and battery. Although therp waa no warrant for tnem. he ordered them ACCUSE OFFICIAL IN LIQUOR HEARING them un to Alncistinlc " mi't'inn nvrmie ; ,ir. a. itersortJi. "i'-w umiu n. iw i.. . wv., tntm up to .iaSistiate 5U W(igt j. av.nue . ' M Sterling and a fireman named Pigeon. I Weinstein, 2563 Kensington avenue' It was said that Burke had enlisted in Were Transferred ,(',. Lerner. lfiOO North Flfih Btro.f. a' the army since the incident. locked up, and tbey were put In ceils. America, President Grant, Nanscmond count rates or bolder release of gold When I reached the station house 1 1 and Callao. i reserve of our Federal Reserve sys took them from the cells and allowed, S1S.JOO.000 for Six Ships tern ' them to eit in tho rollroom." i Mr. Franklin and General Goethalsl Jiagisirnie uaKcr was luiormea tonay I hurlid increafes of siuu.ijui1 and ?aJU, of Carney's assertion that Baker bad 1 000 at each other until General Orlando come to his private office for, the further hearing, despite the fact it was Carney who had held the man. I was sick. Baker explained, "and When Orlando came to me for his further hearing a police wituess told me thc mac had been bold by the rVHal CtnVad .nmmfiitnnpi. There una t'nlted States commissioner. There was nothing for mo to do but discharge him. No, Lieutenant Stinger had not spoken to me about the case." WILL USE PEACE PALACE Carnegie Monument Will Shelter, for First Time, Important Conference Tho IlaEiio. Feb 16. fUy A. P.I .The, Carnegie Peace Palace, the activi- ties Wltnill w note ni.nuii umi& H,nrc its completion in 10B) have been con fined to visits of tourist partic, was ready today for more distinguished guests. Use of the building for tbe first time for official purposes was ar ranged for today by thc confai .! of several of the European neutral gov ernments to dibcuss their participation In the permanent court of international justice provided for by Article XIV of the League of Nations covenant. The call for the meeting was issued bv Ilclland. The nations invited vre Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Swit Ucrlnnd. Clothing Closet Burns Fire in a closet full of clothing on the second floor nf the home of Harrv n'Moorc. at 2.113 Myrtlewood street at In 'IK n'clock this mOmlnC. Catlftcd dflm age amounting to ?100 The origin of the fire is unknown. 4 - LEDGER-- HIL'ABELPHIA atOffDAV," F&..- sX4 "fefewf? HV MRS. THOMAS V. McNICIIOL. Wife of Judge McNIchol, who will be on the receiving lino at tho Phllopalrlan ball at the Bellevue- Stratford tonight Ti rj . . . ,, ,- ... Three Brought Here From Alle- gheny County Workhouse Held in Bail . rmi V Vts - irAKrnn nfPAiin iq i Ain tr nnwuifTQ i lULniu iu uuivviuiu investigation, which revealed the con- dition. It was not until December S, STflRFKFFPFR? TF5TIFY Captain McCoach said, that Echter OIUl:CCrC I t & I I r I meJCr reported that the places had beeu . ! quarantined. Three alleged confidence men, brought here from Pittsburgh, after spending eighteen months in thc Allegheny county workhouse, were held in S&'iOf) hnil urh today by Magistrate Booney, on charges ot working a fake gold game on twelve Philadelphia shopkeepers that netted them about S20.000, Three person! said to be victims of the trio were present in Central Station today to testify. They are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bass, 51GS Thompson street, who claim that they were fleeced out of S550 and a gold watch and chain, and Abe Levine, 3842 Oermantown avcnul, who said he lost money and jewelry to taling ?!50 to thc alleged swindlers. The prisoners are Morris Rosenberg, thirty-eight: Samuel Epstein, twenty eight, and. Isaac Weiss, thirty-two. all of New York. They were brought from Pittsburch bv Deteetivp fienvire Kle1n. thai. The case against them was worked up by Detective Jacob H. Comborrow, Tb" men. it is said, had little dif- ' C4lW "!'" i'?? GUy" , , ficulty in working their game in this . Schwartz testified that he was stand, city. One of the trio struck up an ' mr in Hon to buy a ticket to tbe theatre, acquaintance with a shopkeeper. While I wIcn i-omft one "J back of bun called they were talking another of the him a "cheap guy." He turned around, men would drop in and show a piece " Raid- aml was rt '" the fa?e b? of gold ore which be said he obtained ' somc nnP in th r,rowd. Doctor Morris from a mine out West. The third mem- I then paid he would "av.t Schwartz nr ber would be later called in as a jeweler. ' rested, the latter testified, and thc He tested the ore and pronounced it ' rumpus followed. (list-class. After that it was easv to The patrolman said he was followed inveigle the shopkeeper into buying scv- lt0 the patrol box and was struck again, eial nuggets which proved worthless. He recognized Burke as the man who Other shonkeeneris thev nro ccnrl nf hit him, he faid, and arrested him. were. St necr told i "winunng are josepn nnussman. 013001 wuris nmu umi ni'iwi "--;" "- Ridewater. 1521 Point Brcern nnnm.- Julius Weisbrand, .1032 North Sixth street, ana ram uauttman. of lOOI Edgemont street, Chester. U. S. Receives Bids for German Ships Oiatlotirtl from re One 1 Chairman Payne, which said the highest1 bids would have to be approved by the j Senate commerce committee and the House merchant marine committee and that acceptance of any hids would ' ' pend upon the outcome of the injunction proceeding. uoramtssioner Srott said the terms of thc sale would be arranged to suit the convenience of the board and the pro spective purchasers and that all shins sold must be operated under the Ameri can flag P. A. S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine, of fered n conditional bid of $14,050,000 for nine vessels for service to the United Kingdom and jjprtbern European ports. The vessels-covered by the. bid were the Leviathan, George Washington, America, t'resiuent urant, rxansemond Antlgoue Pocahontas, Princess Matoika I and Callao Thc offer wan conditional l upon an agreement bv thc shipping board not to enter into competition with these vessels in this service, George W. Goethals, American Shin and Commerce Corporation, offered 5l0.OO0.0OO for six vessels for the Ham burg and Bremen service, the bid being burg and Bremen service, the bid being quickly raised to $10,500,000 by Mr. Franklin. The vessels nre the George ashineton. Martha Washington, Ooethals's original offer of $10,000,000 had been raised by Mr. Franklin to ?1.-1 100,000. General Goethals bald $1,000,000 was the limit to which he was authorized to go. A condition of Mr. Franklin's bid for the six vessels of the Hamburg-Bremen service would require thc Shipping Board to recondition tbe Martha Wash. ineton and the Callao. Commissioner Scott, who conducted the auction, said i the repairs on the Martha Washington . .1.1 ...... ... 01 AOX Ki would amount to $1,483,854. HELD UP NEAR HIS HOME Armed Bandit Gets $14, but Passes Up Victim's Watch and Chain Michael Harkins. B54I5 Pearl street, .n U1,l tin Viv nn firmed hnnrilf nr lhi. nom oariy t0(ay and robbed of I $14. The bandit did not take tbe victim's watch and chain. The man stepped out of nn alley as Harkins approached. Ho pointed a re volver at Harkins and ordered him to hand over his money. Harkins did. Tbe bandit is described as being about five feet eleven inches tall, weighing about 160 pounds And wearing a dark overcoat and hat. He was ubout thirty years old, Harkins raid. Charged With Threat to Kill Wife During a quarrel over money at his home this morning, John Pantolone, of Eighth and Catharine streets, threat ened to kill his wife Mary, according to the police. Patrolman Gallagher, of the Elgfbth nnd Carpenter streets sta tion, heard shouts for help, and entered the house. He arrested Pantolone, and when the latter was searched, It is said, a revolver was found in bis coat pocket. He was held In $1000 ball for a further hearing by Magistrate Car ey, r -v-ar rvih. ,.. POLICE LIEUTENANT PLEADS NOT GUILTY Trial of Echtormoyer Begins Boforo Civil Service Commission CAPTAIN GIVES EVIDENCE Lieutenant John IMitermejcr, sus- ' ponded police commander of the Second 'and Christian streets station, pleaded "not guilty" to charges of dereliction ' of duty, when his trial opeued before i thc Civil Service Commission in City Hall today. J. Washington I.ogue, nditeimcycr'a i attorney, attempted to halt tho pro ceedings by contending that thc charges were not clear and Insufficient. Thc ef fort failed. Commissioners Woodruff and Nceld and Police Captain Tempest comprise thc tribunal before which Echtcrmcyer ib being tried. Tho proceedings arc taking place in the office of thc regls-a tration commission. Boom 030. Charges ngainst the police official arc: Failure to report thc conviction of Patrolman Abraham Schwartz on the charge of conspiracy. Allowing three disorderly houses to op'rate in his district. Beporting disorderly houses ns soft drink and cigar stores. Police Cuntain David McCoach. in charge of the district at the time of ' Echtcrmeyer's alleged failure to fulfill his duty, testified that the first intlma- tion ot disorderly places came turougu 1 an anonymous letter. ' Captain McCoach said this was some time in October. He said he started an Director ot niDiic oaiciy oneiyou and Superintendent of Police Robinson were in court to testify, but were excused by the commissioners until silch a time as they would ne neeaeq Harrv Felix appeared as attorney for I the nolice denartment. The courtroom was crowded." Several trnmnn were amone tbe spectators Thc Echtcrmcyer ease was adjourned at 11 o'clock until -'. In thc iuterim the commissioners heard testimony in the case of Patrolman Abraham Schwartz, charged -with assaulting Dr. Samuel W. Morris. Sergeants Mooncy and Ferris were put on the stand by Ilnrry Farley, at tornev for Schwartz, and denied all al legations of brutality on thc part of Schwartz when he arrested Doctor Mor ris ir front of his father's moving pic ture theatre recently. They said Doctor Morris told them he was not injured Jinn when they took htm to tnc ponce sta- One of the policemen said that Max Burg, who lives at 704 South Third street, nad overneard a conversation ne- tween Doctor Morris and Burke, in which the latter admitted having struck Schwartz. Burg was not in court. The heariug was adjourned until to morrow. Twrutj witnesses arc expected to tea tifj iu the Ecbtermeyer care. FAVORsTEWCoiNAGE PLAN University Authority Tells House Committee Scheme's Benefits Washington, Feb. 10. America's currency sjstem was described as "bi metallic dabbling" today by Dr. Jacob H. Hollander, professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University, during hearings before a subcommittee of tho House banking and currency com mittee on the bill of Representative Mc Fadden to reduce the standard of sub sidiary silver roins. "There are three distinct reasons fop, the passage of the measure," Doctor Hollander said. "The first is that it will .establish our currency system upon an unqualified gold basis. The second is that it will permit the reduction to a corresponding extent of the country's very considerable floating debt without resort to a funding operation and with out exclusive reliance upon the treas ury's present improvident device of pro viding for its floating indebtedness by anticipating the income and excess profits tax receipts of future years. Thc third reason is that it will effect a i gradual and salutary correction of our present inflated circulation medium by i less drastic means than still higher dis- ACCUSES GREAT BRITAIN Representative Demands Probe ot "Monroe Doctrlno Violation" WsihUigtoii, Feb. 16. (By A. P.) Charging that Great Britain had vio lated the Monroe Doctrine by interfer ing with the sailing from Bucpos Aires yesterday of the former German steam ship Bahia Blanca. with consignments for ten North American importing com panies, Representative Britten intro duced a resolution today asking the State Department to make a full in vestigation. "It was a common practice of Great Britain to violate tho Monroe Doctrine as well aa American rights ou tho high seas prior to tho American participation in the European war under tbe guise of war necessity," thc resolution said, adding "It must now be evident to all nations alike that the government of tho United States will not countenance in terference with American trade except through fEppcr American diplomatic channels. NORTH BERKS SNOWBOUND Another 8torm Cripples Trolley and Railroad Service Reading, Pa., Feb. 10. Northern Perks county was wrapped in another crippling snow storm ycjtcrday. As a leault a trolley car and snow plow were bluck in the vicinity of Fleetwood, and expeditions bent out to rescue them ou Sunday failed. Trains were several hours late, The Reading Railway express leaving here at 8:!i0 p. m. for Philadelphia did not get to this city from Pottsvlllc until after 10 o'clock. Drifts In the vicinity of Fleetwood and Kutztown are six feet high. Large quantities of milk to be shipped to Reading and Philadelphia missed tbelr trains. w . rww"' TBEBBUAKX" 10, -1020 HEAVY SNOWFALL TIES UP T i Six-Inch Layer at Buffalo, With Zero Woathor Ohio Suf- , fer3 Severely KILLING FROST IN FLORIDA By (he Associated Press Buffalo. Feb. 10, Railroad trains' and clcctrlc-car systems were today slowly breaking through thc snow drifts piled up yesterday when n six -Inch fall of snow was accompanied by a fifty-cight-milc-au-hour gale and tempera ture near thc zero mark. Trains from cast, west and south were manv hours later, and many had been canceled. Traffic ou Intcrurban electric lines was suspended for more than twenty-four hours. One of thc worst features of thc storm was that it came on the beela of n thaw. Slush soon turned to ice, and switches and signal systems were crip pled. The railroads today advertised for 1000 extra men to help Wear thc yards. Thc Pennsylvania Railroad announced this morning that thc 8.40 Buffalo ex press, which left Broad street station yesterday, did not reach Its destination until laic this morning. The express for this city, scheduled to leave Buf falo last night at !):30, was annulled. Columbus, O.. Feb. 10. Traffic over thc Pennsylvania Railroad lines through Columbus had been restored virtually to normal today after a tie-up of sev eral hours said by railroad officials to have been due to sixty-three engines freezing up. Officials denied thc trouble had been caused by a strike of shopmen in thc roundhouse last night as was first re ported. Extra crews, they staled, had been put to work early today thawing out thc frozen engines and service was be ing rapidly restored. With tho thermometer registering 1 degree below zero at Cleveland and a thirty-five-mile wind piling scow in deep drifts, westbound passenger and freight traffic on the New York Centrnl lines was badly delayed. Heavy Knows eat of Ashtabula, O., to Eric, Pa., delayed all passenger and freight trains fiom the East from eight to ten hours. Washington, Feb. 16. Another cold wave gripped the eastern portion of thc country today, the cold area extending from Canada to tbe gulf and from the Atlantic to thc Mississippi river. At the Weather Bureau it was said that tbe cold snap would be of short duration, however. Thc forecaster pre dicted that temperatures would begin to moderate tonight in tho Ohio valley and the upper lake region, and would con tinue to moderate in those districts and in the east gulf and middle Atlantic states Tuesday. Near freezing temperatures were reg istered along the gulf coast as far west as the Mississippi river this morning, with killing frosts in northern Florida and Georgia. In thc middle Atlantic, middle western and New England states thermometers registered well below the freezing point and in some places below zero. New York. Feb. 10. Railroad com munication with points west of Syra cuse on the New York Central was vir tually suspended today because of the worst blizzard of the winter in the re gion from Lake Eric to Lake Ontario. Through trains from west of Buffalo due early today, will not arrive in New York before nightfall at the earliest, it was said nt the railroad headquarters. Temperatures as low as 10 degrees below zeun were reported from the lower lake region, with heavy snow between Buffalo and Detroit, bngines on the stalled trains are frozen and passengers are suffering because of lack of heat. Pittsburgh, Feb. 10. -More than 100,000 persons in the Ohio valley, south of Pittsburgh, shivered today be cause a sixtocn-inch main of the Man ufacurcrs' Light and Heat Co. had broken during tbe night near Cameron. W. Va., and cut off their supply of natural gas. Many factories were shut down and schools were dismissed. tohe mcreasuifl high price of coffee cotue-t marr eoffVe 3rmVen to turn thdr atten tion to Instant Postum Thi fbasuit bevtrtgs l twi oorfdy Kulthful.frsr rrcm uV ceFf drug. 'caffeine? arid its rick fbmtr partScuUrly apjwili o 4wm acautomed to ceffce at table. There Ku iwen no btcrcut (a price And the quality U tbnja wiifuiui. Good forYoung and OU Hid.MleiiCii.ia. Ewl.C.tt.l PERaONALS MR. D. FKINBLATT Is hereby nolirted that the prtijtini machinery stored in Mb nam will be sold on the premfiei ttslt fcj nth at Tueeday. February 17. 1020. at to o'clock a m to cover ftorar clianrea and movlnit to warehouje Northern Storage, and Ware hrniaa Co . 11H 3 Itth at MST AND FOPXTI WRIST WATCH. lot. lady's gold wrlnt waicn, ounaay nini; imilain 11. K. rindnp PICUBQ HUUrCBS ri3l WdlCn, U BH. Ledger II KM- WANTED MAtJi Dinrmiiv nr.. i ... beef ilcriman who lmow Plillndclrbla trade, tiranc'i uperlenc prffrn-i Union Clock Yards. Baltimore Mil l.ABORr:RS WANTED ON CONSTnUCTION WOnKi 9-HOUn DAT. STONE ft WKD- 6TER. BEACH AND PAWtEIt BTS.. nillXl CA.1IPENTBRB WANTED ON CONSTRUC TION WORK; 0-HOUR DAT. 3TONE 4 WEBSTER. BEACH AND 1'ALMEli ISTS . riULA. DEATHS M.NOLETON l'H). 1H, t 157 W Dl-n-ond U., EMMA J , daughter of Mary II. ir.d the late Captain Benjamin Poniloton. "?'' rhur."' .- ? " ."" Armitmn.,'1. 1UJ7 N. Broad t. Int. private. NOLAN. Ken. lfl, ot Intluenw, JOHN J., husband of Mrrtl NoWn (neo Gallagher) and eon of the Into Michael and Anna Nolan Kunrrat Wed . 10 a. m., from UBIT N. 2d t. Int. prlvftte. New Cathedral Cem. FOX. Feb. 10, of pneumonia. JAMES EAJIL KOX. eon of Jamea and Mary Fox. aied '.'B. Funeral aervlee. Thura.. 1 n m.. at parents' reolience, 1027 N. Orate it Int: private. Weat Laurel Hill Cem. MERRILL. Feb. 15. MARIANA A., dauah. ter of Charlea O. and MarKaret V Merrill, aied 15, Reeldence. 413 Edewood road Hrooklme, Pa. Due notlco of funeral will tie given. CRAWFORD. Feb. i. HORACE VIC. TOR, husband of Myrtle Crawford (nee Den rla). Funeral service, Wed., 3 p. m.. N. E. cor, 624 and Washington ave. Int. private. Frlenda may call luea.. from 7 to 0 p. m. MelNTYHE. Feb. 16 THOMAS JAMES McINTTRE, axed 6T. tiervlces Wed . 2 n m., at residence of Mlas F. U. M. Hitchcock. 03 Walnut st. Int, prlvaie. DBCAN. Feb. Jfl. JANE W mldow of Robert n. Decan. Relatlva and friends In vited ito aervlees, Wed., 2 p. m,, at 4801 Chester ave. Int. rrlvate. . iiiM-iwc -uau .., . waww r - HALT WATER WASTE, WARNS THE MAYOR Blames Condition Partly Neglect Following Hasty Sale of Homes on The haste with which houses arc being bought and sold nnd the scant attention given to plumbing during thc transactions Is contributing to thc water Shortage In this city, nccording to Mnyor'Moore. In an appeal tb the people ngainst the waste of water the Mayor said : "Wp find the city lacks equipment in thc water bureau, nnd nre doing what we can to catch1 up; but one of the worst difficulties we now have to contend with is the waste of water n waste that has been gradually in creasing, due partly, to weather con ditions, but more iargcly to defective plumbing appliances and the rareless use of water. Owners and occupnnts of property arc largely responsible, and some blame can be attached to tho haste with which houhes arc bought and sold." Prior to issuing his appeal the. Mayor had a conference with John C. Win ston, director of thc Department of Public Works, nnd Carleton E. Davis, chief of the water bureau. At this conference a plan to increase tho pay of employes of thc wner bureau was also discussed. The employes threatened a strike several months ago unless greater com pensation was provided, and' although the walkout plnn was abandoned a dele gation called on Mr. 5foorc recently, with the result that he promised to con sider the plea for better wages. 'A definite scale was uot agreed upon, Hut It was decided that a schedule more in keeping with the high cost of living should be referred to Council for its approval. SAYS WILSON'S MIND'S KEEN President's Condition .Satisfactory, Is Statement of Dr. Dercum Thc mind of President Wilson is per fectly keen and clear, Dr. Francis X. Dercum said today. Doctor Dercum has been treating the President for thc Inst six months, having been called in when Mr. Wilson had his first bieakdown. His statement, made today at his of fice, 1710 Walnut street, followed a visit he made to thc White House Saturday, "Should I follow my inclination ard habit in not discussing Mr. Wilson's condition," said Doctor Dercum, "it would be immediately concluded that his condition was not satisfactory. "That is just thc Impression I do not wish to create. The' President's mentality is keen." KILLS TWO THIEVES Connecticut State Policeman Wins Duel In Cellar Greenwich, Conn., Feb. 16. Two al leged burglars were killed at Sound Beach early yesterday in a gun duel in the dark with Alden It. McMurtry, a state policeman. The shooting occurred In the cellar of the summer home of Mrs. Eliza G. Morris at Rocky Point, Sound Beach. Mr. McMurtry is a special state po licemau serving without pav and was discharged from the army with the rank of major a year ago. He nnd a con stable went into tho cellar of tho Mor ris house and found two men crouching in a corner. According to Mr. McMur try, he asked them to surrender, but the men opened firb with revolvers. J E CKldwell ft (p. Jewelers Silveesmitrd Stationeiuj Chestnut and Juniper Streets Platinum Lorgnettes Enriched With Diamonds, Sapphires, and Diamonds, or faceted black onyx and Diamonds, Designs Originated and Executed in This Establishment. '; ' -i ttiauiiiM i U r T - P i In Q MEAT PRICES TUMBIE TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY Immense Assortment kinds STEAK PRICES DROP TO 25c lb. RUMP, TIOUND Oil filKLOIN Hams Included, Too Regular Ham 27c Skinback Ham . ,. ,29c Cottage Ham ;2o, Picnic Ham 20c All Kinds of Pork on the Toboggan Here Loin Roast 2k 'Shoulder Pork ( VStf? ) 21c Shoulder Pork (';, ) 28c ! Boneless Bacon 28 I rcali Ham ( ) .... 29c I Fresh Sausage .-21c Our Yearling Prices ShouIdeis Yearling ..22c French Ycarl'g Chojw, 32c Legs Yearling 36c Loin Yearling Chops, 38c W!irmmow MCE BOMB PLOT 10 Terrorism of Last June Believed . to Have Originated There , SEEK PHILADELPHIA AGENT By tho Associated Press Ncwarli, N. J.. Feb. 10. i:ridcnce that the bomb plots of last June, when attempts were made on thc lives of At tnrney General rnlmer and other proml. pent men originated in Paterson, was founded,, in yesterday's raids on terror ists there, It 'was announced here t0hj by Frank R. Stonc( chief of the New Jersey division of thc Department ot Justice. Pink paper similar to that found in Hie wreckage in front of Mr. Palmer's Iiouse in Wnslhngton after it was dyna mited, was found In the printing estab lishment of Benjamin Masotta, it was asserted. Search is being conducted on a na,. tion -wide basis for B. F. Dorce, riiih. delphia secretary of tli6 I. W. y wh ooccuplcd a roam jointly with An' drea Graziano. of the terrorist groan The I. W. W. records were found In thi sroom after the men had fled. Tho twcnty-nlnc members of the L'Rrn Nuovn arrested yesterdav, de scribed by the Department of Justice as among the most dangerous terror ists in thc United States, were bent to Kills Island today to await deportation proceedings." Describing the I, W. W, records ixized, Stone said they showed n branch for every important industrial center from Chicago through Illinois, Indiana Ohior rennsylvnnia, New Jersey, Nwr York, Connecticut, Rhodo Island Massachusetts, New Hampshitc and other states cast of Chicago. Elkton Marriage Licenses Klkton. iMd., Feb. JO. The follow ing couples were married here today Milton B. Childs and Florence L Coatcs, Matthew II. Higgins and Anns V. Stewart, Marion Mastrongell and Emma Schultz, Michael Walinsky and Annu Matroll, Frank M. Litclman and Rose R. Kungel nnd Frank J. Mc Clowson nnd Isabella T. Bromlev, all of Philadelphia; Jnmes B. Smith and Edith M. Papperman. Gloucester; An drew J. Milcy and Florence Zimmer mau, Camden ; Robert S. Rehner and Bertha M. Allen, Lamvcrtville; Jacob Klnschinski and Emma Hoover. Lan raster; Arnold Eiger and Elsie Turner, Cnmdcn ; Charles C. Jackson and Ruth Corner, Rising Sun, Md. ; Charles Westwood and Sarah Overly, Camden. Howard Smith, Trenton, and Lillian Hunter, Newark. N. J. ; John F. Bar tholomew and Olive B. Schoolcy. Scran ton; William L. Ryan and Violet X Terry. Rising Sun; William Smith. Jr. and Killcna May Short. Wilmington, James Garrett and India Avers, and Charles Thompson and Lucinda Aycrs, Warwick, Md. Counclllman Develln Is Better Councilman .Tnmos A. Develin na said to be slowly Improving today t liis home. 6052 Overbrook avenue. He i. ill with pneumonia. It will be two or three weeks, it was said, before he can resume his councilmanic duties. Plentu for Everybody w ' I vl Beef Cheap Here Chuck Roast J8c Lean Roll'd Pot Roust, 18c Stewing Beef nriu" JC Hamburg Steak . . -lSc Poultry Cheapest Here I7nnulinfr PMf'IfPrtS . ,'10C Stewing Chickens 36c 50c selected isggs -- Oleomargarine ,"c PATERSON MEN In 1 t jits
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