Somebody Wilt G an Extra Chnstmat Present Through Today's Limerick Contest-See Page 3 Euenttra ffittbltc Bfeftger THE WEATHER Fair and continued fold tonight and Sunday with lowest temperature about 25 degrees. NIGHT EXTRA TEMTEnATUllB AT HACH HOUB 8 I 0 HO 111 112 I 1 (lit i:i2 (a4'ao 3T m 2 31 4 I 0 M VOL. VII. NO. 83 Entered as Decond-CUan Matter at the Pnatomoe, t Philadelphia, P. Under the Act 6f March n. 1870 PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920 Published Dally Kxrrpt Kundoy. Pubnerlptlon Prlre fl a Tear by Mall. t'opynirm. 1020. hy Public Iedrer Company, PRICE TWO CENTS PAUL MS LURED TO HIS DEATH IN KIT PLOT James Collapses as Jury Gets His Confession of Crimo Roploto With Details TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF, BUT FAILED, HE DECLARES Aged Bank Runner Beaten as He Offered to Protect Assail ants Tolls of Hiding Body GREED FOR GOLD IS EXCUSE Insists Sohuck Shared in Plan and Took Active Part in Actual-Slaying Facts in Paul Murder and Trial of James Victim David S. Paul, Camden bank messenger. Defendant Frank JT. Jnraes, autotruck ealesmap, of Lawndnle, H. J. fMa! Judge Justice Katzcnbach, of the Supreme Court, and Criminal Court Judge Katea. Place of trial Camden Court house. The crime Paul was murdered October B In James' automobile, in which ho was riding with James and Raymond W. Bchuck, who Is under Indictment also. The motive was robbery. IeJr Thoto Service MRS. MAUDE JAMES Wife of confessed slayer of David S. Paul. Bho ha remained staunchly with her husband during his trial in Camden (The complete text of Frank J. Jaraaa' confession of the murder of David 8. Paul appear on page 4.) "I hit Paul. Then Bchuck got hold of him and threw him in back with mo. Then Paul reached for his gun, and I nit him with the iron." Tmi graphically did Frank J. Jaines, on trial In Camden Criminal Court, eonfew the murder of David B. Paul, the Camden bank mesaenger, who was slain October 0 when he was carrying $40,000 In cash to a Philadelphia bank. The confession wba In James' words, but not uttered In court by the con fessed murderer's lips. It waa read by the court stenographer, who hod tnken the confession down in the Mt. Holly jail, and James collapsed when be heard It. Tried to Kill Himself .Tames' confession, put In evidence (it the trial today, Included the star tling statement that Ije had tried to mnmlt suicide when he and Raymond W 8chuck, Indicted with him for the murder, were taking the body of the uiirdered man to the lonely spot in the iincs where It was hidden. In the confession, also, James de clared that the murder of Paul was the iveult of a plot to rob the bank mes senger, in which Bchuck had joined. Sohuck will be tried later. .Tames asserted that at first he hml K'pented his act, and tried to have the ictlm tnken to the Coopur Hospital. He beat the man again, however, when I'nul tried to draw a gun. "I told Bchuck to drive to the Cooper Hospital, and he never answered me," "id James In his confession. "I sold to Paul : 'I am sorry for what I have done,' and I said to Schuck, "rive him to the hospttal. Hurry up, he is bleeding.' "Paul aaya to me: 'How are we go ng to fix this up?' Hs saya: 'Tell them at the bank that some one held me up at th Market street ferry and you picked me up.' "Then he made another effort to get ' gun, and I hit him again." This occurred, according to James, 'omewhere along Cooper street." Tell of Paul's Death m?." tf"edy waa completed, accord nf?..H.tbe enfesion made by James, atr the automobile In which the un .onacloua man lay had left Forrest Hill rk, on the outaklrta of Camden, "topped W Fo"est HUI Pork we n.L was '" exhausted from fright and r7.T,ne,f"' nnd t0,d Bchuck. and he i th',,TOn nd hit Paul twico." PmL . p,.lnt ln t"8 confession, prosecutor Wolverton naked: "Had "i ?m ""? nment at that time?" " ui i . ik.he d,ld "P'' PuI answered, oal i f h'.,ke the money and let me oa. In a faint voice." Wi??B onAe ,onely Mnrlton pike, inV3JLtTW'rd.the Jcrsey PncH' necrd: mrerJani.r? confession, that he wns SaSV ?,0 remorea and terror and "it himself. 'd "0t UT t0 Bh00t Paul' Denies Shooting Paul aid".' j t.uthaf Ume was dt;aili J"me! hi. '.d &" hojw intended to end LhVn I"8, IIis UBnd trembled so nthtis8neHh!:W'ntk,M,n0teVenBra,!- The atory of the Paul murder, told rvlfri 1,,s terrible details, seemed to Zi ,D ,the heBrt nd brain of the OMAHA DANCER AND FRIEND DEAD IN LONDON TRAGEDY Former Amorlcan Airman and Woman In Fatal Strugale London, Dec. 18. (Ry A. P.) A sensational shooting tragedy In a resi dential flat In St. James street, PIcca- iiuy, was disclosed today when a dancer, Miss Sophia Erica Taylor, aged twenty-nine, nnd George Augustus Kelly, aged thirty, of Omaha, Neb., were found shot. Kelly was dead nnd Miss Taylor died shortly afterward. Kelly served with the American air force during the war and lately had been connected with a prominent' Amer ican advertising agency. Miss Taylor'h maid Is quoted by nn evening paper to day as saying that the tragedy occur rcr last evening. Bhe. said Kelly had been keeping company with Miss Tny lor, but recently the latter had been re ceiving the attentions of an army cap tain. The maid declnred Kelly followed Miss Taylor into the flat from the street and shortly afterward the maid heard sounds of a struggle. She Inter vened, but a shot was fired over her shoulder and Miss Taylor dropped to the floor. Thero was another shot and K'-lly fell dead, the maid asserted. Kelly is said to have been the son of one of the leading dry goods dealers of Omaha. By Thin Time It's a Cinch Thai YOU'RE A LIMERICKER You've struggled with tho leopard whom wo npottcd nt the Zoo, and you read about tho fellow with the daughter And tho carbarn and the sailor and the Bristol fellow who declares the girls aren't dressing 83 they "aughter"; Today we print another one a limerick Incomplete and the last line that it lacks, IT'S UP TO YOU You can turn "and twist the thought until it's nifty, nice and-v neat, and Win That HUNDRED DOLLARS SEE PAGE TWO. Some Xmas Stocking Gets Extra Hundred Dollars Two Limerick Winners Will Be Announced at Once Next Friday Just to Make Christmas Happier FAYETTE COUNIY'S ARSON GANG SCARE PROVES MYTHICAL Husband Wof Embezzler, ' Mrs. Bush Says of Banker Declares Wilmington Defaulter Meant No Wrong in Taking $200,000 to Use in Stock Market Deals Children Miss "Daddy" One Wandor-Wit Firebug, Frank Kuma, Held Responsible for Fires WILD TALES FRIGHTENED . A WHOLE COUNTRYSIDE Today's limping' limerick Is going to be nn extra Christmas present for some body. Under the regulnr rules, which you will find with the limerick Itself on page 2, the winners are announced ex actly one week from thg day the lim erick Is published. But, ns next Saturday will be the Joyous Christmas Day nnd there will be no Evenino IiEOOKR published, we art going to make Friday n special day for the fans and announce the winners of both yesterday's und today's contests. Bo. somebody who didn't expect it will have his Christmas storking fat tened by a neat little package contain ing ONE mjNDRRD DOM,AR8. That "West Philadelphia rhnp and the fair 'Lillian, whos difference of opinion Is related In the Incomplete limerick today, will be the ones who will furnish this extra holiday gift to the fans. "With us, of course, the absorbing art of osculation Is absolutely obso lete, yet we confess to a more or less neademtc Interent In the problem that confronts Rill Wilson. We're, curious to learn what I.ll se, to Hill and whnt Hill scz to Lit. When he pressed his suit, did he press to suit her? She repressed a suitor but did the suitor press her or didn't impress her or oh', well, you sec our problem. You fans can answer It, we feel sure. Rut, listen, folks; for the sccoud time and for your own sakes Wntrii the time limit on answers set forth -In -Rule 2, . Again .a .great many answers hnvo come In too late to he admitted to tho contest. Its of them wero good ones too, but by the time they arricd wo had already plchrd the prize winner and were at work on tho next one. Conttnnrd on PnBr To, Column Threw AHACK ON COUNCILICOURT IN CHICAGO AROUSES BALFOUR! PRAISEO BY ROPER BEAT "OLD OAKEN BUCKET" Thi One Waa Filled With Tar and Excitement for Shoppers A bucket of boiling tar was over turned by a workman on a building operation ac mitin ana walnut streets, at 0 :8!j today. There was no Are, but Somo one esw smoke and turned ln an alarm from Ror 152 nt Ninth and Oiiestnut st.-eets. In flv minutes a collection of engine and hose companies, trucks and ladder outfits were scattered around the dis trict near tho Federnl Building. Borne thousands of shoppers hnd tem porarily forgotten Christmas buying and crowded toward Ninth, Chestnut and Walnut streets. And traffic was thoroughly tied up on Chestnut street for fifteen minutes. Then the firemen went home and the crowd dispersed. The workman ob tained n fresh bucket of tar and went back to work. uric i r "" u" urnni oi me not T?" V'C U7S " nWful that Ile co'd 2rM ir.t0 lo.ok on them. Ho was pale tn. J,Utrai,,ht. when "ilng of tiM. .uf.T'?" bBnn- snd nU nervous, rnt. . ' ,ncreal a the monotonous I,!", i"" "tenogrnphec reading sen- i, I nt II KtT V" tPrr0r nddld "'' 0"'JII Of blood anil hnrro- In ,.,!,. . MAYOR AT DETENTION HOUSE Moore Seeks Information for Deal ing With Court Budget Mayor Moore this morning made a tonr of inspection of the nouse of De tention with a view of gaining informa tion on the various departments of the Municipal Court In order to render the moit competent judgment possible on items in the budget dealing with that branch of the city government. He was accompanied by Mrs. Louts Jurist, member of the board of managers of the House of Detention. Yesterday the Mayor held conferences with a number of men nnd women In terested or engaiced in juvenile or social service work, amoi." whom wu's Mrs. Wilfred K. Schoff, ft the Juvenile As-soclatlon. 20 STUDENTS OFFER BLOOD One Jefferson Man Chosen to Save Physician's Wife Twenty students of Jefferson Medl col College volunteered when Dr. Han dle Rosenberger, of the college, said the life of the wife of one of the hospital physicians might bo saved by blood transfusion. Jacob Rltner, a first-year student, of Hnstings, Neb., was selected. He is now undergoing tho immunizing tests and next Wednesday tho operation will bfvpcrformed. The name of tho woman has not been revealed. Bhe is greatly weakened from septicemia following an attack of ery sipelas. "If she does not die within the next five dnys, she may be given the crentest gift of gifts life for Christmns through the willingness, not only of miner mil any one oi twenty splendid young men," said Dr. Rosenberger. CRUSHEDBETWEEN CARS Man la Fatally Injured at Frank ford and Lehigh Avenues Alfred Rurgols, forty-one yeors old, MOO Frnnkford avenue, was fntnllv crushed, between two trolley oars at Frankford and Lehigh avenues nt 7 o'clock this morning. The mnn was taken to the Episcopal Hospital, where he died nn hour after admission. BANDITS STOP TROLLEY CAR of British Statesman Resents Crit icism of Secrecy on Man dates Question COERCION CHARGE MADE Ry Uie Associated PreM firm era, Dec. 1R. Charge by A. J. Ralfour, Rritlsh member of the council of the Lenguo of Nations, that attempts were being made In assembly circles to coerce the council on the question of mandates, featured a spirited debate In the assembly of the league here this forenoon. The assembly eventually adopted the report of Its mandate committee, which declared the council had adopted such a policy regarding mandates that there was no opportunity to discuss them publicly before they went Into force. The report also declared against the recruiting of soldiers by mandntory na tions in territories they were adminis tering and against the exploitation of the natural resources of such territories for the benefit of the mnndntory powers. Attack Led by Ceell Tho attack upon the council was led by Lord Robert Cecil, who criticized the council's refusal to communicate to the assembly the text of the various mandates for the administration of former Oennon colonics. Lord Robert was followed by C. 3. Doherty, of Canada, who expressed the disappointment felt by the Canadian delegates that no opportunity had been given the assembly to examine the man dates. "There will be no better test of the sincerity of the league that the terms . .. ,mBndntes and the manner in which they are executed," ho snld. Mr. Doherty warned the council of the grnylty of the responsibility It had assumed n withholding the mandates from publicity. Ralfour Defends Council Mr. Ralfour came to the defense of the council. The danger, as he saw it. was not In the terms or the manner of execution of Ihe mandates, but In the liability of tho assembly to come Into' conflict with the council which alone, he held, was Intended by the frnmers of the covenant to have jurisdiction over mandates. "I shall not feel bound, nor will my successor In the council feel bound, hv nn thing this assembly or any other assembly shall do," he cried. Many of the delegates appeared non- Philadelphia Councilman Finds It Far Superior to Judge Brown's, He Asserts 6 DO WORK OF 60 HERE Continued un rae Two. Column Tn Masked Men Rob Passenger About 500 and Escape Kllzabelh, N. J., Dec. 1R. (Ry A. P.) Three masked men held up n trnl- lnv pnr hi'Mvcen Kllznheth nnrl Mnrlnw- The climax came when James uttered I "'"'d .lntp '""J "'B"t. jobbed the twenty CDn(. , . pnHigers of about ?500 in cash and v-..... ,a ,ai. art v,Una jjj,!,, ticnpcu. Tax Office Gets $2250 as Conscience Salve Two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, In crisp bills of large denomination, dropped out of an en velope opened this morning by James Fleming, a innll clerk in the olllce of the receiver of taxes. With them was a scrap of paper, which nppeared to be torn from a bookkeeper's ledger, bearing these words written by a typewriter: "For back personnl .taxes improp erly made out due city nnd state S'ja-iO." To the clerk's ntnnrement no ad dress of the sender was Inclosed. He snld lie thought some one must be Joking mid ho felt the bills and looked at them closely befori: taking them to Chief Clerk Dowdcll. Mr. Dowdell said tho sum, which Is tho largest that has ever been sent Into tho department through the nmll by a conscience-stricken tax payer, represents a year's taxes on more than n half million dollars, unless it is the accumulated taxes covering n period of years. Special Dlopatch to Evenino Public l.ritarr Chicago, Dec. 1R. "My obstr vatlons have produced some astound ing figures." With those words. William W Roper, chairman of the welfare com mittee of Philadelphia's City Council, epitomized his first Impression, nfter a brief Inspection, of Chicago's munici pal court system, Mr. Roper nrrlved yesterday for a three-doy inspection of the Municipal Court, with a view to pruning expenses of the corresponding courts Jn his home city. Mr. Roper expressed profound sur prise ns to the amount of work being daily turned out here with a much smaller stnff than that maintained in Philadelphia. He declnred he found six stenographers In the Chicago courts turning out much more work than sixty in his home city. "I nm very favorably Impressed with the work of the Municipal Court of Chicago," he said. "I have just hnd a bird's eye view of this court, but I found In this short time that it is busi nesslike and efficient." Cost Is IOW "I am tremendously impressed with the great amount of' business done by the court at n comparatively low cost. It has jurisdiction in all cases of con tract, and up to any amount,, and In all torts actions up to $1000. It has Jurisdiction in nil cases of misdemeanor. "I nm particularly Interested In this court because it offers a basis of com parison with the Municipal Court at Philadelphia, which was patterned after it, but which has only limited Jurisdic tion in nn nctual comparison. "My observations have produced some astounding figures, J fln,j the Municipal Court of Chicago, with twen ty probation officers, hnndllng actually rnou social cases than Philadelphia with .'KM probation officers. I find the Chicago court with six stenographers, doing n larger volume of business than Philadelphia with ten times thnc miinv. "The judges of the Chicago court do not seem to be Interested in politic, or at any rate they are not given author ity by law to make appointments ex cept in the case of probation officers. Chief Justice Olson expressed the opin ion to me thnj even this Is a mlstnke nnd that the probation officers should not be appointed bj the court and that the Judges should have no interest in ptlltlcs. Chief Clerk Elected "The best indication that thev have tired their appointive power wlse'ly and economically Is the fact that thev have seen tit to appoint only twenty proba tion officers to handle the tremendous business of the domestic relations, morals and boys' courts, which nre brunches of the municipal court. All other employes of the court nre ap pointed by the heads of the depart ments. "The chief clerk nml tin. hnlliff . both elected nnd they have the power of appointment. The Judges designate the numlier of positions needed by the court nnd the heads of the departments make the iictnnl appointments. Even in this the chief justice has no such arbitrary power as Is exercised hv the head of the Municlniil f'nnrt in ni.n.. vdelphla. It takes n majority vote of the tlilrty-nne judges to effect any admin istrative judicial action." Mr. Roper put in n busy mornlnir Accompaned by Chief Justice Olson he visited the offices of Chief Clerk James A Kearns nml Hnillff Dennis ERan where he spent the whole of tho time iii getting acquainted with methods em ployed by the office staffs in getting their "It is n marvel of efficiency," he tie dared several times and added: "PMi. iidelphla, Indeed, bus much to learn from the courts here." a Ry OEORfiE NOX MeCAIN I'nlontown, Pa., Dec. 18. "There re no bnnds"of Incendiaries, organ ized or unorganized, burning school houses in southwestern Pennsylvania In the patch of territory thirty-odd miles square where Fayette, Washington nnd Westmboreland counties meet." This Is the unnunllfied 'statement of (he stnte police authorities and the county detectives? who have worked on the nmnzing seipirnce of events from the beginning. From n strictly news standpoint it may see'm regrettable thus to be com pelled to demolish a fabric of such state-wide interest. Rut, even nt that, t'here'is still left n picturesque foundation of sensational incidents, weird happenings, and clever detective work. It Is a fact that a scries of early mornlnir fires In rnnld succession hnve terrorized neighboring communities, sent uie mosi lantnstic rumors nyiug over the country and led to the offer of re wards away tip in the thousands of dollars. , Allen Incendiary Worked Alone Only live of those Incendiary out breaks have destroyed public school houses, though lumber yards, barns und other buildings have suffered in equal proportion. There have been sixteen lires In all since September 20. The secret of it reposes right here ln the county Jail. A bullet headed, crop haired, heavy - jowled Polish iron worker, looking out from behind the Jnll bars, told me In broken English the stOry of his many crimes. Ills nnme In Vrnntr Kiima Tfn lino been In this country seven years. fhe man is a pyromaniac; he is a degen erate and n wander-wit. A medical commission will ultimately have to determine his responsibility. Joan of Arc und her mysterious voices had nothing on Frnnk Kuma, the pyromaulnc, und the "voices" that he told me lured him to go forth and burn sclioolhoiises. lumber ynrds nnd, build ings night after night. The convincing evidence that the alien flreburg was alone in his work is that he has been confined in Jnll now for twelve daya. Only oho fire of any moment has oc cilrrcd.ln the conflagration area In that time. After midnight, Wednesday morn Ing Jast, nart.oTn lumber yard nt Fnlr chonec, six miles from here was burned. It was at once heralded ns of iwHuiur) origin, it was not. It wb i-aunru D' the state po ligation. So wrought up are these communities that every fire, no matter from what cause, Is charged to nn "arson gang." It Is a fine demonstration of the psy. chology of the masses. Declare Arson Ring a Myth i spenr. several hours yesterday with Corporal Edward E. Relsel, of the state po ice, who was signed to the Investi gation, nnd with County Detective .vi.-, .ii. .liiiriinj, oi rayette. Corporal Reisel is nn alwre ,.-nii .i.. - - --- ..., ..iii-i-WU uimi, cooi-neiiuen voiinir (r,n. ........ :... i i .- " ."" i.r. ..,,. tic iooks more like a uni versity sophomore than a stnte police man. Peter if. Murnhr lu n ... , .. keen-witted mnn 'of wide experience with criminals of nil cmxses. He was for years a sergeant In the state police. their declaration that the ars-orr" Hue is 8 niVtll Ik the rnitnle f n ,","" ,u.i .i.. -;-:,, " ". fitivui m- n,,V.Z iV .iV ,ry "rt' Ulat has oc curred in this region. Corporal Reisel has had but four of his men In the territory, but this has been magnified until the imnreyslon has gone forth that half a troop has be?n engaged. p'll It was Corporal Heisel who trapped the pyromaulnc Kuma nnd got him to confess. He handcuffed him In hi" squalid room nt Webster before ho int awoke and bundled him off to I'lilon town. thirty miles nwny. Yesterday. In a high-powered car. I traveled with Corporal Relsel through rlt0nVrS;,lHtrl.,,t- ,Tt wa'' tortuous H nL m. mll,R ''"Nf'1 t intervals with the blackened ruins of school houses, horns and other buildings. We visited Ktimn's room In Webster, where the police -officials secured fresh evidence of the man's guilt, a kerosene can, matches, clothes nnd letters. On n top shelf of a cupboard, he found several bundles of thin sticks with holes burned through them with wire. The letters were In Polish. "Westmoreland county" appeared repeatedly In some of them, also ''Fnv ette county." followed by half PR(. of writing In his native language. Had Rook of Etiquette The fellow is n good nenmnti, but he denied when arrested that he could write Engl sh I,. wrote for me Jn n good, legible ban. on a 8n of pnpe" held against the Iron side of the nil llielivsnre. "VI,., T ,....'" .Jn" : ....... , ,jin null hiv '.J , In "Embezzlement is the wrong word" in this brief sentence Mrs. William Rush, oilng society matron of Wil mington, summed up her attitude to ward the arrest of ner husband yester day for taking .'5200,000 In securities to cover Mis plunge in the stock market. "My belief in Mr. Rush Is un shnken, because I know he meant to wrong no one," snld Mrs. Rush, with quiet confidence. "The best proof of his honor Is that when he saw the way things were going he Immediately told what he had done. He cop Id have gone on for months longer and taken the chance of hnvlug things come out right for hint. Rut he didn't." While nil social Delaware was nstir last night with the dramatic arrest nnd commitment to New Castle workhouse of the Wilmington banker, his wife who was Jonnnn dti Pont Rrndford, duughter of former Federal Judge Ed ward !. Rradford, and it sister of the late Mrs. Alfred I. dti Pont, sat quietly at the dinner table seeing that excite ment did not rob her three little girls of their evening meal. Empty Chair at Table There was a bit of Christmas red in the center of the table and the children In their dainty white dresses looked like part of a Christmas picture themselves, only a sadly Interrupted one. At the bend of the table there was an empty chnlr and no one could soy when "daddy" would return. I'psUlrs on the second floor of the spacious white stucco home there wan another child asleep, n baby boy who was born only n month or so ago. A fifth child Joanna, the old est of the Rush children, was killed a year and a half ago ln nn automobile accident. It was there with the other little girls around her in the artistic dining room thnt Mrs. Rush consented to talk nbout her husband's arrest. As she spoke she quietly ministered to their wants nsslsted bv n solemn butler who softly wended his way In nnd out of the room. The oldest of the little girls was about eleven. "They have called It embezzlement," Mrs. Rush said. "Thnt Is the wrong term. The Inst thing In the world Mr. Hush meant to do was to Injure any one. The real explanation of the ensr Is lie was caught In a net of unfortu nate circumstances. I hnve never ACGUSEANQTHER IN WILMINGTON GAMBLING ORGY C. F. EASTMAN BLAMED FOR CHURCH'S LOSS, TOO Presbyterian Body's $21,000 U. S. Securities Went in Stock ' Market Operations LIBERTY BONDS MISSING Con tinned on re Three, Column File -...... non nut. ii by crossed electric wires, as olice discovered upon Invcs- HARDING HAS OWN I POLICE 'MUFFLER' WORLDUNION PLAN ON PJN1ARKS' Reveals That It, Is More Favor- Frat Boys Too 'Musical' After able to Pro-Leaguers Than Bittor-Enders Ry CLINTON W. flILRERT Stun Correspondent Kvenln PnMIe resteer Copvrtpnt, J9I, bv Public l.rdptr Co. Marion, O., Dec. 18. President elect Harding hns his own plan for the association of nations nnd the confer ences here consist of his submitting this plan to his visitors, listening to their rriticlsm nnd suggestions and winning their npprovnl If possible. This he made clear in his talk with the newspnper correspondents yesterday afternoon. The Tliirdlng plan is a little more Clubhouse Seance With 'Pop' and Girls Two youthful students whose spirits bubbled over because they were going home for the Christmns holidays had nn encounter with the police early todaj which deprived .them of liberty for n few hours. The celebrators. Ned Bmlth and E. F. McCnbe, were arrested enrly this morning by police of the Thirty-second street nnd Woodland avenue station after they had left n fraternity house. The police say several girls left the house at the same time. McCabe and Bmlth hnd gone two favorable to the prn-leaguera than to blocks when then suddenly decided the bitter-enders. This was nnnnrent .from the President-elect's remark when, after he hnd said that Colonel William Jennings Rrynn had, on his vlfrit here jesterday. approved It, some one re minded him that Senator Fall, who is an Irreconcilable, had also approved It. Mr. Harding responded: "Colonel Rrynn would nnttirnlly be more favor able to my proposal than would Sena tor, Fall." they must have some reading matter. A bundle of newspapers nt Thirty-sixth street nnd Woodland avenue seemed, Just the thing. The students, picked up the news papers, left there for a store, and started for their rooms wlththe bun dle. It was then that a trailing patrol man invited them to "fell It to the 'Judge'." Magistrate. Harris today gave the Official of Explosives Concern Says Whirlwind Is About to Be Reaped la blled;WhDlayM:S tne". market on' WrtTn.v 'faMlHr'nliT Investments Mr. Aryan is a strong pro-leaguer, j students the option of paying .?7.r0 He made his position clear earlier In I each, fine and costs, or ten days in "the the day when he said that he had orlg- Jug." They paid the fine and returned Inally advocated the acceptance of the i to the fraternity house, where older league covenant without reservations, although he had been from the first op- poseo in Article .. lie Old so. he de- students laid down some fine points of fraternity house law to them. Acting I'rovost Pennlmnn soTd today jiisirs in ine peace call me to cort niriuHiiw llisiryor mill eevn mn T...I to malk fire on the Donora Lumber nrd tc Co. Tl.es Justes he got name usef Iukswskl and this building .-nil n Polish Lnnttleh.' nnd then tne wrii Ing drolled off Into several lines of Polish. ' The humorous phase of Corporal Relsel s search of the cnrpetless, un- iirmii; iinimn Hie IllSCOVerv of one solltnry book. It wus In Encllsh bound In red cl.-.th and wrapped looselV In an old newspaper. It Knve evl deuce of much handling. It titled "A Ro.K of Etiquette nnd flood Mnnners. How to Act at Dinners Weddings nnd Snclnl Functions ' ' ' The fellow was evidently prepnrlnir to become a iyroinnnlnc in (rood so ciety, llie s'ory or Mima's criminal career begnn Bentemher last. On the night of the 2flth of that month, fires were started In four, lumber yards, one moiiir n..u I'uni-r-inanr in Honors, and n a rarage In Webster. Kuma who lives In two rooms over a barber shop in 'rt ebster, while working In the steel works at Donora, was chnreed with the crimes, arrested nnd taken to jail In Oreensbiirg. nP was confined dared, because he believed that the most he had received no official knowledge of important tning to un was to enter the the "High jinks" episode. If he docs, league. Changes In the covenant could he added, he will turn the information dc maac niierward. Then it Dccatne npparent that the Senate would not ac cept the covenant without reservations. He made his Jackson Day plea that President! Wilson should yield and agree with the Senate upon reservations Je- Contlnunl on Pace Two, Column Mix over to Dr. Emory It. Johnson, dean of the Wharton School, where McCnbe nnn Mnlth are students. HEARS FROM SWEETHEART GIRLS EXTINGUISH FIRE with 'fund of 'the savings society. Eristmnn. who lives at Rrackex, t fine residential section of Wilmington, was KurjuonwM'-rrrjTrr hi 'hnm todays to thetoffice of Andrew O. Cray, an at torney with offices ln the dtt Tont Rulldlng. Mr. Gray conferred with Eastman regarding the alleged shortage In the church funds, which have been in Eastman's keeping since last soring, when the First Presbyterian Church nnd the Central Presbyterian Church were amalgamated. Eastman entered the lawyer's office with a brown paper parcel. After a prolonged session, the accused man left, accompanied by a church trustee. The parcel had been left behind . Eastman nppeared to be crushed In spirit as he hurried down the corridor of the office building. "Absolutely nothing to sny." he mur mured in reply to questions. Asked If he could make restitution he said: "I can't say; I don't want to sav any thing." Welsh Girl Detained at Gloucester Receives $25 Miss Anna E. Hlellt. the cnmelr Daughter! of South Warnock Street LfiLrLiVVl' .'"I? b7.'. ,0,Hi,",, " . . . , . . i the immigration stntion, Clniicester, for Merchant Check Flames ten days, received $2." and u letter from A fire at noon today in the home nnd her intended husband, C. R. Majors, of tore of Jacob Tarln.'Jtri.'i South W'nr- Troup. Tex.. Inst nicht. nock str'-et, caused by nn overheated i On receipt of a satisfactory report of ', afternoon. furnace, was brought under control by the man from the (ialrestnn, Tex. im- ""p ,n'd mp he had Says Eastman Confessed Mr. (!rny. who is a trustee of the church. Inter said Eastman had told hlm of the nilssimr bonds vesterdav taken the onrItt the ownei's ilnuchtcr. Ida. with buckets' migration office, the clrl will h.'.' nor. from the church's safe denoslt box at ..l .. ...l.ll .l l. . I !.... . . . . . ' . 1. t..I V'-.t , M ' ... in wui'M. iiiii-iiiioiiirr iiiiiigiuer, nose, j initira w iiroceeu to ner destination ' ' mmi .miihiiiiu nans, lie nilmlt- ran in turn in me inarm. The store and dwelliiii; j u two-storv brick building, the home of the Tarin mnn nNo told me that fnmily being ucd ns a notion shop as wen iiiitira in iiroceeu to ner destination. "' ' '""" '"'ii'iini nans, lie nilmlt An impetuous desire to surprise her"''1 '10 took Liberty bonds with a face fiance cnused Miss Hisht to take a snh,p of -t ,H0 and lost them through ooni iwo weens herore the appointed I ' -i""n. time, and the prolonged detention hah ! . ,, r , ,! I been the outcome. 16 REPORTED DROWNED WHEN SKIFF OVERTURNS CHARLESTON. W. Va., Ic. lS.-Sixteeu men ire lepo'.ic, to hnve been ill owned when n skiff In which they wcie crossing the Kaunwhn River, ovei turned nt Spring Hill, near here. FOREIGNERS LEAVING TABRIZ, PERSIA CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. IS. Owlug to the thieiucninp, Bol shevik invnsion, the foreigners, in Tftbvlz. uoithwebteiii Vers.1'11. .n clutling the consul!,, hnve loft that city, .iccouliiiy to ndv -os i:xi" the region received heie. Tho American lelief workois have re moved the refugee cnnip to Hamndau. LEWIS RE-ELECTED HEAD OF MINE WORKERS JNBTANPOLIS. Ir.,1.. T)rc IH.-Unnffieinl leturns ucoivd from all ovei the country indicate the le-eleetion ot John L Lewis, ns incident f the Unlio-l Mi.u- workers ot Ameiicn ivJ uoueit ii. iiaiiui. a Washington, ni-.-o.duif to a stntei ft oni intei national lieadqunrtiis toiiny. Eiueat i--i'-il MAN, 80, TO WED WOMAN, 70 , contXietl on l'ar Tiro. Colunw"!) Camden Resident and Brlde-to-Be Doth Married Before Arc made no difference In il... . m f ... 1H..1 i "iiuiin-i- oi iirnrKi- mine, eigntj years old of Rrondway nnd Jackson street, Cam den, who today took out a license to mnrr) seventy. ear-old Ellen P Mur gan. 1207 Puvonla street. Rlttle is a widower, his first wife havitiK died nbout a year nm Ti. ..... Jnnective bride has also made one pre- thiub inuuir nm, uimriinony , Her first husband died twelve years ago The aged couple niet a few months ago, and It is said to huve been n case of "love at first sight." Thev will be married tomorrow and ure as happy ov r that fuct as h couple of twentv. ycnr-olds. ' MAY BE WHITE CHRISTMAS Cold Weather, With Chance of Snow, Forecast for Next Week Washington, Lc. is. i Ry A Weather predictions for the week be ginning Monihi) are: North nnd .Middle Atlnntlc statrs, cold, generally fr, but with u probablllt of snow or rain Tuesday or Wednesday. South Atlantic and East tlulf states. generally fair and cool, but with a j.robablllty of rains Tuesday or Wed nesday. Ohio Valley and Tennessee, generally fair and cold, but snow or rain is prop able Tuesday nnd Wednesday. Region of Orent Lakes, cold, unset tied and locul snows. ithernlMi his nccouilts ut the chureh would be found in good shape ' " The first blow for the assistant treas urer of the HcreulcM Powder Co. came with the following statement, signed bj H. H. Eastman, treasurer of the company-who is not relnted to the n.-ouseil man. The statement follow : "In checking over the nccnunts of Charles F. Eastman, assistant treas urer of the Hercules Powder Co.. a shortage has been dlscorered The amount involved is less than JtfO.OOO and the manner in which the shortage dp eloped was by the taking of Llbertr Rondx from time to time to be used In connection with stock market specula tion in which Eastman was engaged. "It appears that these speculations bale covered a period of several years; but that the taking of the company's proper! has occurred onlv during the sst jenr. Charles F Eastman has been in the employ of the Hercules Powder Co. since the time f its or gaiiizatinn at tie beginning of 1013. during most of which time he has oc cupied the position of assistant treaa-l',rer.-, V,0 lH not '''"''i in any way to Ii. II. Eastman, treasurer of the com pany. He Is under bond and the entire matter is in the hands of the bondlnr company." Reaping Whirlwind Now In commenting nn the ,lUoin.... Mr. Eastman, the treasurer sal,! h. believed the alleged embezzlement waa "tho result of a wild orgy of specula; tion" for which "the whirlwind Is now umiut 10 in rciipeii. No warrant bad been obtained for Eastman s arrest this afternoon. David .1. iieinnanit, attorney general of Delaware, who netw nu ..l.li.f ... .1 I ... ' .. v..,, , iminri-utllir 1 1 fiflu.r wnllld nil, ,,....., .... i 1 " mi.-, it un any nnase Continued on I'mro Threw. Column Throo TATTOOED MAN DIES 'Jack Howard,' of Clrcua Fame, Suc cumbs to Pneumonia John H. Thomas, forty eight yearn ?!' ,Kn,.,wn '" the clrcua world as Jnck Howard, the tattooed man." died yesterday In the Philadelphia Hospital of pneumonia. He marched in the bonus parade last .-muirnii nnu iuicr cieveloiKi pntu utoiiia. Embezzlement Charge Against Hercules Powder Official Fol- lows That Against Banker . Another alleged embezzlement garr Wllmlngtnn a fresh shock of surprise today, after tli commitment to the workhouse of Wllllnm Rush, secretary treasurer of the Wilmington Saving Fund Society, nccused of stealing ?200.000 from that institution. The new revelntlnn was In 'the an nouncement by the nercules Powder Co. that a ?.rin.000 shortage had beta discovered In the accounts of Its as sistant treasurer. Charles F Eastman who Is said to have "plunged" In the stock market with heavy losses. On the heels of the powder company's announcement, officials of the First and Central Presbyterian Church said that nbout 20,000 In Liberty Ronds ennnot he accounted for on the books nt the church. Mrl Eastman has been treas urer of he-church since last spring. Follow Easy Money Em The two alleged embezzlements are said to be the fruits of nn crn of "big and easy money" In Wilmington, the center of the explosives 'industry, which nmassed millions and millions of dollars when for four years death -dealing forces were the!firt"necesitj' of tbe'na tlons ntrwa'r.',, f v. v" t'T ? In thla Porjnrof eelatl't"a,' 4t w 4 , I :j&y..i,..j,.,... . ..-VJLfW V ..'.,.! w ;,ht.a wj 1 ". ,; kf, y a -a j- i -ii2iifi'' aw aBB&w v .'(.
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