pr Mere's No Reason Why You Shouldn't Be a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR Limericker-See Page 2 Euentna public IBeftger THE WEATHER Haln tonight and Thursday; slightly tiarmer tonight lowest tcmporai'trc about 40 degrees; colder Thursday. 8 TI-.Ml'KHATtmE AT KACIt UOUn l-Ti 11111)111 118 1.11 21 HI 4 B NIGHT EXTRA luTm m i.SP 137 H7 H7 III VOL. VII. NO. 86 Entered as SeccnClftmi Mntter at thn rotome, nt Philadelphia, Pa. Under the Act ot March 8, 1R71 PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1920 Published Dally Enccpl Sunday. Hubscrlptlon Trice $0 a Year by Mall. Copyrluht, 1020. by Public Idrer Company. PRICE TWO CKNTS RUG 'RING' LEADER DEFIES DETECTIVES; New York Jack' Said to Have 15 Lieutenants Here Admits u naalc In Narcotics IeDERAL 'AGENT' DEFENDED V ! ta emD DHI IPC FOR IKTII.U iu oiui i wu.wl . .... t,nmrn to the police ns "New fork Jack" is said to be the big figure the Illicit drug m'Mfstxy in mis ' f li tinllrn ilonnrt- Jrttuiot the federal narcotics dl- and Department or Justice n . "..ar" , V".'. In fcMi.delDhln. under the leadership of T'xot Tork Jack," the police say. L .i. mi) running narcotic pusher In the business. He has made a million Ks out of the Illicit traffic; he has ome- repeatedly to iurai " hi? and co-tly automobile; he has do- led the police tunc uuu ubui ." "" ilm. Known lo Vice Squad Head iiil..h'. T no lipml nf tho vice ,nid, sold today that he knew this l- xv.t. .in nfc" well bv h eht. nnd ad spoken to him several times. The fcader ot tne narcotic m.K " - son even admitted to Jicu uuu u .i.. .i K.tctnncQ nml rniintrrl tho. Elective with his inability to make on tret. , . ,, , . ,, 'Go out nnil pet tuc guons "" "" " oa can. "JacK" snitl to j.ce. iuu ru cop, and it's a cop's business to set tlruVc Yon can't touch me now, and aSii!". il.n't ".Tnrk- and his Jinir have been able to opcrato in spite I every ponce cnmi. i tm-rn uiun Caue "i the peculiar provisions i X Harrison drug net. unticr me mw mou cannot bo convicted unless the lirbitlilcn tiruss are ncwiiniy lonnu u lis possession, ".incu, tnougn tuc .tu f l. flfiir rlnfv la vn nstlltp. hat the police never have been able to atch him "with tnc koous. His riftcen Aides Here Ha 1.ao iXttnnn llotitonnnta "nhnvintr" runs in l'hiliidclplila, the police sny, nd draws ins Mippiy irom iiurciuii-s ,ni-lf,l In on shius from foreicn nnrts. Ic tells arious narcotics, bought hcnnlv abroad, nt prices fabulously lihancod. lie and the men nnd women knilaUd with him have grown rlcli tlieir traiucKings wuu nuinuu wvuk- IRo'ine months ago, according to the Wlce, a lieutenant of ".Tnck's" was rested with a drug in his possession nd tried. ".lack" brazenly came from W' YnrI ill liU llliT nml llnsliv cnr. cat to court openly every day of the ill, lured n lawjer lor ins ngfiu, nnu irtuilly admitted to the police that lie man tliev were tninE was an cm- lose nf lii In spite of ilicir knowcldge of the rug lender nnd his habits, and their Art tint i tlni In. t j iti ttniif fiT (! t It till" UUtlll t I Mill 111' 1 I Nllll.,iV1l It 4 II ""V rnffie. tlie polite have not been nble to iy a hand u ".luck." Serxed One lull Term YTa rt. vni'i.iil imf nun totiti 111 iflll. IeiHi-iinii t'd iii Wilmington of ped- 'ing iriis- nun M'liiriirrii in u ,rr in lie Atlaiitn lVniti'iitinry. When !. 'asserting Ins "Piucnce, Attorney ticn Pit T'rtlin, . . .t. hi t.. tlwi tIuiti In lll'llril u i uiur i i ui.ir it liU' ' ic"ii ' ""n1 n In tim him Tin. A tin re ni1l I ll itllkllOl it iii' 1" i ii i in- iu ii l U'i" i m. -..-I. AiiuM'lf rmuaifl am) spolio to the Ht- 'nif griii'idi, n iiik HO mill ihtii nui ittiil uiuuth. l.nliT hi wrote to Mr. ulini'r ft ful kiwi'iuwlful i nrmwiiiir tliO ttorniM HHTnTs intrrost. Mr. I'ahnci- 'ln'M'ii litut ami htUM'qui'iitly Bot iiim paiti'm. nu'iiilini; to tlio local police. lvtcipiMl Arrest iv-- i tin i mi nfini K" iiiun into tn riii!.iili'li!ii:i in his big car nnd neune i.ic- picKcd up Ills trail 111 io of tlie i . nnd speedy detective liindit inr ' lie followed, and for it me trailed li.m 'Mnrk" struck n ninn (mitlnmil nu I'njp To, Ciilumn One OUR DIE IN POWDER BLAST wo Others Hurt In Explosion at du Pont's Mooslc Plant Scranton. I'.i.. tin,. (it,, a i t f-r'our nun wire killed and two scri- "U iiinirnl b u lerrilic explosion "' in the .Number 'i parking "1 of I) I du I'imt do Nemours yt.. m i 1'iin-jitniiiii, in the village Helm. .1 -Inn i (ltiuice east of Mooslc 18 liininm:! sbnitlv vnfti.r !l nVW.lr ndiid an: Samuel lloiim, Calvin I'umwi. i dw n hi nooino and Herbert IV iDjmcl ,,.; Aaron Hlllington, "fy IlinmnUiiiin. 'J Hi" paiking house where the ex osioii n, ,.,,, ,i ,1(l Mix mcn givcn j VUI y M"ls wen. .Mnplnyed, Hoitiii. 'Mnell. lironm,. ,i iollc, WPro . 'tiebiiildnigattliftime. Ililllngton itiiininxliiiM ttl.rp nbont to enter main dnnr Tin. hn.lli.u nf dm f.in.. "1 Wlni siifli.il,! ,l,.,ni, ... i,i,.. All, 11. . .. ,, V, ! llt.11,,1 ., "' l'Kton and limning . .. .' "'".", ll ''"it distunco from Wi '" I ""' "Indus , I., ,,i ,.,i, i.,.:i,ii.,t. f .i. ftnt "en l.ri.1 l'! V". 1 1111.,.. """ l"l JUIUB I111MI1MI dKlings ,.,.,. IHkn ,)y th(, orvft of en ,1m '"" ""' 'lU!'C ""'' nt '' fn iKIeiiniiiiil , SNOWLESS CHRISTMAS etherman Says Saturday Will Be Clear, Cold anfi c-,r... kvi'i..!"1'1 "ml..M"PP.v is the tteatli ,;a '" I'.e.lieli,,,, for fhl-lhtlii ier mas i'h'm' ,.,.1"1'" ''I'lil""l of seeing Iplili , . i ",x "!K u,,l '" I'll In A ,,; " '"'.'"Bl-i the pr.iRiitwtli-nl.ir. ,1k'1"1 wenll.ernmn's f,... f,., ,, xwilfll IIS I'OIIIHI'llllll 'I. : ,:.,,,.,v11" "!is "'ti,, rntur,. i ' ' ",IM '""' "'iii- " I n 1"'l", ""'-v '' " ' in , : . ..:'""" ' ". 'i'i'" min Tliei ' '"""n'T.il the htn. 1,1 m.. insi r,,,.,, !,, Ulfii ""' l.'lJLnl,,i,,", '."' A.hftllle. N. O. Bn,,n.jr!,lJ.,.,r V . 1'iiin, u..u. ;.'ii "" i uou.i Walnut 1110,Adv. MADE MILLION Limericker WJio Won Third Hundred Dollars THE WINNER GEORbE W. RHAWN 210 Finance Building Insurance Agent THE LIMERICK A man who lives out on West Hortter Has a most disobedient dortter And often in pique He is heard thus to spique, "Frique! tltis wique do be mique as you ortter. Limericker Wins $100.00, But Loses It by a Joke Promised His Wife in Fun He'd Give Her the Clieck and Now Whole Family Makes Him Stick to It Fans ,takc tturuing from the limer icker who wins the prize nwarded to day. Don't make rash and supposedly humorous promises ns to what you'll do with these prizes If you win 'cm. You never can tell. That's the wny wli the man who gets the HUNDRED DOLLARS today. He is: GISOKGE V. RHAWN 1MO Finance Building Insurance Agent Mr, Rhawn, with that light and nirv spirit so characteristic of limerickers. boasted at homo that he had sent In a line nnd thut he thought it was n good one. His family at once started to .loke with him. pretending that the mere fact that ho had entered the contest was a guarantee that the prize was his. In fact, so unmercifully did they "ride" him that, to silence them, ho made this foolish promise to Mrs, Ilhawn : "If you'll keep quiet nbont it, I'll Indorse the check right over to you." You see, ho really didn't expect to win. Hut when one of the limerick editors called on him in his pretty home nt Edgewatcr Park, N. J., and informed WIFE STILL LOYAL TO JAMES, SLAYER '; Woman Declares He Was Mad When He Killed Aged Bank Messenger RECALLS HIS DEVOTION With n, love that is paramount und faith that will not be .slinken, Mrs. Maud .Inmes, of Hrnoklnwn, N. .T., wife of Frnnk .Inmes, convicted Monday for the murder of David S. Paul, today spoke of the tragedy nnd its shadow on tlie future. "M faith nnd confidence nre in the Frank James 1 knew the one who made our house n home, lie wns al ways good to me and the children. YAi know, we had a little girl ; she died a year nnd n half ago." At mention of tlie child Mrs. James broke down. "When I think of the four dns Adelaide wns ill, before her death, and Frank's devotion why. ho never left her bedside a minute, nnd held her in his anus ut the last when I recall these (lungs, 1 think Frnnk niut have been mud October a " (iliid nf CiiiiM'i'sioit "MyNmly comfort now comes from Frnnk's conversion. You know he hnd never been baptized, nnd though we spoke of religion nt times. I always knew It ivoulil be better for him to cm brace it of his own volition. Indirectly our physician. Dr. Jennie Sharp, of Camden, hail considerable iiilluence, not so much by what she said nu by her ex ample. It was very unusual the way Frank first necepted religion. He wn in City Hull then, nnd told me he had observed for some time n little motto hanging on the wall. It said : "Do not tnrr, find will find n way.' Gradu ally it made a deep impression, nnd he says it was the beginning of much thought on a future life." Again .Mrs. .mines nan .iiiiiriiu.v i-wi-tliiuiug, und wept quietly for severnl minutes. "One .lav, before the trial, he said to me: 'If it comes to tlie wotst, Maud, ton will have Harold, and I will have Adelaide.' Then I knew he was pre pared to die. I believe the meinor of our little girl, nnd the hone to see her. i i. ,.!.,,,, i ... i.nnvi.ri iiiin. He was baptized four weeks ago by Dr. Ilahn. of the First Methodist Kpiscnpal Cliuil'h in ( aiiMlen. In speaking of her own future nml her hopes for their sun, Mis. James "Most of all. I want Harold to llni-li school. He likes it so well, find is u 1,0.1(1 student, lie Is I lithe second Jem nf high si hoid. Hoy Itiicli in School I -rill 1 1 1 1ll bin k to rinse's tmlil.. . Tlii icncliei's have he uklii.l ami I felt tlie longer lie waited the hinder Ihe start would he." "As for in) own life. I will, til i nurse, lake n position u Utile Inter NY will unit. hoc in llc here, nml nn mother uiitl father will sin) with us N'e luiM' Ints of friends who knew I'r.ink in his home, nml the) will help me stmt iififli It "HI he linitl though," nnd Mr- .Inmes' c.m'n lilltil llurklne Ios Never Ultra The lilchent nullity nmoklnr. mUtury and clureltee oli t.lnable. Titer. 1 no aubilltute. All Dalera. r-Jitv. - hint, in the nresence of Mrs. Rhawn nnd the three sturdy Rhawn boys, that the prize was his, Mrs. ilhawn inter rupted by saying in a quiet but omi nous voice : "Oh, no. it isn't. It is mine." Mr. Rhawn tried to squirm out of it, but his three sons took the witness stand against him and unanimously de clared that ho had promised the check to their mother. .and the verdict of the court w'as that he was undoubtedly guilty. So while he gets the check he docsn t get it. The limerick as Mr, Ilhawn com pleted it follows: fl man who lives out on West Hortter Has a most disobedient dortter, And often in pique He is heard thus to spique; "Frique, thin wiquc do be mique, as you ortter." Abdut tlio Winner Mr. Rhnwn, though now a resident of New Jersey, was born and educated Continued on 1'nitP Two, Column Four MOTORIST KILLED, 3 HURT IN CRASH Police Say Victim of Collision at Broad and Vine Streets Was Speeding YOUNG WOMEN ARRESTED One man wns killed and three per sons were hurt in nn automobile acci dent on Ilroad street about I o'clock this morning. One man escaped Injury. The crash, the police say, was the end of a party, ami was caused by the careless driving, at higli speed, of a young man eager to get a party of girls to their homes in South Philadelphia. The dead lnau is: Arthur Silvers, thirty-six years old, HOSIl Kensington avenue, driver of one car, who died in Hahnemann Hospital live minute after being admitted. The Injured : Marie Iliggins, eighteen years old, 'J41S South Eleventh street, cuts and shock. Anna Ross, nineteen vears old, 20j Wolf street, cuts nnd shock. Lewis Hanks, -KiOlt Frank ford ave nue, cuts on head and face and shock. Morris Tabas, of (11-10 Osage avenue, while uttenning na affair at the Eagles' clubhouse, Ilroad street above Fair mount avenue, last night, left his ma chine parked on Uroiitl street north of vine. naortiy tietorc l oclou; he stepped in his car, nnd nftcr giving a warning signal started forward. Intend. Ing to turn south on Ilroad street. At that instant, th police say the car containing the other four persons, with Silvers at the wheel, came down Ilroad street. Th machine was -"go ing better" than forty mile's per hour, according to tlie police. This wns at tributed to the fact the young men wanted to get the girls home nnd then return for the ten -mile' drive to tlieir homes iu the northeast section of the cltv. Going at high speed. Sliver elthtr tuileti to hear u alms- warning, or did not see the Tabas ear until It was too late. The Silvers machine crashed into the front of the Tabas car. The Impact threw the car driven bv Silvers towartl the curb on the west side of Ilroad street. Instead of crash Ing into the curb the enr turned com pletely over and the four occupants wen pinned beneath. The nos(i 0f the collision was heard several squares, and policemen and home-going pedestrians rushed to tlie -cene and lifted the wrecked car from tlio-.. pinned under il. Thev were taken In tlie Hahnemann Hospital, where Silvers tiled from a fractured -Kull At a hearing lodav before Magistrate (ilelis, nt Hie lilleentli and Vine streets station, Marie Itigglns, Anna Hoss, Hunks nnd Tabas were held in $.'11)0 ball eacli for the action nf I lie coroner, as material witnesses. Mrs. Silver. Widow nf the mini l.-ille.l was present at the lienting. She broke dun n ns she tnltl newspaper men that her daughter had died thiee weeks ago. John (1 lligains. father of one of the ,'iils hehl. declared thai the nccupnnls of the wiccked car were not on u "joj ride," He Is proprietor of a bakery nt Eleventh street und Mnvnnicnulnir avenue He salt! bis ilnushter had gone to a iliiiu'f ni me r.ngies ciuiiiinuse. lie snitl his daughter hail met Hanks nnd Silver through Miss Ross, nnd that Sil ver had offer.) to tnkn the young women boate In hls.iutomoblle. A.J GET ALL NATIONS TO LLOYDGEORGE Wants All Countries in League and Declares Entry of U. S. Essential 100 MILLION MARKS ASKED BY ALLIES OF GERMANY By the Associated Press Lwidon. Dec. 22. David Lloyd George, the prime minister, presiding at a luncheon given today in the House of Commons for the Rritish nnd do minion delegates to the recent League of Nntions assembly In Geneva, declared the league would never achieve real progress until all tlie nations were rep resented, Mr. Lloyd George snitl he looked for ward hopefully to the Cnited States coming Into tho league. This, he as serted, was essential. There could be no real peace, declared the prime minister, until competition in armaments ceased, and before dis nrmument was possible all the nations must be in the league, for all must march together. Mr. Lloyd George said he was glad to know that all were doing something. He asserted that if the Geneva assem bly had existed in August, 11114, the war would have been impossible. He wns sanguine there would be no ob stacle to Germany's admission to the league if she manifested an intention to fulfill her obligations. There was no use laboring for the association of nations and for the estab lishment of peace, the prime minister declared, and on tho other hand erect lug great armaments in order to force other nations into a competition which hnd more to do in stnrting the late war than almost any other individual force. Mr. Lloyd George said the nntions could not take the risk of disarmament until every nation was included. It could bo done only by ngrecment. Dls armament, he declared, wns not a thing which could be done se cretly and behind closed doors: it must be done in such a wny that every one knew, no that the agreement, once ar rived nt, would be respected. Mr. Lloyd George snitl nil nntions must reach n common agreement not to start again disastrous rivalry iu armn ments, which must inevitably end in n clash. Certain amendments, he as serted, would bo necessary before the league became it really effective ex ponent of international opinion. The league had already done much, the prime minister asserted. For one thing, it had raised the status of labor throughout the world and the labor bu reau was doing great things. The lenguc's most conspicuous work, he said, probably was the establishment nf the international court of justice which would have a very determining1 effect on international justice in the future. No League of Nations, however, could possibly be regarded as complete until the Tinted States was included, Mr. Lloyd George declared. FINANCIAL EXPERTS CUT REPARATION Hy Ihe Associated Press Brussels, Dec. 22. Payment by Germany nf 100.000.000,000 mnrks in gold remains the basis upon which ex perts and delegates to the second finan cial confcienee in session here nre working. This amount, although far below what was authorized by the Treaty of Versailles, is considered by them collectable only nn condition that Germany is helped along the llne sug gested by the (iermnn delegates. The conference adjourned at noon today to enable the Germans to get further information on the questions submitted by the Allies nnd facilitate nn investigation of nayment of the German debt abroad and other matters. "Allied experts, in secret individual reports, the substance of which has come to light, lecngnize Germany's renl necessities mid delegates generally are impressed b) arguments that Germany is an insolvent ci editor who must be maintained as a going concern. The extent to which strict fulfillment of the Versailles Treaty may be waived, how ever, depends upon the allied govern ments, before which recommendations have been made by the Yarious dele gations. Virtually none of the delegntes be- f'nntlmiifl n I'lice Tho, Column Tun HARDING DENIES CANARD President-Elect Says He Has Not Offered Cabinet Post to Hughes Marlon. .. Dec. 22. (Hv A. P.)--Prt'siiluit elect Harding today denied published statements thnt he had offered to Charles Ewuis Hughes the appoint ment nl secretin1) nf state in bis Cabi net. "I tiiid this one of the most coin plete bit- nf hnliditv fiction writing that lllls )el been hinuglit tn my attention," lie told lorie.pontlejits at his home heie. New oil. Dec 22. illy A. P.) Clmiles E. Hughes, jn a statement here today. " hnrnctei i.ed published reports that lie luiil been offered the appoint ment nl .victim nf tale iii the Hard ing c.iliinel .is 'irresponsible rumors." "I do in. i line lo discuss theln," lie ndd 1 200 CAUGHT IN NEW YORK AKK "VOU a junor. OV A CIHAIir Smoke Godfrey 8. Mahn'a Key Writ I'ltlNCK OFAIJ. Coronn, 10c: 3 (or U ; 10c. Adv. Ai URGES All Nlfjlit Entertainment Resorts Raided Five Women Taken New tin It. Dee 22. -More Hum 200 men and live women, ui rested in in raids nn nil nit'lit eiiteituinineul icmiiis were lined up ut vnilnus police stations today to 1"' questioned. Detectives sought pei sons who might throw light upon leceiit huh! -ups and minders Due nf Ihe mills was nt an East Side lesiiiiiruul nml ihe niher nl mi uptown clubhouse." Fifteen nriests were reported bv the "rille s.iiiid" of tweut) sharpshooter, who l.uiied the citv all night with or ders from Police Commissioner Emiglil to 'shout In kill." ANNA ROSS South Philadelphia girl who was injured in nn automobllo accident last night when a man was hilled and two others hurt MICHEL JUROR ARRESTED FOR $3000 JEWELRY THEFT Helped Acquit North Penn Bank Head Accusd of Sansom St. Theft George Harmon, n Negro, of 720 Sansom street, held today by Magistrate Rcnsbaw in 800 bail for court, charged with stealing .$3000 worth of jewelry, had been n juror in the Quarter Sessions Court nnd was one of twelve who ncquittcd Louis II. Michel, presi dent of the North Pcnn Hank. Harmon, who was arrested last night charged with stealing the jewelry from the Crescent Jewelers' Co., Inc., 731 Sansom street, had been a juror in Judge Audenrlcd's court since December 0. He was one of two Negroes who served on the jury which acquitted Michel. The robbery of the jewelry store took place several months ago.- Harmon's connection with the loss wns traced through the fact that his wife works in the store us it scrubwomnn. She was not connected in the case, however. STILL DETAIN WELSH GIRL Miss Hlght Needs $65 More to Reach Fiance Down nt the Detention House at Gloucester, n Christmas tragedy is being enacted nil because a girl hasn't 05. That $0." meant the difference to her between being n happy Christmas bride and eating her Christmas dinner nmong strangers. The girl is Miss Anne Helen Hight. twenty-two-year-old immigrant who came across on the Haverfortl nearly a month ngo, nnd expected to marry C. J. Mnjors, of Troup, Tex., on her nrrivnl. Plans miscarried somewhere, for Majors failed to meet her. She has since hail n letter from him containing S2.1, nnd declarative that he still loves her. Hut Zr or even S3.", for Miss Hight has about .$10 of her own money won t take a passenger nt present-day high fare tatcs and expensive meals to Tens. It requires S100 nt least to make the trip, ns a prospective britlo would want to make it. Either lmup did not know that amount was needed, or he (like some others) is 'pinched' financially nt just this merry senson. CUT IN PH0NERATES Service Commission Authorizes Bell Co. to Make Reduction Ilarrlsburg, Dec. 22 I Hy A. P.) A telephone rate order of state-wide impnitnncc was passed today by the Public Service Commission when it per mitted the Hell Co. (o tile n new tariff, effective January 21, 1(121. eliminating a war lux of considerable burden to the users of toll lines. The nrdir allows tl.e company to make a reduction iu the initial overtime period chnrge nn ten-cent toll culls nf from live to four relets, nffctling the first oveitime period of lline minutes nn a ten -cent toll cnll. On telephone enlls costing fifteen cents or over n war tax of live cents has been charged, making the total twenty cents. 1'ndcr the new ortler the me.ssagc will cost only four teen cents. HENRY FELL DIES Retired Philadelphia Merchant Suc cumbs at Atlantic City Hciir) Fell, retired w hole-ale grain merchant ami member of the Cuion League for more than thiit) .tears, died tothi) at the Marlborough .Hleuheim, Ai'"'iti Citv. Mr. Fell had been ill for a long time, nf ... in and kidne.v trouble, und his death wns net unexpected. After the ileuth ot his father, iu this citj, .tears ngo, he took over couduct of an exten sive wholesale grain business, and re tiied -everul .vears agn. Since then he had lived ut Atlantic-City. E. Lawrence Fell, legist rut urn com missioner, is a relative. WALL STREET FIRM FAILS Foster & Lounsbery Reported Active Traders In Vanadium Steel New Yoilt. Dec. 22. Failure of the biokcragc firm of Foster & I.nuusbeij was aniiniineed from tho rostrum of the stock e.xchuiigo shortly after the opening toihi), The linn consists of J. liegeman Foster, Hour member j S. Durell Louns bery and W. Frazur Gibson. It luul done business- on the exchaiige for neurit twentj jenrs. Foster & Lounsbery nre understood to have been active traders iu Vanadium Steel, which was one of the stocks that led in iccenl heavy reactions mi the market. The failure, vthidi wns unexpected in financial cm-les, was regarded us ihe most important i trendy. LABOR RIOT IN PETR0GRAD Soviet Authorities Crush Uprising and Exeeute 105 Workmen I.iniilnii. Dec '"' I Iti I Kit serious labor nut occurred recent l.v iu I'ctiognnl. silts a Helsliigfors dlmlrli lo the Ccutinl New. under tisii,n dule, in which man) peisous were killed or injured. The riot wns crushed und 10."i laborers were executed, the dispatch adds. The tumble started when the Soviet authorities refused the demand of the cit) laborers for more food and short ening of tho worklug day, which is six tccn hours. y MA YOR TO PURGE CABINET AND CITY HALL OF FOES; DROPS "REFORM" CHIEFS Defection of Men Elected on Reform Planks Only . Urges Executive On CITY HALL STIRRED BY BATTLE PROSPECT Lure of Jobs Too Strong for Five Supposed Aides of Administration H.v GEORGIA NOX McCAIN Philadelphia's prize octopus, Judge Charles L. Rrovvn's Municipal Court, clutched its- tentacles more closely than ever upon the city treasury yesterday afternoon. Its grip is ro tenacious now that It couldn't be loosened with n pile drvcr or a locomotive crane. Mayor Moore endeavored to weaken its hold on the city's strongbox by at tempting to lop off with his veto nx a number of thes-p same tentncles. He strove to save the city nnn-thinl of a million dollars. In aetunl numbers the nmount nn S32-5.010. Hut live "reform" councllmen. God save the mark, not only voted to pay this tribute to waste nnd extravagance with the taxpayers' money, but. ns though eager yet ashamed of their ac tion, rushed the thing through at race, horse speed. Mayor Moore has been aware ever since the Municipal Court scandal started, of the attitude of at least three of these councilmen. He had hoped against hope that they 'would keep their pledges to aid him in giving the city clean government. Now the.battle Is on. There Is (o be no more shilly-shallying to sare some ctie's sensibilities. There wns a sound of ment nxes grinding nround City Ilnll all day .vesterday. Changes Are Impending There will be, before long, some va cant chairs at Mayor Moore's official table. In ordinary politics officials not in sympathy with the policy of their chief have the grnep to resign. Hut this, it seems, is extraordinary polities. ' The Ma.vnr's veto message to Council yesterdny was both exhaustive anil in teresting. He made of the Municipal Court payroll a thing nf rags anil tatters. He had investigated the entire fnbrie and spoke from' certnin knowledge. It was a physical impossibility for Council to digest it in the brief tinu between its receipt nnil its hurried tlis posnl. Hut so eager were these pro fessed reformers to bow the knee nt Judge Hrovvn's new political shrine that they refused to consider n propn. sition for postponement for the purpose of considering its contents. Rchind this action of the five reform ers is a matter of far greater import to the people of Philadelphia. More potent than the prodigal extravagance of the Municipal Court. These men, pledged before election nnd chosen to redeem Philadelphia from the control of corrupt political rings, combinations and cabals, gave by their votes willing and eager nitl to n polit ical machine beside which the Vnre or- Continued on I'ubi" r.lahti-rn Column One TWO BILLIONS IN FARMERS' NOTES REDISC0UNTED j WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. By A. P. ITcnily two billion- ot ' dollars worth of paper liased on production and sales of farm products had been rcdlscounted by rcdcrnl icseive bnnTcs thii year, Governor Harding-, of the Fedeial Kesevre BoniTT. estimate l In a special report sent today to Chairman Giot.na. of th Sir.- Agricultural Committee. The nmount of such redtecrtinfs In 191 was estimated at 7 10,266,000, Mr. Harding estimated. GIRL DIES FP0M EFFECT OF EXPLOSION READING, Ta., Dec. 22. Catharine Beullei. dn.ugh.tei of Rob ert Beidler, whose farmhouse near Robesonia. wns blown up ycsti day afternoon by the explosion of the lightinj; plant in the cc.tr of the dwelling, died in a hospital heie today ns the lesult o; a fractured skull. The father and mother and two of their children are still in the hospital seriously injured. The house was leveled, and on the site there Is nothing- but a mass of debris. HARDING PROGRAM BLANK President-Elect Has No Visitors Booked for Conference Today M:n inn. .. Dec 22 tllv A. P i The engagement book nf President elect Harding was blank tndtt) anil it was said at his heailquaiters here that no callers were expected. It is possible, however, that some mav appear as most of Mr. llnrduu'- iuvltntinin. left i the mutter nf time M the . nnv end lire I nl hi vi- tins. i Ex-President William llmvunl Tult is expected to confer with Mr. Hauling before Christmas, hut the da) of his arrival has not been ntlicinll) no tiniinccd AUOUMTA CIIARI.KSTON hAVANNAII Through rvlea dally, Atlantic Cruet Una Offlea. 1000 Chiitnul. Tl, Loc, B39S, .dv. Repudiated by Mayor as on Side of Enemy Thomas W. Cunningham Penrose's chief lieutenant, and for many years organization leader in Tenth ward. Chairman of Republirnn Alliance ami Republican city committee's finance committee. Served several terms as n magistrate. Has frnquently opposetl compromise with Vnres, but is said to have allied the Vare cnndldntc for Council, Charles J. Pommer, nt lust election. George W. Coles Is a lawyer und has been prominent in reform political movements. Is chairman of the Town Meeting party and was n member of the charter revision committee. Took active part in campaign to nom inate Mayor Moore, and nftcr tlie elec tion wns frequently mentioned for high office. z RALLYTOJVIAYOR The Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, Mrs. Blankenburg and Others Urge Support of Moore RIGHT, SAYS MRS. JURIST Miyor Moore has stanrh support of people who stand for the city's best in terests In his opposition to the extrava gances of the Municipal Court. Mayor Moore's sloshing of the court appropriations yesterday is strongly in dorsed, and there is condemnation for those councilmen responsible for over riding the x-cto. "I am so indignant about this thiug I can hardly express myself," said the Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins. rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. "In fact. I am just about to write the Mayor a letter about it. It is all very well to talk about these things, but there is nothing like a personal expression of support nnd sympathy. "Not only that, but every good citi zen of Philadelphia should stand solidly behind the Mayor. They should mark every man who yoted against him. Those men are not fit to represent the city in Council. "The Mayor is doing his level best to make this city clean anil good, and the increases that have been asked for Hrovvn's court are wrong. The Mayor, in in) opinion, was very moderate in his cut." Mrs. Jurist Indignant Mrs, Louise Jurist, who is active jn main progressive movements, said : "Now is the time for the women to show what they are made of. They should keep the councilmen who did not support the Mnvnr constantly iu mind, and show that they are really in earnest b) getting ritl of these ob-li in tlnnists. The appropriations .for the Municipal ' 'ourt ure extravagant to the extent of ,...:...:....ll. U llllllllllll.l . Regarding the large number of pro bation officers, Mrs. Jurist snitl- "It might be well tn find nut wh.. tin probation officers are, what thej are do ing and wh.v thej are retained iu tin Municipal Court when they are doin. nothing but drawing salaries. I mm mend Major Mmu.' strongly. It re quired cnuruge to do what he did, know -ing full well the obstacles which con fit inte.l him. Those who nre not lojal should be dismissed front the city's serv ice an 1 1 hope r tin t he tukes such ac tion." Critlcles Penrose Mr- Jurist I hen touched on the in diffi renee nf Senator Penrose iigardiug the Municipal Court extravagances Concerning Hie senator, she said: "I low nn Sena'or Penrosi with his Cuntlntifil on Vncf Two, Column Ihrr ROBBERY SUSPECT HELD Man Discharged From Hospital and Appears Before Magistrate iniii-lis Slurgis. nil. i- .Inlin Smith, said bv the police to be a paroled pi is nnei , was held in Sl.Mlll bail for iiniri tndav charged with nttcniptcil robberv It was tesiiiietl before Mugi-lratc llnr ris thut Stmgis wiis i, night while ,ii tempting In nib the Ameiicnii Si,,i.- Co 1. 1. null ui Sii tirsi nnil I haul ' t reels mi I le. eniln'i I I, i Stuigis was sb. i ii,v Piitinlmiiii Ixenn. nf the Fiftt fifth nnd Pliicfelrccis sin ' lion, who mi id he cuiight the man n. ing tn break in hiougli n w union Stuigis bus been in the Misei icordi.i i llo.-pilul since the -hooting Wht you thtnlt ot wrlllna. I think o( WHITINO. Ail. tjv. ' LEADING ITI ENS Repudiation of Coles and Cunningham Made in Defi to New Combine SAYS BUDGET FIGHT SHOWED REAL AIDES Merry Political War on After Veto Is Beaten by Councilmen Mayor Moore will shake up the city departments and sift out re lentlessly nil elements disloyal to hk administration and the public in terest. He made this announcement in a vigorous statement today. In the statement, the Mayor repu diated Thgmas W. Cunningham, president of the Republican Alli ance, and chief lieutenant of Sena tor Penrose here, and served no tice that George W. Coles, Town Meeting chairman, nlso would have no recognition. The Mayor's pronouncement was a stirring and dramatic call akin to his "Moore or Vare" battle cry of last year, but reshaped to meet con ditions s exposed by Council's over throw of his Municipal Court budget "eto yesterday. Issues Ringing Challenge His statement follows: The Mayor hopes the people, seeing what the Mayor has to contend with, will now understand what it means to make and sus tain a fight for civic decency in Philadelphia. He hopes they will note tho criticism and obstruction of cer tain alleged reformers on the ono hand, and the desertion and indif ference of presumed political supporters on the other. He hopes they will note the easo with which combinations, un thinkable before election, can bo made after election, between so cr 'd "Penroseites' and so-called " eites," to prevent the carry ing into effect of an anti-contractor platform with its concomitant evils. He hopes the people will bo tolerant of the Mayor if he holds his ground nnd fights back as ho certainly will to prevent a fur ther encroachment of the selfish forces, in ollice nr out, who aro professedly 100 per cent for thu administration, but are nctuully opposed to or secretly undermin ing it. The Major further hopes that it will be understood that in the read justment he now expects to mak to protect his administration con structively and politically neither Mr. Cunningham, of the Republi can Alliance, nor Mr. Coles, of the reform element, who hnvo been consulting with Judgo Hrown, the judicial boss, and.Sen ator Vare, the contractor boss, is? accredited h.v the administration. "The Major wishes this first piece of political information to be thorough! v understood bv the directors and chiefs of bureaus of the xarious departments 'under the city administration, and par ticularly by the bureaus of police) and firo, winch aro legally and of ficially free from political in fluence." The Ma.vnr's tcotgnnfrntion plans are rxpei te,l to tnke slmpe rapidlv after Vev Year's Inv Mr. Moore's action jesterdnv in can. filing bis engagement for a diiiiiei which the direetnis planned to give him gave the initiated much food for thought. Three Dliectors "afe" Three of the direetois me known to be "ill right" with the Mnvnr and will let. tin their othces. Tin j ure. Hire, tor Caven of public wink I on 1 1 ii in ) nn I'.iue I.IkIHim ii I nhiinn Hire BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT ON WALK WITH CHUM Mother Rushes Youth to Hospital on Tram Hunter's Rifle Blamed A finirle.ii vni old Iniv Hunt e leil of est Shaw muni ineinni in the il, i iheiu oniskni. i.l the i in, 0,.as Khot in the righl hip bv a bullet finni tin tin known mine while lie wns walking with n ...iupiihM.il last uighl along the River load, above Port Itnval avenue At ulimil ." o'olni k he nnd n friend. Eilwii'.l Suln who is the same age mid live- on W'tsi I'm i Roiul aveuiio. bolii Io.ihI Ho icpm-i of u gim and Vein ri (ell .. pain In hi" i.e. Th' shouted ami the wmiiided bov 's inntliei heuid th. if cues of alarm and sonn had her 'on no u tiniii II' was luk'tjt ) thi Mciioniiii Hn-pitul. Iloxboroiigh Theie i no thought of foul piny In the accident as it is thought the bullft came from some rabbit hunters, j. ii J f O . i
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