&.. Kr t m 41 WVt. Mi w Ifi SI t ft; 1 U 51' ! .. Walter Weidnor Admits Emboz- f -...,.. zloment of $16,000 From P. and R. Railway Q00D HUSBAND,' SAYS WIFE A comfortable home and luxuries for Ms family not posMble on hi salary a a. payroll clerk, It was tctltlod to day, absorbed moot of the $10,000 which Walter E. Weldncr admitted embez zling from the Philadelphia and Heading Railway Co. Weldner pleaded Riiilty today before - Judge Barrntt In Criminal Court No. 1, and was sentenced to not more than five years or not less than throe years ond elx months in the Eastern Peni tentiary. The man wife, who testified, mi Id "Weidncr was a good husband nnd tint he did everything poislble to make life comfortable for herself and their nine-year-old child. The family formerly llTed at 2?5 Fisher's avenue, Olney. Friends of the defendant also testi fied Weldner wns n homc-lovlnR man. and did not gamble. It was stated he had bought n $1500 automobile on the Installment plan. The motorcar has been eeited by an indemnity Company. Weldner received n salary of 51m a month. He was emplojed In the audi tor's disbursing department and made up summaries of the Payroll. Hy Jug gling the payrolls he obtained the ?H1. 000 in fourteen months, he admitted. The embezzlements were not discov-! ered until he realized he could not cover them up much longer. He then tied to California where he was arreted May 6. Ho returned willingly nnd admitted the charges. ROAD OFFICIALS SUSPENDED i Foreman Admits He Profited by Pad ding of Payroll on Highway Work Harrisburg. May 18. The State Highway Department lnt night, ns the result of further investigation, directed the suspension of Justice M. almsley. of Norristown, as road superintendent of Montgomery County, and Edward Bytheway, of Norristown. a road fore man under the superintendent. SU employes of the department are BOW Unuer arrest in .Montgomery vuniy on charges of misappropriating funds i and the dismissals last night came as n I result of the disclosures in Montgomery , County. . , j Bythewav voluntarily came here to- ' day and he admitted to Deputy At torney General Robert S. (Jawthrop that through the padding of payroll ac counts he had personally benefited to the extent of scleral hundred dollars. MORE MEN ARE WORKING Increased Employment Reported In April In Eight' Major Industries Washington, May 18. Increased emplovment in eight major Industries and decreased for the remaining six re ported was shown in Labor Department figures for April. The largest increase wos In the auto mobile industry at .".2 per cent, others being woolen, 22..T per cent; hosiery and underwear, 7.0 per cent, men's clothing. 7 per cent; silk. ." 2 per cent; cigars. 5.0 per cent; cotton finishing. 1.7 per cent; boots and shoes, S per cent. Decreases were car building and re pairing, 12.3 per cent; Iron and steel, I ft. 7 per rent; leather workers, 11.3 per renl i paper making, 11.4 per cent ; coal mining, 3 per cent. DISABLED VESSEL HERE Pormer German-Owned Ship Taking Colonists to South America While en route from Hamburg to Baenos Aires with t cargo of fierroan colonists for the Argentine Republic, the steamer Baliia Blanca put into the Del aware Breakwater yesterday. She Is believed to be disabled, ond will come to Philadelphia to make repairs to her ma chinery and take Suiith American cargo and passengers. The Bahia Blanca in a 10,000-ton ves scl, and owned in Germany, nnd was in tdrned during the vv.ir - Brazil. Her disposition after the armistice wns a mibjcct for international controversy. She Is now owned by Argentinn. The ship left Buenos Aires on Jnn uary 20 for Hamburg, and is now on her return trip. Deaths of a Day CHARLES J. RICH Last Surviving Member of Old The atrical Firm Is Dead Boston, May 18. Charles J. Rich. n leading Boston theatrical manager, and said to have been the last sur viving member of the original New York producing firm of Charles Froli nian. Rich & Harris, died nt his homo jesterday. He had been ill more than n year. Mr. Rich was the son of Isaac B. Rich, also a theatrical manager. He was born Kenfln 1R.V. Alf Hayman, another member of the old firm, was buried in New York on Monday. Has Military Funeral Wwt Chester, Ph., Mav IS. A mili tary funeral for the remnlns of the lute Norman I). Peunell, son of James Pen nell, South High street, took place this aftemon and wus largely attended. Peu nell and Henry flat, also of this place, were in tue same regiment ami were on patrol duty nt night when Clay acci dentally stumbled over a wire attached to a ground bomb Clay was killed Peunell fatally wounded. Clay's body will arrive at Hobokeu ou Saturday. Bugler Guy E. Will Poltstown. Pa., Mav 1ft -Bugler Guy K. Will, of Company A, Jllth Iteglment, Twenty -eighth DIvlMon, died at a f-anatorium at Muunt Alto from lung trouble caused by being gassed while fighting in France. He was a sou of James II. Will, of Pottstown. and was aged twenty-titc years He will be given a military funeral on Saturday in Pottstown rETIIB QRlKKITIia -On Mnv IT. 1021 OKOrirtE W. OHIFPITUH Htlatlvas and friend In MUd to funeral aervlce. on Friday, at M V. M.. at hi late rildnre. 1SU llaltlmori.' v. Iriti-rmnii prlvala HOFFMAN At Ilalmnort N J May IT KMMA RAMMAY HOFFMAN former.y of Haddanflelc! N J R!tle and friends Bra Invited to attand funiral. frnm her lale ra.ldtnca Holnwport. N J Friday 2 P M Inlfrnionl ianlt Olnetary, Haddonrleld J.'J.. S'SO I M FHAI.KV- At Chenttnit Hill. May 18 JO 8SP1I CJIB3SON on of tlia lata Frederick and Jan treon Fraley. In hl T3d er Futiaral and Interment private The family uam"iv tequeata that nr flowora b ent. BAVBNPOnT At ljurff villa. N J .U IT HM.A lf "f iluirln J Davetimrt JUUtlvei and frlendi are Invited, ta attand l.,.itiai e. vicen Huturilny, 2 P .M.. at her late residence, Hurrtville. Autoe will meet tUIu arr.vhiK at i'Umau. 1-5 1. U, ff Ber&doll Lawyer Defies 'Probers ' Continued from Tnice On perturbed by the prospect of n public trial by the House. Mrs. Bergdoll has refused to give up her books to the Bergdoll Investigating Committee, ns she promised when she testified. The committee probably will send for them. Joseph F. McDcvllt. Department of Justice operative In Philadelphia, said that nt the Bergdoll home last olght he was told Mrs. Bergdoll wn ill. The duyt before, he told the committee, Mrs. Bergdoll said she would give him on itemized stutcmciit of her accounts. He said he expected to get the books for the committee soon. John F. Bromley, for many years pri vate secretary for Glbboncy, testified. Asked If he knew anything about Judge John W. Wcscott's connection with the case, he said : "I know Mr. Glb boncy told me he had taken Judge Wes cott Into the cose." H told how Judge Wescott bad called at Glbbonty's oflice. I'pon Judge Wcscott's departure, Bromley mjIJ, Glbboncy told him Judge Wcscott was getting "cold feet." but that he would be retained In the caso In an "ad visory capacity." As far as he knew, he said, Judge Wcscott had received no fees in the case. The day before Bergdoll left on his "pot-of-gold" expedition, Bromley said Glbboncy told him Bergdoll was to get out of prison to get this money. "He said Ansell nnd Bally wnntcd their fee and they wanted this money somewhere where they could put their hands on it," Bromley told the com mittee. MRS. BERGDOLL ILL; MAY PAY ALL FINES Mrs. Emma C, Bergdoll. mother of the draft dodgers, Orover nnd Erwin. is ill today In her home nt Wynnefield. nfter the excitement of having sentence Imposed upon her yesterday bv Judge Dickinson, in the United States DiMrict Court. Inquiry nt her home elicited the in formation that "Mrs. Bergdoll was sick and could not be seen." The nature or extent of her illness was not disclosed. Mrs. Bergdoll is now considering the advisability of pnying the fines, aggre gating 523,000. impoed upon her nnd her four co-defendnnts for aiding the Bergdoll boys to escape the drnft. This came as n change troni a sullen ly defiant attitude yesterday after she had been sentenced by Judge D ekinson, in Federal Court. Mrs. Bergdoll. James E. Romig. her "man Friday." nnd Charles Brnun, nnother son. were sentenced to n year nnd a day in prison with an alternative of hnvlng the terms remitted if fines of $7000 eneh were pnid before June 13. Al Mitchell, an automobile snlesmnn, and Harry Schuh. former bookkeeper at the Bergdoll brewery, were clven terms of six months each, with the alternative of pnying 51000 fines. ALIENS TO RUSH HERE Italians Coming Before New Immi grant Law Takes Effect The Italian steamship America, which left Philadelphia two weeks ago for n port on the Black Sea. was diverted by wireles and instructed to dock at Naples. Italy, anil transfer its passen gers and cargo to another ship. The America will tnke on s enpacity lond of alien for riiilndelphm nnd return as quickly ns possible. fo ns to land them before the new Immigration Act he comes u law. The Itnlinn stc.imhin Tnorminn. which docked here (en dnys ago, also Is speeding to Italy to brins back another load of aliens. The stearnt-hip Poland, with 020 pas sengers, nil steerage, from Antwerp nnd Dantzig. is expected to dock to night or tomorrow morning. Tho stenmship Haverford left Liver pool yesterday and is expeeted to ar rive in Philadelphia about Memorial Day. HOLD MEN AS AUTO THIEVES 2 Alleged Members of Gang Which Stole 15 Cars Have Hearing Two men. alleged members of a gang of nuto thieves nid by detectives to l.nve stolen fifteen machines here re cently, were held in $1."00 ball for further hearing hy Magistrate Carson nt Central Station today. The prisoners am Israel Solatare. Fifteenth street near Columbia nvenue. nnd Samuel Filterbnum, Lawrence street near Wharton. They were ar tested last nirht by detectives following confessions said to have been made bv three men held by the Gloucester poller on a charge of having stolen machines in their possession. The men are accused specilicnlly of breaking Into a garage at Seventh ami De Lancey streets May 12 and stealing the machines of Isnnc Clearfield. K00 South street, and Joseph Thomas, 2."il South Tenth street. The police miv thei liuve confessed to their part in the uriM of robberlc". MISS GARRETT A SUICIDE District Atorney Is Expected to Issue Statement Today District Attornev Tnvlor, of Ilelnwnre County, will i-stie a statement todav in the iuvestigntion as to the cnu-e nf the death nf Miss Anna M. Garrett, the Svvorthmote woman whose budv was found in the Bruudyvvlne Creek April Hi that will say it is his belief that I lie woman wns a suicide. The autopsy which was performed on the bodv as well as thr examination of the fkull turned out ns wa.s expected without disclosing any marks of vin lence. However, the District Attorney has not made public the ofli'-bd finding of the physicians who performed the lautopsv, but will do jn when he makes ! a statement Next Year's Prices Now THE HATCH MOTORS C? OIS IRIBUTOR9 720 N. BROAD ST - PHILA. I pfKGpuweipssipp U. S. CHIEF JUSTICE Jurist Has Not Rallidd From Sinking Spell Following Chill RECOVERY NOT EXPECTED By tho Associated Press Washington, May 18. Physicians at tending Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, of the United Stntes Supreme Court, announced at 10 A. M. today that their patient had not rallied from the sinking spell of late yesterdav, nnd that his recovery was not expected. The doctors Issued the following bul letin: "Chief Justice White wns operated upon on Friday last. Although in n serious condition for some months past, he postponed the operntion. as he felt his presence nt the court was Impera tive. His progress was satisfactory with normal pulse and temperature un til Tuesday afternoon, when acute di lation of the heart occurred. He has not rallied from this condition nnd recoerv is not expected. (Signed) "FRANCIS R. IIACHEU. M. D. "THOMAS A. CLAYTOR. M. D. "THOMAS S. LEE. M. D." At noon the physlclnns attending the Chief Justice said there had been no chnnge in the patient's condition nnd ihnt he might last through today and tonight, but that there wn nothing "inn which to base an alteration from their previous diagnosis. immediately tonowing the opcraunn nt n loenl hosnttol for hlnfliler trouble. Chief Justice White's condition hnd Im proved stendily until yesterday aft ernoon, when he suffered an unexpected chill and then declined rnpldly. He has remained unconscious since late last night. On hearing of his critical condjtlon. Justice McKennn nnd other of his ho ciates in the Supreme Court visited the hospitnl last night, but not until the Chief Justice hnd lapsed Into uncon sciousness. Members of tho Immediate family remained at tho bedside through out the night. For four months he hnd not been well. Dr. Hagan snid. but he refused to leave his work, saying thnt it was important nnd if necessary he would die rather than stop for treatment. The Chief Justice is a nntive of Louisiana and served irt the Confederate Army in the Civil War. He was in the I'nited States Senate three years he fore he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Cleveland in 1S04. Although he had been n Democrat, he was elevated to the chief justiceship in 1010 by President Taft. WELFARE PLAN OPPOSED Proposed Absorption of Educational Agencies Brings Protest Washington, May 1S.-(By A. P.1--Further nppodtion to absorption of Government educntlonnl agencies by the proposed new Department of Puh'ie Welfare wns expressed todny nt a joint hearing of Senate nnd House education committer by prominent educators. They asked for a separate department of education, though some of them sug gested that the Department of Welfare bo created. H. S. McGlll. legislative representa tive of the National Educational Asso ciation, said !'." per cent of the expen ditures of the proposed Public Welfare Department would be for soldier relief J. B. Crnbtree. secretary of the asso ciation, urged thnt the present Bureau of Education In the Department of In terior oe leit unclinnged lather than inergid into the Public Wclfire Depart ment. Te'egrams nnd statements from State education superintendents, universUs and college heads and professors and other prominent educators were present u! to the committee, all oppot-ing merger of Government educational work in the Public Welfare Department MAYOR PUSHES BEACH WORK Signs Contract for Improvement of Public Recreation Spot Mayor Moore's plan for another pub lic bathing bench was pushed further ahead todny when he siened n contract for the dredging nnd filling in of the proposed neuch at West League island Park The work w II be done by the American Dredging Co Director Caven, of Public Works, ex pects to have ihe heach ready for the public by thf middle of June. The Mayor nlso signed a contract with Thomas L Flnnignn. 'who will furnish horses and teams for the pro posed cleaning up of mosquito breeding spots iu South Philadelphia. Club and College Stripes $1.50 Novcr saw such a de mand for striped. Neck wear we. nre always very fetronff in our linos of striped scarfs nnd just at present are fea turing a bplcndid assort ment of Club nnd College designs at $1.50; thoy arc splendid vnlue silks in n most interesting variety of colorings. JACOB REEDS SONS 1WH 126 aeslnul Street angarcais fi. SiMiifi iiriffigaKaiKnaXana&M&iiiiiMariiii MCwaJ zi , 9 I S I PAYMASTER ACCUSED OF THEFT .v. ZIJVM m -88 3fA.&.i&AA - tr-tjpr, -m & PA ;? & ;-&: 14Z ru tx a fVc Irdr Photo Service I'rntililln I.. Wright, of Sharon Hill, alleged absconding paymaster of a big drug firm, who disappeared seerat days ago vtllli the payroll nnd other funds totaling $2.00, and who was arrested today. He Is said to have confessed that lie lost most of the money belting on the races. The man wearing a straw hat Is John Redding, a city detective, who arrc&tcd Wright SIGNS TAX INCREASE BILLS Governor Approves Numerous Meas ures Calling for High Borough Rates Harrisburg, Pa.. May 18. (By A. P.) Bills governing increase of tac tion rates by boroughs nnd townships were nmong those npproved bv Governor William C. Sproul today. The Mc Vicar nmendment to the borough codf authorizes Councils to increase the tax for general borough purposes from ten to fifteen mills, while the Pike bill em powers township commissioners to pe tition Quarter Sessions Couits for per mission to increase township tnxe from ten to fifteen mills. The Governor has approved the Murdoch bill. Borough code amendments npproved include right of council to define nnd punish disorderly conduct, limiting pay of borough treasurers to not more than 2 per cent of funds disbursed. The Whltemnn bill, providing prisons In third nnd fourth class counties, not having special prison management laws, shall be managed by ii board consisting of Judges, SlierifT. District Attorney, Controller and Commissioners, wns nisi signed. The act applies only to coun ties where the sheriff is now the wniden nnd would provide for election of a warden. 1'nder terms of nnotlier bill. Quarter Sessions Courts instead of Common Pleas would fill election board vacan cies. Trolley Injures Girl Hit by Auto Struck by n motortruck, driven by Arthur Schneider, of Lumberville, Pa., lost night, Josephine Best, twenty-four yenrs old, of 1047 Girard nvenue, was hurled under the forward wheels of a tiolley car and received, n fractured sVull. She is at the Pennsylvania Hos pital in a senoiiR condition. Miss Best was stepping from the 'sfdevvnlk near hfr home to board the street car when ?he nppnrently stepped directly in the path of the truck. HM Linde Ys and Yz Off Sale Furniture, Rugs, Linoleums The third week of this Extraordinary Sale finds the selection every bit as good as the first, because of the immense scope of the far-sighted plans laid at the very beginning. Knowing full well that the demand would be enor mous, we provided hundreds of complete suits for Bedroom, Dining Room and Living Room, and thousands of single pieces, to be sold at one-half off and one-third off present market value. These offerings arc new, up-to-date styles from eight of the leading makers of the country and from our own fresh stocks of acknowledged superiority. There isn't anything in Philadelphia to compare with them in value. It's your great opportunity, for prices will be higher in the August sales. Don't wait. The wise ones are buying now. Please observe that every piece bears the original tag, marked either '$ or i2 off. These startling savings are absolutely bona fide savings, as com parison will show you. But you must SEE them to really appreciate the wonderful bargains. Dining Room Suits Half Off Mahogany; 4 pieces, Adam suit , ilnut Ouecn nne 10-pierc suit. .. . loins XVI walnut suit, 10 pieces .. i liippcndale suit; 10 pieces, mahogany . Walnut Georgian suit; 10 pieces Dcautiful Adam suit, Walnut; 10 pieces..., Libraru Tables Half Off William and Marj ; mahogany; 42 inch .... Queen Anne design; 48-mcli shelf dam-. mahogany; with shelf, 4a iiuh Colonial motif; mahogany, 4S inch large davenport table, mahogany Massive Queen Antie.; 50 inch Wicker Furniture Half Off I oose-cushion seat and hack; .1 pieces ... 1 argr davenport, chair, rocker; cretonne. (liaise tongue; cretonne cushions Fireside chair; walnut finish Round tables: any finish. Rockers, cushion seats and backs Half Off Wilton, f)x12 ft 72.00 Wilton. 8.3x10.6 ft 60.00 Wilton, 6x9 ft 47.00 Axminster, 0x12 ft 37.50 Axminstcr, 6x9 ft 24.00 Store Open Every Friday Evening HENRY LINDE :bi m LitKJ .m &l && ASSAULT CASE SETTLED Former Atlantic Refining Co. Watch man Placed on Probation When trials of Try-pro B. Kittclson, manngcr of the Atlantic Refining Co.'s service station, Broad and Cnrpeuter streets, and Walter Randolph, 004 South Broad street, former night wntchmnu. were resumed before Judge Bnrrntt. in Quarter Sessions Court to day, attorneys representing the two de fendants announced they had reached an amicable settlement of the entire mutter subject lo the approval of the court. Judge Barratt npproved the settle ment, which resulted in the indictment against Kittclson. charging him with aggravated assault and battery with ill icit to kill Randolph being submitted to the jury for a verdct of not guilty, mid Rnndolph pleading guilty to mi in dictment charging him with aggravated assault nnd battery with intent to kill Kltlclsou. Ruudolph was then placed on proba tion for six months. LEAVES ESTATE TO K. OF P. Fraternal Body Benefits by Will of Edward J. Donnagh With the exception of 51000 left to relatives unci friends, the S7.100 estate of Kdvvnrd J. Donnagh. 3421 Wood lawn nvenue. will go to the Knights of Pythias under his will, which was filed for probate today. Mr. Donnagh left S.'OO to Lodge 233. 5.-.00 to the Mnsonfe Hoiiih at Elizabeth town, Pa., and the residue to the grand lodge of the order. Letter of administration was issued I today to the widow of Dr. P. Norhert 1 Bergeron, who died a week ngo of nn 1 infeition contincted while operating on n patient. Dr. Bergeron left an estate i of 52500. Bed Room Suits Half Off Queen Aunc; mahogany; 3 pieces datn suit; niahog-in; 4 pieces '. dcorgian walnut suit. 4 pieces Niitique ivory suit; 9 pieces .", l.ouis XVI suit, in walnut American walnut Queen Aunc suit 225.00 350.00 595.00 .375.00 .437.50 .650.00 . . 15.00 . 18.50 ..21.50 .35.00 .27.50 ..45.00 65.00 112.50 ..75.00 . 25.00 ...8.50 . 17.50 These Rugs and Heavy fiher, 9x12 ft 13.50 Andovcr. 8.3x10 6 ft 16.33 Donuis fiber, 6x9 ft 7.67 Plymouth Mills, 9x12 ft. . ..15.00 Plymouth Mills, 6x9 ft .... 9.00 William Warnock, Said to Bo a Philadelphian, Boliovbd Dying LIVING IN ATLANTIC CITY Atlantic City, May 18. Fatally (voundlng himself In an attempt at sui cide, William Warnock, ninety-two yenrs old, sold to be a wealthy Phlla delphlnn, Is In n dying condition In tho Waggoner Hospitnl, a private Institu tion. He shot himself with a small pearl handled revolver In his npartment In the fashionable Beach Apartments, Maryland nvenue near the Boardwalk, where bo has led a hermlt-llko life, and little was known of him among neighbors. The aged roan has been n resident here for the last six years, and until two years ago he was active. He has been in ill health since 1010 and' has led the life of a recluse in, a $175-a-month apartment within n few steps of the Boardwalk since then. His only visitor during that time has been An drew Wells, the janitor, who took him one mcnl a day. Little Is known of Warnock here. A woman believed to be his sister Is Mrs. Clara Grlsmcr, 133 Hollywood avenue, East Orange. Another sister.' whoM nnme is not known here, lives some where in Philadelphia. Warnock nl ways was well supplied with money from a Philadelphia source. MURRANO TRIAL DELAYED Only Two Negroes Chosen In Detec- ' tlve McGinn Murder Case Trial of Christopher Murrnno, on tho charge of murdering Detective Joseph McGinn October 3. 1020. In a raid on a gambling house nt 810 Tassyunk ave nue, was delayed in .Tudcc Smith's court this morning because of difficulty in securing n jury. The entire mornlne session was-con sumed in calling veniremen, nnd only one juror was selected in addition to Thomas Murray, who was chosen yes terday afternoon. The juror chosen just before noon todny is Charles Wnyne, n painter, 7032 Keystone street. Every juror called in the case is asked if he would find for conviction of murder in the first degree on purely circumstantial evidence. Thl.s- question wns made necessary, it is said, because all of the thirty gam blers who saw McGinn murdered nre afraid to testify. The word hns gone out hi tho underworld. It is snid. thnt the man who "squenrs" will be marked for death. FENCIBLES MUST MOVE State Military Organization Ordered Out Site to Be City Hall Annex The State Feneiblcs, one of the oldest mllitnry orgnslzatlons in the city, is to be notified to vacnto Immediately their armory on Broad street south of Race, as t lie city Is preparing to erect a City I f nil annex on that side and surrounding ground. A motor sales company has headquar ters at the southeast corner of Brond and Race streel.s. Notice to vacate will l-c served on thnt concern nlso. The State Fencibles' nrniorv occupies a plot ,"S bv 130 feet. The site was bought by the city February 2. 18.11. i It ir understood another location will l.p obtained for tho orgnnizatlon, nl though its officers nre said to bo reluc tant to give up the Broad street head quarters. .150.00 ..250.00 ,.487.50 ..350.00 ..299.00 ..525.00 Living Room Suits Half Off Mahogany cane suit, mulberry .velour 87.50 Overstuffed velour suit; 3 pieces ..! 17500 luipctial leather heavy overstuffed suit. ..'.'., ! 150.00 Mulberry silk damask 3-piecc suit 250.00 Massive overstuffed tapestry suit .'325!oO Damask suit; blue and gold !..39o!oO Urass and Iron Beds Half Off Heavy, continuous posts; all-brass 30 00 Colonial; brass; all sizes .'! 2500 Hrass bed; velvet finish .....19.00 Ivory enamel; full size !'. !l5 00 Walnut finish; in all sizes 1350 White enamel, all sizes 575 Linoleums Colonial rag, 27x54 in.. Colonial rap, 6x9 ft... , Colonial rag, 9x12 ft... Cork linoleum, sq. yd.. Inlaid linoleum, &q. yd. . 1.00 . 6.75 .10.75 . .70 , 1.50 Until 9:30 Jfcff-: Frank J. Johnson Didn't Know Second Divorce From Same Wo man Had Been Annulled COURT SHOWS, LENIENCY Frank J. Johnson, 15520 Harmon street, who, after being twtctt married and twice divorced from the same wom an, married again, not knowlng'hls first wife had onnutlcd his second divorce from her, was sentenced today by Judge Barrett in Criminal Court No. 1, to sixty days for bigamy. Mrs. Hilda Marie Johnson, wife No. 3, but In reality only wife No. 2, was in court with a ten-wcck-old baby, to plead for mercy for her husband. It was because of the youth of wife No. 3 and her baby, Judge Barrett said, that he was moved to deal lightly with Johnson. Wife No. 1 and 2, who brought tho charges, Is Mrs. Francis Bates John son, of Detroit. She claimed sho mar ried Johnson a second time In October, 1017. He left her March 8, 1010, and secured a divorce In Texas, she said, by committing perjury as to his residence there. Sho had the divorce annulled later. Johnson, who was arrestccd nfter bis first wife trailed him from Hot Springs to this city with his birds, said he was ignorant of the annulment-of his sec ond divorce. He sold. Mrs. Johnson had divorced him years ago, but that they had married again and this time had sought the divorce. In passing sentence Judge Barrett declared that the peculiar circumstances of tho case led 1ilm to believe that Johnson may not have knovyn he was doing wrong when he married wife No. 3. "But an example must be made of men who go around marrying people," the Judge, said, MAY BROADEN RULES Civil Service Body Makes Temporary Changes The Civil Service Commission rule concerning selection of laborers on eligible )l.ts was broadeucd today n a meetingof the commission. , The old rule, requiring the choice of one eligible out of the first two on a list was extended to one out of the first five. A majority of the commission also decided to hold periodical tests for laborers. Commissioner Nceld wanted the rule broadened even further so that the appointing officer could name a laborer regardless of the applicant's position on mi eligible list. The changes In the rules, temporarily adopted, "HI be the subject of n pub lico hearing June 1. If the views of the majority of the commission still hold after the hearing the changes will be made permanent. VZk 2nd Floor 1225 Market St. no Bill In Your Poeket With Every Purchase of One of Our High-grade Men's or Young Men's Suits, Topcoats, Dress Suits, Tuxedos Everything Included, Except Raincoats $00 s34 Suit or Topcoat Less $ 39 ljliJklfc Flncfs "Runaway yfAiie iwo uojn woo anraiuedi theVTilsB runaways were found sleeplne in rv9 mcrce street near Juniper at aMiitfl oy a uiiy xiau guard, who scntiM to the Houso of Detention. Vh VJ said they wcro Frank Lucca tM.i0'! years old, Molo street near TVi,"1 Lorenzo Fuseo. fnnrtean ,;r.!Mi street near need. "'" ow U. 8. Phytlctst Diet at Hit dl' Dr. Edward Bennett Rosa, cilnf''iT' cist nud head of the electrical hKSS4 of tho Bureau of Standard.; died THE BALLINGER COMPANY SucctMer is BALLINGEH Sr PERROT . ACMrrtCTS'tHClNtlRS'C0N8T1UX7OU rillLADELPHIA NEWYOBX 12th & CatiLnni Sti. 1328 Broidwi, J OF course you need an archi tect and an engi neer when youbuild or rebuild. The closer they work to gether, the more to your advantage. Here they are asso ciates in the same organization. This settles all question of responsibility. Manufacturers Clearance! SALE-20 OFF on our Framed Minors Splendid line of Picture Framei Fine Mouldings ni Variety. All Woofc ...iirnt finiiH Frames to Order Matthew Schramm & Son 39 North 9th St. Second Floor MANtTFACTVKERS WHOLESALERS KETAILERj Diamond Wrist Watches A special and limited collection in new designs, priced to purchasers' great advantage Of platinum, bordered with diamonds. Black ribbon bracelet with platinum clasp. J. E. Caldxtfell & Co. Chestnut and Juniper You Pay the Guaranteed Regular Spring Price for Each Garment Get a Refund of $10.00 19 Suit or Topcoat Less $10 Bill Back Means $24 $29 $10 BUI Back Means Suit or Topcoat Less $10 Bill Back Means Only One Store! We have closed our original store nt 1 425 Chestnut, and will welcome our old friends in our new Market St. Store. Second Floor 1225 Market St. OCM &&TU.IUMX jNfqMS i S fc...Jt,y. I Lh l .z . '-' it. . 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