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ICE COMB CITY
CALLED KIDNAPPER
4t
ioph BeKo, Ward of Catholic
.Children's Bureau,, ana
btranger vanian
CHUM SAYS SUSPECT TOOK
Thim and. friend-to show
'Detectives began a search today for
ifn -year -old Joseph Bcke, an or
aaaed ward of the Catholic Children's
Ptffeta, believed to hive been lured
litt last Friday by a man who "treat-
'Jf ' him and a chum to the "movies."
1 .The missing boy anrt miuam J.ome-
i-fta, another youthful ward of the bu
hKu, wre standing In front of a then
troh. Eighth street near Vine nt
parted by the vivid postern of a cowboy
rit.r.ti untiroaehed a stranger loung-
ki near1 the theatre and asked him to
''treat to the movies." According to
........ Tnmkewltz. the man took the
l, on a long walk Into Fnlrmount
L'. .. I-. a tha tfinnfrn whom
K bought tickets for all for the show.
T7tar runirniun iaj itic ,. -.- ...--.
Chums ueenmo twpnran-u
t-vtiH(i became separated from
hit chum and as both had been, "rtlay
Int hookey" from a boarding house
it ,. ,aA hffn nlaced bv the bu
rau, he ran to the homo of his widowed
mother at 831 Gideon street.
m. nnni- Tnmkewltz hid himself
Ifn a closet which fastened with a spring
let. He imprison nimnni "
rionally and was not released until eve-
Liln house at 2181 Brandywlno
iittitt to hunt for him.
'Th boarding house Is kpt by Jlrs.
Catharine Valentine, who cares for n
Barnber of wards of the Children's Hu
Mn A rule of the bureau Is that the
dilJdrtn must attend Mass every morn
W fB St. Francis' Church, Twenty -
4nt, anil flrnm irtreet.
tuv. mi Tnmkewltz left the board-J
Hbi house Friday morning. oBiensiotj
kor the church, but Instead decided they
lironldfo "downtown" to see the sights.
IThdr wanderings Ird them to tho thea
I on Klgntn street near ins.
Went to Park First
W mw a fine cowbov picture out-
Ltdi the movie place." said young
Pomkewit today. "Joe went up to a
tain, and asked mm to treat to tne
Eoriea. The man said 'Sure.', but in
bjtad took us for a long walk out tho
Parkway. Wo went to Strawberry
Mansion and then started back.
"Tho man didn't talk to me. He
Hid all hia talking to Joe, and I just
Itretted along. When we got bnck to
Ithe theatre the man bought tickets and
lut himself 'between Joe and me. t
wu sort of crowded out after a whilp
wad went up to the balcony."
'imKicwitz said when the show ended
ki harried' downstairs, but cjould not
Ind Joe nor tho stranger.
"The man was funnv lrHiklnir nnd
trahl't fat." the bov continued, iahhinir
Fngers into nis cneeKs to produce wrin
gs as he tried to show that the strnn.
rs face was seamed with wrinkles.
"His hair stood un straieht In front
nnd was gray like grandma's," he went
fur, referring to Mrs. "Valentine, who
lis given that title by the boys under
oer care. "He wore spectacles, but
they had no wires around them. He
had on a green sweater, a dark blue suit
and a white flannel shirt. The shirt
was spotted. v
Didn't Likp His Eye-.
"I didn't like the man's eves. Thiv
were funny little eyes cat eyes, I'd
call 'em. He had no cap or hat, and
ni black shoes had no tops to them."
At the boardlrur hnnso torinr thn
mlBsing boy wag described by other
boys as "full of pen." Ho weighs about
llty pounds and linn rinrk lirmm httin
and dark eyes. He had a "bowl hair
cut 'with the hair cut to a line about
two inches above his cars. He wore a
'bite blouse, a dark brown suit, a green
rilk tie, torn nnd a khaki overseas cap.
Beke and Tomblpttvlt hn iienn i, .......
for ever Since thnv irnrn un) In !,.
3ndywine street house as wards of the
'"""' bureau iwo years ago.
$1000 IN GEMS STOLEN
IThlevea Loot Jewelry Store at 4076
Lancaster Avenue
Botab thlfrfn nMnlnnj mnn ..
ftt,iAn7flf7m thp. storo of w'iam
Wkin, 407fl Lancaster avenue, shortly
iftw noon yesterday, while Mrs. Edkin
M the.flo5j-uabovo tho store attend
taraHd ThlSr husband- who s an
1 'ec.tric bell, attached to the door
fa apprise Mrs. Edkln nf ), -?.
W customers, was disconnected by thf
Rfer110 !?k te.n ll"nonU rings and
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BANDITS ROB STORE
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neia UpReglater and $20 Stolen
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iiavo leen kidnapped Friday
FIREWORKS PLANT BURNS:
IMPERILED LIVES SAVED
Suburban Engine Companies Fight
$45,000 Blaze eat Cardlngton
. Through the efforts of several sub
urban fire companies probable loss of
life and destruction of nearby proper
ties were averted during a fire wlllch
destroyed the factory pf the United
Stnjtes Fireworks Co., at Cardington,
Shortly before 11 o'clock this morning.
The loss was $45,000.
The company's plant occupies a plot
of ground about the size of a city
block. It consists o three buildings.
In one of the buildings near the'factnry
two tons of powder were stored. Al
though showers of sparks frequently
covered the roof of this structure, they
wert quickly extinguished by firemen.
The fire wns caused by the nccldcntnl
ignition of an oil tank. A spark from
a "spraying machine fell lnthe tnnk and
it immediately burst into flames. The
machine was dperated by Frank dl
Xunio, an employe. He fought .the
blaze until it got beyond his control
and then fled from the building.
CAT ATTACKS WOMAN
Gift-Pet Turns on Nevv, Owner In
Camden House
A Persian cat. recently received as a
gift, attacked and seriously injured Mrs.
Prudence Straw, wife of Assistnnt
Prosecutor Straw, of Cnmdcn, jestcrday
nt her home, 1452 Haddon avenue,
Camden.
A cousin In Pennsylvania sent the
cat to Mrs. Straw a tow days ago. The
aninial was large, handsome and very
valuable. Mm, Straw put him in the
cellar early this morning. A short time
later she went down there, nnd the cat
attacked her as she reached the bottom
of the stairs.
Mrs. Straw ran aercaming from the
cellar. Mr. Straw was calling ou the
phone at that moment. She told him
what had -happened nnd he hurried home
and found his wife in a, faint. He
captured the cat and turned it over to
a veterinarian to be shot.
GIVES POISON TO CHILDREN
Stranger In West Cheater Hands Out
Deadly Banana
Wetr Chester, Pa., June 1. Chief
Entriken and the police are seeking a
strange man, who is suspected of giv
ing poisoned fruit! to children on the
streets and who is also believed to have
killed many dogs recently by the u&e
of meat treated with poison.
Yesterday- afternoon a strange young
man wearing a cap banded a young
son of George G. Cardwell a banana.
The child did not cat it when advised
by a companion, but the two took It
to the Cardwell home. Gardwell
turned the fruit over to H. H. Brown,
n chemist, who discovered it had been
treated with poison (n sufficient quan
tities to have killed many pt'rsons.
Last evening a man was reported to
Have handed enndy to a child on South
Church! street, and when a bystander
ndvlsed the child not to cat it the
stranger snatched the candy nnd fled.
BOOSTING JUNIATA COLLEGE
Extension Campaign Fund Opens
With Subscriptions of $32,000 '
Huntingdon, Pa., June 1. Juniata
College's campaign for an extension
fund opened last night with a supper
nnd report meeting iu the Lutheran
Church, when subscriptions aggregat
ing $32,000 were announced by various
organizations.
Chester J. Langdon, general chair
ninn of the fund, presided, and I.
Ilnrvcy Hrumbn(ugh. "president of the
college, made the principal address. He
snid Juiilntn College, the only college
in Juninta Valley, serves the community
effectively. This year two-thirds of
the students arc from Huntingdon nnd
the valloy. In the present campaign,
lie taid. 135 students have niedsed
$40000. Towns and cities throughout
uio valley are organized for the cam
pnign.
FINE INTOXICATED MOTORIST
James Spear, Jr., Pleads Guilty to
Indictment Pays $119.87
Judge nnrtlctt, in the Municipal
Court today, imposed a fine of $100 and
costs amounting to $10.87 on James
Sp'enr, Jr., nfter he had pleaded guilty
to an Indictment chnrglijg him with
operating nn automobile while intoxi
cated. Spear was arrested March IB by lie
serve Patrolman' McAndrews, at Iirond
and Oxford streets after a woman
motorist bad! complained of the man
ner In which Spear wbh operating his
automobile.
After pleading guilty today Spear
explained ho bad not had' a meal that
day from his breakfast until 0 o'clock,
when he was arrested. Ho had left
the home of a friend) In Germantown
immediately prior to his arrest, he ox-
.plained, where he had had two drinks.
When ho reached the neighborhood of
Ilrond nnd Oxford streets he became
very sick as the result of drinking on
nn empty stomach and Just about to
slop his automobile when hn wan ar
rested, .
Spear is a wealthy manufacturer and
Is n member of the Markham Club and
other well-known organizations. He Is
tho son of the lnte James Spear,
founder of the stove and heater manu
facturing pianv ot that name at 182i;
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Charlps noffmnn, sixteen years old,
office and errand boy for the F. H.
White Co., leather manufacturers, 40
North Sixth street, d'sanneared nt 2
Lo'clock yesterday afternoon with $133
and jhioo in checks be had been given
to deposit in the Central National
Bank, Fifth and Chestnut streets.
It was the boy'.s first trip to the bank
with cash, although officials of the
company had entrusted checks of large
amount to him for deposit several times
during the last few days.
Hoffman, whose address the police
will not give, got his Job because of his
manly appearance whon he and twenty
nine other boys answered an adver
tisement ten days ago.
ji i e?race mannger took an imme
diate liking to the boy and gave him
every opportunity to advance. .
At first, on his trips to the bank,"
when he wan given only the checks, he
reported quickly to thp bank on every
occasion and nlways hurried back to the
office of his employers.
Entrusted With Cash
Yesterday afternoon the office man
ager decided that be would entrust the
boy nlth the large amount of cagh for
deposit.
Hoffman smiled his appreciation of
the new confidence reposed in him and
left for the bank at 2 o'clock.
Half an hour passed and he did not
return from the bank. Officials be
lieved he had been .delayed, but 3
p clock came and he still had failed
to return
Finally, the company telephoned the
bank nnd were Informed that Hoffman
iimi uepositco no money or checks Miat
miernoon.
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ivu employe ot tne company was
men Bene to the boy's home, where his
mother, upon learning of his disap
pearance, broke down nnd sobblngly
declared that he must cither have' met
wiw an accident or foul play.
Ha Impediment In Speech
A search of hospitals in the center of
ino cut railed to shed any light on tho
noy a disappearance, and at G o'clock
Inst evening officmls of the company
icported the case to the Detective Bu
reau. Hoffman Is fiv font fane IiikImm :..'
height, of sturdy build, with light hair
mm imr complexion. Me wore a long
trousers suit of light brown, a tarown
felt hat and dark tan shoe?.
Officials of the company said he has
nn impediment in speech.
J. J. M0RRISSEY, ASSISTANT
MAIL HEAD, FALLS DEAD
Succumbs to Heart Attack In Cheat
nut Street Home
John J. Morrisscy, assistant super
intendent of malls for the Philadelphia
district, fell dead at his home. 0020
Chestnut street, this morning from
heart disease.
Mr. Morrisscy, who was fifty-seven
years old, had just finished a week's
vacation, according to Superintendent
or Malls Johnston, and was getting
dressed to come to work when he wns
stricken.
Mr. Morrissey entered the Postofflce
Department in August, 1886, at n sal
ary of $00, and had risen steadily until
he was getting $3800 at his death. Su
perintendent Johnston characterized him
as one of the most able and most loyal
employes of the Postofflce.
Mr. Morrisey Is survived by his widow
and one married daughter.
CAT GIVES KITS AUTO RIDE
She Puts Them Under Seat
and
Motorist Does Rest
Five new-born kittens crying for
Mother Tabby, greeted William Gault
nnd Harry Simon, Inspectors for the
Electrical Bureau, yesterday when they
lifted the bnck seat of an automobilp
in Fox Chase, after driving from Citv
Hall.
Gnult, owner of the machine, had
driven to City Hall from his garage
at Fifty-second and Chestnut streets.
With Simon he went to the Fox Chase
Fire Company and it was there, when
they lifted the spat to look for tools,
they found tho kittens.
When tho car was returned to the
garage last night the men watched from
the door. In a few minutes mother cat
came Blinking around t lie rear wheel
nnd jumped in the rear of the car to
find her kittens.
"ADAM WHISKY" STINGS
Carries Such a Wallop That Peter
Tries to Jump Out of Clothes
Peter Dawson, Forty-seventh street
near Girard nvenue, told Magistrate
uugati toony ne discovered a new brund
of whisky, which he thought ought to
be named "Adam Whisky.0
This is what Diignn says happens
every tunc ue annus it. ue wants lo
discard his clothes. Ho drank some
fast night at Sixty-fourth street and
Woodland avenue and its effect was
the same. A patrolman arrested him.
Magistrate Dugan told him he had
better get some insurance against
"Adam Whisky" if he Intended to stay
cut of jail. He declined to tell where he
got It.
WOMAN HURT AT FERRY '
Boat. Crashes Into Camden Dock
' During Early Morning Rush
Miss Annie Coffey, fift -two years
old, of 228 Mildred strct, Philadelphia,
was badly Injured this morning when
the ferryboat Mending on which she was
a pnssonger, crashed Into the dock at
Camden. ,
The boat, for sorfic reason, wns going
at au unusual speed aud struck the.
bridge which leads from tho wharf to
tho street with terrific force.
Miss Coffey was thrown down on the
board on which passengers leave ,the
boat. A large crowd of workers were
leaving, but through the nuick action
of ferry hands she was saved from being
iraroniea. nue was sent to me i.ooper
Vurles,
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Mrs. Clara Louise. Welzmann, wife of Prof. Chaim Welzmann, the
famous Zionist, aboard the steamship Celtic, leaving New' York yester
day! She was In Philadelphia on Monday
LEIB IS JAILED;
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Schuylkill County Politician,
Summoned on Bench Warrant,
Begins 3 to 5 Years' Term
LOSES 18 MONTHS' FIGHT
William S. I.eib.,once all-powerful
as the Republican boss of Schuylkill
County, and a former Sub'Trenstirer of
the United States, entered the Eastern
Penitentiary today to begin n sentence
of from three to five yearn after a bench
Lwarrnnt had been issued for him and
his bail of $5000 declared forfeited.
Lcib, broken in health and spirits,
aged in appearance ten years by the
losing fight of eighteen months to re
tain his liberty, gray-haired, shrunken
to a little man from the florid and
portly figure of his palmy days, was
rushed out of City Hall and whisked
away in a taxicab to the penitentiary.
The crime for which l"elb was con
victed and sentenced to" prison, with
the addition of a fino of $200 and the
cor.ts of the prosecution, was the forg
ing of State tax receipts on the Mer-ctant-Evans
Co. His trial was hard
fought and bitter, and since his con
viction every device known to the best
legal talent, backed by unlimited money,
was employed to keep him outside the
penitentiary.
Court Scene Dramatic
The scene this morning in Quarter
Sessions Court. Judge Andrew Smith,
visiting Jurist from Susquehanna Coun
ty, presiding, was full of dramatic In
terest. In the end it lnckcd its proper
central figure, for Lelb himself did not
appear. It was the one point that he
scored, his avoidance of the final dis
grace of being arrainged at the bar of
the court.
Through his counsel. Lelb had won
continuance nfter continuance. He had
appealed to the Superior Court and
liis appeal had been refused ; he had
been refused : he had annealed to the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, with the
same result., in a last desperate cuort
to keep out of prison hn had appealed
to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
This appearance in court today was
to ask a final continuance so that the
highest court of tho land might have
time to pass on his case. This final
appeai was refused on the urgent rep
resentation of Assistnnt DIbtrict At
torney Maurer that the Commonwealth
had "reached the eud of it& rope" in
leniency to the prisoner.
Lawyers and Politicians Present
The courtroom was througed with
politicians and lawyers when the ap
plication for n filial continuance was
made today by William A. Carr, coun
sel for I.eib, The defendant was not
present when the lawyer rend to Judge
Smith a letter from the clerk of the
Supreme Court, acknowledging the ap
plication for n writ ot certiorari.
Mr. Carr urged that his client ought
to have time to prepare nnd advance his
application for tho writ, mid that he
should be allowed to retnin his liberty
until the Supreme Court hnd acted.
Everything in legal reason had been
done, Mr. Carr said, to expedite the
case at Washington, but it was a mat
ter requiring time.
Opposes Further Delay
Assistant District Attorney Maurer
jumped up to oppose the grnnting of
a further continuance.
"The District Attorney's office has
come to the end of its rope," he said
"Every opportunity has beeu given the
defendant to present any application
and every application he cared to make.
This case has been dragging since I)e-
ContlnuM on fw HPeen, rolnmn On
THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT
Chlneae Knew What Magistrate
Meant by "Got Out"
Nineteen Chinese captured in a raid
by vice squad detectives on an alleged
gambling house nt 013 Race street, last
night, were discharged by MagUtrate
Ronshaw today for lack of evidence.
"Can you right fare?" asked the
Magistrate. The polysyllabic deluge that
followed had an affirmative souud.
"Then do it and set out of here,"
said the "Judge " The Chinese grin
ned and filed out,
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HOfl.i.000 A YEAR
Labor Board Directs Average
Reduction of 12 Per Cent
on 104 Systems
2,000,000 MEN AFFECTED
TJy the Amociated Press
Chicago. June' 1. Annroximntelr
two-thirds of the wage increase grnnted
railroad employes last July bj the Rail
road Labor Board was ordered deducted,
beginning July 1, in the board 'b de
cision announced today. From the in
crease last year of SfiOO.OOn.Oftft n r
In salaries of railroad labor, nearly
4W,0O0.000 will be cut, It is esti
mated, by the reductions directed by the
board.
In the case of the general class of
malntenance-of-way laborers, the entire
increase of 8 cents an hour was with
drawn, while In others of the classes
having the larger number of employer
the cuts ranged from thirteen to eight
and from ten to six cents an hour, as
compared with the award of last July.
Although the wage cuts are to ap
ply only on the 104 roads which had
filed petitions for the decreases.' the
Doard s announcement said that appli
cation of other roads would cause the
same reductions to be placed in effect
on those lines. The decreases, it is es
timated, eventually will affect 2,000.000
m,en- Tne Keneral average decrease is
placed at 12 per cent, as compared with
an average of 21 per cent Increase
granted last Julv.
Union Leaders Silent
Union leaders withheld comment on
the board s decision, but It had been
freely stated at sessions of the railway
employes leaders here, during the
frd 8, rln8s on the decreases, that
cuts of 10 to 12 per cent would meet
little opposition. Leaders of the four
big railroad brotherhoods have called a
meeting here for July 1, when the wage
decreases are efrn.-n , .;. .u
award.
H. E. Byram, president of the Chi
cago. Milwaukee and St Paul, and
S. M. lelton, president of the Chicago
Great Western, declared that the re
ductions granted were "not sufficient to
meet the demands of the situation."
In A Hiinnlnnmnrol mntnA..n.i.. l
board points out that during Govern
ment control the wages of railway em
ployes were Increased from an average
of $78 a month, in December. 1017, to
?110 in January, 1020. and to S141 ,y
the incrensn nf lnat .t,.i- ii..., in '
cent of the railway employes, chlefiv
v..u.tr uiiraimu, wr Donru said, had thus
rc.nvi-u increases approximating 100
Continued on PB Srt1itrrn, Column Sit
SLIPPERY YOUTH CAUGHT
Patrolman Captures Boy Who Fled
From Norrlstown Home
After escaping from the Catholic Pro
tectory at Norrlstown and Inter from
his home. 1100 South Ninth xtreet,
Joseph Genoese, seventeen years old, was
"V,','.pt,1.rP(l tm,nj" bv patrolman.
I he boy is regarded as geuerally In
corrigible and has been arrested several
times during the last year. He was
sent to the protectory six months ago.
but escaped after being there but a few
days.
HONK NOT NECESSARY
Jury Decldeds Warning Is Not
Needed Between Corners
After listening to an argument bv
former Judge Lewis Starr. In the Cam'-,
den Commou Pleas Court, that auto
ists are not required to sound their
horns for pedestrians between street
crossings, n jury rendered a decision
In fnyor of the defendant in a suit for
The plaintiff was Mrs. Martha Seger -1000
Broadway, Camden, who surd the
Delaware nnd Atlantic Telephone and
Telegraph Co. for injuries sustained
when she was struck by one of the com
pany's auto in April, 1020. The
woman's husband, Frederick Seger, also
Mird the company for $."000 for low of
services of bis wife.
PublUhcd Daily Except Sunday,
Copyrlcbt. JB31, by
HARD-COAL TRUST
ALARMED;' CHANGE
IN ATTITUDE SEEN
Security Owners Confer With
R C. Reese, Investigator for
Consumers, at Pottsville
PRICES MUST COME DOWN,
SAYS PUBLIC'S EXPERT
Sprcial Dinrntch to EvtiUno PvbHe Ledotr
Potlstllle, Pa.. JiinJk1.--A "right-about-face"
attitude of the anthracite
coal trust with important developments
to coal consumers h indicated by move
ments here today.
Representatives of financial interests
In tho anthracite business from Now
York and Boston, other than the J. P.
Morgan syndicate, are here conferring
with Frank C. Reese, well-known coal
exnert. who for vears has represented
nntinnal interests of consumers nnd who
recently completed nn exhnUstive inves
tigation of the trust.
Talk of nationalization of the nnthra
cite mines by Senators Caldcr and
Edge, with propositions of new laws
providing Jail sentences for profiteers,
together with a proposition for n real
investigation by Congress whereby the
lid will be taken off the nnthrncite bus
iness, has alarmed some of the owners
of anthracite securities.
Even more nlarmtng to those having
big sums invested is the fact that en
raged coniumerS'all over the country
are demanding that the Government
plnre unlimited funds in hurrying
water-power dexclopmeiits which would
affect a lnrgn nnthrncite tonnage.
Situation Critical, Says Kce.se
Itopsc refused to reveal results of to
dav'h conference, but snid:
"There is no doubt the anthracite
situation Is criticnl nnd that something
must be done to acri disaster. The
operators have not contented themselves
with asking for war prices, but are de
manding from consumers prices which
were never dreamed of during the war.
Wages in nearly all industries nre fall
ing and these coal prices arc being met
only with dlfliculty by consumers.
On the face of this we nre met with
threats of still greater increases next
tan.
"There will Dc no increases In nn
thracite prices, instead prices must ftt
with those of other commodities: the
coal industry cannot bo made an ex
ception of in this respect Consumers
cannot tolerate it even if they had a
mind to.
"Declarations of I'nlted States Sen
ators Edge nnd Caldcr that there is a
combination in the anthracite business
can be proved right here. Pottsville is
surrounded with the greatest coal field
in the world, with coal in place to sup
plj the nation for hundreds of years.
A dozen different coal lompnnies are
at work here, but consumers in this
clt nro supplied by virtunlly nnlj one
companj The latter tins just announced
increased prices to local companies of
front seventy to ninety cents per ton.
"No advance announcement was made
of this oppressive lniTc:ie. neither win
nn rea'on nslgned for it. and not a
single one of the Mt-cnlltd cnnipoting
companies ollercd to go to the aid of
consumers by furnishing coal at pre
vious prices.
Refutes Operators' Statements
"Statements made in Phi'adelphia by
anthracite operators that the cost price
of domestic sizes of nnthrncite at the
mines aggregates !?S a ton or more are
absurd and are not deceiving the public
When the United States Senate inves
ligation was made here two years ago
President W J Richards, nf the Phil
adelphia nnd Reading Coal and Iron
Co., declared the average cost per ton
of anthracite, including .steam and do
mestic .sizes, was ?3."i6. The commit
tee didnot have time to inquire into
items vHiich go to make up this cost or
tie estimate might hnve boon pared
down
"Since then the miners have hnd an
increase of wages, but not such as to
justifv fixing ?8 as the cost of n ton
of coal or $0 either."
Reese has spent jcars investigating
the nnthraeite industry and lately has
obtained important data of the utmost
importance. His visitors today ex
proaed amuzement nt some of the
tabulated facts on his books.
More thnn 1200 workmen at the re
pair shops of the Philndclphm and
Rending Coal snd Iron Co resumed
work after n short idleness here todav.
The (ollieries have enough orders (in
hand to keep busy all June The
oporntors are conducting an unusual
campaign to get consumers to stock up.
ic is proposra 10 nave as mucn coul
as po.vsiblo on the market next April
when a reduction in miners' wages will
be asked. The miners have alreadv (l-
clared against any reduction and thai
any decrease in coal prices must come
from operating profits.
ATTACK CLARE RESIDENCE
Armed Men Interrupt Tennis Game
at Home of E. D. O'Brien
Dublin, June 1 (By A. P i Armed
men made nn ottack up the residence
of the Hon Edward Donough O'llrlen
at Roslevan, Ennis, County Clare, jes
tcrday, wounding one person
A tennis game was in progress when
forty men suddenly nppearcd shouting:
"Hands up!" They commenced firing,
some bullets entering the luncheon tent
on the grounds and wounding W. H.
Rail. A motorcar was stolen nnd an
other was burned during the raid Sev
eral women fainted.
WEDNESDA Y MA Y BE
YOUR LUCKY DAY
FOR FAME IN FILMS
The end of the Movie Heauty Contest
is drawing near There is star
dom in It for the girl who wins.
Hut the chance is past two weeks
from Hnturday.
Today is the ,bst dny of all to send
In your photograph. The longer
you leave it tho more likely you
are to forget the final date. And
.then It will be too late.
MANY A STAR DECAN
CAREER IN JUST THIS
WAY. -WHY NOT YOU?
Detail of Page HJ
flubtcrlptlon Trie 10 a. Tar by Mall.
Publlo L5r Company.
John D. at Boyhood Honvc;
Gives Young Kin Nickels
Auburn, N. Y June 1. (Dy A.
P.) Speaking to his grandchildren,
who accompanied hlra to his boyhood
home, now thn Van Arsdalc place,
four miles no'rth of Moravia, John
D. Rockefeller yesterday afternoon
said:
"Here Is whore I earned my first
dollar," and he described to the
children of John p., Jr., how he
had raised a flock of turkeys back In
J848 and sold them as his own
enterprise.
Mr. Rockefeller came to Moravia
on appointment with J. B. Van
Duyne, a cousin, and thoy motored
up the hill over Ownsco, where tho
oil niagnate spent the happiest years
of his childhood. After going
through tho old rooms nnd recalling
familiar scenes, the party returned
to Moravia after which Mr. Rocke
feller and his kin motored back to
Watkins Glen.
On departing from Moravia he
rewarded the Van Duyne youngsters
with new shiny buffalo nickels.
CHANCE TO TRY OUT
Disarmament Conference Will
Afford Opportunity to Start
Association of Nations
SUPREME COUNCIL CENTER
H-y CLINTON GILBERT
Staff Corrrion(rnt I'.vrnlnc Public l,dBr
Copyright toil by Public l.cdprr fo.
Washington. .lne 1 -Difficulties in
the waj" of President Harding's plan
nronnTT1 N nsc'tion of nations
i.n. r iiihhmii which ad
here ror various reasons stronglv to the
present League
This plan of the President was
recognized In his correspondence ,,
l". ""'.'i-iii mat ooionei Harvcv
had been designated to sit In ik ,."
preme Council. The President has in
...ui ouuj- me council of his future as-
""; """ " ls only neccssarv to
gainer np assembly of tho smaller
nations around it nnd to set the Hague
?Vrh.of Arb"rntlon really functioning
ktlonof hewnrM " """" nMmi
tiiiii inrii' -1 nn n nnMn .1.
IJisnrtniitnont ;e 1.1 t . . ..
opportunity for calling together the
r-.-m,..-. uiiuiins. me "teelers," which'
according to White Hoiifce announce-
mrnt. nave gone out regarding the
limitation nf armaments, have been
directed to the larger nntions. the chief
'nt ' .J" "'"'"".v Powers or the world
The Administration's (ilea has been
ncllt Jl Inner f nnmno,l ;i ..
the four or five greater Power first in
"...nuiK .mi us international program.
Wants Larger Nations .Atrccl
"After more important Powers are
agreed, the President feels that he can
proceed to lay the projects upon which
ther nnre nnltivl tufn,. n .1.. n
(:. ,;. ." 1- ." .in- muions
the world with reasonable hope of
The process with disarmament is fol
ui.ik .ui-. imr trr iha,. .
"feelers." informal approaches to the
ihhiiiqk rowers, wnom Mr. Hnrding nt
Marion compared to the chief men of a
J.'IUM1UIUL,T.
When these feelers have resulted in a
certain working basis the subject will
come up in the Supreme Council When
ContlnuM on I'ojtf Srrrntren. Column Four
DELAY FAIR HEAD CHOICE
Mayor Declares No Appointment
Will Be Made for Some Time
The appointment of a director gen
eral to manage the sesoui-centenninl ex
position here in 1020 mav be delaved
for some time. Mayor Moore said to
day.
The Major commented on the sug
gested appointment of Matthew C
Brush, former executive of the Hoc
Island shipyard. Mr finish's name was
put forward bj Samuel M Vauclain
president of the Rnldwln Locomotive
Works. Mr Moore continued
"The Committee of 100. which has
been ca'led to meet next Fridav will
pass ou a number of questions on' that
ila.v e are certainly not vet reinlv
to appoint a director general and mn'v
not be for some tune because of finan
cial conditions.
"The Mayor, however, has high an
prcciation of the work of Mr. Brush
and of Mr. Vauclain's suggestion
number of names, however, have been
submitted for the post of director een
eral.
NAMED ALASKAN GOVERNOR
Scott C. Bone, G. O. P. Pnhiii.,
Nominated by President Harding'!
Vn.slllnf-1nn. .Timn I ill.. ... i
Scott C Rone n former Seattle pub- I
Usher nnd who was publicity manager
for the Republican National Committee ,
In the 1020 campaign, was nominated
today bj President Harding to be Cov.
ernor of Alaska. 1
Mr Rone, a native of Indiana was'
HARDING PLAN SEEN
uiiiii-cicii wnn muinnapoiih nnd Wash
ingtnn. 1). C . newspapers and became
editor and principal owner of the Wash
ington Herald. Later he was cditor.'in
V,,,cJn?f. V',0 ,S,'n,tIp !' Intel I Igencer
V', VU4,:lfi '"' ni,s 'halrniiin of the
Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce Up vuls n (,.0Kt(,.at
large to the Republican National Con
vent ou in 101(1 H,.s present home j
in New ork
SHOOTING VICTIM DIES
Salvatore Pattl Succumbs to Wound
Received at Church Fete
Salvatore Pattl. twenty-seven vears
old. (U0 West Norris street, vi.tlm of
the shooting at the Church of Our Lndv
of Pompeii Sunday, died in the Samnri
tan Hospital last night as a result nf
his injuries. His slayer, (Siuseppe ni
mauer. Cambria street near Belgrade
kuii h l)'v ,h' ,,0,ipp ',,"t',, ""'
According to the police. Hummer was
taking a collection nt it special celehrn-
i!r.i '" .!!!e r,,urcih . nc "Pl'fmched
Patti. with whom ho had quarreled tho
day previous. Dimaiier savx that when
Pattl reached Into his pocket for mono?
he thought be wis reaching for a pistol
and snot him.
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IT IN STREETS:
of TM, oku;
Gunfire Continuous, Ton Square
Blocks In Flames, Airplanes
Circle Overhead
STATE TROOPERS CORRAL'
THOUSANDS OFBLACKS
Martial Law Docreed -Troubla
Began in Arrest of Man for
Attacking Girl ' ,
NEGROES BESIEGE PRISON,
Captive Spirited Away by Sher
iffWill Be Tried When
Disorders End
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By the Associated Press -ifc
Tulsa. Ohla.. .Tune 1 . .Conf Ia?.h
gunfire, with dead and wounded' scat
tered about the streets, half a dore
airplanes circling overhead, and ncarlr -
i-u nuuarn diockr in ninM fiti-n4W-
II SLAIN IN RACE
fenos of Tu,sn int - b"ur : i
Thn mill. f 1.-1 ' .-. m
shortly after daybreak, followthg all
---..-...., living, wiiicn rFiniiica in n
creasing lt of wounded. State troon
were rusned to the scene
The fire was reported spreading and
threaten nc tn .-tr, .. . ..!..
xZZ, rJ.ZJJl'' S" !' and
" ..in uu.iiunns.
1 rouble began lnte yesterday with tbe
"ifr',SLiof!Pick Rowland, a Negro' .
charged with attacking n orphan gTri S
?h w. a,,C.mpt of F0"" t0 "torm
the jail and rescue him. Rowland. '
SheHtT rn".fP,r,t! out of town &
1 v.8-,JppHties' who refused to di
vulge his whereabouts. He will h
SfV".-" Bpc.cdy trlal ns n at. the
situation quiets down, officials said.
C.ov-ern iiaD' '." TuUa Wfl8 or!ed by
i.oyernor Robertson at 11 :15 A. M. and
Negroes Corralled by Troops
Detachments of guardsmen were scat
tcred throughout the city propafed to
1 cany ior action. Guards surrounded
the armory, while others assisted i
rounding up. , more thnn 2000 1 Negroe"
Places. hicb h0Vrned ,' P3X
i..tl,n.tPrwI", "der con"nind of Ad
Jiitnnt General Barrett arrived at ft
'lock to take charge of the situation
nucment ni? t...i ..i. ., "uuaiion.
called ontlas n Uh At this Time fil?
the situation seemed to be easing.
Adjutant Ccneral Barrett took nn
his licaihnartrra nt City Hall End nn-s
nounced t hat Colonel M-rkham. of W
Inhoma City, would be in -om nad of
erni ffln". ln"i.of the """dsmen Gen
eral Bariett who is working under the
direction of the Sheriff MnVJ "
-I.W t police said ho would Continue
o do m until he deemed it neccsarv
to change command. He 8aid dcveonl
in.nts would determine whetl cr it would
be necessary to invoke martial law?
ihe Negroes assembled as rcftire t
nd prisoners were being rtrcJtoTbl
ivie organisations and private rlttoni
who volunteered for the work T
wnter and sandwiches were being served
and the wounded or sick were 4oeMn
mediral attention r-eiving
Fn Ashen With Fear
Throughout the morning ,ong lines, nt
Men. women nnd children carried
&"'" 4u?'y?S " ''-lr adsran1
nncKS if articles they saved Hvere
hrled and in many cases vTould have
been In.llrrous but for the grnvitv of th!
n Bible, there a girl with disheveled
air carried a woolly white dig undr, 1
ha7hgn,wac,,i,no1,tro,tplft,,",
i I. nu.lts nnd blankptl, 'P," nnD0'
rntlv ,erv ill He was immed Utelr
Placed In an automobile and hurried to.
ii liomiiinl s
Rut nil those who came to Conven
tion Hall w - not non combatants. Re
pentedlv gr faced men. heavily armed,
whirled u, the big hnll directly from
Hie scene of fighting under a big hill
"n North Greenwood With them
closely guarded, were N'egro prisoners
. antured with guns during the fray.
Negro domestics were taken from
rnntinnni on Piurr hrenttn. Column Tw
MRS. HARVEY VICTOR
Reaches Semi. Finale of Women'a
Tennis Mlaa Waleh Wlna
VIr (Silbert A Harvey, of tho Phil
adelphia Cricket Club, reached the
eml-(innl round in the women's Penn
sylvania and Knstern Ktates tennis
tournament or the turf courts of tbs
Mcrion Cricket Club today. .
She defeated Mrs Wharton Smith,
of the Rata Country Club, (1-2, 0-4,
Miss Phyllis Walsh, of Merlon, won
a third round tuntch from Miss Cath
erlnc Gardner, of the West Hide Tennis
Club. Forest Hills, (1-1. U-,1.
Misi Gardner yesterday won the
tennis ilinmnionshlp of Bryn Slawr
when she triumphed over Miss Helen
Rice, of llrjn Mnvvr, (I a. fl-.l.
MRS. MALL0RY WINS
American v nnla Champion Victor
on "rench Court
St. Cloud. Kratire, June l.-r-fRy A
P.- Mrs. Molln Hjurstedt aiilfor
American women's singles tennis cliaw
pi.ni vmnj tieioHieu .vjauame Hniistiaril,
of France. II. '1. .' In (1.. .. ,.!
Mngles of the world'a hard court tMv ht
nis championship tournament in pre- Vf;
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