f TT-7 'IM'M; WW ;" .W -,- (" I ' nil I I I ' "' " r t t?fi 1 w v 1 THE WEATHER cuenma publtc meoget NIGHT EXTRA Fair tonljht and Sunday cooler to night; frcsli northerly winds. TiMirCTATtmB at kacti nonn I f ' i I i i I i III Hill I I I 1 TZW l-TTl IHII IIS ' 111! VOL. VII.-NO. 226 F HARDINGS CHEERED AT PICNIG LUNCH ON VALLEY FORGE TRIP President's Party, En Routo by ' Auto, Stops at Inn Near perryville, Md. i . TO BE WEEK-END GUESTS 'AT SENATOR KNOX'S HOME re ,pel'Ur,l nt Senator Knox's home. 1of a bE With thcin win Senator Bav,hMna& gun wk pnrty KlJ their biff cars., and resume. fflEtonrncr. They are expected at vn Forpc about 4 o'clock. !"":" of ronevvingo. which la .rVr ' om Perryville, gathered round and cheered when tho cars SStd nn with the M,Wcnt " PK& - m" of. the President's secretary, ileofree B. Christian. . TH car contained several baskets of luncheon, packed by Mrs. Harding's i" n hand, with all the regular surprises ?ht womenfolk prepare for sucliocca '?. i. rhi-utinn made arronge- men a for 'coffee nnd, a few minutes menu iui vv "- ,. ... rnp nrrive,i hXVestofthenarty. Close be hind came a car with secret service operatives nnd newspapermen. President nnd Mrs. Harding left the White House at 8:00 o'clock this morning, stopped at the residence of Senator Philander C. Knox, picked up Smator Knox, picked up' the Senator and Mrs. Knox and started on their trip to pass the week-end at alley KorjcB The other members of tho auto party are Urigadlcr General Charles II. Saw jer, the President's personal physi cian: his secretary, and Warren S. Martin. Senator Knox's private secre tary. The visit is entirely Informal. Although tho visit to the Knox home una planned pilmavily to givo the Pres ident and Mrs. Harding a rest, it bo came known today that there will bo a conference between the President and Senator Penrose tomorrow. It wns an nounced nt the senior Senator's Spruce street home thnt Mr. Penrose will motor out to Valley Forge for luncheon at 1 o'clock. May Address Children Details nre being arranged by the school authorities to havo the 1200 tchool children who are picnicking nt Valley Forge Park get a glimpse of tho President. The children will bo assem bled along the road cloa to tho Knox liome, and when tho President's auto passes bv it Is probable thnt he will stop lpmr enough to sav a few words to them. The Itev. W. lleibert Ilurfc, pastor of tho Valley l'orge Memorial Chapel. has arrnnged for a special service in (he chapel nt 10:15 tomorrow morning. It is expected Hint President and Sirs. Harding will aHend. After the service the President u ill ho asked to ay a few words from the open-air pulpit outsidu the church. At thnt time It is tho plan of the Valley Torso Historical Society to make him an honorary patron of the orgun iration and present him with tho insig nia of the order. President Harding i thb second President to vis.it Valley l'orge. Tie other rno wns Theodore Itooscvelt, who came to lay the corner stone of the Valley Forgo Meinorinl Chapel and attend tho wedding of Scn utor Knox's daughter. Rebecca, to James R. Tindle, in 11)03. Go Through Rising Sun The first Pennsylvania town to bo pawed through by the motor party was Avor.dalc, In Chester County, and from thence through historic Kcnnctt Square, the birthplace of Uayurd Taylor, the fumous writer nnd diplo mat: to West Chester, tho county seat of Chester County, and from that point ' to Valley Forge, passing through Paoll. Depending entirely upon circuru ktances, one of four nearby golf course: will be afforded tho opportun ity of entertaining the President this afternoon. It in planned for Mr. Hard in?, Senator Kno., Mr. Christian and Mr.' Martin to mnkc up a foursome In the ancient gnme nnd to play at least two rounds. Just which dub will be selected hnt not jet been decided upon. The four farby clubs Include St. Davids, Tre ojffryn. Gulf Mills nnd Phoenix vlllc. At dinner tonight the Knox house wests will be augmented by1 Mr.nud Jlrt. .Tam's R. Tindle, of Vnlley Forge. Mrs. Tindle is the Kenntor's daughter. Outside of this couple it is not planned to entertain any other guests during tllb President's visit. The evening will bo spent nt the Knox home nnd the Senator has planned a private showing of n new motion pic ture nlm for entertainment. This now Continued on Puee Two, Column Hit "FIRE DAMAGeTsTORE Firemen Battle Shoe Company Flames Two Hours Fire damaged the store and ftock of ?'rfn & I.cvcson Shoe Co., 44 jortb, hlglith (.licet, early this morn- afSm&w '"? discovered shortly E"!81 1,11, Mcoml-lloor rear. MdVftP,rfn,, rB1)1,ll' tl,r01,Kh tn "- floor ten"!!' '"'"'"'"katcd to the third fire did nl?y lf ll,, 'levator bhuft. The ."hoe LW iT1' ,l,p r"-Rt 1r. but the by water. "" BCVCro,Jr ''"'""Bed mow" mbirb,a,!1lp'1 "" """!" r two Members of ,i ? "cre tingulshed. could not esti, at lr.'iU "aUl tmlay ' . togiaffii dttw- COOL WEATHERJN STORE 8he"'d Be Followed Next Week by Normal -r sas.tkt -.... icmperature ssjW SSn ":;-- temperature there- '"M. tem,Z 1 "' , fnlr first pft. "creurtcr. """ ci wiowe: Entered as Secondtolnin Matter nt th rostomce. nt Philadelphia, Pa. Undor tho Act nf Mnreli a, 187(1 Miss Robertson Admits Congress "Fusses" Her Declares on Visit Here She Feels That Eyed Are Burning in Her Back Opposes Woman in Cabinet Miss Alice Robertson, of Oklahoma, the whito-linlrcd, kindly faced woman who Is the only member of her sex in Congress, is opposed to tho suggestion of n woman member for the President's Cabinet. The suggestion has been inado in connection with the move for n new Department of Public Welfare In the lodernl Government, beaded by a sec retary with Cabinet rank. "I do not approve of It," Miss Rob ertson said. She was seen at the; Cowlc School, Oak Lane. Sho came from aBlilngton last night to hr present at an Elmlrn Collego alumni luncheon at the school. Women Not Yet Fully Prepared "We are too new," she continued, still discussing the suggestion of a woman cabinet officer. "Although service to the party is service to the country, too, yet women arc not yet fully prepared for tho higher offices of the Government. "There are women In large Industrial plants who would do." sho conceded, mn.s work a rea, , , one WMt press on and on and on. "but lliey aro not available. To do a "Men and women wcrn mndn for dif ferent things," she continued, branch ing off to expound her beliefs that have become generally known sinco her elec tion to tho House of Representatives. "A woman must remember she Is it liner being. The greatest things in tho world for a woman Is home, husband and ba bies." Miss Robertson added that money Is good only for what can bo bought with E Stork Brings Boy to Alleged Proprietor of Liquor Es- tablishment TO CHRISTEN HIM "MASH" Whllo police were conducting n raid at 044 North Seventh street early to day a baby was born there. Frank Bush, tho baby's father: Max, his uncle, and Louis, his grandfather, wcro arrested as tho al'egcd proprie tors of an Illicit liquor establishment and will be given n hearing later In the day nt tho Federal Building be foro United States Commissioner Man ley. Lloutennnt Walsh and District Detec tives McConnlck, McCarthy and'orgey, of tho Tenth and Buttonwood streets station, were on their way home today when they were attracted by cries com ing from tho house. Believing that a murder was really being committed tho police surrounded tho house, v The lieutenant mado his way through tho rear of the house. Upon reaching the third floor the police say they detected tho father and his two sons making moonshine liquor. Two 6tills, ono of ten gallons ca pacity and tho other of thirty gallons, wcro confiscated together with seven barrels of illicit raisin mash, twenty two gallons of "moonshine" and other apparatus used in the making of the liquor. A limousine nnd n touring car stand ing in front of tho house were likewise confiscated. Wlii'o the raid was being executed, the bnby was born. When tho happy father was informed it was a boy he told tho detectives, they said, that ho would call him Mash instead of Morris, n name previously selected should the stork bring him a boy. GIRL'S CRIES MAY EXPOSE THEFT OF EXPENSIVE AUTO Police Ston Car on Broad Street When Young Woman Screams The screams of a young woman in a touring car speeding up Broad street shortly after midnight caused thrco pa trolmcn to halt tho machine with re volvers. Elizabeth Wilson, twenty-two years old. of Fifty-second and Chestnut streets, a well-dressed, attractive joung woman, said she hnd accepted an invi tation to ride in the car. but that the men began treating her roughly. Tho young woman said she was eat ing lunch in a plnco at Twelfth and Filbert streets about midnight when the men entered and sat at the bamo table. "They suggested a ride, sho said. The men Inter told pollco they were Louis Brown nnd Joseph Braskin. of New York City, and John Pckln, Wal lace street near Eleventh. Patro'men Mears, He Forrest and Klster, of the Tenth and Buttonwood streets station, who heard the girl's cries, halted the machine nt Broad nnd Olive streets, above Fnirmount nvenun. Pollco say the expensive touring car the men had was stolen. The police nl lego tho license tngs wcro fakes and that the real tajs were concealed In tho tonnenu. The men wero held on sus picion of having stolen the auto. Get That Free Bike and Go Picking Wild Floivcrs Do you like wild flowers as tablo decorations, gh-ls? No doubt your mother does and wo'uld thnnk you for bringing somo to her. All around Philadelphia nro flowers abloom just waiting to bo picked. Yon- can ride out to tho daisy fields or to thn wild ramblers and Johnny-Juinp-ups on ono of tho Black Beauty bicycles tho Pitui.ii' LlMxii'.U offers boys anil girls for thiit.-iivc bubscilptlons. Fine recreation, health-promoting, iducatlonal. The fontest Is now under way and continues 'until September 15. BABY BORN WHLE POLICE RAID HOfVI It and that elothci wear out and jew els may be lost, but that tho finer things of life are beyond a money value. Vote Will Not Unscx Women The vote will not unsex women, she continued In stating her belief thnt gradually women will go back to the "normal, old-fashioned" life in the realization that the ballot, while u defi nite gain, is not of overwhelming im portance. Miss "Ilobcrtson had a eonfeton to mnkc, also. She admitted thnt she is still "fussed" in the House, whore the entire membership is masculine, herself excepted. Slip snld at roll-calls she feels as though hundreds of eyc3 were burning Into her back. The Congressmen may relax and stretch their feet under tbclr desk and no one notices, she snld. Hut if she lolaxes in that manner she feels ns though everybody on .the floor was look ing nt her. Curious About Cafe Mlsi Ilobcrtson said die Is curious about the Senate cafe Ic luxo which the members of the. upper chamber have established. And she hnd a little talc to tell about the way Senate employes forgot nil else in serving their Sena torial masters. On one occasion, she said, she was riding in a Senate elevator. She was carried up and down five times before she could get out because at every at tempt a peremptory ring for service would bo given by some folon nnd the operator would speed to tho waiting Senator. EX-GRIDIRON STAR THRASHES ROWDIES Lou Siegel, Former Penn Char ter Tackle, Attacked by Two IVIen After Leaving Trolley ONE HELD, OTHER FLEES Lou Slegcl, a former tackle on the Penn Charter football team nnd an all round athlete, suppressed two rowdies who indulged, It is snid, in vile lan guage on ,nn Eighth street car last niriit and then thrashed both of them when they followed him from the car. One of the men. who gave his name as Robert Vogt, Eleventh street and Montgomery avenue, was arrested and he'd in ball. The other man escaped. The men boarded the car nt Colum bia avenue nnd almost immediately be gan 10 injures each other in vllo lan guage. Siegel, on athletic vouHi of quiet demeanor, suggested to the noisv passengers that it would be well to suppress their remarks. He reminded tnem that many women were on tho car. Tho men sneered at him and told him to keep his seat. But there was something In the atti tude: of Siegel thnt convinced them thnt no meant business. The two boister ous passengers remained quiet after his warning. Siegel left the car at Alle gheny avenue and the men followed him. AMicn convinced thnt no one would interfere they nttacked Siegel. He bifrthcm, bP"' aml wns ''aving mucli the hotter of tho battle when Patrolman Roscberger nrrived. He arrested Vogt and Slegcl. the other man fled. i. ri WM Immediately released at trio Gcrninr.town avenue nnd Lycoming street station house. Magistral Price held Vogt in $.",00 mill to keep the peace nnd wnrmh i-om-mended Siegel for his gnllnntn. "It if men of your type," sld tho Magistrate. that we should have on the cars and then women passengers would not be compelled to encounter lowilvisni." The Magistrate recommended Siegel for a position to nn official of the 1 R T. who was pieaont. AUTOS MAY HAVE STILLS Product, However, Will Not Violate Volstead Act Boston, Juno 4. (By A. P.) A pre diction thnt automobiles within n few j ears will carry individual stills to pro duce fuel for their niictfition was made lost night by Thomas A. Edison, Jr. Discussing enrburction nt the gradu ation exercises of tho ICniehts nf I'ninin. bus Automobile School. Mr. Kdlsou said he hnd been seeking a substitute for gasoline for ten jears. Tho problem would be solved, he said, br the man ufacture of individual distilleries to be attached to cars, the stills to bo oper ated by the heat and motion of the motor, and to produce from petroleum and ather ingredients a combustible mixture supplied as constantly ns eur lent is genernted by electric cars whllo in motion. A car of averago power, In his opin ion, could bo equipped to produce suf ficient fuel to run itself nnd einuph by products to pay for its maintenance. ARRESTS WHOLE FAMILY Patrolman Says They Interfered With Shipyard Workers Three members of ono family were nrrcslcd today charged with interfer ing with workers on tho wnv to Cramp's shipyard. They were tnken to City Hall where they gavo their mimes as Bridget, Anna and Patrick MeGovem, Cellar and Ann streets. Patrolman Buflingtoii. who arrested tho Mctioverns. snld Mrs. MeGovem made uncomplimentary remarks regard ing the men working nt the hhlpjard and that he actions had a tendency to cause toub'o. Who he arrested the women he said other members of the family Interfered. Patrick McGovern was held in $.100 ball by Magistrate Renshaw to keep the pence. Mrs. MrGotcrn was lined $11-'. .10 and Anna Mcfimern was dis charged. Immigrant Schooner Grounded Vlnejard Ilmen, Mass., June 4. I By A. P.I -Tho packet schooner WIN Ham II. Draper, with ninety immi grants aboard, bound from Brava for New Bedford, went aground in n fog today at tho western entrance to Vine yard Ejouml. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1921 NEWHALL VEffi ON INSANITY AFTER ADMITTING MURDER Slayer of Josie Howard Has Species of "Shell Shock," Physicians Say MAY ESCAPE DEATH TIAL; IS HELD WITHOUT BAIL Lester New-hall, confessed slayer of Josephine Howard, wns held without bnll by Mngislrate Renshnw today at Central Police Station, for a further hearing June 21, He is sufferinj from n species of "shell-shock." according to Police Sur geon John Egnn. nnd is in so serious n mental state that he will have to go to the hospital for ot least ten days before he will be recovered sufficiently to write the confession he made verbally last night to detectives. There is a possibility that the youth may never come to trial. He Ir said to bo just on the verge of Insanity at present, nnd Is not In a mental state to consult an attorncv or understand per fectly what is going on about him. Unless he Improves under treatment, It Is likely the District Attorney's office will bare him examined by nllcnlsts, nnd tnko steps according to their find ings. Gave in Under Grilling Newhnll confessed to having shot "Josie." ns ho calls the murdered girl, at Eighteenth nnd Cherry streets, of last week. The girl, a telephone operator, lived with her mother at 408 North Eighteenth street, and was re turning from a dnncc with Jnmes Sulli van, a University of Pennsylvania student, when she wns fired on by New ball, who shot twice and then fled, when he saw the girl fall. The case took a sudden nnd ex traordinary turn today when Dr. Egan discovered Newhall's precarious mental condition. Captain of Detectives Sou-ler hnd planned to wait until Monday before irrnigning thoouth before u magis trate. The prisoner, ufter making bis verbab confession Inst night, hnd prom ised to reduce it to writing today. Ncwlinll's manner was so strango, his gaze so blank and vacant, thnt Captain Soudcr determined to have the 'youth e.xnrained. Accordingly ho was tnken into Captain Sender's office and Dr. Egnn went over him thoroughly. What ho found led to the Immedinte hearing, to that he could be bent to th bo'pitnl nt Moynmensing Prison. The hearing wns perfunctory. New hall did not seem to realize what was happening. It was necessary to steer him into the court, as ho was too dazed to know where to go. He sfood in front of the. Magistrate's desk twirling his cap in his hand and gazing into vacancy. ' "What clerk. Is your name?" asked the Answers Questions Vaguely New ball simply stared at him. The clerk repeated tho question again in a bellow. Newliall smiled faintly ns the Idea struck on his consciousness, nnd said, "Oh, my name's Lester Newhnll." The same thing was true of the ad dress. He didn't seem to get the idea at first, but answered readily enough when he understood. Detective William Belsbnw, head of tho murder squad, then stepped up nnd said : "Wo charge this man with the murder of Josenhinc Howard, nnd nsk he be held without ball for a further hearing. "Very well," .said the magistrate, "the hearing will bo June 21." Newhnll wns led out of the room. He had been there only n few minutes, and apparently hadn't the faintest idea what had happened. Ho was taken bac's to Cantatu Soudcr .s oftiec. His sisters, Mrjs. Hael Grisin ami Mrs. Florence Bcrrymnn, were waiting Contlnur.1 on Pace Tun, Column Two MASKED MEN BOARD U. S. SHIP. AND ATTACK CREW Badly Injure Eight on Mitchell at Old Point Comfort Old Tolnt Comfort, Vu... June 4. CBy A. P.) A party of masked men boarded the shipping Bonrd steamer Mitchell in Hampton Ronds today and I attacked the crew, badly injuring eight and sllgntiy injuring several others. A naval detachment answered the Mitchell s call for help, but before the bluejackets arrived tho attackers es caped. Chief Officer Henry Leon Dodge, of tho steamship, snid thn raiders an nounced thnt they were strikers and pioposed to "drive ever body from American ships." Tlu inideis. num bering thirty, came alongside the ship lu a lnrgo power boat. Scrambling over the side, they overpowered the watch man nnd attacked tho crew. They warned Dodge thnt the.v would bn back later to "get" tho chief engineer. WITHDRAW JAPGARRISON Japan Leaves South Pacific Islands to Police Guard Tolilo, June .'!. (By A. P.) The Minister of tho, Nnvj, it wns officially announced today, has ordered the with drawal of the naval garrisons from the is'nnds in the South Pacific, including the Island of Yap, leaving the protec tion of the islands, including the wire less installation in Yap. to tho police fnrco attached to the civil administra tion. Soveral destroyers, it is added, will lemain in the wators as gunrd ships. The notion of the Japanese naval au thorities announced in the foregoing was forecast ill the Toklo press on May 1 The navy, tho nnwspipers theii f tilted, wns preparing to withdraw the principnl garrUons of tho Pacific is lands held by Japan under mandate and to plnco these islniids in control of the Colonial Bureau, SILK ROBBERS SUCCEED Get $6400 In Goo"ds From Store 11 North Ninth Street at Thieves entered the fnctorv of the Slmkln Manufacturing Co., on the third Moor of a building at 11 North Ninth street, earlv today and obtained loot allied nt ?11400. The robbers forced u door and took largo quautltlrs of expeubho silks. runolnr Tonjght VMM OAUIlUN, aoth nd .Markt Mi. Srliwarts'i Orchestra. is jilecen, YucMUm Contest. Aiiv. Engaged to Wed iBfliHESPKii mi"mmLi. mw" - WJKM MISS MARY LEMMERIIIRT Mr. and Mrs. A. Lemmcrlilrt, 2525 South Colorado street, liavo an nounced the engagement of their daughter, Miss .Mary Lemmcrlilrt, to James V. H.-wlett, son of Re corder of Deeds James M. Hazlett and Mrs. Hazlett, 1813 South Broad street A. ESCAPES HOLD-UP -kt mm wml a . ' vimuiiBur rrusxraxes iiinpt to Rob Wife of Traction Mag nate and Guests in Auto SUSPECT IS ARRESTED Mrs. John A. Rigg. wife of n Phila delphia street railway magnate, her woman companion anil two guests es caped from a highwayman ns they were ?. '" " ',"" ?r"' 'nZ.:," ,. , . ... -. i, . miles dMant. nt noon yesterday. M i V f "v " , ."!. 'J he highwayman s attempt to rob tlie pnrty was frustrated by, the cool wit of Frank Hoaxer, nf Reading, who was driving the automobile. v. ....... .. ..I. insrcnci ot uniting tlie car wnen tne MR JOHN GG armed bandit spying out in front of the I nVlnil- this morning party on the Morgantown road Beaver j The message snld parts of Pueblo were accelerated the engine, and the nm-' lI(1(, .,, (irifVU)od and derailed rall chlne leaped forward so rapidly that ,.oa(1 0l,uipment and that the downtown the robber hnd to jump for his life. quarter was cmcrcd with two feet of Mrs. Rigg. who is sixty-six yeats, old, was completely unnerved by the attempted hold-up. nnd is today con-1 Terrible Haoc Wrought fined to bed under the care of her The first train to reach Deiner from physician. Pueblo today urrivisl nt S A. M.. nearly Her companions, Miss Lena Kurtz , twelve hours late. If left Pueblo just and Mrs. Selena Spears, both of this, as the flood w. iters were beginning to city, nre none the worse for their ex-1 overflow levees ami was held tip nt Coin perlence. rndo Spring". I'asscngc.s ilcsciibcd the Miss Kurtz went to the pollco when flood lis the worst thr. hud ever wit thc party reached Reading nnd dec'nred nessed. she had recognized the hold-up man at. From all over ili.it nan if fi lor ido ictor Jiicks, tlilrty-hve soars old. it farmer who lives near Joanna, somo ills tanco from Rending. When the police arrested Hicks, they found a revolver and a bag containing several hundred dollpxs in his posses sion. Mr. Rlgg. who Is In this citr. wns not apprised of tho attempted hold-up until tins morning. Ho and his wife live at the Longacre during the winter months. She had been nt tlieir summer home near Read ing for some time. They also have a residence in Rending. PARENTS AWAIT BODY OF HERO LISTED AS SLACKER Lieutenant, Educated Here, Was Killed Leading Men In Franco Reading, Pa., June 4. While await ing tho tetiirn of tlieir son's body from Frniu'f, where he was killed lending his men over thn top, Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. uavis. of tins city, were informed ho had been placed on the slacker list by the 1-irst Draft District of Harris burg. The son. Lieutenant Robert A. Davis, was born in Reading, attended tho local liigh school and gruduatcd from Pcirce Business College, Philadelphia, after which he wns employed at the Fourth Street National Bank. Phlln delphln. For more than two years he was Ilarrisburg representative for In vestment bankers. He applied for admission to Fort Niagara Training School on April .'in. lfli". For the first Liberty loan in June, BUT. be served as campaign di rector of the Middletown. Pa., dlstilct. In Julj. 1017, he tnlisted nt Fort Ogle thorpe, (!n , where he was commis sioned. Later he became an instructor of recruits. Before going overseas be was promoted to the headquarters com pany. NEWSJTOPENROSE Knows Nothing of Voters League, He Says Senator Penrose, who is passing a few dajs at his home, 1331 Spruce street, after six months' absence in Washington, snld today he "knows nothing about the Voters' League" be ing formed here for the fall campaign. Various independent bodies. Includ ing women's organizations, are merg ing In the new lengiie so that co-ordinated efforts can be made at the pri maries and at tho November election. W. Harry Baker, secretarv of the Republican State Committee, and Hnr mnn S. Kephnrt. former State Treas urer, called on tho Senator today. This afternoon Mr. Penrose went out to coll on n few friends nnd to do some shop Iing. "LUKEMcLUKE" DEAD Cincinnati Humorist Victim of Ap pendlcltls Operation Cincinnati. ()., June 4. (Bv A P ) James S. Hastings (Luke McLuke) widely known ns a newspaperman ami humorist, died at midnight nt n Cln clnnntl hospital. He wns fifty-three j ears of age. Mr. Hastings was operated upon lust Saturday for oppendicltis, and his con dition was considered favorable until yesterday when he suffered a relapse Mr. Hastings had been on the staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer for twenty years. ' Ho Is survived by a widow and four children. Pub'lihcd Daily Except Sunday. Copyright, 1H21, by COLORADO 1 SWEPT BY FLOODS; Report That Hundreds Lost Lives in Pueblo Region Unconfirmed LIGHTNING STARTS FIRES; WATERS NOW RECEDING IK the Associated Press Denver, June 4. The flood which in undated parts of Pueblo, Co!., last I night when the Arkansas River went on n rampage, due to heavy rains, was receding today, according to word re ceived here. Damnge estimated at mil lions of dollars was done by heavy rains nnd floods in Enslern and Central Col orado. The first Information thnt there had been loss of life nt Pueblo wns received today. One report from railroad sources snid there had been "consider nble loss of life nnd property." yhile a telegram to tho Denver Times con tained n statement thnt "hundreds of lives have been lost." The Times announced It could not verify the re port. The dispatch to the Times snld the deaths occurred In the Grove district, populated mainly by foreigners. Resi dents of the quarter had been warned that the flood wns coming, but did not leave their small frame and adobe houses in time to avoid the onrunhing watnrs. the dispatch said. Skeptical of Big Death Toll Newspapermen In Deiner 4'1 I familiar with the location of the dis trict . were -Kentica! about Mieh n hcavv loss of life. Tbej pointed out that theri are ninny high hills near the ipinrlci on which people might take refuge. Pueblo K without electric light, power nnd water pressure, according to re ports thnt reached the Inner office of the Western I'nion Tc'egniph Co. Other reports said fires started by lightning wcro burning in various parts of the city, and thnt due to the lack of water pressure tho fires could not be ex tinguished. .Mj ...i....' Early today rain wns reported to be '""I" steadily throughout Eastern Col orauo. rcor nt .... offi..p nf . ,-,. ' V. ,,- ,.,Iln,i i,ii,,i r i,, r...., it. -. ator in l.arKspur water In tlie Union Station at Pueblo, which stood at nine feet six inches at 10 o clock lost night i,.i ,,i,i . ,i,- ( :. ii, ... a bins e.isi or tic iCnii.v Mountains, hut with tin' heaviest dniiinge and probable loss f life i cported from Pueblo, where C'ontlniinl nn I'hep Two, Column Tire MILLIONS DAMAGE GENERAL STRIKE IN ARGENTINA A FAILURE BUENOS AIRES, June 4. The general stiike ordered by the tiavlcs unions is generally conceded to have proved a failuie, few tindea responding to the stiike call. The union laboiers aie ic ported to be restive under the strike order and will hold n meeting today to discuss the situation, in view of the fact that the gov ernment is protecting non-union laborers. The number of non-union men is increasing daily in he port aren. wheie the stop page hns been most seriously felt. RUMANIAN MINISTER ARRIVES IN BELGRADE PARIS, June 4. Take Jontcu, Minister without poitfoho in the Rumania Cabinet, will nnive in Belgiade today for the jiui pofae of negotiating nn alliance bttween Rumania and Jugo Slnvin, jays the Echo de Paris. Jugo-Slvia has already concluded sulIi a tieaty with Czecho-Slovakin, and the impending negotiations, if successful, will result, the newspaper declares, in the definite foimation of the ''little entente.'' PELTS MUST BE DRY TO WIN STATE HARRISBURG, June 4 .Postal authoiities nectcd with the State Game Commisiui' some ways of pi eventing pelts, of annua claim bounties from being sent during waim niontho without being piopcrly dried. TTie State bounty law u-qulics t-kins upon which claims nie based to be dried so tluy .ue not ofieiwxe, out many have icarhed the office of the commission, in anything but a diy state, and postal woikers coiupla.iuit that ptisoiib vv'io killed animals were in too much of a huuy to yet the 'kin mailed and wcie " such bad condition that tluy could nut b handled. PORT WORKERS STRIKE AT PR0GRES0, YUCATAN VERA CRUZ, June !. Poit woikeis. at Piugrcbo, Yucatan, have declared a twenty-four-hour geneial st port workers of this city who walked out protest against the depoitatiou eminent. FREED IN U-BOAT OUTRAGE Lieut. Neumann Acquitted of Sink ing British Hospital Ship Lelpslr, Juno 4. (By A. P.) Tho fermal acquittal of Lieutenant Karl Neumann, charged with sinking the hospital shir F-iver Cnst'e while he was In command o' n German subniaiint during the wni, was announced todnv. Wtien the case of Neumnnn ciimo uu on May 31 before the court trying those accused of war guilt, the proceedings were stayed, a preliminary examination having resulted In the estnliiUh,,,,... Neumann's complete Innocence, if t Tear by' Stall, YoiCll Sleep Less but Soma Faster Tonight When you go to bed tonight, set nlL-)our watches and clocks ahead just one hour. '. If you arc In the habit of getting up at a set time and Mick to thnt time, you'll lose one hour of sleep; otherwise, when you wnke up tomor row morning, you'll never know there lies been a change in time unless You aro a commuter. You work In tho Weather Bureau or the Postofficc. If jou are tho former, you'll find local trains running one hour ahead of tl'eir former schedules, which innkcM It the same time according to jour wnt eh. If you work In tho Weather Bureau you can get to work nn hour Inter, because they have Eastern Standard Time. If you ore a Postoffice employe, you'll be told thnt all mall leaves the office one hour earlier than usunl. CARROLL ROBERTSON TO BE ARRESTED FOR "SPANKINUT Chastisement of Boy Months Ago Causes Warrant to Be Issued Carroll Robertson, .130 South Twen tj -first street, will bo surrendered to tho Detectlvo Bureau Monday by his attorney, John Kent Knne, on a fugi tive warrant from New Jersey. He ls accused of assault and battery on a boy, according to the police. The police say that Mr. Robinson, while motoring through Hnddon Heights .u December JU, jumped out of Uis machine anil nttacked one of a group of children ufter a missile bad cracked tile windshield of his car. The injured boy is Henry Boone Hubnrrlptlon Price SO Public ledger Compiny who werc,'lr" ot 'auilou ucignix. aim me im.v k i . .. , , .,.. , .,.. i . lamer sworu me hiiiiuiil tmi ui-imi- Camden County Justice of the Pence. The warrant alleges Unit Mr. Robert son choked, beat and kicked the buj Mr. Robertson ! known socially. His wifo wns Miss Marlon Sh.pley. Mr. Robertson declared this after noon that the charge was ridiculous, and savored of "blackmail." "I spanked the boy in front of his mother," the banker snid, "after he bad thrown a heavy pencil through the windshield of nn automobile in which I was driving a party of friends to the Pine Valley Country Club. "Thnt was on December 23. nnd I never heard anything more of the incl dint until a few- days ago. I have placed the case in the bauds of an attorney, nnd will fight this obvious nt tempt to mulct me for giving that boy precisely what be di-served." PLANS TO RUSH BEER BILL Volstead Wants Immediate Aqtlon to Forestall Palmer Ruling Washington, June L (By A. P.) . Chairman olstoad, of the House Judi ciary Committee, announced todnv that he would nsk the Rules Committee early next week to give right of wily to his beer bill that It might be cnlled up for , immediate consideration. Should the bill take its usim course II illlKin nm ri'uril II villi mis session. '.Mr Volstead said the committee was anxious to make It a law before the Bureau of Internnl Revenue could -nit into effect n r.iling of former Attornev ticuernl Palmer that the Enforcement Act did not prohibit use of beer on n physiciuns' prescription. BOUNTIES and men cn-- ( tiylng to devUe upon which people ikt in bynipathy with i.uly this week as a of ladicalo by tho Mexicau Gov TOO HOT FOR A VEST Thief Takes Suit From Window, but Drops Waistcoat Koine one threw a brick through the bulk window of the dyeing establish, ment of A. J Martin. L'OS Broadwuy Camden, about 3 o'clock this morning' took a ninu's suit banging in the win (low, but dropped the vest on the side walk. The proprietor who lives above uuh awakened by the crush, but saw no one Hiicii u iiiuni out ule window. H iiirrnuBBiru wiu marl-, round the broken tviiiuun mm -.Ho uricn lying on the ilnrir 2' '- -.ww.. PRICE TWO CENT3 N UNAIDED IN FIGHT TO PLACE Sawyer Seems to Bo His Solo Supporter in Public Welfare Department Plan POLITICIANS SAY MEASURE IS MERE SENTIMENTALITY By CLINTON W. GILBERT StnfT Corrcsponilent Kvenln-r Iablla I,-iUrr Corvriahl, ton, lu Public T.edatr Co. Washington, June 4. President Harding will hnvc to use all his powers of persuasion to get through Congress Dertenr'ofpl'j!!.1 wS.11 new proposal had a curioin origin nnd has met with n curious fate. During the (nmpnign the Republicans nail the new women voters to bear In mind nnd they also had to meet tho eidrgc thnt the'r candidate-was reac tionary. TJlCV Minill-lll Innn n,l V..-.1 and at Inst had n bright idea: .. iv' V? preate a department of public welfare of cabinet rank nnd ap noint a woman at the head of It." -Mr. Harding talked tho suggestion over ,vith his friend, Doctor, now Brigader General, Sawyer. Sawyer thought well of it. IIanl!ng was con vinced, it would appeal to the women ,nP'ls', the newly enfranchised acx a C abinet ignition. It would appeal o the progressives who were interested 1, , improvement. It wns for ward looking. No one would be ngalnst it. Accordingly, the new department wns promised. Rarely has a sentimental idea been received more unkindly. Erervbody seems to be against it, except the faith ful General Sawyer and some of the women. It being n mistake to sup-' pose that women any more than men will unite solidly upon anything, even upon an honor for one of tlieir scr. Would Includo Evlstlng Bureaus Into Uie new department, it is pro posed, in the Kenyan -Fess bill which reposes In the Committee on Education, to includo the existing bureaus which have to do with public health, the ex isting Bureau of Education in tin. De WOMAN N CABINET partment of the Interior, the care ot the disabled soldiers, the proposed ma ternity bureau ond the children's bu reau from the Department of Labor, llus. by way of beginning welfare, being a large subject capable of in definite development. Education, so far as the National Government is concerned, is divided Into two factions, those who demand n Fed-V era I Department of Education with Cabinet officer at Its head, and those who want to keep the Federal Bureau ot Education so small that" no one can see It. Educators who want a separate de partment of education opposed puttlnu it in the bands of some lady who has to worry about maternity, public health nnd disabled soldiers. The Catholic Church nnd other churches which have parochial schools and which have succeeded hitherto In keeping appropriations for the Bureau of Education mighty small, do not want to see nny change which will increase, the scope of Federal supervision of schooling. All education seems to be arrayed against the Public Welfare De partment. Soldiers Dislike Mothering The soldiers do not want to be moth ered by a lodv Cabinet member, TMe American Legion prefers to have the disabled soldiers put in care of the Treasury Department, where the money is. They nre obtaining what they want through legislation along this line nnd are cold to the new department. Practical persons interested in the success of the Government object to the proposal ns unnecessary and unfortu nate in its tendencies. Thev inclined jealously to guord the Cabinet against further extensions. One additional Cabinet officer would not. perhaps, they say. make the Cabinet unwieldy and turn its sessions into mass-meetings, but behind the new De partment of Public Welfare thev see other new departments: the proposed Department ot Public Works, which en gineers advocate; the proposed Depart ment of the Air Service, which aircraft men declare necessary ; the proposed'De partment of Education, which they sen splitting off from tho new Department of Public Welfaie. Hard-boiled politicians declare tho new department is only a piece of sen timentalit.v. Thev do not want a woman Cabinet offiirer. And if it Is suggested that the President abnndrm ' the idea of nuniiu,; a woman, they see Brigadier General Sawyer in the Cab inet. Thev have no mine enthusiasm for Brigad er General Savvjer than they have for n woman. Amused at Sawyer's Blunder Just now they are laughing heartily at a blunder of Sawver's who, striving to aid the ICenvon-Fcbs bill, wrote a letter appealing to members of the House Committee on Education, as Republicans, to carrv out tlie party pledges, and report tlie lull Inad vertentj.v. (ienernl Sawyer sent his let ter to the Democratic members of the committee The idea of the practical politicians is delay, delav and delav, until the uew department is forgotten or until thn opposition of the chinches strips It of its educational features and tho oppo sition of the soldiers takis nway from it the mothering of the sold ers and the opposition of i be less orthodox medi cal sects makes Us health features du bious, until, in short, the new Cab inet ladv would have as little to do as Vice Piesident Cnolldgo. ' The hard-boiled iiolltic'ans never lack for devices or arguments. Tlie Admin istration is reorganising the Govern- I ment Senator Smimt and Wnlter I Brown, of Ohm. nre busv "bringing order out of chaos." as George Creel 'said In would do with Wilson's affairs i nt Pans, just befoie Mr. Creel began to Hud it dithcutt to get by the Brest i dent's buffi rs ut tho Peace Conference Wlllto House. Politicians I'rgo Delay 'Wby not w-nitV" asks the poll. ticinns. who like neither women Cabi net olliiers nor Dr Snwver. "Why not wait until Sinoot ami Brown huve tut poited'' It would be uiiwlsij to Inject a lew department into the chaos which these gentlemen arc strulghlenlng out' It will be a long time before this r port i mado nnd ncted upon. And is that time many things may happen to the new Department of IhibJIg Welfare. '" M'MAV katukhiom-s iiki Hunrtsv. Jul a to HeMfiniwrl V., jT r J nouad Tilprtmui vanla, 8jl JiU" J Jx j """.'.'.. r"' 0 fW-fWTI iiuuiiu i uu I'ciui i? r'J I I' V, . " !,? -, t-'M.uit.,.,.. ,ij; ' Mj . . . .midlZ tr
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