Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, May 03, 1922, Night Extra, Image 4

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Investigation Reteltitlett Passed at
Stormy Mlsn
, Bavllngten, N. Ji( May'3. Paseafe
last' night in a stormy session of Com
mon Council of a' resolution te "Inves
tigate the methods of the Police De
partment and Mayer Mooney," was
the latest move in the political battle
that ' has been waging since Mayer
Themas S. Mooney took eflce In Jan
uary nnd premised the city te divorce
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manager or the Klalte Theatre When it
was burned en Sunday night, November
27, 1021, with the lest of tan lives, was
found guilty of manslaughter today, He
was fined $1000 and given one year In
jail, with' execution of the sentence bus-,
pended pending an appeal te the Su
Jicefli rew Bignts age. a puww -ing
will be held en the Drets charges
next Tuesday evening.
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"Bucky" Dere ,the iTareir;eld
child rlylng 111 In the Epiaeepal Iloy Iley
piul, whose father made a flying, trip
from the Federal Prison at Fert LeaT LeaT
enwerth te his bedside, when the child
was reported dying some weeks age. 1
said by the doctors te have suffered a
relapse last night, and his .condition
is again, critical, although net se bad
as It was en the occasion of bis father's
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found no cause for alejl.lnith c1aHr"
of conduct unbecoming -as eficer'thst
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Brets. Lame and Asay against captain
of Police Wilsen Jehnsen. . .
Excltesseat la the council climber,
jammed te the doers with cltuMns,
reached a. climax when Mayer, Mooney,
who waa present, asked the privilege et
the fleer and defended the r61lce hut
declared their efficiency was being cod
Htantly Impaired by the efforts ofcer efcer
tain Ceuncllmen te use the department
for their own political purposes.
The Johnson-Brete cmbroglle grew
out of a clash eyer the use of tba Are
HvMwi Philadelphia
data laa yet keen lied ter tba faaWat?
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of Richard Crdkar. It Is net n(Ji
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It will take place fcefere Friday, ii
possibly net until unday; . l,
preme Court of Errors.
The manslaughter charge was based
upon the finding of the Corener who
held Carrell criminally responsible for
the lack of flre-fiihtina enulement and
New Project Included in Devel
opment of Fermer Penrose
Property by Syndicate
Girl Suicide. Planned t te
Delaware Student, Warn
ings Said
Kill
It la rumored that Olencslrn Castl.t
Mr. Croker's reatdence near here. ta. 1
aether with Ita spacious grounds, was m
Feft te the Irlfih Bisters el Char! yTB 1
Whna benevolent work Mr. r!mi..'LJ(l
carelessness in permitting the use of
burning incense te give "atmosphere" te
n tnoyle film.
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the police from politics.
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naming as your exec exec
ueor and trustee the
Central Trust & Sav
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WntulrAHa of men flnrl wn.
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imm have already found
freedom from laxatives by
eating Fleiscnmann's fresh
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; Doctors ara new agreed that
j proprlimlnatlenof waste matter
kaheld b brought about by feed.
?.0b doctor comes right out and
ftftam plainly that the indiscrlm
;,lMta'us of cathartics la one of tba
t of constipation.
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, Atlantic City, Mar 3. A $5,000,000
development' for the lower beach.
taking In an entire block between
Bosten and Providence avenue, with
a later construction of a mammoth
pier, wa announced yesterday by a
new syndicate hcarltd hv Hpnlamln KVit.
who has promoted several big projects
aoeut tne resort in tnc last nvc years.
The property tnken ever had been held
In fee by Dr. .Charles Penrose and In
cluded one of the few unrestricted sec
tions along the beachfront where no
park deeds have been signed giving the
city rights for playground purposes.
The "flapper," '(shifters" and ether
new wrinkles have been entirely over
looked In the u roc ram of the New Jer
sey State Federation of Women's Clubs
scheduled te open here today In
Hadden Hall te continue until Satur
day. The clubwemen will confine their
attention te "mere serious problems."
Mlllnn uussell will be among the
speakers. The epcr.'ng address will come
from Mrs. Nancy Sclioenmakcr en "The
Old Trail nnd the New Read."
Motion Pictures will come un for
general discussion tomorrow nfternoen
when Dr. Henry M. Hese, of the
Church of the Redeemer, Newark, will
tnkc tne side of the nubile, uthcrs w 111
consider the viewpoint of the censer and
producer.
T.ndy Aster Is new trying te arrange
nrr spcaKing scnciitiic se toot sue may
address the convention at one of Its
M'Nilen.
"There ought te be a law prevent
ing national bank directors from being
connected with snvings banks." James
II. Manning, former Mayer of Albany
ami president of the Nntienal Savings
Hank there, said nt tnc opening fis
siens of the National Association of
Mutual Savings Banks at the Ambas
sador here yestcrdey.
"Directors of national banks are net
interested in the work of snving.i bonks
and thrift promotion," be said. "When
these men, the servants of money-making
Institutions, are ousted as trustees
In savings banks, such banks will get
back te the purpose for which thev were
Intended."
According te reports from n well
founded source, Halllday Jacksen, su
pervising principal of the entner pub
lic schools, has been Invited te resign
as a result of his recent criticism of
the sum appropriated for school pur
poses. Charged wJth being an accomplice In
a 510.000 jewel robbery at a beach
front hotel, Margaret Steip, alies Peggy
Lesavoy, was held under $3000 ball
yesterday. The girl, who is nineteen
years old, is nlleged te be implicated
with Samuel Lesavoy , who was recently
brought back from New Yerk and is new
out under $10,000 ball. She was trailed
te Chester, Pa., and was about te start
for the Seuth when arrested.
A splendid Strndivarius. 300 years
old and valued at $2000. meant nothing
te Uustane Spelele, thirty-eight, even
though he was a talented musician,
when he was goaded te a point of frenzy
by fellow members of an orchestra here
yesterday.
He waited around until the ether
pleycrs had left the orchestra pit and
then proceeded te smash every instru
ment in sight, using the "Strad" as the
final weapon te complete the act. When
arraigned before Magistrate Paxson last
nlaht Spcielc, who is a Spaniard, re
plied: "Dey glva me what you call a da
raw!"
He was held in $1000 bail en the
charge of malicious mischief.
MAN WHO KILLEDwiFE AND
HIMSELF BELIEVED INSANE
Bosten Manager for R. G. Dun &
Ce, Principal In Tragedy
Newton, Mass., May .'!. iBy A. P.)
Explanation, ether than insanity, of
the trnjedy in which William B. Pow
ell, manager in the BoMen district for
R. G. Dun & Ce.. shot nnd killed his
wife and himself fast night, was
Mill lacking today. A cordon of pollce
was maintained ubeut the Powell uiuu uiuu
sien through the night.
Mrs. Powell, before her second mar
riage several years age, was the widow
of It. II. White, founder of the depart
ment store business at Bosten which
bears his name. Her home originally
was in Georgia, from which uhe came
as Lena Ulbbard a (junrter century
age.
The Powells had been In their sum
mer home only n day, having nhandenrd
their winter apartment In Bosten n few
days nfter Mrs. Powell's return from a
I trip te the Bahamas for her health.
1 Servants were bold te have heard a
slight qimrrel yesterday, und In the
early evenins saw Powell chasing bis
Iwlfr around the house.
Shots were heard, the rvants rushed
' te the library, nnd found their mis-
tress dying en the fleer nnd her hus
band leaving the room. An automatic
I pistol found In the library proved te
have jammed, and Powell apparently
went te his own room upstairs te get
another weapon. lie 'killed himself
with n revolver, found near his bed.
The District. Attorney unneunced that
the medicul examiner had indicated in
formally te hlin that Powell had gene
i Insane.
VETERANS ASSAIL MAJOR
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Officer's Conduct In War "Vi
cieus and Brutal"
Bosten, May 3. (By A. P.) Vet-
erans of the Twenty-sixth Division,
gathered here, ndnpted resolutions made
I pub'lu today protesting te Congress the
promotion te colonel of Lieutenant Cel-
j enel Duncan K, Majer, formerly the
' division's chief of staff.
I The resolution pretests: "Because of
acted toward the junior office nnd mpn
of this division during the war, which
Indicates beyond nil question Ills unfit
ness te be an officer of the Unltpd
States Army and te be in command of
men," und "because of his proven bes.
tlllty te the citizen soldier, who under
our form of government and our mili
tary policy new laid down must he the
mainstay of our country In time of
war.
2 HAVE SLEEPING SICKNESS
First Discovered In Shenandoah, Pa.
One Patient Responding
Shenandoah, Pa,, May ,'!. Twe cases
of aleeplnj sicklies, the first te be dis
covered In this region, are being treated
at the State Hospital at Fountain
Snrinti.
VOjrf tbf cases is from Ollberten and
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Sftelal Diapntch te Evcntna Pullic Lttatr
Newark. Dal.. May 3. What the re
latiens were or had been between Harry
S. Martin, former service man and nt
present a student in the Rehabilitation
Division, University of Delaware, at,d
Miss Leah Mumford, of Lebanon, Pn,,
that caused the latter te kill hcrsclt
yesterday afternoon will be inquired
into nt the coroner's inquest te be held
late this nfternoen.
Miss Mumford shot herself in the
right breast with n ,32-callber revolver
en the perch of the Rehnbllltaien Di
vision Building nfter she hail tried In
vain te find Martin. Martin bad talked
with Miss Mumford curlier In the da7
and premised te see her again. It was
when she realized that her old sweet
heart had left the building by the rear
deer te avoid her that Miss Mumford
ended ber life.
Miss Mumford alleged that Martin Is
the father of her ninctcen-months-eld
child, new In Lebanon. Te State De
lect Ive Moere, Martin refused te admit
that he was the father of Miss Mum
ford's child, but admitted that be bad
paid her $150 mere than a year nge
when she had him arrested in Lebanon
for the support of the child. He said
she signed a paper releasing him from
all responsibilities ns te the child.
Miss Mumford left the child wltlj n
relntlvc of Martin's In Lebanon when
she came te Newnrk. This relative
warned Martin by telegraph that Miss
Mumford intended te kill bim. Last
night, some hours after the (.hooting,
Martin received a special delivery let
ter from his mother In Lebanon warning
him that Miss Mumford had bought a
revolver nnd told friend that she in
tended te kill him.
Martin admitted that he and Miss
Mumford were sweethearts several veara
age in Lebanon. Martin has u wife nnd
two chl'drcn here, one child a baby two
aays eiu.
JERSEY PARDON COURT
LENIENT TO 59 CONVICTS
Several Camden Men Among These
Granted Paroles
Svrclal Dispatch te Evtnine PubUe Ltdetr
Trenten, May 3. Paroles were grant
ed te twenty-six convicts in this State,
including eievcral murderers, and thirty
three ether convicts were ordered re
leased at the expiration of their mini
mum sentences, new near nt hand, it
was announced today by the Court of
Purdons.
James Haney, of Camden County,
nnd William Archer, of Cnpc May
County, both colored, each convicted of
having killed his common-law wife,
were paroled from prison. Ilaney had
been sentenced te nerve from fifteen
te thirty years. He was received at the
prison December 13. 1012. Archer be
gan serving a sentence of from eight te
thirty years ucteber -i, HUH.
The Court of Pardons did net act en
the application of Paul Wendell, a for
mer Trcnteu lawyer and son of a
clergyman, convicted of perjury in con
nection with a case In court and serv
ing nine months in the .Mercer County
workhouse.
Convicts te be paroled at the expira
tion of their minimum sentences in
clude the follewing: James A. Helly,
of Camden County, sentenced te from
five te thirty years for murder, te be
oareled November 2 next : Francis Sher.
of Camden County, sentenced te from
one te three years for impersonating
an officer, te be paroled May 20, and
Jehn Dersey, of Mercer County, sen
tenced te from two te seven years for
breaking and entering, te be paroled en
September 12.
Among tha 8011th Jriey com lets lmmMI lmmMI
ately parnlnl were tha follewlna: Johua
Brmvn, Camden County, brfaklns. ntrln
and lar-en. Hnry Klllett. Cumberland,
brakliic. mrln and larceny: iwrt Ln.
man, Cumberland lireaKinir, entering ana
lareenv: sainvi rerrine. lumn-riana, for
gery; Rebert jveai. uieureaier (.nunty. atre.
rleui aaaauit ana D.-uirry; naiie lenaax,
Mercer Ce-jnty. statutory efferiM; Jehn rov
ing, Monmouth County, atrocleua aauult
and battery
The, convicts wilt be paroled en the datea
deaiunated: Kdward Fltitrun, Atlantic
county, grant larceny. Arm -e; jviwaru a.
Buzzard. Turlington County. breaking.
anterlns and larceny. August 16: Jehn
Alien. am in i-eunir. uucmpiea tod ted
hery, William M. Hall, forgery. Juna
10. Ralph Parsons. Camden County,
grand larceny Heward Tezer. Cape May
County, forgery. September fl; Mike Kreuae.
Cumberland County, desertion of wlfa and
child. May 28: Harry Law. Cumberland
County, robbery, August 30: Charles A. War
ner. Ocean County, carrying concealed
weapons, December 13.
jeaepn jam raueraen. or naiem county,
convicted et the Illegal aatg of liquor and
sentenced January -5. 1021. te a term of
from two te nen ears In Stat Prison.
-n 111 bn paroled at thn expiration at bis
minimum term en September 0.
CHESTER FOLK SWINDLED:
WARRANT OUT FOR MAYO
Said te Have Get $19,000 There In
Fake Promotion Scheme
Nearly threescore residents of Ches
ter sny they were swindled by Rey A.
Maye. New Yerk, who was arretted ut
Stamford, Conn. Kflerts nre being
made te bring bim te Chester tomorrow
for n hearing.
Mnyo, who has gained considerable
notoriety en account of his business and
murltal difficulties, was a resourceful
promoter, according te Dr. Gustave
Villig, 007 West Third street. Ches
tcr. "He sold stock in a se-called Ink
manufacturing company." said Dr. VII-
' llff, "but oil lie had was photographs
or tlie plant. He was well dressed und
easy-going and could make any one
believe black is white."
"He sold stock te a large number of
peer perhens here, Including maimed
veterans of the World War."
The warrant for Maye's arrest was
sworn out by Harry Dcrbe, a ship
builder. Maye, it is sold, obtained upward
of $10,000 by fraudulent methods. He
was Indicted in Delawnre County last
August.
FIRE SWEEPS MARIENVILLE
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Blaze Destroys Twelve
Buildings In Pennsylvania Town
Kane. Pa.. May 3. (By A. P.)
TwelvCrbu'ildingH housing families, fac fac
leries, a newspaper office untl ether
business cenccrnR were destroyed by fire
at Mnrlcnvllle early today. The le s is
estimated at $100,0(10.
Jehn Valenteur, chief of the Kune
Fire Department, and four ether men
were Injured when their aiiteuinbiln
overturned near Frest while they were
en route te Marlenvllle.
First reports were te the effect tliHt
the fire was caused by sparks from a
forest fire, but Investigation showed Hint
it started in one of the buildings, The
forest fire was wt III burning today in
the hills six miles from Marienvlllc.
JAILED FOR THEATRT FIRE
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