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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29
MEAT SHOP THAT SLASHED PRICES
COMES TO GRIEF IN POLICE COURT
Keeper offered 30-Cent Chops for Eight, but Cautious
Germantown Refused to Buy-He Bought of Packing
Company Driver, but Not of Company It Seems

The mystery Of the ,Morguc" ls explained
NOT ~ the gloomy place on Wood street,
but " the butcher shop travelling under
the same name. You know tho place. Harry
Betkman's rhop up at 2ttJ Germantown
avenue, the shop decorated like a circus
with red. green and blue posters no larger
than the side of q house announcing that
prime lamb chops worth thirty crnts and
UPWARD could be bought for eight cents
Not that over did Harry any good
10 decorate 90 extensively Nary a one
~ tho folks within wide radius % Ger
mnntown and Susquehanua avenues would
paroniEe bis store. ono can't be too care
ful tn these days of substitution. they would
H1N. a. they carefully Stunned tho
"MnrFuo,' while wondering how Harry
Cnuld cell ~ good stun ns Ne said he had
Tor the price Of q small stew
Harry's grand entrance In the Central
Police station today solved all tho lucs-
lions that tho good folk of the vicinity had
been asking themselves tic hadn't been.
as was charged, dlEglng ur STRAY cnrcaHscs
" ancient animals and rorpdlng the crrak-
ina Joints as fresh hcrf Not Harry what
Harry had been doing was buying $4,000
worth " meat from Jack" uyIand one
time driver tor every packing company In
the city
''rhats my kick.' quoth Jack this morn.
lnE That's what it is I gets "a lob frst
with NrWours, then tho Consolidated and
All the way down the line from Cudahy To
SulHherger e. Swift And | sells tho stun
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29
DISCOUNTS RADIUM
AS CURE FOR CANCER
Cornell Expert Tells Scientists
Early Diagnosis Is Only
Remedy

NEW YORK, Dec. Radlum cannot
be relied upon as permanent cure for cancer
and lts general recommendation for use rs
a cancer cure is inadvisabe. DR.. James
Ewing. OF Cornell University said today.
speaking before the division Of physiology
OF the American Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Science.
Doctor Ewing urged early diagnosis as
the only effective aid TO cure or control cam
Ger. He spoke Of the possibilities OF radium
SIS being limited, though in the future
radium cures may prove more sweepngly
effective
Mortality from cancer can he reduced II
people will take propAr care of themselves.
Dr. Joseph C. Boodgood, of Johns Hop
kins University said:
Cancer is not n blood disease" Doctor
Bloodgood said. ut Is not disease OF
which any one has any reason 10 be
ashamed. So far as physicians can tell
Il is not brought on by III health or poor
food. 1t comes 10 the healthy man or the
healthy woman, but II She easily noticed
warnings be needed our task becomes COM
pafatively easy"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29
DELIRIOUS MAN SHOOTS
DOCTOR THREE TIMES
Victim of Nervous Breakdown
Attempts Murder and Deiies
Police Behind Barricade

BALTIMORE. Dec. wildly delirious,
George Gantr. a patient. shot nr, George w.
Hooking, n widely known physician OF
Oovars n suburb of baltimore three times
shortly before noon today \ fourth bullet
m ysed It's mark
The fren1ied man then barricaded himself
IN room AZ his home. and this afternoon
braudlshing a loaded revolver, II dcfyirE a
squad of police iu an srort TO capture him
Gauta Is Harvard graduate and CON
rec,ed with np Insurance company here Tie
devoted much time 10 studies, and this is
said to be responsible for hts breakdown
Giants had been treated Tor some time hy
Doctor Hooking for nervous troubles. and
shortly after the physician called ON hts
patient the shooting took place
Two of the bullets from gnnts's revolver
passed through the doctors left shoulder
and a thlri lcadeu missile piowcd through
the ncshv part " hts left arm. Doctor
Hooking. blood pouring from his wounds
calmly walked 60 his horne nearby and gave
himself nrst-old treatment and then nun-
mpned Doctor Peters. Doctor Hooking this
afternoon despite great loss ot blood, "a
reported TO be In n fair way to recovery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29
SEEK TO SHOW MOTIVE
FOR MURDER OF WOMAN
Prosecution Endeavors to Prove Broker
Killed Wife to Get Life
Insurance

osSGPEE, n H.. Dec, 29.--The State to-
day began building into the court records
the motive which II charges caused Freder-
lex L. Small, the Boston broker 20 murder
his wife In their lonely mountain cottage
last September.
A $4,000 joint life insurance policy. the
State charged was the temptation which
led the broker to commit the crime. As a
basis for contention. the prosecution opened
today's session by putting on the stand
Charles Il. Merritt, an insurance agent
who testified that last March Small took
out the policy and paid him Si.l0760 as
the first years premium, II was specified.
the agent asserted. that the money would
be payable to either Small or his wife in
the event OF the others death
Crowds which iammed the little Court
room and oyerflowed into the yard outside
attended the hearing today, More than
two-thirds of them were women.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29
MAN AND GIRL HURT
IN CRASH OF AUTOS
Their Machine Overturned at
Dangerous Street Crossing.
Other Speeds On

Thrown from IN automobile In which they
were riding when II WAS struck and upset
by another automobile at tho intersection
NJ Twcuiy.sccond and Ncnango streets AZ
an early hour this morning. two persons
received injuries when caused their removal
TO n hospital
The injured are Miss EibN Hess twenty
one years old. si2t North Twenty-tourth
street, who received cuts and lacerntiona
Of her face and hands and n fractured rib.
and Waiter Gilbert. ~ GlenHidc, who was
badly shaken UP and received minor cuts
and bruises.
Gilbert was taking Miss Hess to her home
and was going south on Twenty y-seconC strcct
wher the other car, of tho big touring type.
crashed into him az ne was crossing We
mango street Tho impact OF the collision
hurled Gilbert's car over on Ito aide
The occupants OF the bigger car did not
stop after the collision. according to Gil
bert He last saw Il speeding east on We
mango street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29
fOMHITSSIONERS MEET
FOR METHODIST PEACE
North and South Church Repre-
sentatives Discuss Reunion
Favored by Bishops
DIVISION CAME IN 1874
u;shop's Marriage and Loyalty TO
slave-Holding Wife Re
suited in Break

BALTIMORE, Dec 29-Enective work
I. the plan OF corporate union OF the two
s..hodtst Episcopal Churches began this
s,oru,ng at the First Methodist Episcopal
f,enreh when the two commissions on union
-, for organization into n Joint commits
sion.
Az the sessions will be executive and
-st even representatives OF church pa
-. belng excluded The conference Ia ox-
.eefed 10 continue into next week.
Tbo,Eh almost any one OF the ffty COM
..,saioners will unhesitatlnRly state un-
nfIclaIIy that the union Of the two bodies
!, ardeutiy TO be desired. II II IL possible
y unite with complete unanimlty OF spirit.
none will tell his opinion OF the definite
prospects.
plshops Earl Cranston, Of the Northern
church and Edwin D. Mouzon, Of the
esutbern Church, have been foremost
among advocates OF union and consider tho
continued disunion almost an inqulty ac-
rording 20 the tenor Of the speeches made
IN Baltimore and elsewhere
Aftsr tho Joint commission finishes It's
work the two general conferences, the hun
drsds OF annual conferences and possibly
The thousands OF individual congregations
have each TO vote on the proposition before
Il becomes officially the will OF the two
denominations.
The split which resulted in the separation
II the Methodist Episcopal Church came
N tSl4-45 at which time Bishop James o.
Andrews who had married a slave.holding
wife, refused 70 oppose slavery The south.
srn Methodsts then sprang into being.
Time wore on and the two bodies drifted
farther apart. until, az years passed the
denominations saw It was wiser TO get to-
gether and become one again, after the
teaching OF the evangelist. Wesley.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29

CHESTER. Pa. Dec. 29,--whlle at work
I'm his grain mtil at Milmont. J. Talbot
Broomall sixty-threc years of age a widely
known resident OF Delaware County, was
stricken with heart disease and died HIa
body was discovered by employees. who at
first suspected foul play Physicians called
in found heart disease the cause OF death
MIR Broomai was a member of Prospect
Park Lodge Of Masons and Is survived by
two sisters
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29
b. ]. Y0ST, OF TAMAQUA,
NEW LEGISLATOR, DIES
Special Election Will BE Necessary TO
Name Successor to Penrose
Lieutenant

POTTSvIt.LE. Pa, Dec as-BcniamIn
Jefferson Yost. Of TamRqua who was elected
member OF the Legislature from the Third
District, died at his home last night after
4 short Illness of uremia. lTc was Repub.
llcaa and was allied with the followers OF
Senator Penrose.
His death viii necessitatc general eicc-
tion to flll the vacancy ms will also the en-
trance Of State Senator e a. Snyder. Of this
city. upon his duties as State Auditor Cen
eraI. require Il special election To chose a
successor as Senator.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29
This Semi-Annual
Reduction Sale
of
PERRY OVERCOATS
AND SUITS
is without parallel in the
practice of sale cIearances!

q The reason is that Perry's Stock of Suits and
Overcoats is full of the finest and most expensive
fabrics it is possible to make. Perry's buy the
finest woolens that money can buy, and there's
not an exclusive tailor, we don't care where who
can show you better or finer fabrics than you'll
find right here all the time in Perry Overcoats and
Perry Suits. And the same thing is true of every
thing else that goes into their makng--the finest
Innings, trimmings-even buttons and thread.
And as for the tailoring, the individuality and
style-we know of alleged exclusive custom tailors
who bought Perry IN. b T." garments just for
the sake of getting line on the secret of their
IN B. T." fit and style
q That's one of the reasons which constitute
Perry Reduction Sales in class of their own.-
They present an opportunity to get the finest
clothes made or that it's possible to make, at
savings prices which were bed rock in the first
place. Hundreds and hundreds of men bide their
time each year to buy their supply of clothes on
this OCCASION and we'd like to put you wise to it
right at the start-for right at the start is the
time to get in on it! There will be no better time
than today and tomorrow!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29
BOYS TELL STRANGE STORY
Lads Returned to Girard College when
Tale Proves false

Two Glrard College boys, John Saltcr.
eight years old, and Charles. his brother,
ten years Old, wcrc taken back to Girard
college today after spending tho night at
the House of Detention
The boys, surrounded by Christmsh ATS,
were found sleeping In Reading Terminal
last night az O.a0 o'clock by Detective
Jacob Blatcau. ot city Hnu They told n
tale % having been brought from Shn-
mokln by their mother. early Yesterday
morning and said she had deserted them and
loft them there alone since so In tho
morning without food Detective nlatcnu
took tho lnds out and fed them believing
their tale, and then took them 10 the House
OF Detention
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-29

TO this guy peekmau And what DO ! rett
Nuttn. only three hunder, That's what
I call tough"
u WAS tough.-dccidediy 60 Jack was
held under $500 hail for court on i've sep
nratc counts while Beckmau's BAH was
nxed al $1,000
disEruutlcd They spent this afternoon IN
kicking themselves FOR not buying whom
they had a chance And tho cost ot meat
i8 going up. Up up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-15
KIRBY, VETERAN ART
DEALER, REACHES 70
Big Silver Loving Cup Presented
by Firms Sixty Employees

The presentation of big silver loT-
ing Gun was the milestone marking
threescore years and ten for Thomas
+. Kirby, veteran art auctloneer, yes
terday. Mr.. Kirby and Gustavus [.
Kirby, his son, compose tho American
Art Association, at 6 East Twenty-thlrd
Street. and in his day Mr.. Kirby has
sold over S40.O00.O00 worth of artistic
and literary properties. Yesterday, his
birthday. the sixty employees OF the as
ISOLATION assembled after the days san.
Of the Metzger Japanese prints ana
presented the cup TO him.
Mr. Kirby is still in ACTIVE charge OF
the sales at tho American Art CAL
leries. Last Sunday he played thirty
six holes Of golf on the Apawamis
links. at Rye, where his scores vary be-
tween 100 and 10. He still plays ten
mis- or occasion.
In 1881 Mr.. Kirby and James F. SUIT
ton established the American Art Asso-
citation. an old-fashicned partnership,
which has long since become famous
for its art sales. Mr.. Sutton retired
from active business several years ago
and died last year. Gustavus ]. KIRBY,
the son, who was practising law at
Wall Street. became his fathers part
ner three years ago.
The elder Mr.. Kirby was employed by
the state following J. Pierpont Nor
cans death to appraise the latters art
treasures for transfer tax purposes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-15
FORD WORKS JUST
FOR FUN, HE SAYS
In Court He Puts Aiding Of
Many Above the Making
of Automobiles
fBy Telegraph % rh- Tribune

IDJ lrirfFhpfl " lnN AflNHh-sl
Detroit, Nov. 14.-Henry Ford Is
working for fun and the greatest good
of the greatest number" and only incl
dentally manufacturing automobiles.
This was revealed in the course Of a
vigorous 'cross-examination Of the auto
man to-day in the suit brought by the
Dodge Brothers TO restrain the expan-
sion plans OF the Ford company and to
force distribution of the cash accu-
mutations among the stockholders, OF
whom the plaintiffs are in the front
rank.
The hearing, held before Circuit
Court Commissioner May, not only
wrung an admission of Mr.. Ford's util-
itarianism, but also brought forth an
explanation of the manufacturers lat
est concrete plans for putting his the
DRY into practice.
Object to New Plant
Among the specific objections to Mr..
Ford's present plans was one against
the acquisition of the River Rouge
smelling plants. In reply to the query
as TO why he needed these properties
Mr.. Ford said:
We're going TO do something with
those plants that was never done be-
fore. We're going to bring our ore
direct in our own ships from the mines
and we're going to make castings direct
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-15
GERMAN EMBASSY SAYS
GRAVES is BLUFFlNG
Spy Will Be Arraigned In Wash.
inptOn To-Day

Washington. Nov. 14.-The threat OF
Karl Armgaard Graves, self-styled IN
ternational spy" to reveal German Sc
crets il he is prosecuted, Is asserted by
the German Embassy to be pure blum
Count Won Bernstorff scouts the IDEA
that Graves has any information con-
corning alleged improper activities az
the embassy. Al the Department OF
Justice the same opinion is held, 1t is
said.
The German Embassy does not even
believe that Graves obtained from the
q steamship Oscar II the letters he rs
alleged TO have used in an attempt TO
get $4,000 from the embassy: 1t IS
Unbelievable, officials say, that the
packet containing the papers could
have been kept in Europe nearly, a
month and. p half before being dis
patched.
Graves will be arraigned for pre-
liminary hearing here tomorrow be
fore United States Commissioner ray.
ior. 1t is said that the government
will be content at the hearing to sno"
enough evidence to hold Graves for tne
grand jury, unless he insists on max
ING his revelations"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-15
BANK MESSENGER
AND $500 GONE
Youths Parents Insist He Met
with Foul PLAY

Al the request Of officials Of the
Gotham National Bank, Broadway and
Fifty-nlnth Street. the police sent out
a general alarm yesterday for Frames
0Rourkc. twenty years old, mes
ssnger, who. it is alleged, has disap-
pesred with two payrolls amounting 20
$3.50 in small bills.
The missing youths parents. at 2ll
West 135th Street, insisted last nignt
that he must have met with foul play.
he had been an obedient son, they said,
and had never given them cause for
Worry. Detectives from the Fourth
Branch Informed President Henry II:
Pizalion of the bank that they could
discover no motive for the messenger s
alleged fight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-15
WASHINGTON SQUARE
PLAYER SUED BY WIFE
Mrs. White Produces Letters TO
Back Separation Action

Mrs. Maud A. White, known on the
stage as Maud Atkinson, filed a suit in
the Supreme Court yesterday for sep
aration from John White, also an &C
tor. The couple have been members
Of the Washington Square Players. and
the husband nov is appearing with that
organization.
Mrs. White submitted letters from
White in which he addressed her as
my own darling wife" and signed him
self, always your husband. Jack She
alleges that White abandoned her on
October II last. after they had lived
together nearly four wears. and re
fused to support her. Five days after
he left her White wrote p letter in
which he asked Mrs. White TO stop fol
lowing him. and adding that ne would
rather lump into the river" than go
back to her. "Your reign is over; Rich
ard is himself again. the Washington
SQUARE Thespisn added.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-15
SWITCHMEN NOT
AFTER OVERTIME
Want EightHo Straight,
Witnesses Tell Board
of Arbitration

Four witnesses, representing the
switchmen. two Of whom had worked
on an eight-hour schedule, yesterday
told the board Of arbitration now in
session at the Chamber OF Commerce
their reasons for asking for an eight
, hour day and an increase in pay Of
10 cents an hour. Questioned by Horace
Baker, for the thirteen railroads in
volved in the controversy, and by s. f.
Heberling, representing $500 switch
men, their testimony set forth working
and living conditions among the en-
ployes Of different systems in great de-
tail.
ave want eight hours straight; we
want no overtime" F. d. Reid, a
switchman employed by the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad in the Chicago dis
trict, declared. There is a belief
among the men that they could do
more work in eight hours because they
would come TO work rested"
Reid said that the men wanted
three shifts of eight hours each in
twenty-four hours. At present, by
working twelve hours a day for the
full thirty days, he said, ne could make
$40 a month. In describing conditions
under which men worked in the Chi
cage terminal he said that weather con-
ditions often cause swltchmen great
..,-T,, Il hot ~, inf tnfr lno
form on their eyebrows, binding them
and adding to their danger. On one
occasion, he said, he had found
husky switchman actually crying from
the cold.
Peter J. Finnegan, employed by the
New Haven Railroad in the Harlem
River yards, where the eight-hour
schedule has been in operation for
thirty-four years, said that in the last
wear he had not worked more than
twenty minutes overtime. He pre-
ferred working on shorter hours, al
though he could make but $50 month
and could not save anything after pro-
vding for his wife and five children.
Finnegan said that if the demands
of the switchmen are granted he would
receive 81 a day. or Sl2O a month, an
increase Of 80 per cent on his present
wages. LlNlnE CAptHStS arc 90 hibH,
he said, that not man in his yard
owns his own home, and he knew Of
none who was able to save any money
from his wages.
T. J. Hanrahan, yard conductor for
the Nickel Plate at Cleveland. de-
scribed a sixty-day trial Of the eight
hour system in his yard in 1913. Il
believe it is the most practical method
! of operating" he said. "The change
was made without confusion and there
was no delay of any kind. The men
were pleased with it"
Hanrahan said that 1t took seven
additional crews to put the eight-hour
plan in force, but read figures which
showed that more cars were moved at
less cost than in corresponding months
in previous years. When the figures
were questioned by Mr.. Baker the wit
ness said they came from the .offlces
of the Nickel Plate in Cleveland.
John O'Brien, yard conductor OF the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois at Chicago,
said he averaged twelve to fourteen
hours a day, but would prefer shorter
hours. even at less money. lie has
been doing switching for thirty years
and wears one Of Mrs. +. II. Harri-
mans medals for safety FIRST ef-
fciency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-15
NEWS OF PLAYS
AND PLAYERS
Sarah Bernhardt's Season
Begins at Empire on
December 4

Sarah Bernhardt's final fve-star
metropolitan appearance is TO be made
at the Empire Theatre, beginning on
December and continuing for three
weeks. Her repertory will consist OF
"Du Theatre au Champs dHonneur,
LA Mort de Cleopatra" the second and
third acts of lie Process de Jeanne
dare" lie Vitrail," "Hccube,'
"L'Holocauste," the trial scene from
"The Merchant of Venice" the balcony
scene from Romeo and Juliet" "Une
d'Elles." "L'Etoile dams la Mutt" and
scenes from Hamlet" Camille"
"L'Aiglon." MADAME X" and "Adrienne
Lecouvreur" She will also be seen in
"Le Faux Modele," which will be played
in English.
The arrival Of Nine. Bernhard at the
Empire on December means that
Cyril Maude and "The Basker" will de-
part on the preceding Saturday. Nine.
Bernhardt's season was originally des.
tined for the Knickerbocker, but the
continued and overwhelming prosperity
of "The Music Master" at that play
house makes such a move inadvisable.
The Somme war pictures will be in
stalled in the Princess Theatre to-day
and will remain until week from Sat.
urday, when "Such Is Life" will make
its appearance. In addition, the pict-
ures will be shown next Sunday at both
the Aston and Forty-fourth Street the
aires.
The Shuberts are putting Gals
worthy's "The Fugitive" into rehearsal,
and New York will see it early in the
new year. Girls Will Be Girls" will
open in Philadelphia next week and in
New York in about a month. Her Sol
der Boy" will succeed Bunker Bean"
at the Aston on December q, and Fol
low Me" will open at the Forty-fourth
Street on November q.
The Blue and White Marimba Band,
at the Century Theatre. is to be re-
decorated to match the Vanderbilt
Room.
Else Alder. seen here last season in
around the Map" has succeeded the
imported Sari Petrass in Miss Spring
time"
The craze for special matinees has
embroidered Douglas j. Wood to an
nounce a series of afternoon perform
ances at the Bandbox under distin-
guished social and artistic patronage"
The first OF these will take place on
November %, when "The Pardon" a
comedy, by Barrett II. Clarke. will be
the programme. Margaret Moreland
Mrs. Nat C. Goodwin will be in the
cast.
BY way Of carrying the idea still
further. the Coburns announce three
morning performances of "The Yellow
Jacket" at the Cort. They will take
place on Saturday, November IS; Sat-
urday, November %, and Thanksgiving
Day.
Robert Warwick. who believes In
America First and Robert Warwick
next. is TO be seen in a perturbation
of "The Argyle Case" Mr.. Warwick
recently organized the Robert Warwick
Film Corporation. named after Rober.
Warwick. G. ). X.