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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
CORONER SEEKS FACTS
IN EXPLOSION PROBE
Delaware County Official Asks
Witnesses to Come Forward at
Eddystone Inquest Tomorrow

An appeal for information about the
Eddystoue explosion was made today by
coroner Charles II. Drewes. of Delaware
County in advance of the inquest into the
disaster, which will be held tomorrow ut
Elks' Hall, Chester Coroner Drewes ex-
planned that he wanted to get in touch with
the persons who were near the Eddystone
Ammunition Corporation plant Mt the time
OF the explosion, but whose names are un-
known to him.
hundreds of persons who might throw
some light on the explosion or tell stories
that would complete the chain of evidence
tending TO show plotters were responsible
nave not been reached by the county au.
thorities: 1t Is to obtain every bit of cy.i.
dence relating to the explosion that Coroner
Drewes makes the appeal
Reteree William B Scott of the Work;
mems Compensation Board. continued hear.
ing applications for compeusations from,
victims of the explosion and their relatives
today In the Chester city hall.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
MAYOR USES PRESSURE
TO GET ELECTION COSTS
Legislature Asked to Appropri-
ate S419,066 Fund Due
to This City
BU a StuT Correspondent
HARRISBURG. April


Mayor Thomas b. Smith today made good
his threat to take steps to force" the
Commonwealth to pay Philadelphia S419,-
O66.s4, the aggregate of primary election
expenses which he and the County Com
missioners of Philadelphia assert is due the
city.
The Mayor called upon Auditor General
Powell yesterday in connection with the
claim. Powell declared that he would not
be part. to the payment whereupon
Mayor Smith said that he would take steps
to force payment. He said he preferred
bringing suit, If the consent of the Legis-
lature could be had, to putting in an appro-
priation bill.
Senator Edwin w. Patton introduced the
measure today at the instance of the Mayor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
LIEUT.. THAW ALIGHTS
BEHIND GERMAN LINES
American Aviator Wings Two
More Enemy Planes-Escapes
as Germans Approach

NEW YORK. April 25.-Lleutenant Will
liam Thaw second In command of the
Lafayette Corps, of American aviators,
played an exciting role in the recent French
offensive in Champagne.
While acting as scout for the advancing
French forces he fell behind the German
lines, To the French men and women who
gathered around him he brought the news
that the United States had declared war on
Germany and then escaped just as the Ger
mans were coming up. Incidentally he
brought down Teuton Fokker, his second
catch of the offensive
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
LEAVES 5000, 900 TO HUSBAND
Will of Ida c. p. Lewis Disposes of
Estate Valued at S114,O00
"and Upwards"

According to the petition filed by execu-
tors with the will of Ida c. r. Lewis. 422
South Broad street the testatrfx left prop
erty valued at $4,000 land upwards" 4"
The will, however. leaves 100000 in trust
for the benefit of Samuel n. Lewis. her
husband, the fund later to go to other
relatives.
Other wills probated include those of John
L. Wentz. who for half a century was a
member of the firm of j. r. Vent & Co.,
which, in private bequests, disposes Of prop
erty valued at s16O,0O0; Mary C. Annable,
Douglasville, Pa, $500; Kate Detwiler,
4O47 Girard avenue, $500; Ida w. Snow.
25 High street. Germantown, $4,000, and
Sarah f. Kerlinger, 1913 Queen street,
$2500.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
BUYING U. S. BONDS

MANY financial institutions have
AV1 advertised in the EVENING
LEDGER their readiness to accept and
handle subscriptions to the new bond
issues Of the United States free of
charge.
Persons who desire to purchase
these bonds, and who, being unac-
quainted with bankers or banking
methods, prefer to make their sub
scriptions in some other manner
may apply to the EVENING LEDGER,
600 Chestnut street, which will ac-
cept applications and see that they
are placed in the hands Of reputable
financial institutions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25

Is the supreme opportunity offered
10 every man to prove his own soul.
Love of woman, love of ease, love
OF money, love of life-all these
are small things in the scale COM
pared to our own manhood.
THE blood that has been shed on
the burning hills of Gallipoli and
the sodden fields of Flanders and
France calls to the American people.
american men must go into this
fight. for if they fail to come for
ward they will know themselves in
their own inner consciousness that
they will be forever shamed.
When l arrived out of the polar
night after a silence of year and
half, did not know what Anzac
meant. 1t means the Australian
New Zealand Army Corps, for they
were the men that carried the i'm
pregnable hills of Gallipol. 1t is a
title of glory and will be as long as
the great God swings this little
world in His mighty hand.
This war may end soon, but
again it may be won only by a
series of slow, grinding efforts, and
America should do her duty by sun
or by candlelight, by dark or by
day. Whatever the love of the
American man may be--for wife or
for child-he must push them all
aside and do so for his country, for
his soul, for his God. And the
moment he onlists he stands four
nd the women of America, who may
should be like those women of Sparta
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
Operated On to BE Soldier

LANCASTER, Pa, April 25.--sSeveral
weeks ago Isaac NJ. Scnsenig young man
from Noganvillc. was rejected by the army
recruiting station because of a physical dis
ability Determined to be a soldier. the
young man went to the Lancaster General
Hospital and was operated upon Today
he returned to the recruiting office cured
and was accepted as recruit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25

If Men On
the street only knew M
Woolen Conditions
as they are, we'd need 81
aSquad of Police
to keep back the thrOnes
from storming our doors
to get at the
1900 PERRY SPRING SUITS
in this One Week
Intensified Value Sale
at $l6
They are of S25, $225O and $40
quality wOrsteds and woolens;
they are styled up to the minute
in 1917 models; and the assort-
ments are both varied and #
plentiful!
u If the Public only knew wooen conditions
know thenl-as every clothing man in
the country knows thern-Coth contracted
for as far back as last June not delivered, and
not going to be delivered-nills refusing to
take orders for next seasons fabrics-cloth-
ing stores doing business on short stocks and
limited assortments-f the in the street
really knew these existing conditions first
hand, and then visited this Sale of Intensified 4
Value in Spring Suits at $16, there would be
such buying here this week as had never been .
seen in any clothing store in the land! 4
q Take this inside tip! We're able to offer
you the opportunity! Cash in on it! It's a
Perry Idea of greater merchandising! We
prepared for it months and months ago.
bought SIS, $2250 and $40 fabrics at big con- "
cessons for cash, held them for this occasion, 8
and offer them to the public in this One MA
Week
Intensified Value Sale
at the
One Uniform Price
SIG
G Entirely separate and distinct from our
regular stocks, and in addition to thern Sim
liar goods can't be bought today to sell for
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
Iaterland TO BE Training Ship

NtW YORK, April 25.--'rhe Vaterland
seized German ship and the greatest of all
ocean vessels, is to be moved from
Iloboken to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to
serve as Il training ship for the recruits,
while worlmen, employed day and night, re-
pair her damaged engines.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-25
Texans Move for Border PrOtectiOn

AUSTIN, Tex. April %. - The Texas
Senate has adopted a resolution request
ing Governor Ferguson to submit Legislation
Slooking to the appropriation of not less than
$1,000, 600 for border protection
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
PEACE INTRIGUE At BERNE
0rrERs MAKING SWITZERLAND
THEIR HEADQUARTERS.
Bethmann-H oIIweg and Won sue'o"
Among Notables Busy'n9 'ne"-
selves With Peace Move.

Paris, Sept. Ia number OF promf
nent Germans and Austrians, whose
arrival in Switzerland has been re-
Gently reported, are busy1ng tnem'
selves, according to the Berne corre-
spondent of the Journal des Depats,
with a peace PROJECT, the op]ect o.
which is to create difficulties and TIC
ton between the Allied powers there'
by inviting minimum concessions W
the Teutonic powers.
Among those engaged in THIS III
trigue are reported to be the former
imperial chancellor, DR.. Won Betn.
mann-Hollweg, who recently arrived
at Ragatz; Prince Won Buelow, former
German ambassador to Italy, whose
headquarters are at Berne; Baron Won
Giskra, former Austrian minister at
The Hague, who is at Tug and makes
frequent trips to Berne; Count COL
uchowski, former Austro-Hungarlan
minister Of foreign affairs, at Inter-
laken; Prince Alfred Hohenlohe;'
Prince Johann Won Schoenburg-Hart-
enstein, former Austrian ambassador
at the Vatican, now at Lucerne; Count
Wolff Metternich, former German am
bassadar to Turkey, and Counts Won
Puckler and Wenkheim.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
DATE FIXED FOR FINAL VOTE
TO VOTE ON WAR TAX BILL NOT
LATER THAN SEPT. 10.
Agreement is Reached After Warm
Discussion-WarP Profits Section to
Be Disposed Of First.

Washington, Sept. IAN agree
ment has been reached by the Senate
to take a final vote on the war tax bill
not later than Monday, September TO-,
and the cloture petition was with
drawn.
The Senate's agreement, formally
entered into by unanimous consent,
also provides for disposition of the
war profits section not later than Wed
nesday of next week and of the income
tax provisions not later than Septen.
Der Z. 1t provides further for earlier
action if the debate ends sooner than
expected.
Day of Spirited Debate:
The agreement was reached after
day of spirited debate between Sena.
tors Simmons and Underwood on war
profits, after much negotiation over
details and after Senior La Toilette
had blocked an effort to fix next Mon.
day as the day for vote. If the de-
bate runs through until September 10
the bill will have been under Senate
discussion just one month. It passed
the House May %. -
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
U-B0AT SUNK, PRISONERS
TAKEN BY u. S. DESTROYER
Submarine Caught BY Americans
While in Act of Holding Up
British Steamer.

A Gulf Port, Aug. 29-The capture
and destruction of a German subma-
rine by an American destroyer and
the killing of four members OF the SUBJ
marines crew who had boarded a
British steamer is reported by an
American seaman.
According to Brown, the submarine
emerged near the steamer but soon
after it came alongside the American
destroyer came up and destroyed the
U-boat. After the submarine was de-
stroyed the Germans who had pre-
viously gone aboard the British steam
er, tried to take charge of the vessel.
The Germans who we're not killed In
the fight on the steamer were turned
over to the destroyer as prisoners.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
HUDSON RID OF "PAC|FlSTs"
CITIZENS DRIVE OFFICIALS OF
PEACE COUNCIL OUT.
Refuse to Allow Conference to Be Held
in Their City-MilWaukee Now
Looked on With Favor.

Minneapolis, Sept. LATTER being
run out of Hudson, Wis.,, by angry citi.
zens with admonition never to return,
representatives of the Peoples Coun-
Gil again found themselves in the con-
dition of being all dressed up with no
place to CO." In the meantime, the
"Hohenzollern special was speeding
westward, running wild, as it were.
The delegates on the said special are
going somewhere, but they know not
where.
Rude Awakening.
It was a rude awakening that the
advance guard of the council was &C
corded in Hudson. Louis P. Lochner
and his retinue Of faithful" were CIV
en- just seven minutes in which to
catch a train bound for Minneapolis.
They asked for "safe conduct" 1t was
given them in the form of two automo-
biles to carry them to the railway sta
ton with all possible speed. =
Be it said for the peace-at-any-price
advocates that they did not stop to
argue with the citizens of Hudson.
They did not even hesitate. When
they reached Minneapolis they an
nounced that they would not return to
Hudson.
Milwaukee Now Smiled On.
Milwaukee is now being considered.
With Minneapolis, Fargo, Bismarck
and Hudson out of the running, the
field has narrowed down, with MilWau-
kee having the best chances. Eff
forts were made to hold the "Hohen-
zollern special in Chicago until some
one knew whittier it should be routed.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
RUSSIA AGAIN RECEIVES
PRESIDENTS attention
New Republics Needs Discussed at
Conference With Root and Men,
bers of Recent Mission.

Washington, Aug. 31.-President
Wilson has again turned his attention
to the situation in Russia at confer
ence with Elihu Root, who headed the
American mission.
Mr.. Root and other members of the
mission have been pressing the imme-
date necessity of material as we'll as
moral assistance to the provisional
government, and besides the recent
500, 100000 credit, other steps already
have been taken toward that end
Further action may follow the confer
ences.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
PUBLIC BREAD MARKETS
TO MAKE APPEARANCE
To Be Established in Principal Cities
of Minnesota Inside Thirty Days.
Loaves to Be Sold at Cost.

Minneapolis, Aug. 81 Public bread
markets are to be established in the
larger cities of Minnesota within the
next 80 days by the State Public Safety
commission, according to statement
made by DR.. E. Dana Durand, acting
as agent for the commission in the
investigation Of food prices, when he
appeared before the committee on or.
dinances and legislation of the City
council. He asked, on behalf of the
Public Safety commission that the
council take no further action on the
standard size bread loaf ordinance
that is now under Injunction awaiting
the decision of the court as to it's va
lidity and constitutionality.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
Milwaukee Now Smiled On.
GERMANY is CONCEDED
DIPLOMATIC VICTORY
Neutrality of Argentina Considered
Easily Bought by Teutons-May
Embarrass Brazil.

Washington, Aug. 81. 49, Any hope
felt here that Argentina would sup
port the Allied nations in their war
against Germany virtually has been
abandoned, as a result of the German
governments success in satisfying the
demands of the Buenos Aires foreign
office in connection with the sinking
of the little Argentina sailing craft
Toro.
The whole controversy has impress
ed some officials here as hollow, and
it's effect will be to insure the neutral
ity of the South American country
whose Importance is exceeded by none,
unless it be Brazil.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
FARLEY A. DARE, GOPHER
STATE EDITOR, is DEAD
Prominent Northern Minnesota Scribe
and Legislator Passes Away at
Home Near Walker, MINI.

Walker, MIMI, Aug. 31.-Farley A..
Dare, we'll known editor of northern
Minnesota and twice member of the
lower house of the Minnesota legisla-
ture from the forty-second district, is
dead at his home near here. The i'm
mediate cause of death is given as
brain trouble, but he had long suffered
other ailments that forced him twice
on the operating table.
He was president of the Northern
Minnesota Editorial association in
1872
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
Great AirpIane Comes From Italy.

Washington, Aug. 31.-The largest
and most powerful airplane in the
world is the description of the Cap
roni machine sent from Italy to this
country with the Italian aviation mis-
sion, which has just arrived in Wash
ington. The great airplane reached
Washington ahead of the mission and
has been set up at Langley field, New
port News, Va, where it will be DEM
onstrated for American experts. 1t is
probable that duplicates later will be
manufactured in this country for use
by the Allied nations against Germany.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
II ViIIistas To Prison For Raid.

II ViIIistas To Prison For Raid.
Deming, N. NJ, Aug. 30.-Seventeen
villistas captuSed by the Pershing pu-
nitive expedition in Mexico, were to DO
confined to the state penltentiary at
Santa Fe today to serve sentences
ranging from II to 80 years. The
Mexicans, who were accused of par
ticipation in the villa raid on Column
bus, N. M, a year and a half ago,
pleaded guilty to second degree MUIR
der before District Judge Raymond r.
Ryan. Guadalupe Chavez, another
member of the band, pleaded not guilty
and will be tried before the fall term
of court.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
FARMERS HELD NOT EXEMPT
No Class Of Workers to Be Excused
from Draft, Wilson SAYS.

Washington, Aug. 31-There will be
no exemption Of farmers as a class
from the draft, President Wilson has
just stated emphatically, in replying
to a letter addressed to him by Rep.
resentative Jouetts House of Kansas.
II feel that a class exemption would
lead to many difficulties and to many
heartburnings, much as 1 should per-
sonally like to see all genuine farmers
left at their indispensable labors," the
president states.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
ASK CONGRESSMAN TO QUIT

Minneapolis Voters Invite Lundeen to
Put Recall Idea to Test.
Minneapolis, Aug. 31.-"Ernie" Lun.
deem, Minneapolis congressman, who
has taken a stand against the war,
CONSUMPTION and almost everything
else, has been asked to put one of his
pet political theories into practice by
submitting to the recall.
Residents of the Calhoun district OF
Minneapolis, at a big loyalty meeting
at the Calhoun Commercial club,
passed resolutions asking Ernie"
Lundeen to resign and then go before
the people with his case.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
NATION APPLAUDS VIII SON

kilograms Approving Course Pour
Into White House.
Washington, Aug. 30.-Telegram ms
from all parts of the country are pour.
ing into the White House approving
President Wilson's reply to Pope
Benedict's peace proposal.
Upon motion Of Senator Brady, who
characterized it as a last farewell to
the autocracy of the world, President
Wilson's reply to the Vatican was
ordered printed in the Congressional
Record.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
Montana Lands at So Per Acre,

Billings, Mont, Aug 31.-A number OF
farms, some of them slightly cultivat
ed, are to be offered at prices ranging
from 81 upwards, at a government land
sale of tracts in the former Crow In
dian reservation, to be held here Sept
4. About 10000 acres is to be offered
and some of it is among the best agri'
cultural land in the state Mineral
rights will be reserved to the United
States, but all surface rights will &C
to the purchaser. All lands will be
disposed of by public auction and nc
bids by mail are to be accented,
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
DECIDE ON PRICE FOR STEEL
CostPIus-Profit Basis Is Plan to 30

Washington, Aug. 30.-Steel prices
will be fixed by the War Industries
board on cost-plus-profit basis, it is
learned. President Wilson has been
given the figures prepared by the Fed
eral Trade commission and has turn
ed them over to the war board for
use in fixing contract prices.
While the war boards does not have
final legal jurisdiction in fixing prices
for the government, it was learned
that the President had communicated
to the Secretaries of War and Navy
his wish that whatever figure the
board may agree upon shall be binding
upon those executives.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
Offers Prizes For Patriotic Plays.

Washington, Aug. S1.-The Drama
League of America, according to an
announcement which has just been
made public, offers prizes of $500,
$3.50 and $100 for the three best
patriotic plays suitable for perform
ances to be given by amateur actors.
''The United States federal bureau Of
education,' says the statement, lis so
convinced of the need and value Of
plays of this character that it has Of
fered it's cooperation to the fullest
extent in bringing the winning plays
to the attention of the country"
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
Advance Asked BY Contractors.

Washington, Aug. 3o.-Advance pay
ments for supplies for the army and
navy, as yet undelivered, have been
asked by contractors and the Treasury
department is considering making such
payments to enable the contractors to
go ahead with their work. In most
instances contractors are operating on
insufficient capital to enable them to
turn out the supplies. Some of the
largest concerns in the country, it is
understood, firms and corporations
rated at many millions, have made
such requests.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
Veterans Give War Ambulance.

New York, Aug. 3O-Veterans OF
the Foreign Wars Of the United States,
at their eighteenth annual convention
here, presented a fully equipped am
bulance to the government. At the
session it was announced that 1900
members had been added to the roll
during the year, and that the organize
ton had been divided into SO posts. A
resolution making eligible for member
ship American sailors and foreign sol.
diers the moment they land on foreign
soil went over
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
SLA0 UNIT PANIC STRICKEN

Division Abandons Position and Flees
In Disorder.
Petrograd, Aug. 30.-A Russian d.
vision has abandoned it's positions in
the region of Kokshani on the Ru-
manian front and fled in disorder, the
says the enemy continued to advance
on the southern Rumanian front reach.
ing the line Trechty-Deus-Varnit
Fitioneshti-C hy o1ianitchi. In the night
Russian positions in the region of Var
nitza were penetrated.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
Gold and Silver Output.

Washington, Aug. S1.-Gold and Sill
yer to the value of $141, 543,900 were
produced during the calendar year
1916 in the United States and Alaska.
Figures of the Bureau Of the Mint
and the Geological Survey, show gold
production of $4,497,O57 fine ounces,
valued at $92,59O,300, and silver out
put of 74,414,SO2 ounces of value
of $4S,953, 900.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
SENATE RECEIVES JAP ENVOY
Is Told U. S. Entry In War is Moral
Victory for Allies.

Washington, Aug. 31.-Japan's mis-
sion, headed by Viscount Ishii, has
been received by the senate. Viscount
sage of friendship and good will be-
tween the nations, and declared, in
effect, that Americas entrance into
the war is a moral victory for the
Allies.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-06
AIRPLANE TIMBER BURNING
Forest, FiEes In Northwest Held Due
to Incendiarism.

Washington, Aug. 30.-With forest
fires, reported due to incendiarism,
threatening valuable timber in the Pa.
cific Northwest, intended to furnish
airplane stock for the fighting forces
of the United States and it's allies.
the forest service has suspended soms
of Its operations to concentrate al;
available forces in fighting the fameA