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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-25
Licensed at ElktOn to Wed

ELkTON, Nd, oct. 25.-Couples taking
sut ~ marriage licenses here today were
NNleholas A. Cupo and Camelia S. O'Neil,
eugene Chain and Anna Jones, Joseph
Eleming and Fay Goldsten, Richard Con
way and Clara Armstrong, Philadelphia
rercy b. Dies, Philadelphia, and Helen
SSersman, Atlantic city; Francis j. George,
Easton' and Helen V. Attis, Philipsburg
- D. Mahlon Manery and Mary T.. Ger
mart Pleasantville, n. j.; Charles II. John,
~ S1n and Julia Jackson, Havre de Grace
u' Ernest r. Reynolds and Averila
Svwens Chester; Jack c. Kerrler and
Myrtle M. Sprinkel and William A. Daggett
~nu Emma A. Male, Baltimore, Md.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-25
U. G. rs HUGE SERVICE FLAG
It VIII Bear 3O1 Stars, Showing Num-
Der Of Employees Under Arms

One Of the largest service flags to be
dirplayed in this city is being made Tor
the United Gas Improvement Company
Building showing so1 stars. each one rep
rcsentlng an employe now in the service OF
his country.
The manufacturing, legal, new business
bookkeeping, accounting and many other
departments in the Philadelphia district
alone are represented by tho stars one
hundred and forty Of the men are In the
Second Regiment, now the Second Artillery
stationed at Camp Hancock, Augusta Ga
Others are in the officers reserve corps
and many are in France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-25
Jersey COnvicts Adopt Sing Sing Plan

TRENTON, oct 25.-Under the direction
Of James II. Mulheron, principal keeper
of the State prison. the convicts have
formed a Mutual Welfare League patterned
after that organized at Sing Sing prison
under Thomas Mott Osborne. The prisoners
have selected representatives from their re-
spective wings to constitute a board to pre-
sent grievances and matters of prison
management to the principal keeper and the
prison management.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-25
Hit by Locomotive: Skull Fractured

Robert Vogel, ffty-four years old of 80
west Mt Airy avenue, a carpenter for the
pennsylvania Railroad, was struck by a
thllting engine at Engleside Station. Thir-
ueth and oxford streets, this morning and
.ecelVed fractured skull. He was taken
70 the Lankenau Hospital
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-25
DIVORCES GRANTED

handed down the following final deere
in divorce:
Nellie S. from George W. Kunkel.
Mary G. from William Benz.
Joseph H. from Gertrude Il. Curett.
Frances from Warner Willis.
Regina V. from Charles f. Batting.
Mary l.. from Conard r. Gruniger.
Charles H. from Elizabeth Fischer.
Rebecca II. from John J. Spcer.
Harry w. from Alberta l.. Hackett
Sallle w. from Oliver c. Hess.
Concettina from Colorado Italiano.
Ernest ]. from Shirley {. Hutson.
Margaret V. from Arthur A. Canevln.
Mary NJ. from William +. Penndorf.
CharlesS from Pauline s. Stokes.
Ada M.~from George w. Beatty
Laura j. from Anthony J. McCloskey.
Clara Il. from Gustave f. Miehle.
Charles II. from Ida Reed.
Sabatino from Francesca D'Angelo.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-25
Dudley to Speak at Oak Lane Forum

UuuTVJ
The Oak Lane Public Forum will hold
Ms initial meeting in the Oak Lane Public
library Building tonight at 8 o'clock. The
meeting will be addressed by James e.
dudley research and experimental engineer
for the Chester Shipbuildng Corporation
and the Merchants Shipbuildng Corpora
ton, on THE Value and Necessity of the
Public Forum" Dudley is the organizer
Of the Forum.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
New York Woman One
OF Chief Witnesses in
Trial of Count Minofto

CHICAGO, Oct. 31.-The identity of
the mysterious veiled woman who tes-
titled here yesterday in the inquiry
into the alleged pro-German activities
of Count James Minetto, son-in-law OF
Louis r. Swift, was established to-day.
She is Mrs. Chauncey Eldridge, of New
York.
Mrs. Eldridge testified again to-day
before Inspector c. II. Paul, Of the
immigration Service, who is conduct
ing the proceedings for the govern
ment.
Inspector Paul said that some sus-
picion had been directed to Minetto in
South America because Of his friend
ship with Nine Caillaux Nine. Caillaux
was the wife Of Joseph Caillaux, for.
mer Premier Of France. She shot and
killed CASTOR Calmette, editor Of the
Paris Figaro" in 1913. Count Lux
burg, German Charge in Argentine. is
said to have been among her friends
there.
Regarding his friendship with Nine.
Caillaux, Minotto said: 81 met her so
ciaily. | may have met Count Luxburs
at some time
Others at to-day's hearing were
Lewis f. Swift, president Of the pack
ing house which bears his name, the
father-in-law of Minotto, and Minotto's
rounsel
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
Sinclair Defends
Socialist Papers
In Open Letter to President
Denounces Barring Them
From the Mails

UPTON Sinclair, who recently resigned
from the Socialist party because he dis
agreed with its anti-war views. yester-
day made public an open letter TO Pres
ident Wilson, in which he protested
against the suppression Of Socialist
publications.
Mr.. Sinclair explained he made no
appeal for papers which incite TO acts
Of treason or rebellion, violence OF
crime. lie continues:
ain the case of The Masses the pro
cedure was even worse-it can only be
described as disgrsceful; for the paper
first had one issue barred from the
mails, and then had its mailing privl-
lege taken away on the ground that II
had failed to appear regularly.
"Mr President, the value OF your let
ter to the Pope Is the message 1t con.
veys to the German people, the hope II
holds out TO them that If they remove
from the world the menace of autoc-
racy they can have immediate peace.
But how can we advocate democracy
for foreign peoples, while we suppress
il among our own? What good does II
do US to fight for freedom abroad if,
home? And do you not see that il such
news goes TO the people of Germany 1t
will entirely stultify the message you
have sent them through the Pope?
zone of the things which the Post
master General says no paper may say
Ia that this government is the tool OF
Wall Street or the munition makers.
Will Mr.. Burleson permit me to say
that the German people say that2 And
when they read that We are suppress
ing newspapers they will say. that our
government is Just the same rs theirs'
and that our preaching Of democracy Is
inst a snare for them"
Mr.. Sinclair referred TO Postmaster
Burleson ms "a person OF such pitifui
and childish ignorance concerning mod
ern movements that it is simply n
calamity that in this crisis he should
he the person to decide what may or
NAV not be uttered by our radical
press" s,
As remedy for regulating the rsdi-
cal press in war time, Mr.. Sinclair rec
ommends that a public official be en-
nowerod TO compel a publication to re-
tract "A false statement.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01

ways hamper the efforts of the United
States in the war.
A heavy pail of smoke, which hung
over the harbor, made the river dan.
gerous for traffic. A steamer from
Philadelphia rammed the stern of a
British steamer which was afre, but
neither ship was much damaged by the
impact.
All men have been accounted for ex-
cept Hicnael j. Hand, a tally clerk on
the piers, and Eustace Bromley, chief
naval gunner on the British steamer,
which caught fire and was badly dam
aged. Several stevedores also are un-
accounted for, but are believed 20 have
been saved when they leaped from the
ship to the water.
The Baltimore and Ohio's loss was
estimated tonight by Vice-P President
Thompson at s4,000,000 He said the
destruction of piers 8 and 9 would not
stop the roads business at Locust
Point and that freight would be ac-
cepted as usual. Reconstruction would
begin at once, he said, contracts for
material already having been awarded.
Insurance covered the railroads loss.
The damage TO the British steamer
and its cargo is estimated at $500 600,
while 100000 loss is thought to have
been sustained by the Furness, Witty
Steamship Company. which used the
piers for its terminals.
Among the goods DESTROYED were
1000 cases of imported liquor. $50 car
loads Of -four, 90 carloads Of tobacco
and $4,000 bales Of wood pulp.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
.O'Leary Disputes
Won Edwards Story
Never Dined With Baron" at
Ritz.Carlton, Says Truth
Society Head

jeremiah A. OLeary, president of
the American Truth Society, yesterday
became witness against Baron" Karl
Won Edwards, who is or trial on q
charge of stealing $4,000 worth of
Mrs. Mary X. Strangman's jewelry
while wooing her, when he denied every
statement made by the accused man
that in any way related to him.
OLeary denied that he had been in
a party with Mrs. Strangman, Won
Edwards. May Ward, the actress, and
her husband, Freeman Bernstein. Ac-
cording to Edwards, the Marty had
been given at the Ritz-Carlton. OLeary
said he had never dined at the Ritz
Carlton at any time.
Still another denial to the prisoners
story was added when Hiss Ward her
self appeared and testified that she had
been to no such party with Mrs.
Strangman or in any other company
named by Won Edwards.
The trial, which is being held before
Judge Mulqueen in General Sessions,
was enlvened by numerous hints by
Won Edwards of knowledge of German
plots. Whenever there was an effort
TO pin him down to specific facts, how
ever. he SHE'D away and talked of other
things.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
Teacher Is Attacked
For Decrying Italy
Newark Pupils Shower Mis-
siles on History Instructor;
She Is Rescued by Police

NEWARK, Y. J., Oct. 9l.-Miss Jessie
VI. Bush. teacher Of history in the Nc
Kinley Grammar School, was attacked
this afternoon by Italian pupils in the
school because she is alleged 70 have
said something derogatory 10 Italian
prowess in the war.
Miss Bush could not be seen to-
p light, but IL is understood from the re-
ports of persons at her home that she
Is not seriously hurt. She was struck
in the back with several stones, which
bruised her. She was also struck over
the head by club or some other
weapon. but was not injured severely.
She was also pelted with vegetables
and was postled and pushed about until
police intervened and rescued her from
the attacks OF her pupils.
Fifty of the Italian children whom
she teaches marched 20 City Hall this
afternoon and asked 70 see the Mayor.
Chief Truant Officer Mccall heard
their story, and then sent for the prin-
cipal of the Mckinley Grammar School,
Walter J. Greene.
He induced the children to return to
school and then investigated the affair.
Several OF the pupils said that their
history teacher had made remarks in
imical to Italy's power as factor in
this war To this Miss Bush replied
that she had merely used the Italian
army as an example in talk on stick
to-itiveness."
The children became so excited dur
ing the investigation that their princi-
pal thought it best to adjourn the in
quiry until later When school was
dismissed for the afternoon pupils lay
in wait for Miss Bush with vegetables
and other missiles.
They attacked her when she left the
school building by the rear entrance.
The Junior Police of the institution at
tempted to interfere, and were worsted
in the fight which followed.
Miss Bush was being hardly used
when the police Of Newark came to her
assistance. After some difficulty they
managed TO get her into a passing auto
mobile and took her away.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
suspected that anv official investigation
was under way.

suspected that any official investigation
was under way.
The magistrate appointed Edgar a.
Martin, an attorney, 10 act as his un-
official associate in conducting the pro-
ceedings. IL was a subpoena issued by
Nr. Martin which aroused Deputy Az
torney General Becker and caused him
10 make the affair public. Mr.. Martins
subpoena, which was served upon the
manager of the Murray Hill Hotel,
called for the production of every tele-
phone slip and record of messenger SER
vice in Mr.. Becker's name since Octo-
Der 20.
He stated. however. that he had
been conducting other secret investiga-
tons having TO do with German
espionage during the last ten days and
that If the names of the persons with
whom ne has been in communication
from she Murray Hill Hotel became
known 10 some Of the persons unde-
suspicion Of espionage the information
might be OF value to the enemies OF the
country
Acting upon the advice Of Mr.. Beck
or. the hotel manager declined 20 pro-
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
Exemption Official
Takes Call" to Task
DR.. Girsdansky Demands Pa
per Prove Charge Layman
Tested Recruits Eyes

The following open letter TO "lhe
New York Call" was written on October
q by DR.. NJ. Girsdansky, chairman OF
Local Exemption Board 80. but thus far
has not appeared in the newspaper 10
which it was addressed:
editor NeU York Call.
"On August you published the fol-
lowing statement:
"'At Board 90. 229 East Broadway.
a man claimed to have been examined
for eye trouble by the porter who
works in that building. The man was
accepted
shown TO me / called up your office
and demanded that you prove the truth
Of your statement. A few days ater,
'The New York Sun was kind enou H
10 publish the story with my reCde.t
To nav knowledge you have done moth
ING in this matter till now. Now that
nv work is finished this becomes
yerv serious matter.
1--WE claim ths; our work has been as
clean and as conscientious as the WorK
OF any board in the city or country:
We maintain that, where the letIer 0I
the law was not clear enough, our ohIy
Guide was the great American unwrit-
ten law-fair play.
"Now. YOUR charge that we have ac-
cepted recruits for service upon physi-
cal examination of laymen practlcalIy
means that ! have cheated the govern
ment and the recruit alike. your
charge aroused against me tremendous
resentment. which found expression IN
ALI kinds Of threats and accusations
since YOUR readers never allow the pos
sibility Of your being wrong.
at 30 happened that IN my board tneIe
were changes in the membership lOur
or five times, and that ! was the only
one that was ordered TO work from the
6rst 10 the last day. so 1t IS qulte
natural that am the one on whom all
these mothers and other relatives
would focus their resentment II your
charges were true.
~ do not believe that you can undo
tho harm you have done, but as my
vork Is finished, and as the govern
ment is likely any minute to take up
for investigation all my records, II 10
,eccssarv that this matter be cleared.
"Arain, now that have TO 90 back TO
ny;vate life. / will have 20 face the
neIohpors in my district whom your
statement has melted against me. 30
tbc matter cannot wait any longer
Prove your charges.
"State in full what were the facts IN
your possession when you determined
10 assail a humble public onlciai IN
such a manner. What were the iacts
that Justified you in your own opinion
10 publish that foul statement! ou'
with Il! State IL in fulll'
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
Lutherans Cough at
Plea for Patriotism
Ovation for Gadski, but Not
for Claxton, Predicting
German Republic

The Lutherans who gathered in Car
negie Hall last night 70 celebrate the
4OOth anniversary Of the Reformation
gave a tremendous ovation to Nine.
Johanna Gadski when she sang. but
when Philip =. Claxton, National Com
missioner of Education, announced that
America was looking forward to the
time when she would welcome Germany
INTO the brotherhood of democracy
they coughed long, loud and persist
emily. e,.v.
bis address did the Wheeling and BARK
ing cease. No applause greeted MS
talk on patriotism and national Ideals
only coughing.
II was not that most of the audience
,.oro afflicted with colds. for during the
addresses made by Governor Brum-
hauoh of Pennsylvania, John A. sing
master, president Of the Gettysburg
Lutheran Seminary, and others tney
remained quite silent, except Tor ap-
plause now and again. ~,
The coughing which greeted ME-
c,ax,on began when, after some intro
dnctorv remarks on Luther, he said:
"After the war, the newer dcmocra.
.;oa of the world will turn more ana
more to the United States for guid-
ance America. when the war ends.
will find herself the pivotal nation OF
the world. go II,
ave had a tremendous thrill when
y was learned that China had over
thrown her autocracy, and another
when Russia became n republic. But
the greatest thrill of all will come
when tho Oldest republic in the world
welcomes the rewest-the great Ger
manic democracy, with the people
swinging into their rights in the spirit
Of Luther"
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
Ohio Fire Marshal
Warns of Enemy Aliens

CLEVELAND. Oct. 31.-Deeming the
situation in Ohio particularly serious.
State Fire Marshal Fleming to-day is
sued the fourth of a series Of warnings
to owners of foodstuffs and industrial
goods to guard them from the depreda-
tions Of enemy aliens.
Within the last six months half q
dozen grain elevators and warehouses
have been fired by German sympathiz-
ers, the losses reaching thousands of
dollars. Last week two grain elevators
and -four mill in the central portion
of the state were burned to the ground,
and evidence was obtained that the
torch had been applied by foreigners.
Industrial plants. principally in the
northern section of the state, also have
been attacked by enemy aliens. A steel
plant in Youngstown was damaged by a
bomb explosion several months ago, a
large powder plant near Cincinnati was
damaged by an explosion, three ware
houses in Cleveland have been dyna-
mited and an attempt was made several
weeks ago to damage the shipyard at
Lorain.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
"Old King Brady's" )"
Creator Dies at 81
Francis w. Doughty Was
Author of Many Popular
Detective Thrillers

Many n substantial New Yorker who
would life his eyebrows in surprise If
offered a dime novel of the old-fash-
ioned paper back variety will gulp a
little and heave sigh of regret this
morning on learning that the creator
Of the greatest hero of his boyhood
days, "Old King Brady" is dead.
Francis Worcester Doughty, writer Of
nobody knows how many boy thrillers,
lecturer and numismatist, died on Tues
day afternoon at his home in Cresskill,
n. J., at the age of sixty-seven. Fu-
neral services will be held tomorrow
morning in the Church of the New
Jerusalem. Clark Street and Monroe
Place, Brooklyn.
II may interest the many followers
of "Old King Brady" and other West
ern heroes Of the good old hair trigger
days to know that their creator spent
his life in no more bloodthirsty en-
vironments than those supplied by
Brooklyn's residential districts, the at
mosphere of the Brooklyn Institute Of
Arts and Sciences, of which Mr.
Doughty was a prominent member, and
later the green fields about Ramapo,
y. \.
But the local color supplied for these
tales was far from faxed, His library
was papered with large maps, which he
consulted when writing about parts OF
the country with which he was not
familiar, and hundreds of reference
books always were at his elbow, 20 be
consulted when he was writing of his
torical events or local happenings that
might bo verified.
Because of this conscientious effort
10 make his stories accurate, readers
of his highly imaginative thrillers came
into possession of bits Of geographical
and historical knowledge that might
not have been readily administered in
any other form. II was due 20 this
fact. his publishers say. that his "oid
King Brady" series was popular for
more than thirty years. He wrote more
than twelve hundred complete detective
stories, countless works on scientihc
subjects and at least one work on nu'
mismatics, which became textbook
for students of coins.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
Kuhn and Won Seebeck
Had Apartments on
Fifth Avenue
A Teuton Rendezvous
Naval Officer Believed to
Have Been Dunbar" Was
Frequent Visitor

Investigation here yesterday into the
activities of Baron George Won Seebeck
and Fritz Kuhn, associates of Count
James Minotto, the Italian nobleman
who married a daughter of Louis f.
Swift, the Chicago packer. and recently
arrested as German agent suspect,
revealed the fact that Kuhn and Won
Seebeck maintained apartments at IL
Fifth Avenue, which they used rs q
rendezvous for Germans.
During their last week at the Fifth
Avenue address Kuhn and Won See
beck, who are now interned on Ellis
Island, were visited daily by man in
the uniform of a naval officer. From
the description given of the naval Of
fcer at the Fifth Avenue address il was
suspected that he was the man known
as James Lewis Dunbar. alleged Ger
man spy, who obtained a commission
as ensign in the navy in March last.
Kuhn and Won Seebeck lived at II
Fifth Avenue from September 20, 1915,
to May 81, 1917. Then they moved to
Port Chester, where they were living
when arrested.
This visit Of naval officer to the
Kuhn-von Seebeck apartment is re-
garded as significant by Federal off,
cials, in view OF the fact that Minotto,
the friend Of the pair, tried to get a
job in the Naval Intelligence Bureau.
Local officials here believe that Mrs.
Chauncey Eldridge. of this city. who
testified in the Minotto proceedings in
Chicago, was one Of the chief wit
nesses against Minotto. Mrs. Eldridge,
wife of government wireless expert,
with her husband met Mnotto in
South America. Utterances he made
there first caused him 20 be put un-
der surveillance by this government.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
At First He Claimed To Be
a Russian Pole-Another
Suspect Is Held
Threatened Elevators
Next, 1t Is Alleged
u. S. Investigating in Eff
fort to Combat Wide
spread Plots

BALTIMORE, Oct. 3i.-Two men sus-
pected of having a hand in the disas-
trous fire which visited the Baltimore
{ Ohio Railroad terminals here last
night were arrested to-day and grilied
in the Office of the Department of Jus
bee. Special Agent Harris. Of the De-
nartment Of Justice, said the names OF
the men would not be made public at
present
One Of the men is saloonkeeper Of
the section where the fire occurred. 1t
WAS sllesed two stevedores heard him
say; ,.
next"
Nativ. Of Germany
When arrested he declared he was o
Russian Pole, but it later developed
that he is a native of Germany, but
naturalized. The other suspect was re-
ported 10 have been in The vicinity OF
the piers Yesterday in a motor boat.
Charles +. Munro, OF the Bureau OF
Mines. Washington, came hers to-day
IN investigate reports that bombs hg-
ursd in the explosions at the fire.
Tbs government is investigating the
Gre carefully as part of its nationwide
activity in combating the organized
nlots which have been revealed 70 de-
stroy food and munitions, and IN other
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
Special Japanese Financial
Mission Arrives in u. S.

A PACIFIC PORT. Oct. 3l.-A spe-
cisl japanese finance comm SION
headed by Baron Tanetaro Megn:a.
credited with having reorganized the
financial policy of his country, arriyed
to-day. The party inc luded d'stin,,
Sas 10 stay several days before no
ceeding to Washington.
Formation of a Japanese-America1i
.hamber of commerce was announced
=. one Of the probable results VI the
visit Of tho commission.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
Daniels Reviews Marines

WASHINGTON, Oct. sl.IseeretaTy Sta,,.
Daniels and Major General barnet,
the Marine Corps. to-day
Inspected the Marine Corps camp AT
Ouantico, Va, and reviewed the men
trimming there. A..
Mr. Daniels. in addressing the re-
cruits. said the people OF the country
are proud OF the marines, who nave Al
ways carried to successful compie'''n
sny task assigned TO them.