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Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
WASHINGTON

The Senate passed the cloture rule, 76 to 3.
 George R. Cooksey was sworn in as assistant to the secretary of the treasury.
 President Wilson took the oath of Of flee for his second term in his room at the Capitol.
 Mai. Gen. Hugh L. Scott was re- detailed as chief of staff of the army by President Wilson.
 Bipartisan organization of the in- coming House. with Champ Clark az speaker. and the committee member ships and patronage equally divided. is being discussed by Democratic and Republican members as possibility.
 Measures to meet Great Britain's action in forcing American ships to carry British supplies are under con sideration by the federal shipping board.
 The first compulsory workmen's compensation or industrial insurance law-that of washington state-to come before the Supreme Court, was upheld as constitutional.
 Senator Walsh of Montana, urging revision of the Senate rules, hurled q torrent of denunciation upon 'the little group of wilful men" who killed the armed neutrality bill.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
Seventh Aoe of Man,

"He is very old man. isn't he?" Well, he Is In the second dance hood"
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
loojcaI Conclusion.

q feel all gone to pieces this morn- ing"
 What do you think Is the matter?" 'T suppose it is because am broke"
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
GAVE HIS CANE AWAY!

Mir. s. P. Benton, Kerrville, Texas, writes: For several years prior to 1906 I suffered from kidney and rheu- matic troubles. Was bent over and
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18

The pope is said to live at the Vati- can on a very simple diet. as simple as that of the poorest tradesman.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
A Definition.

What Is an effective blockadew 'It happens when you don't tip the waiter"
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
Probably.

Are we peace-loving people because we chew chewing gum, or do we chew t because We are peaceful?
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
PAIN7 NOT A BlTI LIFT YOUR C0RNS
 OR CALlUSES OFF No humbug! Apply few drops then just lift them away
 with fingers.

This new drug Is an ether compound discovered by a Cincinnati chemist. Ii
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
SPORTING NEWS

ox Sh 1NS NE !" o
 The Kansas Agricultural College team defeated the University Of Nils souri at basketball at Columbia, Mo. 2G to 22. in Missouri Valley confer ence game.
 The Brush basketball five defeated the Fort Morgan squad at Fort Nor gan, Colo, by a score of 30 to 29 in one of the fastest games played in eastern Colorado in several years.
 Eight wrestlers from the University of Denver will meet the same number of mat artists from Colorado College in the first wrestling tournament be- tween the two institutions, March 23, at Colorado Springs.
 Hugh Clark, former worlds cham. pion broncho buster and lariat king, who for years has been closely asso- ciated with Cheyenne's annual From tier days shows. died suddenly from pneumonia at Casper, Wyo.
 C. H. Wingender, manager of ath- letics of the University of Denver, wired the athletic authorities of the Kansas Normal school of Emporia, Kan, asking for football game to bs played in the Kansas town on Nov g.
 Jack Dillon has accepted an offer from Denver 10 fight Les Darcy in that city within thirty days. The purse amounts to s20,OO0, according to word received from Jack Kramer, promoter of the National Athletic Club of Denver.
 Denver has been designated a na- tional tennis center, and in the fu- .ture will have an important part in the nationwide campaign undertaken by the United States National Lawn Tennis Association to further the de- velopment of young tennis players. GENERAL
 Four men were reported missing following an explosion which wrecked the enameling department of the branch plant of the Ford Motor Car Company in Cincinnati
 Ten men from the coast cutter Yamacraw. it was determined, went to death in a raging storm off Ocean City, Md, in a futile effort to save the crew of the oil steamer Louisi. ana, aground on a sandbar.
 The Kentucky Senate unanimously named as traitors the United States senators who defeated the armed neu- trality bill through filibustering. The Senate also assured President Wilson of Kentucky's loyal support. The House took similar action.
 Dr. c. Hanador Chakiaberty, Hindoo physician, and pr. Ernest Sckunner, 34, described as a German, were ar. rested in New York on charges of conspiring to get up a military ex. petition against a foreign country on friendly relations with the United States. The police say the men con fessed that they had plotted under the direction of Wolf yon Igel to in wade India by way of China
 Four arrests of alleged German plotters within twenty-four hours in New York added startling revelations to the story of Teutonic activities in the United States. the first chapters of which were written by Boy-Ed, Von Papen. Won Igel and Tauscher.
 Capt. Johann B. Klattenhoff and eight officers and men of the German steamer Lebenfels were indicted by a Federal District Court grand jury at Florence, s. C-, on charges of having deliberately sunk the warbound Hansa line freighter in Charleston harbor Feb I.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
WESTERN

Chicago Is swept with the worst scarlet fever epidemic in years
 An unusual number of Germans have collected in Sonora. Mex.
 A blizzard, with snow three feet deep, was reported in Nebraska Tues day.
 Hogs reached the highest price ever recorded in the United States March ', when they were quoted on the live stock market at sl5.O0Il5.l0.
 A case of infantile paralysis has been discovered in northeastern Colo rado, it became known at Cheyenne. The 3-year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. simon of Chalk Bluffs is the vic tim.
 A jury composed of six women and six men was completed at Seattle Wash. in the trial Of Thomas H. Tracy, charged with the first degree murder of Deputy Sheriff Jefferson Beard at Everett. Wash.
 Deputy Sheriff Frazier Of Greeley, Colo, went to Cheyenne and took into custody Joe Jackson and Ben Board ley. two negroes wanted as witnesses of the gun duel which took place at Eaton, Colo, and in which Amos Shep- ard and Claud Bright. the principals, and three other negroes were wounded.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18

British attacks cease on Ancre and Somme fronts.
 PetroSrad reports Russian capture of strategic summit in Persia.
 London reports British twelve miles from Bagdad after capture of vast stores from Turks in eighty-mile rout.
 A motor machine gun company of the Thirty-third Michigan infantry, commanded by Captain Crossman, was sent to Fort Hancock. Tex. to protect that town from possible Villa raid
 Two German submarines that re gently returned 10 their base sank fifteen steamers and seven sailing vessels, aggregating 6i,5O0 tons gross, the admiralty announced at Berlin.
 Americans in Belgium are no longer detained in any sense by the German military authorities, according to a final report received at the State De- partment from Minister Brand Whit lock at Brussels.
 German submarines returning be- tween March and from their opera dons made reports indicating the sink ing of vessels with an aggregate ton mage of 2Oi,000, according to the Over seas News Agency (the official Ger man news bureauD
 IL was reported at Fl Paso. Tex. that Villa forces made a demand for the surrender of Juarez, urging Gen eral Murguia 10 give battle outside of the town in the event of refusal to surrender, in order to prevent inter- national complications.
 Announcement was made at the presidents palace that message had been received there stating that Jose Miguel Gomez, former president of Cuba, had been captured with his en- tire staff by Colonel Collazo, com mander of the government troops.
 Austria's reply to the American re quest for a clearer definition of her attitude in the submarine situation while supporting Germany's ruth less" sea war, was stated officially in Washington to leave the door open for further negotiations, delaying temporarily at least the break which has been regarded as inevitable since the severance, Of relations between the United States and Germany.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-18
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 ei0N coUNrRiEs
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNos AND HAPPENINGS TRAY MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF ThE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-30
GARMENT COMPANIES
MEET UNION ARGUMENT
Arbitration Board Is Told Granting of
Demands Would Force Opera
tion at Loss

Mayor Smith and the rest Of the arbitra-
tion board that Is engaged in an effort to
settle wage dispute between the lnterna-
tional ladies' Garment Makers Union and
garment manufacturers this afternoon
heard the argument of the latter in answer
20 demands made by the union.
The argument for the manufacturers was
made by Congressman John h, X Scott, as
representative Of the Waist ana Dress
Manufacturers Association. He answered
terdays meeting OF the board by Morris
Hllquit counsel for the International
Ladies' Garment Makers Union.
The demands of the workers, branded as
excessive by Congressman Scott are an in
crease of fifteen per cent in wages for all
pieceworkers increase of 81 to SO to sal
aried employees, based on the length Of time
since they had the last raise. and a mini
mum salary to cutters 70 grade from S2750
TO Sl2 a week
The members of the arbitration board. In
addition to Mayor Smith, are Judge John
NJ Patterson. Director William Wilson
George w Haney and DR.. n. L. Stone, of
New York, former chief statisticlan of the
United States tarif board. The board is ex-
pected TO announce its decision In the very
near future
Congressman Scott insisted that the man+
ufacturers could not accede 10 the demands
without continuing business at a financial
loss. To this statement Hllqutt replied
that if the manufacturers have not as yet
readjusted their business to meet the gem
eral advances in everything else, they are
behind the times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-30
OSCULATING "OSWALD"
ROUTED BY HATPIN GIRL
Police Now Hunt for Gentle
Hugger Who Terrorizes West
Philadelphia Maids

Detectives and women Of West Philadel-
phia have gone on q search for Oswald.
the EugEer." q man who has been terruri2-
Ing women in that section of the city during
the last month by following them into
dark places along the streets, huggiug them
and leaving them quickly after kissing
them on the cheek.
Some of the women residents i'm FIFTY
sixth and Fifty-eighth streets in the neigh
borhood Of Carlton street and Wyamsing
avenue. have expressed intentions of arm
ing themselves with long hatpns and eyen
small rsvolvers in preparation for the mans
attacks
Miss May Roach and Miss Sarah F'lem-
ing, who reside near Fifty-siNth aud Carl
ton streets, were successful in driving the
man away with hatplns. While they were
on their way home shortly after dusk, the
man, who wears light overCuat and a
slouch hat pulled over his eyes stepped
lightly up behind them, and without warm
ing, put his arms around Miss Fleming and
hugged her
She screamed and Miss Roach was quick
with her hatpn. The man ran away
Miss Anna Moore, Of Fifty sixth street
and Wyalusing avenue, was another victim.
with her mother, she was walking home
shortly after dark, when the man came
behind them and grabbed her lie tried to
kiss her. She screamed and frightened
him away,
Police Lieutenant ellis. Of the SfXty-frst
and Thompson streets station. said today
the man probably will be arrested in a
few days the police believe they know who
he is. They have heSitated to arrest him
he said, because Of the difficulty in having
him identified
HE hasn't injured any one" said tile
lieutenant His actions have not been vto-
lent. In fact, he has been comparatively
gentle That is why they have dubbed him
Oswald rather than Jack, the IIuggcr.'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-30
ALERT TELEPHONE GIRL
FOTLS TOLL BOX THIEF
Young Woman Sends Police to
Logan Station in Time to
Save Cash

Tho red signal light flashed constantly
In the switchboard operated by Nelhe
walsh. 56l5 Bayuton street In the NeN-
stone Telephone exchange at COLON street
and Germantown uyeuue. Quick iuNeslga-
ton showed that the receiver was OIL the
hook at the Logan station ON the fhlladtl-
phla and Reading Railway
Miss Walsh called up the Brauchtown
police station "r'o to the Logan station,
she said ~ think there's something wrong
Policemen Beusc and White rushed to IN"
station In time to see q man tearing the
telephone cash box from the wall lie
jumped through q window, ON seeing the
police. and ram along the railway tracks
with the buN tightly clutched in his arms
The police fired several shots, but 1t was
not until they got ncomfortahly close
that hr dropped the box His pursucrs Kept
up the chase. but the man ciuded them in
the heavy fog witch curtaincd the tracks
ON returning to the station with the
cash bon. which contained about $40 th"
police saw a strange man lettering about
tho pace Although he drnlrd that he
had any connection with the mau who
tried to- steal the cash boz. he was arrested.
The prisoner said hc had been visiting 90
young woman in the neighbnhoud. This
proved to hc true. but. nevertheless he was
held In bail for further hearing
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-30
JONES IGNORES BILLS,
HIS WITNESSES ADMIT
Ousted Mayor of Coatesville Is
Honest, However, They
Stoutly Declare

WEST CHESTER. Pa. Jan. 3o.-lt wa"
testified against cX-Mayor Walter l.. W.
Jones at his trial today that In some circles
he had reputation for not paying his
bills
This is the second and probably the last
day Of his trial for alleged rmhr2zlement
and falsrcation of his accounts when
Mayor
Ills first character witness was Coates
villc's city solicitor. Walter r. Greenwood,
who defended .Ioness reputation for honesty,
but don't mind saying he sometimes failed
to pay his bills"
cor showed no disposition to-" mterirc:ed
Colonel Holding. Of counsel for the prose-
rutiun
Thereupon started an argument about
what paying of bills had to do with ones
honesty and Judge Butler observed from
the bench that "a great many people are
not disposed 90 pay their bills, and Yet ar"
not really dishonest "
The defense started Offering character
witnesses after cN-Mayor Jones had been
under severe crOss-eNamnatlon, He took
tile stand Immediately court opened and
was kept there for almost two hours
Most Of the cross-eXaminatiOn had to do
with the keeping of his bank accounts. lie
testified his personal and maNoraltN ac-
counts were kept as one Jones testified
he banked all Of his S5OO-a-ycar salary,
saying he had no need for it because, of
other incomes His baseball team helped,
he said as did the proceeds he got from
selling a laundry business he had been in
terested in at one time. lie made good
witness for himself. even under Cross-cN-
animation and seemed to explain away sew
craI mysteries as to what he had don" with
moneys received
The prosecution was bent on making
much out of the fact that Jones took away
with him when he left office the docket book
in which he kept a record of fines and
police deposits but city Solicitor Green
wood testified that this had been the custom
in Coatesvillc, as had been done by eN-
Burgess Shallcross
Several witnesses mentioned ,Ioues's
penchant for ignoring his bills, but they
all testified that his honesty was not to be
doubted.
some of the character witnesses said
they had never heard anything against
Ioness good reputation except from will
liam Tregay and men of his faction. Mr.
Trcgay is chief counsel against Jones i'm
this ease. one man testified that Tregay
had threatened to run Jones out Of town IF
he won at TN, election Reference was
had to the election at which Jones was
elected Mayor. being oustrd because the
election was declared Illegal
Gossip from Coatesville says that if
Jones is acquitted he surely VIII be elected
Mayor at the special election soon to he
held The same gossip says If he is CON
victed the choice for Mayor will he between
the Rev. r. W. Mckinney and A. H. Swing
Jim" Pugh does not seem to figure much
in the reckoning. Every one is wondering
to whom he will flop before election day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-30
BoURsE MEN OFF FOR CAPITAL
Delegates to Attend National Council
of U. S. Commerce Chamber

Emil ?. Albrecht secretary Of the Phla-
delphia Bourse has left for Washington to
act IS the Bourses substitute national coun-
clor at "A meeting Of the National Coun-
ell Of the Chamber Of Commerce of the
United states. at which the program Of
business for the nrth annual meeting Of
the trade body win be prepared The an
rual sessions viii begin tomorrow and con-
tuue unt1 Friday night. when President
Wilson win address the various delegates
Tho Boursc viii be represented at the
sessions by eleven other delegates who will
leave for Washington late this afternoon.
They are George r.. BartoI president
Walter Wood. Francis B Reeves William
@ Hampstead. Lincoln X rassmore and
Franklin d'Oler. from the board of di-
rccturs. and \ y. County. Joseph WAYNE.
Jr Jonathan r. Jones and John w Lib
0rtou from the membership
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-30
ROCKEFELLER'S S125,O0O
GIFT TO SWARTHMORE
Friends of College Believe 1t Will Be
Added to Endowment or
Dormitory Fund

Those in touch with affairs of Swar,h-
NOR" College. which has received gift Of
Sl25OuO from John -. Rockefeller eN-
pressed the belief today that the money
would bc placed in the endowment fund
It is also possible, many believe. that the
money will be used toward erecting an up
to-dute dormitory or as the nucleus of a
fund for q modern home for the girl uu-
dergraduates.
endowment Of StOOO.OOO by 1918. Between
$780, 900 and S5uOOoO was raised during
the last year
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-30
Five Wills Probated

Wills probated today included those of
Andrew Catherwood Craig, Jr., 222 South
Thirty-ninth street which. in private be
quests. dispOses of property valued at
$l6s, 500; Albert a, Outerbridge 7O4S Ger
mantown avenue, $4,000; Anna ). Il, Fox.
1924 South Hilton street, $74lO; Henry G.
Jones 1901 Ludlow street, $4,000. and Alex
ander NJ Gillian, 227 East Logan street.
S29IO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06
U-Boat Problem
Solved, Says Head
OF Navy Advisers
Hindenburg' S Boast
Of U-Boat Immunity

The American supply of war
material to the Entente has al
ready reached such a magnitude
that any further increase appears
to be hardly possible, and now it
is proposed to raise an army Of
100000 to 100000 Of men. To
equip such an army and at the
same time to supply the Entente
on the present scale appears to be
impossible. The material assist
ance given to the Entente cannot
be very great within any measur-
able time, and it is the task of our
U-boats continually to diminish it.
If the British feet, with the help
of The French, Italian, Russian
and japanese navies, has hitherto
been unable to overcome the
U-boat danger, the American fleet
will not succeed either. The En-
tente has no weapon against the
U-boats. The sea barrier con-
tinues with growing effectiveness.
The more ships there are on the
ocean the greater will be the
U-boats' booty.-From an inter
Uiew, the delayed jul tert Of
vhich is printed on page 8.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06

the broad shadowland of generalities
and linguistic subtleties, lying between
the earlier indefinite declarations and
the realm of plain statement regard
ing the governments aims and peace
policy.
At least this would appear at present
10 be his intention, judging by the in
spired Berlin dispatch in the Cologne
Gazette" This declares that nobody ac-
quainted with the difficulties Of for
eign affairs in war one coalition
against another see in the
Chancellor's refusal to commit himself
either to an imperialist programme
Of conquest or to the socialist plan of
remuneration, evidence of weakness. and
that the Chancellor, confident that the
great majority of Germans are with
him. will continue 10 follow mis- old
course, not Yielding to the pressure of
the Right or Left.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-06
Bids for "Liberty Loan" $50O,O0O Minute

Washington May 5-The Treasury buried to-day
meath avalanche of subscriptions to the Liberty
days pace $2OOOOOO0 hour qucened almost $780,
900 minute and became that the 100000 Of
would be oversubScbed beyond all previous
Compilation Of the actual Of subscriptions received
to-day beyond the physical of the present working
staff Probably onefourth Of the offering already has been
spoken Officials listed subscriptions received =
permitting the large bundles of kilograms received thereafter
and found that during the hours of working
elapsed since the last compilation the country had
scribed $729S3000 additional bringing the grand total for
the two days up exclusive of replies
yet be listed.
Subscriptions listed yesterday and to-day represent the offer
ng of the total number of financial nst
which Secretary McAdoo placed the offering forty
eight hours Should the ratio be maintained the
will have subscribed approximately
$65O00000O0 worth Of bonds, oversubscrpO OF than
As many of the larger financial institutions have
eegraphed their subscriptions however officials inclined to
believe that the present ratio will hardly be maintained
lDetaHs Of Loan Subscriptions on PAGE .