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Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
Lone Bandit Makes Haul

James Arthurs, proprietor of a
restaurant at 221 West Eighth
Street, Wilmington, was held up
about 2 a. m. last Tuesday by a
young white man who forced him
to open the cash register and hand
over it's contents, about $40. The
robber entered as a customer left
and ordered two fried eggs. Ar
thurs, who was alone, turned to
fill the order and was struck on
the head with a blackjack. Turn
ing to grapple with the stranger,
he faced a revolver and heard the
command Hands Up! Hand over
your Cash" Arthurs obeyed and
the man backed to the door and
ran as he reached the street. Ar
thurs called officers who sought
the robber but failed to trace him
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
Rob And Fire Barber Shop

Fire early on last Tuesday morn
ing Quilted the barber shop Of
Joseph Papillo, at GOA Madison
Street, Wilmington. Mrs. Antony
Barone, owner of the property,
who occupies the second floor, was
aroused by a fretful child and
smelling smoke heard noise like
an explosion on the lower floor.
She called her husband and going
below they heard the front door
close with a slam, and later police
men found a key sticking in the
door lock. The fremen with some
trouble, confined the flames to the
building. The police think thieves
rifed and fired the shop. Papillc
was on trip to Atlantic City.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
Fired On Guest At Table

Joseph Jordan, a well-to-do
farmer, living on the Newport road
near New Castle, waived a hearing
in the City Court in Wilmington
on Saturday on the charge of
deadly assault upon David A. Nc
earns, a flour and feed dealer of
Wilmington, and was held for the
Court of General Sessions in
81 1000 bail Both men had been
friends and McCarns on Tuesday
of last week visited Jordan's home.
He was sitting at the dining table
when Jordan rushed in and opened
fire upon him with a revolver. The
bullet grazed McCarns head and
the powder flash scorched his
face. He knocked Jordan down
with a fist blow and took away his
revolver, put him in his automobile
and brought him to Wilmington
where he turned him over to the
police. He says he knows of no
reason for the assault. The police
are reported as saying that Jordan
admits the assault and justified it
by making a serious charge
! against McCarns.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
Rrisked Drowning For Freedom

The home of James Burris at
Bowers Beach was raided on Sun
day morning of last week by Of
fcers from Frederick and Milford
who seized fourteen quarts of
liquor and arrested Mrs. Burris
and James Smith. Burris leaped
out of a second story window in
his night clothes into the St. Jones
Creek and started to swim to the
other side but turned about and
called for help AS he disappeared
it was thought he had been drown
ed. Mrs. Burris and Smith were
brought to Jail in Dover. Later it
was reported that Burris had
swan down to the creek or rivers
mouth where a boat in the bay had
taken him aboard. Officers, how.
ever, failed to trace or locate him
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
STATE BOARD
ISSUES BULLETIN
Rats, Their Destructive Power
And Their determination

The State Board of Agriculture,
Dover, Delaware, has this week
distributed a bulletin on Rats, set
ting forth the damage to property
for which they are responsible,
and a discussion of methods of
Kidding premises of the pest. The
discussion opens with the state
ment of Professor Forbush, State
ornithologist of Massachusetts,,
that THE rat is the most expen-
sive animal that man maintains;
the forerunner of famine and
disease Dissemination of the dread
ed brichina and terrible bubonic
plague or black death, which has
slain it's miserable horror-stricken
millions since the dawn Of history,
and now has spread to the United
States. DR.. William Solby Rucker,
assistant surgeon general Public
Health and Marine Hospital Ser
vice of the United States, is quoted
in his estimate that the theoretical
increase of a pair of rats in five
years would amount to more than
$40 billions. So great is the des-
tructive power of this vast army
that in England a national society
for the destruction of vermen has
been Incorporated, and a great in
ternational society for the destruc-
tion of rats has been incorporated
in Denmark. Nothing of the kind
however, has been attempted in
America.
"A great national organization
with state branches, should have
been formed long ago in this coun
try" the bulletin declares, "to en-
courage the destruction of rats, tt
disseminate reliable information
regarding rat radiance and tx
organize continuous systematic
warfare against the pernicious
rodents.
Such an organization woult
have generous support if right!
launched, and might establish ;
deratization propaganda tn
would save millions of dollars ant
many valuable lives. Assistanc,
might be secured from State AM
national governments, and the or
ganization might become import
ant and useful in our national life
The Mayor of Boston now advo
Gates requiring the rat-proofing 0
buildings. DR.. J. R. Hurry, Stat
= Health Commissioner of Indiana
proposes to the business men o
t Lafayette, Indiana, that all rat
producing conditions be abolishe
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
DELAWARE WOMEN
IN CONFERENCE
Consider Ways Of Aiding The
Nation

Mrs. Charles r. Miller, chair
man of the Delaware Division Of
the Women's Council for National
Defense, together with the heads
of the various woman's organlza-
tions throughout the state, met last
week in the State House. The meet
ing was called by Mrs. Miller at
the request of Governor Townsend
for the purpose of discussing the
most practical ways and means to
be effected in aiding the nation,
through the state, in the conserva
ton of food and the registration
of the surplus labor, as we'll as
other matters pertaining directly
or indirectly to the conduct Of the
war.
The women present included
Mrs. Miller, chairman of the Della
ware Division of the Women's
Council for National Defense &.
Mrs. George P. Hall, state regent
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution; Mrs. Garrett S. Har-
rington, of Harrington, president
of the National Congress of Moth
ers; Mrs. Preston Lea, of the Della
ware association opposed to wo-
man suffrage; Mrs. George R. Hof-
fecker, president of the Delaware
Society Colonial Danes of Amer
lea; Mrs. William S. Hilles, chair
man for Delaware of the National
Woman's Party; Mrs. S. Harring-
ton Messick of Bridgeville, pres
ident of the Delaware Women's
Christian Temperance Union Miss
Anna M. Hook, chairman of the
Delaware State Association OF
Graduate Nurses; Mrs. J. B
Stubs, president of the Delaware
State Federation of Colored Wo
men; Mrs. Charles F. Wollaston
president of the Young Women'E
Christian Association; Mrs. Fred
erick Bringhurst, president of the
Delaware branch of the Women:
Auxiliary of the Protestant Epis
copal Church and Miss Mary P
Evans, of Smyrna, president of thu
Women's Presbyterial Society.
The women decided to worl
along the same lies that have beer
set forth by Hoover in his plan
for food conservation.
1t was decided to adopt the sam
plan of registration being conduct
ed by the police department o
Philadelphia. Cards will be dis
tributed for that purpose. Mrs
S. Harrington Messick was ap
pointed chairman for Sussex coun
ty, Mrs. L. Irving Handy for Ken
county, Mrs. Alfred D. Warner TO
rural New Castle, and Mrs. Pres
ton Lea for the Wilmington dis
trict.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
To Arms

Reprinted by request
To arms, to arms, the bugles sound,
Hark to our country's call;
The U-boats ride below the seas,
The battle planes ride on the
breeze
Arouse, We freemen, all.
Come all We sons of worthy sires-
Come brothers, tried and true,
At battle front to do or die,
And bear the banner, waving high,
The flag-red, white and blue.
We've heard the infants drowning
cry,
Have mark'd lone woman's
moan;
The ravaged town, the German
rage,
The murder'd youth, the murder'd
age,
The seas death-dealing sown.
We will not bend the servile knee,
All, we are freemen born
Or serve a master in our land,
Nor sail the seas at ones COM
mand,
Nor bear a victor's scorn.
When bid, the Kaiser's minions
fight
He plays the bloody knave-
But freemen we, our swords WE
draw
To guard our land, to keep oul
law
Seek vict'ry or the grave.
To arms, to arms, "Old Glory" flies
High sounds our country's call
We answer back, all ready we
To stand or fall for Liberty
Now forward, forward all.
Thomas Irons, every Evening
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
Use OF Late Ship
ped Fertilizers

Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege is recommending that fertil-
izer be used after planting in
all cases where it is not possible
to obtain the supply prior thereto.
The abnormal demand for fertil-
izer last spring caused serious de-
lays in shipment and it is extreme
ly advisable, therefore, that as far
as possible the crops should have
been planted at the proper time
whether or not the fertilizer is
available, making applications of
the fertilizer after planting, if
necessary.
with active soluble fertilizer
which can be applied on the sur
face, this is quite practicable. If
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
Old Guard Holds he Fort

The hold-over members of the
Wilmington School Board at it's
meeting on Monday night of last
week ignored President Miller and
the new members in the election
of committees and put through a
slate arranged by DR.. T. 0. Cooper,
who said eve are not willing that
a new man should come in here
and disrupt all that the old mem
bers have done"
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
Junior College Club
Holds Open Meeting

The Junior College Club of Will
mington has announced meeting
to be held in parlors A and B OF
the Hotel dupont on Thursday
evening, to which all persons in
terested in higher education are
invited. The purpose is to impress
upon graduates of grammar
schools the value of preliminary
investigation before selecting the
college which they shall attend.
Plans will be made, it is announc-
ed, for opening the way for ambf-
tious boys and girls who would
like a college course and who do
not see their way clear to receive
the proper encouragement.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18

the fertilizer is cultivated in or
scratched in with the weeder at
the first wedding, the first rain
will carry the soluble material
down where it is needed and the
usual satisfactory results should
follow"
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18

in that city, and that a city ordln-
ance be passed declaring the rat
a nuisance, and assessing, after a
given period, a fine of SIS per rat
against property owners on whose
premises rats are found. The pub
lie is beginning to awaken to the
rat danger"
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18

Rev. Raymond M. Cooke, pastor
of Stanton M. E. Church, who re-
signed to enter the Army Medical
Corps for service in France was
given a purse of gold at a fare
we'll service held on July 8.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-07-18
a Little Talk about Printing

Cheap investments Of nothing is this striking
y than of printing Every of affairs knows the cheap
little folder that in the morning mail Whether advses
farm machinery teed pumping ystemhe
gives cheapne Cheap cheap printing, cheap IDEAS
Isn't logical to conclude the are al
cheap? And the pamphlet travels Onslaught through from
mailbag to scrap basket.
But then too, there the little folder modest
pretenous to suit the vau of the the firms pocket
book Everything about we'll DONE It is we'll THOUGHT oft from,
cover typography and press are of the
BEST MY trim on the ob shouts everyone Somehow
the little folder seems too good to throw away We drop
drawer Tor reference and unconsciouy classify all that represents
with efficient service and thorough going business
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
WOMAN WILL BE FREED
IN SUICIDE OF HUSBAND
Had No Connection With Death of In
FAINT, Who Also Perished-Child
Victim of Weather

Coroner Knight has ordered the police
not to hold Mrs katherine Fox in Couucc-
ton with the suicide Of David Fox and the
death Of their eghtecn-month-old baby,
Raymond i'm a house at the rear of 252i
East Adams street. The woman, who is
Nwerty-three years old, had been driven
from the home by her husband after a
quarrel Saturday night and was living at
sol North Sixth street, trying to find work
when she read in the newspapers of the
death Of the man. the freezing to death Of
their baby and the serious condition of
their three -ycar-old daughter. Gladys who
is now in the Episcopal Hospital suffering
from frozen hands ana feet.
Tho Coroner said the woman could nos
be held, ana since She had surrendered to
the police OF the Twenty-sXth District she
was released on her own recOgn2anCc soon
after she told her story. She was taken to-
day to N undertaking establishment and
identified the bodies, The date for the in
quest has not been announced
1t was said Mt the hospital today that
Gladys will recover. II was at first feared
that gangrcnc would result from the frecz-
ing of her hands and feet in the house
where her father committed suicide by in
haling gas.
According to Mrs. FoX's story to the
police she and Fox Quarreed saturday
night because she did not want to go with
him 10 a movng-pcture show She was
finally elected from the house and could
not get in TO her babies. She went to the
North Sixth street rooming house.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
NO SHOES; CHILDREN
CAN'T GO TO SCHOOL
Bureau of Public Education
Learns of Poverty's Grip.
May Raise Fund

The reason so many children are not at
tending the public schools is because, tho
Bureau of Compulsory Education has
learned, they have no shoes and I'm many
instances few clothes
TINS condition of the city's poor children
was discussed at a meeting of a committee
of five school officials, Of which Dr John
+. CARRIER, head Of the public schools, is
president. today. They found that many
parents who are being prosecuted for not
sending their children to school have no
money TO buy them clothes and shoes and
are ashamed to send their children out OF
the houses.
Last year, It was made known there was
u fund Of $1,000. contributed by private
donors, to buy necessities for such children,
but this fund is virtually out of existence
and If another fund is not raised the chill
drcu will suffer for the rest of the winter,
according 10 the committee.
Plans for raising fund were discussed
by the relief committee today. Entertain
mcnts in schools and private donations
would help in large measure to raise the
fund said Doctor Garbcr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
SAYS DOPE HABIT
MADE HUSBAND A THIEF
Pleads With Magistrate to Send Him
to Institution for
Treatment

The plea that narcotic drugs had made
her husband a thief was made today before
Magistrate Baker in the Dickinson street
and MoyamensIng avenue station by Mrs
Samuel Rosen. AIS South Sixth street,
The womans husband was accused OF
stealing $40 and n diamond ring from the
apartment of Anna Yosefoon, s02 South
sixth street, II is alleged that he ran
from the apartment when Mrs. Yosefoon
caught him rihing her handbag Edward
Thomas, a United States marine, caught
Iusen and turned him over to the police
It is alleged that a bottle of heroin was
found in one of ROsen's pockets.
Drugs have poisoned my husbands
brain, and turned him into a thief" said
Mrs Roscn To Magistrate Baker. Won't
you please have him sent to some institu-
tion where he can be cured Of the dope
habit"
The magistrate held Rosen in $500 bail
for court.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR
STARTS PROBE OF VICE
Commerce Chamber and Citys Reform
Element Cause Naming of Com
mittce to Investigate

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Jan. 21.-A
drive against vice in san Francisco one Of
the last big cities in the United States with
n segregated district, was begun today.
Mayor James Rolph Jr, announced that
he would appoint a committee of twenty
five leading citizens to Investigate cundi-
tions in the gay restaurants and resorts and
return recommendations. lie acted at the
request Of the Chamber of Commerce, and
after a mass-mccetiBg attended by thou
sands of persons, who demanded that the
city be purgcd
No crusade since the days OF 40 has so
aroused officials and the public. Tho re-
form element asserted confidently today
that they were about to win by knock
out"
The bombardment Of the vice interests is
being led by the Rev Paul Smith. pastor of
the Central Methodist Church. and the Law
Enforcement League The clergyman is
directing his artillery against golden res
taurants. and the Law Enforcement League
is demanding tho elimination OF the no.
torious "BarbaTy Coast"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
DIAMOND Jndn EATS AGAIN
New York Sporting Character Recover
ing at Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Jan. s7.--Jsmss
Buchanan Brady the New York millionaire
sportsman, widely known as Diamond
jim" who was sent here last week by New
York specialists to recover from q heart
attack Of a serious nature has been ma
rooned in his room at the Shelburne by
order of physicians here. He has not been
permitted TO see callers or TO communicate
with friends except through his valet for
fOrty-eight hours.
Bradys condition, however. is said to be
eighty improved, and he Is regaininE his
appetite, tho complete loss Of which has heen
one OF the most grievous results Of his Ill
ness, from the Brady standpoint
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
VOTE FRAUD INQUIRY
COMPLETED in CITY
Evidence Obtained by Federal
Investigators to Be Sent
to Washington
PROSECUTION MAY ENSUE
Wards Controlled by Penrose and Wares
Under Scrutiny of Department
of Justice

A. Bruce Bielasd, chief of the Bureau OF
Investigation Of the Department of Justice,
next week will receive the report of two in
Vestigaturs who were sent here several
weeks ago from Washington to make an
investigation of alleged frauds in this city
ut the last presidential election.
These reports will he submitted Ivy Chief
Blelaslu to United states Attorney General
Gregory. Should the evidence warrant
prosecution it is probable that Mr. Gregory
will communicate with the United states
Attorneys here and in the western part OF
Pennsylvania.
The investigation which has confined to
certain wards in Philadelphia which for
years have been controlled by the Ware
and Pcnrosc wings of the PENNSYLVANIA l'e-
publican organization, was made by TWO
members of the Department Of Justice. one
of the operators made his headquarters
while I'm this city i'm hotel in the central
part of the city. His identity was not
known TO division leaders and henchmen
among whom he associated This operator
left for Washington last Saturday evening.
During tho investigation the operators
worked constantly under the orders of the
officials of the Department Of Justice in
Washington. Their presence In this city
was known, however, to the Philadelphia
branch of the Department of Justice. In
uuiry made today at the offices of the De-
partment of Justice in the Federal Build
ing about the investigation brought the
admission that such an investigation has
just been completed.
Some Of the evidence taken back to
Washington by the operators was that
which was submitted TO them by a special
committee OF which Roland $. Morris for
mer chairman of Democratic state Commit
tee Is chairman. This evidence was OBJ
tained by special committee from the
Committee of Seventy,
Nine indictments have already been
handed down against machine politicians
I'm Cincinnati by the Federal grand jury for
aiding and abcttiuE I'm crooked elections,
Among those indicted was one man holding
state position in Ohio and three men
holding CITY nosLtona I'm Cincinnati.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
City News in Brief

sTORK BROUGHT "a baby girl to the
Twelfth and Pine streets police station A
woman entered the station last night and
said she was III. Police Surgeon Francis
r. Taylor was sent for, and five minutes
later the woman gave birth to a baby girl
Mother and daughter are in the Jefferson
Maternity Hospital
AN AGED AIAS walked into the Twen-
eeth and ButtonwOOd streets station and
years old an inmate of the odd Fellows
Home Seventeenth and Tioga streets. He
had been missing since Thursday, but was
unable to explain his wanderings.
GAS CAUSED THE DEATH last night
of George van Dusen eighty years old, l4S
Mannheim street. According to DR.. George
+. Souwers, 100 Mannheim street, who pro-
nounced him dead he had been Ill for
long time with softening of the brain. II is
thought he turned on the gas in the stove
and forgot to light it. He is survived by
his widow,
CONCLUSION OF THE BRAIN was suf-
fered by Macsalf Pietlckl, eight years Old
4753 Cambridge street, when he was run
down In front of his home by an automo-
bile driven by Samuel Slook twenty-five
years old 47O9 James street, last night,
Slock was held in $500 bail 10 await the
childs injuries by Magistrate Deltz IN the
FrankfOrd police station, The enid IS IN
serious condition in the Frankford Hos
pitaL
RECKLESS FIRING Of a revolver caused
the bolice today 10 arrest William Marrzi
twenty years old, of PAS South Ninth street
According to a boarder, whose room is be-
meath that of Marrzi, a. shot tore through
the ceiling this morning and barely missed
him. Nicholas POrreca, Of 925 Passyunk
avenue. was IN the room with Marrzi and
was held b. the police
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
SAFE DRAGGED QUARTER
OF A MILE; $500 GONE
No Clue to Thieves Who Broke Into
Grocery at Fifth and Dun
cannon Avenue

Thieves who broke into the Bell grocery
store. at Fifth street and Duncannon ave
nue.. early today. carried a 3o0-pound safe
for a quarter of a mile TO a vacant lot
pried it open and took the weeks receipts
of 5000.
Investigation by the Branchtowh police
following the discovery of the theft when
the employees arrived for work. failed to
develop a clue 10 the "Sandows" They
forced their way through the side door and
hid behind the counter while a lone pedcs-
trian passed on his way homeward, and
then carried the safe where they could
open 1t with a crowbar
NeiEhbors told detectives they had noticed
three strange men lettering i'm the vicinity
of the store late yesterday,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
WILSON, WELLS AND LIPPMANN
AND THEIR PARALLELS or THOUGHT
Wilson:

Wilson,
January wrote Victory" speech
which delivered United
States Senate January %
Wells:
Early November which the Presidents
speech closely parallels thought
The the
January 25.
LippH2uER:
Editorial in Republic credited to him appeared in dated
cember % entitled "Icacc Without Victory
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
TORONTO AIDS WITH MILLIONS
Canadian City Raises S3,259,OO0 for
Soldiers Needy Families

TORONTO, o., Jan, 27.-Wlth vertabIe
army of workers-men, women and children
Toronto and its cnyrons in four days
gathered together S3,2590S0 for it's pa
triotic and Red Cross founded to help support
families of soldiers who have gone overseas.
Tho mark set for the campaign was
S25OO,0OO. Several large United States con
Germs doing business in Toronto contributed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27

unfuried from windows But oid Glory
wasn't forgotten BY these oelebrents. The
American Tag wac visible at every place
where the German ooiors were flying.
The regular reception held on the BIRTH
day OF the German Emperor took place
today at the offices OF the German Consul
Dr. George stobbe II was attended ~
attaches Of the Austro- Hungarian consuiats
in this city and others.