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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
U. S. LAUNCHES 4
MIGHTY PLANS
TOCURBU-BOAT
Congress Asked to Give
President Sweeping Pow
ers in Crisis
WILL INCREASE SHIPPING
WASHINGTON. May 5.

WASHINGTON. May 5.
Awake at last to the submarine peril.
Congress today prepared to enact measures
placing every available resource and energy
of the nation at the Administrations dis.
posal in combating the undersea opera tions,
Powers more drastic and sweeping than any
ever possessed by any ruler in the history
of the world will be conferred upon the
President to fight the submarine menace
If leaders have their way.
The Administration will lay before Con.
gress on Monday bill. drafted by the
Shipping Board, designed to increase snip
building to the highest possible degree. II
will provide not merely for the com.
Wandering of all shipbuilding facilities
but will authorize also the requisitonng
of all necessary materials for ship con-
struction. 1t is hoped by this method to in
crease the output of American shpyards
sufficiently to Offset the destruction by sub.
marines.
DRAFTING OF SHIPS
This measure is entirely separated from
the pending bill authorizing the COM
Wandering of all craft, from motorboats
up to liners, for naval purposes. The pend
Ing bill Is designed to enable the Govern.
ment to mobilize all craft and designate
them for the service in which they will be
most useful TO the national interest
Meanwhile, the Senate is awaiting action
of the House on the resolution 1t passed
several days ago formally authorizing the
President to take over and put into use all
German and Austrian ships now in Amer
lean harbors. The resolution will enable
the Administration to put to sea shipping
estimated to be about the equivalent of one
months destruction by German submarines
Senator Simmons, chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, was ready today to
ask immediate consideration of the S50-
600, 900 war risk bill to provide life and
accident insurance to the officers and crews
of American merchantmen lost during the
war The bill is sponsored by the Admin
istraton and will aid i'm getting ships
crews for voyages through the barred zone
it is believed.
FOR SEPARATE BOARD
Senator McCumber. of North Dakota. is
leading a determined fight in the Senate for
adoption of "a resolution creating a board
of merchant shipping defenses to study
the undersea warfare and devise methods
of combating the submarine. The resolu-
ton carries an appropriation of S5,0000O0
to conduct experiments and Investigations
Of inventions to defeat the submarine. Sem
ator McCumber takes the position that the
submarine cannot be defeated by "over-
feeding" and that it is folly to build more
ships and load them with costly cargoes
merely in the hope that they will be made
too numerous for the German U-boats.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
ROSIE LEWIS IN AGAIN
Woman Has Been at Correction
Many Times

of Correction. She was committed there
today by Magistrate Wrigley. The sem
tence was three months. The charge was
intoxication and creating disturbance
along Kensington avenue.
I'm again." said Rosie when she heard
her sentence. Just how many times Rosie
who gives her age as fifty, has been locked
up for intoxlcation she doesn't remember.
The police records show that she has been
arrested at least fifty times.
The last time that she was committed
to the House of Correction was April 20.
She was released April 90 after promising
to abstain from liquor forever. She kept
her promise until midnight last night
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
CHICAGO in ADIEU,
TO JOFFRE PARTY
French Marshal and Pre-
mier Salute Thousands
on Shore Drive
DEMOCRACY IS KEYNOTE
CHICAGO, May 3.

CHICAGO, May ..
Vice Premier Viviani Marshal Joffre
and the French commission today bid
farewell TO the sea Of flags and the roar
OF cheers which marked the first two days
of their tremendous reception By the mid
die West here and, after the big stock
yards mass-meeting this afternoon, will
carry their message of war to new con
quests.
The West awoke today to the sound of
the voice of embattled France pleading for
Americas aid in a world war for free.
dom"
The French war makers themselves,
tucked away amid the luxurious furnishings
of Charles r. Cranes home on Lake Shore
Drive, awoke to a realization that the
West Is for war to the finish
Formality and excmsyeness were swept
aside in the program of the day for Viviani
and Joffre.
Come to US. American brothers. Come
and fight side by side with your French
brothers" was the keynote of viviani's
appeal ..--.,-..--,
for the democracy of the world and show all
men that when the rights of a single ma
ton are violated the rights of all nations
are tran pied under foot.
HELPED FROM FIRST
From the first you gave US the benefit
of your moral support because you are a
great democracy. and we are great de-
mocracy; because in Europe and in France
there are free men who We're thus agreed
in soul to raise yet higher the flag OF de-
mocracy before the rampant of an autocracy
which is tottering to its fail
Absolute monarchies imagine they can
conquer other peoples by the marriages
they make and by placing on all the thrones
of Europe their relatives and representa-
tives. This is not democracy. And this
they cannot do
Waving the Trcolor and the Stars and
Stripes. massed humanity made q living
lane from the Crane home down the broad
Lake Shore drive to the Art Museum, the
Chicago today.
VISITORS SALUTE THRoNGS
Joffre, in field gray. and Vivian in a
black business suit and derby hat, saiuted
and bowed from their big car as they swept
by the cheering throngs. Other thousands
lined the winding course of the party's
parade through the Loop district at noon,
and solid blocks of humans filled the streets
in all directions as the Frenchmen rolled
up to the University of Chicago for lunch
con.
Following a mid afternoon drive through
the boulevards and parks of South and
West Chicago the long line of big cars will
whizz down to Dexter pavilion. that huge
meeting place of tho common people in
the heart of the stockyards district.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
Chilian War News Ridiculed

SANTIAGO Chill, May 5.--The report
that the Chilian Minister at Berlin had de-
manded his passports excited only ridicule
in official and parliamentary circles here.
The same effect was produced by another
report that a secret compact between Ger
many and Chill was being considered. 1t
was stated anonymous persons were ex-
plotting the credulity Of the republic with
absurd news.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
PAGEANT IN BABYLON
POSTPONED BY CLOUDS
Final Feature of Baby Week Put
Off Until Next Sat
urday
SOME INDOOR EXERGISES
SOME INDOOR EXERCISES
Business Men Told
OF BABY Mortality
Baby Weekday l to 6, 1917

Baby Weekday l to 6, 1917
MIR. BUSINESS MAN:
1V1 Do you know that the infant
mortality rate of city is an accepted
index of the prosperity of a city?
This is a fact.
Do you know that Philadelphia has
reduced it's infant mortality rate in
three years from 1918 per 1000
living births to 1901? Is not this
good business?
Are you doing anything to support
citizen agencies and the Bureau Of
Health in their fight for the protec-
ton of babies?
The Bureau of Health needs $50
more nurses.
The citizen agencies cannot work
without money-baby health is pur-
chasable.
Does this interest you?
Faithfully yours, -
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
STOCKHOLDERS MUST PAY
Assessment Ordered in Interest of
Creditors of Bankrupt Concern

Referee In Bankruptcy s. Conrad OFT in
Camden today issued an order empowering
Joseph C. Haines. trustee In bankruptcy for
the New York and Philadelphia Package
Company. to Assess the common stockhold-
ers Of the company to pay the creditors.
\ Ths oompapy failed on April ~. 1914
vim eiatms against Il amounting 70 Sl%.-
~ -. ~. aGo91a were rnelk feere Are
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
SEMIPUBLIC PHONES

Schedule for individual-line semipublic
eephones-Individual line with coin-col-
lecting device, station equipment intended
for places more or less public, but not
proper locations for the company's regular
public telephones Local and toll messages
are charged for at regular public telephone
rates. The company's public telephone
signs may be displayed at the subscribers
option. Effective october /:
Flat annual charge. s12; daily guarantee for
local MESSAGES at &c each. 1Oc; minimum annual
charge. s4S,5O.
A revision of the schedule of rates for toll
and long-distance service is effective June
2l and its effect will be to place on an air
line-distance basis and to equalize the rates
for toll and long-distance service between
ali points in Pennsylvania and between
PENNSYLVANIA and Delaware points. AS
result OF adopting the uniform schedule
few rates are slightly increased, but far
greater number of rates are reduced. Taken
as a whole, the revision of toll and long
distance rates between points in Pennsyl-
vania is estimated to reduce the annual
revenue of the companies by approximately
| s250,000.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
LOST AND FOUND
HELP wANTED-FEMALE
General

to study transportation, to
take the places OF young men who wiil be
railroads are preparing now TO MI with girls
the positions of enlisting young men. We can
helm You increase your earning power. Call
at our bureau. N E, cor. 18th and Spring
Garden sts., any day before p, 10, national
Trafnc Service Bureau.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
BUSINESS RATES

Extension station
Local messages beyond 2iOO per annum when
contracted for in advance in lots of 800 &c each.
BUSINESS RATES
Business wholesale message rate, indi-
yidual line schedule effective July Under
this schedule the subscriber is required to
agree that If he sells messages his charges
therefor shall not exceed the established
rates for similar services at the company's
public telephones.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05

Local messages beyond 4500 per annum, when
contracted for in advance in lots OF 500. &c
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION


PHILLIPS, May a, JOHN c.. husband Of
Phiisaeiphla isdsss No. lS; 81 q i. r. TsTmI:
vania Railroad invited TO services, Tues, 2 y.
m, se0a Melon stso 81 Int l., Ivy Hin Gem Friends
ENGLE,@May 4, CHAkLEs E., husband Of
Margaret Enss sses M nsss snG irsnaS
Invited to funeral, Mon, p m, Si5 L, Wildey
st. Remains may be viewed Sun. after p m
LOST AND FOUND
Friday ols fSS So0 Win aooIS aSIHs
~ TRACK Double Pan Doig Mailer, in 1st-olass
condition; Immediate delivery. 0irard Box
Co 18th ST. and Washington ave.
HELP WANTED-FEMALE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05

HELP WANTEs,-MALE
BLACKsMITH HEI.PERs wanted on heavy
wagon work Apply Y. II. Ware, 1900 q. Broad
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05

MACHINERY AND TOOLS
ioSa Lsss PsDss Co, astA and Vine sss
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-05
Warns Nation of Biz
Steal in Coal Prices
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
Bile anthracite operators and from the
miners representatives that this will be
year of unusually large production
"The mmission IL assured that there Is
no reason why May prices should not con-
tinue for the season and be subject to the
usual summer discounts, forty cents per ton
in May, thirty cents In June, twenty cents
In July and ten cents In August.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
AMERICAN TROOPS
LANDED IN FRANCE

Washington. The advance guard Of
the mighty army the United States Ia
preparing to send against Germany is
now on French soil,
A total Of four contingents OF Amer
lean troops has reached the American
naval base In France. Only measer
dispatches from General Pershins and
from General Sibert, who commands
the force, have reached Secretary Ba'
ker A great fleet of transports was
used 10 convoy the American regulars
across the Atlantic, They were pro-
tected all the way by some of the
mlghtiest fighting ships of the Amcrt'
can navy,
No formal announcement of the
landing came from the war depart
ment None viii come probably until
Maior.Ge eneral Pershing's official re.
port has been received. Then there
may be a statement as to the numbers
and composition of the advance guard,
Weather conditions during the en-.
tire voyage were ideal, and the men
arrived in excellent health. The days
we're warm and the nights cool and
comfortable, while the sea was uu'
usually smooth, Very few cases OF
seasickness or other illness was re-
ported,
The voyage was made ON schedule
time without any serious mishaps to
men or machinery, The port of ar
rival was known by less than a score
of officers until the ships were almost
within sight Of land.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
NUMBER 4
NEGROES SHOT AND
BURNED BY MOBS
Many Killed and Big Property
Damage In East st. Louis
Race Riots.

East 81. Louis. Ill.-Fires burning
In five sections OF East st. Louis and
at least 20 dead negro bodies and
crowded hospitals testified to the ter.
ror that reigned here Monday night
while mob after mob swept the streets
seeking negroes whom they might
slay.
Five negro sections OF the city were
fired by mobs. and terroriEed negroes
fled from their burning homes only to
meet bullets from the guns OF the
rioters.
The orgy Of butchery and incendiar-
ism. which seemed to have exhausted
itself shortly after midnight. broke
out anew Tuesday forenoon.
Further shooting was reported by
the police. while several fires burst
out again in the blocks Of blackened
ruins left by the mobs.
Tuesday morning. "a bodies. incIud-
ing those OF three white men. had
been recovered The death list Is
placed at all the way from 30 to $50.
and II is estimated that the injured
number 300. More than 500 white
men were arrested and disarmed dur
ing the night.
Eleven companies Of the Illinois
national guard. numbering about 1900
men, patrolled the streets at daylight
with fixed bayonets, with orders TO
prevent any assembly Of people on
the streets.
The property loss due TO the riot.
ing was heavy and will amount to as
high as 100000.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
EUROPEAN WAR NEWS

With Irresistible force, British
forces are closlrg around Lens Gain
Ing d mile Of front on a four mile line
was reported by General Haig. besides
captures In prisoners and machine
guns.
Russian troops have broken forward
across the heights on the western
bank OF the Stripa In Galicia and sue.
oeodcd In extending northward the
gap they made In the teutonic lines
the previous day. German army head.
quarters has announced.
The Russians also made night at
tacks on both sides Of Brezezany and
near Zwyzyn and Berlin reports as.
saults between Zlota Lypa and the Ma.
rayuyka. The artillery arm OF the
Russian forces has been active and
from the Berlin report II is learned
that an intense duel has been in prog
ress from the region OF Brezezany to
az far northward as the middle Stok.
hod in volhynia. a distance OF about
l75 miles.
The French armored cruiser Kieber.
1878 tons, has been sunk off PoiEt 81.
Matthew while on her way from Dakar.
Africa, to Brest. She was destroyed
by a mine, with the loss OF IS men,
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
RAILROADS LOSE
IN RATE DECISION

Washington interstate com
merce commission has denied the plea
OF the railroads OF the United States
for a horizontal increase of Is per
cent in freight rates.
In its decision the commission in
dicated its willingness to increase
class rates in the eastern district ap-
proximately IA per cent. Since about
one.fourth of the freight handled is
moved under class rates, the decision
virtually allows the eastern lines
about 4 per cent increase in gross
freight revenue. Increases sought in
rates on coal. coke and iron ore will
be granted
The commission found. as a result
of extended hearings, that the carriers
generally show a substantial and in
creasing financial prosperity, and that
they have ample resources with which
to conduct transportation.
The opinion intimated that n re-
hearing would be of no value at this
time, but said that relief will be grant
ed within the next few months II the
carriers meet adverse conditions.
The commission finds that the
gloomy forecasts Of jeopardiEed In.
comes, seen by railroad officials early
in 1917. have not been borne out by
the fisures availa hl0 for later months
The proceedings were brought in
March, when the returns from Febru.
airy we're just being made. February
was one of the worst months in rail.
road history. The subsequent months
have shown increasing revenues,
while expenses have in many cases
failed to mount to the extent the car.
riers' officials feared.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06

pany. granted to David C. Ecolcs. head
Of the Oregon American Lumber com
pany. on January "a, awaits only the
return Of John Dubois. head Of the
selling company. from the east.
Official notice that the option, which
expired July /, was 10 be concluded by
purchase was given by Charles T.
Early. Of Portland. manager of the
Eccies timber interests IN Oregon. to
j. X. Gamble. secretary OF the Dubois
Lumber company.
Attorney General George NJ. Brown,
State Engineer John II. Lewis and Su.
perintendent OF Banks S. c. S-rgeut.
the commission created by the irriga-
ton securities law OF the 1917 legisla-
ture. have just returned from trip
of inspection preparatory TO putting
the securities statute into effect for
the first ime, The irrigation securl.
ties act provides for the formation Of
irrigation districts by agreement and
vote OF the property owners within
any designated and agreed houndar,
les, II also provides that districts
may issue bonds, the same as school
or port districts, 10 bring water to the
land.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
DRY LAW NOW EFFECTIVE
Reed Amendment Prohibiting Ship.
ment Of Liquor is in Force.


Washington. n.-Twenty-three states
became bone dry" at midnight Sat
urday, the hour at which the Reed
amendment prohibiting the shipment
of liquor into any territory where its
manufacture or sale is prohibited be-
comes effective. These are the states
wholly affected by the act:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colo
RADIO, Georgia, Idaho. Iowa, Kansas,
Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont,
Virginia, Washington and West Vir.
ginia,
Those partly affected are California,
Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
New Hampshire, New York, Ohio and
Texas.
The law bars from prohibition
areas, whether states or smaller cor
poTations, all mail matter containing
advertisements or solicitations for or.
ders of intoxicants. in order to sup
press the activities of mail order
houses.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06

pcnetrating the French nrst line
trenches near verdun over a front Of
nearly a mile and a half but were i'm
medintely driven out
Fearful losses were inflicted on the
attackers. and the net gain was a
small bit OF ground held on the west
slope OF Deadman's hill according to
the official report
ON Friday evening. west Of Dead.
mans hill. the RGermans powerfully
assumed the affeHSs~e-ea. a front Of
about a mile and halt" tho state
ment said. THE assault was by pick
cd troops in furious attack, but en-
crgetic counterattacks drove them
out everywhere with the exception of
the western slope of Deadmans hill"
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
PRESIDENT ISSUES
ARMY DRAFT RULES

Washington, Regulations to gov
ern the next step toward selecting a
national war army from the millions
registered for service ON June 5, were
issued at the direction of President
Wilson.
Upon organizing the local boards
will take over from the registration
boards all registration cards which
they will number serially and list for
posting to public view. Then, after
having been advised of the method
by which the order of liability for
service shall be determined and of
the quota to be drawn from its terri
tory, each board will prepare list
of persons designated for service in
the order of their liability, post the
list, give 1t TO the press and within
three days send notice to each desig-
mated person by mail
AS the men so notified appear, the
boards first will make physical eX-
animation in accordance with special
regulations to be provided bearing in
mind that all persons accepted by
them will be reexamined by army
surgeons.
Claims for exemption because OF
dependents may be made by the man
himself, his wife or other dependents
or by a third party who has person
ally investigated the case
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
streetcar Dives in Niagara Rapids,

Streetear Dives in Niagara Rapids.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.-Nine persons
are known TO be dead, two persons
known to have been on the car have
not been seen since the accident and
probably are dead, an indefinite mum.
ber, estimated at from two to ten, are
reported missing and more than a
score are in hospitals, suffering from
injuries, when belt-line car on the
Great Gorge route left the rails.
plunged down a 2O-foot embankmenl
and turned over in 10 feet of water on
the edge of the Whirlpool rapids.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
Mhea, PIT VII se Closed.

Chicago. - Government plans for
food control, according to a statement
given out by President Griffin, OF the
board Of trade, includes absolute con.
troll Of the wheat trade in all its com
mercial aspects. There can be no
speculation In IT, Buying and selling
of other grains for present or future
delivery will be unrestricted.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
CHINA HAS NEW MONARCH
Military Chief PIaees Boy Emperor
on Throne.

Pekin.-Early Sunday Hsun Tung,
the boy emperor, was taken into the
imperial palace under the protection
of General Chang Hsun and placed on
the throne. The legation quarter OF
the city is under a heavy guard and
the troops of General Chang Hsun are
intermingling freely with the Pekin
soldiery.
General Chang Hsun is maintaining
the strictest order and no trouble In
Pekin is feared.
II is expected that President Ii
Yuan Hung viii resign.
According to an edict issued in the
name of the young emperor, President
Lii Yuan Hung has submitted to the
monarchy.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
Socialist Parade PreeIpI.a,es Riot

Boston.-Riotous scenes attended q
socialist parade here. which was an
nounceh as a peace demonstration.
The ranks OF the marchers were bro
ken by self-organized squads Of I'M
iformed soldiers and sailors, red flags
and banners bearing socialist notices
we're trampled on, and literature and
furnishings In the socialist headquar.
ters in Park square were thrown into
the streets and burned.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
sattleship Idaho is Launched.

Camden, N. J.-Another monster
fighting machine for the navy took
the water from the yards of the New
York Shipbuilding company when the
superdreadnought Idaho, sister ship to
the Pennsylvania, flagship of the At
lantic fleet. was successfully launched.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-06
Relations Cut BY Greek government

Athens--The Greek government has
broken diplomatic relations with Ger
many. Austria.Hungary. Bulgaria and
Turkey. Though war has not yet been
declared. the Greek government con.
siders that a state 4 war exists.