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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
THRONGS LINE STREETS
AT STRIKERS FUNERAL
Thousands Watch Procession as
Body of |. w. w. Leader Is
Borne to Church
MANY TRIBUTES AT BIER

Several thousand persons. including many
strikers and their wives and children. were
massed along the streets today in the sugar
strike zone when the funeral procession Of
Martinas Bedaeziczia, L. w w leader,
Killed by a pOliCemans bullet in rioting
last week, passed from Lithuanian Hail.
92S East Moyamensng avenue TO St CAST
mir Roman Catholic Church, Fourth and
Wharton streets.
The police estimate that fully / 600 per-
sons participated in the funeral procession
Each participant in the funeral cortege
wore n red rose, purchased from the l.
w. w. strike committee for ten cents
The proceeds OF the rose sale will be used
to detray the funeral expenses.
There was no demonstration of any kind
along the route of the procession. Scarcely
a sound or a movement came from the
thousands who watched the hearse pass by
with its burden. Tears streamed down
the cheeks of the wives of many of the
strikers who stood at the curb with their
infants In their arms. For the most part
the faces Of the men were stolid after the
manner of the Polish people. They showed
their feeling by their calm. Many of them
did not seem to be looking at the cortege
at ALL but gazed elsewhere in a brooding
manner. There was no demonstration, even
when the procession passed the Moya-
menSing avenue and Dickinson street sta
tion. The bullet that killed Beda ezczia
was HIeu DN an unluentlned policeman from
this station. Many Of the strikers had
places of vantage on house roofs others
stood in doorways, or peered out of win
dows. In the procession were more than
200 negro longshoremen, who went on
sympathetic strike three weeks ago. The
longshoremen wore red roses and also l.
W. w. buttons.
More than two hundred uniformed police
men were scattered along the line of march
and forty or more plain clothes men from
city Hall mingled with the crowds and
watched for trouble.
1t is estimated by the police that between
II a. m yesterday and ! 0 a. IN. today more
than $4,000 persons viewed the body of
Bedaezicia it lay in state in Lithuanian
Hall. Following are some OF the inscrip-
tiOns on floral tributes which were banked
about the coffin: Fallen In the Working
mems Struggle: I'VE Never Forget" our
Brot Ter; From Your Brethren" A striker
carrying an American flag led the process
sion. He was followed by a band of twenty
pieces which played Chopn's funeral march
Six flower girls, wives of strikers preceded
the hearse, st. Casimirs Church was soon
packed to its capacity, and the police were
obliged to push their way in. There was
solemn high requiem mass, with. the Rev. j.
J. Kaulkis officiating. Interment was in
Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon. Delaware
Connty Many strikers and their wives
went TO the cemetery in special trolley
cars
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
HUSBAND HEiRS-AT-LAW
WIN IN NEW TRIAL PLEA
Sisters and Other Relatives Will Have
Another Chance to Beat
Widow

The controversy over the will OF the late
Thomas j. Husband, Jr., the magnesla
king, who died in 1913. was reopened this
afternoon in the Supreme Court. The case
has been in the courts twice before.
When Husband died he left a widow and
no children. His will set forth that the
estate. valued at 100000 should go to
his helrs-at-law. They are Anna NJ. Hus-
band and Mrs. Margaret Comfy, sisters, and
children OF a deceased sister. Catharine
II. Husband, the widow, contended that the
will was n forgery. She contested II In
Common Pleas Court No. l. In the first
trial the verdict was in favor of the heirs
at-law. second trial. in December, 1915,
resulted in victory for the widow
The appeal to the higher court was taken
by Maurice b. Saul and John G.. johnson,
representing the heirs-at-law In his
opinion ordering a third trial Justice Pot
ter reviews the circumstances OF the con-
test and sustains the contentious of At
torneys Johnson and Saul that there were
errors in the charge of the trial Judge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
PHLADELPHIA'S DOPE
FEEDS ADDICTS IN WEST
Ralph Oyler, Special Agent, Re-
turns From Roundup of
Fiends in California

The bulk OF the morphine heroin and CO.
caine sold llicity on the Pacific coast comes
from Philadelphia. according to the findings
of officers OF the Internal Revenue Depart
ment, who have just completed a cleanup
of the dope tratlickers of California
The Philadelphia narcotics are shipped to
a little Mexican town called Tia Juana and
then smuggled over the border into Cali
fornia by agents of the dope syndicate.
Ralph Oyer. special agent for the Treas
ury Department at Washington. returned to
Philadelphia today after Il thrilling eX-
perience covering two months among the
dopesters in the West. Before he left the
Pacific coast Oyler brought about the ar
rest and conviction of eleven of the biggest
drug dispensers in California: In an opium
den in san Jose he held off eleven Chinese
armed with knives until the arrival of the
police.
Oyer employed the same methods in
California that he used several months ago
in Philadelphia to round up the dopesters lie
went into the underworld of san Francisco
as Toledo Johnny" and became the COM
panion of slaves of the drug habit To
make his role Of dope" fiend seem real
Oyler had internal revenue officers arrest
him with other addicts in raid on n
dope" joint This made him "solid' with
the members OF the dope ring. 1t was while
he was playing the role of Toledo Johnny"
that Oyler learned Of a plan to smugge a
large consignment of narcotic drugs over
the Mexican border into California This
consignment included 500 ounces of CO.
cane 100 cans of opium and large quaint.
ties of morphine and heroin.
Oyler notified Governor Cantu, Of Lower
California, and in raid on the head
quarters Of the dope ring at Tia Juana n
Chinese smuggler and Mexican policeman
Were killed and several Chinese were
wounded
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
MET AT FRIENDS WEDDING;
THEY WILL MARRY TODAY
Sister of Detective Geonnotti Was Serv-
ing as Bridesmaid When Intro
duced to Bridegroom m-to-be.

A romance that started a year ago this
afternoon at 4 o'clock will result today in
the marriage Of Miss Irene Geonnotti,
twenty years old, sister of city Hall De-
tective Geonnotti, to Ernest Nenefi of SO
Passyunk avenue
The bride-to-be was serving as brides
maid at a wedding on February % last,
when she and Nenefil were introduced.
Miss GeonnOtti will wear the same dress
this afternoon which she wore at the in
PRODUCTION. The wedding will take place
at the Church of st. Mary Magdalen de
Pazzi. Seventh and Montrose streets. Mon
signor Isoleri will officiate The ceremony
will be followed by reception at Lyric
Hall, Sixth and Carpentsr streets to which
prominent Italians have been invited
Miss Rose Frederick will be bridesmaid
and Joseph De Campo will serve as best
man. Following their honeymoon the couple
will live at 633 Carpenter street, across the
street from the brides present home at 62s
Carpenter street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
THAW A LUNATIC,
MOTHER COMEDIES
Gives Up Long Fight and
Asks Appointment of
Commission
CALLS SON IRRESPONSIBLE
Court Asked to Protect Stanford
Whites Slayer From His
( Infirmities

Mrs. Mary c. Thaw. mother OF Harry
X. Thaw, today filed a petition through
former Judge Gay Gordon in Common Pleas
Court No. 5, asking for a lunacy commits
sion to inquire into the sanity Of Thaw.
Ellis Ames Ballard was appointed COM
missioner. The writ is returnable the first
Monday in April 1t is believed that the
petition was filed TO head off action con-
tomplated by New York authorities
Prior to the filing of the writ, the Thaw
family made II known through two state
ments that they had abandoned all efforts
Zone statement was issued by former
Judge Gordon and the other by Mrs.
Thaw.
In her statements. the mother of the
slayer of Stanford White makes a pathetic
acknowledgment of her sons insanity. This
mother. who for years has stuck TO her
son through thick and thin and expended
q fortune to save him paying the penalty
for his rash acts. confesses at last that
her son is IAN irresponsible man, whom
the law must guard" She now appeals TO
the courts of Pennsylvania TO protect her
son from his inflrmities.
CONVINCED WATCHING IN HOSPITAL
The mother states that she became con.
vinced of her sons insanity after living
six weeks with him at st. Mary's Hospi-
tai where Thaw has been convalescng from
self-inhicted knife wounds He was taken
there following his attempt to end his life
after he learned that detectives were search
for him with warrants, charging him with
kidnapping and maltreating a boy.
In his statemnt Judge Gordon says that
Mrs. Thaw has no wbecome the principal in
proceedings TO have Thaw adjudged insane,
sand his person and estates brought under
the judicial authority of the State of Penn
sylvania. He states that he has seen the
District Attorney of New York and invited
him to send his own medical experts here
20 see Thaw and examine his condition.
"Since the attempt on his life,' said Cor
don '"Thaw's mental state has been so en-
feebled that rational conversation with him
has been impossible. Memory, speech and
Thought are so impaired that he is mental
wreck.
Doctor Kirby, who has him in medical
charge. and whose ability and dsinterested-
ness cannot be questioned. has gloomy tor-
hodngs as to his future
MRS. THAw's STATEMENT
Mrs. Thaw's statement follows:
.'I am unable to resist the facts that
demonstrate my sons insanity. While the
truth shocks me. II also plainly points the
path of duty For isx weeks l have lived
with him at the hospital where he was
taken because of his self-inflcted wounds
and now l know. as l never knew before
that my son is an irresponsible man whom
the law must guard Therefore to the
courts of my State-of his State-l have
applied to help a mother protect her son
from his infirmities. With this statement
should like to CLOSE all discussion OF the
Affairs of me and mine"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
NATIONS PATRIOTISM
QUESTIONED BY ABBOTT
Cleveland Cathedral Dean Says
1t Will Come as Country
Grows Older

The patriotism Of America was ques-
toned today by the Very Rev, II. +, Al
mon Abbott, dean Of Trinity Cathedral,
Cleveland, O., wso was the speaker at the
midday lenten service in the Garrich The
atre.
In one respect" he said, 1--WE are not as
patriotic as other people The reason for
this is the great immigration Of recent
years. The process of assimilating these
foreign peoples into American civilization
has not Vet been completed. But Amcri-
cans, whose fathers have been here for
generations, who fought in the Revolution
airy and civil Wars, are the keystone Of
our national conference and upon them much
depends"
Dean Abbott said however, that we have
every reason to believe that this assimila-
ton will eventually be brought about and
when it does we will have a nation that
will be second TO none in patriotism
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
BOYCOTT SENDS
PRICES TUMBLING
Action of Nations Consum-
ers Brings Figures Down,
Washington Says
GREGORY PUSHING PROBE
Determined to Obtain Jail Sen
tences as Example to
Spectators
GREGORY PUSHING PROBE
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.

NEW 1ORk, teb. 70.
Food prices went tumbling today
when 2S1 carloads of fOodstuffs arrived
in New York and broke the corners
which had been existing for weeks.
Onions, selling at S14 and SIS bar
rel q week ago, today were sold for So
and 80. Potatoes last week commanded
S1O.5O and SlI.5O barrel, but today
they were obtainable at as low as $3.50
barrel.
Florida potatoes arrived on the
market today and sold for $3.50 bas-
ket, a price lower than that at which
other potatoes sold on Saturday.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.--An unplanned
but wel-enforced nationwide boycott by
consumers already is reducing the prices OF
foodstuffs. This in spite of the fact that
no action yet has been taken against the
spectators by state or Federal authorities.
Reports reaching the Department Of
Agriculture today indicate that potatoes
and onions, leaders in the "skyward move
ment." are quoted in the larger cities to-
day at lesser figure than on last Wednes-
day, when the situation became most acute.
1t also is reported by the agents of the
department that the market everywhere has
absolutely fallen fiat result OF the
general understanding by the consumers.
In consequence many wholesalers, loaded to
the guards with foodstuffs of all sorts which
they have been holding for highest prices,
are said to be anxious to unload before
spring foodstuffs in sight from the
South and tho Pacific coast.
1t was stated officially. however, that this
relief was probably not of a permanent
natt nd ha N IN n
operations of the Department of Justice.
That department is continuing its investiga-
tion with a view of the criminal prosecu-
tions which have been promised by At
torney General Gregory. All Federal at
torneys throughout the country have been
instructed to prosecute violations evidence
of which is in their possession without de-
lay. And if this evidence can be used to
better advantage in State Courts, they have
been authorized to turn II over to local
officials. The position of the Administra-
ton in the present crisis is declared to be
that a few convictions. with Jail sentences,
would send prices tumblng down.
Chairman John j. Fitzgerald, of the
House Appropriations Committee, has not
abandoned his fight against an appropria-
tion of 100000 urged by President Wilson
for an investigation of the high cost of
living by the Federal Trade Commission.
He was today lining up Democrats to
vote against the Borland amendment to
provide for the food inquiry when the sun
dry civil bill comes up on its final pas
sage, insisting that such an investigation
would be useless.
Representative Borland scored only a
temporary victory Saturday night when the
House in committee of the whole voted
eighty-three to fifty-one to adopt his
amendment giving the Trade Commission
almost half a million dollars and more than
half years time to find out IL food cor
porations are violating the antitrust law.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
BALTIMORE SCOURS
COUNTRY FOR PRODUCE

BALTIMORE Nd, Feb. 26.-Twenty-odd
five-ton and seven-ton trucks of the city
departments will be sent out into the con-
tiguous counties to gather in farm products
In Baltimore's move to help smash the cor
ners in foodstuffs This was decided upon
by the board of estimates at meeting in
Mayor Prestons home, when tentative plans
were drafted for cutting in under the exor
bitant prices The board will meet again
later today to whip its plans into shape.
The trucks will be sent TO the various mar
ket houses and the produce sold right over
the curb" at cost" figures Upwards Of
twenty-five per cent, 1t is expected, will be
cut from the current retail prices.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
S. P. C. A. ELECTION ROW
POSTPONED BY COURT
Complainants Fail to Perfect Contest
Charging Frauds, and Attorneys
Agree to DELAY

No action resulted today. when court
opened, in the contest between factions 7of
the Woman's Pennsylvania Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals in dispute
over the recent election.
The victors in the election were TO havs
made answer today to the charges of tbs
defeated faction that the victory OF The
other side was due to ruthless, Illegal and
improper" proceedings.
James J. Breen, attorney for the COM
plainants, did not succeed in obtaining serv-
therefore their ATTORNEY George WentworS,,
csIx Ina42 n cnexsy 2 ths eharwss III
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
VALUE OF PRAYER THEME
OF LENTEN SERMON

The value of prayer and warning against
hypocrisy apply to man today just as they
did 1000 years ago, when Christ gave His
message on prayer to the Jews, warning
against hypocrites, according to the Rev.
DR.. Elliot White of St. Marks Episcopal
Church, who talked today at the MONDAY
Lenten services at Christ Church.
Prayer is special prerogatlve. Only
good men. peniteut men and angels can
pray" he said Animals cannot pray. Bad
men cannot pray. Prayer is an intensely
real and personal thing-a communication
with God 1t is not time for frivolity. our
Lord does not condemn public prayer, but
he advises us 10 go in a room by ourselves
when we pray
Prayer Is hard work" he added, but II
is putting hard work where il will do the
most good. 1t is a natural result. 1t Is
the necessary consequence Of exercise of
faith"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
WELCOME TEMPTATION
AS TEST FOR TRUE MAN

The Easiest Way" was discussed by the
Rev Dr. Charles J. Smith, of Trinity
Church, New York, who spoke at the Lenten
service in Old ST. Johns Church, Race and
Sixth streets, today
Temptation is a much hated word these
days" he said, "and it goes far to soil our
modern nicely We stink from it rather
than receive It with JOY;
Temptation comes from the assayers s
office in Heaven, As man tries gold to see
whether or not it is pure in turn he is tried
to see whether he is pure
'"The experiment is dangerous to the man
who may be weak. 1t is full of delight to
him who may be strong. True Joy comes
indeed to man. the servant, who is weighed
in the balance and is not found wanting"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
PRETZEL PLANT FIRE
DOES HEAVY DAMAGE
Reading Blaze Caused by Crossed
Wires-Police Investigate Previous
Outbreak of Flames

READING. Pa, Feb. 26.-Defcctive wir-
ing at the siegler & Etchberger pretzel bal-
cry here caused a serious fire, with a loss
of several thousand dollars. early today.
large amount of -four. stored in the
building. was burned.
City and State officials will make a thor
ough investigation into the cause of the
fire. which occurred at Bright a Co.'S hard
ware store In the heart Of the city early
Sunday morning, causing a loss of more
than 100000. Telephone calls were sent
70 three nrs compsniea before an alarm
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-26
Just "Spuds"

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-The first lower
Ing of food prices as a result of New Yorks
war on the increasing cost Of living came
in a slump in potato quotations of from
| seventy-hve cents to one dollar pushei
wholesale.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-A boycott on po-
tatoes and onions was declared by the WIZ
| liamsburg Branch of the Mothers ANU
High Price League in New Plaza Hall
Brooklyn, last night
CHICAGO Feb. 26.-Potato boycotts' 70
bring the lordly price of spuds down 70 .
| lowly price, have started in Chicago nus
| pitfalls, asylums and homes.
At three hospitals. four institution,
homes and in households in the. congestea
| districts, the fight to bring down the prioo
| of potatoes by abstaining from their uss
was inaugurated on the suggestion %
| Health Commissioner Robertson, VINO sal.
"a real boycott will knock the price Oh
| potatoes into a cooked hat in week.
MAUCH CHUNK. Pa, Feb 26.-Farmessss
| throughout this county are demanding ss'sv
bushel for their potatoes in their cel.
| lars. and are not anxious to sell at thA'
price. believing they will go higher. 49,.
Many families and some commuhu,s-
| have boycotted the tubers, substitutes
cheaper articles of food. n
SOMERSET, Pa, Feb. 26.-The marse'
value of potatoes in Somerset has been ~
| fated to the extent that the tubers are sup-
| planting the precious metals as mediu'n
| of exchange. For two bushels OF potatoes
one of the leading grocery establishmeI's
| in the town adyertises that Il will give "'
| following merchandise:
| Twenty -fve-pound< sock OF flour, pow
! Of coffee. two pounds 6f evaporatcd peac1
1 ten cakes Of cokp, one Atin6re1 -poun1
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-09-13

At meeting held at Winona Tues
day night, attended by nearly every
taxpayer of the town, measures were
taken to employ the best legal tai
ent available to contest the effort of
the Colorado, Kansas & Oklahoma
Railway to obtain permission from
the state utilities board to tear up its
tracks between Russell Springs, the
county seat of Logan County and
Winona. The Winona township
board, j. G. Felts, Claude Postal and
H. c. Waterman, and J. F. Light,
cashier of the Winona State bank,
were named a committee to employ
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-09-13
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The Big Free Fair at Topeka open
ed Monday with record breaking
attendance.
The weather bureau at Topeka
announces that the danger of frost
for the( present is over; that there
will be days of sunshine for many
days.
Motor thieves are becoming too
numerous at Saint John and the Of
ficials are out with big sticks.
Out of % divorces secured in But
Ter county last year the applicants
came from 22 women and three men.
Allowing more than 80 of the dis
trict schools to neglect English in
struction in favor of German in Mar
ion county and violating the state
law is the charge made by the Kansas
Teacher, the official organ of the
State Teachers association, and that
paper doesn't like the idea one bit.
A 300 foot vein of rock salt has
been struck at Lyons at a depth of
TAB feet. A salt plant will soon be
in operation and will have capacity
of $1,000 barrels day, which makes
makes it about the largest known.
There is shortage of farm labor in
central Kansas.
Word comes to Topeka that every
coal shaft in Usage county is now
shut down, operators being unable to
sen their product at the price fixed
by the government, without loss. 1t
is stated that there is no coal even
for home use now, and the near APP
proach of cold weather makes the
situation serious one. DIR. H. A.
Garfield, the coal director of the
government, at the urgent request of
Governor Capper, who went to Wash
ington to confer with him two weeks
ago, has asked the coal operators of
Usage county for data to show that
coal cannot be mined in that field
for S2.55, or even $3.50 per ton, as
fixed by the government schedule.
The coal mine operators of Usage
county were urged by Governor Cap
per, after his conference with Doc
tor Garfield, to submit to the federal
director scale of living prices at
which coal can be mined in that field.
Recently the operators made affida-
Wits which have been forwarded to
Doctor Garfield.-Topeka Daily Cap
ital.
A box containing boots and shoes
addressed to Wichita shoe mer-
chant leaked when unloaded from an
express car Monday and an investi-
cation showed that besides the mer-
chandise the box contained a gallon
of whisky in bottles. The box had
been shipped from Kansas City, but
the merchant disclaimed all know
ledge or ownership of it when Of
ficials called on him.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-09-13

The network Of wires which bur-
dened the poles on the streets and
avenues in the business section Of the
town is being removed this week by
the telephone company. All the tele-
phonic connection is now made with
the cables buried in the ground and
the wires will be used in the residen-
tial section and on the country lines.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-09-13

attorneys to fight the application
The Colorado, Kansas & Oklahoma
Railroad runs from Garden City,
Kansas, on the Santa Fe north
through Scott City on the Missouri
Pacific, to Winona on the Union