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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
CHICAGO PRIEST IN
JERUSALEM VANGUARD
AS Chaplain in the British
Army He Was Present
When Holy City Fell

American Catholics generally, and
those Of Chicago especially, are jubilant
that Catholic priest who was raised
In Chicago was in the vanguard of the
twentieth century crusade which re-
suited in the recovery to Christianity
Of Jerusalem, the Holy City, from the
barbarians.
The Rev. William Raphael Ludford,
raised and educated in Chicago, was
chaplain in the British army under
General Allenby which wrested the
shrine of Christendom from it's German
and Turkish defenders, not until after
the sacred relics Christians venerate had
been defiled. and profaned, but still pos
session has been secured; and while
many of the mementoes of the Passion
and Crucifixion of Christ will grace
Turkish harems in Asia and German
castles on the Rhine, Jerusalem is now
in Christian hands and will undoubtedly
so remain for all time. Even IL Ger
many should ultimately win the war. it
Is not considered likely that the Ger
mans, as putative Christians, would dare
TO demand the recession Of Jerusalem
to Turkish control.
Father Ludford's parents and sister
still live in Chicago at 23 Bellevue
place. Since the beginning of the war
he has been a chaplain in the British
army. For six years prior'to it's out
outbreak he was vicar general of the
cathedral at Port Louis. Island of Mau-
ritius. He was appointed chaplain in
1914 and was sent with the British
forces in Egypt. Last spring he was
sent on a special mission to China and
Japan at the conclusion of which he
was given a furlough and spent July
and August with his family in Chicago
returning to Egypt in September.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
WAR BRIDE WORKS
Waitress in a Restaurant to Be Near
Soldier Husband

There is one little California war bride
who has a world of pluck. She is Mrs
Betty Tuttle. of Berkeley, who Is work
ing as a waitress in Tacoma restau-
rant so she may be near her soldier
husband, who is member Of the $3.50
Infantry.
II believe It is the duty of every war
bride to be near her husband" said Mrs
Tuttle. II don't mind being waitress
az ALL 1t was a little hard to learn to
balance tray of dishes, but / can be
near my husband until he leaves for the
trenches. l only wish that were o
man and could look forward TO fighting
IN France.
Il don't know what I viii do when
he leaves, Tacoma people have treated
me fine, and my husband wants me to
temain here until he returns. guess
mats about the best thing for me 70
%. have always called my husband
Daddy and 1 win miss him when he
leaves.
Il suppose all of us must make sacri-
nees. never had a position where
was treated with so much consideration
and then, you know Daddy Is with the
sesd Infantry and see him quite often
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
INLAY CLAIMS TO BE
A MODEL TOWN

Next stop is INLAY; twenty minutes
for lunch"
INLAY, the only town Of it's kind on
earth. A freight division point on the
Southern Pacific Railway about thirty
miles west of Winnemucca and just the
other side of Humboldt House.
INLAY is a railroad town of about 800
population, n town where all the build
ings look alike and all the inhabitants
talk about being transferred to Sparks
or ogden.
Inlay is a model town in some re-
spects and peculiar in others. There
are mo- saloons in Inlay; consequently
no jails. There are no lawyers, no doc
tors and no red light district. . There
Is no church in INLAY and no cemetery
on its outskirts. INLAY has no theatre
and no pawnshop. Every one eats three
meals a day and everybody works for a
living.
Next stop is Inlay; twenty minutes
for lunch. Carson Weekly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
MORE UNREST FELT
in SLAV CAPITAL
Added Privations Depress Peo-
pie and Garrison's Senti-
ment Is Divided

PETROGRAD, Jan. 1s.-The con-
stitucnt assembly is due to meet today.
The moderate Socialist parties are or
ganizing n great demonstration in de-
fcnse of the assembly. Meanwhile the
commissioners continue 10 arrange for
the meetings Of the All-Russian Con-
gross Of Worimen's and Soldiers Coun
Gil and the Peasants Congress. which
are TO be held, respectively, on the 21st
and 2sth.
If the constituent assembly Is allowed
to meet, il will be confronted by or
ganizations which are supposed to rep
resent the will Of the proletariat The
authority Of the assembly is already in
a great measure discounted.
The extremists have two problems to
face--to obtain immediate peace and to
feed the populations OF Petrograd and
the provinces OF northern Russia. which
do not grow corn. They may be sue
cessful in the first, but the second
seems beyond the power of any one, for
even if food were available transport
breakdown Is inevitable ana mas al
ready partly occurred.
A feeling Of unrest again is felt, The
tramways have ceased running since
Saturday for want Of fuel, This i9 n
great Inconvenience to the population.
the tramways being the only means of
communication. Increasing multiplicity
of annoyance IS gradually having its
effect even on the patient people of
Petrograd.
The electric lighting is uncertain. on
some days full service Is given, on Others
whole districts are left dark The sup
ply OF parnffin which is used for cook
ing and lighting. has temporarily ceased
owing to the chief depots being
showed up.
The daily bread ration is 5h ounces
which is insufficient when potatoes cost
double, or two shillings (about fifty
cents) n pound
The feeling of the garrison is becom
ing more divided. The commissioners
cannot place full reliance in it as they
could a month ago hence the signs are
all pointing to renewed unrest and pos
sbly new trouble.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
FRANCIS LEDWIDGE, POET
OF WAR, DIED IN ACTION

II IL be true that those whom the gcds
love die young, how layishly the
divinlties are bestowing their affections
without irony, however, the world be-
lieves that young poets who are killed
in war are the darlings Of the gods. 1t
believes that q certain immortality
awaits those who sing sweetly and die
nobly before their prime. During the
last three years It has taken signal pains
to do homage to four soldier poets in
particular, not TO mention others less
gifted or less we'll known-Rupert
Brooke, Charles Sorley. Alan Seeger,
and last but not least, the peasant
poet of Ireland, her youngest son of
light, Francis Ledwidge, who was killed
in action in Flanders on July 81, 1917
Lord Dunsany, poet and patron Of
poets, discovered Ledwidge in June, 1912.
He advised him, and sponsored his first
volume. Songs of the Fields" which
appeared in 1915, christening as well as
sponsoring his second volume, Songs
of Peace" of 1917. He was strictly
Lance Corporal Ledwdge's Captain" "
I'm the Fifth Battalion of the Royal In
nislSilling Fusilliers. In not immoderate
introductions of sincere praise Lord
Dunsany spoke Of his proteges qualities,
hailing him as "the poet Of the black
bird" a highly appropriate epithet !;
commenting on his easy fluency of
shapely lines" predicting that readers
will turn TO him as to a mirror rejecting
beautiful fields. as to a still lake, rather.
on a cloudless evening; and rejoicing
that Meath and the Boyne and Ireland
at large had the peasant poet for whom
he had long been looking, for almost
only among the peasants was there lin
daily use a diction worthy of poetry,
as well as an imagination capable Of
dealing with the great and simple
things that are poets wares. Their
thoughts are in the springtime, and all
their metaphors fresh.''-Lewis Chase In
the January Century,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
U. S. WAR COUNCIL
URGED in SENATE
Director of Munitions
Also to Be Called for
in Bill
COORDINATION SOUGHT
Would Create Body of Five
Members, Including Baker
and Daniels
COORDINATION SOUGHT
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1a.


Legislation to create radical changes
in the Governments war machinery. in
Guiding an American war council similar
to those of England and France and n
director Of munitions is being framed
by the Senate Military Committee.
Two bills-one proposing the war
council Of five members, including the
Secretaries Of War and Navy and three
civilians appointed by the President. and
a second to centralizo munition control
in a director of munltions-were pre-
rared yesterday by a subcommittee con-
sisting of Chairman Chamberlain and
Senator's Hitchcock and wadsworth. II
is planned TO present the munltion di-
rector measure to the full committee TO-.
day and Immediately to introduce II in
the Senate for early consideration, with
the other bill to follow soon after.
Chairman Chamberlain announced last
night that the committee virtually had
agreed upon the two bills. in lieu of his
measure for separate department of
munitions with new Cabinet member.
The attitude of the Administration to-
ward them has not been disclosed. Presi-
dent Wilson and Secretary Baker on
posed the original Chamberlain bill.
The plan of the committee for the
war council is TO have it under the
President, but wholly independent Of the
Cabinet. at woul dsit with and advise
the President in forming broad war poll
cies, similar to the British War Cabinet
and the French War Ministry" said
Chairman Chamberlain. at would give
coordination now lacking in central di-
rection of all the Governments war
operations
The bill to establish a director Of mu-
nitions Is modelled after the British law.
The committee proposes that the dlrec-
tor should be subordinate only TO the
War Council and the President, and not
the Cabinet, taking over many supply
functions of the war, navy, shipbuilding
and other branches. The director would
have control Of all war supplies. their
production, purchase. transportation and
distribution.
The title OF director Of munitions
was definitely decided upon by the COM
mittee and written into the redrafted
bill by the subcommittee, which rejected
proposals to call the head of the new
agency the director of war industries. -
Virtually the only important point In
the legislation left undetermined is the
membership Of the war council Sena-
tor Chamberlain said the plan for five
members, including the War and Navy
Department heads. probably would be
adopted, but other committee members
favor having only three civilian mem
bers and excluding the two Cabinet
officers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
Offers to Sell Drink Cure

To discover a sure cure for drunken
ness year after the State passed the
bone dry" law is the irony OF fate.
And yet that Is what has happened to
a Cherryvale, Kan, man. At least he
writes TO the Governor:
~ have secretly discovered a substance
that successfully stops the whisky OF
alcoholic crave. 1t is something that is
on sale in every town and at most every
store. When the victim desires a drink
five cents worth OF II will step the
craving every time. want TO help Keep
Kansas a bone-dry State and am willing
TO take $4,000 for my secret"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
Noah Webster House IN suit

The New Haven. Conn, house in
which Webster compiled part Of his die
uonary has been made the subject of
a friendly suit brought by Yale Uni
yersity 70 determine the right OF Henry
!, Hotchkiss, executor Of the estate Of
airs Henry T. Trowbridge. TO sell the
property. The case is a civil suit, deal
lAs with the win Of Mrs. Trowbridge.
Nho. It Is asserted, left the property
bridge. There Is question whether
ne will did nve create trust which
would prevent sale OF the property TO
Ine university.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
LAND DEAL A PUZZLE
Surveyors Planting 5000 Acres Near
Gibbstown, N. j.

GIBBSTowN. n. j.. Jan. -s.--About
5000 acres between here, Paulsboro and
the Delaware River are being surveyed
by engineers, every man hustling TO the
fullest extent, but for what purpose has
not been officially given out. Tracts
above Paulsboro, reaching as far as
Thorofare, then on to National Park,
all easy Of access for boat lines across
the river, are being gone over.
Agents are making a house-to-house
canvass for miles around to obtain
boarding places or rooms In private
families for several hundred men and
women who will become clerks in the
building under construction adjoining
the offices of the New York Shpbuilding
Company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18

pneunococcus. which constituted at least
7S per cent of the organisms developing
from the secretion. II the pneumococcus
was the cause OF the colds. as appeared
from the experiments, tho common cold
must be added 20 the known sources of
contagion for lobar pneumonia.
In two instances of common colds, with
no known contact with cases OF peu-
mona, type / Of pneumococcus was
found 70 be the dominating organism,
suggesting that It was the causative
agent. The writer says that II this is
so. common colds OF this type must be
looked upon as possible source of con-
tagion in the development OF lobar pneu-
monia, due TO type l OF pneunlococcus.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
Dog Joins Red Cross

A dog. Bingo Wiles, was enrolled as
member of the Red Cross at San
dusky, o., recently. Bingo, whose color
is white, is the property Of Lew A.
Wiles, a Sandusky business man. Wiles
asked the Red Cross authorities If they
would enroll his pet If he paid the price,
md they said they would. The money
was forthcoming and a membership card
was made out,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
PAYS S5; Wins 81 Bet

1t cost Walter jacket, Pittsburgh
youth. So 20 win bet OF 81. Arrested
at the request of Manager Dennis A
Harris of tho Empire Theatre. Jacket
was arraiRned at the Frankstown ave-
nue. police station and was sentenced 20
pay a fine Of So or serve ten days in
Jail Jacket was walking the narrow
gallery rail in the theatre, ondangering
his own life and the lives of persons in
the audience, thirty feet below. Jacket
said he bet 81 he could walk the rail-
and he won his bet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
Lucky With Thirteen"

Fred Butler. n farmer. of Monroe
township, Pike County, indianapolis, on
December 13 sold thirteen head Of hogs
and thirteen head OF cattle. Recently he
received pay for them and the check was
for S13l3.13.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-18
Austrian Jailed for Insulting U. S.

READING, Pa. Jan. is. 49, Andrew
Halicld, an Austrian, was sent TO jail for
thirty days by Mayor Filbert, on q
charge of making a speech on a street
corner insulting to the United States
Halicld, a native of Galicla, came to
America seventeen years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
WaynesborO Red Cross
Chapter Starts Branches

Waynesboro, Pa. March 1S.-Not
satisfied with their splendid work
here, the Red Cross Society has es-
tablished two branches in nearby
places, which will begin work the
early part of next week. One of
the branches has been placed in the
Rouzerville schoolhouse and the
other in the home of Mrs. ID. Otis
Nicodemus, at Zullinger. Mrs. John
A. Martin, of Waynesboro, will in
struct the women in these towns who
will take up the work.
A new system of work has been
adopted by the Waynesboro chap
ter. A cutting committee has been
formed with Mrs. Walter Il. Todd as
chairman, which will have the su-
pervision of all the cutting of sur
gical supplies and garments. She will
be assisted by about twenty other
women. The committee will meet
Monday, Tuesday and Friday of each
week
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
GIANT U-BOAT
WAS SUNK BY
TANKER'S CREW
In Hail of Shrapnel Sailors
Served Outranged Guns
Until Hit Was Made

An Atlantic Port, March 1S.-One
of the newest and most formidable
OF German submarine providers, with
The unusual equipment of three
siN-inch guns was sunk off the irish
coast on March l by our alert naval
gunners aboard a marvelously camou-
flageI tank steamship that arrived
here yesterday with the graphic
yarn. spun by the mate verbally and
set down in vigorous Manhattanese
by the tanker's able sagaman, Will
liam J. Lynch. whose home ashore
is in New York.
1t is forbidden to put in print just
now the names of the tanker and her
skipper, but the latter is native
American of the traditional type,
whose genius and alacrity are re-
enforced by GOODNESS almost noncha-
liant. He said that he believed that
the naval gunners had made a hit
and that the 300-foot submarine went
to DaVy Jones locker nose first after
shell had landed dead ahead of her
within few feet of her bow. a ma
Val gunner who helped in the duel
with the giant U-boat said he felt
pretty sure that she was knocked out
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
PARIS ROCKED
BY EXPLOSIONS:
SEVERAL DEAD
American Red Cross Among
First at Scene of
Disaster

Paris, Friday, March 15.-Two Vio.
at La Courneure, north of Paris,
caused the deaths of sixteen persons
and the injury of a large number,
mostly slightly, says an official an
nouncement made tonight.
Later it was said that the num-
Der of dead was thirty. General Du-
bail, the military governor of Paris,
has instructed Captain Lurcher, the
judge advocate of the first court
martial of Paris, to open an fnves-
tigation of the accident.
A number of wounded were car
ried away in motor trucks of The
American Army. American soldiers
approached to within a few hundred
yards of the burning buildings and
carried the injured across fields to
vehicles waiting to move the victims
to hospitals in Paris and the suburbs.
Paris Windows Shattered
All roofs and windows within a cir
cumference of miles of the building
were demolished while several struc-
lures collapsed from the violence OF
the explosion. From every quarter
of Paris windows were shattered. IN
a public school at Aubervillers a
panic occurred and four girls died
from fright.
Nearly 1000 persons, shelterless as
the result of damages to their homes
are being cared for by the American
Red Cross cooperating with the pre-
lecture of the Seine and the local
authorities,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
&RethRoA.D DceNeAMsg
MOTIVE POWER
BILL IS READY
First Big Boxing Show Under
Auspices of Athletic Asso-
ciatfon March 26

Two hustling Bills" William
Runk and William Reindell, Motive
Power Athletic Association boosters.
were in Philadelphia Saturday. They
met Jack Hanlon, matchmaker for
the Olympia Club of that city and
arranged for the first big boxing bill
The date is March 26, one week from
tomorrow. Frank (Pop) O'Brien
will be the referee. 1t promises TO
be some bill.
The windup will be a ten-roun1
battle between welterweights, Joe
O,Donnell, Gloucester, N. j., and
"Toughy" Murray. Pittsburgh. These
boys are already in training for This
battle.
Good Prcliminarics
There will be two siX-round pre-
liminary bouts. The first will find
Nate lSaacman and Kid Krow of
this city mixing it up. Sammy Kautz
of Lancaster, and Young Russell. of
Lancaster, will sNt together and they
are some scrappers.
The semiwindup looks as strong
as the last bSttle. Sammy Schif of
this city, conner, will meet Jack
McCarron, of Allentown. 1t will be
an eight-round go. Tickets will be
ready for sale b. Wednesday,. The
seat sale opens FRIDAY at Bogars
store in Market Square. To begin
with there are 200 members in the
NJ. p. A. A., and they will be busy
on the ticket end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
Franklin County Trolley
Line to Increase Fares

Waynesboro, Pa, March 1S.-The
time is not far distant when the
Chambersburg, Greencastle and
Waynesboro Street Railway Com
pany will advance it's fares from five
to six cents, this being deemed alb
solutely necessary on account of the
heavy increase in expenses of opera
ton. OF late the difference in coal
bills over previous years have
amounted to thousands of dollars.
Manager r. ID. Seton will, when this
increase goes into effect, again sell
trolley books at a somewhat cheaper
rate per ticket. The local commit
tee will make application to the
Public Service Committee asking for
grant of the new rate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
u. CAMP OPENS
GETTYSBURG
Tank Engineers Come From
Camp Meade, Nd, and
Columbus, Ohio

Gettysburg, Pa, March 1S.-The
United States Army camp has been
reopened, the first of the men to oc-
cupy the grounds arriving Saturday.
They were assigned to quarters
where the Sixticth Regiment was
camped last summer. This is the
camp site just at the edge of town
The first to arrive was a detachment
Admiral, Md, and these were soon
followed by another detachment of
about forty men from The barracks at
Columbus, Ohio. Other detachments
are expected daily during this week
and from time to time until the en-
tire camp site is occupied.
An entire company of twenty-one
officers and 232 men left IA camp in
New Mexico last Thursday and are
expected to arrive here by the mid
die of this week. 1t is stated that
SIX companies in training at Camp Up
ton, Yaphank, Long Island. will be
sent here for further training. Off
GERS are being assigned here to take
charge of the men and 1t is likely
that before long the town will be as
full of soldiers as it was last sum-
mer
All of the men now here and those
which have thus far been designated
to come here are tank engineers.
With the Government considering the
plan to make the tank engineers
separate, the same as the infantry,
cavalry, artillery or any other
branch, it is believed that Gettysburg
will be made training camp for this
branch of the service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
Lewistown Officer Lost
Life on British Submarine

Lewistown, Pa. March 1S.-Latest
Information received concerning the
death of Lieutenant Earle Childs
throws some light on the circum-
stances surrounding 1t. Congressman
B. X. Focht. of this district, confer
ring with officials of the Navy De-
partment, brings the following de-
tails in a message to the parents:
THAT Lieutenant Earle Childs lost
his life while on temporary duty
aboard a British submarine, and
while on board the submarine it
sank"
Whether the submarine struck a
mine, was destroyed in a battle with
German cruiser or by an internal
explosion has not been learned to
date. but message from SECRETARY
Daniels says that Admiral Inns has
been instructed to send details as
soon as possible.