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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
TODAY's MARRIAGE LICENSES

James Mahathey, Manchester, Tenn. ana
Jeanctte Gilmore. 1910 jackson ST
Lo4is Morosis los Eilaworth st. and Fsla
Carence L. Adler. Belle Claire 4Oth st ana
Sirsrd iri ave. and Augusta NJ. Welsh aoii
Martin A. Sullivan. 2as Nohl, .t.. and Min.
ME Hqmphriee. 122 Poplar st.
aeHrEs. Goidins, lSl4 Fletcher ST.. and Mary
OBrien. 1924 Willard ave "' ''"''
Louise u, White. 1hSS s. Cleveland ave-,
and Alice Jones', lHta Dorrance At.
LoSis Moshkowit.. 500 Cross st. and Bessis
william il, ceenst: $3.50 .L.n.sexne ave.
Frane. snS ssss'ls coFlsy hl:sns .aS sSi aSh
a.isS a. MssSfn ssSr Hsa Bsi' Bk. ,Ds
chsSiss H:sTn' asss HsSana MStshinaos AZ: T., and
Carl Longerman. Wikes-Barre Pa, and
Mary Hunerd, wiikss-R -Rsrre. Pa
Geores NJ Sims Newman, Ca, and wiilia
Phflftns. Auburn. Ala.
Bentamin a. Holder, is0s Dickinson st.. and
Homer c: Mammen, vendaiis, MI, and
Elaine Irish, ChicaEo. III.
Charles NJ Teubsr. Baltimore, Nd, and Ella
r.. Goodrich, Baltimore, -
David @ Hodaens, ", alta ". 2sth st.. and
Lena J, Eester, ssa4 ~ psrien st.
Arthur !, GREGORY. lsaO Montrose st., and
Beatrice j.. Dodamo. laaa 8. Carlisle st. :,
Edward r. heechey, ?sSi V, York St. and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
GIRL LURED TO WOODS
AND DRUGGED BY MAN
Tells Police Assailant Chloro.
formed Her Near West
Chester

Entced 70 West Chester on promise of
lucrative enplc vment. nineteen-year-old
Edna Scherer Fifth street near Fair
mount avenue. says she was brutally at
tackled and received injuries so severe
that she had 10 be treated at the
Roosevelt Hospital
The girl told the police she had in
serted an advertisement in a newspaper
yesterday asking for stenographic work
to do at her home. In the morning she
was called from West Chester by a man
giving his name as Conner He said he
had work that would pay her we'll. but
that she would have to visit West Ches-
ter to make the arrangements. she
agreed to do It. and received minute in
struction rs to which car to take and
how to reach the place
She got off at Stat. road West Ches-
ter she said. and walked down near
small woods. about fifty yards from the
station. man sprung at hsr she de-
clared. and tried to attack her. She
says she was cl1loroformed
On reganing consciousness the girl
returned! to Philadelphia and after re-
ceiving treatment for numerous cuts and
hruiaer reported the attack to the po-
Zee. The West Chester authorities have
been notified and are hunting the as
sailant
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
AMERICAN ARMY'S WORK
THRILLS OTTO Il. KAHN
New York Financier Makes Glow.
ing Report of Its Splendid
Courage and Morale

New York. July 29.--Otto II. Kahn. of
the Arm of Kuhn, Loeb 4 Co.. just re-
turned from an extended trip to Flu
rope. where he had Interviews with the
King of Spain Prime Minister Lloyd
George and statesmen and generals OF
the Allied armies. makes glowing re-
port of the efficiency of the American
troops engaged in the titanic struggle
for human freedom.
Speaking of the splendid counter
thrust by Pershing's men which sent
the Germans reeing back after the lat
ter had BROKEN through at the Chemin-
dps-Dames and come within forty miles
of Paris, Mr.. Kahn said
1T Is a soul-stirrinR story--the story
of that relatively small American force
rushing forward at a very critical mo-
ment and turning the tide by throwing
itself upon the enemy with irresistlbie
dash and bravery. | cannot find words
to express the depth and intensity OF
my admiration for the spirit the morale
and the achievements of the American
army. Everywhere | found the same
simple and transformations. yet grim and
iron determination to hold life cheap
America; everywhere the same note OF
splendid and eager courage. of willing
discipline and service. of accomplishing
endurance. of buoyant good nature and
humor, of clean and kindly thought and
feeling.
Il did not hear a single real com.
Dlaint except on one minor score--and
on that the complaint Is almost unanl-
mous--namely the stiff collar and gen.
eral inappropriateness and discomfort
of our army uniform. There is also
some grunbling about the dilatoriness
in making payment TO soldiers. and
about the slowness with which mail Is
handled-the. latter a real serious griev-
ance, for prompt and frequent commu.
nications from and with home is OF
great Importance to the morale of the
army"
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FINDS SISTER AFTER II MxNSI
Brother Seeks Her Out Before
Leaving for Frunt

Separated from her brother seventeen
years not knowing whether he was dead
or alive, Mrs Helen Il, Flach, 256 South
FELTON, street. has heard from him
through the detective bureau here and
expects to see him before he sails for
France
The brother Lieutenant George r. Ed
wards, In with the Fourteenth United
States Cavalry. at Camp Travis, San
Antonio. Tex He is West Point grad
uate of seven years ago.
When their parents died in washing
ton In 1901. the boy went to live with
relatives there and Mrs. Flach and an
other sister. Anna. came to PhiiRdelphH
and were raised by an aunt. Mrs. Helen
Macmillan. 1890 Lehigh avenue. The
relatives did not correspond, and as the
children were too young to write, they
drifted apart
When he found he was detailed to
duty in France. Lieutenant dwards got
in touch with the detective bureau and
asked them to locate his sisters From
information received from her brother
Mrs. Flach has got in touch with other
relatives site had not seen in years one
Of them an aunt living only few blocks
from her home.
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WANTS INQUIRY MADE
INTO AIRMAN'S DEATH
Father of Charles Aitkens Asks
President to Order
Probe

President Wilson has been asked to
order an investigation into the manner
in which the body of Charles f. Aitkens,
thirty-one years old, 6l34 Lansdowne
avenue. was treated after his death at
Kelly Field, Texas. where he was a men,
ber of an aviation unit.
Charles S. Aitkens. the father. says
!. that although the death certificate gives
, acute pneumonia as the cause. an au-
sopsy had been performed, and that little
care was used.
When the guard who accompan MED the
body home Saturday could give no defi-
mite information other than to say that
Aitkens was taken III suddenly. the
father wrote to the President.
The funeral will be held from the Ait
kens home at o'clock tomorrow after
noon. A. military funeral was planned,
but the authorities at the Frankford Ar
senal and at the navy yard say they can
furnish no military escort in the after
noon.
The Rev. j. A. Hainer, Blocklsy Bap-
tist Church. Fprty-third street and Wya-
lusing avenue, will officiate. Burial will
take place in the American Mechanics
Cemetery, Twenty-second and Diamond
streets.
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DIX COWBOYS BACK TO CAMP
Break Camp at Rockledge for 80.
Mile Hike

THE detachment from the Camp Dix
Rpmount Depot. which has been in
Philadelphia since Thursday. left this
morning for the New Jersey canton
lent.
Following four days of royal enter
tainment the men were in high spirits
for the thirty-two-mile hike. The
MOUNTS. trick horses and pack mules
were in fine condition for the long
march.
The detachment broke camp at the
Country Club for Enlisted Men. at Rock
ledge. early yesterday morning. but
again pitched tents on the old circus
ground at Nineteenth street and Hunt
rg Park avenue. Yesterday afternoon
the riders "stunted' for about 10000
spectators and the remount fund. was
fattened by the contributions.
Frank Wandle. general secretary OF
The knights Of Columbus at Dix. di-
rccted the program. Captain Turnham
directed the outfit.
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TO DISCUSS PAY BASIS
FOR CITY CONTRACTS
Officials to Confer on Settle.
men;s on Awards Which
Have Been Annulled

Another conference OF city officials to
discuss the basis Of settlement for the
cancellation Of municipal contracts for
which no materials can he obtained until
after the war is scheduled for today.
The conference will deal only with con-
tracts under the jurisdiction of the De-
partment Of Public Works.
One Of the contracts to be considered
Is that of the Philadelphia Subway Con-
tracing Company for l.O25. 900 for fur
nishing iron. steel and other materials
connection with the construction Of the
sewage-disposaI plant at Richmond
street and Wheatsheaf lane.
Considerable work had been done on
the contract when the company was
forced to abandon further operations
because of the lack Of materials. An.
other contract to he considered is that
held by the ]. r. Shanley Company for
a large grit chamber in connection with
the disposal plant. About two-thirds OF
the contract which amounts TO $4,000
has been completed.
The third contract is that held by Day
Zimmerman for constructing a bridge
over Pennypack Creek on Bensalen
pike. The work on the contract, which
WAS awarded for $2l2,00o. was well ad,
vanced when a bridge span fell and
nothing has been done since.
Councils must ratify any settlement
agreed upon between the city official!
and the contractors.
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USELESS PLANES
SHIPPED ABROAD
Manufacture Continues De.
spite Pershing Protest, Sen.
ate Committee Hears
DEFECTS POINTED OUT
Want Machine Given Further
Trial Before Ordering
Abandonment ;,
DEFECTS POINTED OUT

WashinEton, July 80. (ByI n, 81
That Americas aircraft program has
received a severe setback through the
continued manufacture and use Of the
De Hariland -Four. was indicated By
members of the Senate Military Affairs
committee this afternoon General Per.
shing sometime ago cabled the War Dee
partment, 1t was pointed out, asserting
that the De Haviland Four was vir-
tually worthless, and enumeratine its
defects Although some Of these defects
nave been corrected. their manufa cture
and shipment abroad continue over his
protest, members of the committee
stated. 1853 having been produced and
more than 500 sent overseas.
IT became known today. however, that
the Senate Aircraft Investigating Com
mittee is not yet prepared to recoirrnend
the abandonment Of the De Haviland
Members want to be completely salts.
hed, they say, that the machine is in
fact. complete failure. before ordering
that action.
we are not yet satisfied that the De
Haviland should follow the Bristol on
its way to the scrap heap said a MEM
Der of the committee, but the machine
as it is now being produced is far from
a success and may indeed prove q
complete failure.
hS HldcHlne. which was the
only other machine that played a major
part in the American aircraft. was aban-
doned about ten days ago after a mum.
ber of pilots had been killed while ex.
perimenting with the machine
The place of the Bristol in the air
craft program was taken BY the s. Is.
Five. single-seat combat machine.
which will not come into production in
large numbers for several months.
Aside from the Bristol planes, the
Haviland and large number Of planning
planes. no fighting airpane has been
produced in the United States exvept
one Handley-Page and one Caproni both
heavy bombing machines.
Major Fl. c. A. Muhlenberg, Captain
r. W. Schroeder and Lieutenant John
NJ. Foote have been called from Dayton
to testify tomorrow regarding the Havi-
land+ airplane as designed and produced
in the United States.
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GENERAL BlDDlE DECORATED
King George Confers Orders Of
the Bath on American General

London, July 29.-Major General
John Biddle commanding the American
forces in the United Kingdom. has been
appointed knight commander of the
Most Honorable order of the Bath.
Washington. July 29,--Decoration OF
Generals Pershing. March. Ridtlle' and
others by King George will be made the
subject of letter from Secretary or
War Baker to the British Embassy soon.
While these decorations are not to be
accepted without congressional sanction,
ii is assumed some arrangement VIII be
made that the generals may accept tho
honoRs,
General Bidde is native of Detroit.
graduate of West Point. class OF
1891, and has had an extended expert
encc In the engineer corps. including
important service at Johnstown, Pa. fo-
lowing the great food of 1889. He was
at one time president of the War Col.
!ege. and mad the unique distinction OF
being a United States military observer
with the, Austro-Hungarian army in
Austria and Poland in the winter o'
1914-l5.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
.BALDWIlNSPLAN
TWONEW PLANTS
Vauclain Announces Exten.
sion Necessary to Supply
War Demand
1000 ENGINES NEEDED
Each 2.O00. 600 Men Require
1000 Locomotives, He De:
clares in Address

The Baldwin Locomotive Works will
build two new factories TO help supply
the transportation needs, ot the Allies
according to Samuel NJ vauciain. vice
president Of the company. who spoke
last night at patriotic services in the
Wharton Memorial Methodist Episcopal
Church. Ffty-eighth and Catharine
streets.
Two thousand locomotives are needed
to transport the supplies used by every
Naucain These locomotives haul such
necessities as food. ammunition and
wearing apparel. With more than n
million American soldiers in France at
the present time. there are about 1000
American locomotives to care for them,
the others needed being furnished BY the
Allies
I'VE have only commenced business
and we must work harder" he. contin-
ued. "lr short time there will be
1000, 900 Americans II, France We must
speed un and prepare to give them the
pTUDeT transportation 1aCllltleS.
Very soon we will need 1000 locomo-
tives. They are more important than
anything else. There is no doubt that
the output of the shops must be brought
up.
We will build factory in the far
south and another in the far west Our
boys must have food and the Germans
must have ammunition to eat"
Mr.. Nauclain described! mis- visits to
Russia at the beginning of the war and
told how that country seemed demoral.
lied. even at that time He also told
for the first time that he had smuggIed
sample rifles into Russia while looking
for ammunition orders.
The great majority of the manufac-
turers of war material do not want to
make money out of the war;" said Mr..
Vauclain. discussing profiteerinG: they
do not want any big commissions. Here
in Philadelphia great factories have
sprung up overnight. Germany is strong
yet. but the United States is stronger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
DRAFT BOARDS SEND
AUTO MEN TO TRAIN
Two Hundred and Thirty.two
Chauffeurs and Mechanics
Go to Syracuse, N. Y.

Draft boards here today sent 232
men qualified as chauffeurs or mechanics
to Syracuse. n. Y. for training.
Tomorrow s2l men similarly quail
fed will be sent to Syracuse.
The local boards that sent the men to-
day and the number dispatched by each
follows:
Board No 1. Third and Dickinson
streets. twenty-eisht men Board No. 2.
seventh and Carpenter streets. twelve
men; Board No. 8. Second and Christian
streets. four men; Board No. 5, Fourth
and Race streets, twelve men.
Board No 7, eight men; Board No. s,
ave men: Board No. 3, eleven men
Board No. -, eight men; Board No. 90.
six men; Board No. 2s. twelve men :
Board No. 33. Ave men: Board No. 81,
five men: Board No. 80. thirteen men ;
Board No IS. twelve men.
Board No. IS, seven men Board No.
80, eleven men; Board No. 40. thirteen
men; Board No. II, eleven men: Board
No. AZ. nine men; Board No. 46, nine
teen men: Board No 4S, eleven men
Board No, 40. six men Board No. 81,
three men.
A telephone messge today from thu
adjutant general. at Harrisburg. in
structed local boards No. IS and as t.
draft 217 negroes for entrainment mex
Monday for Camp sherman.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
MOTHERS RAISE GOLD STARS
Service Flags Hoisted at St
Joachim's Catholic Church

Two mothers. whose sons have died
while serving their country. had the
honor. of uufurling service flags at st.
Joachims Catholic Church. Frankford.
yesterday. In the one flag each of their
sacrifices was represented by gold stars.
The other flag had one large star with
the number "315." denoting the number
in service from that parish.
One mother is Mrs. Elizabeth Gala
CHER, 1905 Mulberry street, whose son
John died while serving at Camp Din.
She has another son now fighting for his
country. The other is Mrs, Mary Ham
ley. Ashland and Lewis streets. whose
son Edward was swept overheard from
the deck of ship while on his way to
France. She has two ether sons at the
front.
Thomas J. Quirk presented the flags
and the Rev F. =. Fitzmaurce accepted
them Judge Eugene Bonniweil and the
Rev DR.. Joseph NJ Corrigan spoke.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
RROIASKY WILL
CONTEST AT END
Caveat in Case of Second Will
of Pine Street Furrier
Withdrawn

..a,y snds
second Will P'o"h'e'
litigation lasting almost year fnd
half ovsr an estate of $500, 900 left by
,,a.,.
nen's - 800.
Brolasky. who was furrier and WIS
widely known a. a patron Of music. died
r.hr,,. 70 1917 a, 1oa1 Sprucs street
TWO Wills were touha'
In the first. executed August Is, 1919,
h. d,y.ctsd tina, the estate he held in
49,. "a, :. III. r,aov
n Tn, -;no,n., wa.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
SECRET RADIO PLANTS FOUND
Two Powerful Stations Unearthed
on ,tersev Coast

Sea Brisht. y. j., July ga COM
lete and powerful wireless station has
been discovered in a cottage at North
Beach, which apparently had been Tr-
tenanted for two years. Unexpiained
wires running along the raftPrs or an
adjoin ng cottage led to the belief that
an auxiliary wireless station had been
found there.
The completely equipped station, which
has been examined and pronounced
ready for instant service by ,eSperns
from Camp Vail, was in the John. F.
Dardon house.
The other and less complete outht
was found in cottage owned by Mrs.
w. W. Shippen. just south OF the nrst
one Mrs. Shipper herself called the at
tention of the authorities to the place.
She had visited to get some FURNITURE
which she intended to move to her
home on Rumson Bluff. when she was
startled by the ringing of the tele-
phone, which she had supposed had been
disconnected weeks before.
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WHERE TWO WERE KILLED
IN RACE RIOTS
Map Barred Zone
in Race RiOting
Continued from Pogc One

man from Pier IS. South wharevs. who
day to help out the bluecoats. and was
near when McVay placed the man under
arrest.
Ernest Lockard Rodman street near
Nineteenth Howard Brown. Pine street
near Twelfth. and Claude Birney. Pine
street near Twelfth. were the men held
for further hearing tomorrow, owing
to the absence Of the witnesses against
them.
Fund with Loaded Rifle
Henry Gillin, negro. 1907 Alder street.
was held in 81 Gao bail for court, charged
with carrying concealed deadly weapon
Dicllerson pleaded for Gillins discharge
on the grounds that every man had u
right 70 protect himself and his home.
Patroman RamseN. Twentieth and
Federal streets station testified Sergeant
Nichols had issued the order to search
all the homes in the neighborhCod of
the station for concealed weapons. Gilln
was arrested in his own home at 5 80
a. M. where. il was said. he was found
with rife loaded with five cartridges.
Joseph Bush, negro, 1903 Manton
street. was held in $1,000 BAIL charged
with carrying concealed weapons and
pointing pistol at Policeman Kennedy.
Sam Johnson. negro. 2I2l Manton
street, was held in $1,000 bail on the
charge of carrying a concealed weapon
Joseph Kelly. 23r1 Carpenter street,
white was held for a hearing before
Magistrate Pennoek tomorrow morning.
charged with being one of the three men
who started the ricting. The other two
men. brother of Kelly and a man
named Hart. We're arrested yesterday
and held in $1,000 bail each for hear
ing under Magistrate Baker:
An investigation of the rioting is said
,o have disclosed that real estate
agent had sold houses to negroes and
bad ordered many white people from
their homes to make room for additional
negro families.
The rioting began early Saturday
when Mrs. Elsie Bond. negress proba-
tion officer in the Municipal Court. shot
Joseph Kelly. after a crowd of whites
are alleged to have surrounded Mrs
Bonds home. 2936 Ellsworth street
peltins it with stones.
Mrs Bond Is said 10 have moved intC
the district recently ana the aenonstra !,
tiOn in front Of her home was made. II Ii
said. by persons who resented her liv-
The shooting Of Kelly temporarily
halted the demonstration, put rlotlnf
broke out anew several hours later.
Then at the corner Of Twenty-sixtf
and Oakford streets. where crowd o
policemen fortified by number OF whit
people were trying to quell riotou
negroes, as Lavery arrived near tn
corner, a shot wss fired, and reeling h
pitched headlong into the street. Hi
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-29
WILL SETTLE WAGE PROBLEM
Conference Here Monday on Sit
nation in Northwest

Labor leaders and representatives oI
shinyards and accessory plants in the
Torthwest win meet officials of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation in ms
ctty next Monday to adjust the chaotic
labor conditions in that section, que to
the labor shortage.
hoid NV nlants in the Northwest VIII ne
transferred to the East and other Sec
tions to relieve congestion.
For several months employers nays
been outbiddtng one another 70 on,as, M a,.
sntysrfent workrnen As a result, wages
,onL a hip leap. and there is virtually
no plant in that section that Is adner,hs w
to the wage scale as laid down oS tue
Macy adjustment board.
Under the Macy scale. the MAXIMUM nun
w,ya 10 s577ia per day, with pro
r;ason that an especially skilled work
men may obtain more.
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LIEUT.. H. B. MAJOR,
MEDIA, DIES IN TEXAS
Death of Army Man Who Rose
From Ranks Result Of
Accident

Lieutenant Henry Bartlett Major. SON
of Mr. and Mrs. H r Major. of Media.
died yesterday at College Station. about
seventy miles from Hous an. Tex. from
internal injuries received in a motorcar
accident His family has not yet re-
ceived details of the affair
Lieutenant Major was attached to the
infantry division Of the National Army.
and was stationed ri Camp Pike. Texas.
tTe had made application for transfer TO
the interpreters department of the army.
and his request had recently been grant
ed. He was awaiting orders to proceed
to France. Besides speaking French and
German f,uently. Lieutenant Major had a
working knowledge Of Italian and Span
ish
Born in Media twenty-four years ago,
Lieutenant Major received his early edu-
caticr in this city but when about four
taer wears of age was sent to SwitZer-
land where had a four-year- course
in French school. Next he spent a
year in Germany. in the family of
Lutheran pastor. where he learned 10
speak colloquial German
/. He was travelling in California wher
Congress declared war on Germany, and
Immediately enlisted as a private. Ht
worked his way up to a sergeantcy, anc
when an officers training camp was es'
tabiished at Camp Carney. near Sar
Diego. cal he made application fol
permission to enter II.
He was stationed at the Presidio. Sar
Francisco, at the. time. and was per
nitted to go to the officers camp. Hf
completed his course there with credt'
to himself and earned hrst lieutenant
commission. Later he was sent TO 'anf
Pike.
Lieutenant Majors father ts connected
with the Arm of Thomas A Biddle
Co. brokers, 4e4 Chestnut street.