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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-18
DRESSED FLEAS NO MORE
Curious Industry in Mexico Stopped b,
Lack of Tourists

Junrez. Mexico, June 1S.--Anothcr
small industry in a neutral country has
been crushed by the war; which has cut
off tourist travel to Mexico. Dressing
feas for market is no longer profitable
business in Mexico and the little insects
have disappeared from the show cases
Of curio stores that line Gale Comercio
in this rambling border town.
Dressed feas were long staple
article in the stores and shops here
freauented by tourists. In little boxes
no bigger than the blunt end of lead
pencil. these adorned fleas could be seen
through reading glasses In all the glory
Of their wedding or christening finery
Mexican women toiled for days dressing
these diminutive insects. using the point
of a needle to attach the bits of bright
cloth and lace to the bodies Of the wee
pests.
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Texs Of Presidents
Labor Proclamation

For more than a year Il has been
our pride that not our armies and
navies only, but our whole people Is
engaged In a righteous war. We have
said repeatedly that industry plays as
essential and honorable a role in this
great struggle as do our military
truth of, this. but we must also see
that industry. doing a vital task for the
nation. must receive the support and
assistance of the nation. We must
recognise that It is natural demand
almost right.-of any one serving
ploye, to know that his service is
being used In the most effective man
ner possible. In the case OF labor tbs
wholesome desire has been not a little
thwrated owing to the changed con-
ditions which war has created in the
labor market.
There has been much confusion as
to essential products. There has been
ignorance Of conditions-men have
gone hundreds of miles In search Of
job and wages which they might have
found at their doors. Employers hold
ing Government contracts of the hgh-
est Importance have competed for
workers with holders of similar con-
tracts and evene with the Government
itself. and have conducted expensive
campaigns for recruiting labor in sec
tions where the supply Of labor was al
ready exhausted California draws
its unskilled labor from as far east as
Buffalo and New York from as far
west as the Mississippi. Thus labor
has been induced to move fruitlessly
from one place to another. congesting
the railways and losing both time and
money.
Such a condition Is unfair alike to
employer and employe. bat most of all
to the nation itself. whose existence Is
threatened by any decrease in it's pro-
dnrfNa n q nhS,instc t,ot This
situation can be clarified and equal
States employment service of the De-
partment Of Labor, with the counsel of
voice of all the individual agencies of
the Government.
Such a central agency must have
sole direction of all recruiting of
in taking over this great responsibility
must. at the same time, have power
to assure to essential industry an
adequate supply of labor. even to the
nonessential production. 1t must also
protect labor from irfsincere and
thoughtless appeals made to II under
the plea of patriotism and assure 1t
some priority industry the heed is real.
,.Ii,snIt Therefore, i Woodr9w Wilson;
America, solemnly urge all employers
engaged In war work to refrain after
August J.. 1918, from recruiaing un-
skilled labor in any manner except
through this central agency. l urge
labor to respond as loyalty as hereto
fore to any calls issued by this agency
for voluntary enlistment In essential
industry. And I ask them both alike
to remember that no sacrifice will have
been in vain If we are able to prove
beyond all question that the highest
and best form of efficiency is the
spontaneous cooperation of a free peo-
pic. WOODROW WILSON.
The White House, June II, 1918.
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BONNIWELL LEAVES
FOR CHAIRMAN FIGHT
OFF to Harrisburg to Carry
Battle to Floor of Com.
mIttee

Judge Bonniwell. Democratic nominee
TO-. Governor, went to Harrisburg today,
accompanied by score or more Of sup
porters, to carry his fight for the election
of State chairman and a wet platform
to the floor of the state Committee.
which meets tomorrow for reorganlza-
ton.
Judge BonniweIl will be the guest of
honor a. reception TO be rendered him
tonight by the Harrisburg Democratic
Club. Benjamin +. Meyers, of Harris
burg will be chairman of the meeting
and reception, and former Judge John
w. Wescott. OF Camden, will be the prin-
cipa speaker
JudCe Bonniwell declared today that
he did not intend to lie fiat" if the
Palmer Mccormick forces started the
steam roller. Bonniwell will insist on
a chairman and platform acceptable to
him
The Palmer forces are de-
termined to ignore, his demands They
will insist on the election of George II
Mclean of Wilkes Barre, as chairman.
and will draft a platform which. 1t is
reported, will not contain wet" plank.
l.
form. which will contain a wet" plank.
and his suggestion for a State chairman
IL his demands are not acceded to he
will form a campaign committee of
his own and ignore the State Committee
In his fight for election. one of the
hottest sessions of the State Committee
in recent years is anticipated,
Judge Bonniwell got his first setback
last night when the Democratic City
Committee deferred action on the elec-
ton of a city chairman by naming a
contest committee to settle contests be-
tween the rival factions over the cleo
ton of committeeman from the Forty
third and Forty-siXth Wards.
The Donnelly-Lank forces, which plan
to rc-elect Edgar w. Lank city chair
man despite the protests of Judge Bon
niwell. won cut in test vote by 81 to
II. They named contest committee
from their own faction.
Supporters of Judge Bonniwell will
issue a call for the withdrawal of j.
Washington Logue, nominee for Lieuten-
ant Governor, from the ticket. Logue
defeated Howard O. Holstein, of Harris
burg, Bonniwells running mate, by 2l0
votes. He won on dry platform, and
his presence on the ticket would be em-
barrassing to Judge Bonniwell.
! The Palmer Mccormick forces declare
that Logue will not withdraw, but will
/ be kept on the ticket.
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ONCE HUMBLE HAMBURG STEAK .
NOW FARE ONLY FOR PLUTOCRAT
Boiling Meat and Round Steak Also Have Scared Like Air
plane, Taking New Squirt When Beef
Is Restricted

lot for the money 10 now numbered
with the choice cuts"
A tour of the butcher shops revealed
some interesting data regarding the
advance Of prices, which. curiously
enough, have advanced somewhat more
since the beef restrictions of the food
administrator were made public few
days ago.
In one place a woman asked for a
pound of boiling meat. 1t was cut
in two small pieces-and weighed.
Forty cents" said the butcher.
Forty cents!" was the surprised ex-
clamation of the shopper. why I
wouldn't pay forty cents for a piece Of
boiling meat
Then the butcher showed her another
piece This is forty-five cents pound"
he said, whereupon the shopper haught-
| lily left the store.
Prices Amaze Housewives
In another shop, similar scene was
witnessed. A pound OF boiling meat
OF pound of bone and some gristle-
| was placed on the scale and the price
mentioned was thirty-five cents. Again
there was hasty retreat.
In a moment another woman entered
the market She asked for hamburger.
"Forty-five cents pound" the butch
er told her
| A German airplane in the same room
| could not have occasioned any more
surprise. 1t appeared. than was pictured
on that womans' face.
"Forty-five cents? Why l used 10
| GET"
Yes, I know" the butcher hastily
said. What you used to get and what
| you are getting now are two, entirely
different subjects. We are dealing in
the present-the past has been forgot
| ten"
And another dissatisfied customer had
departed,
In a moment there was another She
| wanted round steak
The butchers voice--his sentence
again rang out. Fifty cents pound.
he said
For round steak?" she inquired.
"Yes. for round steak" said the lord
of the meat saw. "Everythings gone
up now and" but the customer hao
disappeared.
But that Is how times have changed
Look not with disrespect upon the hon
orable roundsteak. hamburg or boiling
meat. They're going up. up. higher
| every day.
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ISOLATE TRENCH FEVER GERM
American Surgeons Succeed
Where Allied Physicians Fail

Washington, June 1s.--The United
States Medical Corps. under the leader
ship of Major General William Gorgas,
has succeeded in isolating the germ of
trench fever, one of the greatest causes
of disability in the Allied armies. The
disease had baffled medical officers of
the French and British armies.
The success of the American tests. re-
ported in a cablegram from Cen
eral Pershing to Secretary of War Baker
was made possible by the voluntary sac
rifice of siXty-six American soldiers
all members of noncombatant units of a
New England division-who submitted 10
incubation with the germ in January
General Pershing's message says all OF
the men now are either cured or conva-
lescent.
These men We're from field hospitals
and ambulance organizations, and the
War Department made public their
names They were selected from large
group of volunteers as the healthiest and
consequently the best to Withstand a
long siege of trench fever.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-18

mouth unlighted pipes, cigars or cigar
cites. Testimony showed that many of
them had been IN this city but one day
or so. and Others a little longer. and
they knew to do only as their fellow
Ropans did-smoke between the Navy
Yard and the first street-stop to take
on passengers.
Several testified that the street car
conductors and motormen often smoked
at this point and had told the men
it was "all right. to do So When
women passengers got on, all smoking
ceased.
Magistrate Coward thought the mat
ter over and had each man sign his
own bail bond to keep the peace. and
released them en- masse.
Boyd the special agent of the p. r.
r. said he had complained to Welfare
Agent Crowley, at the Navy Yard, and
thai arrest was the only method he had
been able to find to bring to the atten-
ton Of the men the fact that the COM
pany has the law with them in debarring
he gentle puff while en- route.
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NOW NAVY YARD MEN KNOW
?. R. T. BANS SMOKING IN CARS
Company Causes Arrests of Thrytwo Persons, Including
Fourteen Sailors and Two Marines 10 Bring
Attention TO Fact

THE Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
L pany today brings forcibly to. the
attention of Uncle Sans sailors and
employees of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard. the rule of the company against
smoking on its cars. Magistrate Cow
ard. in the Seventh and Carpenter
streets police station. makes it palpable
the law is on the side of the company.
Thirty-two persons, among whom
were fourteen sailors and two marines.
the rest workmen from the shops of
the yard. appeared before the magis-
trate today to answer>a charge of breach
of the peace, preferred by w, y. Boyd,
agent for the +. Il. T.
They were arrested last night between
the hours of Gao and II O'Clock. by
Benz. Powers and Smith, detectives of
the first division, at the tnstigation of
Boyd.
All were accused of smoking on street
cars or of having in their hands or
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-18
SOUTH PHILA. HIGH
GIRLS TO GRADUATE
Commencement Will Be Held
Tonight in Auditorium
of School

The South Philadelphia High School
for Girls will hold its commencement at
o'clock tonight in the high school audi
torium, Broad street and Snyder avenue.
The class is ono of the largest ever
graduated by the school.
The Rev John II. Pastoret will con-
duct the religious exercises. The pres
cntation of diplomas will he made by
the principal, Mrs. Lucy Wilson. The
valedictorian will be Miss Mary NJ.
Wimenitz.
Other members of the graduating class
who will deliver addresses are Aleda
Druding. Fanny Figenbaum. Florence
Levy, Rebecca Lischin, Ida II. Lochter.
Anna Kaplan. Anna May Mendelovitz,
Ruth f. Novack. Rose Wilensky, Mary
NJ Wimenitz and Beatrice Wood.
The honor students are Sophia Bran
nick. Aleda Elizabeth Druding. FANNY
Figenbaum, Muriel Graves, Fanny Har-
shaw, Anna kaplan, Anna Mont gomery.
Gertrude Montgomery. Ethel Wapen-
stein and Ruth Wilenski.
The names of the graduates follow:
Commercial Department-r Miriam J. Alter,
Lillian Lillian E sreskman oPr@ Frieds Il To Brownweis @
Sadie Brustetn, sadie Chudnh, Z sara
Johen. gladys N. 'rlChton, Mary unl-
mings, Eta Anna Danovitz. Joanna Sylvia
Davis. Esther G. Gessel, Anna e, Gillen.
Sadye NJ. Goldman. Mollie Goldstein Rose
NJ. Grabowskr Nellie l.. Grandy. Muriel
Graves, Jeanette B. Harris. Florence 2.
Horr, Anna S Hurwitz. ssdye G: Jasper.
| Anna Kaplan. Bertha Kaplan, Sarah NJ.
| Krasner. Sophia Kravitsky, Anna Levin.
| Sophia Levin. Florence Levy, Jennie Marko-
| vitz. Anna May Mendelovitz, Virginia Fay
Miller. Anna A. Montgomery. Gertrude
! Mont eomery. Edith Odel. Sylvia *. Reiser,
| Bessie r. Rogof Sara Shpeen. Hannah
StanKer, Anna Steinberg. Ethel Wapenstein,
| Ida NJ Weiner. Rose W!lensiy, Beatrice
| Wood and Lillian Zentner
| Academic Department - Bertha Rurak,
Marie Wellington Carlin Rose T., Cirino.
| Rose Beatrice Cohen, Anna J.. Crevin, Aleda
| Elizabeth Druding, Mary G.. Elder, Fanny
| Figenbaum. Laura Kramer, Eleanor NJ, La
| Battaglia, RebeCca Lischin, Ida II. Lochter,
| Eva Milstein. Hannah Morrell. Ruth Esther
| NoyaCk, Viola Ruth Pastoret. Gertrude A.
| Sprngel Mary NJ. Wmenitz.
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AMERICANS WANT U. S.
TO DECORATE BOYAU
Demand War Cross for French
Aviator Who Joined Their
NJ. Attack

Paris, June 1S.
American officers and soldiers are
today demanding that Congress award
war cross to Maurice Boyau, famous
French sausage balloon destroyer. who
was a Rugby football player before the
war. Boyau was brought down recently
ythe Germans between the American
and boche lines The Germans turned
machine guns and artillery against the
disabled airplane.
The Americans. in their trenches 500
yards away. seeing that the Germans
were Preparing to capture Boyau. be-
gan getting ready TO rescue him.
Boyau. being champion sprinter, set
out from his machine and raced across
No Mn's Land. reaching the Ameri-
can trenches In safety. a
Learning that the Americans were
about to attack, he tore off his leather
suit and donned n shrapnel helmet
Then he asked for rife and grenades
and wen, outw ith the Americans, where
he took part in the fighting.
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SWINTON TO SPEAK TODAY
Inventor Of Tank to Address New
York Shipyard Workers

Major General F. d. Swinton. inventor
Of the British tank. will deliver the first
of series of addresses to shipyard
workers today at the plant of the New
York Shipbuilding Company. Camden.
General Swinton, who is member of the
staff Of Lord Reading. British ambassa :
dor to this country, has been borrowed"
by the shipping board to rouse interest
and enthusiasm among the shipmen.
Tomorrow General Swinton will talk to
the workers at the Merchants Shipbuild-
he will speak at the Sun Shipbuilding
Company's plant at Chester and on Fri
day at the Wilmington plant of the
Pusey & Jones Company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-18

CCORN no longer, Mrs, Housewife, at
~ the honorable round steak hambur-
ger or boiling meat
Time was when Mr. Husband would
come home, sniff a Whit of boiling
meat in the pot. or round steak or ham.
burger in The frying pan, and straight
way retrace his steps to the door and
make haste for the nearest food dis.
pensary, where he might partake of a
juicy tenderloin or sirloin.
Whether il is because of the Federal
food administration restrictions on the
use of beef, the unusual exports 70 the
fighting forces, or just natural short
age of COW. the fact remains that prices
have ascended at a rate that would do
credit to an airslane equipped with the
Liberty motor.
Hamburger Ascends, Too
Boiling meat is no longer to be as
sociated with the poor mans fare: in
stead it draws forth a ''squawk" from
the purse of the rich man. Hamburg
the side partner of the hot dog" on
almost any picnic lunch counter. is now
looked upon with more respect. while
the round steak, considered at one time
! fit only for those who wanted whole
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-18
WAR ORDER FRAUDS
MAY PROVE STARTLING
Sensational Developments Elk.
pected From Raids by De.
5 partment of Justice
Washington. June Is.


Developments more sensational than
any of those yet revealed were ex-
pected today when further reports
reached Washington of the nationwide
raids conducted by the Department OF
Justice as the result of far-reaching
war order conspiracies. That the al
legged Illegal practices between manu-
facturers and contractors' representa-
tives had attained wide scope was
proved by the mass of documents al
ready in the hands of the department
but additional disclosures expected to-
day would. it was said, reveal condi-
tions even more startling than had been
believed to exist.
Already evidence that perhaps hun
dreds nf contracts have been made with
manufacturers who were under pledge
to pay a percentage of contract com
missions to agents il Washington, New
York and other large cities, was in the
hands of the Department of Justice and
the reports Of the raids still were ia,
from being complete.
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ZIONIST TO SPEAK HERE
DIR. Ben Zion Mossensohn 10 Be He
brew Association Guest

Dr. Ben Zion Mossensohn, founder OF
the Jaffe Hebrew University who was
expelled from Palestine several months
after the opening of the war, will speak
at a meeting of the Zion Association OF
Philadelphia in the Young Mems Hebrew
evening.
Doctor Mossensohn was expelled by
Dzemel Pasha. a leader of Young Turks
on the ground that he was an active
Zionist He went then to Alexandria
Egypt. and then TO Switzerland, whence
he came to the United States.
Ittamar Ben Avi. editor of the FIRST
daily newspaper published in Jerusalem
also will speak at the meeting 1t is his
belief that Palestine has a new messagt
TO give the world and that IL is destined
to play large and important part moi
only IN the future history of the Jews
meeting Viii start at 8 o'clock.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-18
BURNQUIST IN LEAD
unning Ahead of Lindbergh in
Minnesota Primary

{, - Psul, Minn., June ls.-Burnquist
- leading Lindenbergh in the early re-
turns from the Republican gubernatorial
ifortnary held yesterday. Returns from
kt42 precincts out of 3l19 in the State
Il <oiye Burnquist 27,351 and Lindbergh
s1S.3S6.
The contest between Governor Burn
0ii1st and former Representative Charles
Il Iindbergh overshadowed all other is
4uas. Lindbergh. candidate of the Nom
HArtisan League was the storm center.
5 1eyalty was the leading issue. Burn
zs&)6isf's supporters charged that Lind
&fGhs speeches were un-Americsn and
<t14t the policies of the league were un-
rfriotic.. Lindbergh asserted he was
~ and that his war criticism was
ned at "unscrupulous profiteers."
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BARS. ALIEN AUTOISTS
New Jersey Commissioner Denies Them
Drivers Licenses

New York, June 1s.-There are enough
Americans to drive automobiles in New
Jersey, SO no enemy aliens need apply
for licenses. State Motor Vehicle Com
missioner Dill SO announced yesterday
at his weekly hearing in Newark
John Vols. of 500 East 169th street,
New York, an enemy alien. eleven years
In this country. but without first citizen
ship papers, was fined $25 for driving a
car with a New Jersey plate though ne
had no New Jersey license. Said Mr..
Dill:
g! don't intend that any enemy alien
shall get license to drive in New Jer-
sey, especially man who has been I'm
this country for eleven years, has earned
his livelihood here and then comes into
this State and violates the law. There
are enough Americans to drive cars,
big enough for all purposes on the other
side,
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SCHOOL DAYS ENDED
Commencement TO Culminate Tomor
row at Cumberland Valley Normal

Carlisle, Pa June 1S.-With several
members in service and the elaborate
ness curtailed somewhat by reason Of
the war, the annual commencement eX-
ercises a. the Cumberland Valley state
Normal School got into full swing to-
day.
Graduation exercises are set for to-
morrow morning when diplomas will be
given to large class by Prof Ezra
Lehman, head of the school.
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Trolley Collision Victims Better

Eight persons who were injured when
two trolley cars collided at Fifteenth
and Pine streets last night are reported
Pezznette, 1912 Ellsworth street; Tony
Ferrants 1901 Moore street: Michael
Redmond. sS2 East Cornwall street
Michael Herrick. 1112 Hamilton street
Mrs. ]. Gibson. 1896 Mexican street
Laura Gibat. 1923 Pemberton street and
Cody Wooden, ia South Sixth street.
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Strain Thief" Is jailed

Je1nes w. O'Mara.. giving no address.
<36 sent to the county prison for thirty
~ - q train thief by Magistrate
E1ce. Saturday. in the Twenty-second
|Feet and Hunting Park, Avenue police
mption today. Two weeks ago a woman
q Pennsylyania train from Trenton
RhiiadeIphia went to the end of the
Nor drink and. returning to her
found O'Mara ransacking her va
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Contractor Gives Up Job

Kennett square, Pa. June is.-Be-
cause he could not be assured he would
receive materials. b. Frank Wickersham
has given up the contract awarded him
by the state Highway Department to
build about 2400 feet of concrete road
In this place. The price he MAS to res
ceive was sy2.2s7. and the work VIII be
readvertlsed
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ice Us 4 U. S. Decisions,
"a Trapel Into Austria'

lF11h the Italian Army. June IS.
kccording to high commanding
nctr st Italian Army Headquar-
~ satisfaction Is felt over the
o6tton on every part Of the front.
Now send us only four divisions
Americans" the officer added.
Win first shake hands and
rEvel together into Austria"
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Reading Boy Run Over by Auto

Reading. Pa. June lS,-Another child
was added to the long list of victims of
automobile accidents in Reading today,
when nne-year-old Willis Longenecker,
of 36 Poplar street, was struck and run
The automobile was driven by DR.. s,
Leon Breibelbis.
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DEATHS

| BAIRD. - AT Wernesville. Pa. June u;
CHARLES w. BAIRD aged SO. Funeral
| services residence CT sister. Mrs. Edward o.
| Shakespeare. 103 s. 21st ST.. We'd. p. m.
McCULLOUGH. June II, ANNIE E.. wife
| of ". @. Mccullough. Relatives and friends
invited to services, Thurs. . p. m. 5316
| Thompson st. Int private.