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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
BURGLARS OPEN SAFE:
ESCAPE WITH $3OS1
Bakery in East Cambria Street
Entered While Proprietor
Sleeps Above

Burglars entered the bakery of Frank
klastor. 2735 East Cambria street, early
today, and, after rolling a big safe from
the rear of the building to the front of
the store blew off the steel door and
made n getaway with s3OS1.
The police of the Belgrade and Clear
field streets station are making a wide
search for the fe-crackers, but have so
far found no trace of them.
That the burglars were experts Is the
opinion of District Detective Cave who,
after making an investigation of the
break asserted that the cracksmen used
nitro -glycerin to wreck klastor's strong
box.
Klastor. who came to this country scv.
eral years ago, lives in the apartment
directly over the store but did not hear
the burglars
| Il did not learn of it," said the baker
| until shortly after O'Clock. when
| entered the rear of the store to max,
| ready for the days business l noticed
that the safe. which occupied a place II
the room directly In the rear of tn,
| store. had been moved. Going into thu
| store, l found it in the center of the
| room and almost in front of the stor,
door. The door had been blown off ant
everything of value taken"
When asked why he kept such a larg,
sum Of money in the store, Klastor sale
| that he had drawn it from the bank OF
Saturday to pay number of bills today
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
BRING 20 HERE ON
SEDITION CHARGE
Third of Those Taken in
Chester I. w. W. Raid
Arraigned
Ia HELD AS SLACKERS
Speaker and. Wife Charged
With Assailing President and
Opposing Army Service

More than twenty persons who last
night were caught in a raid on an !. w.
w. meeting in Chester were today
brought to this city and arraigned before
the United States Commissioner. They
were accused Of spreading sedition.
Forty others were detained by the po-
lice, and among them were fourteen al
legged draft slackers. Their cases will
be taken up tomorrow.
The gathering was In full blast when
Sheriff Albert r. Granger, Of Delaware
County, his deputies and a detail Of
Chester policemen forced their way into
a hall at Eighth and Caldwell streets.
Seditious remarks against the Presi-
to have been made by speakers, all of
whom were arrested. In addition, the
meeting was combed for slackers. Four
teen men are detained because they are
| reported to have failed to comply with
the selective service regulations.
Agnts Of the Department of Justice in
this city were notified of the raid and
have begun an investigation. They will
|
day. A large quantity of l. w. w
literature was seized by the police.
Nicholas Wallace. whom the police as
sert is a dangerous agitator, woman
who claims to be his wife. and the
owner of the hall, Tony Carsseski, were
arrested at the meeting.
The police report that Wallace. while
addressing the meeting, remarked that
TT makes no difference who the Presi'
dent Is, We must down all Presidents
| Kings and capitalists
| Other statements Wallace is alleged
| to have made are: 1T makes no diff
| ference If a man has twenty citizenship
| papers, he has no right TO join the
| army" and There is just as mucl
swinding here as in Russia"
Remarks of a similar nature are alsr
| alleged to have been made by the wo
| man, known as Mrs. Wallace.
| All the men at the meeting who wer.
| unable to show proper draft classified
ton credentials were taken before loca
! board officials and examined.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
NEW WAR WORK EXCHANGE
Manufacturers Will Get Together
Here to Better Boost Government

The Philadelphia district of the United
States army ordnance department has
just announced its plan to bring to-
gether representatives Of manufacturers
in this district who are now working or
who may later take on ordnance con-
tracts
This new department will be known
as the Philadelphia District Ordnance
Manufacturers Exchange. The ex-
change will hold its sessions in the au-
ditorium of the Manufacturers Club on
each Wednesday morning. These ses-
sions will be from II a m. to D. m
The Philadelphia district comprises
the eastern half of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey. including Trenton and south
thereof. and Delaware. All manufactur-
ers in the above district who are in a
position to supply materials, tools. fix
lures, machinery or any of the thou
sands Of articles or parts which are re-
quired by the ordnance department or
which are necessary to the manufactur-
ers Of ordnance equipment, are requested
to Immediately communicate with the
secretary of the exchange, stating the
character of goods they are best fitted
to produce.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
P. 7. BENEFITS
TO BEINCREASED
Larger Insurance and Pen.
sions in Plan Submit
ted to Employees
WILL KEEP WAGES UP
Promise Made to Equal Pay
in Chicago, Cleveland, De.
troit and Buffalo

PROVISIONS for larger sick and death
benefits, pension Increases and greater
insurance are contained in a new CO.
operative plan submitted today by the
Rapid Transit Company to all employees
In Its service Announcement is salso
made that wages will always be as
high" as those prevailing in Chicago.
Cleveland Detroit and Buffalo, which
the company terms most favored cities"
In announcing It's plan the company
makes this explanation:
The cooperative plan as now i'm
proved will include benefits to all en-
ployes, putting the men in the electrical
department. shops and buildings. way
and other departments on a propeI COM
parative basis with those operating the
cars Under the plan there will be es-
tablished larger sick and pension bene.
fits and greater life insurance. Wages
will be based upon the average of wages
established by tho war labor board In
the four big cities of Chicago, Cleveland
paid in Philadelphia will always be as
high as for these four most favored
cities.
Sick Benefits
sick benefits will be at the rate o.
s1.50 a day. commencing with the eight
day of illness and continuing for
period not to exceed 100 days in an,
! yean This in addition to the amour
which the company pays in case Of in
| jury under the workmen's compensation
act of Pennsylvania. The present sicl
benefit is only 81 day.
| "a pension Of $40 a month will b
! paid to any incapacitated member VIII
| has reached siXty-five years of age an
! been twenty-five years in the continuou
service of the company; this as agains
the $50 month now being paid. Spe
cial cases to be given special considera
ton.
Every member receives a life insuI
ance policy for $1,000, maintained Will
he is in the service of the compan!
This takes the place of the present deaf
benefits of $3.50. For all of these bene
fits and protection to himself and famil
the employe will pay only 81 montl
The company will contribute $4,000
month for the same purpose.
amy and every employe of the con-
pany may become a member or tn
cooperative plan the only require
ment being that he shall have been or
4 wear in the employ of the company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19

ings of the ancestors NJ the late owner
of the nearby chateau
1T sure was swell, as George Thomp-
son used to saw. hut the trouble was
that lust about meal times our mutual
friend Heinie would 20 cunning for the
few remaining chimneys in the town
and said meal would be Indefinitely post
poned.
We all developed sundry talents
that we never knew we possessed before,
Willie. especially. learned how to make
II from k'chen TO cave IN one shde,
"a. .nae ne mas 10 Keep moving 10 eet
W. ,S,, ~ my way. one,iegeeo oli,iu man
Mou,u "ahe sooa WIN one .. 'nose
20 ...,,
=. Cue , uay iast week l Woke up Iui'
y, oi.,.n nuu .C,pIa,.,'s nus ma. soIneoouy ~as
,s,, su~ioNs ~ r,encn tooacco, WHICH is
s.,eS s., veroo'eh' OF INA. soihe yap was
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
THOMAS P. c. STOKES DEAD
Was Member of Old and Promi-
nent Philadelphia Family

Thomas 2. C. Stokes. member of an
old and prominent Philadelphia family.
died on Saturday night in the University
Hospital, after an illness of two weeks,
due to a complication of diseases. The
Stokes home was at Loneoak, Wissa-
hickon and Westview avenues, German
town.
Mr.. Stokes, who was seventy-five years
old, had not been engaged in business
for many years. He was member OF
the Philadelphia Club and polo en-
thusiast
rho surviving sons are Major Thomas
Stokes. in the artillery service at Fort
Sill, oklahoma Captain Walter Stokes
who is in France John w. Stokes, who
recently entered the officers training
camp at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky.
Edward Lowber Stokes, an investment
broker, and w. Stanley Stokes. of Ger.
mantown, who n few years ago married
Miss Ruth Coke, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Brinton Coke.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
TRUE BILLS UNLIKELY
IN DRAFT PROBE HERE
Federal Grand Jury, Recon
vening Today, May Only
Criticize Involved Men

The special Federal Grand Jury Sc
lected to investigate draft conditions in
this city reconvened today to consider
new evidence.
Owing to the unsatisfactory nature Of
the evidence presented, the jury may fail
to return any indictment against board
members.
For this reason, 1t is asserted. T.
Henry Walnut. Assistant United tSates
District Attorney. visited Washington to
confer with Colonel Easby-Smith to as
certain the views of the draft officers re-
garding the boards involved in the probe.
It is considered likely that the jury will
return recommendations against certain
boards rather than indictments.
Mr.. Walnut believes that new evi.
dence may influence certain changes Be
cause of this, he announced that he did
not think the jury would close the probe
this week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
PHILADELPHIA SOLDIER JOKES
ON BEING SHELLED BY "HEINIE''
Former Evening Public Ledger Reporter Describes Sport Of
Sliding Down Cellar and Sleeping Among Potatoes
and Silver Candlescks

A REALLY vivid picture Of the daily
"A life in the trenches. which has
withal a touch Of the humor never lack
ing where more than two Americans are
assembled. is given in a letter from
Don" Donaghy. a former member OF
the EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER staff. who
is now in France with the 1o3d Engi-
neers.
Writing TO a pal" of his newspaper
days. Donaghy, who for some occult rea-
son was known to his school friends as
Dunk" starts In characteristic fashion
with the heading-"Here today"-then
continues:
Here Is your chance to show all the
boys letter from the very edge of
things, where horseshoes and rabbits
feet have to work overtime to do fellow
any good. Barnum made an awful mis-
take when he claimed he had the great
est show on earth. This has his poor
old six-ring circus beaten thousand
ways. This sketch Is continuous and
has more high spots and daredevil
stunts than Barnum ever thought Of
Also there are no red lights over the
exits, but you usually go out In a red
flare Figure that out for yourself Rob.
by. then tell II to the latest recruit fol
the w p. district.
willie and 1 and about fifty others
have apartments over stable In towr
that Is just comfortably out OF reacf
Of the big guns. We are here for few
days only, just to wash up. feed W
and sleep up. The good people of the
village moved out in such hurry las
spring that they even forgot the pennie!
in the babies banks. However we hav'
not overlooked any bets, as you will hav'
guessed.
I'VE have borrowed all the feathe
beds we could find. ditto linen sheets
and opened up the stable under nev
management. Our last billet before thi
was nice enough, but Heinie woudn'
leave us alone. We had luxurious po
tato cellar, fitted up with other feathe
beds, silver candlesticks and oil paint
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
VETERINARIANS START FUND
Five Hundred Dollars Set Aside
for Relief Work

Five hundred dollars was set aside
by the American Veterinary Medical
Association at the opening today of the
fifty-ffth annual convention in the
Beilevue-Stratford Hotel for the pur-
pose of giving relief to needy members
or their families.
The association has membership OF
1000. of which nearly 1900 are in serv-
ice Nearly 200 attended the opening
meeting.
The Ladies' Auxiliary attended the
opening of the convention, but left
shortly before noon to hold a luncheon
at Eugler's. where business affecting
the relief work of the women's organiza-
tion was discussed.
F.. Torrance, of Ottawa, president of
the association, declared in his address
that the United States and Canada
should have a lot of pride in the veteri.
nary profession's part in the war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
COAL WEIGHT SHORT; SIS FINE
Six-Ton Delivery Lacked 1901
Pounds, SAYS Sealer

One day last week the coal firm- OF
Devaul Bros. Haddon Heights and
Magnolia, N. j., delivered six tons OF
coal at the home of Mrs. James Shaw
Audubon, n. j.
Mrs. Shaw looked at the pile When
the coal beavers packed 1t In the cellar
and decided she had not received suf'
ficient quantity. She summoned George
Starm, sealer Of weights and measures
for Camden County. and that ofiicia!
pounds short.
Devaul Brothers were summoned be-
fore Judge Panoast in the United States
District Court at Camden today, and
besides being fined s25, were told tc
make up the shortage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
PERSONAL PLEAS TO MINERS
Men Will Be Urged to Work and
Not Fight

Personal appeals to each miner to
accept deferred classification, work the
full eight hours each day and put forth
every effort to increase the output of
coal. will be made by committees repre-,
senting the anthracite mine owners and
the Federal Government.
The coal regions will be canvassed
Just as in political campaign. Each
man will be interviewed, and If he does
not understand English well an inter-
prefer of his own race, his minister or
doctor or someone in whom he has
confidence, will be asked to tell him
of the nations urgent need for coal. and
"Four minute" men. able to speak the
dialects Of the foreign-born miners. will
make noon addresses. and their EFFORTS
will be followed up by a house-to-house
canvass.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
6l8 MORE HOUSES
FOR SHIPWRIGHTS
Emergency Fleet Corpora.
ton Will Build in For.
tieth Ward
1000 AT EDDYS TON E
Government Decides Only
Building Can Solve Indus
trial Housing Problem

Plans are being prepared for imme-
date construction in the Fortieth Ward
of 61S additional houses for Hog Island
workmen, it was announced this after
noon.
This operation. for which contracts
probably will be let by the end of this
week, is a part of an operation of 1000
houses. The first group will be COM
pleted and ready for occupancy by jan
uary l.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation now
has options on the land upon which
the 61S houses are to be built. Pre-
lminary surveys are under way.
When completed, these new houses
will make total of 23s9 homes in West
Philadelphia provided by the corporation
for Hog Island. workmen The first
operation of 900 houses is almost com.
plete: one block at Sixty-first street
and Elmwood avenue is already occupie (.
The remainder of the houses In the
first operation will be ready for occu.
pancy within a few weeks. The 42s
houses commandeered last spring ar,
virtually all occupied.
Another big building operation a.
Eddystone, to house the workers at thu
Baldwin Locomotive Works plant there
is expected to release houses In Yves
Philadelphia for shipworkers. At leas
2OO0 homes will be constructed there
and 1t is probable many employees nov
Lying in Philadelphia will move int,
them.
More new houses may be built her
by the Government, through the Depart
ment of Labor, as 1t was stated ii
Washington the problem of housing in
dustrial workers could not be settle
through inducing house owners to boar
war workers or extending transi
facilities. Government construction of
fers the only solution, it was announced
Philadelphia is among the cities beln
considered for housing projects.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER -pHILA DEIPH1A MONDAY AUGl
CROWDS AT LIBERTY SINGS
Affairs at Oak Lane and Hunting
Park Enthusiastic Affairs

The liberty sings held at Oak Lane
and Hunting Park yesterday were
two of the most successful ever held In
this city. Enthusiastic crowds. in ad-
dtion to more than 900 marines and
sailors, were given a day of purely en-
joyable and beneficial pleasure.
The first sing was held at Hunting
Park. with $50 marines and sailors, 400
members of the Liberty Sing Chorus and
100 members of the Doylestown Liberty
Sing. Thousands Of other persons also
took part, and so enthusiastic did they
become that many divided Into groups
and sang patriotic airs.
This affair concluded, and headed by
the contingent of marines, hundreds OF
persons marched up the Old York road
from Hunting Park to Asbury. Green
Oak Lane, where the second sing was
held The quota of uniformed men was
increased by 100 marines who were the
guests of Oak Lane people over the
week end, and the sing which followed
was equally as enthusiastic as that held
in Hunting Park.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
MAYOR SMITH DROPPED
Fairgrounds Association Lets
Him Out After Cudehus Fight

Mayor Smith has been dropped as a
vice president Of the Philadelphia Play
grounds Association.
This action followed his appointment
of Judge Raymond MacNeille to one of
the vacancies on the board of recreation
thus assuring the election of Senator
Wares secretary, Edward r. Gudehus
to the post of supervisor of Fairgrounds
That the Gudehus appointment will be
ignored by those who are experienced in
when William A. Stecher, director Of
physical education in the public schools
declared he did not feel the appointment
would "interfere" in any way with the
work. Stecher resigned from the recrea
tion board as a protest against thu
Mayors dismissal of three other members
Of the board.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-19
Executive for War Service
Bureau in WashinRton

Wanted, o high-grade Executive. having
banking or Industrial experience, to accent
War Vase Service e'o In WashinsRt"na hiR1 salary from m
ono dollar to five thousand dollars per an-
mum, Tho man who can all this position
thousand dollars per annum In any CONNER
A 1875. LEDGER OFFICE.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-23
SAYS MOTOR PARTY
KILLED RASPUTIN
Col. de Lazovert,. Here From
France, Relates Story of Rus
sian Monks Death.

Through the combination Of fact and
fiction many weird tales have been built
around the fate Of Rasputin. the Black
Monk Of Russia. whose incomprehensible
influence over the family of Romanoffs
had much TO do with the fall Of Nicho-
las ii. All the stories agreed that he
was slain by a band of loyal Russians
opposed to his Teutonic leanings. but
they differed as to how and where he
was killed.
Col. Stanislas de Lazovert. one time
member of the Russian Duma and chief
of the sanitary division of the Russian
Red Cross during the regime Of Nicholas,
told what he asserted to be the true YER
sion OF the affair when he arrived at an
Atlantic port yesterday from France.
whittier he fed from Petrograd when the
Bolsheviki began their campaign Of
slaughter and arson in the name Of free
Russia. Col de Lazovert says he is one
of the six men responsible for the death
of Rasputin. and Is the only survivor OF
the six. 1t was in his automobile that
the body was removed from the street
He said the others impiica;ed-.he re-
fused to tell which members of the party
actually fired the shots-were: Grand
Duke Dimitri Pavlovski, Capt. Toucho-
tine of the Imperial Guards. Prince
Ysoupoff. NJ. Pourischkievitch. member
OF the Duma. and another Grand Duke
whose name he would not divulge.
His story goes thus: These six, trav-
cling in the machine of Col. de Lazovert.
found the monk as he was almost di-
rectly opposite the palace of Duke Paw
| loski on his way to visit the family of
Nicholas on the night of December Is.
Ieaping from the car. they confronted
| the black bearded monk and some of
them shot and killed him with revolvers.
Within a second or two the body was
| dumped into the machine and spirited
away.
Col. de Lazovert is by no means en-
barrassed by his part in the AFFAIR; on
| the contrary he believes the action OF
! himself and his compatriots was wholly
| justified and would have told of 1t be-
| fore except that until now he has been
required to remain silent. Soon after
| the death of the monk price was placed
| upon the Colonel's head and he fled to
France with his wife, leaving their four
| months-old baby with relatives.
It is probable that he will explain in
| more detail the conditions in Russia
after he has seen President Wilson. He
| is here. he says. to discuss with the
President the allied and American eXpe-
| dition into Siberia. an undertaking which
| he strongly favors.
| THE Siberian campaign" he said
will lead to. the absolute reha Utilization
| of Russian arms and Russia will then be
as strong as ever with the Allies. There
| is not a true Russian with the German
| armies at present. The few that are
| with them are traitors.
Though I earnestly desire the COM
plete freedom OF Russia from German
domination I am not actually Russian
| but Pole. and all my hopes. next to the
complete defeat of Germans and Ger
manism, are centred in the rehabilitation
and repatriation of my noble country
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-23
RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER
PRAISES PEACE NOTE
Moscow Journal Says Austria
Did Not Act From FeebIeness.

PARIS, Sept. 22.--The first Russian
comment on the Austrian peace note
has reached here by way of Switzer-
land; il was not until Wednesday that
the note appeared in the Moscow Mir,
i follows:
Austria Hungary always has desired
peace. Her present overture Is not
due 10 feebleness hut rather has been
Inspired hy the knowledge of her favor
able position. II the Entente Powers do
rot accept the hand outstretched TO them
t'c world will know that they are TAX
.as a terrible responsibility" -
The National Zeitun0 of Basic. trac-
Hg the genesis of the note from quail
Ned sources. says II was prepared in
July but Austria decided to wait for
come time before submitting it, II was
discussed at German Great Headquar-
'rgs, after which II was retouched and
"nplihed and was submitted to Foreign
Minister Hntze. King Ferdinand Of
Bulgaria and the Turkish Minister for
Foreign Affairs. all Of whom APP
proved H.
Despite all this" says the Zeitung.
n" note is not. as has been said. an
N Al overture Of the Quadruple Al
I1u"e but a simple and spontaneous act
"' Baron Burian. Only since Wednesday
~ The week before was there any knowl-
cog" Of the note In official circles in
vienna II was communicated first to
The chiefs OF the German bourgeois
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-23

on billboards and be communicated to
the German people by the distribution
of millions of pamphlets.
mo German man or woman who
knows the contents and Significance OF
these declarations" the newspaper de-
clares, "can doubt that peace IL attain
able only either through our victory or
at the price OF our, utter destruction"
On the basis OF Information from "a
competent source" the Berlin correspond
ent Of the Dusseldorf Nochrichten
comes to the conclusion that Chancellor
Won Hertllng does not intend to resign
and that official circles do not attach
any Importance to the Leipzig Ta0c-
blatts report.
The correspondent says that though
the minority OF the Centre and Progress
sive parties are endeavoring to bring
about greater INSTRUMENTATION Of the
Government, the Socialists alone favor
absolute parliamentarization.
The Centrist organ Germdnio in an ar
ticle to-day discredits the Leipzig Tdoe-
biatts sensational report about a politi-
cal crisis. 1t declares that accord now
happily has been reached and the su-
premc army command is and will remain
decisive.
Continuing. It says: I'VE are. how