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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
INSPECT FACTORIES
TO STOP COAL WASTE
More Work and Less Talk
Is Fuel Engineer Hender.
sons Motto

More work and less talk" is the
s"ogram OF George r. Henderson, con.
ting engineer of this city, who has
9fen appointed administrative engineer
q the Federal fuel administration for
fennsylvania 10 supervise inspections
and Investigations of boiler houses and
power plants In an effort to effect a
s greater coal-saving plan
Il believe in doing things before talk
ING" Mr.. Henderson said today Mr..
Henderson Is also a member of the fuel
conservation board recently appointed
~ the Federal fuel administration for
this state
IS The board, composed of fourteen mem
bofe. seven OF them Philsde!phians. has
started an inspection tour Of shops and
& Victories In the State with a view to
sinaugurating a fuel-saving campaign on
- large scale. Several factories have
already been visited and recommenda- :
s1lons made that will save many tons of
ceAl
y IT is too early 10 make any state
! Raent as to the plans he expects TO put
INTO effect. Mr.. Henderson said. but a
l1nf of twenty plants has been made up
nad each will be visited
q Suggestions for coal saving in power
I~1ants and boiler houses will be gladly
3 sSocaived. Mr.. Henderson said. Any of
53t4ese deemed practicable will be put into
eject.
~ What the inspection has disclosed thus
I1of Mr. Henderson said he was not at
X1i4erty TO discuss. He has made one re-
lott 10 date. showing how $4,000 can
/ = sAved annually at a power plant near
Y (is city through adoption of fuel
36Aving plan,
s. Mr.. Henderson was mechanical en-
'11Ieer and assistant shop superintend-
<6t for the Norfolk and Western Railway
<fom 1887 to 1883; assistant mechan-
13&1f engineer of the Schenectady Loco
Gicfive Works; assistant superintend-
INT Of motive power of the Atchison, To.
I naka and Santa Fe Railway: consult
80 engineer for the Baldwin Locomotive
& <Jkorks. and since 1915 has been con-
1ting engineer for several railroads
he Pittsburgh district. including
MT I've counties, Is the only section
~ State over which Mr.. Henderson
not have charge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17

Soldier Emulates Lochinvar
When Furlough Is Cut Short

Private Philip Elkstein. twenty-f6ur
years old. SOLE Eastwick avenue. unex-
pectedly recalled from leave to Camp
Aberdeen, Md, within one hour this
morning proposed to the girl Of his
choice, was accepted and welded and
caught his train back to the post of duty.
Miss Sylvia Berman. 6155 De Lancey
street. employed at a downtown depart
ment store, was the bride.
Private Eikstein got his emeNgency
call back to camp shortly after 8 o'clock.
He took II to mean an early departure
overseas His train was due to leave at
2 o'clock There was no time for a
faint-hearted courtshp. off to the store
he went.
"Will you marry me, sylvan he
looked and listened.
She promised to think 1t over" but
soon relented enough to do her thinking
in taxicab on the way to the home Of
a rabbi
And SO they were married
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
POLICE REGISTER
GERMAN WOMEN
Begin Listing of Female
Enemy Aliens in City,
With Photographs
TAKE FINGER PRINTS
Those Who Have Not Ap.
peared by June 26 Will
Be Prosecuted

Registration of all girls and women
more than fourteen years old. OF Ger
man birth, and of women Of other ma
tionalities who have married German
subjects began at 8 O'Clock this morn
ing at police stations throughout the
city under orders Issued by Attorney
General Gregory at washington
Each woman is required TO supply
three photographs of herself for identi-
ficstion and her finger prints are taken.
Austrian and Hungarian women are
not required to register. Male enemy
aliens were: registered several months
ago.
William 3. Mills. acting superinten-
dent Of police. is serving as chief reg
lister in Philadelphia The registration
will continue each day. except sunday,
from n. m until y. m. until Wednes-
day. June 26
Agents of the Department Of Justice
have general supervision OF the work.
II Is under the immediate direction OF
United States Marshal Noonan.
Noonan has made public the following
facts with reference to those required
to register and how they must 60 about
complying with the law:
'All natives citizens. denizens or SUD
iects of the German empire or OF the
Imperial German Government, being
females of the age of fourteen years
and upward. now within the United
States and not actually naturalized as
American citizens are required to regis
ter as German allen females.
Female natives. citizens, denizens or
subjects of the Austro- Hungarian em-
plre are not required to register under
the Presidents proclamation Of April
10, 1918. nor under these regulations
unless they come within the provisions
Of the preceding paragraph.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
SPOKEN WILL PROBATED
Dying Man, Unable to Write, Told
Wishes to Neighbors

A will given by word of mouth was to-
day ordered probated by Register Shee-
han.
The estate Is that Of John j. Murphy,
2051 Summer street. and the value Of the
property Is $500.
WtnesseA testified that Murphy, four
days before his death on December 10
last. informed two neighbors he wanted
all his property to go to niece, Re-
becca Hackett
When one of his neighbors suggested
that he put his will in writing, he re-
piled. You know i cannot write"
In his opinion, the Register states that
the apprehension of death and the lack
of opportunity to obtain a written docu-
ment warranted admitting the evidence
as a noncupative will. E..
Other wills probated today include
those of Della A. Stewart 2026 Pine
street, which in private requests disposes
of property valued at 100000; Sarah j.
Melon, Sea Girt. n. j., $4,000 Matilda
c. Hutchinson. who died in the Jefferson
Hospital, $1,000; william II. Nitterous,
$50 East Phil-Ellena street $4,000, and
George Glazer. Mount Sinai Hospital,
$326i
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17

ing being that The first need just now is
Industrial workers. Women were rap
idly assigned at this place to the muni-
tions plant at Carneys Point. to Midvale
and TO the United States Ordnance De-
partment. where they will fast be pre-
pared for work.
Applications were made in consider
able numbers at 1907 Walnut street,
where the women have already become
familiar with the registration idea and
where already more than 10000 cards
are kept in classified order to indicate
the woman-power of Philadelphia and
the availability of women for service.
More than twenty recruits for work in
the new uniform facr.rr presented them
selves before 10 o'clock.
At the recruiting station at 1929
Chestnut street the first days recruiting
opened favorably.
Recruiting for the factory at Twenty
fifth and Reed streets Is under the
supervision of the Emergency Aid.
Mrs. Barclay II. Warburton, chair
man of the advisory council of the Phila-
delphia depot quarlermaster corps, has
delegated the work to committee con-
sisting OF Mrs. Thomas Robins. Mrs.
Rodman F.. Griscom, Mrs. Robert c.
Wright, Mrs. Eli Kirk Price and Miss
Mary S. Crawford
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
DEMOCRATIC LEADER
REMAINS UNCHOSEN
City Committee Contests May
Delay Election of Chairman
Until Next Week

The election Of chairman Of the
Democratic City Committee Is expected
to be postponed when the committee
meets for reorganization tonight because
Of contests between supporters OF Judge
Bonniwell, Democratic gubernator
nominee. and present members of the
committee over the election of repre-
sentatives from number OF wards.
Leaders Of the local Democratic forces
predict that Edgar w. Lank. present
city chairman. will be reelected despite
the demand of Judge Bonniwell that he
he ousted and James ]. Breen, manager
of the Bonniwell campaign. be named
in his stead It will take a week to set
tie the contests in the various wards
and n chairman likely will be named
next Monday.
II the leaders adhere to their an
nounced intention to re-elect I.ank. Judge
Bonniwell's supporters threaten TO set
up committee of their own and perfect
a seperate city-wide Democratic organ
ization. Breen is slated to head the
proposed Bonniwell committee.
Judge Bonniwell will go to Harris
burg tomorrow. where he will be ten
dered reception by the Harrisburg
Democratic Club. Judge John w. Wes-
cott OF Camden, who twice nominated
Woodrow Wilson for the presidency, will
be the principal speaker at the recep-
ton, which takes place on the eve of the
meeting of the Democratic State Com
mittee.
The platform OF Judge Bonnwell will
be read for the first time at the re-
ception, and will be submitted to the
committee the next day. Should the
state committee refuse to recognize
Judge Bonniwells demand for the cleo
ton of a chairman favorable to his
candidacy he threatens to set up a
rival committee which will work in
conjunction with the proposed Bonn!-
well committee here.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
|U|IK LAE
0R LACK OF HELP
portage of Unekilled La
Dor Serious Menace in
Plants in and Near City
1000 MEN ARE NEEDED
Federal Employment Bureau
Calls on Employers to
Free All Possible

Plants In this city are facing short.
Y age of unskllled worknen, which threat
s ems to hold back work on Government
q contracts.
|N shipyards, munition plants and air
4 craft works are making daily requests
Z TO the United States Bureau of EN-
; ployment, Third and walnut streets, fof
\ lnborers
at least 5000 unskilled laborers are
needed here by plants working on
4 government orders" said Henry A
3 0shringer, head OF the employment
bureau in this district.
"There is no way of telling the exact
number of skilled workmen needed. but
the demand is high, and 1t must be met
Or war work will suffer"
Next to unskilled laborers, the heaviest
demand In for expert machinists Tor
nearly all lines of war work. ShiTyards
need them and munitions plants need
them. In aircraft works, experienced
cabinet makers are continually in de-
Snand.
ArsenaIs Need Machinists
Machnists with considerable expert
ence also are in demand at arsenals.
Tool makers too. could find plenty of
Jobs in Philadelphia
The shortage in labor here began when
war work assumed proportions unfore-
seen, according to Mr. Gehringer. With
plants from Trenton to Wilmington al
ways adding more men as war contracts
Increase, the labor fountains have been
nearly exhausted so far as the bureau
can see.
The bureaus policy Of not taking men
from other districts unless they come
10 Philadelphia of their own volttion has
prevented campaigns elsewhere for men
20 work here. Virtpa:ly every section
OF the United States has considerable
war work and to bring labor from other
felds to supply the local demands would
create shortages elsewhere. Other dis
tricts, Mr. Gehrnger said, are just as
hard pressed for labor as IN Philadel-
phia.
Remedy Planned
Plans are being worked out in the
employment bureau here in line with
those advanced in Washington for the
co-ordination of labor employment. Be
ginning July S, manufacturers of war
products will not employ workmen
through individual bureaus, but viii! re-
ceive their labor through the Federal
bureau.
An arrangement similar to this has
been used successfully in this city for
several weeks, Mr.. Gehrnger said. Since
war contracts have been piling up and
cries for unskilled labor have been in
gereaslng similarly, the Federal employ
ment office has asked employers to send
all men they could not use to the Gov
ernment agency. which then would d-
rect the men into plants needing help.
Advertising campaigns in local news
papers have attracted many laborers,
Mr.. Gehringer said. but not enough TO
meet the shortage. He said only phys
ica1ly fit men need apply for the un-
ekilied labor openings because most of
The work is heavy. Alien enemies are
{ barred from employment in plants
'ihAndling Government work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
Divorces Granted

Common Pleas Court No. today
,ranted the following divorces:
EIizabeth from William c. Bennett
clement, Jr.. frSm Edith n Myers:
James A. from :. Elizahetn Bates
Anna ,1om trf% Rs.tFIse Hse0fIt IT. 4 Fo.isp hGy
SIa"e L, from John a. H. Prum.
Puskil,ne from Eita Volne.
Mary II, from Herbert Mcnn,n,aid;
HorsGs HSsas, y; from n,oM Masel Ei'es seSum N wa
t,yIsn yrns. from 4; irGm GUSTAV hsrrf schmitt.
Clara from Jacob Adler - ,,.
Frank A. p. fT1my Clara GTi,,ihsIi 6 asrirs'
Me- Me- Il from 9rnm wI5,s%ia Dawn ARsiesmsn. ,nns
HsSob MsFS from from MSG NARY Ssalans.
Rose from Jsmes 2 kanpei npei,msn
'RsrSthS RsrS n from a7o% %lllism liam EmeR s"'
Grsce II from. Frank T.. williams
Edith from Charles Wells.
George l.. from Liiliah II. Kohienbers.
John from Emma gilbert; beT.t;.s.,man.
KstSryn KetnSs r11m a. from r Edmund J, oconncii Jr.
Harriet from Frank Carter.
John S WI trom dro'I MsTths Afhs VI srstcher.
Jennie from Joseph White;
EVELYN = frop % John nscGb,ocSst &, haze
Eilsabeth N. from Timothy mccarthy.
: Kathryn s. from william ,hsnks
Catharins NJ from q. PanI Rose
Horace II. from Clara ~ MAGE
H.sss,s H..s,sst,,ss from from o.dr.. w,a.H Watkins.
Msrssrsi Mars Z. from william Henry scuiI
lsils chiods. iron, FssdVslp 0eapoae'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
BEEF OFF MENUS :.
TOSAVE SUPPLY
Hotels and Restaurants Aid
Food Administrators
Conservation Plan
BUTCHERS HELP, TOO

Rallying to the assistance of the food
administration in conserving the now
meager supply of beef in this country.
hotel and restaurant men and butchers
today took drastic steps toward discour-
aging wide use of that meat
Menus that once contained the item,
roast beef and potatoes, twenty-five
cents" are being made to read roast
lamb. or mutton and potatoes. forty
cents" Increases on hotel meat
prices will be as high as in the smaller
restaurants, making the frst-class
places carry prices on meats aimed to
alleviate excess strain on the nations
beef supply.
Butchers have removed from display
counters all signs of beef, with the ex-
ception of by-products, and will keep
close account of all beef sold to assure
defeat of any beef slackers plans that
might be tried 10 obtain more than the
allowed portion of beef.
Economy Begins
Economy in the consumption Of beef
began today throughout the United
States.
All rules regarding the conservation
Of beef are being rigidly enforced by the
food administration.
Packers. butchers and proprietors OF
hotels and restaurants Of Philadelphia
said they would do all in their power
10 aid in beef conservation and they be-
lieved that the general public would re-
spond readily.
AS there is now only three days
supply of beef in the warehouses Of the
United States. for home consumption,
the necessity of extreme economy 10
urgent.
The rules to conserve the supply Of
beef have been made plain uy jay
Cooke. Federal food administrator for
Philadelphia.
In restaurants and hotels boiled beef
may be served at any two meals during
one week, beefsteak at any one meal
and roast beef at any one meal.
In the home beef is limited TO one
and one-quarter pounds to one nerson
in one week. A family of three. for in
stance, is limited to three and three
quarter pounds a week. The house,
wife who buys roast of this size for
Sunday may use any that remains on
the following day.
sacrihct Slight
This sacrifice is slight in view Of the
fact that pork, lamb and mutton may
be used on the days that beef is not
eaten.
The by-products OF beef such as OK
tails. beef tongue liver and kidneys, may
also be used.
Any one who has a tendency to be-
come a beef Stacker should bear In
mind that there Is in storage now
about 117,000,000 pounds of beef less
than on last January / and about 227,-
0oO.0 pounds in the entire country. OF
this amount nearly one-half will be sent
to the troops abroad.
large number of investigators
started out today to see that the rules
were enforced. Those who do not obey
them will be prosecuted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
UKRAINIANS NEAR REVOLT
Growing Unrest in Larger Cities
Alarms Germans

Washington, June 1.-THE Ukranians
are on the eve of a revolt against the
Germans, according to information re-
ceived at the State Department today.
This information was transmitted from
Stockholm and was brought by a man
from Petrograd. The man tells Of the
growing unrest among the Ukrainians,
which has grown so strong in the larger
cities that Germans do not dare to leave
except In large numbers
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
slJSTAVUS A. MULLER DIES
" Weeks Illness Fatal to Theatrical
and Financial Man

: Uustay A. Muller. president Of the
Ilam Penn and Girard Theatre Com
1f<o and of the Gloucester Ferry Com
n. died yesterday afternoon at his
- in Atlantic City. He was fifty
years old. and had been III four
Muller was well known in theatri-
5o1l@ical. financial and sporting cir
He owned many fast race horses
0as familiar figure at the coun-
= various race tracks. He was an
na1astic yachtsman and spent much
~ npare time cunning and fishing
Sides his other interests. Mr. Muller
Interested In the Kelsey Oriental
@ Company and the Thomss A.
y risn Coal Company. He was a close
" of the late Senator j. p MeNichol
z61hor well known politicians He
= Mason and a member OF several
&n@ beneficial and charitable or
- He y survived BY widow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
BEIDLEMAN COSTS $lO,6S7
All But $1,000 of Campaign Ex,
penses Was Contributed

Harrisburg, June 17.-The committee
having in charge Senator Il. E Beidle-
me MS candidacy for the nomination for
Lieutenant Governor on the Republican
ticket spent $1O.6S7.32, according to the
expense account filed today
The chief contributors were Senator
Beidleman, $1,000; w, Harry Baker,
$1,000 Bois Penrose, s2500; John l., l..
Kuhn. Frank A. Smith and Herman l..
Miller, each $500.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17

In every shipyard the various gangs
have taken hold Of the idea-which orig.
mated with Chairman Hurley of the
shipping board--with an enthusiasm
that knows no stopping. Some Of the
yards are putting extra gangs at work
to finish the hulls on time. some are
working in three shifts, seven days a
week.
At the wilmington yard OF the Pusey
& Jones Company here is a big sign
which breathes the spirit of the men
behind the men behind the guns. II
shows the caliber OF the men who are
building the bridge Of ships"
Oflclals Of the company prepared this
sign THE yard at Gloucester Is to
launch three ships July 4. The manage
ment Of this yard has promised Mr.
Schwab to launch 1905 July 4. WILL
YOU DO 1T?"
The following day, this sign made it's
appearance below the other.
WE WILL DO OUR D-ST."
That is the spirit in all the shipyards.
and 1905. the designation of a cargo
carrier now building. will he one of
sixty-three to leave the ways.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
STATE CALLS 968 SPECIALS
Will Prepare for Army at Me.
chanical Training Schools

Harrisburg, Pa, June 17.--Calls were
issued today by the State draft board
og 96S men of draft age to report July
] for special training along mechanical
lines at government expense for various
lines OF military service. They must have
some aptitude for mechanics and be
graduates of grammar schools. The calls
have been sent to local bordas by Major.
Murdoch for speciad induction.
These men will be assigned to various
schools throughout the State, 226 Of
them to attend Spring Garden Institute
Philadelphia for training as woole work.
ers electricians and auto mechanics, and
2O6 to Delaware College. Newark, Del,
for special training as bench workers.
electricians, radio operators, mechanics
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
10 LAUNCH FRElCnTR
First Ship Named by Mrs. Wilson
Takes Din Weduesdav

The eso0-ton freishter Liberty. the
first of our new merchant marine to be
named by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, will
slide from the ways into the Hackensack
River from the yard Of the Federal
Shipbuild'ng Company, Kearny, N j..
Wedresday afternoon at o'clock.
Mrs. Elbcrt II. Gary, wife Of Presi-
dent Gary, of the Federal ShIpbuilding
Company, which is subsidiary Of the
United States Steel Corporation. will
chrlsten the ship.
The first pile in the Federal Ship
yard was driven last August and the
first plate for the Liberty was rolled in
October in the new Liberty mill of the
Carnegie Steel Company, Homestead
Pa The keel of the Liberty was laid
on November l5 and four days later
James A. Farrell, president of the
United states Steel Corporation, drove
the first rivet in the keel.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
BUSINESS CLUB ON OUTING
Golf, Vaudeville and Dinner at
Edge Hill

The annual outing of the City Business
Club is being held today at the Lu Lu
Country Club. Edge Hill.
Louis n. Goldsmith is chairman of the
outing committee and the program for
the day includes sports of all kinds, a
golf tournament. vaudeville and a dinner
at $3.50 o'clock this evening. at which
Mr. Goldsmith will be toastmaster.
William p Wood Is In charge OF the
golf tournament, the trophy for which is
a cup donated by Walter l.. Echhardt.
The members went to the country club
in automobiles.
The regular meetings of the City Busi-
ness Club will be abandoned for the
summer after today, the next meeting
being scheduled for September 0.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
MINT MELTS $l,OOO,OOO A DAY
s24,Oo0,OOO in Bullion Shipped and
$5,O00,000 Goes This Week

The Philadelphia Mint is melting
about 100000 silver dollars daily. The
Assay Office in New York is melting
about 100000 dollars weekly
There has been shipped from this city
TO date $24,000,000 of silver bullion de-
rived from silver dollars and a fourth
shipment OF s5.0oo,O00 will go out this
week.
Silver certificates outstanding on June
~ We're $400,750,010, a new low record
since the melting Of silver dollars began,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
HOPES TO AVERT STRIKES
War Labor Board Intervenes in Two
General Electric Plants

Washington. June 1.-THE national
war labor board will attempt to adjust
the differences between 10000 employees
of the General Electric Company OF
Schenectady, n. Y, and their employers
n order to prevent threatened Strike
Investigators have been sent to
Schenectady preliminary to the biard's
hearing.
Another section of the board Is at
tempting TO settle a controversy between
the same company and its employees At
PtttsfieId, Mass.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
DEVLIN SCORES SINN FEIN
Nationalist Says 1t Is Alternating
Democratic States

London, June 1T.--Joseph Devlin, one
of the leaders Of the Irish Nationalists,
speaking at the Cavan election, de.
nounced the Sim Feiners, said a dis.
patch from Dublin today.
He declared that Sim Feiners' policy
was turning all the democratic states Of
Europe against Ireland.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
WOMAN TAKES GAS, DIES
Housekeeper. Who Was Despondeni,
Called Suicide BY Police

Miss Lily Andrews. thirty-five years
old, a housekeeper at 3527 Locust street
died at the Univeraity Hospital today
from Illuminating gas
she had been melancholy some time
The police said The gas was turned on
with suicidal intert
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17

ottawa, June 17.--Arrangements are
now well advanced for the Rotation
in october OF the second Canadian Vic
tory Loan. when a minimum OF $3.50
100000 will be asked for. with q maxi
mum OF $500. 900. 900 as the goal. De-
tails of the issue are withheld Tor the
uresent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-17
BULCAR CABINET RESIGNS
New Political Crisis Reported
From Sofia

Iondon. June f7.--The Bulgarian cab
met has resigned. precipitsting q cabinet
crisis, according TO information from
Sofia today
II was reported last night that Pre-
mier Radoslavoff of Bulgaria had re-
signed.