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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
SITE CHANGE DELAYS
Big HOUSING PLAN
800 Homes for Navy Yard
Men to Be Built Along
Oregon Avenue

Owing to a change in the selection Of
the site there will be slight delay in
the construction OF the 500 houses for
navy yard workers.
The site originally selected was e plot
of land approximately eight city squares
stretching along Mexican Parkway from
Twenty-sixth to Twenty-ninth street.
This site has been abandoned and the
houses are to be built on the south side
of Oregon avenue between Seventh and
Thirteenth streets, just east of the South
Broad street plaza The new location
was selected because 1t will afford
quicker transportation to and from the
navy yard
The housing development here is un-
dertaken by the United States housing
commission of the Department Of Labor,
under the act recently passed by Con-
gress appropriating 100000 for con-
struction or lease of quarters for war
workers throughout the country.
Plans for the houses are in prepara-
tion by Rankin, Kellogg 6 Crane. archi-
tects, who have been notified Of the
change In the site, thereby causing a re-
vision Of the plans, in order to conform
with curb levels. sewerage mains, etc
1t is expected to have the plans in the
hands of builders for estimates in two
weeks.
The houses will be of the two-story
variety, containing three rooms on the
first floor and three rooms and a bath
On the upper floor.
There VIII be no novel town planning
In the construction OF the 800 dwellings
such as characterizes Yorkship Village
In Camden. becausee the architects are
compelled to adhere to the street levels
sewerage and other features here.
The finishing touches are being made
in the construction Of the first two blocks
Of seventy houses for Hog Island work.
ers In the Fortieth ward. Moss, Taylor
4 Crawford, whose contract calls for 446
houses IN the Elmwood tract, Announce
they will have the first block of seventy
ready late this week or next week
Foundations have been built for the le-
mainder, and the utmost activity pre-
walls on the operation.
Altogether $50 houses are under con-
structiCn in the Fortieth Ward for Hog
Island workers. Henry p. Schneider
who has the contract for Ala Of the
houses. will have the first block of sew
enty of the houses In his contract COM
pleted next week. Foundations and cell
lars for the remaining houses are ready
for mechanics.
The designs for the houses call for
the regulation two-story porch-front
variety. The plans show a seven-room
house. containing a living room, dining
room and l-.tchen on the first floor. and
three bedrooms and a bath on the sec
ond floor. The living rooms measure
fifteen by fifteen feet and twelve by
fifteen feet. The bedrooms run from
twelve by fifteen feet to six by ten
feet.
Ing sixteen by seventy feet, and are
about thirty-two feet deep. with space
for a grass terrace in front and for a
large yard In the rear.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05

Washington, Aug. decentralization
of the political factions In Siberia op.
posed to the Soviet government and the
liberation Of ten additional Siberian
cities from the Bolsheviki through the
combined efforts Of the Czecho-Slovaks
and the military organizations of the
Siberian Government were announced ir
dispatches received today by the Rus.
sian embassy from Omsk.
Organization of a peoples army to
re-establish, with the help of the Allies
the battlefront against Germany is pro.
ceeding very successfully. the dispatches
said, and everywhere the population be.
longing to different political groups are
manifesting vivid interest and sympa.
thy" with the movement. The relations
between the new army and the Szecho.
Slovaks were rescribed as brotherly.
1t also was announced that the tenn.
porary government of Siberia, organized
at .Vladivostok, and said not to be diff.
ferent from the United Sigerian gov.
ernment at Omsk, has made public
statement of its political aims as fol.
lows:-
Creation of Russian army to fight
against Germany.
Recognition of all the international
treaties and agreement of Russia with
friendly nations, which were in force
when the Bolsheviks overthrew the pro-
visional government.
Creation Of all Russian central au-
thority which will be recognized.
"Re-establishment of local and munic-
ipal self-government
enforcement of guarantees of indi-
yidual liberty and the right of private
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
SHIPYARD GUARDIANS
WILL BE INCREASED
Growing Responsibility Makes
Present Force of $500 Men
Inadequate to Task

Increasing responsibility of Lieuten-
ant Colonel James A. Blair's department
OF the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
which protects In every way all the
shipyards where Government contracts
are let, makes it necessary soon to in
crease materially the force. Colonel
Blair, who has Norman Macleod for his
assistant. now has only about $500 men
TO protect 160-odd shipyards against all
danger
This is one Of me most important
pranches of the United States Shipping
Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and
one that has had particularly rapid
growth and increased responsib, ,fty.
From the hour the hull is laid until
the ship is ready to leave the yard, the
plant protection section must look after
IT'S safety. There are 160-odd shipyards
with more than 700 ways and some 5O0,-
OoO shtpyard workers to look after.
The plant protection section has four
subdivisions - Federal military guard.
civilian guard, fire department and in
Vestigation department. The Federal
military guard represents the Federal
troops assigned to the yards. The SOL
diers are not permitted to do any work
beyond sentry duty, but compose a WE'LL
organized and available source of pro-
lection In case of any grave disturbance
which might be beyond the control OF
civilian guards throughout the 100 yards
In the country.
Barracks are erected in the various
yards by the United States Shipping
Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.
and in handling these men Colonel Blair
Is under the jurisdiction of Major Cen
eral Jesse McC. Carter, chief of the
militia bureau Of the War Department.
The civilian guards constitute a force
of approximately 5000 men. with Alvin
Coffman as chief inspector. Each yard
has its own force, maintained by the
United States shipping board, and which
varies in size according to the amount
of contract work on hand. There is a
district guard inspector in each of the
eleven districts and a plant guard in
spector in each of the 160-odd plants
throughout the country. Most of these
guards already are uniformed, and the
aim is to have them all uniformed. Their
duty is to keep order in the yards and
prevent depredatons of property.
Protection against fire is under the
supervision Of the General Fire Marshal
James McFall. an experienced fire
fighter. Chief McFall has in each dis
trict district fire marshal, who, by
frequent trips of inspection. is enabled
to reduce the fire hazard in all ship
yards.
During the launchings on the Fourth
Of July, when large crowds assembled.
only one slight fire occurred. Every
precaution is taken to prevent the COL
lection of rubbish and infiammable ma
terial in which fire could originate
Each plant has volunteer fire-ight-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
MAJOR BISHOPS HIGH HONOR
distinguished Flying Cross
Awarded Canadian Airman
By the Associated Press

Montreal. Aug. 5.-Major William
Bishop, the Canadian aviator whose ac-
tive fighting career was recently inter-
rupted by his appointment to the Brit
ish air board. has been awarded the dis
tinguished flying cross in recognition of
his destruction of seventy-two German
airplanes, II was announced here today.
He destroyed twenty-five German ma
chimes in twelve dSys dSs ve OF which ne
tive service.
Already possessing the Victoria Cross
for attacking, single handed. a Ger
man airdrome and defeating seven en-
emy airmen. Major Bishops latest honor
is characterized in today's orders as
given to "the most successful and most
fearless fighter of the air." whose
value as a moral factor to the air
force cannot be overestimated."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
SAYS U. s. PRISONERS
MAKE NO COMPLAINT
Dutch Correspondent Tells of
Visit to German Deten.
|, ton Camps
The Hague, Aug. 5

The Hague. Aug. 5.
A Dutch correspondent Of the Nieuwe
Courant, of this city, has written for
his paper an account Of visit made in
company with an American correspon-
dent to American prisoners Of war at
camps at Darmstadt, Limburg and Gies-
sen. The number Of American prisoners,
he says in a letter dated July "a, at Cob
lee, is mot particularly large" in any
of these camps, and none of the prison
ers was an officer. They were mostly
National Guardsmen, he reports--fine,
strapping fellows. he calls them-the
majority Of whom had been captured in
early June near Chateau-Thierry. a few
belonging to mixed detachments which
had been stationed not far from Verdun.
Some had arrived in France as far back
as last November, while others had
reached this side in February.
The Americans, continues the corre-
spondent, have not yet been educated
up to the highest state of prison life,
contrasting with the French. who, for in
stance, have quite brilliant orators to
convey requests or complaints to the
prison authorities. The Americans. how
SNci, nS commence may pC ShNiSN' A"i
their weekly parcels from the Red Cross.
containing peace-time luxuries, with
everything Of excellent quality. The
bread they receive. he says, will shortly,
for practical reasons, be given in the
form Of biscuits
The question Of the prisoners cloth
irs has not yet been regulated. and the
GORE e,ondent reports that they wore
caps of the various Entente armies. and
sometimes French trousers with British
tunics
The correspondent seems amazed at
the fact that Of every score of Ameri-
cans with whom he talked there were al
ways some of European birth. With
the exception of an engineer, a law stu
dent and booltkeeper, none pelonged TO
the professional classes.
few Of the men. the writer declares.
complained that they had been rushed
forward to face a withering machine
gun fire, while one badly wounded man
in a hospital. said he had been wounded
by the artillery fire from his own side.
1t may be questioned whether the cor
respondent is spontaneously responsible
for the statement he makes that none
Of the Americans complained of Ill
treatment by their captors. and that no
excessive sympathy seemed to exist be-
tween the Americans and the British.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
WORKERS SEE LAUNCHING
Men Who Helped Build Quist
cOnck Have Holiday

Virtually all the Hog Island workers
saw the Quistconck launched this after
noon for the day was declared a general
holiday on the island.
The only persons who worked were
the members of the guard, or police de-
partment, the fire department and the
to the shipways for each days work
The last-named were at work as usual,
for there must be no delay In resurnine
work by all hands in the morning.
OF the Quistconck workers, $50 were
used in the launching, some serving
along the sides of the vessel on the
way and the others on the decks. These
men worked under direction Of j. d.
Mcbride. superintendent of ship con-
struction on the first twenty-five Of the
fifty ways.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
STATE FINDS l24,353 JOBS
Bureau of Employments Reports
Progress Since 1915

Harrisburg. Aug. s (By I. N. s).-The
Bureau of Employment of the State De-
partment of Labor and Industry. since
its organization in October, 1915. follow
ing its creation by act of Assembly. has
placed in employment 124,353 applicants
for work to July l, 1918. according to a
report made by the bureaus officials
During the last two months of 1915 there
were 730 placements made through the
bureau. The number of placements in
creased TO 1898 for the year 1915 to
37275 for the year 1917 and to 6S,400
for the first six months Of 1918.
Great effort has been made under the
present war conditions to stabilize labor
as much as possible, and this has kept
down the record.
Since the creation of the United States
employment service under supervision OF
the Federal Government the State has
been divided into three districts, with
the clearing houses located in Philadel-
phia for the eastern district, Harrisburg
for the central district and Pittsburgh
for the western district,
Employment Offices will be opened soon
at Bradford, Chambersburg. Dubois. EN-
porium. Pottsville, Lebanon, Lock Haven,
Lewistown. Mount Union, Sunbury.
Sayre, Wellsboro, Shamokin and Wilkes
Barre.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
WILSON FORESEES
UNITED AMERICAS
Tells San Salvador He
Hopes for Abiding Peace
With Latin Republics
GREETINGS EXCHANGED
By the United Press


"hsuinEton, Aug. b.
President Wilson favors' union of
minds and purpose" which shall lead to
abiding peace and friendly co-opera-
tion' in the Americas.
He so wrote To President Melendez.
of San Salvador. answering the latter's
suggestion that Wilson continue his
proposal for an international convention
cementing the nations of North and
South America.
Melendez declared Wilson had done
much in his recent speech to Mexican
editors to wipe out the distrust between
the United States and Latin America
You would indeed be the great pala :
din of law and liberty" wrote Melendez,
"f you would follow up your momentous
initiativee, which. without doubt, will
receive the support of the greatest sym
pathy and best will of all the statesmen
and rulers of our continent"
In reply President Wilson said:
IL join with you in looking forward
with the highest hope and confidence to
such a union of mind and purpose in
America as will lead to abiding peace
and friendly cooperation
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
EXPLAINS CREMATION IN AUTO
n fisoner Partly Clears Mystery
of Death in Germantown July Is

The mystery In the death of Giovanni
4auglalla, 126 East Chelten avenue, who
sNs found burned in an automobile in
washington lane, near Chew street, July
-, was partly cleared up today with
the arrest Of Frank Rachinna, Of the
same address
The latter was held without bail to
walt the action of the coroner by Magis-
trAte Mecleary in Central Station, fol-
-i2Emg testimony by Detective McFar-
.seIt- was reported Rachinna told the
detective that on the night of July IL,
-. boarded a stolen car, the property OF
John De Paul. 80 East Sharpnack street.
~ the invitation Of several friends.
sr.,About o'clock the following morning.
@{He car came to sudden halt, one of
the men jumped out to investigate the
trouble and lighted a match near the
gasoline tank. There was an explosion,
Followed by blaze that covered the car,
-zegulting In the death of Lauglalla.
ess Joseph Bates, another rider In the car
escaped. according to the police
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
NEPONSET'S SISTER LAUNCHED
Soldiers Required to Hold Big
Crowd at Sun Shipyard

one of the largest vessels ever built
on the Delaware River was launched
Yesterday at the sun Shipbuilding Com
pany. Chester.
So large was the crowd that wit
messed the ceremony that It was neces-
sary TO call out several companies OF
soldiers TO hold the throng in check
The ship was the Deerfield' an ll,eoo ton
insulated steamship.
Mrs I. L, Aclierson, wife of Director
General Schwab's' chief assistant, was
the sponsor, The vessels Is sister
ship OF the Aeponset, which was rammed
by molasses tanker when IL was
launched July 4.
The Deerfield Is 435 feet long and has
a beam of fifty-eight feet and depth of
thirty-eight feet. II will be used ex-
clusively to carry frozen meats to SOL
diers in France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
AUTO CRASHES INJURE EIGHT
Woman and Children Victims of
Two Collisions

Esss Eight persons, A. Of them child,
E.<Yere injured in tw6'4utomobile accidents
la1t night.
~ Mrs. Beckie Slverman, of 1902 Wy
I Pf9hsing avenue. was driving her ashto-
mobile with her two daughters and two
ks31ttle boys when II struck a trolley car
at Thirty-eighth street and Girard ave-
tsnue. Mrs. Sllvermans nose was broken,
fhe children, Beatrice and Lillian, were
n severely bruised, and Samuel and Aaron
|-sr7nkelman, OF 1915 Widener terrace,
|D;pustained arm fractures. All were taken
ystp the Lankenau Hospital "N
r. Harry Sanders, of New Brunswick, N.
-, was driving his car on Bustleton
|, pike when 1t hit touring car driven
iSby George Elser, of 305S Elser street.
yp9hnders was not hurt, but his six-year-
|sUfd son. Charles, suffered severe internal
4 injuries and his skull may be fractured.
mrs. Sanders and Miss Mildred Meekin.
also in the car, were severely cut. They
( and the child were taken to Frankford
3 TYosnital
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
5000 WILL FACE CAMERA
Every Employe of Merchants
Yard to Be Photographed

Every employe of the Merchants Ship
building Company At Hartman has a
date with the official photographer of
the plant. or soon will have. There are
only about 5000 of them.
These photographs are not wanted
for the newspapers. They are all to be
filed in the company's archives as a
means of Identification. An entirely
new Photographic department has been
established with NJ. Goldberg in charge
Goldberg commenced operations by pho
tographing some 200 new employees. =
first-class studio, equipped with every
up-to-date accessory. mas been provided
and with the help of two assistants the
employees will nave their pictures taken
in rapid order
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
EORDENTOMN. n. ].
Bordentown Military Institute

Mental. moral. physical. military training
Bordentown- ON the Delaware. New Jersey.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
WANT TO RAISE HEAT RATE
Philadelphia Electric Company
+ ANNOUNCES Notice of Increase

The Philadelphia Electric Company to.
+. day, announced that formal notice OF an
ASIhcrease in rates for steam heating,
sesective September l. has been filed with
z the State Public Service Commission.
son Dhieials of the company said that few
,6eople would be affected by the in
r6fease, as the company furnishes heat
: ia only large business buildings in the
S8lock surrounding it's plant in the CEN
%.ffal district.
"a The new rates sought are an increase
from thirty cents to forty-eight cents a
.Fshuare foot for radiation up to 1900
square feet, and from fifteen to twenty
Y Four cents a square foot for radiation
y M excess. of 1900. Company officials
.said the increase is made necessary by
.sfhe raise in cost Of coal and that the
~f&tes sought are only sufilcient to cover
this advance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
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Young Women md Girls
WEST CHESTER. PNRR.
DARLINGTON SEMINARY

FOR GIRLS. WEST CHESTER. PA.
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Crafts and Home making Courses. College
Prcpa aration with certificate privileges
Catalog. Box $40.
CHRISTINE FAAS RYE, Prin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
BOY KILLS HIMSELF IN PLAY
Didn't Know Revolver Was Load.
ed When He Pretended Suicide

Sylvester McGrath, Jr. sixteen years
old. sos st. John street, Camden, fatally
shot himself this morning when he was
escape of the Broadway Public School,
Camden The boy was son of Syl-
vester McGrath. a Camden city fireman.
The pistol was an old weapon, a sort
of family relic. The boy found II some
1t was loaded. was using It to frighten
his playmates by making them think
he was about to shoot them or himself.
He climbed to the second floor on the
antics with the gun. Finally, pretending
he intended to kill himself, he put the
muzzle Of the revolver in his right ear
and fired. The lads mother and the
the Cooper Hospital where he died in
less than An hour.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
PENSSBURG, PA.

Perkiomen School for Boys--College Prepar-
Dory. Music: Qratory. business, Asricul-
ture. All Athletics Junior School for
Younger hoys. Catalogue. Oscar :, KriebeI,
u. d.. Box II0. pennsburC. Pennsylvania
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
Man Shocked to Death

George Gerngross, twenty-elght years
old. who lived with his parents at 2s1
West Kings Highway, Haddonfield. was
killed by an electric current yesterday
AT the New Jersey shipyard. Gloucester
CITY,. He had been employed In the
plate and angle shop for the last three
months as a counter-sinker, and yester-
day was operating a small electric
machine of 260 voltage. Suddenly he
cried out and held on to the handles.
and then fell over. still grasping them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
POINCARE AT The FRONT
French President Visits Armies
of Couraud and Berthelot

Paris, Aug. 5.-(Havas Agency -
President Poincare visited yesterday the
armies of General GourSud and General
Berthelot and congratulated them and
their chiefs for their part in the bril-
liant successes won since July ID. The
President presented to officers and sol.
diers various decorations ranging from
the Legion of Honor to military medals
and war crosses.
President Poincare visited also the
divisions fighting on the Vesle and sew.
eral of the villages within the district
that had been held by the Germans and
that now have been cleared of the en-
emy. The President found that the
Germans had left large quantities of
munitions virtually all over the battle
field.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
Flag Honors Three War Martyrs

A service nag bearing three gold stars
France has been unfurled by st. Paurs
Lutheran Church, Twenty-second street
and Columbia avenue. The h6nored
heroes were Frank Prandi, bugler, 111th
l. Roemer. 1l1th Pennsylvania Infantry,
both OF whom were killed in action. and
Lieutenant Norman Hughes, of the
United States aviation service, details
Of whose death have not yet been re-
ceiyed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
PAPER MILLS ARE ESSENTIAL
Decision Provides for Reduction
of Consumption by Newspapers
Rx fho Assor;oted Prose

Washington, Aug. 5.-Paper mills
have been listed as an essential INDUS
try. the priorities division of the war
industries board announced today.
The decision is made with the under
standing that the greatest possible econ.
omy will be exercised in the use OF
paper, and that newspapers will reduce
their consumption Of newsprint 15 per
cent on daily editions and 20 per cent
on Sunday editions.
Publishers believe, 1t was said today
that discontinuance Of many waste
full practices and institution of sliding
scale Of reduction in reading matter will
accomplish the required curtailments
without interfering with the advertising
columns.
The war industries board Is said to
favor the principle that no new news
papers be started during the war
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-05
DISCUSS 1919 WHEAT. CROP
; By the Associated Press

: Wsshington. Aug. 6.--The joint agri-
.G1altural advisory committee of the Agrl-
cultural Department and the food ad-
<ultnistration began q series of con-
s5ofences here today to consider ques-
ffons related to the 1919 wheat crop.
I. The Government price for 1919 will be
among the matters discussed and recon-
fl{endations probably will be made to
PFoaident Wilson.
Former Governor Henry C. Stuart, of
Harglnia, Is chairman Of the committee.