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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
THREE ARRESTED
AS SILK THIEVES

Three youths. arrested early this
morning as they were leaving a tene-
ment house at No 553 West Broad
way, will be- arraigned in the Jeffer-
son Market Court on a charge OF burg
larry. When arrested each OF the three
carried burlap bag In which the police
found bolts OF silk valued at $4,000.
The prisoners are: Andrew Salano, 10.
laborer OF No. 2i2 East l05th Street;
Louis Ferrera, 20, a chauffeur OF No,
l73 Sullivan street. and John Darcan-
gela, II, a chauffeur Of No l92 Blocker
street.
Investigation by Policemen Considine
GHennon and Doyle OF the Mercer Street
station revealed that the establishment
OF Cohen & Blumheld, No. POI Woos-
ter Street. had been entered through
a window opening on fire escape
Tracks traced in the snow on the roofs
led 10 the building where the arrests
were made,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
LEADERS OF BOTH PARTIES
EAGER TO DRAFT" HOOVER
AS PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE
employers and the employees Of the
country.
OPPOSES DOMINATION ~ LABOR
OR CAPITAL.

Mr.. Hoover points out in his arti'
Gle, however, that no combination of
workers or capitalists ought to be
permitted to dominate the commu-
nifty and dictate social and political
measures. Where the combinations
are so large both Of trade unions and
capital, as in coal, transportation
and similar necessities Of life, Mr..
Hoover discussed the need for COM
pulsory arbitration, or, slternatively,
the delay Of strikes and lockouts, until
some independent body can deter
mine the right and wrong and sub
NIT it to public opinion. He also
speaks Of the necessity Of holding
unions liable for damages for failure
to fulfil contracts once entered upon.
The former Food Administrator
takes up successfully the problems
involved in the control Of corpora
tons, plans for a better distribution
Of wealth and cooperative methods
in production between capital and
labor, control OF speculation and
pronteering, and while expressing an
opposition to the naturalization Of
industry because Government owner
ship does not furnish enough initia-
tive and efficiency. he points TO the
need for Government control to the
extent that enterprises made to serve
the community do not violate the fun
damental principles Of equality.
other announcements OF policy
are bound to be issued from time to
time by Mr.. Hoover. 1t is an alto
gether novel way Of serving the puD-
lie interest. Mr.. Hoover permits no
one TO organize any boom for him, but
he is having his say. II any consid.
cradle number of the people think
his ideas and experience can be use.
full to the country. they are entitled
to draft him.
But the truth is. Herbert Hoover
himself doesn't think the politicians
Of either party are even interested IN
him. and he has told persons who
have preached the idea to him that
he believed it ridiculous and hoped
they would not cause him embarrass
ment by giving any encouragement
to the notion. Wherein Herbert
| Hoover is mistaken. For the truth
is, the politicians are watching him
carefully, and it would not be sur
prising to see overtures made to him
from both sides before the two Nom
mating Conventions meet, with the
chances not altogether remote thai
one or the other of the two parties
will consider him seriously for the
Presidential nomination.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
MISSING GIRL, 1s,
RAN AWAY, TO WE'D
Letter Reaches Her Home Asking
Parents ForgiyeneSS-Mother
Critically III.

with a general police alarm out for
Miss Nina Stephenson, a pretty eiEh-
teen-ycar-old clerk living with her
mother and sisters at No. S3ll Broad
way, message was received last night
signed Nina and Ray" announcing
their marriage in Hoboken and asking
parental forgiveness.
The girl left home Christmas morn
ing dressed in her best clothes. and
said that she was going to visit mar
ricd sister. Her disappearance so pros
trated her mother that she was re-
moved to a sanitarium
At the home il was said RAY" had
been counting Nina for some time, but
that the mother strongly opposed the
match.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
POLICEMAN KILLS
HOLD-UP MAN IN
"KAMERAD" ROLE
Fugitive Had Tried 10 Fire
After Throwing up Hands
in Surrender.

Policeman J. J. WINNER OF the old
slip station. walking Washington
Street at 6 80 o'clock this morning
heard a buzzing which be thought
was made by partly mufled
burglar alarm. lie ran to Rector
Street and then through to Green
wlch Street without being able to To-
cate the sound. Then two revolver
shots sounded and a crowd swarmed
to the sidewalk from No. 95 Wash
ington Street chasing a man who ran
south.
The policeman ran through the
crowd, most OF whom were Syrians
who knew him well, They waved
him after the fugitive, calling: He
killed a man! He is the one! Stop
HIM"
Pushing ahead. WINNER drew his
own revolver. Tho fugitive, looking
back over his shoulder, stopped short
and fired two shots at WINNER. For
fear of injurng persons further down
the street, WINNER returned two an
swcrinE shots high.
At the subway kiosk opposite No.
46 Greenwich Street, the fugitive fired
again and then lifted both his hands
in the air In the right was an auto
matte pistol.
IAN right" nc shouted to WINNER.
81 make the hands up"
As WINNER came within six feet
the right hand with the weapon
dropped. WINNER, who had his re-
volvcr pointed toward tho man. fired
from the hip. The fugitive's exploded
harmlessly and fell TO the sidewalk.
Tho man fell crumplng on top OF it
dead; he had been shot through the
left breast,
Rctracing the steps Of the pursuit
WINNER found that he had killed
Philip Lchaud, a Syrian peddler OF
Newport, II. l., who has come 10 New
York at Christmas for many years
! Last year there was fight In the
same neighborhOod between Syrians
after which a compatriot swore Out
a warrant for murderous assault
against Lahaud, who disappeared un-
I'll now. The warrant was in the
/ hands of Policeman August Kimme
/ Of the Old Slip station.
According to the patrons of M.
mairs cafe, in front Of which the
| pursuit started, Lahaud encountered
| his last years enemy there and a
noisy discussion followed in which
all the patrons Joined. Lahaud. they
said, fired two shots, woundinG
Suffie Vuzher OF No 80 Washing
ton street, an Interested bystandor, In
the leg. and ran as Vuzher fell
Vuzher vas taken TO Broad Street
Hospital.
Lahauds pistol, which had a ca
paclty for eight shots, was found e
contain two loaded cartridges, indi,
eating nc might have fired five OF sil
before lie was killed.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
HIT BY 81" TRAIN
Leaning over station Platform,
Man IL KnoCEcd UncONsciOuH.

Leaning over station Platform,
Man II KnorEcd UncoNsciOuA
As he was lcanlng oye- he platform.
Of tho elevated - ..don at i25th
Street and Eishtu hv-urn this morning.
an uridcnt.ard ;nin was struck By a
son,h -bcrod tral7 -" GJ,N't"h I'M
conscious IN v'rv ~ y ,Iuw" ~ wait
ing rasy enS~rs. lie SSfIevod possible
rrartv-s NJ the skull, H. va sa'd at
Harlem Hosp'tal where he was taken
.ithou' ,S".LninE o"nsciouan'Ss
The man - about forty eight years
old. I'VE tcct ter inches tail. ISD pounds
tair complex ion. blue eyes and partly
bald. IIis clothing indicated he might
be a laborer Attached to his coat was
metal tag with the Inscription; M
'T. c. 24l y. Y" A paper tag In his
pocket was Inscribed Dodge. 1915"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
MUST ADOPT HIS PLATFORM TO
GET HIM.

n is significant that Herbert
Hoover hasn't said which party he
would affiliate with in the next cam
paign. But If you will glance at the
leading article in this weeks issue
Of the Saturday Evening Post you
WIN find what may be regarded as
the Hoover platform. Whichever po-
httcal party adopts that platform can
have Hoover. That's about the long
and the short OF 1t. Hoover is not
seeking the nomination, nor is he
permitting his closest friends to start
any boom or organization or political
machinery going in his behalf. He
is simply exercising his right as AN
Independent citizen to say what he
thinks on public questions, and II
either political party wants to draft
him, his terms are contained in the
doctrines he has set forth in print
And II neither political party cares
to take an independent type of citl-
ten like that. Hoover will not be in
tho least offended but will continue
to work independently in the public
service.
MAY BUY NEWSPAPERS TO Elk
PLAIN HIS IDEAS.
There are rumors that some day he
may purchase newspapers and ex
press himself on public questions
from time TO time, put the former
Food Administrators has denied this
The one interesting fact is that after
a close contact with Government
during the war, and after an execu
tive job that made him respected by
every Government in Europe, Her
bart Hoover has enunciated some
ideas about reconstruction that apply
directly to the economic ills Of The
country to-day.
In his magazine article, it will b,
noted that Mr.. Hoover comes ou
fatty for the right of collective bar
gaining and also for the right Of
wage earners not only to organize IL
trade unions but to employ counse
and representatives Of their own il
dealing with capital. 1t was on thi
point that the first Industrial Peac'
Conference was wrecked. Mr. Hoover
Is at present a member of the Indus
trial Counsel which was appointed
by the President to endeavor to worl
% 2 programme to submit to tn,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
Anoth.r nansrr nor CIue.

HAMMONTON. N. j.. Dec. 2T.-Hd--
ward II. White. whose son. Cliarles
&. White. Is out on bail on a charge,
ot having killed "Bily" Dansay, Io-dRas
announcel that he had received a letter
from the chief OF Police OF ColllnsVdIle,
okla. stating that the Chief had under,
surveillance a man and woman Who had
In their care boy answering the de-
Scription NJ the DnnSey boy. The Chtaf
of Police stated that the child had a
mole on the left breast and s1Ehl az
foction of thu eye. which was ne sala
with the Danscy boy.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
Mrs. GibHOn'S Suit Was Against
william v. BENJAMIN.

In yesterdays Evening Worlds story
Of the accounting suit Orought by Mrs
Pre8ton Gibson against her father. It
was enormously stated that tho do
PENDANT was Park Benjamin The suit
vas brought against William r.. ben
iamin. and permission was granted Mrs.
Gibson by Justice GTeenhaum TO serve
him b. publication, The Evening World
regrets that the similarity In names
caused II 10 make this mistake
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27

wait upon consultation between Mr..
Van Hamm and friends OF the EaauSly
in this city and Cincinnati.
Tho body will be taken TO Cinetn-
natl and the funeral will De h9id
probably next Tuesday or Wednsss-
day at the II. A. Perkins residence.
Interment will be in Spring Grove
Cemetery.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
ChrIstmas Candle Burns hoy.

Robert Mccormack, six. OF No 1925
Emerald Street, Woodhaven. was re-
moved to ST. Mary's Hospital. Jamaica.
+. l., yesterday, suffering from burns
that may prove fatal. The child took a
candle from his Christmas tree and set
ms clothing ahre.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-12-27
Former Food Controller Fig
ureS in an Interesting Situa-
ton in National Politics.
KEEPS THEM GUESSING.
Men Behind the Guns Uncer-
tain as to Just Where
He Stands.
BIZ DdUid Laurence.
ESPECIAL Correspondent Of THO
Evanino Worldly

WASHINGTON, Dec. q Copy.
right, 1919).-Said a Democrat 80
prominent in the Wilson Administra-
ton that were his name to be men.
toned he would be instantly recog.
nized as a power in the politics Of
his party:
'If I were not pledged to McAdoo
I would openly work for the nomina.
ton Of Herbert Hoover for President
on the Democratic ticket"
Said a prominent Republican.
whose position must necessarily be
neutral at present but whose desire
for Republican success in 1920 is
equalled by no one else in the Re
publican Party to-day:
"If we only knew where Herbert
Hoover stood. If we could make sure
Of him-why, we would win in a
walk II We nominated him for Presi.
dent"
RATESEsTING SITUATION IN
PRE- CONVENTION POLITICS.
These two quotations-unfortu
nately their authors cannot at this
time be acknowledgement one OF
the most interesting situations in
preconvention politics in the United
States. On the surface, the workers
and organizers are sincerely laboring
tooth and nail for their favorites
Standing apart from the active work
ers are certain wise leaders who pull
the strings at the last moment and
swing delegations into line, so that
the real nominee energies after the
&ayorite sons have been balloted out
Of consideration.
The men behind the gun, so t.
speak. are looking Hoover over. The
Republicans and the Democrats will
tell you the same thing-that Hoover
is about as we'll advertised a person
atty as there is in America and per
haps in the world; that he has the
international vision and the engi
neer's scientific mind in handling
large problems Of a domestic char
acter.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
eeper at the Farmers Exchange

keeper at the Farmers Exchange
bank.
Judge n. M. Pettingill was a passen-
ger to jefferson City last Tuesday. He
will visit his daughter, Mrs. Judge
Can't. in Mexico befure returning.
La Vern. son OF L. NJ. Sprague. who
lives seven miles south Of town, got
his second finger OF left hand accident
allv cut off last Saturday evening. He
and his brother were cutting wood and
In some way got too close together.
The finger was cut across the Joint IN
such a way that 1t was necessary to
reamputate it. Dr. Alexander assisted
nv DIR. Bondurant went out Sunday and
amputated the finger.
7. T. Matlick of near Rutlege, re-
ceived word last week that his son,
Scott is fully recovered n feei1ng
fine. The letter was written on Deem.
Der IA. Scott was in the fighting In
Argonne forest and in the desperate
fighting for that place was shot in the
foot and also gassed, n was IN the
hospital for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Bridgewater OF
this city have received word that their
daughter, Gertrude, who Is a mission
airy in West China, last month started
for the states for a rest. Whether she
will return home or not the letter did
not state. Miss Bridgewater has been
in China for several years.
Warren Mckee, who has been serv-
Ing at Camp Pike, Ark. came in home
last Wednesday feeling line. He was
never able to get away from Pike, but
it surely paid him as he is in fine
shape physically.
A memorial service in honor Of the
late ex-President Roosevelt Will be
held at the Christian church In this
city next Sunday afternoon at 2:30
O'Clock.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
RIVER LEAGUE
PROPOSED NOW
To Include Cities From Hannibal to
Davenport in a Circuit with
Cheap Railroad
Costs.

Keokuk has been solicited by Tom
Lenane to Join a River City baseball
league composed of Keokuk. Quincy.
Hannibal, Burlington, Davenport ana
.Muscatine.
His plan is beginning to attract
some attention in the MISSISSIPPI
river towns, and among he latest 70
approve 1t is Henry Reidel. owner
of the Three-I franchise at Hannibal.
Lenane will try to hold q meetlng
of the cities concerned soon to form
the new league. His plan Is to have
semi-pro teams, with perhaps a pro
fessional battery and the rest OF the
team made up Of home players. ~
matter would have gone through last
wear. but the draft came along q
all the available players were sent 10
war. It broke UP the best clubs OF
he cities who had signiled a Will
insness to join in the move. o
of the boys will be home, 1t is inquired.
by the time the season opens. what
is more. they will be in good physl-
cal trim. for Uncle Sam has seen to
81 believe we will be able to make
go this year. said Mr.. n
AT least we will try it. This will
give the people first class baseball
at a minimum cost, and the rivalry
should be a sufficient incentive 10
bring out a large attendance"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
PEOPLE
READING MUCH
Over Three Hundred Books Taken
From Public Library Every Day
It Was Open In Last
Three Months.

The quarterly report of the Keokul1
librarian shows that the library was
open thirty-nine days in three months,
and in consequence about half az
many books had teen taken out as IN
the same period the previous year.
In the number OF books read, fiction
always leads, with books on history,
literature and sociology following usu-
ally in that order. Because of the pop
ularity of the Gramm collections, some.
times books on sociology viii be taken
out in greater number than any other
except fiction.
The total number of books issued
from the library in the ten days it was
open in October was 1906. In fifteen
days In November 5.763 books were Is
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
THIN PEOPLE
SHOULD TAKE
PHOSPHATE
Nothing Like Plain Bitro-phosphate
to Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh
and TO Increase Strength,
yiSor and Nerve
Force,

Judging from the countless prepa-
and treatments which are
continually being advertised for the
purpose OF making thin people feshy,
developing arms, neck and bust, and
ugly hollows and angles by
the soft curved lines OF health and
beauty, there are evidently thousands
OF men and women who keeniy feel
their excessive thinness.
Thinness and weakness are usually
due TO starved nerves. Our bodies
need more phosphate than is contain.
ed In modern foods. Physicians claim
there is nothing that will supply this
deficiency so well as the organic
phosphate known among druggists as
bitro-phosphate, which is inexpensive
and Is sold by Wilkinson & Co. and
most ali druggists under a guarantee
OF satisfaction or money back. BY
feeding the r directly and by
supplying the body cells with the
necessary phosphoric food elements
bitro-phosphate quickly produces a
welcome transformation In the ap
pearance; the increase in weight fire
quently being astonishing.
This increase in weight also car
ries with it a general Improvement in
the health. Nervousness, sleepless
ness and lack Of energy, which
nearly always accompany excessive
thinness, soon DISAPPEAR, dull eyes
become bright, and pale ch eeks glow
with the bloom of perfect health.
CAUTION: Although bitro-phos
phate Is unsurpassed for relIeyins
nervousness, sleeplessness and gen
eral weakness, It should not, owing
10 It's remarkable fiesh-growing prop
critics, be used by anyone who does
not desire to put on flesh.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
First Accurate Information Given Out
In Statistics Compiled by fiji
nois Public Health
Service.
RESTRICTIONS N
cities Putting on Ban Had Lower
Death Rate Than New York
Which Used Restrie-
tIons to Minimum.

SPRINGFIELD, H., jan 10.-The
Illinois department of public health
today issued an official statement of
the infiuenza-pneumonia death rates
for the eighteen American cities hav-
ing a population of more than 30O,-
900, thus affording the first accurate
information that has been available
and correcting impressions and state
ments which have been given wide
publicity during the last few weeks.
Employing the figures of mortality
officially issued by the United States
public health service and the esti-
mates of population supplied by the
federal census bureau, the correct
influenza-pneumonia death rates for
the leading American cities for the
period September IA to December 81,
1918, were obtained.
Stated il order of lowest death
rates, the American cities rank as
follows:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
MEMPHIS, MO.

Byron Summers OF North Yakima,
Washington, arrived here last Friday
night for a visit at the A. A. and VIM.
Rice homes a town and with his
sister, Mrs. Ernest, south of Memphis.
Wayne Tenant, who has been sta
toned al Camp Bowie, Texas, since
the draft call a few months ago, has
received his honorable discharge and
arrived home on Wednesday evening
of last week.
Cook Paul Rice has been transferred
from Camp Funston to Camp Mills.
New York-together with forty-five
comrades. The transfer Of Paul to this
eastern camp came as a surprise to
both him and to his parents who had
expected him home about Christmas.
A telegram received by relatives in
Memphis last Saturday conveying the
sad intelligence Of the sudden death
of r G.. Humphrey on the night pre-
,yious at his home in Greeley, Colora-
do. Mr.. Humphrey had been i'll for
some days-haying first taken down
with the flu. Pneumonia finally devel-
0oped and being a rather frafl man he
easily fell a victim to thai much feared
disease.
eai SNPV' bODlfStll
Roscoe Baker, Ebert Myers and Pat
Powers returned last Saturday from
Camp Bowie, Texas, they having been
honorab1y discharged from the army.
Dr.. A H. Mackey. county health of
ificer. was UP from CORN last Monday.
He reports several cases of scarlet fe-
yer at the Louis Harker home-south
of Memphis. The home is under quar-
%antine.
Albert VolkInan is re-paperfng and
re-fitting the orner room in the Kin
ney block for his cafe. There has been
a delay in the shipment of his furnish
ings, but he expects TO be open by
February first. or possibly before.
Corporal Albert Merrick, who left
Lancaster last October for Camp Bow
lie, Texas received his honorable dis
charge last week and returned to Mem
phis On SATURDAY..
Frank Witty has receiver his honor
able discharge from the army and re-
turned home the latter part of last
week and Ia again at his post as book
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
GETS
WAR PHOTOS
Sam Wescott Donates an Important
Collection of Civil Wa Por-
traits to keokuk In
stitution.

An unusual collection of photo
graphs of generals and other officers
of the Civil war, both of the union and
confederate armies, has been present
ed to the public library by Sam Yves
colt.
The photographs are Of special III
terest because SOME Of them are full
length and give a correct likeness OF
the uniforms worn by the officers OF
different ranks.
The collection includes the photo
graphs of some women, among them
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Jefferson,
Davis and Mrs. Grant. The photo
graphs will be mounted in some per.
manent form Under glass, and each
picture marked with the officers
name.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-10
ExpectaTt Mothers
View Event Calmly
Time Brings knowledge That By Use
Of Penetrating Remedy Suffer-
ing l. Avoided.

Thousands Of women have found By tie
application OF Mothers Friend, the pene-
for expectant mothers. that pain and suffer
tng at the crisis Is avoided and that in addi-
ton the months preceding the crisis are free
from nervousness, nausea. stretching and
bearing-down pains and general discomfort.
Mothers Frbnd makes It possible for tho
expcctant mother to herself actually aid
nature In the glorious work 10 be perfnrmed-
and no woman should neglect to give ma
ture = helping band. II will mean Infinitely
less. The period Is one OF calm repose and
lreztful nights.
BY the use Of Mothers Friend the shin
Is kept soft and natural, and experienced
mothers say that 1t 10 much better to Keen
your health and good looks during the pc
nod OF expectancy than to try to regain
Write the Bradfeld Regulator COMPANY,
Dept 9, Lamar Building, Atlanta, Genrgia.
obtain q bottle Of Mothers Friend and -
gdn it, use at once,