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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
TWO NAMED AS AIDS
TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Lieutenant LemueI B. Schofield
and Eugene v. AIessandroni
Appointed Assistants

District Attorney Rotan has an
nOunced the appointments of the first
two of the four additional assistant dis
trct attorneys granted him by the last
Legislature. The new appointeeS are
LCmuel Il. Schofield and Eugene V,
Alcssandron.
Mr.. Schofield. who is twenty six years
old, graduated from the University Of
Pennsylvania in 1916, and enlisted in
the army in May of the following year.
He attended the first officers training
camp at Fort Niagara and received q
commission as first lieutenant.
He was assigned to the 312th Ma
chine Gun Company, of the Seventy
ninth Infantry, and subsequently served
as aid de camp to Brigadier General
Edward +. Hatch, commanding the
15Sth Infantry. BY subsequent promo
tions he was raised to the rank of
major, and was discharged June 13,
this year.
Mr.. Alessandroni, who lives at l22
South Fortieth street, is a graduate of
Central High School and the University
of Pennsylvania. He completed his law
course at the University in 1906, and
has since been an active practitioner.
He is thirty eight years old.
Mr.. Alessandroni is solicitor for the
Sons of Italy and is prominently identi-
fed with many well known Italian or
ders in this section. During the Liberty
Loan campaigns he was one of the four
minute men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
MARKET COMMISSION
ASKS FOR Sl0,0O0
Will Petition Councils for Money
to Continue With Food
Survey
WANT S2o,ooo,OoO BUILDING

An appropriation of $40, 900 to cover
the expenses of q survey of food sales
from the farmer direct to the consumer
in Philadelphia will be asked at the
next meeting of Councils on September
IS. A vote to this effect was taken by
the city market commission. of which
Joseph s. MacLaughlin is chairman,
and the move was unanimously favored.
Following the successful sales Of
army stores at the Gimbel store yes
terday, came word that Major Charles
L. Jones, in charge of the quarter
master depot here, had just received
thirty six carloads of food. These pro-
visions will be unloaded and ready for
distribution by next Tuesday.
Director MacLaughlin said Major
Jones was considering the advisability
of holding the municipal sales on the
City Hall Plaza, in conjunction with
the sales which are to be continued
at the Gimbel store. 1t is also CON
sidcred likely that several other stores
in various sections of the city will be
utilized for public sales of government
commodities. ~
Clarence S. Kates, secretary of the
city nlrrket commission. said that tie
possibility of constructing a huge re-
gional market. at a cost estimated at
$50, 900. 900, was being considered as
one of the means of making Philadelphia
one oE the foremost market centers Of
the country. Such terminal. accord
ing to Mr.. Hates, would be established
i'll the vicinity of the proposed Camden-
Philadelphia bridge site,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
Deaths of a Day
WILLIAM EHINGER DIES
Seventeenth Ward Political Leader
Was Sick but Two DAYS

was DICK OUT TWO DdyS
William Ehinger, sealer of weights
and measures, a real estate dealer and
lifelong resident of the Seventeenth
ward, died Wednesday night in st.
Mary's Hospital. He had been i'll only
two days, death resulting from a gas
tric ulcer.
Funeral services. conducted by the
Rev. p. II. Dippel, pastor of Zion
German Reformed Church, will be held
Sunday afternoon at his home, 1927
North Fourth street. Interment will
be made at Greenmount Cemetery.
Mr.. Ehinger is survived by a widow,
three sons and a daughter. One SON.
William, served overseas in the Fifty
sixth Searchlight Engineers. Another
son, Harold, was with the motor trans
port corps.
Mr.. Ehinger was born October %,
1864, at Fourth and Master streets.
For twenty years he was constable,
succeeding his father in that office. Ac-
tive in politics, he was vice president
of the Seventeenth Ward Republican
executive committee. He also was n
director in the Hercules Building As
sociation, Il member of the Loyal
Order of Moose and other fraternities.
AS breeder of" fancy pigeons Mr..
Ehinger was widely known, and he was
president of the Philadelphia Pigeon
Fanciers' Association. His birds won
prizes in exhibitions in all parts of the
East and he freOuently served oS iudpe
in large poultry shows. He was to
have been judge of pigeons at the AL
lentown Fair.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR EX>SERVICE MEN
Many Institutions Of Learning in State Offer inducements to
GiUe Them Chance for Broader Education

The directors feel" said the regis
trar at Swarthmore today, that every
chance should be given these boys who
gave part of their lives to Uncle Sam.
Many of them are eager to catch up
in the college work they missed last
year and many who never before thought
of college are planning to take advan-
tage of any opportunities that may open
for them
Loan Fund Established
Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, has
twelve scholarships valued at 500,
twenty FIVE valued at $50, and thirty
five valued at $50 for award to service
men,
Albright College, Myerstown, will give
six scholarships to service men. The
scholarships cover the full tuition
charge.
Pennsylvania State College will
award twenty scholarships. valued at
$50 each. to former service men.
Ursinus College, at Collegeville, has
ten scholarships. valued at $50 each,
for award to former service men.
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, will
accept service men at half the annual
tuition fee of $50.
I.ehigh University. South Bethlehem
will assist former service men to an edu
cation by loan funds. The tuition fee
there is 500 for all the courses except
the engineering course, which is 5000.
Carnegie Institute of Technology, at
D;ttshYrub bov a lam fund for thp hon
eft of former service men.
Lafayette College, at Easton. will
make loans to service men for tuition.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
Fly Flag in Honor of
"Star SpdngIed Banner

Saturday, September 13, will be
the 105th anniversary of the writ
ing of our national anthem. The
Knights Templar conclave, meeting
in Philadelphia--the city of the flag,
the city in which the first Star
Spangled Banner was made by a pa
triotic woman of America-will give
special recognition to this great an
Divcrsary, and l am confident that
every citizen will freely respond to
my suggestion when, as chief magis-
trate of the city, I ask a full and
free display of "Old Glory" on all
buildings and heartfelt celebration
of the day.
This is an unusual occasion. cele-
brating an unusual event in the his
tory of the nation. Let us throw
our Whole heart into the great affair
and make it testify the loyalty Of
Philadelphia in a manner which shall
establish an absolutely new high rec
ord for this city of great records
in all things which have to do with
the life of the American nation.
THOMAS B. SMITH,
Mayor of Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
MURDER VICTIMS FUNERAL
Mrs. Thompson, Killed by Husband,
to Be Buried Tomorrow

The funeral of Mrs. Henrietta
Thompson, who was shot and killed by
her husband, Bennett Thompson, last
Wednesday night, will be held tomor-
row afternoon from the home of her
father. Robert Cardwell, 25S South
Fifth street.
The body of Thompson, who commit
ted suicide after shooting his wife.
was claimed at the morgue by his
brother, Archibald Thompson, and
taken to Baltimore, his former home.
The four Thompson children will
be cared for by their grandfather. who
is patrolman attached to the Third
and De Lancey streets station.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
SOLDIER IN WELFARE ROLE
Canadian Veteran Seeks Co.opera-
ton Between P. r. T. and EMPLOYEES

Canadian Veteran Seeks Co.opera-
tion Between P. r. T. and Employees
Lieutenant Harry &. Nilsson. veteran
of the world war, architect and student
of industrial co operation, has been en-
gagged by the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit Company to direct the company's
Co operative Welfare Associations ac-
tivities.
When Great Britain entered the world
war, Mr.. Nilsson enlisted as a private
in the First Canadian Division. Serv-
ing with this division, he was wounded
and gassed. In recognition of his hero
ism he was promoted to a first lieu
tenancy.
After twenty seven months of serv-
ice on the first line the lieutenant was
invalided to Canadao Before being sent
home, however, the Canadian officer en-
joyed the distinction of being one of
the few Canadian veterans to receive a
decoration from the hands of the king.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
LAUNCH HOG ISLAND TODAY;
$4,000 EMPLOYEES TO WATCH
7825To Cargo Ship Named er Yard VIII Take to Water
ats o'CIock-CirI Worker to Christen Vessel

Dor at the shipyard will have fair
representative in the official launching
party. They will act as the guard of
honor to the sponsor, and all will carry
large punches of roses whiebr contrasted
with the light summer gowns. will make
as charming a picture as Hog Island
has ever seen.
The Hog Island will be the fifty
first ship launched since August 5, 1918.
The popularity campaign for a girl
sponsor for the naming of the ship,
designated in honor of the shipyard that
has broken all records for the fast build
ing of sen going vessels, began last
week. 1t closed yesterday. Candidates
among the fair sex employed at the yard
were chosen at primary elections.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29

This, the day of the launching of the
good ship Hog Island, will be one of
the biggest days the worlds greatest
shipyard has ever witnessed.
Thirty two thousand employees of the
American International ShipbuildiPg
Corporation, eager with expectancy and
pride of achievement, will watch the
1926 ton cargo ship slide down the ways
and cheers will greet the starting of the
vessel. as its sponsor, Miss Beatrice
Ninpick. a clerk in Division No. 2,
breaks the bottle of champagne over
the vessels box and christens it Hog
Island. The launching will occur at
5 O'clock. =
Each OF the thirteen divisions Of la
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
Two Boys Injured by Motor

While playing at Sixteenth street
and Columbia avenue. two children were
struck by motortruck and severely
injured. They are Charles Stenton,
eleven years old, of 2213 North Chad
wick street, whose skull was probably
fractured, and Herman Greenfield, four,
of 1912 Susquehanna avenue, who sus-
taincd decorations of the head and body.
Both were taken to the Women's Home
Opathic Hospital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
Wires Set OF Alarm

A detail of police from the Fourth
and Race streets station was hurried
10 the Model Jewelry store, at Second
and Market streets in search of a
burglar at $3.50 o'clock this morning.
FoIlowing an investigation the patrol
men found that crossed wires had set
OK the burElae alarm in the establish-
apcnia -. -.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
Y. M. C. A. SCHOOL TO OPEN
Hog Island Branch Starts New Year
September

The next term o.. the evening school
at the Y. M. G. A., Hog Island, will
open September 1. Preparations for a
large enrolment are being made.
The evening school is closed for the
vacation period. Since its opening last
December more than 800 shipbuilder
students have enrolled, 525 of whom, or
SO per cent, completed the different
courses and passed examinations for di-
plomes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
HIGH COST OF VOTING
Isolated Districts in City Will Cost
$17 Vote

City officials, in preparing for the
primary, are facing the high cost of
voting.
This is due, it was explained today
by the County Commissioners, to the
fact that a few divisions, especially
along the Parkway. contain few voters
1t was estimated that in four such
small divisions. there were about fifty
eight votes. The cost of polling these
will be about $1,000, or approx imately
$17 vote.
The divisions arc: Thirtioth, Thirty
eighth and Thirty seventh of the FIT
teenth ward, and the Twenty fourth Of
the Eighteenth ward.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
MAURER FEARS "PLANT"
Wants Public to Know in Advance II
Trickery is Intended

e'sc eS''S W FNIlO" III HuVdHCG "
Trickery is Intended
Reading, Pa, Aug. 20.--By A. P
II absolve myself of all responsibility
for my baggage and what is found in
it," said James II. Maurer, chairman
of the Old Age Pension Commission
of Pennsylvania, who was taken off n
steamer sailing for Europe last Tues
day by federal agents. "Tf the state
department intends to prove case
against me by trickery | want the
public to know it in advance"
Maurer returned home late last night
from Harrisburg. MY last letter to
an l. w. w. man was to Big Bill
Haywood five years ago." he said.
He fears some one will "plant"
something in his baggage, now half
way across the Atlantic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
William Ehinaer

William Ehinger, an inspector in the
Bureau of Weights and Measures, and
active in politics in the Seventeenth
ward, died Wednesday night at his
home, 1927 North Fourth street. Mr..
Ehinger died, from an attack of indi-
gestion.
He was a member of the Hercules
Building and Loan Association and
member of the Loyal Order of Moose.
Mr.. Ehinger, who was fiftv- four years
old, is survived Wy his wife and four
children. Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon from lis home. Burial
will be made in Greenmount Cemetery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
Appoint Rsturnsd soIdler

Burlington, n. j., Aug. 29.--Thc
board of education has appointed DIR.
John s. Conroy, Jr., returned sol
der, rs school physician. and Miss
Rosetta kier Is school nurle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-29
James A. B. Melvin

Hollldaysburg, Pa, Aug. 2S.-James
A. b. Melvin, president of the Altoona
Trust Company, died yesterday at his
home in this city. He was sixty nine
years old. Mr.. Melvin was one of
the foremost bankers of this section.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-31

is German made" That term is
used for the purpose of creating
prejudice I'm the hope that it may.
by arousing passion, kill a meri-
torious measure But it will not
succeed. The people are not 50
easily fooled
John Mitchell chairman Of the
State Industrial Commission, is
quoted in the Federation's report
as declaring that public sentiment
in this country is developing rapid
ly in favor of universal health in
surance for wage-earners, includ-
ing maternity benefits"
My own observation" he adds,
through long experience with ra-
wages of accident, trade disease and
sickness among working people and
their families. leads me to the con-
viction that health insurance is ev-
en- more important than workmen's
compensation"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-31
HEALTH INSURANCE
IN NEW YORK URGED

Urging the passage Of a health
insurance bill, including maternity
benefits. at the present session Of
the Legislature. the New York State
Federation Of labor through its
special committee on health issued
on the DIST at the headquarters in
Albany a printed report on progress
toward health insurance legislation
in the United States.
The report, which is the fifth in
the Federation series on work
mems health insurance legislation.
mems health insurance, is being
widely distributed 1t declares that
public sentiment is developing rap
idly among public officials. labor
unions and social service organiza-
tions. in favor of health insurance
legislation.
THE need for health insurance
is so urgent and is becoming so ap-
parent" the report says. that the
state and nation cannot in their
own interests ignore it much long
err. We believe that its coming will
be FASTENED as a result of what we
have suffered and learned through
the war"
More than forty prominent state
and national labor organizations
have gone on record for health in
surance, it is reported. official
commissions in nine states have
been making Investigations of sick
ness conditions among wage-earn-
ers, and, it is stated, every Off
cial commission yet appointed to
study sickness has borne testimony
to the enormous part it plays in
the hardships of the wage-earner. "
Secretary F. \. Bates Of the Fed
Grafton in the report declares that,
nov, as during the war, the main
reliance of the opposition to health
insurance IS the assertion that 1t
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-31
UNEMPLOYMENT EVIL
DEMANDS ATTENTION

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 25.-In
reconstruction program adopted
by the Oregon State Federation of
Labor this reference was made to
the evil of Involuntary unemploy-
ment
"The same problem has been pre-
sented many times before and has
been dealt with, if at all, in hap
hazard, patchwork manner that left
its recurrence as sure as fate. The
fact that in the present crisis many
of those who offered their lives up
on the battlefields for the protec-
tion of the most scored principles
of our Government will be among
those who will suffer as a result of
the former patchwork efforts has
caused the matter any serious
thought, to awaken to sudden re-
alization that there is something
radically wrong with a system of
Government that fails to provide
the opportunity for all of its citi-
zens to at all times secure the nee
essaries of life, in return for labor
equal to that requisite to their pro-
duction.
1--WE urge that all legislation deal
ing with the subject of reconstruc-
ton be so framed as to carry out
the general principle of the right
of every man to, upon application,
secure honorable employment under
the recognized standards of the
American workers.
This can be done by the state,
county and city governments under
safeguards, that will insure justice
to all
ut is not contended that the
state should engage in competition
with private interests in the varied
activities of industry and commerce,
but democracy and human liberty
cannot exist where human beings
must depend entirely upon the pri-
vate resources of other human be-
ings for the primary opportunity to
maintain their physical existence,
and the sooner this principle is
generally recognized the sooner we
will awaken to an era of prosper
| ity heretofore unconceived."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-31
SECRETARY HOUSTON
WOULD CURB PACKERS

DENVER, Jan. 22.-Federal regu-
lation of the livestock and meat
packing industry was advocated to-
day by Secretary of Agriculture Da-
vid G. Houston, in an address be-
fore a committee of the American
Livestock Association, in session
here.
i've got beyond the point of
arguing about regulation of stock
yards. We do not want the dis
tYibution of meat, from the time
production is planned on the range
until the finished product is deliv-
cred to the customer, left in the
hands of few men," he said.
Mr.. Houston, whose address was
heard by the Wyoming and Colo
RADIO Legislatures, which attended
todays session of the convention,
also urged the stockraisers to con-
slider means of supplying the future
meat demands of the United States.
The five big meat packing firms
of the United States were declared
by Senator Kendrick, of Wyoming.
to have such control over both the
producing and the distributing mar
kets that they have the power ITO
commit all the abuses with which
they are charged and more" regard
less of whether they are in actual
combination.
The Senator described a bill
which he introduced to regulate the
meat industry.
The effort to establish certain
ty of competition of the country
will never cease until the problem
is properly solved" he said, "and
If the moderate reforms requested
now are not granted, drastic re-
forms will be imposed later.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-31
Election of Officers

Delegates George Vingen and j,
b. MOncur were nominated for
President, and the latter elected by
a majority of one
Delegates r. II. Mills and George
Vingen were. nominated for Vice
President and the latter elected by
a majority of five votes.
Delegate A. w. Stanley, for Sec
rotary, and Delegate II. c. Snyder,
for Treasurer; Delegate L. V. Stod-
dard for Reading Clerk, Delegate
r. II. Mills for Sergeant-at-Arm
Delegates James NJ. Gulley and
John Watson for Trustees, and
Delegate John Williams for Mem
Der of Board of Control of Labor
Journal, were elected by acclama-
ton.
Vice President Francois, Of the
State Federation of Labor. installed
the new officers.
The president-ele made short
speech pointing to the next six
months as a period in which labor
would have many problems to solve
and asking the cooperation of his
fellow delegates.
President Moncur appointed Dele
gates Ningen, John Beck and II. G.
Snyder, a committee on organization.
lie also appointed Delegates Stan
ley. Stoddard and Dierckson, the
legislative committee.
Delegates c. +. Goldthorpe, George
Ningen, John Watson, r. +. How
arth and r Myers were appointed a
committee to take up the matter of
the organization of a Soldiers, Sailors
and Workers Council.
Delegate Hart reported on the
organization of the Soldiers and
Sailors Service and Welfare League
organized on the initiative of the Ev-
erett Red Cross chapter in the Com
mercial clubs headquarters. This
league will arrange for a proper
welcome to returned soldiers and
I sailors. The activities of the league
/ will be directed by a general com
! mittee appointed from the Com
| the Red Cross chapter, the fraterna
orders, the churches and the sew
eral civic societies. The returned
soldiers and sailors will be welcomed
registered, assisted in securing EN-
! ployment and otherwise aided ant
made to feel at home. This worl
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-31
Ohio Commission Fourth to Endorse
Health Insurance

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 25.-Health
insurance legislation is approved as
means of distributing the cost of
sickness. in the recommendation of
the Ohio Health and Old Age In
surance Commission just made pub
lie. This official commission, in
Guiding representatives OF employ
ers, trade unionists, and doctors, is
the fourth in this country to take
such action. Previous favorable re
ports on health insurance were
brought in by investigating bodies
in California, Massachusetts and
New Jersey in 1917.
Health insurance, declares the
Ohio commission, should be re
quired for all employees to be paid
for by employers and employees in
equal proportion. The state. in the
commission's opinion, should pay
the costs of general administration
as in the case of workmen S compen-
sation for accidents.
The benefits urged by the COM
mission include cash payment of
a part of wages to workers disabled
by sickness; complete medical and
surgical care including medicines
and appliances and hospital care if
necessary; physical and vocational
rehabilitation; dental care; and a
burial benefit.
Companies or associations writ
ing insurance for profit should not
be permitted to be carriers of such
insurance" states the commission.
The plan is to have the insurance
administered through mutually
managed public associations or es-
tablishment funds, under supervi-
sion of state health insurance
commission. Minimum standards
of medical service would be estab-
lished, and medical, hospital and
dental care, it is pointed out, must
be adequately compensated.