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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
EvANGELIST SUNDAY
IN EASTER T0GGERY
SMILES ON FRIENDS
'rrepressible BILLY" Stops Here
on Way to Omaha and
Boosts Victory Loan

Satorially correct for the Eastertide
and overhowing with optimism, BILLY"
Sunday, baseball player, evangelist and
promoter Of good cheer, blew into the
Bellevue Stratford today, boosted the
Victory Loan. shook hands and
'breezed' out again to catch train.
Billy said he just dropped in town
for few moments chat with John
wanamaker, f. r. Stotesbury and
other friends
The effervcscent evangelist wore. n
gray overcoat with hat to match
and well tailored dark suit. He kept
his Easter gloves in his pocket, for he
was busy shaking hands. He greeted
the heads of the hostelry, the bellboys,
scores of guests and left a word of cheer
with each.
AT Broad Street Station Billy ran
another gauntlet of handshakes, after n
fast hundred yard dash, and hopped
aboard train for Trenton.
Just before he boarded the train.
Billy said he was making a tour Of the
country and was bound for Omaha. He
had to go to Trenton on business first.
Asked about the Victory Loan, he
said:
How much am I going to raise for
the loan? Why. boy, nobody can tell
that" he said. But ] do know that
all the people need is little talking to.
some one to give EN- the poker. Leave
it to me.
And just watch me when l hit some
Of these towns with slackers and traitors
in them. They are all towards, and a
talk straight from the shoulder will fix
iem IN right, ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
RAILROADS Stacker |
. EMPLOYERS, CHARGE
State Director Threatens to Ex-
pose All Breaking Faith
With Service Men
LIST ALREADY PREPARED

An attack on the policy of the federal
railroad administration toward railroad
men returning from military or naval
service TO claim their old positions is
the opening gun in campaign inaugu-
rated by former Lieutenant Governor
Frank b. McClain to force employers
to give jobs to returning soldiers.
Mr.. McClain is director of the State
Employment Bureau as executive di-
rector of the Pennsylvania Commission.
OF Public Safety and Defense.
Unless the Stacker employees of Phil
adelphia and Pennsylvania come across
and make good their promises made to
the boys when theY went to war that
their Jobs would be waiting for them
when they returned, am going to give
out for publication the long list Of
names of such concerns / now have in
my possession" he said today.
The list, he explained, had been pre-
pared at great labor and had been
checked and rechecked. certified and
verified, until there is no chance of any
error. The employers represented on
the list, he said, either are not Offer
ing their former employees returning
from the service their jobs back or are
Offering them work at from $40 to SIS
week.
The attitude of the railroad admin
istration toward the men is governed
by hard and fast seniority rule, he
said, which should be disregarded in re-
lation to former service men.
THE federal railroad administration.
! might state, is one of Ae worst of
Tenders. Railroads of the country sent
their employees out by the thousands to
fight for democracy. And these men
were given the promise that their jobs
would be waiting for them when they
returned
The railroads are ready to carry ont
this promise. made in good faith when
they were privately operated,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
10000 Children In Egg Hunt

Wilkes Barre, Pa. April 19.-Ten
thousand children took part in Wilkes
Barre's third annual Easter egg hunt
Mayor John W. Kosek sent the chill
dren off by firing a pistol and for three
hours every nook and Granny of the city
park along the river front was secured
by the children.
Hidden away were 5000 hard boiled
eggs, 1000 chocolate eggs and 1000
chocolate bars. A ton of coal, ex'
press wagons, stockings, flashlights
theatre tickets, dresses and various
other articles made up the prize list
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
NEW MEDICAL INSPECTOR
WiIllamsport Man Succeeds Or
AdoIph koenlg In State Post

DR.. Edward Martin, commissioner
of health, today nnounced number of
appointments of health officers for vari-
Gus counties. The most important of
the appointments was that of DIR. j.
w. Ellenberger, of Williamsport, as
acting medical inspector in place of
DIR. Adolph Koenig, of Pittsburgh, re-
signed.
Announcement also was made that
George w. Ramsey, of Philadelphia,
lately in the Office of the executive con :
troller, had been appointed assistant
auditor to the Department of Health.
The changes announced in the Health
Department are for the purpose of i'm =
proving the service, it is said.
The declaration was made here today
that factional politics played no part
in the selection of the newly appointed
health officers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
ARSENAL GUNS OPEN
DRIVE IN FRANKFORT

The Frankford celebration will begin
at . o'clock this afternoon with the
guns of the Frankford Arsenal firing
the opening salute, church bells ringing
and factory whistles blowing.
Delegations from Frankford, Brides
burg, Wissinoming, Tacony, HOLMES
burg, Richmond, Torresdale, Fox
Chase. Lawndale, Burholme, Bustleton
and Somerton will march. Each OF
these sections will boast band to
head il.
The parade will form at Kensington
and Frankford avenues. The route Is
north on Frsnkford avenue to Harrison
street, 70 Penn street. 70 Oxford pike
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
FREED IN MOVIE HOUSE
Patrolman Answers Wall of Camden
Lad Who Had Fallen Asleep

Lao VINO Ido EdIeH NsIccp
Gosh, me mother will wallop me for
this"
Eleven year old Michael Ward was
moved to this conclusion after he was
freed from the dark auditorium of a
movie house at Sixth and Market
streets, Camden, about 1 o'clock this
morning.
Martin "took in" the show last night
He liked the first round, stayed for the
second, and fell asleep during the third.
And when the janitor locked up the
place he overlooked the little fan who
was snuggled down in seat over in O
shadowy corner.
Some time after midnight patrol
man heard some lusty screaming and
pounding on the theatre door. He
called for re- endorsements and warily
pried the door. Out came the weeping
youngster with his dire anticipation.
The youngster was sent home to his
distracted mother who lives at Friends
avenue and Cooper street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
TRY THAW CASE TODAY
Heavy Damages Asked for Assault
on Kansas City Boy

Harry X. Thaw faces trial before
Judge Finletter. Common Pleas Court
No. 2, today for alleged assault on
Frederick Gump, eighteen years old,
of Kansas City. The case is being
prosecuted by Frederick b. Gump, the
boys father. Heavy damages are
asked.
Thaw has been confined in Kirk
brides, West Philadelphia, since De-
cember. 1t is charged that Thaw en-.
ticed the boy. who was attending school
in New York, to an apartment, in
Thaw's hotel, where the alleged assault
and battery took place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
ATTORNEYS IN WAR SERVICE
Twelve Per Cent Of Lawyers Here
Served Country

Twelve per cent Of the 2500 attorneys
of the Philadelphia bar went into war
service, according to the records of
Luther e. Hewitt, librarian of the Law
Association.
"Of the 1900 members of the Law
Association" he said, 1925 entered war
service. The average age of the group
of lawyers belonging to the association
is doubtless considerably more than that
of the 2500 attorneys in general, so
that the profession at large contributed
somewhat more fighters in proportion
han the Law Association.
'"The part lawyers played ia organi-
zation Of armies and loan campaigns
was also great and probably out OF ali
proportion to their numbers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
To Resume Coal Trade

G. ii. Markham, regional director
announced today that effective May 1,
the Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Company's coal feet would be operated
from Port Richmond During tn,
submarine activity along the Jersey
and New England coasts, the operations
of this fleet were transferred to Port
Reading. Mr.. Markham said that after
May the. feet would be worked back 10
Port Richmond as rapidly as its coal
contracts and vessel movements would
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19

A Croix de Guerre was awarded by
the French Government to Captain
Charles ]. Cole, Jr.. of Elkins Park,
who is attached to Field Hospital No.
%. Charles j. Cole, Sr.. father of the
brave army surgeon, was notified by
the American army headquarters that
Captain Cole held his hospital staff in :
tact by rare presence of mind dur
ing heavy bombardment near Sommepy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19

"If Man Dies Shall He Live
Again." will be the subject of the Rev.
George Lockett, pastor of the New
Berean Baptist Church, Fifty ninth and
Pine streets, at the Easter services to :
morrow morning at II :45 o'clock. The
choir. under f. G. Haight, will sing
Radiant Easter Morning." "The
Saviour Victorious" Behold There
Was a Great Earthquake" and Halle
lujah Chorus There will be special
services in the Sunday school.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19

and then TO Frankford avenue and the
Oxford pike, where the loan statue will
be unveiled. J. Harry Schumacher.
treasurer of the Board Of Trade, will
lead the parade.
The drive for the districts represented
in the parade will be directed from the
Frankford headquarters, with John
Walton as chairman of the committee in
charge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
Lad Shot With Own Gun

Pottsville. Pa, April 19.-John w,
Heisler, fourteen years old, accidentally
shot and killed himself yesterday with
a Flobert rife. He was out hunting
when the hammer of his gun caught in
bush. 1t is denied that he and bows
with him were trying to initiate NOV.
ing picture play.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
Flying From Chicago to New York

Chicago. April 10.-Captain Il. F..
White. army aviator, left the ground
at 0 $50 O'Clock this morning from Ash =
burn field for nonstop flight to New
York. He passed over Gary, Ind.
about 10 o'clock when thousands of
persons saw him. He was flying high
above the smoke clouds Of the steel
mills. Even at that altitude it was
apparent that he was flying ut ter
rife rate.
His machine is De Haviland biplane
with n twelve cylinder Liberty motor.
Its gasoline capacity is 1914 gallons
which the captain believed was suffi =
cient to land him at the Mineola field
this afternoon.
|. Several attempts at n nonstop Chi
cago New York flight have been made,
but none succeeded. Captain White was
sure he would hold out unless he lost his
way. He attempted to keep the trial
secret, but it became known.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
578 DEATHS THIS WEEK,
Diseases of Heart and Tuberculosis
Again Top List

Deaths throughout the city during
the week numbered SIS. as compared
with 364 last week and 62S during the
corresponding week last year. They were
divided as follows: Males, 300; females,
269; boys, 10, and girls, 80.
The causes of death were:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
City Market Report

ADMINISTRATORS, scallions, tur
nips, beets, lemons, lettuce.
Normal-Psrsnips, onions. caulidow
err, radishes. oranges, rhuberb.
Searce--Cabbage. celery. carrots
sweet potatoes, apples, Strawberries
grapefruit, spinssk
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
LsvIathsn Bringing 10000

.Brest, France, April 19.--The U. s.
Transport Leviathan sailed yesterday
with 10000 American troops on board.
William G. Sharp, formerly ambassa
dor to France, was a passenger.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
Troops Back From Wm
and Home,Uard Bound


Won, steuhen, at New York ,ro,, D..
tTDnsi Tth thESs units Of 6ryR DTsohh DG hrSsi Sa
saS SiSs ampns 2s92 troops These units infiS5s As9
tieth FeidS ann, Snd ,siHtysiT ~ men Of the Six
by Brigadier General Lucien G. Rerrittt nded
sneers Ses compea T9e agi me men e. the oth En-
IwG rHfts men en- Of 1.-THE the 10th E1sineer Train Other
l0i men of the general he]adgus ] piniGers Tidrsers and
r band; which was stationed at Generrs,ii ri
Officers and I33 men Of the lO2d Aero sauad ThP6e
ron; thrSe officers and ia men of.the 8s5th
York OHIO and df"f%ai sSmaaPIGS tGom
tsrsd easu2ls and 500 wounded soldiers scat
Nszar HSS"95i2 Wits a5a FoSps GtSsw HG Ts,t
heard ao.nI1e included 5Yo officers and 124 men Of
~ sss Ease oSRie Rospts t% %IiGeE o,G ard III
iSen ssa of Of Base Hospital 81 three officers and
$50 men Of the second TrencR Sn Morts MoSTr Rat snd
1sry, one officer and lGs men of the Sixth
men Of 2FA R ath TneS dTfsr SfsTS sna ~
Tssnch Ssd 9rs % Officer and 2ll men q the aOSth
ere o MorsE ncGT s'!ery Other units on board
Aero sauSrdon saist Fsid n SIsna Taf SRaft Ratt
ta,llon. headaua Ttsrs detachment. supply sec
two officers and Is4 men Of theT11itR % pS Com! CGn!
thirtytwo men Of The Fifteenth % P6otosrap % Sne
section OF the air service and casual com.
DUE TODAY
Oshawa. at New York. from Nantes, April
with ten men 1.-TWO officers and eight en-
listed men) OF Ordnance Company
Zeppelin. at New York. from Brest. April
a,.wtth 1880 army personnel including Penn
sxiyenla- casuals.
pssftis at New York. from Brest. April
Y. with 1901 men
DUE TOMORROW
NisKfniaa. at New York from ST Nazaire
Arrif 3 with ATT men
M Great Northern. at New York from Brest.
April IL. with 5000 army personnel.
HARRISBURG at New York from Brest
. 1priI ie. With 1860 men
0ysf Wslasrsee, FROM Brett April :. with
1I1i klIng personnel
~ sSheli ffs@n Ls rsllics. April 5,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19

Halifax. \. S.. April 10.-(By A.
P.)-Captain Irvine, of the Cunard
liner Carmania, which has arrived here
from Liverpool, fears the signals of the
aviators who are to start from New
Foundland for the transatlantic flight
will be misunderstood by steamships. He
said he was instructed, on leaving Liv-
erpool, the Martynsidc airplano would
display white light asking for its posi-
tion and a red signal to indicate dis
tress. Last Sunday he was advised by
wireless the Sopwith plane would use
white light for distress. Irvine said
that, owing to the conflicting orders.
there was grave danger of the signals
being misunderstood.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
REAL ESTATE FOR RENT


ba tbs: from June Il 10 Oct \. 800 4
month; 2, sefSssess; tss no children eps oer'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
DEATHS
HELP WANTED-MALE
BooKKEEPER

WALNUT. AT 46TH ST = weil-furnished
apartment, 0 rooms. bath and porch. FOR
rent May 1. Phone Preston 1898 J,
PINE, 1905 = Single room for gentle.
man; transient; meals served; excellent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
British Filler Falls
Into the Irish Sea
Continued fror, Page One

Continued fron, Page One
clock yesterday afternoon travelling al
great height over the Island OF
Anglesey, in the Irish Sea, off the Welsh
coast. But it was believed that Major
Wood could not haye made such a great
distance in such short time after his
ascent at Eastchurch.
st. Johns. y. r.. April 19.-CBy A
P.)-Weather conditions were slightly
improved here this morning. but it was
considered improbable that either Harry
Hawker, Australian pilot of the Sop
with plane. or Captain Frederick +.
Raynham, the Briton, who is to guide
the Martynside machine, would attempt
a start today on their proposed trans
atlantic flight.
Hawker and Commander Grievc, his
navigator, took advantage of the con
tinued delays to have mechanicians in =
stall low power wireless sending ap-
paratus in the Sopwith plane. 1t has
a radius Of twenty miles.
Both the Sopwith and Martynside
planes are equipped with receiving sets
with an estimated radius of 200 to $50
miles. but Captain Raynham carries no
sending apparatus.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-06
STENSON'S SLAYER
GIVES HIMSELF UP
Thomas Pollock Shot Gin
Seif-Defence" Only.

The slayer of Michael (':Fat") STEM
son, longshoreman of 201 West Six
teenth street, who was shot and killed
at Eleventh avenue and Fourteenth
street, Wednesday night, calmly walked
into the Homicide Bureau of the Dis
trict Attorneys office yesterday, accom-
panied by his counsel. and permitted
himself to be placed under arrest
Robert Moore, lawyer for the man who
thus surrendered himself, gave his
clients name as Thomas Pollock. 25, of
743 Ninth avenue. He told Benedict
Dineen, Assistant District Attorney, that
his client was willing to admit that he
had fired the shots that killed Stenson,
though the crime was committed in self
defence. Stenson. he stated, had made II
known to Pollock that he was laying
for" him and would get him" the first
chance that offered.
A bitter enmity. explained Mr.. Moore,
had existed between the men ever since
Pollock had subdud Stenson in a fist
fight some time ago. On the night of
the murder, Pollock's attorney claims,
Fat" Stenson was on the point Of maxi
ing good his threat, but Pollock in self
defence got to his assailant first with
the shots that ended the longshoremans
life
Pollock was arraigned later in the
Jefferson Market Court before Magis-
trate George Simpson on a charge Of
homicide. He was held without bail for
a hearing next Friday
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-06
AUSTRALIANS GUESTS
AT A DINNER HERE
81 Soldiers Going West to
Study Agriculture.

Ninety-seven Australian and New Zea-
land soldiers who are on their way TO
the University Of California, where thew
Will take a years course in Agriculture.
were guests at dinner in the Harvard
Club last night. The dinner was ar
ranged by Edward Harding, an organ
izer OF the Society of the Seven seas.
which Is designed to strengthen the
bonds between the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
already quickened as a result of the
war
Col Richard Derby, son-in-law of Col.
Roosevelt, told the visitors of the for
nation OF the American Legion and out
lined its purposes. Major Archibald G..
Thatcher of the Seventy-seventh Dlvi-
sian' and Capt. e. H Davies, who Is in
command of the visitors, also spoke.
I. w. Slocum was the toastrnaster.
After dinner an exhibition of motion
pictures was given. The soldiers will
visit the Stock Exchange this forenoon
and attend the tennis matches at Forest
Hills in the afternoon They will start
tonight for California.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-06
GAS OVERCOMES TWO
FIREMEN AT BLAZE
Third Cut by Glass While on
Sidewalk.

Leaking gas overcame two fremen
and a third was cut by glass while
fighting a fire which swept through a
five story business building at As Beaver
street yesterday. Practically all of the
contents of the building was destroyed
and the loss is fixed at $4,000. When
the flames melted the gas fixtures on
the first floor William McInery and
Thomas Goldridge OF Engine G dropped
unconscious from. the escaping fumes
They were taken to the Broad Stree
Hospital and revived. Henry Engel
holm of Hook and Ladder 10 was stand
ing on the sidewalk in front of the
Sullding when the glass fell upon him
and he too received medical attention.
A La Fades, a manufacturer of Office
furniture and fixtures, occupied the frsi
floor, cotton brokers had offices upon
the second and furniture was stored In
the remaining floors. The fire started
in the basement and blazed up the stair
ways and elevator shaft to the roof. II
took an hour of hard fighting before
Battalion Chief Smoky Joe" Martin
and his men had the flames under con-
trdH
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-06
SOLDIER WITH LOST
MEMORY IS SOUGHT
Private MaIchi Hill, Reported
Killed, Missing Here.

Believing that Private Malchi Hill of
Company X, 309th Infantry, may be
alive and suffering from total loss Of
memory, DR.. NJ. e. Flaherty of 292 Sum-
NIT avenue, Jersey City, brother-in-law
of the soldier, Is making a thorough
search of hospitals here.
Private Hill, who was newly married
when he went overseas early last year,
lived at rs Union street. Jersey City.
His family read his name in the casualty
lists among those killed in action, and
later were notified by the Red Cross
that he had been wounded on October 16
and had died on the 10th. They received
no official notice from the War Depart
ment. however, and his returning COM
rades said that they had not heard Of
his death, although they knew that he
had been wounded. The last letter re-
ceived by the family was dated October
Is, the day before the soldier received
his wound,
DR.. Flaherty yesterday visited the
Hudson River State Hospital In Pough-
keepse, where persons had told him his
brother-in-law might be found, but the
trip was OF no avail. Besides his wife
Private Hill, who was 81 years old,
leaves Ave sisters and both parents. e
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-06
HOLDS HIS COURT IN
FRENCH CONSULATE
Magistrate Delays Decision
ON Passport Fraud Charge.

Magistrate Simpson, who is presiding
in the jefferson Market court, went to
the French Consulate at Bridge street
yesterday, where he held a final hearing
on the charges of a passport fraud con-
spiracy against John Recrean. 463 West
Nineteenth street: Vasile Laporte, 332
East Sixteenth street, and Dion Molde-
van, $40 West 141st street, who has a
steamship ticket brokers' Office at Eighth
avenue and Twenty-second street. After
II. Goyran. the Consul. and Louis Gable,
director of the consulate's passport de-
partment, had testified, Magistrate Simp-
Son directed the attorneys on both sides
to submit briefs and said he would an
nounce his decision October 2, in the
mems night court
Gable testified that when Moldevan
gave him eighty-four passports to be
vlsed for August SO, he told him the
Rumanian Consul had written the words
via France" across them. Gable said
he would telephone the Rumanian Con-
sulate for verihcation, whereupon. he
testified, Moldevan admitted he himself
had written the interpretations.
Consul Goyran said that In his opin-
ion second wise was unnecessary after
the French Consul at Chicago had writ
ten via France upon a passport.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-06
OUT COMES ACHING TOOTH
AND DOCS PURSE WITH 1T
Pickpocket Refuses to Allow Pain to Interfere With
Business and He Deity Robs While
Dentist Pulls.

Or. Abraham wolfson drummed on a
little glass tray with a silver excavator
and leaned against white enameiled
operating chair In his office at 401 West
Fifty-ninth street while he told the story
yesterday.
"This-now-Miller was here when 1
opened up Monday morning. He looked
natural. That is, his face was all swelled
out like any other patients. There were
others waiting too. understand. But
he speaks up and says: Doctor, won't
you please pull my tooth first? I'm In
awful pain He looked 1t too and I was
sorry for him--then-so l said. Step
this way!'
Il put him right in this very chair. It
was a bad tooth-a big abscess at the
roots. So 1 pulled 1t. as he insisted /
should. 1t was No. 80. I'm pretty sure
1t was No. 80. Oil Miss Smithers !
Wasn't 1t a No. 80 1 extracted for that
fellow who gave the name Smith Mon
day morning.
"Yessir No. So" Miss Smithers as
sured him, answering over a glass par
tition after diving into a card index.
That's the first molar, you know, on
the lower left jaw"
When he got out OF the chair he
says, Doc, you did fine job Well, he
was good. too. I'll say he was. You
know l thought had lost that pocket
book. was looking for it at home and
at the Y. NJ. c. A., where / took a
plunge that morning on my way to the
office. But the police called me up. They
asked me to come over to the East
Fifty-first street station and have q
look at him.
when got there he was walking
up and down the room giving the cops
fine argument. thought he was a
lawyer or something. He pretended he