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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
SI2, 900 FARM AND LIVESTOCK
FOR GIRL If SHE GOES HOME
Father of SirteenYeaOd Helen Hahr Who Disappeared H
Philadcpha Girl 10 Baltimore From Y. W, E.. 4. Here.
Wants Her o Return

Thousands Of dollars in farmland and
livestock at Mcshanig. ~ j.. are Of
fered by her father TO sixteen year-o old
Helen Hair If she will return home.
The glrl disappeared on January :
from the Young Women's Christian As
sOciation here. She has not been heard
from by her family since that time.
Prior to her disappearance she had
been in this city for about a year.
According to her father Robert Hair.
the girl ran away from home After
leaving here she was traced. through
the agency e the Girls Aid Society,
1905 Arch street. to Baltimore. Her
father was notified, but reached that
city two weeks after his daughter had
left.
The girl is said to have left her par
ents' home at night While the family
slept. She was indignant, it. is said,
because htr father, who owns the Maple
Lane stock Farm, at Meshanig, refused
TO permit her to go out and earn her
own living.
Dispatches received today from Bal
timore said Miss Hair had arrived
there last month in company with Miss
Emma 1lalstead, eighteen years old.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
FRANKFORT 81"
STATION DESIGNS
NOT APPROVED
Art Jury Refuses Sanction to
Plans for Two Proposed
Landings

Inc Art Jury has disapproved designs
submitted by the Department of CITY
transit for proposed stations at Alle-
gheny avenue and Girard avenue. along
the Frankford "L".
Two stations, with four buildings in
all are nearing completion at Orthodox
and Margaret streets and at Church and
Ruan streets, Frankford.
Plans have been made for nine more
stations and designs for two of them
We're sent to the art jury for its APP
proval.
Eli Kirk Price, member of the Art
Jury representing the Paramount Park
commission on the jury, today explained
why the designs We're frowned upon.
THE transit department" he said.
originally submitted designs that met
with the entire approval of the jury
Later when the department found it's
funds would not be sufficient to erect
the stations planned, a substitute design
was submitted and this was followed
bya second substitute.
while the general nature of the de-
sign was not changed, it was cheap
ened. The third design omitted GER
tain part of the structures as first
planned and the jury felt that it could
not approve the substitute.
THE act of Assembly creating the
Art Jury provides that when designs
have been submitted to II they must
be acted upon within sixty days or
the designs are presumed to have its
approval. For this reason we took
action upon the Transit Department s.
substitute design SO that approval would
not be presumed"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
BLAMES FOOD ACT
FOR HIGH PRICES
Food Administration Coun-
sci Tells of Laws Flaws
in Regulating Packers
POWER MUCH CURBED
Sky the Limit on Products
Not Listed i'm Lever Bill
as ''Necessaries"

Washington, Feb. 1.-W. A. Glasgow
Jr. council for the food administration
explained methods of regulating profits
of the meat packers today before the
Senate Agricultural Committee. which
is considering legislation affecting the
meat industry.
Emphasizing that only food products
classed in the food act as neCessaries
were subject to rule of the administra-
tion, which fixed the profit at per cent,
Mr.. Glasgow said
1T has been said that on other prod
ucts of the packers the limit of profit
was the sky, but that was the fault OF
the act"
The fixing of a minimum price for
hogs was necessary to increase produce
tion and prevent IAN even higher price,"
he told the committee.
why couldn't the food adminstra-
tion fix the prices of all packers prod
uots, as the prices Of steel and iron
were determined" asked Chairman
Gore.
Steel and iron prices were set by the
war industries board in agreement with
the producers" Mr.. Glasgow replied.
"Did the packers refuse to arrange
prices by agreement?' asked Senator
Gore.
The witness answered that the food
administration had no power to make
voluntary agreements about other than
food products listed as necessaries.
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Germans May Get
Terms This Month
Continued from Page One

largely concerned in il. He invoked the
rrinciple of nationality, which President
Wilson had enunciated, in support Of
the claim Of the Serbians to the region.
where he asserted the Serbians largely
exceeded the Rumanians.
Although the hearing showed n sharn
difference in views, there is reason 10
believe that mutual concessions will
lead TO an agreement between Serbia
and Rumania, or, II not, that a corn,nis-
sion will be appointed TO deal with the
subject.
The hearing given to the Serbs
Ia eXpected TO be followed by the early
presentation of the Jugo-Slav claims TO
The eastern Adriatic. which involve deli
cate questions and render probable a
formidable issue with Italy over the
Adriatic coast.
In anticipation OF this question, Prince
Regent Alexander Of Serbia will arrive
here today for the special purpose
of personally laying Serbia's case before
President Wilson. Meantime, reports
from the region in controversy show in
creasing tension there.
The fun text of the official COM
munlcation issued last evening dealing
with Yesterdays session OF the supreme
council follows:
The President OF the United states
OF America, the Prime Ministers and
Foreign Ministers ~t 4he Allied and
associated Powers and the representa-
tives OF Japan, met this afternoon at
3 o'clock.
The delegates of the Great Powers
conIusing the inter-Allied commits
sion which will shortly proceed TO
Poland, were introduced TO state the
conclusions which they had reached
after hearing the representatives OF
Poland and of the Czecho-Slovak re-
public regarding the provisional ex.
ploitation of the industrial district
Of Teschen.
After listening to the reports made
by NJ. Noulens and by General Gothe,
I'M the name OF their colleagues, the
Allied Ministers decioed TO send TO
Teschen Allied delegates for the pur-
pose of assuring peaceful exploita-
tiou in agreement with the Czechs and
the Poles, pending a territorial set
tlement OF the question by the con-
ference.
A statement OF the views ot the
respective interests and rights OF Ru-
mania and Serbia in the Banat or
Temesvar was then heard. Mr.. Brati-
ano and NJ. Mishu represented the Ru-
menihn Government, and the Serbian
delegation was composed OF M. Pa
| chitch. NJ. .Vesnitch and NJ. Trumbitch.
The next meeting was nxed for to-
| morrow. saturday. at o'clock
Thore win be no plsn&<y desslon oi
14I4 QrQeqfen&1 c@of0-
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1T. COL. M'COACH
HOME FROM FRANCE
Assistant to General Pershing
Brings Great Praise for
Phila. Fighters

Lieutenant colonel David McCoach,
Jr., who served on the staff of General
Pershing in France, has returned to his
home, 1929 Wharton street
For four months he was assistant 10
General Pershing I'm directing the op-
perations OF American armies on the
French and British fronts
During this time the general staff
had its headquarters at Chaumont,
forty miles from the Chateau-Thierry
battle front. Lieutenant Colonel Nc
Coach's duties consisted in keeping
the situation on a front covering 200
miles.
Along this great battleline he would
scour in his automobile frequently over
roads swept by shellhre and sometimes
under observation of batteries of Ger
man artillery made aware of the pres
ence of a general staff officer OH the
lines. Though often in great danger he
escaped unhurt.
II am very glad to be home" said
Lieutenant Colonel McCoach today. "and
sorry fop the wives and mothers of our
gallant boys who will not be able TO
welcome their husbands and sons But
you must tell them for me that they
should feel consoled in the fact that these
men formed part of the best and noblest
| army that ever fought in defense of
their country.
And they fought with an idealism,
with an understanding Of the priceless
things that were at stake in this war
which was superior TO anything l saw in
! the French or British armies, splendid
as these were.
philadelphia, whose sons fought with
bravery that certainly was unsur-
passed by the best troops in our Amerl-
can armies, may Justly be doubly proud
OF the part she played, and the relatives
OF these boys feel consoled for the dread
\ ful sacrifices they have made"
| Lieutenant Colonel McCoach is only
thirty-two years OF age and his rise
to the general staff Is considered phe-
nomenal He Is probably the youngest
member OF his rank on General Per-
shlng's stan.
| on June s he went 10 France as a
casual. lie entered the staff college in
France to receive more training In gen.
eral staff work. After this he was sent
to join the Twenty-seventh Division at
Langres to gain his FIRST experience in
the conduct Of the operations of the
American armies. He then Joined Gen.
era. Pershing at Chaurnon,.
Following the armistice, Lieutenant
| Colonel McCoach went into Germany on
an inspection for General. Pershing OF
| the American armies OF occupation, and
particularly OF the Third Army under
/ General Dickman, This took him 10
| Coblenz. where he remained until he left
for America assigned TO rejoin the gen
| eral staff In Washington. He win be in
/ Philadelphia ten days. His family
Ir1nlSIpg his absence overseas. have been
,Rs bong o} Hugh BLACK, who
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01

They came from Philadelphia and went
to Baltimore
Mr.. Hair learned from the Girls
Aid Society in this city that his daugh-
ter had left Philadelphia.
At the Office of the Girls Aid Society
it was said today that the organization
had been asked by the Young Women S
Christian Association TO locate Miss
Hair. 1t was also said she is a quiet
girl and well liked by persons here who
know her. AT the Y. w. G. \. no addi-
tiCnal Information could be obtained
about the girls disappearance.
According to word from Baltimore,
Miss Hair met the ILalstead girl in
Philadelphia. when their funds began
TO grow slim during the Christmas holi-
days, the pair decided to leave this city.
This decision, according TO the Balti-
more police, was fastened by the receipt
Of several special delivery letters from
that place.
The parents of Miss Hair are dis
traCted over her disappearance.
III she only will come home" said her
father to Policewoman Mary Harvey, of
Baltimore. "a $4,000 farm with fertile
soil and hundreds of dollars worth Of
livestock are hers. This will insure her
a comfortable livelihood for the rest of
her days"
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TAFT URGES CAPITAL
AND LABOR TO MEET
Collective Bargaining Called
Best Means to Combat Boil
shevism and Socialism

Collective bargaining between capital
and labor Is the best means Of combat
ing Bolsheyism and insuring Industrial
peace, according TO former President VIII
liam Howard Taft, who was the prin-
ciIal speaker at the annual dinner Of
The Philadelphia Wholesale Coal Asso-
citation in the Rose Garden Of the Belle
vue-Stratford last night.
After speaking Of his connection with
the war labor board Mr.. Taft said:
II have run mp against labor unions
as never have before. am convinced
that the first step, and the needed step,
to the avoidance Of such labor difficulties
as can be avoided Is machinery to secure
fun understanding by each side Of
the standpoint OF the other side, by
bringing them as closely as possible
to each other by putting them into a
room with closed doors such as we had
In organizing this commission, in order
that after all the bias is thrown off real
discussion may be had,
Furthermore, | believe sincerely that
the more you effect collective bargaining
and perfect it and its system, 50 as to
bring the real employers and real en-
ployes together, the more certain you
are to reach a satisfa ctory solution
where it is possible"
Mr.. Taft declared that the interna-
tional union leaders have very little time
for /. W. Wism. Socialism and Bolshev-
ism. OF the latter he said.
at is difficult for me to speak OF the
Bolshevists because words fail me. They
are not sufficient TO characterize their
philosophy and their practice under that
philosophy. We know that Bolshevism
is the doctrine OF pessmism, of dead
leveling down 10 the lowest proletariat
led by dirty, unkempt doctrinaires.
Other speakers were Hampton l.. Car
son and George Holmes Cushing. man
aging director of the American Whole
sale Coal Association.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
MEASURE IS PREPARED
Bill Would Have All Schools
Under System Controlled
by State Board

The bill prepared by the State Board
Of Education for a physical training
system in the public schools Of Penn.
sylvania has been made ready for pres.
entation in the Legislature next week.
II is the plan TO have the act take effect
Immediately upon its approval, except
in third and fourth class districts
The bill was drawn after an extensive
study Of the subject by DR.. j. George
Becht, secretary of the board, during
the least year and studies made by him
in foreign countries.
BY the provisions of the bill the
course shall be adapted TO the ages
and capabilities of the pupils in the sew
eral grades and departments and shall
include exercises, calisthenics. forma-
tlon drills, instruction in personal and
community health and safety, and in
correcting and preventing body def
cheney"
instruction in citizenship as Il re-
Iates to community and national well
fare is also mentioned, while for girl
pupils there is prescribed instruction In
domestic hygiene, first-aid and nursing.
: ho SNa1C bOdIu 10 10 make the regula-
tons and administer the act under a
bureau of physical education, TO be
created by the board. A State SUPER
visor will be named. All annual report
is required the first Monday In July,
In addition 1t is provided "lf thu
Board OF Education of any school dis
trict shall determine that the course in
physical training as prescribed for male
pupils shall include military training.
such course shall be prepared under
the direction OF the State Board and the
Adjutant General, and shall be a part OF
the course of physical training for male
pupils. All male pupils of the high
school shall be required to take this
| course. excepting In the case of boys
physically unfit, as determined by the
medical inspector, or whose parents may
have conscientious scruples against mill
| tary training"
The system will start in the third.
class districts in 1920 and in the fourth,
class in 1921,
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sired. TO carry the tracks OF the Market
street elevated through the hall. Part
of the present work will be the building
of a mezzanine gallery over a portion OF
the subway area 10 provide access TO
the island platform.
work Remaining TO lie Done
The work remaining TO be done is the
removal OF the Gore" completion of
the platforms. maig and mezzanine
floors. completion of the setting of the
steel and of the underpinning OF the
Flbert street subway. II will also bo
necessary TO backtill The street and re-
store the piping and so forth in City
Hall basement
Here are some approximate quantities
Of material used in the work: Structural
steel. 400 tons; re-enforcing steel, 355
tons: concrete, $4,000 cubic yards; ex-
cavation. 10000 cubic yards; concrete
girders three to seven feet in width.
eleven and onc-half feet deep: span,
twenty-siN feet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
TWO Die IN DOMESTIC WRECK
Joseph Finan, of Ehrenfeld, Kills
Wife and Himself

Johnstown, Pa, Feb. 1.-The second
double tragedy in this section in two
days occurred at Ehrenfeld yesterday
afternoon. when Joseph Finan shot and
killed his wife and then turned the re-
Nolver upon himself with fatal results.
The couple moved from South Fork to
Ehrenfeld three weeks ago. at which
time Mrs. Finan left their two children
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. Win
ters, of South Fork. Yesterday after
noon Mrs. Finan was awaiting the Penn
sylvania train at the Ehrenfeld station
when Finan appeared and killed his wife
with a revolver shot through the head,
ending his own life with shot through
the right temple. Finan was twenty
nine years cid and his wife twenty-six,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
REDS ADVANCE In UKRAINE
Trotsky at Front Urging Further
Invasion-Allies Appealed to

Odessa, Feb. 1,-(By A. P)-It Is
reported that Leon Trotzlly. the Boil
shevist Minister of War and Marine has
arrived in kharllov and is eXhorting Boil
shevlst regiments to invade Ukraine fur
ther.
Despairlng appeals for help against
the Bolshevists addressed 10 the Allies,
are reaching Odessa from Kharkov, The
Bolshevists are said to have occupied
Tchernivov and TO be adancing south
ward toward Kiev, where there is a
panic reported.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
FOUND DEAD IN ROAD
Authorities Believe Frank f..
Henry Was Struck by Automobile

= The body Of Frank b. Henry, collector
of East Greenwich township was found
last night on the road between Clarkes-
boro and Mount Royal, hear Wood
bury n. ].
The ribs on the right side Of the body
were crushed in, the skull had been
fractured and the body was generally
cut and bruised. A tobacco can IN one
OF the coat pockets was delted. The
authorities are inclined TO tina 1ellef that
Mr.. Henry was struck by ar automobile.
Mr.. Henry IVES returning from a meet
ing at Mount Royal Esr some time. II
IL said, his eyesightk ks been growing
:. pr. IL H. Clark. 41o@pury, vas
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
VISCOUNT GREY GOING BLIND
Great English Statesman at School
for Sightless

New York. Feb. 1,-VIscount Grey.
1Iie I. ~ Dttsh ~, "a Ssate s
important part in the worlds diplomacy
at the beginning Of the war, is going
blind, according to Sir Arthur Pearson,
Bart, c. G. b. E., founder Of ST. Dun
stan's Hotel for Blinded Sailors and
Soldiers. himself blind, who Is az the
Hotel Plaza, Viscount Grey's sight has
been failing for several years until now
he can no longer see to read or write,
and is learning 10 typewrite as the only
civilian pupil at st. Dunstan's.
''Viscount Grey's sight has been going
for three or four years." said Sir Ar
thur, the success OF whose methods In
aiding the blind are world famQpa. ~
hs has besn unable 70 lreH1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
OIL ship BOUND HERE AFIRE
Vessel Leased by Sun Company
Being Towed to London

The Belgian motor tanlship Emanuel
Nobel, bound from Antwerp to Philadel-
phia, in ballast, is being towed to Lon
don after having been afire I'm the Eng
lish Channey according to word received
at the Maritime Exchange.
The ship is leased by the Sun OIL
Company. Marcus Hook, and has been
engaged in carrying oil TO the Amer
ican expeditionary forces in France and
the American ship of war operating
in European waters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01

'e''NH ~ SNhiNh VI All tSNdDeu spa nlSh
criminal They showed badges TO prove
their identity and ordered the proprietor
to rouse all the inmates of the house
and TO line them up in the front room.
Line Up Victims Against Wall
The first intimation that the intruders
We're not what they professed to be came
when the men We're all lined up with
their backs to the wall. While two of
the robbers took all the yaluables awav
from the MeXicans, the third went up-
stairs and ransacked their rooms. The
robbery was about completed when the
nervy Mexican took his headlong dive
through the window to get help.
Schneider was in the guardhouse at the
main entrance, directly opposite the
hotel building and drawing his gun
rushed over when the Mexican told him
Of the robbery. As he entered the door
the leader turned his revolver on Rim
and shot, the robbers leaving as their
victim sank to the floor unconscious.
The MeXiCans raised the alarm and
soon all the Delaware County authorities
were taking part in a search that in
cluded the careful beating of every small
patch OF timber, the watching of the
water front and the careful guarding of
all the roads.
Say Prisoner Confesses
John O'Toole. county detective. made
the first arrest. Chief of Police Thomas
Kreger of Leiperville, arrested the sec
ond man. one of the prisoners is said
to have admitted being one of the band.
but the Chester police are carefully
guarding the men and refuse to make
any statements.
Schreiber was in the service of the
company for about four months and had
made an excellent record. His body is
now at the Grocer Hospital, Upland.
The house in which the shooting oc-
Cured is an old three-story mansion, a
landmark in that section, and, with the
exception OF the Baldwin plant. stands
several hundred yards away from any
buildings. 1t is Of Colonial architecture
and a memorial of Revolutionary days.
A man who the police believe can
be connected with a number of rob
berries and hold-ups in West Philadelphia
was arralgned before Magistrate Har-
ris in the Woodland avenue and Thirty
second street police station today. He
gave the name of Joseph Green Buffalo.
n. Y. lie was held in $1,000 bail for
a further hearing on February g.
Green, who, the police say has a
number of aliases, including the name
OF Lee, was arrested last night at Mar
ket and Fifty-sixth streets. The arrest
was made by Detective Seibert. of the
Thompson and Sixty-frst streets police
station. At the time of his arrest Green
was masquerading in soldiers uni
form.
The police say he admitted to robbing
the apartment of Mrs. Agnes Miller
5l45 Market street. This place was
looted OF about $125 worth Of jewelry
on Wednesday. Green, according TO de-
tectives, also admitted lie was wanted
by the police of Buffalo.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
Admiral Bristol a, Turk Capiial

washing ton. Feb. Rear Admiral
Mark l.. Bristol has arrived at Constanti-
again over the II. s. s. Scorpion, q ca
blegram TO the Navy Department today
reported. The scorpion was interned AZ
coPsfsptinopls Yhsa fh9GKs began
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
POEM ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY
Scully Launches Campaign fol
n. ]. Covernorship in Verse

Atlantic city. Feb. 1.-Representative
Thomas j. Scully. of the Third District,
comprising Ocean, Monmouth and Mid
dlesex Counties, the first Democrat to
declare himself in the race for Gov
ernor in New Jersey this fall launched
his campaign in South Jersey POLITICALLY
today with a half-page announcement
in Governor Walter Edges morning
paper here. In his salutatory Scully
says:
7 voted for war and gave my son.
1 voted for all that this war might be won (:
Good mothers and fathers. you gave all you
had.
Now elect me for Governor. TO back up what
I've done.
And your regrets, later on, i am sure VIII
be none,
Scuny is rated as millionaire several
times over. lie Is head of the Scully
Towboat and Transportation Company.
of Perth Amboy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-01
DEATHS

TREFZ. Jan. 80. HORACE. son Of Louis
and late Elizabeth Trefz, aged 13. Rela-
lives and frler-is invited to services. SUM-.
ESQ p. m. at .i30 Master st. Int. Montrose
CUTHBERT. Jan. 81. THOMAS X, son
Of late Alexander NJ and Edith 8; cuth-
bert. Relatives and friends invited to serv-
inEton n. ]. Int. private
FRoMMr-Jan; 81, BARBARA ROSE.
daughter Of Christiana and late Christopher
Fromm. Relatives and friends invited to
services, Tues, D. m, from 2511 n. S1st
ROBERTS.--Jsn. 81, at ellT SAMSON st..
CAROLINE HAZELHURST ROBERTS. Fu-
neral IL a. m, Monday. Int private.
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Waterman Slain,
20 Men Robbed
Continued from Pare One

agents in search of an escaped Spanish
criminal. They showed badges TO prove
their identity and ordered the proprietor
to rouse all the inmates of the house
and to line them up in the front room.