Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-09
FORM RELIEF BODY
FOR BANK VICTIMS
Headquarters Opened and Cam
paign Will Be Started to OBJ
ID tain Funds for Work
lMiCHeL'S ARREST CHEERED

Immediate relief will be given North
Penn Bank victims who may be in need.
The committee appointed by Alexis
J. Limeburner. former common conn
Gilman of the Twenty eighth ward.
who was made chairman of the Rell"i
Board at a depositors meeting, today
opened permanent headquarters AT
233e North Twenty ninth street.
Placards will be in every shop win
dow and on every bulletin board in thu
vicinity before tomorrow, appealing Tor
the necessary funds. Blank subscr'p-
: ton lists will be posted for the sigma
-tures of prospective donors.
THE committee is ready to 60 ont
right now to help the needy and desti
tute. said Mr.. Llmchurner. There =
no money in orr treasury yot, but there
is some money in the pockets OF the
committeeman and they are instructed
to use their own money until the sub
scriptions come IN.
To Avoid Embarrassment
1--WE arc going to give relief quietly
and unostentatiousv. so that no one
who is helped need fear the cmbarrass
ment of receiving charity. II ism
charity anyway. it's community co
operation in time Of distress. Ih"S"
who are able later will pay back what
they receive.
1T might be interesting to note that
we have done this sort Of work With
great success in this community before.
During the influenza epidrmI" We or
gani5ed committee which furnished
much relief to the unfortunate talllles
who were distressed during that spell
of disease There was a sum Of 5000.
by the way. left over by the committee.
That went up with the bank.
The committee to which subscrip
tions for relief may be sent comprises ;
Alexis ]. Limeburner. 2325 North Sec
ond street; Morris Joscphs, secretary,
2442 West Cumberland street; Charles
Segal, treasurer. 623S Carpenter street,
West Philadelphia; Samuel Moyerman,
1886 North Twenty ninth street; Leo
Weinrott, Liberty Building: Morris
Brooks, 1909 North Patton street; Will
liam NJ. Lewis. Real Estate Trust
Building; Mrs Amelia Woertz. 1888
North Twentieth street; Miss Theresa
widowski, 2551 North Twenty ninth
street, and Samuel ID. Swartz, 2J51
North Twenty ninth street.
DepOsitors Cheer Arrest
North Penn Bank depositors at the
meeting last night cheercd an announce
ment of the arrest of Louis II. Michel.
nroS;dapt pf thn dof,1ppt bnpt
Demands were made of some of the
depositors that the bank robbers be
jailed"
One depositor demanded of Charles
Segall, chairman of the meeting, that
he be permitted to lead a march
of the depositors on Mr.. Michel's
bakery, at Thirty first and Diamond
streets. He declared he would demand
: the money of Mr.. Michel and that if his
demands were not granted he would help
tear down the bakery.
The meeting was in a motion picture
theatre at Twenty ninth and York
streets. White haired women sobbed
AZ they told of their losses One wo
ilnn, in her seventies, walked to the
front of the theatre shortly before the
meeting closed and demanded to be
lnard. Then she pleaded not for her
'p't or her neighbors but for the little
~hi'dren, who she said lost theil
snUcy they had saved to put into the
s'dristmas fund of the bank
Glad of Collections
Depositors cheered the announce
'ncnt by Mr.. Segall that already severa
lo.ndred thousand dollars had been col
l"cted by Colonel Pusey. They voiccC
their appreciation Of the efforts the in
Sestigators were putting forth to sal
r wage their money, but when the names
of the directors and officers were men
toned, they demanded Jail.
Samuel Moyerman. an attorney. who
is member Of the committee which
called the meeting, declared
THE men who helped to wreck oui
hank spoke of us as Bolshevists But
these men who led such fast life viii
have a chance to think over their gay.
cites shortly, even as the Fifth Ware
men are now meditating on their mis-
deeds in the Chester county Jail, They
will get their just dues
William NJ. Lewis, Common Council
man, urged the depoSitors to form al
organization, militant if necessary.
He declared the people would be salts
fed with nothing short Of the placinj
behind the bars of everybody VIII,
''helped in the robbing of the poor 0