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New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
Death of Mrs. Lee
Is Believed Due to
Spirit,1alisl Mania
Widow of Physician Sought
to Communicate With
Dead Husband; No Marks
of Violence Are Found

Efforts to communicate with the
spirit Of her late husband, DR.. JOAN A.
Lee, % Revere Place, Brooklyn, were
advanced last night as a reason why
Mrs Penelope Bond Lee might have
killed herself on the sands Of Long
Reach, whore her body was found
Monday That the widow Of the
physician. who formerly was president
OF the Kings County Medical Assoc q
ton, killed herself has not heen estab
lished, but the inquest, presided over
by Justice If the Peace Neu, acting
as coroner at Lynbrooh yesterday
afternoon showed that she had not
been attacked or shot, as was at first
suspected.
The body was identified by Arnold
7. Ghegan, of. 1913 Kingston Avenue,
Brooklyn, real estate broker, with
ghom Mrs. Lee ad an appontm cnt
yesterday afternoon regarding the sale
of the Revere Place residence and
other property the widow is said to
have owned.
Ever since the death of Or. Lee. last
April, it is said that Mrs. Lee has
been interested in spjritualism as d
means of communicating with her lare
husband. If she did take her own life
icr Irlenus say tnat prODdO'Y her luea
was that having failed to get in touch
with her husband through spiritualism,
she might join him in death.
The autopsy developed no bullet
wounds nor evidence Of poison. The
scar found on the check might have
been caused by a plunge from the
boardwalk in an attempt to kill herse f,
it was argued.
After the autopsy it was said that
no evidence of either suicide or mur-
der had been found. but as pre-
cautionarv measure the stomach would
be examined for trace of poison.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
State Is Forbidden
To Interfere With
N. Y. C.. Fare Raise
Railroad Obtains Temporary
Restraining Rule From
Judge Knox i'm Fedora
Court in Rate Conhic'

A temporary restraining order was
granted 20 the New York Central Rail
road Company yesterday by Judge John
c. Knox against the two Public Ser
vice commissions. their counsel and
the Attorney General Of the State Of
New York to restrain them from ha-
RAISING or threatening to harass me
New York Central Railroad Company
or in any vay Interfere With it in the
collection Of passenger rates ordered
into effect by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The new passenger rates or inter
state travel in New York were ordered
by the Interstate Commerce Commls
sion on November l3, but have been
suspended up 20 last Saturday because
Of the opposition Of the state au' Gor.
ties. Last Saturday Juice Has
brouck vacated the tempo rary injunc
ton which had been obtained against
The railroad The new rates went into
feet Monday
Yesterday atternoon Pill If com
Districs Court along with supporting
afsdaYits. This complaint states tAat
the railroad was carrying out tne
orders of the Interstate Commercc
Commission in inaugurating the new
rates and that there had been inter-
ference and threats Of attempted in
ter'erence with the railroads. obedi-
ence TO sc orders on the part OF the
state authorities.
The temporary restraining order was
issued anu an order 20 snow cause WY
bo do l-If1c 10 NJ <
made returrsb Ole December 81.
This litigation finds its way into the
Federal Court on the ground that th,
railroad company is consol lldatoo
orporation existing under the laws ct
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ellj
nois and Indiana and is citizen {,
each Of these states. The complaint
also alleges tha. the case Involves
moneys IN excess OF $4,000 and
breaches questions under the commerce
clauses Of the Constitution and tht
Fourteenth Amendmors, the Interstate
commerce act and the trans sportatioE
act Of 1920, the two latter passed by
CCnlress
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
Strike of Fur Workers Broken:
~ ,0u0 Vote TO Return to Jobs

bers of the international Fur Workers
Union, who have been on strike since
May of this year, called off the strike
yesterday and decided to return -
work under the old conditions The
original demands of the nnion were
FOR 4 forty-hDur week and N equal
division o. wor% in tie factories.
The strike wa c,led off by refer
endun vote. the result of which be-
came known yesterday morning. In re-
turning to work under the Old condi-
tons the employees accepted the de-
mand OF the manufacturers for the
'"''ht 10 discharge employees at will.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22

mun'tv from punishment for your past
mls deeds ?"
y es. sir"
EDWARD ] Lee, secretary and treas
urer Of the Composition RooEers and
Waterproofers Employers Association,
testified that the Johcs-M -Manville Goa
pary, one of the largest roofing con
Germs in The country. had been deni+d
membership in the association bcceu SO
the company guaranteed It's wo-k ten
years. while ths association members
guaranteed theirs only two years.
Both the masons' assoc alton and the
Toofers and waterproofers' associa-
toa were affiliated with the Building
Trades Employers Association. Mr.
Lee could give no reason why his as
socjat On was controlled by the Build
ing Ttades Employers Association.
isn't il q fact that they are IN con
troll of union labor7' asked Unter-
rnvcr.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
hai-er PrositseG bv a;ayouei
Attempt to Escape in Load OF
Uav T. RenOricd
sr1c.a' DiSpatcb 10 The TrIo'n'e

FT7-.7- 7'7Td7c1 T5 IN. 77-57''5
MONTREAL. Dee 2l-Ojia Van
Nught, Dutch journalist. describing
the surveillance under wntcn the for
mer German Emperor is kept al Door.
said her to-day that the eX-Kaiser ro-
cent y had been foiled in an attenlp'
to escape from Holland by hiding in q
lead ~ hay
"A U-hoat was lying in wait for him
at Ymuiden," said Mr.. Ven Wight. His
former majesty was hidden under a
lord of hay which was being moved of
the grounds just after he had moved
in from Amerongen. A Dutch soldier
must have had some suspicion. for he
proGdec ia the load with his bayooet,
alter Which he saw slight movement
and the wagon had TO be un'oaded. ne
result WAS that the former War Lord
same our covered with hay and dust.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
Fyrhus Breaks Out Among
1000 Nri,ncan Refugees

RAGUSA, DaImatia, Dec. 21.-Sev
era cases of tyrLrs have broken out
among the 1000 Crimean refugees who
were Ian led AT Cattaro under the
$, pervision Of Rear Admiral Andrews,
commanding the American naval
forces i'll tn AGriatic. DR.. Syivans
Wynn, of Atlanta, Ga. q member
the Red Cross, is arranging for hospi-
tai care for the people, and America.
doctors and nurses also arc establish
ms an emergency hospital in Ragusa.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22

years, He declared the city could not
stand th.s.
Nearly half Of the members Of the
board spoke on the subject before the
vote Was taken.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
Deputy Comptroller Boardman,
Trayis's Aid Since 1911. Quits

Deputy State Comptroller William
Boardman. who has been Camptroller
Tr&vis's right hand man since 1914 an
nounced his resignation Yesterday He
has inform ed Comptroller- elect James
A. Wendell Of his desire to retire, and
Mr. Wendell will have the place to |
by appo;ntir ent, when he assumes
Office on New Years Day.
1t pays $1,000 year, and the Brook
Ign Republican Organization will IN
formally lay claim t, the job.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-22
French Deputies Reject y-B0ats

PARIS. Dec. 21.-The Foreien Affairs
Committee of the Chanb of Deputies
Nos decided TO report adversely upon
the proposition to Incorporate IN the
French navy all TIE former German
submarines attriA1ted to France
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

SHEEHAN OUT FOR PENROSE
Register of WAs, Ware Lieutenant,
Wants Senator Renominated

Register of Wills Shc"han, leader of
the Twelfth ward, is the latest Ware
lieutenant to declare in favor of the re
nomination and rc- election Of Senator
Penrose. On Saturday Charles b.
Hall. councilman and organization
leader of the Seventh ward, said ne did
not believe the senator would have apy
opposition in the primaries and the
Seventh ward would line up solidly for
him. Both Sheehan and Hall were in
favor, in the late mayoralty primaries,
of the nomination of Judge Patterson
"Senator Penrose," said Mr.. Shee-
han, lis without doubt the most
potential Republican in the United
States Senate; he is the unquestioned
leader Of the Republican party in Penn
sylvania, and ] trust and believe he will
not have serious opposition for re-
nomination. While Senator Penrose and
! have differed on local political is
sues, nevertheless, in state and national
politics we have been invariably for the
same candidate and the same policies
7 shall take pleasure in voting for his
repomination.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
"WHISTLING COP" DIES
PatroIman Herman, Well Known to
Motorists, Pneumonia Victim

Matthew A. Herman, Philadelphia S
widely known ''whistling cop," is dead.
He expired at . :45 o'clock this morn
ing in the Womans Homeopathic Hos
pital, of pneumonia: caused, it is said
because the policeman refused to quit
his post at Broad street and Lehigh
avenue during last weeks storm until
he collapsed Wednesday.
For many years, Herman has stood
at Broad street and Lehigh avenue, di-
recting traffic. He earned the sobriquet
of ''the whistling cop' after it became
known that he disdained the help of a
metal whistle. using his lips and teeth,
which he said were more trustworthy.
Hc emitted loud. penetrating whistles
signaling pedestrians and traffic to pro
ceed or halt.
He lived at 26OS Harold street. He
was heavyweight champion runner of
the Philadelphia police for many years,
and weighed 27J pounds.
Herman, who was thirty two wears
old, married Agnes Nigrin, who sur
wives him. Two children. Harold and
Reda, also survive, with two stepchil-
dren, Florence and Helen. Neighbors
remarked today of his devotion to his
family and his great fund of cheerful
ness. 1t is said he whistled even dur
ing his delirium at the hospital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

cleans the streets north of Lehigh ave-
,ue and east of Kensington avenue.
1--WE waited till 10 O'Clock for the
Scouts, but none of them offered their
services at our Offices"
s. A. McClay, manager of the con-
tracing firm of Peoples & Rush, Inc,
said:
"We had all the Scouts at work
that offered their services. There were
only six, but it wasn't because we had
any scruples against hiring them. The
six who did show up were good chunks
of fellows, and worked for US from 10
o'clock till g."
Officials of the firm known as the
estate of David McMahon, which con =
tracts for cleaning streets north of
Lehigh avenue and west of Broad street.
declared as false the statement that
contractors had refused to hire the
Scouts. Their statement applied to the
position of their own company.
HWe had twenty five or. thirty Scouts
at work." one official said. 1--WE took
all who offered themselves, and would
have been glad to get more"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
is JOHNSON CITY ARCHITECT
Mayor Has Asked Smyth for an
Opinion on Question

Philip II. Johnson. Phi'adelpha' 5
perpetual architect" by virtue Of his
contract of March 81 1908, may have
10 step down and out
Mayor Moore. when pressed by Di.
rector Furbush to sign certain contracts
for hospital construction, referred To
City Solicitor Shyth today the question
of the city's obligation to employ Nj
johnson perpetually, in spite of the fact
that the new city charter provides for
city architect to look after the city's
work
The Mayor is holding up four con-
tracts till he is advised further by the
city solicitor as to the citys obliga
tiOns to Mr.. Johnson, who is trying to
show that the work comes under his
original contract of 1903 and should
consequently go to him.
This johnson question has bobbed IN
and is likely to become an issue. the
Mayor said, in referring the question
to the city solicitor to ascertain the
exact obligations of the city to its per
petual architect The new city archi-
tect under the Woodward charter has
not yet been appointed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
ENGLISH STOWAWAY HELD
Mas Draft Card and Income Tax
Papers-Wife Is Here

Robert J. Rockford, an English ros
ident, of Newton, Mass, may have to
60 back to England without seeing his
American wife.
He arrived here last Friday aboard
the American steamship Apples. from
London, without a passport, after stow
ing away in the engine room of the
steamer
According TO his story today before a
special board Of inquiry at the imlni-
grant station detention house at
Gloucester, y. j.. he came 10 America
ten years ago. He married an Ameri
can girl at Newton three years ago, and
returned TO England last July to bring
two orphaned children of his brother S
here.
Rather than wait for a passport, he
slowed away on the Apples. He showed
the special board his registration card
for the draft and income tax papers.
His case was referred to the State De
partment at Washington.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
FATHER DRAWS SICK GIRL
FROM HOSPITAL IN SLEIGH
No Auto Horse Auaable Parent Acts Steed for Con
ualescent Ddughter-She Rides in State

Hemingway set out to find some other
sort of conveyance. His efforts were
fruitless until be thought of an old
fashioned cutter which he knew was kept
in barn not far from the hospital. He
got the cutter easily enough, but its
owner had no horse to draw it.
Mr.. Hemingway brought the cutter
to the hospital, trudging sturdily be-
tween the shafts himself. Failing other
motive power, he decided to pull his
daughter home in the same manner.
The nurses bundled the girl well in
blankets and placed her in the sleigh.
In beside her they put the potted plants
and flowers which had been sent to
brighten her bedside during her long
stay in the hospital. .
Then. with Mr.. Hemingway pulling
in the shafts. and other members of the
family pushing behind, the cutter started
out over the five eighths of mile of
snow blocked roads for the house on
Bockius avenue. The strange process A
sion arrived in short order. and with no
mishaps on the way, every one laugh
ing, and the blanket wrapped passenger
merriest of all.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
MAY AID PHlPPS INSTITUTE
Mayor Inspects Place Threatened
by Inadequate Funds

Mayor Moore and Director Furbush
of the Department of Public Health. this
morning visited the Phinns Institute
for tuberculosis at Seventh and LON
bard streets
The visit was made after a letter had
been received by the Mayor from Doctor
Hatfield, executive director Of the insti
tuition. who said that because of lack
of funds, the doors of the institute would
have to be closed after seventeen years
of service
THE white plague is a curse which
we cannot labor too hard to drive from
our midst, said the Mayor. following
the visit Yet Doctor Furbush tells
me the trouble with almost every one
of our hospitals today is that We can
not obtain a sufficient number of nurses
to do the work. We are sorcly per-
picked about the nurse situation"
Mayor Moore was gratifed with the
work at the institute, and his visit is
believed to have been made with view
to securing Co operation with the hos
pital by the city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
ONE DEAD, 20 HURT
IN APARTMENT FIRE
Mystery in Origin of Blaze
Which Sweeps San Fran
cisco Structure

San Francisco, Feb. o. BY \. P.D
Only one life was known definitely
today to have been lost last night in Il
fire that destroyed the fashionable Berk
shire Apartment house here A search
of the ruined building today revealed
no additional bodies.
4 score of persons are in hospitals.
however, suffering from burns and in T.
iuries.
Before squads of firemcn and police
entered the building at daybreak ia
search for bodies it was believed that
twenty or more persons had been burned
TO death. The body found was that
of an elderly woman. Identification was
not possible.
Most of those taken to hospitals were
women. Some suffered from severe
burns, while others leaped from win =
dows and fire escape balconies.
The fire broke out in hall on the
third floor, how neither police nor fire
departments could say.
The first alarm was turned in shortly
after midnight, and three others in
rapid succession called out almost the
entire fire fighting force. Policemen
said that when they arrived those OF
the $50 persons who lived on the lower
floors were streaming into the street.
many clad only in night clothes, while
more than a score of persons on the
upper floors were clinging to window
Lodges, trapped by the rapid spread OF
flames.
The fire departments ladders would
reach only TO the fourth floor windows
and from these several persons were
taken. tiremen carrying them down the
ladders.
An explosion, apparently on the
fourth floor. blew out part of the upper
wall, handicapping the fire fighting and
rescue work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
MAY DISCIPLINE MINISTER
Performing Hamlton-W arren
Weddlnq Promises Trouble

Boston, Feb. 9.-Latest Developments
in the elopement and wedding of Lau
'rcns Morgan Hamilton and Mrs. Ger
trude Warren indicat trouble for the
Rev. Charles V. Brine. rector of Christ
Church, Portsmouth. n. IT,, who mar
ricd the pair. 1t is said that unless
1t can be definitely established that
Hamilton bride is not a divorced
woman, the rector must stand trial be
before the Episcopal bishop of New
Hampshire, as there is canon of the
Episcopal Church which forbids the
marriage of divorced persons except for
special reasons, and then only on proof.
Bishop Parker received no such doc
ument.
trial is the proof that Mrs Hamilton
is not the Mrs. Gertrude Warren, who
was twice married and once divorced.
Both the bride and bridegroom have in
sisted that the twice married and once
divorced Mrs. Warren is another
woman.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
BANKER SCALDED,
DIES IN N. Y. HOTEL
Robert P. Cregar Fatally Hurt
When He Turns on Hot
Shower by Mistake
WAS IN BUSINESS HERE

Robert T. Cregar banker of this
city. died in New York yesterday morn
ing from Scalds and shock received Fri
day when he turned on a hot water
shower while bathing in a hotel bath
room.
Mr.. Crcgar and his wife had been
guests at the Hotel Chatham. New York
city, for the last two months. Ar 80
O'Clock Friday morning he went into the
bathroom of his suite.
Mrs. Cregar heard him cry out in
alarm and hurried into the bathroom
He had fallen beneath the shower and a
stream of scalding hot water was
descending on his body,
y physician was summoned immedi-
ately. He found the banker suffering
from scalds and shock Mr. Cregar died
about s o'clock yesterday morning
The banker. who was sixty seven
years old, was member of the firm of
F.. r. Smith & Co. 1411 Chestnut
street. He was admitted to partnership
January |, when the firm was re-
organized. He was chosen to represent
the firm on the New York Stock
Exchange. He maintained home in
the St James Hotel. this city.
Funeral services will he held here
Wednesday afternoon. The Rev Floyd
w, Tomkins. rector Of Holy Trinity
Church will oticiatc. Mrs. Crcgar left
New York city today with her hus-
bands body. The banker is also sur
vived by a son, Lieutenant r. +.
Cregar.
Mr.. Crcgar was born in this city
juno &. 1861. and entered the employ
of f. r. Smith e Co. as an nc
countant.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09

Miss Mary Hemingway, a 20-year
old patient at the Abingdon Hospital,
was conveyed in state to her home on
Bockius avenue, Arlington, warmly
wrapped in blankets and with flowers
and potted plants about her, in an old E
fashioned sleigh drawn by her father in
place of horse;
The strange ride took place Saturday.
Today Miss Hemingway, who is slowly
recovering her strength at home. was
none the worse for her novel expert
ence.
The young woman went into the hos =
pital two weeks before Christmas. for
a serious operation. She had been gain
ing strength little by little, and was
anxious to get home again. Her ply
sician said she might go home late
Saturday afternoon and her family
made great preparations to receive her
Late Saturday. w. Hemingway. her
father. accompanied by other relatives.
arrived to take the girl home. The am
bulance had gone out on an emergency
call. and no automobile was available
So as not to disappoint the girl. Mr..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-09
ASK CHRIST SPIRIT
IN ECONOMIC LIFT.
Church Women Define Ethio.,
Standards of Christian
Nation in Message
WAkT NEW LAWS WRITTEN,
BY the Associated Press

Washington. Feb. 0.-The National
Conference of Church Women. at \,
closing session here today, adopted III,
report of the committee on finding,
presented by Mrs. Raymond Robins. n
Chicago, including message to churcb
women throughout the nation urgin,
their CO. operation with the program Of
the interchurch world movement Sin its
effort to secure the Interpretation Of
the spirit of Christ in all the social and
economics relationships of lfc.'
''The ethical standards of Chris.
tan nation require" the message said
"that life be safeguardcd by fair eco.
nomic standards, by the physical care
of mothsr and infant. the abolition Of
child labor and the substitution of uni.
versal elementary education. the sun.
preston of unwholesome amuscments
and by the civic provision of innocent
and invigorating recreation.
'fTo secure and maintain these stand
ards laws must be enacted and on.
forced. We call upon church women
to exercise to the full their responsible.
ties as citizens"
The findings committee report in.
dorsed sincerely and cmphaticallyp
the plans and purposes of the Inter.
church World Movement and recon-
mended that church women pledge ac
tive support to it.
DR.. John r. Mott, general chairman
of the Interchurch World Movement,
was unable to be present. The pro.
gram of speakers included Daniel A.
Polling and Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe. AT
the post conference luncheon wives Of
most of the cabinet officers and wives.
of many members of the diplomatic
corps were present.
The purpose of the conference was
said by speakers to be n call to all
classes of women to definite Christian
service. to bring to women everywhere
sense of personal responsibility for
the furtherance of Christianity and to
spread the program of the Interchurch
Movement for concerted action and mis-
sionary work at home and abroad.