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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
Tire Theft SUSPECT
IS SHOT IN HEAD
Victim Arrested With Brothers
When Taken to Hospital.
Is Near Death
WOUNDED IN WEST PHlLA.

BENJAMIN Stuski. Carpenter street
near Eleventh. is said to he dying in
the Pennsylvania Hospital from n bullet
wound in the head. received. police say.
while he and his brother were trying tn
steal automobile tires
Harry StuSki. tho brother. placed the
injured man in their r,otorcar after he
had been shot in front of 404 South
Forty street. A half hour later
they and their three brothers came to
the hosnitnl. where all were arrested.
At II 20 o'clock lGSt night Mrs.
Everett Pummer. 40S South Forty
seventh street. said she saw two men
trying to take the tires off a motorcar
owned by John Henderson, 404 South
Forty seventh street.
Mrs. Plummcr told ber husband. He
obtained his revolver and went to his
front door. As he came out. he said,
the two men ran from Hcndcrsc ms mo-
torcar toward another machine parked
nearby. Plummcr fired two shots nnd
one Of the men fell.
Th" injured man was helped into the
automobile by his companion. who then
drOv" away. Plumirer notified police
Of the Fiftv-sCCOnd and Fine streets
station. Police over the entire city were
asked to watch all hospitals
AT II 30 o'clock man. later found
TO be Rcniamin Stuski. was brought tn
the Pennsylvania Hospital He hal
tern shot in the head. With him were
his brothers. Harry. Bruno. Charles
and Joseph. and fifth man. Joseph
Murphy. Kimball street near Chestnut.
Police say Harry Stuski was the man
with Benjamin when the shot WAS fired.
\ police Guard was placed Mt Rcnia-
minis bedside. Harry Stuski was held
under $500 hail for n further hearing.
July II. by Magistrate Dugan. in the
Thirty second street and Woodland
avenue station
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
RUSH TO SHORE KEEPS UP
Thousands Jam Ferries on Way to
Seaside Trains

Th" rush Of holiday week cnders for
Atlantic City and other scashore resorts.
which began yesterday with the closing
Of many Offices and manufactorirs. con.
tinu"d to jam the ferries. steam and
electric trains today.
Thousands torsook the city in auto
mobiles, and hundreds Of the autos we're
hitch"d to trucks loaded with tents and
other camping equipment.
Railroad officials expected to carry
100 200 persons down to meet the ocean
brcezeS. The Pennsylvania Railroad an
nounCed seven extra trains to aid in
handling tn" crowds. One of the extras
will leave Broad Street Station at > 30
T. NJ. and two will leave the Camden
termina!-Onc at II :36 \. NJ and one
at noon. The other four will he run
over the electric at - ;2S, l, > and 3 rs
". NJ.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
DYING OF STRIKE ATTACK
Compressed Air Forced into Mans
Body Throuuh Tube

Walter Ebinger, Il years old, of 211
Welsh road, Willow Grove, is dying In
the l.ankcnau Hospital after an attack
By Cramp strike sympathiZer&. Carl
Reed, 20 years old, Of Fifteenth street
above Diamond, has been held without
bail by Magistrate Deitz to await the
result of the lads injuries.
EbingCr was employed as a strike
breaker at Cramps. AS he was leav-
ing the shipyard yesterday afternoon
he was attacked by gang of men. who
hauled him into an alley and thrust a
compressed air tube down his throat.
Then the air was turned on. 4 woman
who saw the proceeding notified the
police, and by the time they arrived the
strikers had fled and ESingcr was UNI
conscious
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
TO DECIDE JUDGES ROW
Supreme Court Names Arbitrator for
Northumberland County Tribunal


Northumberland County Tribunal
Judge Ferguson has been appointed
by the State Supreme Court as arbi- =
traitor between the President Judge and
Associate Judge of the northumberland
County bench. which, according to JUS
ticc Simpson, has apparently resolved
itself into a sort of debating society"
President Judge Cummings and AS
socite Judge Moser have been warning
over wheher or not work should pro-
coed on the reintleXing of county rec
ords. Both judges approved the work
at the start, though Il taxpayers asso-
cation has estimated that it would
cost $4,000.
Seven months later the Associate
Judge, acting alone, ordered the work
stopped pending a written statement
OF the approximate total cost. The
!'rothonotary wouldn't give the desired
information and later the Associate
Judge filed an order of the court on his
own authority to discontinue the work. d..
The President Judge had no part in the
order.
Ihe contractors for the work. unable
10 get their pay, mandamused the
county commissioners, making their
appeal to the President Judge, who re-
tused TO let his associate hear the case
with him on the ground that the Asso-
clate had prejudged il. The President
Judge issued a peremptory mandamuS,
while the Associate filed a dissenting
opinion. The County Commissioners
refuse to pay the mandamus and an ap-
peal was taken to the Supreme Court.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
Held as Theft Suspects

(, Edward NJ. Hammcll. of Narragan-
sett street, was arrested last night in
q telephone booth near Conway's The
atre ticket Office, in the Widener
Building arcade, by reserve patrol :
man, who said the wire screen in front
Of the place had been wrenched off
Riley, the patrolman, also arrested
Russell II. killinger, of West Orleans
street, who was in a motorcar on
South Penn Square, which Hamell said
was his machine. Both were locked up
on suspicion of breaking and entering.
Hamell denied forcing the screen. He
said he' went into the place to use a
telephone. They were held under $500
oail each for n further hearing one week
from today. Police are looking for a
third man who escaped.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
1900 POLES LAND HERE
S. S. SamIand Brings Immigrants,
Including "a Brides -to.Be

More than 1900 Poles were on board!
the. Red Star liner Samiand, which
discharged 400 passengers and 200
tons of general cargo at Washington
avenue pier this afternoon.
The ship sailed from Danzig. where
most of the Poles boarded. Thr rest
Of the passengers, representing seven
nationalities. were picked up at Ham
burg.
The ship is the first to arrive at Phil
ndelphia under the new immigration
laws. Special arrangements had to be
made for admission of the prerondcrant
nationality. None was refused. and Il
crowd of nearly Thousand persons
waited on the pier to meet relatives.
About 20 per cent OF the passengers
were women. and among them were
twenty four girl brides he.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
DARBY PIGS ENDANGERED
$500 May Be Homeless by Health
Office Edict

Pigs is pigs but in Darby Town
ship, Delaware County, the State Health
Department significantly adds pigs are
a nuisance. The department served an
ultimatum today that where owners of
piggcries in Darby Township have made
no attempt to correct conditions after
due notice. the pig pens will be torn
down at the expense of the owners.
Homes of about $500 pigs. are threat
ened by this edict of the State health
authorities
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
WOMEN ROBBERS BAIT
Three Soldiers From Camp Dix Arc
Held Up in Camden

Three soldiers from Camp Dix were
held up and robbed by two highway
men in Camden last night and one was
blaCkjacked One of the soldiers, Mar
shall Todd, reported the matter to the
police.
Two women in iitncy were the
lure, according to Todd, After they
had ridden while the men, who seemed
to know the women. got aboard and
robbed the soldiers. Todd lost SIG He
jumped from the machine. Later, he
said. he saw another soldier jump and
get n crack on the head with Il black.
jack as he did So
The Camden police later arrested
Frank MerCel, nineteen years old. of
Merchantville, who is being held on sus-
picion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
CONGRESSMAN WEDS
Mrs. Anna 3. MuIIin Becomes Bride
of Norman j. Gould Here

An interesting wedding was cele-
brated here today. when Mrs. Anna b.
Mullin,. 1904 Walnut street, became
the bride of Congressman Norman
j. Gould, Seneca Falls. y. Y, The
ceremony was performed in the Thir-
teenth' Street Methodist ChurcN, 252
s.: w. Purvis, pastor Of the church,
otficiatcd
Following. the ceremony, which was
a quiet one. with only few rela-
tives and friends in attendance, the
couple. departed for motor trip
They will live in New York and Wash
ington.
Mrs. Mullin, who was formerly Miss
Anna B. Benrot1, divorced her first
husband n number of years ago. She
met the Congressman in Washington
three years ago and a month ago their
engagement was announced
Mr.. Gould is n manufacturer and has
been member of Congress for the last
five years
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
MISSING LINK FOUND
Business Men Want to Know Where
Their Funds Went

More than score of business men
sought to link Harry Link. Of Twelfth
and Filbcrt streets, with a number OF
offenses varying from false pretense to
forgery in the Central Police Court to-
day. He was arraigned before Magis-
trate Mecleary on the specific charge of
obtaining $1,000 from Frank Tohachio
and held in $4,000 bail for the Grand
Jury.
After inducing Tobachio to invest
$1,000 in business proposition. Link
according TO TObachio, fled to Yonkers
and started in business on his own ac-
count.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
Maritime Exchange Backs Fair

Unanimous Endorsement of Scsuui-
Centennial Exposition plans was given
by the Philadelphia Maritime Exchange
in n letter today from the president,
]. S. W. Holton, to Mayor Moore.
President HoltoR said the Board of
Directors of the exchange agreed with
the Mayor in that the exposition should
be international in character and was
willing to give its hearty co-opcration.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
IS PROVED LUCKY
IN BICYCLE CONTEST
Girl Got 13 Subscriptions First
Day and the Rest Came
in AfterWard
SHE HAS HER WHEEL NOW

Just to make sure of getting her
Black Beauty, Annette Il. Kutz, four
teen years old. 2603 South Sixty
eighth street. sent in forty subscrip-
! tions to the LEDGER.
She didn't have any doubt about los
ing any Of the absolutely necessary
thirty five. but Annette is one of those
persons who hustles around and dOesn {
take any chances on something going
wrong with the machinery at the last
minute.
1t took her a few days after the open
Of the LEDGER Contest to decide she
was going TO get out and work for
one; But once started she certainly
made the fur fly.
Thirteen Wasn't JnIucky
Thirteen the very first. day. Maybe
some one a bit more snIrprstitious than
she would have considered that an omen
of bad luck. Not Annette. She just
went on nonchalnntly among people
with whom she had n speaking acr
guaintancn and got the necessary quota
FOR the prize. 1t was completed six
days later.
with that accomplished. a big sigh
OF relief went out from Annette, from
somewhere down in her chest Much
J'' ~ 'H' HblSP Ol NNtE, Inc bicycle
was hers and she knew that when the
family departed for Laurel. in the
Cumberland Valley. to spend summer
vacation. she'd have it to ride on the
country roads.
=, From that time on she literally lived
Back Beauty: The picture was with
hcr from, early morning until late at
night. Several days ago she learned
prize.
=. Thursday night She rode around on
IL IN dreamland There was only one
disadvantage. Tn" bicycle took her
down steps. over huge bumps and up
another flight Of steps to the front porch
OF 0nd me nome Of her 'pal." Marie Grady
-ooo South Sixty. eighth street.
Was on Hand Early
., The Black Beauty Is capable of many
things including some pretty hard
knocks, but this is the first time on
record that it ever Travelled up steps.
=, She woke up at , o'clock. OF course
u was too early to go in to the PUBLIC
LEDGER office, but further sleep was
out of the question. And how slowly
the hands on the clock travelled. Even
tually they showed starting time an,t
in short time the wheel was in her
possession.
Annette can ride, and just to prove
It, she rode ii all the way home.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
Henry r. Stevens

Henry FaUndeiS Stevens. seventy
years old. n retired publisher and
printer of this city. died yesterday at
his home. 124S North Fifty fifth street.
He had suffered lingering illness. He
formerly conducted business at Tenth
and Market streets, but he had retired
some years ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
Georne r, Powell

Notice was received here yesterday Of
the death in Norfolk. y. y. of George
+. Powell, senior member Of the real
estate firm of Powell Brothers.
Mr. Powoll's HON" was at l126 Mnrl-
borough street. He died suddenly
Thursday night while visiting friends.
He was fifty eight years old.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
Deaths OF a Day
Edward lIitner's Funeral

Edward IIitnor, who died in France,
October. 1918. after being wounded
and gassrd. will be buried today with
military honors in the National Gem
ctory. Limckiln pike and Haines
street. He was twenty three years old
and served with machinc gun com
pany, 3l5th Infantry seventy ninth
Division. He lived mt 1876 German
town avenue Services will take place
at tho grave. There will be n firing
squad from Frankford Arsenal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
Rev, w, 3, Thorn

The Rev. William p. Thorn. who died
June % at Green Bay, Wis. will be
buried Tuesday in Laurel Hill Gene
terry. Hc was the husband of Virginia
Malseed Thorn, and son Of the late
Nicholas and Elizabeth Whitcman
Thorn. Funeral services will take place
NJ an undertaking establishment. Chest
nut street near Nineteenth
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
Aid for Crippled Musician

The EVENING PURLIC LEDGER has
received from James d. Lansdownc, 103
East Essex avenue. LansdownP, a check
for James Tucker, a lcgless negro musi :
clan of Thirteenth street near South,
who was beaten and robbed in Fair
mount Park by two men who had offered
him an automobile ride.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
Outing for X. Of c. Council

The first outing of the. season by De
la Sale Council. knights of Columbus,
Lansdownc, will be held tomorrow at
the ]. J. Ryan farm, Swarthmore.
Motortrucks will convey the members,
their families and friends from the
to the farm. Baseball games will be
gram.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
REPLIES
RTO MAYOR AGAIN
oo,,nclI Presidents LatestBlow
in War of Words Re-
hashes History
pABKs BACK TO eth WARE

nj, rd Weplein. President of Coun-
m sent another burst OF verpnl SnrSp.
vi III inward Mayor Moore,s once t2nas
- ~ retaliation for the .epithet OF WIZ,
AZ Jins Weglein" pinned to him last n'sh'
o' Tbe rhe Mayors latest phrase was an
.,swer 10 the taunt Of "artfnl dodger
asde 10 him earlier in the day. by the
rrssident of Council. The CONTROVERSY
R.ssn over Councils defeat OF munich :
III street cleaning by October l.
n Weglein's Latest
Mr.. weglein's newest statement fol-
1.-THE midsummer madness Of the
uovor reached its height whom he wrote
~ enitaph TO place over my grave.
ntf we did not live in an enlightened
80 would fear the wish would be-
su, snms father of the thought and expect
Srayos to make possible the Mayors
shoulish desire.
"sbsme upon the Mayor, who dis
nIays his hatred even to the point of an
ticipating my death.
"His unseemly rage is aroused be-
rsusp I will not be his rubber starp
srd blindly do his bidding. 1t is true
/ have been politically Independent and
iourht for good government in Philadel-
mia when the Mayor was basking in
Washington as a member of Congress-
nv grace of the contractors whom he
only started to denounce within the
last two years.
n Bit Hand That Fed Him
3 I'm fact he bit the hand that fed him.
Who heard Mayor Moore's voice raised
IN protest when Policeman Eppley was
hbot 10 death within n stones throw Of
the Mayors home?
Il "Where was his clarion voice when
James A. Carey, his friend and neigh
Dor. was felled on the sidewalk by a
blackjack in the hands of a thug?
''Mr. Moore maintained discreet 81
lence, as he had just procured another
strangle hold on his seat in Congress,
which he first annexed in 1906, and
no doubt he deemed discretion to be the
better part of valor. 20
. "Be that as It may, l will for the
third time ask the question which is the
basis Of the present controversy and has
not yet been answered: Mr.. Mayor Of
Philadelphia, il you are an honest man
you will substantiate your innucndoes
made in public that there are only eight
unbought men in City Council. If you
are dishonest man you will hold your
peace.
''Let your yea be yea or your nay
be nay, and not compound of Josh
Billings and Billingsgate.
Ten minutes later came a reply from
4 the Mayor, who remarked Isn't it
|1pitiabe? Poor wigging Weglcin :"
Meanwhile the Council president had
lldt for the Dempsey Carpenter scrap.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-02
BAND CONCERT TONIGHT

The Municipal Band will play to-
night at Nineteenth and Fitzwater
streets.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-05-06

they the mystic symbols OF the council cham
ber the secret pass word into the happy 60 realm
OF public service in Fitzgerald at the present time.
the magic series to learn whose secret nine good
and true went through hot political cam
paign last month.
The question surges and falls and rises and
staggers and the little red devils switch their tails
and thrash the brain cells and beat the gray mat
ter to phizzing froth in the brains of the city
fathers. It's a sad story mates "o8-45-4O-how"
Deciphered, the secret code stands for the fol-
lowing table:
Water, Light and Power Plant Improvements
and water main extension, $68,000
High School annex and auditorium, $45 OOO
First Ward School building $4,000
How we get it?
And little black figure struggles for admission
into the circle of mystic symbols 1t will amount
to about $4,000 for new building for the col
ored school children. The figure may be larger It
certainly should be large enough to provide safe
and ample Accommodations for the dependent race
that looks entirely to the justice and good will of
the white race for its civic and political we'll being
A bond issue of $4,000, which seems to be
Just about the least it is of use to discuss. is
big figure Every dollar of the money is needed
and If secured would be put to good use and
would fit in splendidy with the Greater Fitz
gerald idea. But will the voters see it that wav7
he only way to find out is to give them chance
to vote on it,
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-05-06
THE BAND WAGONS STARTING, GET

ABOARD-The Fitzgerald Retail Merchants
Association meets tonight to crank I'D the twelve
cylindered 6000-horse- powered, dynamite-burn-
ing, motor of the business band wagon of Fitz
gerald. committee of business men has been
tuning up the motor and doping the friction points
and pumping up the tires for week The band
wagon is ready to run, fast and far Get aboard
lnnulnerable little compromises that the gen
eral public will never know about have been made
by rivals and competitors in order to clear the
track Tor the big cooperative community effort
1or more prosperous Fitzgerald Public shirt
no less than good business sense has opened the
way through numberless little cross-ires and en-
Engagements for enough bring home-the-
bacon voyage for the business band wagon.
And the nice thing about band wagon is that
the heavier the load of passengers the smoother
and faster and farther it travels The Retail Mer
chants Association wants full cargo of brains
and enterprise aboard when the wheels start
turning tonight. They want it SO full that there
won't even be corpoaral's guard left on the
ground to cheer or knock as the parade starts
"nen Conductor viii Halle shouts "All aboard /"
ana gives the nigh ball" signal every business
man IN town wants to be on the front seat.
Fitzgerald is ready for big expansion Its mer
camille establishments warrant big expansion.
lheir proprletors have worked hard and ablv to
make them worth the patronage of any man or
woman who can ride walk or crawl into Fitzoer-
aid Tor forty miles around. They are going to get
togetheS tonight to start the program of Selling
fitzgerald to Central South Georgia" If the
sales effort is determined enough, is backed nv
all the selfconhdence that is warranted and s
sustained by the same degree of community per-
sistence and courage that has characterized ;ndi-
vldual business men who make up the commun
ity there is no chance of failure. no possibility Of
anything but enormous community success.
And the developments of the future denerd
largely on the start that is made tonight There
is vacant chair in the Chamber Of Commerce
just begging you to come and sit in if ton;gb+
Mr. Business Man. Don't disappoint it.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-05-06
ALL DAYS ARE MOTHERS DAYS"
By D. G. BICKERS

| take not kindly to day apart,
One out of all the year-ful however fair,
One day which devotion of the heart
Shall center round Her-'Twer small share
OF time to consecrate to Mother-Through
The year ALL days Mothers day-for you
From mystic times when meath her heart
You nestled, from the night she bore
Anguish supreme, Mothers willing part,
lo bring you into being; aye, then more
In tedious days and sleepless nights of care
That. you might know the least of pain
And have the better chance we'll to prepare
From manhoods measure full of gain
Nor then did her devotion lessen, still
Each day, all day, each hour of every night
Her ceaseess, ne'er- Withholding love until
The last hope vanshed--told itself in might
Stronger than life or death ONE day
For mother, only in all the year? 'Twould be
But paltry, mean return if you should pay
Less than LIFE-time's perfect love that she
May feel with every heart-throb on your way.
Year after year, you lived an endless Mothers
Day!
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-05-06
ITCHY SKIN
QUICKLY SO0THEO
WITH SULPHUR

Mentho-Sulphur, pleasant cream,
will soothe and heal skin that is ir-
ritated or broken out with. eczema;
that Is covered with ugly rash or
pimples, or is. rough or dry. Moth
ing subdues fiery skin erruptions so
quickly, says a noted skin specialist.
Iahe moment this sulphur prepare
ton is applied the itching stops and
after two or three applications, the
eczema is gone and the skin is de-
lightfully clear and smooth. Sulphur
Is so precious as skin remedy be-
cause it destroys the parasites that
cause the burning, itching or dis
hgurement. Mentho-S Sulphur always
heals eczema right up.
A small jar of Mentho- Sulphur
may be had at any good drug store.
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