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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21

Letters TO the Editor should be as
avoiding anything that would open
a denominational or sectarian dis
cussion
No attention will be paid to anony-
nous letters. Names and addresses
must be signed as an evidence OF
good faith. although names win not
be printed II request is made that
they be omitted.
The publication of n letter is not
to be taken as an indorsement or its
views by this paper.
Communications will not, be re-
turned unless accompanied by post
age, nor will manuscript be saved.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21

The Peoples Forum will appear daily
In the Eyening Public Ledger, and also
In the sunday Public Ledger. Letters
disctiADinE timely topics will be printed,
40 well as requested poems. and questions
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21

The 118th concert. OF the Leefson: :Hille
Conservatory will take place at 3 o'clock
this evening IN Witherspoon Hall. The play
ing Of the Mozart A Major concerto by
Jeanne Behrend a ten-year-od pupil. will
be n feature
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21

Alexander Schaffman. pupil of Frederick
Hahn, won the gold medal at the competition
in the violin department held at the Zeck-
wer- Hahn Musical Academy May ~.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21

most likely many wouldn't work at all II
they saw any way of living without stealing.
WILLIAM J. LUCKENBACH.
Philadelphia. May 10, 1921.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21

IN. pupils of the william Hatton Green
School Of Planaforte playing will give a
recital at the Art Alliance at 8 o'clock next
wednesday afternoon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21

Thu last monthly Neighborhood Concert
~ the Settlement Music School for this sea
son viii be held in the suditoriinm trin t0m9r Miss
ISstte Fineman, pianist: Jacob Simkin.
vioiinist, and Isadore freed. accompanist.
will Rlye the program.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21

d. Hendrix Ezerman ana H Van den
Beemt directors of the Philadelphia Con-
sorvatory of Music. announce the final con-
cert ami commencement at Wtherspoon
Hall on Wednesday evening. June 1. Tickets
may be had on application to the secretary.
Cero de Ritis. baritone. will give a re-
sisted by Nina Dolores. soprano: BENJAMIN
Tartaglia. pianist, and Elizabeth Doerr. vio-
lipist.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21
MUSIC NOTES

The sixteenth and final free spnasy d atter, het.
,yIn ho given tomorrow at 3 o'clock. A
programme viii bo rendered by the Siosa slss
trina Choir under the direction OF Sr,Eond Nio0,d
Montani. soprano, and Helen Book. pianist;
Contributions for next season are earnestly @
tby %. Joline. treasurer. 2007 Pine street,
and should be sent now II this work Is to
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21
"chIld's Dream of Heaven"

Philadelphia. May II. 1921.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-21

Next complete novelette,, Aunt Emmy
Ursh.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Auto Thief, Who Toured
In Own Car, Gets 2 Years
Carried Spare Wheels TO Run
Of Locked Machines; Court
Calls Him Worst in City

Declaring that the prisoner had done
more to create automobile thieves in
this city than any other man, Judge
Mulqueen in General Sessions yester-
day sentenced Meyer Miller, twenty
eight years old, of Brooklyn, to from
two to Ave years in Sing Sing prison.
Miller was indicted last week on the
charge of stealing a sedan car valued
at 5000.
According to testimony at the trial,
Miller toured the city in small car in
which he carried extra automo obile
wheels. Whenever he found car
similar to his own he would replace
any locked wheel with one of his spare
ones and tow the car to an automobile
repair shop he kept in Lenox Avenue.
Assistant District Attorney Ferdi-
nand Pccora said there were other COM
plants against Miller which would be
presented to the grand jury at once
with view to obtaining further in
dictments. Thomas McGrath, former
assistant district attorney, said nc
would appeal the sentence for his
client Judge Mulqueen, in his re-
marks, said he had heard ugly rumors
that an attempt had been made to use
money in stopping the case. If this
were so, he said, it would not avail, for
he intended to see that Miller paid the
penalty for his thefts.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Preston Gibson L. Sued
Again; $I2, $50 Asked
Magazine Company Alleges For
sncr Treasurer Converted
Funds to His Own Tsc

Preston Gibson, playwright and club
man Of New York. Washington and
Newport. who has been sued frequently
since his marriage, IN October, 1919.
to Mrs. Beatrice NJ. Benjamin Pratt, n
cousin of Mrs Enrico Caruso.. again
was named defendant yesterday in a
Supreme Court suit brought by the
Marine Magazine Company, Inc, of
which corporation Mr.. Gibson was
treasurer from January to Septem-
ber %. 1919.
X is stated in the complaint that
during the time MIR. Gibson was treas
urer the company had or deposit in the
Narrimsn National Bank $4,000. BE
tween The dates mentioned. it is al,
eyed, SIR. Gibson withdrew this money
and converted it to his own use. De
mand for full payment was made and
refused, the plaintiff alleges, the de-
fsndant returning only $3.50. The
Marine Magazine Company is now
suing to recover the balance amount
ing TO 1880.
Mr.. Gibson's wife is a granddaughte
cf the late Fl. II. Rogers, Standard OIL
Company officer, from whose estate
she receives n substantial income. She
is in Europe. but representative Of
Mr.. Gibson recently denied that there
wss to be q divorce. Mrs. Gibson mar
-ied her present husband a few moaths
after she divorced Lieutenant Dallas
Bache Pratt, {. S. ~. in Newport. Tho
marriage was opposed BY the parents of
Mrs. Gibson, from whom she became
cstranged
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Fixed Terms in Criminal
Cases Opposed by Judge

Judge Otto A. Roaalsky took occa-
sion yesterday, in winding up the
months business in hts part OF Cen
cral Sessions by imposing sentences on
those convicted Of crimes. to give his
views as TO the proper method of deal
ing with criminals.
The imposition Of definite prison
terms should not be within the prov
ncc of tho judge, he said, but should
be delegated to a state board which
should keep in touch with discharged
prisoners AS probation officers now
keep track Of those released in their
custody on suspended sentence.
at has been said that men with
criminal records have been too lightly
dealt with in the courts" he said.
"But that is not true in this court
In 1921 | sentenced criminals to an
aggregate of 284 years and four months
Certain societies were formed in
this city to reform criminals But
Of late they have gone far beyond
the limits prescribed in their incor-
poration papers. They are now trying
to reform the sentences imposed on
the criminals. The next thing we'll
hear will be that they have taken over
some of the big hotels, like the Wal
dorf or the ST. Regis, to house the
lawbrcakers at the expense of the
public.
"Many young men come before the
court who are not criminals at heart
and whose future virtually would be
blottcd out if they were sent to jail
| personally favor Il change i the law
so that criminals would be sentenced
to prison without any specific term
They would have to remain in prison
then until board of parole had de-
cNded they were fit to be at large, and
they would be under the control Of this
board of parole when they got out, SO
that the state could keep tab on them
for life.
"All penalties, save that for murder
should be wiped out as far as statutes
are concerned. Let a board consult
with judges who have tried the Grim
inals and then fix the sentence afte.
the prisoners have been locked up for
few months"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
2 Slain and 2
Shot I'm Bandit
Battle i'm Bank
.tConsinusb from pspo one)

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or two~-not more than two--cmployees
in the bank. The bandits, however, had
been given no opportunity to learn bow
these employees would react when re
volvcr muzzles were poked in their
faces.
This two of the bandits found out
when they slipped into the bank through
the rear to make quick cleanup and
a getaway. Assistant Cashier Moore
and Bookkeeper Butt, ut the sight OF
pistols in tho hands Of the intruders
drew their own guns and the battle
opened.
Butz fell with bullet in his heart
and tho gunman blazed away at Moore
The first few shots were heard by
Miller, the night watchmnn, who was
in shack at the railroad crossing con-
vcrsing with fagman. He raced
through the front.
Watckman Opens Fire.
lie found Butt and Moore on the
floor and Moore in the act of firing
the shot that wounded one Of tho gun
men. Miller was fired upon mme-
diately after he had entered, and with
their three victims on the floor the
bandits left the bank through the rear
and left just in time to avoid capture
at the hands Of persons who had heard
the firing and were swarmlng to the
bank from all directions.
1t was soon filled with people
fire alarm was turned in and the
village was in turmoil. The big
whistle Of the Dexter Folder Com
pany's plant shriekcd warning and
the police took up the chase, but by
the time the pursuers got started the
car in which the bandits were riding
had disappeared in the direction OF
Paterson.
The weapons left behind by the gun
men were of German make. Moore's
gun was missing.
President William A. Scrven and
Frederick A. Hall. cashier, had left the
bank ten minutes before the bandits
appeared The police arc convinced
that the bandits knew that Serven and
Hall had departed
Sheriff Joseph Knzlcy of Bergen
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Fifth Avenue
below Fifty-seventh Street

Away back in 1907, when thus big Of first laid
in regular gidion fashion, with that and
the other there uasnt tany Fifth Avenue
There a First Avenue and all the other numbers to
Twelfth and A. B, c, D weD, but they skipped Fifth and
called it middle Road
Everything OF EAST
Everything of WEST
And-vhle we call it Fifth Avenue it's Middle really
n minds
Bond Street, the Rue de Z Paix, Fifth Avenue
These skeets-they quaHhe they
of nind-bpe of people,
The CIddmg Business only esv--tca being
Fifth Avenue. 1t for and of Fifth Avenue Distinctly
cosmopolitan, without of hah-the of
world finds hes home there, she does the Champs Eysee
or Hanover Square.
a man $ known by the house he builds and lives
JIM Cddng G. Company proud their BUSINESS proud
of their building, proud of their weldehned place Fifth
Avenue; poude OF all Of the serving the exacmg
and ppeat patrons the world which alone has made all
this possible
The New Giddng building opens for business Tuesday,
January Third.
:G!5:a||ai1.q q! - & O.
~ 5e4 5e6 5oe 3Gillh ~1Arpntr ~ AT 4e~ ST N
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30

able diamond pin from his scarf, as
we'll as declaration made by Haves
when found, leads Captain McCloskcy
to suspect that the three men who at
tackled him had no intention Of robbing
him. Haves told Patrolman Brown,
who found him, that he had been at
tackled, but replied in the negative to
question as to whether he had been
robbed.
The autopsy. moreover. showed. that
the bullet which killed him took an up
ward course through his body. as
though Il had glanced from, the side
walk. The men who attacked Haves
we're so close to him that 1t ono Of
them had fred at him, the bullet must
have gone home. Havcs's clothes bore
no powder marks. as would have been
the case had n shot been tired at him
mt close range.
information has reached the police
thnt man with whom Haves had quar-
relied frequently had threatened him,
Although no accusation has been made
against this man. the police believe
that the attack on Ilavcs was inspired
by hatred.
Victims Skull Fractured
Anthony y. Preieo went to Green
point Avenue police station carly yes
had been hit on the head by n man
unknown to him at Dupont Street and
Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn. Aftc,
lodging his complaint he collapsed RNd
when an ambulance arrived it was
found TINT his skull had been frac-
turcd
Two men hold UP a drug store at
lAl Greene Avenue. BROOKLYN, Wcdnes-
day evening, just before 10 o'clock, il
was learned Yesterday. Ludwig f.
Hoffmeyer. the proprietor, and his
clerk, Albert lIamblin, were alone in
the store at the time.
The robbers took $50 from lIamblin
about $40 from TIotTmcyer and $50 from
the cash register. Then they locked
their victims in rear room and de-
parted. a customer who cumo IN few
minutes later heard the prisoners
pounding on the door and released
them. The robbers are thought to be
the same pair who tried to force 8r
entrance to the Pouch Mansion, on
Clinton Avenue, nearby, few hours
later but were frightened away by
employees.
Samuel Reich, thirty-fivc years old
of 75 Chrystic Street, was arraignec
yesterday before Magistrate William
t. Simms in Morrisania Court anC
was held in $4,000 bail for examination
tomorrow on charge Of larceny
Reich is suspected by the police OF
being the man who has been stealine
overcoats from boys in various parts
of the city for several months.
Reich was arrested early yesterda!
on the complaint Of Bernard Grabois
nine years old, of 677 Lawson Street
the Bronx. According TO the testimony
Reich would represent to be the ownel
Of laundry. He would give a nicke
TO a boy and ask him to collect wash
ing at an address usually far enough
away to keep the boy on the go for /
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Guest Left $25,OOO 10 Host
Woman Remembers Friend
Who Entertained at Yulctidc

For the first time in ten years Miss
Marie Shotwel. of the Hotel Seymour,
did not have as her guest on Christmas
Day last Sunday Miss Mary J. Pierson.
school teacher. Nor will there be
another such annual reunion, for Miss
Pierson died on November so at her
home, 0 Livingston Place.
The will of Miss Pierson was filed in
the Surrogates' Court yesterday, and in
that document she expressed her ap-
probation Of the friendship that ex-
'sted between her and Miss Shotwell
for ten years by leaving to the latter
all of her securities and moneys. valued
at about S25,000 To several other
friends. including the Rev DR.. William
\. Guthrie, of 81. Marks ont the Bouw
rie, OF which church the testatrix was
parishoner, Miss Pierson left vemem-
brances
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Tepid Water Fed to River
Foils Iceman i'm Illinois

TORONTO, Dec. 2o.--It is possible
to prevent a river from freezing over
by supplying a small amount of heat,
the American Association for the Ad-
vncement of Science was told to-day
by John Murphy, engineer of the
Canadian Department OF Railways and
Canals The Rock River, in Illinois, a
navigable stream. has been kept from
freezing for five winters over thirteen
miles of it's length by spilling tepid
water into it at the rate Of two barrels
second, he said.
Mr.. Murphy explained that ice would
not form when water was one one
thousandth Of degree above 80
Fahrenheit, the freezing point of
water.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30

considerable time. As the boy would
be about to start, Reich. 1T is said,
would suggest that he ienve his coat,
aa the wash might make the garment
wet. The boys would leave their coats
and that would be the last they would
see of them.
Grabois lost his coat on December II.
He was walking with his aunt, Miss
Frances Berkowitz, yesterday when he
saw Reich He and his aunt chased
Reich and caught him. According TO
Miss Berkowitz. the prisoner Offered
her sl5 If she would let him go.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30

whose self-made laws in the support of
legalised gambling are above aud be-
youd the law, and so long as employers
may combine in unincorpornted as
sociations unregulated by law, any at
tempt to enforce incorporation and
regulation of labor unions can lie just
tied only by defiant continuance Of
existing abuses"
AT Mr.. Untermycr's suggestion, a
committee of fvo labor men will be ap-
pointed to complete the notifications
agreed TO.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Three Suspects Seen

WEST POINT, N. Y, Dec. 29.-Three
suspicious looking men. who the police
say may have been implicated in the
holdup Of the First National Bank at
Pearl River. crossed the river on the
Garrison ferry at $3.50 o'clock tonight,
few minutes after orders we're issued
to stop and search all cars.
A policeman on duty at the ferry
said that the three men were huddled
together in the first seat Of small
car. One of them descended at the
ferry and asked when the next boat
would leave When told that he would
have to wait about twenty minutes
he conveyed the information to his
companions, who, the policeman SAID,
seemed nervous and excited. a de-
scription Of the three men has been
sent to neighboring towns and CITIES.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30
Starts on Sunday, January
che Gaort0
Soft Coal Survey Planned

WASHINGTON, Dec. ga sur.r
of the entire bituminous coal situatien
in the country will be undertaken by !.
special staff of the National Unemplov.
ment Conference, TO be appointed ner.
week, Secretary Hoover said to-day.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-30

County organized posses and soon was
directing search for the iugitives.
Assistant Cashier Moore was widely
known in Rockland County and had
been connected with the bank for some
time
Evening star., 1921-11-15
PRESIDENT PRAISES
WOUNDED VETERAN
Carl Bronner, Blind and Without
Hands, Able to Operate
Typewriter.

Carl Bronner of Ohio. who was
blinded by a bursting shell and lost
both hands during the war, and who
is student at the Red Cross Insti-
tute for the Blind at Evergreen. Md.
has received letters from President
Harding and Secretary of the Navy
DENLY praising him for his use of u
typewriter cOntrivance by means of
which, without the use Of his hands
or eyes, he can write.
The Presidents letter follows:
My Dear MIR. Bronner:
Admiral Andrews was so much i'm
pressed by a letter which you wrote to
him that he sent the letter to the
submitted it to me for my reading.
cannot tell you how tremendously 1
was pleased to read an expression of
your undaunted resolution and your
cheerful hopefulness. 1t is mighty
blow to suffer the loss of ones vision
gratifying evidence of your ability to
express yourself through your type
writer has brought to me a real spirit
of helpfulness when there are prob
lens to face which seem exceedingly
difficult. 1 should rejoice to know
that any service man who had been
so terribly injured was making prog
ress toward real accomplishment in
spite of excessive disability. but it is
so exceedingly good to know that
one so excessively impaired as YOU
has found his way to a state of self
help and self-expression as you make
1t manifest in your letter to your old
commander. If my good wishes
addressed to you personally are of
any encouragement. please know that
you have them in all the Sincerity
which L can command. Very truly
yours. WARREN G. HARDINC,
Evening star., 1921-11-15
EYerGkQdeH Limited.

Florida's new Limited. lv. $50 am.
Through sleepers to Jacksonville,
Tampa. ST. Petersburg. Miami. At
lantic Coast Line, office 141S II St. NV
Evening star., 1921-11-15
The Moon.

The learned Prof. Pickering
finds life upon the moon; there
men, perhaps, are dickering, and
chasing the doubloon. We've
always thought it tenantless,
and cold and gray and dead,
without base ball, and penant-
less, with none to paint it red.
But now Prof. Pickering sees
life signs everywhere, and may
be men are liquoring in soft
drink joints up there; and may
be skates political as gifted
statesmen pose, and kickers,
dourly critical. denounce the
movie shows. We've viewed the
moon through telescopes, its
craters and its Wales; though
takers in their yellow scopes,
framed up some dizzy tales, of
living beings dwelling there, we
thought their tales were bunk;
no orators were yelling there,
no statesmen peddled bunk. We
gave no time to pickering, our
platform was so strong; but
now Prof. Pickering has shown
us where we're wrong. He's
found a lot of greenery, strange
plants that grow and thrive;
amid that CHASTITY scenery some
COW feed is alive; and-is it
merely vanity?-if such green
things appear, there's sure to be
humanity on hand, to profteer.
The learned Prof. Pickering to
our beliefs says, "Scat!" So
pIa:' him on your Chickering
and paste him in your hat.
WALT MASON.
Copyright by George Matthew Adams.)
Evening star., 1921-11-15
ADJUSTMENTS.
SHUBERT-CARRICK
ALL THIS WEEK
The Winter Garden Show of the A.E.F.
A BUCK ON LEAVE

PAT BARNES, the Original Buck" Larry
Young, Alexander winslow. Margaret Shane,
Susan Freeman and
Company of 100
Popular Prioe Matinee Saturday l6s
Evening star., 1921-11-15
.sIISR7lfi.|H{EIsA
CONVENTION 5Etf1
~Il V
DELEGATES NAMED

Allan Davis. principal Of Business
High School. was elected delegate to
the Teachers Council for the high
and normal school principals at a
meeting yesterday at the franklin
School, Frank c. Daniel. principal of
Tech High School. was chosen alter
nate. DR.. Rebecca Stoneroad, direc-
tor of physical training. was named
by the special teachers to represent
them on the council, the reorganiza-
ton of which will be completed at a
meeting in the board of education
chambers at the Franklin School next
Tuesday.
FfoxverS-Loved the World Over.
Gude's flowers speak a universal
language. 1914 F.-Advertisement
The latest sensation in London So
ciety is the opening of laundry by a
countess. The titled "washerwoman"
is Lady Clonmell. who has opened an
establishment near oxford street.
Evening star., 1921-11-15

Dinner Decorations and Flowers for
conference functions. Shaffer, 900 14th.
advertisement
Evening star., 1921-11-15
HUSBAND IS SOLE HEIR

AHerton s. Cushman is named as
sole beneficiary of the estate of his
Wife. Sarah D. H. Cushman. who died
November s. The estate is valued
at S264.500 and includes premises
1914 10th street and other property
worth S50.000. jewelry valued at
slo'Goo' cash. S4,5oo. and stocks and
neys Wilson. Huidekoper & Lesh rep
resent the husband. who today asked
for the probate of the will.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-02-04
NEW FROSH INITIATED

Last Friday, Immediately after
school, a rally was held to initiate
the new frosh, as the custom has been
in former years Marion Yelle was
the first to be called upon and after
much thinking and long pause he
acknowledged that the speech was
rather unexpected. Not knowing
when he might leave the stage, he
was dismissed by 'Dode" Libby, yell
leader, that he might take his seat.
Next young Harms, brother of Doc
Harms, was called upon. He walked
boldly toward the platform, but as he
reached it, he began to lose courage.
Nevertheless, he finally burst out
and said. Il am glad to be with yoI
and | hope to graduate with the
class. Two more interesting talks
were delivered by Clarke Kimball
and Victor Hayes. Each speaker tried
to bring out that he was going to
do his part in promoting athletics
and to keep up the spirit which has
prevailed at p. H. s. in preceding
years.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-02-04
HIGHER PRICE OF TICKETS

The students rate of tickets has
been changed from % to 35 cents.
This has become necessary because
of lack of funds. According to the
athletic managers statistics, as a re-
suit of the Pendleton game there is
S35 more to add to the debt. If the
necessary amount of money is not
raised, in all probability, the board
of education will stop all athletics
until all debts can be paid if there
is not enough made by games and en-
tertainments to cover all expenses
and to start a new year of athletics.
The rate for townspeople will be the
same as it has been before. The high
school is always very glad to have
townspeople attend the basket bail
and football games.