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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-21

The William I. Shetzline Post. No
96. will hold dance tonight at tn,
Roosevelt, 2O23 Chestnut street.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
I'm Death House,
Said Fake Letter
I'm $3.50 Swindle
Italian Accuses Neighbor of
Writing Home Under His
Name and Getting Funds
to Bribe Way to Liberty

About the worst thing that is said
about Peter Spagereli, Of Stoneco,
Dutchess County, is that he does not
write as often as he might to his sis
ter Annay, who lives in Italy. Some
body else wrote for him, however, and
got $3.50 for his pains. Peter is mad
clear through, and yesterday he had q
neighbor named Anton Grasse locked
up by the Federal authorities charged
with using the mails in scheme to
defraud
Peter is mad not only because some
one did his sister out Of the money,
but because the letters which went
out over his forged signature declared
that he was in the death house at Sing
Sing and needed the funds to buy an
official to let him out They told a
pitiful tale of his hard luck trying to
make his way 1000 miles from home,
Peter has done fairly we'll for himself
in this country and resents the impli-
cation that he is a murderer.
The first appeal for funds worked
beautifully, bringing money order by
return mail for the $3.50 that had been
asked. Apparently the forger decided
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Still Within Sing Sing Walls
Rnided and Conuicts arrested
Attendant Also Caught i'm Net When Hooch Mill Is
Found; Prunes and Potatoes Are Basis of
Prison Booze; May BE Cut Out of Menu

A liquor raid in Sing Sing prison
yesterday resulted in the arrest of
three prisoners and an attendant and
the confiscation of mysterious copper
apparatus which is thought to have
been used as still. Convinced that
prunes and potatoes were the basis Of a
liquor traffic, Warden Lawes took under
advisement the elimination of these
items from the prison fare, He ex-
pressed regret at the possible necessity
of altering the menu, pointing out that
when the price per meal is once re
duced TO 8 cents it is hardly expedient
to make change.
Head Keeper Thomas McInerny is
back of the movement to make Sing
Sing cleaner and better place. His
sympathies are said to have been
aroused by the sight of Ben Conway so
tipsy few weeks ago that he couldn't
keep his condition to himself and had
to sing at the top of his lungs and in
form the whole place that he felt good.
The uplift movement started at once,
but it was not until yesterday that
the still was found in little room
near the shoe shop.
Mclnerny's sympathies We're still
active yesterday, and the suspected
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

keeper, who was charged with alcohol
ism outside the walls, got off by sign
ing the pledge when he explained that
he became addicted TO rum taking
bracers to pull him through the ordeal
of watching executions. McInerny
was even disposed to listen to the ar
gument advanced in behalf of the other
prisoners that they thought making
home brew in the prison was within
their constitutional rights, inasmuch
as 1t was certain that their product
could be used for home consumption
only,
The head keeper intends to have
hootlegging within the walls stopped,
however, and expects to make that
point clear when William Tammany
and John Mcclure are taken from the
solitary cells in which they were
locked up after the raid and brought
up for trial tomorrow The latter
works in the room in which the mys-
terious apparatus was found, and both
are said to be among the most hard
ened criminals in the prison. Mcln-
erny says that is all the more reason
for making sure that they are brought
into the reform movement. The third
prisoner, j. II. Nelan, was released and
sent back to his cell for lack of evil
dence
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

he had made mistake in not asking
for more, so he took another shot at
the scheme and sent for $500 more,
assuring Signora Spagareli that he had
definite assurance that this would pro-
cure his release and enable him to re-
turn to his home once more, never to
venture forth to the land of inhespi-
table strangers.
Fortunately for Peter, he suddenly
bethought himself of his mother about
that time and wrote her a glowing
account of how we'll he was getting
along. 1t took Signora Spagareli a
week to recover from the shock, but
when she did figure out what was 60
ing on she acted with speed and pre-
cision. Peter turned the case over to
the postoffice inspectors and the
Dutchess County authorities as soon
as he got her letter.
Grasse was arraigned before a
United States commissioner yesterday
and released under $1,000 bond for a
hearing tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
A Strap Effect The
ewSNallcy,,' 'll.OO

A smart and striking strap effect
with buttons on both sides,
turned soles, and medium Louis
heels, in both street and dress
models. They are developed in
Black Satin combined with a
black suede strap or in Patent
Leather and light weight calf
skin.
ISecond FEoor1
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
The Coat
Must be Fur-trimmed

and of soft, luxurious fabrics.
Forincreased warmthandbeaut
Wolf embellishes the deep collars
and cuffs. They are elistinctively
lined with heavy crepes. Paris
Brown, Black, much favored
Navy and Taupe. 1880
lFoHrsA Ftoorl
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
KEEP AWAY FROM THE ORIENT
Ex-Service Men Are Warned That
Jobs Are Scarce and Only Natives
Are Employed.

Whipple S. Hall, who travelled TO-
600 miles to represent the department
of the Philippines at the national con-
vention of the American Legion,
warns all ex-service men to keep away
from the Orient unless they have
enough money to bring them back
home again.
Discharged veterans of the Siberian
front, many accompanied by Russian
wives as destitute as their husbands,
worked their way to the Islands as
merchant sailors and are now in the
hands Of the Legion and the auxiliary.
Many of them, penniless, worked their
Say down through China in the belief
that the Orient blossomed with good
obs. Virtually all manual labor and
amall clerical work is performed by
atiyes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
DEBT REFUNDINC
MEASURE PASSES
Senate Bill Allowing rs Years for
War Obligation Payment
Approved SO to Is.
NOW GOES TO HOUSE
Final Enactment Must Wait Adjust
ment Between House and Senate
Interest Rate Fixed at Not
Less Than 4A%.

Washington - The bill authorizing
the refunding of the Sill, 200, 000, 000
foreign debt into securities maturing
in not more than twenty-five years
was passed by the Senate.
The vote was 80 to 25.
Final enactment of the measure
must await adjustment of differences
between the House and Senate which
is expected within a week or ten
days.
8 Republicans Vote No.
Three Republicans, Borah, La Fol
lette and Norris, joined with the solid
Democratic minority in opposing the
bill.
Under the terms of the bill a com.
mission of five members, headed by
the Secretary of the Treasury, have
authority, subject to the approval OF
the President, to refund or convert,
and to extend the time of the pay.
ment of the principal or the interest,
or both, of the foreign debt.
The rate of the maturity of the obi.
cations accepted by the commission
could not extend beyond June Is, 1947,
and the interest rate could not be less
than Az per cent. Bonds of one for.
eign government could not be accept
ed for those of another, nor could any
part of the foreign Indebtedness be
Cancelled.
President to Name Members.
The life of the commission would be
three years from the date of the ap.
prevail of the act and the members
other than the Secretary Of the Treas.
ury would be appointed by the Presi-
dent, subject to confirmation by the
Senate. During its life the commits.
sion would be required to make an
nual reports to Congress at the be-
ginning of each regular session in
December.
Only members of the Cabinet and
of Congress will be appointed on the
debt commission, according to Sen
ator Watson, Republican of Indiana,
who told the Senate that, although he
was not authorized by the President
to make such an announcement, he
nevertheless knew that this is the
Presidents intention.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03

NJ. Wehenkel, of Detroit, Mich
Dedicated by Marshal Foch, h hos
pital opened its doors to former service
men of Michigan suffering from tuber-
culosis. Each doctor, nurse and en-
ployee at the institution has been In
some branch of the government serv-
Ice. Each patient is given a separate
room, tastefully decorated and sup
piled with running water. They are
kept at the hospital until their case
has been pronounced arrested n
then are placed Immediately in yoca-
tional training to prevent a period OF
idleness.
Doctor Wehenkel has been tuber-
culosis expert for the Detroit board
of health for sever years. He saw two
years of army medical service during
the war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
Poor Mans Pride.

20 many men to whom the East
de missionary had given money had
expressed a preference for a certain
,dging house that he wondered what
9l,>tituted its particular attraction.
"It makes us feel seif-respecting,"
a.l the men, when questioned.
80 far as the mission worker could
&c, it was the typical cheap lodging
oilse. whose inducements to self-re-
meet were o. discernible to the or
..nary eye. So he interviewed the
ranager.
That's easy" replied the latter and
a.inted to a sign above the desk:
gentlemen Are Requested to Leave
ripir yaluables With the Clerk
american Legion Weekly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
First to Suggest Legion.

At a smoker given in honor of George
w. Goethals and Col. c. w. Wicker
sham, by the Alan Seegar post of the
American Legion in Mexico City.
Mexico, Colonel Wickersham declared
that the Legion was first suggested
BIZ young Theodore Roosevelt, con-
valescing from a wound in a French
hospital, who said that when the war
was over and he was again well he
aud others were going to form an or
sanization of veterans that would be
the greatest of its kind.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
THEATRE ROOF
FALLS; MANY DIE
List of Injured Reach 1874 as
Search of Washington Play
house Ruins NearS End.
SNOW CAUSES CRASH
Audience Roaring With Laughter
When Tragedy Happens-Heavy
Downfall of Snow Blamed for
Horrible Disaster.

Observation-Disclosures police records
placed the known dead in the
Knickerbocker theater disaster at
81. Elimination of duplicated names
brought the final total down from the
unofficial peak of 112 at which the
toll of the catastrophe was placed
Saturday night.
The list of injured totaled 134 and
IA of these were recorded as critical
ly hurt. Caught beneath the falling
beams, which had been designed to
act as traverse supports for the roof,
scores were taken to hospitals suf-
fering with broken limbs or severe
internal injuries. Many were given
immediate medical attention at i'm
provised stations hastily erected near
the scene of the disaster.
The official list, according to the
authorities, contained the names OF
all those whose bodies had been re-
covered up to midnight from the
ruins left when the roof of the the
alter, overweighted with snow, col
lapsed OF the audience.
Search Nearly Over.
police, firemen, marines and cavalry
from Fort Myer, had practically con-
Guided their search of the wreckage
at midnight. The only portion Of
what had been the orchestra remain
ing to be searched was a far corner
in which it was not expected addi-
tional bodies would be found.
The Knickerbocker, one of the new
est and largest of the capitals mo-
ton picture houses, was rated as one
of the most exclusive, drawing its pa
tronage from the Northwest residen-
tial section in the vicinity of upper
Connecticut avenue.
Family Groups Predominant.
Family groups predominated in the
audience Saturday night and it was
upon these that the roof, backed by
tons of wet snow, descended with
barely a whispered warning.
The exact number in the theater
when the steel and concrete span of
the roof buckled and cell under its
three foot load of snow probably
never will be known. The stories of
perhaps a hundred who got out un-
injured have been reported. These
account for a few more than 800 in
the audience that was roaring in
laughter at a screen comedy when the
roof fell on them like a blanket, car.
rying down the front of the wide bal
cony in it's crash.
Storm Keeps Many Away.
Normally, the theater has had every
seat filed at that hour and its capac-
ity was nearly 1000 persons. The
same unprecedented snowfall which
brought death to the venturesome
few, kept the many at home. Street
car traffic had been abandoned and
streets and sidewalks were all but
impossible with drifts.
There has been no time for official
inquiry as to the cause of the disaster,
The ruins disclose, that the entire
mass of steel-held concrete that
formed the roof came down. The
crash swept the supports out from
under the balcony, apparently, and
this hinged down at an angle of As
degrees, adding to the tangled mass
of wreckage on the floor below.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
FIRE DESTROYS ORE DOCK

Superior, visa spectacular fire
at the Great Northern ore dock No. 2,
at Allouez, a suburb, which for a
time threatened other ore docks, was
brought under control through com
bined efforts of Superior firemen and
a crew from Duluth. The loss was
estimated at 2 1000, 900.
The fire started from an unknown
cause. The dock was of wood con-
struction and burned rapidly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03

tragic. To give up a bright stage
career for life on the ocean wave was,
as he put it, merely playing a role n
a bigger drama than Shakespeare ever
thought of writing.
Today he is back on the job, and
recently staged "The Merchant of Ven
ice" for the benefit of the George Wash
ington post of the American Legion
the first post organized.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
EARTH FLIES OFF CENTER

Changes Axes and Earthquake Fol-
lows, Scientists Say.
New York-The earth, in its dir
Tying whirl through space, got off
center for a few moments Tuesday
and shifted its poles" or axes, to fit
the new center of rotation.
Then, so that it might not be
travelling on a "fat Wheel so to
speak, a few million tons of solid
rock, somewhere off the Western
coast of the United, in the bed of the
Pacific ocean, slipped" 100 feet or
so to even things up. The seismo-
graph record showed the deviation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
STEPS FROM NAVY TO STAGE
Charles Hanford, shakespeareian Ac-
tor Who Served as Chief Woman,
Returns to Footlights.
To doff the robes of King Lear for
the blue wool Of the COB was no eXer-

ton for Charles
B. Hanford, one of
Americas foremost
S h a k e s pearean
actors. Often he
had said, in his
role as Hamlet,
"Now might / do
1t pat" he did
it pat: he enlisted
and became chief
yeoman n I h e
navy.
Hanford didn't
n q r this
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
NAMES KENYON U. S. JUDGE
Harding Appoints Iowa Senator to
Federal Circuit Court.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. W. S. Kenyon
of Iowa announced he would accept
the nomination as federal judge for
the eighth circuit, rendered to him by
President Harding and sent to the
senate.
The senate soon after receiving the
nomination confirmed it in open exec
utive session, an honor only rarely
paid to nominees.
Senator Kenyon succeeds Judge
Walter /. Smith of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, who died last week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
Last Man Killed in War.

A sergeant of the Seventy-ninth
liyision who. left his lines at 1855
i. m. on November IL, 1918. and was
killed in attempting to capture a Ger
nan machine gun. is cited at American
Legion headquarters as a claimant for
the honor of being the last man killed
n the war. AT IL o'clock sharp, ac-
.ording to the report, the doughboy
was picked up and carried to the
American lines.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
WOULD RUSH TARIFF BILL
Early Action Urged BY President of
Manufacturers.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at the
earliest practical moment" of tariff
legislation to afford American manu-
facturers that protection without
which "they cannot weather the storm
of foreign competition and to pro-
vide an American valuation basis for
import duties was urged by John e.
Edgerton, president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, in an
address at the associations tariff con-
vention.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
Second Building Falls at Capital

Washington-Another building, one
of the long sheds of the freight depot
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, col
lapsed. two minutes after eight men
employed in it during the day had
checked out. No one was injured.
One of the walls of the building gave
way, due, it is believed, to the effects
of melting snow on the slopiDg roof.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
G6e
Copy for ms Department supplied by
the American Legion News Seryice.)
Ex-sERvIcE MEMS HOSPITAL
DR.. Albert Wehenkel Heads Detroit
Institution-Ail Employees Have
Been in Service.
The only hospital in the country
operated by ex-service men for the

benefit of ex-serv-
ice men has been
opened at Camp
Custer, Mich. 1t
is the new Roose-
Welt American Lee
gion hospital col
verted from a fof.
IN e community
house at Camp
Custer and turned
over to the Le-
gion by the state.
The s~uperintend-
n is DR.. Albert
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
okIahoma EDITOR whinned.

Drumright, Okla.-R. L. Moore, edi-
tor of the Drumright Post, was seized
by a band of six masked men, taken
to a thickly wooded spot a few miles
southeast of the city and severely
ftogged with a blacksnake whip, po-
lice said.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
Gifts to school. Total aa Million.

New York-Gifts for the further
ance of education totaling $685. 06
we're made in the fiscal year 1921-1922
by the general education board of the
Rockefeller foundation, it was made
known in the annual report Of the in
stitution.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
s377.474.e22 Voted for Vets.

Washington-The independent Of
fees appropriation bill carrying a to-
tai of s494, 304,23S, most of which is
for use by the veterans bureau, was
passed by the House and sent to the
Senate. For the bureau the bill ap-
propriated s377.474,622.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
Bind ohIcials gave Rribe

Kenosha, wis.-Former Sheriff 10
seph Meyer and his former under.
sheriff, Alex Ritter, were found guilty
of giving brides to Peter Fisher, Jr.,
former district attorney, by a verdict
returned in the circuit court here.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
Miller Nomination Reported.

Washington-The nomination OF
Andrew Miller to be federal judge
for the North Dakota district was
ordered reported favorably to the SEN
ate by the judiciary committee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
Swedish Vessel Disabled.

st. Johns, N. F.-The Swedish
steamer Thyra was reported disabled
$50 miles southeast of Cape Race in
a radio message received here. The
message said she had lost her rudder.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
Woman Robbed of 100000.

New York-Mrs. Max Gitelmacher,
the wife of a physician, was robbed
Of $4,000 by two bandits who at
tackled her as she was about t enter
her home.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
Fire DESTROYS Business Block.

Yuma, Colo.-The main business
block of Yuma was wiped out by fire
and three firemen were injured seri-
ously. The loss is estimated at ap-
proximately $1,000
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1922-02-03
JEWISH REFUGEES ARE DYING
Typhus Epidemic Claims Thousands
of Victims in Russia.

New York-Jewish refugees num-
bering some 100000, who are strug-
Cling through winter SHOWS from so
Wet Russia to their former homes in
Lithuania and Letvia, are dying by
thousands from typhus and exposure,
according to a cable received from
Leonard G. Robinson, former presi-
dent of the Cosmopolitan bank by the
Jewish joint distribution committee.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-12-05
Northwest HIT
.g.YN!.NI!|I.E|'R TODAY
Temperature Of 90 Degrees
Below Zero Reported in
Helena, Mont. (,

CHICAGO, Dec. 5.-winter TO.
day made its first. onslaught,
spreading a trail OF zero tempera.
lures through the Northwest and
plain states and causing a drop
In temperature as far south as
Texas in the South and Tennessee
In the central area.
Helena, Mont, with a tempera-
ture OF IS degrees below zero,
was the coolest place in the coun-
try. sub-zero temperatures were
recorded throughout Montana,
North Dakota, and parts Of MIN
nesota, with HaYre, Mont, record
Ing. IA below, Williston, N. D., s
below; Grand Fords, N. D., 4 be-
low, and Fargo, N. d., s below.
The Southern Rocky Mountain
states were warned by forecasters
to prepare for drops in tempera-
ture OF from Is to 90 degrees, at
tended by light flurries Of snow.
! Throughout the Upper Missis-
sippi Valley states the breath OF
winter was manifest in biting
wind that sent the mercury
scurrying downward. Weather
forecasts lindicated the wave
would spread into the lower lake
region and the Atlantic and West
Gulf states, with the exception Of
Florida peninsula by tonight or
Wednesday,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-12-05
CURTISVI.I5.LE

Mr.. and Mrs. e. B. Thorne and
children visited R. E. Arnett Sun.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. walter cordray
and Miss Lutte Arnett were shop.
ping in Warrington Saturday even:
ing.
Miss Nellie starkey visited at
the home Of her parents at Deal.
fall Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Gail Cunningham returned
to Warrington Sunday evening.
Miss Cunningham is student In
the Warrington high school.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Walter cordray
and daughter Helen Marie and
Miss Lutte Arnett spent Sunday at
the home Of R. E. Arnett
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hayes and
children and Mr. and Mrs. George
MILESTONE visited at the home OF
Mrs. Eta Wilson Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. FraIey, Mrs.
Martin Cunningham and the Misses
Louise and Jane LawlIs visited, at
the home of G. F. Fraley Sunday
evening. q
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Straight OF
Deadfall were the gaests OF Mr..
and Mrs. ]. e. starkey Sunday.
Mrs. Rose Brinkley OF ClarkS
burg is the guest Of Mrs. Mazella
Musgraye.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Chesney
and daughter Mary Jane, Mrs. N.
Brinkley and Lawren, Musgraya
motored to Warrington Saturday.
Miss Lutte Arnett visited Miss
Nell Starkey Sunday evening.
Mrs. Jennie Campbell and Mrs.
Grace Cunningham were shopping
In Warrington Saturday evening,
Jerome, the small son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. J. e. Ktger, has been III for
some time.
The revival meetings, being held
under the direction OF the Rever.
end Mr.. Ayers at the Curtis
Chapel were discontinued several
nights ago. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. a. w. Beatty.
Earl Beatty. Mr. and Mira, okie
Shaw and children and Mr.. and
Mrs. Dewey Price and son Dwight,
visited at the homo Of P ]. n, Hfbbs
Sunday.
William Asher recently moved in.
to his new home here. q
Miss Edna Starkey, 2 student In
the Fairmont State Normal School,
and Miss Lillian Lively, who at.
tends high school at Mannlngtoni