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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-08
Miss CuLbersOn's
SuitOr Seeks Aid
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with the New York Telephone Company
where he remained until the evening OF
April 20.
Robertson says he received a letter
three weeks ago from Miss Culberson
warning him an attempt was to be
made to k!dnap him.
"On the night Of April 20 two men
came to our home and said they wished
me to come to hotel in Newark, "
Robertson said. 1.-THE two men in.
formed mo they were Federal officers
from Washington.
They said there was warrant for
my arrest in New York. charging me
with stealing goods from the British
War Veterans Club. have since
proved that charge is utterly without
foundation.
They told me l could either 20 to
Boston with them and take ship t6 n
foreign port or go to New York and be
placed under arrest on the robbery
charge
At the British American War Vet.
Grams Association rooms in New York
IL was said that another man by the
same name was accused Of thcfts of
clothing and war medals, that Robert
son had appeared at the club and. after
being examined by the men whose val
unbles were Sto,en, was completely ex.
oneratcd.
New York. May s.-(Ry A. P)-
Denial that attempts were made 20
drive Alexander T.. Robertson. British
war veteran. out of the country because
Of love affair with the daughter Of
Senator Culbc"son. of Texas. was made
today by the Burns Detective Agency,
which was retained to gather nforma-
tion about him. Robcrtson'S move
mcntS have been of his own accord. it
was said.
The head of the agency here declared
Robcrtson'S charges that two detectives
had impcrsonated Federal officers were
bunk and added that John +. Ellis.
already arrested on II charge Of kidnar-
ping. was no longer with the bureau.
Ellis. he asserted. was withdrawn
from the case after Robertson's aunt,
living in New Jersey. had objected a
month ago to the way in which he
was being shadowed. When the "cli-
ent" who hired the agency to gather
data on Roberts son requested that Ellis
havc another talk with him. the de-
trctivr resigned from the agency and
thereafter worked privately on the case,
the statement said.
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Data Incomplete, Alter Saws
.PINCHOT SAYS BOSSES
BLUNDER.S AID HIM


p;IltH. t,soursn. ra'. Mny S'--tihord
lncnot arrI''l IN lltt"burgh today Il"
nu thnl 'he "hVe OF cnthus hSm IN his
ln'p. huu swept ihto lltsburgh ahead
VI MN;
Mr. iIhcno, soon i"it for New Castle.
Mnere ne addressed mass meeting.
~ ino'oIed from New 'aStl" to l'utler
mnee ~,aee H. seron" mhss meeting took
place. lie Will return TO Pittsburgh
oetore going TO Mcke"sport tonight to
a"nress II mass- meeting.
Upon his arrival today Mr.. Pinchot
issued this statement: "EXcept rho
hard and loyal work Of my friends ::
nothing has helped 50 much toward n
victory as the avalanche of blundcrs
so generously contributed by the oppo-
sition.
For example. take their effort, 10
annex unwilling supporters. NV opuo.
ncnt made his first appcarancr in Blair
County. ON that occasion an Alter
reception committee was named in the
Altoona papers. Next day twenty NON.
bers of that committee made public an.
nounccmcnt that they had been included
without their consent and thoI thov
were for Pincnor.
"Tney fo,iowe,i tbla nm nv ,rrin, en-
commit Senator Ponnpr tn rho it,er
candidacy BY having him prosrnt when
the Ware controlled CITY commlttoc Of
Philadclphin outraged all politlrul do.
ctncy by indOrglng Alter. Senator Pom.
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BY q Staff Correspondent

washington. May Sold stuff" is
back In favor in the Senatc's debate on
the tariff. and from the way senator's
and party leaders are taking to IL. is
likely to be offered to the country dur.
ing the coming campaign in much the
same manner as for the past generations.
There is hardly new line in It. The
same old hackneyed arguments, the
same old answers, the same old CUFF"
the same predictions of disaster II II is
or isn't passed, the same charges ana
denials and The, same old partisan bunk
which nobody but Senator believes
and not all Of them-are being hashed
over and rchashed in the same old way.
"Monstrous! cry the Democrats.
'indefensible! A tariff for the trusts.
An economic abortion. For goodness
sake don't pcrpetratc a thing like this
nall"
To which the G. q. =. replies.
Look at the country Just look at
1t Millions Of men idled. factories
closed, business bankrupt, ships tied up
at the dock, railroads in receivcrship-
all because of your own confounded
tariff ideas. No. SIR We've listened
10 you before. The American laboriny
man and the American farmer must be
protected. American industry must be
safeguarded. Prosperity will only re.
turn under a Republican tariff. and
hats what this is
Same Old Play
Whercupon Senators on both sides
AXE another hitch in their belts. lite
Df another chew of cut plug. grin sheep
SHY at each Other, and go at it again,
showing that the truth is to be found
between the two extremes.
It's the same old play with the same
haracters speaking the same lines, with
new joke or two inserted here and !
here to keep the galleries amused.
All of. which points to the tariff as
he big issue Of the coming elections.
t will be. If politicians have their way.
leaders, of both parties agree on that. !
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|DEk u U)CEs o Old STUFF
AS TARIFF STORM RACES
Hackneyed Arguments Are Reuived Senases Debatc Win
Dire Predictions by Both Sides

They are shaping their plans accord.
ingly.
There will be other issues. Of course
domestic and foreign policies. the
Four Power Treaty. the League OF Ma.
tions, taxes, railroad rates, Newberry.
war contracts. conservation, oil leases,
the bonus. and many others. But the
tariff, II seems probable now. will over.
shadow them all.
The history Of political campaigns
shows that elections are won or lost. as
rule. on a single outstanding issue.
All others arc subordinated or simply
contribute TO the final result. That
issue. this year. is likely to be the tariff
They're trying II out OH the dog just
now--in this ease the United states
Senate later the same arguments
and statistics and heavy humor viii be
offered In condensed and canned form to
the country at large. Politicians, lack
inc originality, want something familiar
TO talk about. They like the thrift for
they can discuss II for hours with never
comeback. Any twist can be given
1t.
All Vague to Voter
It is tho one subject the average voter
can't comprehend. except in the vaguest
WAY, UHU i'''' t'S
point of the old. timers. is the best sort
Of campaign topic.
There are those who point to the
2O37 committee amendments, and to the
hundreds to be offered from the Senate
floor. and declare the bill can never be
passed before November. The belief Is
gaining ground TINT 1t cannot possibly
PASS much before then. The bonus will
come into the Senate soon, and itscit Is
likely to consume four or five weeks Of
debate. Until then. and after the bonus
is disposed Of. the tariff will have right
Of way.
This allows five months. roughly. for
the tariff to be debated aud voted on,
md put through conference. Cutting
IF another month for consideration In
conservative estimate Of
he time that will probably be required
TO reconcile differences between Senate
md House bills-there is left four
months for debate in the Senate.
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MAY EXHIBIT MONSTERS
Director, Brown, Of the ZooioaicaI
Gardens, Would Show Them at Fair

Visitors to the Sosqui Centennial
Fair will be greeted with strange sights
if the suggestion of &, Emerson Brown,
director Of the Geological Gardens, to
construct life size reproductions OF
antcdluvian mOpsters and set them uu
in characteristic poses along the banks
of the Schuylkill is carried out.
The idea is not entirely ncw," said
DR.. Brown in Collaborating on his theme.
Carr IIAgrnback. founder Of the fa-
nous park at Stell. agcn. near Ham
burg, possesses nn exhibit of Ola World
monsters executed by the sculptor Pal
lcnburg. ] merely propose to do for
America what Stellingcn has done for
Europe"
DR.. Brown was formerly animal
sculptor and taxidermist for the Boston
Museum OF Natural History. and has
already done. work of this kind on
miniature scale.
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;FAL Sc RUMOR OF NEGRO
'5sATTACK STlRS TEXAS TOWN
Mined Band Reported Seeking
vtnaeance for Burning Of Men

kirvin. Tex. May S.-By 4. P)--
Derpite rumors from various towns in
tbis vicinity that armed Negroes were
Marching on the city to avenge the
buriing to death last Saturday of three
Negroes accused Of the assault and hlur-
AeP of seventeen year old white girl,
~ town is quiet today.
ND. G. King, city marshal, said he
Ma Investigated several reports. bur
&kAt in each case they had proved false,
IA that he expected no trouble. A
1lgious gathering of three score or
bSe Negroes near here yesterday dis
,1fgsed when advised that their meeting
111st possibly be misconstrued.
%A report from C0rsicana that 300
{lSIroes were en- route here also proved
Aout foundation. City marshnls
Hi the highways between Kirvin and
eans report that Negroes in their
~ sections are quiet and that
q Negroes have been seen In
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EARTHQUAKE IN NEW ENGLAND

Pittsfeld. n. H., May S.--A light
earth shock, apparently moving from
west to eas;, ratified furniture and shook
dishes from shelves In some houses here
late yesterday.
The disturbance came at 8 40 p. NJ,
and lasted only few seconds.
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S9,OOO,OOO Booze
Flood Is Planned
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| Easton. former Justice of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania. as a special at
torney general to CO. operate with hlm
in investigating the Lewis report ON
State finances.
Only six days for actual campaigning
remain before the primary. All re-
ports agree that Iinchot is running
stronger than ever. The machine is de-
pending on Allegheny and Philadelphia
Counties. The western machine strong
hold however. is greatly weakened by
internal dissensions, while the inde-
rendents of Philadelphia promise to cut
down the Ware vote to point where
1t will be easily submerged by the roll.
ing tide Of Pinchot sentiment from the
interior Of the State.
Justice Fox. who is n former pres,.
dent Of the State Bar Association and
president Of the Easton Trust Com.
pany. has accepted the appointment and
agreed to serve without compensation.
He is expected here within a few days
and the report transmitted by Mr.. Lewis
and such other data as are available
will be submitted to him.
Justice Fox served as a member of
the State Constitutional Revision Com
mission and is familiar with the State
governmental system. He is a Demo.
crat. He was named TO the Appellate
Court by former Governor Brumbaugh
and was defeated BY Justice Kephart
several years ago.
Data Incomplete. Alter Says
The Attorney Generals announce.
ment of appointment of Justice Foy
vas accompanied by a lengthy state.
ment by Mr. Alter. in which he set
forth his views relative to the renort
in his hands. saying various details arc
not complete and there is no evidence
the State has lost any money. lie
further says he has asked the Auditor
General to instruct the accountants to
obtain additional information and is
assured they will co. operate.
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Illustrated from Our Floors
LIVING ROOM

$3.50 Jacobean Oak Living. Room Suite with
Tapestry-covered spring seats. 3 pcs, S53.50
Mahogany Living Room Suite Tapestry.cov-
cred spring seats. pieces. ..........S .S65.6O
$4,000 Mahogany -and-Cane Suite. Tapestry
covered spring seats. 8 pieces ..... .SI260 90
s235.00 Overstuffed loose cushion Suite spring
S2O5.OO
s35O.OQ Overstuffed loose cushion Suite spring
seats. covered with Tapestry, 3 pieces.
s?85.OO
SS25 Mahogany y'and-Cane Suite loose cush-
ions. Felour-covered spring seats, 3 pieces.
$4,000
Overstuffed loose cushion Suite spring seats
covered with Blue Mohair, pieces S3IS. Oo
s3GO.O0 Mahogany-and-Cane Living Room
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DINING ROOM

Walnutfnish Queen Anne Dining Room
Walnut-fniSh Suite. pieces. .......&l7o.O 90
Mahogany finish william d-Mary Suite, Q
s3o5. 90 walnut Queen Anne Suite, pieces
S3?5.OO
ss5o.oo Antique Mahogany Dining Room
Suite. 10 pieces ...............s $500
*660.Oo Brown Mahogany Queen Anne Suite
.o.oo SO0O.OO
$S62.00 Gray Walnut Polychrome Suite, 10
pieces .........,.,,.,., s6,s az
$sbo.oo Mahogany Queen Anne Suite 10
pSNSS .S1BO.OO
Brown Mahogany Queen Anne Suite, 10
S2l00.0O Walnut Renaissance suite IN
pieces SIsoo M
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-08
Save ON Furniture in the
VanSciver Rebuilding Sale

or Piece of q kind. These ertra
reductions comprise Odd Suites,
Discontinued Patterns and Pieces
from Matched Suites, Of which
there are thousands Of dollars
worth-all marked at the greater
savings for quick clearance to
provide immediate room. Savings
that are without parallel any.
where.
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Me OF THE GREAT VALUES

Suite, loose cushions, spring seats covered
with Blue Damask. 3 pieces ... :. .S337.0O
Overstuffed loose cushion Suite, spring seats.
covered with Brown Mohair. 3 pcs. $4,000
Equally Great Reductions in
Bedroom Furniture
EASY CHAIRS
$500 Tapestry-covered Chair. .Ss7 .Se
$3.50 Tapestry-covered Rocker. $50 rs
$500 Mahogany Rocker, cane back with
Blue Denim-covered seat. SI7,BO
$62.50 Tapestry-covered Armchair. $500
$1,000 Tapestry.covered Chair ....... .S62 80
$500 Antique Mahogany finish Armchair,
covered with Tapestry ........... $4,000
$500 Mahogany Armchair with cane back
and Tapestry-covered seat. $4,000
s9S.o0 Tapestry-covered Armchair now $1,000
vide and wonderful selection. Best Of all, at
you can buy a sturdy Library Table
op. at $lo75. Other Tables at proportionate
Evening star., 1922-04-16

however, has discouraged such q
course.
The most important thing to note.
however, in connection with the
movement is the desire for plates
which, from the standpoint of work
manship, strength and attractiveness.
compare with these same qualities in
the aveeage American motor vehicle.
Something along this line is surely
desirable in New York state, where
motor registration plates are any
too often the workmanship on them
is very poor.
Quality Sacrificed.
All but 100000 pairs of the 1922
New York state registration plates
were manufactured by the state
prison department at a cost of 17K
cents per pair The 100000 in Ques-
tion were manufactured under con-
tract by a. private concern for 15A
cents per pair. 1t Is possible, there
fore, that quality has been sacrificed
for price.
When it is realized. however. that
the 1884 motor vehicles registered
in New York state in 1922 paid a
total of $10.2sS.s5s in special fees
into the state treasury, it would seem
that a little more money per pair
could be paid for registration plates
which would be an ornament to a
motor vehicle and not an eyesore.
Bay State More Liberal.
Massachusetts, state is little more
liberal in its expenditures for plates
where the state prison at Charles
town manufactures them at a cost
Evening star., 1922-04-16
.ABOLISHES SPEED LIMIT
IN THE BRITISH ISLES
Bill Relating to Road Rules for Au-
tomobiles Recommended by
the Cabinet.
BY JuNIus b. WWoD.

BY JUNIUS b. WWOD.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright. 1922.
LONDON, England, April 15.-The
abolition Of all speed limits for auto
mobiles in the British Isles is pro-
vided for in a bill reported by the
committee on road regulations for
vehicles and recommended by the
cabinet. The indications are that the
recommendation will eventually be-
come law. leaving the drivers abil-
ity and discretion as the only restric-
tion on speed.
In view OF the radical removal of
speed restrictions, severe penalties
are proposed for negligent driving.
For the first offense there is fine of
ESQ (about 1920 at current exchange
rate) and revocation of the drivers
license. at the discretion of the court.
ment is a fine of f100 ($440), six
months imprisonment and compulsory
revocation of the license. The only
cars prohibited from going as fast as
they like are trucks. Those without
pneumatic tires and weighing three
hour.
In connection with the new motor
ing laws, parliament is scheduled to
consider whether two persons shall be
permitted to ride a single motor cycle.
Greatly to the cyclists annoyance.
nervous pedestrians are conducting a
vigorous agitation before parliament
a against the continuance of cheap
sociability." represented by girl
perched on the back seat of speed
ing motor cycle. The committee which
decided in favor of unrestricted auto
mobile speed concluded that double
riding of motor cycles was not dam
gerouS.
Evening star., 1922-04-16
Plan MEMORIAL
T0H. C. 0STERMANN
Roadside Seat Will Be Erect
ed in Commemoration of Ef-
forts for Highway.

The wonderfully effective work
which the late H. c. Ostermann ac-
complished in behalf of the Lincoln
highway during the years he was
vice president and field secretary of
that organization is to be most ap-
propriately memorialized. says an an
nouncement from Detroit. The trav-
elers of the future. driving the trans
continental highway, either east or
west, may realize and appreciate the
pioneers work accomplished by the
man known and loved along the high
way which he did so much to de-
velop from a dream to an established
fact.
Immediately after Ostermann's tragic
death, in the spring Of 1920, his hun
dreds of friends along the route be-
tween the two coats urged the asso-
citation to provide for the construction
of some suitable memorial. in which
all of his friends might have a part
This was authorized by the board of
directors of the Liacoln Highway AS
sociat ton. and scores of subscriptions
from Ostermanns friends have been
received. JenS Jensen, the landscape
architect of Chicago. who has in
charge the Identification OF the Ideal
section Of the Lincoln highway. to
be built this year in Lake county,
Indiana, was commissioned to prepare
a design for memorial seat, which it
was felt by the associations board
would be the most appropriate form
of memorial to the late field secretary.
The seat has been designed and ap-
proved by the associations board. 1t
will be constructed 1T a beautifuNspot
along the Ideal section, set back
slightly from the road in a grove of
trees, and may become the nucleus
for the Ideal <campsite the association
will ultimately develop at this point.
Ostermann's vision of the tranScon-
tinental road had seen it ultimately
widened. beautified and made inspir-
ing by the construction of memorials.
rest camps and facilities for the COM
fort of the traveller. and If is most
appropriate that at the side of the
finest section of Lincoln highway in
the United States should be placed a
memorial to him which in itself will
be an invitation to the traveller to
stop and rest in the shade and con-
template the beauties of nature which
Ostermann himself so keenly appre-
ciated.
The memorial seat will carry a
handsome bronze tablet. bearing its
dedication to the late official and a
few appropriate words significant OF
the man. 1t will represent Oster-
mann's wide friendship and typify his
never-failing interest in humanity and
altruiStic work.
Evening star., 1922-04-16
NEW YORK AUTOISTS COMPLAIN
ABOUT REGISTRATION PLATES
Declare Fee of $500 Deserves Better
Than 17-Cent Tag More
Beauty Desired.

Many owners of motor cars regis
tered in New York state are COM
planning of the registration plates
which they are obliged to carry. They
insist that these. plates mar the ap-
pearance of their cars and could be
much improved by the expenditure of
a little more money per pair than at
present.
During 1924 there were 1884 cars
registered in New York state that
paid a total of s10,2SS.S5s in registra-
tion fees, or an average Of 1890 each,
yet, the motorist is in 1922 obliged to
get along with plates that cost about
II cents per pair and are, to say the
least, anything but good to look at,
either on or of a car.
A movement has been started in
Arizona to have the 1923 license
plates for motor vehicles made of
copper instead of sheet iron. While
it is estimated that a pair of plates of
the former metal will-cost 18 cents
more than a pair of sheet iron plates,
nevertheless those behind the move
ment feel that the extra cost is war
ranted if it will procure more durable
and attractive registration numbers.
Favor TyvO-Year Plates.
There are some, too. who urge that
the copper plates could be used for
two years by inserting into the plate,
as was formerly done in California, q
small disk with a design indicative of
. the registration year. The ease with
which such disks are counterfeited,
Evening star., 1922-04-16
S|TES|N MARYLAND
FOR AUTO CAMPERS
Ample Grounds Will Be Sup
piled This Summer on
Maih Highways.

Maryland motorists and others who
pass through that state and desire
camping ground will be amply sup
piled this summer. according to John
n. Mackall, chairman of the good
roads commission. Camping sites
throughout the main highways of the
state will be ready for occupancy in
the course of the next few weeks.
Arrangements already have been
completed for five of these camps. 1t
is expected that several others will
be secured within the next two weeks.
According to present plans. those to
be opened this summer will be along
Sne mS.iI roads leading from Balti-
more over the mountains of western
Maryland II the scheme is success
full camps will be set up at frequent
intervals along all the state roads
next summer.
Location of Sites.
Mr.. Mackall has been arranging for
these camps. Sites have been secured
near Frederick, near FrostburG. near
Lisbon on the Frederick pike: near
Hancock. and on Conococheague
creek. Several other sites in the
mountainous section of Maryland are
being considered. Mr.. Mackall said.
and it is probable that arrangements
for these will be completed in the
near future.
who care to camp on the sites. Mr..
Mackall explained. Each site Will be
financed and patrolled by man. who
will be given the concession of run
ming a store on the property. This
man will sell canned goods and SINH
lar articles likely to be desired by the
tourists. Campers will not be COM
PEELED TO purchase from him. but Mr..
Mackall assumes that they will want
to buy such things rather than carry
these from place to place.
Provision Made for Water.
While the camps will not be planned
elaborately. MIR. Mackall declared, all
will have water and sanitary provi-
Sions.
The camp near Frostburg proba by
will be the most elaborate. This will
include shower baths. swimming
pool and other conveniences. Ar
rangements for this site were made
through the Commercial Club of
FroStburg.
At Conococheague Greek there will
be bathing facilities. while well water
will be available. The site at Freder-
with the Rotary Club of Frederick.
viii Use Picnic Ground.
A picnic ground will be utilized for
Lisbon. while Andrew Cohill of Han
cock is> arranging for the camp at
that point.
All these camps, Mr. Mackau said
are from three to five acres in size
The others, which are expected to be
secured Sn the mountainous regions
will be somewhat smaller
Just outside of Cumberland. he adds
James E. Perrin is rigging up an ex-
tensive camp site which will be some
what more elaborate than those being
arranged for by the state roads COM
mission. A nominal charge will be
made for camping on this site. 1t Is
the intention Of the state roads com
mission to compare this camp with
the others at the end of the summer
to determine which the campers pre-
fer. 1t is the belief of Mr.. Mackall
however, that they will prefer the
free site on less elaborate scale.
The five state-controlled camps will
be opened in week or ten days, in
time for use by the tourists returning
from Florida and other PLACES in the
south. They will remain Indefinitely
MIR. MackalI said.