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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-18
Party Lines Fading
in Western States

Continued from Paxe On.
,n,s;- A.,
oUnniI. Nnnin tne CONSERVATIVE fepubncans are
d;JatSSs sfIppoLta'Hs fnp .L tne Demosratlc can
a raa, democratic farmers are getting
dates " 'o'e LUZ 'he i'epupiican candi- =
IN N,,n,o,. A. p,,. :.
8sta Gso'I Gmnt tme Nepuphcan candl l.
hnt l. iUi is ar. Me!ipss is CohserVatiVe,
cond;aat e"rIcteu tHut the FORMER laDor
hin n close rmm othaps1eau, .hp m VIII giVs
uominntaI Sh;n:,o, tne I i.emycra.s hdG q
have won '"'p''e"u ne prooao'y "ouid
the farmers w,os "n nor"oi.1 o7tiI'ent ~, OF
pected strenoth as u 1n,: Il. 'n9 uhe4
publican nrimor;os IHo MaI ~ tne he'
but two cpnd;dntas' pd;des' Hhd there been
Iaupaoiy would have won. His fol-
ocratic conddote ~''' VOC errnn tor the ZEN. lem
ris, for the Senate, making thnt strong.
y Republican state close Rakar VIII
b. heard from two years from now
when senator Newberry's soot bacnmos
vacant. He is the Brookbart of Wichis
Ean. ~
In Ohio there is the same d,scontent
lines in these other States, and Ind y
radical been nominated for the senate
y either party the situation in Iowa
anu Nebraska would be repeated there
AS it is, it Is one Of the States in
which the wet dry issue is breaking
party lines.
sue also is prominent factor bmt no. No.
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LAFAYETTE DEGREE
FOR De CHAMBRUN
College Honors 0reat-Grandson
Of Marquis at Founders
Day Exercises
LEHIGH PRESIDENT SPEAKS
M laSonxnfsd p,.,

EastOn, Pa, Oct. 18.-The degree
Of doctor Of laws was today conferred
on Count Charles de Chambrun, act
Ing French Ambassador to the United
States, and great-grandson of the
Marquis de Lafayette Or. Charles
Russ Richards, president Of Lehigh
University; Robert Lincoln Slagle.
president Of the University OF South
Dakota, and Nicholas Dominic Maher,
president of Norfolk and Western Rail
road, at the annual Founders Day ex-
ercises Mt Lafe. tte College.
The principal address was delivered
by DR.. Richards, who spoke on "Evo.
luton of Engineering Education" !:
Count Chambrun spoke on Friend.
ship, Personal and National" and DR..
slage spoke on "Reminiscences.
During the exercises the alumni me.
mortal tablet in honor of the late Rev.
John Franklin Stonecopper, d. D., wns
unveiled in Van Wickle Memorial IL.
brary. where DR.. Stonec0pper served
as librarian for seventeen years.
Governor Sproul, who, two years aro
received the LII. ID. degree when he M,
Veilcd statue Of Lafayette, wns n
guest OF the college during the exer.
cises, A' '"ei
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Asks Conviction
of Mrs. GibersOn
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damned mad, ats like waving a rcd
flag before q bull"
She also expressed regret that she
had not burned letters which the prose :
cution has since offered at her trial.
Pocketbook Not Found
The question Of what became OF the
pocketbook Mrs. Giberson says was
stolen after the murder was not an
swered by the State. Although a thor
ough search was made by the author.
titles. they failed to locate 1t. Other
day, but Mrs. Giberson identified them
as ones which had been about the house
for some time, but had not been used
recently. She said she had bought q
new pocketbook for her husband a few
weeks before his death.
The defense contends tho State had
not sufficiently established a motive for
the crime. They argue tho relation
ship between Mrs. Giberson and Mr..
Ga Nun had sufficiently cooled some
months previous to tho homicide, to
preclude it as cause for murder.
After the presentation OF evidence
had been finished, counsel for Mrs.
Giberson again tried to have the tcsti-
mony Of several Of the prosecution's 8
witnesses stricken out, but tho Court
declined to issue the order.
Testimony of Mrs. Potter Giberson.
the dead mans mother, that about n
month before her son was killed his
wife had told her that ''any one could
commit murder In Ocean County nnd
get away with It" was permitted to
remain on the records against protests
OF the defendants counsel.
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Nine Firen,en Hurt
at s. Second st. Blaze
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It was necessary 10 carry the fonr
children Of the family into the street.
They are Emma. twelve years old :
Tillie, sixteen years old; Helen, eight
years old. and Carrie. four years old.
His rescue work completed, the
ratrolman hastened to the corner anil
turned in m alarm, but before flremen
arrived the flames had envelopsd the
two dwelling houses and stable, and had
spread to n second stable, on the op-
rosite side OF tho alley. It was also
owned by Marshall. and housed fifteen
horses owned by hucksters living in the
neghbOrhood. Firemen rescued but one
Of the animals before the building col
lapsed.
Coleman was on the roof Of one Of
the stables and was knocked. to the
ground when chimney collapsed. He
was caught under the falling debris.
but was quickly rescued by fellow fire.
men.
Several families living in nearby
houses fed from their homes fearing the
flames would spread. Three families at.
tempted 20 move out their furniture,
hut were stopped by the police, who
feared they might be injured by falling
debris.
In addition to tho horses burned
forty-flve chickens and sixty five pig
cons were roasted alive IN one of the
stables. while six prize Pomeranian
dogs. owned by Marshall and valued at
$500, were burned in Marshall's home.
Two other dogs were rescued BY fire.
men and three pigeons managed to es-
cape from the burning stable.
Most Of the injured fremen received
their injuries while attempting to rescue
two Negro men they were told were
sleeping in one Of tho stables. The
Negroes, however. were not found and
are thought by the firemen to have fled
when they first discovered the stable
in flames.
William Moore, caretnker Of Shot
Tower playground. which Is near the
scene Of the fire, climbed into the tower
and played a fashlight over the burn.
ing buildings TO aid fremen.
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'ROSE Tree HUNT
OPENS CLASSY CARD
Annual Meeting at Media, With
Full Program, Draws Great
Society Crowd
CRACK HORSES ENTERED

with the largest program yet offered
ths annual fall meet Of the Rose Tree
Hunt Club opened at 2 o'clock this
afternoon on the course near Media.
In all the events except that for two
,sar.olds there arc large entries. In
this excepted event. however, great
stress has bcen laid on what horsemen
tsrm Equality" Samuel d. Riddle
Hsrrmanuat, Ralph Strassburgcr $
pcnllyn and Walter NJ. Jcfford's Prince
Recent will have the racs to them
selves.
Eirht horses have been entered for
the steeplechase. Among them George
I,rook's Ormead. which recently has at
,rscted much attention. Mr.. Riddles
The Swell is also in this race. For this
erent Mr.. Jetford has announced the
club will offer a permanent challenge
Ths cross country race is to be n
handicap. Among the horses entered
for IL are Mr.. Strassberger's Wolver-
ION II, Mr.. StrawbridRe's River
breeze and Mr.. Clothier's Rill Whaley.
In the longer fiat race, at mile
and a quarter, Lelpers flraeus PROB
ably will be the favorite, althoug IN he
In carrying 100 pounds. Mrs. Lewis
Miles In the Dark at 145, Mr..
Fred Nicholson's Atrial at 148 and Mr..
Ridgway's Loves Legacy at 148 also
should be prominent in this. Mr.. Whit
ney has brought over horse named
Brother Compton, which is In at 142
rounds. He may be dark horse in the
event.
The program follows,
First race, the Agricultural Stakes
Handicap, purse presented by J. NJ.
McComb, blankets by Walter NJ. JET
fords.
Second race, the Edgemont Plate.
plate presented By Mr.. McAiurtrie.
Third race, the Bear Hill Plate, plate
presented by Ralph Beaver Strass-
burger.
Fourth race, the Aspiration Plate,
plate presented by ]. r. Caldwell 4
Go.
Fifth race. the Middletown Barrcns
Plate, plate to winner presented by
William du Pont, trophies for second
and third presented by Emanuel Hey.
Sixth race. Sycamore Mills Plate,
plate presented by Alexander Sellers.
The meet will be continued Satur-
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SEES CATACLYSM UNLESS
CHURCH LEADS WORLD
Pittsburgh Pastor Brings Message
TO penna. Baptist Convention

Unless tho Church takes "A position Of
leadership in the moral and social
life Of the world. mankind is headed
for another cataclysm that ''will make
the World War look like kindcrgar-
ten
The Rev. DR.. Carl Wallace Petty
pastor Of the First Baptist Church In
Pittsburgh, brought that message to the
Pennsylvania Baptist general conven-
ton, last evening, M its fifteenth ami
versary in tho Second Baptist Church,
Germantown avenue and Upsal street,
Germantown.
Mira. Charles 4. Brook Of New
York. n member of the Won, s Ameri-
can Baptist Home Missionary Society,
urged the Baptist women OF Pennsyl-
yania 70 direct their attention to tho
religious condition of the Negro.
Nearly GOO delegates are attending
The convention, which represents ITO
churches In twenty five Baptist asHo-
Citations throughout Pennsylvania with
1874 ,30S members.
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5000 LEGION MEN
|. HEAR FALL-|N CALL
Great Parade Of War Veterans
10 Conventions Head.
liner
BUSINESS SESSION BEGINS
BY Associated Press


New Orleans, Oct. 1S.--The Ameri-
can Legion, following u brisk business
session, paradcd today. More than
30, 900 men "fell I'M for the parade,
and the brisk autumn air, a contrast
to the balmy weather Of the first two
days Of the convention, added zest to
the event.
Through miles of narrow, stone-
paved streets, down the broad concourse
Of Canal street, winding in and out
"Vieux Care" (Old Town. established
by the Spanish and French, founders
Of New Orleans, the veterans Of 1913
marched today.
Fluttering In the autumn air, borne
by the men who carried them to victory
four years ago, went the national col
ors, fanked by the silken colors Of leg =
ion posts from every State in the
Union. from Alaska, Hawaii. the
Panama Canal Zone, Porto Rico, the
Philippine Islands, Great Britain, Al
rica and China.
Today's business session was slow in
getting under way. The announcement
by Alvin NJ. Owsley, OF Texas, that he
would accept the nomination for the
national commandership, IL IL were Of
fered him, appeared TO be crystallizing
the sentiment of the South. Mr.. Ows-
ley. former Attorney General Of Texas,
and chairman for two years Of tha
Americanization Commission Of the
Legion brought In report this week,
ns spokesman Of the commission, In
which It was declared that a deliberate
effort was being made to infect a pro
German account OF the World War into
the school textbooks In many parts OF
America.
The report also contained q declara-
ton in favor of total exclusion of i'm
migrants from the United States, and
asserting again the stand Of the Legion
in opposition TO the recognition by this
Governmentt Of Soviet Russia.
Outstanding among the Developments
of today among the delegates to the
American Legion was the announce.
ment Of Alvin NJ. Ousley, Dallas. Tex,
a vice commander Of the organization.
that he was an active candidate for
national commander of the organization
to succeed HanfOrd MacNider.
Among those familiar with chances
it was generally believed that the South
would name the next national COM
mander, and that. according to present
indications, the choice lay between Mr.,
Ouslcy and Matthew Murphy, attorney.
of birmingham, Ala.
Kenesaw NJ. Lnndis. baseball COM
missioner, was a speaker on tho morn
ing sessions program. as was General
Eli X. Cole. representing Major Gen.
eral John a. Lejeune, who has been
unable to attend the convention because
Of illness in his family.
Among the committee reports ex-
pected were those on military affairs,
constitution, internal organization,
naval affairs and finance.
The American Legion Auxiliary
planned n brief business session to hear
reports Of departments and committees,
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Hall Box in Bank
to Be Opened TODAY
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the motive behind its issuance. II
probably will be served and the hous,
of the individual named in It searched
during the course of the day.
It Is rumored that the house to b,
searched is that of "Bunkie" Stevens
at Lavalette, but this has not been con
| firmed.
Rectov's Own Pistol Used
The authorities have reconstructed
the murder from a new point of view.
They are now working on a theory tha,
Mr.. Hall and Mrs. Mills were killed
with the minister's own pistol. Mrs.
Hall was asked yesterday II she had no,
seen q pistol in the rector's possession
on n trip to the church s summer camp
at Point Pleasant, short time before
| the murder. She denied knowing that
he owned = pistol.
As the authorities have worked this
theory out, they profess to feel certain
that the minister was killed first. There
! may have been plot. they believe, to
murder him ard throw the blame for
the murder on Mrs. Mills. They will
not say what leads them to this ap =
parently fantastic belief.
They say that it looks rs though the
minister had been lured first to the
spot where the murder was committed
likely the place whero the bodies were
found, but not certainly-and there
confronted by a man who has been
mentioned in the investigation.
Rector Thought to Have Fought
There was n fight, the detectives be-
lieve, and in 1t blows were struck by
the rector hard enough to take the skin
from his knuckles. Then, 1t is be-
licved, he drew his pistol to defend him
self, and in deadly hand-to- hand
struggle lost it to his more powerful ad-
vcrsrry.
DR.. Hall, though a big man, was
stout and asthmatic, with n shortncss
OF breath that made walking distasteful
to him, and would have been severe
handicap In fist fight.
He was shot with his own pistol In
the struggle to regain the weapon, Il il
believed, the one bullet killing him in
stantly. Then, while the murderer was
so disposing the body chat It might ap-
pear Mrs. Mills had slain him, the
woman arrived unexpectedly. She was
shot with the same weapon and her
throat gashed.
Tho examination Of Mrs. Hall and
members Of her family, TO whom q num-
Der OF questions were submitted BY the
prosecutors. was tho feature of the
murder inquiry yesterday.
When Mrs. Hall entered the Prose-.
cutor's Office woman was sitting IN a
corner Of the room. Mrs. Half was
greeted with n smile by Prosecutor
Beekman and asked to remove her
hat and coat. She did so without say.
Ing word. The Prosecutor gave her n
gray ulster and asked her to put it on
and walk around the room. As she did
so the Prosecutor looked inouiringiy
at the strange woman In the room. For
nearly three minutes Mrs. Hall walked
up and down. It is believed the woman
Is the one who told tho Prosecutor that
on the afternoon OF tine murder a
woman visited the Phillips farm, then
rested on her porch. She said she be-
lieved the woman wac Mrs. Hall. If
Mrs. Hall was identified by TIE woman
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even to give her name. and ran down
fused positively to go to the hospital OF
the railroad tracks. l suppose she got
taxicab ut Thirty first and Master
streets. She was young.
Tho only thing that prevented the
car from being demolished and all three
people killed." Goldstein said. was the
fact that II struck several trees while
going down the embankment, and these
served to break the speed Of the plunge.
About ten trees were uprooted by the
machine. Had It not been for them the
car would have certainly struck the
railroad tracks aud been smashed to
splinters.
'The policeman called a patrol wagon
to take the two men to hospital, but
the nearest 1t could approach to the
scene OF the accident was Thirty first
and Master streets. We got the stretch
ers out of 1t and carried the men on
them to the wagon"
Man, 60, Killed by Auto
At a hearing before Magistrate Stew
enson in the Thirty ninth street ard
Lancaster avenue police station, Rod
gers testified that the name of the miss
Ing woman is Dorothy Simmons. He
said he did not know her address.
NouserS was Deld In X21OO ball Tor
a further hearing October 70, by which
time 1t Is thought the extent Of the In
5urics sustained by Dalton and Miss
Simmons will be known. He is charged
with reckless driving.
Police are trying to locate relatives
OF man about sixty years old, who
died in Polytechnic Hospital this morn.
ing from injuries he received when
struck by an automobile at Twenty
first and Kimball streets last night.
The machine was driven by Earl Jones,
Negro, twenty one years old, 3641
Culbert street.
The dead man was 8 feet 8 inches
tall and weighed about $50 pounds. He
wore dark clothes, and was we'll dressed.
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AUTO KILLS BOY AT PLAY
Lad, 8, Runs In Front Of Speed Ing
Car at 54th and Race Streets

When returning home from school
yesterday, Franklin Tickers, eight years
old, 142 North Yewdall street. was
struct and almost instentlv killed by a
motorcar at Fifty-fourth and Race
streets.
Frank Fields, twenty years old. OF
Third and Mexican streets. driver OF the
car, carried the child 70 the West Phils-
delphia Hospital, but he was dead upon
arrival.
According to Witnesses. the boy had
been playing with several companions
and dashed into the highway directly
in the path Of tho approaching motor.
Fields surrendered to the police, and
Will be arraigned for hearing before
Magistrate Pennock this morning.
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HEALER SCHLATTER DIED
FROM NATURAL CAUSES
81. Louis Police Still Sock "Nur,e"
Who DISAPPEARED

81. LOUIS Oct. 1S.-(By A. p
The death Of Francis schlatter, puta
tive divine healer" in room,ns
house here was from natural causes,
it was announced following an autopsy
today. The autopsy was performed fol-
lowing an assertion of Mrs. Schlatter,
who arrived hero from Kansas CITY,
Mo. last night. that she believed her
husband to have been tho victim Of foul
play.
The police, despite tho autopsy. are
continuing their search for youne
woman who was with Schlatter for sew
eral days, preceding his death. The
woman told n physician that She was A
nurse.
Mrs. Schlatter denied that her bus.
band was the Francis Schiattnr wf,
wns convicted in Los Angeles in l0IG
on a charge of using the mails to de
fraud in connection with selling by mn,l
blessed handkcrchlefs' 10 nsrsona
seeking relief from illness. ''''''
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the Prosecutor refused to make the
Identification public.

Identification public.
Early In the afternoon Charlotte
Mills was sent for and arrived at the
courthouse in an automobile. She ran
lightly up the steps after waving her
hand and smiling at the newspapermen.
A few moments later Timothy Pfeiffer,
Mrs. HILLS attorney, arrived and went
into the Prosecutors Office.
Within five minutes Mr.. Pfeiffer,
Mrs. Hall and the two maids left. Mr..
from photosraphers hT W with hhs his coat. s The The
two Stevens brothers remained in the
building. The examination Of Mrs.
Hall lasted one hour. Mrs. Hall seemed
on the verge of collapse as che was as
sisted into her motorcar and Mr.. .Pfeif-
fer appeared angry, but Miss Peters,
the buffer between Mrs. Hall and the
reporters, was smiling broadly.
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Hard
Era Of PrOst !

Continued from PsGe One. fH
normal balance between prices and c6tte
Of production"
The Executive further declared ;
great deal already had been accouA-
plished toward that end and added tAat
the trend was strongly toward ~ 4
ter conitions for the farmer" VI
The farmer was described By the
President az '' captain Of industry, =
the letter adding that eliminatien q
competition among farmers would ~
impossible without sacrifice Of the Ia
the real reservoir from which the NAtiea
draws 30 many Of the finest slensntr
of its citizenship" 80
The President took occasion also -
deplore any movement by the farmers
! looking toward decrease Of pr0duction.
and said the natural result Of such q
movement would be famine prices. He
commended Mr.. Wallace for the admin
istration Of the Department Of Agri
last two years has rendered a partlcu-
larly notable service along a somewhat
new line.'
New Departmental Activities
There was q time the letter con
tnued, when the department OK AZ
riculture was looked upon az an ine<ru
mentality for inducing constantly lateer
and larger production for the farmess,
rather regardless Of the questions Of
markets and marketing, Of transp0stA-
tion, Of financing, and other thinSs of
that sort. Latterly we have come upon
time when these other questions Dc.
nand attention, and think the country
owes q great deal to the fact that We
have had new direction given to i'm.
portant activities of the department,
II mean that these broader questions
have been given a consideration and at
tention which formerly was not always
recognized as due to them.
THE other day farmer said to No
that the farmers could themselves ~.
habilitate agriculture very promptly II
they would just unite on n program Of
reduced production. / replied that the
farmers would never unite on such q
program because Of the peculiar eco
nomir circumstances Of their industry
Every farm IL an economic entity
by Itself. Every farmer Is a captain Of
industry. The elimination Of competi-
tion among them would be impossible
without sacrificing that fine individual
ism that still keeps the farm the reaI
reservoir from which the nation draws
50 many Of the finest elements Of its
citizenship.
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CROWDER SEES HUGHES
S5o,ooo,ooo Cuban Loan MentIone
In Connection With Visit

Washington. Oct 1S.---Major Gen.
ernl Enoch II. Crowder. personal rep
rcsentatire Of the President in Cuba.
who il here discussing Cuban affairs
with state department officials. con-
ferred at length with Secretary Hughes
yesterday. General Crowder had Just
returned from several days in New
York. It was not learned whether his
visit there had to do with the $50, 900,
600 loan which Cuba proposes and
which, 1t Is believed in we'll informed
quarters here, will be made in the near
future.
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schoolboys Form Safety pstro,

\ safety patrol, composed Of twelve
Gloucester city schoolboys. went on
duty today for the first time. They
will guard crossings near the public
schools before and after sessions. Each
boy hns an arm badge. Motorists who
fail to obey their signals will be re.
ported and summoned before Mayor
Anderson
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Dr.. Woodhouse to Address Artists

The Society OF Arts aud Letters will
hold its one hundred and twentieth
meeting Mt the New Century Drawing
Room! this evening. DR.. s. W. Wood
house, Jr., Of tho Pennsylvania Mu-
scum. will speak.
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Farmland Jailed for Theft

James Hollingwolf, Negro farm
hand. was committed to the Woodbury.
Jail today on charge Of stealing four
rings from his employer, Joseph Kuhn,
Of Hurffville. y. J.
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4 HIGHER ATHLETIC sysTrw

Ths new plan at the Universlty Of Penn
Wissnia Tor better athletic standa rds In The
ss,uoveut poIv was recently discussed fully
mrn!C acton hGpnEM II Ia articles OF this char
"g."r Snt, Vss ettract SO many readers TO the
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