The Sandusky Star-Journal from Sandusky, Ohio • Page 11

if 1 EIGHT THE SANDUSKY STAR JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18,1917" iWomen Allege Man Threatened i to Blow Up Houses Displaying Colors. "I'll blow up every house in this town that has a flag on Jt," James Collins, 46, po'tter of Youngstown is quoted as-having 1 said Wednesday afte'rnoon. Fif- teen minutes later he was in the city jail charged with disorderly conduct. A more serous charge may placed against him. Police received a call at 2 2 0 saying that a man, first noticed at Washington and Fulton-sts, was making threats and cursing the stars and stripes.

Ten minutes after the call was recelv- ed. Detective Sergeant Scheifley had the man in charge. He gave his name as Collins. "I have been unjustly aceus- ed" was all that Collins would at police headquarters. The Collins case is the first in which police have been called upon to act.

Information has come to them, it is said, that other people have made patriotic remarks, but no one Si has appeared to prosecute 3 charges. Suits for Men and Young Men, $10.00, at Nobil's Cut Price Store, Market St. 155 SEEKS DIVORCE FROM "RELIGIOUS FANATIC" -In a petition for divorce filed in common pleas court by Hart and Schoepfle representing Myron P. Ayer, it is alleged that Mrs Aver is a religious fanatic and refused to -associate with neighbors or attend entertainments. Ayer seeks a divorce on grounds of gross neglect of duty.

He charges h'is wife frequently left him and for more than a year has lived in Lowell, Mass. He alleged that she refused to prepare his meals and frequently scolded him for trifling faults. SAILORS LEAVE FOR SERVICE WITH FLEET CHICAGO, April hundred sailors from the Great Lakes naval training station left here for the Atlantic, coast to be assigned to battleships of the Atlantic fleet. Today's contingent brings the total' from Chicago since the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany, up to There are eight thousand men in training at the station and accommodations for six thousand more are being rushed. JODlmSBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Cleveland 1 St. Louis 0 Klepfer and O'Neill; Davenport and Hale. Washington L.4 0 New York 0 0 Gallia and Henry; Shocker and Nunnamaker. Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0 Leonard and (Thomas; Noyes and Schang. Chicago at Detroit, rain.

NATIONAL LEAGUE. New York 1 0 0 Brooklyn 1 0 0 Sallee and McCarty; Coombs and Miller. Pittsburgh 1 Cincinnati 0 Mamaux and Fischer; Sanders and Wingo. St. Louis 0 Chicago.

2 Steele and Snyder; Douglas and PREDICAMENT OF SANDUSKY Dangers Besetting the Commission Form In Tbat City. By CHARLES Elliot. Philadelphia at Boston, no game, rain. WILL FILL PLACES Wanted--A young man about 3 atT 18 or 19 years old, to work in stpre, whose prospects are eu win suva jiuu 11. tin good tor advancement where jsity to en the ranks ability is shown.

Call Geo. F. CHICAGO, April 18--Anticipating an increasing labor shortage, superintendents of Armour and company today began laying plans for the substitution of woman labor in their plants as a war-time necessity A new employment bureau, with the main object in view of recruiting women workers for'positions now held by men and for the purpose of better- i ing working conditions will be formed I at once. Large employers of labor, where men are being used in departments where the work can be done by women will soon find it an economic neceg- Windisch Co. Book Store.

162-tS WAKE-UP NEW YORK, April still- nes's of downtown New York will be troken at midnight by the chimes of Old Trinity, rousing New Yorkers to America's new fight for freedom and democracy, as the bells of the old North church roused Boston on the night of Paul Revere's ride. The chimes will be the first note in a daylong celebration qf the anniversary of Lexington as "wake up America" day. While aeroplanes from Governor's Island swept over the city, dropping printed appeals for recruits, thousands of marchers, among whom "women and children will predominate, will parade Flfth-av, in a great patriotic demonstration It is es- that 13,000 women, repre- every line of feminist activity will march. Five thousand boy will form another section of the parade. WANTED.

Must be 15 years or over. American Crayon Jo. 137-tf "THRIFT" ESSAY COXIEST. The Oakland school, Perkins-twp, held its essay contest on "Thrift" at the school Friday afternoon, April 13. The winners were Ella Gavson, first, and Irene Wahl, second.

These will compete in the district school meet to be held in Perkins April 27 Sergeant Rotzlnger, of the Sol- Home, Elsie Hitter, of workers, manufacturers here predict. E. N. HURLEY TO HEAD MUNITIONS COMMISSION CHICAGO, Apr. appointment of B.

N. Hurley, former head of. the trade commission, as chairman of the American munitions commission was predicted here today when it became known that Hurley would leave Friday for Washington at the solicitation of administration officials. Besides Hurley, the only other man so far suggested for the important post is E. R.

Stettinius, 'munitions expert for the firm of J. P. Morgan and company. Hurley Is former president of the Illinois Manufadfcir- Note--The following article, published in the Springfield was based largely upon information given by Dr. C.

B. Bliss, of city, who endeavored to correct the impression that everything has gone wrong in Sandusky, and to show that local troubles are due, not to the charter, but to the commission. for city; or that if owed any for the trust impose upon it." 1 The mam thing to be remembered i is that the experience of Sandusky should not be laid up against the charter nor against the aspirations of the best citizens of that municipality. The plan Is a good one, and is working elsewhere with smoothness and success, no matter what may be the Our readers arfe aware of the steady progress of the idea of the commission form of city goverment throughout this country. Springfield has been used as a conspicuous example of the successful working of that form as exemplified in our experience here.

We are, as itqwere, a city that is set on a bill, in this respect. But there is another city in this state which has not been so happy in its adaptation to the working of this system. We refer to the city of Sandusky, which has been used in various ways, to draw a moral and adorn a tale of efficiency and threatened failure. We have thought it well, at this time, to present the facts as outcome in Sandusky. Kt'EBELER VERY ILL.

The condition of Charles Kuebeler, ill very and it feared that he could not long survive. FAIR BOARD HELD "SECRET" LATE WAR BULLETINS i LONDON, April the first brought out in the Sandusky ex- time in history a foreign flag will periment, for the said municipality is fly with the Union Jack of England used as proof of the charge that over Westminster on Friday. The the -commission form is a delusion British commissioner of Grand a snare by opponents of the idea. The basis of this article is furnish- dered that the Stars and Stripes on that day fly with the British ensign to America. ed by a man Who, more than any on buildings-as a trjbute other citizen of Sandusky, perhaps, was instrumental in getting Sandus- ky into line on this proposition.

We refer to Dr. Chester Bliss. Credit is due him for the information obtained. A committee of disinterested citizens of Sandusky submitted for the action of the voters what is conceded by competent authorities to be a good charter, and which was adopted by a small majority. The' live elected commissioners could not get WASHINGTON, April together and had some difficulty I house committee late this afternoon Members of the Erie-co fair board slipped into Sandusky late Saturday afternoon and held a "harmonious" meeting.

The session was without the usual wrangling. George Dutton and John Healy were riot present. The Perkins-twp chicken fancier, recently elected, recognized! as a member by a majority of the i board, was not notified and for that reason he was not present, nor was! his attorney. No business or importance was transacted. Secretary Rule declared Wednesday.

Rule did not present his he said, because the board had been unable to find anyone i to accept the position. Another ing will be held soon at which several contracts will be let. COY SCOUTS CONFUSED WITH NEW MOVEMENT Paul Savanack, Boy Scout leader, Wednesday reported that scores of local business men have been asked to contribute for the purpose of equipping the United States Boy Scouts as a "third line of Savanack declares that.the United States Boy Scouts are in no way affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America. It is under this latter heading that the local troops of scouts are enrolled. WASHINGTON, April 18--Repre sentathe Bathrick of Ohio today introduced a bill authorizing the president to raise an "agricultural army" of 300,000 men and women They would be enlisted and paid under regulations to be made by the president selecting a president, who should also be mayor.

Said presiding office pays $KOO a year more than is paid the other members of the commission. Some members could not get ful possession of the idea that the main object of the new form of city old pull conditions. They began to quarrel before they organized, and have apparently kept up the confusion ever agreed to change the eligible ages in the army bill, both for volunteers and conscripts from 19 to 25, to from 21 to 40 years. Friday Afternoon and Evening There will be a SPRING OPENING and PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION I HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES, including Electric Irons Electric Grills Electric Toasters Electric Vibrators Electric Sewing Machines Electric Washing Machines Electric Heating Pad Electric Vacuum Cleaners General Utility Electric Motor IN FACT EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL Toast and Coffee, ELECTRICALLY MADE, will be served both afternoon and evening. Remember the Date--Friday April 20th--2 to 9 p.

m. Everyone is most cordially invited to be present at this opening --you'll enjoy yourself and find it. exceedingly interesting. SQUIRE ELECTRIC CO. 603 LAWRENCE STREET DUEL WITH RAZORS.

TOLEDO, April in pools of blood Mr. and P. WASHINGTON, Apr. 18--To safeguard the Panama canal, the terminal ports of Cristobal and Balboa are closed at night and all navigation Abrams were found-in a kitchen iu extinguished. LONDON, April per- here today that Austria.

Buland Turkey were all angling for separate neace agreements with the entente through secret emissaries. The move was said to center in Switzerland. No confirmation was The man selected as been cajoled and bullied mayor has alternately by both factions--one faction being as fairly public-spirited as men of their type could be. The other faction was composed of more or less irresponsible and contentious men. obtainable here.

WASHINGTON, April house committee assignments announced today include: Woods, Iowa; McFadden, Pennsylvania; McCulloch. Ohio; King, Illinois and Darrow, Pennsylvania, ban'nng currency. Fess, Ohio, foreign affairs. CINCINNATI--Militiamen made six young men stand at salute before the regimental colors for five minutes then made them salute every officer and man in camp after they had scoffed at members of Third Ohio infantry. isfying both branches of the commission.

To use the of our informant: "He be came the object of criticism, was man-handled, bullied, interfered with, crossed and double- crossed and eventually queered in the eyes of the public." He held on long after he could do 1 the work satisfactorily. The commission is charged with undermining the manager, lowering the morale of the corps of em- ployes, and his authority was nullified at every point. The accounting system installed by the commission, and the head of that department have been subjected to -Severe criticism by the state examl- livin American, Governor Whitman ers' association and a firm friend of who hftg worked for months to I Is on record today with an offer for untangle the accounts. The fire de-! Roosevelt of the highest guard com- HALL GETS 20 YEABS. WASHINGTON, April 18-- Second Lieutenant Robert H.

Hall, First infantry, Indiana national guard, has been sentenced to twenty' years' imprisonment on charges including one that he negotiated for a commission from the Mexican government. The charges against him included loss or disposition of confidential maps of the government, io Mexico, desertion, swindling, bigamy, forgery, embezzlement, disobedience of standing orders. He was found guilty of the charges on specification with the eveention of that charging him with 'the loss or disposition of government maps. The war department announced today that President Wilson confirmed the court martial sentence and designated TJnited States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, as the place for his confinement. their home by police this afternoon.

Both were dying as the result of a twenty minute razor duel behind locked doors. Mrs. Abrams died while being plac- ed in the ambulance. Her husband died just after he had been taken to a hospital. I ALBANY, N.

April may be "General Roosevelt." regardless HAIL STORM CAUSES TEAM TO RUN AWAY Braving serious injury Wednesday afternoon, Fred Breest, clerk at the Stubig shoe store, Water and Jack- son-sts, stopped a runaway team that threatened pedestrians Who were seeking refuge from the hail storm The team, belonging to Ed Wertier, started to run from near Columbus-av on Water-st. Galloping at top speed, the horses were ready to turn at 0 jjorees were reauy io uuu ai, of whether his expeditionary division Jackson st when Breest leaped on the is approved by the federal govern- wagon gathered up the reins and ment. Declaring T. R. would attract brought the animals to a stand still.

to the colors more men than any W. P. Neumeister has been appoint- ed and qualified as assessor in the'! second ward of this city. County Auditor Hayes Adams also has ap- pointed C. P.

Balcon as an to serve in Milan-twp. Suits for Men and Young! Men, $10.00, at Nobil's Cut' Price Store, Market St. 155 tf DEATHS AND FUNERALS Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Radcliffe, iyife of James Radcliffe, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Marquart undertaking rooms. Mrs Radcliffe was the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Norton, of BeUe- fontame. Joseph Crotote, aged 46 died at Providence hospital at 11 p. m. Tuesday.

A wife and four children in Italy survive. The remains were taken to Milan Wednesday afternoon, where services will be held in the Catholic church, and burial will be made. Emma Elizabeth, the Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland B.

E'fee- man, passed away at the family residence, 1102 Perry-st. Funeral services were he'd Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the family residence, the Rev S. Carrie officiating. Burial was made in Oakland cemetery. President Wilson.

Henry Clews in his weekly letter, says: "Extraordinary events demand extraordinary measures, and the act of Congress authorizing Issues of $5,000,000,000 bonds and $2,000,000,000 treasury notes to start with is a historic event of supreme significance. Such an amazing demonstration of financial power on of the United States was never expected and will have far reaching 1 fects. Undoubtedly hasten the i partment struck and is said to be badly demoralized. The police, water works and other departments have reflected the general demoHaization. Whatever of departmental pride or efficiency that has been in evidence is to be credited to the faithfulness of the employes themselves.

Positive graft is not charged, but the municipal administration is spiritless and mechanical. The employes are said to be hampered by the knowledge that the commissioners were playing politics and paying off personal grudges. The wrangling within the commission has been so spectacular, so pic- turesqup in its use of profanity, and so full of personal abuse that the local newspaper reporters could not forego the temptation to write up the proceeding sin as lurid English as could be commanded. Again, quoting end of the war by moral effect I th words of Dr. C.

B. Bliss 1 "In news and practical results. It is a blunt and effective notice of our intention and our ability to earnestly aid in pushing the war to a successful conclusion Of the 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 United States 3V 2 percent bonds, $3,000,0 0 0 0 0 0 are intended for the allies. university, and Emma Ban? the judges. Ohio This backing, or loaning of our credit on a percent basis, will immensely strengthen the allies, whose bonds have already undergone a BOY Wanted 9t Once tO WOrk nlarked advance consequence.

rtf Miio i i 11 ,11 rl 11 1 ne Much of this amount i doubtless in it 01 mis amount win QOUUUBSS IF! Wall PaPer Dept. Apply at! be spent on this side for munitions, The Herb Wlyers Co. WILL MEET TO OFFER SERVICES Members of the Northern Ohio Dental society, meeting at the Rieger hotel Wednosdso evening, will be asked to volunteer their services as of the Natioral Dentists' league. Dr. K.

Douglas 1 is representative of the league the result of which will be continued activity in those industries. The fact also that the bonds will be held in this country will avert the strain upon foreign exchange that would follow if payments were made from abroad, and will render it much easier to control exchange the future Sales of foreign holdings of Americans will also be correspondingly dis- value th" meetings of the commissioners successfully competed with anything for first page, last column, post tion The public and the outside world saw all the smoke and thought the affair would bet a total loss, for- setting that the routine work of each department would be done more or less veil by those departments, in spite of the hubbub within the commission. Every trivial dispute was magnified and plaed up by outside papers, and we became the black sheep of the Even with the loral dissatisfaction so pievalent, and backed and fostered as it is by one of the leading newspapers of Hanrhiskv. nn one start a recall movement. However, that project was at last launched.

A referendum petition to return to the old form' of city government was started, ajid sufficient names were mission in his power to confer. COLUMBUS, April Wilson may act on the suggestion of Governor Cox of Ohio that a conference of governors be called at Washington where the president and his cabmet may map out plans for uniform co-operation by the state in war, "You may be sure this interesting and fertile idea wil remain rooted in my mind. I am very much obliged to you indeed, for your telegram," reads a letter from the White House Cox, made public here today. to LONDON, April 18--Admiral Sims, United States navy, is accomplishing results gratifying to Americans and to the English as well. Sent to England as special commissioner, Sims' personal popularity and ais technical knowledge have made him highly respected today.

British naval officials today predicted immediate and splendidly efficient co-operation of the British and American navies. WASHINGTON, April "it arms the administration with dangerous powers to suppress the freedom of the press," Senator Lodge, in senate debate today, bitterly attacked the pending espionage bill- particularly the newspaper censorship nrpvision. Lodge defended "free comment and lust criticism" ana said only news "of value to the enemy" should be suppressed. The bureau of public information, created to disseminate government news, also came in for opposition by who said it. was dangerous "to place in the hands of those most likely to receive criticism the power to simriresp it" Hiram Johnson, concurring, said" "We should pause, lest in our secured to relegate the matter to the anxiety for democracy abroad we couraged.

The dates of issue "must of the people. This will be I forget out democracy at home." be left to discretion of the government, which best knows its own re- ests into full consideration. The in this district. Its object is to en- quirements and which will uncloubt- roll dentists in volunteer organiza- di- take all factors of public inter- tions which will be ready at all times to' offer services for fighting men Ten men out of every 15 that apply for enlistment papers, it is claimed, are rejected because of bad teeth The Wednesday night meeting be attended by 30 dentists from Loraiu, Ottawa 'and Erie counties. Wanted, at, once, two men to drive wagons.

Good wages, the Neilsen Coal Co. 16 tf T. Shawkey, state sitperintend- 'ent of public instruction of West Virginia, will be the chief speaker at a teachers' Institute to be held in liigh auditorium at 2:30 o'clock Frl-' 'day afternoon. Mr. Shawkey is an interesting speaker', and the public as as teachers have been invited to bear Mm.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Estate of deceased. Mary Kerber bag been'appointed and qualified as Administratrrx'of the Estate of Cecelia Kef late, of land County, Ohio, deceased: bated this 18th day of April, A. D. 1917.

JOHN RAY, Probate Judge of said County. bond issue will be an unquestioned success. It be so for patriotic reasons, also for busines reasons and especially because of their freedom from taxation which will popularize them among financial institutions and holders 01 large fortunes. A good return, percent, is offered for a bond of the very highest grade "Stock market conditions are still governed entirely by war. In addition to the agricultural outlook re suiting from the food problem, also the financial outlook connected with the bond issue, there is the investment outlook as affected by taxation problems.

At this writing the new taxes have not been announced, and many of the proposals thus far presented have without doubt been for the purpose of Invoking discussion. This country can raise huge funds for carrying on its part of the war without the slightest difficulty. There Is no reason, therefore, why the amount should not be withdrawn gradually. Posterity will chiefly benefit from the struggle for freedom and should pay its part. New taxes should be distributed as equitably as possible.

Wealth can and will bear the heaviest share, but tnere are numbers who escape taxation ly though quite able to pay moderate sums, and these, too, will probably have to contribute." sought to be accomplished by an amendment to the present charter. 1C the courts decide that a chapter ran not be discarded through an amendment, (hen there will be no election Competent judgment is that insofar has failed to make good under the charter, the commission is to blame. For any degree of efficiency that has been attained, the em- ployes of the city rnay be thanked Of couise, the friends of the commission form in Sandiisky are mortified at the matters have taken. It looks, on its surface as if the citv had found the plan Vantlng after a Police Chief A. M.

Stankard, of Elyna, an Erie county product, was visiting friends here Wednesday. He came to the city to assist in straightening out the affairs of ei's estate. The land the Kimball neighborhood. his invo late fath- Ived is in Carl Stiewe, 21, laborer, charged with operating his motorcycle at an excessive speed, was fined and costs in police court Wednesday. It it.

said a Stiewe. attempting to escape arrest, turned from one street into the curb wrecking his machine. DIED dence. 221 the family resi- Jefferson-st, Tuesday, April 17. 1917, at 2 p.

Mrs. Katherine Radcliffe, aged 58 years. Funeral sen ices Thursday at 2 trial, when (he tact is. the people are totan tller nrl ln so fi ins CI ied I irt nrviinl- tn rr liif siirjply disgusted i the personnel and conduct of the members of the commission. Tho charter, as a Charter, ha" not been demonstrated to be an ent document.

Sanduaky does not want to go on record, as a municipnlity, as the only self-confessed failure in home rule government in the state. There is an abiding impression among the good citizens of Sandusky that the city is better off than outsiders think, and that ft will survive this unfortunate experience In a final quotation we give the conclusions of our informant: "Some day a writer with the picturesque pen of Tom Lawson will look through the records! officfa! and newspaper, of the meetings of the present Sndusky commission, and he will find nothinjc to Indicate that the commiasion had even the faintest conception of the idea of doing anything worth while m. from Marquart's rooms. Friends invited, flowers. undertaking Please omit Cut Flowers Plants Funeral Designs WAGNER, THE FLORIST Word was received Tuesday evening of toe death of Henry N.

Millett which ocrurred at his late home In Hastings, Minn. Mrs. Millett before her marriage was Miss EllA.beth Esch of this city, who, together with five ctiildren, survive. Mr. Millett had many friends and relatives in the city who will be grieved to learn of his death.

Parker Flower store for artistic floral designs, best cut flowers and plants. MAUS FLORIST Fresh Cut Flowers, Healthy Plants 1318 MADISON STHEET Bcll-382-X. Special 3-Day Sale Now on We're anxious to turn over our stock at once and we are willing to sacrifice the profits in order to do so- We Call Your Special Attention To an unusually handsome lot of hats. Very expensively trimmed, and of beautiful material; values J5.50 to $6.00. $3.95 Others at similar reductions.

SHAPES Natty and cesrrablo values to 3day $1.95 special AVENUE War! War! War! Does this CRY not bring to mind that Ufe Insurance Policy you have NEED of and have delayed taking out Companies generally have RESTRICTED their NAVAL and MILITARY SERVICE. These restrictions call for EXTRA PREMIUM charges of from $50 to $100 per thousand of insurance if you engage in the Naval or Military Service within from 5 to 10 years of date of policy. The Massachusetts Mutnal Life Insurance Co. GIVES YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE A POLICY WITHOUT ANY NAVAL OR MILITARY RESTRICTIONS if you can pass the required phys- ical examination and are NOT NOW ENGAGED in the Naval or Military- Service. This is a special offer good for no specified time--it may hold for two or three days only.

In this connection it would be well TO REMEMBER THAT the ruling applies NOT ONLY TO THOSE WHO VOLUNTEER THEIR SERVICES but to those who MIGHT BE FORCED INTO SERVICE THROUGH CONSCRIPTION or THE DRAFT. THE TIME IS LIMITED--it will be impossible for me to REACH MANY THROUGH PERSONAL SOLICITATION. Avail Yourself of the Opportunity By Calling On E. W. Altstaetter, Special Representative No.

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