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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1915 URGES DISSOLUTION FOR MOVIE TRUST Federal Court Judge Rules Combine Is Inimical- to Trade and Unlawful Gill ORDER DISMISSAL OF MIDSHlPMEi One Philadelphian Among Those Sent From Annapolis, FoUr Are Suspended RIGGS BANK HEADS ACIC1ITIMI vote. Captain Elias Monfort Is. Elected- Commander-in-Chief in 3 -cornered Fight Charged With Perjury in Connection With Suit Against McAdoo and Williams Read of Locai Company Declares Firms Will Acquiesce Attorney ''Determines on Appeal Laying of Cornerstone of New National Amphitheatre at Arlington Cemetery Postponed Ho Place in Navy for Men Who Cannot Obey Orders, Declares Daniels Alleged to Have Engaged in Stock Transactions Despite Affidavit to the Contrary BY UNDER HM 1 WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct.

Glover, president of the Rigzs National Bank; William Flather, vice president, and H. H. Flather. cashier, were indicted today for perjury in connection with the bank's' recent suit against Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller A illiams. Four indictments were returned against each of the bank officials, Avho are charged with perjury in making an affidavit which set forth that the bank never had engaged in stock market transactions and had no transactions with Lewis Johnson Company, a defunct firm of local stock brokers.

Attorneys for Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams contended at the trial of the bank's suit that the books of Lewis, Johnson Company showed many transactions in the names of the bank officials named. The case soon afterward was laid before a grand jury-Vice Prseident Milton E. Ailes and Joshua Evans, assistant cashier of the bank, were called to testify. They are not mentioned in the indictments returned today. Sequel to Bank Suit Ihe indictments are a senuel to tho In a decision handed down yesterday- in the United States District Court.

Judge Dickinson declared that the moving picture companies involved in the so-called Moving Picture Trust was a combination which was a menace to trade and should be dissolved. Sigmund Luhin, president of the Rubin Manufacturing Company, defendant in the Government's dissolution suit against the Motion Picture Patents Company and its subsidiaries, was quoted in a dispatch last night from San Francisco as saying: "There will be no attempt on the part of the motion picture people to carry the right any further. We will, have to readjust the business to fit the law. but I hardly see how we can do it. It means millions in expense for us and a big loss." Prior to Mr.

Lubin's announcement that the picture concerns would acquiesce to the court's ruling, Charles Goldsmith, counsel for the Lubin company, declared that the members of the firm were not upset by the decree. "Within the time allowed," s-aid Mr. Goldsmith, "we will file an appeal with the United States District Court and fight the case on to the United States WASHINGTON, D. Oct. of six midshipmen, suspension of four others for one year without pay and the demotion to the next lowest class of fifteen others was announced by Secfetary Daniels today as the result of the recent hazing investigation at Annapolis Naval Academy.

Those dismissed are Robert S. Ea-motte, first class; David Glick, second class, and Alexander R. Boiling. Charles ii. Tuley, Edvard II.

Hill and Dwight C. took, of the third The navy court which investigated the charges recommended the di.smisaal of nine. Philadelphian Dismissed The home addresses of the six dismissed midshipmen follow: Eamotte, Seattle, Glkk, Pittsburgh. Rolling, Philadelphia. Tuley, Eouisville, Hill.

Moscow, Idaho, and Cook, Cincinnati, O. Midshipmen whose sentences were commuted to a vear's suspension with-'ut i'ay are: W. C. Wilcock, Buffalo, N. Joseph S.

Ives, Bardstown. Paul 1. Dingwell, Pawtuket, R. David P. Minard Aberdeen, S.

These men and those dismissed from the service were found guilty on more than one count of hazing and in several cases of untruthfulness the stand. Secretary aniels refused to disclose which cases involved falsehood charges. The fifteen men set back a year in their class work were each found guilty "1 one hazin? offense. They are: First Class; Francis W. Benson, Charleston.

S. Joseph W. Grpsrorv, Kingston. N. Y.

Second Thomas G. Fisher, Washington. D. Arthur B. Crair.

Kaleizh, N. Joseph J. lark, Chelsea, Albert E. Hutson. New Orleans: Pal E.

Meadows. Hus fl i jM Js 1 1 WASHINGTON. D. C. Oct.

1. Elias 11. Monfort. of Cincinnati, Ohio, was today elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. There were three candidates nominated.

They were Frank O. Cole, of Jersey City. N. William J. Patterson, of Pittsburgh, and Captain Monfort.

The contest was between the new commander-in-chief and the New Jersey candidate. Cole withdrew and the election of Captain Monfort was made unanimous. new commander-in-chief was formerly postmaster of Cincinnati. The vote was follows: Monfort. 53'J; Cole, Patterson, INN.

As soon as the vote was announced, the two candidates having the lowest vte moved that Captain Monfort's election be made unanimous. George II. Slaybaugh. of Washington, D. a Treasury' Department, employe, was elected senior, vice commander-in-chief.

Army Nurses Elect The Army 'Nurses of the Civil War today elected Mrs. Alice C. Risley, of Jefferson City, as its president. Colonel. Ambrose E.

1. Stephens, of Cincinnati, was installed as commander-in-chief of the Sons of The contest for junior vice commander in-chief was won by Levan Lodge, of Berea. Ky. He was elected on the second ballot, "not having secured a majority when the first vote was cast. B.

F. Claikson. of Baltimore, was elected chanlain, and Ruben A. Adams, of Rochester, N. Y-.

surgeon general. The elections "concluded, the new commander-in-chief appointed John Adams, of Cincinnati, adjutant general and reappointed Col. D. R. Stowitz, of Buffalo.

N. quartermaster general. Installation of the officers followed. There were a number of committee meetings and reunions tonight. Thousands of veterans left Washington for their homes during the' day and night.

Virtually all of those who remained over will leave town tomorrow. Cornerstone Laying Postponed Laying the "cornerstone of the new national amphitheatre in Arlington Cemetery, the feature of today's program at the Grand Army encampment, was postponed because of a driving rain which enveloped" the city. President Wilson, who was to have laid the cornerstone, held himself in Teadiness to go despite the downpour, but the. committee in charge postponed the affair to some day next week. The President will attend then, but practically all the will have departed for their homes.

MISS EDWINA ELKINS BRUNER The announcement of the change in scene of her wedding to C. A. Ileck-scher Wetherill from tlie home of her grandmother, in Elkins, W. comes as a big surprise to the invited guests. MLLE.

ELVIRA AMAZOR, A RUSSIAN SINGER, WHO CRITICISES THE MAKE-UP OF AMERICAN WOMEN. SUDDENLY CHANGE WETHERILL-BRUNER WEDDING SETTING VILLA CHIEFS GO TO ARRANGE SURRENDER (Three on Way to Vera Cruz With Continued From First Page most prominent women and men. Among the many of the younger set of this city who were to have been of the bridal party are: Miss Mary Brown Warburton. Miss Alva Sargeant, Miss Sophy Mercer Worth, Miss Katherine Kremer, Henry Morton McMichael, Alfred E. Sergeant, J.

Hutchinson Scott, John Price Wetherill, W. Chattin Wetherill. i-, -i ti i Ari, it 4 rximuna jnogers, nouru i. -uuni, mund H. Rogers and Daniel H.

Hutchinson, Jr. Mrs. William F. Hitt, the bride's aunt, is to be matron of honor at the wedding. Philadelphians will remember Mrs.

Hitt, who before her marriage was Katherine Elkins, was expected to wed the Duke of Abruzzi. At that time there was much praise for the manner in which Mr. Hitt bravely persevered in his courtship of Miss Elkins and finally won her hand. In this city the bride's mother, Mrs. William C'aner Wiederseim, lives at 223 Delancey street, while Mr.

Wetherill, the son of the late Mrs. John Wetherill, resides at 18.30 Rittenhouse Square, Avhere he hs an apartment. Unless arrangements are completed with a smoothness almost magical be- suit of the bank which alleged that See- retary McAdoo and Comptroller Wiil-j urns, because of personal animus toward some of the bank's officers, had conspir- eu 10 injure the institution by withdrawing public deposits, making extraordinary demands for special reports and finally by imposing a tine of SoOUO upon the bank, tor tailure to make a certain report called for by the Comptroller. Ihe District Supreme Court dismissed all the charges the bank made against the Secretary and the Comptroller, but left undecided the question of the 5iW rine. A decision on that point is expected at the fall term of court.

Meanwhile, the Treasury officials are enjoined from forfeiting certain interest on government bonds held by the bank as for the penalty. At the Bank a statement was issued saying the indictments were entirely personal against the officers who signed the affidavit and do not involve the institution. The statement explained that it leng had been the bank's custom to act for customers and depositors in makincr investments by having one of its olticers in his own capacity as a member of the ashington Stock Exchange execute orders for stocks for cash and never on margin. "No order or transaction was ever made by the bank for its own behalf or profit, but invariably for and in be-halt of others," said the statement. "The fact that the bank cleared orders of this nature was opea and well-known to every- Comptroller of the Currency and to every bank examiner passing on the affairs of the bank.

Since the new Federal Reserve law came into effect the bank has not accepted any orders of this nature and the practice referred to then ceased and is no longer in operation." The ftatement added that the affidavit on which the indictments were found had been technically construed, for it had, been presented only to refute intimations that the bank had been dealing, in stocks. Since the meaning of the affidavit came into question, the statement says, the bank employed an auditing company to examine the books of the stock brokerage firm and found no stock sales whatever, as being those of the Riags Bank. The statement added further that the affidavits on which the indictments against the three officers were based was prepared bv the bank's counsel, as one of the legal steps in the proceeding to deny that the bank had been dealing in stocks on its own account, or that it ever made short sales. The burden of the bank's statement is to explain that its olticers signed the affidavit at the instance of their counsel intending to make clear that the bank itself never had used its funds in stock market operations. It became known tonight that the Riggs Bank had notified the Comptroller of the Currency that H.

H. Flather, cashier of tne bank and one of the men indicted, had resizned. Officers of the bank refused to discuss the matter, but it was understood that Mr. Flather offered his resisnation to the directors yesterday and that it was accepted. Yesterday's! Loral Weather Report From V.

S. Weatlier Bnreaa Time. i 5 weather. 8 A. Rtt HZ 8 .01 Ham.

iSoon. 53 i4 S.fcJ. 14 K1n. 8 1. 57 9 K.

15 .1 Kaln. Highest wind 32 miles per hour from the Sunshine (per ceat.) Hisrhest temperature (Midnizht to 8 P. at 11M5 A. 5 Highest temperature this date last 40 years 87 Lowest teriDeroture (Mldnlcht to a f. ai.i at P.

Lowest temperature this date last 40 years Average temperature Average temperature this date last year Normal temperature Deficiency since October 1 trx-oca fiinrp Jintiarv 1 8 5S 2 62 4 4S8 .43 5.7t Total precipitation since October 1.... Kvcess sin-e January 1 U. s. Weather Bnrean Bulletin Special to The Inquirer. Fhilade'Ph'a, Sept.

BO, 8 P. M. (Kastern Timet. KILLED, 2 INJURED AS TRAIN HITS AUTO AT BLIND CROSSING Supreme Court. The entire fight is on the question as to whether the owner of a patent has a right to ciecide how it shall be used and whether a group of owners of patents have the same right." For nearly two.

years the United States has waged a fight against the so-called "Moving Picture Trust," but yesterday's decision does not put an end to the matter'. Assistant Attorney General Todd, who started the prosecution, said he would not comment on the department's victory until the decree in the case 'had been filed. Enormous Profits Made By thrusting competitors out of the way, according' to the government's contention, astounding profits were made by the "trust." as the claim based on estimates furnished by Attorney General Grosvenor, who conducted the prosecution. In the first year of its existence, it was declared, the General Film one of-the defendants, disbursed more than $2,000,000 from profits, paid 7 per cent, on its pref erred stock," 12 per cent, on common, and that at least one of the organizers netted 16X per cent, on an investment of $10,000. Suit against the Melies Manufacturing Company of Chicago was dismissed by the court, it being contended the government officials had failed to show proof that this company was involved in the alleged combination.

The government charged that the defendants were trying to circumvent the anti-trust laws by claiming protection under the patent laws. While reluctantlv admitting that some of their acts might be construed as violative of the anti-trust laws, counsel for the- defendants put forth the argument-that the motion picture magnates under attack had the right to impose restrictions, whether reasonable or unreasonable, on the use of their property, by virtue of the Federal patent laws. Many Firms Involved The contention or the government was that the protection afforded the defendants by the patent laws gave them no right or privilege to violate the antitrust laws. Other firms named as defendants are: Motion Picture Patents Company, New York; General Film Company," New York; Liograph Company, New York; Thomas A. Edison Inc.

Orange X. Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, Chicago; Kalem Company, New York; George Kleine. Chicago; Lubin Manutacturing Company, Philadelphia; Pathe Freres, New Jersev; Selig Polyscope Company, Chicago: Vitagraph Company of America, New York; Armat Moving Picture Company. Washington, D. Frank L.

Dyer. Oranee, NT Henry N. Marvin, J. J. Kennedy, Samuel Long, J.

A. Porst. New York- Sei-mund Lubin, Philadelphia; Gaston Melie George K. Spoor and W. N.

Sehg Chi--cao; Albert E. Smith Brooklyn and ilham Pelzer Orange N. J. The Mo- tion Picture Patents Company was the principal defendant. LOS ANGELES FIRMS ELATED AT DECISION LOS ANGELES, Cab, Oct.

1. Heads of independent motion picture companies here were elated today by the news that the United States District Court at Philadelphia had rendered a decision adverse to the Motion Picture Patents Company, familiarly known in filmdom as the ''trust." The effect of the decision, it as declared, would be to open for the sirst time a free market to producers of picture plays. The Motion Picture Patents Companv and its selling agents, the General Film Company, are represented here by five producing concerns, operating scores of separate companies and the independents by four central organizations with large staffs of actors, directors and mech-. anicians. AMBASSADOR OFFERS AMERICA AS REFUGE U.

S. Representative at Constantinople Pledges Million Dollars to Transport Armenians to Safety Bpecial Cable to The Inquirer. LONDON, Oct. 1. The Daily Chronicle learns from an authority on Near Eastern who ha.s his information direct from Constantinople via.

Sofia, that an offer, to transport to America the whole of the Armenians now being driven from their homes by the Turks have been made to the Porte by the American Ambassador, Henry Morgen-thau. Terrified by the terrible massacres and cruelties which accompanied the removal of- the Armenians from their homes and by his helplessness to assist them through the usual, channels, says the Chronicle, the Ambassador lias offered to make himself personally responsible for one million dollars and to find other men in the United States to raise another four millions the money to be spent in emigrating the remaining Armenians to America. Whether this offer, has been accented or rejected iby the Turkish -authorities is not yet known. The probability is that it la still being considered. Slight Shock Shakes 'Frisco 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Cab, Oct.

1. A ciaVit. earth shock was fplt in San Fran- cisco and other bay cities and San Jose, fifty miles wuth of here, about 7.30 A. M. today.

The shock was of about three eecorfifs -induration-. No-damage yvas cause of the short time before the wedding, there are likely to be possible "upsets" in the wedding plans almost up to the last moment. The elaborate plans for the entertainment of guests must necessarily be hindered by the sudden change. At Elkins, the grandmother, Mrs. Stephen P.

Elkins, has in her wonderful home the setting for one of the most magnificent weddings ever held in this country, but conducted at such short notice in this city, it is hardly possible the splendor of the affair will approach the original plans. The house party was to have made up four davs of constantly changing entertainment in a manner and splendor that is seldom equaled. The wedding itself was to have taken place in the Davis Memorial Church, at Elkins, town which in itself has become one of the beauty spots of the South. The ceremony" was to have been carried out on as great a style as the entertainments precedins the marriage day. As far as can be learned, the bridal party will be intact and the ceremony carried out with similar details.

Engraved announcements of the change in plans will reach all of the invited guests by Monday's mail. This means that thev will have only five days in which to arrange for the new place. A reception will follow the ceremony at the home of the bride's parents. The same evening Mr. Wetherill and his it is expected, will start on a wedding "trip through the West.

According to the youncr men they met the girls on the Penn street bridge here and agreed to take them for a epin through the country. There is a slight turn where the road enters upon the bridge where the machine crashed into the railing1. Auto After Accident Police of York are looking for the driver of a large automobile which late last night ran into the rear of. the auto of George Laurer, of this city, and, throwing his auto over an embankment, injured four persons. It sped on and escaped identification in the darkness of th rnarl spvpral miles west of this C'itV.

In the overturned machine were Mr. and Mrs. Daurer and their guests, JUr. and Mrs. W.

E. Detter, of Nickerton, Kansas. Detter had his collarbone broken, his shoulder blade dislocated and several ribs fractured when pinned under the machine. The others of the party were slightly injured. All were brought to the York Hospital.

5 ACCUSED OF MURDER All Committed to Prison by Coroner Following Hearing to Await Trial On testimony, practically a repetition of that heard against them when they were arraigned recently in Central Police Court, five men and a woman, accused of complicity in five murders, were committed to prison yesterday by Coroner Knight to await trial. James F. Anderson, son of a bank director of Ardrnore. was charged with shooting James P. Campbell, 64 years old, in the lat-ter's saloon at Twenty-secondhand Market streets on Friday night of last week, after, it is alleged, he attempted to hold? up a bartender in another saloon.

Sallie Mcintosh, a middle-aged woman; was held for drowning- her 2-year-old niece, Jean Schiedel, of 2754 North Ron-sail street, in a bathroom because she feared the child would be taken irom, her care. The death of John.W. Dougherty, of 1307 Vine street, resulted in Joseph Campbell and Bessie Stevenson being held. The woman, the police say, was responsible for the fight between the two men. Charles Lumio was committed on the charge of shooting Luigi Cappizzi, 40 years old, of 422 Fitzwater street, while William Logan, of ,330 North.

Franklin, street, was accused of killing his wife, Sarah, by throwing her downstairs, mi' MEN AND WOMAN ton. Martin J. Connolly, Taunton. Charles K. Post.

Bay port, N. Y. Third Class: Frederick A. Westphile, Providence, R. Howard G.

Gamble, Tallahassee. Morton T. Selieman. Santa Fe. N.

William M. Killian. Wahoo, John A. Whitson. Water-valley, and Logan C.

Ramsey, Washington, D. C. Secretary Daniels issued the following statement: action is taken with the determination that hazing of all kinds is to be ended at the Naval Academy. There is no room at the academy tor any man who cannot observe the law of the United States Comrrc-ss. It has been estimated that it cost S12.X) to educate a man for the navy.

In the navy, the first duty is to obey orders. If at the academy a man cannot obey the orders of the superintendent and an act of Congress, he demonstrates that he lacks the first and essential quality required for a naval officer. These midshipmen are not punished as i deterrent to the others, but for their own sins. But all others at the academy will take notice that hazing has ended. If there is any midshipman at the academy who is reso'ved to violate the law against hazing, he should separate himself from the service.

If any one supposes that violation of the law is to be condoned, he will find that dismissal is sure to follow." DR. BOLLING DEFENDS SON, RETURNING HOME Alexander R. Boiling, son of Dr. Robert H. Boiling, of 870" Germantown avenue.

Chestnut Hill, who was yesterday dismissed from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis for hazing, is on his way home, according to word received by his lather last night. He is accompanied by Dwight C. Cook, another midshipman expelled from the academy. Boiling and Cook were both in the third class. Dr.

Boiling defended his son against the action of the Secretary of the Navy. ''My son told me he was present when the hazing was going on, but took no part in it," he said. Dr. Boiling's attention -was called to a statement by Secretary Daniels that four of the students suspended were also guilty of perjury. Their names were not disclosed.

'Tie should make them known," said Dr. Boiling. "Otherwise the whole six are under suspicion." Manj- of young Boiling's forbears served their country the army and naw. The late Rear Admiral A. W.

Russell was a grand-uncle. Another grand-uncle was the late Major William Russell, and Major John Russell, of the Marine Corps, was a first cousin of the dismissed middy's mother. 7 OTHERS CHARGED WITH ARSON Indictments Result of Probe of Alleged Conspiracy in Which Insurance Companies Lost Vast Sums ST. Oct. 1.

Roy M. B. Tidd, Mayor of Webster Groves, a suburb; Julius R. Bersch. of St.

Louis, and seven other men were indicted today on charges of arson. The indictments are the result of the grand jury's investigation of an alleged arson conspiracy through which insurance companies are said to have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Tidd is president of the Nixon-Jones Printing Company, whose plant was destroyed by fire on the night of September 4. Bersch is vice president of the Bersch Insurance Agency. The seven other men indicted are: Harold G.

Gil-morey head of the Gilmore-Bonfig Decorating Company; Harry Imel, Gilmore'a secretary; Otto F. Leman. insurance adjuster, and Edward Milner, Morris Greenberg, Max Greenberg and Michael O'Connor. The last four are alleged "torches." Bersch was indicted in connection with the NixonTones fire and also in connection with a fire in the Gilmore-Bonfig Company plant July 24 last. Bersch and Leman were indicted in connection with the alleged plot to set fire to the plant of the Christian Bellows Factory.

Cleveland Has First "War" Strike CLEVELAND, Oct. 1. The first interference in the manufacture of war munitions in Cleveland was felt today when 400 employes of the Cleveland Automatic Machine Company were called out on strike by officials of the machin-ists'union. This action came after John P. Brophy, general manager of the company, had refused to reinstate fifteen machinists, dismissed within the past few days tor alleged strike agitation.

Officials of the plant said their work would not be crippled and that thev would employ strike breakers. The con cern is manufacturing shell making machinery. Superior Court Returns HAMBURG. Oct. 1.

Returns for thirty-seven counties which have filed their othcial returns with the Secretary of the Commonwealth for the Superior Court give the following totals: Head, liuselton. Oriady, Palmer, 88.597; Wallace, i iVillianas-133J32S, MAYOR AND WOMEN HERE 00 NOT KNOW MAKE-UP ART Mile, Amazar, the Russian Singer, Says Americans Use Without Any Cream Powder Special to The Inquirer. NEW YORK, Oct. 1. After a few hours in Gotham, Mile.

Elvira Amazar, who arrived here yesterday on board the EspaZne, of the French Line, discovered that women of this city are far behind the times in powder and paint. Mile. Amazar is a singer from Petrograd, Russia, where it is said," she is known as one of the best dressed women. She is-twenty-two years old, and her skirts are almost ten inches from the ground. "In the short time I am said Mile.

Amazar, speaking in French, "I have observed that the women do not know the art of 'making They do it too much, and use powder without any cream. And they do not study where they should use rouge. Their eyes the greater number of the women forget to touch. One must make up one's eyes, mustn't one, Mile. Amazar wears extremely high heels on her shoes.

She has a pair for every gown and a few pair to spare. With her she brought five tailored suits, fourteen evening gowns, live cloaks, eight afternoon dresses, dozens of shirt waists and Russian blouses and eighteen hats of the latest Parisian style. There is no. wonder that she did not have any unpleasant experiences with the custom officials. She smiles most of the time and swings her short skirts around in an ingenous and graceful way.

She 'pouts a bit, too, when something goes as she does not want it to. "The women here dress differently from the women in Paris and Petrograd," she said, with a sigh. "They are very elegant over here, but not like the Parisians or the Russians." "DEVIL HUNTING" CREW BROUGHT BACK TO PORT Demented Survivors of Dutch Lugger, a Derelict, Suddenly Attacked With Religious Mania GRTMSHY, Oct. 1. The Norwegian steamer Jonas Rein has just brought intn this nnrt ten Hpmenterl survivors of the crew of thirteen belonging to the Dutch lugger Nordzee.

As tar as can be learned from their disjointed statements they have had a remarkable experience in the North Sea, killing three of their mates, throwing them overboard and spending some hunting." The Nordzee Avas picked up derelict with the ten men all insane, presumably through over-indulgence in raw liquor, which gave them an attack of religious mania, or delirium. The man say the ship was full of "devils" and apparently they started on a devil hunt, throwing overboard everything movable which in their opinion would be likely to harbor devils the captain, binnacle, hatches, ropes, spars, sails, all going into the sea. Then they turned on the three unfortunate men, who judging by the appearance of the cabin put up a desperate tight before being killed. With nothing to navigate here, the Nordzee drifted heuplessly until taken in tow by the Jonas Rein, the devil hunters previously having been transferred to that vessel after a struggle. The authorities are undecided whether to send the sailors to Holland or to order their removal to Bow street for extradition proceedings.

FIRE RECORD OF THE DAY 5.12 A. M. Three-story brick tVwellinjr at 311 WTiartou street, occupied by John Baxter; loss trlflinjf. 10.02 A. M.

Three-story brick dwelling st 2513 East Ontario street, occupied ty F. loss unknown. 10.41 A. M. Two-story brick stable at Commercial and Snyder arenues.

owned by Enterprise Cooperage Company: loss $600. 4.54 P. M. Three-story brick dwelling at 1S38 North Seventeenth street, occupied by B. Solsberry; loss trifling.

5.01 P. M. Three-story brick dwelling at 117 North Linden wood street, occupied by John Kadcliffe; loss trifling. 5.56 P. M.

Four-story brick dwelling nt 520 Korth Broad street, owned by Rush Brothers; loss trifling. 7 01 M. Three-story brick storet and dwelling "at 11101 walnut street, occupied by Messages From Others Mexico City Resuming Normal Conditions WASHINGTON, T3. Oct. 1.

Three former Villa officers, according to an announcement from the Carranza agency here tonight, are en route to Vera Cruz commissioned to arrange for the surrender of manj- of the chiefs of Villa's army. "It is stated." says the announcement, ''that they are traveling incognito be-causeVjlla is ignorant, of their intention and of recent action of his subordinates and secrecy must be preserved in order to avoid assassination of such of them as still remain within his reach." The Carranza agency gave out also what purported to be an intercepted telegram from a Villa consul at Tia-juana. Lower California, to Enrique C. Llorente, Villa's Washington representative, saying that conditions in the territory being abandoned by Villa were "growing worse every, day" and that General Villa intended "to proceed westward into districts hitherto untouched by the fighting and where there are crops in abundance." A cablegram from the Carranza Minister of foreign Affairs to the agency here with reference to conditions in Mexico City said: the capture, of the electric power plant by Carranza troops on Thursday, when one hundred Zapata soldiers holding it were killed, normal light and power conditions have been restored here and all street railway lines and manufacturing industries using electricity have resumed operations. The food situation is becoming more nearly normal each day.

Freight and passenger traffic between this city and Vera Cruz and other points is being regularly maintained." Eleven Dead Mexicans Found. BROWNSVILLE, Oct. 1. Luis de la Rosa, known as leader of the "Texas revolt," and seventeen followers, including one man said to be an American, have been discovered on the Mexican side of the river, according to an announcement tonight by General E. P.

Nafarrate, Carranza commander. Nafar-rate said he had asked for instructions to attack them. Eleven dead Mexicans were found today on the American side of the river ner.r Donna, about forty-five miles above here, and reported by Major Edward Anderson, 'of the Twelfth Cavalry. He said they had apparently been dead about a week. Major Anderson said he had no information to indicate in what manner these Mexicans were killed or why.

Greatest U. S. Submarine Success QUINCY, Oct. 1. The submarine M-l, one of the largest undersea boats so far constructed for the United States Navy, returned here today from her builders' trials.

According to the contractors the submarine more than fulfilled every requirement. HENRY F. WALTON Photo by Gutekuiist. The Inquirer congratulates the l'ro-thonotary of the Courts of Ccmmon Pleas on the anniversary of his natal PHILADELPHIA'S MOTOR MAIL SERVICE BOOSTED Contracts for Trucks Let by Department in Washington No Effect on Pneumatic Tubes Spec'il to The Inquirer. IXQT'IREIi BVREAV, POST BVILDIXG.

WASHINGTON, D. Oct. 1. Contracts for motor to be used for mail deliveries in Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis and Chicago, -were awarded by the Postoffice Department today.

The award was given with a to trying out several types of" motor trucks in actual service, in order to demonstrate the adaptability of different grades of trucks to the demands of the postal service. Altogether contracts were placed for 1L'3 trucks of various makes of which fifteen will be added to the present Phila-. delphia equipment. The Philadelphia ap portionment will consist of 1" one-and-one half-ton and 3 three-quarter-ton trucks. In addition to this, the present motor equipment in Philadelphia will be supplemented by a number of qne-half-ton trucks.

No estimate of the number of these small trucks which will be necessary in Philadelphia has yet been made by officials of the Postoffice Department. The new motor service will go into effect in Philadelphia on November 15, and is intended to supplant in part screen wagon, electric car, mail messenger and city delivery services. It was ascertained at the Postoffice Department tonight that the addition of these trucks to the various delivery services of Philadelphia is in no way designed as a test of the relative merits of motor delivery and pneumatic tube service, but is simply installed to supersede in part the existing modes of surface deliveries. Second Assistant Postmaster General Praeger explained tonight that in no wav will the installation of the new trucks at Philadelphia interfere with the pneumatic tube deliveries. He stated that no decision has been reached by the department as to the advisability of superseding the underground deliveries by means of motor surface routes.

GOflsScTLEAOSMAfJ TO ADMIT 1300 THEFT Baltimorean Asks to Be Punished for Embezzlement From Employ ers Police Say Conscience-stricken and wanting to be punished, -he' said, for his professed Solomon C. Brown, a young man, walked into City Hall yesterday and surrendered himself to Detectives Garr and Walsh, stating, according to the police, that he had embezzled and squandered $300 belonging to his employers, John Basch of 506 North Gay street, Baltimore. He was committed by Magistrate Pennock pending extradition. dining yesterday at a North Broad street hotel, Edmund T. Bates, a real estate broker, was arrested on a police telegram from New charging, him with passing a worthless check for $75 and obtaining by false pretences.

Bates, who was formerly engaged in business in New York, insisted he was innocent, and at the defendant's request Magistrate Beaton deferred decision until Monday. Bates, however, was detained. Following their arrest in a store at 2731 Germantown avenue, two youths, Richard Page, of Philip street above Cumberland, and John Smith, of Bodine and Norris streets, admitted, the police say, to looting safes in three Kensington avenue stores the other night and to a vinff robbed one of the safes a second limb, -v u.i -uts. uiuiucu ijiajj Continued From First Page thp iron crnarH rail of a bridee. at Wyo- missinsr, a suburb of Reading, early this morning, and went over the emDanKmeni into a ravine, falling a distance or niteen fpor Thp car was wrecked and after wards destroyed by fire.

The girl that was killed was juiss Mamie Fisher, prominent in local athletics, and a member of the Olivet Basketball Club. She sustained a fractured skull, and was dead when taken from underneath the wrecked car by another auto party. The" iniured are Solomon Cook, Jesse Houck and Miss Mary Moore, all of this city, and Miss Florence Painter, of Wjro-missing, all of whom are in the Homeopathic Hospital Avith seyere internal in-iuries and numerous cuts and bruises. William Gundry and William H. Breh-mer, both of this city, who were also in the car.

escaped injury. Brehmer was driving the machine. IRE JITNEY DRIVERS PLACED UNDER ARREST Are Fined and Charged With Costs, Injunction Will Be Sought Today, Says Attorney Tnimvi-inTi nroceedinas nostDoned yes terday by the People's Motor Club against the police department in the new crusade against "jitney" drivers, will be instituted today, according to Harry M. Berkowitz, lawyer lor tne motor organization. A draft of the bill in equity which Mr.

Berkowitz says he will file was completed last night. It declares the object of the organization is to provide its members with means of traveling about the city; that its funds were raised by voluntary contributions of members; that its automobiles are for the, exclusive use of members, and that the arrests by the police are in strict violation of the company's rights. Failing in the effort to obtain an injunction, an amendment to the present ordinance will be introduced in Council, it is declared. Two additional arrests were made yesterday. The drivers were Frederick Miller, of 3750 Park avenue, -who was arrested the second time, and Albert Rumford, of 1703 Bower street.

They were fined $5 and $2.50 costs each, 29 were the three drivers whose cases were held over from Thursday. Life in Prison for Rich Murderer CLEARWATER. Oct. 1. J.

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