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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 192T 2 a HI HOME KENICK IS PRAISED; CABINET COMPLETED; POLICE JOBS STUDIED GALL FOR II BY REED COWIMITTEE NI NON-POLITICAL DEDICATEJWEMORIAL Samaritan Hospital to Mark Formal Opening of Roosevelt Addition Elaborate ceremonies will mark the formal dedication today of the newly completed Roosevelt Hospital Memorial at the Samaritan Hospital, Broad and Ontario atreeta. The memorial ao named because It was made possible by the recent assignment of tbe assets of the old Roosevelt Hospital to Temple Uni-ersity consista of an entire floor in the new building of the Samaritan Hospital, thoroughly equipped for the medical and surgical care of patients and for research. The dedication, ceremonies will begin at 4 P. and a feature of the proceedings will be tbe unveiling of a tablet in honor of the members of the board of trustees of the now defunct Roosevelt Hospital, who donated the hospital's assets, approximating to Temple for the development of the Samaritan Hospital.

Report Captain Wood Is to Be Aide to Safety Director Davis; Watson Slated for Supplies, Ashton for Solicitor and Murdoch for Public Works Mussolini Will Ban Quakes, Says Rogers I'o the Killtor of The Inquirer. BEVERLY HILLS, Dec 27 Sec where Rome had an earthquake yesterday. You watch Mussolini get out and issue a decree against those things. He will make 'em sorry they ever hit that country. France will be acared to death lor fear he will pass it on to them.

Yours, WILL ROGERS. (Copyright. IIKT) tice Mr. Ashton baa built up one of the most prosperous legal business in the city. There are those who believe that the choice of Mr.

Asbton may ultimate SMITH INSTALLED IS iSOIIC CHIEF COUNCIL TO INSPECT CITY WATER TODAY IN POLL DEDICATION Mayor in Last Public Appearance at House of Correction Exercises Work for All Convicts Is Urged by Director Grake-low in Address The hop that the Stnte Legislature Would tn ke immediate action and pass law whereby nil inmates of the county prison at Ilulmeshiirif would he made to work in the khnpg mid on the farms Of the new House of Correction wan expressed yesterday hy Charles II. tiriikelow. who made his final public appearance as Director of 1'uhlir Welfare at the dedication, inspection and cornerstone-lavine; of the new Hoime of Correction. State road and Khawn treet, Hiilmesburir. The dedicatory exercises also marked the final pulilio appearance of VV.

Free-land Kendrick aa Mayor of Philadelphia, Louie N. (ioldsmilh aa Assistant Ilirector of Public Welfare arid Chnrlea Hull as president of the City Coun-ell. With the completion of the building-ind lt subsequent dedication a dream of more than twenty years waa realized. Erected at a coat approximately $1,500,000. the new institution baa been pronounced by both American and European penologists aa the finest of Its kind in the world.

The ceremonies opened with Mayor Rendrii'k. Director Grakelow and Air. Hull pointly raining the flag on the new tandard in front of the Administration Following this the entire, assemblage, composed of prominent city officials and those Interested in welfare work, proceeded Into the Administration Building where the exercises Were held. Grakelow First Speaker Director Grakelow presided aa chair-nan and was the first speaker on the programme. He praised the work of the present city administration which be declared would go down in history aa the most progressive ever known.

He augmented his remarks by congra' nlating Mayor Kemlrirk and his Cabinet, who in the midst of great construction projects, did not lose the human touch, which enabled the city to trect the new House of Correction. Muyor Kendrick, the next speaker, took tho occasion to thank Director Grakelow, whom he termed "my advisor," for his work aa a member of the Kendrick Cabinet. "This institution is only second in Importance to the City of Philadelphia to the new Philadelphia General Hospital," he declared. In closing Mayor Kendrick declared that In all probability he waa making his final public appearance as Mayor and took the occasion to thank the membera of his Cabinet and department heads, nearly all of whom were present, Charles B. Hall, president of City Council, took the opportunity to denounce those who have been erylnt, that money has been misspent during the Kendrick regime.

"Now is the time that theae critics should come forth and prove that a single dollar has been misappropriated during tha past four years," he- asserted. Judge Harry 8. McDeritt, In short address, explained that the day is not far distant when money will have to be appropriated to determine the sour.es of crime "While we are building new institutions for prison ers in this country. Great Britain is not only closing her jails and other penal establishments, but is offering them for sale, he said. "It is an absolute fact that we will have to nse very effort to control crime or crime Will control Us.

traffic marm rruai n. any r. vvaranousa Ties Up Walnut Street Congestion of rush hour traffic In Walnut street resulted Bhortly after clock last night from the move ments of fire enginea responding to an alarm calling tliem to extinguish a blaxe In the eighth floor of the ware house of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, at Twenty-fourth street The flames started in the screen of huge coffee grinder and were caused by coffee chaff, overheated by the friction of the grinding. For a moment after the fire tarted it seemed that It waa be yond control and a watchman turned In an alarm. By the time the fire engines bad arrived, however, seven men employed in grinding the coffee had succeeded in extinguishing the blaxe with buckets of water.

Damage was confined to the grinder, MACKEY AIDS CHURCH Mayor Givei $3000 to Horn Town Edlfloe Ha Attended Mayor-elect Harry A. Mackey In his rise to political prominence in Phila delphia haa not forgotten his old up-State borne town of Bangor, it became known yesterday. The man. who on January 2 will take over the Mayor's quarters on the second floor of City Hall, has played Santa Claua to the ehureh he attended when a youngster. News of this waa contained in i short telegraph dispatch from Bethle hem which announced that Mr.

Mackey bad lust presented the Mackey Me morial Baptist Church, Bangor, with $5000 to clear the church of debt. The Rev. A. A. Anderson Is pastor.

I. THEATRE TUGS Hundreds Watch Apparatus Battle Flames in Clothing Store Two Made Homeless as Blaze Spreads to Dwelling on Back Street Hundreds of persons, pouring four theatres, all within a humlrH distant, clogged Eighth street Ut Race and Vine in a swirling nia police had difficulty bandliiiji Inst when flames burned out the a four-story building at Eighth street, southwest corner of Smj. mer street Starting about ten minutes before the shows at the various theatres came to an end, tne nre drew a conglomeration of fire apparatus, which had already choked up tbe narrow street by the time tbe theatre poured out their multitudes. Trolleys backed up on Eighth street for three squares, waited more than an hour before they could continue their runs. The fire began in the first floor of the building occupied by Factor'a clothing store and quickly spread to the upper floors, which are being remodeled for apartments.

Sweeping to the rear as the crowd watched firemen clamber up ladders, dragging hose lines to the upper floors, the flames burned throuch a party wall and spread into a dwelling at the rear at Summer and Mildred Isaac and William Clark col. ored, residents of the house, were driven to the street and made homeless for the night. With the arrival of engines crowds in the theatres and motion picture houses became uneasy, but were soon quieted w-hen announcements were made from the respective stages that the blaze was across the street, and could cause no danger to the theatres. When the per. formances were completed, the audi-ences filed out without confusion The fire started in the rear of the clothing store and was first noticed by a pedestrian, who, as he was leaT.

ing a shooting gallery nearby, saw flames through the show window. DODGE LECTURES OPEN City Students Addressed on "Combut. tion, Color and Comfort" Students of high schools and pre-paratory schools interested tin physics and chemistry attended the first of vuiimius. trcn eenes of lectures given under the James Mapcs Docifre Lecture Foundation in the Franklin Institute, 15 South Seventh fttrpof- loot night. Professor Wilder D.

Bancroft me in-pnriment or i Cornell University, was the sneaker. Dr. Bancroft took as his top Combuston. Color and Comfort." tol examined their relnti on one ro an. other.

Before he began his lecture it was announced that three cash prizes of $50, $25. and $10 will be awarded for the three best bonks of lecture notes based upon the lectures and writ. tea hy nigh and prepnrstory school students of the city The Christmas Week lectures nmW the auspices of the Franklin Institute were inaugurated lost year and their continuance was made nossible thia yenr throngh the establishment nf an endowment fund of $10,000 bv Mrs. Mupes -nortec, of Philadelphia, in memory or ner liushnnri. who was a prominent member nf the Institute un til his death in 1915.

Professor Bun- croft will lecture today and Thursday. WEATHERCONDITIONS WASHINGTON. Dee. 27 (A. P.l.-Prewiire contlnuea low over Newfoundland.

The dfa-tnrbance that Waa over Southern California Monday eight haa advanced northea.tward to Colorado. The dlstnrhance that waa or Southern Soakatrhewan Tueair mornlna li Kuvnut-inB eawwank Deinn central over norm-weatern Dakota, and nreaaore fa low ofar Waahlneton. nitb nreaaura nrevalla fn tha Middle and Sonth Atlantic Statea. and orejnra la hlh ever Hudaon Bay. and thence westward tn Northern Alberta.

The entlook fa for rale on Thuradar fn Atlantlt Btatea. tor rain Wedieeda. ainlit or Thnradav In the eaatern lower lake region, and for rain Wednesday and probably ThuMnr la tne western lower lake reitlon. the Oblo Valley and Eaat Gulf Btatea. Elaewhere tha weather will, be fair Wedneaday and Tliora-day lb Btatea en at of the Miaalaalnpl Rlet.

Temperatnree will rtae on Wedneaday In tha Waahfnrton torecaat dlatrict. eiceot In North ern New Kneland. end It will be aomewliat colder oa Thuraday In tha weat portion of the Eaat Quit Statea. WINDS OTT ATLANTIC COAST Eaat Gulf, freah north mnA mamt nartl orercant Wedneaday, followed by rain over uuriowesi norilon Weat Oulf. fresh eaat ever aouth portion, freab southeast oer north portion, nartlyoter-east Wedneaday with abowera oyer north portion.

Caribbean flea and Windward Paasaae. freih north and northwest, noanlbly atmnic at partly overeaat Wedneaday. North Of Sandy Hook freah ml somewhat overcast Wedneaday. nanny uook to Hatteraa. treah nortbweat and west, partly overeaat Wedneaday.

Hatteraa to Florida 8trlta, fresh nortk-eaat and east over aouth oortlon. and moderate east oyer north portion, partly overcast Yesterday', Local Weather Report Special to The Inonlrer n. g. vVeatnor Bureau IStandard Timet -1 5 Weather Time. 8 A.

M. 30.47 24 10 .00 Clear H0.41 9 0 49 8 .00 Clear 8 P. M. 80.43 40J) 58 SW .00 i iijjt HiKheat WttWl VI mile ru.e hm, from Ihe N. Sunahlna 8.4 houra (per cent.

9 Hltheet temperature (Midnight to 8 P. at 4 P. 45 Hlsheat temperature this date laat 57 rr. 62 Lovreat temperature (Midnight to 8 t. at 8 A.

24 Uweat temperature thia date laat 57 vrs Average temperature Average temperaiiire thia data laat year. J5 Normal tempers hire fcloeaa aliie December 1 Rieeaa aince January 1 -m Total precipitation alnte December 1 3 Excess since January 1 Weather Rnrsau Rulletln Oeneraf weather conditlona at 8 Dec. 27, reported by (lulled State Bureau. FIRE 1WS Papers Also Issued for Pro-thonotary and Three County Commissioners Shortridge" Considering Vare Demand for Recount of Whole Pennsylvania Vote from Thl tnjuirar Burma. Htk a Jf SfrseCt, W.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Pronii-nent Philadelphia officials, including Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick, Pro- thonotary John M. Scott anij County Commissioners George F.

Holmes, Harry Kuenzel and John O'Donnell, are to be summoned before the "Jim" Heed investigating committee for testimony bearing upon ballots involved in the contest aver the seat of Senator-elect William S. Vare. According to information available tonight David Barry, aergeant-at-arms of the Senate, will proceed to Philadelphia tomorrow to serve the papera. Tke decision to expedite service of the subpoenas is said to have been founded upon a report that Mayor Kendrick is to sail for Europe shortly after the conclusion of his term next Monday. Information submitted to tJie Reed probers by tbe Committee of Seventy, nuini ot it dealing witn Senatorial election ballots, is understood to have prompted the committee to direct that subpoenas be issued for the officials designated.

Vallot boxes used in Philadelphia, according information reaching the committee, are returned to the county commissioners, although the keys to the vault rest In the custody of tbe Muyor and the prothonotary. Both keys are necessary to gain ad mission to the vaults. Move for All Ballots Steps were also inaugurated today by two Senate committees which will result in the assembling in Washington of all of the papers and records connected with the Vare election case. The campaign investigating commit-ree to which the question of Senator-elect Vare's qualifications to become a member of the Senate baa been re ferred movd to get certain papers ind records from Philadelphia. The Committee on Privilegea and Elections, to which the contest against Mr.

Vare's election to the Senatorial toga by William B. Wilson, his Demo era tic opponent, has been referred, moved to obtain all or the ballots now impounded by Federal Court order in sixty-five Pennsylvania counties. The 'orders of both committees will be executed by David 8. Barry, the sergeant-at-arms of tbe Senate and bis deputies. Just when the elections committee will get down to the actual task of recounting the ballots in connection with, the Wilson contest was not indicated by Senator Samuel Shortridge, of California, the Republican chairman of that group.

But he is hopeful that this task ran be begun in about ten days. And there is likewise an indefinite situation insofar as the activities of the committee headed by Senator Reed are concerned. That committee is scheduled to proceed with the case against Colonel Frank Smith, of Iillinois, who like Mr. Vare was denied the right to take the oath of office as a Senator. The Smith proceedings are slated tor January 7.

ABSENT FROM QUIZ Avila Missing Despite Fte quest to Attend Senate's Mexican Inquiry tpeeM ta Till Inquirer. WASHINGTON, Dec 27. Before the Senate special committee, which is investigating the Hearst Mexican documents Miguel Avila, who profes ses to have obtained Mexican Government documents for William Randolph Hearst, was today depicted as a pur Teyor of documents "notoriously anown in aiexico This description of Avila was given by Frank Y. McLaughlin, of Superior. an American civil engineer, who maintains an office and home in Mexico City.

McLaughlin has been associated with tbe El Sol Petroleum Company in Mexico City. He declared "traffic in was a business in Mexico City. Although senator Keed. of Pennsvl vania, chairman of the committee, had asked Avila to be present, the latter was not at the bearing. Hurried at temptB to reach him were not success' ful although McLaughlin also bad made the request that Avila be present when he told his story.

Avila, bowever, waa missing and the committee adjourned untu January 4. only did McLaughlin declare Avila was a purveyor of documents, but he said Avila bad dealt with documents which purported to divulge, secrets of tbe American Embassy as well as docn menta which seemed to reflect on the Mexican Government. McLaughlin said Avila in the summer or autumn of 1928 came to bis apart' ment and offered bim a document on the stationery of the American Em bassy at Mexico City which purported to De an arrangement wnereby Arthur Bliss Lane, first secretary of the Em bassy, would sell for $10,000 a record of all that happened between Secretary 1 riflings uiiu amoasssnor sneineia aur ing the trip of Sheffield to the United States in 1920. $1000 of this was to be in casn. PENNSYLVANIA NOTES The atveaty-fifth annual two-day convention of tha Ppnnalvaola Stata Education At-toclatioQ, open Id ia La dp iter today, will hava their meeilnffft of eleven depart menta and twenty-three atibsJdlary gronpa and tha hoiitif of dHegatea will hold Ha annual tmel-Dfaa aeaaion.

Tha body ta compoaed of R50 membera ohoaen by the 2ft2 local branrbea on tha basil of one for aacb 100 membera. With mm ore In circulation that tbe death of John Kanwin, 60, of Vetbunf. and tha near asphyxiation of Mra. Catherine Leaper, 61 mar have been a nuicide pact, the aa-thoritiee are InveatlKatlna conditlona at tha teener home. Mra, Leeper.

who waa found unconitcloua In the aame room of her home in which Rankin died from gas ftimea, ia rvfoverinir fn the Brownsville General Hoe-oital. Hhe aaya abe retnembere nothing of the Incidents leading up to tha death of KanklD. Franklin la ready to ttart (ta new year with a comfortabe balance in tha bank, do lncrpae In mlleetre and a budget tailing for I1O5.UO0. No atreet paving will be done tbia year, since two years' programme were aronp- tnto one daring 1927. Tbe reaiirfaelng of sTreera paa given a boulevard appearance which haa advertised it far and wide to Bttotoriiste.

'mm Bids will be opened today by tho State Highway Department for construction of the proposed 3 000fXeO North office building in Capitol park. Funds will be taken from the treasury of department. TTie two former directors of Hanover U-wuMiiip acliooi ooard. Herman Matlander. a contractor and Ralph Berr.

architect are evpected to begin their aentenrea at the county prison this afternoon. The two defendants, who were sentenred to from two roars each, were permitted by Jadg Filler In re aaaia wit Utelr faoUUea over cuiauuaa. State Institution for Women Celebrates Return of Its Old Regime Social Work Should Not Be Spoiled by Partisanship, Says Judge By RICHARD J. BEAMISH Girls and women of the Mate Indus trial Home fur Women at Mtiney, are celebrating two events this week, the coming of the holidays and the return of the non-political regime beaded by Mrs. Henry Clay McCormick, of VVilliiiiiisport The big institution where girls and women found guilty in every court of record in Pennsylvania are sent for instruction and rehabilitation has just passed through a period of battling, and chaos r'or months Mrs, McOor-mii'k, the chairman of the board of trustees, was ignored by a majority of the board, and Miss Franklin U.

Wilson was slated for dismissal. Political domination aud resultant favoritism worked havoc with discipline, and the good that was being done in the unique institution was being rapidly undone. Daring Social Experiment Muncy is a daring social experiment aiming at the return, of women who have committed crimes to lives of usefulness Under the Pennsylvania law, any Quarter Sessions Court in the State may send a woman convicted of any crime, up to but not including murder, to this industrial home. More thun that, the board of trustees Is clothed with absolute pardoning power. The school teaches gainful occupations to those committed to it, and they are returned to liberty when they are found to be fit for freedom, no matter what the grade of their misconduct may have been.

A determined effort to grasp the machinery of administration and. -par doning apparently succeeded when several men and women who bad muds a study of the reformation of women criminals were eliminated from the board and a drive was commenced against Mrs. McCormick and Miss Wilson. Governor Fisher nut an abrupt end to these tactics when he appointed judge raim rsmitn ot uourt ot common Pleas No. 5 to the place on the noard be had filed during the administrations of Governor Sproul and Pin-chot.

Five Members appear At a meeting called after Judge Smith's appointment, only five of the nine members appeared, These re electd Mrs. McCormick as chairman, Paul M. Newman of Williainsport, vice president and Judge bnulli secretary, The administration of Miss Wilson was enthusiastically indorsed and soy eral discordant elements that had ap peered during the battle era were eliminated. "Everything is running fine again," said Judge Smith yesterday. tue six cottages in which the girls and women are being restored to usefulness are real homes of holiday cheer this week Hig Christmas trees Were hung with gifts for everybody and the trustees made little personal contributions to ward the general happiness.

The work that is being done in Muncy is too good to be Hooded by selfishness or political partisanship. It requires the highest type of altruism and understanding by every person connected with the institution. Uf such tvDe is Miss Wilson, the superin tendent and Mrs. McCormick, the chairman. To have set these two won derful women aside wo Id have worked a terrible injustice to every woman and girl and might have ruined an ex periment which, we believe, is blading the trai for the sympathetic and right solution of a part of our criminal prop lcm.

The tremendous Dower of unlitn Ited pardon which has been confided to the Hoard of Trustees by the State hou never be i ven to persons whose aims are wholly political. Mun cy is an instiution which should be watched carefully and constantly by all right minded citixens of Pennsylvania No hint has come from the four members who refused to attend the last session of the Board as to their future action. Non-attendance at the meetings is usually a ground for re moval hv the Governor. The next reir ular meeting will be on the third Saturday of January in the Board room nf the Admin stratum Hinldlng. "We will get orn nl 'ely with nvs membera if the other four choose to remain away, said Judge Smith, Hogle Quit Auto Club Fmen Unzip, for sixteen years secretary of the Automobile Club of Philadelphia, has resigned that post to accept a business position in this city.

Mr Hoirle went with the Automobile Club in the early days of motoring. He was Pennsylvania representative on rhe Contest Hoard ot the American Automobile Association, and represent ed that organisation in all race meets, runs and tests in this vicinity. Re was one of the earliest radio broadcasters in thia section and for several years dispensed motoring advice to the radio audiences from local stations. FIRE RECORD OF THE DAY 12 10 1 M. -Two-itory hrlck building, st 210 8011th Broad atreet, occupied by Horn A Harden Basins Cnmpan.ri loaa trifling.

8.10 A. M. Three and a half-etorr brick hiilldlns. 2110 Market street, occupied by at, Uarlaoo: loaa trilling. on A.

Twoetory brick dwelling. 688 Eaat lUttenhonsa afreet, occupied by D. Can. tre'lol loaa trlfllns. 9.40 A.

M. Automobile, at Hutchinson itreet and Wlngohocktng avenue, occupied by Louia Bnrratoi Ion trlfllns. 1017 A. M. Three-story brick atora and dwelling, 52 North Tenth atrwt, occupied or Jameo Ions trifling.

10.18 A. M. Two-atory brick factory at 1A15 MrKean afreet, occupied hy P. Da Hanoi loaa unknown. a 10 21 A.

M. Two and a halt-atory Mica dwelling. 2400 floutb Seventh street, occupied hy Ixinla Geebanl loaa trlfllns, 1181 A. M. Oraaa In nienwood Cemetery TwenU-alxth street and Bldsa avenue: loaa trlfllns.

110 A M. Three-atory brick dwelling, 2607 Waterloo street, occupied by Joha Tax loaa trifling. 11.50 A. Two and a half atory brick atora and dwelling, 8243 Market street, unoc cupied; loaa trlfllns. 11.54 A.

M. -Three-story brick and Iraae dwelling. 4253 Viola a treat, occupied by J. Newburn; loaa unknown. 12 041 M.

Field, of grin tt Ralnea and Ardlelth atreeta. Germaotown; loaa trlfllns. 12.80 r. Pour-atory brick anartnwst house. 4724 Cheetnnt.

atreet, occupied hy Eshelmnn; lose trllllnt. 2.01 P. M. Twotoir brick and tram dwelling. 8228 Craig atreet.

occupied by B. M. Zimmerman; loaa trifling. 3 47 P. and a half itory trick dwelling.

2TM Brown street, occupied by Rirk; tone unknown. 4.56 P. M. -Automobile, st 2158 Eaat Son) ereet atreet. owned by (Somerset Automobile Company; loaa trifling.

1 40 P. rour-otory brick apartment. aouthwaat corner of Twelfth aid Louilaa atreeta; loaa unknown, 6.4a P. M. Two-alory brick foundry.

Raven' teenth atreet and Glenwood avenue, occupied by Parker A Knnwlee; loaa unknown. 6 0S P. M. Etsht-atory brick waralmnw, nortbweet corner of Twenty-fnartb and Wal nut atreeta. occupied hy the Great Mitotic Paffflc Tea Company; loss unknown.

P. Thr-ne hi- Snlt lS Market atreet, occupied by the William Penn Bank: loaa trlfllns. 00 p. M. -Two-atory hrlck dwvltln.

S4S4 Bast cipurflei ttnat, wcapiaii J. bilberti loaa trifling. is Plans for reorganizing the Bureau of Police occupied the attention of Mayor-elect Hurry A. Mackey yesterday as be discussed with several influential ward leaders the problem of selecting aides for Harry C. Davis, executive director of the Republican City Committee, who slated to succeed Director George W.

Elliott in the Department of Public Safety. Captain Theodore F. Wood, head of the detective bureau, is expected by political leaders to be designated assistant director. Presumably at the suggestion of Mr. Mackey, Wood was summoned yesterday to the office of Recorder of Deeds James Haxlett, field representative of Senator-elect William 8 Vare, who is ill, and there informed of the plan to make bim chief aide to the incoming director.

It is, understood to have been the original programme of the Mackey forces to award the assistant directorship to Captain James J. Ileum, ward lenders, however, registered such vigorous opposition, It was said. that Ilcarn was cast ssirle. Meanwhile there was a report that Captain William Connelly would made assistant director, although the gossip persists that Captain W.iod is as good as selected. In the event Wood is promoted, ac cording to indications, Lictitenani Charles Peck mun will be appointed chief of the detective bureau.

Mr. Mackey reiterated yesterday that the personnel of bis Cabinet In definitely settled In his mind, but he maintained his usual reticence about discussing names. The fact that the advent of the new administration is only a few days away was accepted as an Indication that, all tha places have not been filled. Selection of officials for a few minor places will be made before the end of the week. The Mayor-elect is due for hia fi nal Cabinet conference with Senator-elect Vare today.

Prior to the visit of Mr. Mackey. Mr. Vare will canvass the situation with Thomas W. din.

ningham, and other organisation lead ers, wno nave neen summoned to Die home at South Broad street. Air. Davis, a former assistant direc. tor of public safety, has the field to nimselt tor head Of the riennrtmenr i nis ia me consensus of opinion among political leaders close to Mr. Mackey.

Talk of County Commissioner George P. Holmes In connection with this appointment has disappeared in the face of the knowledge that no little difficulty would be encountered in inducing fhe Board of Judges to name a Vare-Mai key choice to succeed Mr. Holmes In his present post it is regarded as equally certain that Alexander Murdoch, chief of the Bureau of Water, will be designated director of public works to succeed George B. Biles. Murdoch has the aunnnrt nf Mr Vare and Mr.

Cunningham. Charlea B. Hull, the outgoing president of Council, is likewise an ardent supporter of Murdoch, altbough it ia regarded as doubtful that this Indorsement appeals too strongly to the Mayor elect. Mr. Hal has been too close to the Kendrick regime.

Watson for Supplies Mr. Mackey had bis last talk with Senator-elect Vare Sunday afternoon, but he insisted yesterday there was no discussion of the Cabinet. He and Mrs. Mackey, be stated, merely called to inquire about the state of Mr. Vare's health.

One of the Jobs said to have been settled yesterday is that of director of supplies. Hi Is post Is to be filled by Thomas F. Watson, chairman of the Republican City Committee and a former City Treasurer, unless there is a last- minute change in the programma. I- il. iu tue uiiKJiim uii aeriug over uie position, Paul M.

Gibbons, a printer and oflvial of the Penn Athletic Club, seemed to have the inside track, but Mr. Vare interceded in behalf of Mr. Watson and it appeared yesterday that the Twenty-second ward leader bad the call. Mr. Mackey a reputed choice of Au gustus Trask Ashton for City Solicitor, has met with approval of prominent judgea and lawyers.

Mr. Ashton has been an intimate friend of the Mayor-elect for many years. I hey began their respective careers at the Philadelphia bar about the same period and in the years of his prac- ETON 61 IIIIS 1 BUSINESS Earl Baruch Soon to Wed, Leaves College a Junior; Father Here Princeton's star quarter-back. Earl Baruch, of Lansdowne, baa left college in his junior year to enter tbe insur ance business In this city with his father, Baruch said yesterday. Testerday morning, the football star reported for work at the office of his father, Fern-and Baruch, 629 Chestnut Btreet Next fall he is to be married to Miss Alice Fox, of Red Rock, Merion.

"I am sorry to leave school without my diploma," Baruch said, "but my marriage is approaching and I must give full attention to business. I want to get an early start in the insurance game. I had hoped to play another game against Yale, but I niuBt look out for my future." Although Barnch had told close friends at Princeton be would not return to school after the holidays tbe announcement of his leaving waa not made public until yesterday. Coacji Bill Roper had been counting heaviiy on Barnch for the 1028 eleven, Baruch's football career began at Lansdowne High School, where he was a member of tbe back-field for two seasons. He starred on the Haverford School eleven In and made the Princeton freshman team with little trouble.

He was a member of tht varsity eleven in 1026 and a regular quarter-back last season. He was noted for his forward passing and his drop Kicking. MARYLAND HAPPENINGS Ont of th latwitt tWr la Answer count tn ypm waa shot B. B. Knitht.

of turn on tit on tn lamp ronerr or tha wofwi mint Hod and Oun Club, tn mlln wont of Hanrori. it waa a foarteca point buck, weljrblnff 813 twunda. In1nrla rx.Yl while nortulntr i Riunllnf antimoblltx near WMtin.nnter proved fatal to OffiofT JamiB Noon, of the Mnrviani Stata lurinft- th chaw a 1na rao tnto tha patn of hia motorcyrla. hnrlina tha "fflcar from ma macotna to Uit ilda ot tha road. Fir of or latin dwitroyM a lari atoraaTP bulMing of tho FrMliirk Junk CimnanT.

Fdr1( a nurnlna a Iowa nf jtKdt Irtduilfd in low wtpro antnmiibll Tarti valiiM at A Ktwral alarm oallad out an nra, com nan tea in tna city, Mrs Kurl Blank ttton was knorkd nnron- Rrimm nar hpw fr rtieumtnwn bride when a car driven her hicl'iTl waa mmpt tha machln of Wl'Hnm MKltniiia. of Uiir-pti Annt count. Wr htm hand rtrd and In Ivtnt seardiw, for nolir nn ilia rliara of failing eto and site aid after an accident. ly pave the way for Judge Ctley E. Crane, of tbe Municipal Court, to become City Solicitor.

It is known that Judge Crane waa Mr. Ashton's choice for the post and that he recommended the jurist dur- ng the recent Mackey-Asnton sojourn abroad. The choice ot Judge wane wno is well up in the Mackey entourage, would cause a vacancy on the Municipal Court bench and this is the obstacle in tbe way of bis becoming city solicitor. It anoears that the Vare-MacKey leadership has been unable to get any commitments from Governor Fisher on the problem of filling the vacancy. In tbe event that at some aubsequent date the Governor indicates a disposition to co-operate with the Philadelphia organization, it would cause no great surprise to politicians li mr.

abhiou would retire and Judge Crane step into bis shoes. Dr. A. A. Cairns, chief of the bureau of health, has agreed to ac cept appointment as head or.

me ue- parnneui oi room- nn -yesterday in City Hall. Emphasis was given the report when Dr. Cairns was summoned to the office of Mr. Mackey in the City Centre Building. The Mayor-elect insisted that no Inferences were to be drawn from this visit Ho is arranging for a tour of city institutions before taking office, it was explained, and Dr.

Cairns was merely called in for the purpose of discussing institutional problems. Nevertheless it will be a surprise to City Hall if Dr. Cairns is not the next head of the health department In line with his campaign promise to place a woman in the. cabinet. Mr.

Mackey had two prospects under consideration for Director of Public Welfare. He regarded both as equally fitted for tbe position, bnt political considerations are understood to have drawn the berth for Mrs. Henry Hall Sinna-mon, vice chairman of the Republican City Committee. Some Berth in Doubt Mrs. Binnamon and Mrs.

James W. Kyle, the latter one ot Mr. Mackey'a prominent supporters in the fall campaign, were under consideration for the nost. While many ward leaders registered opposition to awarding a major place to a woman, nevertheless aa between Mrs. Binnamon and Mrs.

Kyle they ta vored the former because of ber work for the cilv orgauizition. She took over the direction of the political club founded by the late Mrs. Archibald Harmon. Mr. Mackey has always been closely identified with this woman's organization.

Mrs. Sinnamon had the support of Senator-elect Vare and this aided ber cause materially. Selection of a director of wharves, docks and ferries will not be decided until later in the week with Director Georee P. Snroule and former Con gressman George W. Edmonds the chief contenders.

Director Snroule has the Indorse ment of the Maritime Exchange and the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Edmonds is chief of the bureau of ocean traffic and at the conclusion of the fall campaign be was asked by Mr Mackey to make a survey of the port There has been no intimation on Mr, Mnckoy's selection of a director of transit. Mr. Mackey a friends are silent on this branch of the Cabinet al though in other quarters it is reported he will ask Director Henry E.

Eblers to remain on the job. "There will be no trouble about my Cabinet selections," Mr. Mackey said yesterday. "My appointments will be agreeable to Senator Vare and other leaders add I feel sure they will be approved by the public generally. Every place in my Cabinet will represent my own selection and the entire list has virtually been settled.

I am now at work on my message and expect to have it finished in a few days." In connection with his message, Mr. Mackey conferred yesterday with Councilman Edwin R. Cot, who will be the president of the incoming chamber. Invitations to the inaugural ceremonies will be placed in the mails today. Approximately 2000 invitations have been sent out by the Inaugural Committee of Coilncil, with seating accom modations limited to 500.

AUTOS FATAL TO 318 Total Not Expected to, Reach 1926 Mark When 329 Met Death Motor vehicular traffic killed 313 per sons on the highways of this city so far this year, according to reports recorded in the office of Coroner Fred Schwara. While there are still four days left of the present year, it is believed by Coroner investigators that the mark for such fatalities during 1927 will not reach that of the preceding year, which set a high mark with 329 deaths. Of the total number killed. 95 were children under 18 years of age. Twenty-one others were 63 years or older? Taiirabs killed eleven persons, trucks were responsiDie lor tbe deaths of more than 100 pedestriana and drivers, while the remainder of fatalities 'were caused by pleasure cars.

While more wan a score of those fatally injured were the victims of hit and run drivers, this year's record also reveals rie. crease in this form of offender as compared with 1026, when more than flftv persons were killed by cars whose driv ers sped away without kssist nir them. The total number of motor vehicle fatalities during the various months of mis year are as toliows Month Victims January Feortiarj March April u. May June July A i I pcpiemuer October November December Total ..315 DEL VARE DOINGS Wtnfors 18 yeara eld. a aaltot on the tj.

8. S. h. waa broortt to Wll. minaton from Chea town.

wbr ba waa arrented on comolaA' Blrhard McOeachle. a taxlrab driver ho cbarsea Pleaaanton lorrm mm to dria Share at the enint of a No formal rtiawa hava been olaoad aaainat Plpaaanton tvfho axoerta ba la not tha nan. and that tt la ipoaalblr a caaa at mle- laaen laenutv. I Funeral servicee wit! be bald Tburaday at- at 2 n'd vk i iU 1W brterlan Ctmn-li for Nlrtiolaa f. Rtahl H) vpara old.

who dlMi after a ahort fllneaa at fila home, run Barnard rmnlf tard. llmina-to from an acute henrt atta-'k. He 1a atir- vived by hia wife, theyormer Mia Mary laf- san, oi itewcaaue. inraa cauarea. Phila.

Trust Company Head Formally Inducted as State Grand Master His Aides Also Elevated: Penna, Masonry Established Nearly 200 Years J. Willisnn Smith, president of the recently consolidated Heal Title and Trust Company, was in- Ntniien yesterday as grand master of the (Jrnnd Lodge of rennsvlvania. IT. and A. at the annual communica tion in Masonic Temple, Broad and Filbert streets.

In his address, he called attention tn the fact, that in 1930 the 200 ih anniversary of Masonry In Pennsylvania will be celebrated in Philadelphia, where the State lodge was founded in u.w, tins ohservance will be of great scope, and the committee which will make all arrangements and formulate plans for the event will consist of the grand officers of the lodge with the mat grand masters. William M. Hamilton, of Pittsburgh. retiring Grand Master, In bis valedictory, gave a resume of accomplishments of the last year In the lodge. Mr Nmith was Inducted Into office hy Past Grand Master Samuel M.

Good year, of arlisle. The other officers installed were: Deputy Grand Mas ter, William 8 Snyder, of Harrlshurg: Senior Grand Warden, Benjamin Page, of I'ltlshuriih: Junior Grand Warden Otto H. Heligman, Philadelphia; Grand Treasurer, (lliarles E. Roberta, and Grand Secretary, John A. Perry.

Fol lowing the Installation Mr. Smith mane his appointments to the various boards of the lodge. The officers installed yesterday were all elected at the quarterly communica tion of the lodge, held here on Decem ber 7. According to custom, while an election is held each year, a change ia made only every other year, and Mr Hamilton bad been In office for two years. Although there had been aulte a contist for the office of junior grand warden, custom of many years standing haa decreed that he lie chosen from the same section of the State as the new grand master, the post therefore falling to Mr.

Heligman. he ceremonies yesterday took place In the presence of more than 1000 men high in Masonry, and included delegations of ofTicers from several other jurisdictions, among them New Jersey and Connecticut, the grand master of the former with hia officers, and two past grand masters of tha latter jurisdiction being present. SCORE INJDULCY" Women's Auxiliary of Cathollo Historical Soolety Presents Comedy It seems nearly as Incredible that so much could happen to a peaceful Long Island family between dinnertime of one day and breakfast of the next as eventuallnes in "Dulcy" as it does that any woman could be so dumb as she of the title role. Hut Mare Connelly and George 8. Kaufman wrote the book, and Mrs.

Walter B. Gibbons played Dulcy last night to the life, when that delightful comedy was given at the Hellevue-Strutford as the first annual Christmastide entertainment of the Women's Auxiliary of the American Catholic Historical Society. Mrs. Gibbons, chairman of the auxiliary, directed the presentation. There she reigned supreme, but on the stage she had to share honors with Maurice H.

du Marals, of the Plays and Players, who took the role of Leach, the highly inflated scenarist. John P. Redmond, as Forbes, phlegmatic fabricator of jewelry, also registered well. Others In the well-cast performance were Raymond Nelson, Clarence M. Hayes, Margaret Mary Kearney, Ruth McMullin, Henry 'B.

Sharp, Anthony McGlone, John Spearing and Joseph W. Carton. Miss Nina Halvey stage managed, and Miss Kliiabeth Ilicklcy headed the ushers. The proceeds will be turned over to the historical society for mainte nance of Its library at 715 Spruce street and for other phases of Ita work. Seek Dead Guardsman's Parents Stata and county headquarters of the American Legion were requested yesterday to assist In the areh for the parents of Robert Taylor, a private In the 82nd Company, I'nited States Coast GiiBrd, who died on December 23 In a hospital at Helena, Mont, Street City Stata swsen.

bat all a 10 may km mm. A fill emt tar aaaeaj axreM. Mackey Will Base Policy on Result of Survey Instituted by' Him Trip Seen as Preliminary to i Appointment of Murdoch as Public Worlcs Head A Councilmanic inspection of tbe city water system, slated for today, was announced last night. It was reported at City Hall that tbe inspection, which will be under auspices of the Public Works Committee, was ar ranged at the bebest of Mayor-elect Mackey. It also was said that much will de pend on today's survey aa to the attitude the incoming administration will adopt as to tbe city's water supply requirements; whether steps will be taken to extend that supply from sources outside the city or whether im provements will be confined to ex panding and bettering tbe present sys tem of plants.

It was not announced whether or nqj; Mr. Mackey will take part in the inspection trip, but there is no doubt he will be represented. The ending from today a survey may play a con spicuous part in that portion of hie inaugural address devoted to water supply. Murdoch Appointment Seen The trin also waa regarded at Citv Hall as caving tbe wav for aiiDoint ment of Chief of the Water Bureau Alexander Murdoch to the post of Director of Public Works in the Mackey cabinet Mr. Murdoch was under a cloud for a while two years ago, when Germantown went "dry1' for three days as result of a plant breakdown.

The Councilmen, and possibly tne mayor-elect, will De ahle to see tor themselves today the rehabilitation effected at the Shawmont and Torres- dale plants. There was a good deal of mystery surrounding the sudden call for the inspection. Council has no legislation on the water plants pending and no loan appropriation tor water plant improvements and extensiona ia sched uled until spring. Every member of the Public Works Committee, however, will serve in the new Council, and it is expected the Mayor-elect would wish them to bav the same viewpoint on water supplv needs as he has. JERSEY JIOTTINGS Frank Prnrla, Camden deep-sea diver, who char fed ttmt naval officials dlrectins the attempted reacite work in the 8-4 disaster refused aid offered tieni by civilian dlvera and that the Uvea of the aix men on tbe submarine were "sacrificed to naval litcooipetenre" waa called to Congressman Charlea A.

Wol-terton'a office In Camden vesterdav afternoon for two-hour conference. Two civil suits, Hated In the Cumberland County Circnit Court for the December terra, opening at Bridge too on Tho mi a December 9. ssainst Willis H. Reach, co-defendant with Mra. Mart a ret Mlllenriahl.

now nervinf to yeara for the murder of Dr. A. William Lil-Llendahl. will be defended by hia wife. Althnurh an tnfiint eon was born to him in Camden Ave months ago, Edmund Buckley, of Philadelphia, did not lay evee upon hia child until vesterday.

when he appeared in the nden Chancery Court IP an effort to fain custody of the Infant. The hearing by Vice Chancellor Edward B. teaming of the habeas corpus nrocedlnga proved to be unnecessary Counsel for the opposing pair agreed on fsita by Huck'ey to see hia eon, Edmund. three times a week. Formation of new Camden mummers club will give Camden two clubs for Ita New Tear'a parade this year.

More than 8fi0 masked merrymakers will take part. The club, the New Camden Comic Clnb. ia headed by William Helvernon of Camden, and has a membership of 250. An unsuccessful effort waa made yesterday tn Trenton by Mra May Hanson and Miss Anna Yarrow' to Induce Governor Moore to Intervene to save their brother, George Yarrow from death 'n tha electric chair for the murder of Rose 8arlo, sixteen yeara old. it Woodbury last fall.

Writa of habeas corpus for tbe removal of eleven atlena from the Gloucester immigration station were dismissed by Judge Joseph L. Bo line in the Federal Court in Trenton yesterday STEAMER MOVEMENTS ARRIVED Btaaroer Date From Reported at Oarar II Dee. Zt.Copeoha'a New York OMaaba Dec. 37. Havana.

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