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SECTION TWO. GENERAL NEWS. MARKETS, WANT ADS. 4tW Rational War Savings Week Stamps for Sale Everywhere. vii ins yojuw MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1918.

17 WHEN FELLERS NEED A FRIEND PULLHAII CAR UICTIL1 OFFICIALS FAVOR EARLY START ON POST-WAR PLANS WAR WORK TAKES THE LIFE OF LUSS BRECKINRIDGE Kansas City Woman Alive When Thrown from Train. Her Husband Confesses. PASTORS REVIEW BILLY'S RESULTS DISAPPOINTED DON'T kgrs eF OID GO IrJ MY YARt Yv4: AIN'T SOW GIT IT I WON'T HJ, 6u TR0MPIr4 OUEft. MV FLOirJtR Am EF Yevai Dp 6eT foot in-Thak I'LL He Yok AU LOCKe UP iN Th Find Only Few of Trail Hitters Were Chicago Nurse Succumbs as Result of Service in France. S.

Officials Interested in "The Tribune's" Suggestion. CALABOOSE- TA ft WfiW WK (I I I RY ARTHUR SEAKS HENWiWU Miss Curry Desha Breckinridge, one of the first Chicago nurses to reach the battle front, has given her life as a result of her service to humanity. Her death, caused by myocarditis, was directly attributable to her exertions during twenty-seven months of service in the hospitals of France, most of it befor.e the United States entered the war. to her life work and her memory was paid yesterday afternoon at services held in the Presbyterian Hospital School for Nurses, from which Miss Breckinridge was graduated in 1908, and whose hmor roll she headed. 'Her heroic sacrifices at the front formed the theme of talks made by Miss Jane Addama and by the Rev.

"William Chalmers Covert, pastor of the Washington, D. June 23. Special A movement Is on foot to make tij. Council of National Defense and Ita advisory committee the agency for formulating a post-war reconstruction program, for which The Tribune ad-rocates the creation of a reconstruction ministry. IH Tkibunb editorial urging that, while nothing should be allowed to de-irtct from the exertion of full national Mrgy to win the war against Germany, the United States should take early tP to avoid being caught as unprepared for peace as It was for war ittracted wide attention la "Washington.

Situation Is Canvassed. 1 canvass of the situation has dls-clcied that the more Important officials of the government agree with Tm Tribune that the problems of readjustment of the national life and national interests after the war to changed conditions demand the utmost forethought that can be given without BY THE REV. W. B. NORTON.

When on May 19 Billy Sunday closed a ten weeks' campaign for souls In the big tabernacle at Chicago avenue and -the lake the final record was: Number of trail hitters. expenses of the campaign, number of co6peratlng churches, 424. The result of the campaign in additions to Chicago churches, it is estimated by the various pastors, will not exceed 1.000. Billy's farewell utterance was: I've done my duty. Like a physician after he hands the new baby over to the mother and the curse, takes his departure, so I commit these new converts to the churches, and I go on my.

way to other fields." Tragedy," Says Pastor. The Rev. S. J. Skevington, pastor of the Belden Avenue Baptist church, one of the most active of the cooperating churches, described the trail hitting results as a tragedy." I received about sixty cards signed by those who had hit the trail," said Dr.

Skevington. Eighty-five per cent were members of my church. Si per cent could not be found, either because b. IWWIlllll I is -sv -Vox xV i I First Presbyterian church. Nurses at the hospital, classmateo, and friends at tended.

Member of Kentucky Miss Breckinridge was a member of the celebrated Kentucky family. Her father was the late CoL W. C. P. Breckinridge and her brothers, and sisters include Desha Breckinridge, editor of the Lexington Herald; Robert Breckinridge, Miss Sophonlsba Breckinridge, dean of women at the University of Chicago, and Mrs.

Lyman Chalkley of Lexington, Ky. i conflicting with the supreme task of (achieving victory for American and arms. I tact that Great Britain, Ger the name or the address was incorrectly reported. Four per cent seem to give no promise of further interest In many branches Of the nursing Five per cent might be called available field Miss Breckinridge was a pioneer. She was one of the first material.

I have thus far received four into membership, all boys from my Sunday school. I think the trail Biny, and other belligerents haa dartaken reconstruction programs to the midst of the world conflict is an additional argument, as pointed out fcy The Tribune, for the early formu trained nurses in Illinois "to be employed In the care of the insane In hitting in itself was a tragedy, but I am looking forward to the fall and state institutions, being a supervisor winter work in the church hopefully." lation of poet-war plans in order that at the Elgin state hospital for the insane for several months. "She was also one of the first trained nurses on the staff of the Tuber ttix6rioontti-By. EtiOTo may be no delay when peace ecm In performing a task second in BAgnitude to only war itself. Prompt Action Urged.

culosis sanitarium, later assisting in a survey made by the state of Mich igan into living conditions in rural dis Although President "Wilson has not taien the initiative in this movement tricts. Went to France In 1915. "Fatal Error" Thomas. The Rev. J.

S. Ladd Thomas, pastor of the Austin Methodist Episcopal church, chairman of the Billy Sunday campaign, said he received 169 cards. "Of the 169 card signers ninety-six were members of my church." he said. Seventy-three were reported as non-members. I received on a recent Sunday eighty-four members into the church, sixteen of them trail hitters.

Of the sixteen several were members of other churches who brought their church letters, and the others were from my Sunday I only count In June, 1915. Miss Breckinridge administration officials express con-eTance that he will not neglect so important a national problem and that went to France, and for twenty-one months served in a British base hos NURSES pital Then the United States en EX-CONVICT IS HELD AS WIFE'S be will consent to the early establish. Dtnt of machinery to handle the un liertaiicg. TWO CATHOLIC CHURCHES RAISE SERVICE FLAGS Service flags were raised in two Cath Illinois Well Represented on Staff of Army School. Morgan denied that the killing was premeditated.

He continues' to maintain his Indifferent attitude, although today he expressed a desire that he be allowed to visit his wife's grave. Morgan, the authorities said today, has given them ttsmj of the details of his earlier life. He was born, he said, in Vienna, III. While auditor at a hotel in Birmingham, he met his future wife. After their marriage, he asserted, he used $4,200 of his employer's rands to pay bills Incurred by the illness of his wife.

ws rl: "I took the money to protect my wife and baby," he told the authorities. I spent $1,600 of it on doctor bills. I then' told my employers and made a note to cover my Macon, June 23 Irving Morgan, also known as John R. Jackson, who has told the police that he threw his wife through the window of a sleeping car near Mo the night of June 13, while she was alive, was brought here early today from Kansas City, and placed in the county jail pending a preliminary -hearing Wednesday at Shelbina, Mo. That he killed his wife because he loved her so much," -was the assertion made by Morgan through the bars of his cell today.

don't know why I did it" he said. "It was not an that caused it It was not jealousy. I think it was because I loved her so much. I more than loved her I worshiped her. WOULD-BE SLAYER Th Council of National Defense and advisory commission, after discuss- ASHINGTON.

D. June 2S. fcf the reconstruction problem, rwched the conclusion that the work olic churches yesterday. The ceremony Special. Illinois Is well represented on the staff of one man uniting with the church who was not already in some way connected with the Last year at this same time I received 128 members into the church after a series of meetings led by myself.

I commend heartily the work Following an alleged attempt on. his part to chloroform her Saturday night Mrs. Fern Brown, 180S Ogden avenue, caused the arrest of her husband, Her was in each case preceded by proces tered the war, and she obtained, a transfer to the American Red Cross. Until September, 1917, she was a member of the nursing staff in Dr. Blake's hospital in Paris, where she served in the facial surgery ward.

Her health was affected, and she returned to assist In the organization of a nursing unit from Kentucky. While taking a couie in anesthesia in Cleveland she was forced to suspend because of heart She was brought to the Presbyterian hospital, where she remained for eleven weeks before her death. fhauld be started immediately. The nivisorv commission and ita numerous the army nurse school, recent- sions. ly established by the surgeon general At Visitation church, Garfield boule I committees of business and profession bert S.

Brown, an ex-convict yester under the army medical department. done among the business women down day morning and charged him with al men started the machinery of the Assisting Miss Anne W. Goodrich, vard and Peoria street, a flag containing 520 stars, three of them gold, was raised la the afternoon. A procession In which several bands Joined superintendent, will be Miss Helen town and in building up the men's Bible classes, both of which give prom planning to stab her to death in Lin coin park. war organization going and kept it joicg until the war and navy and other departments and special boards Scott Hay of Chicago, a graduate of Northwestern university and the Illinois Training School for.

Nurses, who ise of -permanence, but I think it is a fatal error for the church to depend marched to the church, where a patriotic address was delivered by the The police are investigating whether Brown is one of the automobile bandits who h.ve been holding- up drug stores has been released by the National Red Very Rev. F. X. McCabe of Do Paul Cross for this new work; Miss Ellen university. and stealing narcotics.

Brown admits he is a drug addict, and says he ac At- St Margaret's church. Ninety- upon special preachers rather than upon the house to house system, as we are now preparing for in Austin." Finds Three Converts. Dr. Johnston Myers, pastor- of Ini- manuel Baptist church, Twenty-third ninth and Throop streets, the flag rais Stewart, a graduate of St Luke's hospital, and Miss Elizabeth Burgess, formerly the superintendent of the Michael Reese hospital of Chicago. quired the habit by taking heroin smug gled into the Joliet penitentiary.

According to Mrs. Brown, who lives PAULINE PLOTKA7 FACES O'BRIEN IN TRIAL TODAY Pauline Plotka Is to undergo another severe test today when she resumes the witness stand in her trial before Judge Sabath for the murder CATHOLIC DRYS MOURN DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP The death of Archbishop James J. Keane'of Dubuque, was mourned yesterday at the forty-seventh annual meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Illinois, which met Miss Alice Beattle, a graduate of the at the home of her mother, Mrs, street and Michigan avenue, who wm chairman of the personal -work com ing occurred in the morning and the ceremony included a military mass. The Rev. T.

J. Tinan blessed the flag and the address was given by the Rev. O'Reagan of De Paul university. The flag contained 120 stars and was Mary Eckert, her husband has Illinois State Normal school and superintendent of the Iowa University wtn able to take over the vast work. Opposes Special Commission.

The advisory committee does not consider feasible the establishment of special reconstruction ministry, for reason that such a body would implicate and conflict with work now iislng done by some of the departments hich should be incorporated into rseonstructlon program. Many of the advocates of a reconstruction ministry, pronouncing an sarly organization of the work more important than the form of the agency created, are in favor of intrusting the Jormulation of the program to the Council of National Defense and its advisory commission. Homeopathic hospital, will be in been demanding money from her. Saturday afternoon after she had told him she had no money she says he tried to get her to go into the streets to earn money. She told the police she CHILD IS KILLED BY AUTO; DRIVER GIVES SELF UP Elizabeth 9 year old daughter of Carl Steier, a baker of Forest was almost instantly killed yesterday at Lathrop avenue and Lake street River Forest when she was struck by an automobile owned and driven by Alfred A.

Haynes of 3S63 North Lincoln avenue. Grief stricken, Haynes then drove to the River Forest police station, where he surrendered himself, saying that the accident was unavoidable. Ten year old Mildred Brassle of 6525 Indiana avenue Is in a critical borne by soldiers from Camp Grant charge of the training unit to be assigned to Camp "Wheeler, Georgia. and sailors from the Great Lakes. The flag was donated by Mr.

and Mrs. refused and he tried to chloroform "Wade Street. The Rev. T. J.

Hurley, her, The first training unit of from twenty-five to thirty nurses will be assigned to Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass. Others will be sent to Camp "Wads-worth, S. C. pastor of St Margaret's, served as On the advice of city detectives, Mrs. deacon at the mass.

Brown received her husband yesterday morning and agreed to go to Lincoln park with him, taking her baby with TWO MORE ISSUES OF THE ST A ATS her. At Ogden avenue and Van Buren in convention at the St Philip Neri church, Seventy-second street and Merrill avenge. The eulogy of Archbishop Keane as a friend of total abstinence and the temperance cause was delivered by the Rt Rev. Mgr. D.

J. Riordan, pastor of St- Elizabeth's church, Chicago. Resolutions pledging loyalty to the government and commending the attitude of President Wilson and Secretaries Baker and Daniels in safeguarding the army and navy from drink and other vices were passed. The Rev. W.

J. Kinsella, spiritual director of the union, was chairman of the committee I The members of the council are the 8vs cabinet members whose departments would deal with the major prob-, as of They are the 8 Autos Reported Stolen Three Are Recovered street Brown was seized by the detectives and searched, a four inch open of Dr. Anton Jindra, Cook county hospital interne. She will face the" sar-tsm of Assistant State's Attorney James O'Brien, the most successful of State's Attorney Hoyne's aids in obtaining murder convictions. It' is expected to be a battle of wits when the cross-examination begins.

During the direct examination by her own lawyer Pauline had occasion at least once to feel the sting of Prosecutor O'Brien's shafts. Today he will have far greater opportunities to endeavor to break down her story. However, Pauline says she isn't afraid. "I wouldn't mind their questions, except that the law is so strange," ZEITUNG, UNLESS- I secretaries of war, navy, interior, agri condition at the Washington Park hospital as the result of being struck by the automobile of James McQuaide of Indiana Harbor at Garfield boulevard and Prairie avenue. Mrs.

Elsie Stehr, 29 years old, of 1125 The days of the Staats-Zeltung, culture, and commerce and labor. The importance of keeping the re-WEstruction program free of political Strtisanship and political capitaliza Chicago's oldest German daily news paper, number two after this morn Fell avenue, received injuries that may Eight more automobiles were reported stolen in the last twenty -four hours, three as recovered. The owners: James E. Mehan, 1918 Michigan avenue, Ford; "Well Brothers, Lake and Desplalnes streets, Cadillac; L. V.

Aeckle, 6225 Champlaln avenue. Paige, recovered; F. J. McAdams, 7137 Cran-don avenue. Chandler; Joseph E.

Glea- tion schemes Is self-evident, and the uivlsory commission Is able to claim prove fatal as she was crossing Sherl lng. Nothing happened yesterday, according to Judge John Stelk, which gave rise to any hope that the publication will survive after Wednes clean record In this respect in the management of preparations for war. Question of Employment. she said. "It doesn't let you tell all bladed knife being found in his coat pocket Brown insists he did not try to chloroform his wife, but was showing her how be took the drug to cure himself of the heroin-habit.

Brown was sent to the penitentiary convicted of a holdup with a gun. Shortly after his wife obtained a divorce. Eighteen months ago, reconciled, she went to Joliet and was remarried to Brown in prison. Since his discharge on May 19 he has been living at 2015 Park avenue, as his wife's mother objected to him living at fier home. TAKEN FOR ILLEGAL LIQUOR SALE.

M. Baldassino, proprietor ot the New Italy restaurant, at el West Monroe street, was arrested yesterday on warrant charring- him on resolutions. State Senator Cleary of Momence spoke on the value of temperance work. The officers elected for the coming year were: President the Rev. C.

F. Quinn, Joliet; vice president, former Judge P. B. Flanagan: secretary. Miss Frances Mortell; editor.

Miss Alida O'Connor. day. Today and tomorrow are left. son, 1350 Michigan avenue. Premier; he said, for the unexpected-to happen, which may bring a new lease of It is conceived that the demoblllza-Son of the American forces will be arried out without difficulty by the you want to.

It's just like life only half the truth comes out" Pauline spent the day preparing for the ordeal of this morning. She remained in bed until as late as possible. life. dan road at Devon avenue, when a motor bus. owned by the Chicago Motor Bus company and driven by John H.

Landz of 3030 Ashland avenue, struck her. Miss Alma "Wotzen, 26 years old, of 1411 East Fifty-fifth street her right arm broken when she was struck by an automobile said to be owned by James F. Kerwin, 2954 "Wabash avenue7 Three Evanston women were injured by an automobile driven by J. F. Johnson, 1200 Ashland avenue, Evanston.

Mr. Page, 4738 Magnolia avenue, Premier; James F. Newbanks. Sterling, Buick; F. M.

Stuhr, 1138 North California avenue, Haynes; Marbohn agencies that brought them to- having a chicken dinner carried to BUier. The absorption of millions men, however, Into peace industries WIDOWS HASTE COSTS $80. While she waarunnin(r to catch a street her room. During? the afternoon friends Auto company, 2637 Michigan avenue; Ralph Androse, 3931 Congress street. A meeting of 250 Americans of German descent will take place tomorrow at the Hotel Randolph.

These men will be asked to subsidize the paper In order to promote Americanism among the German have been greatly curtailed dur car at State and Randolph etreeU yesterday took her for an automobile trip, and Stearns-Knieht recovered; Edward the pocKetDooa- 01 Mrs. Anna nernicn. oxi I at 9 o'clock she retired to get as much Burke. 6515 Hyde Park boulevard. S80 in currency fell to the street unnoticed.

I sleep as possible. i i i the war or have ceased to exist an undertaking of vast j4 one for which no agencies have mn created. I with eUinr liquor a Ucenr Cadillac, recovered. speaking people of the mittee in the Billy Sunday campaign, said he had found three persons whose conversion could be traced to the Billy Sunday meetings. I received 175 cards," he said.

All were professed Christians and many of them my leading and best church members. While our church members sail they were benefited, I felt as a whole, we lost ground because of the closing of our church." The Rev. Nonnan B. Henderson, pastor of the Irving Park Baptist church, said he had received thirty cards, two thirds of them church members and only one addition to the church. Not a Member.

The Rev. A. S. Haskins, pastor of the Irving Park Methodist Episcopal church, said he received eighty cards and not a church member was gained. Nine-tenths." he said, "were already church members, and the other one-tenth yielded no results.

I could have done better without the meetings, because I depended on them to accomplish certain results which were not accomplished." More favorable reports were received from the Rev. J. L. Anderson, pastor of the Sheridan Road Methodist Episcopal church, and the Rev. Henry Hepburn, pastor of the Buena Memorial Presbyterian church.

Mr. Anderson said he had received fifty new members, about two-thirds of whom he attributed to the Sunday campaign. Ha said he expected to receive about fifty more. Dr. Hepburn said he received five members out of 125 cards, but he thought he would receive twenty to twenty-five more.

Twelve New Ones. The Rev. Paul Allen. North Shore Congregational church, one of the nearest to the tabernacle and one of the most active of the cooperating churches, said he received seventy cards and out of the list twelve new people. Favorable reports on the success of the Bible class movement in connection with the campaign were made by and the Rev.

F. W. Barn urn of the Oakland Methodist Episcopal church. The Rev. W.

Covert, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Forty-flrat street and Grand boulevard, said of the 142 cards received about three-quarters were already church members and only one man united with the' church who coujd be directly traceable to the tabernacle meeting. rOVK SALOONS FOVXD OPEN. -your saloonkeepers were reported by ta police yesterday as having- broken the Sunday closlnr law. They are Guilio Fartoiri.

2401 West Madison street: Alex Wojcik, 1501 West North avenue: Peter Gustafson. 154; I North Talmaa avenue, and Adam Truty. 1474 in this connection the commission discussed the possibility that the tovernment would be required to pro-14 employment for a vast number of TOUrned soldiers for a. temnnranr I rtoi until the reassimillation of the ugaiers oy tne occupations of could be achieved. There are a ssabtr of great national projects in vslch the government would need a volume of labor.

Such projects totiude the development of water ways "fl water power and the construc-aon ot national roads and other public orks. "Tribune" Aviator Is III After Fall from Plane Jieut Charles J. Buckley. United rst slgnal corps, of 6606 South "treet one. of the stars on The aracxs's service flag, is seriously ill neumonia following the sustain-to tL sever internal injuries In a f7.m h'a airplane last Friday at 'art Worth.

Tex. Highland Park to Vote On an Annexation Today sWand Park will vote today on Juroata ireaa auon or Ravinia Highlands, couth and west of the 4.