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THE MORNING POST, CAMDEN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER SI, 1926 Poor Youth Leaps to Fame In 'Aida' at Metropolitan MISSING BROKER GIVES UP TO FACE BUCKET CHARGES YOUTH BLAMES GIRL FOR SHORE SPENDING ORGY SEN. JAMES REED JOINS ATTACK ON POISON ALCOHOL Wives Soon Can Keep Tab On Husbands' Office Calls Television Apparatus Will Enable Her to See What Detains Him; British May Use It in War CITY WILL GREET BABY YEAR WITH JOYOUS ACCLAIM Merrymaking to Hold Sway in Streets and at More Formal Parties Joseph M'Pherson, Son of Nashville Postman Carries House By Storm; Embraced By Great Martinelli fixed in another room where the watchers were in total darkness. This was accomplished by means of an invisible ray traveling at the rate of miles per second. The results were not perfect, but every face was recognizable. The discoverer is a Scot who has been studying television for years.

The invention, which enables -telephone users to see as well as hear the caller, is being closely watched by the admiralty and war offices, who are considering Its application to MUMMERS BIG FEATURE Hilarity and solemnity will contrast tonight as the old year passes and the new is welcomed in. Jn the streets, in the theatres, lo hotels, and in there will merrymaking and mummery. In many of the churches there will be watcn night services and prayer. Flans of organizations In the city and reports from hotels and theatres show that many Ifaira wtll be at their height when the Btroke of midnight comes. Police have mc.de plans lor tho handling of the crowds on the streets and at formal affairs.

There will be dozens of plainclothes men miDgling ajnong; the funmakers. Mummer Ready Meanwhile Camden mummers arc ready for the start of the parades In Philadelphia ana here on rew Year'a Day. Francis Wilson, president of the Camden Clown Associa- tion. said in a statement yesterday Declares Purpose of Prohibi tion Is Thwarted by 'Criminal' Practice SEES NO EXCUSE FOR IT fSeaater Jamea A Rcca of M)aoarl "ia-ktlBs; foe atta aaa ayct-iay, wii requested by atversal Servlea ta express ats views aa aaTeranieat aalsenlng mt Uaaar. This Is his telegraphic rcplyij Br JAMES A.

REED Kansas City, Dec. SO. Something like two years ago It developed In a hearing; before a Senate committee that something like ten million gal' Ions ot alcohol, which had beea treated with various kinds of poison was being consumed for beverage pur poses, and thaflnjurlous results and many deaths followed. At that time I challenged the policy of killing or greatly Injuring people in an effort to enforce a prohibition law, the object of which was to pre vent Injury through alcoholic liquors. Since that time, very persuasive evi' denes has been offered by the district attorney of New York City to the effect that (0,000,000 gallons of dena tured alcohol Is, after redistillation, sold for beverage purposes.

"Dry Law Defeats Ova Purpose" Other evidence taken In the hear-. Inge shows that It la impossible to to-, tally remove all poisonous substances, and that the use of this vast quantity of alcohol which has been poisoned by the government results In permanent injury to health and In some cases in death or great physical disability. The sole purpose of prohibition was to protect the life, health and morals of the people, but when the government puts poison Into alcohol, a large percentage of which the government knows will ultimately be consumed for beverage purposes, such action is reprehensible and tends to defeat the very purpose of prohibition, namely, tns conservation of Ufa and health. Indeed, it seems to me that he who puts poison In any liquid food, knowing at the time that a large percentage, of the poisoned article will be consumed by people, has himself been guilty of a crime. Suicide Poor Excuse" It Is no answer to say that the sale of drinking of intoxicating liquors is unlawful, that therefore, he who drinks ought to suffer the consequences, because it has always been true that any man who became a drunkard did so in violation of the law.

Nevertheless, the good people ot the land did not say that the drunkard must perish, but adopted prohibition as a means for his physical salvation. When, therefore, the government uses means which will produce death or the loss of health, it is bringing on the very evil which the prohibi-tory laws were enacted to prevent Only one possessing the Instincts of a wild beast would atoslre to kill or render blind the man who takes drink of liquor, even though he purchases it from one violating the pro- hibltury statutes. In his examination before the Senate committee General Andrews sub- stantially admitted that with a reasonable number of inspectors located at the various institutions authorised to use alcoholic liquors for manufac turing purposes the escape of liquor ror beverage purposes could be prao tlcally stopped. This being true, there Is no excuse for poisoning liquor that Is bound to be sold eventually to unsuspecting people. Mellon Bars Poison Alcohol Denaturants that 1,000 men will be In liner with the club.

When the organization 'crosses the river it will carry with it several bands and fourteen gaily decorated floats. The Camden Clowns will march in tho comic division and will be divided into ten groups. The group expects to be numerically stronger than any Camden club previously. Wilson will march at the head of-, the column, whli Dewey Mason, one of the old-time shooters, will captain the group on its march up Broad street Camden Clowns have come home with prizes every time they have paraded in Philadelphia. 100 In String Band The famous Steubing String Band, winner of many prizes, will again be in line.

There will be 100 men in the 'band, which will bo headed by a huge float. After the march through Philadelphia the two associations will unite and parade through Camden. They will stop at the Camden Home For Friendless Children, on Haddon avenue, and amuse the children there. This is an annual custom. They also will present candies and toys wine children.

The Darade will then swing oown Haddon avenue to Kaighn avenue, west to 61xth street north to Chestnut, west to Newton avenue and down Kaighn avenue again to the clubhouse. Smut Shows Luring South Jersey Youth (Continued from Fa One) The giggles Increased Into raucous laughter, The show was "getting gooa. And then Bonis. Just before her appearance two Eelt Gives $5000 Bond in Two Cases Hearing Set for Next Tuesday WOMAN STILL 'SOUGHT William Eelt, manager of the stuck brokerage firm of Lerman Company, surrendered himself at police headquarters yesterday afternoon after having beea sought in vain by detectives for 48 hours. He was given a hearing at once by Police Judtre John T.

Cleary on charges of "conspiracy with Intent to defraud." Ball was fixed at $3l0. The bond was promptly furnishe-l, signed by the Detroit Fidelity Surety Company. A hearing was sot for next. Tuesday, at which ime Belt will face John E. Stafford, Laurel Springs, who charges Belt and Miss Botty McCabe, his aide, fleeced him of $S200, anil James P.

Wainwright, Fitroan, who says the pair got $400 from him. Miss McCabe, the attractive red iiaired young woman whom Belt says wns merely hia stenographer, but whom complainants style "tho-brains of tho gang" is still missing, though detectives have warrants for her as well. Samuel P. Orlando, the young at torney retained by the pair when they first came to Camden two months ao, and who had promised police Wednes day that he would produce his clients that afternoon, was with Bolt this ufternoon. Belt- would not talk, but Orlando said ho understood that Miss McCabe was in a hospital, suffering from a nervous breakdown as result of the actions against the firm.

He admitted he did not know the' location nor name of the hospital. Inquiry has revealed that if she is in any Camden hospital it is not under the name of Betty McCabe. Orlando said he did not know where Belt had been, but "guessed" that "part of the time ha was trying to arrange for bail." Bond fixed by Judge Cleary yesterday was In two parts $1000 on Wainwrlght's complaint and $4Q0O on Stafford's. Tho pair were first arrested on fugitive warrants from Pennsylvania last week. They were charged with "bucket shop operating" by Adam Spatx and William Haln, both ot Reading, who said they had been "fleeced" of about $83,000.

Bail of $3000 was given and both disappeared. CAMDEN PROSPERITY SHOWN BY CLEARINGS Year 1926 Banner in City's Commercial Lines Camden's great prosperity In the year 1928 1b reflected in tho clearing house figures for the year which show all increase a of more than sixty-three million Hollars a'or th iy-o total. A great volume of Christmas trade Is revealed through same medium. Bank clearings for the two weeks immediately preceding Christmas and for the three business days following show from to to five million dollars increase over the average weekly clearing total. Bank clearings for the week ended Wednesday were with one day a holiday, according to the statement Issued by Joshua Griffiths, manager of the Camden Clearing House Association.

The figures were 064,689 for the previous week. The year? 192l Was a banner one in Camden commercial history, the bank clearings prove. The total was $769,836,222, with the last few remaining days missing. Figures for 1K were The Increase is $63,250,328. an average increase of more than $5,000,000 a month.

BUS DRIVER FREE ON BAIL; VICTIM IS UNIDENTIFIED George F. Kelly, 25. of. 1121 Westmoreland street, a. bus driver, was released in $1000 bail by Mooreatown police' yesterday as the victim of his bus lay unidentified in Camden morgue.

fix persons called at the morgue yesterday, police said, but each failed to identify the man who was injured fatally by Kelly's bus jm Hurllngton pike at l.onola enrly yesterday morning. Moorestown poltr-e nlso are attempting "lo identify the man Kelly, driver of a P. T. Phila-clelphla-Sloorestow'n. bus, told police that he was blinded by lights of an approaching car.

a Couple Arrested When $1300 of Her Mother's Savings Used Up in Month HE STILL HAD HIS $10 Brooklyn. N. Dec. SO. "The woman tempted me," lD-year-old John Boros said to excuso himself to the police for running away with the girl next door and helping spend about $1,300 of her mother's savings buying radios end lollypops in At lantic City and Asbury Park.

John, a canny lad, took $10 of his own savings on the adventure with Mildred Senter, 18, which lasted month. When police found the youngsters living in high style in an Asbury Park, X. apartment, John still had the $10. Mildred, however, had but EO cents left after their dizzy round of phono- grap3Precorda.and picture shows. It was her letter to the bank asking for more money that revealed their retreat.

It all started whe Mildred's mother sent her to the Green Point Savings Bank November 23 and asked her to draw out $200. The girl, ac cording to the police, made the withdrawal slip for $2,200 and deposited tho $2,000 in her own name, drawing out $1,300 In cash. "Vou're crazy," John said he told Mildred when she announced that she had lots of money and now they co.uld run away. "She got mad and threw dishes on the floor, so I didn't know what to do and went with her. Honest, I thought it falce money," said John.

Mfs. Rose Senter Bought to retract charges of stealing $2,000 in Bridge Plaza court, but Magistrate Brown held the girl In $1,000 bail and ordered her mother to against her. As for John, blubbering a little, he was turned over, to the Children's Society, charged with delinquency. DRASTIC PARKING BILL INPHILA. CITY COUNCIL Measure Has Approval of Pub lic Safety Committee The drastic parking ordinance for Philadelphia, sponsored by Director of Public Safety Elliott, went to the City Council yesterday with the favorable report of the body a Public Safety Committee.

A few minor ehanges have been made, but the teeth remain. If passed, parking- between Spring Garden and South streets from the Delaware to the Schuylkill will be banned from sunrise to 7 p.m.; parking on any' streets is forbidden entirely from 3 a.m. to sunrise and parking will be done aWay with altogether 6n Fifth, Sixth, Eloventh, Twelfth, Thirteenths Broad; Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets between Spring Warden and South streets, and on nnv nth Htreel- lesa than 20 feet In The measure providing for auto pounds to which cars of violators tnay be towed and kept, was referred to City Solicitor Gaffney for an opinion on its legality. PLAYS 'GOOD SAMARITAN'; ROBBED OF CLOTHING Playing the part of "good Samaritan" cost Harvey Slesser. 23, of 015 South Seventh street, an overcoat and a suit of clothes, he reported to police last night.

Miles Elbert, 26, of Mlddletown, was arrested by police shortly afterward on a charge of larceny. Slesser tld police he and Elbert have been buddies for tho past eight years. Slesser also hales from Middletown. Elbert came to Camden last week and Slesser made him welcome his home, but Elbert took advantage of the hospitality and took the clothes, Slesser chargeB. LACK OF QUORUM BANS YEAR-END CITY MEETING There was no meeting of City Com mission last night because of of uuorum.

About CO members of the T.M.C.A. naturalization class, four of whom were women, visited Commission Chamber and wero complimented by Mayor Kins: on their interest in municipal affairs. The mayor invited them to attend a later meeting of the Commission. He urged them to keep check on municipal, State and Federal governments in order that they might learn, to vote Intelli gently. Which You Are Interested mors police hove in sight at the rear.

Spectators craned their necks backward, curiously. Had these blue-coats come to stop the show? Well, they'd soon know. A special backdrop heralded Sonla's appearance. Louder -jau sounds Issued from the tln-panny piano, uiggnng ceareo. uasu ui i flesh and I Well, not a single spectator asked done.

'Special Wireless ta Universal London, Dec. 30. Television apparatus costing 1160, and which will enable wives to check up on telephone messages frcui husbands detained in the office, will be in every home by the end of next year. This is the prophecy of John L. Baird, Inventor, who demonstrated the instrument tonight before members of the Royal Institution.

He transmitted living human faces in a room of inky blackness onto a screen POLLING BOARD TAKES UP WORK Camden County Permanent Group Names Selby and Scharle as Members Camden county's new permanent registration board was Instituted yesterday by the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel George L. Selby, Republican, and Victor Scharle, Democrat, as members of the bureau. The bureau was appointed by the Camden County Board of Elections at a special meeting in Court House late afternoon. Colonel Selby was a member of the election board and his appointment to the registration bureau leaves a vacancy to be filled. Tha Republi can county committee will name the member in a few days, former State Senator Joseph F.

Wallworth, chairman of the coranv'tee, said last pight. The new bureau, which is com posed of a representative of each party, will sit daily at Court Bouse to register and revise the. county voting lists. Its duties do not con flict with those of the election board. Members will receive a salary of S2400 annually.

Colonel Selby resigned his election board post yesterday morning. Scharle is prominent in Eighth Ward Democratic circles. Wallworth stated last night that the new election board member probably would be a woman. The name of Mrs. Elizabeth Verga, vice chairman of the Republican county committee, was mentioned as probable nominee, but Wallworth refused to say whether she Would be appointed.

The board already has one woman member, Mrs. Emma E. Hyland, Democratic State committeewoman from Camden county, who is chairman of the board. B. J.

Tracy, Democrat, and Edwin G. Scovcl, He-publican, secretary of the board, are other members. U. S. Oil Men Likely jTo Defy Mexicans Continued from Page Oils) One important cause 'of American protsnt is the proviso In both the oil and land la.ws that, foreign prop erty owners bind themselves not to Invoke the support of their government in disputes with the Mexican government, on pain of, forfeiting their property.

A few companies In Mexico are reincorporating under the new regulations, but American producers' say these represent only about 10 par-cent of the totirl Mexican oil production. The companies complying with the law are also to Include those which are directed by Mexican nationals. The American producers say acceptance of the oil measure would be tantamount to a surrender of their titles in exchange for a license to operate. The majority of United States oil producers, therefore, feel that any voluntary surrender of their titles at this time would only injure theoi. (f In the future they sought to regain them.

It Is held that the burden of proof so far as the validity of oil property ownership is concerned should rest primarily on tho Mexican government. State Department Admits Oil Situation Is Critical Washington, Dec. 30. State department officials declined to comment tonight, on reports from New York that American oil producers in Mexico probably would reject the new Mexican oil regulations Which are to become effective January 1-. They admitted, however, that should the oil men.

attempt to press their viewpoint, a critical situation would arise between tho United States and Mexico. It Was Indicated that the attitude of this government would be based upon Secretary Kc-llogg's last note to Mexico, which protested enforcement of the law and was Interpreted as a threat to break diplomatic relations, Whether Kellogg Is likely to transform his threat into action and recall Ambassador "Sheffield Is believed to depend entirely upon President Coolidge. FIRE WRECKS TRUCK A freight truck ownM by N. It, Tompkins, of Philadelphia, was almost destroyed by fir ot a service atntlon at 1CI9 Haddon avenue last night. Herbert Manherz, of Philadelphia, driver, stopped td refill his pasoliny tank en route to Atlantic City with a load Tr rood-stuffs.

The rhs overflowed and burst into flames when -l cume Into contact with a hot exhaust pipe. Damage amounted to $3flUi, It I was estimated. TUB MOHNING POST jt ci.cn Pin Coupon THIS coupon with two others cut from The Morning Pott of differ, rent days will entitle the Morning Post Junior Club numbers to a beautiful gold and Junior Club Pin ffaute i fMrett mAArm or ft V. Citf mr Tmww i i By Vulvernal Servlee Kew York. Dec 3 Joe McPheraon leaped toward fame today and landed safely on the stage of the world's greatest opera house, the Metropolitan.

At IS minutes after o'clock this boy son of a Nashville, Tennessee, mail carrier made his entrance into the court of "Aida," garbed as the king. Across the footlights, where J612 persons sat, there wasn't a sound for an instant. Joe didn't have a claque. Suddenly a keen-eyed man In the orchestra pit began beating his hands together. He was G.

S. De Luca, the maestro of Nashville who discofered Joe. Two gentlewomen In a grand tier box patted their gloved hands, some one in the press box became excited and applauded but 3,608 persons were silent. Galleries Cry Brave Exactly an hour and a half later, as the curtains closed on the. second Man Is Slate of Sun, Scientist Declares (Continued from Pass One) Tchilevsky declared that the great drives of the world War, along all battle fronts, occurred simultaneously with sun spot excitability.

So, he affirmed, did tho Russian revolution, the J'rench revolution, tile crusaaea and other events that have affixed themselves in the world's history, My first observations, Baid the professor, in his paper, "were made in the middle of July, 1515, when a largo group of sun spots crossed the central meridian of the sun ana when the aurora borealls was exceedingly powerful in Northern Europe and North America. At the time of these phenomena the hardest and bloodiest of wars were being fought on all fronts then engaged. The, Russian, German and Austrian revolutions also occurred during an exceptionally powerful rising of sun Bpots." IVot a Fatnllut The professor, however, does not iscribe to any theory of fatalism. While declaring that mankind is in slavery to the he looks upon this arbiter of destiny aa an unintelligent master who can be outwitted bv the reasoning powers ot mankind. The sun," he says, does not oblige us to do this or that.

It only obliges us to do something. What we do is our own affair. In the past humanity driven by the necessity for action has drowned itself in oceans of blood. Now, knowing when these cycles of activity are due the intelligence of the world can direct the energy let loose into channels that will lead to constructive benefits for the human race. "It is more than an idealistic he continues, "that the culture of the future generations will find ways to a humanitarian use of the mass upheaval, by means of a preliminary propaganda for some undertaking of great public interest and importance which is to be completed In the period of maximum excitability.

Then scientific expeditions, sports competitions the building stupendous structures, collective theatrical art, collective creative art with mass participation would occupy the place of human bloody slaughter. Professor Tchijevsky goes even further than the actions of man him self and declares that "it is impossible to overlook the fact that path ological epidemics also coincide with the sunspot maximum period." Officers Elected The association today elected its full slate of organization officers. Dr. A. A.

Noyes, president of the California Institute of Technology, was elected president, together with tho following vice presidents, 15 in number: Mathematics, Dunham Jackson, TTn- Iversity of Wisconsin; physics, A. H. i.ompton, tnierstty of Chicago; chemistry, Roger Adams, University of Illinois: astronomy, W. S. Adams, Mount Wilson Observatory, Califor nia; geology and geography, Charles Schuchert, Yale University; zoological sciences, Clarence K.

McClung, University of Pennsylvania; botanical sciences, William Crocker, Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Tonkers, N. anthropology, It. S. Terry, Washington University, St. Louis; psychology, Knight Dunlap, Johns Hopkins University: social and economic sciences, W.

S. Leathers, Van-derhilt University, Nashville, Tenn; historial and philogollcal sciences. Perry Klmer Barnes, Smith College, Northampton, Mass; engineering, A. N. Talbot, University of Illinois; medical sciences, Cariby Robinson, Vanderbilt.Unlversity, Medical School; agriculture, I K.

Call, Kansas State Agriculture College, Manhattan, Kns; education, A. I. Gates, Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York WHK.V MAST GOT BTAHTED Man pot his start in life from the pro-anthropoid drophlteeclne stock. somo time In -the early half of the Miocene period, according- to Dr. Dudley J.

Morton, of the department of surcoryat Yale. Fossils have been carefully examined by anthropologists, he said, and the resemblance of feet, poeturc, teeth and arms is remarkable. HF.ftFs old max" Discovery of a complete human skeleton, of the Snmerlan era, estimated to bi; 5,000 years old, was reported by Dr. Henry Field, assistant curator at tho Field Museum, Chicago. The find was made in Mesopotamia last summer.

TUB HAttTH HAD SOME Pt'IX" A nrojottila fired from a 73-mlle rancre gun In the northern hemisphere would dovlato at least a mile from Its objertlce because of gravitlonal and rotutlonal pull of the oarth, said Dr. William H. Koovor, mathematics professor at tho -University of St. Louis. STl'DY STtDKSTS, SAVAT SAYS "Tho first duty of colleges Is not to teach, but to learn sludiitB," accord-lug to Dr.

Benjamin D. Wood, of Columbia Collcso, which, It developed, was not as ungrammatlcal as It Bounds, After rcvicwlnjr examinations given In New York, Wiissachusotts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio colleges, Dr, Wood pleaded for ranking of students on potcntui'ty, not by present "punltlvo" pedagogical examinations. "HOW'S TIIK WKATHF.Hf Cllmatoloqlsfcs haven't yet decided what constitutes a perfoct climate. Iloscoe Nunn, United States weatlior meteorologist, urged that thfy come to an airrccinent on the weather that most approximates It and Call It "the jpottmtim climate," I Many a town or Stat booster ttould throw away climate Among theScienists act, 3.612 persons clapped and cheered. and from tha galleries came that age- old call: "Bravo bravissima." The huge yellow curtains parted, and the principals swept forth to take their bows.

The great Martinelli, whose liquid notes had soared in "Celeste Aid" a few moments before, stepped forward at the head of the group, then signalled someone still hidden by the curtains from the audi ence. He was signalling for Joe McPheraon of Nashville, Tennessee, to take centre stage, Blartlnellt Embraces ITlm The tall basso from the Southland obeyed. And Martinelli as great a man as he is a tenor threw his right arm around him, and hugged him affectionately as the crowds across tho footlights cheered. Then Jeanne Gordon, the glorious anneris of the matinee, swept to his right side and seized Joe McPherson's right -hand, and" patted it. Club for Lonesome Ready to Organize (Continued from Face One) Here Are.

a few letters received yesterday: am lonesome for the company of some youiiK people, the same a lot of other. I ruesn. I -would like to join your Lonesome Club. I will help gladly if I can. I have avfAttier aud a step-mother, but still 1 am.

lonesome for the company young- men and girls to to out with, lor a joue set aeauaimec, to nave someone to have some fun with Instead of staying home every night In the week. Of course, there are movies and dance nails, but who can enjoy anything ifke that ay ineir lonesome f. I can't, for I tried it. r-vi "WALTER RIDUiiLL, SSL. Brick 8t.

Gloucester. Hflva Khu'sl I have read about the Lonesome Club and aw very much Interested, am very lonesome and am Just as bashful, hut I suupoBQ I would aet over the baahfulneas it I would meet the. right friends. I am jh age ana never was at a dance, yi "vr to learn, but I certainly won like n. I came here a month am tt-nm twininr town upstate In Pennsylvania.

I waa very killings auipiboro. Camden Girl Writes iniD your Lonunmii lluh wk wiuik lur luuui Deoma in rumm s. quaimed. As a rule they are not vwrv utiauir, uut WOUld JJKe to I WOUld like to bo mm)ur if tho lnK I live at home with my parents, but there are no young friends. I have most of the evenings to myself and would like to go out ana meet tne rjgnt Kina ox people, but do not know how to do It.

i am twenty years old, brunette, and of quiet nature: but I ltka lots of fun. Vltaee let me know if, there is oing to De a rnio as i reaa ine Morning rose ana wui mote tor an answer laere. Rows Camden. iron, a r. K.

t. Man AS Was Wfllkinr thrnnrh a ft bus picking up discarded newspapera as one ox our duties, 4 picked up The Morning i'ost. I gl.mced at the left hand side for a column that is usually taken up by Mr. Brisbane. Hut Instead there was a column there by the editor, which was as Interest ing as any Brisbane ever wrote.

I. also, am a strnnfer In larra eitv. hut fortunately have a good position, but I am terribly lonesome for the want of real company. Where is to be had? have been in Philadelphia 0 months and 1 have not been introduced to anyone that couid call a companion It Just seems tike they are not to be found at this present ago of jazz. I dread the dance halls and tneir followers for the very reasons Barbara does.

As I drive through Camden often wonder if there was a plaon where respectable young people could nna an evening- of clean nnd wholesome recreation and pleasure, where everybody present was on the fame par. Where a person eould go enjoying every minute and not feel that they should have to sell their soul or some other sacrifice for their pleasure. i trust tnai in roup ine numerous letters you receive from the people In regards to thia present day situation, some plan of entertainment may do nenven tnat will mako us all better acquainted. A BUS CONDUCTOR, Philadelphia. From Pitman Girl I have been reftdlne In The Mornlfitr Post about the Lonesome Club.

I think it la a very good idea and I aurety want to be one of your members. Although I live in a town where there is plenty going on, and lota of people, still 1 am oiien very loneiy. I am working at in Camden and commuto every day. I am a and try to keep my little home going, so it doesn't give mo much chance for play. I ithall be watching the paper every day to see how tne club plan is coming along.

Pitman. Jnll tlniJt TdM. Kh Just rend that, you are undecided about lormtng a lonesome CluD. i myself thins; it a Jolly good idea. I am not a stranger Camden, having lived here eight years, but alone.

Have a few good friends, ail much older than my-eetf and married Would like to rnet younger frlks and also join the club. My elnrere wlnne for its L. H. 6. wroauway, atuaeri SAFETY AIDE TEMPEST WILL QUIT JOB TONIGHT Ueorire 8.

Tempest, Deputy Director of Public Safety, steps out of his Job tonight at midnight, in accordance with his resignation handed to Mayor King early this month. Tho position probably wllfc remain vacant until tha term of the present commission expires this spring. Commissioner Frank O. Illtchtier, Di rector of Public Safety, has denied reports that his secretary, Bayard Sullivan, will be appointed to the post Tempest was appointed deputy di rector in December, 1924. Under Mnyor Moore he was Deputy Director of Public Safety of Philadelphia.

WOMAN SCARES BURGLAR A piercine scream by Mrs. Emma Orover, 1135 Whitman avenue, icared off two burglars who'were trying- to enter her home early yesterday morn- InK, she reported to police, She was awakened by the noise of tho prowlers and saw two colored men run olt in the dark after she screamed, Bhe said. he said, "If ho could paint the oil- mato to suit his projecta." BIOLOGICAL, BEEF American blolotrlsts, worklnar with cattlemen, are producing: "smaller and Donor- cattle, to copo with Increas- demand of modern housewives for smaller roast nd steak cuts, accord- ntt to Dr. w. A.

t'oehel. Heavy cattle, weighing 1.C00 noundu. used to bo favored by tha American people, ho said, but with the Increasing smallnens of American families and ciionglnB: customs, tha greatest oomana louay is for 1.000-pouiid cattle. TVOHI.irS DIXJTKU PAIL- IS FULL The world noed not worry over its miuro luncn pall, according to H. H.

Tolloy, of the United States Department of Agriculture. Reports that tho human population Is out-runnlnir its food supply Is the "bunk," he said, declaring; the "untapped possibilities of Increasing production" are Immeasurable. A slight Increase In retnll prices, Indicating such shortage, would bring these sources Into use, ho said. MAT IOOK tIKH TW1KS, HIT Twins of opposite sex are always non-Identical, Is the result of the study' of Miss Olndys Tollman, Columbia psycholoelst, on nature's dual phenomena. ('Identical twins always of the same sex ana are strikingly slmllat In form and features," she said, add- In that twins suiter no handicap in llfo.

In And the cops who entered at the psychological moment, where were they? As the lights flared on again, they were gone, but there had been ununiiallv loud hnnd-rlanolnr at the spot they had vacated. warfare. COUZENS SEEKS TO CURB REFUND Drafts Bill to Strip Mellon and; Revenue Commissioner of Tax Powers Washington, Dee. 30. Aroused by huge tax refunds to great corporations and rich individuals.

Senator Couzens of Michigan, today drafted a bill to strip the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of their authority over such matters and lodge It In the Comptroller General. The Comptroller General would be given supervision over the auditing of all accounts of the executive departments, under the bill which Couzens will introduce in the Senate Monday. Ho would also take over the- powers of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Commission of Customs, and Comptroller of Customs regarding the collection and refund of customs duties. These' duties would be "exercised and performed by the Comptroller General without direction from any other officer," under the measure. He would be given an additional assistant for a 15-year term, at a $9,000 annual salary and a general counsel at the same, salary.

The bill would trnsfer to the gen eral accounting office all employes of the Internal Revenue Bureau now engaged In auditing the tax claims and refunds. It provides that appeals from the rulinars of the Comptroller General would be taken to the customs court of the board of tax appeals. SPURNS PROMOTION FOR LOVE OF HORSE Phila. Sergeant Holds Post to Be With 'Par "Dick has a heart of gold. Why Bhould I break it for a gold bar?" i That is what Bureant El wood CarroH, for 22 years a member of th Philadelphia police force, asked when he found the rank of lieutenant into which he had been sworn Would mean parting from "Dick," the horse he broke, trained and has ridden under all sorts of conditions and on all occasions for many years.

No one could answer the question satisfactorily and the lieutenant is a sergeant once atrain, and is once again with Dick, the animal he loved moro than, promotion. That the alTection of the sergeant, for his horse is reciprocated has been demonstrated time after time. Dick has aided his master in many difficult situations. "We'll lead parades again," said tho sergeant, "with eyes front, heads up, both of us trying to be a credit to our positions and bur city." Kellogg Admits Gag On Nicaragua News (Continued from I'ate Ort) The White House spokesman denied iher! had been any interference at t'unrta Cabrzas with either eirto and added that the press was being "mis led." Criticism from senators became more outspoken late this aftcrnooru One senator claimed to have information to show American troops would be withdrawn from Nicaragua" us soon as Congress mot, 280 Killed, 190 Wounded In East Coast Battle llluefleltle, Dec. M.t-two hundred nnd eighty persons were killed In the battle of Laguna Lns t'erlas, on on the east.

coaBt of Nicaragua, according to doctors returning with 129 dangerously wounded soldiers from the Scene of the flcrhtlng. Other reports had placed -the number of killed at 60. Bombs for Diaz Reported Being Made in New Orleans -Vew Orlens, lcc. 20. Police have been asked to investigate tho report that nitroglycerine bombs are being manufactured in New Orleans for use by the troops of President Adolfo Diaz.

Conservative government head, in Nicaragua. Tho Dlas government has asked permission of the Htato Department to ship ttjeso explosives with the airplanes It has assembled here. It la reported. Sacasa Denies He Is 'Red' Or That Mexico Aids Him I'uerto Aicaragu Deo. 30.

Unwarranted occupation of Nlca-raguan cities by United States marines was charged today in a statement by Dr. Juan U. Sacasa, president of the Nicarsguan Liberal government, "I am not a he said, denying that ho was serving the purposes of Bolshevism In Central America, as Washington suggests, or that connected with any for-, sign country, or that any Mexicans are serving in his constitutional army. He claims American forces were landed without the exouss of abuse of foreign Interests there. President Sacasa- said that ha had been "practically Isolated," Even before his assumption of the Liberal presidency ha exercised power "as vlca president in conformity with the Nlenrsgunn constitution," ho declnred.

"Since foreign Interests hera have not been it Is obvious that American fior Diaz." FIHIS HK p.m. Haddon Ilclld VO- nues. Grsss fire. 4:84 p.m. T.

Cs Point yiluiney 1 i formal performance might be finished. -Uut there are "stage door in Liberty street aa well as on South Broad and Chestnut and In the "roaring forties" ot Broadway. Groups of men, no longer giggling yet still expectant, stood on the narrow stairway, slopped out onlu the sidewalk and waited. It Was 12. o'clock and a flock ot door came the "actresses." Seldom did one step across the threshold, from the murky, smoky interior into the cold winter air before a "Gentle man of the Evening" if hot two or three of them accosted her.

But these chorines seemed" flat tered, not insulted, by the attention they were getting. Three a.m. and the crowds were gone. The "Devil's Kitchen" was dark. Until the next time- Thus beslns and ends the "Rmut.

Show" a new and a somewhat peculiar Institution that recently has been flourishing in Camden. A Morning Post reported, "tipped olt" to "something hot," found his way to the "Devil's Kitchen" not so many nights ago. He has Written with many lurid details missing a fairly accurate description of what he saw there. (Continued from Pace On Mellon took the fiat stand that the government even to allow a source of poisonous liquor to exist was inexcusable, If there was any possible way to prevent it The practice of poisoning the alcohol supply, growing out of legal denaturing requirements, laid down under the radically different conditions of pre-prohlhltlon times, is being remedied, as far as possible, according to Mellon. Chemlot Favors Wood Ali-ohol J.

M. Doran, the prohibition chief chemist, has defended the use of wood alcohol on the ground that many nations, over a long term of years, have been unable to find a mora effective denaturant, and that in the quantities used It was not deadly; So has Whpeler. Andrews, however, has testified, be-; foTe a congressional committee that even in small quantities wood alcohol has a cumulative poisoning1 effect, ultimately causing death. Chemical research under Way aln.s directly at further improvements over the new formula, which becomes partly effective January 1, Mellon made It plain. This formula, while eliminating the poisonous pyrdne, doubles the quantity of wood alcohol and retains benzine.

Tightening up on other sources of liquor supply has driven bootleggers to an alcohol supply which ha recognises is either poisonous or near-poisonous, Mellon let it be known. This demands a new lino of action by the government, for the protectlbn of the public, ha feels. Although Mellon expressed confidence that the bulk of the holiday death toll was due to excessive drinking, rather than poisons, he con-reded that many have been drinking the poisonous alcohol. This reporter Inaulred further. He discovered that "Suicide Hall," too, -at Tenth street and Kaighn avenue.

Lonesome Club Coupon Fill In and Mail to Lonesome Club Editor, Th Morning Post, Camden, N. J. another rendezvous of giggling men on Friday nights. And there's another dark and forbidding old building that scrunches almost Under Lfi the elevated at Twelfth and NAME ADDRESS MARRIED OR Place (X) Before Activities In Kmiigxllng stopped A certain, proportion of people will drink anything which comes to hand, Mellon feels, regardless of Its danger, -Just as nom violate every other law on the statute books. In this sense he fuels that drinking cannot be prevented entirely He ex pressed certainty, nevertheless, that progress prohibition enforcement.

while slow, has been substantial. Localities, such as New York, prompt an extremely difficult problem. In Mellon's view, but even in these areas he feels that there has been Athletics Skating Dancing 1 Hiking Debating Ringing Dramatics Orchestra Socials Lectures where you "put. down your moner and you take youn chances." One of the peculiar aspects to be the manner In which the police ce ed sometimes sic or stand as Interested pectators and on other occasions they swoop down, hell-bent and shove the wiggling dancers and the perturbed spectators Into the "Black Maria'1 for a ride to Judge Clearv'n police Court. (Tomorrows article -will tell ef a "sniot show" that didn't go es according ts program.) CAMDEN WIFE-BEATER COMMITTED TO JAIL Charged with kicking and "hittliw his wife until she wae unable to stanJ, Charles Meyers, of 2261 Mlckle street, yesterday was committed to the county Jail in default of 300 ball by Justice of the Peace Jack O'Orady.

The trouble, according to Mrs. Jo-sephlno Meyers, the wife, started when she questioned her husband to where he was going every night. She said hie reply was a beating. That happened over a week, ago. Since then O'Orady has been searching for Meyers, and late yesterday afternoon found him at Twenty-second and Federal streots.

He denied beat ing his wife, alleging she had cut hlra with a knife during the quarrel. ADORN UNKNOWN'S TOMB Washington. Dec 80 Tha v.r Department today approved a appropriation for Improvements at thhe tomb of the unknown soldier Arllngttm Cemetery, An enclosure and a monument will SUGGESTIONS Wiite below any Kuggestlong you have for the of The Morning Post Lonesome Club. Improvement in spots. i Nrnuggllng of genuine liquor from broad has been largely stopped, Mellon holds.

Tho quantity of medicinal whisky In the country has been sharply reduced, and what remains has been protected from bootleggers by Its concentration In fewer warehouses. Deprived in this way of their liquor supply, bootleggers have, been forced to turn to the Industrial alcohol, Mellon-pointed out. Hence, If prohibition Is to be enforced at all, he saw no alternative to denaturliw? this alcohol to keep it out of their hands. But the treasury's whole aim, Mellon mads It plain. Is to mako this alcohol unpalatable a unfit to drink, without poisoning product which many are known to rtrlnk nftcr mors or less effort to dls-tn ot the poisons.

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