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M'DERMOTT, FAIR SEC'TY, I 9 ft ft IS DEAD Works at Desk Saturday Pre paring For Opening Tuesday, Dies Sunday Afternoon DEATH IS SHOCK TO FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES (Continue torn Writ Page.) friends that he was sick, none realized the seriousness of his illness because of the manifest Interest with which he conducted his tailed work up to the very last. The 'sudden death otMr. McDermott has handicapped the officers of the fair company because no other member of the company was as familiar with the details as Mr. McDermott. Inspired by his example and efforts the directors, of the association put new vim into their work.

They held booster meetings and the organization was strengthened by new life. After a strenuous campaign in which Mr. McDermott took A Director of the Poor should be. a friend of the poor, and should stand up for their fair treatment. That is the policy of JACOB SWOPE i the leading part the association sue I ceeded in raising the funds to buna a new grounds.

Deceased was one of the most un tiring workers for St. Peter's Cath nil church of which he was a in all the work of the church and in advancing the inter ests of the different organizations of the church he was always found a ready and willing worker enlisting bin services immediately tor ioe good of the cause. The Catholic Literary and Social Union found in him one of their ablest supporters. For 20 wrote and 'personally directed ail th plays this Union presented and his efforts were always crowned with success. Aa an amateur play writer, Mr.

McDermott was a leader and waa in demand bynany organizations. Gratduating Classes of the Reading High Schools depended on him for many of their most suc cessful plays. He wrote and direct ed the plays and coached the 'performers until they had perfected themselves in the different portrayals. He also wrote and coached plays for the Amphions and for the Knlghta of Columbus. Not only in writing plays was the deceased prominent but also as an elocutionist.

He took part 1n onany of the recitals given by the organizations with which he was affiliated and hla elocutionary work was of the highest rattle at these affairs. In patriotic work the deceased has a record to be proud of. He first served his country in an active manner by serving at the front dur ing the Spanish War and at home in Red Cross Liberty Loan 8 A Friend of the Poor Democratic Candidate For DIRECTOR of the POOR Good management of the farm and good management of the funds, so that the poor get what's coming to. them, and so that there shall be no turning of the funds, intended for charity, to other uses. A Statement by Political Air.

jronticai aut. ft I ft THE READING NEWS RE AD NO, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER iS, 1919 1 KX a KX trl I S. I I J. McDERMOTT Grave and serious charges are made as to the management of the Almshouse in' the matter of the food, clothing and general treatment of the inmates. I have been making my campaign upon a promise of just and humane treatment of the poor and I assure the taxpayers that' I will throw light upon these matters.

I will insist that the poor get the full benefit of the charity intended for them, and that they are well fed and made comfortable. I have been given a letter signed by the present steward of the Almshouse, which is being circulated through the County, in which he says that he has decided to use his "influence" towards the election of two candidates for Director of the Poor, whose names and portraits appear at the head of the letter. I do not consider it in the interest of good management of the Poor House or as promising a correction of present evils, if the steward is to elect and own the directors, and to be their boss instead of being directed by them. Whether the charges made against the Poor House management are true or not it is time that that institution be run in the light of day and that the taxpayers have full information about it. If nominated and elected Director of the Poor, I propose to issue monthly statements and to give to any taxpayer the chance to find out how things are done.

It is my intention, also, to be one of the bosses of the steward and not to be bossed by him. My only bosses will be the taxpayers. i)CB IHIIIIBDKI Thrift Stamp and War Sav ings Stamp drives and in other ways during the late war wnu n.in Harrv Green's volun teer company of Reading was formed Mr. McDermott was one of the first to join and he served honorably thrnnirhout the war. When the war h.nir nn nrith Oermanv he inline iHotoiv mv.

Wa services to ws country and was one of th hardest workers during the various cam nnimis for funds to carry on tne Besides his work as secretary or the Reading Fair Association Mr. McDermott conducted a real estate business with his office at SO North Sixth street. He, however, devoted its time mainly to the work of boosting the Reading Fair. Hn was a member of St. Peter's Catholic church, was a Past Grand Knight of Reading Council, No.

793, Knights of Columbusi a member of the Elks, the Ancient uraer or Hibernians and the Catholic Literary and Social Union. He was born in Gibraltar, the son of the late Peter and Mary McDermott. There survive his widow, Louise (nee Winter), four children, Clara Louise, F. Joseph, Mary and Eleanor, at home, and these sisters and brothers, Peter and John, Reading; Nellie and Rose, Heading; Mrs. Sarah Hanigan, Reading, and Mrs.

Peter Keene, Pottstown. The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at 9 with Rev. J. F. Kiernan officiating at high mass of requiem in St.

Peter's Catholio church. Interment will take place in the Gethsemane cemetery. SLIGHT FIRE A still alarm of Are at the home of George Quaintance, 1032 Cotton streets, called out the Liberty and Washington Fire companies at 8:30 Saturday morning. The fire originated from an overheated stove pipe and the damage amounted to about $100. CASUALTY LIST One new Reading name appeared on the army casualty list, made puc lic Sunday.

Willis P. Snyder, the name of nearest relative being Mrs. Kate Snyder, 1237 Cotton street, is reported as slightly wounded. JOMN G. IIERBINE INDIAN ARRESTED ON SERIOIK CHARGE Alleged to Have Twice En tered Home and Attacked After an all night search in the waiiace sterling, agea so, wno poaes as a Canadian and, an Indian, was arrested at 5.

SO Sturday morning by Sergeant Maloney and Policemen Noll and Stout on the charge of Carrying roncea'ed doadly wpannnn The police attention xtm called Sterling, when Mrs. Liliiuti Fisher, living on Mitl berry street, near film, reported that the stranger had entered her home and attempted to assault her daughter. This was on Thursday night. Sterling came back on Friday night and when refused admittance to the house he Is alleg ed to have whipped out a revolver and started shooting. Shots" attracted a crowd and Sterling was chased, but he managed 'to escape.

He dodged about and every now and then shot off his revolver. People thought that the man was erased by drink. The policemen were hot on the trail of their man all through the night, but it was not until 6:80 that he was landed at Moss ana Buttonwood streets. Alderman Cooney's warrant was served charging, concealed deadly weapons and Mrs. Fisher will likely swear out a warrant also.

FOOD ADMINISTRATOR '(Continued from Flwrt Vtt.) he knows it. i As far as my being a candidate, or ever having any ambitions to being a candidate for mayor 1b a Joke. I served the people once, I served them without a boss, and I served them without pay and I know how hard it was. When I say I 'would ot accept th office of mayor if I could I am only repeating what. I said dozens of times at meetings when I was food administrator.

That should end this subject. I am no politician, never was in politics, never contributed a dollar to any campagn which should show conclusively that I am not a politician. for Mr. Shanaman. First, I was drafted almost like a soldier is drafted to take the position of food administrator for Berks coun.

ty. I did not solicit ft, in fact when I was called to Philadelphia I had no idea, why I was called. I was told what I was to do and Mr. Shanaman's case that I did what I was told to do, "One evening at my home I was called on the telephone by someone from the Y. M.

C. A. rooms who told me aljout Mr. Shanaman hoarding sugar, but he did not give his I said I was not Interested in hearing anything unless the person had the nerve and the courage to sa4 who he was, and he then gave mo his name, and he lives in Mr, Shan aman's neighborhood. "With the facts he gave me started to work with the xesult that I found Mr.

shanaman was in the habit of gchng many times a day to me aiore ouy Busar vv was being sold In ten pound lota When sugar was being sold in two pound lots ne went more often, and when I went to his house 1 found the sugar stored on the third floor, wrapped in the original package by the grocer. "That night Mr. Shanaman called me up until after 1 o'clock. He told mo how he knew my mother, my grandparents, what a good friend he was to my brother, and a lot of other things of that same nature. AH of those things I knew and I told him each one made my job much harder because I was compelled to do what I was sworn in to do.

"He then told tne he bought the sugar so his wife could can and preserve as she was accustomed to doing. You who read the newspapers know that almost every night in my talks, I said preserve all you can, can all you can, there is enough sugar for it, all the government asks you. to do is use what you need for canning and save "He further said 'the sugar he had he bought from Saylor's at Fourth and Penn streets, In exchange for brooms and that he bought it In 25 and 50 pound bags. I said I would verify this and the next morning Mr. Shanaman called me on the telephone and asked me to stop at his home, which I did not do.

I went McCONNELL to Saylor's and through the eourtcay of Mr. John Say lor, we went over the books and found the statement Mr. Shanaman had was not true. He had not bought sugar in exchange for brooms from saylor's for a matter of several years, and the sugar I found in jhis house, and this can be verified at the Home for Friendless Children' was in two and five pound packages. "Besides.

Mr. Shanaman signed an affidavit saying ha had no sugar in his home in order to buy 20 pounds of sugar, and when I said I had that affidavit he eaid, "Have you that, I "The sugar wa sent to the Home northeastern section of the for Friendless Children with the compliments of Mr, Shanaman and the U. 6. Government, and it was a fortunate thing for the kiddies they got it Just at that time. They had a 'donation of berries and no sugar to take care of them.

"I thought after the sugar was disposed of th matter was closed but sometime after that one of our most attorneys called on me in Mr. Shanaman's behalf and asked me for the law on which I had worked. 1 sent to Philadelphia to Mr. Charles J. Hepturn, chief attorney for the U.

S. Food Administration and asked him to send not only the law but a letter to the at. torney, which did. This waa the only occasion 'on which I was criticised by my superiors for not carrying out the full penalty because they thought it was the worst case of hoarding in the state. "Several months later Mr.

Shanaman came out in the newspapers with an apology and said I waa Per fectiy right, and he did that on his own account and not through any solicitation on my part. "I have my opinion of a man wtiO' will think of his own stomach before he thinks of the boys who had gone across, who gave up their friends, their mothers, their homes, their wives, and children, many of them their lives. "I have my opinion of a man who will sign a statement saying he had no sugar when he had 168 pounds in his bouse; and I sincerely hope that none of the boys who are buried itv France wanted for just a teaspoonful of these 168 pounds on Mr. Shanaman's third floor. It would be a confronting thought 'to me, were I Mr.

Shanaman. if these boys would rise from their graves and say, 'Never mind. William, we had all the sugar we I wish you who read this would ask your soldier friends if they had had all the sugar they needed. "If Heading wants a man of that kind for mayor it is easy to get him, vote for him on Tuesday next. If Reading does not want a man of that kind for mayor you know what to do also.

"I have read of another William who lived in Germany who had his house filled when his soldiers were starving. Of course, I do not think there is anything in a name. CHARLES T. DAVIES. THE NEWS TIMES FORUM September 13, 1919.

To WhAm Tt rftiipii' I know Mr. sfiaiiHinin aa well. I rename as any man of yuuiifer a would know au oiuer man ana Have alwaya bellored him man who baa the Interests of bin elty. state and country at heart. I know nothing about the facts In the controversy conraruina the sugar rase notiKl In a political advertisement dated Scutembor l'J, 10 1 It, nor do I know the regulations concerning the pnrchtise and storage 01 sugar ai ine nine.

I have, however, examined affinaTlta from etnplnjee of the Acnie Tea Company, which flontrndict a rood many of the allrntlona con rained In the uewspnper advertlsninent sIktipi! by Harry nechietn, formerly or the Muetcenth riein Artiiter, u. A. STIFF NECK, LUMBAGO AcIicb and Pains of RhciimaUsm Sometimes Almost Unbearable. There are weather conditions that make rheumatism worse. They are not the same in the cases of all persons.

Some victims of this disease suffer more in dry warm weather than in moist cold weather, but all suffer more or less ull the time. The cause of is an ex cess of uric acid in the blood, affecting the muscles and Joints. Hence the blood must have attention for permanent results in the treatment of this disease. Hood's Sarsaparllla has given en tire satisfaction in thousands of cases. Do not fall to give It a trial.

If a laxative is needed, take llood's Pills they don't gripe. Adv. and the JOLTS Every vehicle in Reading runs smoother because JACOB H. McCONNELL has been a Qty Councilman in charge of highways. He smoothed out the jolts.

When McConnell made a street he made a good one, and, as 'everybody knows, he gave us more and.better streets for our money than we ever got before. McConnell vas by trade and trailing a man of constructive ability. He has now had four years or special training in highway construction and maintenance. McConnell is a highly finished and valuable product. It would be folly to exchange him for mere raw Reading needs him.

Reading should nail him fast to the job in which he has been so efficient. Therefore I have been informed that the local food atfmnMrator vt the time pabllahed Ctate lnent in the newnpapers a few day after Jmlr 1918, to the effect Utat people wlio had on hand quantities of eupKr for canning and preserving need not be jUai mert as to any question of confiscation if the sugar was used within a. nasonaUe length of tine tiw that purpose and the amount en baud reported to the food almiBistntor; further, that the food administration advised canning and pre erring is large guanUties at that vers time. trie above information Is correct. I think the seizing of ICr.

Shanaman's stock was done iarger for Its effect on the posarble general hoarding of sugar. I further believe that Mr. Staaainaa have been Innocently mla taXea la hla interpretation of a law which went Into effect after his purchases. The sugar transaction will, therefore, have no Bearing on my vote in tne mayoralty cam ale (Signed) FREDERICK A. MUHLENBERG.

Formerly Captain S14th Infantry. WORKMAN DROPS DEAD ON STREET Conrad Beadencup, on Way Home From Scott Works, Dies Suddenly Oonrad Beadencup, aged 84 years, of 1318 Green street, fell dead, at Tenth and Green streets, shortly after noOn Saturday, of heart trouble, while on his way home from, his employment at the Scott workers. The Junior ambulance removed him to the pathic hospital, where the doctors pronounced him dead. The body was later removed to the retaining rooms of Undertaker SeideL He is survied by his wife, Laura, one daughter, and the following step daughters and son: Mrs. Earl Reiger, Mrs.

Joseph Paul and William Richards, of this city. He was a member of St. Luke's Luth eran church and the Hampden Fire Company. Coroner Schmehl issued a cer. tiDcate of death due to natural causes.

CORONER BLAMES RAILROAD WILLIAMSPORT, Sept. 14. Marsh Lewisson, aged 23, of Milton, was instantly killed, and Miss Louise Mathers, aged 21. of Leiwsburg, was seriously injured when their motor car was struck by a freight engine at the Broadway crossing of the Penn Seven sylvania Railroad at Milton at 12 this morning. A coroner's Jury' returned a verdict today censuring the railroad company for not protecting the crossing during the night and for excessive speed in running trains through the town, the engineer having testified that he was going 40 miles an hour when he struck the automobile.

A kangaroo with twins Is one of the rarest sights of Australia. EFFICIENT SERVICE 1 fttr WAS THE MOTTO During the Term of JOIIU IH.IERKEL OercratiG Candidate FOB. RE ELECTION AS City Treasurer hot one word was said against his administration which is sure, proof that the office was conducted capably and efficiently. A vote for Mr. Merkel will continue this excellent service.

Political Advt. Winds Canmit Take the Place ot. The war has not in the least changed the old fashioned principle that accomplishment must be the result of work. The city government cannot be run by elocution. Words and speech cannot take the place of work and deeds.

There is much less need of new laws and theories than of honest, hard, conscientious work in carrying out the laws we have. These are some of the ideas of SAMUEL E. BERTOLET, candidate for the Republican nomination for Mayor of Reading. He can talk when talking as necessary, but he believes that city government consists in doing things and getting things done, uninterrupted by oratory and declamation and controversy. SAMUEL E.

BERTOLET has the knowledge, the training, the industry and diligence, the setness of purpose to give to Reading a working government, to work himself and to inspire a working spirit in all his associates. Republicans of Reading will show a praiseworthy regard for the best interests of the City and will promote the interests of their party by presenting as their candidate a man of the solid qualities of SAMUEL E. BERTOLET. Realizing this they will ai 0 0 0 0 0 II NOMINATE Democratic Candidate Fpr ED 0 Gl off She POM 'Political Adv. oiiii) Jertolet for rJ ay or Democratic Ccndldato For CITY COUNCILMAN Political JU Political Ait.

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