The Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • Page 19

PLAN FEATURES OF UNIQUE CHARACTER Sixteenth Annual Dinner of Commercial Association on Tuesday Night W. F. 'Or SHEAN WILL PRESIDE Program Includes Addresses, Music and Numerous Surprises One of the features of the annual banquet Of the Commercial association st Hotel Casey on Tuesday evening, April 29, will be the distribution of large shopping bags filled with souvenirs from various business houses. Aside from the list of speakers, the program for this sixteenth gathering is to be made up of surprises of a untnue and amusing nature. William P.

Shean will act as toast Tnaster. Addresses are to be given by Samuel Davis, of Chicago, secretary of the National Retail Shoe Dealers' association, who will speak on "Sensible Retailing," and G. Lynn Sumner, vice president of the Women's Institute, who has been permitted to choose his own subject. Committee In Charge, The committee on arrangements Is romposed of Charles Ball, chairman; n. F.

Haarmeyer, C. Plnkney Jones, VP. F. Shean, Frank Adams, Max Silverman, Miss Mildred Greene, Miss M. Pchulthels.

Charles M. Hepburn and Floyd E. Smith. During the past several weeks this committee has been actively engasred in preparations for the affair. The banquet will be Informal.

Among the guests will be the wives of members and heads of departments in stores. Re pervatlons have been limited to J00 persons. Practically all of the tickets Issued have been sold. BTl To Direct Singing'. Jack Davis is to be in charge of the singing by the assemblage.

Mrs. Sidney Faust, of Wilks Barre, will furnish vocal solos. Custard's Country alub orchestra will add to the even pleasures, furnishing a special Program of new selections. Harry Bhrllch has been appointed marshal! of the funmaklng features. will be assisted by Harvey Butcher, Joseph Goldberg and Max Sliver man.

The committee reports that it is not too late to make reservations and that phone orders to the association offices in the Mears building will be accepted as long as the table places are available. FALSE DOCUMENTS SOLD BY SHIPPING AGENTS By CLACDOC O. KKB. CoprrifM, 1934, by The Consolidated Press Association. pedal Otble to Th ffcronton Republican lad Cblcs.ro Dally BUENOS AIRES, April 23.

Disclosures that a gang at Buenos Aires was Imposing upon the local American consulate by selling false documents enabling newly arrived immigrants to secure passport vises permitting their immediate shipment to th United States, has resulted In a shake up in the police department of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires province. After the investigation started, several weeks ago, a number of immigrants testified to having purchased from the shipping agents here false documents, some of which were Issued by the police of La Plata, certifying taht the bearer had been a resident of that city and province for five years. The witnesses admitted they had lived in Argentina less than six months. Other false documents being offered bear the stamps of the police of Buenos Aires and Rosarlo, and It is expected that the departments of these Cities will be cleaned up soon. The La Plata Investigation has resulted in the dismissal.

of two high officials, two ln and three clerks. 8UKMSB BOMS DESTROYED. WILKES BARRE, April 23. The Summer home of Mrs. Albert Devons, of Edwardsvllle, st Fernbrook, was totally by fire early this morning.

It is believed that the blase waa incendiary, it being discovered that gasoline had been spread throughout the rooms. The loss will reach about U.80O. boots were worn tightly laced. But the real masculine effect was attained by the mannish hair and a uniform cap, with visor and insignia, much after the fashion of the American naval cap. The.

last touch of astonishment to the New Yorkers came when Commandant Allen carefully and with extreme coolness fixed a monocle in her right eye. She then "Lord Algy" to the life. English women on any sort of public duty like to wear the uniform. This fad came to them during the war when they took up so much of the work left by the men who were called to the colors. American women followed suit after a fashion.

Red Cross workers who went abroad wore a uniform, the yeomanettes of the navy designed one of the very own, and the ambulance drivers in this country were nattily attired in breeches, coats and over seas caps. Have Special Duties The British women police came into and taking to the uniform then have being, with the first year of the war stuck to it ever since. The duties of the lady "bobbies" in London are much the same as their cousins of the force over here. They have general supervision 'of women prisoners in and out of court, recjlain lisnm hall. other Dlaces of amiimnt and after the welfare of women traveling alone.

One phase of their work is the guardianship of women who have at temptei suicide. Commandant Allen was much amused to find that the New York police women are engaged today largely in snaring "mashers" on the subway and elevated lines. Londoners do not view "mashing" as such a heinous offense. Here in New York it is regarded as sufficiently bold and bad to hav many of the prettiest coppettes assigned to the work and each coppette has a man detective with her to handle the masher should he become rough. Commandant Allen has much to learn of American morals and manners.

London being much older than American cities. Is perhaps less prudish in her ways. CHARITIES BOARD TO MEET IN CITY Luncheon Conference Arranged for Saturday Noon at Hotel Casey AIM TO AID CHILDREN Bishop Hoban and Mrs. J. M.

Wainwright Are Members of Directorate Pennsylvania's children will be the keynote of the conference to follow a luncheon of the directors of the Publio Charities Association of Pennsylvania at Hotel Casey on Saturday at noon. Rt. Rev. M. J.

Hoban and Mrs. Wainwright, of this city, are members of the. directorate The later is chairman of the committee on arrangements for the luncheon meeting This is the first time that the directors have selected Scranton as a place for meeting. Dr. Charles H.

Frajier, of Philadelphia, is president of the association. He is a noted brain surgeon, and will presie uring the conference. The speakers will be Brother Barnabas, of Toronto, Canada, who will discuss the subject, "Our Children's Rights," and Dr. Douglas M. Thorn, of Boston, who will speak on "A State Mental Hygiene Program." Put Method Into Effect.

Dr. Thorn was one of the first to put Into effect practical methods for training the child's mental halblts, and thus began at the root of a real principle for the prevention of mental diseases. His children's habits' clinics in Boston are the result of an outgrowth of his work for the shell shocked service men in France. He believe that mental training, begun in childhood, might have saved many of these mental disturbances. The commonwealth fund In New Tork city Is establishing similar clinics such as children's guidance demonstrations In various cities of the country.

Philadelphia is about to organize one of its own. In New York city such a chlnlc is called the ibureau of children's guidance, and has met with notable success. Formed Twelve Tears Age. The Publio Charities Association of Pennsylvania was formed twelve years ago at WIIkes Barre as a result of a conference on social work. It has grown to include thousands of citizens who are crystalline public sentiment to prevent dependence of all kinds.

It works through a child welfare division, a mental hygiene division and a bureau of welfare information. Its big achievement has been to promote specific pieces of state wide legislation, such as the mental health act. Just now its most active work la to arouse the citizens of Pennsylvania to help the children' laws' commission recently appointed ty the governor. ORDER TO SEIZE BREWERY ISSUED BY JUDGE WITMER "Chocolate Concentrate" Sup plies Confiscated An order to seise 2,300 barrels of brew and the manufacturing plant of the Joseph Glennon brewery; at Pitts ton, waa handed down by Judge C. B.

Wltmer In federal eourt yesterday afternoon. The request for the order of Iture came from United States Attorney A. P.unsnvore. who charged that on January 1, February 28 ant subsequent dates Allen Olennon, trading as the Joseph Olennon Brewery company, offered for sale and sold beer containing more than the legal alcoholic eon tent. Acting upon Instructions from the United States attorney, Deputy Marshal Frank Purcell yesterday took possession of thirty gallons of syrup known as "Chocolate Concentrate." which was found at establishments of a number of soft drink makers in the section.

The concentrate 'had been shipped Into the district, It waa stated, by the Jaok Beverage oompany, of New York, and waa declared to be unfit for SECOND SECTION SECOND SECTION SCRANTOX, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1924 New York's Policewomen Aghast At London Sister Close Cropped Hair and Regulation "Bobby" Uniform in Sharp Contrast to Dainty Gowns, Feathers and Marcelles Br SOBEBT T. SMAII Copjrlght. 1924. 1T The Consolidated Press Association, NEW YOKK. April 23.

Londan's first and foremost police woman has been a tremendous disappointment to her American cousins of the "finest." Probably the shock of the first contact of the sister services on the two sides of the Atlantic was mutual. For Commandant Mary S. Allen, head of the Woman's Auxiliary Service of the London Metropolitan police, considers herself an officer of the force and garbs herself accordingly. Commandant Allen is a "bobby" and is proud of it. She dresses like a "Bobby" with variations of detail In the uniform of her own designing.

She does not wear bobbed hair. She goes further than that. She wears it short cropped like a man, with a sort of Teutonic pompadour. An Amazing Contrast Commandant Allen was met at the dock by Mrs. Mary Hamilton, head of the New York police women.

The contrast was striking. Mrs. Hamilton was handsomely attired in the latest spring fashion, fur coat, and everything. There was nothing about her suggest the "cop" just a fine, re Vsfled, motherly woman. Which Illustrates the difference in the viewpoint of London and the American cities as to the effectiveness of the woman police officer.

In London she is a policeman. In American cities she is a detective. Her presence Is denoted in London by the uniform. Her presence is hidden in New York by the approved feminine garb for the occasion. If it be an evening assignment, the New York police women Is there in decollete gown, the latest of coiffeures and with satin slippered feet that suggest anything but the time honored "flat foot" of the force Astonished At Clothing Perhaps Commandant Allen will take back to London some of the American Ideas, for she has come here to study police conditions and methods In a number of the eastern and middle western cities.

The commandment was given a reception by the New York police women soon after she landed, nd if she took their breath away when she trode in in almost masculine attire, she. too, was astonished at the fuss and feathers of the lady cops of the Metropolis. The London visitor wore a long blue uniform coat, with double rows of brass buttons. The coat was long enough to hide the short skirt beneath. High patent leather COMMANDANT MARY S.

ALLEN, of the London Police Department, 'now paying a visit to New York, is a very toppy looking individual as her picture discloses. Copyright by Pacific Atlantic Photos. Photographers looked all over the steamship President Harding of the United States lines for Mary S. Allen and passed this natty looking monocled officer half a dozen times. Some kind person finally told them that the person in th photograph was Commandant Allen, head of the Women' Auxiliary Service of London's Police Department.

She arrived at New York Saturday for a six weeks' tour in connection with her work as head of 110 police women In the principal cities of England, where they have ibeen found Invaluable. She was dressed in a dark blue uniform, patent leather knee boot, and wore a monocle at times. Furthermore, her haiir is cut "man fashion." Mexican Revolution Is Now Practically Ended Many Insurgent Leaders Met Death During Last Few Days. Juan Cordoba Stll Holding Out Sy BASBT NICHOLLS. Copyright.

li24. by The Consolidated Tress Association. Special Cable to The sTanton Republican and Chicago Daily News. MEXICO CITY, April 23. It was Indeed a sad Easter for the Mexican insurgent leaders, for with the deaths of General Manuel M.

Dieguez, General Manuel Garcia Vigil, General Marcial Cavazos and General Nicolas Flores within the last four or five days at various points in the republic, the revolution begun under the former minister of finance, de la Huerta, in December last, may properly be considered ended. The insurgents at one time had 50, 000 men under arms. Cavazos and Dieguez were especially troublesome opponents for President Obregon. Both were clever and daring officers. Time after time they were reported about to be captured, but they always succeeded in getting away, after being chased by large detachments of federal troops for hundreds of miles.

Of the long list of rebel generals, the principal ones still alive and at liberty are Fortunato Maycotte, operating on the Isthmus of Tehuante pec; Guadalupe Sanchez, the original defender of Vera Cruz, and the veteran, Hlglnlo Aguilar. The last named la nearly 90 years of age, and he bas not missed a revolution in the last sixty years, always having taken an aetlve part in the fighting on one side or the other. His specialty is the destruction of trains. He once got the government to give him 100,000 pesos for which he promised to give up his revolutionary activities. After that he built some of the best roads in the republic in places where before there had been no highways.

He and General Sanchez are still living in the Vera Cruz hills, every inch of which is familiar to Aguilar. Another rebel holding out is Juan Cordoba, who is operating in the state of Tabasco. Aside from these small rebels bands still exist, which make pillaging raids from the hills, but they are of little military importance. It will be some time before they are wiped out. FRANCE TO CELEBRATE CHOCOLATE CENTENARY The fourth centenary of the appearance of chocolate in France, falls this year, being 400 years since it was first exported from Mexico and thence to France.

Louis XIV granted a temporary privilege t6 chocolate makers to sell the article In the form of drops or pastilles in Paris 265 years ago, but the temporary measure was allowed to become permanent, although it was only in 1931 that grocers were allowed to make and sell It. Chocolate quickly became a popular drink, and since its Introduction has obtained a great hold as a pleasant hot breakfast dish, rivalling cafe au lait, in public favor. Oldtlme China services Including a jug for serving chocolate with a hole in the lod to pass the ebony beater through, and specimens may often be picked up in the curiosity shops of the capital. From a Scullery Maid to the Friend of Kings! That's the amazing story of Rosa Lewis's lifel This unique Englishwoman, who became the greatest cook in all England, tells in the frankest possible manner exactly how she rose be the intimate of Kings, Dukes, Lords and Ladies. Here's some real inside history that will take your breath away.

Don't Miss Pictorial Review For May On Sale; Now SCRANTON DRY GOODS CO. LAST CHAPTER OF LURID ROMANCE IS CELL IN PRISON "Bobbed Hair Bandit" and Husband Find That Outlawry Does Not Pay WANTED PRETTY THINGS Thought Quickest and Easiest Way to Get Them Was By Hold up Route By BOBUT T. SMALL. Copjrlsbt, 1924. by The Consolidated Press Association.

NEW YORK, April 23. The last chapter in the most lurid romance New York has ever known is about be written written "up the river," where grim gray walls bring a pallor to the most painted of The "bobbed hair bandit" has had her fling and has found that outlawry does not pay. Most of alt. she says she did not want her baby born in a furnished room. She wanted a flat of her own and she wanted a pretty layette.

She had been wonting a launary, oui uie coming of the baby had made it necessary to give up the hard labor. Her husband was an automobile mechanic, and although these gentry are supposed to make fabulous wages judging by the average garage bill the girl who became the "bobbed hair bandit" had not been able to lay by enough money to meet the modeht wishes of her heart. She and the husband talked matters over. Others had made a big thing of it, why not they? It was a matter of but a few hours to gather together a "family arsenal'' of three automatic pistols. A pistol pocket was patched on to the iilde of an old fur coat.

A few bobbed blonde curls, bought at the hair dresser's were tucked under a cloche hat, and the expectant mother and father to be started out on their career of crime. Hold ups Continued. For a time they set the New York police a dizzy pace. First the police insisted there wasn't any bobbed hair bandit. Mayor Hylan even so late as a few days ago insisted that the girl bandit was a creation of the newspapers looking for good copy and an opportunity to discredit the police.

Meantime the bandit and her "tall companion" who was always with her, continued to hold up small merchants and corner store groceries. At some places they were so successful they paid return calls. But always their operations were oh a small scale. At last they tackled a big Job. And it proved their undoing.

They attempted to hold up a cashier in a big baking concern. a FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF BOBBED HAIRED BANDIT 1 0 G. 33 Sk Copyrislit by Pacific Atlantic Photos. New York's most talked of bobbed hair bandit, Cecelia Cooney, photographed in Jacksonville, Florida, after her arrest with husband. Things went wrong.

It became, neees sarv at last to use one of the guns in the family arsenal. The cashier was shot in the leg. Unexpected resistance had found the bandit duo too nerveless to shoot to kill. They say they never wanted to do anything like that and the police are inclined to believe' them. There were many witnesses to this last attempted hold up, many women witnesses, and their keen eyes gave the police the clue that was needed to end the career of the bobbed hair outlaw, he women said that unquestionably she was about to become a mother.

The police immediately notified all doctors and hospitals. But the bandit slipped away to Jacksonville, where she was easily traced. The baby was born, only to die in' five days. It had been stirring beenath the heart of the 20 year old girl while she stood, gun in hand, in the numerous episodes of her brief criminal career. Not Much.

Romance. There is not much romance to the bandit on closer view. She is just the type of so many in a big city. She is more or less illiterate, likes pretty clothes, chews gum, dances in the summer' with her fellow at Coney Island, reads the worst of novels and jazz story magazines, and above all Is regretful that her own career on the first" page is about to be ended. The girl is not even a study for the alienists.

Depew Finds Humor Most Important Thing in Life "Get a. Mental Hobby," Is His AaVice as He Spends 7 Ninetieth Birthday Reminiscing to Newspapermen 5 Ey HARVEY AJTDERSOIT Copyrifflit. W24. The Consolidated Pren Association. NEW YORK.

April 23. At 90, Chauncey M. Depew finds humor the most Important thing in life. To put it pithily, "a good laug his better than a dose of castor oil for the bellyache," he said. Sixty years ago, Mr.

Depew spent a part of his thirtieth birthday swapping stories with Abraham Lincoln, whom he regards! as the peer of all story tellers. Today, on his ninetieth birthday, he was at his desk in the New York Central office building in New York, reminiscing to newspaper men. Out of that part of his life which has transpired since he and Lincoln amused each other that day in 'fi4. Mr. Depew has formed a philosophy of life which amusement plays the leading role.

He advises: What He Advises. "Cultivate your' sense of humor and laugh heartily." "Get a mental hobby. A mental hobby is mora necessary than a physical hobby." "Don't worry. Things that make you unhappy very seldom happen." "Get active in politics but don't buck the machine." Mr. Depew has made more after dinner speeches and has told more humorous stories in public than any living man.

He confesses that public life and after dinner speaking are his hobbies, and despite what President Garfield said to him, he does not regret the time he has given to telling stories. "I spent a day with General Garfield when he was running for president," Mr. Depew recalled. "He said to me, 'Depew, if It wasn't for your enjoyment of human nature and the stories you tell, you would be president of the United States. But no man the public knows for his sense of humor will be president.

They love to hear him as speaker, much more than a serious man. but they don't think he is fitted mentally for the serious responsibilities. In my own case, realizing that my ambition to be president would be stifled if my sense of humor dominated me, I cut the humorous part of my mental machinery away. Now I can't even see the point of a I replied: 'In that case, General, I'd prefer not to be Asked Tor Best Story. Asked to.

repeat the best, story he had ever heard, Mr. Depew shied away. "A story never comes out of a void," he answered. J'The best story teller 1 ever heard was Lincoln. He always told stories to Illustrate a pelnt, or to refute the argument of an opponent.

Luscious If he found a man fixed in his belief, he did not argue; he told a story to show how ridiculous the man's point of view was." Pressed to Illustrate with a Lincoln story, Mr. Depew replied: "They're not parlor stories." He told one, however. It was not "A parlor story," but it was hardly of the smutty It just had a naughty kick to it. "My own sense of humor," Mr. Depew said, has prolonged my life.

Most of the ills come from Indigestion and insomnia and most of the Indigestion and Insomnia come from a failure to appreciate humor. A good laugh Is better any day than a dose of castor oil for the bellyache." At Office Every Say. Mr. Depew has never taken a day off, simply as a day off, in the fifty nine years of his service with the New York Central, thirteen as president, twenty six as chairman of the board, which post he now holds, and the remainder as vice president. Despite his years, he is at his office at 10 o'clock sharp every morning and remains until 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

"I could not take a day off simply to loaf," he said. "It takes a trained and practiced loafer to do that. Habit Is a great thing. I'd be uncomfortable net doing the things I've been accustomed to doing." Mr. Depew takes little physical recreation besides walking to his office each morning.

"A man needs mental relaxation more than he does physical," he said. "Politics and speaking switch my mind off railroad tracks and give me the greatest relaxation. I have not taken up golf because that's purely physical diversion. I'll take it up when I Ret to be 100." He said it with a chuckle, as though implying that golf is an old man's game. Having shaken hands probably with more people than any living man, Mr.

Depew denounced the custom of demanding that presidents shake hands as "barbarous." "General Grant said to me once when his hand was sore from continual levees at the White House: 'Depew, you shake hands with a great many people. How does it happen that your hands are not I explained that the only way is to shake the other fellow's hand first. There are some men who have grips that crush the knuckles like a vise. I suffered until I learned that the only way is grab the other man's hand suddenly before quite expects you to, press it and drop it before he knows it. General Grant told me later that he had tried it with eminent success and it had saved his arm." Bunches of Ripe Grapes yield the cream of tartar used in making Royal Baking Powder Nothing can take the place of these grapes Nothing else can make such a wholesome, reliable baking powder.

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