Chester Times (Newspaper) - December 5, 1918, Chester, Pennsylvania Yesterdays Net Paid Circulation Was FINAL Containing LaUat Local INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR Sproul of This Per lifting Plans for Attending ihe Big Show in burg Next Month OTHER CLUBS TO ATTEND Rotary and Media Republican Clubs Will Participate in the Parade DECEMBER PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS BIG TANKER SILVERBROOK LAUNCHED AT CHESTER SHIP GLASS NEW SECRETARY committee of arrangements of William Sproul re last night at a meeting of the that things are fast shaping them for ihe clubs participation in inauguration of at Harrisburg on The indications are that will have at least six hun in Permission of the club iis been asked by the Media Re the Re Club and the Chester Rotary in to join with the Sproul Club in lawam countys showing at the in In addition to the above named or it was decided by the club Vit nil reputable organizations in city and county will be welcome i with tho Sproul For im purpose of outlining the plans f the club in regard to the trip o it was decided to hold a in the near future and to have all citizens who intend to take in the This take place in one of the citys halls large enough to ate all who may desire to be The following committee was appoint id to arrange for the chairman James James Mc Uilliam Oliver Edgar Eugene Re William Joh William Worrilow and William K The uniform to bo worn by th Club and those who go to Har to take part in the inaugura iui bo dark overcoats and darl The members will wear ar badge and will carry and One of the bes limis that it is to select wil this The committee bids from a number of good musi organizations and the best tha secured to head the Sproul Club vili be Railroad Plans Indor railroad conditions flue to the there is little i special train being but i railroad officials have assured tht that extra cars will be at to one of the fast trains leaving on the morning of the in to carry the Delaware delegation to the The trip will cost about Until all o are the amount cannot be made public I iv thr But the report of committee last night gave assur ance that it will not cost over that sum for wii person mr of the features of the Sproul turnout will be tho appearance line nf forty Home Guards They will appear in new uniforms on that wit act as an escort to the Ches ii r A member of the committee will go t on Tuesday of to so that full df tails of the trip can be made at the regular meeting on Wed i The club having opened tli Inor to others than the members n the club who desire to parade in the selection of one of their invn citizens as no doubt many will avail themselves of the op to be Those who de to make the trip with the club address the chairman or secre tiv of the which is of Samuel Ev James Ea rn r McCarey and Sheriff Albert N tUy United Press Nomination of Carter Vir of the Local Plant Christened to be secretary of the Glen Wife of Works sent to the Senate at Oclock This Afternoon The at an early turbin Slant tanker Silverbrook was at of the Chester Shipbuilding Company at oclock this Tiie sponsor was Mrs of the works man ager at the bis This latest giant of the sea is a 0000 ton with a 54foo beam and a molded depth feet D inches She will have installed date a set of with a gear drive of Glen who christened the and her party arrived at the offices the company shortly aft er the noon hour and in a shor for the platform the prow of the from where she dashed the encased bottle of cham pagne against the ship and pronounced name just as the vessel started glide down iho ways into the of the waters I This is the tenth ship to be launched j from the Chester Shipbuilding Com I pany plant this which is a rec ord to be proud The band of the played national airs as the several thousand augmented with many shouted and whis tied prior to and during the i Not a thing marred the i with clocklike I The many special guests who gathered on the sponsors platform J contained a sprinkling of naval at i laches at the When the band i struck up the national air all present joined in the which must been heard squares j Executives at the shipyard expect j j to finish the new ship in record time i and hope to make her ready to he i turned over for her trial trip shortly utter the new today by the White URGES PERU AND CHILE TO SETTLE MONEY FOR THE HOSPITAL Cash Contributions Received on Donation Day at the Chester Institution DOGS SAVED WORKMAN Inte Who With Negro footpads Were Robbing Him of two dogs prevented two holdup men from robbing a Man from the Print s at the point of revolvers about 7 at Tenth L and The workman on his way when the colored thugs sprang When he offered resistance to one of the muzzled his Just if critical moment when the ne started to rifle his pockets two Sot into fuss and barked so the a hasty of 1001 Eleventh witnessed the says the two negroes robbed a man a few niss The has been to the Accident Cases Hospital reports the fol treated since ii their accident ward Ii years of 1 Uest Third fracture of the 11 26 Post Marcus brush burns and 15 Marcus wound of the EARTHQUAKE IN DEAD Town Destroyed and Bodies of Women and Children Still in Ruins By United hun are believed to have been I in the earthquake which the town of destroyed In Keports from the devastated dis s today said that the bodies of and children were still under the which lasted four unusually and were i In Buenos Chester Hospital acknowledges with thanks the following cash contribu tions received on Donation yes Aside from the cash contribu tions many other friends of PERSHING SAYS OUR MEN IMMORTAL No Time to Stir Up Strife and Should Not Come Among Nations United States Government has impressed upon both Peru and Chile the absolute necessity of composing their differ This urging has been made informal ly and on the ground that South Amer ican solidarity must be maintained and that their difficulties should not como the nations at this While then is no sign at the moment of mediation by any of the South American powers it has been suggest ed hew that each nation will make informal representations to quiet tho IMPORTANT INQUESTS HELD Three Alleged Murder Cases and One of Manslaughter Inves at Hearings Be fore Magistrate Berry COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Nugent Shooting Affair One of Those to Be Heard in Court Embodied in the Report of the Secre tary of Just Issued By United Press military needs and policy will wait upon determination of international re lations the Paris peace Secretary of War Bakers annual re port published today held this course lo be though he advised that the years experience had strengthened his view that ihe draft a effective and just means of securing the military strength nec essary for the conduct of a great Baker advocated special schools to supplement West Point and pointed to the need for specialized training in chemical statistics and Attached to Bakers message was a report of General Pershing in which he declared the deeds of American officers and men were While saying all credit was due to the hospital contributed canned and other things needed at the hospit The cash contributions are as fol lows j and Garnett Mrs Henry and Hilliard John and Fred Catherine I Father Garritano I William Schaffer Miss Edith S American manufacturers for their Miss I Pershing pointed out he had had i on tne French for tanks and Mrs Charles i for much airplane material and artil William George George I Ony Joke George I Tnp Milled J ji John John nre Joseph Joseph Lamb Miss Ada Womens Missionary of Up land Ar thur William Miss Frank Agnes of the Felton and companies were given i another monkey run to box Third and Broomall at eleven oclock last night someone as a joke I pulled the box at that During j the past few months a number of false i alarms have been sent from this par i ticuar box and although an investiga tion has been made the identity of the remains Marietta C7 The above total of more than received and it is expected that with other contributions in todays mail the sum will be increased several hundred SEVERELY WOUNDED Private John William of This in a Bate Hospital in His Parents Learn and William of West Ninth have been noti lied from Washington that their John William of Company 7th Machine GUI Bat severely wounded on Octo ber 20 and is now in a base hospital in enlisted in the 5evehth July He first train ed at at Camp where he was transferred to the Seventh Machine Battalion and went overseas early last He went in his first battle on June PRUSSIA IS IN CONTROL OF Our Boys Take Possession of Telegraph and Postal Systems Member of Military Police Alderman William of the Eighth received word this morn ing that his Harry has been made member of the military police at Camp Young Leary is connected with Company Bat talion Depot and left this city in August IN SUGAR MILL firemen were injured and of sugar wire lost when fire partly de the warehouse of the Sugar Refinery at a pier along the Delaware river hero Many of the employees trapped in tho huge building were forced to leap into the cold waters to escape the Short ly after noon the blaze was believed under KILLED AFTER WAR ENDED Arrest for Theft John wanted in on the charge of stealing silk under wear valued at was arrested at the United Telephone Com pany Exchange on Market street where he had recently secured employ He was taken in custody b Sergeants Owns and Ho will bi taken to Lancaster CASES BEFORE THE GRAND JURY Many Bills Considered and Good Progress Made in the Hearing of Witnesses is the capital of the province and is located on a high ift miles from the It Is mining It hns Hun if which of IH miles southwest or By Webb Miller United Press Correspondent WITH TUB AMERICANS 7N thousand Germans arc now nder American They arc the situation with remark ble quietness and and re this authority astonishment is often expressed at ic Americans lack of and policy of Normal life is going on in the oc towns and peasants are plow ing the fields as the troops march Factories are humming with Hundreds of discharged Ger man soldiers are passing through the American I recently saw some of these still in their working in the The Americans arc gradually taking I over the supervision of the I telephone and postal Am erican trains carrying supplies are arj riving at which is now genI referred to under its French name of This traffic does not j interfere with the regular passenger The third day of the Orand work did not compare with the record for as the preceding two but many cases were dis posed by the District Attorney Hannum and Assistant District Attor ney Taylor were kept busy presenting bills all but some of the cases had Ions lifts of thus con suming more time than Should the jury complete its work of passing upon bills of then it will go on its visitations M the through the county visit county bridges and roads on Edward from Wash ington sent back to jail in default of paying the costs imposed upon him by Judge High was charged with assault and battery on his High pleaded guilry and before sentence was his wife took the witness stand and said her husband came home one night and beat her with a The stick was displayed in Judge John son inquired of High if he anything to I have your He took the witness stand and admitted that he his but he said he was mad all over when ho found his wife In company with an other Judge Johnson told High to pay tho coat and he could go When Court adjourned High was un ahle to make up the money necessary to pay cost and he went back to High and his wife have been liv i hut came from Wash Under the terms of the Germany will pay the expenses of the Third The there fore are giving receipts of all rc and which will be collected from the German govern ment The burgomaster of the villages are cooperating in assigning Decrees have been order ing the surrender of tiro arm and The people In some towns have already turned over their guns and receipts have been given and division headquarters arc generally established in schoolhouses or other public The only untoward incident recent ly reported occurred today when some o children In the little village of school children In Scheich threw decayed American The vegetables at latter ignored advanced elements of the Third Army have occupied the towns of and Zet Ington some months Johnson made an order upon Edward of to pay his wife per week for her The couple are and the wife asked the Court to com pel her husband to contribute some thing toward her Frank Goran was but held on his own recognizance to keep peace with William of Ches Geran hangs up at tho foot of Market and he declared yester day that he had made the river his home for 40 and he denied that he wax a or that he threatened Green testified that he has charge of certain property about the wharf at Front and Market and that has been annoying him when drunk on one drove him In his house the point of a revolv Goran was reminded by Johnson that he would have to behave In tho or go to Sergeant Byron of This Victim of an Ex Mine on 20 first hero to give up Ills life on foreign soil since the signing of the armistice was Sergeant Eyron of Company Fifth who was killed on November according to official word received by his and 34 The shocking news parents at a time when they were beginning to make arrangements for a rousing re ception to be tendered the returning Young who was In his twen enlisted on Decoration two years at Kock while visiting at the home of a brother who resides at that Previous to his enlistment ho had been engaged at the Remington Anna plant t in the capacity of a He attended the Third Presbyterian Seventh and Madison anil took an active interest in the religious work of that He left for overseas In July and lad previously received two promo Ions within a On April his noting his strict at and close application to duties assigned advanced him to the rank of Corpora Later ho was made a Since his arrival according to tho contents of his last which was penned November he had been attending school in He was one of a number of noncoms picked to qualify for JIc had written his parents that he had been successful in passing his final ex According to the announce ment received by his the young man met his death as the result of in explosion of enemy It was not stated whether he had died instantly or expired of wounds received in the TO CONTROL THE WIRELESS Navy to Take It Over So as to Benefit Merchant Marine as Well By Carl Groat big bat tle for navy control of plants n peace time is about lo Hearings will start before House Merchant Commit on a to take over all The fight lies largely between the Navy and the American Marconi Hut behind the American Company apparently stands the coni iy the Hrit sh The American Marconi Company has sold the navy its ship to shore tit retains its grasp on four high pow Two of those on tho At have not been used appar ently a plan to create a wire ess link between and tho United States so to join np with wireless to the far The navy purchased the Wireless station from Che alien property cus Captain head of the naval com will conduct the main tight or the believes it is absolutely Essential that the navy get control of ill the stations Inclining a dozen not mder Marconi he the big merchant marine we are building will ilong with commercial hrough the interference bo ween competing sta At this he said when most of the world is to be made United Is fostering beginnings of a groat merchant whose servant the wireless nd when the American news and arc to he the it is hat the greatest good to the people of he United States a whole will from well regulated communi cation with their ships at son and with foreign nations at reasonable the re wireless rates on press dispatch es so as to aid In getting the Ameri can viewpoint before the world nnd a fuller knowledge of foreign affaire bc tho American Joint hearings and In four cases were held last night by Al derman Berry and Coroner Drewes in tho Law Three of cases woro murder and tbo fourth was a manslaughter Dis trie Attorney John un Attorney John represente the The case hoard was that c a charged wit tho murder of also color who was shot on September 10 an who died at the Chester hospital o October Lavinia lie testified that she visited th hospital two days before thu died and that the daughter lold hc that Jackson had shot Coroners Physician Fumes testified that tho young wo man died from a gunshot wound ir the Alderman Berry heU Jackson without bail for the next tern of The The case of George colored proprietor of a charged will the murder of th next Nugent according to i statement Desk Sergeant Wright says Nugent made to him declared he was afraid of This shooting took place 01 the night of October Coroners testified to performing at autopsy which revealed that died from a bullet wound in his skull Nugent was held without ball foi John was the de fendant In tho third He I charged with the murder of Mark Hal ley on November The submitted by County Detective John OToole was that Halley told and Patrolman that Garrls had shot Attorney Stetser testified that Garris confessed to him that he killed HaMey on the night In Tho autopsy revealed that Halley bad died from n hemorrhage In the iid dominal cavity as a of the gun shot Harris was held without bail for Williams Court Victim Considerable evidence was heard in the case of an unidentified who according to Coroners died of a fractured skull at the base of the brain on September According to the he was knocked down in Williams Sol omon of 223 Hevan testi fied that ho saw Nathaniel and ard Johnson attack and Unit ho fell when a man named James Hart who made attacked The two Johnson men wore hold for court by Alderman Alken was held in ball on his own recoK as a material unidentified Italian was taken from Williams Court to Ihe police sta tion supposed to be but later his condition was found to be such that he was removed to the hospital where he The case in which Charles Murray killed by being knocked down by a stolen was scheduled to come up last also but was post poned on account of some of the wit nesses being It wil bo lurid next night at Deputy Cor oner On His Trail Hero he is the meanest thief in lie makes ft his business lo steal the red lights each night as fast as they nre placed in front of the new addition to the High but his j little mean tricks are at an end Inasmuch as tlu superin tendent of the new lias ar ranged to be on the look out for this person or persons who in taking tho red light jeopardizes tho or liven of those who travel In the vicinity of operation and who are ac quainted with the spot where many piles of are and which the rod lights are intended to warn them SCOTT MAKES DENIAL OF CHARGES AGAINST HIM Accused Patrolman Testifies at the Hearing To day Before Council and Undertakes to Clear Himself of Any the News papers are Giving Him a Trial DECISION OF COUNCIL RESERVED Patrolman Samuel charged with neglect of refusal to nil arrest and conduct unbecoming an in the final hearing held today before Mayor McDowell am mem bers of made a complete de nial of the and declared that ho saw no moro in iho caso than u drunken fact that he had been told a Time had boon committed before visiting tho Nichol son where be found the Kir in a semiconscious an interne nt the Chester called by the ecl that the girls hud an excess of al coholic but might have boon He admitted that be would have thoroughly diagnosed the case if it luid boon intimated by thn police that some crime had been sus Attorney of Ihe William Schaffer who ably represented the read the testi mony of when Scott declared he was not asked to make an which showed that Nich olson hud said place man and supposed wife under At this William Cloud who represented and called down by City Solicitor During the on be ing was asked the question as to Home of the events which occurred on the night of the and when pleading admitted his only was from the newspapers and afterward the rtt the in a gruff It seems Im being tried by the Mayor McDowell announced had been n short was made by the attor that the decision of council ho reserved until Be fore opening the case for the Mayor McDowell paid u tribute to who conduct il tho Investigation for thr city au Mayor McDowell tho investigation wus made nl Us An effort was made to inject the of Patrolman Cosgrove mrt Mounted McNeal for their regarding tho but Mayor McDowell dismissed thin by reached that It may come is now on When Councilman Trainer al lowed himself to wander tha main he culled to task lr Councilman nnd a lively I of took Hick contended thai citys WON hiring looked after by At In his Una Attorney pointed nut Hint Scott had n ood rocord nnd whon hir allowed and his wife to did any crime had been com Ho It wan merely im Itor that an havu He lint Iho did not II Scotts Attorney that to hi own testimony enl to the bonne Inform d that a woman had boon imd a girl In a helpless condition nd the people therein In an fulled to properly or lake an I In showed that tint Interne at the hospital conceded that something else other than whiskey might been used and would have conducted ii more rigid nation If he had been requested by the Alexander offered to explain thill no report hud been made to the pollen station by the representative who the girls to the hut this ruled out as having nothing to do with Scotts failure to make an arrest after being on the scene at least ten min utes before the other Seott declared that he received na to place any one in bonne under lie visited Uptons restaurant on tho night of the assault it and while eating learned some one had been at He went to Fourteenth and Crosby saw a crowd in front of and wag told by Nicholson that two of the fellows were running He brought buck a fellow named Charles 1 ut the other fellow Nicholson said McLaugh lln WHS not the man and he WB3 al lowed to Upon entering the Nicholson he met who showed him badge nnd When ho vti Itcd kitchen ho saw the girt and Whats the Nicholson said she would keep the girl and when he en tered the other room ho came In con tact with Dale and hie supposed Ho said Dale was apparently sober and he saw no reason for detaining He said he left house In company with McNeal and to make his 12 oclock which At tho hearing on Locke and deputy and declared under oath they personally requested Scott to rest and his supposed Hearing At fault upon being by Attorney admitted that Nicholson might requested him to make an but ho didnt Why were you Interested In getting Hnle and his supposed to Wil mington asked declared thai he hud no ron son to believe they were Implicated In the Sometimes persons are arrested on said Mayor answered by there watt nothing Mayor McDowell pointed out that the witnesses on Tuesday testified the girls clothing was nnd she was In a dying It was apparent Hint i had been And wui so much excitement wo want to know why no arrest was said thn Attorney Alexander asked to place Chief Vance on the stand to prove that notwithstanding fact that tho ad dresses of the girls nnd the addressed of the men alleged to have committed the assault were In the humid of the no arrests have been said it was not a question of whether tbo department failed or any of Iho officers wore partially Mayor McDowell ruled tills out and Chief was excused after giving Scott a clean hill of health luring his three years on the COMPANY GS JOLLY SMOKER State Reserve Militiamen Ap plaud Fine Talks and the News of a Trip to Harrisburg At the smoker of Company held evening at the Sergeant of the 18th twenty years in regular army of the a of the war and Philippine campaigns and of the present an extremely In and at times highly amus ing talk on his experiences during his stay in This was the first of a of turnouts to be given by the company during the Ing If this is an indication of the will members of Company are going to be well entertained luring the Captain announced the wel come news that Company would lie one of the companies of the Provisional Regiment to go to Harrisburg In Jan uary for the inauguration of Gov ernor is expected that by that time the company be its full of seventy Im mediate plans were laid to have every thing in readiness to provide for the comfort of men on this which should be a memorable one fpr an as the company feels that It has particular tie upon the Following Captain an James Camp hell talked to the men about some of the old Mmes in Company B and the National His talk was much appreciated by the who gave him rousing applause when be Major of Iho First who Is the father of tho having been Its first talked for a then railed upon and made announcement that a sliver cup had been presented by Sergeant Turner for the highest score on the Indoor range during the corning There were songs and musical selec tions by the band of thirtyone Following the a lunch was served on the and the evening wound up Ihe smokes jind PRESIDENT HAS SLIGHT COLD Will Fully Explain His Fourteen Peace Principles Upon Reaching France By Robert Iress TIIE Uy In New President Wilson will talk plainly upon his fourteen princi ples when he reaches That be will make Is indicated by the concern shown over bis arid as whether his throat will be In good condition his After disposing of his routine tho resident rests of the time under orders if Koar Admiral i his personal The latter and Wilson frequent con about The Pres ident attends the ships movies and participates In all The Washington K expected to arrive In on Ii or 13 by way of the The ships wireless h in constant touch with All appointments are vry Tho President and tho same suites that wore built especially for Hie Kaiser and tbo years The same waiter who served the for mer Kaiser am is serving the President and his wife in SLIGHTLY WOUNDED Dominick Formerly of In a Field Hospital A has boon received from announcing the fact formerly nt was slightly wounded while in An Italian by ing been born in the town of went to Camp after a months training was sent to the western He 22 I years of ago and conducted an Ice j cream before he I Inder date of November the In jured soldier wrote to his who resides at 1001 Eleventh that he had sustained a j slight I am still in a Held he with a sprained ankle It is getting along and I will be back in my company soon Boys Leg Fractured Alex of 2928 West Third a Is M in tho Chester Hospital th result of accidentally struck by nn automobile near home late H suffering from a fracture of tho MAY BUY AND USE SUGAR IN ANY QUANTITY orders received hero by the local Food remove all on restoring Its use to a pence Then is one Important ex restrictions in prices still Counter registrations arc done away nnd both private and 1 In the may buy and use nil the sugar they wish with out being forced to an the new public places sugar bowls to their The Food Admin desires everybody to have all tin sugar but points out that because the ban Is lifted is no reason for an excessive or wasteful of the BEATEN BY THUGS State Police Men Who field Up Andrew Nelson Another holdup was along Chester Pike this when Andrew carpenter living fit was beaten over the head with blackjacks In the hands of two They railed in their attempt at robbery by tbo arrival of several Tho holdup took place fifty feet of Nelsons 1 hi fuel several prior holdups havo taken the return of the police to patrol the section adjacent to the Baldwin and Remington Nel who is 4S was compell ed to go 0 the hospital to have his wounds THE WEATHER I n I ted Tress Eastern Penn sylvania Fair cloudy north and west portions tonight cloudy nnd warmer probably rain north and west Western Penn sylvania Cloudy tonight and Fri day probably snow or rain warmer Maximum Minimum Average Normal Todays Calender Sun High and Low and
