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The Washington times., 1918-12-28
BLOODY SHIRT Clue
NSEARCH FOR MAN
lcontinued from First Pascl

lContlhueo from tlrst faSeD
play his body would be found. UT
to noon today II had been fruitless.
Captain weber told a Times re-
porter that he had received reports
that Ciechino had made many con
fiictinT statements to employees be-
fore and after he got q job there. He
doubts there has been foul play. plae-
ing little credence In the Identified
tion OF the shirt
"lt Is not unusual that q blood
stained shirt is found on the plant
grounds" said Captain Weber. Men
working at the plant frequently meet
with slight accident. causing the flow
of blood. And II is not infrequent
that they wipe blood on their clothes.
particularly on their shirts, which
they later discard"
But Mrs, Cicchlno is certain that
the shirt found In the woods was the
one worn by her husband on the day
he disappeared after telling her that
he expected trouble with q fellow
employe at the plant.
"A blue shirt, such As the one
found. was left at our home several
weeks ago by q friend OF my husband
said this morning. "On Friday, the
day before ne disappeared, he tossed
me the shirt and asked me to sew 4
hutton at the neck. The shirt had
white buttons down. the front. I
sewed . black button and the shirt
found has the button I sewed on" =
=. PolIes- Have TIVE Theerieh.
As soon as Ralph Poor, the ma
ehinist Of the plant, found the shirt
he took Il TO Captain Weber, who
notified the Eleventh precinct police.
Central Office Detectives Berman
and Fred Cornwell today are IN pos
session Of the shirt and at the steel
plant trying to fnd the man who
Cicchino claims owed him money and
trouble.
The police advance two theories
which they say inclined them some
what to believe that the Italian has
left the city and has not met with
foul play. They say that from re-
ports Cicchino was penurious and was
not the type to lend money, and the
other that he had spoken OF leaving
the city,
But they are puzzled as to the posi-
tive Identification Of the blood stained
shirt by Mrs. Cicchino, and they are
working on the third theory that the
Italian has met with foul play.
Was Not QuarreIsome.
Cicchino's wife stated that while
her husband spoke of a fcllow-employe
owing him $50. he did not tell her his
name or anything about him. She
could give the detectives no informa-
ton this morning which would lead
to the Identification Of this man whom
they desire to question.
Cicchino was not OF a quarTelsomc
nature, his wife said. She has seven
children, the oldest q deaf mute who
Is i'll with influenza. She believes
her husband has been murdered.
we always got along happily"
aid the woman. "and my husband
rad no reason TO leave me. He always
anne home promptly from work. and
Dever spoke to me Of leaving Wash
trgton. I cannot believe he has
abandoned me and our seven children
| believe he has been murdered"
Cicchino Is thirty-six years old.
bout fve feet six inches tall, and
weighs aobut $50 pounds. He wore q
Blue shirt. dark worn clothes and
high black shoes and a green fedora
hat when he left his home last Satur-
lay.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
14,541,355tETTERS
IN D. c. XMAS MAIL

Figures on the amount of Christ
mas mail handled at the city postof-
fee, which were made public today
BY w. Hunter HGycock, superinten-
dent Of mails, show an increase OF
from 80 to IS per cent in quantity
over the mail handled at the same
time last year.
The figures were based on the mail
handled during the ten days ending
with Christmas Day. They show the
forowing increases over last years
mails:
Outgoing letter mail. 80 per cent,
T.336,S55 letters having been mailed
from washington this Christmas.
Incoming letter mail. 30 per cent:
!, 100000 letters coming into Wash
ington.
Incoming parcels mail, 90 per cent.
80. 6S5 sacks, totaling 512.T00 pack
ages. arriving for delivery in this
city.
Outgoing parcels mail. sc per cent;
10T;s44 sacks. containing $4,000 par
cells. leaving the city.
Outgoing parcels mail was approx
mately three times as heavy as the
Incoming parcels mail.
Special delivery letters. ,5e,974 in
number, were handled, an increase OF
"A per cent.
1he la gest increase shown was In
he number Of parcels which were
20 large for delivery by carrier. me-
.eseitating delivery by automobile
ruciS, an Increase of IS par cent be-
ns made. with a total Of 90.eo4 par
els delivered.
Postal receipts showed a 80 per cent
Increase. S150.393.87 having been re-
eiVed this year.
Mr. Haycock stated that there was
no leftover mail at the. city post
office today, and thai all mail was
being handled as rapidly as II is
received. though there were $4,000
SACKS of Christmas mail which had
been sent late, received, this morn
ing. -.-
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EXPECT CLASH IN HOUSE
ON "BoNE Dry RIDER

A clash over the Question whether
the ''bone-dry" amendment for the
District. which Is a rider on The reve-
nue. bill. shall be concurrsd- IN n ex-
pected IN the House today g
Owing to the fact that the sendinG
or the revenue bill to conference was
deferred by Leader Kitchih until Non
day. Congressman Randall did not
offer HIS motion to concur In the
'bone-dry" amendment yesterday.
He expects to offer II Monday. and
the opposition will them raise q point
Of 10 quorum. II this Is DONE the
matter will go over until January.
when = quorum win be present
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
cARUso FALLS TO STAGE.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-Errico Car.
uso, who was singing in Samson
ct Dalila," at the Metropolitan Opera
House last night, tripped in coming
down the flight OF stairs used in ths
second act, and fell from the top step
to the stage floor. He received a deep
cash in one knee, and the perform
anee was suspended until he could be
given first aid. The accident occur
red just after the singer had fin
ished his great scene with Della.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
SEES MoTHEK KILLEp.,

DETROIT. Dec. 2S.-Helpless q
give his mother NN.rning. Frank Bor-
owslSi gazed from behind the barred
window of his Jail cell and saw her
ground to death under a street car
here. The woman was on the way
to visit her son, who Is awaiting trlal
for automobile stealing. Sne wa
crossing the street and failed to. sea
a street car approaching. -
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K. C. BIS TOWN TOPICS.

IoU WON'T eellsys this, -.
IT'S so silly.
AND WHEN think OF it.
IGET cold all over.
AND IT happened at dinner.
WHERE MOST OF the guests.
HAD MET one another.
FOR THE nrst time.
AND TT was all very formal.
AND DRESSED up.
AND THERE was a butler.
TO WAIT on the table.
AND 1 thought used to know him.
DUT 1 couldn't ask him.
AND HE kept look ing at me.
AND GOT me nervous.
AND I had feeling.
HE KEPT counting the silver.
THAT WAS at my place.
AND ANYWAY.
HE HAD served the oysters.
AND I had just speared one. &C..
AND THOUGHT had it.
AND WAS raising it gently.
TO ITS destination.
WHEN THE lady beside me.
HAD SOME sort of a Mt.
OR UPSET a glass.
OR SOMETHING.
AND I Strengthened up.
AND WHEN I did it
ILosr the oyster.
OFF OF my fork.
AND 1 could feel it strike me.
ON THE soft shirt front.
AND I was afraid.
1T WAS on my lap.
AND WHEN I got a chance.
STARTED feeling around.
BUT I couldn't find it.
AND THEN l was afraid.
1T WAS on my chair,
AND ] was sitting on it.
AND I had an idea
COULD feel it.
SORT OF mushinE around.
BUT I couldn't move.
AND I stayed there:
AND AFTER a while.
THOUGHT could feel It.
WITH ONE Of my feet.
AND ANYWAY.
THE DINNER went on.
AND wasn't SO nervous.
AND WAS laughing and talking.
AND thought OF story.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
HEAD OF N. Y. SECRET
SERVICE DROPS DEAD

NEW YORK. Dec. 2s.-Capt. John
]. Henry. head OF the secret service
OF New York city, dropped dead a:
his Brooklyn home today.
He was fifty-four years old snd
had been in charge of the New York
secret service for five years. cuc-
ceeding William Flynn. Captain
Henry had been in the secret service
for twenty-three years.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
M. ?. WOUNDS GIRL,
FLYER'SCOMPAN|ON

NEW YORK. Dec. 2s.--Lieut. Dam
lei Mangan. of the British Royal Fly
ing Corps, is held by the police at
Jamaica, Long Island. today. and Miss
Rose Patak. OF Jersey City, is in q
local hospital suffering from q bullet
wound in the thigh, following a tus-
sic between Lieutenant MangAn and
Military Policeman Edward J. We'll
don at Jamaica crots road. Mangan
refused to stop his automobile in COM
pliance with the order TO halt.
The military policeman was sta
toned at Jamaica with orders to stop
all eitybound automobiles as q result
of the escape OF four soldiers who
were being held at the flying field at
Mineola. LII. on charges OF desertion.
He ordered ManEan to stop his car
and the order was refused. Mangan
afterwArd claiming he disregarded the
order because OF former hold-ups in
the neighborhood.
weldon jumped to the running
board OF the car and in the tussle
which followed his revolver was dis
charged and Miss Patak received q
bullet in the thigh.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
AsYssINIANs FIGHT MosLEMs

report from Cairo received at the
State Department says trouble has
arisen in Abyssinia. It Is reported
that the Abyssinia government Is
sending troops to aid the Christians
against the Moslems.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
CONSIDER CATALONIA DEMAND

MADRID. Dec. 2s.-Premier Roma
nones will preside at the first meeting
II the COMMITTEES appointed to study
catalonia's demands for autonomy,
which will be held january ..
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
ADJUSTMENTS
Walters Art Galleries
BALTIMORE.

The Poor Association" OF Baltimore is
authorized to say the Galleries OF Mr.. r.
walters. Charles and Centre streets. will
be open to the public: All Wednesdays
and Saturdays OF January. February
March and April, and also Easter Mouday
and 22nd February. between the hours OF
II and 4 o'clock. Tickets Of admission
50 cents each, may be ordered or purchased
at the office of the association. all W..
Monument St. The Beiveders Hotel. The
stafford Hotel, and also at Harris 4 Shafer
Co, 1904 r St, Washington. d. c.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
DUTCH euEEN THREATENED.

AMSTERDAM. Dec. 2s.-Queen Will
helmina has received a letter threat
eflng her life unless the Kaiser is
forced TO leave the country within
eight days, according to the Tele-
graaf. The letter was mailed In
Amsterdam, and 10 an anonynous.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28
AND STARTED to teIf It.


AND STARTED to telf It.
aHs+
AND I had a little gold peaeA. 2
II MT vest pocket. ~
AND I put my fingers In the pocket
AND THE oyster was there.
AND IT was cold and clammy.
AND SLIPPERY:
AND I forgot the story.
AND STARTED to cough.
AND PUT my napkin
OVER THE pocket
AND TRIED to get the oyster.
AND 1T just slipped around.
AND ! had to squeeze II out.
AND ONTO my lap.
AND LET it fail on the floor.
AND I kicked It over.
UNDER THE lady's chair
AND WENT on with my dinner.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28

Thrift stamps bought for yourself
or your children cultivate the right
spirit.
The Washington times., 1918-12-28

Thrift Sthnps bought for yourself
OF YsuF ehIldren cuitiVate the riEht
Spirit.
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30
-FOUR DAYS IN
AFRICAN JUNGLE
BRITISH Filler Is MENAcED eY
LIONS AND LEoPARDs. -
Officer Falls In a Bog and Suffers
Agoniss Until Rescued by
Band Of Natives.

LONDON. England.-Horrible expe-
riences of British aviator who came
down In an East African jungle are
described by him In letter just re-
ceived by relatives here.
The aviator. Lieut.. G.. Garwood.
went up to bomb a German ambush
on the Ruff river, but through en-
CINE trouble had to descend in. the
bush. the machine landing with .
him four days to make his way to q
place Of safety.
He tells how in the dusk he was
confronted with an ugly black animal
about four feet feet high with vicious
tusks. He climbed tree and prepar-
ed to put in the night there. Later he
opened his eyes and saw something
like two green electric bulbs about
thirty feet from the tree. They moved
round in circle. This continued for
forty-five minutes.
1.-THE tension was unbearable," he
writes. II wanted to scream, shout
and yell all in one, but instead burst
out with 1.-THE Admiraps Broom" and
with full-throated bass roared out
the three verses. No applause, but a
reward-the leopard skunk away. Why
had / not thought of it before?
II wene through my repertoire.
laughed as I finished Two Eyes of
Graw.' 1t seemed so ridiculous. Then
/ got on to hymns, remembered four
verses of o God, Our Help of Ages
Past and sang the Amen too. The
whole thing had its ludicrous side"
Next morning while swimming a
river he passed seven yards from a
crocodile's mouth, but just reached
the bank in time. Without food or
arms-his only weapon of defense his
nail scissors-his progress through
the awful bush was about one hundred
yards an hour. His clothing was in
ribbons, and his flesh exposed to the
thorns, sword grass and flies.
He swan seven more rivers that
day and sank down exhausted against
a tree. He could hear lion roaring
about 500 yards away, and, somewhat
nearer, the granting of hippopota-
mus.
Being exhausted, l more or less
lost consciousness for perhaps half an
hour or so. Nothing short of hippo
charging could have made me climb
a tree. Am afraid life had little
to offer about that time"
1t was while lying here that the
lieutenant had the annoying expert
ence of surveying two large balloons,
the size of a small man, quarreling
over his trousers, now in threads, and
among the tops of forty-foot trees.
1t was not until he had passed an
other horrible day and equally terrific
night in the bush that he at last was
picked up by some natives.
Their eyes seldom left me-" he
adds. Undoubtedly / was a strange
sight-my legs bare and bleeding, my
short vest sodden, dirty and torn, NO
trousers, of course, just a dirty sun
helmet, short stick in my right hand
and with four days growth of beard
on my dirty face"
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30
HEAVY MEAT EATERS 2
HAVE SLOW KIDNEYS
Eat less meat If you feel Backachy or
have bladder trouble-Take
glass Of Salts

No man or woman who eats meat reptI-
Larry can make a mistake by flushing the
kidneys occasionally, says a well-known
authority. Meat forms uric acid which
excites the kidneys, they become over
worked from the strain, get sluggish and
fail to filter the waste and poisons from
the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all
rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble,
nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache in the
Kidneys or your back hurts or if the
urine Is cloudy, offensive, full of sedi-
ment, irregular of passage OF attended by
q sensation of scalding, stop eating meat
and get about four ounces Of Jad
Salts from any pharmacy; take q
tablespoonful in glass of water before
breakfast and in few days your kidneys
will act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice,
combined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush and stimulate
the kidneys, also to neutralize the acids
in urine 30 it no longer causes irritation.
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and caunot
injure; makes q delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
complications
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30
PIGS DRUeGED WITH OPIUM.
They Eat Some Poppy Stalks and
Sleep Three Days.

JERSEY SHORE, Pa.-Ashur Tomb
of Oriole, a nearby village, thought
his pigs had some kind of a sleeping
sickness when, not without prodding,
they came up to the trough with eyes
half shut.
They were too drowsy to eat, leav-
ing their corn half finished, quite con-
trary to hog usages. They remained
in this-condition three days, and then
got well.
The explanation came when 1t was
remembered the pigs had been fed the
stalks from bed of poppies which
had been moved down. The poppy
Is the origin of opium.
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30
What Is It To Be An American ?
BY Franklin X. Lane
SECRETARY INTERIOR
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

We are not gathered to speak bitterly Of
others or 10 speak boastfully OF ourselves,
We have gathered to talk together az to the
future OF America and how It can be made
a more nearly perfect nation.
We see clearly now what We have not
so clearly seen before. that a democracy
must have a selfprotecting sense a. well
as a creative spirit.
We have lived In the full expression Of
the most liberal and idealistic political
philosophy. Thers has been nothing of pa
ternalism in our government We have con-
ceived It to be our high privilege to open
this contipent to those who came seeking
the advantages and the beauties of new
land. in which the individual mind and
heart could have free and full development.
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30
SWEET WEDDING GIFT
FOR ST. LOUIS PAIR.
Given 10000 Pennies In Bucket Of
Molasses.

Given 10000 Pennies In a Bucket OF
Molasses.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The wedding pres
ent which Guy Wright, manager OF
the Wright building, gave to f. r.
Wainwright, superintendent of the
building, was just too sweet for any
thing. 1t was 800 in pennies, 10000
of them, all in a fiwe-gallon bucket Of
molasses.
Wright had to have help In carry.
ing his gift into the office of the build
ing, where the formal presentation
took place.
Wainwright declared that he and
his bride, who was Miss Ethel Kayser
of Semple avenue, would surely find
some way to sift the coppers out Of
the sorghum.
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30

The Liberty
still believe that liberty
the of that troubles which
have caused bitterness between world will
which had thought
a and done which each may choose to think say or DO and
has been attitude and it the
Americans Of Native Lineage a Duty"
81, only in meencs sui that when realize that
@ or BY S % are
ton in the education and enlightenment those whom they have invited
have nation that
poor projections community
MODERN ms s n' aa os
to the cure ills as to their prevention Modern aesmanhp should
The greatest Disappointment Of the has the downfall Russia
perhaps expression
destroyed and oS that that nation hundred and eighty million 0
ence by the iron heel Of the Kaiser like beetle that
Russia some daya wiser more intelligent better educated
the domination of a ruling class.
Russia a Reaching or a Butterfly.
She had love of freedom but she had knowledge of what freedom
Lenne has been simple and natural process because what she wanted
through which they might express themselves Within six months after
liberty nothing
those who had land
far fell the ground and was She
dned orderly within her country and abandoned her allies
was ns did a mot that s time and
atty She resigned herself the
that order by methods ruthless those that have filled siberian prisons
Russia broke when her constitutional dissolved
Rusa's Unprecedented sumernss
strength
t
Russia was sick and no wonder She had called out twenty
million All of them did the front Many them could
be armed But she sent after through Ga and through
justice the land was be free The army
itself into its individual units turned its back upo the front and each ndt
vdua that piece which be
Now what the
suggestion being clearly revealed there
% TINS may nave been true % but not
eastern front and has thrown the whole burden supporting civilization
WI cannot read write none Of whom pr had ever participated
They had followed their leaders They did know the significance
did
eminent through which by their Intelligence and aspiration
Out of Ignorance onomny
Russia the victim of the her and of her
had neishbOiness
the When he fell collapsed
them though it,
for behind Washington there must people who have Of coales
selves while attempting themselves
Inn
exclusive Of Amecansm There Poland
Spain and in all the countries of herself
spirit of Americanism which word
a a
teal story Of America.
Indians Bunker Hill Yorktown. Gettysburg
Santiago MANILA the told
Wilderness searching
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30

down and got SO
weak / could hardly
stand, and adhead-
aches every day. /
tried everything l
could think of and
was under a phv>p
sician's care for t.,
years. A girl friei.
had used Lydia K.
Pink h ANS Vege-
table Compound and
she told me about
it. From the first
day l took tIbegan
to feel better and
now l am welltand
able TO do most any
k in d of work. ~
have been recon-
mendinp the Com
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30
EAST

establishing
leaders. whitney n0 '''n inc Of our great
% sss5saas after the thing that better 1T an ion d,n:
p0 n, decline We expect to live But we do come
We are trying United States gather
be merged into onsf
Making Amer tho Greatest Of Nations
this of
that will long hold compelling
together long since and put heads to the problem what tn:
We should not be moved this BY fear There nothing to fear Our
and swsdes scotchmen We their list
a0 n.w S % @ raS s w
that luton ce and the other races that the Civilized world
are capable Of being blended here and this the theory that
his the food that he the nesho that
his blood e ar a
Some Discoveries
to be discoveries those
The first a a
A
stand the orders that are given them to read
The third that deficient
through
those failed
that they here and what they sought We have failed understand
To American the embodiment things
We taking
She made herself composite
understanding.
Responsibility Of the Hour.
a
difficult the of those who do not speak read our tongue but de-
be led to follow the of this nation and those others who
nS' must be OF this
year this war men are standing
shoulder shoulder with Frenhmen their Enshmen
left holding the line that civilization The is coming
read the list who have
nn columns and pages Then we will first clearly see the horror of this
will talk
Run
the Joint participants in either Waterloo Gettysburg There hardly
permanent in history the center of great battle
advancing Amen
self to the world that would be and in
battle before Let hope there
be such
e Amiens railroad leading from Calais
in
ranks and are moved down by apdn AS the front line falls the
SO ~ increuSents o
The Worlds Creates Battle But
they there for 40 feet along the western air
looked before We call the worlds battle but the
may
Glasgow Islands
Soft Lake and
of Verdun saym said
Moro to and Die fol- ThanEv Armies
do yield They have not for nearly four thai.
thin line that holds the Kaiser back but
n
to until a
of offensive that the first
tells The climax
will
1t be conviction that
and andgir a
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30

pound ever since and give you my per-
mission to publish this letter" Miss
Flo KELLY, 476 So. 14th ST., Newark,
NJ j.
The reason this famous root and herb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, was so successful in Miss
Kelly's case was because it went to the
root of her trouble, restored her to a
normal healthy condition and as 8 result
her nervousness disappeared.
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30
His Reason for Leaving.

He had come in answer to the ad-
vertisement of a position open for a
book-keeper, when the following con-
versation took place:
Manager = THE last man, we had
here had the place for forty-three
years."
Applicant-"Why did he leavei"
Manager-"Oh, he was one of those
fellows that's never happy unless he's
on the CO."
Does your wife neglect her horne
in making speeches?"
"Not a bit of It," replied Mr.. Meek
ton. "She always hts me hear the
speeches frst."
Charlevoix county herald., 1918-08-30
A NERVOUS {
BREAKDOWN
Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkhana's Vegetable
Compound Restored
Her Health.

Newark, N. J.-"For about three
wears / suffered from nervous break