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The Washington times., 1919-02-06
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ELECTS TWO OFFICERS

Two now officers are assisting to-
day in the direction Of the affairs OF
the Washington Chamber of Com
merce, following their election by the
board OF directors at the meeting last
night in the Chambers headquarters,
GIL Twelfth street northwest. Chaplin
Brown was elected general counsel
and Ralph w. Lee is the new treas
urer Of the organization.
Chairmen and vice chairmen of
standing committees were named. The
names Of new officers and the COM
mittee heads were reported by p. T.
Moran, chairman of the nominating
committee. The committee asked to
be excused from recommending a sec
retary, as the names of several ap-
plicants are being considered before a
successor is recommended for Thomas
Grant, who has resigned.
A committee composed of James T.
Lloyd, Henry B. +. Macfarland, and
Charles J. Bell was appointed to draft
a letter to answer charges against
Washington and local business men
made in a speech by Senator Sherman
of Illinois in the Senate recently.
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FIVE ESCAPE DEATH.
ASBALLOON BURNS

SALISBURY, Nd, Feb. .5.-The
four army officers and their pilot,
who escaped cremation in midair by
a few seconds yesterday whea the
gas in their balloon ignited 1900
feet above the earth near here re-
turned to Washington early today.
None OF the men show any i'll effects
from their experience.
A. Leo Stevens, OF Washington,
was plotting the monster gas bag
when the gas ignited. With the
flames threatening them all the time
and the bag all but collapsing
Stevens used every means known to
aerOnautical science to being the
balloon quickly to earth.
A strong thirty-five-mile gale was
blowing, which greatly hampered his
efforts. Just as the bag landed in the
field Of David Tingle, a farmer, two
miles east OF here, and the men had
jumped to safety, the bag exploded.
All that was left of the wreckage
were a few pieces of rope and a few
valves
Lieut.. Col H. A. Dargue and G.
B. Hunter and Capts. NJ. J. Philips
and i. 3. Montfort, of the Bureau of
Military Aeronautics, were the Off
GERS accompanying Stevens. The flight
was made for the purpose of training
army officers in balloon work.
At the military aerOnautics office
of the War Department il was said
that no information would be availa-
bile until the officers returned to
Washington with their report.
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HALL COLLAPSES
AFTERACQUITTAL

SACO. Me, Feb. 6.-The Rev. Hen
ry II. Hall. the evangelist acquitted
by jury OF the charge of numbering
his wife by throwing her from a
railroad trestle, was in a state OF
nervous collapse at the hotel here
today, and was under the care of a
physician. The jury deliberated ten
and a half hours.
A telegram was received from a
New York theatrical manager offer
ing Hall 4 vaudeville engagement.
Later Hall recovered from the state
Of collapse and walked, arm in arm,
with Grace Gerew, his Acknowledged
sweetheart, from his hotel to the rail,
road station, where he boarded a train
for Lawrence, Mass. where he will
visit his nephew.
Asked when the wedding would be.
Grace Gerew blUshed and refused to
answer, She did not, however, deny
that there would be a wedding before
long.
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D: C.. MONEY BILL
MAY. Be HELD UP
By Briggs

The probability that the District ol
Columbia appropriation bill will
over to the extra session OF the new
Congress doomed up strong today.
Senator Hardwick,. who is in charge
of the bill in the Senate, in the alb
sence OF Senator John Walter Smith
will bring the measure up as soon a
there is opportunity. However, ther'
are, two appropriation bills ahead -
t--in the Senate. One is the pos
office bill and the other is the leSis
latiYe bill
The old controversy over the half
and-half question still stands out a
prominently as ever. After the bill
passes the Senate, with the half-and
half restored, there will doubtless b
a long fight in conference
The Indications are this will pre-
vent passage before the 4th OF March
when the session will end.
However, the appropriations do To
take effect until July 1, and IL an eN
ira session is held this spring, as *
pected, there will be ample time Il
dispose of the measure.
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U. S. ARMY TO LOOK AFTER
WOUNDED YANK LAUNDRY

Surgeon General Ireland announced
today that the laundry Of all army
hospital patients here and abroad
shall be chafged against the army.
IT has been charged unotficially
that some patients were compelled
to do their own laundry or pay for
il at city prices.
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LITTLE GRANDMOTHER OF
RUSS REVOLT" TO BE HERE

Catherine Breshkovskaya, known
the world around as THE Little
Grandmother OF the Russian RevoIu-
ton IS coming TO this city TO attend
the Victory dinner to be given by the
women OF America at the new Ward
man Park Inn on Lincoln's Birthday.
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MARCH is TAX LIMIT.

No extension of time for filing tax
returns under the new revenue meas
ure will be allowed. Secretary Glass
announced today. The first INSTALL
ment of taxes and returns on all
taxes must be in the hands Of the
Treasury by March Is. the bill pro-
vides. Glass said it had been de-
cided definitely there was no reason
to grant a longer time for filing re-
turns
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CURFEW SHALL RING!
SAYS DETROIT LAW

DETROIT, Feb. 6.-The principle
Of elf-determination is not for the
children Of Detroit An old law
rings curfew at o'clock for all chill
dren under sixteen. 1t was resur-
rected today and ordered enforced.
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KISS HYPNOTIZED HIM

NEW YORK. Feb. 6.-'She kissed
me, Judge. The moon was shining.
was hynotized,' explained Roy Lusk
in his wife's suit for separation. LuslI
Is a spice dealer. She won the suit.
The Washington times., 1919-02-06

Frank Morrison, secretary. of
the American Federation of Labor,
says 100000 men in the United
States are out of work now. There
is the sore spot in the United
States. And the spot should not
be allowed to become any bigger.
The FIVE hundred thousand idle
no longer include Mr.. McAdoo, re-
Gently. Secretary of the Treasury.
He has been engaged as counsel
for a great moving picture COM
bination, which includes Mary
Piekford, Mr.. Fairbanks, Mr..
Charles Chaplin, and others. His
salary is said to be 100000 a
year. AS a lawyer, he will be able
to make easily between half a mil
lion and a million annually
considerable improvement on the
salary paid him by the country for
running the Treasury and the rail
roads.
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Senators are criticising the en-
barge that the British have es-
tablished shutting out from Eng
land goods made in this and other
countries. There is no justice in
such criticism. The British have
a right to do as they please within
their own frontiers and to shut out
our goods if they like. Let US
hope, however, that no very Sc
rious attention will be paid to the
petition for free trade in this
country which is pushed by college
professors and others.
To have our goods excluded from
England and other countries and
allow the goods of other countries
to come in here without paying
duty would be going a little far
along the road of international
benevolence.
We should adopt the methods
that prove the intelligence of Brit
ish statesmen, and with embargoes
or anything else necessary and
useful, protect workmen and bust
ness men here. 1t will have to be
done sooner or later. 1t might as
well be done before trouble comes.
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Believed Wan Conc.

1t is now crtain that residents of
the mission believed Wan had left
Washington on Wednesday, some
time in the afternoon. WI is known
TO have told this to his friend, King
Chu. with whom he dined the night
of the murder. Yet hours after he
was supposed to have left the city, he
was still at the mission and answered
the door when DR.. King Lii called at
o'clock. When arrested he said he
left the city at S:15 and was seen Off
at the train by WI.
The account of the Chinese Mission
at the Riggs Bank is known to have
always been in the neighborhood of
S15O,OOO. The size of the mission de-
posit is believed to have been known
to Wan. who had been a guest at the
mission for some time. Because of
its munificent proportions, it is be-
lieved Wan thought a check even for
$4,000 could easily be cashed, and no
suspicion be aroused.
What he did not know was that the
bank record showed that no large or
unusual payments or disbursements
had been made during the preceding
few months from either the mission
account or the personal deposits Of
the three murdered men. Dr. Wong,
himself, was wealthy in his own
right.
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IEan Says &c Va HII.

Wan denies that he was not cor.
daily received at the mission by Dr
Wong, and tells the police that it is
untrue that Wu refused to introduce
him to his friends. He has told the
police he has been i'll for some time
apd that he could eat only certain
things, and therefore did not care to
go to dinner where others were eat
ing rich food which would tempt him
to eat things which would not agree
with him.
Wan is believed to be under the
care of a physician in the secret lid
ing place where the police are de-
tanning him. He is on a diet--the
rigid sort prescribed for a dyspsptic.
Wan is now known to have been a
student at Ohio Wesleyan College at
Delaware, Ohio, in 1916, and also at
the Columbus (Ohio) Business Col
lege, where he took up shorthand,
American business methods and bank
ing. He intended to become a banker
and return to his own country.
The brother studied chemistry and
electricity, and had recently been
employed in munitions plant at
Providence, r. I.
Wan is twenty-five years old and
Van twenty-five by the American
calendar. By Chinese reckoning Shey
are both a year older than that be-
cause a Chinese baby is reckonsd to
be one year old when it comes into
the world.
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TODAY

(Continued ftOm First Page.)
them the job to which Mr.. Baker
vaguely refers, if it is ready for
them.
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he admitted TO the authorities he had
been a guest, as l stated, at the Har.
ris up to noon on Thursday, the day
after the triple murder"
The police regard it as certain that
Wan registered at the Harris Hotel
about 10 o'clock on the morning of
Monday a week ago, three days be-
fore the murder was committed
Hotel attaches say Wan, check ed
out" about noon Thursday, after pay
ing for the use of his room. When
the police traced Wan to the hotel
they discovered on the register the
name 4. S. Wan, and later took the
register to police headquarters, where
q photograph of the signature on the
hotel book was made.
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Hotel Clerks Story.

There was no need for my facing
Wan" said Sprigg to The Times. 81
told Major Pullman that Wan was
registered at the hotel and Of his ac-
tions and movements while he was
here. I was told by the police that
when Wan was told what I had said.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1919-08-09

Field Day AT Appleton

On Thursday. July 81, Appleton
Grange held its first Field Day.
The morning was devoted to lee
lures and demonstrations on the prUn-
ing and spraying of fruit trees, and
steam pressure canning. The former
was given by Mr.. Shaw, Of the Mary
land Agricultural College, at the farm
of Mr.. John l. Atkinson Mr.. Shaw's
lecture and demonstration proved to
be of vital interest to all who had the
privilege Of hearing it. The steam
pressure canning demonstration and
lecture was held at Appleton at the
home of Mrs. w. T. Lofland, and was
given by Misses Stephenson and Al
baugh. This too was most interest
ing
The next thing on the program was
dinner, prepared by the ladies Of the
Grange, and served under Mr. Lof-
lands naples. Needless to say every
one enjoyed this feature
Following the feast Rev. Harvey
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1919-08-09

Miss Maud Dare Reynolds. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs Gainor Reynolds,
of Rising sun. died or July 2S after
an illness of heart trouble. She was
2l years of age and is survived by
her parents and three brothers.
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Elkton Methodist Episcopal Church

Morning class, 9:45; public service.
1880; Sunday school. II; evening
worship, 7:2O An open door at ali
services to visitors and friends.
Sunday school picnic next Thurs
day, 14th.
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Local Marriage Licenses

|un,,S N. Rittenhcu.e and Jeanne
EdWariI0a K. Tain age ts.h Of North
E'tSt
The Washington times., 1919-08-26

Copyright, 1919, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
yes, I replied dryly.
Then Envy made the hneI
~ everyday OF her weak hand;
aYou know we have to keep her
from l.einE too lonesome wails that
sweet brother Of yours IS away.
By the way. isn't Neal due back
lVretty soonF'
CHAPTER CLXVIL
"Hop in, Baby" laughed Sheldon,
seizing Phoebe by the elbows ana
swinging her into the place next TO
him at the wheel, as we started on
our trip TO Chinatown.
Again Dick West glOWereo, but
before long his rumbling laughter
seemed to convey the idea that
Fvvy was managing TO cheer him
up as they sat huddled so far in one
corner Of the tonneau that / had
most OF the big seat to myself.
Suddenly Tom Mason turned from
fhe chair seat he was occupying
and gzuged first the empty space
Snd then my face in the semi-dark-
sIess.
Always room for one more?" he
Suggested in a wheedling voice.
please, no; I hate crowding," /
replied ia a matter Of fact tone that
iscotched the embryonic sentiment
at once.
Tom paid no further attention to
me, and when we got to Cheng
Fuey's, Of the sinister back en-
trance. and had passed up into the
lantern-hung dance hail. he swung
Evvy out on the dance floor. while
sheldon followed with Phoebe, leav-
ing me TO the now saturnine Dick
West.
: 'sDancing7' he asked.
NO" I replied as tersely.
"All riFht-Pm glad; I want TO
talk to you. Phoebe likes you.
why don't you say a good word for
your husbands partners"
"Phoebe's a baby" I countered-
so Blake calls her-but he
doesn't treat her like one"
''He's a mold friend OF Jim's. I
expect he knew Phoebe in the era
die replied, trying to make light
bf the situation.
"WeIl, he knows she's got out Of
The cradle now-and a darn attract
i've girl And I'm Jim's partner
that ought to entitle me TO as many
privilege"
MercifulIy then the music stopped.
Or perhaps It wasn't ''mercifully,"
for 7 was Just on the point OF telling
Jim's partner in rather plain Eng
The Washington times., 1919-08-26
Puss in Boots
Jr.
By David Cory.

66NVIELL, / declare" exclaimed
W Captain Downey Goose
as little Puss Junior
appeared on deck the next morning,
you're Up bright and early" And
Why shouldn't pUss be up. / should
Hike to know, when you remember
in the last story he went to bed at
the same time the captains wife
put the baby 10 sleep, and that was
pretty early. although the time in
New Mother Goose Land is not quite
the same as IL is in our country.
= Well, just then. as Puss looked
over the side of the sirship, he saw
the sun rising in the East, and
Then, all OF a sudden,
lThe Man in the Sun looked out OF the
Sun
I.ooked out or the Sun and said:
Tis time for all children upon the
p earth
80 be tumbled out OF bed"
And as the airship was now skim
ming along rather near the tops Of
The houses. Puss could see into the
bedroOm windows and many a little
girl and boy who got out Of bed
That morning heard a whirring
noise overhead, and some, who had
very sharp ears, heard Puss purring
away, too. for he felt very comfy
and contented after his good nights
sleep,
& Then, by and by, when every
body was awake and the milk maids
were milking the cows, ami the
sewers were sowing the seeds, and
the farmers were making the hay,
and Little Boy Blue was doing
Fomething-bUt ! can't tell you what
5ust now, for this is New Mother
Goose Land, you remember. and I
don't really know myself what he
is going 70 do-the airship drifted
slowly down TO the earth and Cap
tain DOWN Goose and his four
End-twenty sailor doves got out
and walked about on the green
grass.
Every sailor needs a day in
port" he said. as he helped his wife
and the baby down the gang plank.
Russ Junior had already jumped
out and was eating some catnip
which grew close by. Although I
do wear boots and carry a sword,
captain" he said. 81 still am ex-
tremely fond Of catnip. I'm still a
good cat" and then he climbed up
a tree, boots and all, and sat on a
limb. just overhead, much to the
dismay OF a little robin who lad a
nest there.
He won't hurt you, Mr.. Robia,"
cried Captain Downy Goose. He
never touched one Of my sailor
doves!"
"And he played with my baby
gOsling so gently" said the cap
tain's wife. Then the little robin
stopped chirping wildly and sat on
her nest cOntentediy.
an Old Mother Goose Land"
said Puss. Il knew Robin Red
breast even before he married Jenny
Wren. And was at the wedding
with some friends OF mine and we
gave them q gold ring"
The fouF-and-twenty sailor doves
we're futtering about the meadow
picking up worms and little seeds,
Tor, food you have on ship board
gets very tiresome, you know. Then
by and by the captain said IL was
time to leave, but in the next story
you shall hear what they did.
(TO he COntiHued.)
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lish Just what I thought Of him
when our dancers swung back to
Join US.
''Next, Phoebe2" muttered Dick
West, thickly.
She nodded. In q moment I was
left with Tom Mason, who was very
quiet and dignified again. Presently
Envy and Sheldon came back to the
table. But no Phoebe. I waited a
minute. Then asked anxiously:
where's Phoebe -
''oh, they sneaked down the beck
stairs and disappeared. They oftt Il
do. Phoebe likes snooping around
the funny little shops" replied Envy
with husky sweetness. "And Dicks
been saying he had one or two fav-
orite haunts he wanted to show
her"
tried hard to make my voice
calm as replied:
Lets follow them. Play detec-
tives."
Tom Mason shook his head, but
his voice was kind.
Better wait here. We couldn't
find them in a thousand years. Dick
knows his Chinatown. underground
passages and all. She's perfectly
safe with West"
But somehow / didn't feel that
Phoebe was safe with Dick West.
We waited a long half-hour and
still no Phoebe. All through those
creeping minutes I realized more
and more how dear this wiIfuI little
Phoebe is to me. And what I had
seen tonight was infinitely worse
than anything Pat had suggested
this was danger.
Lets try to find her." I pleaded.
Two wait here and two CO."
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The Rhyming Optimist

Seachland's spell, he dons 'em with
delight. nor will he need you when
you tell him that he looks a fright.
Would any man stroll any street
with Shlns all wet and bare? Would
any girl he'd chance to meet be do
ing up her hair? Well, here in
beachland that's the way the beach
folk gambol round. Staid maidea-
ladies run and play and screech
with fearful sound. while many a
damsel forty, fat and scarcely pass
ing fair. grabs strangers like. a
drowning cat and yanks 'em in by
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sWhen a Girl Marries E.L1J Ra9sGsd %eddsd E IF.
Anne Goes With Phoebe to Dance Place and MarveIs
at the Change in the Girl Since Her Associa-
ton With Dick West.
A Romance of
Early Welded Life

"All right, I'm with you" agreed
Tom Mason. you two walt here,
and we'll slip out the back en-
trance and have q looI-see."
So, leaving Envy and Sheldon on
guard, we slipped down the dark
stairs, crossed the sinister court
yard and came to the narrow alley
way. Just as we reached Il, two
arms caught me and 1 found my
self being dragged up against Toms
thudding heart. I broke away
finding strength in my fury.
81 trusted you-I needed your I
heard myself gasping, as 1 fed out
into the street.
Then I stopped and waited.
You may take me down to the
front Of the restaurant" ! said
coldly, when Tom caught up to me.
mo explanations, please" / said
only one-you're a cad and l know
II now-know it for all time. Wen
go in the front way and I'll start
OF again with Sheldon"
Then stalked on listening
neither to, his protests nor TO his
pleas. And when we got to the
dragon-gusrded entrance, there in
Sheldon's car sat Phoebe with Dick
West.
We've been waiting for you.
Run and call Sheldon. Tommy" said
Phoebe without any trace of guilt.
81 told Envy we'd wait. Look,
Anne, look at my pretties. Diclxie
knew just where to find EN-"
Depending from Phoebe's ears
were magnifcently carved pair Of
jade pendants-and about her
throat was a long chain Of the same
marvellous green.
Were they a gift from Dick
West? The lip-stick. the cheap
familiarities were bad enough, but
was Phoebe actually accepting such
valuables from a man?
To BE Continued.