Washington telegraph., 1921-04-01
camnalen by the Women's ChrIs

day observance and against tobacco
was announced at Chicago by Miss
Anna NJ. Gordon. national president to
statt April 8 That weekf the an
nouncement said, "will be made a week
of PRAYER for the success Of the cam
paign. land Sunday, April 10, is desig
mated hs antitobacco Sunday.
4 A permit to manufacture wine out
Of Strawberries for nonbeverage pur-
poses was issued at Washington to
the Strawberry Growers Association
of Louisiana by the bureau of internal
revenue The permit specifies that
no sugar shall be added 10 increase
the alcoholic content of the product
Matewan. W. Va, called a holiday TO
greet the l6 mountaineers, defendants
in the Matewm battle trial. who were
found not guilty By circuit court jury
at Williamson.
Mrs. Stoughton A. Fletcher and her
mother, Mrs. Eva Henley, committed
suicide at the Fletcher estate north of
indianapolis, Ind, according 80 a cor
oners verdict. Stoughton A. Fletcher,
the husband is prominent capitalist
and horseman
s John Williams white farmer of
Jasper county, was indicted by the
Newton county grand jury at Coving-
ton, Ga, charged with murder in com
nection with the deaths of three ne
groes recently found in rivel there,
and, according TO Deputy Sheriff John
son. Il negro empoye Of Williams, has
confessed that II negroes in all had
been killed.
John Brown negro, was shot 10
death with hairpln at Memphis, Tenn.
\ Physicians found the haiTpin after the
/ bullet was removed They believe she
pin was lodged in The barrel of the re-
volver at the time the shot WIS fired.
Personal
Former President Wilson was said
TO be recovering satisfactorily from
an acute attack of Indigestion which
he suffered AT his home in Washington
Admiral Cary r. Grayson, the former
Presidents physician. said it probably
would be few days before Wilson
could be considered as entirely e-
covered. ar..-=re 81, -f-..
! President Harding has accepted an
! Invitation TO attend ceremonies 10 be
fheld April 10Th at New York in CON
nection with the unveilng Of statue
10 Simon Bolivar. the Venezuelan pa
] triot. -u9V 0t .3~a" 'nGE
4 Dwight Dayis.- Of s. o.. - (. .llo.s : was
given a recess appointment By Presi
dent Harding as director Of the Wal
rihance Corporation. i'''i "'''
! Pretty 15-year.old Dorothy Miller
of Trenton, Nod, who wrote TO the
papers offering 10 marry any man ,vhC
would give $1,000 for an operation tC
save her mothers life, is beginning t'
lose her faith in the power Of the
press. She said that not a cIngl'
suitor had called and that her ONLY
male visitors were reporters V1J5i q,
A Clara Smith Hamon has signed a
contract with the Oklahoma Motor
Picture Company. with headquarters
| at Oklahoma City, oklao and studios
at Los Angeles, Cal. to produce pic
lures for the next two years, she sale
in an Interview at ArdmoEes Okla.
Rev. Maurice Bodine, 81, Chicago
the so-caled dream husband OF Mrs
Ida Glasshagen Bodlne, 40, an Aurora
dressmaker was held to the grand jury
at Aurora, ILL.,, in bail of $4,000 OF
charges of theft and marrying In Hi
nois in less than year after he hat
been divorced. Mrs. Bodine did no
appear against the clergyman and h'
waived examination.