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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
COOLIDGE SENDS
MEMORIAL DAY
MESSAGE TOU.S.
Vice President Points to Sacred
ness of Observance for
Loyal Americans.

Vice President Calvin Coolidge last
night addressed. through the Inter-
national News Service, q Memorial
Day message to the American people.
calling attention to tho sacredness OF
eEce that is the due of the -thousan ds
who have suffered and died that the
nation might live.
There are more than 1000 900
persons in the nation who know
from experience what war service
means. There are more than 10O,-
600 homes which have been dark
ened by the irreparable infiiction of
war. There are hundreds of thou
sands carrying the marks and dis
sbility of war. Unto the whole ma
ton has been revealed the mean
Ing and the sacrifices of war.
Tho thirtieth day of May has
teen set apart that all the people
might think on these things. on the
blessings of peace as the result of
their righteous victory, on the de-
votion of the living, on the obliga-
ton to recompense the disabled, on
the everlasting honor which is due
to the dead. that this nation.
through the fulnlment OF these OBJ
Contlnue worthy OF
these great sacrifices. and through
the cultivation of a like spirit con-
tinue to be partakers In like glor-
les. CALVIl. COOLIDGE"
John W. Weeks, Secretary of
War, Issued the following Decora-
ton Day message:
Lest we forget, there comes a
time in tho spring of each year
when the nation turns from it's
business and Industry and citizens
lay aside the implements of their
profession and trades to gather in
the secluded and shady paths of
our national cemeteries to do honor
to the nations dead. 1t is a day
when we turn our faces to past in
stead of the future and recall the
deeds OF the heroic dead, whose sac
rifices have made and preserved us
a nation. / do not think we could
adopt a more beautiful way of re-
Numbering our dead than the annual
custom of placing flowers on the
graves of those. who have passed
through the gateway, and II 10 on
Memorial Day, in tho presence of
our dead that Americans can re-
new their faith in our ideals and
institutions and reaff1rm their
pledge of unceasing loyalty to the
republic"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
BARLEY CHOSEN HEAD
OF VIRGINIA CHASSIS

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, May rs
The Rev. A. w. Barney. of Toms
Brook, Va, was named president of
the virginia Chassis Reformed Church.
at is session here this week. Elder G..
N. Souder. of Lovettsville, Va. was
named vice president; the Rev. ]. ST.
lar Garrison, of Harrisonburg, Va,
Nwas continued as stated clerk, and
the Rev. H. w. wissler. Of Mt. Craw-
ford, Va, was made corresponding
secretary. Those attending the con-
ference in official capacity were:
Pastors-John w. Rauch. Martins
burg: ]. Silor Garrison, Harrisonburg.
Va; Aaron NJ. Gluck. Martinsburg:
Samuel w. Beck. Mt. Crawford, Va;
william II. Causey. Woodstock. Va;
8. l.. Flickinger, Shepherdstown. w.
Va; Clarence Woods. Winchester, Va /:
N. II. Fravel. Timberville, Va; A. w.
Barley, Toms Brook, Va; J. p. Har-
ner, Lovettsville, Va: A. c. Peeler.
staunton, Va; H. W. Wissler, Mt.
Crawford, Va g.
Elders-Curry r. Hite, Edinburg.
Va: w, c. Switzer, Harrisonburg. Va (;
d. w. Snyder. Martinsburg; ]. w. Rey-
nolds, Martinsburg; Newton B. Wise.
Bridgewater, Va; Charles Hoover.
woodstock, Va; Harry l.. Line. Shep-
herdstown, w. Va; b. #. Zerkel, Tim
berville, Va: David II. Keller, Toms
Brook. Va: George NJ. Souder. Lovetts-
WILLIE, Va: David II. Cole. Staunton.
Va; Robert l.. Gray. Winchester, Va.
Harry p. Shutters, Mt Jackson. Va:
J. b. Grove. Roanoke, Va. and J. II.
Baker, Weyers' Cave, Va.
The next meeting place was set at
st. Johns Church. Harrisville, Va.
and the date as May 1S. 1921.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
DA(JGHERTY
MAY BOSS
DRY AGENTS
Blair, New Revenue Chief, to
Confer With Penrose Over
Possible Shift in Bureau.
By J. BART CAMPBELL
International News Service.

The new Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue, David H Blair. is going
TO lose no time in tackling the job
OF reconstructing the prohibition
enforcement machinery.
Senator Boies Penrose Of Penn
sylvania, announced last night that
far-reaching plans for the "rehabil-
itation" of the enforcement system,
and its proposed transfer from the
Treasury Department to the Depart
ment of Justice, will be taken up at
q series of conferences early this
week between the new collector and
members of the Senate Finance
Committee, Of which Penrose is
chairman.
FAvORs JUSTICE DEPT. PLAN.
!. Senator Penrose said 1t had been
suggested that a prohibition enforce
nent superintendent be appointed in
each OF the forty-eight States. The
: designation of a prohibition enforce
mont head for each Federal judicial
district also Is being advocated.
Penrose expressed himself as being
personally in favor of the Department
of Justice taking over mcst Of the
details and duties involved la prohibit
ton enforcement.
"The present prohibition enforce
mont system Is Ineffective. wasteful
and demoralizing in many of its
aspects." Penrose said. land requires
drastic treatment in order that 1t
may be rehabilitated and freed of the
scandalous conditions now surrounding
It,"
He said the extent of the proposed
transfer of prohibition enforcement
from the Treasury to the Department
of Justice was a matter of detail yet
to be worked out on the theoretical
basis. that the Treasury ought to
have no police business to transact
and prohibition enforcement is pecu-
liarly the province of the Attorney
General and the district attorney"
KRAMER's SUCCESSOR.
It Is understood that one of Com
missioner Blairs first acts will be
the appointment of a national prohi-
bition commissioner, for which New
ton Fairbanks, of Ohio, has been
prominently mentioned. Whether the
position would be transferred from
the Jurisdiction of the commissioners
Of internal revenue to that Of the
Attorney General under the proposed
changes In the prohibition enforce
ment system. Penrose did not indi-
cate.
1t 10 his purpose and that Of other
members OF the Senate Finance Com
mittee to thrash out the whole prohi-
bition situation with Commissioner
Blair, and probably with Attorney
General Daugherty.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
PLAN RESTORATION OF
OLD ANTIETAM CHURCH

HARRISBURG, Nd, May 2S.-A
movement has been started to restore
the historic Dunkard Church on An
tietam battlefield, wrecked by Mon
days storm.
away bricks and pieces OF splintered
,timber as souvenirs. Congressman
Zihlman. of Maryland, has been re-
quested to urge Congress to appropri-
ate money for rebuilding the church.
which was built in 1853 During the
battle of Anttetam the church. which
was Scared by shells and bullets, was
nssd a. q hospital
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
Dies While Visiting Son.

DANVILLE, Va, May 2S.-Joseph A.
Latham. father of the Rev. J. N.
Latham. d. D., pastor of Main street
Methodist Church, died here Mon
day night. His body was sent to
Richmond for interment. Mr.. Latham
was eighty-three years old. Hs had
been for seven weeks In local
hospital. He became i'll nsre while
on n visit to his son. Ho Is sur
vived by a daughter, Mrs. r. A.
Knight, of Durham, N. C; r. II.
Latham. winston-Salem, N. c.; A. q.
Latham. Onancock, and the Rev. j.
n. Latham, OF this city.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
BOY To Be TRIED
NEXT FRIDAY AS
SLAYER Of GIRL
James Stevens to Contend
Katherine Little Shot Her.
self Accidentally.
CHARLES TOWN, w. Va. May 2

CHARLES TOWN. W. Va. May 2s.
james Stevens. of this city. will
deny that no shot and killed pretty
sixteen year-old Katherine Little ut
her homo At Bolivar on March 81
when he 10 brought to trial next
Friday in the circuit court OF JEFF
ferson county here.
Stevens defense will be that the
girl was accidentally killed when
she was examining his revolver
which he had taken from his pocket
In her home and placed on piano.
Stevens first story was that tho
girl had committed suicide after she
had declared several of her friends
had become estranged from her. The
couple had returned from a dance
at Baltimore Heights and were In
the parlor OF the girls home when
she died from bullet wound
through the head.
Stevens claims that after the girl
had shot herself. ne became fright
ehed and ran to his home without
notifying her mother who was asleep
upstairs. He was arrested the- next
day and indicted three days later by
special session of the grand jury.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
ITALIAN DEPUTY WINS
ON SlNN FEM PLATFORM

Political experts throughout the
world are still trying to form some
estimate of the results of the recent
Italian electiona Ono Significant fact
seems to have escaped the notice Of
the newspapers, namely the election
Of one deputy who ran on an out and
out Sim Fein platform.
According to III Progresso Italo-
Americana. New York, May II. moth
ing has been more widely discussed
In the Italian press and in political
circles in Italy than the successful
campaign of Deputy Martire, who an
nounced himself to his constituents
as a representative of the Irish Sim
Feiners, and whose only platform was,
Independence for Ireland. He was re-
turned by an overwhelming ma jority.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
SHORT
$4,000, AUDIT OF
ACCOUNTS SHOWS
kanawha County Commission
ers Call on. Bondsman of
Jarrett to Settle.

CHARLESTON, w. Va. May U.s.
Shortage in the accounts OF Former
Sheriff Squire B. Jarrett IL shown to
be more than $4,000, according TO
the fnal statement figures reported
to the county court by the two com
missioners recently appointed by the
kanawha circuit court and the coun-
ty court.
The report. which covers that period
Of Jarrett's incumbency OF tho office
up to December 81. 1920. has just been
filed with the county court and the
actual figures Of the discrepancy are
$7e,767.46
Reports at the time Of the arrest
OF Frank w. Sneed, q deputy sheriff
and chief bookkeeper during tho ad-
ministration of Sheriff Jarrett. on a
charge of embezxlement, were that
the dencit would be from '&40.o to
100000. and the actual amount could
only be ascertained by a close In
spection OF the books. For this pur-
pose the two commissioners were
named.
Following the arrest and while un-
der bond of $4,000 for his appearance
before Magistrate AGREE for a prelimi-
nary hearing. Sneed left the city and
failed to appear for the hearing. He
was later traced to, Chicago. where he
was arrested and brought back to this
city, being placed in the county Jail.
He was indicted by the last grand jury
and his case IL set for trial May 81.
1t was reported at the county COM
missioners' office yesterday that The
matter of making restitution of this
amount. which Is due the county. mas
been taken up with the bonding CON-
pany which was surety for the former
sheriff
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
CABBAGE GROWERS PLEDGE
CROPS TO ASSOCIATION

RICHMOND. Va. May 2s-Cabbage
growers OF Smyth and wythe counties
met at Rural Retreat Saturday to Sc
lect officers OF the association which
they are forming and to apply to the
State corporation commission for a
charter.
cabbage pledged to the association.
according to the State bureau of
markets, and those behind the move
expect to have over 1000 pledged.
They also expect to have between 500
and 900 acres OF potatoes marketed
through the association.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
WOOL MEN PLANNING
TO SELL COMPARATIVELY

RICHMOND. Va. May 2s.-Between
5oO.o 900 and 100000 pounds Of wool
will be marketed In the State wool
pool" now being formed. according to
an estimate today by the State bureau
of markets, department of agriculture.
Growers are now clipping and have
agreed to a cooperative plan of mar
keting. The State and Federal bureau
of markets are cooperating on this
plan, and the Department OF Agri-
culture at Washington will send an
expert grader into Virginia to aid the
sheep raisers in grading their wool.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
Charles Slick Meets
Crowd That's SEcker
and Loses Roll.

HAGERSTOWN, Nd, May
2S.-Charles Slick, of George
street, Is out $3.50 as the result
Of q meeting with three "slick-
ers"-two women and a man
driving in an automobile carrying
a Pennsylvania State license.
They induced Slick to take
ride with them. He displayed
his roll Of bank notes and spent
about $40 of 1t in entertaining
his new-found friends. Soon
thereafter Slick says he was att
tackled, stripped of his hat and
coat and the remainder Of his
money and thrown from the auto
mobile,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
REVISION OF j. s.
JUDICIARY CODE
TO BE DISCUSSED
Congressman Seek Plan to
Make Federal Court Ap-
peals Less Expensive.

S~sornotsOouh NewU UerVsces
Revision Of the Federal judiciary
code and changes in the Federal Judi
ciary will be considered during the
coming week by the Mouse Com
mittse on Revision of the Laws. Of
which Representative Edward c. Lit
tie, of Kansas. 10 chairman.
Colonel Little announced yesterday
that the COMMITTEES will meet Tues
day to hear suggestions from Repre-
sentatives of the American Bar A.
ISOLATION and of State Bar Associa-
lions and prominent lawyers, who are
to gather in Washington on Memorial
Day for q discussion of needed and
necessary changes in the judicial
code.
Among the recommendation to Be
made to Congress by the lawyers will
be an increase in the salaries of Fed
eral JudgsA
The House Committee would like
the lawyers to- suggest some plan By
which appeals to Federal courts can
be made less expensive.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29

Senate tusslsd with naval apprO-
priation bill, while the House put tie
finishing touches on the battle-scarred
emergency tariff measure. Mrs. Emma
c. BergdoI provided q few more
characteristic words In defense OF
her Stacker son before the House
Committee that is probing the past
Of that elusive individual. The SEN
ate did lip-service to tho cause OF
peace by adopting the Borah dis
arament amendment to the naval bill.
MONDAY.
The ire OF San Francisco was
aroused by the obstinate insistence"
Of the Senate in striking out from the
naval appropriation bill any money
from the construction OF q naval base
at Alameda.
Senator Boies Penrose. receiving his
"nrst easy lessons" in advanced
radicalism from Ben c. Marsh of Tire
Peoples Reconstruction League, grew
very peevish in the course of the
Finance Committee tax hearings. and
gave Mr.. Marsh a minute or 30 In
the hearing room.
Senator King warned the Senate
that dye monopoly was tightening Its
coils around the American people and
urged the adoption Of his resolution
calling for an investigation of the trust.
trust.
House and Senate conferees on tho
Good-McCormick budget bill reached
an agreement.
TUESDAY.
The house voted 100000 more for
the enforcement OF the Volstead act,
fhere.hv In L. ~
OF people. II want Mr.. Kramer to
obey the law Just as much As the boot
leggers," said Chairman Good of the
House Appropriations Committee. re-
ferring to the formers alleged inclina-
ton to create q deflcit in keeping
liquor away from the susceptible.
Senator Robert M. LaFolletts made
a four.hour speech on the naval bill
declaring tho next war would exter-
inmate civilization.
Railroad heads recounted their woes
before the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee. President Byram of the
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
road declaring that the United States
Railroad Administration was the
chief cause of all the trouble.
Congressman Perlman of New York
asked Congress to make Columbus
Day a legal holiday.
WEDNESDAY.
The Senate Committee on Educa-
ton and Labor determined to inves-
tigate the disorders in the coal min
ing region along the West Virginia.
Kentucky border. Senator Kenyon
announced hearing will open at Will
Hanson, w. Va, probably this week
or about June 10. 1t Is not expected
they will continue for more than .
week or ten days.
o A rather Sensational event took
place in the Senate. in that. the
Borah amendment to the naval ap-
preparation bill. authorizing and re-
questing President Harding to in
wife japan ana Great Britain to dis
cuss partial naval disarmament,
passed without a single dissenting
vote, "a to 0. 1t had been many
years where any measure of like
Importance In the Senate had not
had single ballot cast against II.
The vote was the hnal triumph of
Senator Borah in advocating q plan
which originally had the Harding Ad-
hostile to It
Something new in Senate history
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
bad BUSINESS BLAMED
ON CRASHING RETAILERS

EAST AURORA, N. Y, May rs
Failure Of retail figures to match new
factory prices 10 still retarding bust
ness adjustment. according to reports
made by 1000 plant executives to the
Industrial Cost Association, in con-
vention here yesterday.
The retail situation, however, will
not be able TO check a buying wave
definitely setting in, according to q
report made by J. w. Stannard, De-
troit automobile manufacturer. pre-
siding officer at the conference.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
CUMBERLAND TO BUILD
NEW $4,000 STANDPlPE

CUMBERLAND, Nd, May 2s.-Be-
cause the limits of the city have I'M
sxpectedly extended to points higher
than the Ridgedale addition reservoir.
the city council has decided to erect a
standpipe that will hold from 100000
TO $4,000 gallons of water that will
supply the highest points for consum-
ers and FIRE protection. 1t will cost
$4,000.
The city water department is plac-
ing new six-inch steamer connection
are plugs at several points as addi-
tional FIRE protection.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
Chinese Teachers Quit.

PICKING. May 2s.-Teachers and
officials of eight government schools,
who have been on strike for two
months because their pay was In
arrears, have resigned in body.
owing to the failure of the ministry
of finance to carry out the pro-
posed establishment Of an educa-
tional fund.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
Soldier Gas Victim Buried.

ELKINS. w. Va, May 2s.-George
Clarence Watson, aged twenty. who
was rassed at Chateau Thierry. was
buried at Morganstown, Wednesday.
He was a son of George and Mar
garet watson. this place. He volun-
teered In 1917. when in his teens. He
was brought homo recenuy from
Asheville, N. C.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
D REVISE PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT PLANS THIS WEEK
MRS. E. HAZEL WRITTEN,

MRS. e. HAZEL WRITTEN,
" thirty-hve years old and
= widow, and George Terry,
sixteen-year-old youth, With
whom she eloped from Fall
River, Mass. The hectic love
dream Of Mrs. Written and
her youthful sweetheart came
to an end in q Lakeville swamp
when they were surrounded
by an armed posse of men
and placed under arrest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
Picks Student Council.

Bryan Morse. director of student
activities at George Washington Uri-
versity, has announced the appoint
ment of the following students as
members of the student council for
next year: John Paul Earnest, jr., H.
II. Shinnick, Robert Anderson, Edward
Hanson and Miss Elizabeth Earnest.
The appointments are subject to the
approval Of the deans of the depart
ments in which the students are
registered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
Mrs. Mary Chisholm Dies.

OAKLAND. Md. May 2s.-Mrs.
Mary Jane Chisholm, aged seventy
six. widow of Capt. p. A. Chisholm,
who was head of the famous Garrett
guards. died Wednesday. Her hus-
band was also a member Of the Hay
maker rifle team, which never lost q
shooting match, either at long or
short range. Two brothers and one
sister survive.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
GRAND LODGE CONDUCTS
FUNERAL OF CHAPLAIN

CULPEPER, Va. May 2s.-Dr. H. B.
lee, chaplain Of the Grand Lodge Of
Masons In Virginia. died suddenly
while sitting in a chair on the porch
Of his home in Culpeper. He was con-
versing with a neighbor and his fam
lily when stricken. The grand master
End officers Of the Grand Lodge con-
Quoted the funeral services. the Grand
Lodge being convened in Culpeper for
the purpose.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
His Kites Please Children.

MARTINSBURG, w. Va. May 2s.-
J. b. Dicken. one OF the sales man
ayers of an automobile agency here,
finds time during his work hours to
keep alive his love for kites. and
during the evening takes his diver
sions In flying them before an awed
crowd Of youngsters. This week he
finished q kite six By four fee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
Takes Day Of At al.

SISTERSVILLE, w. Va, Nav rs
Wesley Syco. forty-seven. was so busy
working for eleven children that ne
had never been more than twenty
miles from home until the other day.
Then he. took his first ride on a train.
frst ride on . street car and nrst trip
&C q circus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-29
Western Union Man Dies.

CUMBERLAND, Nd. May 2s.--In-
formation was received of the death
at Oil City. Pa. of A. il tJack) Hol-
land, manager OF the Western Union
Company In this city. Some
years ago he was stationed in Cum
beriand. and was wire chief for the
same company.