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The Washington times., 1921-04-15
What's Doing; Where; When
TODAY.

TODAY.
Lecture---"John Bunyan. the Immortal
Country" Rev. Clarence A. Barbour, d. D..
First Congregational Church, Tenth and
panoesTSeta sse Te Phi fraternity. nS the Cairo,
Seventeenth and Q streets northwest.
Moving pietures-Business Women's
ticut avenue and street northwest, 1880
Annual meeting-George Washington
ton Club, 1901 X street northwest, s y. m.
Meeting-Central High school Alumni
teenth and Clifton streets northwest, s
Music---Y. w C. A. quartet, f stree.
Lecture-"John and His Hat" Rep
resentatiye W. D. Upshaw Of Georgia,
shall place and C street northwest, s
Anniversary ReccptiOn-District wom-
er's Christian Temperance Union. 622
sixth street northwest, to z p. m.
BANQUET Alumni of wesleyan University,
up,yettii pm,yoestins-offeers ofTfD and a. former officers Of
D. A. r., Continental Memorial hall, all
Exposition Of Internal tional Sunday
schoooi Lesson. Or. X. B. Moomaw Mt.
Vernon Place NJ. e. Church. 4:3O y. IN.
Meeting.chsrities and Corrections COM
rittee of the Board OF Trade board rooms,
Meeting class of the Span
ish- American Athenenum, Thomson
echool. Twelfth and l. streets northwest.
D. IN.
Hays, quarterly meeting, Federal En-
rloyes' Union. No. 2, Pythlan Temple, s
Meeting-Beneht OF Chinese Relief shubert-
peiasco Theater. y. m.
observation-disclosures OF Irish Cause,
ConzaKa Hall. Is street northwest. y. m.
Dsnee-Kansss state Society Wilson Nor
NAL School. = y. m.
Nlnstrci-Men's club, Church Of the. Trans
neuration. = .. m.
Mccting-yv washington Branch. American
Association OF University Women.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
CHINESE CHILDREN
TAKEN ON OUTING
Youngsters Go to. Rock Creek
Park Today in Sightseeing
Bus After Aid Meeting.

A little bit of China is going to BE-
transported to Rock Creek Park thir
afternoon.
Twenty-Five youngsters fIom the
Washington Chinese colony are to be
the guests OF the Red Star Line of
sightseeing busses and the Chaplin
Sacks Ice Cream Company at an
outing.
The children will embark in a
sightseeing car in front OF the Ma
tional Hotel at 800 o'clock this
afternoon. They will be taken to the
will participate in the mass meeting
to be staged at 4 o'clock in aid OF
the China famine fund. At this mass
meeting addresses will be made by
Secretary DENLY of the Navy Depart
ment: DIR. SEE, Chinese Minister to
the United States, and Thomas +.
Green, of the American Red Cross.
The Marine band will furnish the
music,
The trip to the park will take
place after the meeting. III ths
weather is good, the youngsters will
eat ice cream furnished by thu
ChapinSacks Company. If 1t rains
the party will be held in the Sunday
school room of the Metro opolitab
Church. John Marshall place. The
Nunnally candy store will see that
each child is supplied with box of
sweetmeats. The party is being per-
sonally conducted by Mrs. JuIietts
" Harring.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
VILLA HANGED.
AS MOB CAFES
Condemned Rockville Slayer
Asked Crowd Be Admitted
Before Execution.

"Throw open the gates and let the
crowd in to see me die like a man.
were the last words of Guy Vernon
"Villa" Thompson, convicted of first
degree murder, just before he was
hanged today on the gallows in the
Jail yard at Rockville, Montgomery
county. at 9:26 this morning.
HOPED TO BE SAVED.
IL am not afraid to die. feel ii
a privilege to go to my death when
I know that when go into eternity
4 will be taken into the arms OF
Jesus"
There was mob clamoring 10
get into the jail yard. and Sheriff
George Il. Nicholson complied with
the last wishes oft condemned man.
Efforts to have him confess to
the dynamiting of the home OF
James Bolton at Germantown. Mont
gomery county, several months ago,
failed.
Everybody believes, that am
guilty and will neither admit or
affirm the charge that l dynamited
the house"
Bolton and the two children OF
Hattie Shipley were killed when the
aouse was blown up.
WALKS TO GALLOws.
Thompson. dubbed by his intimates
as 'Villa" after the notorious Nexi'
can bandit. because of his daring
and gun play, played his role well.
With firm step he walked up the
gallows. Deliberately scanning over
the faces OF the crowd in the Jail
yard, he noticed that many others
were outside the gate. IL was then
that he told Sheriff Nicholson 10
open the gate and let them see mo
die like a man"
NOT AFRAID TO DIE.
In his cell last night Thompson was
urged by John A. Garrett, his lawyer,
and the Rev. r. Rowland Wagner,
pastor of the Rockville Baptist
Church. to tell whether he had dyna-
mtod the Bolton home. killing Bolton
and the two Shipley children.
mo, | will not say ! did or did
not" Thompson answered. I'm not
afraid TO die. and as ] have made nv
peace with God. ] believe IL a rare
privilege to die when / know this"
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
URGED
FOR WAR DISABLED
Sergeant Jasper Post, of Ameri-
can Legion, Fights for
Service Men.

Sergeant Jasper Post, No. 13, Ampri-
can Legion, has gone on record as
only ex-service men and
women in any project to assist the
disabled veterans in obtaining Gov
ernment relief.
In set of resolutions adopted last
night. the members of the post stated
1t had been brought to their attention
that persons have been recruited for
Jobs in the American Legion Service
Bureau in Washington who are not
service men and women. This should
not be the case, the veterans declare,
for preference should be given
veterans.
An address on the work among dis
abled soldiers was given by Maj. leon
Fraser. recently appointed acting as
sistant director in charge OF compen-
sation claims at the War Risk Bureau
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
MRS. COOKE'SBOD
REACHES CAPITAL
Victim of Cleveland Murder to Be
Buried TomorroW-Slayer
Still EIudeS Police.

Tho body of Mrs. Margaret NJ.
Cooke, mother of Mrs. Margaret Pan
holzer, of Washington, who was bru-
tally murdered early Tuesday in
Cleveland. Ohio. arrived in Washing
ten late yesterday.
Funeral services will be held at
Wise's undertaking establishment.
20O0 NJ street northwest, tomorrow
morning at $50 o'clock. Later solemn
requium high mass will be celebrated
at st. Martins Catholic Church. In
terment will be in Mt. Olivet Ceme-
terry.
That the police of Cleveland have
failed to gain a clue from the bruises
and lacerations which covered the
body of the slain woman is shown by
the fact that they did not hold the
body for further examination.
All clues to the identity of the slay-
er, or slayers, of the woman have. ap-
parentiy been exploded. The swarthy
man, evidently of foreign extraction.
who was seen talking to Mrs. Cooke
prior TO the time her body was found
crumpled up under a stairway in a
downtown Cleveland building, has not
been located.
The police are making an especial
ly diligent search for the slayer be-
cause the National League of Women
Voters now in convention at CIeve-
land, has interested itself in the case.
The women declare drastic steps must
be taken to eliminate the murder
menace that is sweeping the East and
Middle West.
The high-powered motor car, its
sides spattered with blood, which was
sen in the vicinity of the crime, has
not been located by the police.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
SAFETY FIRST MEETING
INDORSES TRAFFIC RULES

The new traffic regulations were
approved by the Washington Safety
First Association. meeting last night
in the Thomson School The associa-
tion again went on record as favoring
traffic bureau and stricter physi
cal examinations for applicants for
drivers licenses.
Police registration OF all motor
cars. including those of tourists who
remain in the District three days or
more, was indorsed.
Capt. Albert ]. Headley, director Of
traffic, spoke.
Resolutions declaring the water in
public bathing pools .unsanitary and
calling on the District Commits sioners
to remedy this condition without de-
lay were adopted.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
LAX|TY
A|DSRUMSALE.
STONE
Dry Agent Declares Lack of CO.
operation All That Saves
B00tIeggers Here.

"If the courts of the District of
Columbia would coopera' with the
police department, actual prohb-
ton would be only question Of a
few weeks"
This is the statement made yes
terday afternoon by Thomas f..
Stone, Federal prohibition agent
for the Maryland-O Ohio district
which includes the District of Co.
lumbia.
CAN'T SENTENCE BOOTLE sGERS.
Mr.. Stone said that the attitude OF
the courts in Washington was very
discouraging. In many cases, he said
alleged bootleggers had been held by
the grand jury. but that he lad been
unable to get them to trial. In other
cases he said the court allowed the
prisoners to Forfeit such small
collateral that IL was cheaper to sell
liquor now than II was in the days
of high licenses.
1t is understood that agents at
tached to Stones office here have
spent a great deal of time in the
courts here compiling data showing
the number OF cases that are pending
on the dockets and also the number OF
cases In which the court has allowed
the forfeiture of small fine.
Assistant District Attorney Given
yesterday promised the prohibition
agents that hereafter on all jury trials
In which the liquor question entered
that he would challenge every man
who was sitting on the jury II they
were in favor of enforcing the
eighteenth amendment.
orders were issued to the local en
forcement agents yesterday that here
after they must not make an arrest in
the so-called patent medicine Drepara-
tions unless they were ready to prove
that the concoction had been sold 70.
beverage purposes by the dealer.
Director Stone held two conferen ?es
yesterday with Commissioner James
F.. oyster at the District Building
The first one in the morning WAS
merely in the nature of an inform a.
tion meeting, il was said. after 1t waa
over.
Mr.. Stone returned in the afternoon
and was closeted with Commissioner
Oyster for several hours. They went
over the liquor situation in Washing
ton thoroughly. it was said. and de-
clded upon a plap of action that will
greatly reduce the bootlegging busi-
ness in Washington.
Commissioner oyster impressed
upon Director Stone that the police
will not be expected to capture all the
whiskey that is IN Washing without
the help of the prohibition agents.
They must also aid in seeing that some
of the liquor is stopped before IL
reaches the District line. he warned.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
KILLS GIRL He
|HADD|SCARDED
Miss Henderson's Story Of Trip
To D. C. Got Hall Held on
Mann Act Charge.

Angered because the woman he is
alleged to have lured to Washing
ton. and on whom he claims he
squandered $4,000, his life's savings.
entered his store at Russellviile Ala,
after he had tried to forget her, Fred
G. Hall, married and father of three
children, yesterday shot and killed
her by firing bullet through her
heart
WAS SOUTHERN BEAUTY.
The woman was Miss Martha Hem
Gerson, of Dallas. Tex. described as
d Southern beauty. Only few
weeks ago. after Hall is said to have
deserted her. she is alleged to have
asserted to agents of the Department
of Justice. that he led her to believe
he was unmarried and brought her
TO this city. She declared they stay
ed at a downtown hotel.
AS a result of her statement to the
Federal agents in Atlanta, Hall was
arrested. He was released on $1,000
bonds in the Federal court at Atlanta
pending a hearing next month on
charges of violation OF the Mann act.
1ten he returned to his family in
kussellville.
TRAILS HIM TO sToRE.
Hall had led the girl to believe
that his home was in Atlanta. Learp-
ing that he had gone to Russeilville.
Miss Henderson trailed him to tha.
city and Wednesday walked into his
grocery store.
II have found you again." she ex
claimed. ."You thought you could get
awav from me-"
without a word. Hall is alleged to
have seized his revolver and fired the
fatal shot.
In statement to the police, Hall
declared he had tried to get away
from the girl who had infatuated
him.
81 had got back into the good
graces of my wife and children" he
said. "Then this woman comes a,one
and tries to wreck my life again. 1
was crazed with anger when 1 fired
the shot"
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
Sonora, Adrif,
Cant Talk Yank
She Finds Spaniard, How
ever, Who Directs Her
to Her Home.

Diplomatic circles were chuck
ling today over an incident last
night which turned out a score
of metropolitan police and all the
officials of the Nicaraguan lees-
lion to search for Sonora Dona
Berta de Cardenas, wife of one
Of the secretaries.
Sonora de CSrdenas. speaking no
English, essayed to walk home
from visiting friend. Becoming
confused, she lost her way. For
hours she wandered aimlessly
about the city, asking pedestrian
after pedestrian for directions. AT
last. after hours Of walking, she
CHANGED on man who spoke
Spanish and he directed her.
Meanwhile the legation had
turned in an alarm and police and
officiTls were combing the city for
the missing woman.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
ST. MARY'S FUND DRIVE
IS EXTENDED FOR WEEK

Weather conditions, the opening of
the baseball season and various func-
tions this week having interfe. ed
with the work of the canvasserf.. for
the $250,000 fund to rebuild St Mays
Industrial School, the campaign will
be continued until next Friday.
April %.
The extension of the drive for an
other week was announced today at
the McGill building headquarters
The response by Washingtonians OF
all religious denominations continues
most generous, the managers of the
drive state
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
DECLARES AL|MONY
WILL BANKRUPT HIM
Merchant Tells Court Disaster
Looms If He Pays Money
Due Wife.

David Levitt. who conducts a sport
ing goods emporium. at 90T ID street
northwest, today informed the Dis
trict Supreme Court that ii was ut
terly impossible for him o pay $3.50
back almCny to his wife, Mrs. Violet
Levitt. who had sued him for main
tenance.
The court had ordered Levitt to pay
his wife $50 week alimony.
Levitt says he has paid 10 since
December /. 1919, when the order was
signed, and that he had gone into
debt to the extent OF over $4,000.
Levitt declares that if he is order
ed to continue to pay his presen ALI
mony he will become a bankrupt.
He asks the court to ignore his
wife's request for the payment of the
back alimony. Attorney Archer &
Smith appear for him.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15

~, -
These were among the thoughts s
advanced last night by the Rt. Rev.
Thomas j. Shahan, rector OF Catholic
University. in the course OF brief
address during the recital of the
Paulist Choristcrs at the university
gym.
Most of our social and industrial
problems are imaginary" said the
rector. Harmony and charity pre-
walls among musical people
/. "American society is suffering from
the lack of music the nations great
est need is an atmosphere of music"
Bishop Shahan predicted that with.
in the not far distant future every
Catholic church in the country would
have its miniature Paulist choir.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
Isyo y. &. Detectives NoU
Mere Kitchen Police
Blu KIRK MILLER

Clara and Fin have been benched
and Peggy will be witnessed.
In mellow drama entitled: "Be
Kind TO Mute Husbands"
Or. How to get rid OF husband
by marrying him"
Bluebeard used to evict his wives
by the same recipe, but Peggy.
Is the FIRST suffragist to apply
Bluewhiskers' policies to the
groaning sex.
City club opens hostilities against
quack doctors. But did the.
Club put the bee on the quack pa
tients who will take a prescription
off of an undertaken If he'll tell him
Where he can get ii liquidated?
Comb the burg for the skeeky in.
valids and the goofey physicians will
disappear with the empty bottles.
Nations are fighting over Yap, like
ants over deceased butterfly.
Much adoo about sothing may raise
the little island.
To the full dignity Of a continent
America wants to have at least.
A telephone booth aboard the joint
And as they don't speak.
Our language down there getting
"A Yap number would be about as
satisfactory as.getting any other.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
Entertainment-Y. NJ. c. A., s D. M
Meeting-Brightwo Citizens Association

Entertainment-Y NJ. c. A., s D. M
Meeting-Brightwoo Citizens Association. so
Masonic Temple. Brightwood, p. m.
Gibbons" DR.. William J. Kerby. Knights of
Columbus Evening School, 1904 e street
MeetinS.society of Natives, oo@ colum.
Minstrel show-students of western High
School. In school auditorium. Thirty-fifth and
II streets northwest. y. m
Meetlng-washingto Section OF the Pro-
gressive Education Association. Public Ii
brary, p. m:
r.. @. A. II. Hall, 1H2 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest. r. m.
Banduet--South Dakota State Society. in
honor of delegation in Congress, Cafe Tri-
Resdings-Percy MaciSay, in Rankin Memo.
rial Chapel Howard University. z p. m.
Moving Pictures-Beneft OF Irish Relief,
hnickerbocker Theater p. m.
TOMORROW.
Meeting-Mississippi State Society
Thomson School. p. m.
Meeting-Federation of Citizens Asso.
Citations. board room OF District building
Ladies' Nght-Unlverslty Club, irctrr,
on air craft armamcai by Maj. william
social--ohlo Girls Club, Wilson Norma
school. p NJ - r =,
Cairo Seventeenth and @ streets mort n
Becture-"Villag Life In Persia" Dr
Y. 7. Mira, OF the Persian legation
Womans City Club, 3 y. IN.
ReadinSs-Mrs. Maud Howell Smith
Women's City Club. 4:a5 y. m.
Mcetinr-Bioiogical Society Of Washing.
Forum-GsveI club 1917 New York ave.
nue. northwest, y. m.
Dance--Eeleet Club. 1900 Sixteenth
street northwest. D. m.
Meetlng-society for Philosophical In
quiry. Public Library. t;ao p. m.
Mass meeting-Auspiccs OF George
washington Council, American Association
for the Recognition 81 the Irirh Republic
Washington Hall. Third and pUnnEylg mia
aNenue orlhwesi. o.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15

Is BE Kind to Animals"
Week. Which doesn't necessar-
lily mean.
Only dumb brutes, but husbands.
wives, and other beasts.
or burden. Who can not or dare
not speak in their own behalf.
Many a groom would like to raise
paw of protest against the inhu-
name treatment.
Issued him daily by his bride of
twelve or fifteen years. But If.
He opens his trap wide as
yawning gnat. it'll get closed very
unceremoniously BY barrage.
or installment bric-a -brac. frss
mortgage and all.
In these days of reconstruction.
One should not entice the hippant
destruction of house furniture. So
be kind to the dumb objects.
Around your dat which includes
the baby grand plano, the mother
outlaw and the victim whom you
married.
Two domestic detectives.
Got knocked all the way from
sergeants to kitchen police.
Major Gessford gets credit for an
unassisted.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
PRESS CLUB OFFICERS TO
BE GIVEN RECEPTION

A reception to the offfficers and
board of governors of the National
Press Club will be given on the night
of Tuesday. April &c, at the United
States Marine Barracks. Music for
the dancing afterward will be by the
full Marine Band Orchestra.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
.|NV0KESCOUR
ON DRY CHIEFS.
Appel, Whose Near-Beer Place
Was Raided, Acts Against
Kramer and Miles.

Prohibition Commissioner J. F.
Kramer, Collector of Internal Rev
enue Joshua w. Miles and Deputy
Collectors Harry Fridley and Charles
H. Letter today were cited by Justice
Stafford of the District Supreme
Court to show cause on April % why
they should not be enjoined from ex-
ecuting a warrant of distraint
against Ferdinand Appel, proprietor
of near beer place at 1885 M street
northwest.
SUES FOR INJUNCTION.
In suit for injunction filed by Ap.
pell. he declares that he resides over
his place of business. which. he al
leges, was entered February 20, 1879.
by prohibition agents without (:
search warrant. He says they re-
moved certain liquors which were not
meant for sale. but constituted his
own private stock, and which werc
kept in that part OF hi shouse occu-
pied by his family. Appel declur:.I
the prohibition agents served notice
of distraint on him, requesting him TO
pay sl.9s2.43, and sealed his place of
business so that he is unable to make
livelihood.
ASKS SEAL REMOVED.
He says he was compelled to give
a bail bond of $1,000. but no charge
has been made against him. He asks
the scourt that the seal be removed
from his place. and that he be allowed
to continue business. He also asks
that the collector be enjoined from
attempting to enforce the collection
of the penalty OF nearly $1,000. Ap-
pell is represented by Attorneys
James A. OShea and John /. Sacks.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
Talks to Columbia Club.

Rehabilitation of European coal
mines was the subject of an address
by DR.. George s. Rice. chief minin;
engineer of the Bureau of Mines, at
a meeting of the Columbia University
Club last night.
The club will hold its annual din
ner April %, with Secretary Hoover,
Gen. John j. Persning. and Admiral
William S. Sims as guests of honor.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
Forestry Education Drive.

The General Federation of Women S
Clubs and the American Forestry AS
sociation, il was announced today,
will open Immediately nationwide
education campaign in the interests
of forestry. The campaign will center
on the week of May %, which has
been designated by President Harding
as forest protection week."
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
ROckefeIIre Sees HARDING.

Percy a. Rockefeller called on Pres
ident Harding today. together with
III. J. Fisher, c. e. Mitchell, and f. w.
Alien. Rockefeller said the call was
merely one of courtesy and to urge
the President "to play more golf"
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
PRESIDENTS PROGRAM

10 a. m. - Senator Hale of
Maine; committee of Allied Ma.
sonic Clubs headed by j. Harry
Cunningham. to extend invitG-
tion: Col. Clarence J. Biethen, of
Seattle; Congressman Reese of
Tennessee and Mr.. Overall; Sem
ator Curtis of Kansas; Senator
Calder of New York; Charles
Hebbard. State chairman. WASH
ington: ii. :. Fisher. +. A. Rookie
feller, c. L. Mitchell and +. w.
Allen; Col. Robert r. Mccormick;
A. Tobias Hert. OF Kentucky. ma
tional committeeman.
IL a. m.-Cabinet meeting.
3 p. m.-Mr. Viviani.
$3.50 p. m.-Washington corre-
spondents.
p. m.-The President of Ii
IBERIA.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
"Gophers" to Get Touether,

Every citizen of the Gopher State
in Washington is invited to attend a
get-together meeting of Minnesotans
at the Thomson Community Center
next Tuesday night.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15

WHATS wrong with this picture? Is anything miss
ing? Sure-it is "Uncle Joe's" cigar. Chairman
James w. Good, of the House Appropriations Commit
tee, is wearing his new hat, while Uncle Joe" Can
non Is wearing the id' presented him several years
ago when he headed the committee
The Washington times., 1921-04-15

Humiliate<i, rebufed, insuItod by her
husbands servants, at his behest. Mrs.
Dan Hanna Number 4 quits and wonders
IL any woman will have the courage to be-
come Number 8. Read about her marital
infelicities In The Sunday Times.
The Washington times., 1921-04-15
Bishop Urges Music to
Cure Unrest in Nation

"Teach young America love music and most of the
social problems of the nation will be solved
Zone of the main of social and industrial unrest
today our lack of appreciation of music for people
hapnv nd
The Washington times., 1921-04-15

The Circulation Of This Newspaper
Exceeds Sixty Thousand Daily
The Washington times., 1921-04-15

The Circulation of This Newspaper
Exceeds Sixty Thousand Daily
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-12-08
Arbuckle Jury Hangs.

Mrs. Helen nj. Hubbard is one
of these determined women most
men have had occasion to sit up
and take notice of, and she will
be figure in history as the party
who, while she could not hang
Fatty" Arbuckle for the alleg-
ed Staying of Miss Virginia Rappe,
hung the jury that tried him. AT
ter being out many hours and
taking many ballots the Arbuckle
jury, failing to come to an agree
ment, was discharged Sunday,
and the retrial Of the case was
set for January g. Mrs. Hubbard
is said to have voted continually
for conviction and is accredited
with the statement that she
would keep it up "until hell froze
over Y The final ballot stood 10
for acquittal and two for convic-
ton.