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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-04

Memorial Scrviccs-Enterprise
Knight the Golden Eagle. also
the Temple 81 the same order, will
hold memorial services at the
Barfackgille Baptist church tomor.
row a 30 O'clock. The members
Of the ~Eatrtnont Temple are urg-
edto atlen dand take part in the
Appointed by Court. W Wat
son has appointed administra.
tor % No nal estate of the late
Bebe We ~. bond OF $4,000 was
LTe Ehrt =, Amos has been ap,
rofh ms.ictr-.or OF the per-
on ta;c AZ Ito William C.
IA bnA 2 $4,000 given. Clyde
Hii has been naTnol administra-
tot The perfonai estate Of the
iat iiam Garner, bond o. $4,000
MsfFiase Lieenac6-Marriage II
rense haYe beer isrueil hS tho coun
clerk tie a!l1Ting: William
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Hooking Valley Flooded,
With Hundreds i'm Flight
Dozen Villages Inundated. but
Gold Wave Lessons Danger
of General Disaster

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 24.-While "
decided fail in temperature late this
afternoon halted the almost continuous
rainfall during the last twenty-four
hours, probably removing threatened
general flood menace, the Hooking Val
ley section tonight reported the worst
flood since 1907.
From Athens reports tonight were
that hundreds of families have been
forced from their homes in the valley
between Logan and Hockingport. and
that half dozen villages were expo
rlencing the worst flood in almost n
decade. A large railroad trestie was
swept away near Glouster and many
trains have been cancelled, seriously
Interfering with holiday travel. Still
higher water tomorrow is expected.
No loss of life has been reported
Lancaster reported the high mark OF
the 1913 flood passed and many fami-
lies driven from their homes in that
vicinity.
All lowlands were covered and the
damage to growing wheat was reported
great.
While the waters OF the Ohiv are not
expected to reach food crest at most
Ohio points until tomorrow or Mon
day no serious flood stage is antici-
pated
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Robber Kills
Gem Dealer:
Shoots Wife
Continued from pase onsl

for B. 0. Brown, of 500 Fifth Avenue
but business had been so bad lately
that he had found himself facing
Christmas without money. He said he
was divorced and that his mother lived
in Worcester, Mass.
The police about this time received
word that the missing gunman of Fri
day nights affair was in the Engle-
wood Hospital, and detective was
sent to take charge of him and get his
story.
A bullet struck Oates while he was
racing for the automobile in which he
made his escape. 1t drilled him through
the back, but he managed to climb into
the car, which he drove to garage.
Leaving the car there, he got a taxicab
which took him to 120 East 1l9th
Street, the home of his wife, Mabel
who has not been living with him for
some time.
Up to this time Oates had kept 60
ing on his nerve. huddling himself in
his overcoat to hide his bloodstained
/ oetraying drops might ooze out of his
shoes, BY the time he reached his
wife's home he was at the point of col
lapse He was not so far gone as to
confide in her, however.
Fl told her he had been in "mixup'
/ and needed assistance, She bandaged
his wound and helped him to get into
! clean clothes, but Oates felt that he
| could not keep up much longer and de-
cided about midnight to seek hospital
in Englewood, which could be reached
conveniently by the Fort Lee ferry and
might be remote enough from the scene
| of the hold-up to save him from the
/ suspicion with which he would be
! viewed at any hospital in New York
Mrs. Oates, still in ignorance of how
| her husband received his wound called
| her brother Morton Levy of 1886 Park
Avenue, and they took Oates to the
I Englcwood hospital in a taxicab which
was driven by Rudolph Gerke. The
hospital authorities, however, we're not
SO dense as Oates had hoped they
might be.
They notified the police that they
had new patient with new bullet
wound, and Sergeant Mennehan was
sent to the hospital. AS he approached
the institution Gerke's taxicab flashed
past him on its way back to the ferry.
Noticing that the vehicle had a New
York license plate, Mennehan suspect
ed its Identity and telephoned to the
police at the ferry to hold it.
His Instructions were carried out,
and the police of this city were noti-
fed of the situation. Detective Case
was sent to the EngIewood hospital and
questioned Oates. At first the patient
denied knowing anything about the
hold-up, but when convinced by sight
of a newspaper account Of it that the
detective told the truth in saying his
pal had been killed he admitted tax
ing part in ii.
Story of Cigar Shop Battle
He was the man, he said, who STOOD
beside Michaels, the clerk. and opened
fire on Mccarthy and Connell when
they entered. There would have been no
shooting, he said, if one of the detec-
tives had not come in with his revolver
drawn.
This story was denied by Captain
Wines, of the Bronx Detective Bureau.
1t was just luck, Captain Wines said,
that Mccarthy and Conneil went into
the cigar store at all. They were saun-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

touring car which the thieves are sup
posed to have used last Friday night.
The police later released Mrs. Oates,
Levy and Gerke, being convinced that
the trio had nothing to do with the
crime.
At the morgue, where the body of
Nelson Levy is awaiting claimant, a
stream of persons yesterday identified
him as the man who lad held them I'D,
IN almost all cases it was said that
Levy had backed them into room and
bound them as he did Fryfeld.
Victims Identify Dead Robber
Among those vino identified Levy
were Solomon eastman, who was held
up in his place Of business, the Ma
tional Wet Wash Company, 147l Will
kins Avenue, at z p. m. December Ia
and lost $4,000; Louis Coleman, of 1929
Seventh Avenue, clerk, who was held
up in the United Cigar Store, where he
was employed on December 1S by two
men, who got $500.
Others VINO identified Levy were:
Loren 7. Anderson, of 159 East 123d
Street, employed by tue Caswell Motor
Company, of 651 West 125th Street
who was robbed of $500 pay roll on
the afternoon Of November II while
walking along 122d Street near St
Nicholas Avenue; Joseph Freedman, Of
351 West 112th Street, clerk in n United
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

tering through East fremont Avenue,
he said, on the lookout for a couple Of
turtively acting men whose presence
IN front of show windows had been
reported by several suspicious mer-
chants.
Mccarthy wanted smoke, said Cap
tain Wines, and it was for that purpose
that he and his partner entered the
cigar store. The apparent unfamil-
iarity of the man behind the counter
with his stock was what aroused the
detectives suspicious, said Captain
Wines. After he had fumbled in vari-
GUS cases for the brand of cigars Nc
Carthy wanted, the detectives decided
to look around the place and satisfy
themselves that the man belonged there
Connell opened the door OF the rear
room, Captain Wines said, revealing
tryfeld, manager of the store. lashed
to chair, and it was then that Oates
started shooting.
The wounds of the two detectives are
serious. Each was shot in the lower
jaw. In Connell's case the bullet was
detected and lodged in his stomach
His is the more serious injury. Nu-
merous officials of the department
called at the hospital to see them in
the course of the day.
Captain Wines said yesterday that
the police have in their possession a
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

$50 goldpiece remained This the five
men took. Wright was then bound and
gagged and placed on the floor in a
rear room.
While the hold-up men were working
member OF the association entered to
pay his dues. The bandits not only
relieved him of s104 but tied him Sc
curely and placed him on the floor with
Wright. A porter was next to enter.
He was tied. but not robbed. The FIVE
men then backed out Of the office.
Frank Rozza, a driver employed by
the Denobli Cigar Company, Of Hamii-
ton Street, and living at S3 Graham
Avenue, Long Island City, was held up
last Friday night and robbed of 81 DAG,
it became known yesterday.
He was driving his automobile to the
factory after having made deliveries in
Manhattan. The days receipts were II
bag beside him. AS he approached
Webster Avenue and Crescent Street he
cane upon an sutom obile which had
stalled. Three men were apparently
trying to fix it, As Rozza passed one
OF the men raised his hand and asked
him whether he had wrench.
Rozza stopped The man pointed a
revolver at him and said: Lets have
that bag"
Then the robber and his companions
got into their car and drove away
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

A thrill-seekine audience sat through
Western finn play ct the Elite Tne-
ater, 2707 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn,
Thursday night, when they might have
got far more sincere thrills by step
ping into the lobby, it was learned yes
terday. They missed genuine hoid-up-
Francis Woilen, proprietor Of the
house, and Mrs. Julia Ziner, cashier,
were all the audience the four hold-up
men mad, but they put on convincing
performance nevertheless.
"This is a hold-up." announced their
leader as he thrust mis- head and q
stable revolver through the door Of
the ticket booth "Give RS what YOU
got and we won't hurt you"
Mrs. Ziner moved as though to slam
the door in his face, but Wollen inter-
fered.
LET them take what they want" he
said, adding, as he turned to the gun
man: "Go ahead. young man"
The young man followed instruc
tions and was more than s400 ahead
when he departed, $3.50 of which came
from the till, Sf5G of which was IN the
form of Mr.. Wollen's watch and chsin.
and the rest what spare cash the
theater owner had had in his pocket.
The four men drove away in a red au-
tomobile.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Six-Foofer, 325 Pounds, Slain
After Quarrel With Woman

PATERSON, N. j., Dec. 24-August
Smit, who was more than six feet tall
and weighed 1926 pounds, was stabbed
to death early this morning in tight
which followed Christmas party here.
Henry Campton, who is in the Paterson
General Hospital with broken hip and
Is comparatively slight man, is under
arrest as the man VINO killed Smit.
Mrs. Matilda Kelley, at whose home,
22S " ater Street, the party was held,
told the police that the fight started
when Campton demonstrated with Smit
for knocking her down. She persuaded
Smit to leave the house. she said. 1t
is charged that Campton got a knife
and overt ook him
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Conditions Normal in Chicago
Packing Strike, Police Repor,

CHICAGO, Dec a4.-With the with
drawal of police motorcycle squad,
which has been stationed at the stock
yards for three weeks. in connection
with the strike of packing house work
ers. police reported to-day that normal
conditions have been restored
Dennis Lane, secretary treasurer Of
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America,
asserted. however, that there had been
no defections from the union ranks,
although he added, superintendent
and foremen have been breaking their
necks canvassing the mems homes to
try and get them TO call off the strike
and come back to work.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Six Miracle Men in Jail
For Defrauding Russians
Orthodox Church Priests Con
vic;ed of Swindiing Parish
toner's y it'll Endowed lkosls

V0RONEZH, Russia, Dec. 24.-Six
miracle men" have come to grief in
this province and are 1ow serving six
months at hard labor for fraud. The
men, all priests of the Russian Ortho-
dox Church, were convicted of de-
frauding parishioners by having old
ikons renovated and representing
that they were renewed by miracle and
consequently possessed divine powers.
The priests we're tried at sensa
tlonal hearing il the opera house,
which lasted more than week. Arch
bishop Tlkon was one Of the witnesses,
and declared that ikons could not be
renewed by miracle. Theologians,
ocuists and alienists also testified.
1t is the practice of priests in Russia
10 rent out ikons which are supposed
10 have special powers. These are fre-
quently carried into sick rooms and to
minerals, weddings and christenings.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

Cigar store at 1892 Eighth Avenue,
where the contents Of the safe and
cash register we're stolen by two men
on December 7 at 1880 p. M; Charles
Urban, OF 75b Forest Avenue, clerk in
United Cigar store at 36l Lenox
Avenue, where similar robbery was
committed by two men at 10:30 o'clock
last Wednesday night, and William
Block, of 886 Kelly Street. clerk in a
United Cigar store at 1889 Southern
Boulevard, where the safe and cash
register were looted at 1880 p m. De-
cember s.
In recognition Of the bravery of the
wounded detectives, the United Cigar
Stores Company announced yesterday
that two checks of $500 each had been
made out for the families Of the two
men.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Flood Halts BROOKLYN Cars

A water main burst yesterday at De
Kalb and Nostrand avenues, Brooklyn.
Jets of water thrust their way through
the pavement in seven places. some
Of them rising to height of two feet.
hours cars on the Nostrand Avenue
and De Kalb Avenue lines had to stop
on reaching the flooded area and be
switched back. their passengers making
detours afoot to continue their journey.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Gun Band in Hold-Up
Comb Lighter Union Safe

Five armed men walked into the Office
of the Lighter Captains Union at PIT
Court Street, Brooklyn, yesterday
afternoon and ordered Captain Gilbert
@. Wright, the treasurer. to open the
safe. Wright recently had emptied the
strongboX Of its contents and onlT a
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

Formerly up to 1850
Embroidered or broche velvet gowns,
imported hand made beaded crepe
de chine frocks; Canton crepe, lace,
also few imported model gowns
SIS Evening or .-oo
Afternoon Gowns lIO.UU
Formerly 1880 to $1,000
Evening gowns of glittering fabrics,
afternoon gowns Of velvet, duvetyn.
kasha, broche silk crepe, also fine
tailored types of twill fabrics
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
WO1nen's Gowns

Cloth Gowns 14.UU
Formerly $500 to $500
Afternoon and informal types of
crepe de chine, chiffon, crepe Geor-
gette or Canton crepe; also a number
of navy blue twill frocks.
Day Frocks $500
Formerly up to 1850
Evening gowns of chiffon, silk lace
or taHeta; daytime gowns Of Canton
crepe, crepe satin, duvetyn, broad
cloth, broadtail fur cloth, or piquetine.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
$500

Formerly $500 to 1850
Smart costume types, including
replicas of Paris youthful sue
cesses, in noussyne or duvet su-
perior trimmed with fine furs.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

As Misses Suits
$500
Formerly $500 to 1900
Tailored types; also a few fur
trimmed Of duvet de laine.
checked worsted or frieze surfing.
63 Fur Trimmed Suits
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
40 Costume Suits
1880

Formerly I65.OO to 295.OO
Duvetyne, kasha, wondora, cache
nlire, noussyne or veldyne, with
fitch, krinmer, squirrel, caracul,
Persian lamb, beaver or Hudson
seal furs.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

Formerly $500 to 225.OO
Duvetyne, velveteen, veldyne, also
Rubaix twill, homespun or tweed,
with beaver, caracul, nutria, krin-
n7er or Persian lamb fur.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

Formerly 1880 TO I65.0O
Of the seasons most luxurious
textiles, with beaver, squirrel,
caracul, opossurn or wolf fur
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25


55 Daytime Frocks
44.OO
Formerly up to $500
Poiret twill tailored frocks, also
crepe de chine or crepe Georgette
afternoon frocks.
90 Day Or Dinner Frocks
$500
Formerly up TO 1880
Fine twill frocks in tailored types.
afternoon frocks of crepe satin or
crepe Moroccan, also dinner
frocks of dyed lace or chiffon.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Dinusing Wealth

The statistician of the United
States Steel Corporation reports
that the stockholders of the company
are now more than 100000, with an
increase of 5000 since the first. of
the year.
III 1901 the company had 1888
stockholders. On June 80, 1914,
47,695-now more than doubled-be-
sides representing a proprietary in
terest, were the owners of bonds.
Thus the Steel Corporation is the
property of an army approximating
to 100000, or about one-half the
number of the corporations en-
ployees.
These figures, with their extraor-
binary social, significance, suggest
how far the country has gone toward
reestablishing that diffusion of pros
perity which is one of the bases of
sound democracy. A generation ago
the iron and steel industry belonged
to about thousand persons, ard all
its profits and unearned increments
accrued to this small number. Then
the big corporation arose, and loud
was the talk of rapacious plutocracy
But behold! the big corporation
while bringing unity of management
has made for the diffusion Of wealth
When the managers of stock ex.
changes realize the harm done tc
their business by tolerance Of The
manipulation Of prices and invest.
ment is made safe for the small in
vestor then the process of diffusion
will go steadily forward.
The ideal, of course, is a condition
wherein the employees of the bic
companies will also be their stock
holders, thus automatically bringing
in profit sharing. The Steel Corpo.
ration as pioneer has made prog
ress along this line, and it is not too
much to expect that through the
operation of natural laws it will be-
come in q real sense democratized
and IN fact cooperative enterprise.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Railroad Wage Delusions

Union labor leaders asked Presi-
dent Wilson to veto the Winslow bill,
authorizing partial payments on the
sums due the railroads from the gov
ernment. The President has signed
the bill, however-evidently finding
no merit in this mystifying request.
Representative Of the workers are
fighting before the Railroad Labor
Board any readjustment of the ma
tional working conditions foisted on
carriers by the Federal Railroad Ad-
ministration just before it dissolved.
| These agreements are very onerous.
Many railroads are doing little more
than paying their operating ex-
penses. Others can't even earn oper-
ating expenses. Yet the men who
are looking to the carriers for wages
are put in the position of wantonly
opposing relief Legislation allowing
the roads to collect from the Treas
ury money due them under the gov
ernment's guaranty.
Incidents of this sort leave the
public cold to the arguments ad-
vanced at Chicago in opposition to a
modification of the working agree
ments. A case is cited in which the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was COM
pelled to pay furnace operator in
a blacksmith shop five hours over
time for the hour he worked between
6 a. m. and 7 a. m. getting his fire
started. And this decision was made
retroactive for thirty-eight weeks.
The furnace man received LAO
hours back pay for 22S hours serv-
Ice. Under these same agreements a
station agent or railroad hand re-
celves the same pay in every part of
the country, regardless of current
rates for labor or living costs, and
with no allowance for the fact. in
the station agents case, whether one
tram stops at his station daily or
dozens OF trains stop there.
To the public, which pays freight
and passenger rates, these artificial
equalizations and initiation of pay
represent gross extravaganza. Yet
the railroad workers unions defend
them. They go even further, and
hold that the carriers ought to paw
padded wages, whether they are able
to earn operating expenses or not.
Their theory is that when operation
is improbable the Interstate Com
merce Commission must make addi-
tional rate increases. But higher
rates decrease the volume of traffic
and thus defeat their own purpose.
There is a normal saturation point
for both rates and wages. The two
must be related to traffic returns if
the railroads are to be operated eco
nomically in the public interest.
This means that both rates and
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
Votes Turning on Traction

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The press of New York City.
with one or two exceptions is solidlv
supporting the Governors traction bills.
The mar IN the street is quite doubtful
tnat they are all that is claimed for
them--at least this is what have found
IN casual conversations with strangers
meet. Is it possible that the news
papers considered to be supporters of
the Democratic party have taken their
present attitude in the hope of a Demo-
cratic victory next fall? There are
seven stanch Republican voters among
my relatives, who are making threaten
ing gestures to go Democratic next fall.
and all over this transit legislation as
1t Is now being conducted.
The residents of New York City T
take it, wish positive assurance that
the transit companies will be permitted
to earn fair return on the actual
value to-day of their original fran
ehlses, not on watered stock, overlap
ping leases with their attendant doubt
ful value OF universal transfer privi-
lege, and inflated operating costs.
May | ask that you will make il verv
clear just how and where the present
bill guarantees this beyond doubt i?
KARL B. SACKMANN.
Brooklyn, Feb. 26. 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

lieves in but which is SO difficult to
practice when the leveling influence
Of a war is past.
II is hard to draw just compari-
son between the ideals Of two pe-
riods differing SO radically in no.
menclature, in the size of the COM
munities affected, in every item Of
social practice. But we suspect
that the shift, in the essential hui
man nature involved, is not as vast
as would seem at first sight. A cam
tury ago the stress was on cul-
ture that, for all it's high aim, tended
to become artificial, bloodless and
uncreative. The present conception
of community house centers
around a gymnasium-and "movies"
with a library as an incident. 1t
is sounder, simpler, more genu-
inc ideal, if less inspiring, taking
thought of the body as we'll as the
mind. Human beings of to-day, in
stead, are not aiming as high as
their great-grandparents, but they
are going about the accomplishment
Of their modest program more intel
ligently and straightforwardly.
This descent from the Acropolis
to Main Street will seem rather
steep to the pessimists, but at least
we are now dealing with native stuff
built to stand in American weather.
After all, there cannot be much per-
manency or hope of development in
palace imported from an ancient
civilization.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
For the Children Of France

No war work tugged more appeal
ingly or more justly at the heart
strings of Americans than the task
SO intelligently and efficiently carried
on by the organization known as
the Fatherless Children of France.
Here was a chance for individuals to
stretch out a hand and come into
direct contact with their little wards
whose fathers had died for France
and for US all.
The letters of these youngsters are
cherished in countless American
homes. Bonds have been formed be-
tween the two countries which are
certain to out1ast treaties and the
best labor of the diplomats.
We are glad to call t. the atten-
ton of our readers, in connection
with the winding up of the work of
this admirable organization, sale
Of the war memorabilia which it has
collected during the five years Of it's
activity. Autograph letters. manu-
scripts, poems, sketches, ETC., from
the greatest figures of the war are
included in the material. There are
345 pieces in the collection, and all
will be sold at auction to-day at the
American Art Galleries. The pro-
ceeds will go to the final closing of
the accounts of the organization,
whose activities will be brought to a
complete end within a year.
1t is a pleasure to commend the
excellent record of this society, to
congratulate it upon it's rare labor
performed and place before our read
ers this final opportunity to lend
aid and, incidentally, secure a unique
souvenir of the war.