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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
MOTHERS TELL
Of FIRE RISKS
Congress in Session Here to
Urge Better Protection for
School Children.

Better fire protection for the
public schools throughout the coun-
try will be urged before the twenty
fifth annual convention of the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers and
Parent-teachers' Associations this
week, in a resolution to be offered
by Mrs. E. c. Mason, president of
the Massachusetts, Club.
PLEA FOR COMMUNITY SINGING.
Opening at 8:3O this morning at
the Ebbitt. with an address from the
president, Mrs. Milton =. Higgins, the
convention will continue through the
week. In her address Mrs. Higgins
appealed to the 400 delegates present
to encourage the singing of the .na-
tional anthems with greater fervor.
During the past year the m others
clubs throughout the country pro-
NOTED in practically every city and
town boys clubs, hot lunches for
school children, citizenship classes,
better films, and aided the Chinese
famine fund, reports rendered by the
State presidents showed.
THE average school house in the
United States is f1re-trap. Five
fires a day occur in the public schools"
is the substance of the resolution to
be offered by Mrs. Mason.
The Microscopes and fire-drills are
woefully inadequate as equipment,
and that is the average equipment OF
the average school, it was said.
There should be established in
every public school a fire-alarm box.
fire-extinguisher outside every
classroom door, a smoke door lead
ing from the basement to the stair
way and an automatic sprinkler in
the basement, according to the reso-
luton.
SCHOOLS LACK FIRE PROTECTION.
The whole question of fire protec-
tion was brought to Mrs. Mason's
attention by Mrs. Andrew d. Fuller.
Of Wakefield, Mass, who recently
stirred all Boston with her revela-
tions of the lace of fire facilities in
the public schools.
She found that not only did the
schools lack this equipment but in
many cases the fire-alarm box was
one or two squares away from the
school house.
The responsibility Of fire protec-
ton in the schools should not be
placed on the teachers through fire.
drills and a little boy to run to the
corner and ring the fire-alarm box
but on the fire department. of a city.
it was pointed out. The resolution
will be brought up before the con-
vention some time this week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
BOAT IS AHEAD IN
RACE WITH TRAIN
Detroit Sportsman's Launch
Begins Second Leg of Dash
From Miami to N. Y.

NEW YORK. April 26-The so
foot, ocean going. 900 horse power
motorboat Gar II. Junior. piloted by
it's owner, Garfield A. Wood. of De-
trott.' was today speeding from Sa-
vannah. Ga, to Norfolk. Va. on the
second leg OF its 1,2+0-mile record
making dash from Miami. Fla. to
New York.
Word received today at the offic 80
Of Motor Boating. whose editor, G. +,
Chapman, Is aboard the Gar. correct
ed reports that said the boat hoped
TO beat the Havana Special, the
crack Atlantic Coast Line train. from
Miami into New York.
what Wood is endeavoring to do,
il was stated. Is to beat the actual
running time of the train. which the
craft is doing so far. The boat is
being run only about eighteen hours
out of twenty-four. The boat has no
relief crew. while the train gets a
new crew every few hundred miles.
miles.
Tomorrow the boat will leave Nor
folk for the last dash OF its trip to
New York. IL present running time
is maintained the boat will do the
trip in less hours actual operation
than the train. II was stated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
COAL RATE. GUT
TOBALK CRISIS
Congress May Vote Seasonal
Regulation Of Freight Charges
To Avert Famine.
BY H. X. REYNOLDS.
Internn tienaI News Service.


Action during the present session
OF Congress toward the averting OF
another national coal crisis nv the
regulation of railroad rates through
. systor ~ ,.oson.I J;5arart;ais
,f.'y ~
oPpeoieo .Vooy W NC Hneiy 90 INC
outcome OF hearings no" IN progress
before the Senate Interstate Com-
merce committee on the frellne-
huysen bill.
This measure proposes the ieduc-
ton OF freight rates in the summer
months as a means OF inducing tho
buying public to purchase more coal
at that time, il being the contention
OF the coal operators that coal famines
have been the result of lack of trans
portation in the winter months rather
than by shortage at the mines. 1t is
the plan of those who are supporting
the Frelnghuysen bill that the NOV
ing of large quantities OF coal in the
summer months will relieve any con-
gesticn and resulting famine IN III.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26

ing un.Il August, when :hev started
West, stopping at Chicag" where she
{ aid the diary mentioned stokes meet
ing Hell Bill!g and entertaining him.
This IS an absolute cobtraditiNn OF
PREVIOUS testimony from Stokes wit
ncsses to the effect that the million
sire cluLman did not meet Rillig until
four years later.
Negro and other witnesses testified,
Littleto" pointed out, that Mrs. Stokes
between September and 10 visited
me Wallace apartment in 1914 She
smiled and replied:
But l was i'll in Denver on the
seventh and It was on the tenth that
my baby, Jimmy. was born In Denver
in my mothers home
Littleton went forward then to the
Winter holidays of that year for Mrs
Stokes With little Jimmy had returned
to New York on November rs, and
her husband accuses her Of continu-
Gus misconduct for two months there
after.
with the diary as a reference. she
went through the days. They were
spent mostly indoors. she said. nurs-
ing the Daby, bathing IL, sleeping. TAX
ing short motor rides.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
MOVIE BEAUTY SAYS
NOSE WAS PUNCHED
New Yorker Held in Jail After
Joy Ride Breaks Up in Fist
Fight at 2 A. N.

NEW YORK, April 2s.-Charge
viii ~ pressed by Miss Betty Ross.
motion picture actress, against Cyril
Carroll, who Is accused of misbe-
having in gay automobile party
to Travers Island and back. which is
about to be eliminated in East 1S1st
street police court.
well-dressed young man. who
gave his name as Cyril Carroll an!
his address as Great Neck, Long
Island, was released on bail OF $500
He was charged with assault and bat
terry by Miss Betty Ross, motion pic
ture actress. Miss Ross lives at the
Hotel Rutledge.
AUTO HALTED AT 2 A. VI.
Shortly before . o'clock in the
r:orning a motorcycle officer saw an
automobile being driven along East
225th street. He heard woman
scream. He drove up, halted the car.
and inquired what the trouble was.
Miss Ross, who said she had been
struck. demanded the arrest of Car
roll, who sat beside her.
Carroll was taken to the Fifty-sixth
precinct station and put in a cell. He
vas at. first unable TO raise bail. Miss
Ross sent word to court that she was
too i'll to appear and requested that
his case be postponed until she re.
covered.
Miss Lauyette Collins, also a motion
picture actress, related the story at
the Hotel Rutledge. She was taking
care of Miss Ross, who, she said, had
a broken nose, an injured eye, ard
various bruises.
Miss Collins said:
Miss Ross and myself accompanied
Mr.. Carroll in his automobile to a
club at Travers Island. Aloysius
Sheehan and Thomas A. Rudy went
with us.
after dinner we danced and Cyril
was awful. He chased Miss Ross
with a mop and one OF the boys sub
dued him.
"On the way back Cyril quarreled
with Miss Ross. Finally he struck
her and pulled her hair. He kicked
her out of the car. A policeman came
up and arrested Cyril.
miss Ross is from a wealthy aud
prominent family; you know. Ny
father is a wealthy contractor. Miss
Ross will certainly press the charge
against Cyril. He misbehaved terri
bly,"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
MARINE employees LEAVE
FOR WAGE CONFERENCE
SAYS TIE-UP CERTAIN.

NEW YORK. April 26.-National Of
ficers of the Marine Engineers Bene-
fetal Association will leave here to-
night for Washington, where they
will confer with Admiral Benson.
chairman of the United States Ship
ping Board, who is endeavoring to
avert a strike that would tie up prac-
tically all American shipping.
The marine engineers, following
their rejection of the American Own
ers' Associations demand that wages
he cut 80 per cent, sent out strike
order. affecting their $4,000 members.
while some 100000 firemen, oilers, and
seamen plan to strike sympathetically
If the engineers go out May L as
planned
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
LABOR'S PRICE FOR
B0MB|NGS RELATED
Court Witness Reveals Amounts
Paid by Chicago Unions
For Violence.

CHICAGO, April 26,-Bombings 800
each and slugging $40 each were the
prevailing prices in labor wars here.
Otto Luedtke, former secretary and
business agent of the Upholsterers'
Union, today testified in court.
Three officials of the union-Gd-
ward L. Graves, international vice
president; Roy T.. Hall. business
agent. and Gus T. Kruger. a member
OF the executive board-are being
tried for conspiracy to commit acts
of violence.
Luedtke testified that in a recent
strike of the upholsterers six bombs
had been touched off and more than
twenty-five foremen of furniture fac
tories slugged.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Music of Tin Can Band
Nets Serenaders $50

CUMBERLAND, Md. April 90
Operating calithumpion bands for
profit is a late novelty of the
Carrot, Pa, neighborhood, along
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
a few miles north of here. One
evenings work netted $50.
The first "serenaded" William
Burkholder and his bride. After n
few rounds of noise. with tin cans.
cowbells. dishpans, horns, guns.
trumpets. and other instruments.
SIS was collected. They serenaded
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Ecker, who
gave them SIS. Mr.. and Mrs. Ear.
Haer then gave SIS more. and
Mahon Christner also contributed
SIS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
SIMONS TO Be NEXT
GERMAN ENVOY HERE

BERLIN, April 26.-Dr. Walter
Simons, the German foreign min
lister, who has been guiding the
difficult indemnity course of his
government is expected to go to
Washington as the German am
bassador to the United States
when peace is declared between
America and Germany, according
to persistent reports in the
Reichstag lobby today.
DR.. SimOns' health has become
impaired, and he is said to be
anxious to resign as foreign
minister as soon as the repara-
tons problem is settled. Even
some of his staunchest support
ers favor his resignation on ac-
count of the bitter opposition his
policies have aroused among the
industrial group"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
BANKERS CALLED UPON
TO CHECK STOCK
SWINDLES

"Fake" stock promoters mus he
run 10 earth. to shield the public
savings. Bankers must do the
policing.
EuE. ne Meyer, head OF the War
Finance Corporation, SO declared to-
day In q plea to nUsnciers to stop
"blue ky operations.
Hundreds Of millions OF dollars OF
hsrd-enrned cash sunk by toilerr
in worthless schemes represents .
huge national loes. Meyer asserted.
"Swtndling schemes are Aching
FROM the people small savings In
unim aGinabie totals" said MIR.
Meyer.
Director Meyer said u II the duty
OF American bankers. both In
private ssd puhiic Interest. 10 de-
wise means 81 stamping e"t such
Pr~m~ters.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Yank 0eported From Erin.

CORK. April 26.-The American
steamer Honolulu has arrived here
with william cedar. a nsturalized
American of Irish birth, who is be.
ing deported. on board. The ship ~
under the supervision of armed po-
lice.
Pedlar was deported from Dublin
il, 1919 as a political prisoner. lie
was released from Ellis Island in
New York Harbor, after he had prov
ca his citizenship. There has been
no previous report that Pedlar again
was in ireland.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
BIG TANNERY AND SHOE
INTERESTS IN MERGER

BOSTON. April 26.-Merger of the
interests of the Kistter, Lesh & Co.,
of Boston. and the International Shoe
Company, of st. Louis, was announced
today. The International Shoe Com
pany is one of the largest shoe manu-
facuerers in the country, and the
Kistler, Lesh e. Co. is one of the
largest and oldest tanners of sole
leather.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Mills Resume Work.

CUMBERLAND. Md, April 26.-The
Hot Plate Mills OF N and G. Taylor
Company resumed work yesterday
with more than 200 men. The mills
had been closed since late last year
and only a sufficient force to keep
the plant in order was maintained on
the payroll Operations resume on a
scale OF about twenty-five per cen; of
the total capacity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Anzac Oay Observed.

PLYMOUTH. Eng, April 26.-Heroes
OF Zeebrugge and Gallipoli yesterday
participated in the solemn service OF
observing "Anzac Day" in Plymouth.
Admiral Sir Montagu Browning, lord
commissioner of the admiralty, was
he principal speaker. Many Amer
.can visitors to Plymouth were pres
mt at the ceremony.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
3 EFFORTS MADE IN Sc
HOURS TO BURN CHURCH

PORTSMOUTH. n. r.. April &c
Three attempts have been made
within the last thirty-siX hours to
burn the Roman Catholic Church OF
the Immaculate Conception.
Oil-soaked waste and burnt matches
found after the third attempt Leave no
doubt as to incendiarism. according
TO the police.
Burnt pieces OF n bitterly anti
Catholic paper were also found.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Commons Speaker Resigns.

LONDON, April 26.--James W.
Lowther, speaker OF the House OF
Commons, yesterday resigned his
seat for the Penrith division of
Cumberland county. which he repre-
scented. as coalitionliberaL Mr.
Lowther was first elected to the
commons by this constituency %
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Dental Student Ends Life.

NEW YORK, April 26.-"Tm
through" shouted Samuel Raoino-
WITT. respondent dental student
when an effort was made to rescue
him. from the Harlem river, into
which he had jumped. He was
drowned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Nevada Tax Law Valid.

The Nevada state transfer tax,
passed in March 1918 to take effect
April IS. 1913, was held constitutional
by the Supreme Court OF the United
States in a decision handedTiown yester-
day.
The validity of the tax was chal-
lenged by trustees OF the estate Of
Henry Miller, OF san Francisco.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Cart OverturnS, Kills Girl.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April &C.
Caroline Buckley. aged eight years,
daughter OF George G. Buckley, vice
president of the Springfield Fire and
Marine Insurance Company. was kill
ed almost instantly when " pony cart
in which she and four other ChIli.en
were riding overturned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Raid Sixty.three Saloons.

CAMDEN, n. j., April 2s.-The po-
Camden yesterday on sixty three
saloons. The raids followed reports
that women were selling cocaine and
other drugs in side rooms. One hun
dred and fifty saloonkeepers and bar
tenders were arrested and released
on 81 900 bail each.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Best Home Treatment
For All Hairy Growths
(The Modern Beauty

Every woman should have a small
package of delatone handy. for its
timely use will keep the skin free
from beauty-marring hairy growths.
To remove hair or fuzz from arms
ar neck, make a thick paste with
some of the powdered delatone and
water Apply to hairy surface and
after two or three minutes rub off,
wash the skin and It will be free
from hair or blemish. To avoid dis
,ppointment, be sure you get real
ielatone.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
BerqdolI Probers Hire Lawyer

The House special committee. in
vestigating the escape of Grover
G. Bergdoll. millionaire draft dodg-
or, today announced that John II.
Serburne, OF Boston, prominence
attorney and leader in the Amer
lean Legion. has been named as
counsel for the committee and will
conduct the probe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Seal Catch liuht.

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland. April 26-
The steamship Ranger. arriving to-
night from the sealing grounds with
1900 pelts, completed the return of
this seasons seal hunting fleet, which,
although stocking below normal in
catches, recorded no mishsp among
the 800 men.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Women Tote FIaSkS,

NEW YORK, April 26.-The FLASK
habit" is growing rapidly among
women as a resuet of prohibition.
according to Mrs. owen Kildare
wife of the novelist, who addressed
en- anti blue law mass meeting at
tire Hotel Commodore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
SHIP T|E-UP
MAY | LOOMS
Benson Calls Mediation Confer
ence for TomorroW-Marine
. Leaders Dubious.

Leaders in the marine unions
held out little hone TODAY that the
conference calleo mere torhorrow ny
Admiral Benson. chairman of the
rr.;.,. cL: p.~l Ill,
ohieeu Sya'eS oihppihs no"u' VIII
b able to avert q marine strike.
,u
iS
There will be strike on May i,
all right" said William ). Brown,
president OF the Marine Engineers As
ISOLATION. 1T looks as though the
men VIII have 20 tie up our SHIPS In
order to show the owners that they
VIII not accept reductions IN wages
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Dry Wave Faces New York.

NEW YORK. April 2s.-Police
Commissioner. Enright has asked for
100000 to assist the police in
enforcing prohibition. Some of this
money would be spent in attempting
TO buy drinks In saloons that are
now open.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
Prince Avoids Spain.

MADRID, April 26.-The Crown
Prince CT Japan will not pass through
Spain on his way to England because
Of troubled conditions among the in
dustrial and agricultural workers in
the southern provinces. The crown
vrince will proceed direct to England
and later will visit France.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26

MISS LILLIAN COLLIE, Of Chicago thrilled thou
M sands in that city the other day by Shining up"
the fagpoe atop of the city hall to unfurl pennant
announcing the Pageant of Progress to be held in Chi
cago in August. The daring young woman says she
was not bit afraid during her climb.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26

THE WENATCHEE, aboard which Major General
Wood is going to Japan representative Of Presi
dent Harding The vessel suffered serious engine trou
BILE and is being lowed to Yokohama by the freighter
Edmore. ---r ~tr ,,tra
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26

ADVERTISEMENT.
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
The harlequin snake of Flor
ida, belonging to the same
family as cobras

is little or no Inflammation about the point
Of attack of the harlequin snake and that
the strain rests entirely upon the nerve CEN
ter. 1t is, therefore, obykus that q differ
ent treatment is necessary, depending upon
the sort of snake by which one is bitten.
"what can We lay down in a general way
as directions to be followed by one who suf-
fers from snake bite?' l asked.
'"The first thing to be done when one lie
bitten by a snake" replied the herpetologist.
lis to attempt to get the poison out of the
wound before it enters the circulation. The
most effective way of doing this is by suck
ing the wound. If the person who is bitten
cannot reach the wound to suck it himself
his companions, If he has any, should do
so. There is no danger at all in sucking
the poison out of the wound and splitting 1t
out, providing there are no abrasions in the
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
FANGED MESSENGER or DEATH DISCUSSED BY AN AUTIIORT
ycuaoro aiouN Museum hAnan


II the rstflesnake Is largely the same, but
that the proportions are very strikingiy dif-
ferent. The rattlesnake, for example, in
jects into its victim two entirely different
kinds Of poison. One Of these is blood
poison. 1t is this blood poison that causes
the wound to become highly infamed and
causes swelling and irritation on the por-
tion of the body near it. The suffering from
it develops somewhat slowly.
At the same time that the rattlesnake
injects this blood poison It also in3ects q
nerve poison. This nerve poison acts upon
the heart and may paralyze it and cause
death. The injection Of the rattlesnake,
however, consists of something like twenty
parts Of the blood poison TO one part oftbe
nerve poison. The effect, therefore, is much
more stronger upon the blood than upon the
nerve centers.
with the cobra, and therefore with the
harlequin snake Of Florida, quite the reverse
is true. The dominant element in the poison
which 1t injects Is q nerve poison; and while
it also injects some blood poison, this Ii
quite incidental. 1t may happen that there
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07

PRODUCES into the community some Of the
natural enemies Of snakes. Chickens for
example, mistake baby snakes for worms and
eat them With great satisfaction. This is
true Of poisonous as well as non poisonous
snakes. Then there is another creature sub
servient to man which seems to regard snakes
as a great delicacy. This creature is the
hog. When a hog, going about his pasture
or wood lot, happens upon q large and
vicious rattlesnake, he hguratively smscks
his chops and proceeds to an unusual repast.
The rattler may coil and strike in the most
vicious way Of which he is capable, but he 10
unable to throw a damper upon the en-
thusiasm of the hog. So thick and tough IL
the skin of the hog that the poison Of the
snake never gets through It and into his
circulatory system. The hog does business
with him and be disappears"
The Washington herald., 1921-08-07

THE year 1921 -has been written in.o
history of Yosemite Valley by Na'uIe
herself as the year of flowers. fernaP'
mayor before has there been such magpin
can't display of blooms of so dIverslneu
n.ture d;splayed on an equal space OF Ine
e,rth's surface The abundance OIL oi'oni'
is the result OF aounoan
the higher levels of the PARK.
Yosemite's topography, with tnousanos VI
feet difference in altitude in places N'nin
h.;,,ny dfstapce of each other, makes 1t pos
.;hl. Cor the visitor to enjoy flowers OF sew
.-.l seasons in a single visit.
-, the reach San Joaquin Valley at
- for the beautiful trip by train
.asau.b the Canyon of the Merced River,
scorred by the gold diggings OF 49, tne
.,olor turns his floral calendar backward
...,.h each mile of climbing into the Sierra
S.E.d,s passing rapidly from full summer
,.,. snrins at El Portal, where the of,cial
-, 70 Yosemite National Park is To-
s.ted. A few miles further at the Gates
e tho Valley-that famous spot where I'll
C.n;tan stands on the left, Three Graees
and Bridal Veil Falls on the right, with
vista of Yosemite Valley between-he finds
spring in full glory.
And on the same day visitors to Glacier
Point, ''just upstairs" from Yosemite VAL
lev. on the rim Of the granite wall inclosing
the valley and 1884 feet higher, may be
seen skiing and tobogeaning on four feet
of snow. 1853.
BY the time summer gets to Yosemite
valley it is springtime at Glacier Point, and
= n. fha 2farra
Is enjoying the brief season which passes
there for both spring and summer, and
Yosemite Valley has progressed well toward
autumn.
Most interesting Of all plants to the visi-
tor il the snow plant-and no other is 90
jealcusly guarded by the park authorities.
When word Of q new stalk Is received .
sign Is dispatched hastily and erected near
it-hands of! In its early stages the snow
: plant is more like scarlet asparagus tip
than anything else. As II natures the
leaves near the upper end unfold and reveal