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The Washington herald., 1922-08-15

ROME, Aug. 14.-Gabrielle dan
nunzio. famous poet ana soldier of
Italy. is suffering from a slight frac-
ture of the skull and is in a semi
conscious condition. as the result of
fall from the window Of his villa
at Gardone.
The poets son has been summoned
to the villa.
An official bulletin. issued through
the ministry of interior today. re-
ported the results of the examination
made by physicians. A slight frac-
ture was found at the base of the
Uranium. The poet soon developed a
fever. His pulse was 81 and respira-
ton z5.
D'Annunzio was leaning from a
window about IL p. m, when, pre-
sumably. he suddenly became dizzy
and pitched forward into the dark
ness. falling about seven feet to the
ground.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-15
FITZGERALD FALLS
IN PLANE FLIGHT

Crashing to the ground from an
altitude of. $4,000 feet on the
wooded slopes of the Blue Ridge
mountains. the first attempt OF
Representative Roy G. Fitzgerald
OF Ohio to fly to Washington near
ly cost him his life and that OF his
pilot. Yesterday he succeeded In
flying from the Curtis field at
Dayton Ohio to Washington with
out accident.
Representative Fitzgerald was
major in the A. e. F. and Is an en-
thusiastic flyer. He had planned to
campaign by airplane but aban-
doned the idea after other members
Of Congress bought machines.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-15
CUNARD LINER HITS
SUBMERGED WRECK

LONDON. Aug. 1.-THE Cunard
. Liner Berengaria struck the SUBJ
merged wreckage of a ship today
while proceeding on its voyage
from New York, according to a
wireless message.
iers was damaged, necessitating
reduction to half speed No other
edifficulties were reported.
The linee Is due in Cherbourg
tomorrow, sut will be a day late
on account of the accident
The Washington herald., 1922-08-15
Viscountess Rhondda in U. s.

NEW YORK. Aug. 14.-One of the
passengers arriving on the Adriatic.
it was learned today. was viscountess
Rhondda. The vessel docked yester-
day. but the noted British business
woman. who also is prominent in pol
itics, trying to avoid public attention.
was incosnito. She came to this
country for q rest and was here but
a day. leaving for Connecticut late
today.
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80 U. S. CO-EDS REACH
LONDON IN PLANES

LONDON. Aug, 14.-Thirty-two coll
lese girls from Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania, most Of them studsntsi at
Wooster College. Wooster. Ohio. ar
rived In London In four airplanes this
evening. The thirty-two fair visitors
and a similar number going toward
London from Lebourget ID three
planes will make the bigEest party
Of the aviation season. - 3.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-15
Copyright. is22.)

PARIS, Aug. 14.-French sane
tim. against Germany within ten
days seem Inevitable tonight as a
result of the breaking up of the
supreme council,
From London today, Premier
Poincare called an extraordinary
meeting of the French cabinet for
Wednesday morning to discuss the
refusal of Great Britain. Belgium
and Italy to join France in demand
ing productive guarantees from
Germany in return for morator-
ium on cash reparations payments.
Poincare will arrive in Paris to-
morrow evening.
The cabinet undoubtedly will ask
President Millerand Immediately 10
convene Parliament. which will be
asked to approve the French sane
tions.
Prospective Sanctions.
The prospective French sanctions
are Identical with the guarantees
Premier Poincare demanded in Lon
don, notably customs Gordon
around the Ruhr Basin, sixty per
cent of the stock of German cham
ical industries on the west bank
of the Rhine and a customs Gordon
around the Rhineland. which eco
nomically would make that terri
tory more a part of France than of
Germany.
Enfor cement of these sanctions
not only will give France .
stranglehold on German economic
life, but according to English ex-
, perts. will affect Great Britain and
other trading countries almost as
much.
French control of the Ruhr, the
Sahr basin and, the French mines
would comprise much more than
half of the operating coal mines of
Europe. Coal is not only the base
of all economic life in Europe and
elsewhere. but is one of the chief
exports of Great Britain. With
Lorraine. France already controls
more than half the iron in Europe.
Economically France would be the
giant of Europe.
French Justify Course.
British diplomats in Paris have
been saying openly for three years
that Great Britain never will permit
France to exercise control of the
Ruhr basin and that Great Britain
will go to any extremity to pre-
vent It,
French justification of the sane
tions is that Great Britain procured
under the Versailles treaty the i'm
mediate assets of Germany. notably
her ships and colonies. and in addi-
tion safety through the destruction
Of the German fleet. while Great
Britain now is opposing French ef-
fort to get something in spite OF
the fact that France already has
spent 10000. .OOO. 900 francs of its
own money in the devastated re-
gions.
Copyright. 1921
LONDON, Aug. II. - Complete
breakdown of the allied conference
with failure to reach an agreement
as to granting Germany a mora
torium-that is the immediate re-
suit of a full weeks negotiations
between Premier Lloyd George.
Poincare and other heads of allied
states But of even deeper sig
nificance is the fact that Premier
Poincare leaves for Paris tomorrow
with the Anglo-French entente
split wider. and more frankly split
than at any time since the signing
of the peace of Versailles.
Such suggestions as Independent
and Isolated French action in de-
fance OF the reparations commits
sion, with Poincare summoning the
chamber of deputies to obtain au-
thority, as were circulating in Lon
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bolt IN BITUbINOUS CONFER FORCES new DEAL
WHILE HARD COAL men PREP ARE SPEEDY AGREEMENT
BIG FOUR men, AIDED BY WHITE HOUSE, ASK PARLEY
PRESIDENT IN LETTER URGES
COAL STRIKE SETTLEMENT
Takes Lead in Suggesting Farley on Basis
OF Old Wage Schedule.

The Presidents letter Senator Pepper urging that the coal
strike be settled as possible follows:
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Poincare Calls Meeting Of
Cabinet as Farley
Fails.
FRENCH MAY SEIZE
CONTROL OF RUHR
Diplomats Predict Brit
ain Will Bitterly OPP
pose Sanctions.

BERLIN. Aug. 14.-Anxiety is felt
here tonight following unconfirmed
rumors that French colonial cav
airy is advancing toward Trier and
Frankfort. Such action may be
the first step toward French sane
tions in view of Germany's not
paying the reparations installment
due tomorrow.
fcopyrirht. is22.)
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Lewis Commends Letter.
Replying to warriner. Lewis said:
THE broad premise upon which
you have based your Invitation Is
commendsble and speaks well for the
success of the conference. can
assure you the representatives OF the
United Mine Workers will approach
the conference in the same broad
spirit with the keen determination 20
effectuste an adjustment mutually
satisfactory 10 the public. the oper-
ators and the miners
Mfnes May Open Tomorrow.
Adu1inistration oficials who ,sst
week predicted the end Of the anthrs-
cite strike within a few DAYS. wer,
pleased TO learn or the forthcoming
conference between the anthracite
operators and miners union leaders
lat Philadelphia They confidently az
Ipect that this will spur on q settle
ment 80
Secretary OF Labor Davis sst6
Yesterday that partial peace In the
bituminous strike was almost at
hand. Reports have reached WASH
ington that some Of the soft coal
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-09-22
POWER FROM
BIG FALLS SOON
Within Two Months Electric
Current Will Be Coming
This Way d !.

Robt Boisen, electrical engineer,
and r.. S. Wilhelm, superintendent of
steam, for the Lake Superior District
Water Power Company, arrived here
Monday from Ashland to inspect To-
cal conditions of the company's plant,
particularly the steam plant, since the
accident of Sunday has hampered the
production of current.
Mr. Boisen informed the News-Bud-
get that a water wheel will be in
stalled in the dam at Big Falls with
in two months and that electricity will
be distributed from there. This will
be temporary source Of light and
power until the turbines are installed
in the other two units of the dam,
when they will produce the current.
Water is going through the dam now,
and within a month, he says, the wa
ter head will commence.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-09-22
RICE LAKE GETS DECISION


Rice Lake defeated the Union
Giants of Chicago, Sunday at Rice
Lake before a crowd of 1000 wildly
roofing fans, who greatly enjoyed
trailing the colored sluggers in the
dust with the small end of the score.
Rice Lake loaded up for the game
and used their wonderful battery,
Kappers and Johnson, the latter twirl
ing remarkably fine game and re-
peatedly fooEng the cOlored fellows
with his deceptive spitballs. Johnson,
has played against this colored team
three or four times this season and
he has studied every batter on the
nine He was well fortified to put the
jinx sign on them. Rice Lake had
three league infielders, one being Helm
lie Zimmerman, the old New York
Giant third baseman and former Ma
tional League star, who has been
black balled out on the big league;
and a shortstop, Shafer,, of Fargo,
Dakota league and big Lacquer on
second base This gave Rice Lake a
stonewall infield and their outfielders
did marvellous and spectacular work
in pulling down the ball.
A large number of Ladvsmith fans
saw the game and some Of them
thought the umpire was a great aid
to Rice Lake in winning the game.
Score by innings:
Rice Lake % 0 3 2 o % 0 x-5
U. Giants . 0 1 O 0 0 o 0-3
Summary-Earned runs-Rice Lake
q Giants 1. Two-base hits-Perry.
Three-base hit-Crispo. Struck out
by Johnson Z by Horning z. Stolen
bases-Crispo 2, Bingham, Turner,
Perry. Left on bases-Rice Lake Z:
Giants 6. Double play-Crispo to
Lynch to Coleman.Hit by pitched ball
-Kappers. Bases on balls -Horning
4; Johnson 3. Time of game 80
Umpires and Jacobson.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
PlNoCHLE

Qucstion-We have always understood that
it is only in two-hand pinochle that the trump
sequence could be separated, so as to meld it
for both 40 and $50. In three hand or auc-
ton the whole meld is laid down at once, there
being no separate melds.--C. B. w.
Answer-The nlelds are the same in al
forms Of pinochle, but as good players are SO
familiar with what can be made by separate
meds they allow the total to be stated at once.
Instead Of laying down six consecutive nselds
for the round trip and trump sequence, for
instance, any good player knows the total thas
would be arrived at is $50 and admits It q,
once 1t is the same in cribbage. Any good
player knows that two SIS, two 5's and a can
be counted in ten different ways to make q
"a hand and admits it as soon as shown.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

suit and re-entry in the dummy Below IS
deal that gave rise to some comment when ~
was played in duplicate game.
dealt and bid spade. With "a honors
10 score, A took chance on calling two hearts.
Y went to the assistance Of the spades and Is
to three hearts, but three spades by 4 ended 1t.
A opened with the king Of hearts and LED
one Of his top trulnps won the trump ana
came right back with the heart with the idea
that trump and heart, with his two guard
ed kings, would save the game. "A led thlro
round of hearts, which trumped.
There is no way now for to lose the game
as he can afford to lose the diamond finesse
and still win four by cards. After pulling BIS
tr13mps the diamond is led Thinking he
could make his king any time and that Il
would try to put himself in again with club,
so as to try another d.amond iinesse, held OIL
z was too good player to waste any time
putting himself in for a second finesse, as he
was quite willing to lose diamond trick, but
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
Queries and Answers
AUCTION BRIDGE

Question-The inclosed clipping shows that
s66 points were scored on a single deal at the
Lincoln League Club in Scranton last week.
which exceeds the 750 made at the Whist Club
Of New York. The play was at FIVE clubs re-
doubled, the declarer making grand slam.
This gave him 168 below the line, 48 for four
honors in one hand, 100 for the slam and 300
for the contract and two tricks over. After
adding ESQ for the rubber, which YVES done In
the New York score, we get s6e. Is not this
the records. D. s.
Answer-There is no record kept Of phe-
nomenal scores, but hand was played at the
Belleview Hotel, Belleair, Fla, two years ago,
and afterward published In "Vanity Fair in
which 1914 points were made on one hand,
without adding anything for game or rubber.
A Eand was played at the Knickerbocker
Whist Club, New York, in which the dealer
bid one no trump. Second hand doubled, but
his partner was not familiar with the conven-
ton and passed, when the third hand re-
doubled, having one very long suit, ace high.
The declarer made q little slam, with thirty
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

II DOES not require q very long appren-
ticeshp to the game of auction to learn
- the value of re-entry cards, especially ID
ca-trumpers, and many of the finer points
n" play turn upon the declarer's ability to
preserve or to make re-entries for suits that
have to lose tricks in clearing them
But there is always a def nse to any line
play, and the adversaries should be par
ocularly on the alert to head off any scheme
mat has for its object the making or preserva-
uon OF re-entries in the dummy. They cannot
% much with the declarer's own hand, as they
10 not know what it is, but the possibilities OF
me dummy are before them from the start.
IN many cases the defense is hopeless, espe-
ualy If the re-entry card is the highest OF
@rse tumps, such as ace, king or queen 1t
0e re-entry is in plain suit ami is not an ace
tne third hand may be able to kill it If it is
HOT played he can at least stay eff supporting
cards that are Id to make it good; even three
70 ten may be re-entry if the adveraaries
. w NN"ASu W give up Vie Queen Oh q J1NAA
slsa.
Holding up the command Of suit in which
'he'e is no re-entry c.c@4-s 81 the suit itself
comparatively obvious. rca.my may hold
s'z to the king queen Jack but if the ace can
0e held up until the deciarer has no more OF
'aAt suit to leaa the whole suit dies.
Sut this is only one part of the game. 1t
- not always we'll to wait until the deelarer
STARTS to make something coed fer ye entry,
ne can De ant.eipat IL his use Of re-
sA'fy already taere. No matter how good
sOaf OWE or your partp RS suit may look, the
A'ss business to attend to is to XII t. at re-
sA'fy IN the dummy if you can, or it may
'','ig N tricks enough to win the ganle
~ IS astonishing how careless some other
.'se good players are in this matter and now
VOW they are to realize the danger Of long
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

boxers were booked the outsider was almost
certain to win, and the bouts were too tame
to be attractive. A Frenchman, Italian. Eng
hshman or American pretty bad if he dfu
not score Knockout within three rounds Ono
Englishman aInbled through four rounds, HIT
ting his man at will and convulsed with laugh
ter all the time. At the opening Of the fifth
he Knocked his opponent down couple of
times for luck then held his hands in the cir
and forfeited the bout. He just didn't have the
heart to put the other to sleep.
AS a rule from four to six events are sched-
uled for an evening. The advertised length Of
each is fifteen rounds when q decision on
points is due. But the average duration is
not over seven rounds. It would take copi-
ously dipomaed German scientist to explain
just how such decisions as are rendered are
arrived at. Perhaps it is determined by the
blood pressure Of the contestants when the
fifteenth round is over.
But once decision is given the referee
shines again--more brightly than ever. Fol-
lows the ceremony:
With grand wave Of his hand the referee
motions the winner to the mathematical CEN
ter Of the ring Another equally grand ges-
ture and two attendants appear, carrying be-
feet in diameter. This is slipped over che
head Of the hero so that he stands, flushed
with victory, in the center of the floral token
of his prowess, while the referee poses, hand
resting lightly on the shoulder Of the victor.
And the crowd goes mad.
Sometimes a touch Of variety Is furnished
by an incident not on the bill. One night the
referee called time after the twelfth round.
He had an important announcement to make,
he said. 1t was to the effect that kind gen
teman in the audience had offered, provided
the fight went the full fifteen rounds, to pre-
sent the winner with "zaUei faschen Scotch
Okisky" 1.-TWO bottles of Scotch whisky.
This gave the crowd something to cheer
about and they did it with gusto. But it Was
nothing to what they did when the winner,
standing there with the wreath about him,
magnanmously announced that he would be-
stow one Of those bottles upon his late oppo-
nent.
don't know if that whisky business has
become custom. But if it has this is free
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

,-rp see German boxing match? No?
III we,l then. you've missed something.
[ Because German pFzahght is to
IL AMERICAN boxing as Stephen Leaceck's
e,ra ia American literature. Only the
~ ao not know it. But if some enter
IL n,on,oter would bring one q tae shows
fs'Ae f..~a,t in tn Fatharland to New York
a.rticularly careful that the procedure
- changed in the slightest degree he
Ia dean up. And, in addition. he w uid
s'aS nlste a reputation as the foremost hu-
's1a a modern times, The latent energy
s0'A y The tears of laughter shed at he
ss's roald cause Henry Ford to give out
s'D'. ;r.srview and perhaps forget Muscle
ssa.ls entirely.
sI,s - approaching our subject it must be borne
-;ns that, prior to the war, boxing was
. . ...slly unknown in Germany. Fond as
e'a'. -. Germans Of contests of skill, such as
~ ,s.;ns they had neglected the art of self
20 80 without weapons There was more or
's.s ,.. wrestling, bat you never heard Of Ger
.snirant to the belt now worn by Jack
Dempsey.
powever, during the years that followed the
..,rsak of hostilities, many thousands of
c..nons found thems ives behind the barbed
..;,s Of English prison camps Likewise, they
.,,s eustodiaus of other thousands of Eng
,,hrep cooped up in Germany. And toward
~. .nd they acted as hcst to a goodly number
- Uncle Sans fight RS,
.,a because of these conditions the Ger
.,ns discovered boxing For in camps, wheth-
- prison or not, no sport holds so important
place. Nothing can supplant it as an exer-
,,.,. especially among fighting men.
AZ first the Germans looked upon this busi-
,.ss with contemptuous amusement Then
,hev became interested. Finally, the Germans
;..rned in Eng and begged for gloves that
thew might try their hand and in the camps
IN Germany the guards took to borrowing the
a.rauhernalia sent from England to the pris-
oaers, Of course, it would have been mad
visable for Britisher to take On a German,
eyen for instruction purposes; so the Germans
we're forced to depend upon observation and
ysrbal advice, and those who watched their
early efforts gave some funny accounts Of
rhst t.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

would be better to say that all rules were
abolished At any rate, Germany Gas Hermit
one would put it) took up boxing in serious
way.
Something had to be done. The Teuton must
have an outlet for his emotions or he will take
it out in suicide. The old mot about hiding
all the ropes in Germany dull day isn't
exactly far fetched. And those who were not
engaged in the series of revolutions that fol-
lowed the arnnstce found themselves in dire
need Of something to grow enthusiastic about.
And thus the ring came into its own.
Stripped Of weapons-guns, sticks or knives
tho German is about the most helpless being
alive AS an illustration a certain American,
who was in Berlin during the spring Of 1919.
found himself narooned in the outskirts late
ct night. There a streetcar and under
ground railway strike and cabs were scarce
After much trouble he found taxi and
started for his hotel. Half way there his
driver was stopped by two Germans, also
stranded, who planted themselves in the street
so that the caD co~,d not pass. They would
have had no trouble II t <~ .ad been courteous
but their isapudent mso in declaring them
selves in aroused the snger of the occupant,
who told then that this was his cab and their
best bet was to look for another. Whereupon
they announced t;,er intention of getting
aboard whether the passenger liked it or not
What followed was laughable, according to
fbe driver. The American was no boxer BuC
he stepped to the street, laid out MS adVer-
saries in about two taps, even before the
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

driver, who climbed down at once, could come
to his assistance. To be sure, the Germans
made some sort of effort, but it was mostly in
the nature of clawng at the Yankee. The only
damage they inflicted was tearing off the
buttons on his overcoat And he went home
alone
1t was early in 1920 when the German
promoters began to put their bouts with
any sort of regularity. They strewed the city
with handbills, announcing Elm Grosser Box
kampf" on such night And they
shrewd enough to have circulars printed in
English and French for distribution among
the members of British and French missions
and the foreign newspaper correspondents
At first these announcements left the for
eigners cold, but on the days following the
fights the excited comments by the Germans
IN bars and restaurants aroused their interest.
They decided to have look, and after that
nothing could keep them away. 1t was too
good.
Most Of the Berlin fights are staged in the
Circus Busch, which can best be described
o whale OF q place. l cannot say offhand what
the capacity is, but the amphitheater will
seat many thousands Of spectators. It is In
the heart of the city, just the Spree
from the palace of the former Kaiser, and
the manner Of staging the bouts is quite IN
keeping with the dignity Of huge layout.
The preliminaries are ponderous and inn
pressive. In the first place, you look in vaii,
for the stout gentleman with the belt and
shirt of spotless white; for in Berlin the ref
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
pp ue hdn n
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quent mills in Circus Busch and hard-and
fast rule that all walking sticks must be
checked at the door. And everybody in Berlin
carries stick. So that the concession to the
stick checkers is more valuable than similar
privileges at the fancy hotels But, even with
this precaution, the noble police stop dozens
Of squabbles every night.
To get back to the ring the imposing referee
announces each round second before the bell.
The rounds and rest periods are of the same
duration as in America, and, curiously enough,
when the fighters indulge in a hugging match
The American word "break is used. AS he
utters the word the referee emphasizes his in
structions by walking between the two men to
emerge triuynphantly on the other side. 1t is
worth attending show just to see the proud
look on the gentlemans face as he accomplishes
this performance, for which he is always
cheered.
AS long as the fighters keep pummeing each
other it appears to matter little how it is done.
They stand wrong and hold their hands wrong
and deliver their blows in the weirdest manner
possible. The openings they leave would mean
u Knockout at the hands of the veriest Amer
lean or English novice. One chap, who ap-
peared frequently last year, was delight. He
had trick Of hooking his left elbow around
his opponents neck, holding him tightly and
pounding the top Of his head with the side Of
his glove until ne was himself exhausted. This
proceeding always brought roars Of laughter
from the crowd.
When, as happened occasionally, foreign