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The Washington times., 1922-04-04
INDIANA SEES
FIRST VIOLENCE
IN MINE STRIKE
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work" opened a debate in the Senate
this afternoon the coal strike.
There is a third party the pub
lie, to be considered in the situation
confronting the country. for it is the
public which must in the end bear
whatever economic loss results from
the strike" Borah said. THE public
will bear it in an increase in coal
prices"
AS chairman of the Senate Educa-
ton and Labor Committee. Borah
reviewed at considerable length the
"contractural relations" between the
operators and the miners.
I'VE have reached a point where
the public must take some drastic
course to control the coal industry"
Borah continued, "if there cannot be
a conference between the operators
and the miners, IL we have reached
a stage of their relations where they
must pull completely apart, where
one must surrender entirely to the
other. or one must bow entirely to
the will of the other"
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DOGS ARE THE HEROES OF
TWO FIRES IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, April 1.-Two little
dogs today are the heroes of fires
in different parts of the city.
Early yesterday the barking Of
Teddy, Pomeranian, awakened his
master, Benjamin Holland, after a
blaze had broken out in a tenement
house on st. Johns place, Brooklyn.
Holland shouted for help and twenty
persons were rescued from fire
escapes.
Later in the day Mrs. Mark Isaac,
eighty-three and dumb, set fire to
her clothes while making coffee for
her eighty-four-year-old husband in
their little room on West street.
Toby, black and tan belonging to
a neighbor, smelt the smoke, and
barked furiously until help came, and
Isaac, an invalid, was rescued. Mrs.
Isaac died from her burns.
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PHILADELPHIA AD MAN
TO ADDRESS CITY CLUB

william Nelson Taft, editor Of
Retail Public Ledger" Philadel-
phia. will be the guest and principal
speaker tomorrow at the weekly
luncheon Of the Washington Adver.
Using Club at the City Club.
The subject of Mr.. Tafts address
will be Merchandising and Ad-
vertising," from a retailers view.
point. His talk will be of particu.
lar interest to buyers as well as
advertisers and President Harry
Hahn has requested that the club
members avail themselves of the op.
portunity to hear Mr.. Taft.
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BANDITS KILL POLICEMAN
AND SEIZE $4,000

CHICAGO, April 4.-While scores
Of persons helplessly watched, five
automobile bandits last night shot
and killed a patrolman, probably
fatally wounded a bank messenger
and escaped with a satchel contain
ing 100000 which the two were car
rying.
The hold-up occurred in front of
the Calumet National Bank in the
heart of the South Chicago bust.
ness district.
The two victims. Patrolman Earn.
est II. Cassidy and Phillip Sommers,
were taking the weeks collections
of the Royal Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION to the bank.
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ARMY AVIATOR
SHOT T0DEATH
IN OKLAHOMA
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CONTINUES from First PaSeJ
at Washington about a year ago,
it Is said.
Lieutenant Colonel Beck had fire.
quently visited the Day home here,
and was an intimate friend Of the
family. He had flown to this city
yesterday In a plane from Fort Sill
to attend the card party.
The commanding officer at Fort
Sill was notified Of the shooting, but
as yet no action has been taken in
regard to the case.
Judge Day is fifty years old, but
his wife is several years younger
They have one daughter, who is a
student at the University Of Okla.
homa.
We'll Known In Capital.
Capt. Paul w. Beck was known as
an aviator more than ten years ago,
and was one Of the four Oldest
aviators in the country. He lectured
on aviation before leading clubs Of
California from February, 1910, to
January, 1911, and was secretary of
an aviation meet in San Francisco
about the same time.
He served in the Signal Corps
from 1906 to 1912, when he rejoined
his regiment, the Eighteenth in
fantry. In 1912, he wrote a boys
book on airplanes while at Fort
after completing his de-
tail as chief Of the army air fleet.
He made more than fifty trips in
his Curtiss plane at San Antonio,
Tex, during the Mexican trouble OF
1911. For two years he was sta
toned at College Park, Md.
First to Drop Air Bomb.
Beck was the first man in the
world to drop a bomb from an air.
plane, performing this feat when a
passenger in a Farman plane at
Los Angeles.
He also was the designer OF the
first wireless set used on an air
plane. His cross-country flights in
the unstable planes Of ten years ago
created wide comment.
Besides being one Of the oldest
aviators in the army, Beck was
and wireless operator,
photographer and topog-
rapher, and a former newspaper
man.
He was well known in Washington
society circles.
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been able to reach in the four years
since the war stopped.
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon
estimates that the tax deficit this
year will reach s30,000,000. How to
make it up has been perplexing Ad-
ministration officials for a month.
The efficiency experts Of the Gov
eminent were called in. They ad-
vised that this amount could be made
up through adjustment Of back taxes
and the greater customs revenues,
and this. according to Treasury Of
ficials, is at the root of the general
Treasury shake-up.
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HOUS|NGEXPERT.
HITS BALL RENT.
ACT AS SELFISH.
n. R. Brigham Tells City Club
Forum Only Solution Is
Home Ownership.

Henry r. Brigham, OF Boston,
member of the local housing COM
mittee, around whom much crit.
cism has been conferred, today re-
newed his attack on the Ball rent
law in an address before the week
ly forum of the City Club.
THE destruction of the right
of contract by the Ball rent act
and particularly as it is proposed
to extend to business property Is
most dangerous and selfish legis-
lation," declared Mr.. Brigham.
"The merchant who favors this
act, hoping to pay less rent than
his big competitor, is just as bad as
the profiteering landlord. The law
violates the spirit of the Constitu-
ton of the United States"
Brigham, who Is considered an
expert on housing. declared that the
Ball measure only results In post
poning the solution OF Washing
toms building problem.
In his address, Brigham dwelt at
some length on the housing situation
as 1t affects the entire country. He
said that ne would not discuss the
local situation until after the housing
committee had started to function.
But / want to offer two sugges-
tons right now. and j hope that be-
fore leave Washington l will be
able to offer more suggestions" said
Brigham.
1.-THE solution to the housing prob.
lem will come with more homes.
II suggest, first, that every man
who can possibly afford 1t buy his
own home.
And, second. suggest that EN-
ployers. including the Government,
give their employees a living wage
and aid them in buying their own
homes"
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Dye Stuffs Inquiry Continues
To Be CAPITALS Darkest Secret

and he Just abandons them there and
goes on to some more sentences. He
convinces people partly because his
ideas are well thought out In theory,
and then mainly because he looks
certain to be able to carry them out
in action.
Another energetic promoter, of
ideas is Miss Maud Younger. legisla-
tive chairman OF the National Wom-
ans party. She tells me that the
constitutional amendment proposed
by the National Woman's party for
removing all legal disabilities" from
women is going to be revised In such
a way az to prevent II from interfer
ing in any manner with protective
legislation" for women in industry.
In other words. IL il going to be so
changed as to permit legislation re-
stricting the hours of work for wom-
en- even If there is no restriction on
the hours of work for men.
Meanwhile Mrs. Medill McCor.
mick-that earnest opponent OF the
National Woman's Party-has had
dil tADtIltHCt with what ihibhN NC
called the mental disabilities Of men.
Mrs. Mccormick is one OF our lead
ing breeders of cows. Her cows win
prizes. Consequently the other day
she was invited to attend a great
meeting OF COW breeders in Penn
sylvania. However. she was also
invited to please stay away from
certain session of the meeting. 1t
was said that at that session she
might embarrass the men present;
because the subject TO be discussed
was troubles of birth among cows.
Mrs. McCormick's Indignation. as
a mother of three children and as
one OF this country's most enthusi-
astic experts on cows and calves is
said to have been extreme. She
would perhaps support constitu-
tional amendment forbidding men to
regard motherhood as a masculine
subject.
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DRIVER OF AUTO THAT
KILLED ROOSEVELT, BAlLED

NEW YORK. April david Zal-
kan, bus driver. who was arrested
on a manslaughter charge in oonnec-
ton with the death Of Robert b.
Roosevelt, jr., was released In $4,000
bail today, pending further examina-
ton Wednesday.
Roosevelt, a second cousin of the
late Theodore Roosevelt, was found
unconscious in Columbus avenue Fri.
day night after being struck by an
automobile. He died Saturday.
The Washington times., 1922-04-04

Miss Nellie G. Wilding as head of the
division, was sent to Director Hill
this morning.
The petition states that under her
direction a counters daily work has
been increased by $500 and the ma
chine operation output by 500.
I'VE feel sure the large saving will
show her management 100 per cent
efficient, and for the above reasons
we earnestly hope you will reappoint
her head of this division"
The Washington times., 1922-04-04
GRAND JUROR INDICTED
BY JURY HE SERVED ON

DECATUR, Ala, April 4.-1n.
dicted by a grand Jury OF which he
was q member was the unusual rec !
ord here today of VIII Mooney, OF
near Sommerville. He was charged
with manufacturing liquor. He was
excused while testimony In his case
was being taken, and later was dis |
charged from jury service,
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FAKE OFFICER WHO FOOLED
HARDING is SENT TO JAIL

NEW YORK, April 4.-Stephen
r. Weinberg, who introduced the
Princess Fatima to President Wash
ington while posing as United
two years Imprisonment in the
Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.
Weinberg was charged with i'm
personating a naval officer and with
failure to pay for the uniform that
he used In his impersonation.
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To Discuss Coal Strike.

First.hand facts on the coal strike
will be given members Of the Wash
ington Association of Credit Men
when George II. Cushing, Washing
ton director of the American Coal
Association, addresses the associa.
ton at its mid.week luncheon in
the City Club tomorrow.
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Fire Destroys 5000 Trees.

NYACK, N. Y. April 4.-More
than 5000 young spruce and FIR
trees were destroyed yesterday by
dred acres of the Palisades park
commission nursery back Of Hook
mountain, near Lockland lake
The Washington times., 1922-04-04
Miners See Ray Of Hope.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April A.
Strike OF the United Mine Workers,
according to all reports, continues
undated in the Great Central Com.
petitive Field, which produces by far
the greater part of the Nations coal,
and In the hard coal fields.
A considerable number Of non
union miners were reported to have
Joined the strike.
The Washington times., 1922-04-04
BY WILLIAM HARD.
Cosmopolitan News Service.

l hear it asked: What is il that
holds the Department of Justice
back from the grand jury proceed.
ings which II was understood TO
have planned in the matter Of the
Chemical Foundation and of Francis
The Washington times., 1922-04-04
Beck's Wife a Writer.

ATLANTA, Ga, April 4.-Lieut.
Col. Paul w. Beck, who was shot
and killed at Oklahoma City today,
was stationed at Fort Mcpherson,
Ga, during the war, according to
residents Of Atlanta, and with his
wife enjoyed a high social standing
here.
Mrs. Beck had made some repu-
tation as an authoress, according
to friends, who said that at least
one novel, dealing with aboriginal
life, had been published by her.
The Washington times., 1922-04-04

Z. Garvan and
OF A. Mitchell
Palmer? Can It
be anything on
Capitol lIill?
T h e c a 8 e
a & a | n st ( h e
Chemical Foun-
dalton and Gar
van and Palmer
based on acts
committed when
p a m er w a 8
a ii e n property
custodian - was
supposed lon 6
ago to be COM
pleted. 1t was
said to be ready
for the grand
jury. 1t had TO
The Washington times., 1922-04-04

On Capitol Hill, in the Senate Of
flee building, in large, impressive
room, there is now a very long in
quiry going forward. 1t is an in
quiry into dyestuffs. 1t is conducted
by one of the most impressive OF
Senators, namely, Shortridge of
California.
Shortridge is a man OF an unfor.
gettable appearance. He has a very
long, sloping forehead, very long
nose, very long upper lip, a very
long chin, and very long arms. He
consists entirely of long lines, except
that on his nose in front of his eyes
he places two extremely large, round
pieces of glass. He speaks in a very
deep bass voice and brandishes a
cigar He inquiries into dyestuffs
hour after hour and day after day.
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Also Seek Marine.

NORFOLK, Va, April Police
are seeking a marine in connection
with the mysterious death Of Mrs.
Ruth Mercer, at Ocean View on
Sunday.
Yesterday they questioned a ma
rine who was identified by Mrs.
Alice Wilson, sister-in-law of the
dead woman, as Mrs. MERGERS es
cort Saturday night.
After being questioned for an
hour as to his movements Saturday
night, the marine was taken back
to the Portsmouth barracks and
search was instituted for a sec
ond marine named by the first as
having accompanied the party TO
the beach. Police refused to d.
vulge the information CLEANED from
the man.
The dead woman's body was still
warm when IL came ashore and her
face bore marks which indicated
she had been severely beaten be
fore she fell or was thrown into
the waters of Chesapeake Bay.
Mercer. the husband, who disap-
peared Friday. was a member OF
the crew of the Coast Guard cutter
Manning and was paid off Friday
afternoon. Mrs. Mercer left her
home on Bank street Saturday with
another man, believed to have been
the marine who is under surveil-
lance at the marine barracks here.
Police believe her husband saw heri
with the marine and that her death
was the result Of the encounter.
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When he began inquiring there
came to the Hill representative of
the Department of Justice, who ex-
pressed the hope that testimony
would not be given by representa-
tives of the Chemical Foundation.
The office of the alien property
custodian sold certain numerous
fundamental German dye-stuffs pat
ents to the Chemical Foundation for
$3.50, 900.
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Thereafter Palmer's friend Gar
van, having succeeded Palmer as
alien property. custodian. became
also subsequently the leading Off
cial of the Chemical Foundation. 1t
was feared that II officials OF the
Chemical Foundation gave testi-
mony before Senator Shortridge's
committee they might be regarded
as having passed through an i'm
munity bath" and might escape get
court.
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HUSBAND HELD
BY POLICE FOR
Staying BRIDE
e. T. Mercer, Whose Wife
Was Found Dead at Nor
folk, Is Arrested.
BY Internationa, News Service.

BALTIMORE, Md, April A.
Edward T. Mercer, husband of
Mrs. Ruth Mercer, whose dis
figured body was found Sunday
in the waters OF Chesapeake bay,
at Ocean View, a summer resort
near Norfolk, Va, was arrested
here early today and is being
held at police headquarters for
the Ocean View authorities. A
warrant charging him with the
murder of his wife has been
sworn out, it is said.
Cries When Arrested.
Mercer was arrested at the Bud
die Club, opposite City Hall, where
police found him in bed. He said he
had been in Baltimore "a couple
of days" He tried yesterday to
enlist here in the Coast Guard
Service.
Lieut.. John Carey, at police head
quarters, read to Mercer a tele-
gram from Ocean View asking for
his detention. Mercer wept- The
accused gave his age as twenty
one years and his address in Nor
folk at 443 Bank street. He said
he had not been in Ocean View for
three or four years.
The Washington times., 1922-04-04

Willie ORg, WORCESTER, 81; James
Roche. Elkridge, 81; Gene Nc
earthly, Jacksonville, 81; Bob Cruik-
shank, Shackamoxen, 80; Frank
Waugh, Columbus, So; Tom Skip
per, Rolling Road, 50; Charles Bach.
elder, Maryland c. c., SO: John
Golden, Tuxedo, SO; George Gordon,
Providence, 49, w. c. Sherwood,
Newark, 81; j. Thompson, Washing
ton c. c., "a; Charles Mothersele,
Weeburn, 81: Arthur Reid, Ardsley.
"a: Jack Shea, Boston, So; George
Dow, Roxboroush, and X. ]. Allen,
SO.
The Washington times., 1922-04-04

Today, Albert d. Lasker. of the
Shipping Board, starts selling his
merchant marine ideas to a joint
meeting Of the merchant marine COM
mittees of the two houses of Con-
gress, and 1t may confidently be pre-.
dicted that he will succeed. The
phrase. bursting with energy" was
invented for Lasker. His ideas come
so fast and so strong in him that his
sentences burst open in the middle
The Washington times., 1922-04-04

1t was feared, perhaps with
reason. 1t turned out that in the
very forefront of witnesses rushing
to give information to Senator
Shortridge came Francis p. Caravan.
He testified. Other dye-stuffs per-
sons have testified since. They
case involving the policy Of Palmer
todians, toward dye-stuffs patents
and toward the Chemical Founda-
ton keeps on not coming forward.
1t Is one of Washington's great
present mysteries and speculations
The Washington times., 1922-04-04
Illegality Charged.

The federation charges the Presi-
dents action in abolishing executive
positions in the bureau and estab-
hshing new offices in their place is
illegal, and Is a menace to the struc-
ture of the entire civil service.
IF the President with one stroke
OF the pen can make twenty-eight
civil service positions into political
appointive positions. why can he not
do the same thing throughout all the
executive departments" the fedora
ton asks.
A petition signed by the employees
OF the stamp perforating division of
the Bureau of Engraving and Print.
ing urging the reappointment of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-01-19
BRIDGE T()BEE:
SOLD As JUNK

The old steel bridge over the Wis
consin River at this city is to be sold
as junk. Frank CARRIER, local dealer,
bid $1010 for it the first Of the week.
The c. r. Meyer Construction Co.,
who are building the new bridge, made
the only other bid received. Garber's
bid was accepted, subject to the APP
proval Of the State Highway Com
mission. This is mere matter of
form, according to District Engineer
F. F. Mengel of the local office of the
Commission.
The decision to sell the bridge in this
way was made after the failure of an
attempt to secure satisfactory bids
for it to be erected in some other
place. Mr.. CARRIER says he has no
definite plans as to what he will do
with the bridge. He will take it from
the west side River Bank Park, where
the Construction Company will place
it, or make some deal with them to
have it delivered to his yards. It will
be taken down in such a manner that
it cannot be re-erected, and it's only
value will be that Of the 140 tons Of
old metal it contains.
The sand filling Of the new road
way is now completed and the cover
ing or temporary surfacing of hay
and crashed rock is being laid. AS
soon as that is done the old bridge is
to be wrecked as rapidly as possible
and work will be begun on the south
half of the arches. The south side
walk has already been torn up and
the stagings from which the wreckine
will proceed are ready for use.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-01-19
L)ALYIHEA1RE
BURNED
SATURDAY
MORNING

| Saturday morning the Daily Theatre
on Second street was completely de-
stroyed by fire which apparently O.
riginated in the hack end CT the build
| ing, but for which no definite cause
| can be assigned. The alarm was given
| by Patroln3an Louis Painter at about
two o'clock in the morning, and the
| firemen were promptly on the spot.
They found the, two nearest fire plugs
frozen and were unable to make use of
them. This caused some delay before
water was finally obtained from the
river by means of the big truck and
from more distant hydrants.
By the time they were able to at
tack the confagration, it had gained
such headway that it was impossible
to save the Theatre. Nearby buildings
were saved by the use Of the several
streams from the hose.
The Theatre building, Mr.. Daily esti-
mates at about SIS, 900 on which there
was some $4,000 insurance. The Earl
Young Stock Company, who We're play
ing a weeks engagement there, lost
their stage settings and wardrobe
trunks with everything they possessed
except the clothes they were wearing
and few trifies they had with them
at the hotel. They place their loss at
Il.
there were lesser losses sustained by
the Young Shoe Repair Shop and J.
A. Boose barber shop, on which there
was little or no insurance Altogether
the loss is said to have amounted to
$4,000 with only $4,000 insurance to
offset it.
A new furnace for heating had just
been installed in the building and the
motion picture machine belonging to
the High School, which had been put
in for the picture Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse" billed for Monday
night, is said to have been lost in the
fire. These two items added nearly
one thousand doll5ss-ta~the bill.
Mr.. DAILY states that he will make
no move toward rebuilding the thea
tre. He feels that the erection Of an
adequate theater or show house is prop
erly a community enterprise and is too
large to be undertaken by any one per
son.
&LATER:-We understand there is a
movement on foot to erect a new opera
house by a stock company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-01-19
ROARDOF
DIRECTORS
Of Federation
Of WOMEN NET

Hearing reports Of various COM
mittees on work done during the past
year was the chief business of the
regular Board meeting Of the Fedora
tion of Women, which was held Mon
day afternoon in the Wood County Ma
tional Bank Building, with the pres
ident, Mrs. R. J. Mott in the chair.
On account of poor crops, much ur-
employment and the low prices of
farm products, the Relief Committee
reported many calls for help from the
city and outlying country districts.
The Child Welfare Committee has
been particularly in the work of Sc
curing scales for the local schools This
committee also secured Mrs. Fether-
stone of Chicago to speak at several
points in the county on Child Welfare
work. Essential work in the hands
of this committee now is the establish
ing OF milk lunches and nutrition
classes in the city schools.
The Recreation Committee report
ed the securing of Woods Hill as
coasting place and the supplying of a
number of large sleighs for the use
of the children. Another committee
reported that plans are ripe for the
establishment of Parent Teachers
Association on the Feast Side this
week. The Civic Committee is taking
up the project of Rest Room and
Community Hall, and is working for
a new entrance to Forest Hill cen1-
etery
The Committee on Public Health of
this organization was instrumental in
getting the Free Chest Clinic given
here in November by the state Anti
tuberculosis Association, which did q
vast amount of good. This committee
also had charge of the sale of Christ
mas seals, which netted $500 in this
locality, one half of which will be re-
tanned here for local health work.
An Art Committee is working on
an attractive program to be given
sometime next month. The Board
voted substantial donations to the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation and to
the Armenian Relief The local Fed
Grafton is in a thriving condition and
there is an enthusiasm throughout
the memb-r -rship that bids fair to bring
about still greater accomplishments
during the coming year