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The Washington times., 1922-08-30

MEASURE Due
OPASS TODAY
House Also to Consider Dele
eating Authority to Seize
Mines and Roads.
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON.
International News Service.


An auti.profiteering bill. designed
to prevent extortionate prices for
coal during the coming winter, will
be passed by the House today az
President Harding.
BY grinding out the second meas
ure asked by the Administration for
dealing with the coal situation, the
House will be ready to consider legis-
lation giving the President authority
to seize mines and railroads in event
OF dire emergency. This proposal,
however, will meet with far more
opposition among Congressman than
either of the other two bills.
From within Republican ranks
will come the most bitter opposition
to seizing mines or railroads, II was
apparent today. Congressman Bland
Rep.) of Indiana, and Congressman
Sanders Rep) Of Indiana, led Repuh.
lican opposition to the anti-profiteer-
ing bill, charging 1t was unconsti.
tutional, and indications were they
would oppose any seizure measure.
On the Democratic side Congress.
man Huddleston Of Alabama, q mi.
nority leader, has openly urged the
tcuuCEb W 6iNN lhO iCSi-
dent seizure powers. He argued that
any measure short Of this supreme
authority would not be sufficient to
meet the emergency.
Huddleston's attitude reflected
other sentiment on the Democratic
side and introduction OF a seizure
measure, It was believed, might
gain more support from the minor.
ity than from the Administration 8
own party. At least, II was init
mated, its passage would only come
after a violent fight within the Re
publican ranks.
The ant-profiteering bill. which
would set up a Federal coal dis
tributor and enlarge the powers Of
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. primarily will give the Gov
eminent authority to control dis
tribution Of coal. It's effect on
prices within the borders Of State
in which the coal Il mined will be
problematical, though II will give
the Government power over prices
on coal entering interstate COM
merce.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
NAVY SEEKING LIAISoN
WITH MISSING VESSEL

The Navy Department is making,
every effort today to get in commu-'
nication with the Shipping Board
steamer Pan-American. en- route TO
Rio de Janeiro with Secretary Of
State Hughes and other members OF
the American diplomatic mission TO
the Brazilian Exposition.
The Pan-American has not been
heard from since Sunday night due
to storms in the Caribbean Sea in
terfering with the wireless. Mes
sages from the vessel to the Navy
Department here have been sent via
the radio station at Bar Harbor, Me.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
MOTHERS GIVEN $50
FOR EACH BABY BORN

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 30.-Each visit
the stork pays to the Edgar Genen.
bach farm. in Southeast Missouri,
the mother receives q check for $50
from Gengenbach. of this city. Three
checks went forward from here last
month to the cotton farm, where
there are about thirty negro tenants.
"They are coming a little strong
this month";" Gengenbach said, but
it's all right. I regard II as a good
investment, to say nothing OF the
satisfaction afforded by real prac.
tical welfare work. have been
more than repaid by the loyalty and
faithful service Of the negroes on
my place"
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
HARD COAL MEN
STILL HOPE To
SETTLE STRIKE
AiI-Night Conferences With
Senators Reported to Have
Made Progress.
d, International New. Service.

1.-The anthracite coal strike is not
yet settled. but while there's life
there's hope" said s. d. Warriner,
head OF the anthracite operators
association. to International News
Service today. following a series OF
conferences with Senators and Off.
cials Of the United Mine Workers
which lasted into the small hours of
this morning.
Warriner would not say that the
anthracite settlement would be ef.
fected on the basis proposed last
night by Senators Pepper and Reed
Of Pennsylvania, but elsewhere the
opinion prevailed that material prog.
ress had been made in reconciling
the divergent views of the two sides.
Senator Pepper, acting az an Ad-
ministration mediator, proposed that
the controversial question OF arbltra.
ton be shunted aside and an agree
ment be effected solely as to a con.
tractual basis Of wages. After sub
mitting this proposition, Pepper re-
tired, and left Warriner and John l..
LtWlS, DTtsluCHI VI tnc OHlIeu
Mine Workers, to consider It.
Apparently they had reached no
decision this morning.
Lewis caught an early morning
train back to Philadelphia today for
the purpose, IL is understood, OF lay
ing the proposition that has been
made before his district Presidents.
Labor spokesman familiar with the
anthracite developments did not ap.
pear to be optimistic over a quick
adjustment.
1t is understood that the PROPOSE.
ton that both sides have under con.
siderat bn is that the strike will be
adjusted on a new contractural basis
running until April l, 1925, with
wages the same as at present.
An informal arbitration commits.
sion would, however. be set up, and
II economic conditions are radically
different two years hence, the com.
m ssion will get together and advise
whether the wage scale should be
raised or lowered.
There would be nothing manda.
tory about the decision of such a
commission-the miners holding out
strongly against this feature of com.
pulsory acceptance of such a deci.
sion. The decision of such a commits.
sion, If economG conditions warrant,
would be made the basis of negotia.
ton, at least,
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
WINS WoMAN'S HAND BY
BREAKING HER FURNITURE

NEW YORK, Aug. 3o.-Michael
Lyons. thirty.four years old. was
placed on probation for one year by
Judge MacMahon in Brooklyn on a
charge Of destroying property be-
longing to Mrs. Pauline Reinhard.
Mrs. Reinhard said Lyons came to
call on her recently and upbraided
her about attention paid to her by
other men. He became so enraged.
she said, that he picked up articles
Of furniture and threw them abont
the room, causing much damage. She
caused his arrest. but in court she
refused to press the complaint, ana
told the Judge she had decided to
marry Lyons and was willing TO Tor
give his outburst.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
LEPRoSY SPECIFIC TO
BE IMPROVED UPON

HONOLULU, Aug. 30.-More start
ling results in the treatment of
leprosy than those thus far obtain
ed by the use of the Dean chaul-
moogra oil specific at the Molokai
leprosarium are looked for during the
coming year.
DIR. Richard Wrenshall. Of the Uni.
versity of Hawaii. a chemist, has
spent several months at various uni
versities in mainland United States
working with mercury and arsenic
compounds in conjunction with the
chaulmoogra Oil specifics. In his
opinion the use Of these. compounds
will greatly increase the effectiveness
Of the treatments now used. which
have resulted in many cures.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
MINISTER'S SON ENTERS
COLLEGE At AGE OF 13

CHICAGO. Aug. 80. - William
Kendall, jr., thirteen. the youngest
student to enter at Northwestern
University. was admitted today to
the freshmen class of that univcr-
sity after he successfully passed
tests applied by university officials.
Young Kendall, son Of a Meth
odist Episcopal minister. will take
up his studies under a special dis
pensation which sets aside tho var
sity's bar to students under six
teen. He is from Magnum, Okla.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
U. S. CATHOLIC CHARITIES
PLANNING CONFERENCE

Plans for the national confer.
ence of Catholic charities to be held
September 1921 at the Catholic
University will be discussed at a
meeting tonight Of representatives
of Catholic organizations at Car.
roll Hall, Tenth and @ streets
northwest.
Charles Semmes will act as chair.
man and the Rev. DR.. John
O'Grady, secretary OF the confer
ence. will outline the conference
plans. Various committees for the
reception and entertainment OF the
conference visitors will be appoint.
cd. 1t 10 expected that the con.
ference will bring hundreds OF men
and women to this city.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
FRIGHT KILLS MoToRIST
ON AVOIDING ACCIDENT

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-Driving
his car along a street in Brooklyn.
William A. Creme saw a group of
girls chatting and Laughing rs they
crossed the street ahead Of him. One
dropped a handkerchief and turned
back into his path to pick It. up. He
suddenly whirled the wheel and
passed the girl with less than foot
to spare.
Creme fell over the wheel dead,
and the car crashed into a fence by
the roadside. Physicians said he
died from tho sudden fright that
seized him as he saw the girl stop In
the path OF his car.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
cox STILL HOLDS HOPE, OF
ASSISTANCE TO EUROPE

LONDON. Aug. 31.-Although
President Harding has rejected the
proposal of James NJ. Cox, former
Democratic nominee for President of
the United States, that Herbert
Hoover be sent to Europe to help
solve the critical problems OF this
continent, Cox had not. given up
hope today.
There is some measure OF reas-
surance in the statement that the
Harding Administration will inter-
est itself in the economic situation
in Europe even II Mr.. Hoover is not
sent over" Cox said. Let us hope
our service in Central Europe will
be that of the physician; not the un-
dertaker."
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
VIDoWER, REFUSED.
BURNS GIRL TO DEATH

YARMOUTH, N. s., Aug. 30
Omar Roberts, a sixty-year-old widow
er, was arrested here charged with
the murder Of Flora Gray, his nine
teen-year old housekeeper, found dy-
ing from burns in a fire which de-
stroyed Roberts house.
The girl in a statement before she
died, the police said, accused Rob
erts of entering her room after she
had retired. when she fought him,
the police said, he threw gasoline
about the bed and lighted 1t.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
FLAPPEaS OF MONTREAL
REBEL At LONG SKIRTS

MONTREAL, Aug. 30.-Twenty of
Montreal's smartest and prettiest
girls, febelling against the attempt
of style creators to foist long skirts
on women, have formed "No-longer-
skirt League"
Members are pledged to cling to
the abbreviated variety apd do all
they can to induce other, young
women to keep their skirts short.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
Cole Blease Appears
To Have Won Contest
For Governor in s. Car,
Rx international NeMa Service.

COLUMBIA, 8. c., Aug. 30.-Cole
L. Blease. who kept South Carolina
in the newspapers when he was gov
ernor of this State, is coming back.
Incomplete returns from yester-
days State primary indicate that
Blease will lead his chief opponent
in the race for the Democratic gu.
bernatorial nomination by a small
margin, and that he stands an ex-
cellent chance of winning in the
run-off primary that, undoubtedly,
will be necessary.
Plurality Question In Doubt.
The question of whether Blease or
Thomas G.. Mcleod, Of BishopviIle,
would have a plurality was In doubt
with about 135. 900 votes counted. but
Blease was leading at that time.
Races for Congressional seats also
were in doubt. A second race In the
Sixth district seemed probable. Ii. p.
Fulmer, Of Orangeburg, was renomt-
mated in the Seventh over A. ]. Bea-
thea. w. Turner Logan probably has
been renominated in the First dis
trict, although the result will be close.
Fred H. Dominick. incumbent in the
Third district. has n slight majority
on the face Of late returns.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
CHEMIST Makes
STEAMW|THOUT
USING ANY COAL
Resolves Water Into Hydrogen
and Oxygen and Heats
His House.
"a
BY WILLIAM RANDORF
BY CosmopoIitan News Service.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3O.-When
tall. keen-eyed man, his grayish-
black beard reaching to his chest,
stood in a little room in the corner
of a garage basement today and
with a simple movement of his
hands turned on first a water valve
and then an oil valve, causing a
roaring fire to blaze in an ordinary
furnace, he achieved dream
scientists have cherished for a cen
tury.
For he had wrested another secret
from nature after 25 years of toll
on his invention, by reducing water
to its component parts, oxygen and
hydrogen, thereby finding a way
that will revolutionize the fuel
situation by producing steam power
without coal.
The inventor Is James w. Prosser,
and he was demonstrating a simple
means Of heating homes, running
powerhouses and lighting companies
entirely without coal.
Cost One.fourth.
The cost will be about one-fourth
Of that of the present method. he
estimates.
II have been working toward this
end since I was a mere lad" Mr..
Prosser said today, as he produced
fierce fire which turned from
yellow to red, then to blue and
violet as the heat increased.
1T Is a realization of the prophesy
of a scientist of a hundred years
ago, who told his pupils that even
though he might not live to see 1t,
some day steamers would simply
dip their buckets into the ocean to
produce motive power.
My invention is very simple. On
q pan placed in a furnace where, or
dinarily, coal would go, there Is a
burner Of coils made of a special
steel to withstand terrific heat con-
tinuously. On the outside end Is a
faucet.like nozzle. On one side Of the
furnace Is a water container, on the
other an oil container, both connected
with pipes or hose with the burner.
Then ! turn on the water through
the coil, and when II passes over a
pilot light, which is turned out after
the fire is started. II attains a heat
OF 900 degrees Fahrenheit, which is
dislntegrated into its elements. These
are mixed in a mixing chamber with
the stream of oil, and together they
escape through the faucet as water
gas. When this vapor strikes the
heated coils, combustion takes place
and a roaring fire results"
Visions Of the coal industry being
wiped out, of railroads and steamers
and automobiles run cheaply and
with a fuel ever at hand 80 long as
any kind OF crude oil is obtainable,
are opened by the invention.
New Auto Engine.
Mr.. Prosser also invented a new
automobile engine, which experts
have pronounced practical, and
which will burn 'water-gas." II has
only twenty-slx working parts-there
are $500 in the Liberty motor and a75
in the ordinary automobile engine
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
TALE TOLD .
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until he became acquainted with me.
I'VE got along swimmingly at
first. for didn't know he was a mar
ried man. I thought we would be
sweethearts forever--that he would
always be true to me.
"when we all went up to Saranac
Lake. was stunned to find that he
was paying court to Mrs. Cline.
Just to think that Jack would be un.
true to me and untrue to his friend.
George Cline, by trying to win Mrs.
Cline's love. This made me break
with Jack. I told him / wanted
nothing more to do with him. He
said:
"a man is a man. Do you tn Ink
can resist a.pretty woman"
Last week Mr.. Cline wanted to
know why / had broken off with
Jack. He put 1t right up to me and
asked who the other woman was.
ct refused at first to tell him, but
George has a very persuasive man
ner and convinced me / should tell
him the truth. told him he was
being played for a 'boob'-that he
was being double-crossed. George
laughed and said:
Offered to Repeat Charge.
"'oh, you silly woman. Jack
wouldn't do such a thing
"I told him would repeat my ac-
cusation in the presence of Jack and
Mrs. Cline.
Friday George telephoned me to
come to his house that night. He
said a party had been arranged and
Jack would be there and we could
patch up our quarrel.
"I was only in the house a few
minutes when Bergen entered. There
were several other persons there. /
never saw anyone look more sur
prised than Bergen did when Cline
entered the room, and, instead of
starting a nice little party, opened
with his direct accusations.
"I was asked to repeat my charges,
and I did. After that the two men
went out into the hall and upstairs.
heard nothing more until the shot
rang out.
"There was no sound Of a strug.
gle and there was no talk Of duel
so far as 1 know. After the shot
Jack staggered down the stairs and
rushed out of the house."
Miss Thornton said she then
Jumped into an automobile with
Joseph Urilio, a fireworks man."
and left.
Urilio said Cline asked him over
on the night of the shooting to dis
cuss a contract for fireworks.
When he arrived he found several
persons there, he said. Mrs. Cline
was in tears. She came running
up to him when he entered and
exclaimed:
For Gods sake, stop this fight"
Wife Says She'll Stick.
II didn't know what to make Of
f." Urilio said. Suddenly Cline
said to Bergen: You have not
treated my wife right. Let's go
upstairs and fight It out
"With that the two men started
upstairs. Shortly after they dis
appeared there was a shot. Ber-
gen came staggering down and
stumbled out the door. Cline came
down a few seconds later and said
he would discuss the fireworks
contract with me some other time.
Then Miss Thornton, whom I had
never seen before. and I left to-
gether."
- Cline's wife called on him in
Jail yesterday and on leaving an
nounced she wss going to stick
by" her husband.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
BRICK PLANTS ANNOUNCE
LABOR WAGE INCREASE

HUNTINGTON, Pa, Aug. 30
Three brick plants at Mt. Union
will increase wages of all classes
of workers beginning September /.
The Harbison-Walker Plant, larg-
est in the world. the General Re-
fractories Company and the United
States Reenactories will increase
laborers from $2.70 day to $3.50
and all skilled workmen will be
advanced accordingly.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30

on the steepest incline under its own
power. II will take an auto with
ease through thick mud, Mr.. Prosser
claims.
The man who has succeeded in
making water burn when mixed with
oil calls his new engine the Duplex
steam motor engine" and his oil.
water fuel producer the "Automa TIC
Syphone Fuel Burner"
Plans are under way for having
factories turn out both on large
scale. Further to demonstrate the
practicabillty of his inventions, Mr.,
Prosser Is now supervising instalia.
ton OF the automatic syphone fuel
burner In two large apartment
houses.
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
VERSATILE DOCTOR UP
AGAINST HOUSE PROBLEM

FRANKFORT -oN.MAIN. Aug. 80.
The Frankfurter Ze:sung pub
fishes the following advertisement:
''Dr. Phil. of good family, trained
his services as nurse, groom. stoker,
stenographcr, librarian. lecturer, re-
corLler etc, in return for FURNI-
TURED ROOM OR ATTIC"
The Washington times., 1922-08-30
New Auto Engine.

Mr.. Prosser also invented a new
automobile engine, which experts
have pronounced practical, and
which will burn "water-gas." II has
only twenty-six working parts-there
are $500 In the Liberty motor and a75
in the ordinary automobile engine
and Is said to, stop the heaviest truck
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-09-07
VOTE AT THE PRIMARY

DO you know that determined effort is being made
by the Gang politicians to repeal the Primary Law?
Well, it is and unless the people show more ap-
probation of it there going to be strong grounds for
the fear that this fraugh with such great pos
sbility good, will die at the hands of its friends
You know what had when handful of bell
wehers of the two parties met in back somewhere
and nominated a ticket
Do you want to return to that plan?
If not get to the polls
The good citizen cannot afford neglect this duty
The Republicans should have choice between Grif
fifth and Cooley.
Democrats should have choice between Sweet, JEFF
ferson and Sabin -
That Choice should be sufficiently strong to bring
them the polls 1t notorious that the primaries
neglected
And that makes for unsatisfactory tickets and
The republic founded the assumption that the
people would appreciate the opportunity to them
selves and the nomination of candidates is the first and
most important step in that direction.
If you pretend to be citizen in fact, get out and
A KANSAS CITY judge has fined woman $500 and
sentenced her months in Jail for smoking cigarettes
ever nufng M se cisepstt h tsi ms W
them all 1t took good deal of for judge to do
man detests the smoking female-Grand Junction News
Without going into the merits Of women smoking,
how does the judge in this show high of hon.
or? He sets distinction, probably without any
law behind him. How deny to the ladies any
all the vices they themselves practice? We know quite
number of congenita idiots who desire to make smok
ing crime precisely they have made drinking whisky
crime. In time they may succeed. But denominating
it crime will not stop it, for any of intelligence
knows that it is not In humble opinion the judge
mentioned above made band stand play that denom
mates him almost glaring jackass the editor who
extols him a "man with a high sense of honor"
THIS is certainly the hour of discomfort for those
1000 Americans who tried blacken char
acter of Robert La Toilette Elected rather nominated
by majority larger than given any Wiscon-
SIM he stands sun crowned the idol of his people
as he is of the common people of the Nation.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-09-07
JUST sUpposING

Suppose that in a time of war and
under the semi-sanction given to
guerilla operations, your home had
been invaded, your father wantonly
killed and other depredations COM
mitted in your town. Suppose that
under the conditions of the times and
the additional fact that price was
upon the head of the outlaw perpe-
traitor of the crimes, you were justi-
fed in taking the law in your own
hands. Would you not be likely to
take an oath to hunt down the muir
derer and with your own hands hang
him as high as Haman?
Suppose that while you were going
about to put your vow into execution
you met the one girl in the world for
you; that you loved her and she be-
came deeply in love with you; and
that just at this point it developed
that she were the daughter of the
man you had sworn to kill. What
would you do? You can learn how
one man solved such problem in the
very fascinating story "Periwinkle
House" by Opie Read, which will be
printed as a serial in this paper.
The above is only one Of the many
intensely absorbing elements of the
tale. The author is the dean of fic-
tion writers in this country and re-
garded by hundreds of thousands as
the greatest American story teller.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-09-07
CRAWFORD STATE
BANK ENTERTAINS

Monday, Sept. 4th, The Crawford
State Bank royalty entertained the
Delta County Bankers and their fam
lilies, Newspaper men and their fam
lilies, County Commissioners, and Road
men at a barbecue dinner on the
Black mesa. Place cards were laid
for two hundred guests. Music was
furnished by the Crawford orchestra
and program of entertainment had
been arranged by Cashier Leslie Saw
age, of music, baseball, and speaking
The outside speakers were. Atty C..
]. Moynihan and Tony Mcneil of Mont
rose; Atty Mortimer Stone of Delta;
Representative Thos. l.. Blackwell of
Hotchkiss; Cashier Crissman of the
First National Bank, Paonia; and Bob
Higgins of Denver.
Aside from Bankers business
meeting, to boost the Black mesa road
improvement fund. was the object of
the meeting. Tony Mcneil, of Mont
rose and Mr.. Higgins of Denver, gave
data and information concerning the
building of roads and the mainte-
nance of same that was appreciated.
After unanimous vote that Leslie
J. Savage, Cashier of the Crawford
State Bank, was the best entertainer
ever, the crowd disbersed at five
o'clock to journey home.
During the afternoon the Delta
bankers played Paonia bankers base
ball, with a score of A to in favor
of Delta-Crawford Chronicle.