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The Washington times., 1922-07-18
LINER HALTED WITHIN
100 FEET OF ICEBERG

NEW YORK, July 1s.-IceberSs
adrift In mid.Atlantic are menacing
passenger steamships these hot JULY
days.
Captain Bone, OF the Columbia. said
he stopped his ship within a few hun.
dred feet of a huge iceberg. head on,
when the fog suddenly lifted during
his trip across,
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|45 TAKE n n. LEN|N
FORDEATHS REPORTED
AT NJ IN ES POISONED
BoIshevik Chief Was Killed and
Body Thrown in River.
London Hears.
By International News Service.

LONDON, July Is. - Nicolai
Lenin, head of the Russian Soviet
government, is reported to have
been murdered, according to ad-
vices received today from Copen-
hagen. .
Eenin has been i'll for about six
months, and various conflicting re-
ports have been received as to the
nature of his ailment and his con-
dition. ''~~
Said TO Have Been Poisoned.
According to the Riga CORE
spondent OF the Evenska Dagbladet,
OF Copenhagen, Lenin was reported
to have been poisoned while on his
way from Moscow to a Caucasion
tathing place to take the cure.
A rumor from Moscow said that
Lenin's body was thrown from the
train into the Don river at RostoV.
From the same source 1t was re
ported that a member Of Lenint
suite is now impersonating his
chief.
Several Attempts on Lie.
Several attempts have been made
upon Lenin's life. Upon the occa
sion Of his recent illness, one ex
PLANTATION was that he was suffering
from a bullet fired into his shoulder
in 1918 by a woman assassin-Dors
Kaplan.
So many false reports concerning
Lenin and Trotzky have been manu-
factured by fraudulent correspond
ents at Riga and Copenhagen tina
the foregoing report must be regs-d
ed conservatively, with the full un
derstanding that It emanated from {
foreign newspaper office and tina
there is no official confirmation of II
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The Daily and Sunday Washington
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VIII Call Meeting.

The opinion is prevalent that the
labor board, having brought pros
poets of an agreement appreciahly
nearer by the series Of conferences
that have been held. soon will call a
formal public hearing of the rail ex-
ecutives and the union chiefs, at
which it Is hoped a final settlement
will be effected.
e. F.. Cradle, president Of the
Brotherhood OF Maintenance Of Way
Employees. IL in Chicago today.
fresh from Washington, where he
had a conference with President
Harding. Cradle was scheduled to
confer today with members of the
labor board.
Strike sentiment in his own or.
ganization is reported to be grow.
ing. but Cradle declared no au-
thorized strike action would be
taken until after the meeting Of the
brotherhood's grand lodge in Detroit
on Thursday.
Cradle denied that the runaway
strike Of Maintenance Of Way Men
had assumed serious proportions,
CONTINUED on Page 20. Column 81
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CABINET
IN PARLEY
0NSTR|KE
Hope for, Peace Expressed as
Rail Board Seeks Means to
End Walkout.
BY international News Service.


Three big eastern railroads-the
New York Central, Pennsylvania,
and Erie-are the only roads now
holding up settlement Of the shop
crafts strike, according to semi
official word from Chicago which
reached Washington this morning
Just as the Cabinet assembled at
the White House for . momentous
session. r-.- ~
The Northwestern. Southwestern.
and Southern roads have agreed To-
accept labOr's demands, according
to the message, and pressure" Ii
being brought to bear on the East
ern roads to fall into line.
by International News Service.
CHICAGO, July 18.-The Two
Hundred and Second Artillery Regi.
ment Of the Illinois National Guard
was ordered modified here today.
Orders for the mobilization. Il was
said, came direct from Governor
Small through the office Of the ad-
jutant general.
No announcement as to the pur-
pose Of the mobilization was made,
but il was understood that the rail.
road strike situation at Blooming.
ton was responsible. -
Later IL was announced that
the troops modified today would
replace other units now doing
strike duty at Bloomington.
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By International News Service.
BY international News Service.


CHICAGO, July 1S.-The strike
of railway shopmen was believed
today to be moving swiftly toward
a climax as the result of secret
parleys held here during the last
twenty-four hours. Conferences
from which a plan of settlement
is expected to emerge are still in
progress, according to authentic
reports.
Peace Rumor Persists.
Officials Of the United States
Railway Labor Board and of the
shopmen's union declined to con-
firm reports that a definite peace
plan had been evolved. Persistent
reports that a settlement appeared
closer than at any time since the
walkout began, however, were not
denied.
According to these reports, the
plan involves an agreement by the
railroads to restore all seniority
rights to the strikers and to abolish
the practice Of farming out" shop
work to shops not owned by the
railroads.
The unions. for their part. viii
agree to an immediate return TO
work with the assurance that =
rehearing upon the question of re-
duced wage scales be granted.
It is understood that conferences
between w. L. McMenimen, labo~
member of the board, and B. NJ.
Jewell, leader Of the strikers, have
established this tentative basis for
an agreement. McMenimen and Ben
W. Hooper, chairman Of the board,
also are understood to have held par
leys with the railway executives.
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WEATHER.

Showers and thunder.
storms this afternoon and
tonight; somewhat cooler
tonight; "Wednesday gener-
ally fair with moderate
temperature.
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Birth control would give poor
women the right to possess and
utilize information now pos
sessed by all rich women, given
them by their doctors. That's
enough of an argument, if yod
want one. =. -.
But birth control, limiting
families, would have cut off
Caruso, the nineteenth child;
Napoleon, Benjamin Franklin,
Carlyle, and thousands Of others
worth more to the world than
any theory.
President Harding says tbs
Continued on Page z. Column ~
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Captain Scraggs "shut up" prompt.
ly, and contented himself with glover
ing at Gr. Gibney. The mate sat
down sn the hatch coaming, lit his
pipe, and gave himself up to medita-
tion for fully five minutes, at the end
of which time McGuffey was aware
that his Imagination was about to
come to the front once more.
swell, gentlemen" (again McGuf-
fey nodded approvingly) II bet 1 get
my twenty bucks back outer them two
Chinks," he announced presently.
How'll yer do it?" inquired McGuf-
fey politely.
How'll do It? Easy as fallin'
through an open hatch. I'm a-goin'
t. keep them two stiffs in tn boxes
until dark, an then I'm a-goin' 70 take
'em out, bend rope around their
middle, drop 'em overheard an anchor
'em there all night. / see tn lad we
opens up in No. case has had beau
tiful job of embalmin' done on him,
but If l let them soak all night, like
a mackerel, they'll timber up an look
kinder fresh. Then first thing In tn
mornin' I'll telephone tn coroner an
tell him / found two foaters out in
tn bay an for him to come an get
'em. been along the waterfront long
enough { know that tn lad that picks
up a flOater gets reward o. ten dol
lars from tn city. You can bet that
Adelbert p. Gibney breaks even on tn
deal, all right"
"Gib. my dear boy" said Captain
Scraggs admiringly. II apologize for
my actions of a few minutes ago.
was unstrung. You're still mate o. tn
American steamer Maggie, an as such,
welcome to tn ship. All ask is that
you nail up your property, Glib, an
remove 1t from tn dinin' room table.
want to remind you, however. Glib,
that as shipmates me an McGuffey
don't stand for you shOulderin' any
loss on them two cases O'-Oriental
goods. We was t share tn gains; If
any, an likewise tn losses"
"Thats right" said McGuffey, "fair
an square. No bellyachin' between
shipmates. Me an Scraggs each owns
one-third O. them diseased Chinks, an
we each stands one-third O. tn loss
if any"
"But there won't be no loss," pro-
tested Mr.. Gibney.
"Drayage charges, Glib, drayage
charges. We give man dollar 70
tow 'em down t tn ship"
Forget it," answered Mr.. Gibney
agnanimously, "an' let's 60 over an
get a drink. I'm all shook up"
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plain wood box, labels 'em Oriental
goods an consigns 'em to the Gin
Seng company, ia Dupont street, San
Francisco. Now, why are these two
countrymen o. yours shipped by freight
where, by the way, they goes astray,
for some reason that / don't know
nothin' about, an I buys 'em up at
old horse saleY
Gin Seng shrugged his shoulders and
replied that he didn't understand.
" "You lie," snarled Captain Scraggs.
You savey all right, you fat old idol,
you'll It's because II the railroad COM
pany knew these two boxes contained
dead corpses they'd a-soaked the rela-
tives, which is you, one full fare each
from wherever these two dead ones
comes from, just the same as though
they was alive an well. But you has
'em shipped by freight, an aims to
spend a dollar an thirty cents each
on 'em, by markin' 'em Oriental
goods Helluva way to treat rela-
tion. Now, looky here, you bloody
heather. It'll cost you just five hun
dred dollars to recover these two
stiffs, an close my mouth. If you
don't come through I'll make belch
t tn newspapers an they'll keel haul
an skulldrag tn Chinese Six COmpa-
MES an the Hop Sing tong through the
courts for evadin' tn laws O. tn inter-
state commerce commission, an make
'em look like monkeys generally. An
then tn policeIl get wind Of 1t. Savey,
policeman, you fat old murderer?
Tn price I'm askin' Is cheap, Charley.
How do I know but what these two
poor boys has been murdered in cold
blood? There's somethin' rotten in
Denmark, my bully boy, an you'll
save time an trouble an money by
diggin' up five hundred dollars"
Gin Seng said he would go back TO
Chinatown and consult with his CON-
pany. For reasons of his own he was
badly frightened.
Scarce had he departed before the
watchful eye of Captain Scraggs OBJ
served Mr.. Gbney and McGuffey in
the offing, block away. When they
came aboard they found Captain
Scraggs on top of the house, seated on
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"oRIENTAL GOODS"

Synopsis. - Captain Phineas p.
Scraggs has grown up around the
docks of San Francisco. and from
mess boy on a river steamer. risen
to the ownership of the steamer
Maggie. Since each annual in
spection promised to be the last of
the old weatherbeaten vessel.
Scraggs naturally has some diffi-
Guilty In securing a crew. When
the story opens, Adelbert p. Glib
ney. likabls, but erratic. a man
whom nobody but Scraggs would
hire. is the skipper, Neils Halvor-
sen. solemn Swede, constitutes
the forecastle hands, and Bart Nc
Guffey. a wastrel of the Gibney
type, reigns In the engine room.
With this motley crew and his an
Client vessel. Captain Scraggs Is
engaged in freighting garden
truck from Halfmoon bay to San
Francisco. The inevitable happens;
the Maggie goes ashore In a fog.
A passing vessel hailing the wreck.
Mr. Gibney gets word to a towing
Company In San Francisco that the
ship ashore IL the Yankee Prince,
with promise of a rich salvage.
Two tugs succeed in pulling the
Maggie into deep water, and she
slips her tow lines and gets away
in the fog. Furious at the decep-
ton practiced on them, Captains
Hicks and Flaherty. commanding
the two tugboats, ascertain the
identity of the Yankee Prince"
and, fearing ridicule should the
facts become known along the wa
ter front. determine on personal
vengeance. Their hostile visit to
the Maggie results in Captain
Scraggs promising to get a new
boiler and make needed repairs to
the steamer. Scraggs refuses to
fulfill his promises and Gibney and
McGuffey strike" With marvel
Gus luck. Scraggs ships a fresh
crew. At the end Of a few days
OF wild conviviality Gibney and
McGuffey are stranded and seek
their old positions on the Maggie.
They are hostilely received, but re-
main. On their way to San Fran
cisco they sight a derelict and Glib
ney and McGuffey swim to It. The
derelict proves to be the Chesa-
peake, richly laden, its entire crew
stricken with scurvy. Scraggs at
tempts to tow her in, but the Mag
gle is unequal to the task and Glib
ney and McGuffey, alone, sail the
ship to San Francisco. their sal
wage money amounting to $1,000
apiece. His crew having deserted
him, Captain Scraggs induces them
to return. At an "old horse" sale
the three purchase two mysterious
boxes which they believe to con-
tain smuggled "Oriental goods"
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"WelI fix Scragesy."

an upturned fire bucket, smoking pen
sively and gazing across the bay with
an assumption Of lamblike innocence
on his fox face. 81:
He soon departed, but Mr.. Gibney
was suspicious. Hes got his lines
fast somewhere-you can bank on
that" was his comment. "Whue we
was away he rigged up some Kind Of
a deal, Bart. 1t stands to reason 1t
was mighty profitable deal, too.
My imagination may be a bit Off the
course at times Bart, but in general,
II there's dead whale fioatin' around
the ship can smell it.'
What do you make out o. that fat
Chinaman cruisin' down the bulkhead
In an express wagon an another China
man settin' up on the bridge with
him" McGuffey demanded "Seems
to me they're comm, bows on, for the
Maggie"
"They tell me to deduct somethin',
Bart. Wait minute till we see II
they're comm aboard. II they are"
They're goin' to make a landln',
Glib"
then I deduct that this body
snatchin' Scraggs-"
They're boardin' us, Gib."
has arranged with yon fat China
man to relieve us o. the unwelcome
presence of his defunct friends. He's
gone an hunted up the relatives an
made 'em come across-that's what
he's done. The dirty, low, schemin'
granddaddy of all the foxes in Chris
tendon I'll fish around an see what
figger Scraggs charged him." and Mr..
Gibney stepped to the rail to meet
Gin Seng, for II was indeed he.
"Sow-see, sow-see, hun-gay," Mr..
Gibney saluted the Chinaman In a
facetious attempt to talk the latter's
language. Hello, there, John China
man. How's your liver7 Captain he
allie same get tired; he no waitee.
Wha's mallah, John. Too long time
you no come. You heap lazy all time"
Gin Seng smiled his bland. inscruta-
BILE Chinese smile. "You ketchum two
China boy In boxY' he queried.
1--WE have" doomed McGuffey, "an'
beautiful specimens they be-"
"No money, no China boy" Gibney
added firmly.
money have got. Too muchee mon
ey you wantee. No can do. Me pay
two hundred dollah. Five hundred dol
lah heap muchee. No have got"
"Nothin' doin', John. Five hundred
dollars an not a penny less. Put up
the dough or beat IT,"
Gin Seng expostulated, lied, evaded,
and all but wept but Mr.. Gibney was
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"The JOB that eonfronts us
is to get these munitions down
to our friends in Mexico"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
MIND HYPNOTIzED BY SIGNS
One Reason Why City Man Fails to
FamiIiarize Himself With the
Towns Landmarks.

''Do you know why It is so hard to
city these days" asked the old.
timer.
'It is something that has bothered
me a great deal. / can remember that
up TO ten or twenty years ago / never
had any trouble remembering that on
such and such corner was three
story building with wabbly tin
cornice. On another corner was
yellow warehouse, etc.
"But a fellow doesn't remember
these things any more unless he makes
It a duty. I mean that the mind II
no longer impressed photographically
with the appearance Of buildings-or
vacant lots.
"The reason is the advertising sigma
that assault the eye wherever one
looks. The letters Of the alphabet are
so familiar to the eye that when we
see sign the eye at once begins trac-
ing the letters. This doesn't mean
that we read all these signs. Our eys
is Just unconsciously attracted to the
familiar type-and this type is about
all It sees on building or vacant
lot.
81 don't refer only to sign boards
The merchants nowadays. particularly
the smaller merchants, fill their win.
dOws with signs of all descriptions
The names Of the stores are lettered
all across buildings. The result Is
we remember neither building not
sign"
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MOTHER! OPEN
CHlLD'S BOWELS WITH
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP

Your iitilc one win love the "fTniiys
taste OF "Calilornia Fig Syrup" even "
conStipated, bilious. irritable, feyeT,sh.
or full Of cold. A icaspOonfuI never
fails 10 cleanse the liver ana bowels
In few hours you can see for your
self how thoroughly II works all The
sour bile, aud undigested food out Of
the bowels and you have Al we'll, play
full child again.
Millions Of mothers keep "CalifOrDia,
Fig Syrup" handy. They know tea
spoonful today saves sick child to-
morrow. Ask your druggist for geDu-
inc california Fig Syrup" which has
directions for babies and children OF
all ages printed on bottle. Motberf
You must say "Cal!fOrnia" or you may
get an imitation ig syrup.-Advertise-
ment.
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CHAPTER vIl-Continued.

For an hour Mr. Gibney sat on the
stern bits and ruminated over a few
advantageous plans that had occurred
to him for the investment OF his share
Of the deal should Scraggs and Nc
Guffey succeed in landing what Mr.
Gibney termed "the loot" About eleven
o'clock all express wagon drove in on
the dock, and the mates dreams were
pleasantly interrupted by gleeful
shout from Captain Scraggs, on the
lookout forward with the driver. Nc
Guffey sat on top Of the two cases
with his legs dangling over the end
Of the wagon. He was the picture Of
contentment
Mr.. Gibney hurried forward, threw
out the gangplank, and assisted Nc
Guffey I'm carrying both crates aboard
the Maggie and into her little cabin.
Captain Scraggs thereupon dismissed
the expressman. and all three part
ners gathered around the dining room
table, upon which the boxes rested.
"Well, Scraggsy, old pal, old scout,
old socks, see you've delivered the
goods" said Mr.. Gibney, batting the
skipper across the cabin with an affec-
tionate slap on the shoulder.
~ did," said Scraggs-and cursed
Mr.. Gibney's demonstrativeness.
Here's the bill o. sale all regular.
McGuffey has the change. That bunch
O. Israelites run tn price up to $1,000
each Oh these two crates O. ginseng,
but when they see we're determined
to have 'em an amt interested in
nothin' else, they let's 'em go to us.
McGuffey, my dear boy, whatever are
you a-doin' Understanding around
with your teeth in your mouth? Skip
down into tn engine room and bring
ND a BANNER an q col chisel. Wen
open her up an inspect tn swag."
Upon McGuffey's return. Mr.. Gibney
took charge. He drove the chsel un-
der the lid of the nearest crate, and
prepared to pry it loose. Suddenly,
he paused. A thought had occurred
to him.
Gentlemen" he said (McGuffey
nodded his head approvingly), this
world Is full o. sorrers an disapp0int-
ments, an II may well be that these
two cases don't contain even so much
as a smell o. ginseng after all. II
may be that they are really Oriental
goods. What I want distinctly under
stood is this: no matter what's inside,
we share equally In the profits. even
II they turn out to be losses. That's
understood an agreed to, amt itY"
Captain Scraggs and McGuffey indi-
Gated that It was.
"There's element o. mystery about
these two boxes" continued Mr.. Glib
ney, 'that fascinates me. They sets
my Imagination a-workin'. an. joggles
- all my sportfn' instincts. Now.
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oVd0sutc anu eventually the CnluA-
man paid over the money and departed
with the remains of his countrymen.
II knew he'd come through, Bart"
Mr.. Gibney declared. "They got to
ship them stiffs to China TO rest along.
side their ancestors or be In Dutch
with the sperrits O. the departed for
ever after"
"Do We have to split this swag with
that dirty ScraggsT McGuffey wanted
to know. "Seein' as how he tried to
give us the double cross"
"Well fix Scraggsy-all ship-shape
an legal SOS he won't have no come
back"
They had not long to wait. Upon
his arrival at Gin Seng's place of busi-
ness Captain Scraggs had been in.
formed that Gin Seng had gone out
twenty minutes before, and further in
quiry revealed that he had departed
in an express wagon. Consumed with
misgivings of disaster, Scraggs re-
turned to the Maggie as fast as the
cable car and his legs could carry him.
In the cabin he found Mr.. Gibney and
McGuffey playing cribbage. They laiG
down their hands as Scraggs entered.
Mr.. Gibney began at once: "To
show you what a funny world this Is,
while me an Bart's settin' on deck
a-waitin' for you to come back, along
breezes a fat old Chinaman in an ex-
press wagon an offers to buy them two
cases Of Oriental goods. He makes me
an Mac what we considers a fair
offer. Lemme see, now," he continued,
and got out stub Of lead pencil with
which he commenced figuring on the
white oilcloth table cover. "We paid
twenty dollars for them two derelicts
an dollar towage. That's twenty
one dollars, an third O. twenty-one
is seven, an seven dollars from twen-
ty-ive leaves eighteen dollars comm
to you. Here's your eighteen dollars,
Scraggsy, you lucky old vagabond-all
clear profit on neat days work, no
expense, no investment, no back-break-
in interest charges or overhead, an
sold out at your own figger"
Captain Scraggs face was study
in conflicting emotions as he raked in
the eighteen dollars. "Thanks, Gib,"
he said frigidly.
"Me an GIBBS goin' ashore for lunch
at the Marigold cafe" McGuffey an
nounced presently, In order to break
the horrible silence that followed
Scraggsy's crushing defeat. "Pm will
in to spend some o. my profits on the
deal an blow you to lunch with a
small bottle o. Dago Red thrown In.
How about 1t, Scraggs"
"I'm on" Scraggs sought to throw
off his gloom and appear sprightly.
"What'd you peddle them two cadavers
for, Glib"
Mr.. Gibney grinned broadly, but did
not answer. In effect, his grin In
formed Scraggs that that was none Of
the latter's business-and Scraggs as
simulated the hint. "Weu, at any rate.
Glib, whatever you soaked him, II was
a mighty good sale an l congratulate
you. I think mebbe might ha' done
little better myself, but then II
amt every day feller can turn an
eighteen dollar trick on corpse"
"Comin' to lunch with us?" McGuf.
fey demanded.
Sure Wait minute till / run
forward an see If the lines is all fast"
He stepped out of the cabin and
presently Gibney and McGuffey were
conscious Of a rapid succession OF
thuds on the deck. Gibney winked at
McGuffey.
Mother new hat gone to H." mur.
INJURED McGuffey.