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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
SOCCER MARKED
BY GROWING
INTEREST
Crowds SWarming to Games
May Force Use OF Biggest
Baseball Parks.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-The prog
ress Of soccer 10 too marked to es.
cape attention in the sports Of the
United States. Baseball is doing
better in England than it ever has
done and soccer is more than meet
ing the expectations of those who
have interested themselves in 1t
here.
The Amateur Challenge Cup COM
petition shows how the amateur
soccer game has been striding for
ward in our cities. 1t is an added
trophy to the National Challenge
Cup. The latter is open to both
amateurs and professionals, but In
the future it may be restricted to
the very strongest three score or so
clubs of both classes.
There has been some talk that
soccer may find an entrance into
he Polo Grounds, Ebbets Field and
he Newark International League
Park. The game has attracted
IA6 NAOW0S SAl6 Col WI VI GA paw
portion to the size of the grounds
now available for soccer, and better
accommodations will increase inter-
est.
In soccer amateurs and profess
SIGNALS play side by side on the
same teams. The amateurs must
obey the rules which are prescribed
for them and If they do so there
is no ban in their taking part in
contests. 1t is a practice exactly
similar to the open tournament in
golf.
The founder of the first profess
sional league in soccer is an amateur
and always has been one. He re-
tains his amateur status and intends
to do so.
The Bethlehem Steel football club
has been invited to go to BuenOs
Aires to play a series of interna-
tional games. Soccer players take
longer trips for international con-
tests than baseball players. The
Bethlehems at present lead the Amer
lean Soccer League, but are ex-
pected to have a hard fight to hold
their place in the coming games.
st. Louis would gladly have the
final of the National Challenge Cup
in 1923, and inducements have been
offered to the officials to schedule
the game in that city. 1t cannot be
done, as the rules provide for a
change from East to West each
alternate year. and last year the
cup was played for in st. Louis.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
Price OF Auto Tires
Not To Be Raised
Until Later

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-To
avoid risking a possible check
OF demand for tires, manufac-
turers announced today that
they had decided not to in
crease prices next week, as
originally planned.
The new advance was to av-
erage 10 per cent, the proposed
price lists by five leading man
ufacturers showed. A test of
the market is said to have re-
vealed expanding d e m a n d
would have been seriously cur
tailed by increased prices.
Although tire prices were ad-
vanced not long ago, manufac-
turers claim this was offset
because at that time manufac-
turing costs had risen so tires
sold below the level of where
they would produce a good
profit.
The present proposed in
crease in prices is believed to
have been postponed only until
some time during the summer
season.
Trade reports say 1923 will
prove one Of the largest in the
tire industry. Orders are re-
ported at from so to 80 per
cent above those a year ago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
WIFE MISSING SINCE 1897,
HAS MARRIAGE DISSOLVED

NEW YORK. Feb. 2S.-supreme
Court Justice Carswell in. Brooklyn
yesterday dissolved the marriage Of
Frederick E. Warmers, Of No. 1890
Gates avenue, under the new di.
vorce law.
His wife, Mary, has been missing
since 1897, he testified, and he has
been unable to find her after a
countrywide search.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
CLERKS MAY SIT
# n. !. BILL
Employers Must Provide Help
With Seats by Terms OF
Measure.

ALBANY, Feb. 23-The gentleman
in snug-fitting cutaway, mauve
trousers, patent leather shoes and
fastidious cravat, who stands within
the portals of the town department
store and directs you to the bargain
counter. will stand there no longer
if a bill before the legislature be-
comes law. He will sit. The store
will have to provide a chair for the
floorwalker.
Also, there will be chairs for the
saleswomen behind the counter and
for all others in every line of bust
ness, for the bill requires seats
whenever persons are engaged in
work which can be properly per-
formed in a sitting position. In
establishments one seat
must be provided for every three
employees"
Walters as well are expected to in.
dorse the bill, for no longer will
"garcon" deem 1t q courtesy ex-
tended when asked to draw up q
chair" and join the party. The bill
says hotel and restaurant employees
shall be allowed to use the seats to
such an extent as may be reason
able for the preservation OF their
health"
Assemblyman Burchill, DemD Of
Manhattan, where the three classes
of employees vote in great numbers,
is father of the bill.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
GIRL WHO WE'D BIGAMIST
PLANS SECOND MARRIAGE

NEW YORK. Feb. 2S.-AlthouGh
the first venture of Ada Pedrick, of
Richmond Hill, met with disaster
when she discovered the man she
married had another wife, 1t has
not destroyed her faith in romance.
On February IS Justice Callahan
annulled her first marriage to Will
lam McDermott. and tomorrow Miss
Pedrick will become the wife of
John Price, of Jamaica.
One Of the complainants against
McDermott will be Miss Pedrick
and the other will be the former
Helen Allen, of the Bronx. 1t Is
charged that McDermott married
Miss Allen on August 26, 1918,
later going through a ceremony
with Miss Pedrick on November ~,
1920.
Miss Pedrick has a baby girl,
Ada, by her marriage with McDer-
mott. She was born July 4, 1921.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
DOG SAVES LIFE
Of WOMAN
|NF|RE
Named Baby" but He's Lick
ed Every Canine He Met.
and Proves a Hero.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.--When he
was born they named him Baby.
He grew until he weighed more
than thirty pounds, more than q
third of 1t in his brindled shoulders
and head. and still they called him
Baby. He had set of teeth that
would have served puma, but
they never changed his name.
As Baby he grew into doghood
he licked every canine thing that
challenged him and a number that
didn't. AS Baby he entered bench
shows in various parts OF the
country and ambled out with rib
bons attached to his collar. ~
He was fourteen years old yester-
day, and just to prove that a good
dog is always a good dog. no mat
ter what you call him, he saved
the life Of his owner, Mrs, Anna
Frank. Mrs Frank and Baby live
on a third floor. Baby sleeps in
the hall, just outside his mistress
door. Very early Mrs. Frank was
awakened by Baby's heavy grOwls
and whimpers. She told Baby to
stop his nonsense ana go pack TO
sleep. But Baby. understanding
that he had aroused; his mistress,
took on harder than ever. He
added howls and barks to his
growls and whimpers and Mrs.
Frank decided that Baby needed a
bit of correcting, even if it was his
fourteenth birthday.
She arrived in the hall to see
smoke seeping in through the door
that opens upon the stair well.
She picked up Baby and hurried
out. The smoke below was heavy,
but Patrolman Hembt guided her
and Baby through it to safety.
The fire was confined to candy
store on the street level. The
damage was estimated at $4,000.
Baby had, a chicken supper last
night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23

cur on November 3 under the re-
formed calendar. Independence Day
would always fall on Wednesday.
Thanksgiving Day would invariably
be the twenty-sixth of November
Christmas would always come on a
Monday. Birthdays would be always
on the same day of the week. New
Year Eve would always fall on Sat
urday night.
Would Change Seasons.
The seasons would have to be
slightly made over to fit the thirteen
months. Leap Year would occur as
usual and be a second ''skip day."
making a festival three days long
every fourth year, when "skip day"
leap day" and Never Year" would
come all together.
Some Of the reasons in favor of
the reform as stated by Cotsworth
follow:
'All business accounts, statistics,
etc, would be made truly compare
tive, and thereby enable executives
to more successfully control affairs.
Each day Of the week would reg
lister its four fixed monthly dates, on
which duties devolving on respon-
sible employees need to be regularly
done.
Reluctant requests to bank man.
ayers to advance payroll money for
fifth weekly pays now required in
four or five months each year would
cease.
Drafts, bills, contract payments,
interest charges, ETC., would never
fall due on Sunday, and would be
more fully met as unequal intervals
ceased.
Yearly holidays would recur on
the same date, and on the same
convenient day of the week, united
with their weekend rests extension.
Employees would be relieved from
recurring financial strains caused by
rents. house instruments, etc., falling
due when earning periods do not CO.
incide, and the fifth weeks groceries,
meats, ETC., must be bought from the
same monthly pays. Those occupy
time in thought and talk, impeding
business.
Regular business meetings, ETC.,
would become fixed to definite dates,
saving correspondence and incessant
references to monthly calendars.
Yearly costs of the tabular call
endars of months would be saved
exceeding 81, 100000 to Americans.
Larger savings would result in
compiling, analysing and explaining
business, Government, assessment
a nd other statistics"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
TORTOISE
COULDN' I
SWIM
Shellback Centenarian Is Left
to Own Devices in Homo
lulu, Flood.
By IRENE CORDIALLY KUHN.
Intarnatl0nal NeWs Service.

HONOLULU, Feb. 23.-''t's up to
a tortoise to take care Of himself in
a flood. Whoever heard of q tortoise
that couldn't swim, anyway"
Such was one-half Of the CONVEX
sation that ensued between Otto
Ludloff, superintendent of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, and an overworked keeper
at the Kapiolani Park Zoo here re.
Gently, following the rescue by the
former of a 1OQ-year-old land tortoise
which had been forgotten when the
terrific storm which hit Honolulu
recently drove all the keepers dis
tracted in their efforts to get the
emus, kanGaroos, camels, cockatoos.
bears and what not to safety when a
veritable cloudburst flooded the park
and the zoo.
What Ludloff said isn't recorded.
Were 1t not for his self-sacrificing
efforts, however, the centenarian
tortoise. presented years ago to the
late King Kalakana, would have
passed out, much to the regret of
those old residents who take tour"
lists to the Zoo to show him off.
While the storm was at its
height and the water was rapidly
All 1AoEAO1dH4 pain ~OA y
frantic calls from the Zoo for as
sistance in getting the animals and
birds to safety. Ludloff, safe at
home a few miles away from the
park, was one Of those called In to
help. When he arrived at the park
he asked If the land tortoise had
been removed to a place Of safety
To his horror he learned that the
Zoo officials. believing the old
shellback could swim and would en-
JOY the storm, had left him to his
own devices. Ludloff went to the
place where the tortoise's home
used to be. There, making a
brave fight. clinging tenaciously ia
wall and with only the tip of his
snout sticking out, the 8. P. c. A.
superintendent found the old fel
low. He plunged in and rescued
him, which in itself is a worthy
feat when one remembers that a
1O0-year-old tortoise weighs as many
pounds usually as he has years
Mr.. Ludloff got behind and
pushed" with a plank, with the
result that the granddaddy land
lubber was rescued.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
HERO MEDAL DENIED
WOMAN WHO REWED

PITTSBURGH. Feb. Should q
Distinguished Service Medal be
awarded to- the widow of q soldier
II she has remarked? The question
was raised at the Hunt Memorial
Armory, where citations for brav-
cry in the World War were award
ed to two persons.
The War Department. army Off
GERS said, withheld the medal which
was to have been awarded to the
widow Of Maj. Harold F. Hetrick
because Mrs. Hetrick is said to
have remarked recently. 1t is
probable that the medal will be
given to Major Hetrick's father.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
L|QUORPARTNER
STEALS SHIP
SELLS RUN
Syndicate Mourns Former
Member Who Put in SIS, 900
and Cot $4eo, 900.

NEWARK, Feb. ga group OF
Newark. MI. bootleggers mourns
the loss OF $3.50 900 invested in the
Bookkeeping trade and II earnestly
seeking one Of its former members
who has vanished with profit to
himself OF $456. 900. This win mean
nothing. however, IL he il caught,
according to stories current In rum
running crimes on the New Jersey
coast. !.
The bOetieggers, in December,
pooled their resources, amounting TO
$3.50, 000,. purchased q ship and went
to the Bahamas, where they bought
5000 cases Of whiskey at $50 q case.
They brought this $3.50. 900 worth o.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
ASKS CALENDAR
Of THIRTEEN
MONTHS
Advocate of New Bill Says.
Change Would Save
Millions.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-More than
100000 year is now squandered
in lost motion looking up calendars
to discover what day of the week diff
ferent days of the month fall on, &C.
cording to Moses B. Cotsworth, one
of the sponsors of the thirteen
month year, which has been Endorsed
by the New York State Chamber Of
Commerce and is embodied in a bill
which has been introduced in Con-
gress.
By reforming the calendar so as to
have thirteen months of twenty
eight days each, with skip day" at
the end of the year to make it come
out even, the normouS amount of Ia
Dor now spent in hunting through
calendars would be saved, according
to Cotsworth, because Sunday is al
ways on the first, eighth, fifteenth
and twenty-second of every month,
and the relation of the week to the
month Is fixed. More than 1000, 900
persons, he said, are engaged in en-
Payments which necessitate con-
slant researches in the calendar. 1t
also would save much of the expense
gun to be felt by commercial houses
since breweries went out Of business.
Protests From Landlords.
THE obvious danger that land
lords would try to exact a thirteenth
months rent is fully taken care of
in the bill ITSELF" said Cotsworth,
cas- it provides for heavy penalties
for any attempt to take advantage OF
this modernization Of the calender.
The bill is also accompanied by
schedules which enable a man who
is earning $200 a month, for in
stance, to see how much he would
receive when he is paid thirteen
times yearly instead Of twelve times.
This reform will be made, If the
present plans succeed, in 1928. The
advantage of uniformity in business
and banking are, of course, obvious"
Other countries are more advanced
than this oae in desiring the inn
proved calendar, according to Cots
worth, who said that there was no
doubt that the world would soon be
reorganized on the thirteen-month
basis.
One of the difficulties is that of
meeting the possible religious objec-
ton which may be raised against dis
lodging one Sunday of the fifty-two
from it's normal place and making it
fall on the eighth day instead of
the seventh. 1t is hoped to over
come this difficulty by advocating
that the skip day." or year day."
be dedicated mainly to religious ex-
ercises, so that it will in effect con-
stitute a second Sabbath.
Election day would invariably &C.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
SPANKING DID WIFE NO
GOOD, JAILED SPOUSE SAYS

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. ga
man who pleaded guilty to spank.
ing" has wife was sentenced to six
months in the county prison by
Judge Barnett. The prisoner, Rob
ert Gimmi, said he spanked his wife
after she threw a cup Of coffee and
a soft boiled egg at him.
when I was a boy and got a
spanking it made me behave. and
thought it would make her behave
also, but it didn't" Gimmi said as he
was being led away.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23

liquor to Sandy Hook. where they
anchored. and ali except one went
ashore 10 arrange for landing the
whiskey in Newark.
When they returned, q day or
two ago, the ship had disappeared.
A quiet search disclosed that the
sole guardian had taken the vessel
up the Delaware river and disposed
81 the entire cargo at $50 d case.
or for $4,000. This mans original
investment was $4,000. He has
vanished with the ship.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
PROFESSOR AT TRINITY
RETIRES AT AGE OF 80

HARTFORD, Feb. 23.--The Rev.
John j. McCook, professor of modern
languages at Trinity College. has re-
gned.
Prof. McCook was eighty years
cid on February 2 and IL the only
Trinity alumnus holding fulls pro-
fessorship at the college. He was
graduated from Trinity in 1863 and
from the Berkeley Divinity School
in 1866. He served in the civil war
as a lieutenant.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
Germany Gets First
Russian Grain
Since 1915

The first grain exported by
Russian since 1915 is now NOV
ing into German ports, the Com
merce Department was advised
today by the American CONNER
cial attache at Berlin.
Germany has purchased 1,4OO,-
600 bushels of wheat and rye
from Russia, whose normal pre-
war grain exports were 1885,
600, 900 bushels annually.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
VILLAGE TEA ROOM RAID
IS CITED IN DIVORCE CASE

NEW York. Feb. 2s.-Henry
Platt shearer Is being sued iii the
supreme court here for divorce.
Mrs. shearer accuses him Of re-
peated acts of misconduct with
other women.
Shearer denies his wife's charges
and states she was arrested Feb.
rtlary 5 in q raid on the Black
Parrot Tea Shoppe. Morris j.
Bruin. arrested at that time. Ii
named by Shearer IN q counter
claim for divorce Shearer accuses
his wife and Bruin OF misconduct
on February II In her apartment.
Mrs. Shearer says stories about
the Black Parrot ana other Green.
witch Village tea rooms are con
cocted and created by newspaper
reporters"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
Elk Herd Inyades Farm.

ALTOONA, Pa, Feb. 23.-Food
supply running short. herd of four
teen elk invaded the orchard of
George Willis farm, damaging the
Young trees. Frank A, Myers, game
warden, drove the herd back into
the mountains,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23
FISHERMEN RUN RUM AND
N. y. FISH PRICES MOUNT

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Rum-rln-
ming profits are proving so attrac-
tive to fishermen that prices at the
Fulton fish market are the highest
in fifteen years, it was reported to-
day.
While bad weather and the early
Lenten season were said to be con-
tributing causes, the shortage was
held principally due to the lew
schooners remaining in the fishing
trade.
GLASS PUT IN WALL CRACK
COMES OUT FULL OF RUM
NEW YORK, Feb 23.-Four Fed
eral dry agents. cruising in The
Bronx, observed a bartender in VIII
liam Ludwig's saloon and cabaret
filling whiskey glasses from crack
in the wall behind the cigar counter.
Investigation disclosed a hidden
spigot and a rubber tube leading
to the floor above.
Upstairs, the detectives say, they
found miniature distillery. Lud-
wig was held in $1,000 bail by
United States Commissioner Hitch
cock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-23

When constipated, bilious or sick,
enjoy all the splendid physic-action
on the bowels of a dose of EPSON
salts without the awful taste and
nausea. A few cents buys a pack
age of "Epsonade Salts" the won
derful discovery of the American
EPSON Association. Even children
gladly take it. Drug stores.
Evening star., 1923-04-21
VIRGINIA VALUATION
IS S1,319,436,678
Placed on Land, Houses and
Neutrality-suspicious. Own
IL Per Cent.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, April 21.-The ag-
gregate value of all the land. houses
and machinery in the state is placed
at S1,319, ,436.67S, according to the
auditor of public accounts, thai being
the valuation for last year. The
whites own 21,149.350 acres of the
total Of 23,O70,195 in the state.
Two Counties Omitted.
In this connection it is noted that
area and value of the lands in Bu-
chanan and Dickinson counties is not
set forth in the report. This acreage
is Independent of the mineral lands
of the state. which is assessed under
the direction of the state corporation
commission.
The value of the farm lands and the
town lots and buildings owned by the
whites is fixed at S1.231,376,1S4. and
that of the colored people at sS2 060.-
534. The colored people are shown to
own about IL per cent of the area of
the state. exclusive of the lands of
Buchanan and Dickinson counties
Report on TimepieceS.
The report of the auditor shows also
that there are only 1SS,301 timepieces
in the state. with an average value
of about $3.50 for watches and clocks.
cne county reporting the vaIue of the
watches at $1.25, and Warren county
does not report a solitary watch or
clock
Evening star., 1923-04-21
ROCKVILLE PIKE SOON
TO BE RESURFACED
Road to Be Widened Six Feet
From District Line to
County Seat.

The Rockville pike between the
District line and the Montgomery
county seat is soon to be resurfaced
and the safety of traffic enhanced by
placing concrete shoulders on both
sides of the roadway
Representative Fred y. ZihIman of
Maryland, who has year after year
urged upon Congress the absolute
necessity for keeping the great high
ways from the District connecting
with these Maryland highways in
good condition. was informed today
by John n. Mackali. chairman of the
state road commission of Maryland.
that this work on the Rockville pike
would soon be advertised for bids.
The road will be widened from its
present width of fifteen feet to twen-
ty-one feet by building a three-foot
concrete shoulder on each side--simi- :
lar TO the work done on he Wash
ington- Baltimore boulevard and the
Frederick pike.
1t has been found that where the
Maryland roads have been widenei
that there has been great decrease
in the number of accidents and :he
Rockville pike will oe the third
highway in this section which has
been improved in this manner.
Evening star., 1923-04-21
HEADLESS BODIES
PROBE IS BEGUN
Two Found in Bag-Three
Severed Heads Also
Discovered.
Ey the Associated Press.

i'y the Associated Press.
CRISFIELD. Md, April 21.--An in
vestigation to solve the mystery
which surrounds the casting Of a bag
containing the headless bodies of two
negro children and three severed
heads into a pond near here was be-
gun last night.
The only clue to the man seen by
three little boys to toss the sack into
the water was that he rode a bright
red bicycle and wore leather leggings
and heavy vestcoat. He has not
yet been found.
Man Seen With Bags.
AT the inquest held yesterday after
noon the boys testified that they no.
ticed the man, who. they said, was a
negro, approach the pond, jump from
his bicycle and throw the. bag into
the water. He then rode rapidly away,
looking around once as though to see
If any one was watching him, but ap-
parently not noticing the boys. Think
ing the man was drowning some pup
pies or kittens. they went to save the
supposed animals. What they found
bodies, three heads. two bricks, some
clothing and bag of eggs.
Dead Six Months.
Dr. c. E. Collins, who examined the
bodies, testified he thought the chill
hren had been dead about six months.
one body, he judged. was that OF a
baby perhaps a week to a month old.
the other that of u child between the
ages of two and four years.
Although the police pumped all the
water from the pond. no other bodies
We're found. The coroner's jury was
instructed to investigate further. and,
it is said. will be recalled when the
sheriff and police complete their in
vestigations