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The Washington times., 1923-07-14
DUNCAN FIR NJ
REPORTS BIG
SALES
Fourteenth Street Highlands
and PetWorth Properties
Show Activities.

The office Of .. J. DUNCAN re.
ports continued activity in the sales
Of new homes in Fourteenth Street
Highlands and Petworth.
Only one house in the row Of fif-
teen homes recently built in Four.
teenth Street Highlands on Thir.
teenth street between jefferson and
Kennedy streets northwest remains
rInsold. During the past week Mrs.
Mollie E. Sanford purchased 6407
Thirteenth street. This house has
reception hall. living room, dining
room, breakfast porch. kitchen and
cloak closet on the first floor. three
bedrooms, two baths and sleeping
porch on the second floor. There
is/a large finished attic. The eel.
Lar has heating plant, stationary
wash trays. servants toilet. also a
large built-in garage. Sales in this
row have been quite rapid due to
the Hact that this 10 the opportunity
to secure one Of these popular row
houses In this beautiful subdivision.
Many sales have been made in
Mr.. Dunigan's Petworth operation
near the Soldiers Home and Grant
Circle. Mr.. DUNCAN has a number
or houses nearing completion on
Third and Fourth streets northwest
between Varnum and Webster
streets. Several Of these homes
were sold during the past week.
Mrs. Myrtle D. Fowler purchased
1918 Fourth street and Bernard
Hathcock purchased 42O7 Fourth
street. These two houses are built
OF brick, have SIX large rooms
tiled bath, cellars. large porches in
the fronts and rears and many
other attractive features that go
toward making a real home.
The excavating and grading work
Is nearly finished on the tract con-
tanning seventeen city blocks.
bounded by Emerson street on the
Concord avenue on the north and
south. Eighth street on the west
Kansas avenue on the east.
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
Ex-SECRETARY BAKER
PREDICTS FUTURE WAR

CEDAR POINT. Ohio, July H.
There will be a continental Euro
pean war within the next three
Or four years, with the possibility
that the United States will be
drawn in. unless something is done
about It," Newton D. Baker, OF
Cleveland. former Secretary of
War. predicted in an address be-
fore the annual convention OF the
Ohio Electric Light Association
being held here.
Entrance Of the United States into
the full spirit Of the League Of Ma.
TONS he declared, was the only way
open 10 a possible prevention OF
such a conflict, which he pictured
as the most terrible the world will
have ever known.
President Harding is externally
RI ni. the former secretary said,
the World Court,
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
JUDGE UPHOLDS
ARMY FRAUD
DEMURRER
Indictment Against Colonel
o'5rien Found Too Vague |
to Be Sustained.

The demurrer to the indictment
charging Col. Arthur A. O'Brien,
of the quarternaeter department,
with conspiracy with David ]. Ma
Ioaey, an attorney of Boston, Mass.
to defraud the Government out of
28,21O.24 in connection with 4
Building in Boston, used by the
sustained by Justice Bailey OF the
District Supreme Court.
O'Brien, through Attorney John
3. Hogan, claimed the indictment
alleged no facts showing conspiracy
and fails to show that the claim OF
the Newbury Realty Corporation
was not valid claim. It was also
claimed that the indictment IL 50
vague, indefinite and uncertain that
a judgment on a. trial would not
protect the defendant against a
subsequent prosecution.
The indictment alleged that
O'Brien, az supervisor OF the War
Department Board OF Appraisers on
War Claims, deceived Newton ID.
Baker, Secretary VI War. into or
dering the payment OF the money
to the realty company on. April 20,
1920. The Government leased the
NeWbury Building from December
I. 1913, to June 80, 1913, at the rate
Of $4,000 a year. The claim for
the extra money was put in for al
legged changes and improvements in
the building which, it was claimed
were arranged for outside OF the
rental agreement conditions.
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
zoo RUM BOATS
SEIZED IN
Detroit Waterfronts Cleaned Up
After Dynamite Threat
Against Agents.

DETROIT, Mich, July 14.--Dyna-
mite threats. crow bars, gasoline and
all the wiles Of 5000 river rum run
ners, their women.folk ana synnpa-
thizers failed early today to check
the most spectacular cleanup raid
In the annals Of prohibition enforce
ment in Wayne county.
Two hundred power boats and q
large Quantity Of. liquor were seized
along the Ecorse ana wyandott
watsrfrOnts, gate for much Of the
liquor sold In the middle west.
AZ the officer began to clean up
toOtIeggerS ana rum runners with
their women folk ana children and
syntpathizers gathered BY the hun.
dreds.
As the laden prohibition trucks
tteared the bridge on the return
TO Detroit the mob milled nearer
and nearer 70 the strategic point.
"0st OFT that bridge or you'll be
blown TO bitSg' came the warning.
In answer State police and Federal
officers whipped out their guns, but
the nfOb retrea4ed only after the
raiders foiIed q desperate attempt to
set fire to the bridge. Leaders Of
the mob were armed with crow bars
and one carried q can Of gasoline.
The return to Detroit with the
contfahand became q running fight.
Scores Of automobiles were parked
by the rum runners Squaf6ly across
the marsh tine road. The officers
IeAped into the impAsse. showing the
bafrtcading cars into the weeds and
marsh grass. AZ they left the
trucks the crowd SurgSd forward In
q concentrated attack 70 be beaten
off by the agents VINO seized the
heavy hickory stakes Of the truck
bodies and laid About tl1enn.
In the outskirts Of Detroit a car.
load Of men attempted to ram one
Of the trucks, shouting I'VE are
armed" but the attackers were
again repulsed and the raiders
brought their load safely home.
The Washington times., 1923-07-14

and their eaEerness to let their
tongues run wild. They fear that,
II they speak to me, their so-CAlIOd
s6cial position viii be ruined.
/ will tell the jury tomorrow
what know. and God knows there
70 not man on II who will blame
me for what have done.- am
innocent and defy anyone to bh0w
me where have acted other than
q perfect lady. / may have done
some inAtScreet things. but. before
God. have done nothing that any
girl would not do under the same
circumstances.
Relations Proper.
What MFR. Kepner has done for
me consider proper In every
respect and when the whole story
IS told I know soTlAe who have ham.
Is1ered unn1ercffuIfy at my reputa-
ton VIII bow their heads in shame.
They have tried TO drag me down
by their Internal gossip.
could almost cry with rage
when they try to drag into my
affairs those Of my dearest friend
and pal, Miss Tucker. They have
called her my advisor. I am old
enough 10 take care Of my own
fairs without any advice from any
one. / am tired ana hope IL will
al soon b over.
You may rest assured I win come
cut all right. 1 could tell you Of
dozens Of lies they have told on ma
but won't. They, In many In.
etanc69, are far worse than I am.
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
CONVICT WITH z
DEGREESAFT TER
ANOTHER
ParoIed Man Wants Privilege
Of Living Near University to |
Take Examin atoms.

ELMIRA, N. r, July 14.-Wil-
liam Washington, alias "a, holder
Of two college degrees as engineer
and chemist, one Of the brAiniest
men to ever serve term bentnd
the walls Of the Elmira RefornA-
tory, win seek q third college DE-
gree.
RefOrmatory officials have before
them q request from Washing ton,
now on parole, for permission to
go from Pittsburgh, where he IL
employed, to New York city, there
to take the entrance examinations
at New York University.
washington, trained at the Car
nsgie institute OF Technology, and
the University Of Pittsburgh as an
engineer, during his thirteen
months enforced stay at the Re
formatory, decided to prepare him.
self for the legal profession on HE
release from the reformatory.
Took Auto.
During his stay At the RefOrnA-
tory, Washington became editor Of
the Summary, the weekly pubiica-
ton Of the college on the Hill"
This unusual prisoner, Q young
negro of Pittsburgh who served as
lieutenant in the world war,
came to serve his term at the FL
mira Reformatory when he stepped
into a high priced car standing
along side a New York city street
curb, and drove off. He went as
far as Ohio where he was arrested,
taken back to New York, and there
committed to the reformatory.
He was married at the time, and
had two children. During all Of
his period Of confinement he never
wrote to his wife or mother, prefer.
ring to-have them think that, as
they believed, he had gone with an
engineering party to South Amer
lea, and had dropped out Of their
existence.
Feared Disgrace.
"I'd rather have them think I had
forgotten them than to have them
know I am here, prisoner, where
the doors Of q cell swing behind
me each night" he often said.
On his release Washington re-
turned to Pittsburgh, where he had
been promised employment. He
had declared at the time Of his
parole that he intended returning
to his wife and mother, owning
up to his disgrace.
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
VETERAN FALLS
INTO CAFE,
UNHURT
He, Clad Only in Socks,
Pitches Through Window
in Ebbitt Hotel.

Achilles, with his famous heel,
and Eugene A. Costello, thirty,
Of 1918 Eighteenth street north
west, with his charmed life, are
comparable.
But whereas Achilles had q
vital spot, Costello, an ambulance
driver, Gassed and wounded in
the world war, If he has such
weakness keeps 1t covered.
PanoplIed IN Socks.
Last night Costello, clad for safe.
ty IN q pair Of socks, leaned out
Of a second story window at the
Ebbitt Hotel. Down one floor be.
low him his comrades In convention
all of them ambulance drivers in
the war-were making merry. Co.'S
teiIo leaned farther out and then
II happened.
When he lit twenty-five feet be-
low he had crashed through the
heavy plate glass canopy leading
into the Fourteenth street side Of
the Ebbitt's cafe. The areaway re.
sounded with sounds very much
IKE those expected of an ambu-
lance caravan on q hurry-up run.
Detectives Thompson and Mans
field took him to Emergency Hos.
pital. He has q few scratches on
his face and legs.
Costello left the hospital when
the detectives brought him his
clothes. He is undergoing treat.
ment at the Mt. Alto Hospital.
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
FIND RUSSIAN COUNTESS
DEAD At VILLA IN ROME

ROME, July IA. The RUSSIAN
Countess Claudia Kapnist, aged
twenty.six, formerly the Baroness
Meier zavonnelsky. was found dead
at the foot of a terrace at the VIVA
Sforza, where she lived with Count
ess Sofie Fersen.
Countess Kapnist was daring
aviatrix and had just brilliantly
uassed examination as a pilot. IL IS
not known whether her death was
due to accident or intent. On the
terrace from which she fell were
found only a volume Of Baudelaire .
verses and q packet of cigarettes.
The Roman aviators, with wnom
she was most popular, win pAFtici-
nate in the funeral
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
DIES IN EFFORT
TO SAVE THREE WOMEN

NEW YORK, July 13.-Attempt-
ing to rescue three women VINO
were struggling against an under
tow off Beach Seventy-ninth street;
Rockaway, Harry Serowitz jumped
into the water and was carried 10
his death by the undercurrent. his
body was later recovered.
The three women-Anna Tur'
mack. thirty-four years old. Rose
PabwaII and Ida Papan. thirty'eisnt
years old-had ventured into deep
water and were caught In the
strong pull of the undertow. Wncn
they made no Roadway against the
current they began 20 scream lot
help.
The Washington times., 1923-07-14

/ Will ADMIT ! nave en10yS0 MS
company and that we have had
many good times together. All
Of them have been absolutely inn
personal. But / am sorry now
that / ever met him. I believe
he Is sorry now. ! never loved
him, and he has, ] know, never
loved me.
Report Untrue.
NV blood boil6 with Indignation
when I think Of the horrible re-
ports the papers have printed about
me. The people think am q
terribly vie creature because of
this and can never forgive myself
for ALLOWING them this loop hole.
AZ fol- me wanting TO strike the
BID towns. think Frederick Is
Just large enough for me and to
f1e II f. the dearest place on earth.
I was born in Frederick county
and have lived in the city for the
past seven years.
Finds Real Friends.
Friends7 I have had thousands
OF them here and not one Will say
one word against me. In this Kind
of q trial I am fast wedding out
the bad from the good ones. Some
who know me stick through 1t all
and some turn up theft noses Is
they pass on the street not really
Believing that I am guilty Of break
ina up any hofne-foF they knew
better-bat simply becGt10e ! got
mixed up unEappily Tn this affair
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
''Y''
CAMP PLANS
FINISHED
Final Arrangements Made to
Take Care Of Is Boys at
Goose Creek Site.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, July IL
c. G. Kent, secretary Of the 7. N.
c. A., announced this morning that
the final arrangements for the as
sociation's camp for boys have D%en
completed. It will open July %
and run until August L. The site
is situated four miles from Lees
burg on Goose Creek. .~, ...,a.
The group leaders for the camp
will be Joe and Lfndon Dueternan
and Grafton Cockey. A regular
program has been arranged for
each day. Games and recreation,
classes in camp craft and woodlore
will be given. -.
The limit set on the number Of
bows for the camp Is twenty five.
Applications must be in no later
than 8 o'clock Monday night.
The Rev. L. 0. Lloyd was elected
president of the Ministerial As
ISOLATION in this city yesterday
afternoon at a meeting in Grace
Church, and the Rev. Edgar Car
penter, vice president. The Rev. j.
M. Delaney was chosen secretary
and treasurer. 49,. ~.
The Old Dominion Boat Club will
hold a smoker in their new nome
tonight at s o'clock. Features Of
the evenings program will be
several boxing and wrestling matches
which have been arranged between
local talent. At the close of the
program refreshments viii he served.
served.
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
Admits mistake +"

II talked with Mr.. Kepner at
breakfast one morning several
weeks before Grace passed away"
Miss Elizabeth Houck testified.
He told me that the greatest
mistake he ever made In his life was
wnen he married Grace. then told
him that everybody IN Frederick al
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
'NER ORDERED SERVANT TO BURN HIS DEAD WIFES C0IHE
L ulu Ricketts, Says
Her Friendship Was
Always ftProper'''

Here is Miss Lulu Ricketts, story Of her rendship
suith B. EOGrd Kepner Frederick architect s0ho yesterday
admitted at the inquest into his eOes death that he had
skoscered gifts Of etOey 6d sken lingerie the pretty
NoAata s0oitress IN to those svho Hammered
1nercfuy at MY repMtGton Miss Ricketts, oOrote the fol-
Lo,Oin0 defense of her actions:
The Washington times., 1923-07-14
By LULU RICKETTS,.
Waitress and Pal.

FREDERICK, Md. July IA am absolutely innocent Of
al the terrible things have been accused Of and want
improper relations with Mr. Kepner and he and anybody
elSe who knows me will tell anyone the same thing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-31
Review Finds Year
Past Good on Whole

Washington, Dec. 30-The Ameri-
can people produced more. spent
more, and saved more in 1923 than
in 1922, the federal reserve board
said tonight in its annual review of
economic conditions for the year.
AS whole, the review said. the
year was characterized by the large
industrial output, practically full
employment, Il sustained customers
demand for goods, and a level OF
prices more stable than in any year
since 1915.
Tracing the course of business de-
velopment. the board found that the
peak of the output was reached in
May. There followed a recession in
industrial activity during the sum-
mer months which. the board said,
arose more from 'hesitancy of bust
ness concerns in placing forward Or
ders than from q lessened demand
on. the part of ultimate consumers"
The price declines which accompa-
MED the condition were. therefore.
Chiefly in materials used in industry
rather than in customers goods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-31
FOUR TUNNEL Way
TO FREEDOM FROM
ATLANTA PRISON

Atlanta, Ca, Dec. Colour in
mates Of the L. S. penitentiary, one
the partner of Gerald Chapman. mill
lion dollar mail bandit. who has been
at liberty since his escape last March.
tunnclled their way to freedom from
the big prison here late today.
The fugitives are: George Andcr-
son, serving - year sentence for
participation in the New York City
mail truck holdup for which Chap
man was convicted: Hiram Leppcr
serving Is years for Il federal offense
committed in Maryland. and who re-
Gently figured in 4 sensational escape
only to be captured in Minneapolis;
l-uWiE Schmidt. of Tonawanda, y. V,
sentenced at Rochester. y. Y. MAY
%. 1921, TO serve ten years for mail
robbery, and Frank Haynes, SEN
fenced at Knoxville. Tom. for coun-
terfeiting. Haynes would have COM
pletcd his term in February. but was
10 be held for Tennessee authorities
on state charge
The tunnel. barely large enough to
admit a man, was found to lead
from one of the prison tubercular
tents to n point so feet beyond the
stone walls surrounding the prison.
Haynes and Lepper. ,ubercular pa
TENTS, had occupied the tent for some
time. and Anderson md Schmidt
prison officials said, have had no OPP
portunity to assist in the excavation.
1t was estimated by Officials that
three weeks were required for COM
pletion of the passage.
Anderson and Schmidt were in
mates of eel house. but had free
dom of the grounds inside the walls
on SUNDAY
Prison officials expressed their be-
lief that the men We're aided by per-
sons outside.
Anderson and Chapman were lead
ers of what postal authorities say
was one of tn" most daring gangs of
robbers known to the noStai service.
Chapman was said TO have been the
man who engineered the mail rob-
berry in New York in which more
than $1.000,000 in securities were
taken from 4 mail truck.
Both Chapman and Anderson re-
ceived % year sentences. Their ar
rest ended an eight months search
More than 100000 OF the loot, it was
said. was recovered on Long Island.
Chapman escaped from the fed
eral penitentiary here March 81,
1928, together with Frank Grey. serv-
ing five-year sentence for passing
forged money orders in New York
City. They were recaptured after a
gun fight near Athens, Ga. Chapman
being taken to an Athens hospital to
recover from wounds. Chapman
later escaped from the hospital by
jumping out Of a second story win
dow. Two men who are charged
with having aided him in escaping
from the hospital were arrested some
time later in New York. CHAPMAN
made good his escape.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-31
Asks Diplomatic
Liquor Incident in
Capital Be Probed

Washington. Dec. :0.-I;eprcsen-
tatiNc Davis. Democratic Tennessee,
joined today in the demand for a
thorough congressional investigation
into the diplomatic liquo% situa-
ton here. He made public CORE
spondenCC with Internal Revenue
Commissioner Blair regarding the
recent attempt to seize liquor valued
by the police at 100000 and belong
ing to pr. Y. Soko!owski, secretary
of the Polish legation
Mr.. Blair explained that DIR. So
koioW&ki was registered with the
the state department as an accred-
tied member of the Polish legation,
thus emitting him TO immunity. The
commissioner added that nothing
contained in the DIPLOMATS liquor
privilege granted by the state de
partment authorizes the sale. gift,
or other distribution of diplomatic
liquors for beverage purposes. the
rights and privileges of the repre-
scntatives of foreign countries in this
respect being confined to their fam
lilies and bona fidc guests"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-31
Cum b erla nd Only
Other County to Get
Two Title Holders in
Boys and Girls Ag-
ricultural Work for
Year-A w ards at
Annual Meeting at
OrOnO

Orono, Dec. Boone of the biggest
and finest State Contests ever held in
Boys and Girls club work in Maine
closed here yesterday after a two
davs' session. From q total regis
tration of % there We're 81 boy and
girl county champions present. Every
county in the State was represented
with the exception of Waldo.
Exhibits were sent by every cham
pion and all were arranged on the
stage in the chapel, Alumni hall.
They included displays of potatoes,
sweet corn, and other vegetables,
canned fruits, meats, fish and vege-
tables and neddle work. All the
work was done by the children and
was exceptionally good as all COM
petitors for state honors We're the
best in their counties.
There were several exhibitors in
each project and from these the best
was picked. The following were
awarded the state championship for
1925 in their projects: Canning,
Ruby Edgecomb, Livermore Falls;
Chick raising, Lena Mae Davis,
South Paris; cooking and house
keeping, Helen MacKay, Eliot; gar
den, Steven Larrabee, Scarbor0:
Rodman Palmer. Readfield; pig, Leo
NJ. Staples. South Penobscot; pota-
toes. William =. Hall, East Sanger
Continued on Page 5-Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-31
Death of Former
u. S. Consul to China

w INC hester. Mass. Dec. 3O.-J Ohm
Fowler, Tor SO years in the naval
and cOnu,ar service i'll the United
States and n former consul general. a
hero Of the Boxer uprising in China
and an authority on oriental affairs,
died at his home here last night. Mr..
Fowler had been in failing health
since 1915. when he declined APP
pointmcnt to the consulate at
Riviere du Loup. Canada.
During. the troubled period from
1890 to 1914 in which he was con-
sui at Ningpo. ChcfOo and FoochoW.
China, and in which the China Japan
war, the Boxer uprising and tho
Russo Japanese war occurred, Mr..
Eowler's services to Europeans,
Americans. japanese, Chinese and
native Christians wen him the
thanks Of the Russian. Japanese,
Chinese and American authorities.
In the Boxer war Mr.. Fowler. 1T
his own expense, chartered and
operated two steamers to rescue 1876
result of the lighting and the cutting
of the communication lines.
The emperor of China decorated
him with the Order of the Double
Dragon and he was made member
of the Sacred Treasure of Japan. He
also received the official thanks of
the japanese government for his scr
vices in the China Japan war
President Mckinley in his address to
congress in 1900 praised his services
in the Far East.
Mr. Fowler was the recipient of
thanks from the foreign colony OF
Chefoo and was presented with d
silver loving cup on behalf of the
entire city of ChefOo for his ser
vices in the Boxer war He also
received addresses and resolutions
of thanks from native Christians and
high officials of Shantung. and from
numerous European countries, Eng
land and Canada. The Russian au-
thorities officially thanked him for
his services in tho Russo japanese
war.
Enterin" the government service in
1879. he was in the naval rendezvous,
Washington, until 1881. when he was
transferred to the L. S. :. ITALIA
poosa. He served for time as clerk
to President Arthur and to the sec
rotary of the navy. After the ITALIA
pooSa was wrecked in 1885. he
cruised around the world and then
entered the consular service in China.
where he served from 1890 to 1914.
He was named consul general in 1907.
He served for n year as consul at
Rimouski, Quebec, before his failing
health caused his retirement in 1915.
Mr.. Fowler wrote extensively on
oriental subjects and was n member
of the American Society on Inter
national Law and the American Poll
teal Science Association.