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The Washington times., 1923-08-15
MOVIE MAN
|NBRUTM
ATTACK
George Stewart In Hospital
After Figfnt-RaIph Ince
Reported Missing.

NEW YORK, Aug. 15.-Detec-
tives, unlimited, today opened an
investigation into the presence Of
George Stewart, twenty-one-year-
old brother of Anita Stewart, film
star, in a theatrical district hos
pital here with his skull fractured
and his body covered with bruises.
Ralph Ince Missing.
Ralph Ince, motion picture di.
rector, and brother Of Thomas Ince,
whose fists and feet caused young
Stewards wounds, according to
Moses L. Malevinsky, attorney for
Miss Stewart, was reported to have
fled from his Lambs. Club apart
ment.
Charles Ring, brother of Blanch
Ring, coincidence, and brother-in.
law Of Thomas Meighan, motion pic
ture actor, said to have witnessed
the assault, could not be found.
The affair, as reported by Maleyin-
sky, revolves around an obscure
road house, climaxing in a fight on
the Albany Post road, staged in
the early dawn.
According to Malevinsky, Ince,
Stewart and Ring, together with
three women, whose names were
not revealed, took Miss Stewart 8
automobile on August 8, and motor
ed to a road house. Harry Weight,
chauffeur for Miss Stewart, drove
the car.
Tells of Fight.
Stewart was sitting in the front
seat with the driver" Malevinsky
said. "Ince became enraged NJ
something. Words followed. He
ordered Voight to pull up at the
side of the road. Then, without
warning he slugged Stewart with
his fist. Next he dragged the
youth from the car, beating him
and kicking him. Ring and Weight
sought to interfere. 1nce knocked
Voight down and forced Ring back
into the car. Then he continued to
beat and kick Stewart until an
other machine came along. He
stopped them
Malevinsky charged that 1nce
took the unconscious Stewart tC
the Lambs Club, Ince the attorney
said, held Stewart in his apartment
until late the next morning, without
giving him medical attention. Then
Stewart was removed to the hos
pital.
Condition Serious.
DIR. w. L. Sneed found Stewards
skull had been fractured. His con
ditiOn was serious.
I'VE have not reported the mat
ter to the police" the attorney ad
mitted today. Legal action will
come later"
At detective headquarters it was
stated the authorities were making
| an investigation.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
D. c. CAS- PRICE
IS REDUCED
ONE CENT
Two Cents in Virginia-No
War to Follow, Standard
Oil Officials Say.
Nv international News Service.

NEW YORK, Aug. l5.-Eastern
States today received the benefit of
lower gasoline prices when the
Standard Oil Company, of New
Jersey announced a reduction of one
cent a gallon in the price in New
Jersey, Maryland and the District
of Columbia and two cents gallon
in Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina. The
reduction will bring the tank wagon
price down to 1919 cents a gallon.
Officials of the company said the
cut did not forecast a rate war
such as exists in the middle west.
Rate slashing between the independ-
ents and the Standard Oil Company
1t was said. was out of the question
in the Eastern States.
The cuts announced today were
the natural result of the surplus
supply of crude oil on hand IL was
stated
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
BOSS SHUTS HIS PLANT;
GIVES VACATION TO ALL

NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Aug. IS.
The large four-story store of
the G.. e. Keith Furniture Company
at Manchester was locked Saturday
night and the president OF the COM
pany and his twenty employees
started on two weeks vacation,
all Of them to receive full pay
while they are gone. And during
that time the store will be locked
and no business will be done.
Before he left Mr.. Keith said that
heretofore he had fused around
trying to arrange individual vaca-
tons to suit everybody and he
finally got so tired Of it that he
decided to give everybody a vaca.
ton at the same time. =.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
Mrs. Coolidge
A Bargain
Hunter i

KEYSTONE PHOTO
By ELEANOR EARLY
international News Service.

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge never lies in
bed in the morning. She doesn't
put her hair UP on curl papers.
She doesn't own a boudoir cap. and
she never wears a negligee.
She doesn't use any rouge or
perfume. and only the tiniest bit
Of powder. She gives herself sham
poos and manicures and seldom has
a wave.
She rises bright and early and
gets a days work done before the
rest of the lazy world is stirring.
And when she dresses. she dresses
all at once Nora Kennedy says so.
Nora is Mrs. Coolidge's maid, and
what a woman's maid doesn't
know about her. nobody does.
Is Queen to Her Maid.
They say no man is a hero to
his valet. Perhaps not. But Mrs
Coolidge is a Queen to her Nora
Finest lady that ever drew the
breath of life," says Nora. None
Of your airs about her."
She gets up bright and early,
,, says Nora. And when she's up
she's up. Spick and span, and
ready to meet the world at her
breakfast table. No curl papers
slippers.
"She's not the sort that sits round
doing nothing. Busy every second
and pleasant as the day is long
Greets me with q smile in the
morning, and never takes it of
her pretty face.
"She's swamped with mail anC
kilograms Everybody's sending
her flowers. The suites a regular
conservatory, and she could oper
a sweet shop on the candy she
has"
Has it, turned the lady's pretty
| head? 1t has not.
Here, my DEAR she tells the
maids, Take some of those roses
to your room, and help yourself tc
the bon bons over there"
As Great Reader.
"Oh, it's a great lady she u.s.
says Nora, knitting socks for tn,
President and stockings for tn
boys, when she has a second t,
spare. And wishing she'd time t,
read. She's great reader. Books
all the new ones, and magazines
and the newspapers.
ga woman she says, 'shoult
keep herself posted on the affair
of the world. And she can't do i
unless she reads the papers"
So Mrs. Coolidge reads then
every word of them. Announce
ment Of sales draws her to tn
shopping district. Arm in arm wit!
Mrs. Frank w. Stearns, she rub
I elbows with hundreds of bargain
hunters. Half the sales girls il
Washington would have the thrill
of their lives if they might Sc
TO the First Lady Of the Land
Yet half dozen have waited d
her, and not one recognized her.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
WARD MAY EXAMINE
GRAND JURY MINUTES

NEWBURGH, n. Y, Aug. 49,
Supreme Court Jusctice Seegar
I'm special term here, granted the
the motion of counsel for Walter
s. Ward, under indictment for the
murder of Clarence Peters of Hav
erhill, Mass, for permission to ex
anime the minutes of the grand
jury.
Special Deputy Attorney General
O'Neill, in opposing the motion
charged that the members of the
Ward family had left the iurisdic
ton an dthat other witnesses, par
ticularly Queenie Jones, who Is
sal dto have been Peters sweet
heart. and her mother, had been
sent to England.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15

Seized by Free State Troops
at Points Of Bayonets as
He IS Speaking.
BY DANIEL O'CONNELL,
international News Service.

DUBLIN, Aug. 15.-Eamon de
Valera, leader of the Irish repub-
licans and the most aggressive
political foe of the Free State,
was arrested in County Clare to-
day while making a campaign
speech.
Makes no Protest.
De Valera had not been speaking
more than two minutes when the
cry went up:
Soldiers are coming"
The Free State troops rushed up
firing a volley into the air over the
platform. Then they closed in and
seized De Valera who made no
protest.
There were about 1000 persons
in the audience. Great excitement
arose while the soldiers were max.
ing the arrest. Women shrieked
and tainted. The crowd at first
made some show Of resistance but
and made off in fright, leaving De
Valera in the hands of the soldiers.
Before the actual arrest was made,
an armored car dashed UP the viii
lage street with the soldiers firing
into the air. At the first warning
De Valera looked startled, stopped
speaking and threw himself upon the
PLATFORM. He evidently thought
shots were being fired in his direc-
ton.
The crowd about the platform
quickly broke into panic. A handful
of personal supporters, believing De
Valera had been wounded, sur
rounded him and lifted him up. BY
this time the soldiers had reached
the platform.
They had bayonets attached TO
their rifles and turned aside the
crowd at the point Of the cold steel.
De Valera was taken into custody.
He assured his friends he had not
been hurt. Meanwhile, the bulk of
the crowd was taking refuge in side
streets. A small body of men and
women attempted to rush the troops
while onlookers cheered. The
soldiers coolly pointed their bayonets
at the onrushing crowd. deftly turn
ing it aside.
Say De Valera Tainted.
The government announced that
de Valera's arrest was made under
the public safety act. He will lie
held in prison until his future status
is decided. He may be a prisoner
until after the election on Au.
gust q.
1t was reported here that several
members of the crowd fireS revolv.
ers and that some persons were
knocked down and trampled.
De Valera had driven to Ennis in
disguise in an open automobile,
According to a newspaper CORE.
spondent who was nearby, de Va.
lera tainted, which accounted for
his fall upon the platform.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
100 AUTOMOBILES CARRY
MASTER PLUMBERS PARTY

Carrying an extra truck load OF
automobile tires in anticipancy of
dreaded elbow outs" 500 members Of
the Master Plumbers Association
and their families are today jour
neying to Chapel Point on their
annual excursion.
The party left Thirteenth and K
strets, northwest. at $50 this morn
ing. One hundred automobiles were
in the procession. They are making
their presence known on their trip
by frequent band selections.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
WORKER rs
TAKE OUT
80 men
ALIVE
Ninety Bodies Recovered So
Far-BIack Damp Blamed
for Disaster.
BY nj. F. DACEY,
international News Service.

KEMMERER, Wyo., Aug. 15.-
One hundred and two dead is the
toll today of the terrific explosion
in Frontier mine No.. I Of the
Kemmerer Coal Company, which
entombed 1877 men and shook the
countryside yesterday morning
shortly after the miners had en-
tered the workings for the day.
Ninety bodies had been removed
early this morning and elevn more
dead were known to be in the
mine.
Thirty.Five Are Rescued.
Thirty-five men were rescued alive,
but one died as he was being taken
out Black damp gas, the coal
miners menace-was blamed for the
blast that trapped them. in the
slopes.
r. J. Quealy, president Of the com
pany that operates the mine has
declined to issue any official state
ment.
The explosion occurred between
slope fifteen and sixteen about
mile from the entrance Of the mine
and except for the thirty-five who
came out alive the workers had no
chance for their lives, the poisonous
gases overcoming them Immediately.
Twenty-Five Of the rescued were
saved through heoric action by Joe
Nadi and Tony Davich who locked
twenty-seven men within a slope
barricade until the death tunnel
was partly cleared of track damp.
m, ~ fhnao fy1anfV.0AVAV1
were taken out alive. Nadi and
Davich died in their efforts to res
cue other imprisoned men.
A large number of the dead men
are Observation-Disclosures and Afmen-
ians, and few Japanese.
It was a gruesome sight that
greeted early morning visitors at
Odd Fellows Hall and Fitzpatrick
Undertaking rooms today, where the
victims of the disaster were
stretched out under white canvas
while officials of the mine checked
their Identification.
Forty-six bodies were at the
Fitzpatrick place, forty-throe at
Odd Fellows Hall and two had been
removed to a. nearby church.
Undertakers and their assistants
were quietly working over the dead
DOQl6S at IHS lWO AlOLSOC SAAy
a few of the victims were burned,
the majority dying in their tracks
of suffocation.
The scenes at the morgue were
striking contrast to the outburst oS
hysteria that Immediately followed
the explosion. Hundreds OF women
and children ran bareheaded and
scantily dressed to the mouth OF
the mine a little less than a half
mile from the village. Wild scenes
of disorders marked the first two
or three hours.
It required force to restrain many
of the women from entering the un-
foreground death passages. g.
Guard Around Pit.
Soon q guard was thrown around
the entrances to the shaft. and the
frenzied relatives were prevented
from the vain task of trying to
rescue their loved ones.
Order was soon restored but large
crowds continued to surge around
the portals of the mine TOMB.
Sobbing women rushed to the
cars as the relief workers brought
The Washington times., 1923-08-15
By VINCENT F. CALLAHAN.

washinEtOn Times Staff Correspondent.
FREDERICK, Nd, Aug. 10
Miss Lulu Violet Ricketts,, twenty
four-year-old Frederick waitress
and a star witness Of the State
in the trial of B. Evard Kepner,
charged with the murder of his
wife, has disappeared from Fred
erick.
Miss Ricketts,, Kepner's COM
panion on liquor and petting
parties and recipient of costly
presents from the accused man, is
wanted by the State as rebuttal
witness. Her disappearance is
causing considerable concern and
may delay the trial, which is near
ing its close.
Left Saturday.
The young waitress, who barred
her relations with Kepner when she
testified last Thursday, quit Fred
erick Saturday night. At her room
ing house 1t was said she was gone
for good. Inquiries at the Barbara
Trietchie Candy Shop brought forth
word that Miss Ricketts, was nc
longer working there.
"I have been hunting for Miss
Ricketts, since Monday night" said
Attorney Anders. 81 am very AK
fous to talk with her about KEEP
ner's testimony, and would like Il
nut her on the stand again. How
ever. IL / cannot locate her within 3
few hours, I will have to get along
without her testimony"
The trial moved slowly forward
today. The defense used up practi
caIly the entire morning in intro
ducinR character witnesses and put
ting on the stand Mrs. Helen Joyce
of Baltimore, niece of Kepner, wh'
proved to be an important witness
for the defense.
Miss Elizabeth Called.
Attorney Leo Weinberg, counse
for Kepner, sprung a surprise toda!
when he called Miss Elizabeth
Houck, sister of the late Mrs. KEEP
ner, to the stand. The manner il
which Weinberg questioned her re
suited in a reprimand from the cOur
: and Judge Hammond Urner, presid
ing at the trial, told him in opeI
court he was unfair to the witness
Weinberg took up in his hand ;
copy of the testimony at tn,
Continued on Page 2. Column CO.
The Washington times., 1923-08-15

Waitress, Missing Since Satur-
day, Sought by State
for Testimony.

FREDERICK, Md, Aug. 15.-
Evard Kepner, charged with the
murder of his wife, finished its
case at HIS this morning. The
State Immediately followed with
five witnesses in rebutal and rest
ed mt 1925 this afternoon.
The court announced that it
would hear arguments beginning
mt 100 o'clock. The case will be
hEuught to a close late this after
noon. A decision. however, is not
expected before tomorrow morn
ing.
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The Washington times., 1923-05-09

//0 UR children want to
stay up all night AMI
~ sleep all day"
Since we bought the radio we
can't drive the children to bed
at any decent time. =
Our young folks want to stay
up very late. They contend that
the real fun does not begin untH
10 or II o'clock and that it never
quits before midnight"
Few children Of our immedi-
re neiEllborhood are getting
enough sleep. They Stay up late
and are compelled to get up
early as ever in order TO be at
school on time. What can be
done about this matter? Must
we change the night TO day and
the day to night?"
In these several statements.
made by as many different men
and women, the parents of Amer
lea have the suggestion of A new
and difficult problem. How are
the children to find enough time
to sleep?
Adults become slowly accus-
toned to a shortened sleep period.
Probably four or five hours will
keep one in, a fairly good con-.
dition, provided he take the best
care of his general health. But
with children the case is differ
eut. They tend to lose weight:
to become nervous and irritablc
and perhaps to suffer disease, if
a certain minimum amount Of
sleep is denied them.
A few children and youths of
rugged physique. for certain
length of time, will increase in
their mind activity. They will
manifest increa sed alertness and
keenness of intellect. However,
this is probably only tempo
rarx matter of consuming a sur
plus nerve energy that should
remain in storage for health and
defense and resistance to mental
shocks.
But the real aim of this dis
cussion is to present very seri-
The Washington times., 1923-05-09
NEW ENTERTAINMENTS


: ously the idea that something
radical must be done to provide
additional sleeping hours for the
children of all grades. I, per-
sonalIy. favor the suggestion OF
beginning school at least an hour
later.
The radio is here to stay. II
is essentially an instrument of
the might. and it's vital relation
TO the education Of the young
is scarcely beginning TO be real
lied.
We older folks had just as
well try to keep pace with the
times, even though some fast
track work Is required to do it
1t is always safe to follow the
young crowd II they love the
( ~ OENhuSE
and the echoes thereof are more
dear and significant to their
happy young souls than are the
duller affairs of the day.
II WIN cost us little and injure
us less to turn the clock back
and WIhus give the children an
extra hour or two to remain up
at night; provided, we keep it
thus adjusted and allow the same
amount of extra time for sleep
ing in ethe morning.
Our children are running over
a leaf in the calendar of the
hours. The night is becoming
day. and the day is becoming
night. Let us turn the page
with them.
The Washington times., 1923-05-09
CHAPTER vi.

Kestner, as ne stepped into that
second room, found himself con-
fronting a figure which at first
sight reminded him of rubicund
and weather-beaten old robin.
This figure sat in wfng-chair,
at the end of heavy oak table.
Its ample paunch was covered by
q cherTy-eolored dressing gown
OF quilted silk 1t had patriar-
cFal polished dome, and a ruffled
fringe Of greyish-blonde hair. 1t
also had round and innocent-look-
ing amber-colored eyes. A ter
race OF fleshy dewlaps took the
place of chin, and added to the
blithe inanity. the cherubic other
worldliness, Of the figures gem
eral expression.
The man in the wing chair. at
first sight seemed ENORMOUSLY in
vertebrate. a pathetic and foolish
figure without guile and without
purpose In life. keStner could not
help remembering how good a
mask that misleading air of vague
tmbecility must have proved in
the past. 1t was pose, and
nothing more. For even as he
sat. there blinking up with his
watery-looking amber eyes, 1t was
plain that he was not altogether
off his guard. The newcomer
noticed that one hand rested in the
partly-opened table drawer, as
though arrested in that position
in search for A paper. But those
unseen fingers. Kestner felt sure,
held something which in no way
resembled paper.
we meet again. m'sieu,
after many years." said
the Secret Agent, as he calmly
surveyed the figure in the cherry
colored gown. 1T was not so an
tique a figure as it made a pre-
tence Of being
The Washington times., 1923-05-09

PARK. Anne.-yo We guessed lHaE7
I'm not bitter and cynical about
men any more haven't your
Off for a Rest.
oliver and are going to the
country for a rest" Mabel told
me quietly. Its to be as soon as
Jim comes back. He won't need
me there much longer. But Eli
stay as long as he thinks he has
use for me. ] won't desert in
spite Of"
She stopped, and as IL she
didn't want to have even a sug-
gestion of anything unkind and
unbeautiful touch her lips, she
went on in another strain. avoid
ing ell mention of how hard Rosa
must be making things for her at
the. office
Were to go to Park Manor for
this weekend. Parks father will
be there. It's to have US meet--I
think. =
Her cheeks crimsoned. n knew
she was happy.
Parks father is a wonderful
The Washington times., 1923-05-09

Il Is the matter oaver in
Yurup?
Everything, guess, sed Pa.
Why?
Oh, sed. our teacher sed we
shud write a essay about Yurup &
how TO saiv Yurup.
That is pritty tuff subieck for
a kid to tackel, amt it? sed Pa.
1t seems to me thay are showing
the kids ahed too fast these days.
think so, too. sed Ma. Wen ]
was Boobies age l dident know
VARY much about Yurup, Ma sed.
The kids is moar smarter now
than thay was then, ] sed
The kids now only think thay
are smarter, sed Ma. We had
splendid teechers wen ! went to
skooI. sed Ma.
They have splendid teechers
now, too, sed Pa. saw one OF
them talking to Bobbie yesterday,
sed Pa She was vary eesy to look
at. sed Pa Who was that teecher,
Robbie, sed Pa.
That was Miss Milligan, | sed.
She is the one that asst us to rite
this essay about Yurup.
Is that so? sed Pa. Well, then.
r. tN
yure pencil & paper. Bobbie, sed
Pa. & Jott down these words wien
fall from my lernied lips, sed Pa.
The only way to saiv Yurup,
Bobbie. sed Pa, is 10 tecch Yurup
to saiV herself. This can be did,
sed Pa, by tying a chane around
our bankroll, sed Pa. & putting
a padderlock on il. sed Pa. The
minnit thay know oaver thare
that thay cant git any moar cred,
dick or Doe here, sed Pa, ,thay will
patch things up.
Pa amt consee.ed, I sed. ] herd
one of our Majors say that it was
terriBul the way Pa hated hisself,
If | eVVer find out. Bobbie, sed
Pa, that nabor will think he has
been in a argument with Ratteling
Fur-po, sed Pa.
But Pa amt ever going to find
out from me, ! will set a Seel on
my lips till the skin on my lips
Is like Seelskin, that il a pritty
good joak, amt itP