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Evening star., 1923-11-21
SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED.

A scholarship in the Felix Mahony
School of Fine and Applied Arts will be
given the member of the Washington
Boys Club who shows the most talent,
it was announced yesterday at the
luncheon meeting of business men, in
a campaign to raise a $35,000 two-year
budget for the club.
A total of s2.491 was turned in yes
terday as contributions to the campaign
fund This makes a total Of $13,855
that has been secured by the business
men in two days. While about $4,000
yet remains to be raised. the teams are
confident the sum will be raised by Sat-
urday, when the campaign closes.
Evening star., 1923-11-21
B0NDSMEN MAY TAKE
CASE BEFORE JUDGES
Request for Hearing on Opposition
to New Regulations Is
Considered.

A petition was filed with the judges
of Police Court yesterday afternoon
by Milton kronheim, professional
bondsman, representing the twelve
men engaged in that line of work.
asking that the judges meet the
bondsmen for hearing of objections
of the bondsmen to the recently
adopted bonding regulations.
Judge Gus A. Schuldt said today
that the petition filed is now under
consideration and in all probability
the professional bondsmen will be
invited to meet the two judges in
conference at an early date
Evening star., 1923-11-21
FISCAL YEARS.
51,O31 45,974 549s4 20 7O4

This phenomenal increase in the
business of the office. coupled with
the inadequacy of the quarters has so
delayed the delivery of the recorded
instruments that it is now almost I'm
possible to record an instrument
earlier than year after it is filed for
recordation.
"In addition to the sixty-seven em-
ployes of the office of the recorder of
deeds there are about twenty exam
iners. clerks, copyists and stenogra-
piers, representing the local title
companies, who work in the office
nearly all the time.
Evening star., 1923-11-21
RESIGNS REVENUE POST.

The resignation of Francis G. Mat
son, deputy commissioner of internal
revenue in charge of the miscellane-
Gus unit, was announced today. Mr..
Matson will enter the practice of law
with Offices in New York and Wash
ington. He is a former newspaper
man, and came to Washington with
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. as COM
pi1er of the Congressional Directory o
the Sixty sixth Congress.
Evening star., 1923-11-21

The cutlery industry is one of the
Oldest in Britain and from the very
beginning Sheffield has been its
recognized center. Written records
show that the industry was in a
fourishing state in Sheffield in the
seventeenth century, while some au-
thorities assert that it was thriving
400 years ago.
Evening star., 1923-11-21
FILES BANKRUPTCY PLEA.

John c. Hope, who conducted a
cafe here. has filed a petition in vol
untary bankruptcy. He lists his
debts at S10,275 and declares he has
no assets. Attorneys Donaldson,
Johnson & Frailey appear for the
petitioner.
Evening star., 1923-11-21

Twenty-nine different nationalities
are represented among the pupils at
tending one public school in Van
couVcr r c
Evening star., 1923-11-21
Facilities Are Strained.

The records of this office show that
/ the number of instruments received
for record has been greatly increased,
table:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
WIFE BEATER IS
GIVEN YEARS
SENTENCE
Suspended, However, So He
Can Support Family of
Three Children.

fudge Mattingly. who is relieving
Judge Schuldt in the United States
branch Of police court, glared at
the prisoner as he was being taken
to the probation office and said:
"Don't you dare to ever come back
here again.
The remarks were called forth by
Thomas Mudd pleading guilty TO
assault on his wife.
"T. was forced to beat her. Your
Honor, because she fused at me"
Mudd testified.
your names going to be mud,
If 1 ever get another chance at
you. How would you like for me
TO get somebody to beat you? Well,
I'll tell you right now that the
only reason 1 don't do it is. be-
cause the law would not allow me
but I'd a lot rather do that than
send you to JAIL" was the Courts
rejoinder.
''I am going to sentence you to
serve six months. No I won't
either, I'll give you a whole year,
but I viii have to suspend SEN
tence so your wife and three chill
dren won't starve., wish they
had some other means of support
so 1 could give you the limit" he
added.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
eide R MAKERS
ARE HELD BY
POLICE
'sKick" in Their Product Is
charge-Extract and Gin
ger Also Ruled Illicit.

New Hampshire avenue purvey-
ors Of cider, peach extract and
Jamaica ginger have reason today
TO think that Third precinct police
are more vigilant than was sup
posed.
In three raids on houses on New
Hampshire avenue, five wsre ar
rested on various charges Of vio-
lattng the Volstead act and eighty
gallons of cider, a quart CT peach
brandy and ten bottles OF Jamaica
ginger were seized.
Fifty gallons of cider were seized
when the squad of police, numer.
Gus and dutiful, raided 912 New
Hampshire avenue northwest,
where they arrested Jacob d. Kol-
ker, seventeen. on charge of selling
and Illegal possession.
Alexander Lyons, and Ralph r.
Hodchins, OF 219 Morgan street
northwest, were picked up when
the raiders went to Lyons place at
500 New Hampshire avenue north
west. Thirty gallons Of cider were
seized
The third blow was dealt when
Bessie and Isadore Permut. OF SAP
New Hampshire avenue northwest.
were arrested. Police say peach
extract and Jamaica ginger were
seized in the PERMITS home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
INSANE WOMAN SLAYER'S
PROPERTY SOLD FOR $500

Premises at 1853 Hobart street
northwest, in which Samuel George
allegro, barber, was shot and
killed November 8, was ordered sold
yesterday by Justice Hoehling, Of
the District Supreme Court, at the
request of Jacob Goldblum. husband
of Fannie Goldbmm, who claimed
she shot Allegro to protect herself,
and who was adjudged insane Mar IN
1, and. committed to st. Elizabeth's.
The property has been purchased
by Charles Zweig for $4,000. Gold.
blum was appointed trustee to con-
vey the property and to hold in trust
the amount due his wife as her
dover interest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
REFUNDS Rem 7
CANPA|G IS
EFFECTIVE
Ten Checks for Claims Receiv-
ed at Headquarters of
Board.

The District Rent Commissions
campaign to hustle payment of re-
funds for excess rent collected from
washington tenants is proving ef-
fective, Chairman Richard S. Whaley
chairman of the rent board. de-
clared today.
Ten checks. representing money
paid landlords in excess of the
amount set by the commission, ar
rived in the mail at the board
headquarters today. The refunds
ran as high as 5000.
Chairman WhaIey some time ago
announced the commissions inten-
iton to push refund cases. To aid
In carrying out this purpose, Mrs.
Grace H. Riley was appointed as
sistant to Chaplin Brown, attorney
for the rent board. This arrange
ment leaves Brown free to prose
cute the commissions refund orders
IN Municipal Court.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
NAMED CHAIRMAN OF
REHABILITATION BODY

Major Henry G. Maddox, Of this
city, yesterday was appointed chair
man Of the national rehabilitation
committe Of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars by Brig. Gen. Lloyd NJ. Brett,
commander in chief.
Major Maddox, who was until re-
Gently executive officer of Walter
Reed Hospital and resigned to enter
private practice, was in command
OF one OF the large hospital centers
in France during the world war. He
also served in the Spanish. Amer
lean war and the Philippine insur-
Tection.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
SAWS BREAK, DELAYING
SHIPMENT OF MARBLE

Because Of the constant breaking
Of saws in quarries. 49, slabs of
pink marble which will form the
steps leading to the General Meade
memorial statue group in the b.
TAME Gardens have been DELAYED
In shipment, but now are on hand
and ready to be laid, 1t was an
nounced today by the office of pub
lie buildings and grounds.
The Piccirilli studio, of $New
York, is entrusted with the scuIp-
turing Of the group. which repre-
sents the hero of Gettysburg sur
rounded by symbolic female figures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
COMMISSIONS PRESENTED
TO DISTRICT CUARDSMEN

Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan pre-
sented warrants to nearly fifty non
commissioned officers in the armory
last night where 400 members Of
the 121st engineers, District Of Co
lumbia national guard, were
gathered.
Mai. John w. Oehnann, com
mander of the 121st engineers. pre-.
scented craftsmanship insignias to
about thirty guardsmen. These
were earned during the summer
training period at Camp Simms,
Congress Heights. Col. Henry A..
Finch, engineer at the militia
bureau, War Department. spoke on
the value Of the engineering corps
to the army.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
MAJ. II. C. MADDUx NAMED
HEAD OF V.F.W. COMMITTEE

Appointment of Maj. Henry c..
Maddux, Washington physician.
formerly stationed at Walter Reed
Hospital. as chairman of the ma
tional rehabilitation committee of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars was
announced today by Brig Gen.
Lloyd NJ. Brett. commanders in chief
Of the organization.
Major Maddux is recognized as
an authority on the subject of the
disabled ex-servfce man. He was
IN command of one of the largest
hospital centers in France during
the war. He recently retired from
the medical corps.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
BooTMAKERS QUIT JOBS
TO BECOME BOoTLECGEps

DOYLEsToWN, Pa, Sept. ~, -z
The decision Of two prominent btets
makers to become bootlsggsrs has
caused a shortage that rnay result
in Doylestown running down al
the heel" so 10 speak,
Last week Isaac 81, Hisktn, u
bootmaker with a prosperous bust,
ness, including shoe store, In
Criminal Court was sentenced 10
pay a fine of 800 and serve three
months in the Bucks county
prison, on charge of selling and
possessing intoxicating liquor.
Abram Sprentz, another well-known
bootmaker and also shoe repairman,
was given the same sentence on a
charge of possessing intoxicating
liquor for beverage purposes.
Now the town has only one boot
maker.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
STUDERAKER OUTPUT
TO BE CUT BY COMPANY

NEW YORK, Sept 26.-The ca.
pacity operations maintained for the
first nine months this year by the
Studebaker Corporation will be re.
duced somewhat in the fourth quar-,
ter, according to a telegram received
today from President A. r. Erskine
Production schedules are 10000
cars each for October and Novern-
ber," he said. 1T is doubtful if anv.
body in the automobile industry ex.
pected record operations OF the first
nine months to continue into The
last quarter, and prudence dictates
manufacturers should curtail prc.
duction."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
WOMAN ASKS $4,000 FOR
ALLEGED AUTO INJURIES

Rosie Wort today filed suit IN the
District Supreme Court against
Lyman B.. Tibbets for SIS, 900 dam.
ages for alleged personal injuries.
Plalntlf says defendants auto
mobile July 23 last colIided with q
machine in which she was riding
at the intersection of Rhode Island
avenue and First street northwest,
throwing her out of the car and
inJuring her permanently.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
BOY SCOUTS TO OBSERVE
SEMI-ANNUAL NIGHT

The shmiannual boys night Of
Troop u, Boy Scouts of America
viii be held tomorrow night at 8
o'clock In the Young Mems Hebrew
Association building, Eleventh street
ana Pennsylvania avenue northwest
Mrs. Hyman Fl. Levy, president
OF the Young Women's Hebrew As.
ISOLATION, and Mrs. Herman Hol.
lander will. speak and there will be
O. program of singing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
Finds Baby Dead in Crib.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. &C.
When Mrs. Michael Lang, Camden,
went to his crib yesterday she found
her .six-month.old boy lying on his
face and strangely quiet. She sum-
moned DIR. II. r. Palm. who said the
child had presumably rolled over on
his face and suffocated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26
local Stocks.
SAFES.

SALES.
Capital Traction SIS, $1.0o0@D94.
S1,000@94, $1,000094, $1,0006D94,
$500D94.
City and Suburban Railways SIS,
$1,000@s0, $1,000@80.
Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company SIS. $1,oooD961S,
81, 000096h.
Capital Traction, 2@99&.
Riggs National Bank rights, 20
94A,. 2@95K.
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas Light, 204S%,
294SH.
MONEY.
Call loans, 5 and 6 per cent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26

Near 18th ana Belmont rd.-11 rc0nas
and two baths: =. m. t.: Beautifully
furnished; 5000 per month.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26

on 18th st. near Park rd.-1e rooms
and two batIts: e. IA. Il furnisheds $l75
WILLIAM s.. PHILLIPS,
18th and X SITS. Il. W Main 1906
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-26

~ Seaton 81. n. e.--Corner house; 8
rooms and bath: 4, IA. &: perchee: com.
pIetely furnished: $500.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26
MAINTENANCE
 OF WAY MEN ASK INCREASE
Four Hundred Thousand Members of Big Union
 Make Request.

DETROIT, May 26-(By Associated Press.)-Increase in wages for prac- tically all It's approximately 100000 members throughout the country have been asked by the United Broth erhcod of Maintenance of Way Elm ployes and Railway Shop Laborers, according to announcement at nation al headquarters ~of the union here. The requests are for re-establishment of the wages paid under the Railroad Labor Boards decision No. ?. from July 1920, to July, 1921. and the request is made that the increases be retroactive to February 15, this year.
 Increases already have been grant, roads of the country, while 2S other cases have been filed with the Labor Board. it is announced.
 In announcing the step the Broth erhood headquarters declares that a recent survey showed two out of every three maintenance of way men to be in debt because of low wages, that but one in every seven has a bank account. and that half of them are without life insurance. During the last year, it is declared, the average worker of this class spent but $2S for clothing. while 6.3 cents a meal for each person in the family was the average food allowance of the average worker.
 The statement goes on to say that since July 1. 1920, Maintenance of Way Employees have accepted pay reductions of 21 per cont, while the other classes of railroad labor have been, obliged to accept reductions of from 88 to II per cent
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26
DREAMS OF YEARS COME TRUE
 FOR CHIN GEE HEB. ChINAMAN

6EATTIIE, May 26.-(By Associat ed Press. )--Marches and clashings of the opposing armies in China have not disturbed the serenity of Chin Gee Hee. one-time track laborer, iaundryman and merchant in Seattle and now president of the Sun Ming Railway, greatest in South China, say Seattle friends who have kept in touch with tho Chinese Jim Hill."
 Despite his 7S years, Chin Gee Hee remains actively at the head of the various enterprises which have earned for him the sobriquet King of South China" since his return to his native country from the Pacific Coast in 1905.
 The Sun Ming Railway, first in China to be constructed by Chinese capital independent of aid from any government, is the fruit of dream that came to Chin Gee Hee 60 years ago. when, as a common laborer, he aided in the construction of branch line of the Southern Pacific in Cali 1ornia. Two years before he had begun lie as laborer in the Cali fOrnil gold fields.
 Chin Gee Hee held to his vision. In the '70s he went north and worked on the construction of the old Columbia and Puget Sound Rail- way, now part of the Chicago, Mil fwaukee & St Paul system It was not long before he became con tractor in a small way, using Chi nese labor. and by the time the road was completed he had acquired scme capital.
 In the early sos Chin Gee Hee established small laundry here. branching out as a merchant in part
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26
WILL CELEBRATE FORTY YEARS
 OF WORK IN EXTENDING RELIEF

pared for war, it's officers declared. It must maintain an active and eff cient machine between wars. From the reorganization on this basis in 1905, the society dates it's real growth in that public confidence and under standing which has brought it to its present place in American life
 Based upon it's years of experience. the society now prepares for coming disasters with a reasonable certainty es to when they will occur, where they will occur, and the character of the relief to be needed. For in- stance, it knows that it is reason able to expect cyclones in the south ern and southwestern states in the early spring months. Destructive floods usually occur in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys also in the spring and early summer. Mine disasters in general, but with exceptions. occur in the spring and fall at about the time when winter passes into sum. mer or autumn passes into winter. Forest fires usually occur in the extreme northern part of the country in the late summer
 Previous to 1905. the year of re- organization. the average yearly cost of disaster relief was abont $100,0 ,000 Since 1919 the average cost has been about s14.500000. Since 1881 the American Red Cross has extended relief in 372 disasters, including floods. cyclones plagues. fires. vol
 canic eruptions. earthquakes. mine disasters. epidemics riots and relief of the destitute. at total expsndi- ture of more than s2O.573.000.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26

nership with Chin Ching Hook Fol lowing this venture he founded the Gong Tuck company, mercantile establishment still in business un der the direction of his nephew, Chin Keay.
 The fire of 1889 which destroy ed the business section of the city. took Chin Gee Hee's store along with the rest, but before the ruins were cold he had started the construction oi the first brick building erected 1T Seattle after the fire. It still stands
 During the anti-Chinese riots ol 1886, Chin Gee Hee was ordered from the city by mob, but re mained under the protection of q small group of residents.
 The erstwhile track worker kept in his mind the project of an independ ent railroad for China. and through the influence of Seattle friends at tracted the notice of James J. Hill president of the Great Northern Railroad. MT. Hill advised him from his own experience and invited him to make a trip as his guest over the principal lines of the United States In 1905 Chin Gee Hee returned to China and shortly thereafter the con struction of the Sun Ming Railway was begun.
 Railwaymen have praised construc ton of the road-built without the aid of a single foreigner-as one Of the finest pieces of engineering work in the Orient.
 Decorated by the late Chinese em. peror, Chin Gee Hee retained the confidence of his country's leaders after the change in government. The road is protected by special guard of soldiers from tae Canton army.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26
SWISS PEOPLE
 SOON VOTE ON
 P R 0 HIBiTI0N
Referendum Will Decide Is- sue on June 3-Double
 Object Is Planned.

LAUSANNE, May 26.-(By Asso ciated Press. )-Inspired by American prohibitions, the prohibtionists oi Switzerland are engaged in a cam paign to reduce the consumption of strong alcoholic drinks, and on June 3 the people themselves by refer endum will dec.de the issue.
 The private Gtstilling of alcohol has increased so rs9.dly in recent years and the drinking of pure dregs of distilled liquor. which is given the popular name of 'Schnaps,' has become so widespread among the masses that the authorities have be come alarmed The medical. profes sion has launched a movement fol Federal intervention and control
 The consumption of alcoholic drinks in Switzerland has reached the fig ure of billion francs annually for Q population of four millions. The 1919 federation of Swiss physicians urged the government to interdict the manufacture, Importation and sale of all distilled beverages. This was held to be too radical but the campaign now has been vigorously re- opened in order to obtain at least partial prohibition.
 The manufacture of alcohol is a state monopoly in Switzerland, and the government leases the right of distillation to private companies
 The proposed law, which parlia- ment has already adopted, aims at a double object, the protection of the monopoly by the curbsng of private distilling. and the reduction of oppor- tunitics for the consumption of al cohol The local crusaders are col. lecting statistics of the good effects of prohibition in America to induce voters to support the bill.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26
U. s. WILL GET s25O,O0O,O00 RHINE COSTS
Agreement Is Made with Al. lies - Amount Is to Be
 Paid Tn Installments.

PARIS. May 26.-Tle agreement covering the American costs in a.lt occupation of the Rhineland doesno include the clause to which America Representative Wadsw1rth objected namely, that the allies haYs d righ to abrogste if Amerio.t seitsht com pensation direct from Germany
 The agreement provides for a ne. payment of the cost of the American occupation of the Rhineland of $250, 100000 in 12 annual instalments, the first four being the first lien On Ger man reparations after the Allied army costs and treaty expenses arc paid
 Any deficit. of the first four years will be distributed over the las; eight years.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26

WASHINGTON May 26.-(By As scciated Press. .)--Forty years Of re- lief work in, fire. flood. war and ether disasters will be celebrated by the American Red Cross this summer. Since 1882 the society has been first in offering medical aid, food, shelter and money to the victims of the worlds calamities, in peace as well as in war, and now, Red Cross off cials declare. while the primary con ception of Red Cross societies was relief in war time, the American society has recognized it's greatest task as the amelioration of suffer ing in peace.
 The sick and wounded victims of epidemics and natural calamities sui fer none the less because their sui fering did not spring from war" says Ernest P. Bicknell. vice chairman and former national director of the American Red Cross. writing in the society's official bulletin, the Red Cross Courier "The treaty of Gen eva. which is the foundation and charter of all Rel Cross societies, make no provision for any activities outside those connected directly with armies and with war. Not a great many years elapsed, however, before the world began to realize that the underlying idea of the Red Cross was ,more widely applicable to conditions of life.'
 The policy of the American society early became that of peace time pre- paredness for wars emergencies since relief in war was the charter reason for its existence. To be pre-
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26
SEA FREEDOM THREATENED.

WAOfINUION, MHy ZU. - FIVe foreign governments. including Great Britain. Spain. France. Italy and The Netherlands. have made known their position in regard to the recent Supreme Court ruling against the presence of liquor on ahips within the three mile limit.
 In substance all take the same position in calling attention 10 in conveniences" resulting from the de cision. They also point out that freedom of international commercial intercourse is threatened if the heretofore recognized practice of comity between nations is aband- Oned.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26
s25,0OO FOR
 SHAVING ONE
 U. s. CITIZEN

PEKlNG. May 26.-The Chinese government has notified the Ameri- can Legation it would accept the American demand for indemnity of $25 900 for the killing of Charles Goldman, at Kalgan, December II. The government also makes the an nouncement two adjutarts concerned in the killing have been dismissed from the service.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-26
Italian Ambassador
 Defender of Fascism

NEW. YORK. May 26.--Defending the Fascism doctrine before the American Iron & Steel Institute, Prince Gelasc.o, Italian Ambassador to the United States. declared it was Ia "grcat spiritual movement on the principle that every individual must he ready to sacrifice himself for the good of the community"