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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-04
Hair Splitting wins.

This man passed me in a
truck as was standing on 14th
street just south of the Bureau,
your honor, and he was going
altogether too fast for a truck.
! called out go slow there hut
he kept right along. Il hoped
my motorcycle and paced him
to near the, Highway bridge at
% miles an hour. He slowed up
when he reached the grade at
the bridge and I climbed aboard
and turned off the key. He said
+ had to take, him of and senl
refused to~geE off the truck. ~ So
had to take him aft and send
him to the station in the patrol
wagon. He said he worked for
a big company and they'd have
their lawyer down here to de-
fend him." '
How to Beat the Law.
Defense COUNSEL: Whats he
charged with?''
Driving truck at a greater
speed than twelve miles an
hour"
IT move that the case be dis
missed"
"On what grounds?"
ION the ground that my client
was not driving a truck.
II You Have Legs, Prepare to
Use Them Now.
1.-THE traffic regulations define
a truck as a vehicle constructed
or equipped for the transportation
# merchandise or materials. We
have witnesses to prove that this
vehicle hrs never been used for
the transportation Of merchandise
or materials; that 1t is con-
structed and equipped for the
transportation Of passengers only;
and that it was carrying passen-
gers at the time Of the arrest"
What was in the truck when
you made the arrest, officer?"
1T looked like a load Of coal
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-04
WITH THE
..ALIB1 !.
ARTISTS
THE TRAFFIC COURT
IN CROSS SECTION
Being q Skeleton Record OF
Cases Tried in Judge
:, Schulat's Tribunal:
Read 'Enr and Worry
BY DONALD McDOUcAL.
In q Hurry.

Motorcycle putt-putting happily
across East Capitol street at
Second. Tin roadster rushing
fire lad to, morning roll-call two
bumps. behind. Putt-putt puts on
a little more juice to beat street
car making up for lost time
across Second street. Roadster
shakes out q few rattles to pass
putt-putr. leaving street car an
inch and a half behind and slams
Harley Davidson for a double
summersault.
No Tint to Gossip.
HE just called out his name
and engine company, your honor,
and kept on. So I reported his
license. number to the precinct.
They looked the number UP and
found it was for a touring car
but he was in a., roadster.
A Fireman's Job.
II am, a, fireman. your honor.
and I have to report at 8 O'Clock.
If I am q minute late have
to stand trial. There was sick
nSSS III CHS t1dIIlMy kuaS AOPI AAO
until the last minute l. couldn't
have made 1t In. the street cars,
so hoped this Ford roadster
that I had Just bought. didn't
intend to tuse It until I got the
proper tags. When / bumped the
man at Second and East Capitol
/ could1l'ts. stop, but just called
out my name and company"
Sympathetic Judge.
did you get to roll-call~ on
timer" r..
II just did make it with twenty
seconds to spare. So didn't
have time to report the accident
to the precinct that morning, but
intended to report the next morn
ing"
"Did you report?"
Eyes, SIR"
Considering everything, you
did about the best anyone could
do under the circumstances. 1t
10 notss tha object OF the court to
impose fines: hut to do all pos
sibie to keep the streets, Of the
town safe. win take your per-
sonal bond on the tag charge,
dismiss the charge Of leaving
after colltding, and fine you SIS
for hitting the motorcycle.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1923-05-18

Well, we have never gone back on that
belief yet. Again this same critic say:
ut was the time, too, when the poet
and prose writer, also, preferred to use
highly ornate words and phrases to
call on the gods of Greece and Rome,
for inspiration, to tell Of the shepherd
and his crook, and how the rural
SWANS played pipes and danced to
flutes and so on" Continuing he says:
Happily, we have passed from that
stage, but as we have remarked be-
fore all these things make it difficult
to judge correctly the work of the one
Delaware poet"
Again we take issue. No one man.
no ten men can, in our estimation, set
themselves up to be the judge or
judges, Of this our only poets work.
He wrote in the spirit of the age in
which he lived. He read all the great
writers Of his day, and it was well
worth while to live in the day in
which the Milford Bard lived and
wrote. Not all the poems he wrote
were of the heroic type. Our vision is
often made or married from our view
point. The higher up we are, the far
Their we can see, and the clearer will
be our vision. No man ought to be
classed as mediocre, who could write
such poem as:
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1923-05-18
The Milford Bard
LOVE STORY

Somebody, sometime, somewhere,
told me about the Milford Bard. That
was a long time ago, more than half
a century. became interested in him
then, when but boy, and wanted to
know more about him, but somehow I
did not come in. contact with anyone
who could tell me. read some of his
writings in the school books of the
day, which whetted my appetite to
read more, but 1 could find no one
where I lived, that had copy of his
work. = But somehow or other 1 be-
lieved in him, believed in him then,
and believe in him now. For more
than fifty years this desire to know
him and what he did has stayed with
me, and only in the past few months
has this wish been gratified.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
DRESDEN REDS IN
RIOT; SIX KILLED
Unemployed Attack the City Hall
Three Times.
WANT TO SEE BURGoMAsTER
Troops Fire on Mob When Theif
Clubs Fail to Stop Crowd-French
Edict Orders End of the
Ruhr Resistance.

Berlin, Sept 12-Dresden is seeth-
ing and there is communist unrest fol-
lowing a battle in front of Dresden
city hall, where military police at
tackled by unemployed fired a number
of volleys, killing six and wounding
nine. All but two of the victims were
hidden by communists.
A Dresden correspondent reported
that police reinforcements had oc
cupied the leading newspaper. the
Neueste Nachrichten, where COM
munists tried to lynch the editor for
refusing to publish bolshevik plac-
ard.
Militia Forced to Fire.
AS is happening in nearly every in
stance now, communist agitators cas-
lily got control of a mob of unem-
ployed which had started under So
cialist leaders to call on the burgo-
master. The socialists were unable
to check the mob when the COM
munists urged violence, and stones,
sticks, and debris were thrown at the
militia, which retaliated with clubs.
The clubs proving ineffective, the SOL
diers began firing.
The first battle was at noon. At /
O'Clock 1000 unemployed again at
tempted to storm the city hall. The
burgomaster called achievements,
which arrived and mounted machine
guns on all sides.
AT 3 o'clock third storming at
tempt was made by the communists.
They were driven off by the militia
men, whereupon a parade began to-
ward the hospital, where two were
wounded
End Resistance, Poincare Edict.
1t is officially confirmed here that
the French ambassador, NJ de Mar
gerie, called upon Chancellor Strese-
mann with an ultimatum from Premier
Poincare-Premier Poincare's last
word, which may make or break Ger
many.
Ambassador De Margerie informed
Chancellor Stresemann that the pres
ent semi-oficial negotiations and pour
parlers deals between leading indus
trialists are useless and that no Of
fetal negotiations looking towards
peace in the Ruhr are possible until
Chancellor Stresemann officially an
nounces to the world that the passive
resistance is withdrawn.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
SEVEN U. S. DESTROYERS
GO ON ROCKS; 20 DEAD
Liner Cuba Also Sinks in Heavy Fog
on California Coast-Passen-
gers Saved.

Santa Barbara, Cal, Sept TO-
Seven United States navy destroyers
and the Pacific Mail liner Cuba were
wrecked Saturday, the navy vessels
crashing on the rocks in dense fog
off Arguello light, seventy-tive miles
north of Santa Barbara, and the pas
senger steamer on reef off the
southeast end of San Minguel island,
thirty-f1ve miles off this port.
Twenty-three enlisted men of the
destrOyers lost their lives i'll the naval
disaster and all the destroyers were
reported as total losses.
The liner Cuba was reported to have
sunk during the night, but all pas
sengers and members of it's crew
either were landed at Los Angeles by
the destroyers Reno or are on their
way to San Francisco on board the
Standard Oil tanker w. S. Miles, with
the exception of Capt. G. ]. Holland,
the purser, steward, and eight sea-
men, who remained on board to guard
shipment of $2,5OO0OO in silver
bullion.
Dense fog was the cause of both
disasters.
The destroyers Chauncey, Wood
bury, Fuller, S. P. Lee, Nicholas,
Young and Delphy were all beached
within few minutes Of one another,
according to naval officers.
The f1otilla of which the wrecked
craft formed a part was in command
% Capt. Edward Watson, commano-
ing officer of the Delphy, and was on
a practice cruise.
The dead were all trapped in their
hunks on the Young when that YES
sci struck and were drowned when
the craft capsized within two minutes
after striking.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
DRY LAW DEF|ED
BY BIC OFF |CIALS
Daugherty Reports to Coolidge
on Enforcement Efforts.
SORDID STORY OF CORRUPTION
Attorney General Tells the President
That Judges, Lawyers, Bankers and
Others High in Communities
Are Vioators of Act.
Island Case.

Washington, Sept. 13.-Disclosures
OF crime and conspiracy were made in
in the report of Acknowledgement
Daugherty on the efforts of the fed
eral judiciary to enforce prohibition
since the Volstead act became law.
Synopsis of Report.
An official synopsis of the report was
made public with the permission of
President Coolidge, to whom the re-
port was submitted. This synopsis
says the report reveals, among other
things, that "the department of JUS
tive has been called upon to prosecute
a member of the judiciary, prominent
members of the American bar, high
officials of the federal and state gov
eminent, millionaires and scions of the
nations aristocracy." 1t also discloses
"a sordid story Of assassination, brib-
cry and corruption that found it's
way into the very sanctums wherein
the inviolobility of the law was pre-
sumed to have been held sacred"
Five federal prohibition officers, one
ONtiAh phCoIuSAll, OllC dllOIACy anu
teen wholesale liquor dealers were
convicted as a result of investigation
in one eastern district, the report
further reveals. 1t declares that no.
where has the prosecution of liquor
law violations been pushed more Wig
Orously than in Wisconsin.
Refers to Rock Island.
Listed as big accomplishment was
the victory in the Rock Island con-
spiracy and vice case, which, although
prosecuted by the state, was prepared
by federal authorities. The result of
the prosecution Of this case is shown
by the improved conditions in Rock
island" said the report.
The Lake county, Indiana, conspir-
acy case also was described at length
in the report
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Japan Faced by Fifteen
Year Task in Reconstruction

Washington, Sept. lit will re-
quire five years to lay the foundations
of the new cities of Tokyo and Yoko-
hama, and from ten to fifteen years to
complete their construction, according
to reliable estimates made here In
from temblors, tidal waves and confag-
rations throughout the stricken area
of Japan, comprising sweep Of terri
tory extending 100 miles from north
to south and 200 miles from east to
west. places the figure at S2,000,000.00O.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19

Hongkong, Sept. S.-1'he Canadian
Pacific steamship company agency
here received advices from the COM
pany's Kobe agent that, after being
fouled by two steamers as result OF
the tidal wave following last Satur-
days earthquake, the liner Empress
of Australia Unanswered to the QUIZ
side of the harbor at Yokohama and
anchored in safe position at noon
last Sunday.
The message said the vessel had
hard fight to reach safety, but gave
no details. 1t was added that as soon
as divers had been brought from Kobe
and had cut away a cable with which
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Filipino Leaders Defy
Governor General Wood

Manila, Sept. 13.-The controversy
between Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood and
native government officials and party
leaders was revived when Manuel
Quezon, president of the Philippine
senate, and Manuel Roxas, speaker of
the house of representatives, declared
in public addresses that it was their
intention ito reduce the governor gen.
eral to a fgurehead" The senate
president referred to the British self
governing colonies and said that the
Filipinos wanted government SINH
lar to them.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19

ouu ~ enc uraIn uoII already claimed
by earthquake, fire and an all-destroy-
ing back wash from convulsed sea.
Tokyo and Yokohama, as well as
scores of smaller cities and hundreds
of villages and hamlets, are desolate
piles of charred ruins filed with dead.
Transportation and communication
throughout the empire continue virtu-
ally paralyzed. What telegraph wires
are in operation are overcrowded with
official business, and adequate trans
mission of news reports is out Of the
question.
The country from twenty miles north
of Tokyo to Kodzu, forty miles south,
is vast scene of desolation and ruin,
wherein human life is no longer sig
nificant Three-fourths of Tokyo is a
smoldering ruin, wherein thousands of
earthquake and fire victims were
trapped.
City in Ruins in Six Hours.
Yokohama ceased to exist six hours
after titanic cony ulsion. Buildings
collapsed instantly, roads writhed in
pillows, and cracks twenty feet wide
tants who sought to run away from
swallowed up terror-stricken inhabi-
the scene. Beneath brick and tiles
thousands lay blackened, while fire
was sweeping everything, preventing
reScues.
The harbor was a scene OF widest
confusion, the seismic waves dashing
liners together, crashing against the
concrete docks and hurtling the bulls
in all directions. The Empress Of Aus
tralia and the Steel Navigator were
fouled. the former losing it's propeller.
Harbor Swept by Blazing Oil.
Burning oil swept the harbor, while
rescue work was being frantically
pursued.
communications are broken. rail-
roads are twisted aimless, lines of
steel and iron roads are split by
cracks, bridges and wires are down.
American and British shipping IT
Yokohama led the relief, the Jeffer-
son landing rice in care of the Sal
walton army.
Banks Reopenlno.
The principal banks in the stricken
zone are reopening. The Bank of
Japan came through the disaster with
hardly any damage. The contents of
the vaults of the Mitsui bank and of
other large financial Institutions were
saved
The Bank of Japan's gold reserve.
amounting to $10O,000,O0O, is safe. All
indications are that Japan's banks are
in excellent condition and are ready
to give good service to the labors Of
reconstruction.
From the Tokyo Central ob3erya.
tory comes reinsurance that no
anxiety need be felt as to sudden re-
newal of the earthquake. The shocks
that have been recorded during the
last few days are said to be chang
overs from the earlier tremblors
The observatory announces that the
movement of the earth has been grad
ually diminishing.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Crop Values S4,710,O0O,000,
Saws Farm Research BODY

chicago, Sept 8.-The statement
that the farmers income for this years
crop will be $1,OOO,OO0,0OO more than
for that of 1922 is exaggerated 400 per
cent, according to the research depart.
ment of the American Farm Bureau
federation. Figures compiled by Fl.
w. Moorhouse Of the farm bureaus
research department show that the
total farm crop values for the year
1924 will approximate $4,710OOO,-
600, as against total of S4,479,OO0, 900
for 1928.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Disciples of Christ Vote
100000 for 1924 Work

Colorado Springs, Colo, Sept IL
Five million dollars was appropriated
for the furtherance of the religious
and educational activities of the Dis
ciples of Christ. This sum was voted
at the annual international convention
of the denomination which closed after
having been in session since Tuesday.
The membership of the denomination
now number 1,37S,657, an increase in
the year Of $4,000 in America and
3,340 abroad.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Uncle Sam Has New Styles
for His GreenbaCks

Washington, Sept. 10. Secretary
MELONS approval of the new designs
for paper money, under consideration
for more than a year, was announced
and many brand new bills of distinc-
tive type and marking soon will be In
circulation. The new designs at first
will affect only United States notes,
silver certificates and federal reserve
notes in denominations Up to $1O1,
with the exception of the unpopular"
two-dollar note
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
To Remove Stains.

Paint stains can be removed from
clothes by saturating the stain with
equal parts of ammonia and spirits of
turpentine. Repeat the process two or
three times If necessary, then wash
out in warm, soapy water. Test first.
TO see If color stands.
Precipitation will often make stains
on white or light-colored material
which cannot be removed by ordinary
washing. An excellent method of
treatment consists of soaking the ma
teriaI In a solution of carbonate of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19

Soda and water. A teaspoonful of
soda should be allowed to each half
gallon Of cold water. Let the material
soak for half an hour. and then wash
in the usual way.
Rusty irons can be made beautifully
| smooth in the following way: Tie
lump of beeswax in a piece of muslin.
heat the iron and rub 1t alternately
with the waxed bag and on a cloth
sprinkled with salt.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Mortgage Is BerIin'S Debt
Offer to Paris, Saws DiSaptCh

Berlin, Sept. 13.-An alI-inclusive
mortgage on both governmental and
private lands and properties was of
fered as basis for PREPARATIONS settle
ment to the French by the German
government. In an address to Journal
lists at beer evening" in the foreign
Office, Chancellor Stresemann outlined
his proposals to France, which the ma
ton hopes will bring order and peace
to the Ruhr.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
13,002,427 Automobiles Now
in Use in United States

Washington, Sept. 13.-The rate of
Increase in registration of motor We
hicles since 1916 was maintained dur
Ing the first six months of this year,
the bureau of public roads announced,
reporting total registration on July
l of l3,O02,427. This is an Increase of
764,O52 since the first of the year and
an increase of 9,4S9,43 in the last
six and one-half years.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Anthracite Operators and
Miners in 2-Year Agreement

Harrisburg, Pa, Sept. 10.-All points
in dispute between the ant racite op-
orators and the miners resulting in a
strike September l were settled here
when al agreement for two years was
signed by representatives of the op-
orators and of the United Mine Work
ers' union meeting with Governor Pin
chot here. The contract will expire
August 81, 1925.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Navy Plane Flies 238 Miles
an Hour for New RECORD

Roosevelt Field, Mineola, L. l., Sept
11.-World-record speed of 23S miles
an hour was reached late Monday by
the Wright tighter-airplane that will
represent the United States navy next
month in the Pulitzer race at st. Louis.
The record flight was achieved by
Lieut.. L. 81. Sanderson, q. S. NJ.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Irish Stampede American
ConsuIS for VisaS to u. S.

!. Dublin, Sept 12.-Despite the dill
,culties in the way, large numbers of
intending epligrants are trying to get
to the United States. The quota for
ending July next is 1882, and al
ready $4,000 visas have been granted
in these countries, of which 5000 have
been issued at the American consulate
in Dublin. A great majority of these
is women
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Coolidge Sets U. S. Budget
for 1924 at Three Billion

Washington. Sept. 13.-It will cost
about $3.O00,000,00O to run the govern,
ment next year. President Coolidge,
now at work on the budget, has in.
structed departmental chiefs to keep
their requests within that amount.
thereby continuing a policy of Presi-
dent Harding,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Wave Destroys Mexican Town;
Believed inhabitants Escaneo

MeXicali Lower California, Sept. 10.
Wireless messages received here re-
port destruction by a tidal wave of
San Jose de Cabo, a fishing town on
the west coast of Lower California,
just above Cape San Lucas. The num-
Der of lives lost is not known. Most
of the 500 inhabitants of the town are
believed to have escaped to higher
ground.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Brought Aliens Too Soon;
Greek Line Fined 100000

New York, Sept 2.-The Greek line,
owner of the steamship Byron, which
was one of the quartet that, accord
ing to government reckoning, fetched
667 immigrants into the port of New
York a few seconds before midnight
on August 81, was served with notice
that a fine of 100000 had been inn
posed upon them by the Department
of Labor.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
President Coolidge Approves
October IT as "Navy Dav''

Washington, Sept. IL. President
Coolidge. in letter made public By
Secretary DENLY, gives his full an
proval to plans for celebrating NAVY
day. on october q, the anniversary of
the birth of Theodore Roosevelt, who.
the President said, demonstrated "tbe
effective utilization of naval power as
guaranty of peace"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19
Dealers Hit Coal Strike
Settlement bv Pinchnf

Washington, Sept. l3.-The Pinchot
settlement of the anthracite coal
strike is called gold brick" for the
publfc-a simple bit of political buck
passing-by the National Retail Coal
Merchants association, in a formal
statement filed with the United States
coal commission.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19

Why doesn't a woman resemble \
piece Of music when she is composed,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-09-19

The enrolment of the superb
State Normal school on its thlTu o"'
of the fall semester is still pelo" '4'
record Of 800 students set last year.
So far this year only boz stuu0ii'1
have enrolled.
E. l.. Davidson, iPeshtlgo, was SnO'
in the left lung when his rife eZ'
p1oded. He had just returned Iiol.
b,s hunting lodge and a cartridge that
had dropped into the CASING %
charged as the gun struck the ceiiie-i'
walk &C he alighted from an automo
bile He was taken to the hospleai -
q critical condition.