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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-29

"A diamond in the rough" he re-
marked, viewing Walberg's work
after the RUDE replaced Hasty at
the start of the fifth.
You people here don't appreciate
how remarkable it is for W9lberg
to go like this. Last year this
time he had hardly pitched ball
game in any league. Think of
that! And here he is, fooling the
best in the big league.
1.-TWO years ago he made his
money bOssing a gang on q
threshing machine i'm the Mime.
sofa wheat fields. He went on a
visit to a married sister who lives
I'm Seattle, Wash. Quite acciden.
tally he got into semi-prO game
out there, and he looked so good
that the twilight teams there
started offering him dough.
Looked better to him than going
back to the wheat belt, 80 he fin
ished 1921 pitching in and around
Seattle, mainly for a team in a
town called Cedar-Willey, about ten
miles from Seattle.
That's where we heard of him
and that's where we secuted him.
When he reported at our Pasadena
training camp, spring of 1922, he
didn't know how to put on q uni
form. Fact!
''He wore the eIastics Of his
pants above his knees, and the
baseball shoes he brought with
him are still tackled up In the
Portland clubhouse with . sign
under them stating, Rare spec
linen Of snOwshOe worn by Mime
sofa savages.'
"But he was no hick inside of
his head. He laughed when the
veterans kidded him and listened
when they told him stuff. Pretty
soon everybody knew that this was
no joke, but the makings Of great
pitcher. He didn't start game
for two months, but after that he
started a whole lot Of them and
finished most Of them, too.
''They called him 'Rube' at first
on account Of his clothes, ETC.,
and afterward they kept on cali
ing him that because he reminded
them of RUDE Waddell. That's
the tip-Off on Walberg."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-29
Public Protection Is
Needed Most
At Shelby

This Shelby must be a great
town. They have furnished pro-
lection for Dempsey, and nov
they have detectives protecting
Gibbons. The closest protection,
however, is a squad Of badge
men who are watching the men
who are handling the money
which is rolling in from the sale
Of tickets.
Everybody connected with the
fight seems to be protected but
the spectators.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-29

Stanton, SpeerS and John
O'NeiIl have been passed up and
down the streets, IN and out OF
hotels. office buildings, the tele-
graph offices and all the local
drug stores by the valiant news
papermen, who are stfll trying
their dimgdest to find out what
It's al about, but with little
chance Of success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
PREDICTS COAL AND IRON MINING AT SEA
Ocean Beds To Give Up Treasure To
 Mankind

SYDNEY, N. S., May 12.-(By As- scciated Press.)-EnGineers in time will be able to take coal and iron ore from under the sea at distances of five miles or more from shore, according to F. w. Gray, an execu- tive of the British Empire Steel cor poration. Workings already extend two and a quarter miles to sea at sydney mines, and 70 per cent of the coal produced in Nova Scotia comes from beneath the ocean.
 The cost of bringing deposits to the surface rather than failure of the seams. will place limit on sub marine mining operations. MT. Gray thinks.
 Although coal is being taken from under the sea at several points in Great Britain, Australia, Japan ana China, the Nova Scotia coal areas and the iron mines at Wabana, New foundland, are the scenes of the largest undersea mining workings in the world. According to MT. Gray, they are capable of indefinite eN- pansion, some of the Wabana seams being 35 feet thick.
 Inundat tion is the greatest danger added to the usual hazards of land operations. Engineering skill, how ever, has reduced the number or these accidents, the chief of which occurred at the Takashima coiliery in Japan, where many lives were lost, and on tSe Cumberland coast in England in 1884, where 36 men were drowned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
GERMAN GENTEEL POOR
 SELLING OLD EMERY
Wives Of Men Formerly Rich Dis
 pose Of Property

BERLIN, May 12-Thousands of German gentlewomen are now going through the tragedy which Russian women of the same class have suf- fered for several years. Widows of officers and government officials. women with small pensions and linn ited incomes from investments, find them selves unable to buy the plain est food with their Appreciated marks.
 A few days ago the aged widow of a once prominent physician and her invalid daughter were found almost dead from hunger in their home, which had been stripped of every saleable article. The mother had done needlework as long as she was able. She was too proud to ask charity. and the doctors who were called by neighbors to attend her said both the mother and daughter, if left alone, would have been dead in an other 24 hours.
 In an effort to alleviate the condi = tion of such persons and protect them from interruptions secondhand deal CTS, number of philanthropic Berlin women have organized fair where second hand articles may be offered for sale. The owners may act as their own sales agents, or entrust their wares to representatives of the committed.
 With German efficiency the mem bers of the relief committee have pro- vided tables behind which the sellers have chairs. They are mostly el- derly women. Many of them are cripples, and almost without eXcep- ton their worn and ld-fa shit ned clothing indicates their gentle birth. A few very old men sit among the women. and scarcely any of the ven- dors are young enough to do any manual labor. Thus they sit. day after day. waiting the chance to ex- change the finery of bygone days into fuel and food fer today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13

poked that brutal Laundry outside door had not feared to stir him.
 "Yes indeedly," he denominate, "Baseballing have never been so civ il2ed like it is today. Look at New York"
 l attemp to do so
 And regard Chicago, Philadelphia. Boston & St. Louis"
 I turn my head geographically.
 Yes indeedly The batty season of balls have now arrived From now onward Hon. America will have no time for Forin Affairs like hunt ing coal miners in Germany or dig ging for Hon. Tut K.Amen, dried King of Egypt. From now onwards cause all Judges will be away in D. m. watching their favorits Sox"
 Will there be no Judges to dc something?" I require, turning bright yellow.
 "Only one,' he renig. Hon. K. Mountain Landis. This Hon. Noun tain are very heated volcano when TOT holy Since his arrival players are afraid to be kissed for fear this Mountain will slide down on them because they are taking things not included in eontrac.'
 Are he also murderer" I ask to know.
 He are a lyncher," negotiate Hon. Gallagher with Kleagle expression, He has hung up more baseballers than there are scoreboards to count them on.'
 Well" I report. maybe it would be good thing to have Judge for so much unlawfulness. Maybe less Elm pires will be broken in his pres ence."
 Quite to contrary" snuggest Hon. Gallagher. Hon. Landis are killer similar to all mountaineers. Last year there was considerable fright for fear he would kill the entire game"
 Hon. Gallagher breathe like Romeo and say more:
 But such was not so. Game were never greater than now. Observe those piles of wealth now being ex- pended to buy men one place and sell them back again. Hon. White SoX will refuse to put Hon. Willie kamm up at auction for less than lOO,000$ Think that! And observe how Hon San Francisco sold Hon. Jas O'Connel for 75,0oos. Also Hon. Jno Bentley who was bought from Baltimore for 65,o0os'
 Those poor mcn," I dib. And vet they call America a free section of earth while White Slavery are be- lnS pT"tticeu peioie o"t NeiS .h'h9 Were not the Civil War fought be- tween North America and South America to free poor Uncle TorA
 What were his batting averaee? require Non. Laundry.
 T do not remember that part of the book" l reject. Yet l are under the impression that he was batted considerable by Hon. simon Legrec. Yet he went to heaven very satis- factory, by golly."
 T do not know that part of the Bush League" pronounce Hon. Galli- gher.
 What are a Bush League?" l ask to know, expecting to be dishSusted again
 Bush League are place where good players go when they die
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13

in tho public buildings. some even walk the streets as sand wich advertisements of the vaudeville theatres, and others hide their pover- ty by working secretly in homes where they were once society queens. These reduced gentlewomen are le- zion, and some starve rather than let their wants be known. A baroness who died the other day, upon being pre- pared for burial was found to be wear ing paper underclcthing, and the sit nations of others are so desperate many of the charitable organizations are trying to relieve them. One move ment, started here in HerIin in small way, is now spreading through all parts of the German capital and even going out to other cities and towns. This is the establishing of a home industry that such women can carry on outside the faD ories and stores. It might really be called a sweat-shop industry, in which the workers are aristocrats. The articles made will go to the wholesale and retail stores, and in some cases to factories. They are prepared accord ing to order, and a prices much be- low those in the regular trade.
 O O o
 In the EnIscr'x Palace.
 The headquarters of the new move ment is the palace of the Kaiser. The gorgeous hoI>a in which he strutted about, often changing his uniform a half dozen times a day, is now given up to public offices and shown also as museum One of the offices is that of the German Housewives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13

be found in kitchin with so much crime"
 T sorrow for your cut feelings" negotiate Hon. Gallagher. But must hurry off to some newspaper office"
 ITO report some murder, perhap ly?" l require.
 Not so much But I must get some dope from Hon. Sporting Edi- tor"
 "Dope?" I holla
 Dope" He rejoint.
 Are it pussible." I snagger. that persons can go shopping for opium in offices of Baseball Reporter? An. And Oh alsoi Now I have found where Drug Ring resides. Baseball ing have galloped away with every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13

Every year there are great death rate among players from getting bones in their head Others com mence to rot and must be removed There was once talk about taking Child Ruth away to that happy rest ing place." he explan baffably.
 Poor little Ruth!" I holla. What was matter with her?r
 She was oVerworked" narrate Hon. Gallagher. Tn winter she was fighting with giants and in summer knocking swarms of flies all over Texas. No wonder she nearly wore herself down.
 Tell me nothing more." I dib, tossing stewed hardwear in my rages. Why should people call Baseballing pleasure game of inno-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
"I have turned the Kitchen into a Thinking Studio"

cence? And you stand here telling me about murderous lynchings strikes, revolutions, murder of grandmother, white slavery & child labor lawlessness, How can America ever become smooth X gentle with such a Ntl. Game? I ask to know. There is no answer"
 Are you throwing bull, per hapsly?" he ask it.
 "I are not" I corrode. And yet I should prefer a Mexican bull battle to that socall Sport you tell me. I ask you to leave me now. I cannot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
PRICES UP IN JAPAN
Upward Turn Taken Following DrOr
 During Pnst Year

During Past Year
 TOXIC, May 12.--7rices in Toklo, which gradually declined last year. have taken an upward turn since the beginning of 1923.
 According tp the returns of the Tokio Chamber of Commerce, the wholesale prices of the principal com modities in Tokio for the month of January showed an increase of Is per cent on the average over Decem- Der of last year. The wholesale prices for February showed further rise, the average rate being A per cent over the previous month. Retail prices also have advanced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
AMAZING DROP PUTSGERMANY TOPSY.TURVY.
Women Knit Baby Shoes For Two Cents a Pair And La dies Sweaters For a
 Dime - Housewives
 League In Palace
By FRANK G. CARPENTER

By FRANK G. CARPENTER cCopyright, 1923, by Carpenters World TraYels.)
 BERLIN, Maly 12. "Wtth fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Flying her needle and thread Gtitch-stitch-stitc In poverty. hunger, and dirt: And still with voice of dolorous
 pitch
 She sang the Song of the Shirt "Work-work-work Till the brain begins to swim! s'work-work-work Till the eyes are heavy and diml Seam and gusset. and band, Band and gusset and seam Till over the buttons I fan asleep, And sew them on in dream!"
 Thomas Hoods
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
DEATHS

Marjorie Wrisht-Marjorie Wright, 2-years old, died at i o'clock Sat urday afternoon at the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. J. II. Wright, Jr., li04 Seventeenth avenue, south. Funeral arrangements are to be an- nounced later by Johns. She is sur Vved by the father and mother, one brother, Thomas II. Wright. Birmingham; grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. J. II. Wright. Memphis. Tenn. and grandmother, Mrs. R. H. Horne. Napier Tenn.
 DetgO MOta-Funeral services for Deigo Mota, S2 years old, who died in a local infirmary Thursday morning, are to be held from Vice $ Woodiawn chapel at 2 o'clock Sun day afternoon. Burial will be made in Forest Hill cemetery by Vice Mota. lived at 4927 Second avenue, south. He is survived by his widow, two small children. all of Birminsham; father, mother, two brothers and one sister all residing in Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13

neral dishcovered by MT. Sumner. America are too far gone to be pumped up again. Can anybody be safe from insanity"
 Not after talking to you" deploy Hon. Gallagher while walking off with impure clothes in baskit l feel deliciously decomposed. Hoping you are the same
 Yours truly
 HASHIMURA TOGO Copyright, 1923, U. S. & Great Brit ain, by North American Newspaper Alliance for The Age Herald)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
INDIA OppOsEs SALT TAX

DELHI, India, May 12.-The new tax on salt, proposed as a means Of removing the deficit in the Indian imperial budget, Is meeting with general opposition on the part of h. dian legislators and their constitu- ents. The bill now being sponsored by the administration provides for doubling the present tax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13

Song of the Shirt" fits closely into the Germany of today. The fall of the mark has ruined the middle and upper classes and hundreds of
 { h o u s a n d 8 of women, who for merly were rich )r W do. are now destitute 6 and looking for work. Some go out to
 service at pitiful
 wages, some take
 l. ~.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
THE DANGERS OF BAsEBALLING
To Editor Age-Herald, who print so

To Editor Age-Herald, who print so
 much news on Sunday that I am
 still reading on Wedsdy night. Dearest Sir
 In recent report from City of Mex l read how in that sunstruck land there will soonly be no more bull fighting. Baseballing will take the place Of shat meat-spearing sport. hope this report are an Idol Boomer. MT. Editor, and that you will do all pussible to make them keep on with their national Bull War which is much more kinder than Baseballing know because l found out.
 At the home of Mrs and MT Quack- l have turned the Kitchin into a Thinking studio. I can now settle all problembs like Life, Death X h. surance while giving onions their luncheon stew. So yestday who came there but Hon. F. x. Gallagher,
 Will you be at Baseballing in good seat to help destroye Empire who Is rotten"
 So ha" I exclam with Emma Goldman eyebrows. Then the Rev olution has came at lastly"
 70 surely, Mike!" he negotiate clamly. There are always at leastly one CD Revolution every game Empires rise X fall at the whimm of Ct American Pub. German Empires. Irish Empires. Swedish Empires. It are all the samely. Few of them last longer than Strrrrrrike Tuh. Then they are broke into fraxions with popp bottles amidst red repub- lick war-cries which order them to hell or wherever Empires live after death."
 How horrudl" snagger. "Yet some persons says that Bull Fights are brutal because they are too Spanish. Will not this Baseballing be stopped by Police?"
 Not unless it rains" ollicute Hon Gallagher. And O., I shall be there with pleasure. 1t will be a great loss to the Laundry Bizness to have very mad when hear I am going to Game. And yet I knew how to fixx him."
 How did you fixx him?" I ask to know.
 T killed Grandmother again." he negotiate with eyewink, American salute.
 At those iced words my heart fell down. How could he stood there, his soul all dirty around the cuffs re- sembling laundry bagg he held.
 But are you not afraid of Law" l narrate nervelY.
 Who is?" he report. Hon. Vol stead have changed all that And let me recommend something, Togo You should not miss this Game to- day. Have .You not also Grand- mother, sweetheart or wife, respect lively, who could be butched?"
 Fortunately I am quite alonesome in the world" l tell it. "Dearie Grandmother passed off in 1898 from eating raw pumpkin seeds. My wife will not marry me and all my sweet hearts have soured Therefore I can remain home without any blood on my thumbs"
 Too sorry for you" say Hon. Gal Higher pittily. "lt will be great Game Last time l saw them play men died on 3rd Bass before Hon. Pitcher was blown up. After that everybody hit him until he went en- tirely to pieces. Good time enjoyed by all. Very classical ,'
 MT. Editor, have never heard such pogrom gossip outside Mer Rough, La. Rage consumed my wrists and elbows and I should have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
WOULD PROMOTE ART
Schools Would Be Made Centcrs fof
 Community Culture

NEW YORK, May 12.-(By Associ- ated Press. ss.)-Community art centers in country school houses, deserteu during the summer vacation period. are advocated by David Names. musician of this city. who urges the orga nization of art clubs with head- quarters in the empty school houses for more widespread knowledge ana endowment of art. Such centers, ne says. would provide not only for the study of music, sculpture, paintlhs. etc., but also give opportunities TOT wider companionship.
 students and teachers Tn ths cities would be glad to direct such clubs for a nominal sum during Va cation time." MT Names deciares' Benefit would result to the children of farmers and country folk, ana to the parents themselves. whose hum ger for art goes unsatisfied. me ierie, de, velopment of the artistic impulse latent in everyone and stifled too often, in those who are far away from the cities. is of great import ance to Americas intellectual ad- vancement and spiritual growth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-13
RADIO TO REPLACE SIGNAL GUN

LONDON, May 12.-Trinlty house authorities, who have charge or lightships and lighthouses around the coast, have decided to fit all m nrrtant Iishtships with wireless ap- paratus. thus displacing the sisnai gun which has been used for SD many years to call the lifeboat or warn ships of their danger.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-20
Scores Conditions
In Canneries

Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 2O.-Leg-
islation compelling rigid examina-
tion Of employees to be sent to Alas
ka for the salmon canning season
was recommended in federal grand
jury report made recently to Judge
e. E. Richie at Valdez, Alaska. The
report recommended that prospective
employees should be examined at the
port of debarkation to ascertain il
any are drug addicts or afflicted
with communicable diseases. u
The report states that the use and
sale Of narcotics during the canning
season at Bristol Bay, Alaska, is
rampant; that cannery workers suf-
fering from social diseases in ag-
gravated form were permitted to
work in packing fish that degener-
acy was >in evidence and quite COM
mon; that the carrying Of revolvers
was general, resulting in crimes and
violence. b
fls Id. III =
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-20
PAY STATIONS
ARE INSTALLED
Telephone Company Takes
Step to Meet Patrons
Demands

The North Dakota Independent
Telephone Company is today install
ing Public Paystations at convenient
locations in Bismarck in order to
satisfy demand for this kind, OF
service from transients and non-sub.
scribers. BY providing this service
the Telephone Company feels that
the business people who are now fur.
nishing this service free Of charge
will be relieved from extending the
use Of their telephones both for 10.
cal and long distance service to the
general public and the public will be
able to make use of the public sta.
tions, knowing that they are not i'm
posing upon the business people.
These stations will be especially
convenient for transients in placing
their hong distance calls and particu-
larly SO in completing calls TO Man
dan.
II is the intention to place public
paystations In drug and stationery
stores, and at such other locations
as conditions may seem to necessi.
tate. rs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-20
LIQUOR ACT
HITS RUNNERS
Manitoba's- ,,Law May Halt
Influx to u. S.

Fargo, Nov. 2O.-The Manitoba
liquor control act will hamper rum
running across the border into the
United States, if it permits any at
all. according to A. A. Stone, federal
prohibition director for North Da-
kota, who has returned from Il visit
to Winnipeg.
Mr.. Stone and B. C. Boyd, a fed
eral agent Of Grand Forks, visited
Winnipeg last week to see just how
the liquor control law was working
out
Under the control Of the liquor
control comm fssion, sales are SO re-
stricted that the wouldbe rum run
ner can only buy his shipments piece
meal or else have large staff of CO.
conspira:ors buying It for him." he
said, in explaining the workings of
the law.
Under ruling Of the commission
one man. may buy only one case of
hard liquor day and this must be
delivered 10 his residence. However,
if man were to continue to buy q
case a day for period the officers
would probably become suspicious
and investigate him.
1T is illegal to move this liquor
from the residence where it was de-
livered and this portion Of the law
is being enforced when violators are
caught. This would further hamper
the work of the rum runners"
A hotel room is considered tenn
porary residence under the interpre-
tation Of the law. '-.f'
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-20
GERMAN BANK
HEAD Is DEAD
DR.. Havenstein Fought For
Sound Currency

Berlin, Nov. 2O.-(By the Associat-
ed Press)-Dr. Rudolph Havenstein,
president of the Reichsbank is dead.
DR.. Havenstein's successor pro-
badly will be DR.. H. Schacht, cur
rency commissioner of the Reich and
managing director of the Darnsread-
ter Bank.
Or. Havenstein became president
of the Reichsbank in December, 1907,
and director of the imperial German
governments financing of the world
war which was accomplished by q
long succession of internal loans.
After the armistice he represented
the Reich at various financial con-
ferenees with the allies, including
the negotiations with the Bank OF
England for the guarantees demand
ed by Belgium.
When the mark began to fall, DR.
Havenstein warned against the con-
sequences of the collapse Of the
currency and emphasized the neces-
sity of retaining the Reichsbank's
gold reserve. His resignation was
demanded but he retained his high
position and worked toward the es-
,tablishment of the Renten mark
which was placed in circulation on q
gold basis only a few days ago. Z
He was 66 years old.