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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-11-01
Living Room Rockers

Genuine leather, full spring seat, regular
$41.50, special ------------------------S3 475
Genuine leather, full spring seat, regular
$4,000, special ------------------------$3
Genuine leather, full spring seat, regular
$500, special ------------------------S3
Wicker cretonne upholstered, regular $780,
so, special ------- $2125
Leather, spring seat regular $780, special $1825
Leather, spring seat
Regular $3.50, special ------------S1350
Regular $500, special --------------S1285
Regular $14.0O, special ------------$1125
Regular $3.50, special --------------$1085
Regular $12.75, special --------------$1050
Wood seat
Regular Sc so, special ---------------$ 535
Regular So 25, special ---------------$ 615
Regular $11.50, special .-------------$ 975
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
COMMISSION FOR LESS NIGHT WORK
 IN POSTOFFICES
Recommend 50 Minutes Constitute One Hour" Tn lime ot
 Employees.

Chicago, June 22.-A three-yeaJ l survey ot the postal servlce was com
 pleted here this week by the congress slonal joint commission on postal service, which authorized it's chair | man, Senator Thomas Sterling Ot l South Dakota, to prepare it's final re- l port for submission to Congress in ! December.
 Among the recommendations em- bodied i'll the report, Senator Sterling said, will be the introduction of bill to reduce night work in the postal service by providing that between the hours of 6 p. III. and a. m., each 50 I minutes shall constitute an hour. Anon gcertaln recommendations al l ready made by the commission are the purchase of sites and erection or enlargement of postofhCe buildings 1n several cities. For Boston the com mission has favored an appropriation of $o,ooo,ooo for enlargement of the Federal building.
 Many recommendations hereto fore made by the commission" Sen ator Sterling said, "in it's several par tial reports have been adopted by the Postottice Department, either in part or in whole, with the result, the com mission believes, of great saving to the government in the operation of
 the postal system"
 A resolution commenting the com
 missions advisory council was pass
 ed by the commission. The advisory
 council is composed of John Gribbel,
 Philadelphia, chairman; Charles c.
 Bancroft, Boston; Prof M E. Cooley,
 Ann Arbor; T. w. Dwight, Sioux
 Falls, s. D.; Union N Bethell, Upper
 Montclair, N. J.; Albert Holmbe,
 Crookston, Minn., and Col. l. C.
 Wade, Cornelia, Ga.
 The commission includes, in addi-
 ton to Senator Sterling, Senators
 Moses, New Hampshire; Walsh, Mas sachusetts; Kellar, Tennessee; and
 Representatives Girest, Pennsylvania,
 vice chairman; Paige, Massachusetts;
 Bell, Georgia, and Rouse, Kentucky.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
HIGH WAGES BOOMING
 ,1.4sI NATION'S TRADE. SAYS RESERVE BOARD
By International Labor News Service

By International Labor News Service
 Washington, D. C., June 22.-Chalk up another big score for the economic vIews ot the American Federation o1 laborl
 The strongest possible support o1 the Federation's contention that high wages mean prosperity IS given by the U. 5. Federal Reserve Board which keeps in close touch with busi- ness conditions ot the nation.
 Says the Reserve Board in its monthly review of business and in dustriaI conditions:
 Increased buying power of wage earners arising from fuller employ ment and wage advances has been re hected in a greater demand for con sumers goods and expansion in re- tail trade"
 Endorsement of the American Fed eration of Labor's views could hardly be stronger. What makes the state ment doubly significant is that 1t comes from a body whose relations are almost wholly with bankers and which reflects the opinions of the banking fraternity, which has little sympathy with organized labor.
 But even stronger endorsement of organized labor's views is given by the Reserve Board, which goes on to say:
 Factories employing over 5oo,ooo workers and representing various lines of industry in all parts of the United States report increases during the past year of 27 per cent. in the number of their employees, and, as the result of fuller employment land increased wages, of s per cent. in the amount of their pay rolls.
 Growth in consumers demand Is recected i'll the sales of 5-and-Ie-cenr stores and of department stores, which during the first four months of 1923 were IS per cent. larger than during the corresponding period of last year. The slight decline in sales during April was chiefly seasonal in character. ..a
 An element in the increased buy ing power of consumers has been that the cost of living has increased rela- lively little and the margin over necessary living expenses available for other expenditures or for savings has been larger. Evidence of this surplus is found in the steady growth of savings deposits month by month, the volume of savings accounts in about goo reporting banks distributed throughout the I2 Federal reserve districts being 10 per cent. larger on May I, 1923, than year earlier.
 "In view of the present wage in come there can be no doubt as to the buying power of industrial workers and there has been little, if any, i'm dication of slackening in the con sumers' demand for goods"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
U. S. MARINE CORPS BUYS
 DRESS GOODS IN ENGLAND

{ The McCumber-Fordney high tariff law was enacted on the plea
 of protecting American industry and affording living wage" to American workmen. Lots of peo-
 pie believe this to be a sound
 economic policy.
 It is announced this week that
 the United States Marine Corps,
 branch of our military system, has given an order for 5oo,ooo yards of khaki drill to provide uni
 forms for its men, to a manufac-
 turing firm at Manchester, Eng land The first shipment is sched-
 uled to leave the English mill in July.
 The staff of the Marine Corps
 justi6es this practice of going abroad for clothing material on the ground that 1t will save the gov ernment $I8o,ooo, this being the difference in cost on bids submit ted by English and American man ufacturers of khaki.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
Miners Ask Commission
 For a Public Hearing

Representatives of the United Mine Workers of America laid before the United States Coal Commission this week a complete plan for national ization of Pennsylvania anthracite mines, with operation under control equally representating miners, mine managers and the public.
 At the same time they submitted an alternative plan for general reduc- ton of capital investment and capital charges in the industry. With both plans were submitted some criticism of the commissions present cost find ing methods and request for pub lie hearing on the miners proposal
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
BOSTON CARMEN
 MUST ARBITRATE
Court Refuses Company Plea to En- join Strike for Protection
 of Men.

Boston, June 22-The issue be- tween the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Company and it's car men in Waltham, Birmingham, Nat ick, Wellesley and Newton, will be arbitrated as a result of a ruling by Judge E. P. Pierce in the Supreme Court. The carmen had threatened to strike in support of their contention that under the union agreement the company must refer to arbitration cases of employees concerned in col lisions. The company took the posi- ton that no arbitrate situation was involved, as under it's rules the pen alty for a man found at fault in a collision was discharge.
 Judge Pierce declined to grant the request of the company for an in junction to prevent the men from striking, and after arguments, ar ranged to have the issue arbitrated. The arbitrators are Wilfred D. Gray, Pitt F. Drew, President of the com pany, and James w. Vahey, counsel for the men.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
REFUSES TO RENT HOUSES TO STRIKERS
 IN PUTNAM MILLS
Real Estate Agent Gets Cold Feet and Denies Even Making
 Promise.

Putnam, June 22.-That Oliver Christian, the, organizer in charge of the Manhasset Mill strike, was not correct in giving the statement to the press, that houses had been secured from the Adams Mfg. Co.,, on Main street, to which all evicted strikers might move, was the declaration by Albert Ouler, agent of the Adams company. MT. Ouler said he had never seen MT. Christian, nor talked or written to him and that empty tenements owned by the Adams com pany in this city, had not been prom ised or rented to the strikers or their representatives.
 The Adams company recently bought mill property from the Night ingale-Morse Mills, Inc, on Main street and a contractor IS now en- gagged in enlarging and altering the property for occupancy of the Adams company next fall.
 With the purchase of the mill prop erty went 40 tenements, some vacant. It was these tenements which Or ganizer Christion told newspaper men that he had secured for the strikers who had been ordered out of Manhasset Mill tenements. Our housing problem is solved by the hir- ing of vacant tenements owned by the Adams Mfg. Co.,, he told one news paper man. Agent Ouler emphatical- ly stated that such statement was false, that no such promise had been made and would not be, as he had use for the houses when they are reno vated and fixed up, for the employees he will hire
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
WALTE RHIERS WORKS
 TWO DAYS AS SODA CLERK

A search for practical experience for use before motion picture camera led Walter Hiers, star in Par amount pictures, into some new and unexplored fields of excitement
 In his new comedy, Sixty Cents an Hour" which will be the feature at the Rialto Theatre next Thursday, MT. Hiers performs the duties of a soda fountain clerk. But he had no knowledge of how to mix drinks, which was necessary to the success of the role. At Director Joseph Hen abery's suggestion, Mr. Hiers decid- ed to work behind a real fountain for few days and acquire little technical experience.
 He managed to persuade the owner of soda fountain near his home to ''give him a job" He was fitted out in a suit of white linen and shown the receptacle in which each cavor- ing extract was to be found.
 MT. Hiers' first attempts to Jerk sodas' were ludicrous Some of his fancy sundaes resembled Chinese chop suey in appearance, and almost in taste. Economy with his flavor ing extracts caused his first few drinks to taste exactly like carbon water.
 But the real climax of the day came when Mrs. Hiers, Walters newly wed wife, returning from town, decided to stop off at the corner drug store and have a soda, since she had been through busy shopping. afternoon. Walter had failed to explain to her that he was to seek little experi- ence, so she was surprised and shocked to find her husband, motion picture star, working as a soda clerk In his confusion, MT. Hiers accidental ly pressed too hard on the water faucet and thoroughly wet everybody and everything in that end of the store
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22

matic manner demanded by this type of story, renders the picture excit- ing and compelling.
 Imagine Betty Compson as an old woman, or as young waitress in a cheap restaurant It Is easier to imagine her in the role of the girl crook because she established her ability to play a part of that sort in The Miracle Man" And then there ls.the lovely, sweet and alluring Betty Compson herself-as she will appear when reformation has come unbidden through the channels of love and mercy. A great supporting cast has been supplied and Richard Dix has powerful acting role as the District Attorney.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
La Toilette Resting Up
 For Fighting Campaign

Senator Robert M La Toilette of Wisconsin is resting at sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich. When reporters told him that a story was being circulated to the ef- feet that he was worr out and obliged to take an indefinite rest, the Senator replied:
 'I am not sick. I am here because 1 ldo not want to get sick" Physicians who have examined the
 Senator declare that he is physically
 as sound as dollar, and they declare
 they know of no reason why he
 should not be in the pink of condi-
 ton when Congress opens in Decem-
 Der.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-22
Betty Compson in
 Fine Crook Drama
Popular Player Good Detective ir
 The Woman With Four Faces"
A woman with four faces!

A woman with four faces!
 Betty Compson had an opportunity to emulate Nick Carter, Old Sleuth, Old King Brady, Sherlock Holmes and the rest of the great clan of super sleuths in her new Paramount pie ture, 'The Woman With Four Faces" which will be the attraction at the Rialto Theatre for three days beginning Monday next.
 Not that Miss Compson is a detec- tive-on the contrary, she plays the part of girl crook engaged by the district attorney, (played by Richard Dix) to help him in ferreting out a great drug combine. Disguised, she aids him in many ways and wins his love in the bargain.
 One thrill piled on top of another, all played in the tense and highly dra-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-18
ZOO CONVICTED
HEREONF|NGER
PR|N IS
Detective Sergeant Sandberg
Tells How System Also Proves
Suspects GuiItIess.

More than 200 criminals here
have been sent to Jail through the
medium of their finger prints, De-
tective Sergeant Fred Sandberg told
members Of the International AS
ISOLATION for Identification at Des
Moines, Iowa, in convention there
last night. Detective Sandberg is
head of the local Identification bur
reau in the police department and
Is looked upon as one Of the best
qualified men in the country In his
line.
Finger printing should not only
be confined to the Identification of
the criminal but should be used
to clear the name of a man or
woman suspected of a crime wrong
ly. The system should work both
ways" he said.
Sanberg cited a case where a
man under suspicion of having
robbed a safe in a lunchroom here
four months ago, was found to be
blameless when his finger prints
were compared with those on the
safe. Another employee Of the lunch
room who had been thought above
suspicion was arrested on the
strength OF his finger prints hav-
ing been found on the safe. He
was taken into court and convicted,
Sandberg said
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-18
STEPSON
To CLEAR
NAME
Mrs. Helen E. Stokes Seeks to
Have "Weddie" Deny Ac-
cusing Letter.

CHICAGO, Aug. 18.-Mrs. Helen
Elwood Stokes today explained her
million dollar suit against her step
son, w. E. d. Stokes, jr., in which
her attorney, Charles Erbstein, filed
the praecipe late yesterday.
Mrs. Stokes said the suit was the
final action to clear her name Of ac-
cusations brought by the elder
Stokes in his recent unsuccessful
suit for divorce.
She said she had given "Weddie, :"
as the son is called by his father,
ample opportunity to deny the ia
nous darling pop" letter, as the
son said he had been intimate with
his step.mother.
II won my suit in New York, and
1t was proved that the witnesses who
testified against me were bought and
paid for. Since then some OF them
made their confessions of perjury to
the district attorney in New York.
IT have relentlessly traced every
person who had anything to do with
the baseless accusations made
against me and / am now after the
last one Of them.
II have no desire Of disgracing
Stokes, jr., and l communicated with
him on my arrival in order that he
might be given an opportunity Of
also confessing that the statements
he made against me were not true.
He has avoided the issue-hence
the suit"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-18
DRUG CONVEYED.
TOPR|SONERS
IN CIGARS
Bands Are ''Doctored" and
Dope Is Inserted in Silt
in Wrapper.

Smugglers Of drugs to inmates Of
prisons and jails have been detected
using the broad bands placed around
cigars by manufacturers in deliver
ing SNOW" to victims. An examina-
ton Of the bands taken from more
than twenty cigars showed them to
be heavily impregnated with dope.
In addition It was found that cigar
can be made to carry from one to
three 'shots" worked into the filler
Immediately beneath the section COW
cred by the band. The quantity Of
dope which can be slipped past the.
guards in this way depends upon the
width OF the band.
In loading" a cigar the band IL
first removed. Later It is wet to
loosen the pasted ends. Then IL is
dried. It Is then given q coating Of
thin gum arabic and the dope
sprinkled over the sticky surface.
When dried the wrapper is carefully
readjusted and its laps stuck to-
gether.
Before the band Ii replaced one.
two or three Sits are made in the
cigar wrapper under the section to
be covered by the band. A quantity
Of the cigar filler IL taken out and
in its place dope wrapped in oiled
paper Is substituted. The slit In the
wrapper is drawn together and fas-
tened with paste. The band is then
replaced on the cigar.
While Federal Prison officials
hero refuse to discuss the discovery
of the use Of cigar bands In slip
ping dope to Federal prisoners, it il
understood no cigars with bands
will hereafter be given prison in
mates. Whether the cigars having
bands on them will be returned to
the senders or, after being examined,
broken up and distributed az smok-
Ing tobacco among the men. could
not be learned.
Relatives and friends sending
prisoners cigars. it is said, should
see that the cigar bands are re.
moved. Cigars direct from the fac.
tories in boxes which have not been
opened, It 10 understood, will reach
the prisoners to whom they are sent,
where the latter are given the priv.
ilege of receiving outside smokes"
It is understood that prisoner re-
Gently discharged from the Eastern
Penitentiarys at philadelphia, gave
the officials the information which
led to- the discovery Of the use OF
cigar bands In smuggling dope into
Federal and State prisons.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-18
RELIEVE
D, G, WOMAN Of
HER JEWELS
Trusting Capital Resident Is
Put Under Mystic Spell
BY Visitor.

Some of Conan Doyle's playmates
got loose here yesterday with disas-
trous results for Mrs. Dora Smith,
of 1017 Thirty-first street north
west.
You are under a spell. I alone
can cure you" one of two strange
women who called at Mrs. Smiths
home told her. Let me hold some
jewelry and cash. The spirits
understand and talk that language"
The trusting and spell-bound
woman handed her informant and
emancipation diamond ring worth
$50 and 81 in United States cur
rency.
"Close your eyes, was the re-
quest. Mrs. Smith opened her
eyes. Gone were the spell and
the ring and cash. The strange
women left by the front door Pc.
lice Of the Seventh precinct heard
Mrs. Smiths complaint
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-18
TOURNAMENT IS
To FEATURE
CARNIVAL
Clarendon Citizens Body Plans
Eleven Days of Sport
and Fun.

CLARENDON, Va. Aug. 1S.-The
outstanding feature Of the third an
nual carnival of the Clarendon Citi-
Zens' Association and Fire Depart.
ment will be the tournament, which
will be held Saturday, September 1,
instead of Labor Day, as previously
announced.
This feature Of the carnival, which
is to be run over a period Of eleven
days, one day having been added to
the original plan for the benefit of
the community band, will be staged
in the afternoon at 2 o'clock, and
will be followed in the evening by
a tournament ball and browning of
the queen.
Preceding the fitting an address
Of welcome to the knights will be
made by William C. Cloth. George
w. Ferguson Is announced ais chief
marshal and w. Harry johnson and
Olin Pearson as aides. The judges
will be E. M. Palmer, r. Koesfer,
Howard Fields. E. w. HunKerford.
Judge Kendrick, and E. Wade Ball.
A. d. Langley, chairman, states
that the best riders Of Virginia.
Maryland, and the District of Co.
lumbia have signified their intention
of participating.
The ladies of st. Charles Catholic
Church will hold a lawn party and
chicken supper on the church lawn
on the evenings of August 2l and
%. The proceeds will be used for
the benefit of the school
John N. Gibson, of East Falls
Church, has announced himself a
candidate for the office of suner
visor for Washington district while
A. D. Langley, of Clarendon. states
he Is out for reelection to the OF.
flee of constable for Arlington dis
trict.
There will be a meeting Of the
executive committee Of the Airing
ton county chapter of the Red Cross
at the courthouse Tuesday night Al
8 o'clock.
The regular meeting of the r q
y. A. M. will be held in the Cherry
dale Firemen's Hall on Monday
night at o'clock.
The Arlington Athletic Club an.
nounce that they will give a car.
nival and lawn fete August 30. Al
and September /, on the Columbia
school grounds, for the benefit of
the club.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-18
Yesterdays ARRESTS AND FINES.
HELD UNDER BOND ON
NON-SUPPORT CHARGE

Charged with failing to support
his family, Carl Henry Baker wae
held for action Of the grand jury
under $1,000 bond yesterday by
United States Commissioner Turn.
age.
Learning that he was planning to
leave the city, the District At
torey's office issued a warrant for
his arrest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-18
SEEKS I D
TIGHTEN
BURDEN
Favors Decreasing Levies on
Small Incomes and Revising
Surtax Schedule.
By, w. H. ATKINS,
International News Service.


Lower taxes will be strongly
recommended to the next Con-
-eTess by President Coolidge, it
was learned today. The Presi-
dent will seek better adjust
ment of the tax burden to satisfy
urgent demands and representa-
lions from all classes that the
present revenue law is operating
unfairly and actually deprives the
Government of larger revenues,
and that it should be radically re-
vised.
Mellon Favors Reductions.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon,
IN his report to Congress. which
win be cited by the President in
his message, will urge that Con-
gress make possible the creation of
new revenue sources by lowering
eurtaxes. Secretary Mellon will
recommend a reduction to q Is per
cent sIlrtax basis from the present
level Of so per cent.
Adoption Of a lower surtax pro-
posal, the Administration contends,
will make it easily possible to lower
the income tax rates on moderate
incomes. Most of the discomfort
now evidenced from high Federal
taxes is the result Of the present
high scale of rates on small in.
comes below the $4,000 class. Men
with moderate incomes are hardest
hit in present application of the
revenue act, for they constitute the
larger percentage Of the country's
taxpayers, though not the major
share Of the taxes collected.
Take Burdens Off Industry.
Secretar Mellon will stress the
need Of action by Congress to lift
the tax yoke off of industry to
permit the spread of capital into
new channels. out of the hiding
places into which wealth has gone
since the prohibitive1y high sur
taxes were authorized.
The Treasury's view today was
that only by this method viii II be
possible to secure an equalization
Of the tax burden. The administra-
ton will renew its fight against
tax free securities. The Treasury
today estimated that ST., 900 100000
of American wealth il now sunk
into tax free securities, from which
the Government obtains no reve-
nue.. This wealth officials said. can
partly be influenced into productive
fields IL the exemptions now in
force are lifted. This must be done
they said if a better readjustment
OF the tax problem is to be ac-
complished.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-18
WHAT'S DOING TODAY.

Ball game-Odd Fellows of Northern
Virginia and District of Columbia.
American League Ball Park, $3.50 p. m.
Bazaar-Iroquois Club, Del Ray, night.
Excurson-Radto Club. Marshall Hall.
all day.
Concert-Marine Band. Eclipse. after
noon.
Lawn feAe-Potomac Heights Com
munity Bible School. Chain Bridge, 8
p. m.
Outing-Maecabees of Washington and
Alexandria, Marshall Hall. all day.
Outtng-United States MarshaIvs Of.
flee, KopevS Point, Md, D. m.