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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
ROADS AUTHORIZED TO
SELL. 100000 BONDS

The Muscle Shoals, Birmingham
and Pensacola railroad was author
lied today by the Interstate Com
merce Commission to issue ST.
SOC, 900 Of common capital stock and
81, 500, 900 first mortgage 6 per cent
gold bonds.
The stock and 100000 of the
bonds will be used in purchasing
properties formerly owned by the
Gulf, Florida and Alabama rail.
roads.
The commission also authorized
the road to sell 100000 of the
bonds at not less than IS per cent
OF par and use the proceeds for
the rehabilitation of the road. Bonds
amounting to 100000 will be held
in the roads treasury subject to
further orders of the commission.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
BAN PARADE,
THEIR FLAG BEING BARRED

LOUISVILLE. KY, May 3D.
Twenty-four Confederate veterans
refused to march in joint Memorial
day parade here when the chairman
of the committee of arrangements.
a Federal veteran, refused them per-
mission to carry the Stars and Bars
of the Confederacy at the head OF
the column.
The veterans came from the home
at Pewee Valley, near ISouisvilIe9
upon Invitation. they said, az q cons
'mfttee 10 participate Will yeterafiS
OF other wars in the exercises. The
roster shows they enlisted in Texas,
Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina
and George. The youngest in seven
4y-fiye and the oldest ninety.
Colonel G.. L. Daugherty, COM
mandant of the Confederate home,
spokesman for his comrades, said
they desired to carry the flag for
sentimental reasons, but denied the
privilege, they declined to partici-
pate.
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DEATH CLAIMS
CONG. K|TCH|N
IN n. {.
Popular Democratic Leader Of
House Succumbs to Illness
of Long Standing.

WILSON, N. c., May 31.-Con-
gresham Claude Kitchin. Demo
cratic leader in Congress during the
war period, died at a hospital here
this morning after a long illness.
Congressman Kitchin's death had
been expected for several days and
when the end came at shortly after
6 o'clock this morning his friends
and relatives were prepared for it.
He had been i'll almost continu-
ally for the last three years with a
chronic affection of stomach and
kidneys. Only a few months ago he
was brought from his home at
Scotland Neck, N. c., to a hospital
here in a last effort to remedy his
condition.
Congressman Kitchin was still
the titular leader of his party IN
the lower branch of Congress,
despite the fact he never occupied
his seat during the last session. So
highly was he esteemed by the
Democrats of Congress that they
refrained from selecting a successor,
although Kitchin has at no time
in the last two years been able to
perform the tasks that fall to
leadership in Congress.
Congressman Kitchin was one OF
the most outstanding Democrats of
the Wilson Administration, and was
leader of the House during the
epoch-making legislative days Incl
dent to the war.
He was one of the half-hundred
members in the lower House who
voted against the declaration of war
with Germany. He cast his mega
tive vote with tears streaming down
his face on that memorable night
of April 6, 1917. and friends led him
sobbing from the floor.
Congressman Kitchin was fifty
four years old, born in North Caro-
lima, from which State he served
so long in Congress. He was a
veteran in point of service in the
lower house, having completed nine
consecutive terms. He was re-
elected to the House last Novem-
Der by his constituents. even though
he had been unable to fulfill his
duties in the 6ixty-seVenth Con.
greBs?
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IS
HELD IN
DEATH
NJ. Y. Specialist Says He Gave
Wife Strychnine After
Attack Of Coma.
By TnternatlonaI News Service.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. May 81.
DR.. Andrew Melville Ewing.
fifty znihg years old, formerly OF
London, England, and for a num-
Der. of years past specialist in
mems diseases in this city, is
under arrest today and held with
out bail on a technical charge Of
breach of peace, following the
death in his office last night of
Mrs. Mary Kerrigan, forty-nine,
his house-keeper, who, he claims,
is also his wife.
In Coma, Says Doctor.
Questioned by police whom he had
summoned, DIR. Ewing said Mrs.
Kerrigan died suddenly while in bed.
She had been in sort of coma
for several days." he said, land last
night 1 gave her some strychnine
to bring her out Of 1t. / was sleep
ing when she threw her arms about
me and woke me up. She appeared
to be dying. 1 reached for her
wrist and felt her pulse. 1t stopped
beating as l held her wrist"
Police found the woman, partly
clothed, lying in a folding bed in
the office waiting room. DIR. Ew-
ing, police said, appeared to have
been drinking.
To Perform Autopsy.
Medical Examiner Samuel M. Gar
lick ordered DR.. Ewing held until
an autopsy could be performed and
the contents of the woman's stomach
analysed.
The physician told the police he
had married her in Newark, N. j.,
in 1913, but had never made public
the fact, feeling it might interfere
with her practice as a registered
nurse.
DR.. Ewing expressed the belief
that the woman's death might have
been due to worry over her young
est daughter, Margaret Kerrigan,
who had been taken from her by the
authorities and sent to a home in
Hartford after the mother, DR.. Ew-
ing and several others had been ar
rested while having a party"
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SHOTS AT WAR GRAVES
START DANGEROUS FIRE

MARTINEZ, Cal. May 31.-A
horse was killed, a grass fire
started and more than 1000 lives
endangered here when a firing
squad using ball ammunition, fired
over the graves of the soldier dead
in a Memorial Day ceremony and
cut down two electric power wires,
each carrying II 900 volts.
The wires struck the horse, kill
ing it, and fell on many of the
hundreds Of automobiles parked
outside the cemetery. When the
fire department was responding to
the alarm sent in when the tall
grass started to burn there was a
panic among the 1000 spectators
and many were slightly injured.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
IN HALL
CASE SAID To
BE NEAR

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., May
31.-The double murder of Rev. DR..
Edward w. Hall, Protestant Epis-
copal rector, and his pretty choir
leader, Mrs. James Mills, took a
new grip on public interest today
when it was learned that the au-
thorities are considering an arrest.
The suspect is a man who was
questioned at length in the early
part of the investigation, but was
eliminated after setting up an
alibi. County detectives refuse to
reveal his identity.
The bodies of DIR. Hall and Mrs.
Mills were found on a lonely farm
near New Brunswick, on Septem.
Der II, last. Both had been shot
and their throats cut. Love letters
written by the clergyman to Mrs.
Mills were scattered nearby.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
Winners of ''Skillet" Finn
Contest Named Sunday

Winners in the "skillet" Finn, Esq $1,000 baseball
picture puzzle contest which closed week ago today
will be announced in The Washington Herald next Sun
day June g. You buy your copy as early as o'clock
Saturday night on the street or at newsstands.
AS there over $1,000 entrants in "Skilet's
test the task of checking off the lists of players and
Judging the slogans has been enormous, but Skillet"
and his judges-Walter johnson, Joe Judge, Stanley
Harris, and DOME Bushare coming along nicely with
their job and promise to announce the one hundred win
ners on Sunday morning, in The Washington Herald
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31

} Deep Interest Is Attached to
Election of Successor to
Or. Harding.

Twenty thousand communicates
of Episcopal churches, chapels,
and missions of Washington and
southern Maryland today hang
anxiously upon deliberations of a
special convention in the Church
Of the Ascension, Twelfth street
and Massachusetts, avenue, where
clerical and lay delegates this
morning begin balloting for a
diocesan bishop to succeed the
late .Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding.
Deep Interest in Selection.
A deeper interest attaches to the
choice in that a new bishop here,
besides bringing the highest eccle-
siastical qualifications to the post.
. should. in the opinion of the major
ity of clerics and congregation lead
ers, be a man capable of accelerat-
ing completion Of the great Cathe-
dral of SIS. Peter and Paul. 1T is
the proudest project Of the denoni-
Two committees, one on the
rights OF cierics to seats, the other
to the right of laymcn, were to
bring in a report to the temporary
chairman, the Rev. DIR. G. F. Dud-
ley, and nominations were to be
made prior to a late recess for
luncheon. The committees consist
of the Rev. e. p. Worth, the Rev.
J. J. Queally and the Rev. w. w.
Shearer for the clergy, and H. l.,
Brynan, q. M. Hustled and i. v. K
Lee for the Iaity. ...-
During the lunch hour ballots
will be printed and. the real cleo
tioneering will commence at the
afternoon session, which will proba
bly, be protracted' until shutdown or
later.
Out Of the maze of conjecture az
TO Bishop Harding's successor, the
probability looms stronger as the
delegates go into session that no
Washington wearer Of the cloth can
command enough votes to win the
, coveted honor of the bishopric..
The Rev. George Fiske Dudley
rector of st. Stephens, has q great
following in the clergy; the Rev.
James E. Freeman, Church of the
Epiphany, is equally popular with
the lay element; the Very Rev. c.
F.. Bratenahl, dean Of the Cathe
dral, is a divine to which the
thought of the older and more con
sentative forces Of the diocese nat
urally turns as a man TO further
his former bishops work.
But the delegates are so strongly
aligned as to make almost impos
sible the diversion of enough votes
from any one diocesan candidate tt
give the other a majority.
The Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires
rector of st. Thomas. New York
d the favored candidate of the out
of-town possibilities.
Communion Service Held.
Formation of the convention fol
lowed an impressive communion
service in the morning.
The convention was called I,
order at noon by DIR. Dudley, VIII
called to the attention of delegate
- the death of three clergymen sine
the body's last meeting in February
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
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IN
THOSE ON
STREETS
ASKED
Patriotic Spea sers II Mlsesiaf
Point Out UnntentionaT
Dissertations.

All Washington merchants and
.homeowners who are making i'm
proper use of the United States
flag for decorative purposes will
be asked to correct the errors as
far as possible before the arrival
of the city's guests, beginning the
end of this week.
The request will be made as the
result of meeting this morning
of representatives of the D. A.
r. and other local organizations
held in the Franklin School at
the call of Mrs. William Wolff
Smith, chairman of the District
D.. A. R. committee for the cor
rect use of the flag.
Army Officers Speak.
Col. Alfred j. Booth, of the Ad-
jutant Generals office, and Capt.
George Chandler, of the general
staff, spoke. Colonel Booth declared
that misuse of the flag, unless it
was grossly improper dissertation,
could not be dealt with in law and
that public education must be
widened.
Captain Chandler declared that
misuse of the flag is universal and
stated that the flag is improperly
used even upon the Treasury De-
partment and that in the United
States Capitol there is a United
States flag which is improperly dis
played.
Misuse Of the flag in these deco
rations now displayed in Washing
ton is due to the sin of ignorance
rather than deliberate dissertation"
declared Mrs. Isabelle w. Ball, of
the national staff of the Women's
Relief Corps.
Urges School Education.
Education in the proper use Of
the flag should be made a regular
part of the school curriculum in the
District and in every State. Fool
ish and improper legends about the
flag and it's origin are current even
in school textbooks. They should
be corrected. Legends and lies
about the flag are as much desecra-
ton as it's improper use"
Mrs E. H Liscum. president of
the Women's Army and Navy
League. and Mrs. Howard d.
Hodgkins, of the Board of Educa
ton, were speakers.
Captain Chandler urged the u.s.
of fewer United States flags and OF
more bunting in the national colors
in decorative work and in parades,
declaring that too free use or the
flag tended to cheaper 1t.
Nearly a score Of the zoo specIal
trains which are to bring the no
bility of North America to wash
ington are on the way across the
country, Shrine headquarters was
notified today
Among the temples already on
the road are Aahmes. of Oakland,
Cal, which is sending three large
uniformed bodies. in addition to
its divan, imperial representatives
and a large party of mobiles. The
Aahmes special will arrive In
Washington Sunday morning. At
tached to this special will be the
private car bringing the Imperial
Potentate, James 8. McCandless,
of Honolulu, and Mrs. McCandless.
The Aahmes special Is closely fol-
lowed by the Islam Temple special
from San Francisco. which win ar-
rive in Washington over another
line only twenty-five minutes afte.'
the Aahmes train. islam is sending
a patrol of IS, a band Of 20 pieces.
SO chanters. and other uniformed
units totaling 80, not including the
divan.
Nile Temple. Of Seattle Wash.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
REPORT SWISS ARE SLAIN
IN POGROMS IN RUSSIA

BERNIE, May 31.--Although the
Soviet authorities deny acts of re-
venge against Swiss residents in Rus
STA for the assassination of M. VoroV-
sky at Lausanne, advices received
from some of the Swiss in that coun-
try report that the Communists have
organized regular pogroms against
them.
In Odessa the chairman Of the
Swiss colony has been killed and
two other prominent Swiss residents
have been badly injured.
Several Swiss have been arrested
in Petrograd, Moscow and Kiev, and
Swiss stores have been pillaged.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
THE WEATHER

Fair tonight and Friday;
little change in temperature;
gentle to moderate easterlN
winds becoming variable.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
WOMAN FOUND SANE is
FREED OF Staying CHARGE

NEW ORLEANS, La, May 81
Mrs. Matilda Levee, of Los An
geles, stepped from the hospital for
the criminal insane at Jackson, La,
today, a free woman.
The indictment for murder in the
shooting of her husband, Frederick
Levee, which had been held over
her head for two years, has been
quashed. She has been declared
sane by hospital heads.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
B. F. KEITH TAKES OVER
THEATER AT DETROIT

NEW YORK, May 31.-Beginning
next Monday, the Temple Theater
in Detroit will run under B. r.
Keith management. One of the
five perfect playhouses" is to be
established in Detroit by the Keith
interests.
James f. Moore, former owner
of the Temple, is retiring from
the mid-western production field,
having relinquished two other
theaters to the Keith management
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p. AND A. PHOTO

- n
MISS Ethel. VIRGINIA (BTLLIE) STANFIELD,
beauty daughter of wealthy Of
Pkesve Baltimore, who eOped Point Ind
j. Kvae Kvae,
Benson Mimi his Congress defeating An
drew VOsead. Young Kvae plays saxophOne Chicago
Kvale who in Chicago the
Railroad Conference bestowed the blessing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
HUSBAND TOOK KNIFE
TO BED, WIFE CHARGES

SAN FRANCISCO, May 31.-Mrs.
Marguerite Ratio was granted a
divorce from William ID. Ratio by
Judge Van Nostrand following her
complaint that her husband slept
with knife under his pillow.
OK March 3, she said, he went
away from home and returned the
next evening with the boast he had
made $3.50 by holding up people on
the highway.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31
OF SNOW STARTS
"NEXT WINTER" IN MONT.

BUTTE, Mont, May 31.-"Next
winter" started in Montana when a
heavy snow blanketed Butte and the
surrounding country, and when cold
rain and snow struck Helena.
Great Falls also reported cold and
rain. Snow continued to fall in
Butte throughout the afternoon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-31

The Rev. James Mcbride Ster-
rett Ends Life With Bullet
in Home.

In the midst Of q conversation
with his son the Rev. DR.. J Me-
Bride SterTett, associate rector Of
All Souls Memorial Church on
Cathedral avenue, went to his
room on the second floor Of his
home, "Springland," on Pierce
Mill road, this morning and sent
q bullet through his right temple.
Death was instantaneous.
When DR.. Sterrett first entered
his room, his nurse, Mrs. Carrie
Broker, urged him to lie down,
reminding him he had had sleep
less night. She left the room to
get a bed quilt. When she re-
turned, she saw him standing
with a 32-calibre Colt automatic
pistol pointed at his head.
In Poor Health.
Just before firing, and before the
nurse could reach him, DR.. Sterrett
cried:
Its all over now, my son.
The son, the Rev. H. H. D. Ster-
rett, present rector Of All Souls
Church, 1t is understood, had called
to see his father while on the way
to ballot for a new bishop at the
Church of the Ascension.
The elder DR.. Sterrett, until this
morning. had intended to take part
in the election of the new bishop.
For the past three months, DIR.
Sterrett, who was seventy-six years
old, had been in exceedingly poor
health and was compelled to abandon
active work on a new book he was
preparing.
Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt was
notified Of the tragedy by Lieutenant
Giles, of the sub-Tenleytown pre-
clnCt. The coroner issued a certifi-
cate of death by suicide.
Was G. w. U. Professor.
Members of the family maintained
that DIR. Sterrett has given no in
timation that he intended to take
his life. Only yesterday, they say,
he went to the Chevy Chase Club
where he watched some friends play
golf. While an ardent golfer him
self, DIR. Sterrett has been forced
to give up the game since his last
breakdown.
DR.. Sterrett is survived by his
wife, Mrs. AdIumia d. Sterrett; q
sister, Miss Mary G. Sterrett, and
five sons, Col. Robert, the Rev.
II. H. D.. John A, Douglas B. and
w. d. Sterrett.
At the age of sixty-four, DR..
Sterrett was made professor emeri-
tus of George Washington Uni
versity.
His first service in Washington as
rector of st. Adams parish was held
in a private house on March 5, 1911.
Shortly thereafter, 1927 Garfield
street was rented and regular serv-
ices were held there for the balance
All Souls Church with his own
independent parish on May 8, 1913.
The church was founded in memory
of James MacBride Sterrett, his
eldest son.
On Oct. II, 1914, the church was
consecrated and DR.. Sterrett served
as rector until May 1, 1917, when
he relinquishe6 the post in favor of
his son.
DR.. Sterrett was born in Howard,
Pa, in 1S47, and received an extern
sive education at the University of
Rochester. Harvard University and
other institutions.
Among his better known writings
ore: Studies in HegePs Philosophy
in Religion, Reason and Authority
in Religion, The Ethics OF Hegel,
and Freedom of Authority.
SHRINE CARDS printed at HausieF's,
gao 18th st. N. w. Quick ServicS.-AdVt.
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New Britain herald., 1923-09-08
NEKyY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN STAGE SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC

The 6FsAd GalsRei Players. hi
asest famous theatrical organisation
IN the saFld Of Us kind owning II
asa sheaser n tesris-aHiaae bas
falatly describes is interior eanslFasr
ilen=shsFe for the last 81 years Il
has xaa continuous fame sad dlsllae-
ton fer the strange and uneemmen
Kind of one ana tNozaet plays pre-
scented, ihrlllsFs they are called, and
acted with remarkable fidelity 10
Characterization. Is an importation
sean ta be seen In this country under
the direction Of the selsyas. These
setaTs are announced 70 make their
fEst appearance on October Is a. the
new fFelle thsatsr. atop the new AM
stsrdam thsatsr On Farty-kseand
street. New York.
The company Il net large one as II
does not exceed 10 members. for the
type of play presented calls for
small east, Each player is renuled 10
be an artist Of special elsss possess
Ing an individuality Of style and man-
nsr and portrayal that has never be-
for heen revealed In this country.
The Grand dnignol Players have a
'epertery OF 200 plays, Some are weird. |
ZONE are sensational. some are de- |
lelonsly faeeiious comedy while all
sandis the sex question with distinct
y naiiie favor. Four short plays win
complete each program, which will be
hanged nightly. and no play of the
spertory will be repeated. except by
New Britain herald., 1923-09-08
SCARS OF JEALOUSY
ON PALACE PROGRAM
American Legion Week a This
Popular Thsaisr

Neat week In cooperation Nth III
Edds Glover Pest ef the Americas
gien the Psiaes all present Q sps,
elally selected program Of attractions
IN celebration Of convention week IN
this city. Every ticket sold during
the week IL beest fer the Pest and
patrons aill al the same time see q
very me bin Of pheteplass and saade,
vile,
Prohibition enforcement Officers of
today IN search of heailsggeFs have
an easy time compared with the ieh
OF revenue officials who used 10 hunt
down the makers Of Illicit liquor In
the mountains Of the south.
4 thrilling search for smaonshin.
erss IL a feature Of Thomas II, Inee's
latest screen production, Scars Of
Jealousy" II Was staged for the Minis
with the aid Of q retired United States
marshal and IL said 10 be realistic in
the extreme,
SCARS OF Jealousy will be shown
al the Palace theater on Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday,
The vaudeville bill will feature four
first class attractions featuring jug
eleland" q unique novelty act. Leona
Williams. known az the phonosraph
girl" the Braminos are musical
clowns. Nowlin and ~, Claire offer
a great singing. talking and dance
act.
On Thursday the bill will change
and brings as the fitting attraction for
this occasion the L. s. government
moving picture OF the world war TAX
IN by the U. s. Signal Corps on the
OF France. As an added
on this bill "Hoot" Gibson
will be seen In "Hlinky" very appro-
ornate for this program because II Is
I comedy tale OF a U. s. cavalry boy |
For Sunday night only Milton stills
will be seen in Legally Dead" and |
IN all star cast will offer THE Inner
Man."
Under special arrangement with the
of the Palace theater
Ind In conjunction with the conven-
ion festivities. the Eddy Glover post,
70. 6. of the American Legion, will
conduct at fine Palace an American
.egion week. starting Monday night
The Legion will furnish ushers and
III attendants. Special programs of
New Britain herald., 1923-09-08

to comment on the trials and tribula-
tons Of piano teacher Miss Miller
remarked ITO be successful teacher
of pianoforte among younger children
a teacher must have patience. She
must be willing to spend extra time
with her scholars and In detail tell
them the fundamental principles of
piano playing. Teach them that it is
not essential to make as much noise
as possible and toFstart to teach OK
preston while they are beginners: do
not wait until they are old pupils"
Miss Rose Miller is a graduate of
the New Britain High school In the
class of 1920 and is at present teach
ing in the local elementary grades.
She has studied voice culture and has
been engaged as soloist with the choir
at the Emmanuel Synagogue at Hart
ford during the holidays. Miss Miller
expects to accept the engagement as a
permanent position. She has favored
at many New Britain social events
with her singing.
Mr.. Miller is a graduate of the New
Britain High school and the Combs
Conservatory of Music in Philadel-
phia. While at High school he played
with the Palace theater orchestra and
for several dances and social functions
In and about New Britain. Leaving his
home town he entered the wilds of the
New York musical world and has
come out at the top of the ladder.
For the past two seasons he has fea-
tured with his own orchestra in New
York hotels and club and social ar
fairs.