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The Washington times., 1923-03-03
MOTHER, FRANTIC OVER
BABIES CRYING, MISSING

LANCASTER, Pa, March 3.-The
continuous crying of her children
is given by the police as the rea-
son for the mysterious disappear
ance Of Mrs. William Imhoff, twenty
years old, of this city. She is the
mother Of three children, the oldest
three years, and the youngest, three
months. The babies became i'll re-
Gently and cried day and night.
IF the babies don't stop crying
I'll go crazy, commit suicide or run
away" she once told her husband.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
Maniac Kills Woman
Attending Her
Sick Baby

CHICAGO, March 3.-For
three days Rocco Fazzolari had
hidden away in the basement of
his brothers home, snarling at
members of the family and
fighting off food.
While the brother was absent
at nearby grocery, the insane
man crept upstairs, went to the
bedroom where his brothers wife
was attending a baby i'll with
pneumonia and shot her to death.
Running back to the basement
stairway he shot himself through
the head and died a few hours
later in a hospital.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
OPERATION UPON CHILD
PERFORMED IN AMBULANCE

BROCKTON. Mass. March s.
Traffic in Main street was halted
completely few minutes yesterday
while a delicate operation was per.
formed on Lena Bots, three, as she
lay near death in an ambulance.
The child, suffering from diph.
liberia, began choking to death on
her way to Boston hospital The
ambulance was stopped in the mid.
die of the street and DR.. John F.
Callahan inserted a silver tube
through an incision in the childs
throat. She rallied and is expected
to recover.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
IS To
SAIL LATE
IN JUNE
Reconditioned Ship Inspected
BY Admiral Benson and
Board Delegation.

Promising a late June sailing Of
the reconditioned s. S. Leviathan
under the American flag, officials
of the United States Shipping
Board, Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton, and the United States lines
returned to Washington this morn
ing from their first official inspec-
ton OF the gigantic liner at New
port News. Va.
The contract for the American
ization Of the former German liner
Vaterland, involving sum Of
$8,500,000 contains a stipulation
that the work be completed four
teen months from the date of let
ting. If the Newport News Ship
building Company is held to strict
adherence to the contract it will
deliver the ship April Is. Delays
incident to strikes and inability to
secure materials will, however,
force an extension Of two or more
weeks.
1.-THE United States Shipping
Board demands that this ship leave
here not a day later than May l."
Commissioner r. V. O'Connor de-
clared following the inspection of
the ship yesterday. after going
from stem to stern. from top to
bottom, we can see that there is
positively no excuse for a delay.
We shall expect her to leave here
in time to have her underwater
work done at Boston and be in New
York ready for the final touches
to permit OF late June sailing"
Benson Pleased at Work.
Admiral w. S. Benson, of the
Shipping Board, who has made fire.
Quent inspections of the recondition-
ing as it has progressed, expressed
himself well satisfied with the char
acter of the work done. He praised
the spirit Of the American work
men and the efficiency with which
the ship is being put into condition
to fly the American flag.
The S. s. Leviathan, when she
sails on her maiden voyage, will
represent an investment of not
more than $10,000,0O0 to the United
States. Passenger carrying capac-
ity of $3.50 persons will produce
sufficient revenue to pay substan-
tial dividends on the venture, Off
Gals of the United States Lines
predict.
Board OF Inspection.
In addition to Commissioners
Benson, O'Connor and Meyer Liss.
ner, of the United States Shipping
Board, the inspection patty in
cluded President j. b. Smull, Vice
Presidents w. j. Love, Joseph
Sheedy and w. B. Keene, of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation; Man.
ager T. H. Rossbottom, Operations
Manager w. f. Griffith. Nairte.
nance and Repair Manager r. D.
Gatewood, all of the United States
Lines; William F.. Gibbs, Of Gibbs
Bros, Inc, and Homer Ferguson
president of the Newport News Ship
Building Company, contractors to
the United States for the recondi
tioring work.
Chairman A. d. Laskcr, of the
Shipping Board, who had expected
to head the party. was detained in
Washington to go ever the details
of the plan for the future of the
American merchant marine, which
he is expected to announce Sunday
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
TEACHERS BILL
BLOCKED On
LAST DAY
important District Measure
Awaits Report of Spe-
ciaI Rule.
By r. HAROLD MAY.

The game of football which
members of the House play each
session with the District of Co
lumbia is in full sway today, the
last of the Sixty-seventh Congress.
Republican Floor Leader Mondell
and chairman phil Campbell, of
the House Rules Committee, are
the House guards"
Withholds Special Rule.
While Campbell presides over the
House in the absence of Speaker
Frederick H. GiIlett, he carries Sc
curely in his pocket the special
rule unanimously voted by the
House Rules Committee for the con-
sideration of the teachers salary
bill. Unless he elects to bring it
forth today it will be a useless
piece of paper after midnight.
The rule will remain for many
years, however, in the memory of
those who have pushed the bill in
the interests Of justice. It's failure
of passage by the House through
the juggling methods of Mondel'
and Campbell will not be forgotten.
Somehow there has been an I'M
fair advantage taken of those
women who have SO jealousy
worked for the measure. Promises
have been thrown aside all along
the line. It would be impossible TO
place blame on any one person
ND fast
the past few days,
Thev have involved not only Mon
dell and Campbell but other mem
hers of Congress and persons hlgn
in official and civil life of the DIS
trict. I'm
With the teachers salary Dill
will also "die" more than twenty
other measures of incalculaple iii
portance to the District. Among
these is the bill revising the IN
surance code. It's failure means
that the District must carry on
for another year or more with an
antiouated law, and it also means
q loss of money. With the revised
code it is estimated by Superln
tendent of Insurance Miller that
more than 100000 would be an
nually added to the DISTRICTS III
come.
Still Hope OF Action.
There is general opinion among
those interested in the teachers
bill at the. Capitol today that the
measure will be permitted to come
up for action during the last Few
hours of the session.
This means that influence has
been brought to bear in favor or
the bill as it passed the Senate
which provided for large increases
in the salaries of officials OF the
schools and only slight changes in
those Of the teachers.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
FOOD PRICES FOR WEEK
REMAINED ABOUT SAME

NEW YORK. March Brad
streets Food Index Number, based
on the wholesale prices per pound
for thirty-one articles used for food
is $3.42, comparing with $3.42 last
week and 1921 for the week end
ing March 2, 1922. This weeks
number is unchanged from last
week, but shows gain of 6.5 per
cent, over the like week of last
year.
The rising tendency in wholesale
prices os commodities that has been
such a conspicuous market feature
for sometime past was much less
pronounced this week, 38 out Of the
70 changes that appear in the 33S
| quotations received by Dun's Re.
view being advances, as against "a
| declines.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
$4,000 IN SILK
|. STOLEN FROM
TRUCK
Driver, Left Tied to Tree by
Bandits, Reports
HoId-up.

HACKENSACK, N. T., March 3.
Theft of a $4,000 silk shipment
by armed bandits, who held up a
motor truck en- route from Philadel-
phia to New York city, became
known today when John Kiss,
driver of the automobile, was found
tied to tree at the side Of the
Paterson plank road near Lodi,
N. J.
Kiss reported to police here that
two armed men stopped the truck
while he was driving at midnight
last night, and held him captive
while two others of the band drove
away with the merchandise.
Then he was placed in an auto
mobile and forced to ride with the
men until o'clock this morning,
when they tied him to the tree and
left him.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03

HUNDREDS
Of BILLS
To DIE
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Continued from First Page)
dell Rep.) of Wyoming, the ma
jority floor leader; Congressman
Stafford (Rep) of Wisconsin, the
majority whip" ''Uncle Joe" Can.
non Rep) Of Illinois, a former
Speaker of the House, and the
chairmen of twenty House com.
mittees These included Chairman
Volstead (Rep.) Of Minnesota, OF
the Judiciary Committee and author
of the famous law bearing his
name: Campbell Rep) Of Kansas.
of the Rules COMMITTEES; Fprdney
Rep.) of Michigan, OF the Ways
and Means Committee; Towney
Rep.) of Iowa, of the Insular AT
fairs Committee; Tess Rep) of
Ohio, Of the Committee on Educa-
ton; and Stevenson Rep.) of Min
: nesota, of the Postoffice Commit
tee, besides the heads of minor
committees.
Other House notables who were
bidding farewell to their colleagues
were Congressman Burke Rep) Of
Pennsylvania, leader of the labor
faction: Miss Alice Robertson (Rep.)
of Oklahoma, and Mrs. Winifred
Mason Huck (Rep.) of Illinois, two
of the feminine delegation: Meyer
London, the lone Socialist member;
Congressman Rucker, of Missouri,
the oldest Democrat in the House,
and last but not least, Manuel Her
rick Repl of Oklahoma. the Houses
"ariel daredevil"
While farewell parties" were in
order, party leaders strove to shut
out debate so that every minute
might be devoted to enacting legis-
lation. Both House and Senate had
passed all bills on the Administra-
tons program with the sole excep-
ton Of the ship subsidy, which
failed in the Senate. Hundreds of
measures. however, with individual
supporters were caught in the jam.
Situation In Senate.
The situation was worse in the
Senate than in the House. In the
upper branch, the McNary reclama-
ton bill, the Gooding wheat stabili-
zation, the Bursum omnibus pen
sion bill, the Capper truth-in-fabric,
the Dial cotton futures, the naval
omnibus bill, and the Sterling
classification of dry agents were
among the measures practically
doomed to death.
The alien property bill, author
izing the return of $4,000 accounts,
already passed by the House, was
caught in the Senate, while the Nor
ris bill changing the date OF Presi-
Dental i1augurations and the con-
veniHg of Congress, passed by the
Senate, was tied up in the House
These two measures faced better
chances Of enactment than the
others, because each had gone
through one branch Of Congress.
Party leaders also sought to jam
through the Bursum pension bill,
affecting LOO old soldiers.
When the last session started, in
dications were that the Senate and
House would continue until early
tomorrow when a recess would be
taken to a few minutes before noon
Sunday. Both branches then will
meet again to formally adjourn the
S7th Congress.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
MAN OF 81 IS BLOWN
TO DEATH BY GALE

WASHINGTON. Pa, March g.
During a high wind storm, w. E.
Steen, eighty-one years old, of FL
dersville, near here, was blown vio-
lently against barn door while
trying to feed his stock
He was found unconscious some
time later and died as a result
Of his injuries, which were of an in.
ternal nature.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
"JACK-THE-GRABRER"
BELIEVED A MANIAC

SYRACUSE, March 3.-A get
your-man" hunt has been ordered
by Chief of Police Martin L. Cabin
as the result of a new series Of
outrages by a Jack the Grabber,"
who il operating in three sections
Of the city.
Evidence in the hands Of the DO
lice stamps the grabber as a maniac,
making it imperative that he be
trapped at once.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
JUMPS INTO SNOWBANK
FROM SPEEDING TRAIN

SYRACUSE, N. Y, March "A
man whose name was not ascer-
tanned leaped from the eastbouud
Empire State express as It was
approaching Jordan yesterday.
The train was speeding sixty
miles an hour at the time. The
man landed ina snow bank, picked
himself out, remarked that 1.-The
Ku Klux Khan was after me-" and
disappeared.
Passengers stated the man had
been acting strangely and that he
boarded the train at Rochester. To
some he stated Il hooded band had
tortured him with Q bet igons
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
CHOW DOGS MAY
GIVE DEATH
Glue
Schneider's Staying to Be Re-
produced to See Effect on
His Two Pets.
CONTINUED from First Page.)

OOnLluu0u ITOEn 4 lFSL FaB0.J
found indicates that the clock
there was seven minutes fast.
Mrs. Anna Buzzi, held as q
material witness, told this police.
man that Schneider had returned to
their home at o'clock, but the
time, according to this new develop
ment, could have been only 4:53
p. m.
The district attorney attaches
great Importance to this discovery,
since it adds seven minutes to the
time between the moment Schneider
left home and the moment he was
killed.
While the authorities are investi
eating everything that promises a
tangible clue to the killing, Fred.
erick Schneider's swift living set has
declared a moratorium on love out
side the family.
The murder last Monday afternoon
of the wealthy Bronx builder has
frightened his philandering compan-
ions back to the protective fireside
One of these worshipers Of folly
has given ten-day notice to his
girls" that they seek elsewhere for
a provider of entertainment.
was 10 Amn0E1t Love.
How can one be certain in this
day of feminine equality in all
things that one is not entertain
ing unaware an expert shot, who
might be piqued to the point oil
exhibiting her skill with ones skull
as her objective? Better, then, to
make formal announcement OF
ones reform and treat all the girls
alike.
Fred Schneider, big and rogufsh
and rich, wooed his women as gently
and in a voice as soft as the
murmur of a south breeze through
leafy dell in summer.
Beautiful Peggy Roberts knows
he wooed her.
He won the slender, sprightly
Peggy of the titan hair so com.
pletely that she was willing to wait
until his incumbent "other woman, .
Mrs. Ann Buzzi, should grow toe
fat to retain his love any longer.
Inheritance Deal.
Then, by an agreement between
the corpulent Mrs. Buzzi and the
lissome, young Peggy, the title to
Schneider's affections was to pass
from the elder woman to the
younger.
Peggy knew Fred Schneider was
inconstant, but she has a rather
happy philosophy which reasons
that all men are tickle and not to
be held to one love when another,
more alluring, begins.
If he should one day discard her
as he was beginning to discard Mrs.
Buzzi, she said, Peggy. would not
try to oppose him. for she would
consider that the immutable law OF
man-nature was at work and not to
be thwarted.
Aids Mrs. Buzzi.
She contradicted many points vi
tai to the States case in proving
that Mrs. Buzzi. now held in SIS, 600
bail as a material witness, had a
motive for committing the crime.
Dorothy Helm, office manager for
Schneider at his Westchester ave.
nue. plant, told of a quarrel between
Schneider and Mrs. Buzzi because
she said, the woman was wildly
jealous OF Schneider's attentions to
Miss Helm.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
Citizens to Meet.

The Columbia Heights Citizens AS
ISOLATION will meet Tuesday evening
at 8 o'clock in st. Stephens Hall,
3017 Fourteenth street. Reports of
committees and the Fourteenth
street building line situat ion will be
discussed.
The Washington times., 1923-03-03
400 BUSINESS FAILURES
RECORDED IN PAST WEEK

NEW. YORK. March 3.-Business
failures for the week ending March
number 402, which compares with
81 last week "a holiday week.; asa
ID the like week of 1922, 300 in
1921, 129 in 1920 and 121 in 1919,
according to Bradstreet's,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-15
Mister Dodger shook his limp straw hand heartily.

ooh, yes, yes, indeed" echoed Mis-
ter Dodger. Hes one of the incest
people in Squealy-Moo Land"
"Then 1 think that you'll agree
that l did exactly right said Mister
Scare Crow. well, Don has bury
ing place"
"A burying place!" cried all three
listeners.
"Yes?" nodded Mister Scare Crow.
"For bones. He had to have it a
secret, so he buried all his bones
right here at my feet. He really has
quite a boneyard and / never told a
soul.
But one dag, Tike, Farmer
Smiths dog, discovered his se.ret
and started to dig the bones all up.
Il didn't know what 20 do at frs,
1 was so upset. And then / thought
of my gun. let it drop right on
his back as hard as could. He
barked and ran away, but by AN by
he came back. So i had to do some
more thinking.
Then my tin pan hat popped into
my head. The very thing!. So
shook it off and it not only landed
on him but made enough noise for o
war. He ran like a streak and 1
don't think he'll come back this
time" chuckled the straw man.
Nick picked up his gun and Nancy
got his hat.
Mister Dodger shook his limp
straw hand heartily. You're what
/ call a real FRIEND" he declared. II
apologize for every word"
Ito Be Continued)
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-15

"Why, you've lost your gun, Mister
Scare Crow" cried Nick, as he was
taking a walk with Nancy and Mis-
ter Dodger through the corn-field.
"Oh, no, 1 haven't" nodded Mister
Scare Grow, his wide straw mouth
curved in a merry smile. Il didn't
exactly lose it. / threw it away
And he chuckled so that he shook all
over. 1t was the end of the season
and Mister Scare Crow was getting
quite old.
sand your tin-pan hat is gone,
too" said Nancy, suddenly noticing
that the sentinel of the corn-field
was bare-headed.
Tee, hee, hee" chuckled Mister
Scare Crow again. Il didn't lose
that either. / threw it away, too"
~Indeed!" declared Mister Dodger.
"You're getting quite frivolous in
your old age, Cousin Scare Grow. 1t
isn't everybody who can afford such
extravaganza"
extravaganza nothing" denied
Mister Scare Crow suddenly growing
sober. Zone is never extravagant
when helping out a friend. And if
Farmer Brown can't trust me with q
real gun and real bullets, one has to
do the best he can"
Whatever on earth are you talk
ing about?" demanded Mister
Dodger. please explain yourself"
THAT'S what yeu should have said
in the first place." remarked Mister
Scare Grow amiably, without jump
ing at conclusions. I'll tell you all
about it. Do you know, Don, the big
dogT
"Yesw cried the Twins.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-15
CHAPTER s

80, II m getting hungry shouted Jngo LETS the kitchen
lingo called Chatter Legs also agreed And then looked
around, they couldn't find doorway the
Jngo watched Chatter time and tLen
burst laughter
Will So Jack
lingo pointed a doorway appeare =
1t not the usual
Clate
through And that
sounds like Flip" Coninud)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-09
HOUSE Of DAVID
TO Be INSPECTED
State Officials Plan Thor
ough Investigation of
Cults Colony.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich, April s-Plans for
an investigation that will delve into
the most abstruse features of the
lsraelite House of David colony, and
that may include an inspection of the
colony'S property at Benton Harbor,
were to be mapped here today at a
conference between prosecuting Of
hcials of Berrien county, in which
the cult headquarters are located,
and state officials.
The conference. it is said, will pro-
VIDE the means for mapping an ex-
tensIVe campaign in the states an
nounced plan to rid Michigan of the
House of David, in the event charges
against the organizatio are sus-
tanned.
Criminal proceedings against Ben
Jamin Purnell, missing cult leader,
may be the outcome of the confer
ence, it was said. If such a step is
taken the state will search the world
II necessary, for Purnell. The
king, as he has been known to his
followers, has been variously report
ed as in Australia. Canada and in the
wild Businesses of High Island, bit of
land in Lake Michigan owned by the
colony.
If criminal proceedings are started
against Purnell. they will be based
upon recent testimony in civil suit
heard in Grand Rapids. This testi-
mony charged the sect chief with i'm
morality and fraud.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-09
BISHOP DEFENDS
MISSIONARY FUND
Declares $18,50O,0O0 Apportion'
ment Will Be Approved
When Understood.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLYOKE, Mass. April Bishop
T. S. Henderson of the Methodist col
lege in Rome, chairman for the
bishops of the board of benevolence
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
who is one of the speakers at the
New England Methodist conference in
session here, declared last night that
any criticism arising as to the dis
position of the church'S S1S.5Q0, 900
apportionment for missionary and adj
purposes would be dissi-
pated when the plans of the board
were fully known.
The bishop made this statement
when he was informed that demands
for an inquiry into expenditures had
been made yesterday by delegates to
the New York Methodist Episcopal
in New York city. Bishop
Henderson maintained that a careful
and just estimate of all expenditures
had or would be made and gave as
surance that the apportionment,
money to be raised, would be eco
managed and a very rigid
budget adopted" The bishop ex-
pressed the opinion that any mis-
that might exist would
be settled without friction.
There is a movement on foot at the
conference to determine the sentiment
in favor of Senator Frank B. Willis of
Ohio as a presidential nominee. He
has been introduced as our next
President" and there is an evident
desire on the part of those present
to indicate their pleasure at the pos
that Senator Willis may be a
ra ndidata for the White House. Sena-
tor Willis, however has not given any
indication that he will oppose Hard
ing. whom he nominated at the re-
publican national convention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-09
FRANCE TO STAND
FIRM IN OCCUPATION
Cabinet Officers Declare Troops
Will Stay in Ruhr Till
Reparations Are Met.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 9.-Five ministers of
the Poincare cabinet journeyed to
distant parts of France yesterday,
and. standing beneath monuments
dedicated to the war dead and I'M
yelled in their presence, solemnly in
formed the thousands of French citi-
Zens that 1.-THE Ruhr would be evacu-
ated only when Germany has full
hlied her reparation obligations"
The war cross was affixed to the
coat OF arms of various cities which
sallantly withstood the German oc-
cupation for four years.
me statement respecting the Ruhr
IS interpreted generally, and in po-
llt!cal circles is said to be, intended,
as the official reply to the suggestions
made in certain quarters opposed to
the present policy in the Ruhr that
NJ. Loucheur's visit to England, where
ne met Premier Bonar Law and Mr.
Lloyd George, followed by confer
ences with President Millerand and
Premier Poincare, was the beginning
of change in the French attitude,
and that the French government was
WaVering and was willing now to
talk with Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-09
HARRISON SCORES
ALIEN IGNORANCE
Calls Presence of $500, 900
II|iterates Travesty on
Aims of u. S.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., April cit is
a travesty upon the very purposes of
government that there should exist
today within our borders $4,000
aliens who cannot read or write or
understand our language" declared
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
democrat, addressing an Americaniza-
ton celebration under the auspices of
the B. p. Q. L. here Saturday night
1T was serious problem" contin-
ued Senator Harrison, that confront
ed the government on our entrance
into the great world war that 81 per
cent of the 100000 men drafted into
our camps could not understand our
language, sign pay rolls or read the
orders of the War Department.
We have won our high place among
the nations of the world through the
character of our people and the high
ideals embodied in the principles and
purposes of our government. That
high place will be maintained just so
long as the spirit of Americanis:n re-
mains untarnished and the principles
and purposes of our government as
conceived by the fathers are adhered
to-"