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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-31

game features the card. These
two brilliant teams will meet in a
most important game of the SEN
iOr division, at Union Park. A
victory for the ROamers wilt tie
them with their bitter enemy,
the champion WaVerly club. In
their last meeting they tied at
3-tO-3.
Two of the unlucIxiest teams in
the series are scheduled for a bat
tie at Central stadium today. The
Mercury and Union Printers clubs,
favored by all known baseball jinx,
are the principals.
Ike Thompson, W. r. Roberts
first-sacker and manager, slid home
in the third with what he fervently
hoped to be a tying run in the Gar
field game. But the jumps waived
him out. It was the third out and
two Roberts men were left on base.
A grand opportunity to win the
game was gone. The Garfields fin
lshed on top, 8 to l.
Yohe Murray, Garfield center
fielder, was the batting star. He
got a triple, a double and single in
three times up and scored two runs
Many complimentary remarks
COHCeEHIHS IHe pldyIIB VI MURRAY
have been heard since the series
started. THAT birds a ballplayer,"
chirped fan at yesterdays game,
and the same expression, in varia-
tons, has been made by ballplayers
who have opposed the Garfields.
Murray "handIes himself in
the manner of well-trained
balIplayer. He gives the impress
sion of knowing what it's all
about and seldom is found want
ing when his team needs an ex-
pert bit of fielding or something
more than a tap at bat.
Murray Is one of the Garfields
Three Musketeers." The other
two are Haley and Harron. For
years these three have been TO-
gether with the Garfield team.
Players come and go. but they are
like the brook.
Welde, the Pills star pitcher,
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Veacn, VINO reached f1rSc base
safely every time he faced John
son, singled with one gone in the
fourth, reaching second while joey
Evans was disposing of Rigney. He
got no farther.
Bobby Jones doubled with two
down in the fifth and saw Blue ex-
ptre on a. short fly to Goslin.
Bucky Harris booted Veach's
roller in the sixth with two gone
and, to everybody's surprise, in
Guiding Cobb's, Bobby stole second,
where he was left.
Bassler led off in the seventh with
with a single to left but johnson
called on his reserves and famed
both Dauss and Haney. Between
those two strikeouts Ruel tossed
out Bassler attempting to steal.
Ty Cobb singled to center with
two out i'm the eighth and made
the third death in an attempt to
steal. Ruel picked up. a low hook
on the outside and got it down
to Harris in plenty of time to
erase the Detroit leader.
In the ninth, with one out,
Bobby Veach belted a double up
against the right field fence and
Manush came up for Topper Rig
ney. Cobb most certainly wanted
that tying run but Manush was
not the boy to bring it over. He
and then Johnson, seeing his hun
dredth shutout right in front of
him, uncorked all he had and
famed Johnny R3SSIer
Johnson showed perfect control
after the second inning. His three
free passes came in those first two
frames, one in the opener and two
in the next. After that he was
tighter than a bloke with a rapidly
emptying cellar.
Six of the Tigers died on strikes,
Haney, Heilmann. Rigney, Bassler
and Dauss, the latter twice. John
son ducked nobody, either, insisting
On pitching to such sluggers as
Haney, Jones, Cobb, Heilmarn and
Veach.
While George Dauss may have
been glad at heart to see his great
rival win, his feei ngs neeI not
have been ruffled. The Tiger curve
ball star pitched brilliantly. Just
q little better luck might have kept
the Grifts from their one run.
With two out, Goose GOslin
walked, after dropping foul over
the right-field wall. He went to
third i'm a hurry when Sam Rice
pummeled single to right.
Muddy Ruel, a wicked kid i'm a
pinch, promptly kicked a single
over second base, and in came
GOslin with the lone tally of the
day.
After that first frame only three
hits came off Dauss' stuff. He dis
played a sharp-breaking curve and
his speed was quite all right,
y'know. His defeat left him with
his head up.
Patsy Charity scratched a hit
off Jones' glove in the second. Sam
Rice, by a fine burst of speed,
made a double out of a single to
Ty Cobb in right center
In the sixth Muddy Ruel hit the
ball right down TO third base. This
goes literally, the ball. striking the
bag with thunnp. There are the
three hits off Dauss after the open.
ing, and deciding. frame.
There was some nifty fielding bv
Muddy Ruel, joey Evans and Top
per RgneV, but as a general thing
few fielding chances were difficult,
1t was pitching duel, and, like
most Of them, the hurlers hung
over the rest Of the lads like a tent.
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IIona,. -, IT. ETrorS~-harriS ana
fancy Two base hits-Rioe, Jones
each stolen base--Veach. Left on
SSases-Detroit' 8; Washington, 8. First
~ on bhlls-Off Dauss, /; off John
G"h' ., struck out-By Dauss, 1: by
iIohhson, 8. Umpires-Ormsby Row
r "a ia and Connolly. Time hour. 81
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BASEBALL q
. SUMMARIZES

Yesterdays Results.
Washington, 1; Detroit, o.
St. Louis, s; Philadelphia, 2.
St. Louis. 4; Philadelphia. 2.
New York, 6; Chicago, 8.
Cleveland, s; Boston, 2.
Cleveland, o; Boston, 4.
TOday's Games.
Detroit at Washington (two games).
Chicago at New York.
st. Louis at Philadelphia.
Cleveland at Boston.
T0m0rFOw's Games.
Chicago at Boston.
Cleveland at New York.
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing Of the Clubs.
w. l.. Pct. w. l.. Pet.
N. ~, 90 "a .646l BROOKLYN 4S IS SIS
Cinoin'd 50 So .621l StLouis. 4S 40 .495
Ptttsb'h So IS .617l Phila.... 90 Sc .309
Chicago. 90 Is .521l Boston, 26 So .274
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GOOD OLD BARNEY.
WASHINGTON. |

Totals. 20 627 10 Totals. 80 6241s
'BHtted for Rigney in ninth inning
netrolt ..,....... 0 o o 90
washington ..... o 0 0 0 0 0 x--1
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Today, the Roamer.WaverIy
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johnson started not so well.
With two gone in the opening
frame he lost control and passed
Lu Blue, bringing up Cobb. Then
he bore down and forced the Tiger
chieftain to roll weakly to Bucky
Harris.
In the second inning, with one
gone, Bobby Veach walked. Rig
ney, appearing quite a bit in awe
of the veteran singer, took third
called strike, but Johnny Bassler
cracked a clean single to left, send
ing Veach to third. Dauss waited
and walked, filling the bases.
With Fred Haney, a dangerous
hitter, coming UP, Johnson was in
unmistakeable trouble. Any sort
of a clean hit meant two runs and
would put the Tigers in front. The
fans gasped as Haney swung. They
settled back to cheer when Memo
Leibold, well out in left center,
pulled in that long, high drive. end
ing the frame.
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Six Tigers reached first base
through the last seven innings.
Four reached second, but not one
Of them lived to see third base.
johnson had plenty in reserve
and, with some good support, he
choked off every effort on the
part of the invaders to count.
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Ty Cobb singled to center with
two out in the eighth and made
the third death in an attempt to
steal. Ruel picked up. a low hook
on the outside and got it down
to Harris in plenty Of time to
erase the Detroit leader.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-07
Laws TalOns Are
LOOsed While Erring
Porter "Makes Up" Car

Portland, Me, Dec 6-W. Edward
Coleman. a Ncolored pullman operator.
was arrested this afternoon in the
alleged act of passing a bottle of
whiskey ito third person in the
Grand Trunk railroad yards and
charged with unlawful possession and
illegal transportation.
A w minutes later officials Of the
pullman company called Chief of Po
lice Irving S. Watts in great dis
tress. They painted pitiful picture
of company patrons being forced to
climb into booths in which the sheets
were wrinkled from the night be-
fore. They told in glowing words of
Coleman's artistry in making up a
car, and described how nobody but
he could do the work so well. There
were no other pullman porters with
in radius of fifty miles, they said,
and the business would be utterly
ruined if the car was forced to leave
that afternoon, unprepared for tits
journey.
The chief had travelled on pull
mans and known the good offices of
porters. So he released Coleman f; ON
the lookup for an hour. and sent
him. in charge of an inspector. to
finish his work in making up berths.
The train pulled out late in the af-
ternoon. it's pullman cars immacu-
late, leaving Coleman behind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-07
Mystery Blasts
Defy Detection
i'm Winchester, Mass.

Winchester. Mass. Dec. 6.-For "a
hours the ghostly gun of the spirit
of Salisbury road" whose hollow re-
ports echoed intermittently for five
days through the home of William
Hudson here. has been silent. Despite
hours of investigation by Fire Chief
David II. Decourcey and State Chem
list Walter l.. Wcdger today. the two
officials left the Hudson home with
the mystery still unsolved.
Despite the fact that Major Paul B.
Moulton. assistant state chemist, had
twice been in the Hudson home while
the strange series of explosions was
in progress and was unable to trace
their source. and despite the fact that
nothing was found behind the petition
or near the spot to explain the dislodg-
ing Of plaster from the walls of one of
the bedrooms, the officials chung to the
theory that a defect in the heating
system was the cause of the mystic
rious noises.
So today the fire chief and the state
chemist fired the Dig heater in the cell
lar. but never as much as a ghostly
tap. or even a faraway water hammer,
rewarded their efforts.
1t developed in the course of the
day that other persons besides the
families of Mr.. Hudson and Major
Moulton have heard the mysterious
sounds. Linemen repairing wires out
side the house. and workmen engaged
in making repairs in a house next door.
also reported that they had heard
sounds which they likened to machine
gun shots and said they had seen the
window curtains shake.
When they left, the officials asked
the family to report Immediately any
recurrence of the noises.
eff there is banshee in the house
we'll catch him." Chief Decourcey said.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-07
Conservatives Suffer
Big Losses - Labor
and Liberal Parties
Gain in POwer-Lady
AstOr Victorious -
Winston Churchill Is
Defeated

London, Dec. (By A. P.)-An
the results in the 90 polls reported
up to an early hour this morning in
the election TO decide whether the
British people are to give Stanley
Baldwin the mandate to carry out a
policy of limited protection in this
country show a decided majority
against the premier's proposal.
But whether, and to what eXtant
this partial verdict may be modified
by the returns yet to come in will
not be known until this afternoon.
Thus far the polling has been
marked by great turnover of votes
from the Conservatives. who stand
for protection, to the Liberals and
Laborites, who oppose protection.
The two latter parties now count 1876
seats, against 40 for the Conserva.
tives, while there are six seats which
belong to neither party.
The Constituencies polled yester-
day were mainly in the large cities
and boroughs, and those to be heard
from today are in the widespread
country areas, sobme of them agri-
cultural districts which usually tend
toward Conservatism, although not
invariably. Under the puZzlirg con-
ditionS of this election, it is impos-
sible to forecast how these country
areas will prove lto have voted or
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Pat Can See No
Good in Conference
Behind Closed Doors

EX-Attorney General William. r.
Fattangall of this city. who will be a
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton Tor governor in the primaries next
June, last night issued a statement in
Regard to the report that Gov. Baxter
had invited the water power interests
TO meet him in a conference to revive
the kennebec reservoir project.
III SPECIAL legislative session can
undo the harm which was done by Gov.
BaNter when he vetoed the Dead River
dam proposition a year ago, the money
expended would be wisely invested. but
IN view of the experience of last WIN
ter, the. governor and the water'p power
people should make sure that if they
reach an agreement it will be the sort
OF an agreement that the legislature
VIII ratify," says Mr.. Pattangall in his
statement.
Gov. Baxter. Senator Brewster. Mr..
Walter S. Wyman and Hon. William
Is. Shelton agreed at ) o'clock one
morning in April. in bill which WAS
satisfactory to them, relating to the
Dead River project, but the legisla-
ture declined to even give it respect
full Considerations
Undoubtedly Gov. Baxter would like
to trade with those whom he deAounccs
as the interests. Undoubtedly these
gentlemen would like to trade with
him. But there are some men in the
legislature who will scan with care
the product of such a trade, even if one
seems necessary to save the governors
political life.
1T is great pity that anyone, most
of all governor. should have UNDER
taken TO play politics with a matter in
volving the prosperity of the Kennebec
valley and if anything can be done,
in legitimate way. to retrieve the
error into which Gov. Baxter fell it
ought to be done even though it costs
the taxpayers of Maine good money.
But if anything is to be accomplished
in that line it must be by means of
fair and open dealing.
THE legislature and the people are
distrustful of private conferences be-
tween the governor and his alleged en-
emies. and are not likely to accept the
result of such conferences until they
lave been carefully reviewed"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-07
Seek Husband
in Staying Woman
in MelrOse Highlands

Melrose, Mass, Dec. 6-MrS. Robert
L. Benson of Stoneham, mother of
four children, was shot and probably
fatally wounded tonight while walk
ing in Halves Avenue. Melrose High
lands. Spectators said that man
with whom Mrs. Benson was walk
ing struck her on the head an |
knocked her down and then fired
three shots into her body as she lay
on the ground. The police have sent
out description of the woman's hus-
band from whom she has been sep
arateC for some time.
The scene of the shooting is near
the Wakefield and Saugus lines, in a
sparsely settled district. The police
of nearby cities and towns were re-
quested to arrest ION sight man
answering the description of the
.woman's husband. Benson. who is a
rubber shoe worker was arrested on
several occasions charged with fail
ure to support his family. His ad-
dress since he ceased to live with
his wife and children is unknown.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-07
ANTI.PROTE
Vote INDICATED IN
BRITISH ELECTIONS
BAXTER TO CONFER
WITH WATER power
COMPANIES AT HUB

That Governor Baxter has made
advances to representatives of the
water power companies interested in
the kennebec Reservoir proposition
in order that a conference may be
held to take up the question of the
development of the storage facilities
OF the Dead River and the power at
Long Falls, was learned yesterday.
Governor Baxter, questioned regard :
ing the report, would not confirm or
deny it. He declined to make any
comment, as also did Walter S. wy
man, treasurer of the Central Maine
Power Company.
The meeting will be held in Boston.
IT Is understood. Governor Baxter
having requested the attendance of
representatives of the Central Maine
rover Company, the Hollingsworth
d whitney Company, the Great
northern Paper Company, the Inter-
Matlonal Paper Company. the Shaw
NUT Manufacturing Company, the
Lockwood Manufacturing Company,
ana the Edwards Manufacturing
manufacturing Company, the con-
Germs which constituted the incorpo-
gators of the Kennebec Reservoir
company in the bill which was before
the Legislature last winter. The date
oil the conference has not been deter
mined. but it is probable that it will
not be held before Jan. l, 1914.
This get-together promises to be of
particular significance in view of the
interest attached to the proposition
at the last session of the Legislature
when ne matter of chartering the de-
Veiopment company was one Of the
high lights.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-07
FIVE MEXICAN STATES
REBEL AGAINST RULE
0BREC0N AND GALES
DENY RESTRAINING
ORDER SOUGHT IN
PORTLAND ELECTION

Portland, Me-, Dec. 6-Complaint of
DR.. Louis A. Derry, defeated candi-
date for the school board, seeking to
have the supreme judicial court res
train the municipal officers from
making canvass of the ballots cast
at Mondays election of five council
lors and schoolboard under the
new commission manager form of
government, was dismissed by AS
sociate Justice Scott Wilson this af-
ternoon on the ground that the court
OF equity lacked jurisdiction.
He denied the restraining order and
dismissed the bill in equity which at
tackled the validity of the count in
one ward and three precints. and al
legged contravention of the constitu-
ton of the state of Maine.
Cause of action was contained in
the allegation that the ward officials
had failed to make proper return
within "a hours from the time the
polls closed and that municipal Off
GERS had further failed to make a
canvass of the count within a like
time limit, both of which are re-
quired by the constitution. Motion
for dismissal of the bill was made by
corporation counsel Harry C. Wilbur
The court also dismissed a bill in
equity filed late yesterday attacking
the validity of the right of ward Of
ficials to remove ballots from ward
meeting places to City Hall where
they were counted.
This was dismissed on the ground
that service on a restraining order
which sought to enjoin the ward Of
ficials from making a return, and the
city clerk from accepting the return
was not effected until after action
had been taken by the defendants.
Remedy is not available through
equity, the court ruled, in the par
ticular cases at issue. Attorneys in
the case pointed out that further ac-
ton through mandamus proceedings
would likely be taken after the sup
posed duly elected officials had as
stunned office next Monday.
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GriMs Says Was
Prime Mover in
Attack on BergdOll

Mosbach, Baden, Dec. '6.-(By. A.
PD-Testifying in his own behalf to-
day, Lieutenant Corliss Hoover
Griffis of Hamilton, Ohio, who is
charged with participation in the at
tempt last summer to kidnap Grover
Cleveland Bcrgdoll, the American
draft evader, asserted that lie was
the prime mover in the plot to cap
ture and take Bcrgdoll back to the
United States. The American Legion
had no knowledge of the attempt,
but numerous American officers in
Paris were aware of it.
Griffis' was called as the first wit
ness because, i'm accordance with
German procedure, the defense al
ways pre- scnts it's evidence before the
prosecutor introduces his. In the
course of hi testiposny Griffiis eX-
planned that the American draft sys-
tenn was by number, and he said that
the man who had taken BerguolIS
number was killed.
This explanation interested the
court. Presiding Judge Kursman,
frequently had asked questions, and
one of these was whether the man
who actually replaced Bergdoll in
the army had met death.
In declaring. that he had worked
for purely patriotic motives. Griffis
asserted that he had expected no
reward for the capture of the draft
evader
A report that Ike Stecher. former
ly of Philadelphia, and who acted
as Bergdoll's chauffeur when Bergdoll
fled the United States, would kidnap
Grifis, reached the court today
through the attorney for Griffis.
,, Judge Kurzman then called Berg
dolls uncle, Carl Bohrmann, into
/ court and cautioned him that if
Bergdoll and his friends attempted
any injury to Griffis they would be
dealt with severely by the court.
Griffis began his testimony by
saying he desired to draw the at
tention of the court to the different
situation confronting him in the out
! lining the contempt in which Berg
| doll was held by the American peo-
! pie. Judge Kuhrzmann asked why,
: after the war had ended five years,
| the Americans still insisted on
Bergdcll returning a nfdacing trial,
declaring "Time eliminates every
! thing-cven the hatreds of war"
"Time never will eliminate the
| feelings of Americans in the Berg
! doll case" replied Griffis. who then
| launched into a detailed story of
| Bergdoll's flight and the wrath arous-
| ed among the people. He told of in
| suits later offered the United States
| government and the American people
generally by Bergdoll who he said
| escaped by the use of his wealth.
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Approval Of Tax Cut, High Light In
Annual Message To Congress- DE
cIares F|at|y Against Soldiers
BonuS---WantS World Court With /
Reservations Reorganization /:
Freight Rate Structure---Not !.
In Favor Price Fixing, Ex- /
cess Profits Tax, Re- /
vision Of Tariff /
TERMED COURAGEOUS

Washington, Dec. 6-Political APP
praisement of President Coolidge's
address today closely followed it's de-
livery to congress, and as usual, there
was a great diversity of opinion. :.
AS political document of great
potential effect on the 1924 campaign,
on the personal fortunes of Mr.. Coo
lidge and those of his party, the add
dress had been awaited expectantly
by leaders of all parties. 1t met to
day with the expressions of general
praise from many Republicans,-Mith
less enthusiastic approval from 9TH
ers and with immediate criticism
from the Democrats. Il
On one point-the positive and I'M
cQuivocal stand taken by the preSi-
dent on many issues Of highest polit.
ical as well as legislative import
ance-there appeared almost general
agreement. Republicans commended
this as courageous" position.
announcements of the president
on which political attention was CEN
tered, at once included his declara-
tions on the Mellon tax reduction
program, the world court, railroads.
agriculture and labor and his fiat
opposition to soldiers bonus. en-
trance into the League of Nations,
tariff revision and reduction of the
army aud navy.
CONTINUED on Page 10, Col 81
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Stokes Trial for
Conspiracy Soon

Chicago. Dec CA definite date
for the trial OF w. T.. -. Stokes.
millionaire hotel owner of New York,
Daniel T. NuGent. a New York at
torney. and five others, charged with
conspiracy, is expected to be set on
December II. Attorneys for Stokes
and Nugnt appe cared today when the
case was called and had it continued
until December II when it was said
the trial date would be fixed. John
J. Healy. attorney for Nugent. sug-
gested that the trial would be set for
some date in January.
Stokes. Nugent and the others
We're indfcted here on a charge of
conspiring to defame Stokes wife,
Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes.