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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23

John [. Whitfield Arrested in
Madison, Wis. But Escapes
In Rain of Shots.
TnternationaI news Service.

MADISON, Wis. May PA
posse Of fifty police. reinforced
81 citizens, today waa hunting for
John WHITFIELD, wanted BY
Cleveland police on a charge of
having murdered PatroIman Dem
mis- Griffin, following his capture
and sensational escape here last
night. A young woman giving
her name as Marie Price was
taken with Whitfield and is being
held at police headquarters.
The woman taken with Whit
field said she was his wife, but
police are investigating.
Arrested In Restaurant.
The couple entered restaurant
in the University district last
night. The proprietor said ne
recognized the man as Whitfield
and stepped to neighboring tele-
phone to notify police. The couple
were taken without resistance from
either the man or woman, but the
man denied he was Whitfield.
Two policemen escorted him to the
street, where he suddenly turned,
knocked down both Of his captors
and fled in front OF a street car,
running down the street to safety
in a rain of bullets.
Reserves from the Madison police
force were called and a man hunt
started Immediately. Early today
the entire city was being combed.
In the early hours before dawn
police reported having fired At a
man they believed to be Whitfield,
Ewho, they said, was trying to steal
an automobile. A trail of blood was
said to have been found near the
spot.
Woman Admits Identity.
Police at headquarters declared
the woman taken in the capture at
the restaurant has admitted the
man captured with her was Whit
field. The fugitive, they believe
stiI is in Madison and all roads
or other means of escape are being
closely watched.
Whitfield, police say, served
fourteen.year term in the prison at
Waupun. He is being sought for
the murder of Patrolman Griffin.
who was slain when he went to
arrest Whitfield In Cleveland.
Whitfield disappeared and Griffin s
body was found buried In a shallow
grave. ..
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
JUDGE WILL USE FILMS
TO CURE MARITAL WOES

CHICAGO, May go. Judge Nor
gan, Of the court OF domestic reia-
stions, has enlisted the film as
an aid in reIfniting broken fam
lies. In the nursery-roon1 adjoin.
ing the court he will have dis
played for three days this week a
picture depicting marriage, filmed
from the novel Brass, by Charles
Norris.
Old men who have been turned
out BY their children, couples sep
rated by too much mother-in-law,
puppy lovers come to court fol-
lowing their first quarrel, and nag
ging wives and families separated
by moonshine will be. among the
spectators Bailiffs and clerks win
act as ushers and note closely the
reaction of the spectators to the
picture.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
OFF
VIRGINIA
GAPE5
Y, 600 Cases Await Chance
70 Land, and Dry Navy Il
Preparing for Action.

NORFOLK; Va, My 23.-W With
10000 cases Of liquor aboard, for
sale at $35 4 case, I sizsable rum
feet has appeared on he Vir-
ginia Capes, fourteen miles out,
and settled down for 81 business
stay.
The coast guard cutters Mas
coutifi and Manning are keeping
d Watchful eye on the heet, how
ever, and officers said today the
Capes would be sealed before
nightfaiI in such way that none
of the fleets liquid cargo would
ever reach American throats.
Led by British ScIiooners.
The two cutters will be augmented
by tint Apache from Baltimore and
another from New York, it is said.
The fleet came in from the Bahamas,
headed by the British schooners
Istar and Cartona.
Efforts Of the rum fleet to pur-
chase bunker coal in this city, 1t
was learned today. proved fruitless,
offers of exorbitant prices for 1t
OGlHB ITO lHuQCCIIIGHIs IIONlSlOIl5
for the fleet are said to be going
from Norfolk in small boats.
The runners agents have been
seeking a purchaser for $4,000 cases
of whiskey aboard the fleet at $35
a case, but prospects" were wary
and the presence of the fleet of
cutters and the activity Of Govern
ment agents in the city has scared
everybody off. it is said.
Hear Firing at Sea.
The Mascoutin hastily mounted
guns here and it was believed by
her crew that there would be
something doing" The guns were
so mounted that they would be
ready for any emergency
Beach residents reported firing
during the early morning and saw
flashes at sea, but whether the
Coast Guard cutters actually fired
on the rum runners cannot be as.
certained.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23

Senator Charges Harding Pol
10y Tends to Promote and
Provoke STRIFE.
BY Cosmopolitan News Service.

MADISON, Wis, May 3D..
Charging that the Harding Adj
ministration .'has done more 10
promote and provoke war than
can ever be offset by all the
arbitration courts, and other SINH
lar devices that can be devised,
United States Senator Robert NJ.
La Toilette, in the current issue
of La Follette's magazine, his own
publication. bitterly assailed the
Presidents world court" scheme.
Sees War Tendency.
The administration, La Follette
says, has melted war by its plead
ing of the Chester, Standard Oil and
Sinclair concessions in Mosul, SAX
hahn and elsewhere.
Referring to the movement to
induce the United States to join the
world court, Senator La Toilette
says:
"The movement has two aspects
both of which are equally sinister
and subersive of the best interests or
the American people. In its first
aspect this is part of a cleverly
conceived plan of the international
bankers to entangle the United
States in the affairs of Europe, SO
that American wealth, American
soldiers and American ships can be
used to safeguard and protect their
now almost worthless investments
in the bonds. currencies and enter-
prises of the tottering nations OF
Europe.
Sees Disguised League.
This plan contemplates a politi-
cal sham battle in which the
Democrats will support the League
of Nations and the administration
Republicans will battle brave1y for
the world court-in other words, or
the league in disguised and diluted
form.
Under this cunning plan.
whether the pro-league Democrats
or the pro-court Republicans win.
the result will be the same--the
United States will be hopelessty
entangled in the European chaos:
I'm the second aspect, the glorifi-
cation of the world court is ain at
tempt to draw a red herring across
the trail of the great domestic is
sues and thus seek to save the Ad-
ministration and it's supporting spe-
cial interests from the wrath OF an
aroused and awakened people.
They want American farmers TO
turn their eyes and their minds
from their own bankrupt farms to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
TWO BOYS WATCH GAME,
THOUGH SERIOUSLY HURT

READING, Pa. May 23.-Howard
Hartman, fifteen, and James Stoudt,
twelve, are suffering from con.
cussion Of the brain after falling
off a motor truck carrying a base
ball team from this city to Boyer.
town.
The boys fell when the taj,hoa ri
on the crowded machine dronne,d
They were picked up and seemed
to be only slightly hurt. After
the game, at which they were snac.
tators. was completed at Esbbach
1t was seen that the bows were
seriously hurt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23

Running amuck while under the
influence of corn liquor and
threatening the lives of half a
dozen persons while he fiourished
an automatic pistol, young col
ored boy, police say, shot Sher-
man A. Wolf, thirty-three years,
Washington lawyer, to death in
front of his apartment, 1909
Nineteenth street northwest, early
this morning in the presence of
his pretty three-months bride.
Consider Case Closed.
The boy, Charles M Proctor. 201
Capitol avenue northeast, liz today
charged with murder in connection
with Attorney VOLTS death, and the
police consider the case closed.
An inquest will be held at the
Morgue at 2:30 this afternoon over
Mr.. Volts body. but the young
bride, who is in a serious condi-
ton at the Emergency Hospital,
vial be unable to attend
Eye. witnesses say that the shoot
ing came as a tragic end to a
merry theater party, and that it is
q miracle that none of the other
principals were wounded. ... b.
I'VE had just pulled up in front
Of the Wolf apartment" Edward
shannon, 1891 NJ street northwest.
and childhood friend of Mrs. Wolf
said today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wolf alighted from
the car and we were in the act OF
bidding them good night when we
noticed the colored boys staggering
down the street.
"The boy brushed against the
couple and Mr.. Leahy and myself
call to him to move on Instead
the boy came over to the machine
and fired a shot at Mr.. Leahy and
another at myself. / am at loss
20 know where the bullets hit OF
why we were not injured.
The boy then turned and fired a
shot at Mr.. Wolf AS the attorney
dropped to the pavement beside his
wife heard him say something
about Chinaman shooting him"
Police said today that the young
boy could easily have been taken for
a Chinaman in the dark as he has
Oriental features.
Tried to Shoot Others.
Having felled Mr.. Wolf. ii is said
the bov- ran and was pursued by
J. B. Lockwood, an employe of the
Interior Department, and another
man but managed to pass both o.
them when he flourished his CUR
menancingly. 1t is said that hi
attempted to fire at all of his pur
kuers but that the pistol refused tt
be discharged.
Police say that the boy ther
went to the apartment of Mrs
Mdgtfa Isn1ael, 24O6 Eighteenth
street northwest, over a store
where he stumbled near the doc
and asked:
"Is Minnie in?"
When he was challenged he il
aAid TO have half fallen down tn
CContinued on Page 2, Column ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
TYPHOID MARY's' FINDER
HEADS FIGHT ON CANCER

NEW YORK, May 23.--Dr.
George A. Soper, discoverer of "Ty.
phoid Mary" the carrier of ty.
phoid fever epidemics, has been APP
pointed managing director of the
American Society for the Control
of Cancer, 1t was announced. He
is an expert sanitary engineer. He
took charge of the sanitary work
In Galveston, Tex. following, the
flood in 1900.
The cancer society's financial
support Is now assured, DIR. Howard
C. Taylor, chairman of the execu.
tive committee, said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
INJURED
IN BAY STATE
WRECK
Five Cars of New Hampshire
Express Leave Rails on
Split Switch.
BY international News servlce.

WINCHESTER. Mass, May "a
Fifty persons were injured, two So
verely. i'm a train wreck near the
Winchester Highlands Station today.
The train, the New Hampshire ex-
press, of the Boston and Maine
railroad was travelling at a high
rate of speed. when 1t left the rails.
A split switch was responsible for
the wreck. Five cars left the rails.
Doctors were hurried to the scene
to attend the injured. The train
left Concord, N. H. at 6:21 a. m.
o. D. Perrin and William F. Auld
brakemen. were removed to a hos
pital Aud suffered broken left
shoulder.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
WAR AMNESTY RECEIVES
BIG VOTE OF CLERGYMEN

BOSTON, May 23.-The vote on
resolutions submitted by mail to
members of the Unitarian Minis
terial Union was announced at the
Unitarian Conference as follows:
To call on the President for UNI
conditional amnesty to wartime
prisoners, 230 to a.; for a new
effort, as outlined by President
Harding, to outlaw war from the
earth. rs to 5; in favor of Federal
prohibition as policy, 1856 to ~.
and for enforcement of the Volstead
act, 1S1 to %.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
STRAW HAT MAKER SAILS,
DlSCUSTED WITH SEASON

NEW YORK, May 25.-Among
the passengers who sailed yesterday
for Europe on the Cunarder Aqul-
tania, was D. H. Green, straw nat
manufacturer, who said he was
going abroad because his nerve
failed him through the prolonged
winter and the millions or straw
hats still in storage.
He added that he had watched
the weather reports daily untll ne
could not sleep at night and If the
cold spell lasted until October he
would make only felt hats in the
future.
He was responsible for the in
PRODUCTION of the cork hat into this
country and said that he feared 1t
would not get any further than the
coast of Florida and the theatrical
stage,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
GIRL ASKS $4,000 FOR
SPLINTER IN HER HAND

TULSA, Okla, May 23.-Lula
Kerr. salesgirl, stuck splinter in
her right palm October 26, 1922,
while an employee of a clothier.
Now she has filed suit for $4,000
damages.
On the date mentioned, she as
sefAed, large splinter penetrated
her hand. caused an infection which
spread through her body, and forced
her to remain belfast q long time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23

Ia. Toilette AssaiIs The World Court


Standard weights of lOaves
Of bread should Be established
by Federal law, G. j. Kremer,
Of the American Retail Bakers
Association, told the national
weights and measures confer
ence here today.
Such 4 law is desirable from
q consumers point of view,"
KreIier said. Bakers favor it
as d means of eliminating un-
fair composition"
Kremer declared the law
should be rigidly applied TO
bakers who make all loaves un-
der weight with the intention
to defraud. Underweight bread
would be sold as stale since that
commodity il considerably light
er than the fresh variety, it
was stated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
MAN WHO FELL FROM
WINDOW is RECOVERING

At Gallinger Hospital it was learn
ed today that Alexander Scott, sew
enty-seven years DID, has a good
chance of recovery. He suffered a
probable fracture Of the skull when
he fell the night before last from a
rear porch to the ground while ne
was sleep walking
When police were summoned to
his home, 1901 Kenyon street north
west, they found him In the rear
yard clad only in his night clothes.
He was a craftsman in the Govern,
ment service and was retired two
years ago .s.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
JAPAN-RUSSIA TRADE
AGREEMENT IN DANGER

TOKYO, May 23-Opposition of
the foreign office has about caused
the breakdown of unofficial nego.
tiations looking toward trade
agreement between Japan and So
Wet Russia.
A cabinet council Friday is ex-
pected to determine the govern
ment's attitude finally.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
DOG HOLDS UP TRAIN
UNTIL POLICE GUST HIM

BOSTON, May "a train Of
twenty-eight freight cars came to
stop in the Bennett street wards
of the Boston and Maine Railroad,
Vest Lynn. ...
" Three feet in front of the engine
stood a dog, quivering and whining.
The engineer would not run him
down.
Barring his teeth, the dog defiei
all efforts to- remove him. The DO.
lice came. They procured a ro;,e,
lassoed the dog and dragged him
from the rails.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
FOUR DEAD IN EXPLOSION
AT ARIZONA POWDER MILL

BENSON, Ariz., May 23.-Four
men are dead today and another
Is badly hurt as result of an ex'
plosion which destroyed three mix
ing houses of the Apache Powder
Company, six miles from here. The
terrific impact of the explosion dis
rupted all telegraph and telephone
communication, and it was not un-
til today that news of, the tragedy
was brought to this place.
All the dead are unknown locally.
One unidentified man, severely in
iured, was taken to a hospital The
cause of the explosion has as yet
been undetermined.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
$50 FEET OF LUMBER
IN WOMAN'S COFFIN

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May "a
In a specially constructed coffin,
requiring $50 feet of lumber, which
was lowered into an enlarged grave,
Miss Josephine Novak, Milwau-
KEGS largest woman, was buried
here following her death from
heart disease at the age of thirty.
Miss Novak weighed 500 pounds
and was but S feet inches tall.
Her casket was of the ordinary
length, but double the usual width.
The grave was enlarged on sim
liar measurements
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
FORMER MARINE OFFICER
TO FACE SANITY TEST

BALTIMORE. May 23.-Whether
Louis r. DeRoode former Marine
Corps officer, is insane is a ques-
ton which will be thrashed out
in Criminal Court where he is on
trial for the alleged misappropria.
ton of about $4,000 worth of
stocks from Baltimore banks.
Alienists will be produced by
both counsel for the defense and
the State. DeRoode was arrested
in New York. @
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
FRENCH WARN CREEKS
AGAINST WAR ON TURKS

PARIS, May 23.-The French min.
lister at Athens today was instruct
ed by the foreign office to warn
the Greeks of the extreme gravity
of any move which might be in
terpreted 'as a military offensive
against Turkey.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
PICKING AT DYNAMITE
MAY COST FARMER EYE

OWOSSO, Mich. May 23.-Lean-
ing over a tree stump to see why
the dynamite he had set under it
had failed to go off, Fred kilpat.
rick, a farmer living near Ovid,
was hurled twenty feet by the de-
layed blast and may lose his eye
sight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
Censorship Reported.
MEXICO EASY ON CHINA.

MEXICO CITY, May 23.-Foreign
Office officials stated today that
Mexico would do nothing in viola
ton of Chinese sovereignty, despite
the seizure Of two Mexican citizens
by Shantung bandits.
Foreign Secretary Alberto PAM
instructed the Mexican minister at
Picking to cooperate with the other
diplomats in an effort to obtain the
release of foreign captives, but to
do nothing that would infringe Chi.
nese rights.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
STUDENT SEEKS DEATH
TO ESCAPE DISGRACE

SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.-
Caught in the first disgraceful act
of his life, he said. Edwin Anders,
university graduate, fired six but
lets into his body in a cell in the
Berkeley jail.
He did not die immediately, but
expressed the hope that he would
in preference to becoming "a
social outcast."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
PASTOR HANGS HIMSELF
IN ATTIC OF HIS HOME

BUFFALO. N. Y, May 23.-The
Rev. Raymond H. Faller, thirty-two
years old, curator of st. john
Episcopal Church here, was found
hanging in the attic of his home
last night.
DIR. Charles e. Long, medical
examiner, issued a certificate Of
death by suicide. Friends of the
dead man said today that he had
been Ill and respondent. III
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
Railroad Denied a Loan.

The Interstate Commerce Com.
mission today denied the appiica.
ton of the Memphis, Dallas and
Gulf railroad for Government loan
of $246.782. The road 10 now in
the hands of a receiver. ~,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
MAO
STAYS
LAWYER. :.
~ Ill I'll ~ - 49, ssssss8essssa
G. M. Proctor colored Police
Say. y Identified As Shooter
of S. A WoH.

Harry Sheers, s42s Eighteenth
street northwest, was the hero
Of the tragedy which resulted
II the death of Sherman A
Wolf, early this morning. BY
error, in m early edition, the
name Of Mr.. Sheers WAS given
rs the man arrested for the
-sllOoting Of Wolf. The man ar
rested was Charles M. Proctor.
HOIOreds Of 201 Capitol avenue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
THE WEATHER

Cloudy and continued cool
tonight and Thursday; gentle
to moderate north and north
east winds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23
Waiting British Dry Note.

The reported protest of Great Brit.
ain against the new dry seas reeu.
lations of the United States had
not reached the State Department
today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-23

Chinese Government Nearly
Ready to quit Parleys and
Fight Bandits.
b lnternatlanal So ssrylee.

PEKIN, May 23.Announce-
ment was made today. that the
cabinet lis now united in the be-
lief that force must be used
against the Shantung bandits who
kidnapped Americans and other
foreigners, although it is under
stood negotiations are still under
way with the outlaws.
Governor to Act.
The Shantung military governor is
returning to his post with full power
to act.
The minister of communications
conferred with the ENJOYS of the
five powers whose nationals were in
volved in the bandit raid explaining
the situation to them.
Accusations are made in some for
eign circles that the government il
not sincere in the determination to
use force, but is only trying to save
it's face" It is felt in certain quar-
tiers that ii win be necessary to re-
enforce the foreign troops or make
some such display to emphasize the
demand Of the outside powers for
vigorous action.
Security from arrest, with foreign
guarantees, is the constant demand
of the brigand chiefs.
Prisoners i'm Bad Plight.
Letters delivered by courier show
that the plight Of the prisoners,
especially the Americans, is very
bod. The American captives were
picked out and moved to an isolated
mountain, evidently with the purpose
of stirring American public opinion
to action.
Foreign diplomats are meeting
daily. 1t is understood that a de-
cision will be reached tomorrow as
to whether foreign troops shall be
re enforced and protective measures
shall be taken for the railways. 1t
In virtually certain that all the dip
lomats will make similar proposals
to their governments regarding con-
troll of the railways until the bandit
outrages cease.
Prisoners Unframed.
SHANGHAI, May 23.-Although
the ultimatum of the Shanghai
bandits expired Tuesday, none Of
the foreign captives have been
shot according to word received to.
day from Lincheng.
The regular troops are said to be
withdrawing and the situation IL
more hopeful. There are a number
Of Americans among the prisoners.
Censorship Reported.
TOKYO, May est il reported
here today that a strict Chinese
censorship has been imposed al
Picking on dispatches from Linch.
eng, where negotiations are being
conducted for the release of foreign
prisoners OF the Suchow bandits
This has greatly delayed reports, it
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-08-11
The Texas Company
Gets Large Contract

One Of the largest fabrication con
tracts ever made in this country -.
just been effected between, the U. s
Post Office Department and the Tex
as Company, producers of Texaco Pc
troleum Products.
The contract is for the supply Of
lubricants to the Motor Vehicle Ser
vice Of the Post Office Department
and includes the furnishing of lubri
cants for several thousand motor We
hicles.
The Texas Company will make de-
liveries on the contract to different
points in the 3S states. This service
is made possible because of the wide
spread distributing facilities Of the
company. The Post Office depart
ment has heretofore divided this con
tract among several organizations
but the facilities of The Texas Com
pany reach from coast to coast. anG
this complete cycle of distribution
makes it possible for this large indie
pendent company to assume this i'm
mense contract.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-08-11

One passage Of the report made to
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace y
economists and statisticans whom he
delegated to review factors involved
int his country's agricultural outlook
is being quoted against those Repub-
licans, including officials of the Re-
publican National Committee, by
whom Europe's Importance in the i'm
provement Of conditions in the United
States is discounted. The passage is
as follows: . ..
"The foreign demand for American
foodstuffs. during the current market
ing season will apparently not be as
great as it was year ago. Unless
the foreign situation is very speedily
cleared up and definite turn for the
better takes place in Europe, it ap-
pears not improbable that Europe
will have less buying power in our
est, it is believed, in this statement in
than she had during the last"