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the great leader to success.

is the great leader to success.
There is many things that might
be sent out from this city that would
commend him to the people of his
state, but in the past, his press de-
partment seems to have been neglect
ed, but he no doubt will organize a.
long all lines if he expects to win in
the primary.
West Virginia vii have four new
Congressmen in the next Congress
and it remains to be seen just what
they will be able to accomplish, but
they will be expected to make good
the promises they have made, as
the people at home are the ones to be
consulted, often even through the
"home people" that are here in Wash
ington, as the voters at home expect
that the promises made to their
friends be kept, and in the language
of one who heard promise made to
close friend of one of "the at home
people" that was not kept and when
the attention of the at home constit-
uent was called to the failure to keep
his promise, they said, " all we can do
is to defeat them," and in the case
in mind, the next election was an
overwhelming defeat for that man,
thought he could not be defeated, but
who rlas so egotistical, that he
the people at home, mark the disap-
pointment to their relatives here in
Washington, and now that the "vote
by mail" system is in vogue, they will
feel the effects of the home voters
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ed movies ever tried keeping them at
home.
We see where sailor in Los An
geles kicked man on the nose. Here
in Belington that would be consider
ed bad luck.
President Coolidge has son work
ing on tobacco farm. He is prob
ably making the worm turn.
A Chicago packer has failed with
assets of $176. There's one man who
failed to "bring home the bacon"
Why is 10 that most Bdlington
girls like water better in wash pan
than they do in a dishpan?
1t has about gotten so that every
time man drives his auto two miles
he returns home to find blank to
sign emitting him to pay more taxes
on it?
The best way to keep going higher
in this world is to keep on the level.
Our idea of an optimist is the Be-
| lington man who figures that it he
should happen to kill two birds with
one stone he can get the stone back.
1t always seems that the fellow
who is determined to make a nuisance
of himself is among the first to get
down town in the morning.
| Grover Bergdoll shot man who
was trying to kidnap him. Now that
Grover is no longer afraid to carry
gun why not bring him back over
here and put him in the standing
army for life.
To the Belington boy the shortest
detour in the world is the one that
leads from the closing to the opening
of school.
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EXPLOSIVES


Sometimes it looks as if about half
the men in this country were trying
to get the world to go to smash, and
the other half wishing it would
Why is it the average Belinbton
woman spends part of her time in
knocking her husband to other folks
and the balance of her time in de-
Tending him when other folks do the
knocking?.
america must save the world,
says Woodrow Wilson. We suggest
starting on the wheat crop.
A man may live by faith-but the
groceryman prefers to have his when
it's due.
| Did you ever hear of Belington
man losing lawsuit who didn't think
he could have conducted the case bet
ter than the lawyer?
| Irene Castle, the dancer, has re-
turned frof Europe eth a pet goat.
They usually get somebody's goat be-
fore they are through.
t+s
We wonder if the women who
want to protect children from wick
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experience in Congress gives him a
wide incite to the departmental mat
tiers, that largely come to him for
consideration, and with his exper-
ience, he well knows that the party
in power is held responsible for the
conduct Of the affairs of the different
offices and should have therefore
members of the party that is held
responsible for the management of
the affairs of the different bureaus
OF the government.
1t is not possible for the President
to take up with the members of Con-
gress or the Bureau Chiefs all mat
tiers, but now in the person of Mr..
Slemp, they have man who is well
educated along the lines of the many
changes that necessarily should
come in the change of an administra-
ton to insure it's success.
Virginia, the mother of states is
proud Of the selection made by the
President, regardless of political af-
filiation; the Republican party is
pleased, and the government will be
profited by it and to this end the bet
ter part is settled.
President Coolinge, who is now
fully installed into the high office,
that of President of the United
States, is known as sooundly conser-
vative man, and the care he takes,
as seen here during his few days in
office, indicate, we are going to have
one of the soundest and wisest adj
ministrations as could be expected or
even desired in such time and state
of disorganization, as exist among
nations and among the people Of ma
tions, Notwithstanding, President
Harding accomplished most wonder
full results, considering the condition
of the country when he was inaugur-
ated President, and now President
Coolidge gives out the word, that he
intends to carry out the policies Of
President Harding, and that means
a continuation Of accomplishments.
President Harding's death has cast
into confusions all the political plans
of the two great parties, but there is
but one thing to conclude, from a Re-
publican point if view, and that is,
that if the President carries out the
fain 20
planned by President Harding, and in
addition thereto, adds to the distress
ed condition of the country, what
lis conservative, careful judgemen
may dictate, the only thing to do is to
nominate him for the Presidency.
Use latest news that comes from
the state, is that Senator Davis Elk
ms, has laid his plans for the enter
ing of the primary next year, to Sc
cure the nomination to succeed him
self, and as this writer said, in an
article to the West Virginia Press,
upon his election when he was in
France, in the line of duty, he had the
greatest opportunity before him than
any other man could wish, in that he
had the noble record of his father,
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, and that
of his grandfather, Senator Henry G.
Davis, both of whom had made an
enviable record and if the young Sen
.ator Elkins would aspire to keep up
the record of his father and grand
father, it seemed that his term might
not end with one he is now serving,
and he has decided, SO it is now
known to enter the race for the nom
ination, and has selected the man to
manage the campaign and he should
know from his associations with his
father, that we'll organized party
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FOR SALE

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Heifers.
Grade Cattle
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Address: ROHRABOUGH BROS.
Box 181 Belington, West Virginia
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the Washfub
Advances to
the Parlor

You may be 1880 to all appearances,
but some place in your frock you
will have a 1923 mental reservation.
This lady makes hers in the slit which
reaches from neck to waist in the
back, disclosing mere slice Of skin
and of the material embroidered with
lame which also makes the under part
of The skirt.
The drapery at the waist line is
higher at the back for the 1880 frocks
and higher in front for the Egyptian
ones. according to M. Henri Creange,
the authority on fashion. Here we
have that delightful arrangement Of
materials in the back, which is known
rather disconcertingly as washer
woman drapery and bow. It's deri-
walton is from the careless aget-your-
Observation-Disclosures man
ner in which the folds are drawn
across the front at the waist and the
overskirt is liked up in back. The
bow is long straight piece folded
over INTO loops, self lined and caught
in cartridge plcats at the center. The
bow supposed to show little at each
side from the front. provided you arc
of certain slimncss.
The front of this afternoon dress
is quite plain because it has to 60
with it, when the temperature and
fcstivity demand little bolero jacket,
bordered with the same beige Miro
krepe which makes the dress and en-
brnidered like the underskirt with
lame in vivid flowers Of red and
green to the elbows, where the sleeve
suddenly assumes a subtle plainness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-24
SHOO |
CASHIER; ROB
BANK;FLEE
Two Bandits Also Try to Kill
Girl tenographer- Cut All
Village Phone Wires.

sTEUBENvILLE. Ohio. Feb. "a.
Assistant Cashier H. D. Price, with
a bullet through his heart, is dying
today the result OF his heroic but
unsuccessful efforts to foil two
armed bandits who entered the
Peoples National Bank at Mount
Pleasant, near here, just as the bank
opened for business, shot the cashier,
and escaped with loot which will
reach thousands of dollars, but is not
as yet determined. Two shots were
fired at Miss Lula Shannon, the
bank stenographer, and the only
other person in the bank at the
time. She collapsed.
After fatally wounding Price, the
bandits systematically looted the
bank, jumped in a touring car, and
drove off at a high rate Of speed
in the direction of Canton. Prior to
entering the bank all telephone
wires leading from the little town
of about 750 people were cut.
The car bearing the bandits was
seen speeding through HarriSville,
west of Mount Pleasant. shortly
after the robbery. 1t bore Ohio
license number 299,837.
All Mount Pleasant physicians
We're i'll. and a. doctor from Martins
Ferry was called to attend the in.
jured cashier.
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: spouse Say ora $
Thirst Broke Up
Their Home

BERLIN, Feb. "a. - Serge
Essenin, husband Of Isadora
Duncan. famous classical dancer,
who is in Berlin on his way
back to Russia from Paris, de-
clared today that his married
happiness was disrupted by
Isadora's thirst.
81 love Isadora madly, but
she drank so much / could not
stand it any longer said Serge.
cit is like the United States
which we recently visited. /
could not stand that either.
America is like the ashes of a
cigar lighted in Europe"
Essenin was persuaded to re-
turn to Russia after a wild scene
in the Crillon Hotel at Paris
during which Isadora's suite was
wrecked at 8 o'clock in the
morning.
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Take Ii Billion Marks
AS Germans on Strike
Tie Up Rail Traffic
By International News Service

ESSEN, Feb. 24-French military
authorities today seized 10000 ,O00,-
900 German marks from a train at
Hengstwei. The money was being
shipped by the Reischbank. French
troops also seized a number of plates
that were used for printing money.
Traffic between Coblenz and
nearby towns was paralyzed today
by a strike Of German railroad EN-.
ployes. The Germans claim that
they will not return to work until
the Moroccan troops are withdrawn
from Coblenz. Moroccans, in a burst
Of excitement on Friday, fired more
than sixty shots, wounding two Ger.
man rail employees who had just
brought a train into Ehrenbrietstein
from Niederlahnstein.
General Fourier, commander of
the French troops in Essen, has de-
MED German Red Cross workers a
permit to visit former Mayor Schaef-
fer and other prisoners who were
recently sentenced by a French mill
tary court. The German officials
are said to be suffering from Vermin
and lack Of nourishment.
General Fourier, according to the
Germans, sent word that II the Ger.
man Red Cross attaches wished to
be charitable they should visit the
French wounded"
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MISS MORCAN'S WEDDING
TO TAKE PLACE MARCH 6

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Monday,
March 8, has been set as the we'd
ding day of Reginald c. Vanderbilt
and Miss Gloria Morgan, nineteen
year-old daughter of Harry Hays
Morgan, American consul general
in Brussels. The wedding was
originally set for last Saturday, but
was postponed.
Contrary to previous reports, 1t
will take place in this city, instead
Of Newport, r. I. The couple will
eRu Tor EpropA March g. -.
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I D Sci {
GERMAN
FUNDS
French Will Take Over Strik-
ers' Money-Capture 13 Bill
v lion Marks and Plates.

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 24.-French
military authorities at Dusseldorf
have given orders for the confisca-
tion of German strike funds and
millions Of marks have been seized
in the past twentysfour hours, said
i dispatch from Essen this after
noon GAs .assssfts
It Is alleged that the German
treasury at Berlin was sending
money into the Ruhr and Rhine
land to support German workers
who are on strike.
See Further Occupation.
Germans believe that the French
are preparing to extend their zone
Of occupation some distance east
ward of the present boundaries.
The Berlin government will send
protests to Paris and London but
will make no effort to prevent
French entertainments.
Violence was reported from some
parts Of the occupied districts to-
day. A number of shots were
fired.
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MAY DEPARTMENT STORES
BUYS LOS ANGELES FIRM

NEW YORK. Feb. 24.-The May
Department Stores Company today
announced 1t had extended it's chain
Of mercantile establishments to Los
Angeles by buying the largest de-
partment store In that city, Ham
burger & Sons.
The purchase price was said to ap-
proximate $8,500,0O0. The annual
profits of the store were said to be
81 900, 900.
The May Department Stores Com
pany owns and operates the original
May Shoe and Clothing Company in
Denver and large department stores
in st. Louis, Cleveland and Akron,
Ohio.
The sales Of the combined stores
for the last fiscal year were $685.
9S1, 500.
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BLUE-LAW LID URGED
FOR BROADWAY SHOPS

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Dr. Har-
ry L: Bowlby, general secretary of
the Lords Day Alliance, who has
been conducting a campaign here to
close on Sundays all motion-picture
and vaudeville houses, as we'll as
legitimate theaters, yesterday appeal
ed to Police Commissioner Enright
to close all places of business or
amusement which are open in vio-
lation of the State Sunday laws.
DIR. Bowlby asserted vaudeville
and burlesque shows were being
given with persistent regularity Sun
day afternoons and evenings. He
told Commissioner Enright that the
time had fully arrived when the
State Sunday laws should be en-
forced throughout Greater New
VNrk
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''BIG TIM" GIVES HIMSELF
UP; STARTS FOR PRISON

CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-"Big Tim"
Murphy, labor leader, ended his
game of hide and seek with
Federal officers today when he
surrendered himself at the United
States marshals office.
Murphy will be taken to Leaven-
worth prison to begin serving a
four-year sentence for completely in
the $350,000 Dearborn station mail
robbery. He disappeared Tuesday
when a stay of execution, granted
pending decision of his case by the
Supreme Court, expired. His sur.
render came when the court was
about to order forfeiture Of his
$3.50, 900 bonds.
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PROPOSES SUPERVISION
OF OIL INDUSTRY IN u. S.

Drastic Governmental supervision
Of the nations oil industry will be
recommended in the report which the
Senate Oil investigating committee
plans to submit to the Senate next
week, it was learned today.
One more company will appear be.
fore the cop1lnittee-the Standard
Oil Company Of Indiana, which, on
Monday, has permission to file
formal denial of charges of price.
fixing made by Thomas s. Black,
president of the Western Petroleum
Company.
The report makes specific remedial
legislative recommendations for some
IT the illa Of the busineaA,
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VETERAN MUSHER WINS
BIG NONSTOP DOG DERBY

THE PAS. Manatoba, Feb. "a
Covering the 200-mile course In
20 hours and SO minutes, Billy
Grayson, veteran 'musher" of the
North country, driving G. B.
Morgan's entry, won the annual
nonstop dog Derby Of The Pas Dog
Derby Association, when he finished
his long run at 1852 o'clock.
A. Russick, OF The Pas, driving
a team Of hounds, was second, and
w. Winterton was third.
This was the third consecutive
win for Morgan's team, and he
now retains permanent possession
,ok 4hA Burma Gun
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LEAPS TO DEATH FROM
HER oTH-FLOOR SUITE

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-EIuding
the nurses, who had cared for her
since mental breakdown recently,
Mrs. James w. Johnson, wife Of
the treasurer of the Western Elec-
trio Company, leaped to death yes
terday from a window Of her ninth
floor apartment in Park avenue.
Believing Mrs. Johnson too weak
to leave her bed, the nurse stepped
outside the sickroom. When she
returned her patient was crawling
across the window sill.
The nurse caught Mrs. Johnson's
gown and made an unsuccessful at
tempt to pull her to safety.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-Investigation
Of the past activities Of Joseph M
Marcino, fugitive barber -financier
and alleged bank wrecker, today
shifted to Italy. Orders were sent
from the Burns International Detec-
tive Agency to their Italian offices
to check up Marcino's career in
Italy and ascertain how he obtained
the 500, 900 in cash he is said to have
brought back to America from that
country.
Latest information concerning
Marcino's whereabouts indicates. ac-
cording to the police, that the fugi.
tive financier had sailed from Tam
pico to an Argentine port. Detec.
tives asserted that when Marcino
went South he had 100000.
Frank L. Taylor, dummy" presi-
dent Of the First National Bank of
Warren, Mass, one Of the institu-
tons involved in Marcino's alleged
schemes. was arraigned before
United States Commissioner James
X. Glass and held on charges of en-
bezzlement in $100,000 bond. 1t was
the arrest Of Taylor that revealed
the condition of the banks with
which Marcino had dealt.
Newspaper men today located
Samuel Lombardo. former barber
partner of Marcino in Chicago. LON.
bardo mad been vice president of the
Inflated Niagara Life Insurance
Company He declinsA to make any
| A.
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SEES NONSTOP AERO
FLIGHT ROUND THE WORLD

OTTAWA, Canada, Feb. ga
prediction that it would be possible
to fly around the world on one
charge Of gasoline was made before
members of the Canadian Club by
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell. of the
United States Air Service.
General Mitchell also asserted that
1t was only a matter Of time before
Canadians solved the question Of fly
ing in, the cold and developed winter
TRANSPORTATION II the MnEtha
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MINES ASK Ed BY E1Yl IN

NEW YORK. Feb. 24.-Irninedi.
ate Government seizure and opera
ton OF allcoa mines was advocated
by Mayor, Hylan In q letter from
Palm Beach. Fla. to Murray HUI
bert. Mayor pro tenn;
The Mayor directed Mr.. Hubert
to call : a big mass meeting at
Madison Square Garden where the
people of New York and other cities
can come"
Let the voice Of the people be
heard at Washington in no uncer-
tain terms in an endeavor to get
the President and Congress to take
immediate action to take over the
coal mines and operate them in
the interests. Of the people," he
said
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LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
ISSUE STOCK DIVIDEND

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission today authorized the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad to issue.
subject to certain conditions, capital
stock to the extent of 45,O0OjO00
to be distributed as dividends.
Certain holdings In affiliated COM
panies shall not be disposed Of, and
expenditures prior to October 1,
1929. shall not be capitalized by
bond issues to reimburse the roads
treasury.
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REPORT OF SHARP NOTE
TO CHINA IS CONFIRMED

Official confirmation was forth
coming from the State Department
today that the United States has
sent a "stern note" to China in
connection with the killing by
Chinese provincial guards of Charles
Coltman, an American merchant, as
exclusively reported Friday. by the
International News Service.
The department was asked today
matum."
"A note has been sent; It cannot
be discussed at this time" was the
official response.
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rs ESCAPE FROM FIRE
IN MICHIGAN APARTMENT

PETOSKEY, Mich, Feb. 24.-F1re
early today menaced the business
section, destroying the Alemeda
apartment and business block.
Seventy-fiVe persons fled down
fire escapes. Mr.. and Mrs. H. G..
Muneypacker jumped from a second
floor window, breaking their legs
and suffering other injuries which
it Is feared will cause their death.
Damage was estimated at 100000.
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AGNES AYREs DENIES
ENGAGEMENT TO HAWKES.

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-"Art Is
my bridegroom. and I am not in
tending to commit bigamy," Agnes
Ayres, film star, said today In de-
nying dispatches from Los Angeles
that she and Kenneth Hawkes., pro-
Queer were engaged to be married.
'"Of course, know Ken" the
film star said. And, therefore, he
knows me. We are very. very good
friends-but l. live only for my
ark.@ ~ !,
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TONER WRITER
AND D|PL O|NAT
D|ESAT 70
Served as u. S. Ambassador
to Germany From 1902
to 1903.
BY international News Service.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. "a
Charlemagne Tower. former ambaS
sador to Germany, after several
weeks illness with pneumonia, died
this morning at sos o'clock in the
Pennsylvania Hospital. Bulletins
yesterday reported that his condi-
ton was rather serious and not
much hope was held for his recov
cry. He was internationally known
as a diplomatist. philanthropist and
writer.
Mr.. Tower was in his seventy
fifth year. Members Of his imme
date family were at his bedside In
the hospital when he died. Recently
he was reported to have success
fully passed the crisis, but a re-
lapse occurred from which he failed
to rally.
Charlemagne Tower was one Of
the foremost of modern American
diplomats. He was born in Philadel-
phia in 1S4S. and was educated in
American and European schools. He
studied law at Harvard and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1878. Ten years
later he was married to Miss Helen
Smith, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Smith. Of Oakland. Cal.
Business interests took Mr.. Tower
to the Northwest, and he lived for
a time in Duluth. MINI. He was
president of the Duluth and Iron
Range railroad and managing direc-
tor Of the Minnesota Iron Company.
In 1897 Mr.. t." was appointed
American ambassador to Austria.
Hungar-' Later he served in Russia.
From 1902 to 1908 he was American
ambassador at Berlin. Mr.. Tower
received numerous foreign honors.
He was a grand officer Of the
French Legion Of Honor and held
the Grand Gordon, Order Of st.
Alexander NewslSi. Russia He
wrote a book on Lafayette's part in
the American war Of the revolution.