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Evening star., 1923-06-08
PEORIA, ILL.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
PEORIA, Ill, June S.-Warrants
were secured by Sheriff Brubacker of
oodford county. charging A. E.
Page and James Roberts, private de-
tectiVes of Peoria. with robbery of
TWO small country stores in that
county. Pages automobile was
round near one of the stores, after a
fusillade had forced two robbers to
fee. Neither of the two men has ap-
peared at his office here since Mon
day night.
Efforts to save the Chicago, Peoria
ana st. Louis railroad from the scrap
pile We're furthered when Judge Z.
). Smith of Springfield granted an in
Junction against ten county treas
urers forbidding them selling any
part of the road for delinquent taxes.
"A committee of citizens has been ap-
pointed to devise a system for re-
habilitating the road.
PEORIA. ILL.,, June 8.-An additional
Sbo,o0o has been appropriated by the
legislature for the construction of the
Peoria armory. Previously 100000
Lad been set aside for the work
The Peoria Post, American Legion,
last night adopted a resolution ap-
proving Frances invasion of the
Rhur.
Tractors, in a base ball contest,
lost to Danville, to 6, slipping into
sixth place. Two weeks ago they
were in first place.
Royal welcome awaits the return
OF Clifford Ireland, former representa-
tive in Congress, who was elected
as imperial outer guard at the Shrine
convention. A banquet is being plan
ned as part OF the reception.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. June s.
The crest of the city's second flood
in ten days has been reached and
Packingtown is cut off. The capital
is isolated except for the street car
line. Animals at Wheeler Park are
endanSered- A petition is being cir
culated for a bond issue to open
Walker street and give the CITY a
new sewage-disposal system and
build Niaduct across the river at
Robinson street.
w. A. Jeter has been elected presi-
dent OF the State Fireman's Associa-
ton.
Test cases will be filed on Gov.
"altons S cuts in appropriation meas
Ires. An extra session of the iesis-
lature may result.
Rain prevented the base ball game
today.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 8.--Thief
insurance rates on passenger auto
mobiles here have been reduced 40
per cent, effective Immediately. Fire
rates are unchanged, except on COM
mercial trucks, where the increase
is from 20 to 40 per cent on auto
mobiles. There is an additional re-
duction of rs per cent if accessories
are not included.
TIE first benefit of the zone law
became aprarent Wednesday. when
permit for a store building at
Armour and Gilham streets was
Withdrawn, the district being re-
StriGted to apartments.
Physicians examining the body of
Guy A. Moore, buried Wednesday, re-
port no poison was found and that
he was already dead when the body
was hit by the train. Police theory
is that he was murdered by a tramp
for robbery.
Supervising engineers of the new
water plant expect plans will be
ready for construction by October
Tho city il investigating the bond
market with a view to selling an
$S.5e0.oo0 bond issue this month
Evening star., 1923-06-08
INDIANAPOLIS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June s.
Louis L. Haag, chain drug store
owner, is dead.
Roy c. Shaneberger has paid $685.
900 for the Winston block. which will
be added to the Brevoort Hotel
No trace has been discovered of
Richard w. Stegemeier, missing since
Tuesday evening.
Body of woman found in the Nj
agara river has been identified as
that of Miss Sadie McGroarty, former
Indianapolis park board secretary.
Frank Weisenberger, mattress man
ufacturer, convicted of manufacture
ing mattresses out of insapitary
material, has been indicted on a
]. e. Friedrich, of Kokomo, has been
reelected president of the Indiana
State Chamber of Commerce.
The Scottish Rite has bought for
$125.O0o two lots north of it's new
home site in Meridian street, giving
it a full half block for it's new cathe-
dFal.
Names of Smiley Chambers. Joe
Beckett, III. c. Ketcham and Vance
Armstrong are suggested for the Ameri-
can Legion district executive commit
teeman to succeed James Duncan.
Chamber of Commerce, patriotic
and civic bodies are joining in a
protest against a proposal that would
cause DIR. III. S. Hatch to resign as
superintendent of Sunnyside Sana-
torium.
John Dosker. seven-year-old-son of
William T. Dosker, 649 Prince street,
teller at'Commereial Savings Bank, died
after being knocked down by the auto
mobile Of George A. Bartz, 1910 Fran
els avenue, at Eastern avenue and
Franklin street. The boy jumped from
a truck in front of the automobile.
Henry n. Beets, son of the Rev.
Henry Beets. has won a fellowship at
the University of Chicago.
Jonathan Brearles.r eighsy-two. father
Evening star., 1923-06-08
TULSA, OKLA.

Special Dispatch TO The STAR
TULSA, Okla, June S-One hundred
short line boosters have arrived here
from Kansas City for conference.
Four men rob the GokStein jewelry
store of gems valued at $4,000.
Mrs. Callie Harney has filed suit
for $25,300 damages against City and
Standard Paving Company for the
death of her son.
Tulsa has been named as national
headquarters of the Kamelia and
knights of kamelia.
The city administration has been
charged with unwarranted increase in
appointee's salaries.
Harry Heilbron has fled a damage
suit for alleged injury to reputation
against r. NJ Gillian. w. r. Ritchle
and l.. f. Kimberln.
The body of Fred l.. Langley. the
man who moved the capital from
Guthrie to Oklahoma City, has been
taken to Arkansas for burial
Post office inspectors arrest Frank
Anderson. He is charged with delay
ing the mails.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
NEW ORLEANS.
Special Dispatch 20 The Star.

Special Dispatch 20 The Star.
NEW ORLEANS. La. June Stu
lane and Newcomb schools have
graduated large classes. Loyola con-
f"rs Ada degree Of honor on Lindsey
Blaney of Rice Institute, Texas.
B.hrman and Sullivan withhold
comment on the new political organ
ization.
Girl phone operator, eighteen. took
poison in an unsuccessful suicide at
tempt just d year after her mother
killed herself.
from death in the lake after motor
boat. owned by Jewel Sperling, blew
up.
by l.. and y. passenger train at the
franklin avenue crossing.
An early morning fire practically
Destroyed the plant of the American
Iurpentine Company, at Broad street
and the New Basis canal The fire
started shortly after midnight and
was not under control for several
hours. The loss is 100000. Three
men were slightly hurt
The New orleans ball team re-
leased Pitcher Craft to Beaumont,
Tex
tanned in the second triaI Of Butch
LardHer Police continue underH orld
raids. arresting thirty mere wornr4
A blind man and a good Samaritan
help1ng him to cross the street we're
knocked down by an auto truck on
Poydras street and the blind man
Will die as result.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
NORFOLK, VA.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NORFOLK, Va, June 8.-Two hotels
enttre--the Southland and Fairfax
and portions of others have been
reserved for the Veterans of Foreign
Wars encampment in August.
The kiwanis Club has decided upon
a campaign to get the 1926 Interna-
ttonal kiWanis convention in Norfolk.
City Manager Ashburner and Port
Director King met War Department
officials in Washington Saturday in
an effort to reach an agreement on
the Army base, for which Norfolk
Lid five million.
John Gleason, Princess Anne coun-
ty officer, Charles III. Rice, former
county officer. and three others, were
arrested by federal prohibition agents
in Il raid on a still.
Mary Davis, thirteen, Mathews
county, is recovering in a hospital
here from a wound inflicted by a wad
of chewing gum shot from a blank
cartridge during a school play.
w. Frank Robertson, on a bone
dry platform and backed by church
people for rigid prohibition enforce
ment, is an eleventh hour entry in
the primary for nomination to the
house of delegates.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
WATERFOWL, N. Y.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WATERFOWL. N. Y. June g.
United States Senator WaG sworth will
be the principal speaker at a testi-
monials dinner for Speals ser of the
Assembly p. E. Machold, at Wood
ruff Hotel. June 29. MIS-. Arthur
Livermore, New York, mem Der of the
republican national comm lite, also
will speak.
But five men have been secured so
far to serve on the jury i'll the trial
of Richard Mattison, charged with
second degree murder of Thomas Ne
willie.
Negotiations for a settleE Enent of
the breach of promise suit filed by
Maude Wright against Carl Mil
for $50.000 are off. The case, will be
called to trial in November.
Jefferson county's fruit crop is in
danger of ruin by millions of tent
caterpillers overrunning the county.
Boy Scouts are being organised e
fight the pests.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
MEMPHIS, TENN.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, June S.-Fred
Draget, forty-seven, employe OF the
Central Bank, was instantly killed
when an automobile in which he
was a. passenger went over an en-
bankment on Chelsea avenue near
the city limits.
A police raid on Presidents Island
resulted in seizure of five stills and
warrants have been issued for Ave
higher-ups said to be source of
,city's corn liquor supply.
Three hundred subscribers were
refunded their initial payment on
Piggly Wiggly stock today.
Reductions in commercial power
rates will be demanded following dis
covery that Memphis Power and Light
Company has a. surplus in it's treas
ury of $1,900,000 above the profit of
7k per cent allowed by the state
public utilities commission.
Shelby county health authorities,
in their. fight against malaria, will
stock stagnant pools with millions
of minnows in hope of destroying
the anapheleS mosquito.
City park department will attach
big sprays to water mains so that
kiddies can keep cool.
Philip Gentry negro murder sss-
pect, has been released by police.
Investigation of Tucker. sWallste and
Spencer murders has azzled.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
: BROOKLYN, N. Y.
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special IlSpatcn 10 Inc star
BROOKLYN. y. Y, June Sin a
big electric storm lightning hit the
Edison Company shop at Fort Ham
ilton, cupola on Il home at goth
and Bath avenue and the Lawrence
Smith $4,000 home at STfthtown,
Long Island, burning ii to the ground.
Charles SpuckeS, figure in the
Municipal Bank messenger S5O.o0O
hoid-up, was convicted by jury.
Lie" says the mayor of charge
that Policeman HIT was transferred
after arresting a protected bootleg
ger.
Nathan s. Jonas raises 100000 for
Jewish charities deficit by a ples at
a dinner.
Clear weather is indicated for the
Sunday school parade.
Two thousand are invited to the
wedding of Norma Werner. salt king
daughter, and Joseph Il. Magnus of
Bossert Hotel
The Rreerort X. X. X. has given
$50 to a negro community center.
the first gift of the khan to negroes.
John l. Gibbons, IS Essex street.
East New York. has Disappeared on III.
eve OF his wedding to Miss Ida Sauter,
AS Highland place.
The Rev. Albert +. Roraback re
fuses to perform the wedding of
Elizabeth ii. SenarenS and Owen NJ.
Gundersnn in Prospect Park Rose
Garden 1scauSe of publicity. y new
clergyman has been secured, but his
name is q secret.
Two Thousand Long Island Grotto
Masous win leave BROOKLYN Saturday
night for the Cleveland convention.
The funeral of Col. w A. Stokes
was held at the 23d Regiment acmory
last night.
George Higgins. oa23 S6th street.
Rensonhurst. was found mysteriouSly
injured in an empty Culver line train
at Kings highway.
r. H McMa.uers contradicts Silk
worth's story OF the consolidated
rescue fund The bankrupt says II
was raised cspt~ially for him. but
Silkworth says it was for any broker
in trouble
Mrs Mary ForsiA,w. wife OF Com
modore Forshew, is dead.
Five were hurt when two motor
cars and truck collided on the VIII
liamSburg bridge.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
WACO, TEX.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WACO. Tex, June S.-J. D. Suttle.
a boy. was killed. and w. J. Pferson
and Miss Esther Gilbert badly in
jured, when the car in which they
were riding collided with a street ear
at 18th and Alexander streets. yester-
day. The automobile was filled with
boys and girls.
III. H. House has resigned as mana
ger of the Waco Iase ball team and
gone to his home, in Kansas. Ill
health was given as the reason. The
Waco team returned yesterday after
a road trip, losing every game
The law creating the tenth court of
civil appeals, to be located at Waco
becomes effective June IL. Shortly
thereafter Gov. Neff will name a chief
justice and two associate justices.
Clyde Essex, a Waco newspaperman
has taken over the management, In
Texas, of Henry Ford1s candidacy for
the presidency. Head quarters will be
established in Waco a1id Fort Worth
Five complaints have been filed
against two young white men in con-
nection with the series of burglaries
in Waco of recent date
Evening star., 1923-06-08
DETROIT, MEH.
Special Dispatch tn The Star.

Special Dispatch IL The Star.
DETROIT. Mich, June S4-Irwin s.
SCrimsors' wife, Prudence. has sued
him for divorce. She says he wasn't
enough or raveman to suit her. as
when he got mad he wouldn't fight.
hut just sulked. She has been divorced
once and her husband twice. The wife
is very beautiful.
TAe city bars one-piece bathing
suits at Belleile, Mich.
knights OF Columbus have sent a
telegram of coincidence 10 the knights
Templar conClave at Flint because
OF the wreck on which four Were
killed.
Attorneys for Torrance Mona han.
patrolman. accused OF killing d man
III blind pig. vii! make his defense
that the officer was tnvoluntarily drunk.
as he got that way drinking whisky
in the line OF duty to get evidence
on the proprietor. and is, therefore,
not responsible for what happened
Evening star., 1923-06-08
NEWARK, N. ].
Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
NEWARK. N. j.. June 8.-Samuel
Dodd Hepworth. six weeks old, OF
West Orange yesterday won the baby
contest from 1000 other entries.
Judge Boettner revoked auto Ii
censes of forty-two drivers for speed
ing.
couple. accused of having drugs.
battled police for two hours before
being removed from 4 hotel here
Relief from the heat was brought
by showers yesterday.
A man reported that four young
h"vs attacked him and robbed him OF
SIS.
Food costs dropped ] per cent here
in last month.
Thomas l.. r. Crooks. Peter A. Ca
vicchia and Dudley Farrand have been
reappointed to board OF education.
Lightning bolt struck the clock
tower of Washington Street School
in South Orange.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
CINCIN Natl.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star. -.-,
CINCINNATI, Ohio, June S.-When
w. r. Speer, former policeman, was
cornered with a pistol at his Race
street home by Charles Hartley, a
policeman, he was shot through a
window by William McCorkhill, de-
tective. Speer was crazed with
moonshine, drunk to drown his grief
over the death of his grandmother,
whose body lay in room next to
that in which Speer was killed by
three bullets. Hartley had been sum-
maAsd ,to-subnue- SpeeE.' =
Forty bus passengers Were i'm
perifed ,arId two persons were in
jured when a motor bus and street
car crashed on Linn street. The car
was derailed.
Coraner Handley blamed despond-
enoH9 tor :thk suicides of w. F. Greth-
els -Tr., who hanged himself in his
hoa1f tsas Race street; Dennis Long,
Evening star., 1923-06-08
SAVANNAH. GA.
Special Dispatch TO the Star.

Special Dispatch TO the Star.
SAVANNAH, Ga, June S--Mrs. E.
J. Herman Hesse secured q divorce
from her husband and thirty minutes
later married Frederick W. Hesse. her
former husbands first cousin. They
will live in Charleston.
Sidney Weis has secured Gort'on
Munro as manager of the Savannah
Theater.
A beauty contest wilf be staged al
Tybee at the opening of the new Roda-
There are many entrants.
County officers of Georgia started a
convention yesterday morning.
Graduating exercises were held at
the high school last night.
Rev. N. ]. Epting and family had a
narrow escape when their auto turned
o.. g liz, liz.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
milwaukee,.
Special DISPATCH to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE,. Wis. June s.-Mrs.
Amber Allis, Wednesday last. asked
S250,0 900 for alleged loss of her hus-
bands affections in formal COM
plaint naming ten relatives of her
husband. Gilbert Allis, as defendants
Mrs. Viola Brinkman is on her way
home in the east as the re suit of a
pardon granted by Gov. John Blain,
after a three-year term had been
imposed in municipal court here by
Judge A. c. Backus. April 26, for the
shooting of her husband.
ShorewoodS annual picnic. which
is expected to be the largest ever
held, is scheduled to be held to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
News From the "Home Town for Visiting Mobiles at Shrine Convention

Of II. K. Brearley of the Hamilton
Brearley Advertising Agency, has dis
appeared from a Chicago sanftarium.
Emil r. Whitman, manager of an oil
station at Division avenue and Brown
street, was held up at midnight and
robbed of S100.
Thermometer dropped to Al last night.
Edward c. Woodwork. seventy-three,
Of Cedar Springs, chairman of the Kent
county board of auditors, is dead
G. A. r. state encampment ends to-
day. The next encampment goes to
Lansing.
Attorney Phil Travis is home after a
years honeymoon trip abroad
Evening star., 1923-06-08

who leaped three STORES from st.
F'rapcis Hospital, and. Frank Englert.
who shot himself at IA West 18th
street.
City officials have attempted to
compromise with thfrty-five city
waterNVorks employees who walked
out for> more pay.
Police, in four Districts secured
Avondale. Walnut Hills, Norwood and
Bond Hill when they were told Jimmy
Morgenroth. 1925 Paddock road. had
been kidn sped by man in bug
gy. Jimmy presently came home, say
ing he had been riding with his pals
grandfather,
William Cooper Proctor has sold
Camp FriendN ander to the Girl Scouts.
RainstormS broke the heat last
night.
Evening star., 1923-06-08
MINNEAPOLIS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


MINNEAPOLIS, June S.-Kathryn
Salmon, eighteen, daughter of Judge
Thomas H. Salmon of the district
court. was killed when the touring
car in which she was riding with her
father overturned and plunged forty
feet on the Lyndale avenue road, two
miles this side of Lakeville. Miss SAL
mon was pinned under the wheel and
her father, slightly hurt, was unable
to extricate her.
Twenty meetings in all parts OF
Minneapolis were conducted today
by speakers for the new auditorium,
the $4,000 900 bond issue for which
will be voted on in the municipal
elections June IL.
The last obstacle to the. special pri-
mary election for a Upited States
senator to succeed Senator Knute
Nelson has been removed by
ruling of the supreme court
halting the injunction proceed
ings. The fourteen candidates in the
field today started the drive that will
be continued until June IS. The court
held it had not jurisdiction to halt
the special election ordered by Gov.
]. A. o. Preus.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07
Thoroughly Lost.

A I11ND-HEARTED old gentle
man came upon . small
whimperdng urclin.
'What's the matter, my little
man?'' he asked synpathetically.
'.I'm lost. Boo-heog'
..Lost2 Nonsense! Ton mustn't
give MP hope 20 soon. Where
do you liver"
s'Ddon't know, sir" whined the
youngster. ''Wswe've just moved.
ana I c-can't remember the Cd
dress.
'Well. what's your namef"
'sD-don't know. sir.
Don't known" exclaimed the
old gentleman.
"No," sobbed the urchin.
..M.mother got married again this
morning"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07
VIRGINIA BUsTs IN

s0WING to the absence in Fan.
zibar Of Bartlett Paire for the
past two weeks, the literary free
!. for-aIIs known al ''The Duke and
His Wife" has been suspended
In Col. s, conducted by the genial
and versatile Jim Ring. Virginia
EPippin. the PurcellsvilIe poetess
: Of passion tagged % simply couldn't
! stand the strain, and insisted on
dashing off a third chapter in
. bank verse. Tor banking off
q third chapter IN dashed verse.
IL you Iiiee) This IL not intended
IN any way TO conflict with any
chapters Bartlett PaIre has writ
tea or may write. but merely to
present the feminine point OF view
On thiG eternal problem. Here
0o0G
II know where you was during
those - years." the dukess said.
absoIving the conversation.
''Haw! Haw! You know too
mulch" was the dukes reply.
eyes, do too, know" said
she. "You was down to Jake's
place"
"No, ! wasn't"
Yes, you was"
mo, I wasn't"
Yes. you was"
: mo. ] wasn't"
eyes, you was"
! mo. ] wasn't-say, who began
this. anyway" =
you did"
mo, I didn't"
(Repeat ad lib. After the last
Z mo, I didn't" go on with the
story)
; With these words the crool
: duke, goarded into a frenzy, tossed
{ - hansum wife out Of the third
: story window.
There, / CESS that will hoald
:: you forr wife," he chortled with
fiendish glee. "I amt goin' to
: have nobody conterdicking me-"
: But from a dungeon moat far
/ below, the words of the dukest
rose: "But you was In Jake'G
place, 5es' the same"
unlikely to be contisued)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07
Why Be Worried?
BY s. p. KISER.

By s. E. KISER.
IN Italy they've overturned
4 Things in q swift, high-handed way1
In England they are much concerned
About what Labor has to say.
The bankers seem to think that there
Are graver troubles yet to be,
But let them worry; don't care;
II makes no difference to me.
TINE Turks have turned their Sultan out,
l. His harem has no papa now:
His hundred wives are blown about
AS blossoms fallen from the bOugh.
There's trouble nearly everywhere,
The clashing classes can't agree,
But / repeat that ! don't care;
1t makes no difference to me.
THE French are worrying because
4 The birthrate seems to be too low;
They can't find any rules laws
To cause their families to grow;
Their generals are in despair,
And gloom is heavy in Paree;
/ stubbOrnly refuse to care;
1t makes no difference to me.
THEY'VE gone to shooting men in Greece
For getting Greece involved in war;
1t looks as If the wars may cease
In time to be worth Scheming for; -
The rulers will not wish to bear
The hard responsibility,
But let me add that don't care;
1t makes no difference to me.
THEY charge me more for clothes and shsuA
And say the tariff IL to blame;
Whenever changes come lose.
The profits others always claim,
I'm cheated here and buIlied there,
But In another century
I'm dead sure that shall not care.
30 what's the difference to rae.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07
Life AS Advertised
By 8. e. KIsER.

By g. e. KISER.
TUE baby must be satisfied,
So let him have that cake Of soap:
Eat bread that's labeled "Grandma's Pride,
Il gives You strength, and brings you hope.
n you're . victim Of The blues.
II life seems stale and profitIesa
Go buy Q pair Of Smalley's Shoes,
And walk right into happiness
DE sure to drive WOodbine Car,
ID The greatest thing that goes ON wheels
The Thomas Chatterton Cigar
Imparts calm comfort sitter meals.
Buy Lightning Spark Plugs, II You wish
To ward off trouble on the hills:
Eat Chubb & Herring's Shredded Fish
For getting rid Of doctors bills
TN case your brow Is growing bare
/ Use Grows emulsion right away;
Il helps you to retain your hair,
And keeps It from becoming gray.
If bad luck makes II hard to smile,
Toss off your sorrows and forget;
Start gayly forth and walk mile
To find One Hump Cigarette
THE eight-FOOt Shelf Of Books will aid
You In your efforts to be wise;
Wear Superstyle Clothes, tailOr-made.
Let Sure.GED Glasses ease your eyes.
Drink Boban Coffee for your health;
CLINT Safety RaEors newer cash;
II you are anxious to have wealth,
Let Bond Stubs invest your cash.
IN Fair Hope Cemetery there
IL many high and lovely spot,
Don't let your widow. IN despair.
Pc worried By 2 Zou .,d. ask 81 9t1 thought
In which you wish at last to lisI
There's always danger In delay,
RoeorO tomorrow you may die.