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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
10 DEAD IS TOLL
Of EXPLOSION
IN MINE
One Man Rescued Alive After
Being Entombed for
Fifteen Hours.

BLUE FIELD, w. Va, March. 3.
Ten men dead is the toll of the
explosion in the mine of the
Weyanoke Coal and Coke Company
at Arista, near here. Four more
bodies were recovered this morning
and six were taken out last night.
Lloyd Liscomb, a miner, was
taken out this morning more dead
than alive. He could give no de-
tails of the disaster.
With the recovery Of the ten
dead and one living miners, all tho
employees of the mine were &C.
counted for today.
Liscomb was entombed behind a
fall of slate, rock and coal for
fifteen hours.
Lipscomb responded rapidly to
first aid treatment and was soon
able to go to his home.
r. M. Lamdbie. State mine chief,
arrived here early today from
Charleston and took charge of the
rescue work.
The dead:
James McCloud, James, Gordon,
Frank Mitchell, George Barnett, M.
c. Page, Tom Nelson, Andy Semoclz,
Henry Crotty, Ernest Divena and
w. P. Johnson.
Thirty-eight miners were trapped
in the mine when the explosion
occurred, but twenty-seven were at
distant points in the workings and
escaped the full effects Of the blast.
They hurriedly made their way to
an exit before gas and black damp
overlook them.
Five bodies were in one bean
where the miners apparently had
gathered together to await their
end after finding escape cut off.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
STREET CAR EMPLOYEES
WILL OPPOSE PAY CUT

Wage conferences between Off
Gals of the Capital Traction Com
pany and representatives of the
company's employees will begin next
Wednesday morning in the railway
company's offices.
The suggestion of the Public
Utilities Commission that the wages
of beginners be reduced 5 cents an
hour will be opposed by the EN-.
ployes, it was said today.
At this conference a new con,
tract between the company and the
change, except possibly for begin
ners, will be made, it is said.
Motormen and conductors now
are paid from 81 to Sc cents an
hour.
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DOGS MAY
GIVE DEATH
CLUE
Schneider's Staying Is to Be
Reproduced to See Effect
on His Pet elbows.
Bx international NAws service.

NEW YORK, March 3.-Zulu and
Hull, twin chow dogs, will today
act as jury in the investigation OF
the murder of Frederick Schneider
their master.
Their banks or their silence will
indicate to the Bronx district attor'
ney and his aides whether the
wealthy contractor was slain by one
of his intimates, presumably a
woman, or by comparative
stranger.
Their reactions will be observed
infinitely by the corps of detectives
working on the case when the muir
der scene is re-enacted at the exact
spot on lonely Soundview avenue,
where Schneider was shot to death.
it was announced.
To Reproduce Scene.
The dogs will be taken in the
same car, at the same time to this
place.
Again two shots will break the
evening stiffness, this time fired
into the air.
Prosecutor Glennon believes firm.
ly that the dogs will bark. They
did not bark on the day Schneider
was killed-Or the farmer who saw
the car pass before the crime
would have heard them.
The prosecutor thinks the muir.
derer was some one who knew the
contractor well-very we'll. So well
that the dogs (Chows are notorious.
ly hostile to strangers accepted
this person and were not aroused
by any demonstration which might
have taken place.
Were Silent At Killing.
And when the shot, or shots, that
killed Schneider were fired they
still did not bark.
Testimony submitted to Pros
ecutor Glennon by one Of the police
men who went to Schneider's apart.
ment on Grand Concourse i'm
mediately after the body wal
Continued IN Page :, Column 50
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PLANS SYSTEMATIC
PROBE OF BUREAU

The Congressional investigation
of the Veterans Bureau by a spe-
cial Senate Committee will be sys-
tematized to thoroughly prove or
disprove charges of extravaganza
and waste in handling the affairs
of former service men, Senator
Reed Of Pennsylvania said today fol
lowing a conference with President
Harding at the White House.
Reed, a member of the commit.
tee, said a man would be selected
to conduct the investigation, and
upon his findings will be based the
committees final report.
The committee will meet on Mon
day to organize and decide upon
the method of procedure.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
X-RAY EYES CAN READ
THROUGH SHEET OF IRON

LONDON, March 3.-Two sons of
a Spanish nobleman are gifted with
"X-ray eyes,, according to an
article in the Madrid impartial,
quoted by the Daily Mail.
Tests have shown that the youths
abnormal vision enables them to
read through silver, brass or iron.
but they cannot see through porce-
Jain or paper -----.-A..------.--.--.-.---
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
US, MOVES
IN COAL.
CASES
Daugherty Pushes Proceedings
to Separate Anthracite Mines
From Railroad Ownership.

The first step to bring about
the dissolution of the so-called
anthracite coal trust, as ordered
by the United States Supreme
Court, was taken today by the
Government with the filing. in the
New York Federal Court of q
form of decree providing for the
separation of the railroad and
coal properties of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad Company.
Each Side Presents Plans.
Assistant Attorney General Au.
gustus T. Seymour and counsel FOR
the railroad company, according to
an announcement at the Depart
ment of Justice here, each presented
into effect the mandate of the
Supreme Court.
The end desired by the Federal
Government, Seymour told the
court, was the complete separa-
ton of the control of the railroad
company from the mining and sell
ing of anthracite COAL" adding that
there Should not be any connec.
ton, direct or indirect, between
any stakeholder or officer of the
railroad company and any stock
holder or officer of the coal com
panies."
The plan suggested to the court
by the Lehigh Valley provided in
effect for such separation of inter
est, but Attorney General Daugh
erty, through his legal representa-
tives, insists that the court should
retain jurisdiction in the case etc
guard against any attempted eva
sion of the Supreme Court decree &C
that any fictitious assignments OF
stock interest might be promptly
punished"
Question for Courts.
1t was emphasized by Assistant
Attorney General Seymour that
while the plan presented by the
railroad, in it's main features, ap
peared to conform to the mandate
of the Supreme Court, this was
not an agreed plan, but was one
presented for the consideration OF
the District Court, and one which
| the court must decide upon.
In explaining the Lehigh Valley
suit this afternoon. officials of the
Department Of Justice said it was
one of a series filed ito destroy
! the monopoly which certain rail
roads had acquired over the mining
transporting and marketing of an
thracite coal"
The Governments original peti
( ton charged that as early as 49,;
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany organized the defendant, the
Lehigh Valley Coal Company, foi
the purpose "of acquiring all the
anthracite coal-bearing lands stu
ated along it's lines"
These acquisitions are alleged tt
have continued until 1905, when i
lis charged with acquiring the Coke
Brothers and Co.. Inc, the larges
Independent producer and shipper
of anthracite coal over it's lines
and the Delaware, Susquehanna
and Schuylkill Railroad Company
which operates a series of gather
ing lines serving collieries owned
by that company.
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ALLEGED SPEEDER Is
RELEASED ON SURETY

Justice Bailey, of the District Su-
preme Court, today released Stephen
Paul Murphy, arrested by the police
at the request of the MARYLAND
authorities on a charge Of speeding
in Maryland.
His bond was fixed at 5000 for a
hearing on March 8, when it is ex-
pected that extradition papers will
reach here from Governor Richie
of Maryland.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
WINTERS WORST STORM
SWEEPS NEWFOUNDLAND

ST. JOHNS. N. f., March ga
furious blizzard, the most severe of
the season, ragged in this vicinity
yesterday. blocking railroad and
steamboat movements. North winds,
however, prevailed, and were driv-
ing the ice off the southwest coast.
1t was hoped that the coastal
steamers would be able to move to-
morrow and distribute provisions to
isolated communities where supplies
were reported to be running short.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
ITALY ROUNDS-UP REDS
IN BIG NORTHERN DRIVE

ROME, March 3.-Wholesale ar.
rests of Italian Socialists and Com.
munists have been taking place in
the industrial districts of northern
Italy during the past twenty-four
hours.
At Milan the police raided the
office Of the Socialist newspaper
AVanti, arresting thirteen members
of the Socialist defense committee
on the charge they were consider
ing an anti-Fascisti and anti-govern
ment manifesto.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
MAY MAKE DIVORCE EASY
FOR WOMEN IN ENGLAND

LONDON, March st is likely
soon to be just as easy for a woman
to get a divorce in England as for
a man. The House of Commons
yesterday, by a vote of 231 to %.
passed the second reading of bill
under which 1t will no longer be
necessary for a wife to allege
cruelty or desertion in addition to
infidelity. Under the existing law
the husband only has to establish
infidelity.
w. c. Bridgman. secretary for
home affairs, announced that the
government would support the bill
II It's provisions went no further
This @rtually assures passage Of the
measure,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
FIVE-MILE HIKE FAGS
FIFTY FAT WOMEN IN N, Y

NEW YORK, March 3.-Fifty fat
women, organized into a weight
reducing class by DR.. Royal S. Cope
land, marched five miles from Co
lumbus circle to the Health Depart
ment building, on lower Manhattan,
to bid farewell to their chief, who is
quitting the post of city health COM
missioner to don the toga Of a
United States Senator.
Many of the women showed signs
of distress after their hike and re-
storatiVes were in demand.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
HUNT FOR MISSING Filler
OF FLORIDA Is FUTILE

KEY WEST, Fla, March 3.-The
naval tug Bay Spring and three
naval seaplanes, after returning
early today to Key West reported
no trace of the seaplane lost last
Sunday during a trip from the
Bahamas to the Florida coast.
The plane had aboard Pilot Tibbs
and Mechanician Thomas, Virgin
ians. The search has been aban'
doned. ,--.------L--.-4-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
ITALY AWARDS GARY
RECLAMATION PROJECT

ROME. March Be. H. Gary,
of the United States Steel Corpora.
ton. has obtained an italian land
RECLAMATION project, it was an.
nounced today by Director CivelIi
Of the Fascist Cooperative Syn.
dicate.
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TO
END WORK
At NOON
SUNDAY
rite Senator'S and I "a Con-
| men to Retire Two
Women Among Them.
By WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON,
international News Service.

By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON,
international News Service.
The sixty-seventh running Of
the famous American legislative
handicap-one Of the greatest
races against time in political
history--was under way in Con-
gress today with Administration
leaders of House and Senate
launching drives through the
homestretch for the enactment
of last-nninute laws.
Adjourn Sunday Noon.
Facing adjournment at noon Sum
day until the new Congress meets
in December, the dying Congress-
entered the final lap with hundreds
of bills doomed to failure through
lack of time for their consideration.
Legislators were anxious to con.
tinue the session far into the night
in an effort to clear the crowded
legislative calendars.
Although great International
treaties were ratified, new tariff
law enacted and extraordinary
presidents set in extending aid to
farmers, the Congress now tottering
on its deathbed probably held q
greater claim on political history
in the large number of nationally.
known statesmen it retired to
private life. OF the men who
for the final session, fifteen Sena-
tors and 1875 congressman were
about to shed their togas for the
multi of civil life.
Proud possessors of committee
chairmanships, chosen Spokesman
for both major parties and noted
tnd1vidualists We're among those
who sang their "swan songs to the
tune of March of the Linping
Ducks" as composed last November
by 'Vox Populi." In the Senate,
ten Republicans. seven of them
committee chairman, and five Dem
ocrats were attending their last
session, and in the House, 113 Re
publicans, twelve Democrats, and
one Socialist were bidding their col .
leagues farewell.
Ten Retiring Senators.
In the Senate, the retiring mem !
bers were Senators Calder, of New
York; France, of Maryland; Freling-
huysen, of New Jersey; Kellogg, of
Minnesota; McCumber, of North
Dakota; New, of Indiana; Page, of
Vermont, Poindexter, of Washing
ton; Sutherland, Of West Virginia,
and Townsend, of Michigan, all Re-
publicans. and Culberson, of Texas;
Hitchcock of Nebraska; Myers, of
Montana; Pomerene, of Ohio. and
Williams, of Mississippi, Democrats
All the Republicans save three were
committee chairmen, McCumber
heading the powerful Finance Com
mittee, Page the great Naval At
fairs Committee, and Townsend the
Postoffice Committee. All five
Democrats had been committee lead +,
ers when their party was in power. .
OF the number, McCumber and :
years each in the Senate, Page had
served fifteen years, and Hitchcock,
Myers, Pomerene, Williams, Poin- :
dexter and Townsend twelve years :
each. Some had gone to athe Sem
ate after service In the House and \
Senator Williams led in this respect
with twenty-eight years given to
Congress. Senator Townsend served
twenty years and Senators Calder
and Hitchcock eighteen years each
in the two branches.
In the House there was even a
greater number of notables about
to step out of Congressional circles.
They included COngres Imam Menr
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Wounds Two, Thinking They
Are Numbering Germans"
Before He Is overpowered.
BY international News Service.


CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 3.
"A wounded and shell-shocked
veteran Of the world war, under
an hallucination that he was
fighting off numbering German"
at the Verdun front, wounded
two policemen and his brother,
and held half a hundred police
men at bay for seven hours early
this morning despite barrage of
pistol shots and "tear bombs"
Captured by Trick.
The insane veteran, John WeitzeI,
twenty-seven, a member of the
Fifth division, was finally captured
by a strategic trick by Capt. viii.
liam McMasters and confined in
the county Jail.
The capture came after weitze]
was driven to the window for air
from the effects of the gas bombs.
He was seen waving a white shirt
as a flag or truce and yelled that he
surrendered.
When he refused to throw his
gun out of the window police re-
fused to accept the surrender and
fired fussiiade. of shots to drive
him back into the tear gas
Hadn't Heart to Shoot"
Meantime Captain McMasters had
erept up the stairs, where he had
been shot in the hand by Weitze
earlier during the siege, rushed int
the room and overpowered him IN
the face of an automatic.
81 hadn't the heart to shoot him,
said McMasters. He got that way
defending his country"
At the county Jail Weitzel told
police he thought they were Ger
mans. "The shots and the bombs
made it seem just like the Verdur
'front.'" he said Then again
thought they might take me bacl
to that terrible Government hospi
tai. I would rather be shot thar
go back there"
COllapses In Jail.
Weitzel, frail and wan from hi
long illness from shell shock ant
a wound in his side. finally col
lapsed at the Jail.
The trouble started when tw'
deputy sheriffs tried to arrest hin
yesterday on an insanity charge
He eVaded them and police cam
last night Patrolman Henri.
krofk knocked at the door, an
was answered with a shot tina
struck him in the hip. His life wa
saved because the bullet glance'
on his cartridge belt.
Herbert Weitzel, a brother, ar
peared a moment later, and wa
shot through the cheek. so YOUR
another Of Them" the crazed ma,
said, and then locked himself an
his mother and sister in the house
Like Battle Field.
An hour later West Fortv-sfxt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
THE WEATHER.:

Cloudy and slightly colder
tonight; Sunday rain and
colder; moderate shifting
winds becoming northeast
and east
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03
TAKE MORE
GERMAN
CITIES
French Advance Along Fifty
Mile Front in Bavaria,
Baden, and Hesse.
BY international News Service.

FRENCH !. MILITARY HEAD
QUARTERS MAXENcE March
3.Freach troops advanced to-
day along q 50-mile front in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03

An hour later West Forty-sixtfl
street was virtually a battIefieId
Shots were exchanged at regular
intervals. One hundred and five
shots were fired altogether.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-03

Rhenish, bavaria, Baden and
Hesse, occupying additional Ger
man cities Of great strategic i'm
portance.
The Washington times., 1923-08-16
Garrett P. Serviss Deplores
Vanishing of Familiar
Country Sights
By Garrett P. Seryiss.
Astronomer Writer Topics Popular


/" HERE are two landscape
features, characteristic of
- American scenery in the
older parts Of our country, that
are rapidly disappearing, to the
great regret of all lovers Of the
picturesque-rail fences and COW
cred wooden bridges. l would
drive miles out Of my way to see
a good specimen Of either, and l
guess I would drive a long way,
too, to find either one or the
other. Yet in my boyhood's days,
in the Mohawk Schoharie coun-
try, l was in daily familiarity
with rail fences, while we could
not go to town without passing
under the delightful, swallow
haunted roofs of covered wooden
bridges, whose worn planks thun-
dered beneath the horses hoofs
with sounds that were solemnly
impressive in childhood's ears.
What an experience of mingled
terror, wonder and delight 1t was
when, caught by summer thun-
derstorm, to take refuge in one
of these bridges. Forked light
ming never seemed so near and
binding bright, or thunder peals
so terrific, as when seen and
heard there, with rain roaring on
the shingled roof, and the wind
driving through the openings,
while the frightened horses
jumped on the resounding floor
and crowded against one another
at every rafting discharge.
Even a country boy felt that it
was romantic. 1t took many
minutes to drive across the long
bridges, and the pigeon-holes in
their brown, weathered sides
threw fascinating shafts of misty
golden sunlight at regular inter-
walls across the gloom. The auto
mobilist, shooting, in three or
four seconds through one Of the
rev such bridges now remaining,
has not time to feel its charm.
CIR -aa -rr .aa-rr-aa-pp" and ii is
behind him, fast receding,
square, dark hole.
If possible, the rail fence made
a stronger appeal to the magma
tlon than did the covered bridge.
There was more life and ANNA
ton around it, especially when it
bordered a wood, while it's long
sloping and crossing uprights
straddled a low stone wall that
served as a base for the fence.
The innumerable holes and crew
Ices in such walls sheltered chip
hunks, weasels and other dart
ing creatures, usually seen only
by glimpses, and more fascinating
to the boyish mind in proportion
to their speed.
There was another type of rail
fence, which crossed the farmers
fields in the open and which,
having no stone wall to keep it
straight, went zig-Zag in order
to give itself stability. These
were runways for squirrels when
crossing between wooded lots, or
from u forest border to some
group of nut trees in a neighbor.
ing field. Both types of fences
made good shooting grounds in
the autumn. The zig-zags, with
The Washington times., 1923-08-16
Why People Should Eat Soup

The French people know about eating more about
health good cooking eating moderation and about gas
tr0nomy IN general than all the other peoples together
In French family good wholesome soup is eaten
once day. In millions of French families daily soup is
the chief substantial nourshment of the day.
1t would be good thing for Americans for their Digestion
and for temperance Americans knew about the value
of soup. ~ ~
Warm promotes digestion assimilation of all
other foods - ~
To begin the meal by putting warm nourishng LIQUID into
the stomach brings the blood the stomach and
for the work of digesting the food later
Soup represents really economy It enables the house
wife to utilize much that would otherwise 90 to waste
And In addition to the possibilities preparing SOM
In the home there always good soup to be had
by the housewife % r-' '"s
everything fred-whch indigestible-should he
banlshed from the American table, if warm Wholesome
nourshng soup should be made every day diet the
american national be cut down
at once about fifty per cent. ~
The Washington times., 1923-08-16
WOman's Heritage of Centuries is
Desire to Be the Woman in
Her Mans Life
By Lucy Lowell.
By T. E. Powers
Copyright. 1o2S. b. star Company.

= the furniture in the living-room
and he fell over something and
hurt his foot. He said then tina.
he hated constant commotion ii
the house-and his first wife never
allowed 1t.
Only a word, yet 1t was like
thrust of premonition through her
heart. She was hurt and offend
ed and it was days before they
were quite friendly again.
But the net time things didn't
go just right the name of the firs1
wife came up again. And though
he saw his mistake afterward and
spent weeks and dollars trying to
make it up" something had been
taken from her confidence and
some Of the whole-heartedness out
Of her love.
She remained equable under his
erracticisms. deaf to outbursts of
irritability, always willing to bac'i-
flee herself and to please.
But when, just year and a day
after their marriage he again m IN
toned the first wife, she packed
her bag and stormed home to her
fathers house to live. And 1t
wasn't long afterward that she
filed suit for divorce, with the
statement that she just couldn't
stand her husbands cruelty"
It seems rather a small matter
when it's talked over calmly AID
impersonally, doesn't 1t? Yet it's
the way Of woman. Her heritage
of the centuries Is the desire 70
be THE woman in her mans lifa.
First it was all of his protection
she wlshed-now it Is all of his
love, to the exclusion even Of a
love that is past and gone. Abuse,
neglect, hardship at his hands
she will stand, but not thought OF
another woman.
And I rather believe the man
likes her to be so. Anyway the
husband I've written about Is max
ing the most astonishing effort to
win his wife back and he doesn't
seem to remember that he ever
had first wife!
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