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Evening star., 1923-12-21
MONROE CAN ANNEX
SOCCER TITLE TODAY

Monroe School soccer players will win
the graded school championship for the
third consecutive year, should they show
the way to Pierce School today at 8 80
o'clock at the Union station plaza.
After battling to scoreless tie the
earlier part of the week. Monroe and
Pierce met again yesterday, the former
winning. l to 0, in a stirring match.
Wingate. Monroe's right wingman.
was mainly responsible for his eleven's
victory. From midfield he dribb' ed and
lodged his way to Pierce's goal. pass
ing the bah TO f. Prundle, who success
fully kicked the goal.
Pierce opened several drives in the
last half, but Monroe's defense proved
too rugged.
Hook Goddard and Biddle played wei
for Pierce, while Mahaney, H. Trund e..
Highfield, Foey. E. Trundle and Win
gate shone for Monroe.
Evening star., 1923-12-21
SWIMMER SUSPENDED.

CHICAGO, December 21.-Hopes of
Northwestern University for a ma
tional swimming championship have
been lesening by Bob SHELTON, world
champion breast stroke swimmer, and
three others being suspended for two
weeks. The students were suspended
after taking their partners at the junior
prom to a dance hall not on the
dean of women's approved list.
Evening star., 1923-12-21

tire right side of your body. 1t
IN Mt this point that the total
of ycnr body strength IL released
or aftaincd-sinre 1t is right here
tlLat the clubhrnd attains it's
mnximum ncceicration. And MT
this point. Ii is important IN note.
you do not swing around TO S',e
left with your bOdy--instead yOu
go right through there as far ms
you can reach out with the club
on straight line. The club.
reaching the, maximum of distance
II can go, stos's with n jerk, and
since IL must GO around because of
its momentum, 1t literally pulls
your body arSpund after II. You
understand, however, that the
club goes first.
Copyright, John F Ollie CO..
Evening star., 1923-12-21
Inside Golf
By CHESTER HOR. ON

Analysis of the golf swing shows
that when the ciubhead is coming
down und into the ball you deliver
"a right-hand blow something like
n right undercut. I use the term
undercut ns the reverse of upper
uppercut is.
Thus nv you go into the ball
the left arm lis straight, as IL has
been throughout the buck swing.
AS the clubhead meets the bal
you go in hard with the right fist,
SO to speak, and you send I'm after
IL your right shoulder and the en-
Evening star., 1923-12-21
WILL COACH AT CORNELL.

ITHACA, n. Y, December 21.-Wn-
liam S Newman of Ithaca, former all
,ound Cornell athletic star, has be.
appointed assistant to John Hoyle,
head rowing coach, the athletic as
ISOLATION announced today Newman
starred as a center on Cornell's foot
ball team in 1904. 1905 and 1905, and
rowed bow oar on the 1906 and 1907
crews, which won at Poughkeepsie.
Evening star., 1923-12-21
OLYMPIC TEAM ASPIRANTS
TO GET PLENTY OF TESTS
Thirty Sets of Games Scheduled for Season That Is
to Get Underway on January l2-Many Will
Be National i'm Their Scope.

EW YORK December stars hopeful Of
VI winning positions the 1924
opportunities to demonstrate their qualifications
outdoor begins for early
indoor track in this
No thirty
but the majority both club and college
cluded which be
Iphia, Newark, Bufa. Baltimore Washington
The will
January
March, each from one to Ave
track
Evening star., 1923-12-21
JOHNSTON WILL NOTPLAY
ON OLYMPIC TENNIS TEAM

EW YORK. December 2Despite absence William M john
national ranking payer
both the Wimbledon turf and St. Cloud world
championships followers OF tennis American
Olympics at Paris year.
The lists from which the selected,
Myck chairman
stuck his determination
Evening star., 1923-12-21
WHELAN is CHOSEN HEAD
OF KNICKERBOCKER CLUB

Frank A. Whelan was elected presi-
dent of the Knickerbocker Club at a
meeting of that body last night.
Roy Hohan was chosen vice presi-
dent; Robert Poore, secretary; Fred
J. Burrows, financial secretary; J. O.
Rabbit, treasurer. and Nathan Fox,
sergeant-at-armS
Evening star., 1923-12-21
ARRAY OF GRID MENTORS
a~WILL GATHER AT ATLANTA
Sessions Next Week Offer Chance for Constructive
Work and Something Really Noteworthy
Is Expected to Be Accomplished.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

2-Undcr the and
hospitality the third Of the
Coaches Association ought
something really noteworthy week.
Membership this body includes about important foot
addition formal speeches and the reading Of prepared
correspondingly
The objects Of the association the maintenance of
highest ball. the
devisng disposal
ofi . rrnatian
Evening star., 1923-12-21
WILL AID OLYMPIC TEAM.

BERN, Switzerland, December 81
The state council has approved an
appropriation of $1,000 francs to en-
hle Swiss participation in the
.-,ympic games to be held in Paris
hAxt summer. The council on Decem-
Der voted against the appropriation,
but reconsidered its vote in view Of
the insistence of the national council
Evening star., 1923-12-21
YALE HOCKEYIsTs ON TRIP.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, December 21-
The Yale hockey team will invade
Cleveland today for two contests
II Will play team OF former
college stars. Tomorrow night the
Cleveland hockey team of the United
States Hockey League will be its op-
ponents.
Evening star., 1923-12-21
CHESTS WILL CONTEST.

With a 125-to-122 victory over Charles
Bartelmes last night, William Parsons
will oppose Drew Thompson, in the
round robin of the District pocket bill
lard championship tournament tonight
at 7:45 O'Clock at the Grand Central
Evening star., 1923-12-21
NAvAJOS GET BANNER.

Nava1o's champion 135-pound eleven
has been awarded q banner emblematic
of the title 1t won this year. Vic GauIza
and Ottie Atlas Of the Atlas Sporting
Goods, Company. made the presentation
at a anoker held by the club last night
ia honor of the SUuk ball team
Evening star., 1923-12-21
BASKET BALL RESULTS

ST. Francis of Brooklyn, 23; Cath
Oiic University, IS.
lndiann, 55; Drake, 30.
Kansas City A. c. 23; Vanderbilt, 4.
Dartmouth, 33, University Club Of
New York, 30.
Evening star., 1923-12-21
GRID GAME CANCELLED.

CHARLOTTE, n. C. December 21.-
The foot ball game scheduled between
Davidson and Wake Forest colleges
for October 4, 1924. has been can
celed. The colleges failed to come to
an agreement. Davidson and the Uni
versity of Richmond will play on that
date instead.
Evening star., 1923-12-21
KOPF WILL LEAD w. AND J.

WASHINGTON, Pa, December 21.-
Herbert Kopf of Cincinnati, an end
on the Washington and Jefferson foot
I've 1924 squad.
Evening star., 1923-12-21
SUZANNE WILL PLAY.

PARIS, December 21 = Suzanne
Lengien has agreed to represent
France in the Olympic tennis matches
says LAuto today.
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
sLAYER's WIRE TO WIFE
LEADS TO HIS ARREST

Detectives were informed. today
that Andrew Griffins, colored, who
shot his wife and also mortally
wounded his five-year-old boy, Will
bur James, has been arrested at
Bessemer, Ala. Detective Sergeant
O'Brfen will go to the Southern
city to have the man returned here.
Griffins and his wife. Rosie, were
quarreling Thursday about money
matters, when the husband sudden
~ whipped out revolver and fired.
The bullet penetrated the woman
shoulder and when it passed out in
the back. 1t hit the boy in the
heart. killing him instantly. Upon
arrival of the negro at Bessemer he
telegraphed to his wife asking about
the condition of the boy. It was
through this clue that he was
caught.
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
Prayer Bride Had
Honeymoon On
40 Cents

ORANGE, N. j., Jan. a.
George Hermann Lawson, the
"prayer bride PASTOR" whose
prayers were finally answered
after many sethacks, today told
how he and his : "heaven-sent
mate" formerly Newark laun-
dry worker, saw New York on
their honeymoon for 40 cents.
III certainly was thankful
that my wife was too much en-
crossed with seeing the sights
to want to spend money on the
aters and other worldly amuse-
ments," the pastor said, "for ]
had only 40 cents left after
the ceremony, But I got
through the honeymoon all
right"
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
IMPEACHME nj
Of GOVERNOR
PLANNED
MoRae, Of Arkansas, Is Object
of American Federation OF
Labor Investigation.

A movement to impeaoh Gov,
Thomas II, McRae Of Arkansas, as a
result of the rieting and lynehing of
union railway strikers at Harrison.
may be launched by the American
Federation Of Labor, 1t was learned
here today.
The federation ia new engaged In
an independent investigation of the
conditions at Harrison, and If it is
disclosed that the State OF Arkansas
did not accord proper protection for
it's eitiaens. impeachment proceed.
ings are possibility, federation ef-
fioiaIs said today. h
Letters and kilograms have been
dispatched from headquarters here
requesting federation representatives
ia ferwaFd full accounts of the Iynch-
ing and Eiating, aRd particularly the
manner in which the seIf-appeinted
''Vigiiantsa controlled the town fer
SEINE days. Later field investigators
may be dispatched to Arkansas.
Upon the result g the investigation
will depend future aetion, II was
said. [
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
FIVE lose LIVES
WHEN HOTEL
BURNS
Mother Found Dead With
Twins Bodies In Arms.
Fire Chief Hero.

HOMESTEAD, Pa, Jan. ga
Flames which swept through the
three story wooden Hotel Davies
here early to-day took a toll of five
lives and left sixth hanging in
the balance. When firemen arrived
the structure was a roaring furnace
frem top to bottom, Ten ether
guests barely escaped,
The dead arei
Mrs. John Winnie, faFtyfiVe,
David and William Winnie, six,
twins.
Catherine Winnie, thirtssR.
Thomas w: Davies, ferty-three,
pFaprieteE of the hetel;
Joseph Bryce, chief of the home.
stead fire department. is in a dying
condition at a LEGAL hospital.
The fire, at undetermined origin,
started in the kitchen and quickly
spread to the bedrooms on the
The Winnie faTWfiF had an apart
,aant on the third HeaF: When the
blaze was under Gantral at o'clock,
firemsn feund Mrs. Winnie with
her twins elutehsd inc her arms
wing upen the flaeE. They had
been cut down by sWaoke and flames
in theIr hastY Attanapt 10 escape.
x few feet away lay thu ether chsld.
AZ faaaE Mae9 -aarsihaE ssRsa
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
WARM DAY ATTRACTS
1000 TO COMFY ISLAND

NEW YORK, Jan. ga touch of
warm weather In the metropolitan
district yesterday brought 100000
persons to Coney Island and few
Of the show contingent that winters
ct that gay spot came out of their
quarters to ballyhoo throngs that
crowded the boardwalk.
Despite frowning clouds which
cried copionsly late in the day,
Thousands who couldn't wait until
summer to see II the ferris wheel
still could reVoIve. filled outgoing
subway trains. Vendors hurriedly
lighted fires and sold several miles
Of hot dogs,
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
HER
IN POISON
CASE
Jury Exonerates Mrs. Crash,
Who Killed Baby and Tried
to End Own Life.

Mvs. Hazel Gnash, twenty-five
years old, Of 1910 Potomac ave
nue. southeast, who on November
q last gave two seven-grain tab
lets 81 bichIoride Of mercury to
her fifteen-months-o son, viii
liam, under the pretense that the
poison was candy, resulting in
the death Of the infant, and who
was held by the coroner's jury
for the action Of the grand jury,
was today exonerated by the lat
ter body, which ignored the charge
of homicide against the woman.
Bogus Stock Victims.
According to the police, Mrs.
Gnash, after purchasing bottle of
went to the west entrance of Rock
Creek Park, and after giving her
son two of the tablets of the poi
son, took six tablets herself,
The woman and child were dis
covered by DIR. II. Hertzberg, of 1922
u street northwest, who with his
wife was motoring through the
park. They heard cries of Help, .
and following the sounds, found the
woman and her child. Dr. Hertz
berg rushed both to the hospital,
and although laboring long to save
the child's life, the little one died.
The husband of the woman is
said to be William T. Gnash, en-
ployed as a fireman at a stone
quarry at Knoxville, n. C.
Mrs. Gnash Is reported to be of
"a prominent Arizona family and
studied to be q trained nurse. They
had been vietimized by wild cat''
stock promoters four years ago,
when Gnash worked in an Arizona
mining camp, and were reduced to
poverty.
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
DENLY Supports Offer
Of Naval Base in
California
By international News service.

Secretary DENLY announced
today to the House Naval
Affairs Committee that he cor
daily supports the offer made
by Congressman MacLafferty,
California, Of gift BY Ala
media, Cal, of $40 acres at
that place Is site for 8 naval
base. j
The committee will 20 into
details Of acceptance Of Mac
LafsFty's 0fRer at meetings be-
ginning Wednesday, Chairman
Butler stated. He said there is
no assurance that consideration
of the question could be fin
ished at this session of Com
greSs.
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
RHINELAND
LABOR ON
STRIKE
Ten Thousand Miners Go Into
Pits. but Stand Idle.
Rail Men Join.
ny international News Service.

Ny international News Service.
DUSSELDORF, Jan. 22.-Gen.
eral de GOutte, cOmmander-in-cIlief
Of the French forces In the Rhine
land, today refused Il release the
man coal mines Nh
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
ALL MUST WORK TO LIVE,
COOLIDGE SAYS in TALK

CHICAGO, Jan. 22-It Is a. great
mistake to suppose that under some
form OF government or in some ad.
vaIlced state of civilization, people
can exist without effort and live
wholly at ease, Calvin Coolidge, Vice
President Of the United States. de.
clared in speech before, the Sun.
day Evening Club.
1.-THE opposite conclusion would
be more nearly correct" he con-
tinued. "It requires less intelIi.
gence less skillful effort to live
among a tribe OF savages than TO
maintain existence under the aver.
ave conditions of modern society,
Independence. liberty, civilization
are hard to bear. 1t Is not sloth
and case. but work and achieve.
ment which are the ideals of TODAY ~
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
By 5. b. WEYRR,
ItBternmtiOnal News Ser lee,

ESSEN, JAN 90 More than ten
thousand miners in the Ruhr coal
fields, In addition to thousands Of
German railway workers, quit
work today in protest against
French occupation. Although the
German workers adopted a policy
Of passive resistance" in open
defiance of French orders to con-
tinue at work, there had been no
disorders up to this hour.
Claim Two Victories.
The French attempted to placate
the population by relaxing mill.
tary control.
German officials declared: "Our
defense is functioning'
The Germans claimed two blood.
less victories
First. release of Director Ahrens
Of one OF the Prussian state-owned
mines on SIS bail.
Second, withdrawal of French
troops from the occupied branches
OF the Reichsbank in Rhineland
cities.
The French have promised not
to interfere with the Reichsbank
branches in the future.
General DeGoutte refused to re-
lease Fritz Thyssen and the other
coal magnates arrested Saturday,
although the Germans are threaten.
Ing general strike unless they
are liberated.
In some quarters the calmness
today was viewed az the "quiet be-
fore the storm" The miners Wis
TIED the mines but refused to pick
up their tools.
Quit.WOrk Order Issued.
Passive resistance against French
occupation has gradually spread
during the past twenty.four hours
throughout tho great industrial and
mining belts of Weatphaiia, Orders
to the miners to quit work were
Issued after q series Of trade union
meetings on Sunday. =
The French have withdrawn their
troops from the branch offices of
the Retchabank In Essen and other
Rhineland cities.
French military authorities warned
unions that drastic measures would
DO taken unless the men resume
operations, They threatened to tie
up the transportation of food and
other necessaries into the occupied
zone, except tho Fations for the
French oeeupational troops,
IT was estimated at moan that
10000 German miners were idle at
various privately owned mines, in
Guiding those owned by the Thya-
sens, Strikers at the Fhysaen col
liertes declared they would stand
behind their "bess''-Fritz Thyssen,
who was arrested Saturday,
Cd "a l.
Waited French hsadQVartsrs at
Duaselderf with another "ultlma.
tuIA, demanding release of all the
coal magnates on penalty of a
general strike il the French pe-
fused,
The French claim that all the
Prussian state-ewned mines are
"WpFkiRs.n
: Representatives Of the ran unions
met and decided to continue their
policy Of passive resistance in
definitely.
Che Walkeut was described as
t6entiRusd en- Page 4, Column s.
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
TWO MEN REPORT BEING
HELD UP AND ROBBED

Steven Begrls, s1s Missouri av-
snue northwest, complained that
he was held up On Missouri avenue,
between Third and Fourth streets
northwest. and was robbed OF $2o6
Two negroes, enc OF whom flour
jshsa a pistol, held up Bogris. He
gave a description at the men to
Fourth precinct that ha was held
UP and robbed Of So by a Negro at
Delaware avenue and r street
southwest last midnight
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
PRAYERS OF THANKS FOR
RAIN OFFERED IN HAzLEToN

HAZLETON, Pa, Pan. RB-
Prayers, giving thanks for the cop
ious rain that fell during the nigft
and today, were offered In many
churches.
The rain melted almost a foat of
snow, which covered thu grounds,
and reservoirs that were nearly
empty for months, arc again filling
to normal capacity. There liz no
further danger from the water
shortage fer tha Sest oe the WjRt&E,
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
POLICE START TO CLEAN
UP GREENWICH VILLAGE

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-Greenwich
Village. heart OF Bohemia, is to be
Cleaned up" the police announced
today, when dozen girls, whose
ages ranged from fifteen to twenty
two years, and as many university
and high school boys and youthful
clerks were arraigned in court on
charges of violating the Mullan- Gage
State prohibition law, disorderly con-
duct, intoxication and Juvenile delin.
Quency.
The arrests were made in a raid
on q West Fourth street cafe, where
the police said they found the youth.
full prisoners drinking and dancing
objectionably.
The raid, they explained, was In no.
Spouse to pleas of civic bodies that
Greenwich Village be made a decent
place to live In"
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
HEROES WILL Be
HONORED At
ceremony

FEssestatian ef The Times AeFa
medals and the Knickerbocker rib.
hon bar awards viii be niade in
the auditorium of Central High
School on the night of Wednesday,
February I.
An elaborate program, including
a bana concert by the Navy Band,
has been arranged. The cere-
QNntiuApG On aagA a Column y
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
FLAG ALONE ESCAPES FIRE
AS BUNGALOW is BURNED

MANTUA, ". il Jan, ss.-An.
other fire Of incendiary origin has
occurred here, the eleventh attrlbut.
ed to firebugs within three months.
The summer bungalow of A, r.
Hellings on the banks of Mantua
creek, was totally destroyed with
the contents, except a small Amsri.
can flag, which was in the attic
and fell to the bottom of the ruins.
The firemen found the flag at
daylight, not cyan scorched, and
took 1t te the fiFehouse, where it
will be kept, Z"
The blaze was discovered under
the house, which had not been
occupied since September.
The Washington times., 1923-01-22
HI SOUGHT
EASE FOR
BROKEN
NERVE
Agony Of War Wounds Threw
Him Into Hands Of Ped
dIers, ~ as.

MIIl Ian a.
was Ii the saElY iagn
bleak, cOId, Novennb 81
that the famous Thirty eighth
Canadian infantry awaited the
order to 60 cover the TOP. For
more than eleven months this regi-
ment had been at the front. From
full organized regiment it had
been smashed to less than half its
size.
Before the Zero Hour.
Seated on pile Of sand bags.
soaked from the light snow which
covered the ground, sat q young
man, His clothes were drenched.
his face unshaved and his feet
ached from exposure and long
hours spent on battle torn fields. In
his hand was a picture Of q young,
golden haired woman. She was
waiting for him to return.
Then came the zero hour.
The infantry scrambled over the
top. A second later, roars Of the
heavy guns beloved forth. Hos.
4
splints, bandageg and stretchers
followed their comrades "oyer the
top
In the. lead was the young man.
His comrades were falling around
him. He stopped to help q fallen
boy. 1t was too late. A shell ex-
ploded within fifty yards Of him.
Two other men fell to the ground.
He sprang to their aid. Throwing
one of them over his shoulder he
dragged the other to an old shell
hole out of range of the enemy's
tire. While trying TO carry the man
to safety his left leg began to pain.
Each step increased the pain. He .
struggled on, the weights OF the
wounded men seeming to have in.
creased twofold.
A cloud arose In the distance.
The enemy were using gas. The
gas mask of the soldier hung az his
side. Tho wounded man had none.
Tearing his mask from his side and
forgetting his own danger the
young soldier pulled the mask over
his wounded buddy The gas
was upon them. A rain OF shrap-
mel fell over them,
When the soldier regained con.
seriousness. nearly forty-eight hours
later, two nurses were at his side.
A Doctor standing over him gravely
shook his head. The soldier at
tempted to move. He could not.
His body from his hips to his feet
was enclosed In plaster cast.
He moaned. The doctor pro-
duoed a needle, injecting what he
said was something ITO ease the
pain" He returned two hours
later. Another injection, The pain
waa lessened. The hip. the doctor
said, was shattered and the bone
enmeshed In tho nerve centers.
There was but one way to kin the
pain, dope-a shot in the arm
morphine,
Drug Habit Confirmed.
This scene was enacted six years
ago, Recently the same young
man, pale, emaciated and walking
with linn was In room IN q
Milwaukae hetel within q stones
throw of the heart Of the city. His
eyes were sunken, the pupils d.
lated and his skin yellow, Az he
talked he paced up and down the
room, his lips aniVered and his fin-
gers tremhled, On dresser before
him was bottle at morphine with
the cork yemeved, Next to the
bottle was q hypedermic eyringe
1t was in these surFeundings that
he told the story Of 1.-THE Living
Dead" The fortunes OF war had
placed him in that city OF morbid,
unhappy people, where he learned or
the terrible menace-the drug habit,
Born in Aberdeen s, ID thirty