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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13

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Serious Bladder Trouble

"Coulc not stand nor sit and was
forced to cry out from intense pain"
writes Henry Williams, Tarkio. Nom
tana. 1.-THE doctors said l had In
Illumination of the bladder and en-
operation was necessary. Tried
Foley Kidney Pills and improved at
once. Tell all my friends about
Foley Kidney Pills as 1t will save
many from suffering and perhaps, as
in my case, a dangerous operation"
Bladder and kidney trouble demand
prompt treatment. Foley Kidney
Pills give quick relief. Sold every
where.-Adv.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13
SMILES
BY TOM SIMS

Why don't you people write letters
as you should? Now a big writing
paper company is broke.
News from Washington. Glenn
wars on bureaus. Wish he would
var IN a dresser OF ours.
Boston man rushed out In pajamas
yelling lions were after him. How
big are Boston bedbugs?
Thief robbed a thief in New York.
We refuse to say he couldn't find
anyone that wasn't.
Wealthy widow stayed lost in New
Hampshire woods, perhaps because
men We're afraid to find her.
Princess Olga of Greece viii
masry.. Ought to make a good cook
Chicago speeders face brain tests
Didn't know speeders had any.
Cleveland bridegroom was Jailed
Will be good training.
More COW news today. Twenty
Warren (O.) cows saved from fire
Not their time to be steaks.
Robbers will take anything. One
in Cincinnati took a bathtub. Ma,
take a bath next. Guess he wanted
to lead a clean life.
A cloak 5000 years old has beer
found in Sweden. Clothes don't las
as they once did.
Due partly to the fact that peopl,
had rather have autos, Chicago re
! ports a baby shortage.
Limon (colo.) girl was shot slight.
" while stealing melons. Girls viii
be boys.
A slender girl shows the fall styles
best. A slender pocketbook show
them worst.
The long dropping ostrich plum,
is coming back into favor, but no
with husbands.
The fall frocks are ~carryinl
touches of ermine, formerly worn b,
somebody's house cat.
Rugs for storage should be rollel
rather than folded. This gets moth
too dizzy to eat.
Whitewash the walls and ceilinI
OF your cellar and the coal may b
found more easily.
Do not sleep in your shoes. Plac
them by the side of the bed TO
throwing at burglars.
Everything has its use. Don
laugh at orns. Corns sell NOR
autos than auto statesmen.
Never smoke a pipe while openin
mail. May get a bill that makes 70
bite off the stem.
A wife's perception of untruths
called sixth sense, but hubby calls
nonsense.
Movie censors r busy agair
They enter a movie saying What
wrong with this picture?"
"Gunmen Stage Robbery"-head
line. Bad actors. say we.
Long narrow trains are used thi
season on velvet or satin frocks an
railroad tracks.
The moon is 100000 miles ava.
The moonshine is much closer.
Electricity is great. You can d
everything with the stuff except pa
the bills.
Don't shoot your wife. Run he
crazy. Get a door-bell that sound
like the telephone.
The leopard cannot change 4;
spots and 1t seems as If some table
cloths can't either.
Cross a farmers field and you I'm
a cross farmer.
Practical jokers, we have founs
are very impractical.
Housewives may think the grid
iron is used for griddle cakes.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

@. Can 20 acres of timber be
worked profitably for the production
OF t%urpentine and rosin?-J. r. X.
A. The Forest Service says that
20 acres can not be worked with
pront but that sometimes such a
small plot Is worked for the pro-
duction of crude %turpentine and this
is sold to some larger operator for
refining.
Q. Is it correct to say, HE differs
with her or differs from her?"-
N. f.
A. In the sentence HE differs with
her" the thought expressed is a diff
ference OF opinion. The sentence
idea of physical or mental dissimi-
larity.
Q. How long did 1t take to revise
the Old Testament?--M. H.. c.
A. The revision of the Old Tes-
lament was accomplished in 792
days, and was completed June 20,
1881. The revision of the New Tes-
lament was a more exhaustive task,
requiring 407 meetings which lasted
over a period of 10 years. The new
revision was completed and present.
ed to the Convocation on May IT,
1881.
@. Is it true that the daughters
of the late Gar slept on camp
beds?-I. G.
A. Madame Dehn says that this
custom was observed by the four
Grand Duchesses. 1t dates back to
the reign of Alexander I, who de-
creed that the daughters of the en-
peror were not to sleep on nor
comfortable beds until they mar
ried.
@. How is the new disease "Tul-
araemia" transmitted Pr. s.
A. DIR. Edward Francis says that
this is transmitted from rodents to
blood-sucking insect or by the hand
ling and dissection of infected .ro-
dents by marketmen or laboratory
workers.
@. How long does it take to send
a letter to South Africa PIP. III. II.
! A. The Postofice Department says
that the average transit time of
mails from New York to Cape Town
is ~ days.
@. What percentage of our ex-
ports were taken by Europe?-J. ].
A. w. H. Booth, president of the
International Chamber of Commerce
says that in 1922 81 per cent was
thus taken. In the same year., Eu-
rope supplied practically 80 per cent
of Il imports.
@. Who made a bequest lately for
a home for vaudeville artists?-
M. N.
A. Percy G.. williams, a vaude-
willie producer who died recently,
provided in his will that thu bulk
of his fortune of more than $4,000
900 should be used ito endow and
maintain a home for those who
through age. poverty or infirmity
have been crowded out OF the pro-
fession,"
nous concentration of coke. Such a
process plant, used in connection
with a steam-electric plant may pro-
duce fuel at a cos materially lower
than that of raw coal. But the ex-
detrimental work is not yet sufficient
to permit a stronger statement than
that the progress made is ~encourag-
ing.
The largest of the s%uperpower pro-
iects that have been carried u as
yet are on the Pacific coast. Cali
fornia has the largest i~nterconnect-
ed system in the world and the high
est percentage of residences lighted
by electricity. The service is essent-
tally the same in cities of 5000, 50,-
600 and 500, 900 population.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13
Bible Thought For Today

Ia WISE us search and try our ways, and
turn again to the Lord-Lamentations 3:40.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13

GEORGE H. THOMPSON
CARPENTER AND BUILDER
JobbinR Promptly Attended to
81 Lewis st. Phone 1909
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13

Boston mar rushed out In pajamas
yelling lions were after him. How
big are Boston bedbugs?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13

News from Washington. Glenn
a on bureaus. Wish he would
war on a dresser of ours,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13

Why don't you people write letters
as you should? Now a big writing
paper company is broke.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13

Thief robbed a thief in New York.
We refuse to say he couldn't find
anyone that wasn't.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13

Wealthy widow stayed lost in New
Hampshire woods, perhaps because
men were afraid to find her,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-13

More COW news today. Twenty
Warren CO., cows saved from fire.
Not their time to be steaks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
ONE SHOT TO DEATH,
3 POLICEMEN CUT IN
ALLEY GUN BATTLE

CONTINUED from First Page.>
jamin and Sadie Smith, negroes. Of
1101 Pierce street court on charges
OF illegal possession and selling.
A novel trap in the ceiling of the
house, one Of the first of its kind in
the city. according TO the officers, was
found and four gallons of corn liquor
seized. Smith and his wife weI> re-
leased under $1,000 bond
Lena Markwitz of 1927 eth street
was arrested on similar charges and
more than ten gallons of corn liquor
were seized. She also was released
under $1,000 bond.
Police in the southwest made raids
on four places charged with violating
the prohibition act and arrested six
negroes, who last night were ar
ranging for $1,000 bond each. A large
quantity of liquor was seized.
The raids were conducted by Capt.
Sheetz and Lieut.. Holmes of No. 4
precinct, and the following persons
were arrested: Mary Washington, 10
Virginia avenue: Eva Hawkins and
Bessie Sykes of 146 Canal street; Ella
Dickson of 207 I'd street and Richard
and Ella Robinson, los G street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
ST0VE-S|zED COAL
| FACES EXHAUSTION
H0useholders Warned to Mix
Other Kinds in Ordering
Winter Supply.

So many Washington householders
are ordering only stove size anthra-
cite for next winter that unless some
of them vary their supply with other
sizes the dealers will not be able to
fill all the orders, Robert l.. Lewis.
secretary of the Coal Merchants
Board of Trade. said yesterday.
THE anthracite situation in Wash
ington," Mr.. Lewis said. has as
sumed rather serious aspects because
of inability of dealers to obtain SUM-
Client stove size coal to meet the de-
mand. This condition has obtained
in former years, but has never been
so acute as now. Domestic anthracite
Is really a manufactured article. the
coal as mined being carried through
the breakers, where IL is crushed,
sized and screened.
Approximately only 10 per cent OF
the total amount becomes stove size.
For no good reason. 1t seems TO De the
universal custom of heating contractors
to recommend anthracite stove in new
hot-water installations. This has
brought the demand for stove coal to
the point where all consumers cannot
possibly hope to get sufficient OF this
size for their requirements.
'Householders are i'll advised in in
ssting on this size Of coal, as several
combinations, such as egg and pea, egg
and chestnut or stove and pea can be
used with greater economy of fuel and
at considerably less cost per ton.
Consumers are strongly urged to
use these combinations of sizes. be-
cause IL they continue to hold off, await
ing delivery OF stove. the chances are
that the period OF possible strike will
arrive with both consumers and deal
ers in poor shape to go through a pc
Rod where no anthracite of any kind
can be obtained"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
NIAGARA PLUNGE
SPARED 5 IN BOAT
Vessel Sticks in Mud Above Roar
ing Cataract as Alarm
Is Given.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NIAGARA FALLS. n. T., May 10
Only a mud bank and luck saved q
party OF Ave from Chicago from being
carried over Niagara Falls in a motor
boat this evening. The motor boat,
the Sunbeam, is owned by the Lasker
Iron Company of Chicago. 1t was for
merry a subchaser and was bought
in New York recently. refitted and
brought up the barge canal to Tona-
wanda. Capt. George Murphy of Chi
cago was In command.
This evening the captain decided to
make another lap to Buffalo and spend
the night there. The motor boat was
taken into the river and the pilot, be-
Ing unfamiliar with the channel. pro-
ceeded north along the Canadian
shore in the direction OF the falls.
AT Chippewa workmen on the Hydro
plant piers waved a warning to the
crew, but they continued their course.
just below the intake for the Queens
town power house channel, a mud
bank stretches several hundred feet
out into the river.
The motor boat stuck her sharp
nose into this mud and held fast, a
scant half mile from the cataract. A
motor boat was rushed out from Chip
pewa and the crew OF the Sunbeam
taken ashore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20

and accounting act. which established
the general accounting office, as auth
ority for the decisions OF Controller
McCarl, under this act they say he is
made accountable for the money spent
by the entire executive branch of the
government, and is backed by Congress
for a term Of fifteen years, for which
and from which he cannot be re-
moved without formal charges and
procedure by Congress. In short. he is
a court. His decisions are decisions,
not opinions.
The opinions of the Department OF
Justice which disagree with the con-
troller's decisions, McCarrs friends
say, are mere opinions OF the govern
ment's Legal adviser and do not over
rule the controller. 1t is a mistake
of fact, they declare, to say the De-
partment Of Justice opinion over.
ruled" the controller. They even GO
SO far as to charge the Department
of Justice with issuing opinions or
questions at issue over which the
departments jurisdiction does not ex-
tend, which are determinable by an
other government officer, the CON
troller himself; and hence they say
the Department of Justice itself has
overstepped it's bounds. 1t has, to use
their phrase, offered a gratuitous
opinion"
How will the compensation commits
sion make out? Clearly, it intends to
force the issue. Mrs. Rrueggeman an
nounced yesterday that no new occu
pational disease claims would be paid
until a course of action could be de-
ts rnla don upon following the White
commission feel that the Presidents &C
ton In asking the Department of JUS
ttce for an opinion, after McCarl had
twice declared his decision on the mat
| ter could be taken as intimation from
the White House that there may be
some way around the controller.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
STREET CAR HABIT
GROWS IN DISTRICT
Rides Per Head More Numer.
GUS Despite Increase of
Automobiles.

The street car-riding habit Is grow
ing rather than decreasing among
Neutrality-suspicious. despite the tremen-
dous sale of automobiles, according
TO William F. Ham. president of the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company.
Mr.. Ham admitted last night that
he was inclined to take the opposite
view until he sat down and compared
the increases in population, automo-
biles and car riders during the past
eight years. Here is what he found.
That in 1922 the number of cash
fares collected on both street rail-
way systems was equivalent to 35s
rides per inhabitant, whereas in 1915
the number OF rides per inhabitant
was only 307.
The District government has no
record of the annual number of auto
mobile registrations prior to 1918,
emit the comparison between car rid
ing and motoring produces surprts-
Ing facts. Take the year 1913:
The population Of the city was es-
timated at 1855, and there were
only 4o,ss6 automobiles registered. In
hauled 14s,s43.475. This eQualed $50
car rides per person.
In 1922 the population had gone
down to $4,000. according to Mr..
Hams estimate, and the number of
automobile registrations jumped to
S3,113. Mr.. Ham states that despite
the drop in population and the
doubling OF automobile figures. the
companies lost In the four-year period
only 100000 car riders, leaving an
average Of $50 rides per inhSbitant.
And there is still another factor
| motor bus competition-which the
w. r. q. president did not take into
! consideration.
Mr.. Ham says the only conceivable
| explanation for the large number of
rides per inhabitant last year is that
! the universal use of the private motor
| car has not destroyed the car-rtding
habit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
SOCIALISTS VOTE
TO |MPEACH TAFT
Resolution Scores Accept
ance of Annuity and Hits
Russian Chiefs.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. May 1s.-A demand
Tor the impeachment OF William II.
Taft. Chief Justice of the United
nuity OF $4,000 from the Carnegie
corporation and an attack on the
Lenfn and Trotsky brand of Rus
SIAN communism by Alexander Ca
ward, featured the opening Of the
national convention OF the Socialist
party today. Mr. Cahan declared in
an address that Trotsky was a big
ne was sincere. and that Lenin' 8
physical breakdown was due. in
great part, to his moral incapacity
Taft Rebuke Unanimous.
The resolution aimed at Chief Jus-
sice TAFT was adopted unanimously.
but none OF the delegates expressed
view, views on the subject The text of
whereas William Howard Taft.
Chfef Justice of the Supreme Court
or the United States, has for many
Esars oeen in receipt of an ANNUITY
poration, which was undoubteSIv
granted in recognition of services
rendered, and
Whereas: said William Howard
annuity since his appointment to tha
supreme Court Of the United states
Whereas: the acceptance of this
annuity coming indirectly from the
predatory corporation in the United
states, Is not only unethicaI. but q
menace to the integrity of our courts
asu uetrlmental to the best interests
Oh In. tne american a sss people, therefore.
executive committee Of the socisiist
party, That we voice our nrotest
against the continuance OF Villa n,
m Iowa Taft In his office. and de-
t sa that Congress take steps to
ment. 'ipeach-
Be 1t further resolved, That copdes
or TINS resolution be sent to the nrass
g William Howard TAFT, members Of
local organizations and to the Iahnr
unions of the country"
Seek Cooperation,
The committee on resolutions VIZ.
instructed to obtain cooperation q,
trades unions and other bodie. A.
making the demand for Mr.. Tsft's
impeachment nation wide in it's scone
5AIgernon Lee. former New YorI
the first day. io'
Mr.: Cahan in his address, said tn,
hussian communists were more thar
tw9-thirds takers and grafters,
EIHu ~ Was time IOr the American
socialists to stop temporizine wifi
the soviet He deplored the reiativel,
small attendance at the convention
saying II did not augur well for tn,
status of the party in the United
states. Socialism had just as good ;
chance to grow in this country as 1
had in England, he asserted, II tn,
leaders here would go about thei
work of rebuilding in the right wa,
and "sidetrack their attempts Z,
evolve 'highfalutin' phrasemongery.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
SOLDIERS TO HOLD
FIELD DAY TUESDAY

Thrills galore VIII be provided
Washington, when officers and enlist
ed men Of the Regular Army gather
on the north slope of the Monument
Grounds at 8 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing for a field meet.
Aeroplane races, wall-scalinR con-
tests and a dozen other unique events
will make up the program. announce
ment Of which was made by the War
Department last night.
In the air race all contestants will
take of from Boiling Field simulta-
neously and fly around the washing
ton Monument dropping messages 10
the judges on the field below.
Another feature Of the meet will be
the equipment ra6es, In which the
contestants will drop various parts OF
their equipment, such as rifle, hat and
coat at different points along the
course and reclaim them on the re-
turn run. At the end OF the race the
contestants will be immediately sub
iected to inspection.
There also will be q tuE-of.vsr. q
three-legged race, Q sack race and
all the other events that 20 to nnake
w Q complete deld day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
Wives Smash Red Tape to End
Water Famine in d. C.. Suburb

The English village of Bradley
Hills, Nd, ordinarily is q peaceful
community. It's suburban tranquility
seldom is disturbed. Yesterday. how
over. it's peace was shattered and the
red flag Of revolt waved high. Eng
lish Village wives. aroused and united
boosted to homecoming husbands of
a victory unrIvaled in the chronicles
Of the tiny suburbs history.
The water in the English Village
has been a sort of off again, on
again, proposition for many months.
1t Is supplied by a system operated
jointly by all residents under the
supervision Of few.
A large group for year has fav-
ored having the county sanitary COM
mission assume charge-any system
that would assure water for English
Village, they held, was preferable to
one that failed in the middle of a
meal or. possibly. a bath.
Friday night faucets breathed air.
not water. Yesterday morning the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
$1,000 AID RAISED
IN FIRE DISASTER
Orphans and Other Survivors
! Given Attention Following
Burial of rs.
Gy the Associated Press.

py the Associated Press.
CAMDEN, S. c., May 19.-Still dazed
by the tragedy of Thursday night In
which seventy-flve persons lost their
lives in the fire at the Cleveland
School, eight miles from here. Ker-
shaw county Is preparing. with acute
realization of the extent of the trag-
edy. to care for those left dependent
by the fire. Only this afternoon, the
funerals of the last OF the dead were
held at the Beulah Church yard and
at Antioch and this evening the re-
lief fund being collected by the
chamber of commerce of Camden and
Kershaw county had mounted to $5,-
600, with committees appointed to SUI
pervise further collections and dis
bursements
A plan for a fund to insure the edu-
cation of the children left orphans Is
being worked out and the work on
farms where the head of the family
persisted will be supervised and aided
by men designated or employed out
of the fund by the chamber of COM
merce.
Seek More Bodies.
The ruins of the little frame
schoolhouse were thoroughly combed
today in search of possible additional
total of Seventy-five dead Is au-
thentic, according to undertakers
clergymen and relatives who assisted
in the work of identifying the
bodies.
Many today visited the heap OF
charred wood and ashes spread be-
tween eight little mounds of brick
which once formed the foundation
pillars, of the school, and in several
instances left with some sort of re-
membrance. One white haired WON
an walked slowly away from the
ruins sobbing, fondling the warped
frame OF an umbrella. Her daughter
had carried an umbrella to the com.
mencement exercises and the mother
was confident IL was the one.
A story frequently heard in Cam.
den today was how one mother haC
rorceu her fourteen-year-old son tc
attend the exercises under threat OF
a whipping. The boy was burned Il
death and the mother tonight 4.
crazed with grief.
Two youngsters, clad in overalls
and driving q dilapidated buggy
drawn by an old mule, drove into
Camuen yesterday morning and ask &C
why wasn't no one at home at the
Hinsons? We're ready to go to the
picnic They were informed thai
their little playmates would not be
aoie to go TO the picnic. an annual
affair In connection with the com.
mencement exercises of the Cleveland
graded school, scheduled to be held
Friday afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20
SUGGEST CHANGES
FOR RAIL MERGER
Road Officials Tell !. c. c.
Objections to Groupings
Proposed.

A number OF revisions in tenta-
tive government plans for railroad
consolidation were suggested yes
terday by railroad men appearing be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
William S. Jenney, vice president
and general counsel Of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, protested
against proposals to include that
line in a group with New England
roads. and said that an alternative
plan. linking 1t with the Erie and
wabash systems. even though dang
erous, would be more desirable.
Frank H. Alfred, president of the
Pere Marquette, argued that the gov
ernment's plan to create separate
Michigan peninsular regional system,
with his line as the chief constituent.
would not furnish sufficient earning
capacity for the resulting merger.
w. A. Colston. chief counsel of the
New York. Chicago and st. Louis.
policy towards consolidation which
would give wide latitude and hexi-
bility to projects originated by man
agements.
MT. Allreu questions as 10 the
desirabillty of the Michigan regional
consultations, he said. could be re-
moved by adding such q group to a
| wider combination. which would in
clude the Norfolk and Western, the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
and perhaps the Wabash az we'll.
From the trafic standpoint. such a
System, though considerably larger
than that proposed by the commits
sion for the region. would meet
Michigan demands for coal. he de-
ciared, and focus business In a fashion
that would enable all it's components
to profit. 1t would be highly i'm
portant in the future, he said, for
the Pere Marquette and Michigan
lines to procure through traf1c.