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The Washington times., 1923-02-04
@, 900 Robbery Report
In Commanders Hands

LANGLEY FIELD, Va, Feb. 81
The report Of the Army Air Service
board OF investigation appointed to
review the $4,000 payroll robbery
here, was sent to the commander
OF the Third Corps Area of the
Army Air Service yesterday.
As soon as the report has been
reviewed by the headquarters Off
Gals, It viii be returned to the
post here, and soon thereafter, prob
ably within the next week, the trial
Of the accused men will be started
before military court.
Corporals John S. Wood and
James S. Harvey, both attached to
the 58th Aero Squadron, the ac-
ctsed men, were today removed
from the post guard house and
placed in solitary confinement in
the prison at Fort Monroe, where
they will be held until they are
arFaigned.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Dancer Declares We Have No
Appreciation of Art, Good
Liquor or Revolutionists
HUSBAND GOES WITH HER
Black Eyes, He Gave Her, in
, Fit of Poetic Ecstacy, Flash
= as She Tells of Disgust
By JOHN l.. s. PIVAK,
international News Service,

NEW YORK, Feb. 8. - Isadora
Duncan, famous classical dancer,
departed today for Russia, where
she can get freedom and art, for
there is no freedom over here"
She made no bones about the
TACT that she was thoroughly dis
gusted with America, which, so
far as she could see, showed no
appreciation of revolutionists, good
liquor or art.
RUINED. SHE LAMENTS.
I came to give You art" she
thrilled at the newspapermen in her
cabin on the George Washington,
and what did get? Ellis Island.
came to dance, but instead
was asked what ate, and where /
slept the night beforel
You people and the capitalistic
newspapers ruined my career here.
had to borrow money for my
husband and myself to get back. :"
Her husband, who recently, in a
frenzy OF poetic ecstacy blackened
her eyes, nodded his blonde, poetic
head in aniable agreement.
She played with a flashing, bril-
liant red scarf around her throat
a. she spoke, and art was the
burden Of her refrain.
BLACK EYES FLASH.
IAN real artists are revolution
9igts." abe exclaimed. ''I am a
revolutionist. And when I came to
ten you ABOUT art you put me in
Ellis Island!'
Her eyes flashed artistic fire as
she commented upon the publicity
accorded the poetic blackeye she
was given.
'.Snoopers!'' she shouted at the
reporters.
But prohibition seemed to worry
her almost as much as our non
appreciation of art, for she con-
tinued after a breathing spell:
No prohibition for me. I'm
glad I'm leaving, for the brand of
stuff enc has to drink around New
York might kill me-"
The newspaperman could not
suppress smiles, and she hoped
IN them and shoeed them out of
the cabin.
DISGUST is SUPREME.
IT'S not safe for me to talk to
you representatives of the capitals
istic press" she snorted. Even
now the. long arm Of the law may
reach in through this portfolio and
drag me off somewhere =
She paused, looking foEf words
sufficiently strong to express her
thorough disgust with everything
American, CROPPED vainly, and then
shot out: 80
Phaugh! Prohibition! had to
drink stuff here that would kill an
elephautp'
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10.
falling thicker upon Philip HIGH
born, always moody and tempera-
mental, writer of imagination In
his leisure hours from the law. On
January s, 1912, he filed papers
for an absolute divorce, naming
Wylie. Service was had by pub
lication on February 16, and forty
days were slowly passing before
Hichborn would go into court,
when he ended all his troubles,
marital and otherwise, with a
bullet through his head.
He had been living for some
time with his sister, Mrs. Paul S.
Pearsall, 1902 Sixteenth street, and
1t was before a mirror in her living
room that he took the shortest
way out. His last interview was
with his mother at 1907 N street
What passed between them never
has become known.
FOUND LIFELESS BODY.
Murray Cobb and Burr Hough
were walking by the Pearsall home
on the afternoon of March 27, when
they heard shot. An impulse led
them to rush into the house, and
break down the locked door Of the
living room. Hichborn lay before
them, at the end of the weary
road.
There was one note which said:
Il hope 1 am doing no wrong. ]
have stood it as long as 1 can, and
l have been respondent ever since
l was deserted. 1 hope my con
will not inherit as unhappy q life
as his father, PHIL" The Eng
lish language holds no greater pos
sibilities of poignant word com.
bination.
The other said: ct hereby give,
devise and bequeath to my son,
Philip Hichborn, jr.. all my property.
hope Stub will pardon me for
spelling his rug" Stub" was his
brother-tH-law, Pearsall, deceased
three years since. Phillip, jr., is a
fourteen-year-old schoolboy now. The
Pearsalls had taken the motherless
little fellow in with his father.
Every effort was made to locate
the missing couple, the absence of
one of whom had brought Phil HIGH
born to a suicides grave, inconsol-
able. Several weeks later a draft
came from Cap de Martin, a French
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

I41EC6tCIS0 VSEpd1 pyEOICCt1u1C6 0y
the flame Of the British debt with
it's involvement Of the European
situation generally 10 anything but
pleasing to President Harding.
Everything connected with the re-
questing and granting Of Congress
sional sanction to the ''easier pay
ment" plan must be accompanied
by a dignified action contemplated
maintain it's present high position
in the regard Of world powers. :.
SITUATION DELICATE.
The Administrations policy Of
maintaining strict silence regard
ing its attitude on foreign affairs
should, in its opinion, go unchal-
lenged. The delicacy Of the Euro
pean situation, fraught as it Is
with worldwide menaces, prompts
this attitude.
But balancing the hope that the
expected flow Of criticism may be
averted into harmless channels il
the latent fear in President Hard
ing, Secretary Of State Hughes
and the Republican ''stand-pat-
tiers" that nothing short Of strong
arm legislative methods will still
those eager to manhandle our for"
eign relations policy.
While the President is already
hard at work completing his plans
for submitting the revised settle.
ment terms and his recommends
tons to Congress, he is leaving
the job Of squelching these critics
to Senator Lodge. Republican floor
leader Of the Senate, and Speaker
Gillett Of the House.
BORAH STUMBLING BLOCK.
Gillett's job appears to be an
easy one. Throughout the now
waning session there has been
abundant evidence that Admins
tratlon forces in the House can be
relied upon to do the Admins
tration's bidding.
work cut out for him. The upper
House is filled with anti-Adminis-
who will be hard to re-
strain. The British debt, opening
up AS it does the whole scope Of
European affairs, may be expected
to be seized upon by Senator
Borah for further exposition Of
his world economic conference pro-
posal. With other so-called pro-
gressive Republicans, Borah Is ex-
pected to give Lodge much trouble.
Lodge and Gillett conferred with
the President at length yester-
day. They arranged for accep-
lance Of his recommendations on
the British debt and assured him
Of ultimate approval OF them.
Lodge later conferred with Score
tary Of State Hughes.
1898. by c. v. News
paper Service.)
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
URGE INVESTIGATION
OF EMBASSY LIQUOR

Embassies and legations, shining
GASES in Americas prohibition Sa-
hara, are faced with the possibility
of having their liquor importations
brought under regulation by Con-
gress.
AS sequel to the recent flare
up involving alleged diversion of
diplomatic liquors to illegal chan
nels by legation here, Representa-
tive Clamton R) Of Michigan, one
of the most ardent "drys'' in Con-
gress, introduced a resolution in the
House yesterday calling for a de-
tailed report from the State and
Treasury Departments concerning
liquor importations by foreign en-
voys during the past three years.
This information. Cramton said,
will be used In guiding Congress in
enacting legislation, should such
action be deemed expedient.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
TWO HELD IN FATAL
DOPE PARTY PAROLED

Edward Charles Tanning and
Charles e. Leonberger, said to
have been members of a dope and
whiskey party at a locksmith shop
at 1905 Prospect avenue northwest
last June, which resulted in the
death of William Burke. a lock
smith, were sentenced to serve
three years in prison yesterday by
Justice Stafford in Criminal Court
and placed on probation. on a
charge Of violating the Harrison
anti-narcotic act.
Burke died from a combination
OF heroin and vile whiskey The
coroner's jury held Leonberger and
Tanning responsible, but because
OF a lack of evidence upon which
to convict them, no indictment has
been returned by the grand jury.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

Wylie, all of unassailabIe position
socially, were stunned. But there
was nothing for them to do. Wylie
and Mrs. Hichborn had vanished,
in company.
RETURNED TO WIFE.
Time and absence might have
proved an anaesthetic to the ach-
ing memory. But worse develop
ments were dictated by Fate. Mrs.
Hichborn and Wylie returned to
Washington from a restless tour
through Europe six months after
their flight. And for five months
thereafter Wyiie lived with his
wife and family, and even made
a trip abroad with them
1t has been repeatedly stated and
sometimes denied, that this move
was made at instigation of Mrs.
Hichborn, who wanted to see
whether or not their connection
could stand such a test.
If so, she had ample proof. She
went away with Wylie again on
September 10, 1911. Wylie left a
note, disclosed years afterward
when his wife sued for divorce, in
which he told her that the sepa-
ration from her was final and he
must go back and live permanently
with Mrs. Hichborn."
It is significant that in this
interval he made over the bulk of
his money and property to his
wife. Perhaps he wavered and
fluctuated between family and in
fatuation, and signed a deed that
might counsel him against tempta-
ton to remain at the fireside. But
a flame as bright as that which
consumed Pelleas and Melisande
drew him invincibly toward it at
the end.
HICHBORN A SUICIDE.
They went to Nice and Monte
Carlo, and in the years that fol-
lowed their roamings led them all
over southwestern Europe and
across the Mediterranean to Egypt
Mrs. Hichborn sometimes visited
her sister, Constance, in Berlin.
she being the wife of Ferdinand
Won Stumm, of the German diplo-
matte corps.
Meanwhile, black shades were
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Harding Sends Army
Promotions to Senate

President Harding yesterday trans
nitted to the Senate the nomina-
tons Of Brigadier Generals Hanson
E.. Ely and Edwin B. Rabbit to be
major generals Of the army.
The President also named the fol-
lowing colonies to be brigadier gen.
erals: Malvern Hill Barnum, George
Leroy Irwin and Ira A Haynes
Colonel John T. Knight was nomi-
mated to be assistant quartermaster
general, with the rank of brigadier
general.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Woman Asphyxiated
By Leaking Gas Stove

Unfamiliartty with a combination
coal and gas range resulted in the
asphyxiation yesterday afternoon Of
Mrs. Matilda Miller. seventy three
years old, at her home on the Sec
ond floor of rs o street northeast.
She was found unconscious by q
colored maid, who summoned medi.
cal aid. Mrs. Miller was removed
to the Casualty Hospital, where
she died fifteen minutes later.
Mrs. Miller thought she had Lit
the gas range and sat down to rest
She is survived by her husband and
one daughter. Coroner hewitt is.
sued a certificate Of accidental
death.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
District Chiropracters
Urge Anti-NarcOtic Week

Members OF the Chiropractic Al.
ISOLATION of the District of Columbia
last might adopted a resolution cal
ing upon President Harding to es-
tablish an "anti-narcotic week" snd
devise ways and means for stamping
out the drug evil in this country,
during meeting held at the Ma
tional Chiropractic Research UNI
versity, 1349 L street northwest. Or,
w. s. Whitman, who presttteds
pledged his organization to assist In
any movement which will elimirata
the "ever-increasing evil.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Navy Orders Steamer
To Survey Cuban Gulf

The Hannibal, with several aux
Hilary craft, has sailed for Cuban
waters to continue surveying the
Gulf of Batabano and the Isle
of Pines. Capt. r. B. Bassett,
chief of the Photographic Office,
has announced.
The Hannibal had installed before
sailing q sonic depth finder such
as is used in studying the bot
tom Of the Pacific Ocean to de-
termine the cause and effect Of
earthquakes.
In addition to the Hannibal, the
expedition consists of two sub
chasers, one seaplane, two specially
fitted 500-ton steel barges with
living quarters and five forty-foot
sounding boats.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
H|CHBORN-
ROMANCE At END
Woman About to Ask Divorce
From Man With Whom She
Fled Capital.
Continued from First Page.)


who knows that most Of the
glamour, the stress, the pursuit
OF life and living for him has
Yet, of the affair which wrought
as abrupt a change in his career
as the drop of Niagara to an In
cautious canoeist. he recently said:
L had 1t to do over again,
l would do no differently" -
SCANDAL THAT BURNT"
Scandal is sweet in society's
mouth, and Washington, with its
many spheres. larger and smaller,
OF prestige and power, touching,
sheering off, sometimes fusing. for
decades has furnished some of the
choicest ff1Ofsels that have rolled
on the tongue OF fashionable Ame:.
ica:s The electromagnetic liaison
and s It's far-reaching results, how
ever, was more in the nature of
medicine. 1t was a little too high
ly seasoned. 1t burnt.
Everybody in the Capital above
the debutante and college graduate
class who is anybody has by heart
the salient facts of the affair, The
protracted absence OF Mrs. Wylie.
known to society here although she
Is no longer of it, has revived the
tragic tale.
Elinor Hoyt, daughter of the
late Henry Hoyt, for twenty-five
years solicitor for the State De-
partmens was married to Philip S.
Hlchborn, whose father was Rear
Admiral Philip Hichborn, chief of
the construction corps of the navy
in 1906, but one year after the
young man had been gradual ted
from harvard Law School.
They took a home on Thomas
Circle, near premises 1905, occu.
pied then by Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
Wylie, and still the first Mrs. Wylie's
dwelling. Wylie was then in the
forties, had been married eleven
years. and was the father Of four
children.
HAPPY THREE YEARS.
The Hichborns were happy for
three years; then it was noted that
Mrs. Hichborn was constantly in
the company of Wylie. She was
but twenty-one when she became q
bride.
An infatuation developed that
knew neither rhyme nor reason.
The inner circles were aware of it
long before the denouement Of the
elopement. This occurred Decem-
Der 16, 1910, though the world at
large knew something was wrong
On January 25, 1911, when Mrs
Anna M. Hoyt, wife of the solicitor,
entered his will for probate. In
rectting the list of beneficiaries, she
noted that her daughters present
address was to her unknown"
(meaning Elinorl. She waived her
right to letters testamentary and
turned over administration of the
estate to Samuel E. Swayze, young
Hichborn's law partner
The Hichborns. the Hoyts, Mrs.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Daugherty COnvalescent,
May Leave Bed Soon

Attorney General Harry M. Dauga1~
erty, who has been seriously Ill for
several weeks, last night was show
ing rapid improvement, according to
announcement from his hotel apart
ment.
The Attorney General was strick-
EN- with q complication Of ailments
as q result Of overwork. His condi-
ton is so much improved. however,
his physicians believe he will be able
to leave his bed within q few days.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Lieut.. Reid, of District
Firefighter, to Be Retired

Suffering injuries received in a
fire two months ago, Lieut. B. w.
Reid, of the District Ffrefighter,
living in 1406 u street southeast,
will be retired from service Febru-
airy s.
Lieutenant Reid is a veteran fire.
man. having served eighteen years.
For three years he was attached to
the Districts fireboat. Last No
vember, while battling a blaze on
q boat at Alexandria wharf, Lieu
tenant Reid was injured about the
body by overexertion.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

). village near Monte Carlo, to a Wash
/ ington bank. 1t showed Wylie and
Mrs. Hfchborn at this place. The
| slip of paper, symbol Of gold, prob
ably passed in mid-ocean a bundle OF
papers in which certain parts Of the
black type were later and inevitably
to stand out gigantic to the wander.
| ers' eyes. Cables preceded them
Silence followed them.
WIFE GRANTED DIVORCE.
AS far as concerned the public.
there was silence this side the water,
too, until July s, 1916, when Mrs.
Catherine v. H. Wylie asked in the
District Supreme Court an absolute
| divorce from Horace Wiley. They
/, had been married in 1895 and lived
happily until 1910, she related, when
her husband went away. with his IN
amorata. The divorce was granted
July 81.
Soon thereafter WyIie and Mrs.
Hichburn returned to America.
and were married in Connecticut at
Christmastide.
Washington seems to have had
an irresistible attraction for the
beautiful Mrs. Wylie and her sec
ond husband. Though years had
elapsed. there was little dininu-
ton of establishment when he and
she returned to the city where all
the trouble had started. That was
three years ago. Mrs. Hichborn.
Wyliel was said to be determined to
face things out and seek re-estab.
| lishfnent.
BANNED BY SOCIETY.
II SO. she found insuperable bar.
riers thrown between her and
society. She and Wiley made new
friends-quite out of the HIGH
born Hoyt-Wylie charmed circle
they went in for art la Boheme
and she continued to turn out
very creditable verses which one
finds ever and anon in the maya
zines preferred by the upper ten
But balls. receptions, pomp anC
pageantry-if she really wanted
these she wished in vain.
About one year ago she went tC
New York, and since then has beer
back but infrequently. The beau
4 tiful woman, virtually untouched
by time, has New York friends, an6
i William Rose Benet, a recognized
literateur, a man with a fine wal
record, with youth (he is but thir
ty-seven) and position, is said to bt
the closest of them.
CALLS HER A TIGRESS.
Mrs. Paul Pearsall, who was
Martha Hichborn, a woman of great
charm, cannot forget what she saw
in her living room when she en-
tered on the heels of Murray Cobt
and Burr Hough Lnat March day
eleven years ago.
Yes, 1 heard she was going
around with some foreigner" there
is nothing foreign about Benet save
his patronymic), she said last night
well, if he marries her, he'll
marry a tigress.''
There is no doubt that if the
'tigress" decides to make a new
way in life, she will make it, The
Old Man with the scythe may have
killed her romance, but he has not
hurt her. Meanwhile ,Wylie finds
himself in reduced circumstances
working at a rather petty job, age
breathing white into his hair and
quenching the last of the fires that
led him to stand against the whole
! world with the woman he could not
do without, just as Phil Hichborn
could not.
The fifth act Of the Shakespear-
can tragedy finds retribution in this
case. Is an ordained retributive
process under way? Or is it just an
other turn of Fate's wheel, opera
tive in this day as when Omar
penned his cynic, quatrains?
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
SUES ON CONTRACT.

Patrick O'Donoghue filed suit yes
terday in the District Court against
Mary Jaeger to compel her to carry
out an alleged contract to sell him
the premises at 1119-21 I street
northwest for $4,000. Through
Attorney George e. Sullivan he de-
clares he is ready to carry out his
part Of the contract. dated Novem-
Der /, last, but the woman has re-
fused to allow the negotiations to
proceed.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Judge Is Harsh
on Gun TOters

Judge John P. Mcmahon, of the
United States branch Of the Police
Court, who announced that heavier
bonds would be required of gun
toters, kept his word yesterday by
fixing bond at $4,000 for Paul
Hearns the first person. to- come
before the court since the an
nouncement.
The usual bond is $1,o00-but
due to the increasing number of
gun toters, the court decided to
increase the bond. Hearn will be
tried later on.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

A d m ] { n 8
that the British
debt settlement
plan when tt
re q CHI es Con-
gress, probabiy
early this week
win afford q
convenient out
let for the pent-
up vituperative
feelings of anti
Adnainistra I | o n
lawmakers, they
began banding
together to stave
off llnstinted dis
cussion.
The prospect OF
a0ttin.R off
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Catholic Charity
Benefits by Will

The Little Sisters Of the Poor
and st. AIMS Infant Asylum Of
this city are bequeathed $500 each
in the will Of James e. Ray, filed
in Probate Court yesterday.
The Rev. 8. A. Holleran Ia left
$500 also and the balances Of the
estate In devised to Miss Anna
CadY.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
CONGRESS TO AIR
FOREIGN POLICIES
Attacks Presaged When De
bate on Debt Settlement
Plan Is Begun.

By CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, Jr.
Administration sympathizers in
Congress yesterday began marshal
ing their forces to repel the Con-
gressional attackers Of this coun-
trys foreign policies.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

The above IL q sample Of one
Of hundreds Of letters which
have been received by The
Washington Herald from drug
addicts who are urging that
immediate and adequate steps
be taken by the Government
to curb the dope traffic ana
for the establishment of hos
pitfalls 4 Of other institutions
where the victim Of drugs may
be properly cured.
The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Save Me From
Mothers Dope
Joint, Begs Girl

S6T AM twenty atlnee and Live
IN . ComnectaCut avenue
apartment with nay. mother
who b thoroughly naOdern hi
every respect. Slle prides her.
self upon being able to live On
exciteunent-we never eat only
drink corn and take dope
whaa We can't get intOxicants.
Honestly, I'm ON tho verge ID
collapse this ME II killing mo
but ! know no other kind.
Our house b . meeting
place for liquor drinkers and
dope fIends. Please advise mo
just how to sever mn connec-
lions. Three Of tho crowd have
committed suicide, and I shall
be next ON the list, I'm afraid.
Oh, the society folk and pillars
Of the church that frequent my
mothers dope Joint! You'd be
surprised. Advise me, through
your columns Whist / am to do.
SUZANNE"
The Washington times., 1923-02-04

PHILPHICHBORN
be her In herd is
wd to
8 by
The Nome nugget., 1923-03-24
FUNERAL SERVICES
 OF MARK CaTsI4EY

On Wednesday March 18th, the mortal remains of Mark Carley were laid to rest in the Belmont Point Gem etery. The Odd Fellows lodge of which MT. Carley was member took charge of the funeral services and followed the ritual of the order Meeting at the Odd Fellows Hall the members marched to the under takers parlor on Steadman avenue and then returned to the Pioneer Igloo. where the funeral services were held The Odd Fellows hall did not permit entrance of the cof- fin and so the IelOo was used in which to hold the service.
 Tte Igloo was filled with friends of the deceased. every inch of avail able space being taken.
 The Odd Fellows ritual was con- duc.ed under the direction of Earl Modina. acting Noble Grand with Norwn Lewis acting Chaplain James Haley. vice grand. delivered the funeral address.
 A quartette consisting of Messrs Mel unkin, H. Gabrielson, Dan Jones and Cliff Allyn, assisted by MdBe Helen Lomen at the piano and Mrs c. J. Woofter on the violin. render ed the beauti6ul music of the service
 After the rituahistic service the body was taken to Belmont Poind cemetery. accompanied by a large following of lodge members and other friends, and placed in the Masonic-Odd Fellow vault. from which it will later be taken and in tered in the odd Fellow burial plot
 The trip to the cemetery was ont thru deep soft snow and the mourn CTS experienced considerable difiicul ty in reaching their destination None fiinched and all paved theil last respects to their departed bro ther and friend.
 Dust Thou art, and to Dust Thou returneth. was not spoken of tht Soul"