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The Washington times., 1923-12-01
ATTSV|L Il s
To HEAR D. [.
CHOIR
49, .ssss6x - - -
Ascension Group TO Sing IN
Church There at Request of
William Moore.

HYATTSVILLE, Nd, Dec. .'-'
Under direction of Mrs. Mckee,
the choir OF Ascension Church,
washington, viii present a. musical
program In Pinkney Memorial r. y.
Church, here. December at 8
b. m. william Moore. director OF
the choir OF Pinkney Memorial
Church, is in charge Of arrange
n1ents.
Frank Pete) Gait, member Of g
well-known Hyattsvflle family and
a former star amateur athlete, is
steadily improving after q severe
attack Of appendicitis, In Stbley
Hospital. Washington. Gait was q
star on athletic teams at the old
Maryland Agricultural College, now
the University Of Maryland.
The st. Mary's Community Club
was organized at q meeting OF
citizens held in st. Mary's Comrnu-
nifty hall. Auuasco. Mrs. Charles
e. Crusoe was elected president
and Miss Florence M. Young, sec
retary, Of the club, which will meet
each Tuesday evening In the com.
munity hall.
Officers have been elected by the
senior, junior, and sophomore
classes at the Hyattsville high
school as follows: Senior class, Prof.
K. ]. Morris. principal. honorary
president; Robert James, president;
Miss Constance Church, vice presl'
dent; Miss Elsie Casey, treasurer;
Miss Dorothy Purdum. secretary;
social COMMITTEES, Rubin 2.ollft,
chairman; the Misses Mary McClay,
Eleanor Dutton, Alice Mandler, and
Ralph Powers.
Junior class, Miss Ada e. Zouck,
instructor in English, honorary
president; Russell Wighington, presl-
dent; Harold Kreider, vice presi-
dent; Miss Frances Hopes, score.
tary; Julian Venezly, treasurer;
Miss Lena Graham, chairman OF
the class social committee.
Sophomore class, Miss Adella ID.
Rosasco, instructor in French anc
English, honorary president; Waiter
Richards, president; Charles Parish
vice president; Bernard Nees, secre-
tary: James Klippert, treasurer;
Sherman Hollingsworth, chairman
OF social committee.
New officers of the Cedar Grave
community club Tor the ensuing ySdt
are: Millard Schafer, president; MISS
Vera Ream, secretary; ]. B. knowles,
treasurer, and Mrs. Henry G. kunl'
corresponding secretary.
The first edition Of the year OF
The Courant, student publication OF
the Hyattsville high school. is now
being distributed. It is q bright,
we'll edited effort that is receiving
much commendation.
The editor-in-chief is Miss Bernice
Pierson and other members or the
editorial staff are: Miss Frances
Gruver, assistant editor. and the
Misses Dorothy Purdunn, Virginia
Sturgis, Margretta West, Emily
Fuller and Mr.. Ramsey Small as
sociate editors.
The business staff consists OF
Rubin Louft, business MANAGER
George Earnshaw, assistant business
manager; Miss Mary McClay. circu-
lation manager; Charles Cannon.
assistant circulation manager, and
Miss Betsy Owens. exchange mana
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The Washington times., 1923-12-01
STOLEN "KNIGHT: SHIRTS
WORRY D. c. DETECTIVES

Headquarters detectives were puz-
zied today when they read report
from the Eighth precinct stating
that a bundle of Knight" shirts and
women's apparel had been stolen
from Beatrice Hall, colored, 1854 U
street northwest.
Inquiry revealed that the copyist
at headquarters had mispelled the
word might"
Two oVercoats also were reported
stolen from the colored woman.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
CAPITAL PLAYERS BEGIN
THEIR WINTER PROGRAM

The Capital Players presented
three one-act playlets in the audi.
torium Of the Interior Department
last night, inaugurating their winter
program.
The first play, Room to Let"
featured Mrs. Leonora Hill sup
ported by John J. Campbell. VIII
liam F. Fletcher. Emily Conradi,
Mary Mcguire, Mary Vacari and
Charles Shaver.
The cast Of the second comedy,
'Kattie's New Hat" included Mrs.
May Holman, Florence Lloyd,
Wanda O'Donoghue, Doris Camp
bell and Mary Roberts.
Advertising for Men" was acted
by Charles Shaver, AiIeen A. Bor-
gatron, Richard Chief Wheelock,
Thomas o. Morrie and Marguerite
jeffrey.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
MAN,
ACCUSED, QUIT
SHIPAT SEA
College Graduate.. Held a.
Stowaway. Disappears
From Vessel.
International Newe Service.

Los ANGELES, Calf, Dec. 1.--
Accused of a crime he. apparently did
not commit, James K. Lynch, TWEEN.
ty-six, college graduate. disappeared
from the steamship, Yacuum, twenty
five miles off Magdalena Bay last
Monday, according to stories told
here today by members OF the ships
crew.
When some distance out from
Philadelphia on the trip to this port
Capt. J. B. Burg, OF the Vacuum, Is
said to have read q newspaper &C
count detailing the escape OF six
convicts from q Philadelphia prison
some months before. A day later
Lynch was hailed before the skipper
as stowaway. According to Cap
tain Burg, he closely resembled a
news photograph Of one OF the es
capped convfctg.
When Los Angeles officers, arm.
ed with a warrant and n photo
graph Of the Pennsylvania convict
boarded the Vacuum they were told
that Lynch had disappeared Mon
day. After an Investigation and
comparison of photographs OF
Lynch and the man wanted, the
local officers stated Lynch was not
the man wanted as there was a diff
ference in age Of about fifteen
years between Lynch and the es
caped convict.
Members Of the Vacuum crew
declared that Monday two hatch
planks. two life preservers and 9
quantity Of food were discovered
missing and It was believed that
Lynch constructed q crude raft
Tor his escape. The fact that q
neaVy sea was running before q
strong off-shore wind led mariners
here to believe that Lynch may
nave been swept out to sea and
possibly persisted.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
Presidents Program

10 a. mo-. H. r. Shelley,
Of Montana.
1915 a. m.-Senator Norris
Sheppard Of Texas.
1890 q. m.-Congressnnan G.
w. Ramseyer of Iowa.
1O:45 a. m.-COngreSsmen
l.. C. Dyer and J. L. Babler.
IL a. m.-W1lliam r. Hearst.
11:3O g.. m.-John p. Finley,
Of New York and committee.
HAS. a. m.-Walter NICK.
Jones, member of the house
of delegates Of Porto Rico.
IL noon-Stanley Washburn
and Congressman Walter Fl.
Mention.
1915 p. m.-Congressman
Charles L. Faust OF Missouri
ahd ex-Congressman Rhoades.
1890 p. NV. H. c. Brown,
of Newport News, Va.
12:45-Congressman M. Clyde
Kelly OF Pennsylvania to pres
ent the chancellor of the Uni.
versity OF Pittsburgh and
party Of four.
]. e. Leonard. Of New Mex
leo, to pay respects.
.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
'$11,35o IN BONDS STOLEN
FROM BANK RECOVERED

MCKENZIE. Tenn, Dec. 1.-
Bonds to the amount Of $11,S50
were recovered by officers and bank
officials who were directed by the
alleged bank bandit captured here.
They were found under a log near
Routon.
The prisoner was taken to Paris
for fear of mob violence. A report
that his confederate has been cap
tured is denied. Only couple OF
hundred dollars Of the loot Of the
bank is now missing.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
SAILOR PUT ON DUTY IN
QUAKER CITY RUM WAR

PHILA DE LIP HIA, Dec. L.
Alarmed, It was stated. by the
deaths Of eight men from poison
whiskey. Rear Admiral A. II. Scales.
comnandant Of the Philadelphia
Navy Yard, has detailed sixty sail
Ors to act as special policemen to
round up all sailors found under
the influence Of liquor on the
streets. It was the first time since
the war that sailors had acted In
this capacity here. They patrolled
the tenderloin section and were sta
= toned at central city street inter
sections and on trolley cars. A
number of arrests were made. tbs
prisoners being taken to police sta
tions and held for hearing or
charges Of being drunk and dis
orderly.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
HE'LL 5 BOT TOM
CLEANED OUT
IN RAIDS
Officers Arrest About Thirty
Persons and confiscate
Much Rum.

CLARENDON, Va, Dec. 1.--Hell's
Bottom, notorious rendezvous of the
bootleg and vice element on the Vir-
ginia side OF the Highway bridge,
was cleaned out by special officers
OF Arlington county and park police
in q series of raids yesterday.
Special Officer Howard A. Smoot
and his assistants launched their
first attack before daybreak at the
resort of Pop Eye Bill" Brown.
Twenty-Five men and women. white
and colored were arrested. Twenty
gallons OF wine were confiscated.
70 Locked Up in Jail.
Brown, Morris jackson, Maggie
Terrell and about twenty-five others
found in the house were locked up In
Arlington county Jail. Maggie Ter
rell, appearing in police court on
charge Of illegal possession OF liquor,
was released on $500 bonds for action
OF the grand jury at the December
term Of court. Brown furnished
$500 bonds on charges Of manufac-
ture and selling. Jackson's bail was
AASS9SN~
possession and selling.
In the raid were Paul Toland ana
Herbert Marcy, park police ana
Special Officers Russell McShea,
Charles Louden, J. T. Ross ana
Bruce Smoot.
They returned to Browns home
and found three gallons OF corn
liquor.
Smoot and his men after being up
all night were still on the job at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon, when
they raided the tailor shop Of Joseph
Maggie.
Maggie was brought to the Airing
ton county Jail charged with illegal
possession in violation of the pro-
hibition law, was later released on
bond of $500. He will be given a
hearing today before Police Judge
Harry r. Thomas.
Smoot stated last night that he
has several search warrants and he
intends to do all In his power to
clean Arlington county of the boot
leg whiskey now being manufactured
and sold.
Deputy Sheriff q. o. Kines said
yesterday that William Pickett, who
is held in connection with the whole.
sale jail delivery of November Z
confessed to him that he purchased
the saws from the hardware store
or Charles Kindle in Rosslyn and
passed them through the windows of
the Jail at o'clock on the night the
men made their escape.
Pickett and Mrs. Earle 'Blundon,
who Is also held in connection with
the delivery, will be given a hearing
today before Police Judge Harry r
Thomas.
The Clarendon Citizens hall was
packed yesterday afternoon when
the organized women voters' oi
Arlington county held the first
meeting following the election or
November 6.
Following lengthy discussion IL
was decided that the organization
continue as the organized women
voters" and to hold meetings
throughout the year to discuss
general affairs of the county
Those elected as permanent Off
GERS were Mrs. Catherine M. Rogers
Of Ballston, chairman: Mrs. c. r
Lyons, Of Aurora Hills, vice chair
man; Mrs. r. N. Sutton, of LYON
hurst, secretary; Mrs. M. D
Mitchell, Of Lyon Park, treasurer
Following the election of Officers
Howard B. Fields, sheriff elect
William c. Cloth, commonwealth at
torney-elect; w. J. Ingram, super
Visor-eIect from Arlington district
and e. c. Turnburke, supervisor
elect from Washington district I'd
dressed the meeting. -.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
CooLIDGE'S COUSIN HURT,
WITH WIFE. IN AUTO SPILL

DELAWARE, Ohio. Dec. In
II. Coolidge. Of Bridgeport, Conn,
q cousin of President Calvin Cool
idge. and his wife, were injured
when their machine overturned in
q ditch north Of here.
They were en- route from Toledo,
where Coolidge had been on a trip
to Washington for q visit with the
President and Mrs. Coolidge.
Mrs. Coolidge suffered q broken
shoulder blade. Her husband
escaped with cuts and bruises.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
BIRMINGHAM IN
FEAR Of AK
SLAYER
Man Found Unconscious, in
Serious Condition, AWakens
Old Terror.
By international News Service.

BIRMINGHAM, Air., dec. i.
Another wave Of fear Of Birming-
hams axe murderer swept this city
today when j. F. Haywood, OF
Tifton, Ga, was found lying in an
alley here unconscious. He had
fallen victim to blow on the head
with some blunt instrument, ply
sicia11s said, and his condition was
pronounced as extremely grave.
Haywood had been struck from
the rear. officers believed, and his
body dragged into the alley where
it was left lying in a pool of blood.
How long he had lain there hos
pital attendants were unable to
say.
In the meantime the rigid search
for the slayer who has claimed
more than a dozen lives with his
ak In two years, was renewed.
It was pointed out that Haywood
could have been struck down with
the blunt edge of an ak or q
hatchet.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
DOC TAXES FOR
MONT G0|N|ERT ]
RUN HIGH
State Lunacy Commission
Probes Sanity Of TWO Rock
vile Boys.

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Dec. Lao,
cordtne to = report just prepared
BY Thomas Cot, clerk Of the police
court here. s6.sa4.bO In dog taxes
was collected By him during ths
largest amount paid IN taxes Of
the kind since q dog-tax law has
been IN effect here. The money
goes 20 support the county police
Following b prolonged Illness
Mrs Ida Windsor, wife Of Ran
dIolph 81. Windsor, died ct her
borr1a near Cedar Grove, aged fiftys
five years. She Is survived BY her
husband, four daughters and sf1
sons. Funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon from the Meth
cdist Church at Clarl<sburg. The
services being conducted hy the
assisted by the Rev M. a. Linenk
saver, pastor of the Methodist
church ct Laytonsyille. Burial was
IN the cemetery near the church.
Mrs. Windsor had always lived tn
the Cedar Grove neighborhoOd.
The Henderson smith h-Edmonds
Post, American Legion, Of Rock.
VILE. viii hold Its annual election
of officers at Rockville Wednesday
evening, December -. Il has BEEN
announced that a thirty-ffve- pound
turkey has been donated, and will
be awarded to the member OF the
pest making the lowest score IN
nineshole contest ct African gOlf. q
The post ii understood 70 nI1m1bcS
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
AGREEMENT IS REACHED
ON AZORES CABLELANDING

LONDON, Dec. IAN under
standing regarding the landing Of
cables at the Azores has been reach.
ed by Neweomb Carlton, president of
the Western Union, Telegraph Com
pany. and Sir John Pender, chair
man OF the Western Telegraph Com
pany.
The proposed Italian subsidized
cable to South America. with the
Western Union connection at the
Azores, would form q competitive
route to South America
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
Great Britain To Pay
S92, OOO, 900 More
On War Debt

Great Britain viii pay $02,-
100000 on her debt to Uncle
Sam within the next two weeks.
OF that amount, about $6O,-
900, 900 will be interest due
and the remainder will be ap-
piled to the principal. All Of
it will be paid in Liberty bonds.
. Finland win pay $3.50, 900, also
in Liberty bonds.
The Libertys bear interest at
the rate of Az per cent. Eng
land is paying this country in
terest at the rate Of 3 per cent.
England i had already paid
$50, 900, 900 on the debt, most
of that payment also being in
Liberty bonds.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01

One of the Largest Groups in
Years Brings Many Problems
to Leaders.
BY KENNETH w. CLARK,
international News Service.

AMteEu8tAOn0A news SERVICE
The Senate of the Sixty-eighth
Congress, which convenes Mon
day, presents a complexity Of
membership which probably is
without parallel in the annals of
the American Senate.
Not only is the group of eight
cen new Senator'S one of the
largest in years, but the per-
sonnel itself includes type that
Is new and strange to the upper
chamber of Congress. For the
first time the Farmer-Labor
party is represented.
Little Experience.
With some notable exceptions the
new Senator'S bring into the Senate
little or no experience in national
political affairs. Few have held
other than minor and relatively un-
important State offices.
These men. for the most part, and
more particularly those from the
Middle and Far West, have been
fnrust into national prominence
gough what commonly is referred
IS the progressive appeal to the
voters. Regardless Of party affilia.
tions, many of them can be classed
together In that new belief in poll
tics that is opposed to the conserva.
tive and the reactionary.
Many cannot be labeled or pieeon-
hOled as Republican, Democratic or
Farmer-Labor, despite what party
rag they flew at the time OF cleo
ton.
Party Lines Vague.
Never has the Senate seen such
. large influx Of members who can
not be counted upon always as ''be-
ing within the party reservation. .
Most OF them were elected on the
stand that they would vote for prin-
cdple rather than for party.
In this connection consider for q
moment few new Senators:
DIN of Washington, Wheeler OF
Frazier of North Dakota, johnson
and Shipstead Of Minnesota, Howell
OF Nebraska, and Neely of West
Virginia. These men represent fhe
three parties in the Senate, and
yet it is safe bet that party
leaders viii worry about their
votes whenever there is q show
down on strict party lines. It is
not at ali unlikely that any or all
Of them would ''bolt" at the slight
eet prOVocation.
Progressive Rule.
This very fact has made the nu-
mericaI advantage of eight by the
Republicans over the Democrats
most uncertain. 1t has placed, in
fact, the control of the Senate in
the hands OF the ProgresSives,
headed by Senator La Toilette Of
Wisconsin.
Another interesting sidelight
about the new Senators is that
most of them have come up direct
from private life, and not. step by
step in State office, as usually pre-.
vailed in other days. but by jump
from the farms and the professions
to the Senate. That is true par
ticularly of Minnescta's new mem.
bers. johnson was called from q
harvest field to make the race.
The Senate now has 81 Repub-
licans. 43 Democrats, and 2 Farmer.
Labor. OF the Is new members,
II are Democrats. Republicans,
and Q Farmer-Labor.
What Is the nature Of these new
men? What do they stand for?
What have they done in private
and official life that earned for
them seats In the Senate?
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
Long Beach's Idea.

A haIf.century budget for city bona
issues is an idea advocated by the
Long Beach, Calf. realty board
which members of the National AS
ISOLATION of Real Estate Boards In
other cities will find suggestive.
Such a budget, it is pointed out,
would serve as a framework about
which systems Of public improve
.menta could be planned ana built.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
SENATE TO HAVE EIGHTEEN NEW MEMBERS; MANY PICTUR
Food Price Index For
This Week Shows
No Change
Bx Coemopolitan Newe Service

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Brad-
streets Food Index Number,
based on the wholesale prices
per pound for thirty-one arti-
cles used for food is 1887,
comparing with $3.37 last
week and $3.50 for the week
ending November 80, 1922.
Somewhat more stability fea-
tured wholesale, prices for the
principal commodities this
week, AZ out of the 72 changes
that appear in the 336 quota
tions received by Dun's Re-
view being advances as COM
pared with % declines.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
ANTON LANG, PASSION PLAY
CHRIST STARTS FOR U. S.
OBERAMMERGAU, Bavaria.

OBERAMMERGAU, Bavaria, Dec.
1.-Eleven villagers. including An
ton Lang, who personifies Christ in
the famous Oberammergau Passion
Play, have left for Hamburg,
whence they will sail On the steam.
ship Reliance for New York to take
part in the Bavarian wood-carving
exposition to be held there.
The Washington times., 1923-12-01
Descendant of signer Dies.

PATERSON, N. j., Dec. l.
George S. Chase, retired wire man,
ufacturer and a direct descendant
of Samuel Chase, 'signer of the
Declaration of Independence, died
here today, the anniversary of his
birth. at the age Of Sixty-seveu
years. - 4-------- -,..--l------4.,----5
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-02-01
DAME NATURE TEACHES FARMING-T


silent but irresistible forces of nture have brought
the comforts of to their present standard and
in all probability eventually will compel the app
caion of higher science to food production. The
old-fashioned farmer may resist to the last your
1ew-fangled notions but Dame Nature will have
her way despite the reactonary tendency.
The time is now at hand when the farmer must
solve the problem of the insect The Agricultural
Department has done much to help, but in all
likelihood the farmer must work out his own sal
walton The Hessian fly could not exist were it
not Tor the growing of wheat, barley and rye; the
Colorado beetle would run back to his native
weeds not potato crops supplied to him as
iood. The boil weevil could not exist wheBe cot
ton is not grown.
There few insects that have several food
plants, though some may live a little time on any
vegetation but the habits and customs of the pests
would indicate that tho they are so numerous, it
is impossible for the farmer to cope with them in
dlviduay, their i'll eects can be greatly overcome
by thoughtful system of crop rotation. Not all
insects can be controlled in this way but many of
them can Seemingly, once more, natural COM
pulson is going too give US more scientific farm
ing.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-02-01
A FIGHT FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY

A Fight FOX 1F1E WHILE COMMUN
TO WAGE-Under the surface of the sandy loan
of the wiregrass section, are buried fortunes of
staggering size awaiting the skillfu farmers
pillow to turn them up.
MANY things stand between the Wiregrass farm
er and the winning of the wealth under his rolling
acres. The most stubborn OF these obstacles is
the boil weevil. Many farmers, for many seasons,
have fought against this obstacle, have thought
about it and found ways to save the precious cot
ton from its hungry Jaws.
Some men have found out one thing about this
cotton-weevl question:; some have found out
something else. Each man may think that what
he has learned is so simple and obvious that every
one else must know it, too. But in all likelihood
this simple thing will be news to someone else
and will help him solve his problems.
1t was on this supposition that the Leader En-
terprise arranged its boil weevi letter contest.
We want to give the farmers of this section a
medium through which to hold a round table dis
cussion of the boil weevil question, early enough
i'll the year for it to be of some value in making
this years cotton crop
To encourage toWnspcople and school children
and everyone who knows anything about the sub
ect, to tell what he knows, we have offered cash
prizes those who write the three best letters the
three most valuable letters, on How Can Beat
the Boil Weevl" We hope the people of this sec
ton will cooperate with the Leader and with
their neighbors in making this effort success.
Every man and woman in Ben Hill county ought
TO take a few minutes time to lend helping
hand and make the fight against the boil weevil
a community fight, in which we all stand together