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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Bonar Law Has Close
Call to Defeat on
His Plan
ACTION DEMANDED
One British Paper Says
Ruhr Will Boil Over if
America Fails to Help
Situation Out.
IBy United Press)

London, March I4-Demaud for
British Intervention in the Ruhr
was voiced by liberals and labor
today following the governments
marrow squeak" yesterday when
Bonar Law just escaped defeat
on the issue of his Ruhr policy by
a margin of 4S yotes-the smallest
of his administration.
Liberal newspapers demanded
in concert that the government,
cease its InactiOn. The Daily
Chronicle urges the matter be re-
ferred to the League of Nations.
declaring the French in the Ruhr
are disregarding British interests
and interfering with British trade.
Regarding the situation at Buer
where two French officials and
later seven Germans were shot,
the Chronicle says:
Whatever is the truth regard
ing the conflicting stories of the
Buer murders nothing could justi-
fy the French words and acts that
followed"
The Daily News fears reprisals
by the French will cause an up
rising.
The Westminster Gazette de-
clares the Ruhr is boiling, and
is likely to boil over" 1t urges
Anglo American Intervention.
The Daily Express declares
Great Britain practically is in
termed in the Ruhr and demands
withdrawal.
The Times declares it impos-
sible for Britain Co remain in
active. Mere hesitating passivity
brings no advantage either to
England or to Europe"
Sir John Simon. liberal, started
debate on the governments
Ruhr policy last night and when
it came to "A vote. the govern
ment had 249 to POI, result that
was greeted with loud cries or
resign"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
HIS TRIP TO TOWN COSTLY

Charlottesville March a.
Fritz Becker, well known farmer.
made costly trip to town last
night. When he ran his roadster
into the automobile of +. J. Dick
erson, at Main and Fifth stretts,
he was arrested by Policemen
Greaver and Cox, who charged
him with being intoxicated. The
officers report they also found five
and one-half gallons of liquor and
a revolver in the roadster and
Becker faced three charges hav
ing liquor in his possession' ope-
rating an automobile while intoX-
icated, and carrying a concealed
weapon.
In police court Justice Shack
leford imposed penalties in the
following order: First, fine of
$3.50 and three months in jail;
second, fine of $50 and thirty
days in jail, and third, fine Of
$50. The roadster and revolver
were confiscated in conformity
to law.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
France Not to Accept
Any Mediation Offer
1By United Prrss.1

Washington, March 14.-France
will not accept any mediation Of
fer in the Ruhr occupation. the
United Press learned today on
high official authority.
France also declares that
move for a settlement in the
Ruhr will have to come first from
Germany.
The government of Premier
Poincare will remain adamant on
its present policy in the Ruhr.
waiting for Germany to surren-
der.
An official statement of great
Importance it is understood has
been sent stating the French pol
icy to Berlin to London and
Washington because the British
and American governments have
been suggested as mediators.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
"Uncle Joe" Back Home Again
Shows "The Boys" Some Tricks

iers are beginning to think it i
more or less of stall.
Gosh, how he took them," re-
marked NJ. f. King, life long
friend of Uncle Joe, speaking OF
brief meeting at the Elks Club
where the congressman had been
induced to sit in."
IF / could play cards like
Uncle Joe it wouldn't take me-
4G years to retire; | would quit
work today.
Cannon divides his time be-
tween the Second National Bank
of which he is the leading stock
holder, the Elks Club and his
home where he frequently enter
tains his old time friends.
at takes me quite a while tC
get back into my Danville cloth
es," the congressman said today
"But now that | am out of pub
lie life for good l am going to
enjoy life here at home with my
old friends. After all they are
the best"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Boy Bandit" Sentenced
To 53 Years In Prison

Norfolk, Va, March 14-Don-
alto Siravo, Norfolk's "boy band
dit whose escapades provided
thrillerS here for more than u
month was given q sentence of
SO years in the Corporation Court
here today. The boy is II years
old and was sent up on six charg-
es Of burglary and one of robbery
and has II burglary charges to
face when his long sentence is com
pleted. In addition he is wanted in
South Carolina to serve 10 years
in prison for similar crimes. He
Is said to be wanted also in other
States, and has boosted of being
sought by police i'll many cities
in the North.
Young Siravo has posed under
the alias of Ben Liverman since
his arrest month ago, after /:
series of spectacular robberies and
daylight holdupS here had baf-
fled the police. His mother, Mrs.
L. Siravo, of New Bedford, Mass,
was in the courtroom today when
attorneys for the boy filed a plea
of guilty to the seven charges, and
she broke down in sobbing when
the sentence was imposed. The
boy was composed.
Liverman was represented by
Public Defender H. G. Cochran
who asked that suspension OF
sentence totalhng 'SS years be
= granted. Commonwealths attorne!
, T, H. Wilcox, Jr., opposed such ;
move, stating to the court thai
the boy had been living in ;
wave of crime"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
King of Swat Denies He
Has Ever Seen
Plaintiff
WIFE BACKS HIM
Ruth Has Engaged Law
yers to Protect Him
Against Charges Made
By Girl
(By United Press)

New Orleans, March 14.-"The
whole thing is a downright black
mall" Babe Ruth, Yankee slugger,
declared angrily today when in
formed he had been named de-
fendant in suit by Miss Dolor-
es Dixon, of New York, alleging
he had attacked her.
81 do not know Miss Dixon
and to my knowledge | have
never seen her." the Home Run
King told the United Press.
Ruth, here with the New York
Yankees training for the open
ing of the baseball season was
indignant.
New York, March 14,-Babe
Ruth, baseball's slugging ace.
will fight the $4,000 damage
suit started against him by the
mysterious Miss Dolores Dixon
10. "to the limit" Bushel,
his attorney declared today.
"The Babe is fighter, and he
will fight this case" Bushel said
"He will do it as a public ser
vice"
George Finberg, Miss Dixon's
attorney, declared that the pa
pers in the case would be filed
today and that in the meantime
the girl, who has disappeared
from a recent address, will re-
main in seclusion at his advice
Alleged auto rides taken by Ruth
and the plaintiff, who claims to
be an orphan, in the formers can
are described in the complaint, ac-
cording to Finberg. The plaintiff
claims she is to become a mother
and according to the attorney
charges that Ruth is the father
Mrs. Ruth has been Informed
of the affair and is backing hel
husband, urging him to fight the
charges, which she believes un-
true, in court, the attorney as
serted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Fess "Cooks-up"
Pretty Picture
Says Harding Admins
tration's "Team Work"
Is Responsible
nv United Press)

Washington, March IA rosy
picture of conditions in this coun-
try as a result of two years OF
Harding" was painted today by
Senator-elect Fess of Ohio, II
a statement today.
Conditions following TIE
worlds spree of waste and ex'
travagance" and these of the
present were sharply contrasted
by Fess, who declared the re
suits are largely due to the team
work of the administration"
Business enterprise is on the
top wave" he said. industry
completely revived, production on
a sound basis, capital seeking in
vestment, agriculture approach
ing normal, unemployment disap-
peared and the government credit
at the high point. In some In
dustries such as steel, contracts
for future deliveries are over
taxing the capacities of the mills
Construction and building are at
a stage beyond anything in mod
ern times, with wages the high
est of records"
Doubling of transportation re
ceipts over a year ago, an in
crease of almost Is per cent il
postal receipts in large cities and
the great activity of the auto
mobile industry were cited 10y
Fess as healthy business signs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Alleged Bootlegger Says List soz
In Apartment Not Customers

verbatim today in the newspaper
that carried the list of more than
400 names which ran the gamut,
from lieutenants to generals,
commanders to admirals ana the
high and low of civilian life.
The list was seized in Conner's
apartment, following a raid about
two weeks ago. Police allege tina,
considerable liquor was found in
Corners possession. They charge
that he supplied liquor to many
of the elite of the district.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
One Killed in
N. G.. Windstorm
Goldsboro Swept by Gale
of Terrific Pro-
portions
(By United Press)

Goldsboro, n. c., March IA
One man was killed by falling
tree and roofs were blown off sew
eral buildings by a severe wind
storm which swept Wayne and
adjoining counties south of here
late yesterday according to re-
ports here today.
The wind was accompanied by
a heavy downpour of hail which
did considerable damage to grow
ing crops.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Second of Female
Bluebeards Waiting
By United Press.l

Chicago, March 14.-Mrs. Mel
lie Koulik, second of the alleged
female bluebeards" will go or
trial March "a, on charges OF
numbering her first husband, Johr
Sturmer.
Sturmer was one of the vic
Tins of an alleged wholesale poi
son plot, planned and carried out
by Mrs. Koulik and Mrs. Tillie
Klimek, the state charged.
Mrs. Klimek was sentenced to
life Imprisonment for the mur-
der of her third husband, Frank
Kupczyk, by a jury last night
after a ten day trial.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Congressional Party
Sails Through Canal
NV United Press)

Aboard Z. S. S. Henderson IN
Panama Canal, March 14-(Via
Naval Radios ecretary DENLY
and the congressional party en-
route to Panama to witness the
fleet maneuvers today sailed thru
the Panama Canal.
At Gatun lock. about Is wives
and daughters of congressman
who made the trip down here by
commercial steamers Joined the
party.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
No Coal is Leaving .,
Ruhr Valley is Report
lRy Inifcd Press.l

Washington, March IA
complete commercial deadlock ex-
lists in the Ruhr valley as a re-
suit of the French occupation,
The department of commerce was
advised today in an official dis
patch from Commercial Attache
Herring, in Berlin.
Industry faces prospect of
gradual closing down unless its
activities can be directed toward
manufacturing stocks or carrying
on some sort Of emergency work,
which would require large cred
it's. Herring stated.
No coal Is now leaving the val.
ley. he declared.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
by United Press.)

Washington, March ID The
names of persons high in Wash
ington official and social life
published in Washington news
paper in connection with the ar
rest of an alleged bootlegger here
were merely compiled as auto
mbile buying prospects. James
NJ. Conner the alleged bootleg
ger declared today.
Conner made sworn affidavit
to that effect and it was printed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Finds Girl in Mission
With Her Arm Bound

Hazelton, Pa, March 14-With
her arms bound behind her with
heavy wire, Hattie Petit, twenty
was found unconscious early to-
day in the basement of the Cos
pel Mission building by local po-
lice.
She was rushed to Hazelton
State Hospital, where her condl-
ton is critical, from shock and
arrested circulation.
Police began an immediate in
vestigation. The girl has been
unable to talk and so could no,
help them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
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Auto Tires
Going Up
(By United Press)

!. Akron, O., March l4.-Au-
!. tomobile tire prices must ad-
1. vance manufacturers declar-
= ed today.
:. The increasing cost of
!. crude rubber and fabric will
\ make tire prices from ~
+ to Is per cent higher be-
/. fore April l, they predicted.
!. Heads of the Akron Rub
!. Der plants are reticent about
]. predicting increases in the
!: prices. However, it is gener-
+ ally admitted that there will
!. be a general increase with
!. in the next ten days.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
WANT GERMAN SKELETONS
(Uy United PrPssD

Berlin.-A scarcity of skeletons
has developed here. American uni
versities offering $50 per skeleton
for laboratory use find no offers.
German skeletons have always
been favored by universities in
the United States because they
were so put together as to permit
the arms, legs, etc, to wabble
and move nearly as they did when
the skeleton was alive.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
tBy United Press)

Berlin, March ll--An outside
power is secretly interceding in
the Ruhr dispute, trying to in
ducc Germany to make "A new
reparation offer, based upon
withdrawal of the French troops,
the United Press learned today.
The secret peace feelers which
the Cuno government has had out
for some time are understood to
have failed.
1t is now indicated that the
broader guaged feelers may be
fruitful, especially in view of the
reported assistance Of the out
side power.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
TOO MANY CIPHERS
fRy United pFesa.k

Berlin-The Vossische Zeitung,
leading a movement to drop the
last two ciphers from German
money, now prints the stock ex-
change quotations according to
that method. Instead of quoting a
stock at 63,5OO, the paper quotes
635.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
1900 Pounds of Sugar
Stolen From r. r. Car

Thirteen sacks of sugar con-
tanning a total of 1900 pounds
were stolen from a car on Union
street last night which was con-
signed to H. Kirk and Son, &C
cording to a report made to the
police today. The police are in
vestigating the theft.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Mrs. Saluoes Is Given
From 20 Years to Life
lRy United pressD

New York, March 14-Mrs.
Paulette Saludes was sentenced to
from twenty years to life impris-
onment today for the second de-
gree murder Of Oscar Martelliere,
whom she shot in his Office. The
judge refused motion by counsel
for the appointment of a lunacy
commission to examine the wo-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Make Germans
Ride Trains
(By United Press)

:. London, March 14.-Be- :
: cause an outbreak of bomb :
:. ing has occurred along the :
= railroad from Werden to Es-
= sen, the French today re-
!. auired Burgomasters of Ger
: man towns to travel on all :
: trains.
= :. : :. :. :. :. :: :. :. :. :. =
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14

Following the passage of the o.
lin bill late yesterday in the
House of Delegates by a vote of
SO to 80, all eyes are turned today
on the Senate, where stiff opposi-
ton and a very close vote is ex-
pected on the measure which pro-
videS for a 2-cent gasoline tax in
1923, and a cent tax there
after.
The measure passed the House
after every attempt to amend the
essential provisions of the bill
had failed.
Under special and continuing
order, the House will take up
this afternoon the other road fl
nancing measures. as shown on
the calendar, the first will be the
referendum measure sponsored by
delegates Brown and Horsley,
which provides that the people
vote in the next regular election
upon whether they desire pay
rs you go plan or a bond pl""
Next on the list comes the Willis
till of the bond advocates pro-
viding the issuance of $6,OOO,OOO
Indebtedness certificates to pro
vide funds for highway eonstruc-
tion pending referendum to-
gether with a bill providing a
l-ecnt gas tax to fund this debt.
Richmond, Va, March 14.-Mr.
Ozlin yesterday afternoon IN
troduced in the house a number
of amendments TO his bill calling
for two-cent gasoline tax this
year, and a three-cent tax next
year, among them being 4 prOvi-
sion making the retail dealers of
motor fuels responsible for the
tax. Mr.. Ozlin stated that the
amendments were designed to
keep dealers from storing up a
large quantity of gasoline before
the tax was put into operation.
The amendments were allowed.
Mr.. Gordon offered 4 resolu-
ton seeking to include in the bill
also the taxing of fuel for boats,
ships, airplanes and fuel for COM
mercial uses, contending that all
users of gasoline should be in
cluded. He advocated the gasoline
tax pay-as- -you-go plan.
There appeared to be dis
position in the senate today tC
watch the fate of the highway
measures in the house, or at
least wait for some action on one
or more of the bills, before con
sidering them in the upper body
The finance committee of the
senate has passed favorably upor
the Jefreys gas tax bill, call
ing for a two-cent tax in 1925
and 4 three-cent tax thereafter
with one-third of the amount thu:
raised going to the counties.
Senate leaders in both the bono
and anti-bond forces late yes
terday were of the opinion tha
there was little chance of the spe
cial sessions adjourning by tn,
end of the week. Senator Goodrich
and Senator Byrd both stated
that the question, that of high
way financing legislation. nov
before the assembly was of sue
moment as to require lengthy con
Sideration.
The senate committee or priv
leges and elections, in discussin,
the referendum bills yesterday
again evinced spirit of com
promise.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Firing Squad Executes
Four More Insurgents
(By United PresnI

Dublin, March 14,-Four Irish
insurgents were executed ar
Drumboe, ponegaI todaN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14
Senate Gets Measure For
Tax on Gas of
Two Cents
MORE BILLS TODAY
Other Bills For Plans of
Road Financing to Oc-
cupy Attention This AT
ternOOn.
by L.. u. COOPER

Richmond, March l4-Tht
bill authorizing the Governor
to borrow money for highway
construction in anticipation OF
the mill tax and the proposed
gasoline tax was passed this
afternoon in the Senate by a
unanimous vote.
This measure allows the
Governor to borrow approx
mately S5.OOO,OOO for what is
termed emergency highway fl
nancing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-14

Oldest Daily Newspaper in the
United States and Best Advertis-
ing Medium in Northern Virginia.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-11
CHORUS GIRL FEATURE AT COLISEUM nATURDAY

When chorus girl marries the son of an aristocratic family, everybody predicts calamity And the family in question is usually willing to help the calamity along. Had she made a lucky marriage, Flo wondered miser- ably, as the months dragged along, and she encountered nothing save yelled insults and covert hostility from her in-laws? Then suddenly 1 the tiny flicker of suspicion they had started in her husbands mind burst into hot and angry flames-there was night of weird melodrama, cruel accusations she could never forget, uttered by the man she loved, and another man lay dead at their feet
 Only in grim tragedy did, that proud and snobbish family realize that it was their boy, not the fchorus girl who had married the true aristocrat
 one who was noble by instinct.
 | This all comes out in Out of the
 Chorus" featuring Alice Brady, at the
 Coliseum Saturday night only.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-11
DUCHY OF LUXEMBURG
 TO HAVE ARMY OF 500

BRUSSELS. May 11.-The Journal d'Esch" announces that the Frand Duchy of Luxemburg is about to recognize it's army. It is no longer to be regarded as joke and treated as pretext for arraying a baker s dozen of good looking men in pictur- esque uniforms so that they make a bit of a show when the army is mus tered for ceremonial occasions
 But it will cause no trembling among foreign potentates. The whole army will consist of only about 800 men, but they will be real soldiers and equipped as such. When the baby Grand Duchess was born re- gently, the necessary salute to her. aid the new arrival was fired with guns that had to be borrowed from France. The new army will at least save the Duchy from a repetition of that humiliation. Every soldier will be given a gun and will be taught how to handle it.
 By the new organization, the sol diers will serve four years, and a re- serve of 1,400 will be formed.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-11

love, wants him to be a desperate character" he gocs through wcari. some rounds of late hours in New York cabarets and gambling places
 Hc is so bored with being bad that-he even falls asleep at gaming table with $3S,000 in winnings in front of him. Then the place is raid cd and tho young man wakes to find himself made notorious by the news papers. His irate father, disgusted orders his son from his home with a S1 LOGO, 900 check to squander.
 He buys seat in the Stock Ex. change, a lamb ready to be sheared. How he wins through is told in one of the great stories of the American drama. It is tale tense with dra. matic interest and full of hilarious comedy.
 "The Saphead' is presented by John L. Golden and Winchell Smith in conjunction with Marcus Loew It was produced under tho personal supervision of MT. Smith. It co-stars the distinguished stage player. Will liam H. Crane, and the clever young comedian, Buster Kcaton, with a large and brilliant cast.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-11
WALLACE REID AT
 COLISEUM SUNDAY

Mary MacLaren, one of the most popular players of the screen, is leading woman for Wallace Reid in Across the Continent" his new Par. amount picture written and adapted to the screen by Byron Morgan, which comes to the Coliseum Theater next Sunday. Miss MacI.a .aren has been given a splendid part in the present story which deals with an automobile race across the continent and which presents many scenes ta. ken in various sections of the United States. Philip E. Rosen directed
 Theodore Roberts is cast in a prom. mont role and Walter Long, Betty Francisco. Lucicn Lttlefield, Jack Herbert and Guy Oliver and others appear in the cast. This notable cast, combined with story that is full of exciting action and love in. terest, with a part just suited to the virile star. makes Across the Continent" an exceptional picture.
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-05-11
Oriental Dances
 And Gambling
 Come Under Ban

CHICAGO. May Elimination of vice and gambling in the outdoor show business, sought in cam paign launched several weeks ago by organized showmen, already Is being accomplished. according to an an nounc enlent by Thomas ]. Johnson general counsel of the organization and supreme director of the organ. ized showmen, who has charge of the campaign.
 Outdoor showmen, both members and non-m embers of the Showmen' s Legislative Committee. the organiza- ton sponsoring the campaign, must comply with the moral standard SC. by the committee or be eliminated, MT. Johnson declared.
 The rapid increase of vice, gambl- ing and other objectionable features in outdoor shows within the last few years, caused the showmen to receive a bad name throughout the country said Johnson.
 iShowmen. he added, saw that some. thing had to be done to save their business from complete annihilation by public disapproval. and therefore the IShowmen's Legislative Commit tee was organized
 Objectionable features of shows are barred in a platform decided upon by the committee. Some of these include Hawaiian dancers, gypsies, shows exclusively for men, all games where prizes may e.<exchanged for money. and all immoral, indecent and suggestive acts.