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COURT WILL HEAR CASES
IF LAWYERS ARE TARDY

If attorneys are not prepared to
be present when their clients cases
are called, Judge Mcmahon will
proceed without them, he indicated
today in police court.
From the bench Judge Mcmahon
told Attorney Samuel NJ Hawken
who had held up the court by his
delayed appearance, that he would
not tolerate such conditions here.
after.
Attorneys must come to the
realization that they must be here
when their cases are called, or the
court will go ahead without them !"
said Judge Mcmahon. Hawken ex.
cused himself by asserting that he
had been engaged at the Municipal
Court.
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HARRY F. MILLER BROWNS
IN SEVERN AT GLENBURNIE

Harry F. Miller, twenty-five
years old, 1927 Georgia avenue
northwest, was drowned while in
swimming yesterday in the Severn
river near Glenburnie, Nd, the
police were advised today.
Miller, together with his wife and
sister, Mrs. T.. G. Taylor were stay
ing at. the latter's cottage there.
Yesterday Miller went swimming
with two companions and suddenly
sank. His friends made a valiant
attempt to rescue him. The body
has not been recovered.
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PHONE OPERATORS VOTING
ON PLAN TO END STRIKE

BOSTON, July 19.-Officials of
the telephone operators; union
denied this afternoon that the strike
of New England operators is at an
end.
The operators are still balloting
on the question, but no announce
ment will be made until the entire
vote is counted. Unofficially, it
was reported, there is strong SEN
timent for continuing the strike
among Rhode Island operators.
In Boston it was reported a large
number of the strikers favored an
end of the strike.
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Vaughan, M arrie q,
Has z Sons, Served
Overseas

MINEOLA, N. Y, July 19.-
Lieut.. Russell L. Vaughan, who
today is attempting to fly from
New York to San Francisco be-
tween daylight and dark, is
thirty years old. He has been
in the Army Air Service seven
years.
During the world war he
served overseas, and has five
German planes to his credit.
He is married, the father of
two sons. living with his wife.
in Logan, Utah.
Lieutenant Vaughan holds the
record of having travelled faster
than any other man, making a
speed of 239 miles an hour in
short tests.
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ARMED WOMAN LIBERATES
MAN FROM COUNTY JAIL

WARREN. Pa, July 19.--Her
features concealed beneath a black
hood and flowing cape, a young
woman engineered a daring jail
delivery last night here which freed
Patrick Ponsoil, believed by au-
thorities, to be the woman's fiance.
She forced an entrance 20 the
sheriff's home while that official
was absent and stole a pistol and
the keys to the county jail Then
she went to the Jail, herded more
than a score of prisoners into a
single tier and released Ponscll
from a cell.
The masked woman then fled
with Ponsoll, who had been held in
$500 bail on a serious charge
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ASKS FIFTEEN MILLIONS
FOR PERSONAL INJURIES

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 19.-As-
sorting that injuries he received in
an. attack made on him by NJ. C.
Cartin, London capitalist, have seri-
ously impaierd his earning capacity.
James c. l.. Huber, promoter of
New York and London, today filed
suit for $15,012,750 damages in Cir
cult Court here.
Huber declares that he is able to
earn only a small salary now, while
before the alleged attack his income
was $4,000 a year.
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NOVA SCOTIA COAL MINERS
VOTE TO CONTINUE STRIKE

SYDNEY, N. s.. July 19.-Four
thousand Cape Breton coal miners
have voted to continue on strike in
defiance of the order issued by John
L. Lewis, international president of
the United Mine Workers of America.
Mr.. Lewis cancelled the charter OF
District No, 20 and ordered the men
70 return to their WeTiC
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By III. X. REYNOLDS,
International News Service staff
CnPraanorrHonf


The controversy in the Philip
pines between Gov. Gen. Leonard
Wood and the members of the
Filipino cabinet has resulted in
situation grave enough to demand
the attention of President Harding
before the formulation of any new
policy is undertaken by the Adj
ministration, it was announced Of
ficially at the War Department
today.
Ask For Details.
After receiving reports from both
General Wood and Manual Quezon,
president of the Philippine Senate
and leader Of the native political
insurrectionists, on the events lead
ing up to rhe resignation of mem
beers of the Cabinet and the council
of State, Secretary of War Weeks
Immediately cabled these officials
for more detailed information.
The statements of neither the
governor general nor Senator Que.
ron were. made public, but it was
stated officially that the native
protest referred only to the charge
that General Wood had acted in
violation of the fundamental law
of the Philippines by re-instating
Ray ConlOy, Il Secret Service opera
tive, after he had been dismissed.
Ouezon did not refer pecifically 10
other incidents wherein General
Wood is alleged to have issue1 or
ders and decided upon AminisUra
tive policies without asking for or
accepting the advice of the mem
bers of his Cabinet, but he declared
that the ConIey affair was typical
of Woods methods.
Weeks WithhOIds Decision.
In view Of the fact that General
Wood has had virtually a free hand
in the administration of Filipino df
fairs during the past year and half
only two courses are open to Presi
dent Harding If he desires to take
any action at all in the Conley af
fair. He can either uphold Genera
Woods policies, or he can ask hin
to resign.
Before the Presidents return from
Alaska, however, Secretary Weeks
is hopeful that an adjustment cal
be reached in Manila between Gen
eral Wood and his political oppo
nents, even without direct interfer
ance from Washington.
The main question at issue Il
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PHILIPPINE
R.Q.||.|.!WlJP TO
HARDING
Secretary Weeks Cables for
Details of Fight Against
Gen. Woods Methods.

MANILA, July 19.-The Philip
pine independence commission de.
cided today to send Manuel
Quezon, veteran political leader
and president of the senate, to
the United States, to carry their
protest against Governor General
Wood to President Harding.
Quezon led the cabinet and cOun-
ell of the State i'm their resigna-
ton and headed the nOn-cO-Opera-
ton movement against Governor
Woods administration.
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Through Counsel, He Writes to
Grand Jury, Demanding Com
plete Probe Of Death.
BULLETINl

conference with Judge UFm0fs IN
circuit court, this afternoon re-
called the letter they sent to
Foreman ellison Of the grand jury.
The court advised the attorneys
that any information to be given
tho jury should be presented to
the court and that the court
would consider it in its charge to
the jury. In the presence Of
Judge Urner and Attorney Vein
berg, Foreman Gibson tore up the
letter. which he had mot yet
opened.
BY VINCENT r. CALLAHAN,
Washington Times Staff Correspondent.
FREDERICK, Md, July 49,
Attorneys for B. Evard Kepner,
central figure in the Kepner muir
der mystery, today launched a
campaign to prevent the indict-
ment Of the man who has been
so prominently mentioned in con-
nection with the case.
The first move was made today
when Attorneys Leo Wineberg
and Guy H. Motter, representing
Kepner, sent a letter to C. Albert
ellison, foreman of the grand jury
which convenes in extraordinary
session next Monday to investi-
gate the death of Mrs. Kepner.
Aulra g.. No..
Their letter, summed up, amounts
to an indirect request that the grand
jury repudiate tho action of the cor
oner's jury and begin a new and
more thorough probe into the death,
Investigating both from the angle of
suicide and murder.
Coupled with the making public of
this letter, it was learned from other
sources that judges Of the Circuit
Court in their charge to the grand
jury Monday plan to instruct that
body to broaden it's usual policy and
constitute itself an inquisitorial body
to delve into every phase of Mrs.
Kepner's death and to hear evidence
other than presented by the States
attorney.
The letter of Kepner's attorneys
ask:
/. That the jury inquire fully
into the motives and interests Of
every person testifying before
them.
2. That 1t be not prejudiced by
Mr.. kepner's confessed associa-
ton with Lulu Rickett, the pretty
Frederick waitress.
3. That Kepner and seven other
persons, not expected to be called
by the prosecution, be summoned
to give testimony.
4. That the jury disregard all
evidence except appertaining to
two questions, (a) Was Mrs. KEEP
ner murdered? and (b) If yea, who
was responsible for the same.
Text Of Letter.
The letter in full follows:
"Juiy 10, 1923.
Mr.. G. Albert ellison, foreman of the
grand jury, Frederick, Md.
Dear Mr.. ellison: Az you are
now aware. the grand jury. OF which
you are the foreman, has been re-
called In special session, to inVestl-
gate the cause Of the death Of Grace
Simmons Kepner. and how far, If mt
all, anyone be culpabl0 in the prem
ises,
you and your associates are
about to engage in a serious under
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ST, JOSEPH, MO.-Maughan
resumes flight 11:55 q. m.

Nv International News Service.
SPRINGFIELD, Ills, July 10.
Lieut.. Russell l.. Vaughan, who
left New York early today in his
second attempt to fly across the
continent between dawn and DUSK,
passed over here at S:41 q. m.
central time.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 10.
Lieut.. Russell l.. Vaughan, IN
his speedy Curtiss plane, passed
over this city at 1884 q. m. (cen-
trail standard time). He made the
distance from Dayton, Ill miles,
in thirty mine minutes.
When he passed over this city
today he was just forty minutes
earlier than on July 8.
Passing Indianapolis, Vaughan
flew over Danville, Ind, negotlat-
ing twenty miles in eight minutes.
From there he headed in q mOr's
southerly course than on his first
trip and passed over Chr1sman.
I'LL, at 9:O5 a. M. central time).
McCooK FIELD, DAYTON,
Ohio, July 19.-Slightly behind his
schedule but confident that he
would eat supper in San Fran
cisco. Lieut.. Russell L. Vaughan
took off from McCook field at
1855 o'clock, Eastern standard
time on the second leg Of his dawn
to-dark flight, after having landed
here at 8:35.
Next Stop Is Missouri.
1919 a4@,> mill ha Sf
Joseph, Mo-, near which city his flrss
ended in failure Wnen no
was forced down.
Vaughan made up ten minutes or
his lost time by resuming his jour
ney westward IN twenty minutes
after landing. instead of stopping tor
the scheduled half hour.
During the brief stay the Curtiss
plane was thoroughly inspected and
found to be In fine shape. Gasoline
and oil were taken aboard and MAUI
CHAN hoped off for the missouri
town with all McCook Field en-
ployes and hundreds OF spectators
cheering the aerial pioneer
AS he disappeared In the distance
Vaughan was travelling at 40 miles
an hour, according to ground OBJ
servers.
Enjoys Quick Lunch.
Maughan grabbed a basket OF
lunch and a pot of steaming coffee
which he threw into himself. while
the mechanics here went over the
nIane infinitely and gave her a new
charge of gas ana Oil.
The plane was functionfng properly
and Maunghan was supremely con-
fident of accomplishing what he set
mt to do. He had a light break
East in New York and will get a
Iunch at 6t. Joseph and is all set
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Earthquake In ItaIy.

ROME, July 19.-An earthquake
shock was felt at Messina today,
Only slight damage was reported.
MESSING 10 near Mount Etna, the
volcano which recently was in
violent eruption.
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THE WEATHER

Fair tonight and Friday;
no change in temperature;
gentle winds mostly north
east. .-----....u-.-...A--
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SLIGH Il Y
BEHIND On
COAST
TRIP
Reaches Dayton and Hops OF
on Second Leg-Machine
Working Fine.
By international News Service.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 10
Lieut.. Russell L. Vaughan. army
aviator, reached ST.. Joseph. the
second stop in his daylight dash
across the continent; at ll:>S
o'clock, central standard time. to-
day.
The intrepid air1nan had flown
from MineOla Field, Long Island,
to this city-half way across the
cOntinent-since 4:08, Eastern
standard time.
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|YSo:SUjP PFON1!E!I:. H /NAE S1A AND lzsz EajffsYOJ|
CHAPTER IO8.

For a moment Richard looked crestfallen. Then he uttered a pleased exclamation.
 T have an inspiration! We will not go to the hotel for luncheon"
 Winifred stopped short in the road and looked at him astonished.
 "No," he repeated, we will not go to your hotel. Instead we will drive over to another eating place I know of-several miles from here"
 Driver she echoed. What in?"
 T can hire a car to take us over," he explained. You wait and see. Go to the hotel and get ready and I will call for you in a half hour. It will be lots more fun eating where nobody knows us, won't it?"
 "Yes," she admitted feebly. Tt will"
 It had all been so sudden that she hardly appreciated what his plan was until she was in her room changing her walking skirt for a dainty afternoon gown. She wanted to look well if she was going out to luncheon with Richard Rankin.
 Strange that she had never been anywhere as his guest. That was because he was poor. It had been hard for him to be always the re- cipient of her hospitality. He had been fine and sensible about it- never protesting as a Vainer man , would have done. Yet it must have hurt his pride to be taken about by j girl when he longed to do some- thing to entertain her. He could have given her no greater proof of his desire to be with her than by sacri- ficing his pride as he had been forced to in accepting her hospi- tality.
 She was glad that at last he was to have the happiness of giving in- stead of receiving. It was terribly extravagant of him to hire someone to drive them to a restaurant, and quite extravagant of him to pay for the luncheon they were to eat But she would not destroy his pleasure by referring to this.
 She was glad that Mrs Bates was not lingering about when she came cut of her room, ready for the expe- dtion. Richard met her at the foot of the stairs.
 T told the man to wait down at the gate" he informed her. T thought it was just IS well not to drive up here to the door,"
 Yes, indeed" she flashed look of gratitude at him. How tactful of him to avoid any possible com ment from onlookers.
 (TO Be COntinued)
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IF you haven't patronized | the laundry because of the expense, you can certainly call your lucky number, Main 3715, and send all the clothes to the American this week be- cause Dry Wash is
 Very cheap
 Very convenient
 Perfectly clean The wearing apparel isn't starched, but comes home so dry and soft many of our patrons tell us no ironing is needed. All your flat work 1 is beautifully ironed, ready to use.
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REC0MM MENDED MOVIES

Recommended movies this week. as an nounced by the city amusement inspector:
 Avonda ale--Scrambled Wives, Tuesday Mixed Faces. Wednesday; Table Top Ranch, Thursday; Out of Order, Friday; Once over. Saturday.
 Belle-Gym Jams, juvenile, Tuesday; Spuds. juvenile. Friday Watch Your Step, Saturday.
 CapltoI-The Green Temptation. Monday and Tuesday; Pecks Bad Boy, adults, Wednesday and Thursday, Over the Bor- der, Friday and Saturday.
 Five Points-Little Church Around the of the Apocalypse. Thursday; Watch Your Step. Friday.
 Franklin-Day Dreams, Tuesday; Little Church Around the Corner. Thursday; Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Friday Galax-The Third Alarm.
 Loew' s--Pathe Review; Their Love Growed Cold, juvenile.
 North Birmingham -- Little Church Around the Corner, Monday; Canyon of Fools, Friday; Honor First, Saturday; Haunted House, Saturday.
 Odeon-The Leather Pushers, Friday and Saturday.
 Princess-Cameron of the Royal Mount ed All Wet; The F'irebraud.
 Rialto-The Cops adults; Heart of Royal-Yankee Doodle, Jr.i Fighting Blood Trooper O'Nei
 strand-Chndren of Jazz; Take Your Choice
 Trianon--Jacqueline
 Champion-My Boy, Tuesday; The Dan ger Point, Wednesday; Nobodys Money, Thursday and Friday.
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III R THE |hN7 70 LOVE GAA.MlfEl,. lMHH MM A CITY
 1EIa@g 'II ROMANCE lLdl1n1@lll- BY VIRGINIA TEQHLNFl VANDfWArrp
VlpGlNIA TEpHuNE VANptWRrr
By HELEN KENDAL KEEPING FLOWERS FRESH

"In the matter of keepynge posies freshe, it is well to keep them in the shayde while gatheynge, and to snip they're stemmes before placynge them in water all hastllie.
 So says an old, yellowed pamphlet on the "Raisynge and Care O: Flou- eres," whose quaintly worded and spelled instructions would puzzle the modern flower grower quite as much as enlishten her. And yet the old rules still hold, and might well gov ern those of us who love to keep our posies "freshe" not only while we are gathering them, but afterWard.
 First of all, flowers should be gathered early in the day, before the sun has begun to wilt them. and, as the old pamphlet says, should be kept in the "shayde." Lay the culling basket ill the dense shade of a tree or bush and lay the flowers lightly in it, with the stems all pointing the same way. A little watering can may be taken along and the h<ossolns sprinkled while they wait. In the case of such delicate flowers as gay ladies" (poppies) it is best to take along a pitcher of water and pop the stems into it immediately. They will droop between the garden and the house otherwise.
 A small handful of salt added to the water will keep flowers fresh much longer than usual. and the best trick of all is to insert each stem into the water and then, with long bladed shears. cut the stems under water. This allows the water to en- ter before the pores fill with air The water should be changed each day a new bit clipped from the stems.
 In bringing flowers home from a trip of several hours,o they will keep fresher if wrapped In a very damp newspaper and then in a dry one. If wilted or dropping when you arrive, try this method of resuscitation. Fill the bath tub full of water, drop the flowers into it up to their neclSs, and sprinkle the blossoms. Then cover the top of the tub with wet bath towels, secuing them so that fHey do not fall in upon the flowers. By morning the most completely col up amazingly. Surrounding them with damn ai turns the trick.
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Dorothy Dir
Fitting Children For Life Means Preparing Them Fol
 Hardship And Teaching Obedience

having had an artistic background in their childhood. I've never put any thing out of the reach of little hands. I have taught little hands not to reach.
 i've taught my children not to be destructive, and that it was an ac- tual sin to fcdace a beautiful object. To my mind nothing Is such an in fallible test of peoples breeding as the way they handle furniture. When woman rings my mahogany by put ting a wet glass on it and a man drops cigar ashes on my oriental rugs, I know beyond doubt that they were raised up to eat on oilcloth-cov- cred tables and to live on bare floors"
 At this womans table food is served suitable to the infantile tum- my and other food adapted to the so- phisticated palates of adults, but
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king pin of the universe. It doesn't help the boy who must take orders from a boss never to have learned how to obey. It doesn't make 1t easier for the boy who must dig in and work never to have had any tasks to perform. It doesn't make it easier to eat poor food and sleep on hard bed to come from a home In which your mother always opened your eggs, and seeded your grape fruit. and turned down your bed for
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you sc that everything might be just as you liked 1t.
 No wonder so many boys and girls who have health and strength and intelligence and who ought to sue ceed drift from job to job, always failures, never making good. They are <le results of the parents handi- work. They have been made soft where they should have been made hard. They have been made weak where they should have been made
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It Doesn't
 Help a
 Child to Be Indulged

I sometimes visit in home In which there are several children. Although my friends are cultured and wealthy their house Is bleak and bare as a barn. Heavy, serviceable druggets cover the floor. The plain, substantial furniture is battle scared, and looks as If 1t had been through the wars.
 our home is for our children" say the parents. "We don't want to put any restriction on their use of it or their pleasure in it, so we have nothing that they can possibly hurt, and they can kick everything around as much as they like"
 The meals in this home are steril- ized repasts, and you sit down to dinner of certified milk, and bread and butter, and boiled mutton and tapioca pudding.
 We never have anything on Sae table that isn't good for the children to eat" apologize the infatuated parents.
 I visit at another house filled with beautiful fragile ornaments and what not. Here are also children, but nothing is defaced, nothing broken.
 q am trying to rear my children up to be ladies and gentlemen" says the mistress of the house. T want to give them the taste and refine ment that come from having lived in beautiful surroundings, and from
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nest, and where their mothers and fathers love is powerless to save them from the common fate, and the trials and tribulations that every hu- man being must meet.
 It doesn't help them to have had parents who have never developed a single muscle in their body or. sinew in their soul. It doesn't help the boy who must begin at the bot tom of the ladde/ to have been brought up to believe that he is the
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strong. They have not been given the grit or the courage to fight, and so life beats them at every turn.
 The temptation to spoil and in. dulge children Is very great. but the parents who do so work their chil- dren a greater wrong than hate itself could devise The first duty of fath- CTS and mothers is to fit their chil- dren fer the battle of life, and you do not do that by making them soft.
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w WhlCn or those two mothers dO you think Is best fitting her children for the battle of life? The one who is pampering her children and making them weak, or the one who is teach ing her children self-control and har- dening them?
 What children do you think have the best chance to succeed in the world?
 With one voice everybody will say that 1t is the disciplined children the children who have been taught obedience and consideration for oth- CTS and their proper place in the scheme of things, whC will make happy and prosperous men and women. It is the spoiled overin- dulged children, who have been brought up to be autocrats in their own homes and who believe that they can run roughshod over the world, who are ground to powder when they come to real grips with life.
 This Is matter of common knowledge, and yet so many parents love their children with such an ob- sessing tenderness that they do all that they can to unfit them for life, in which the battle is to the strong and the victory to the fighter.
 heSe unWlSe parents never Qony their children anything. They walk that their children may ride in auto mobiles. They go shabby that their children may dress finely. They work their fingers to the bone that their children may be idle. They never throw any responsibility on their children. They never teach their children that they have any duty to any human being.
 They try to make the world a bed of down for their children and to protect them from every wind that blows, and they. forget how brief is and youth. and how short a parents arms. For in a little while the children are out of the home