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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-12-21

Nv ', ful lunge. L Wa'
but Was Saved angry at the
by New Friend clumsy work. 4
sQuawk was
dead give-away of new fingers anC
mine were old. OF course it was a dos
barking in the house path and my turn
ing at the instant of clutching. But
that was no excuse for regular.
was getting so cocksure of myself as
to be careless.
My hand shot out again and another
chicken went into the bag. That made
six, the number l boosted l would
bring, and a fine feast for even ter
hungry hoboes In a woods camp-our
Christmas dinner.
But 1 always liked to do little
more than 1 promised. l would take
an extra one for good measure-a nice
fat one My eyes peered along the
dimly outlined forms on the roosts,
and
"Hello," said a voice at the door.
/ gasped audibly. Sharp ears were
another thing l prided myself on, and
this person had appeared at the door
as noiselessly as 1 could have myself.
The two breaks ratified me.
High up at one end was a little
square window, the sash out to admit
air. My eyes were as quick and ac-
curate as my fingers and my body had
once belonged to an acrobat boy IL a
circus. Almost with the word from
the doorway my knees bent and
Strengthened into a swift spring, my
arms in front and my palms together
like a person diving.
Then the humor of it struck me, and
I chuckled. "Winder hole want quick
enough in grabbin', so missed my neck,
leavin' me to squawk-same's / did
number five chicken. Guess twas all
comm to me. Say" raising my voice,
''yOu man who spoke, come an get
me. I've caught an am holdin' my
self. Don't s'spose there's any reward
comm to me. Christmas, you know"
1t was still fairly light outside and
my head suspended five or six feet
from the ground.
A cautious step came round the cor
ner.
"Ain't scared of me trussed up like
this, are your" 1 jeered, IAN still, If
t want for that nail grindin' into me
when 1 so much as wink, an my bein'
turned wrong side round I could use
my fists like anything. I'm good with
fists. Better get your gun an shoot
while shootin's good. An'-great
snakes !" as the figure came within
range of my screwed round face-"a
girl-an' pretty as a pictured II want
you that spoken
eyes it was, but spoke deep's I
could to sound like a man. Thievin'
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-12-21
"Comet'' and ''Cupid'
and Santa's Sleigh
By MARTHA B. THOMAS

Where Would
Kriss Be
Without the Aid
ofHis Trusty
Reindeer?
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-12-21

ONE T and
Cupid were
growing rest
less in their
stalls. AS the
Evening star., 1923-10-16
POST OFFICE CLERK
IS HELD IN THEFTS
Harry McQuary Charged
With Embezzling Payments
on c. O. D. Parcels.

Harry o. McQuary, a clerk in the
Pennsylvania avenue branch of the
Washington city post office. has been
arrested. charged with embezzling
funds.
Taken before United States Com
missioner George H. Macdonald by
Harry Sherwood, examiner of sta
tions, and NJ. w. P. Zantzinger, postal
inspector, McQuary waived hearing
and was held in $500 bonds for the
action of the grand jury.
1t was charged that the clerk, who
handled the c. o. D. affairs. embe5zled
S1,063 of funds which carriers had col
lected on c. o. D. parcels.
When complaints were made to the
local post office by out-of-town mer-
chants that payments had not been re-
ceived, investigation led to the Penn
sylvania avenue branch office.
First the merchants had complained I'd
to the customers here. and when the
latter had written and stated that
they had made the payments to car
rterS the matter was taken up with
Postmaster Mooney.
McQuary has wife and three small
children, and had been with the city
post office for about six years. He
Is thirty-two years old.
His arrest follows two other arrests
made at the city post office last month,
one case being that OF q clerk who
opened letters and took money des-
tined for local people.
Evening star., 1923-10-16
Barber Reminds
|. Lloyd George of
Stoniyag by Beers

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, October
16.-David Lloyd George had
regular English haircut" in Min
neapolis yesterday.
1t was the first haircut Britain's
wartime premier had had since his
arrival from abroad and incident
ally 1t was given by native of
Great Britain.
B. II. Thompson, manager of
shop here, was the barber. He
talked as he worked and found
Mr.. Lloyd George to be good COM
pany.
II am pleased to see and meet
you again." Mr.. Thompson said as
he entered Mr.. Lloyd Georges
suite at the hotel.
"And where did you see me
last" Mr.. Lloyd George inquired.
ut was during the Boer war riot
at Birmingham" Thompson re-
piled.
us that so?" commented the IA
nous Welshman. You were not
one of those who threw stones at
me"'
Mr.. Lloyd George smiled as he
directed the question at the bar
Der. Mr.. Thompson, somewhat en-
Sarrassed, hesitated before he re-
Llied.
mo, 1 did not throw stones at
you. l was in the crowd just try
ing to get out of it. / am sure l
didn't throw stones"
Evening star., 1923-10-16
$4,000 RUM CARGOES
AND 2 SHIPS TAKEN
$25,00 Worth of Wine, "a Pris-
oners Seized in One Raid-Crew
of Other Vessel Arrested.

NEW YORK, October 16.-Twenty-
four prisoners were taken and s25.000
worth of bottled whisky was confiscated
by police of the Westchester station
in the Bronx early today, in the cap
ture of the seventy-fi five foot cabin
cruiser Mirage. off Throggs Neck, in
Long Island sound.
Another vessel, the Clarence, a
fifty-foot sloop. was seized off Mon
tauk point.
She carried 500 cases of champagne.
cordials and imported whisky. which
Charles Cowens. held as leader of the
enterprise, told his captors he paid
$1,000 for on Rum row and expected
to sell for $4,000. The crew was
taken in custody with him. +
The seizure of the Mirage took place
at a dance hall near the sound while
the liquor was being transferred from
the boat TO automobiles. Nineteen
prisoners were in the bag. Five men
who arrived in a taxicab while the
authorities We're counting noses also
were taken into custody.
As tho police descended on the
smugglers, the crew of the Mirage
cut her adrift and leaped ashore. The
costly yacht, her fittings polished and
paint glittering. drifted upon the
rocks a quarter mile distant and was
badly battered.
Evening star., 1923-10-16

GREENVILLE, Miss. October 10
Benjamin Grubb Humphreys. for more
than twenty years a member of Con-
gress from the third Mississippi dis
trict. died suddenly at his home here
early today. Death was due to an at
tack of heart trouble.
Representative Humphreys of Mis-
sisslppi, who died today at Greenville,
Miss, was one of the leaders on the
democratic side of the House. He had
been a moving spirit in the campaign
for Improvement of the Mississippi
river, and especially was interested
in flood control.
The original Mississippi river flood
control bill was brought out of MT.
Humphreys committee while the
democrats were in control of the
House, and the bill passed by the last
House extending the work was large
ly result of his efforts. He had made
many trips up the Mississippi river
nized as an expert on this problem.
In hearings before the House flood
control committee of which he was
the ranking democratic member, his
knowledge of the subject as a rule
resulted in his taking over a large
part of the examination of witnesses.
Mr.. Humphreys was the son of Ben
jamln G. Humphreys. brigadier gen.
eral in the Confederate army and a
Governor OF Mississippi. He was q
lawyer by profession. and had served
in Mississippi as a district attorney.
He served in the war with Spain as a
lieutenant of volunteers.
Evening star., 1923-10-16

Continued from First Page.l
with human cargoes Of terror
stricken residents Of the lowlands.
Street cars and volunteer motor:
the water, aided in bringing the help
less and crippled to hospitals and
havens Of safety provided by civic
and fraternal organizations.
Pandemonium reigned for time.
Crowds of curious persons milled and
pushed on downtown corners. while
automobiles and horse drawn ve-
hicles clogged the traffic ways lead
ing to the river bottoms.
A cold drizzle of rain added to the
confusion.
Capitol Hill Isolated.
The situation was later taken in
hand by military and civil author
tiles, who forced all except. the need
ed workers off the streets
Capitol Hill, residential section
In the southern portion of the city,
and Packingtown, the packing center,
to the southwest, are completely iso-
lated.
Following a report that a band of
from rs to 100 men were looting
homes deserted by refugees, police
were dispatched to the scene with or
ders to shoot to kill any person found
With the coming of morning the
homeless ventured from their emer-
gency shelters. Bread and coffee
lines were opened by the city's two
largest hotels and regular relief CEN
tiers were early receiving truckloads
of food from the city's wholesale dis
trict.
Virtually every church in the city
had been Impressed into service, as
ness buildings. Among the latter was
the Federal Reserve Bank building.
the marble lobby of which was us.
tered with tragic groups Of homefess.
Evening star., 1923-10-16
MANAGER OF RALEIGH
DIES AT HIS HOME

Edward L. weston, manager of the
Raleigh Hotel, died Monday evening
at his country home at Alta Vista,
Md, after prolonged illness.
Mr.. Weston was born May s, 1872,
at Yonkers, N. Y, the son of the late
Walter Weston and grandson of the
late Edward Weston, member of an
old New York family.
Mr. Weston came to Washington
about thirty years ago to manage the
Portland Apartment Hotel, then own
ed by his grandfather. He later OPEN
ed the Highlands. For the past fif-
teen years he had managed the
Raleigh Hotel. He had also been as
sociated with several other wash
fngton hotels and his opinion and ad-
vice was much sought after by wide
circle of acquaintances.
Mr.. Weston married Miss Ida Nourse
of this city. He Is survived by two
sons, Edward Walter Weston and
Robert Louis Weston, and two sisters,
Miss Elizabeth NJ Weston and Mrs.
Louis Valentine.
Evening star., 1923-10-16
MILITANT FIGHT FOR DRY
ACT OBSERVANCE MAPPED
Citizenship Conference to Go to People
With Plea for La,U---CooIidge
GiUen Program.

Plans to carry the fight for a more
rigid enforcement of the prohibition
Law into every city. town and village
, in the country were approved at the
closing SESSIONS here yesterday of
the citizenship conference. They con-
template a nationwide campaign de-
signed to increase respect for the
eighteenth amendment. coupled with
a united community campaign in each
community to support aggressiyely
the local, state and federal authori-
ties.
Meantime the results of the con-
ference will be available to tie con-
ference of governors, which will meet
/ here Saturday at the call of Presi-
dent Coolidge to consider more ef-
fective means of cooperation be-
tween the national and state govern
nents in the enforcement. not only
OF the prohibition act, but the mar
cotic. immigration and kindred laws
Some of the recommendations of the
citizenship conference probably will
be placed before the governors.
Coolidge shows Interest.
President Coolidge expressed inter-
est in the purposes of the citizensh ;p
Sdkhti IilS AHu pSiSOHdIy dLlSDueu
one OF the sessions. He also had
dinner conferences with several Of
those prominently identified with the
movement. including William Jen-
n:ngs Bryan, former Gov. Allen of
Kansas and Fred B. Smith of New
York. who presided at most OF the
Sessions.
The nation looks to President Cool
idse to assert and maintain the ma
jesty of the law, the conference de-
f1n e.
people approved at the closing ses-
sion yesterday OF its three-day meet
ing .sI,-. ,oo,
resident, the message says. I'VE
assure him of our support in using
every power at his command TO COM
pei respect for constituted authority"
Borah Is Speaker.
Aside from the adoption of recon-
! meEdationS for future plans and other
! reports, the outstanding events at
! yesterdays meetings included an ad-
dress by Senator Borah. republican.
Idaho, and Louis Marshall. a New
York attorney, on the necessity of up
holding the Constitution.
Senator Borah told the conference
that wealthy Americans who violate
! the eighteenth amendment and reds
who denounce constitutional provi-
sions designed to protect property
are both travelling the road of law
| lessness. sowing the seeds OF destruc-
ton and undermining the whole fab
! ric OF law and order"
! An outburst of cheering greeted
Senator Borah's declaration that pro-
! hloitionist or nti-pTohibitionist. the
! people ought to be loyal to a common
country and be willing to support the
law SO long as it is the law.
High Offenders Hit.
| Mr.. Marshall declared the people
I have spoken on the eighteenth
( amendment and their will must be
] obeyed
! Any person, even though he be a
; college president-mark YOU. l do
not say ex-college president-who ad-
vocates any doctrine to the contrary
| is guilty of treason" said Mr. Mar
shall. At another point he declared
| there was no difference in law be-
/ tween the lyncher and the man or
woman IN high society who .bootlegs'
{ the law
! Defending Solicitor General Beck,
! who was assailed at the opening ses-
sion OF the conference, Mr.. Marshall
Evening star., 1923-10-16

ttontlnued from FIRST Hage.D
President Coolidge himself viii, t"ke
at the governors conference. The
President. according to hts friends, is
not attempting to pass the buck" to
the states. but he does feel that the
federal police force is not big enough
TO handle the problem and that with
out state cooperation enforcement of
the law cannot be effective. The orig
inal purpose of the "drys' in putting
into the eighteenth amendment q pro-
vision For concurrent jurisdiction"
was to bring into play the police
power of all the states. Mr.. Coolidge
will formally invoke that power next
Saturday and appeal to the governors
10 help the federal government to OBJ
tain respect for existing law.
Seeks Help of States.
For many months the Office of
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes has
state co-operation with the federal
government and II is expected that
President Coolidge will lay before
4he governors some concrete sugges-
tions which can bring the federal
government and the state machinery
closer together so as to avoid duplica-
tion on the one hand and achieve
effective prosecution OF law breakers
on the other.
IRRESPECTIVE of the merits of the
Volstead law is In conformity with
the eighteenth amendment or a re-
stricted Interpretation OF it, the out
standing fact today, which prohibi-
tionists themselves will hardly deny,
is that the extent of law violation
by those who do not like the Vol
stead law is widespread and that 1t
is the most serious menace confront
ing the prohibition cause today.
The citizenship conference had all
the religious ardor of the campaigns
before the eighteenth amendment was
adopted. The ''drys" are thoroughly
aroused and are demanding 100 per
cent sincerity in law enforcement.
arguing that halfway measures will
only tend ultimately to break down
the respect of the people for law and
order.
Politically, the citizenship conference
brought out Gov Clifford Pinchot of
Pennsylvania as a lader of the dry
forces. succeeding to a position which
the late President Harding really had
just before his death. The probabilt-
ties are that President Coolidge will
not attempt to take the leadership
away from Gov. Pinchot, but will stand
on the speech he makes to the govern
ors next Saturday, which his friends
think is all that can rightfully be ex-
pected of a President of the United
States.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1923-10-16
MAN AND BOY DIE
AFTER COLLISIONS
Wife Sees G. D. Parsons Fa-
tally Hurt by BicycIe-Auto
Hits Other Victim.

While his wife sat in their auto
mobile nearby watching him. George
n. Parsons. scventy-two years old,
Bradley Hills. Md. was fatally in
jured at 10th and K streets this MORN
ing, when he was struck. witnesses
say, by bicycle ridden by a youth
He was removed to the Emergency
Hospital in an automobile, and died
at about IL o'clock
The deceased was a matchmaker
and had been employed by the jew
elry firm OF Barry & Whitmore the
past six weeks. He formerly had a
shop in the Metzerott building and
also worked for the Waltham Watch
Company.
George j. Mcconnell. 2317 I street,
who took the dying man to the hos
pital.
Frederick Mitchell. jr.. colored. nine
years old, 1916 Euclid street, yester-
day afternoon about 4 o'clock was
knocked down by an automobile in
front OF First Church of Christ, Sci
enlist, Columbia road and Euclid
streets, and fatally injured.
Mrs. J. r. Brooks, 1852 Lanier place,
driver of the machine. took the in
jured boy to Garfield Hospital, where
he died shortly after noon today.
The boys death was reported to
Coroner Nevitt. who will hold an in
quest at the morgue tomorrow. Mrs
Brooks will be summoned to appear
as a witness.
Evening star., 1923-10-16

provement and cleaning up of debris.
This recommendation, 1t is pointed out,
IL approved, will do much to better por-
tions Of the two most important parks
in Washington, certain areas of which
are now overrun with weeds, ash heaps
and debris of all kinds. Construction
of bride paths and foot paths In both
parks is also recommended
Widening of the inlet bridge at the
end OF the Polo Field in Potomac Park
is listed as one OF the most urgent
needs. This bridge, il is asserted. was
not constructed to carry automobile
traffic and besides being narrow, it af-
fords no adequate outlet to the Haines
point section of the park
1t has been necessary to make this
structure a one-way bridge in order
to handle traffic with the least pos
sible congestion.
1t has been found. according to Col
Sherrilps recommends ations, that this
bridge can be widened fifteen feet at
a comparatively small cost, due to
the understructure being so built that
it can accommodate additional width
without being disturbed.
Owing to the wide interest in band
concerts during the summer in the
various parks throughout the city,
Col. Sheriff. urged the budget bureau
to include a small appropriation so
that these concerts could be contin-
ued No appropriation has ever been
made, it is understood, for these con-
certs and it is with the idea of en-
larging their scope that the present
recommendation is made.
Evening star., 1923-10-16
ALIEN BOOTLEGGERS
FAkIkG CITIZENSHIP
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. October 16.-Alien
boot1eggers deal in immigration
papers in an effort to obtain by frau
dulent means citizenship documents
to prevent deportation in case they
are convicted OF other illegal activi-
ties, James G. Davis. Secretary of
Labor, charged in an address here
yesterday before a gathering of fed
eral officials of northern California.
Every foreign bootlegger is also a
dope peddler," he declared, "and it is
up to every branch of the federal
government to fight them
At Ellis Island. he said, bootleggers
have been found trafficking in GER
tificates of arrival. so they may petit
tion for naturalization without the
necessary preliminary fve-year resi-
dence in this country. BY bribing
immigrants to give up these certif-
Gates, he added, the bootlieggers have
circumvented the government and
have obtained fraudulent citizenship
papers for themselves and have bar
red the immigrants from ever becom-
ing naturaliZed citizens.
Evening star., 1923-10-16

declared that never in the history
or our government have we had q
more honest law officer" He added
that Mr.; Beck, as much as any other
person, had helped to put teeth" into
the prohibition act.
Main Points Stressed.
High spots" in the message" of
the conference to the country included
these declarations:
The Volstead act must never be
amended by its enemies. Members OF
Congress and of state legislatures who
violate the laws should be retired to
private life.
The American people are impatient
at the disgrace" which attends the
successful operation of rum runners,
and ask President Coolidge to place
every available craft and agency to
police the shores.
The states should face the respon-
sibility OF doing their share in the en-
forcement OF prohibition.
People Held Responsible.
On the people rests the ultimate re-
sponsibility for law enforcement.
"A grave responsibility rests on the
courts to compel obedience by those
who. by open violation of laws, are
bringing the administration of justice
into disrepute.
a request to the press not to per-
init its news columns, editorial pages
Va IT'S IdI lOOilS OF W Dc
used to promote disreSpect for law or
To hold up to ridicule and contempt
the Constitution and the law.
Our final appeal is to the people of
this country the message" con-
cludes. "Complacency must give
place to a militant spirit which shall
awaken the conscience of the coun-
try"
Demand Ample Force.
Through a report of its policy COM
mittee, the conference went on rec
ord as declaring that If $500 men
and S1O,000000 q year are not Sufh-
cient to enforce the prohibition act,
there must be provided by the gov
ernment whatever force of men and
whatever amount of money may be
necessary.
Another declaration of policy ap-
proved was that il the cooperation
of other nations in breaking up rum
running off the coast could not be had
the American government should
take positive. aggressive action to
disperse the lowering rum runners.
even at the risk of protest from other
nations"
TT is unthinkabIe" the declaration
! added. that the government of a
great people shall be openly and per-
sistsntly defied by what is known to
be an organized conspiracy between
the citizens OF other nations and ac-
country to violate the laws OF our
country"
Education is Planned.
To carry on the work of education
begun by this conference II was de-
cided to appoint a committee of 1,000
to cooperate with agencies already
in the field.
Other rccommenda tions approved
included:
A nationwide call that Sunday
January 6. be observed as prohibition
and law enforcement day.
A united community campaign in
every city, town and village to sup
port aggressively the local, state and
federal authorities in law enforce
ment.
The presentation of the question OF
law enforcement i'll the schools, col
leges and universities.
The holding OF law enforcement
mass meetings in twenty or more OF
the great centers of the nation at the
earliest possible dates, with similar
meetings later in villages towns and
other cities.
Evening star., 1923-10-16
HEADS METHODIST BODY.

SIOUX CITY. Iowa, October 16.--
Mrs. Wilbur p. Thirkield of Cam
bridge, Mass, was reelected presi-
dent of the women's Home Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, which closes it's national
meeting here today. Mrs. May Leo
nard Woodruff Of Allendale, N. j..
corresponding secretary, and other
officers were also reelected.
Evening star., 1923-10-16
NOTED MUNICH SURGEON
FLYS TO TROTSKY'S AID
Rr the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October ia dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph Company
from Munich today says that Dr.. Fer
geon, has left for Moscow in an air
plane. to attend Leon Trotsky. war
minister of Soviet Russia, who is suf-
fering from cancer of the stomach"
Evening star., 1923-10-16
Present and Prospective
Motor Car Owners
Will Want the October 21st issue OF
Tbe Sunday Sta1,

Concident with the opening of the Fall Automo-
bile Show The Sunday Star will present an elaborate
Automotive Section.
1t will be a complete index to the Automobile Show
and an invaluable guide for those contemplating the
purchase of a
Following The Stars longtime custom of present
ing the of Motordom in uncoored and un- =
biased manner, there will be special critical review
of Washngton's latest show, together with list OF
the exhibitors and exhibits and special articles covering
every phase of automobilng.
Present and prospective owners will want to
keep the Automotve Section of next Sundays Star for
future reference because will be presentation of the
1924 market for serious minded people who want
to- make mistake when they buy.
AS usual, The Stars motor articles will be
tributed by leading motor car authorities.
There will be an extra heavy demand for The
Sunday Star for October II. An order placed will
insure you copy.
Evening star., 1923-10-16
PRESIDENT TO END
DRY STAND DOUBT

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Evening star., 1923-10-16
SHERRILL DEFENDS
PARK ESTIMATES

CONTINUED from First Page.)