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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-18
CHILD SMoTHERED

When Mir. and Mrs. Andrew Hil- Hard of Monrovia awakened at their home yesterday morn ing they found their five-months- old baby girl. that had been sleeping be- tween them. dead of suffocation. The child had been smolnered under the cover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-18
FARMERS BEHIND

The continued rains are greatly hindering the farmers in their farm ing operations. They rarely have more than one or two days in each week in which they can work on their farms. but they are making good use of all the time they can get.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-18
ORDERED TO BRING WHALE INTO COURT
Mississippi Marshal Faces His
 Biggest Task

BILONI, Miss April 1.-The United States marshal here faces the biggest job of his career. He has been ordered by the federal court of this district to seize and bring Into court a whale weighing approximate ly , tons. found off the coast a few weeks ago.
 The court issued the writ of replev- In at the request of Capt. R. Lopez of a fishing boat who claims he dis covered the whale and Is thus entitled to same.
 Captain Lopez, after removing the tusKs of his find, and anchorinE it securely. declares he went to New Orleans to spread the news of his discovery. Returning, he claims lie found employees of a local packing company in possession of the monster. It is to dispossess these persons that Lopez brought the matter to the court for a hearing.
 Lopez, being Louisiana citizen, and the other parties to the litigation residents of this state. the case is one for the federal courts to decide.
 The whale, which was dead when found, is valued at s10.000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-18
REVIVAL PROGRESS

A series of revival services are in progress at tie Methodist church. the Rev. b. W. Hasken doing the preach ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-18
GJAnDsWEy CET DAY

Eighty members of Company D. 13Srd Engineers last night received approximately s1.600 at their quart erly pay distribution.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-17
FRUIT GROWERS OF U. S.
CONVENE HERE ON JULY rs

A serious reduction in the size
of the fruit crop or the Middle At
lantic States since blossoming time
this year will be a principal matter
of discussion by a gathering of
fruit growers, dealers, railroad Of
ficials and others at the City Club
July IS.
The meeting has been called by
the marketing officials of Maryland,
Virginia, Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania and the Department off Agri-
culture and will furnish an oppor-
tunity for exchange of information
on the condition of the apple and
peach crops in those States, COM
posing one of the leading produc-
ton areas of the country.
1t Is noted in an advance an
nouncement that the Maryland
Horticultural Society extends an
invitation to all fruit growers 10
attend summer meetings July -
to be held simultaneously by several
branches at Ringgold, Md, Waynes-
boro, Pa, and Penmar, Pa.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-17
SEEKS MONEY BELIEVES
DEPOSITED IN SIXTIES

POTTSVILLE, Pa, July lin
the first year of the civil war
Abraham Bressler, resident or this
county, is said to have disinherited
his son, Augustus, for enlisting in
the Union army. The father also
is believed to have left a large de-
post in cash with the treasurer OF
Schuylkill county.
Oscar Bressler, of Denver, Col,
son of the disinherited soldier, 10
endeaVoring to uncover the facts
and has written to County Treas
urer Gruhler to ascertain whether
there is anything on deposit to the
credit of the Bressler heirs. The
treasurer is looking up the archives
and also is consulting the recoilec-
ton of oldest residents as to the
transaction.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-17
FINANCIAL
BUsINENR CHANCES

FLOOR CASES-Two, for cigar or drug
store. Fixtures for window dressing.
1913 Good Hope Road Anacostia
- MEN wanted, some mechanically in
clined, with $500 each, as advisors &
directors in $4,000, 900 company. patent
water. motor pulling electric generator
at no cost; also used for all power pur-
pose. Money secured by issue of stock;
$500 to $500. or return in cash within
1 months, game rate. This is no stock
selling scheme. but it is to secure
officers establishing company. Box
219, Times-Herald Office.
DELICATESSEN and soft drink store.
best n. e. location. Doing very good
business. Stock alone worth price own
er is asking Very cheap rent. Reason
for selling. owner leaving city for
Govt. Apply Jarvis & Taylor, Real
Estate, 638 H st. N. E. Lin. 4O5.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-17
AUTOMOBILES
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE
HE BOUGHT A
PEERLESS

You do not have to
know the value of a used
car if you deal with a
reputable concern.
Very easy terms)
1922 Durant ''e. 4-pass. coupe.
1922 Stephens 4-pass. coupe.
1922 Westcott coupe, 4-pass.
1922 Jordan touring, 7-pass.
1921 Peerless 4-pass. coupe.
1921 Peerless Sedan, 7-pass.
1921 Peerless touring, 7-pass.
1920 Peerless touring, 7-pass.
1920 Roamer 5-pass. touring.
1921 Packard 7-pass. touring.
1921 Cadillac coupe, 4-pass.
1921 Peerless limousine, 7-pass.
1920 Hudson coupe, 4-pass.
1920 Peerless 7-pass. sedan.
1918 Peerless touring, 7-pass.
1918 Cadillac 81 coupe, 4-pass.
1918 Cadillac 5-pass touring.
1918 Dodge, touring.
Open Evenings and Sundays.
Peerless Motor Co.
lAth at p N. w.
Main 8077.
LOOK THESE BARGAINS OVER.
Dodge sedan early 1921. .......... $3.50
Peerless s. late 1920; good as new
Dodge sedan 1918. ....--...,.... $250
P 5sqsen AT Ip truck, III ton; two
Rao roadsters (2): 6-cylinder. .... $3.50
Pc tonrinp. 6-cyiinder. $3.50
Marmon; 6-cylinder; 7-passenger $22S
Plenty of others on hand from $50 up.
ROBERT HERSON'S AUTO
EXCHANGE,
First and D SITS. N w. Lincoln 1858.
REAL. VALUES i'm
GOOD USED CARS
WHY'S Knight Touring, $500.
Oakland Coupe, $500.
Dodge 1922 Touring.
Franklin Touring, cheap.
Buick, 80, 5-pass. Touring,
$3.50.
Buick, 1921. 6-cyl. 4-pass.
Coupe.
Buick, 1921, Roadster, $500.
Buick, 1920, Roadster, $3.50.
Buick, 1918, Roadster, $475.
VERY LIBERAL TERMS.
EMERSON 6 ORME
1920 M St. N. w.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-17
RENTALS
APARTMENT & FLATS To
RENT FGREISHRD

HENT ~ NINHHU
CORCORAN ST. n. w, I737-tNear Du-
pond cIrcle) Furnished apt. , rooms
adjoining bath all modern improve
nents for light housekeeping
A ST s. f.. 60S-Parlor bedroom. din
ing room, kitchen, all large rooms.
privat' bath. LIST floor furnished.
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS. Kenyon 81. w
l21G--COmpleteIy furnished housckecp
ing apt. entire floor. rms, priv. b
PHI, cleo, nf. Arcade, adults Col. 1856 =
18TH ST. n. W, l229--2 rms, kitchen.
and bath for rent TO reliable parties
buying furniture. Apply Apt. Al.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
Mr.. Madden and Economy,

Chairman Madden of the House
committee on appropriations, in a
statement published in The Star yes.
terday, feiicitated the government on
the policy it has pursued since the
republicans came into control toward
restoration Of normal state of
government finances. He took occa.
sion TO predict that the incoming Con.
gress will continue this policy OF keep
ing the government ION the substan-
tial and creditable basis of paying its
debts from current revenues"
He pointed out that the republican
Congress, coming into power in 1919,
followed by a republican administra-
ton in full control of all branches
OF the government in 1921, has fol-
lowed a persistent and relentless pro-
gram of reduction in government ex-
penditures that has an overwhelming
influence for good on the entire ma.
ton"
This statement gave Mr.. Madden Il
hook upon which to hang an admoni-
hAoN w S'uhUe,
and individuals which is we'll worth
the earnest consideration OF all par
ties concerned. He went on to say
that what has been done and what is
proposed by the federal government
should be followed all down the line.
The course of the national govern
ment." he said. should be a healthy
object lesson TO the lesser political
subdivisions. Only by their co-opera-
ton can the total aggregate expense
be greatly curtailed. Each individual
must practice thrift and save some.
thing from his income. Each city and
village must keep a rigid hand on its
treasury. Each county and state must
keep its budget down.
These are words OF wisdom from a
wise and far-seeing man, a political
economist, and one who deals with
figures in terms of billions of dollars.
Every individual should take them to
heart. Uncle Sam is setting the ex-
ample, and it is for political subdivi-
sions. the family and the individual
to follow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
Coast-to. Coast Mail Flying.

When one comes to figure on the
time record in the cross-continent
postal flights just undertaken as an
experiment in day-and-night aerial
mail service confusion is apt to be
caused by the time differences by
daylight.saving and by the directions
Of the flights. Thus it is stated that
the westbound mail reached San Fran
cisco from New York in less than the
twenty.eight hours of the schedule
The plane starting with that mail left
Mitchell Field at IL o'clock Tuesday
morning and reached San Francisco
at 6:24 o'clock Wednesday evening.
According to the clocks, therefore,
this mail was 81 hours and "a minutes
in transit. In fact. however, mas
much as it arrived at San Francisco
ut 2:24 pm. New York time. it was
only 81 hours and "a minutes in cross
ing the continent. A west-going plane
has the advantage of flying with the
sun" That is to say. its hours are
longer than those of an east-fying
plane. But in reckoning fight the
clock at the starting point is the
recording instrument. and the length
Of the night in terms Of elapsed time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

leagues say II will be by his own
wish and not at the behest of foes.
A middle west committeeman said TO
this observer that out of the fifty-odd
members of the committee at least
thirty five. a safe majority. can be
modified at any time on behalf of
Mr.. Adams. He is particularly strong
among western politicians. By I'M
written law national chairman
places his resignation in the hands of
presidential nominee, and its ac
ceptance implies no discredit.
x * X X
Col. w. B. Causey of Suffolk. Va,
is one of the national heroes of re-
generated Austria. He has just left
Vienna after four successive years az
technical adviser to the government.
which Is being put on its feet under
league of nations auspices. A prac-
tical railroad engineer and Army Of
ficer. Col. Causey has devoted his en-
orgies to establishing new trade re-
lations between Austria and her
neighbors. He resolutely ignored the
political intrigueS that ragged around
the shrunken empire of the Haps-
burgs. and concentrated on economic
conditions. Causey's immortal achieve
ment was the organization of the food
transport from Trieste to Vienna in
the spring of 1919, via Jugoslavia and
Italy. The Austrian capital faced star
walton and it was only Causey's
sledge- hammer methods that saved II.
1t was the result of a suggestion by
Herbert Hoover that Causey event
ually entered the new Austria s
service.
Few European ambassadors ac-
credited to the United States could
have inspected Ellis Island with the
expert eye of Sir Auckland Geddes.
The British ambassador is a doc
tor by profession, specializing in
anatomy and surgery. He gained his
NJ. D. in his native Scotland and then
did postgraduate work in England
and Germany. His last position be-
fore entering British politics and
diplomacy was as professor of
anatomy at McGill University, Mon
pal.
When the District of Columbia
oliver Twist-like, asks for more in
the way of appropriations, and should
it carry its case to the White House
it ought to find a friend in Bascom
Slemp. President Coolidge's execu-
tive secretary, while In Congress. was
a member of the appropriations sub
committee of the House COMMITTEES on
appropriations. He knows the Dis
tricts financial needs from A to z.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
Debts and Reparations.

Premier Poincare's reply to Lord
Curzon's note on the reparations ques-
ton involves an indirect, Yet never
theless pointed. invitation to the
United States TO join the effort at
settlement of the German obligations
question. In any event, NJ. Poincare
says France will not be able to pay
her debts TO Great Britain and the
United States until after she has re-
ceived what is her due from Germany.
American participation in the discus
sions is essential to any settlement.
Since Great Britain, as part Of the
general reduction of the Preparations
claims and debts, calls for France to
torego all of a certain class OF bonds
from Germany. Americas interest as
creditor in Frances financial pros
perity makes ii Indispensable first 10
obtain Americas approval before any
such arrangement is made.
Thus is the effort made to use the
American loan, which France has
made no move as yet TO pay as a
the reparations settlement. II you
want your money. says NJ. Poincare,
in effect, TO this country, under cover
OF note to Great Britain, you must
come in and take a hand at getting
our money from Germany and making
Great Britain cooperate with us in
that endeavor.
This country will not be brought
into the Preparations situation by
such an agency as the debts which
are owing TO it from the continental
powers. Its motive for participating
if it does participate at all. will be to
relieve Europe and the world from the
menace OF a distressing and danger
Gus disruption. 1t has already pro-
posed, by informal but definite sug-
gestion, that the reparations question
be submitted to an international eco.
nomic commission 10 determine the
amount Germany is capable Of pay
ing and in what terms. That pro-
posal is not acceptable to France. The
United States can so no farther toward
participation.
To put the proposal of American
participation in the reparations mat
ter upon the basis of the debts is to
seek to make this country a partner
in the financial business Of the Euro
pean powers. The United States
wants its debts paid of course. 1t
needs the money, perhaps not so badly
as do the debtor powers, but badly
enough to warrant it in making terms
that will permit the debtors to pay.
But it does not need its money so
badly that it will offer it's services as
a mediator, Or a negotiator, for the
settlement of the German reparations,
especially as there can be no guaran-
tee that its services would be accept
ed by all or would be effective.
The debts to the United States and
the reparations question may be cou-
pied in the European mind, but they
are not inseparably associated in the
American mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
Severity of Penalties
Not Measured by Crime

The law does not take into con-
sideration the size of the crime, al
ways. The other day a twenty-three-
year-old New York girl was convicted
of grand larceny. the extent of her
crime being that she stole e pocket
book containing cents from another
woman. She was caught in the act
the story says, and turned over to the
police. The judge gave her a sentence
of five years in Auburn prison.
The point about all this Is that the
law looks upon crime in a broad and
unsentimental manner. The mere
theft of cents would not seem to
warrant Imprisonment for five years,
but the law looks a little beyond the
size of the theft and perceives the
possibilities which might have been
within the power Of the convicted girl.
Little crimes not infrequently bring
overtowering penalties. 1t looks as
though sufficient object lessons had
been furnished to warn men and
women of the consequences of mis-
demeanors, but police still manage to
keep busy because people will not
learn an impressive truth.--Canton
News
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
BY THE MARauIsE DE FoNTENoY


That Switzerland. in spite of its
many centuries of existence as a re-
public and the democracy of her gov
eminent, which strictly prohibits the
acceptance of any orders of knight
hood or any nobiliary titles by her
officials under the penalty of immedi-
ate dismissal. and even by her private
citizens, nevertheless possesses a
hereditary nobility OF her own-and
not OF any mushroom kinds re-
called by the announcement OF the
formal engagement OF Miss Helen
Gould, daughter of Frank ]. Gould by
his first wife, and who after her par
ents' divorce was brought up by her
aunt and godmother, Mrs. Finley j.
Sheppard, TO young Barren Jean
| Daniel de Montenach of the canton
Of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was
an attache of the Swiss legation in
Paris during the war and for some
time past has been a member OF the
secretariat of the league of nations
at Geneva.
that in most of the mi-independent
cantons embraced in the confedera-
tion known as the Helvetian Republic,
dates from the domination of the
Dukes of Zaehringen. one of whom.
Berchtold ". founded both Fribourg
| twelfth century. and from the Haps-
hurgs. who inherited Fribourg and
Bern through the marriage of Anna.
sole heiress of the last of the Dukes
| of Hapsburg. in 1918. And, although a
couple of hundred years later. after d
brief spell of subsection to the SOW
ereignty of the Dukes of Savoy, Fri
| bourg Joined the Swiss confederation.
some five centuries ago. yet the pa
! triciate of Switzerland may be said
! to be indebted for its nobilng dig
mites almost entirely to the Haps-
nurgs and to the old-time sovereign
Dukes Of Ia ehringen, who also reigned
! over what was. until 1918, the Ger
man Grand puchy of Baden.
Thus the title of baron borne by
/ the future husband of Miss Helen
Gould was bestowed upon his ances-
| tor by Duke Berchtold V in 1888, that
! is to say, at the time Of the crusades.
and. therefore. his people are thor
oughly justified in claiming to be one
! of the most ancient houses OF Swiss
| aristocracy. The latter includes a
| number of counts and even full
! fIedged prince. who lived all the year
I
/ bach within easy driving distance of
the city of Fribourg, and whose pat
ent of nobility bears the date OF 1874
! and the sign manual of Emperor
Sigismund. A couple Of hundred
owning the castle. namely the Baron
Won Diesbach. was advanced to the
dignity of count of the Holy Roman
Empire, which, in due course, was ex-
tended to all the members Of his
family, and in 1922 Emperor Charles
VI bestowed upon Count John Fred :
erick Won Diesbach of the Castle of
Diesbach the hereditary title Of
| Prince Of st. Agatha, together with
| extensive estates in Sicily. for his
services in commanding the imperial
army there.
X !: x y
| All the members of the Diesbach
family today make use of the title of
count. some of them being settled in
France, others in Germany, others
again in Belgium. but it is only the
head of the entire family, Count Maxi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23

is measured by the number OF minutes
lently on clock carried. IL that were
possible, on one plane throughout the
journey.
In the case OF east-hying planes.
though the speeds are the same and
the actual record of distances unaf-
fected, the apparent elapsed time In a
flight is longer. Still, il it were pos.
sible to start two planes simultaneous
ly. one from the eastern and one from
the western point, and they We're to
fly at precisely the same speeds, by
the same routes, and make the same
distances in the same conditions of
air, they would land at their respec-
tive stations in precisely the same
lapse of actual time; that is to say, in
the same number of minutes.
These tests, though not wholly sue.
cesSful, iRasmuch as the western
mail was interrupted at Cheyenne,
and mail only from that point was
carried 10 New York, mark an ex-
traordinary advance in practical
aerial transportation. The westbound
flights were completely successful.
The eastbound flights We're not quite
complete owing to the gap west Of
Cheyenne. But the whole test was
SO close to perfect performance that
it may be said that continuous day
andnight mail flying has been demon
strated as practical, opening the pros
pect of regular mail service between
the two coasts on a two,day basis, in
Guiding terminal deliveries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-23
Funds for Psychic Study.

The chair of psycholic phenomena at
Stanford University has received
bequest of 100000 from the estate of
Thomas w. Stanford Of Melbourne,
Australia who was a brother of the
late Leland Stanford. The fund will
be used in efforts to establish whether
there is or can be communication be-
tween the living and the dead. 1t is
known that there are departments Of
psychology at many seats Of learning,
but the study of psychology is some.
thing different from the study Of that
which passes under the name OF
spiritualism. Whether ''psycholic
phenomena" as taught at Stanford,
includes "spiritualism" cannot be said
off-hand, but the bequest indicates
that it does. or that it will include ex-
periments in spiritualism. The read.
ing world is tolerably informed of the
activities Of the Society Of Psychical
Research, the principal aim Of which
is to prove, if it can be proved by
scientific processes, that there may be
communication between the living and
dead.
Belief in the existence and survival
Of the soul or the spirit has no doubt
been held since the beginning of the
human race. It is almost universally
held today. Belief in the presence and
activities of spirits is very old. His.
torians of spiritualism claim antiquity
for their belief. and say that appari-
tons, inspirations and visions record.
ed in old, chronicles were spiritualistic
manifestations. They set far back In
English history what they claim was q