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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
Funeral of Frederick " Sharps and Flats Give
BashfOrd Held Today Memorial to Mrs. OBrlen

The old musical organization
known as Sharps and Flats which
for many years flourished in this
city under the direction of the
late Mrs. Matthew w. 0'Brien
recently closed its affairs with
the disposition of a piano and
the funds derived from its sale
together with a small amount in
bank totaling $40 was formally
turned over to the officials of
the Anne Lee Memorial Home as
a memorial to Mrs. O'Brien.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
Rickenbacher is Bad
Risk For Insurance
CBy United Prcss.D

Detroit, March 6.-Business
may clip the wings of Capt. Ed
die V. Rickenbacker, Americas
best known flyer, it became
known here today.
Rickenbacker, executive of an
automobile manufacturing organ
ization have become a factor IN
the business. His associates
have tried to insure him to che
extent of $1,000, 900, they claim.
Insurance companies refuse to
insure the ace unless he gives up
flying, it is said.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
FINED $50 AND COSTS

Jesse Gilmartin. arrested by
Sergt. Campbell and Policeman
Lawrence Padgett, was fined $50
and So costs in the police court
today following a hearing on a
chase of driving an automobile
while intoxicated and exceeding
the speed limit. The accused
when arraigned entered a plea of
guilty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
Indianapolis Races
Will Be Resumed
IBy United Press)

indianapolis. Ind, March g.
The faous Indianapolis speedway
Will be held on Memorial Day
the usual date.
This was definitely established
today when Indiana state senate
just before adjourning sine die
refused to override the veto of
Governor Warren McCrae, to a
bill preventing commercial
sports, including the classic, 500
mile race being staged on Memor
ial Day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
CONGREGATIONAL MEETING

A meeting Of the congregation
of Trinity NJ. E. Church will be
held at s O'Clock tomorrow night.
All members are urged to be
present as considerable business
of Importance will be up consid-
Grafton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
LENTEN SERVICE

The fourth of the regular
lenten services will be held in
Emmanuel Lutheran Church to-
morrow night at 8 o'clock. The
subject of the discourse will be
'The Cross, a Lesson in Sacri-
fee"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
Introduction viii Mark
Beginning of Real
State Fight
HAVE FULL PROGRAM
Ford introduced Measure
That Would Make Auto
Licenses Payable by
Tonnage of Car
(Ry L. E. COOper)

Richmond, March with the
massage of the resolution IN the
House yesterday after a warm
debate, calling for the fixing OF
tomorrow as the last day on
which bills may be introduced
and with the measure merely
awaiting the concurrence of the
Senate to make it effective il was
predicted today that the prospec-
tive legislation already piling up
for action may include at any
minute the long delayed bond
bill.
Ii was evident that either the
bond bill would be introduced, by
its advocates, making the consid-
Grafton of the limiting resolution
i'm the Senate unnecessary, OF
the proponents of the three cent
gas tax would press the measure
calling for the introduction of all
bills by tomorrow, thus forcing
the hand of the bond issue advo-
Gates. The prospect of such ac-
ton however, seems to worry the
bond advocates but slightly, since
the indications yesterday were
that the bill would be introduced
today or tomorrow anyway and
when it is brought forward the
big guns of the assembly will
open up.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
o. ID. BOAT CLUB

A number of matters of in
terest to it; members will be dis
cussed at a meeting of the Old
Dominion Boat Club which will
be held at & O'Clock tomorrow
night in the rooms of the cham
Der of commerce.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
Alto BUREAU TONIGHT

A meeting of the automobile
bureau of the chamber OF COM
merce will be held at O'Clock
tonight in the rooms of that or
ganization when number OF
matters of Importance will be
acted on.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
Plans For Celebration Of
City's l75th Birthday In
1925 Now Draw Attention
!. 2 = :. :. = = = = = :
Turks Given
Peace Offer
(By United Press)

:. Constantinople, March g.
+ Premier Poincare has made
!. a new peace offer to the
= Turks, presumably similar :
= to a recent note to Musta-
:. pha Kemal, Constantinople
:. newspapers reported today.
< Serious desertions from
i. the Turkish army are said
= to have taken place.
:. :. :. !. i. + 1. !. !. = !. !. =
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06

The Capital took on a lone
some appearance today with Con-
gress adjourned. the members
scattered to the forty-eight states,
and with the President on his
way to Florida and several men,
bers Of the cabinet out of town.
Secretary of State Hughes has
abandoned his projected trip TO
South America because of the
seriousness Of the European sit
uation but if there is a promise
of a quoting down in the Ruhr
he too will take an extended va
cation this spring and summer.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover
plans to ge west shortly and Sec
retary of Labor Davis will fill
a number of speaking engage
ments that will take him to va
rious parts of the country.
In the meantime, Senator Harry
S. New formally became Post
master General New at ten o'clock
yesterday morning, succeeding
DR.. Hubert d. Work who an hour
later became Secretary Of the In
terror to fill the place of Al
bert B. Fall, resigned. Senator
New was sworn in in the pres
ence of number of his collea-
yues who remained for the cere-
money, large group Of hewspa-
permen and the higher officials of
the Post Office Department.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06
Property in Batches Not
Exceeding $4,000
to go Back
CAPITAL LONESOME
New and Work Are Busi-
ly Engaged Getting to
Work on Their New
Jobs.
~.--'--.--sr
D. Isaac Ge5g)

Washington. Ma''F D. Clic y.
the few bills enacted irto law
by the Sixty-Se7enth Coneress
that gained the approval of Of
fetal Washington was the bill for
the return of alien property up
to an amount not to exceed SlO.-
/ 900 for each individual. Colonel
Thomas W. Miller, alien property
custodian halls it as the 1sr
economical and wise act Of
body.
As finally signed by the I Isl
dent, the bill will divorce the
Alien Property Custodian from
the custody of the property o. ~
proximately 93 per cent of no
individuals whose property has
been seized, by the return o. all
trusts of the value Of S10,tHt
and under, and like amount ot
trusts whose value exceeds hs
amount. The bill also prov ias
that all income accruing to he
various trusts from and ate'
the passage of the act, and u ~
the amount of $4,000 per ape
mum, should be paid to the ori-
ginal owners of the property
Those citizens of California Fc
were denied full justice by OPP
! tain German insurance compa er
on their losses in the great
in 1906, will receive a glim >f
of hope in the provision plf a.
in the bill in the Senate, wi b
provides that no insurance c
pany shall receive any Of ife
benefits, of the Alien Proper
Return Bill until they have sa is-
factorily settled the claims of
their policy holders in Calf Pre-
MIA.
Other features of the bill ae
of an administrative charac'
with the exception of the P
vision barring fugitives from J
tice from receiving any proper
This means that Bergdoll
others like him must return go
take their Punishment, or relin-
quish their money which is now
held by the Custodian.
7 The Harding Administration is
thoroughly alive to the question
of American claims against Ger
many, which are now being ad-
Indicated by the Mixed Claims
Commission sitting in Washing
ton. At the same time this Ad-
ministratiun makes no secret of
the fact that the confiscation of
private property to pay national
debts is not approved, but the
residue of the German property
will be held and administered
by Alien Property Custodian un-
der the terms of the Knox-Port-
cr Peace Resolution, specifically
directing that the alien property
be retained by this Government
until such time as the former
enemy governments make suit
able provisions for the satisfac-
ton of the claims of Americans
against these governments.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-03-06

Richmond, March 6 - Definite
measures setting forth cOmpre-
hensive program Of road con-
struction in Virginia, and meth
cd of financing the program, will
be introduced into both houses of
the special session of the general
assembly within a short period
by the bond issue advocates, it is
understood from reliable source
today.
One of the leaders of the bond
issue forces in the senate is quot
ed as saying that action may be
expected from the bond advo-
Gates ranks on short notice now,
1t is reported that the bond issue
forces have been holding back
their proposed legislation pur-
posely, in order that the mem
bers of the general assembly
might consider the various plans
of financing state highway con-
Struction in the order suggested
in the message of the governor.
In the meantime, other legisla'
tion designed to take care OF the
road building problem has beer
advanced. The three-cent gaso
line tax bill was introduced ina
the house yesterday afternoon, by
Thomas w. Ozlin, and George B
Keel, Of Rockingham. Robert
l.. Jeffreys, of Meckleuberg, anC
Edward Fl. Gibson, of Culpeper
sponsored a measure amending
section 2460. code of Virginia
authorizing the governor to eff
feet temporary loans to conStruc
roads of the state highway sys
TEN.
Colonel Alvin 0wsley, nationa
commander of the American lie
gion, made brief address befor
the general assembly on "Amert
canism."
Considerable discussion was pr,
cipitatcd in the senate at il
short session yesterday after
noon, when Senator Layman il
troduced u bill calling for tf
repeal of the Robertson act, whic
allows the borrowing of funds fC
road construction ahead Of II
schedule of appropriations.
Senator Goods, Garrett ar
Jefrreys introduced a discussion
provoking measure when the
brought forward a bill authO
izing the governor to borro
money for highway constructic
in anticipation of the mill tax.
AS had been anticipated, a res
luton has been introduced for Il
limitation of the time for intr
ducing bills to tomorrow. NJ
Gibson, of Culpeper, sponsored Il
resolution in the house, and ma
a warm speech, urging that !
more time be wasted.
A measure designed to ma
automobile license fees Payab
in proportion to the weight
Continued on page sikh
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23
Race Between Farmer and Boil Weevil

lizer at least one-half bale on each acre.
Plant good seed of an improved,
early-maturing variety when danger
from frost and cold is past. The plant
ing of seed Of a single variety, by en-
tire communities and counties, is urged.
Rows should be only wide enough to
allow proper cultivation.
Give early and frequent cultivation
and continue until fairly late in the
season. Care should be taken, particu-
larly in the later part of the season, to
cultivate shallow and not too close to
the row.
If weeyils are numerous when the
cotton is beginning to square, destroy
all possible adult weevils. 1t is prob
able that only at this stage the mo-
lasses and calcium arsenate mixture
can be used effectively.
Since the weevil will hibernate sue
ceSsfully not only in woodland but in
any trash or rubbish, it is good prac-
tice to burn such situations around
the cotton fields during the winter.
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23

NT ASHINGTON-A considerable
~ segment of the Republican side
Of the senate would like to bring Presi-
dent Harding to it's own way of think
ing-cut loose entirely from any con-
nection with European affairs and fol-
lowing policy Of splendid isolation y
A few members of the group have
such dislike for Mr.. Hughes that they
are counting on making the drive so
determined that Mr.. Hughes may see
his way to leaving the Harding cab
met. 1t is they who are responsible
for the circulation of a rumor that Mr..
Hughes was about to resign.
"The story that I intend to resign
has not particle Of truth in it," said
Secretary Hughes. 81 have had no
disagreement with the President or
Ambassador Harvey. We have the
closest and most cordial relations"
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23
Ancient FortificatIons.

The explorers who attempted to
scale Mount Everest discovered among
other things, several ancient fortifica-
tions built in unexpected places in the
high Tibetan mountain valleys, $4,000
feet above sea level. Partly to protect
the fields from being washed away by
mountain freshets and partly to guard
against raids by enemy tribes, walls
20 feet high and often more than a
mile long, guarded by strange round
watch towers, were constructed at in
tervals at the head of these fertile
valleys.
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23
Grip'M Git va If Y Don't Watch Out

A WAVE of grip secondary to the
4 influenza epidemic of 1918-19 is
sweeping the country with unpleasant
but not widespread fatal results, ac-
cording to reports to the public health
service. Surgeon General Cumming
explained that the disease has been
most severe in the southern section
Of the country, although spreading so
generally that it has become prevalent
in all parts Of the United States.
Infuerza proper, Doctor Cumming
said, Is not much more in evidence
than usual. A modification Of it seems
to be followed by less pneumonia than
in the cases of influenza, but with
much prostration. The common name
Of the wave would be grip" the sur
geon general said, but 1t could also be
called influenza in milder form.
Symptoms at first, it was said, are
similar to a severe cold, but they de
velop frequently into a fever, some
times rising to high temperatures
When this fever begins, officials Of
the public health service said, is the
time to call the doctor. The first
thing to do when victim feels that
his slight cold Is developing more
serious proportions is to take, no
chances, officials said, but to go to
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23
Oil on the Troubled Political Waters

0IL, the international trouble maker
" may provide the fuel for fires Of
domestic politics before long. Senator
LaFollette, who figured in the battles
waged by the insurgents in the middle
of the Taft administration, is on the
hunt for disclosures that will justify
the assertions Of his group that the
present administration has favored
private interests as against public well
fare.
the governments negotiations with
the Sinclair Oil company with respect
to oil leases in the famous Teapot
Dome region is in process as a con-
sequence of a senate resolution of in
uuiry but the testimony being sought
by the Wisconsin senator doesn't turn
upon the details Of the lease itself, but
upon certain collateral phases of the
deal itself, the purchase and sale of
securities which were affected by the
making of the lease.
President Harding has let it be
known that he stands by what Sec
retary Fall of the Interior department
did in making the lease. The view Of
Mr.. Fall has been that he made the
best contract possible to get the oil
out Of Teapot Dome for the benefit of
the American navy. Mr.. Harding feels
the record viii prove this and Secre-
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23

bed, and stay there until danger of
the fever is past.
The most outstanding symptom of
the wave of grip, Doctor Cumming
points out, seems to be the extreme
prostration, or feeling of weakness
and fatigue.
Alarmed at the spread of pneumonia
and influenza, Health Commissioner
Herman Bundesen of Chicago sounded
a warning "to watch your health" He
said, ITO maintain health a person
should sleep eight hours, walk mile
every morning, breathe deeply, break
up colds, evaporate one gallon Of
water every day for each room in the
house, bathe daily in hot water, eat
a balanced diet and keep the windows
open In bedrooms and dress warmly"
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23

Under the boil weevil conditions,
~ the prime necessity Is to mature
the largest crop of cotton in the short
est time: 1t is race between the
farmer and the boil weevil. SO the
farmer may have every possible ad-
vantage in the race, some of the best
qualified cotton specialists in the coun-
try have collaborated in preparing
recommendations which include the
following:
Select for cotton planting only
land capable Of producing with the
use of reasonable amount of ferti-
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23
Secretary Hughes to Keep on the JOB

With the Hughes resignation rumor
there was coupled a story that there
have been differences lately between
President Harding and Mr.. Hughes
over policies connected with the
French occupation Of the Ruhr valley.
One of the reasons for the present
display of hostile feeling toward the
secretary of state on the part of GER
tain senators is that he is suspected of
having too kindly sympathy for the
principle underlying the League Of Ma
tions, not with the league itself, but
with international conferences de-
signed to adjust differences between
governments and pave the way for per-
manent peace.
The course Of the Harding admins
tration in keeping troops on the
Rhine, in maintaining an observer with
the reparations commission, in sending
official observers" to the Lausanne
conference on Near Eastern affairs, in
having Ambassador Harvey sit with
the allied supreme council and Am
bassador Herrick sit with the allied
council of ambassadors, and in sug-
gesting informally that a commission
of international financiers should un-
dertake to fix the amount Of repara-
tions Germany would be able to pay,
has not been pleasing to most of the
old irreconcilable group in the senate.
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23
Luck Never the Main Thinu.

The common plea of the faint-heart-
ed is that success depends mainly on
luck 1t is not so, and the man who
is content to wait until the gods
shower on him strokes of good luck
will probably wait long time. There
are men and women like candles who
must serve others, even to their own
hurt; who light the way for all, but
are themselves consumed in the serv-
ice. 1t is while you are patiently toll
ing at the little tasks of life that the
meaning and shape of the great whole
of life dawns upon you.
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23

tary Fall himself has been most anx-
ious that every fact of the negotiations
will be made public. He has insisted
from the time the subject was first
mentioned in the senate that it be
prOhed to the bottom.
Ever since the lease was made there
have been vague rumOrs current that
various persons who were ION the in
side" knew about the making of the
Teapot Dome lease and were able to
profit accordingly.
When Mr.. Fall resigned, the Presi-
dent offered him a place on the SUI
preme court. There was a mark of
confidence in itself, but it can be stat
ed positively that the President holds
Mr.. Fall in such high esteem he would
like to have him remain in the cabi-
net
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23
Taking No Chances.

Taking Nc Chances.
"Why do you stop when you see
that bore coming?" asked Hank Ip-
pank.
81 want to see which way he is
going before 1 move another step" de-
clared Herb Blurb.
The Winslow mail., 1923-02-23
CHARACTER TELLS
THE STORY!

People throughout this country are
giving more thought to hygiene and to
the purity of remedies on the Market
but no one doubts the purity of Doctor
Pierce's vegetable medicines, for they
have been so favorably known for over
fifty years that everyone knows they are
Just what they are claimed to be. These
medicines are the result of long research
by we'll known physician, R. " Pierce,
M. D., who compounded them from
health giving herbs and roots long used
in sickness by the Indians DR.. Pierce's
reputation as leading and honored
citizen of Buffalo, is sufficient guaran-
tee for the purity of that splendid tonic
and blood purifier, the Golden Medical
Discovery, and the equally fine nerve
tonic and system builder for women's
ailments, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
tion. Send l0c for trial pkg. tablets to
DIR. Pierce's Invahds Hotel, Buffalo, NY.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-06-08
Uncle Sam Needs Many New Buildings

that he wanted advice on how to han
die the situation, which up to that
time had him "stumped." One rented
building under his department AMI
which houses certain section Of the
income tax division is in such need of
repair that the building has actually
become unsafe.
Secretary Mellon was followed by
other cabinet officers, each with their
gloomy accounts of housing conditions
of their respective departments. Each
gave the opinion that the problem is
becoming worse each year, and that
already it had been found difficult to
efficiently carry on the work Of the
government.
Postmaster General New, in describ-
ing the problems of his department, is
known to have told the gathering that
the demands for better housing facili-
ties for post offices throughout the
United States are most extraordinary
and insistent.
1t was pointed out that the normal
business Of the department has In
creased more than $50 per cent. The
buildings are still being used through
out the country which were either
erected or rented for the use of the
department as far back as fifty years
ago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-06-08
Wedding in High Life Is Postponed"

News Of the canceling of the mar
riage shocked Washington society.
Dinners and dances in honor of the
bridal party had been given every eve
ming for a week.
Elinor Hoyt, it will be remembered,
first married Philip Hichborn, son OF
the late Admiral Hichborn, leaving
him and their infant son nearly fifteen
years ago to elope with Horace Wylie,
man nearly twenty years her senior,
married and the father of four chill
dren.
Within a year Mr.. Wylie and Mrs.
Hichborn returned and left together a
few months later, Mr.. Wylie in the
interval having adjusted his business
affairs and settled nearly all his prop
erty on his wife.
About a year later Philip HichbOrn
shot himself. Shortly afterward Mrs.
Wylie divorced her husband, who mar
ried Mrs. Hichborn with the least pos
sibIe delay.
For the last few years Mrs. Wylie
has devoted herself to writing and has
become widely known as a poet. Re
Gently it was reported that she was
about to marry William Rose Benet,
who denied it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-06-08
acation Season Brings Forest Fires

"Will we this year have learned our
lesson of carer" asks Col. w. B. Gree
ley. chief of the forest service, cor will
hasty automobiles travel through the
forest this summer, leaving oil-soaked
rags, cigar and cigarette stubs and
burning matches in their wake? Will
campers again build fires without re-
gard to common sense rules of safety
VIII hunters and fishermen forget that
unless they exercise reason in pre-
venting fires they will no longer have
game to hunt and streams TO whip1
Will farmers who desire to clean up q
wood lot or field by burning the under.
brush and slash fail to use care?
"And there are some who will DELHI
erately set fire to the woods because
of fallacious belief that by so doing
insect pests can be destroyed, or that
better grazing lands can be obtained.
These are the principal classes of of.
tenders who are doing their bit to re-
duce the discriminating timber sup
ply of the United States. These are
the classes of people to whom the
United States government wants to
teach fire-prevention lessons"