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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-21
MISCELLANEOUS

FOR SALE-Jersey COW; low and
high wagon; barn; Ford car; 16 lots
within blocks of square, from 5000
up, or trade for small farm near a
town. John Heiliger, City. 5p2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-21
Classified Advertisements
PAPER HANGING, ETC.

PAPER HANGING and Decorating
done by ]. P. Cohoe Work guaranteed
Estimates furnished on request. Bell
phone 120-R, Lancaster, Wis. 3p2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-21

FOR SALE-Sound work horse, aged
Z. Charles Voelz, Rt. 4, Lancaster,
Wis. 4tfc
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-03-21
CORDWOOD, LUMBER, ETC.

FIRST CLASS CORDWOOD for sale,
sawed or in cordwood length. Phone
at house or Office. l.. u. Eastman. 39tf
Evening star., 1923-01-30
BILL PERM|TSD. c.
] RAILWAY MERGER
Measure Allows One Com
pany to Own Stock in
Another.

Merger of certain street railway
corporations in the District of Co
lumbia would be authorized under a
Dill introduced In the House yesterday
by Representative Hammer, demo-
erat, of North Carolina, a member of
the House District committee,
His bill proposes that "any corpora
tion having a franchise to operate
street cars In the District OF Colum-
bia may acquire and hold the shares
OF the capital stock of any ether COR
poration having a franchise to oper-
ate street cars in the District, and
may issue shares OF preferred capital
stock or bonds for the purpose Of ac-
curing any such shares. provided that
preferred shares or bonds issued un-
der authority OF the act shall not be
sold for less than their par value"
The bill provides also that in cases
where bonds or shares Of preferred
capital stock issued under the author
ity OF this act are exchanged for
other shares of preferred stock, the
bonds or shares SO exchanged shall
not bear a greater amount of annual
interest than the shares for which
they were exchanged.
This bill was referred to the House
District committee.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
.S.ANX|OUS TOSEHLE
PORTO R|CAN TROUBLE
Officials Wish to End Dispute
Between the Governor and
the People.
By the Associated Press.

Anxiety of administration officials
to bring about betterment of con-
ditions in Porto Rico. particularly be-
tween the island government and the
people, and to assign that task as the
first responsibility of the governor
OF Porto Faco, was revealed Yesterday
as one of the subjects under considera-
tion in connection with existing dis
satisfaction, on the part Of some
island residents over the admins
tration of Gov. z. Mont Reilly.
Gov. Reilly called upon Secretary
Weeks yesterday, but declined to make
any statement regarding the confer
ence or to indicate whether he would
resign his post and remain in the
United States or return to Porto
Rico. 1t was learned, however, that
Mr.. Reilly would confer with Presi-
dent Harding in the immediate future.
and that no announcement as TO the
Porto Rican governorship would be
made prior to that conference.
The President has been given a
complete report as to conditions on
the island. which, in the opinion Of
some OF his advisers. require serious
attention in connection with any de-
cision as TO whether Gov. Reilly is to
retain his post
Evening star., 1923-01-30
SON WEDS;;
SURPRISE TO PARENTS

Without the knowledge of his par
ents. Ernest C. Smoot, twenty-one-
ycar-old son of Senator and Mrs.
Smoot OF Utah, was married yesterday
afternoon at Rockville, Md, to Miss
Martha c. Gearing of this city.
The ceremony, which was performed
by Rev. Philip r.. Wagner, Baptist
clergyman, eliminated romance
which Is said to have had its in
ception when the young couple were
attending George Washington Uni
verBty more than a year ago. The
brides mother. Mrs. w. c. Gearing,
accompanied the couple to Rock Vile
and witnessed the ceremony.
When informed Of the marriage of
her son Mrs Smoot manifested great
surprise. declaring she knew that he
was engaged to the Gearing girl. but
was unaware that they had been wed.
Friends of the couple at the Capitol,
where they had been seen often to-
gether. likewise were surprised when
they heard OF the marriage.
Young Smoot was a former stude mt
at Western High School and later at
tended George Washington Univer-
sity, where he met Miss Gearing. who
Is twenty years old. After the cere-
mony they returned to the city.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
C0L0RED MAN GUILTY
ON CHARGE OF RAPE

I'VE agree as to his guilt, but can
not agree as to the penalty" said the
foreman of the jury in Criminal
Division / yesterday afternoon, when re-
porting on the case of Samuel Max
Brown, colored, charged with raping
Mrs. Florence r. Wilson. white. De-
cember last, near Sth and 1 streets
southwest
"A verdict of guilty will be record
ed" said Justice Stafford.
The verdict, as accepted by the
court, saves the life of Brown, as the
law requires that the jury must add
the words with the death penalty"
to its verdict. The maximum sentence
now faced by Brown is thirty years In
the penitentiary.'
Brown, it is charged, robbed Mrs
Wilson and dragging her to a Sc
cluded spot held knife at her
throat while he assaulted her. Her
face was cut in two places.
> Assistant United States Attorney
Emerson conducted the prosecution.
while Attorneys Thomas Beckett and
3. Jackson defended the prisoner by
appointment of the court.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
BLISS IS NOMINATED
MINISTER 10 SWEDEN
Third Assistant Secretary of State
Named to Succeed
Morris.

! Robert Woods. Bliss of New York &
third assistant secretary of state, wask
nominated by President Harding yester-
day to be minister to Sweden, sue.
ceeding Ira Nelson Morris, who re4
Gently resigned.
J. Butler Wright of Wyoming, who
has been in the diplomatic service
for a number of years, was nominated
third assistant secretary to succeed
Mr.. Bliss.
Mr.. Bliss has been third assistant
secretary since March, 1921, and by
virtue of that Office has welcomed for
the State Department a number of
distinguished foreign visitors on their
arrival in the United States.
Born in ST. Louis in 1875, Mr. Bliss
attended Harvard University, going
to Porto Rico after his graduation in
1900 as private secretary to the gov
ernor. In 1903 he was appointed
consul at Vienna. and the following
year went to Petrograd as second sec
retary of embassy. Later diplomatic
assignments took him to Brussels and
Buenos Aires. From 1919 TO 1920 he
was stationed at Paris, first as secrc-
tary and later as counselor OF en-
bassy. On his return TO the United
States in April, 1920, Mr.. Bliss was
made chief of the State Department
division of western European affairs
Mr.. Wright is now serving as a
member of the Brazilian Exposition
Commission, having gone TO Rio Ja-
metro after serving during the Wash
ington arms conference as an expert
adviser to the American commission
ers. He is forty-five years old, and a
graduate OF Princeton. He has been
stationed at various foreign capitals
since entering the diplomatic service.
and returned from London, where he
was counselor at the American en-
bassy, to act as an adviser during the.
arms conference.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
AUTO 0DR|VER HELD
in WOMAN'S DEATH

Samuel A. King. coiored, TAG l25
street southeast. driver OF a touring
car that knocked down and killed
Representative Fuller of Illinois. near
18th and. B streets northeast, Saturday
afternoon. was held for the action of
the grand ury yesterday. at an in
quest held at the morgue. Assistant
United States Attorney A. y. Cres-
mont appeared for the government,
while Attorney Tracey L. Jeffords ap-
peared as representative of relatives
Of the deceased.
King. who was warned that any
thing he might say to the jury
might be used against him in a sub
sequent proceedings. told the jury
his car was making a speed of about
thirteen miles an hour when the ac-
cident happened.
Ten Witnesses Testify.
He said he sounded his horn; that
He said he applied his brakes, which
were in sperfect condition. without
delay. but that his foot slipped off the
brakes. He explained that the slip
ping was due TO the fact that he was
wearing boots instead Of shoes.
The jury heard the testimony OF ten
witnesses. some OF whom testified
that their attention was drawn to
the moving automobile because of its
terrific speed. and DR.. Herbert L.
Martin. deputy coroner. testified that
Mrs. keith's death resulted from
crushed chest, hemorrhage and shock
He said she received q number OF
injuries.
Park Policeman James A Moran
told the jury he made measurements
and found the macine skidded thirty
PAGES after striking Mrs. Keith.
Donald r. Messenger, 1919 C street
northeast, gave similar testimony.
He said he heard the driver sound
appeared. She seemed to pay no at
tention to the blowing OF the horn,
he stated. and added that the driver
of the machine tried to pass in front
Of her.
witness said he thought the driver
tained his license number. Later he
boarded a car and accompanied King
to the police station.
Frank Chew, colored, 74S 12i3 street
southeast, who was an occupant of
the car at the time the accident hap
pened, said he thought the machine
was making only about thirteen or
fourteen miles an hour when it struck
Mrs. Keith He told the jury of the
blowing of the horn. and said the
pedestrian jumped back. The car
struck her and knocked her down.
II. Q. c. Cross, 2o3 18th street north
east testified he reached the scene
before Mrs. Keith had been picked
up. The automobile. he testified,
stopped thirty-one PAGES from the
point where Mrs. Keith was struck.
Marks on the street, he added, in
dicated that the car skidded fifteen
PAGES before striking hec.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
JURYHO[DSCAPERS
DEATH AN ACCIDENT

A verdict Of accidental death was
returned by coroner's jury at the
District morgue yesterday afternoon in
the case Of Frank V. Capers, fifty-five
years old, 1926 Girard street, who
was killed Saturday night by an
automobile of Raymond c. Wood. S23
Allison street. on 14th street between
Girard and Harvard streets. Mr..
Wood was exonerated by the jury.
DR.. Herbert Martyr, deputy coroner.
told the jury that Mr.. Capers' skull
was fractured, his left car almost torn
Off. his right leg broken and his chest
crushed.
William Donald Goodman, 1917 Deia-
field street. testified he was one of
three persons occupying the front seat
happened. He thought the car was
making between fifteen and twenty
miles an hour. He said he saw a
pedestrian leaving the oos sideTalk val am and
shield was down, he explained to the
Jury, but he was able to see through it.
James H. Kelly. 441s Iowa avenue,
the third occupant of the front seat
of the automobile, said the car was
speed of about fifteen miles an hour
when the accident happened.
Wood testified that he was on his
way home with the two friends
when one of his companions called
look out He stated he saw the
pede strian ahead of the car carrying
an umbrella. He stopped his car
Immediately, saw it had cleared the
man, who had been knocked down,
and he steered to the curb side and
stopped the car. He judged the car
was making a speed of about fifteen
or seventeen miles an hour. He was
unable to tell the exact speed. how
ever, because his speedometer was
out Of order. He said his car was in
perfect working order and was prop
erly lighted.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
LAW TO CURB LyNCH|NC
ARKANSAS QUIZ TOPIC
Legislative Committee Discusses
Possible Changes During
Lull in Testimony.
BY tire As,ocfate ted press


LITTLE ROCK. Ark, January 3o.-
Whether the findings OF the Arkansas
legislative committee, conducting an
inquiry into the recent disorders on
the Missouri and North Arkansas
railroad during which one man was
lynched and other striking employees
expelled. would result In the enact
ment Of a state anti-lynching law is
a topic members of the committee are
discussing during the lull in taking
OF testimony.
No witnesses were examined at last
nlghtS hearing of the committee.
yesterday, however, Gov T. G. Nc
Rae, in a message to the legislature.
reviewing the disorders and touch
ing on the lynching Of E. C. Gregor.
clared:
When you have completed the in
vestigatton. I suggest that additional
legislation is needed to prevent a
repetition of such occurrences. Let
me urge you to enact some anti
iynching legislation before YOU ad-
Journ."
The governor also urged the legls-
lature to recompense Gregors family
for his death. The legislators still
were undecided today when they
would transfer. the inquiry to Harri-
son, center OF the disturbances.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
KLAN MEETING RAIDED.
Lieut.. Gegan Heads SQUAD That
Breaks Up Conclave.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW. YORK, January 3o-Seventy-
two men rushed pelI-melf from a con-
clave at Young's Hall, BROOKLYN, and
fed through nearby streets and alley
ways when they were tipped" last
night that bomb squad frenf head
quarters police station was surround
ing the place.
The detectives. two automobile
loads of them. were in command of
Lieut. James Gegan, who last week
captured eight men and confiscatcd a
hu klua uniform, a bottle of whisky
and two blackjacks after a mystcri-
ously conducted meeting in = trafic
court
TWO men were caught, one of whom
told the police the meeting was held
by tn Turtle Club while tho other
said IT was the Brooklyn branch of
the American Society"
Evening star., 1923-01-30
BALDWIN ASSA|LED
IN SENATE SPEECH
Mcclellan Attacks Statements
of British Chancellor as
Unfair and "Uncouth."

An interview with Stanley Bald
win, chancellor Of the excheuuer Of
Great Britain, criticizing the Ameri-
can people. and particularly the
members of Congress from the west
ern states, fn connection with his
recent visit to this country to settle
the refunding Of the British debt to
the United States. was vigorously
assafled in the Senate yesterday after
noon by Senator McKellar of Tennessee,
democrat.
In the published interview given
out by Mr.. Baldwin when he returned
to England Saturday. Congress was
described as the root of the difficulty
with, which the British are now faced
in funding the debt. Senator Nickel
Americans as "a country not an urban
people. He also said that Mr.. Bald
win asserted 'the great difference be-
tween America and this country is
that settlement of the debt in Amer
lea Is in the hands of politicians"
Evidently" said Senator McKellar.
according to Mr.. Baldwin, he had
no trouble with the debt funding com
mission or the administration. 1t
would have been all plain sailing if
it had not been for what he evidently
looked upon as the ignorant Con-
gress with which he had indirectly to
deal. ] need not speak of the un-
couthness of these charges against
the American Congress by a man in
high position in Great Britain.
Il need only say that IL he exhibited
the same element of sordid parsimony
and uttered the same crude attacks
upon the American people and the
American Congress while he was here.
then the American debt funding COM
mission would have not have treated
with him at all.
What different note did our Brit
ish friends utter in May, 1917, when
they came over here to borrow this very
money in order to save their nation,
When our British friends wanted to
borrow the s4,700.000 they went before
both branches of Congress with com
pliments and flattery"
Evening star., 1923-01-30
MISS B. E. hABERS DIES.
Prominent Mississippian in Affairs
of Capital.

Miss Bennie Z. Nabers of Holly
spring, Miss, died today at the home e
OF her sister. Mrs. Elizabeth NJ
Chenoweth, 1850 Meridian place. Miss
Nabers was one OF the most promi-
nent Mississippians residing here. and
was secretary In the Mississippi State
Society for twenty years. When she
retired from this Office, November last,
she was elected honorary secretary for
life.
She was the daughter Of the late
Representative B. d. Nabers, who rep
resented the second district OF Missis-
sipp1 In the House. She was a promi J.
nent member Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, being an ex-
regent OF Martha Washington Chap
ter, and at the present time a mem
Der OF the Manor House Chapter.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the home of Mrs. Chenoweth to-
morrow evening. after which her re-
mains will be taken to Holly Springs
and inferred in the family lot. Pail
bearers will be Representatives B. J.
Humphreys and Percy z. Quin. and
Charlton NJ. Clark. William r. King,
William Murray and G. w. Potter.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
|SAYS EUROPE MUST:
LEARN OWN errors
Senator Mccormick Declares
War Has Left Deep Scars
81 on Nations.

The problems of Europe were
passed in review once again in the
Senate yesterday, when Senator McCor-
mick, republican. Illinois, who re-
Gently returned from trip abroad,
gave his colleagues some of his i'm
pressions OF European conditions and
Recommended that the old world be
permitted to "learn by painful fall
ure" the error of Its ways.
The Illinois senator delivered his
opinions In the course of a speech on
farm credits legislation, telling the Sem
ate that although he favored the Len
root Anderson, and Norbeck bills, such
to restore agricultural prices in view
of other economic influences at home
and abroad.
Breadstu6s Needed.
"The markets of Europe" said Sena-
tor Mccormick. ARE dominated by fac
tors largely beyond our control or in
fiuence. Europe today needs breadstuffs
more than she can buy. She needs $780,
100000 worth of American wheat and
corn ,
But her economic restoration. the
restoration Of her buying power, the
establishment of true and enduring
peace are blocked at the moment by
the bitterness. bad faith and pickering
at Lausanne. the breach OF the peace
in Memel. the break between Britain
and her continental allies. the pres
ence of the battalions of French in
the Ruhr."
AS usual. in hard times. Mr.. Nc
Cormick said. some men are tempt
ed to prescribe panaceas." He called
on those who are advocating action
in the present European crisis to set
forth precisely what they want done.
and. referring to predictions that the
league of nations would restore sta
world
The league has proven a poor peace
maker or peacekeeper. Justice and
mercy are still too little known, too lit
tie understood. too weak to carry
they can invoke the aid OF forces strong
enough to compel for them a rever-
ence and regard which they do not
themselves inspire.
Decline of Cure encies.
I'VE know how perilous Is the state
OF Europe's civilization today. how fee
BILE It's life. From the Aegean and the
Adriatic to the Baltic. Europe has been
broken n-up--Balkanized.
where for the principal purposes
of trade there were formerly three
there are now a dozen governments,
a dozen tariffs and dozen rotten cur
rencies. II the terrible condition OF
Europe be attributable to the ruin
OF revolution and the waste of war,
IT Is attributable in part. too. to
the increase In the number of states
to their rivalries and ambitions, TO
the wretched finance, to the incon-
unent extravaganza and to the un-
restrained profiigacy of parliaments
and governments.
BY what charm or what force are
they to be led to disarm and TO put
aside the hates which have animated
them for hundred years? Time and
labor are the prime requisites for the
restoration OF Europe. Cnhappily
she must learn by painful failure the
road to recovery"
Evening star., 1923-01-30
FOUR ESCAPE INJURIES
AS AUTO STRIKES POLE

Four employees OF the highway di-
escaped serious injury. yesterday after
noon when their field truck struck
trolley pole on Rhode Island avenue near
4th street northeast.
The men who were in the machine
believe something went wrong with
the steering apparatus. They said
the machine was not travelling fast III
pass a wagon. ~:
Those in the car who received cuts
and bruises are: William Mackle,
driver: Phil Darling. assistant engi-
neer. living at Silver Spring. Md, and
J. Nelson Anderson and Thomas Ne
Lattimer..
Evening star., 1923-01-30
ENEMY IS SOUGHT
IN DOUBLE TRAGEDY
Robbery, However, Still
Strongly Hinted in Ten:
nessee Killing.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. January 30.-Al-
though inclined more strongly than
ever to the belief that robbery was
the motive which prompted the
shooting to death of Mrs. Ruth Nc
Elwain Tucker, aged twenty. and
Duncan Waller. nineteen, a salesman
of Mayfeld, KY, whose bodies were
found on a country foad near Mem
phis early Sunday morning. officials
today awaited word from Mayfield as
to whether any one in that city could
have felt an enmity toward Waller
that might have led to. the tragedy.
OfhciaIs Silent.
Officials refused to disclose the
particular angle on which they were
basing their investigation at May
field. but declared that they were
skeptical of the result. -
Locally the officials, baff1ed at every
turn. declared they based their prin-
cipal hope for a solution in the sift-
ing of the robbery theory.
When last seen alive in public, at
a suburban candy store late Satur-
day night. Waller is said to have pro-
for refreshments. The couple then
drove away in an automobile.
VaIuabIes Missing.
The money they carried and jew
elry Mrs. Tucker was known to have
had in her possession were missing
when the bodies were found by a
milk man Sunday morning. Each had
been shot in the back of the head
Walters body was in the automobile,
while that of the young woman was
discovered in a field twenty feet from
the car. A discharged cartridge was
found in the. tonneau of the automo-
bile and is being held as the most
important clue.
A negro employe of the candy
store. where acquaintances Of the
couple last saw them alive was
questioned late yesterday, but es-
tablished a satisfactory .alibi. He
was released. No other suspects have
been taken into custody.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
RUSSIANS PLAYING
HAND IN OIL GRANT
Far East Developments Seen
in Sinclair Company
Concessions.
SOVIET CONTROL SPREADS
Propaganda Being Disseminated
Through Trade Channels Getting
Grip on Chinese.
SOVIET CONTROL SPREADS
By r.. A. MACKENZIE,

a.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1923.
MOSCOW. January 30.-Confirma-
ton of the grant of an oil concession
of 1000 square versts in northern
Saghalien to the American Sinclair
OIL Company Of the United States,
which originally negotiated with the
Far Eastern Republic. and the de-
parture Of NJ. Joffe, the soviet special
representative in China. for Japan
are coupled together here AZ indicat-
ing the coming OF big developments
in the far east
Russia. having regained her place as
a Pacific ocean power by the reoccu-
patton of tladivostok. is going to play
her hand there once more and bid for
political recognition, forgetting old
enmities in making her position Sc
cure.
Soviet Faces Eastward.
For more than a year communist
political propaganda has been es-
pecially directed toward the far east.
where 1t has obtained remarkable e
success. Large numbers OF young
Chinese students have adopted Karl
Marks materialistic economics, and a
considerable section Of the Korean
malcontents have turned completely
from their own republican movement
to communism, believing that il is
their only hope Of regaining national
independence.
There are many evidences here of
the success OF the propaganda among
Chinese workmen. There are more
Chinese students under communist
instruction in Moscow than there are
from any other land. The Chinese
fear that Russia, disgusted by the
weakness Of their government, may
form a practical working alliance with
Japan. They read with especial in
terest NJ. Joffe's recent interview with
Sun Tat Sen, before leaving China
Japan wants fishing and mineral
rights in Kamchatka and elsewhere
and she can supply cheap goods.
which Siberia needs urgently. ST.
IBERIA could give Japanese industry a
fresh burst Of prosperity.
U. 8. Aid Sought.
High Russian officials with whom
the correspondent has discussed the
matter make no secret OF the fact
that they prefer American co-opera-
ton above all in Siberian develop
ments, but this they maintain is i'm
possible in full without political rec
ognition. Hence the Sinclair con-
cessfon has a proviso declaring it Ii
able to cancellation unless formal Of
f1cial relations are established be-
tween the United States and Russia
within FIVE years.