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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
COOLIDGE WILL
INVITE GOAL
FARLEY
Moral Suasion Will Be First
Weapon Used to Enforce
Peace.
By HARRY WARD,
international Nsws Service.

INTERNATIONAL MOVIE 6OrVlCOs
Moral suasion will be the first
weapon the Government will use
in bringing the anthracite oper-
ators and miners together again
to negotiate a new wage scale to
replace the one expiring Septen-
Der 1, it was authoritatively de-
clared today.
Both Will Be Warned.
Members Of the United States
Coal Commission will meet a Sc
lected group of anthracite operators
and miners in New York tomorrow
afternoon, inform them that Presi-
dent Coolidge is DESTROYS that they
gather around the council table
again without unnecessary delay
and reach an agreement before the
expiration of the present one. The
operators and miners will be told
plainly that a strike in the an
thracite fields is unthinkable, and
that unless the negotiations are
voluntarily resumed. with both sides
willing to give and take in order
[ to reach an agreement, the Govern
ment is prepared to take drastic
steps to end the deadlock.
Having delivered this message,
the commission is expected to re-
tire from the meeting in order to
give the operators and miners an
opportunity to make up their minds
whether they will reopen the
negotiations.
1t is believed in official quarters
that the two contending groups, hav-
ing sensed the public feeling regard
ing the threatened suspension OF
anthracite coal production with all
it's menace to the public safety, will
promptly "see the light" and will get
together at once.
Called Master Stroke.
The action of the coal commission
in calling the conference in New
York, evidently taken at the request
of President Coolidge, is regarded in
official circles as a master stroke,
inasmuch as it will bring the opera
tors and miners face to face again
without either of the two contend
ing groups having requested such a
meeting.
Secretary of Labor Davis, who re-
turned last night from a European
trip. was at the Labor Department
eariN today and Immediately plunged
INTO the coal situation. A mass of
data bearing on the threatened coal
strike was presented to him by his
subordinates who have kept in close
touch with all the negotiations.
The Secretary was preparing for a
conference with President Coolidge
before the Cabinet meeting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
COOLIDGE
CABINET
MEETS
Session Discusses Threatened
Coal Strike and Mexican
Recognition.
By GEORGE e. DURING.

X
The first Cabinet meeting Of the
Coolidge Administration was held
at the White House today.
While the President during the
past ten days has held many con-
ferences with the members Of his
official family, today's gathering
marked the first formal converting
Of the Cabinet since the. meeting
in June just prior to President
Harding's departure for Alaska.
Considered Coal Strike.
Serious problems face President
Coolidge and his cabinet. There are
many decisions to be made; many
policies to be formulated. Out OF
today's meeting, it Is hoped. will
come the first real pronouncement
of policy in behalf Of the Coolidge
administration, as the cabinet SEES
sion is to be followed by a confer
ence with the press.
OF foremost Importance before
the cabinet board was consideration
Of the threatened strike in the an
thracite coal fields on September 1
Other major subjects include the
reparations question and the nego
tiations now under way for the
recognition of Mexico.
Much information was laid
before President Coolidge relative
to the coal situation. Secretary Of
Commerce Hoover, a leading figure
in the Governments activities ir
last years DISASTROUS strike, had
much to report, while Secretary OF
Labor Davis, just returned from
Europe, brought to the Cabine:
meeting with him a mass of infor
nation collected by the Labor De
partment during his absence.
General opinion, based on in
formation from authoritative quar-
ters, Is that President Coolidge al
the outset will employ conciliatory
methods In an effort to avert q
strike.
The big stick" will be padded
but temporarily, however. :he
Coolidge confidants believe, should
strike menace continue to loom.
Preparations and Mexico.
The reparations question, In view
OF recent developments, gave
Secretary Hughes much to repor,
upon at today's meeting. With Ger
many in the throes Of political and
economic chaos. France and Belgium
doggedly maintaining their strange
hold on the Ruhr, and Great Britain
openly threatening separate action
as a result, a situation is presented
Of vital interest to the United States
Secretary Hughes also reported
on the Mexico City recognition
conference" These negotiations had
been virtually completed at the time
President Harding's death brought
affairs OF state to Temporary
standstill, but 1t is understood now
that the work will be finished uu
in short order and recognition OF
the ObregOn 2overnment-oneo of the
late Presidents greatest ambitions
accomplished.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14

Almost everyone knows something
of the public rooms of the White
House-the huge reception hall, the
state dining room, and the three
state parlors-red, blue, and green
the famed china closet, and the
ante rooms where Tom, Dick, and
Harry cool their heels, and the East
RoOm-the room where three
daughters Of Presidents were mar
ried-NelIie Grant, Alice Roosevelt,
and Jessie Wilson. The room
where lay three observation-disclosures
Mckinley and Harding.
Anyone can see those rooms. But
hardly anyone knows of the private
suite occupied by the President ana
the First Lady.
There are ten bed rooms, five on
either side of the hall; a study
library, east sitting room and west
sitting room, private dining room.
the First Lady's room and her
dressing room, the Presidents room,
and half a dozen bath rooms.
The room Mrs. Coolidge will
probably choose-it was Mrs. Hard
ing's, Mrs. Wilson's, Mrs. Taft's,
and Mrs. Roosevelt's before hers
pale blue-paper and hangings and
rugs. Mrs. Harding chose the color
scheme, and had 1t completely ~
finished recently. Since blue is a
favorite shade of the new First
Lady, It is quite probable she will
make no change. II she wishes,
however, she may have it all done
over to suite her own taste.
The furniture is mahogany
dainty, spindley things in the First
Lady's room, and heavy, massive
pieces in the Presidents room.
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
$50 FALL IN
GERMAN
RIOTS


BY International News Service. ].
LONDON Aug.
Sixty pefSonb were reports
ed killed and wounded at
Aix-Ia-C happelle W h e n
Communists besieged the
police station, according
to a dispatch from Berlin
this afternoon. Police fired
upon the besiegers.
BERLIN, Aug. 14.-While Chan
cellor Gustav Stresemann wa
officially introducing his new cab
met to the Reichstag, news OF
communist disorders continued tt
arrive from various quarters. The
dead in riots since last Saturday
are now estimated at from sixty
five to seventy.
Communists today called off the
strike in Berlin. Leaders sale
they had gained sufficient victory
in overthrowing the Cuno govern
ment.
Disorders usually occurred
where communists tried to disturb
workmen who refused to obey the
strike order. Scores of additional
arrests have been made.
Centrist Given Post.
In his maiden governmental speech
in the Reichstag this afternoon the
chancellor announced Germany
to submit the Ruhr issue
to arbitration.
Chancellor Stresemann offered the
post of foreign affairs to Herr Won
Bergen, a Centrist, instead of retain
ing it himself. Four parties are rep
resented in the new government
Peoples, Centrists. Socialist and So
-cial Democrat.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
GASOLINE PRICE
WAR HALTED
IN WEST
Standard Oil Cuts Rate to 15.4
Cents a Gallon, Bringing
Temporary Victory.

CHICAGO, Aug. 14.-EIeven
midwestern States served by the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
today purchased gasoline at 1874
cents a gallon as fruit Of a tenn
porary victory in the price war
started by Gov. w. P. McMaster, of
South Dakota. Other States of the
West and midwest set themselves
to follow South Dakota's example
if possible.
Governor Sweet. Of Colorado, has
asked the dealers of his State to
meet the South Dakota price. Gov
ernor Bryan. of Nebraska, tele-
graphed a request to Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty for Federal prosecu>
ton of the oil companies.
Concerted action in mid Western
States was halted by the Standard
Oil Company's price cut, made after
a meeting of the board of directors
called to consider demands pouring
in from other States that the com.
pany reduce prices to the level in
South Dakota, where Governor Nc
Masters order that the highway
supply depots furnish 16-cent gaso-
line was met by a similar price re.
duction by Standard.
The States served by Standard
Oil of Indiana are: Illinois, Indiana,
Missouri, Kansas, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Wisconsin. Iowa,
Minnesota, Michigan. and Oklahoma
Independent producers, protesting
bitterly against a figure they claim.
ed was ruinous cut their price from
| % cent to II cents in an attempt to
meet Standards slash.
L. v. Nicholas, head Of the Ma
tional Petroleum Marketers' Asso
citation. said: at is the old story
The Standard Oil Company Is not
meeting competition. 1t cannot
meet what does not yet exist. Its
price reduction Is q repetition and
the type Of brutal reprtsal which
the Independent oil industry has
learned to fear"
And Standard officials admitted
the cut was a temporary measure
only, in an official statement say
ing: THE Standard Oil COmDany
will welcome a change Of attitude OF
all parties concerned resulting in a
reasonable price for gasoline which
will enable not only 1t, but all its
competitors to enjoy a reasonable
profit
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
EXHIBITE
To BACK
SUICIDE
CLAIM
District Experts With Pistol
Shots Knock Out conten-
tons OF Prosecution.
By VINCENT #. CALLAHAN,
Times Staff Correspondent.

By VINCENT #. CALLAHAN,
| Washington Times Staff Correspondent.
FREDERICK, Nd, Aug. a.
Direct and positive proof that Mrs.
Grace Kepner, whose husband, B.
Evard Kepner, is being tried for
her murder, committed suicide,
was offered at the trial today by
Dr.. Joseph E. Rogers, surgeon, Of
Washington, D. c.
In addition to verbal opinion,
DR.. Rogers brought into the court
room the heads of four calves, into
which had been shot bullet OF
the same kind and from the same
type of automatic with which Mrs.
Kepner met her death.
Through these calves heads DR..
Rogers illustrated to the court how
Mrs. Kepner could have taken her
own life.
Testimony Stirs Court.
The testimony g of DR.. Rogers
created a sensation in the court
room. The three judges were ap-
parently impressed and made q
minute examination of the calves
heads. The testimony was In direct
refutation of State experts, VINO
declared on the witness stand that
Mrs. Kepner could not possibly
have killed herself.
The State has contended that the
It'll MrG
entered the left side of her head
above the ear and made it's exit
through the right temple, leaving
small hole in the entrance and
large hole at the exit.
DisprOves Prosecutions Idea.
DR.. Rogers said that the bullet en-
tered the right side Of the head AMI
left on the left side.
II have made twenty-five or thirty
experiments to prove this conten-
tion," he told the court. Then he
brought into the courtroom the
calves heads. He continued:
II fired a shot into the head o.
this calf exhibiting the head let
ting the gun touch the head when
the shot exploded. You can see that
the entrance hole is large and the
exit hole small"
DR.. Rogers then produced another
calf's head.
II held the gun an inch from this
calf's head and fired. The entrance
hole is small and the exit large"
DR., Rogers said that a bullet fired
from an automatic, held at a dis
lance of one inch or more from the
object, would make a small entrance
hole and large exit, but that if 1t was
within an inch, it would have just
the opposite effect.
Studied 1000 Wounds.
DR.. Rogers qualified as an expert.
He said that his office was on
Thomas circle and that he was for
merly deputy coroner of the District
of Columbia. He testified that he
had seen upward of 1000 gun shot
cases.
Preceding DR.. Rogers on the stand
was DR.. Ira J. McCurdy, city health
officer Of Frederick. DR.. McCurdy
attended the autopsy held several
weeks ago on the body OF Mrs. KEEP
ner.
"The physician who performed this
autopsy destroyed the very evidence
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
DROWNED HIMSELF
TO ESCAPE BAD LUCK

CHICAGO, Aug. IA Stanley
Janik, laborer, was talking to AL
bert Ryklarczyk last night on the
bank of the river.
II dreamed" he told Ryklarczyk,
that l was going to have some mis-
fortune. 1 think 1 will beat that
misfortune"
He plunged into the river and
swan out about fifteen feet, then
drowned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
BERGDOLl
PLOT IS
SEEN J.
Germans Charge American
Legion was Behind At
tempt at Kidnapping. d

EBERBACH, Germany, Aug
-14.-Following preliminary ar
raignment of Lieut.. al. Griffith
and three other men involved in
the attempt to kidnap Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, rich Ameri-
can draft dodger, it was reported
today that the German authori-
ties would frame an indictment
formally accusing the American
Legion of instigating the plot.
Held Under $4,000.
Griffith" and the chauffeur, Vic.
tor Nilsson, were alleged to be ring
leaders of the conspiracy, promis-
ing their assistants $4,000 If they
could get Bergdoll to Ludwigshafen.
thence to Paris, dead or alive
According to information fur
nished the authorities the American
Legion tried to prevent Bergdoll
from taking advantage of any offer
brought to Europe by his mother,
Mrs. Emma Bergdoll.
Mrs. Bergdoll was said to have
told her son IL he returned vol
unfairly the seized Bergdoll fortune
would be released and the prison
sentence originally imposed upon
Grover for lodging the draft in war
time would be materially lightened.
Bergdoll did not take his mother
words seriously.
Correspondent Arrested.
ct believe" he said, that the
offer was inspired by the American
Legion to lull me into security. ]
am suspicious"
A special correspondent Of the
Frankfurter Zeitung has been
arrested charged with cooperating
with certain American reporters
who had prior knowledge of the
kidnapping plot" A widespread
net has been set for accomplices.
The states attorney has arrived
from Mosbach and the attorney gen.
eral from Karlsruhe. They are In
charge of the investigation and the
arrangement of evidence against the
prisoners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14

Early Autumn Fashions-AuRunt 18th
Vogue on sale today.-Advt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
THE WEATHER.

Fair today; fair and
warmer tomorrow; gentle.
variable winds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
q Tourists Killed
When Bus Falls
In Pyrenes.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL
MRS. MARY HAZEL,

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
France, Aug. 14.-Twenty-three
persons were killed and seven
seriously hurt when a sight
seeing motor bus, carrying
thirty tourists from Lourdes to
Gavarnie, crashed $50 feet into
a mountain torrent near st.
Sauveur today.
The driver swerved to avoid
a peasant woman in the road.
The victims were all Holland
ers. Rescue work was most
difficult as the rescuers had to
be lowered over the mountain
precipice with ropes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14

Called Cooidge'Jeny
Now and Reads
EavOrsOme.

President Coolidge is so fond
of tomato jelly, as prepared by
his chef at Hotel Willard, that
the management has dubbed it
Coolidge" Jelly. It appears al
most every noon on the Presi-
Dental table. And this is how
it's made:
Add to half a gallon Of
chicken broth a pound Of chop
ped lean meat, whites Of six
eggs, six large chopped to-
matoes, two shredded onions,
two celery leaves, two diced
carrots and three tablespoonsful
OF gelatiae. Boil for two hours,
season with salt, pepper and
paprika, strain through cheese
cloth and place on the ice until
it jellies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
TALK TO
A CITY!

When you place a Want AID
in The Washington Morning
Herald, The Washington Eve.
ming Times and The Washing
ton Sunday Morning Herald
you talk to a city in itself
A three-time insertion in this
combination gives you 10000
readers.
With that market, 1t isn't n
question of whether or not
the ad might pay" It would
be more of a surprise IL II
did not.
Call Main $3.50 and start
talking to a city,"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
MRS. COOLIDGE WILL HAVE
FIRST SERVANTS IN LIFE
1T s: HI ;5::.;
By ELEANOR EARLY,
InAArnnf innnl NaWa Service.

Mrs Calvin Coolidge had maid in her life Imagine
how she IL feel when Mrs Jaffray the White House house
keeper lines twenty-five servants and presents them to her.
going be great experience for the Coodges-
taking possession of the White House For sixteen years
they lived place that rents for $50 Now
they going into a mansion of greatness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14

DAYTON, Ohio. Aug. 14.-E. S.
Griffis, father of Lieut.. G. Hoover
Griffis, held by German authorities
ut Eberbach, Germany, for COM
plicity In an attempt to kidnap
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, draft
evader, was expected in Dayton
from Hamilton today to start action
looking to the release Of his son.
The only news received by Griffis
OF his sons predicament was con-
tanned in newspaper dispatches.
Identity of Lieutenant Griffis,
who is an officer in the military in
feIIigence department of the re-
serve corps of the United States
army. with the Lieutenant Crit
fifth held at Eberbach, has been
established to the satisfaction OF the
father. who is president Of the
American Frog and Switch Com
pany. of Hamilton.
Griffis left Hamilton last May as
the representative of an American
newspaper syndicate. He Is a
vorId-war veteran and saw service
overseas as member OF the
EiRhty-third division. He held the
rank of sergeant and was gassed at
the front.
Griffis said he had received no
word from his son, but was salts
fled that he was the man held at
! Eberbach. Before leaving Hamil
ton, Lieutenant Griffis was said to
have expressed his intention OF
bringing Bergdoll back to serve his
time as a draft evader.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-14
4 Cent Knocked Off.

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 14.-GasollEe
in the Pittsburgh district is down
another cent a gallon today. The
Atlantic Refining Company, Stand
ard Oil subsidiary. is quoting the
best grade at rs cents a gallon end
% cents for the motor kind exclu.
siVe of a State tax of 2 cents a
gallon. Independents are quoting
the same prices.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-05
"IlESS BIBLE"

Many people will be shocked to find that d league of laymen actively and vitally interested in church work urges that Hess Bible" and more psy- chology, sociology and economics be taught in the theological schools. This advice comes from the league in a report on recruiting for the minis try" The report recommends, also, that less emphasis be placed on courses in old and new Testament. church history and theology, and more emphasis be placed on practical subjects dealing with actual human problems. The report urges laymen to take more interest in the work of the church blaming them, the lay men, for much of the weakness of the clergy.
 The only excuse for men of another calling or profession 10 advise con cerning the teaching Of recruits 10 the ministry. is that they are able to present their point of view. A person not clergyman is able to advise as 10 what sort of studies 3 man prepar- ing for the ministry should take. only
New Britain herald., 1923-09-05
25 Fears Ago Todqy|
tTaken from Herald .of that date)

q
 The weeks payroll is S411.19 in the street department.
 Clan Douglas will meet tonight and the club rooms will be profusely dec- orated with Scotch heather.
 President Mead of the Stanley Rule and Level Co. who has been in town for the past few days, left at noon for New York.
 M. J. McDonoueh, James r. Don- nelley, Thomas Farrell and John Me- Cabe will return tomorrow. to resume their studies at Holy Cross college.
 Andrew Robb brought home with him from Scotland shillalah and genuine walking stick. The cane, if put in water, will not float.
 Now that the schools have opened the need of truant officer is appar- ent. The office vacant and Select man Hurlburt is not inclined to ap- point one until after election-
 C. M. Latimer of the high school class of '9s, will not enter Yale this fall as he planned, but will take a post graduate course at the High school. He entered upon his studies today.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-05

High Ideals posses members Of the
 faculty Of the State Normal seheol,
 They do their hest to pass these ideals
 down to the students of the Normal.
 together with the practical infsfnls-
 ton necessary to acquire before one
 becomes a teacher of children In the
 same way it is expected of the Normal
 students that they win try 10 pass on
 down 10 the pnpils who will come uns der their jurisdiction these ideals Of
 right thinking and right living, II is the seriousness of their calling that one would try to impress upon those now entering or carrying on their studies at the Normal school,
 And 10 the people Of the city whose children will study under the girls who are attending the Normal. 1t may be said that they have right to ex- peet from such teaehers-to-be that appreciation of their task which will make them, even now. begin 10 eon- sider the serious matters of life. The attititude Of the people Of the city toward Normal students should show them what Is expected of them. IL Is trite 10 say that the future of the country rests in the hands Of the children who will learn from gradu- ates Of the Normal school, but the truth Of the statement should be ems phaslzed and the fact, too. that the in- fiuonce of the young women who are studying today at the Normal will have much to do with the characters Of those younger ones who will event ually play such an important part in tho woyd.
New Britain herald., 1923-09-05

because Of the lack felt in the clergy
 men with whom such person. not 3
 clergyman, has come in contact, And
 in this light he has that right 10 ad-
 wise. just as one who Patronizes the
 merchant has right if asked, to sug'
 gest to the merchant the things he
 finds missing in the service or stock offered hy the merchant or just as a person not lawyer has right, if asked. to tell the lawyer why it Is he finds it diftieult to understand the lawyer-why 1t may be hard to do business with him,
 So. in all sincerity as shown by their interest in the church. these laymen leil in their report the things they find lacking in the ministers or their church. Evidently they have found them wanting in practical knowledge of human problems. despite their familiarity with church history and the fine points of theology. They, these men not clergymen. want n spiritual adviser able. because he has been taught. to grasp the practical problems that confront every man and knowing the perplcSities of such prob- lems. be able to advise not only wisely but properly in the light of his knowl- edge of the higher spiritual things. When man seeks clergyman for advice as 10 how he should net in n certain case which perplexes him and which may have to do with business for instance, such seeker for advice would like to find man of God with the practical business and social problems so that his spirit ual advice might be made practical by such knowledge.
 Undoubtedly this report was made n all respect for the clergy and with -everent acknowledgment of the pow ,r of the Bible. Viewed as such It is worth considering.