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Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
CLEVELAND INDIANS
LEAD AMERICAN LEAGUE
ny United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, April s7.--Change
in the leadership of the American
league was the most important re-
suit of yesterdays major league
games.
The Cleveland Indians beat the
White Sox and assumed the lead,
while the Yanks dropped to second
place by losing TO the Red Sox.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
County Bar Assn. Meets Mem.

bers of the Imperial County Bar AS
sociation enjoyed the regular month
ly luncheon at the Barbara Worth
hotel this noon. The meeting was
informal, no special program hav-
ing been arranged. Discussion Of
various ways of revising the Grim
inal statutes to the end that justice
might better be served, rs general,
but no action was taken.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27

Wash. A 0 4 90 90 :. >. =.
Batteries: Philadelphia-Kinney,
Rommell and Perkins; Washington
johnson, Russell, Yarmouth and
Ruel
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
At Philadelphia

r II +
Bklyn. 0 2 . OO0O1 so /
Phil. % 0 0 0 2 900 9 9
Batteries: Brooklyn-Grimcs and
DeBerry; Philadclphia--Winters and
Henliue.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
At New York

Bos. % 0 0 0 ! 90 8 =.
\. \. o 0 . 0 90. >. =. -.
Batteries: Boston - Mcnamara
and O'Neill; New York-McQuil-
Ian, Lucas, Jonnard and CASTOR.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
American League
At Detroit

IT IT Il
st. l.. % 0l00 5000 2 7 0
bet. Il 0 02 0 OK 5 l3 0
Batteries: st. Louis - Pruett,
Kopf and SEVERED; Hollo-
way, Johnson and Woodall.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
At Boston

i IT T.
n. Y. Il 2 O0l00 4 8 /
Bos. % 0 00l 1000 2 G a
Batteries: New York--Sh Shawkey
and Schang; Boston - Fullerton,
Quinn and Picinich.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
National League
(Up to Press Time)
At Pittsburg

IL IT r
Chgo. @ 90 100 900 / 0
Pitts. q 0 0 900 002 9 8 l
Batteries: Chicago - Alexander
and o. Farrell; Pittsbnrg-Mortison
and Schmidt.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
At Chicago

Batteries: Cleveland - Edwards,
Morton, Mellier, O'Neill and Nyatt.
Chieago-Cveneros, Leverette and
Schalk.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
CAMPING SEASON
IN FULL SWING

Road, lake and forest send out
IN annual call that Is needed
By many thousands Of Joyous
people In search Of rest, sport
and recreation.
Added to the natural beau
ties Of the West, are roads and
highways that make touring q
delight. and the automobile is
the most popular means OF
transportation.
All over the West you'll find
Western Auto" stores that can
supply you with the necessary
equipment to make camping q
real pleasure-you'll also f1nd
that the employees Of a West
ern Auto" store will cheerfully
give you any information de-
sired regarding roads, loca-
tions, etc. IL you are contem-
plating a camping trip.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
At St. Louis

Cineinnati-St. Louis - Postponed,
wet grounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-27
At Washington

Phil. 90 ) o02 600 -
, 1923-07-25
KILOGRAMS.
ST. CROlX STATION.

rs Angeles. California, July 23rd.-
The entire list Of Southern California
countries was rocked by al earthquake
nf from II to 20 seconds duration at ll.38
o'clock last night. San Demanding,
where the greatest damage was caused,
felt . second heavy shock at one o'clock
this morning. Three sleeping men were
;riurpd seriously at San Bernardino when
,-,0fs fen in. although there have been
no reports Of death. Much damaPe was
oorsad fo property, buildings on streets
rnnning East and West being the chief
sufferers. Santa Barbara was the eX-
tremp northern point from which earth
o1akn rpDorts were received and San
n,e~o tie farthest south. The shock
extended eastward across the imperial
yaIl4v nearly to the Arizona state line.
Washington. July 23rd.-An earth
Quake of severe intensity and OF two
bbonrs duration, estima ed to have occur.
rnd a 900 miles from Washington, was
recordad Yesterday on the Georgetown
University Seismograph. Iha disturbance
continued from 9.29 4. m. &c ll.3O a. m.
with the greatest intensity between ~
and IL o'clock.
London. July 2Oth. The contraband
shinment of liquor from the West indies to
tLa limited States again formed tbs basis
for several questions yesterday IN the
House OF Commons, various me nbers
on,,1aring anxious TO know if the Gov
eminent was prepared to do every thing
, 1923-07-25

possible to prevent violation Of the Uni
ted States law by British interests. Mr..
Ronald McNeiII, replying for ne FOREIGN
Office, said a note received from the
United States Government. a year ago
had suggested thai clearance papers be
refused to vessels known to be CARVING
liquor. The British Government as
known, was without power to give effect
to the suggestion under the existing law.
which did not, either in the United King
ION or the West Indies, authorize refus.
al of clearance papers on the ground that
d vessel was believed to be engaged in
the liquor trade. MIR. Nc Neil added
that the Government was fully aware of
the desirability of doing everything in
its power to disassociate itself from this
traffic and the whole matter was being
carefully considered.
Geneva, July Goth, President Cos
grave. with a strong delegation from ire
Irish Free State, will probably come to
Geneva fer the annual meeting of the
assembly Of the League of Nations in
September, when the Free State is eX-
pected to be elected a member of the
League. This announcement was made
yesterday by Mr.. Michael MacWhite.
permanent representative o. the Free
State here. Rest assured Ireland will
have her independence programme to.
ward the League" said Mr.. MacWhite.
we are not tied up With other European
nations, as most Of the members of the
League are and we feel that our indie
pandance can do good. Ireland wants
international hell" ne continual. "d9c
, 1923-07-25


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ger OF me Woiid I&FG'S' iaoacco cl'-
Germs, me toDacco produ' y corporate ID
and the brilI d American Tobacco oa
pa4N mo a ne" company Was reported
In Wal street TO-DAY.
LoOdJn. JJIy 2lst.-fha high commits
siOner for Canada has ARRANGED Al,n the
Greek Government that tho shall paw
The Washington times., 1923-08-10

in production has created better
condition of business owing to
higher prices due to the shortage,
the report says, and then it con-
tinues: "Carlot supplies of leading
fruits and vegetables have been
lighter and prices 10 to 90 per cent
higher than last season. Smaller
crops and better general conditions
Of business Is the usual explanation.
The seasons potato shipments are
less by one.f0urth; the price the last
half Of July were $3.50 per barrel
higher than q year ago; melon ship
ments one-third less and prices av-
eraging about 800 per car higher;
onion shipments one-third less and
price 81 per crate higher; caIltaloupe
shipments one-third less and price
rs cents to SO higher; apple ship
ments have been one-fourth less and
prices 25 to so cents per bushel
higher.
1.-THE late opening Of the fruit and
vegetable season affects the COM
parison. Shipments Of most fruits
and vegetables are now close to the
usual midsummer weekly volume.
AS compared with June prices, the
July range shows most changes
downward, owing to increasing sup.
plies. Potatoes, melons and peaches
declined quite sharply"
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
IN AUTO,
MAN IS ROBBED
BY BANDIT
John F. Lanes Says Two Took
ST., Drove About City, and
Then Threw Him Out.

Dragged into a limousine automo-
bile and choked until he was
nearly unconscious, John F. Lanes,
Of apartment lis, Copley Courts,
1914 Seventeenth street northwest,
was robbed of SIT and then thrown
from the machine, he told the
police of the Third precinct last
night.
Lanes, out walking, had reached
Connecticut avenue and Rhode
Island avenue when two men in
the automobile drove up behind him
and asked him how to get to Six
teenth and Calvert streets north.
west. While he was giving them
the directions, he said, one of the
men grabbed his arm and pulled
him into the machine.
Warning him that an outcry
would get him rough treatment,
Lanes told the police he was choked
and robbed of all the money he had.
He said that the men then drove
him about the city for some time
and finally pushed him out Of the
car at Dupont circle and V streets
northwest. Half an hour after DO
lice were out in the headquarters
automobile searching for the
limousine.
The only description that Lanes
could give the police was that one
Of the men had mustache. One
o, the men was colored, he said, and
the other was a white man.
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
ISHURT
IN TRAFFIC
ACCIDENT
Youth on Motorcycle Hit by
Woman-driVen Machine.
Is Seriously Injured. "

- William w. Hazel, twenty years
old, of 1040 Bladensburg road north
east, was seriously hurt when an
automobile driven, the police say,
by Emma L. Story, of Ills B street
northeast, struck his motorcycle on
the Bladensburg road, near Corby
lane. Hazel was removed to the
Casualty Hospital, where 1t was
found that he had suffered broken
leg and bruises. Mrs. Story was
arrested by police OF the Ninth pre-
cinct on a charge of reckless driv-
ing.
Failing from his bicycle near Sew
enth and I streets northeast, Ray
rnond Hendricks, eleven years old,
of 91S Sixth street northeast broke
his left arm last night. He was
taken to the Casualty Hospital.
Elmer D. Lowell, four years old,
OF 1889 Twenty. seventh street
northwest, escaped serious injury
last night when an automobile, OPP
Grated, the police say, by Knut Nils
son, OF 102 Varnum street north
west, ran into him near his home.
The boy was treated at the Garfield
Hospital for bruises on the head.
Harry E. Tippett, fifty, Of 4521
Canal road northwest. received
slight injuries when he was struck
by an automobile. driven by Harry
A. Easterson, 1853 M street north
west, on Canal road. He was treat
ed at his home.
When his automobile overturned
on Georgia avenue at Kennedy
street northwest, John King, col
ored, 7S4 Columbia road northwest,
had his jaw broken.
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
VETERANS DEPENDENTS
TO TAKE RIVER OUTING

Members of the Home for Widows
and Orphons Of the United States
War Veterans Association. will
hold their postponed excursion to-
morrow at Marshall Hall. Mrs.
Myrtle Leesback Is head Of the
program committee. Funds raised
through the affair will go to the
home.
Past Division Commander J.
Clinton Hiatt is chairman Of the
general committee on ARRANGEMENTS.
Maj. H. L. Deem. president Of the
organization Is honorary chairman,
and Past Junior Vice Comma nder-
in-Chief Henry A. Johnson. OF the
Grand Army. is chairman OF the
reception committee. with National
Vice President Watson B. Miller
and Mrs. Emma Hempler, second
vice president of the association as
chairmen
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
LIGHTS IN
CITY To GET
NEW TEST
About IS Per Cent Alleged to
Be illegal in Safety
Drive.
automobile headlights,

Binding automobile headlights,
dangerous and unlawful, are the
present object Of attack by the
Washington Safety Council.
According to w. Graham Cole, Sec
rotary Of the council, a number Of
headlight-testing stations soon will
be opened in the larger garages of
the city.
Cole, in announcing this new
move, declared that recent sur
vey made by the Bureau of Stan
dards showed that IS per cent. of
Washington's 100000 automobiles
are equipped with illegal headlights.
The law requires that not more than
21-candlepower lights be used.
The city has been placarded With
signs calling attention Of motorists
to the dangers of glaring headlights
and asking, pointedly, How about
yours?"
A list of the testing stations will
be announced during the next few
days.
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
BLANES GIRL IN
$4,000 BANK
THEFTS
Mrs. M. n. Dinsmore Says Ac-
cused Husband Made Costly
Gifts to Beauty.

Neither my five-year- bov
nor myself received directly or in
directly one penny of the $4,000
of the bank funds my husband is
charged with sauandering.
Pretty young Bertha Dinsmore.
wife Of Morris H. Dinsmore. twenty
eight years. former savings teller
at the District National Bank. who
was captured yesterday on the
Pacific Coast following a country
wide search. made. this statement
to The Washington Times today.
A trifle fearful and sensibly sym
pathetic, the pretty young wife to-
day related details of her blighted
seven-year married life.
Il found Morris out" the wife
| said today, "a year before he was
charged with embezzeling the bank
funds. l believe that he spent a
great deal Of the money before he
left Washington, and am certain
that he squandered the majority of
1t on the young Baltimore girl with
wnom he has been in company. He
purchased her a coat worth $500
and a ring worth several thousand
dollars"
Mrs. Dinsmore explained that
Wnen her husband disappeared from
washington he was living at the
fairmont apartments, Fourth street
and New York avenue northwest
ana not with her at their former
nome, 73 K street northwest.
Local authorities were informed
last night that when Dinsmore was
arrested by Detective D. B. Vacca
rem in a little mining camp, Lang.
icy twenty miles east of Everett
WASH, yesterday, he held his hands
OUT TOT the handouts and expressed
renel mat my bad dream is over"
ana tnat ne would be brought back
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
BRIDE,
UNFORGIvEN,
ENDS LIFE
Welded Only Ten Days, She
InhaIes Gas Because Mother
Refuses Blessing.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug. 10.
In the suicide Of a young and
pretty woman found asphyxiated by
gas in a furnished room was re-
vealed yesterday the tragic end Of a
romance.
Mrs. Anna Schlosser was identified
by her husband, Walter Schlosser,
an upholsterer, Of Philadelphia.
They eloped from Philadelphia about
ten days ago, he said. and were
married at Elkton, Md. They re.
turned to Philadelphia August 1
and went Immediately to the home
Of the girls mother to ask forgive.
ness and the PARENTAL blessing. The
mother refused, he said.
They were to have gone to the
mother again last Monday, he said,
but the girl-bride was not to be
found. She had been distressed by
her mothers refusal to approve the
marriage.
When word reached him today
from the Atlantic City police, he
knew. he said. what had happened.
He will take the body Of his bride
to Philadelphia for burial.
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
FUNERAL BILL
Of GARFIELD
UNPAID
Government Rejected Claim As
Entered and Undertaken
Would Not Compromise.

Funeral expenses of President
James A. Garfield have never been
paid by the Government, it was re-
Vealed today.
The bill submitted in 1881 for
Washington ceremonies, following
President Garfield's assassination,
is still unreceipted The debt was
long ago OutlaWed by the statute
OF limitations, but the moral obi
cation remains.
The statement of the expenses,
dusty and yellow, lies presumably
in a safe Of the w. r. Speare
Company, undertaking firm, which
was in charge also of the work
OF the late President Harding's
funeral
The word presumably" is used
adVisedly, because Clyde j. Nichols,
vice president and treasurer of the
concern, is uncertain whether the
Dill was destroyed in a fire about
six years ago.
the funeral from w. r. Speare,
founder of the firm, who died in
1907.
The expenses Of the Garfield fu,
nerla were submitted to the Gov
=
bill among them. Some of the
charges were deemed exorbitanL,
and Congressional committee was
named to settle the claims.
The creditors were instructed to
send their bills to this body, With
a waiver stating they would accept
whatever amount the committee
thought fair.
According to Nichols, Mr.. Speare
refused to sign a waiver. contend
ing his bill was just and reason
able. Consequently, the bill was
never paid.
II don't know the exact amount
of The bill" said Mr.. Nichols, land
to find it I would have to go
through records which have been
untouched for years. Even then,
there Is the possibility that the
bill was destroyed in the fire."
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
THE COLUMN A
COMMUNITY IDEA.

E. C. Adams, in the American
Review, says that the column
should be a community product,
in which all the people day by
day participate in an effort at
self-revelation. They submit
their poetry, their casual essays,
their criticisms, their clipped
samples of bad writing, humor-
Gus remarks, and their records
Of public experiences"
This is the. spirit Of Heard
and Seen. Its contributors are
many, from small boys and
girls to the most intellectual
men and women in this commu-
nifty.
This column belongs to the
public. It is, as has often been
stated, open to everybody, with
out charge. Whatever is fitting
and proper is published.
The Washington times., 1923-08-10

to the National Capital ITO face
the music"
Take me back to Washington,
quick" Dinsmore Is said to have
exclaimed. II have felt you fellows
have been on my trail day and
night. 1 have not slept a wink for
weeks"
Dinsmore disappeared in March
Traced through the principal cities
of the East, Dinsmore was located
in Montreal, Pittsburgh and Chi
cago, but escaped each time.
Police say Dinsmore admits ROB.
bling the bank, that he has waived
extradition and only had so cents
in his possession when arrested
His alleged shortage is covered by
a bonding company.
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
RECIPES MUST
Be ENTERED
TO-DAY
Chance to Win orange-LemoF
Contest Prizes VIII Close
at 8 o'clock. !.

All entries in The Washington
Times Orange and Lemon Recipe
Contest must be in by s p. m. to-
day.
With the shorteEi=:= - ths time
during which Washington cooks
have an opportunity to win prizes
Of delicious Sunkist oranges, late
Corners in the competition have
deluged the Contest Editor with
new recipes for salads and desserts
made from the fruits indicated.
It is suspected that many were
holding back until the last minute.
on the supposition that their sug-
gestions might be on the top OF the
pile to be judged by Antonio Dolls.
chef OF LIE Paradis.
The first prize offered in the
contest is two boxes Of Sunkist
oranges: the second prize, one box,
and the third prize, one-half box.
Ten additional prizes are offered
to those whose recipes are among
the best submitted. These awards
consist Of oak recipe filing cabi.
nets. each containing a booklet OF
illustrated recipes for Sunkist
oranges and lemons. These cabi-
nets may be obtained by calling in
person at room 346, Munsey build
ing.
AS was expected in the early days
Of the contest, Mr.. Dolls plans to
use some of the recipes given him
for Judgment on the menu at LIE
Paradis. This same course was
followed recently at the New VII.
lard Hotel, whose chef passed upon
hundreds of recipes received in the
orange and lemon drink contest two
weeks ago.
Names of the winners of the final
week of the contest will be an.
nornced in The Washington Times
AZ soon as Mr.. Dolls makes MS
'rhnipnS
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
H|GHPR|CE SEEN
FOR WINTER
FRUITS
Vegetables Also to Soar, Says
y. S. Report, Because
of Shortage.
BY Cosmopolitan News Service.

A general shortage of leading
fruits and vegetables will have the
effect of causing higher prices next
winter, according to report Of the
department of Agriculture, which
lnnicates that, although right at
this time some prices are lowering.
an ADVANCE may be looked for.
On the other hand, the shortage
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
OH, WOMAN, WHERE
is YOUR BEAUTY?

by their feet may you know
them," says the retiring presi-
dent Of the National Association
Of Chiropodists, referring to
women. Furthermore, the beauty
Of women lies not in their faces,
but in their feet. Listen: The
girl with the high-heeled, sharply
pointed shoe and the fallen
arches has a mind that is ''only
ankle Deep"
No more shall we hear:
"Girlie, your beautiful face en-
frances me-" It shall be:
"TootsiA, your tootsies enthrall
me-" And the girl simply smiles
and says: Eyes, we have some
nice feet today"
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
REAL ESTATE DEALERS
WIFE ASKS $500 MONTHLY

Staying out until midnight or
even 8 a. m. is the habit Of Sidney
A. Raymond, real estate, Of /
Thomas circle, according to his
wife, Mrs. Vesta r. Raymond, who
'oday petitioned the District SUI
Dreme Court for $500 a month
maintenance for herself and infant.
Through Attorney P b. More
'ouse, Mrs. Raymond AYERS that
yer husband deserted her and the
hid July IS at the ST Mihiel The
'ouple we're married at the court
November is, 1921. Mrs. Raymond
declares that her husbands income
Is $4,000 q year.
The Washington times., 1923-08-10
COMPANIONsHIP's JOYS.

The good fellowship Of the late
President and his loyalty to
friends and comrades prompts
E. H. PILSON to request the
publication Of this poem:
when the night falls tremuIOus
And the last lamp burns low,
And one Of MS or both of us
That long, lone road must so,
Look with your dear old eyes in
Give me q handmade true,
For whatever fate our souls await,
Let me be there with you"