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HUGE SUM PAID
PENSIONERS
IN D. {,
Bureau Figures Reveal 3d.
342,371.o2 Expended in
1922 on Veterans.

pensioners in the District of
Columbia were paid $3,342, 371.02
from the Government last year,
figures given out by the Pension
office show. This huge sum was
divided up among 1928 veterans,
many of whom live in this city
only because they are at the Sol
diers Home or at St. Elizabeth's
Hospital undergoing treatment, it
was said.
There are 862 pension-drawine
veterans at the Soldiers Home and
167 at st. ~Elizabeth's Hospital.
Interesting data is given concern.
ing the distribution Of the forty.
seven veterans of the Mexican war,
one of whom, Owen Thomas Edgar,
ninety-one years old, Of 5000 Four
teenth street northwest, is a Dis
trict resident. The others are
scattered over twenty States. The
average age of these veterans Is
ninety-six years, the youngest be-
ing Mr.. Edgar, and the eldest being
resident of Illinois, who is ninety
eight. There were seventy-three
veterans in 1922.
NAN4A VOL pOAlSAOASIS 1Cdu Dy d
wide margin in the total of money
received. They get annually $685.
924,871.94, while the Spanish war
pensioners get $780, 2128, and
all others $6,200,806.96. There are
168,623 civil war veterans receiving
a pension, while 68,3 Spanish war
veterans are drawing pensions.
Forty widows of veterans of the
war of 1912 still receive pensions.
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Wives of Diplomats
On Way to
Europe

Nine. Wiedfeldt, wife of the Ger
roon an,ba ssador to New York yes
tardav. accompanied by the ANNA g
sador. and will sail today on the
Alfred BALM to spend some time
in Germany.
Nine, Won Lewinski, wife OF the
counselor of the embassy is also
sailing on the Alfred BALM, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss Inga
Won Lewinski. They will spend sew
eraI months at home. Pomeroy
Karl Won Lewinski is at a camp in
Vermont for the summer. The
counselor who accompanied his wife
and daughter to New York will re-
turn to Washington the last Of the
week.
The counselor of the German en-
hassv and Frau Dieckhoff, who
leased the house at 3 East Lenox
street, Chevy Chase, Md, for the
summer months, will move in the
autumn to 1902 Sixteenth street,
the house occupied last season by
the retiring second secretary of the
embassy and Frau Riesser. DR..
Riesser, who has been transferred
to the German legation at Riga.
Latvia, where he will be first sec
rotary, will sail, accompanied by
Frau Riesser, the first Of next week
for his new post.
3
Former Governor Preus, Of Min
nesota is in Washington, and is
staying at the Willard. He plans to
remain in town until the first Of
the week.
q
Mrs. Harry A. Kite and Mrs. A.
Britton Brown are in Atlantic City
for a few days and are stopping at
the Ritz Carlton while there.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Richard and
their daughter, Miss Claire Richard,
are spending some time in Atlantic
City and are at the Ritz Carlton
Hotel.
A garden party will be given by
Kappa Kappa Gamma at the home
Of Miss Helen Bland, 1850 Macomb
street, on Saturday from 3 to 6
o'clock. The hostesses will be Mrs.
Marcus Matson. Mrs. G. N. Hostett-
Ter, Mrs Hamilton Knox and Miss
Carlotta Veitenheimer. All members
of Kappa Kappa Gamma are invited
to attend.
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HAVING TOO MANY WIVES
LANDS YORK MAN IN JAIL

YORK, Pa, July 26.-Paul Kauff-
man, alias Clyde J. Foley, alias
Paul Jockhard, arrested in Column
bia last Friday, is in the York
county Jail awaiting a hearing on
a charge of bigamy. He has admit
ted, says Detective Oscar Stoner,
that he has been married to three
women without being legally sep
arated from any.
The information was given by his
third. wife, formerly Marion Hull
man, of this city. On October IA,
1919 it is learned, he married
Sophia M. Kibler, at Elkton, Md.
She is a resident of Marietta, Pa.
On August 20, 1920, he married
Clara Louise Apple, of Camden, N.
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UNIVERSITY WOMEN TO
SEEK BOX PEACE PRIZE

NEW YORK, July 26.-Telegraph.
ing from it's convention in Oregon
to the American Peace Award. the
American Association of University
Women announces that it will com
pete as an organization for the
award and has appointed sub
committee to submit a plan for
the Association to consider.
80 The American Association of
University Women is one of the
very first organizations to take adj
vantage of the clause in the condi-
items of award which makes it pos
sible for organizations as well as
individuals to submit plan.
In accordance with the request
Of the committee in charge of the
Peace Award that suggestions for
the jury should be sent in by all
organizations, or by interested in
dividuals all over the country.
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SENTRY VANISHES FROM
PORTSMOUTH NAVY YARD

PORTSMOUTH, Va, July 26.-
The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of Prvt. Leonard Nixon,
u. S. M. c., who vanished from
his sentry post at the Navy Yard
during the violent electrical storm
early yesterday has not been
cleared up today, and efforts of
the police in this city and Norfolk
and naval authorities to even find
a clue have been fruitless.
Nixon was last seen at
o'clock Wednesday morning by an
other sentry as he was walking his
post. All other sentries have been
questioned and the Elizabeth river
has been dragged by small boats.
It was at first believed that he had
been killed by a bolt of lightning
and a search Of the grounds made.
A search Of all vessels and craft
on the water front that are out of
commission has been ordered.
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J. w. POLE PUT IN CHARGE
OF BANK EXAMINERS

J. w. Pole, at present chief ma
tional bank examiner in the Atlanta
district, has been transferred to
Washington to be in general charge
of the examiners in the field, and the
examination division of the office Of
the Comptroller of the Currency, it
was announced today by Comptroller
of the Currency Dawes.
F.. D. Robb, of Iowa, at present
examiner assigned to special work
in the office of the Comptroller, has
been appointed chief examiner in
the Atlanta district, succeeding Pole.
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JEAN FIIOT'S NEWS OF CAPITAL SOCIETY

yesterday on the France for En-
rope: me assistant naval attache
or the embassy, Chief Engineer p.
f. n. Gr1pon, will be acting naval
attacne during the absence of Can
tain Rigal. p
harolo Sims, of the British en-
naSey' Will leave Washington Sat
real. 49, A'Ao'i'-
The new chairman of the Tinted
States Shipping Board, e. r Far.
icy, is staying at the Racouet
Senator and Mrs. Oscar w TN.
derwood left the end of last week
Tor their home in Alabama. where
they Will remain until fall.
-
Congressman and Mrs. Sanoue, r
Winslow have leased the residence
of Mrs. Frederic r. Harris At 2310
Massachusetts avenue for tho com.
ing season.
Former Secretary of State Rain.
bridge Colby arrived yesterday in
New York from England,
Former Ambassador Ian,es w
Gerard entertained at luncheon at
the Rtz-Carlton, New York on Tues
day In compliment to Mr.. and M+s
Reginald G.. Vanderbilt and Mrs
Morgan Converse.
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SCRANTON MINERS START
MEMORIAL TO MITCHELL

SCRANTON, Pa, July 26.-Actual
work on the erection of 100000 me-
mortal to John Mitchell, who led the
anthracite miners to victory in 1900
and 1902, by the United Mine Work.
ers of America, was commenced in
the courthouse square.
Neil J. Ferry, active in the miners
organization and a member of the
commission arranging the memorial,
turned the first shovel of earth.
There was no formal ceremony. 1t
Is intended to unveil the monument
on Mitchell day, October 20, the
twenty-third anniversary Of the set
tlement of the strike of 1900.
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Mrs. Raymond Baker
Guest at Newport.

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has as
her guest at her villa, the Breakers,
at Newport, Mrs. Raymond It.
Baker, who before her marriage to
Mr.. Baker, was the widow of Mr..
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, son of
Mrs. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Bakers two
sons, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and
George w. Vanderbilt, are visiting
their grandfather, Capt. Isaac En-
erson, OF Baltimore, at Narragan-
sett Pier.
s.
Miss Constance Holden, OF New
Rochelle, N. Y, is visiting her uncle
and aunt, DIR. and Mrs. G., s. jamie
son, in their home in Chevy Chase.
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Capital AbSenteeS
Increase Over
Week End
By JEAN ELIOT.

IVY HILE some of the cabi-
" Aneteers shed the dust or
" their offices in Europe, and
others forget their numerous ana
arduous duties while travelling
with the Presidential party, still
others are spending a quiet sum-
mer vacationing and resting with
their families. But while the vari-
Gus chiefs of our Government de-
partments rest from their winter
labors, their assistants ably carry
on the tasks that have fallen to
their shoulders. But even assist
ants must rest occasionally, and as
their chiefs are away, for the most
part, for the whole summer, the
week-ends are about all that fall
to their lot. An occasional week
end spend in Boston is about all
the Assistant Secretary of War,
Dwight F. Davis, is able to in
dulge in. He is leaving this week
to spend several days with Mrs.
Davis who is there for the summer.
Secretary Weeks, who Is at present
with Mrs. Weeks at Lancaster,
N. H., does not plan to return to
his desk before August Q, and
perhaps he will then put off his
return until even later in the
month.
Then Walter II. Drake. Assist
ant Secretary Of Commerce. who
is holding the fort while Secre-
tary and Mrs. Hoover are travel
ing with the President, left for a
flying visit to Detroit this morn
ing, where Mrs. Drake and his
family are established until fall.
Mr.. Drake plans to return to
Washington by Monday morning.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy,
Is carrying on" in the alb
taking well-earned rest with
Mrs. DENLY, at Pontiac, Mica.
Colonel Roosevelt spent a day or
two at Oyster Bay with Mrs.
Roosevelt, on his way to Newport
for the weekend. where he has
gone on business-he is making
an official inspection tour of the
Naval College. Secretary DENLY
will not return to Washington
until the latter part of August,
so. until then Colonel Roosevelt
will stick close to base.
=
WHILE Secretary of the Treas
ury Andrew Mellon is travel
ing in Europe, and, I understand,
he will be absent until the second
week in September at any rate,
Undersecretary D. Parker Gilbert
is remaining Of his desk, only TAX
Ing an occasional weekend visit to
New York. A E. Sixsmith, CT
the Treasury, who accompanied
Mrs. Sixsmith to Canada, is now
back in Washington, but is plan
ming to go vacationing for
short while.
Assistant Secretary Of Labor, e.
]. Henning is staying in town for
most of the summer while his
chief takes an extended trip
through Europe, and Edward c.
Finney, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior Department, has taken
but one short trip to New York
since Secretary Work left with
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Admiral EberLe and
Wife on NeLU York Visit.

Admiral and Mrs. Edward w
Eberle will return the first Of the
week from a visit in New York
where they will go today.
= .2zA 81 s~~
Mr.. and Mrs. Aksel wichfefd are
at Carlsbad and will go to their
shooting box in Scotland early in
August.
- -as- azf
Marshall Langhorne is in New
York.
Mrs. Albert L. Mills is now at the
Hawthorne Inn, East Gloucester,
Mass. Mrs. Mills closed her apart.
ment at the st. Nicholas June l
and went to visit her son-in-law
and daughter, Maj. and Mrs.
George Wellington Graham, at
Raritan arsenal, New Jersey. Later
she was the guest of her brother
and sister-in-law, Bishop and Mrs.
Paddock, at Williamstown, Mass.
=
DIR. and Mrs. Edmund Horgan
nave returned from motor trip
through the White Mountains, Can
ada, and the Adirondacks.
3
Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Putnam
have returned to Washington. Mrs.
Putnam will go to Iowa next week
to be with her children and rel
atives.
Mrs. King Carley entertained at
luncheon at Pine Lodge in Newporr
Tuesday for her sister, Mrs. Edward
). McVickar, of White Plains. N.
Y, who is visiting Miss Julia Ber-
wind. Among the guests were Mrs,
James D. Haggin, Mrs. /. Town
send Burden, Mrs. Joseph Harri-
man and Miss Berwind.
s
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald G., Vna-
derbilt, who recently returned from
a honeymoon abroad, will leave New
York tomorrow and go to NewDost
where they will be the guests of
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. sr, at
the Breakers until the completion
or the improvements on Sandy Point
farm their estate at Portsmouth.
$
Mr.. and Mrs. ". r. S. Thackara
accompanied by their children Miss
EleanoT Thackara, Master lanes
Thackara and Master Alexander
Ihackara. sailed yesterday from
New York aboard the La France
for an extended stay in Europe,
Mr.: and Mrs. Thackara and their
children have recently returned
from a long stay in South America
Mr.. Thackara is the son of Alexan.
der Thackara, long our consul gen.
eral at Paris.
5
Harold r. Foss, United States
consul at Constantinople, has ar.
rived In Washington and is stay.
ing at the Lee House.
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who has been in Europe, returned
to Washington Monday.
3
A. H. Hamilton Gordon Of the
British embassy, entertained six at
dinner last evening at the Willard
roof.
The former Vice President and
Mrs. Thomas r. Marshall have re-
turned to their apartment at the
Lee House after a fortnight's visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond at their summer place, Look
out HILL" Gloucester, Mass. Mr..
and Mrs. Marshall plan to remain
in Washington until the termination
Of the Coal Commission in Sep
TENDER.
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John Hays Ha1r,rnonds
Back From GIoucesfer.

Mr.. and Mrs. John HAYS Ham.
mond will return this morning from
Lookout Hill, their. summer place
at Gloucester, Mass.
-
Nine. Zaldivar, widow of the
former Minister Of Salvador, will
sail tomorrow for Salvador.
3
Mrs. Raymond T. Baker is visit.
ing Mrs. Vanderbilt at the Breakers,
Newport. Her two sons, Alfred G..
Vanderbilt and George w. Wander
bilt, are passing week with their
grandfather, Capt. Isaac Emerson,
at Naragansett pier. Mrs. Baker
will open her camp at Racquette
Jake, Adirondacks. next week.
Mrs. Carroll Odell is making an
extended stay in. Michigan.
-
Mitchell Harrison, Of Philadel
phia, Washington and Virginia, is
making an extended stay at the
Hamilton Hotel.
-
Curtis Handley has gone to At
lantic City to join Mrs. Handley.
=
The diplomatic dinner and dance
to be given at Clifton tomorrow
evening promises to be brilliant
Many members of the corps an6
officers of the army and navy and
their wives have made reservations
Dinner will be served under the
large trees on the lawn.
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the Presidential party. Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture, c. w.
Pugsley, also plans to remain in
town with an infrequent weekend
jaunt now and then to relieve the
monotony of the summer in Wash
ington.
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j., a cripple, also at Elkton, under
the name of Clyde j. Foley. He
married Miss Huffman in York.
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Captain Jean Rig0L
Sails for France.

The naval attache of the French
embassy, Capt. Jean Rigal, sailed
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Secretary of Navy
Host at Summer. Home.

The Secretary Of the Navy and
Mrs. Edwin DENLY have as their
guests at Pontiac, Mich, Major and
Mrs. Maurice E. Shearer, who ac-
companied the Secretary to Mich
igan by motor last week.
The Minister of Panama, Ricardo
J. Alfaro, will leave Washington to-
morrow for California.
Il s
The secretary of the legation of
Switzerland, DIR. Ernest Bremen,
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Miss
Monica
Frischkom
Of Richmond,
Va, who
is the
SuoSL O1
Miss
Janice
'Wilmeth.
Miss
Frischkom
will spend
the month
Of August
at one of the
north shore
resort.
She will be
accompanied
by her
mother
and by Miss
Wilmeth.
Y
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Curtis Handley has gone to At
lantic City to join Mrs. Handley.
, 1923-04-29
8. WILL PROBE
HOUSE Of DAVID
IN FRAUD TRIAL
Decision of Judge Slater In
Federal Court Awards S15,-
900 to Plaintiffs

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, April 2s.
Federal ivestigation into activities
OF the House of David is expected
as a result of Judge John f. slater's
decision that the cult and King
Benjamin Purnell. its ruler, are
frauds.
The decision filed in federal court
here today. awards John and Mar
garet Hansel. plaintiff in the suit
against king" Benjamin, SIS 900 as
r~ecompense for what they donated to
the 'in-gathering" when they Joined
the cult and for their labor and work
done by their children during their
stay in the colony. The Hansels
asked for $50, 900. but Judge Slater
declared that was excessive.
In his decision Judge Slater charg-
ed Benjamin with betraying young
gir's- In commenting upon the
kings" relations with the young
women, he said.
THAT a man may so dominate
young girls or mature women as to
rende them submissive to him. may
be doubted OF d%isbelieved by some.
but not to a person who knows the
details Of genuine white slave
In this cas the submissive girls re.
ceived their keep. but in the name
of religion they were taught hal sub.
lection was n holy rite and Insured
Immortality TO their bodies"
The court held that Benjamin alone
could refute the charges of immor-
ality brought against him by wit
nesses, but that he did not and is re-
ported to have disappeared. His
absence at this critical period IN the
life of himself and his colony. when
lie should have been quick to defend
is significant" the Judge said.
The Hansels instituted their suit
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, 1923-04-29
Look Out or
You'll Lose
Your Change

Beware the short change artist!
This is the warning issued by
the Casper police department hav-
ing learned that two such conf
dence men arrived In Casper yes
terday and started a raid on cash
registers of various business
houses. In me or two Instances
the men succeeded in making
money by their work while In a
third case they were scared out
when someone cried, They're
short change men" In this in.
stance they fed and left the
money on the counter.
The short change artist works
on the general theory that a per.
son especially n woman. at n cash
register can be ratified and conse.
quently can be made TO hand out
more money than the person re.
celves. The artist will ask the
cashier to change a IS bill. per.
haps. About the time the change
Is handed out he will make some
objection stating that he has been
short changed and will do his
best according to all the tricks OF
his trade to befuddle the cashier
until he finally succeeds in walk
ing away with more money than
he came in with.
In order that no moro unsus.
pecting cashiers may become the
victims OF the men who have
made their way into Casper. the
police have issued the warning to
be doubly careful.
, 1923-04-29
c A PHILLIPS
FAR FROM LAW,
is |. A. OPINION
Sheriff's Office Hears "Tiger
Woman" In Honduras Has
Performed Shift
By ROBERT A. DONALDSON
United Press Stnff Correspondent

Los ANGELES. Cal, April rs
Clara Phillips is far from captured.
That was the opinion of the sher-
ifs office tonight. Reports that
the supposed 'Tiger woman" held at
formed a quick shift from her orig
inal alias of Mrs. r. NJ. Young to that
of Mrs. Jesse Carson. left the mat.
ter of extradltion in the ar tonight.
Extradition papers. which have
rushed through and are on their way
to Washington, ask for the arrest
and extradition of "Mrs. r. NJ.
Young on the ground that she is
Clara Phillips.
It may now be necessary for the
state department to go through the
red tape of returning the papers to
the governors office for alteration. It
was reported at the sheriff's office.
No action will be taken in this direc-
ton. however. until word is received
from Washington.
Consul General Rodriguez. of Hon
duras. declared tonight that he could
not say what acton his government
would take in the situation. but he
fe't sure thai II either OF the women
were positively identified as Clara
Phillips she would be detained as long
as legally possible.
He said. however, that It is Illegal
to hold n prisoner without positive
Identification and without e~Stradition
papers more than sixty days after
the date Of arrest.
Hence should there be unusual de.
lay. the papers might not be In the
hands OF Honduras in time to prevent
lawyers of that country from obtain
ing the "Tiger woman's" release.
There is also a possibility. accord
ing to UNDERESTIMATE Blscailuz. that
Clara may work some trick on the
authorities by Identifying her com.
panion as 'Clara Phillips" and be
ing to Under Sheriff Biscailuz. that
fer of the Tegucigalpa police. who
said they would free either woman II
she identified the other as Clara
Phillips.
In this event Biscaiiuz, who Is to
make the trip. would arrive late in
May only to find an unknown wo-
man ready for his custody. It is
not known how long both women
WI be held. as the United States will
only ask the exradlttion of one OF
them. the other one beng something
of a mystery.
eve are going to put her In irons
and II any of her underworld friends
attempt to free her they will have
to go some.'' said Biscailuz. 1--WE arc
sure that one OF the two women in
custody is Clara. We are sure she is
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MAJORS TO FIGHT iiiiaRDING and WORLD C0UR1
FAIR TRADE
NO ROBBERY
ON SANDBAR

There comes to most persons.
somewhere in the course of their
lives. n time when they have some
thing which they would willingly
give away. Further they feel as
though they simply couldn't &c.
cept anything in return. This
was never better illustrated than
by an experience that fell to the
lot Of Jim Hubbard. deputy sheriff.
n night last week.
The sherif's deputies were max
ing n raid in search of liquor on
n of the well known resorts on
the Sandbar. Just as H,bbard
broke into a room on the second
floor he spied a gentleman of
color, pouring moonshine from n
milk bottle out OF a window.
Hubbard rushed across the room
and showed his As into the
anatomy of the pourer.
TN take that" said Hubbard
as he reached for the bottle.
Its a fair trade" answered the
wlelder OF the bottle, but 1 don't
want nothin' back"
, 1923-04-29
AUTHORITIES PROBE CASE
OF BOAT FIRED UPON BY
CANADIAN PATROL SHIP

SEATTLE. Wash. April 2s-Amer
lean and Canadian authorities tonight
wero continuing their investigation
of tho Hhelllng OF tho fishing boat.
Sloan, by the Canadian fisheries
patrol boat Malasplna, in which n
member Of the Sloan crew was IA
tally shot.
According 10 tho story told here
by Captain John Courage OF the 81
loan. his vessel had just rounded
Cape Cook when they sighted tho
Maiaspina which opened fire upon
the Sloan with two pound shells.
II was ordered to halt and did
80. In fact. I halted three times"
Captain Newcomb OF the MalGsplna
stated tina the Sloan had been
surprised by his patrol boat fishing
within the three.mile limit and hat
she crew had refused to surrender.
Captain Courage has vigorously main
tanned his innocence OF violating tie
Captain Courage declared,
fishing regulations.
Secretary OF State Hughes has or
dered the American consul at Van
couver. b. C.. to thoroughly probe
the affair. Canadian authorities are
also conducting an Investigate on.