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The Washington times., 1923-09-22
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WOMAN DYING
IN SHQ1 TING
Cumberland Police Seeking
! Roomer Who Used Gun When
Told 70 Leave House.
q Inaerna slenal SOL ger.lse.

{ CUMBERLAND. Md. Sept. 2z.--
Police today were securing the
countryside east Of this city for
Gabriel d. Roberts, Of Detroit, who
shot and instantly killed william
Edward Riley. fifty-eight. ana prob.
ably fatally injured his daughter,
Bessie NJ. Riley. thirty seven. at
midnight last night ct their home
in this city.
The trouble occurred when Mss
Riley entered the kitchen. where
Roberts was sitting, and asked him
II he was going to bed. He said:
Get out. don't bother me- = and
picked up large butcher knife
from the table. Miss Riley went
upstairs and told her father. who
armed himself with gun and or
dered Roberts from the house.
Roberts then went to his room. ap-
parently to set his belongings. He
returned with 9 30 caliber Colt al-
tomato. Mr.. Riley was standing at
the foot of the stairs. Roberts
pointed the gun at him and fired
once. The bullet pierced Riley's.
Miss Riley locked herself in her
room. Roberts shattered the lock
with a bullet through the key hole
and forced his way into the room.
He fired twice at Miss Riley, both
bullets entering her abdomen.
Roberts then said any more
around?' and seeing little girl,
fired several shots at her. She
was unhurt. Roberts continued FIR.
ing until his gun was empty. He
then tossed Il on the bed and.
running through the front door,
dashed up the street and jumped
into q parked automobile.
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FISHES FOR WllIsKEY
IN STEAMERS HOLD

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.An i'm.
prOvised hook ana line were used
yesterday by Inspector Christopher
Smith Of the special searching staff
O9 the surveyor OF the Port to fish
ont liz bottles Of Scotch whisky
from the forward hold OF the tramp
steamer w. 8. Dollar of the Dollar
Line, tied up at Pier Is, Stapleton,
s. I. Two Chinese members Of the
crew were fined 1886 when arra;gned
before Assistant Solicitor Edward
Barnes Of the Legal Division Of the
Customs Service.
According to Smith. one OF the
Chinese offered him 800 to nnakG
no search OF the hold where the
liquor was found.
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r lion OF Denby
Denied By
Coolidge

Official denial was made at
the White House today Of
widely circulated reports that
SECRETARY of the Navy DENLY
planned TO resign from the
Cabinet.
The denial was made BY the
White House because DENLY is
absent from the city. The
reports were discounted like
wise hy Assistant Secretary Of
the Navy Roosevelt, who was
reported to have been selected
to succeed DENLY in the inn
mediate future.
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BOY TOOK DADS vvliIsKEY; !;
OLDER FRIEND ARRESTED

POTTsIoWN, Pa, Sept. S2.--
Two quart bottles Of whiskey,
which Frank Reinert bought twenty
years ago for medical purposes led
to the arrest of Paul williams. a
youth. Reinert's tlairteen-year-old
son, Loomis, admitted he had given
the LIQUOR to Williams with the
understanding that when williams
sold 1t he was to get S13, but he
got only 81. Williams was held
under $500 for a hearing.
Five $50 bills also were stolen
from Reinert's house. He had
placed them In an old pair OF
tro1sesrs in closet.
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Martial Law Declared
III Bulgaria; Revolt iii
Sofia Is Suppressed

~ InteFnntlonnI News servlce.
ATHENS. sept, ~ Martial law
has been proclaimed throughout
Bulgaria a. B result Of the attempt
by Communist revOiutionaries to
overthrow the Zanoff government,
said q dispatch from Sofia today.
A eemi-o1 1ficial statement issued in
Sofia said the revolt was local and
has been completely suppressed.
It explained that martial law was
necessary to prevent recurrence.
"A fight took place IN Sofia when
the police attempted TO arrest seven
communist leaders who had taken
refuge III the same house. One
policeman was killed and one com.
munist committed suicide when he
saw capture was inevitable. Three
other communists were arrested and
three escaped.
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DECLARES HE SAW FISH
SUSPENDED FROM TREES

SEATTLE, Sept. 22.-Hal GraInrn.
a mining man OF this city. who
has just returned from visiting
gold properties at the foot of Sal.
mon Glacier, in British Colunl-
bla, twenty miles north OF Hyder.
Alaska, relates that he saw fish
hanging on trees.
The river had been swollen
and when it receeded many salmon
four to six feet long were left
suspended, from limbs he AYERS.
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PAPYRUS SAILS FOR
u. s. ON The AOuTTANIA

SOUTHAMPTON. Eng, Sept. %.
The English derby winner Pap.
yrus, who will race Americas best
three-year-old, sailed for New York
today on the liner Aquitania.
occupying a stall deluxe.
Papyrus is accompanied by his
stable mate, his trainer and private
guards. His stall is lined with air
cushions and he is getting the at
tention usually accorded a potentaIe.
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PORTUGAL THREATENED
BY MILITARY REVOLT

LONDON, Sept. 22.-It was re-
ported in diplomatic circles today
that the success of the Spanish
military revolution may lead to a
similar movement In Portugal,
whore there has been deep unrest
for a year.
The Lisbon government Is under.
stood to be taking precautions
against an uprising.
Reports from Portugal today said
the country was quiet.
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WOMEN IGNORE MATES
IN INSURANCE. he FINDS

ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. CO.
Eighty.seven per cent OF the mar.
ried women who take out life in.
aurance policies make relatives
other than their husbands bene.
ficiaries, DIR. A. G. Vanderyoort
the Fidelity Leaders Club here.
DR.. Vandervoort said he believed
married women took this attitude
because they felt that when they
died their husbands could take care
Of themselves.
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MAN, SO, PAYS $26.45
FOR ATTACKING RIVAL. so

BALTIC, Sept. 22.-For striking
his. roommate, Louis M. Manning.
sixty, with a hatchet during quar-
rel over sa blonde woman named
Bessie, Walter II. Morrison. eighty.
three, $40 South Bond street, was
fined S26.45 by Magistrate RettaIiatn
in Eastern Police Court.
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BRADsTREET's FINDS 2o6
TRADE CRASHES mi WEEK

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Business
failures for the week ending Sep.
ternber 90 number 296, which com.
pare with 289 last week, 392 in the
ike week OF 1929, 419 in 1921, 158
in 1920, and 116 In 1919, according
to Bradstreet's.
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Prinoa seaks colt course.

HIGH RIVER, Alberta, Sept. ~.
The Prince of Wales was speed
Irr TODAY on d. special train To
Ranff where there Ii the finest
csnIf course In Canada. for week
end nIaying. The party intends 10
return to his ranch Tuesday.
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TNN0Np
Of YOUTH
BEING
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Identity oi latest
Witness.

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Governor alton 8 Firm u llia
Resolve u Prevent nlass
fuI Ilan Assembly
~ JAMES i. KIIlGAIIsEl,
Infnr.IIn - 49, IIes.


OKLAHOMA CITY Okla. Sept
The a 1cEbing uus1tiss Is
Ollahoraa City today W.
Whit will happen next
sdnss1sy noon
olI1iIit s. iolencc e1.
IsgislS tpk nt 6nir fos
convene at That ie or ths
nyeWed purpose of i erhin9
Governor Walton was
today although both sies Ia OH
homa's bittsfes political conflict
admitted the situation was franRht
with dangers.
Walton - Firm.
There win be no session of the.
legislature" ." Governor walton re.
iterated. There win Be no unlawful
Khan assembly. {
Z Yet trains arriving iii Oklahoma
City brought State legislators who
came to attend the caIled session.
Many insisted they were not KIans-
men. They went at once 10 the
sklrvin Hotel. wI1sre within q
snOke-fiIled suite the anti-W WaItonites
discuss with warmth their intention
70 meet. mo matter what happens
and regardless Of Martial law.
If the governor wants to arrest.
us or shoot us. ho win make consid-
cradle history" one prominent legis-
iator asserted.
w. p. McBee, Of Duncan, leader
OF the legislative movement against
Walton, and Representative w. /.
Cunningham, OF .Sapulpa, said II
trouble came next Wednesday Il
would be brought about by Mad.
Jacks bodyguard, not the military"
Waltonss "bodyguard" Is the sud-.
ject of the most bitter TRADES.
At Least Twenty Men.
The governor has an armed, per-
sonal bodyguard Of at fewest twenty
men. Some say they are as many a.
$50, as does Col. Zach Mulhall. one
of the two really picturesque figures
In the DO0ySuaEds,
The other IL Buck" Garrett, ia
NOUS twO-gun man, nationally
known as the former sheriff Of Car
ter county. Garrett figured promi-
nently as bodyguard In the Clara
Smith HannOn murder trial at Ard
more. He is feet Q inches tall,
weighs well over 200 pounds.
MuIhalI once was a crack cowboy
= 80 Nk.Afl
with the "1O1 Ranch" circus. He
ig an erect, gray-haired man now
with q large gray soInbrero and
Buffalo Bill beard.
sJack" Walton has an army Of
men ready to go the limit for him."
1t 10 related that the governor has
granted hundreds - perhaps thou
sands-of special police permits.
They have been given to his friends
upon request" and are held by
mechanics. farmers, reporters, bar
hers. business men-in fact, men
in all walks OF life and no favorites
played.
Mostly KIansmen.
! Walton alleges that sixty-eight out
Of the 11O members of the State
legislature "are members OF the Ku
Kiux Klan."
Therefore, he asserts, the impeud.
ing session is an unlawful khan
assembIage."
''What is the situation In the Sen.
ate?, the governor was asked.
''I should say that 81 per cent OF
the senate are members Of the klan,"
he replied.
The governor said he was receiving
messages of congratulation on his
fight against the khan from all over
the country. He expressed satisfuc-
ton over the headway the military
court Ii making eliminating in the
arrest Of Grand Dragon Jewett.
Jewett entered q plea Of not guilty
when arraigned last night and was
released on $1,000 bonds.
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EEISER WINS
First
ROUND
Score 3s- % Big Gallery
Watches Start 81. Amateur
Championship Match.
BY ROBERT .. HARLOW.

FLOSEMOOR COUNTRY CLUB
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.- Golf experts
picked Jesse SweetSer to retain hie
amateur golf crown when he began
the final rounds with Max Marstou
Tor the title.
Playing conditions were ideal to.
Gay. The sun shone in e cloudless
SKY and the strong wind that yes.
feruay interferred with accurate
shooting had vanished. Al force Of
men was out early whipping q
heavy dew from the grass.
Big Gallery On Hand.
The gallery began to arrive early
and before the players teed off
there were 2sO00 persons present.
Sentiment leaned heavily toward
SweetAer.
Sweetser and Marston, both play
ed the first three holes In uar
taking three shots to get well on
the first green and two puts
They put fine iron shots on the
second green and took the re0Jl.
iatton two puts. The long thiro
REQUIRED three shots each to tF1e
green and two puts.
Jess Wins At Fourth.
The first break in the match
came at the fourth hole when Mr.
stonss second was at the sight 81
the green, and he failed to CHR
close enough to obtain a forIr
Sweetser was well on the c-reer
with two puts and won with I
four. :
sweetser had fine onnor4untt,
TO win the fifth hole when he mt
his second shot within four ~
of the cup. Marston's second wa.
twenty feet away, and after ~
had putted close kor a sure Ho,,r
6weetser missed his four foofar fn,
q three, and they halved The hoI.
in four. ''
The fifth hole was badly nIa,,oN
Sweetser winning It with q A.
Marston's z, to become Q IN. Ma
ston,s drive waS in the roa,el, i,
the left Of the fairoay and fhe hsIi
was buried no deep IN the haa
grass that he could only move n
few feet. - :
He smashed his third ont NJ IN.
rough short OF the, green. nitches
his fourth on and then took three
puts. sweetser pushed his drive 4
Continued on Page ?. Column 6,
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a parachute jump from d speed
ing plane win be made at ESQ
O'Clock.
ne nlrst OF several airplare races
,ll - n5.San s az sss0 Wnen group
0so puiculL pianea WiA taKe
O5k gNer = LaIteen-mlle course.
nIs race VIII be followed BY the
bombing OF miniature fortress on
gne lower END OF the field by q
oompardmene formation.
The second race. for We pursuit
planes, van take place over the
ntteen-mile course at o'clock, and
VIII be followed at 40 by thirty.
mile race for Martin bombing
planes.
To Lay Smoke Screens.
The Iayin9 of smoke screens from
airuIanes = WIN be en demonstrnted ort aio -
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whether the opening feature. the
spelling out IN lines Of smoke from
q speeding airpIane OF the word
,syelcoFne, can be held is prob
lernatiea1 AZ white smoke Is used.
which would be- completely lost IN
She clouds. In case this is abau-
doned the opening spectacle win
be low flying observation lorna
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-22
100000 DIE YEARLY FROM
 PREvENTABLE DISEASES IS
 STATEMENT MADE MEDICOS

SANTA BARBARA. Calif., June 22. -(By Associated Press. )-"There are over 100000 deaths in the United States every year from preventable diseases" said Dr. William F. Snow Of New York in addressing the Ma tional Tuberculosis Association to- day "The death rate from such diseases as tuberculosis. syphilis, gonorrhea. infantile paralysis, ty- phoid fever and others have declined largely as result of the application of scientific knowledge and oommun- ity organization The next forward step in further life saving in this country must come through more erective coordination of existing health agencies.
 'In addition to the officially con- stitused health officers in various states and cities throughout the country. there are from twenty to fifty different voluntary health agen-
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cies. each striving to get over . particular program. To reduce the death rate from preventable diseases to practical minimum there must be getting together of these orgahff izations.
 This is task which the National Health Council has set for itself. Already very definite ste..s Lave been taken in this direction by the national health agencies, including the American Social Hygicne Asso- citation. National Committee for Men tai Hygiene. National Organization for Public Health Nursing, National Tuberculosis Association. American Public Health Association. American Red Cross Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America. Council on Health and Public Instruction of the Amer. ican Society for the Control Of Can cer. and number of other associat ed national agencies"
The Alaska daily empire., 1923-06-22
SEATTLE TO PRESENT VIEWS ON
 ALASKAN MATTERS TO HARDING

SEATTLE, June 22.-The Alaska Bureau of the Chamber of Com merce last night heard several com mittee reports which will he embod- fed in a brief to be submitted to President Harding as an expression of the Chambers views on Alaskan matters.
 The transportation committee rec commended a colonization scheme to be immediately effective to develop the region traversed by branch lines of the government railroad and that spurs be built to all points where
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farther development is undertaken and where the traffic will justify. More roads and trails are also urged.
 The report said that the building of roads and trails is most import ant and fixed s1,500.000 allotment for comprehensive highway policy.
 The report urged appropriations to provide additional lights and buoys and other aids to navigation.
 Roads to the Mount Mckinley dis trict and Mount Katmai district were urged for tourists.
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WORLD COURT IS DISCUSSED
 BY PRESIDENT
Harding Renews Plea for American Adherence to
 International Court.
DECLARES THERE IS NO
 DANGER IN MEMBERSHIP
Declares League of Nations Is Dead an Issue as Slav-
 ery-l920 Election.

BULLETIN-KANSAS CITY. June 22.-The Presidential train arrived here at 10 o'clock this morning. The party will remain 12 hours, the visit concluding with an address on the transportation problem.
 Governor Hyde and Mrs. Hyde &C., companied the party from St. Louis and Governor Davis, of Kansas, joins the party tonight for the trip across the State.
 FIRST PREPARED SPEECH.
 ST. LOUIS, June 22.-President Harding, in his first prepared ad- dress on his western and Alaskan trip, made here last night, renewed his plea fer American adherence to the permanent Court of Interna- tional Justice. ''as one and the only existing agency of peace to which we can safely subscribe without violating the basic principles of our national being"
 President Harding declared that to attain the end he would gladly wipe out factional differences" He proposed reconstruction machinery of an international tribunal Ito dis pose conclusively of all other cited approhensions of our danger from the exercise of any influence what soever either cpen or furtive by the League of Nations or any other or ganization.'
 The President said this could be done in one of two ways:
 First-By empowering the court to fill vacancies in itself.
 Secondly continuing the power of the present court to nominate but transferring the power elect from the League of Nations to the re- maining members of the court.
 Would Submit Terms.
 President Harding, anticipating questions of doubters as to whether 40 nations represented in the court
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H ARvARD IS
 DEFEATED BY
 YALE 0ARSMEN
Former Coach of University of Washington Brings
 Out Winning Flights.

NEW LONDON June 22. - The Yale freshman and junior varsity crews. coached by Ed Leader for mer University of Washington row ing coach, easily defeated Harvards eights today.
 The freshmen won the race by four lengths over two mile course and the junior varsity won by five and one-half lengths.
 The varsity race is scheduled for this evening.
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BRITISH APPEAL FOR WAY TO
 SHIP LIQUOR INTO KLOND|KE

WASHINGTON, June 22. The long reach of the Volstead law em- braces the Klondike. In consequence the British government, has formally appealed to the Treasury Department to find some means to allow transpor- tation of liquor across American ter ritory, from Skagway to Whitehorse and other Yukon Territory districts.
 Thus far the Treasury Depart ment has been unable to find way to great relief holding that the pro- hibition laws set aside the former treaty granting the British right to transport liquor across the country under bond.
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To Try for Release
 Of American Craft

TACOMA, June zz.-Secretary of State Hughes has notified the Phoe- nix Northern Trading Company, own CTS of the schooner Iskum, that the revenue cutter Bear has been or dered to proceed from Nome to East Cape to use good offices to secure held there by the Soviet authori- ties.
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Fur Prices Show Slight
 Increase ; Tacoma Auction

TACOMA. June 22.-Prices of mink, muskrats and red fox showed an advance when $60.0O0 worth of furs, mostly Alaskan, were sold at the regular auction of the West Coast Grocery Company Other furs brought approximately former prices. Twenty five large buyers of the country at tended and purchased all skins of fered
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SOIL NEEDS STUDIED.

LOS ANGELES, June 2Z.-A cam paign to educate the farmer and fruit grower in the proper use of fertilizer as a means of preventing of the soil is being planned by the California Fertilizer recently organized here.
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ALASKA HEAT WAVE.

WASHINGTON, June 22. - The Weather Bureau announces a mater ial drop in temperature on the At lantfc Coast but hot weather con tinues in the Central and Great Lakes region.
 Even Alaska is suffering from a heat wave. Eagle reporting 84 de- grces
 It is relatively cool in Honolulu with the thermometer standing at 80 degrees.
 The Alaskan heat wave is att tributed to ca1mness of the atmos- pheric conditions.
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Land Office Case Is Left for
 President Harding

SEATTLE, June 22-Secre- tary of Interior Hubert Work has advised the Seattle Cham Der of Commerce he has not recommended suspension of the order removing the Land Office from Juneau to Anchorage un- til President Harding has had a chance to study the situa- tion at first hand.
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New Powder Is Developed by War Department

WASHINGTON, June 22. - The War Department announces the successful development of a new. powder for small arms and artillery which possesses all of the driving power of the type now used but at the same time is smokeless, flashless and i'm previous to moisture.
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Slayers of B Persons Are Executed Today

MOSCOW, June 23-Ivan Kam- arov and wife, who slew 33 per sons while attending tea parties in their homes to which they invited guests flor the purpose of robbery. were executed early today.
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Tacoma Shelter, Furnaces
 Explode !; Many Are Burned

TACOMA, June 22.-One man was blinded and possibly fatally injured, twelve slightly burned when furnaces in the Tacoma Smelling Company's plant at Russian exploded this after noon.
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French Aviator Plans Flight
 To North Pole

PARIS, June 22. The French aviator who plans flight to the North Pole is Lieut.. De Payer ac- cording to local newspapers. It is claimed De Payer plans to establish base at Virgin Bay. Spitzbergen, 720 miles from the pole. It is hoped the expedition will start next sum- mcr.
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Leviathian Is Setting
 New Record for Speed

ABOARD THE LEvIATHAN, June 22.-The reconditioned Leviathan, re- turning to New York on trial trip has set new record of 2S.4 knots. The Mauretania with 27.5 held the. previous record,