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The Washington times., 1923-04-26
YAT SEN ROUTS
REBEL FORCES AND
GETS AN INCH
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

@VOPERNICUS was born $50 years ago. He worked out
the theory Of the solar system which all present
astronomical research is predicated. His birthday
inspires paragraph of comment.
Rebellion is raging in China An inch item casually
tons that Sun Vat Sens armies have routed the enemy.
Meanwhile cables crowded with details of the Duke of
Yorks marriage and the list of attending celebrities and
their gifts.
Fifty-two- year,od John de Temple, dock department
employee, plunges into the Hudson, from
drowning and cuts the thrtyseventh notch his life
saving record Mere details of the incident printed.
Wild Bill Hcock killed gamblers and brawlers
and mmortazed by fiction history Bat Mastersons
lightning draw lands him in the frontier halls of fame and
de Temple gets moments attention
Publishers, experts in the workings of the public mind
eirness Of human interest Vaudeville managers
judges of psychology book home-run kings
and ring champions their terms. There ism of
them who d give stage martyr the savior of
battalion
Herosm seat-filer a paying trade-note
de Temples job
Sergeant Michael Donaldson, loaded with medals of valo
is still out of work.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
They Don't Keep Track of Events.

A HAVERSTRAW merchant hands wire-tappers $3.50 000
1t incredible this day of constantly exposed
swindles that any person shrewd enough to
$4,000 should be such mbece to fall for the most
papabe of frauds One of the of reading
newspapers
Lady Elizabeth Bowesy will lay her bridal wreath
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier Somebody else who
should keep closer track of happenings.
Students of social trends in England would advise her
that she makes beautiful gesture but not nearly
effective against spreading radcasm the donation of
diamond aras charities If the latest entrant
royal would expend part of her lavish dowy the
of wounded soldiers and the of orphans Par
lamenary grants for kings and princes might thereafter
meet less opposition.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
Bunny Adopted
by MOtherly Cat

TRANKFORT, Ind.-A young
rabbit has been adopted
Il into it's family of week old
kittens by white cat that lives
in the stock room of a local fac
tory.
The cat mothers and nurses the
bunny and gives it the usual
morning additions just as it does
it's five kittens. Meal time is
answered by the bunny as eagerly
as by the kittens.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
One More Billion Eater?

Act does halt the entrance of
Japanese beetles. These United States have another
- devastator to fight.
Hardly arrived here its depredatons already amount to
millions of dollars.
The great conflict for which all peoples must event
ualIy unite will be waged between the human and
such foes of
Ticks weevls and bugs challenge the combined
forces and fortunes of all powers Civilizations lasting
enemies in the field and the woods They ravage
hopes and than did Atta and his Huns Not
blade of grew where his hordes had passed. either
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
Unearth Ancient
Greek Relics

SALONIKA, Turkey.-Many an
Cient Greek graves have been
found during excavations on the
site of the old Moslem cemeteries
here. The graves were found
underneath the MOslem tombs
and contained coins of the peri
DDS of Alexander and terra Gotta
vases of the Greco-Roman period.
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
Man Mines Another Brain Lode.

KTAN has only begun to mine the lodes OF his brain
metal of identical properties is turned out by
the University of Illinois at cost OF So pound.
Industry the announcement instantly begins to revise
estimates and consider how many savings and efcences
may be accomplished by the employment of this godsend
Crucibe makers the production OF flawess
product.
Inventors in thousand fields will redraft dreams and
patch gaps in possibility.
Laboratories earth over, will quiz gold and silver with
new determination fresh awakened confidence in the
power of mind matter.
The PHILOSOPHERS Stone WASH such farfetched notion
after Time reiterates that impossbies are merely
defeat abis not faiths conclusions Progress is paved
with blocks to endeavor.
Mix the widest dreams with enough brow sweat and
clock ticks and practically anything is achlevabe
KaunhAl
The Washington times., 1923-04-26
He Undermiues the TOUer of Babel.

Babel yanishes thin air. Radio promises
to make all speech kin. General Squer has invented
universal alphabet for wire and wireless communities
ton Messages may be sent at increased speed of 150
per cent Sound flows in modulated instead of slut
terng Morse key information replaces space punctua
ton. Esperanto at last!
Whereupon Nature, observing pat himself the
back in the Panhandle blows Burkburnett
oil derrics smthereens unroofs bunch of houses and
caps climax by png the streets foot deep with hail
stones show aren't yet masters of all forces.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
NEW LAW is BLOW
TO FEDERAL AGENTS

NEW YORK, May 5.-Federal pro-
hibition enforcement officials in New
York, facing the necessity of drying
up the state unaided if Governor
Smith affixes the expected guberna-
torial signature to the bill repeating
the Mullan-Gage state enforcement
act. today began drafting plans for
spreading their attenuated lines over
the territory which has been largely
covered for them by state and mu-
nicipal forces.
Palmer Garfield. enforcement di-
rector for the state. said he had
about 200 men to cover the entire
state, including the Canadian border,
now largely patrolled against rum
runners by state police. He EXPECTED
assistance t'om Washington, but de-
clared he j.pected the police to go
on aiding in prohibition enforcement
IS far as they were able.
while the repeal of the Mullan-
Gage law is a serious blow to en-
forcement because it will make it ap-
pear that New York is seeding from
the union, the police nevertheless are
compelled when they see a violation
of the law to make arrests and turn
their prisoners over to the federal
authorities" he declared
At police headquarters, however, *
was said tha/ tentative plans already
are being made to return to patrol
duty nearly 1000 policemen who
have spent most of their time hunt
ing violators of the state enforcement
law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
Paris Police Look On But
Are Helpless As Models Doff
Clothing At Big Art Ball

designed to purify the stage" etc.
So, police were ordered to the hall
where the ball was held to see that
regulations were enforced.
But when lovely girls began re-
moving their frills and furbelows.
the gendarmes could not find
strength to make them desist True,
they kept their eyes on the proceed
ings, wthstood the raging of the
students with fortitude-but decided
to let the fun go on.
Selection of the queen of beauty
came towards dawn. Twenty-Five of
the loveiiest artist models of Paris
slipped from their costumes ana
lined un. One by one they entered Il
circle Z. dancers seated cross-legged
on the ballroom floor, and each was
applauded according to her pulchri-
tude.
To Giberte Cartier, of the slender,
boyish figure, went once more the
apple of Paris. Her perfect 81
was adjudged more beautiful than
the "thirty-sixes" of more voluptu-
Gus Venuses among her rivals.
1t was the American standard of
beauty. the flapper type. that tri-
umphed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
BANK ROBBERY HERO
ADMITS HE REMOVED
AND HID LARGE SUM
Youth Who Routed Bandits
And Received ReWardA Ad-
mits Theft, Say Police

CLEVELAND, o., May 5.-Williar1'
Petre, boy-hero of the sensational
$4,000 Bedford, O., bank robbery in
October, 1920, has admitted. police
said tonight, having taken S1,727.75
from the Cleveland Trust company.
where he was employed as reward
for his heroic work in the Bedford
holf-up.
After a three-day grilling by bank
officials and police, young Petre ad-
mitted he pocketed the money just
before leaving one of the company's
branch banks last Wednesday night,
police said.
Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, vice
president of the trust company, and
a party of bank officials, at the di-
from under private garage where
Petre told them he had buried it in
cracker tins.
Petre a few years ago was hailed
all over the country as the boy
bank robbery hero" He was then
only 10 and employed as clerk in
the Bedford bank, branch of the
Cleveland Trust company.
On the afternoon of October 81,
1920, six bandits entered the bank
and drove the clerks into back
room. Petre was the first to get his
hands on a gun and stepped out from
behind a door and opened fire.
He wounded one of the bandits and
received wound in the hand. But
Petre'S bravery gave the general
alarm and the bandits scooped up all
the money in sight and fled into the
street, where they were fired on by
citizens.
One bandit was killed and three
wounded. Five citizens were wound
ed. 1t was one of the most sensa-
tional bank hold ups in Ohio history.
In recognition of his bravery, the
trust company promoted Petre,
moved him to a branch institution
in Cleveland and deposited $4,000 in
his bank account.
At the request of Colonel Ayres,
Petre was not arrested. The money
taken by Petre. bank officials said,
was in bills of large denomination
nd oh
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
Will Seek Preuen Repetition OF 1922 Coal Strike
FEDERAL DRY AGENTS
TO CONTINUE FIGHT
IN NEW YORK STATE
Continued from Page One)

flcials believe they we're in a fair
way to cut off the major portion Of
New Yorks present liquor supply
from the sea. Should the rum
fleet" transfer its base to Canadian
waters it was suggested that there
might be a renewal of negotiations
with the British government looking
to it's cooperation in the enfor rec
ment of the prohibition laws.
International Question.
Meantime another phase of the
prohibition question - the supreme
court ban on bringing liquor into
American waters--s regarded as
likely to become a subject of diplo-
dor Jusserand discussed this subject
with Secretary Hughes today, but
with what result did not appear.
All of the foreign embassies still
were without instructions today re-
garding the supreme courts decision.
Copies of that portion of the decision
which applies to foreign ships were
given to them yesterday b. the state
department for the information of
peeted that any formal protest would
be made until the exact wording of
the decision had been studied abr DAD.
Senator Sterling, republican. South
Dakota, who has had charge OF much
of the prohibition legislation In Ia
Senate, declared that without re
gard to what it may cost. the law
will be enforced" in New York state.
Representative Graham, republican.
Illinois, who Is candidate for the
majority floor leadership in the next
house, said in formal statement
that the action Of the New York leg
islature would do more ITO bring
into contempt the constitution of the
United States than in any other way
they could have proceeded"
Wayne B. Wheeler, for the Anti
Saloon league, said the enforcement
code repeal was the only Legislative
consolation prize the vets have
won this year"
For the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment, W. II. Stay
ton hailed the repeal as "a s. orious
victory for the advocates of personal
liberty
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
HAMMOND AND.
LEWIS v I'LL.
HOLD FARLEY.
Workers Expected To Enter
Demands For Pay Boosts
In View Of Increases
To LaborerS In Other
Industries

WASHINGTON, May SINNERS and
operators, al peace for nearly year,
viii soon begin negotiations looking
strong case is expected to be pre-
scented by the miners for increases.
In view of substantial pay raises in
many basic industries recently.
John Hays Hammond, chairman of
the United States coal commission.
announced that he would meet with
John L. Lewis. president of the
United Mine Workers of America, and
later with representatives of the an
thracite operators, to arrange wage
conference. These meetings are ex-
pected to be held next week, with
the coal commission here. following
Lewis's arrival from New York the
end of this week.
The scale of anthracite miners ex-
pres September 1. Hammond is
very anxious that anthracite miners
and operators get together far in
ADVANCE OF this date, in order that
they may have plenty of time to
reach an agreement and thus ward
off another strike such as tied up
the industry all last summer.
o O o
Urges Early Start.
1t is also expected that Hammond
will urge upon Lewis the necessity
Of an early start or new bituminous
wage scale conference. The present
agreement for bituminous workers
extends until April /, next year.
A report on the anthracite fields
will be made by the coal commission
July l. following the Investigations
which have been carried on for sew
eral months. However, Hammond
stated Friday that he will urge mine
leaders and operators not to wait for
this report before beginning their
negotiations. A report on the btu
mnous industry will be made by the
commission late in September, and 1t
is expected that arrangements Tor
the wage conference will be made
not long after the report has been
examined and when public reaction,
as we'll as that of the miners and
operators, has been received.
Lewis Is expected to inform Ham
mond at their meeting that demands
for increases may be expected at the
conference between miners and ope-
rators. Hammond declined to dis
cuss the question of wage increases
Friday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
ATLANTA TO PROTEST
CHANGE IN FEDERAL
RESERVE BANK SYSTEM.
Sixth District To Enter Fight
For Business In
Cuba

ATLANTA. May s.. Prepared, it
was asserted today, to register
vigorous protest ag: st the rr osal
to transfer Cuban business from the
Sixth Federal Reserve bank at At
lanta, to the Federal Reserve bank
at Boston. delegation representing
several large cities in this district
will 80 to Washington to appear be-
fore the reserve board Monday hen
a hearing will De held on the matter.
Denial of the request for the post
ponement of the heading until
Georg r. James of Memphis. new
member of the board lie seated, sur
prised bankers in this section. it was
said, and the delegation to REL resent
the district at the hearing was at
once notified to be in Washington
Monday.
kilograms insis. ng that the board
decline the proposal of w. p. G.
Harding. governor of the Boston
bank, to establish Cuban branch,
will be read at hearing from
Senator Har-i- and George of Geor-
gia; Senator Broussard of -, uisi-
ana; senator Harrison g Mississippi
and Senator Fletcher of Florida. 1t
was announced
John X. Ottley, president of the
Fourth National bank, Atlanta, and
director of the Sixth District Fed
eral bank. who requested the post
ponement of the hearing, reiterated
his opposition to the Boston banks
proposal.
II do not believe there is any
necessity for an agency at Havana"
Mr.. Ottley said, but If an agency
is really needed there. it ought to be
an agency of the Atlanta Federal Re-
serve bank and not an agency of the
Boston bank. If the Boston bank is
allowed to establish an agency, it
would be merely question of time
before the Boston agency absorbs the
whole Cuban business and excludes
Atlanta entirely"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
SENATOR JOHNSON IS
RETURNING HOME IN
RATHER HOSTILE MOOD
Confined from Page One)

the Senate over the world court, but
except by repudiating it. which he
will never do, he cannot disown it
and escape responsibility. So his eff
forts prevent the irreconcilables
from making an issue of the curt
are likely to prove rutil
Hughes And Hoover.
Johnson is prepared to make much
capital also of the fact taat S>cre-
tary of State Hughes and Secretary
of Commerce Hoover both igned the
round robin of the 81 Dublicans,
who on the eve of the 1920 election,
declared that the surest way to bring
the United States into the League of
Nations lay in election of Harding.
Johnson expected to go into the
primaries in the western states. He
will not track the president across
the continent. but it Is certain that
before the summer is over, Johnson
will be speaking in the western ter
ritory covered by the Harding train.
furthermore, his friends are build
ing up an organization quietly. but
effectively. Johnson has more
strength in the Senate than is gen.
orally realized and these friendly
senators are sending word back home
designed to help Johnson.
Johnson is PECULIARLY favored by
the fact that the early primaries
come IN states where he has a strong
following New Hampshire. North
and South Dakota all have prima ri IS
in March, 1924. In New Hampshire.
Johnson has Senator Moses, the SEN
Tor Senator Moses accompanied
Johnson on his European trip and is
acting officially as his manager.
Johnson carried North Dakota in the
1920 primaries and unless LaFollette
conducts a strong fight him
self. the Californian pro ably will
win Wisconsin easily. The same is
true of Michigan and Nebraska. A
few strong victories in these pri-
maries will give Johnson a running
start for the convention.
Tho administration is confident
that Johnson and LaFollette will d.
vide their strength and enae,e the
Harding forces to win. Harding may
refrain from entering any of the
western primaries and allow the bur-
den to be carried by fayorites on
candidate who would withdraw in
his favor after receiving, a compli-
mentary ballot at the Chicago con-
vention. By this strttegy, admins
tration managers hope to prevent any
one progressive gathering up a size
able block of delegates.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
SMALL BOYS TORTURED
AT REFORMATORY IN
OKLAHOMA IS CHARGE.
Claims Drunken Guards Mis-
treat Youths In State
institution

OKLAHOMA CITY. May 5.-Charges
that small boys confined at the
Paul's Valley training school. the
state reformatory, have been brutal
ly beaten by guards with the ap-
prevail of w. c. Breeding, the super
intendent, were made in a report on
conditions at the school. submitted
to Governor Alton today by Mrs.
Mabel Bassett, state commissioner
of charities and corrections.
Mrs. Bassett attached to her re-
port 46 signed statements detailing
the alleged conditions existing at the
reformatory. She demanded the re-
moval of Superintendent Breeding.
I'VE have got to treat EN- rough
they are not anything but bunch
of criminals"
This was the explanation of Su
perintendent Breeding when he was
humanely flogged by guards. accord
ing to sworn statements obtained
by Mrs. Bassett.
Four drunken guards working in
reliefs tortured small boys with an
eight-foot strap, other witnesses tes
titled.
Guards and employees of the insti-
tuition were permitted to have liquor
in their possession with the knowlS
edge of superintendent Breeding, Mrs.
Bassett's report charged.
She also reported that the guards
carry revolvers.
Mrs. Bassett said she believed that
Eddie Pyle, 16 years old, who COM
mitted suicide several weeks ago,
killed himself because he was I'M
happy at the institution.
School work at the institution is
joke, Mrs. Bassett asserted. Two
teachers are employed for the in
struction of 126 boys ranging in age
from to 10 years, size said.
One of the teachers also works as
a cook and the other has alternated
with work at the chicken farm.
Neither has a certificate to teach in
Oklahoma. according to Mrs. Bas-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06

PARIS May 5.-When a score of
pretty models defied the govern
ment's new anti-nudity regulations
at the climax of the art students
ball today. gendarmes could but look
on and enjoy the show.
Even when male students shout
dered the altogether unadorned girls
and carried them in procession be-
fore the officers, the latter found
themselves unable to act to stop it,
An hour or SO later, on their way
home. a group of the merry makers
caught and partially disrobed a gen.
darme on his beat, just to emphasize
their defiance of the new law
The ball itself was a huge success
1t started out a riot of colorful cos
tunes, but these diminished as the
light wore on, until the difference
between the models who contested
for the prize and title of queen of
beauty and those who applauded and
elected them was in many instances
scarcely discernible.
The governments ruling against
frank nudity was expected to halt
the proceedings. France is under
going series Of reformist efforts,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
WOMEN BOUND OVER
Held without Bail In Connection
With DynamitinR

PADUCAH, KY, May 5.-Mrs. Hen
rietta Wagner and Mrs. Peters Skill
liam, middle-aged women. were
bound over to the grand jury here
today without bail. charged with
having participated in the dynamite
explosion which wrecked a residence
here and cost the life of Mrs. Ro-
setta Warren and her unborn child
last Monday.
Mrs. Wagner was charged with
wllful murder. Mrs. Skillian was
charged with conspiracy to commit
murder.
Deputy Jailer ]. w. Jackson, one
of the principal witnesses at the
preliminary hearings, testified that
while both were in jail here he over
heard Mrs. Wagner implore MrsA
Skillian not to tell anything about
the alleged plot to kill Mrs. Warren,
"I would be hanged and you would
go to the penitentiary for life," she
said, according to the witness.
The women were brought here las
night from Princeton. where the
had been taken for safekeeping.
The motive for the killing of MI
Warren has not been establishet
Authorities, however, attribute it t.
jealousy and point to the fact THAI
Mrs. Warrens husband at one time
was member of Mrs. Wagner's
family. Mrs. Skillian was Mrs. Wag-
ner's close friend and neighbor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
CLEVER RAID STAGED
Liquor COnflscnted And Two Arrests.
McAdOry Assists

MONTGOMERY, Ala. May 5.-(spe-
cial)-Agents of the state law en-
forcement department descended
upon the business section Of Mont
gomery late Saturday and a raid at
2l0ha Bibb street broke open a door
when refused admittance, confiscated
six gallons of whisky. destroyed jars,
jugs, corks. tunnels and tubes and
arrested ]. d. Wilkins. white, and
Herber Henson, negro, on charges Of
violating the prohibition laws.
For twenty minutes before the Of
fcers broke into the building, Walter
*. McAdory. chief of the state law
enforcement department, and DR.. Per-
ley A. Baker. superintendent of the
American Anti-Saloon league, sat in
the lobby of hotel and watched men
enter and leave the stairs which led
10 the second floor. At that very
time two officers of the department
were within the building and when
the chief and other assistants en-
tered the state officers were seated
at table on which were two drink s
Of liquor Their order had been
filled.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-06
rs IN DICTMENTS|
ARE RETURNED IN
FL0GG|NC AFT AIR
Goose Creek Case Brings
Scratching Arrangement Of
Mob Rule

HOUSTON, Tex. May 5.-Notifica-
ton was sent this afternoon to Sner-
iff T. Bnford that all the men named
in indictments returned shortly be-
fore noon today by grand jury
which delivered a scathing arraign-
ment of ma sked mob" rule and re-
ported on Investigations of floggings
at Goose Creek, Harris county, would
make bond early tomorrow.
Twenty-six indictments were re-
turned. Twenty of the counts charge
assault with prohibitive weapons
five charge perjury and one ag :
gravated assault. 1t is understood
that all of these indictments were
based on testimony submitted con-
corning floggings at Goose Creek.
There are considerably less than
% persons involved as in some in
stances number of indictments We're
returned against the same individ-
ualS.