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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-01
900
Calvin Coolidge says:

ut is not change that is needed in our
Constitution and laws so much as there is
need Of living in accordance with them"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-01

rlculturo. 1t is pointed OUT CndC dgI1CClIC-
ural production in Europe recovered far
faster than manufacture after the war.
The result was that producers of food in
world markets had to compete with sitter
competition than the product of manufac-
turers. AS European production gets
under way the standard Of living there
will raise and the people will take more
foods and goods from us.
900
Anne Christie.
Anne Christie, play depicting slice
out Of life and as brutal as life itself under
certain conditions, has been photoized.
The story hinges around a drunken
sailor of father, neglected daughter
and cocky but doughty blow-hard of
young man who admits his life has not
been clean but expects the utmost purity
from the girl he marries.
The father leaves his wife and little
daughter in Sweden while he riots away
his time in the ports of the world. He
roves for years, following the seas call
and the neglected wife takes her child and
emigrates to Minnesota. She dies and
leaves the daughter with callous relatives
to be a drudge and victim Of their spite.
Uncared for, unloved and neglected she
falls a pitiful victim at last to the lust of
moron hired hand The relatives who
failed to protect her, kick her out and she
goes to St. Paul and follows the easiest
way"
The father drifts to New York as the
captain Of a coal barge. The girl writes
she is coming to live with him. The father,
living a dissolute life, thinks his daughter
an angel Of purity. He and the girl set
forth on a coast voyage.
In the night ship is sunk and part of
the crew find refuge on the barge. The
cocky young man, giant in strength and
coal HEAVIER on ship, comes along with
the others. He too thinks the girl an
angel (Which she probably would have
been with proper raising) and falls in love.
The old man fears him and they fight. The
father is subdued.
The ship reaches Boston. The lover ar
ranges the wedding. He and the father
quarrel over the girl and treat her like a
piece OF furniture. In dilemma whether
or not to tell her lover of her past she fin
ally turns on father and sweetheart and
tells them what she has been. She tells
the father what she thinks of him for his
lifelong neglect and she tells the lover
what he is for demanding purity from her
While he admits loose life himself. The
men are crushed
The young man curses her and goes out
for night of carousal. The girl attempts
to drown herself but is frustrated by her
father. Then the young man comes back
and after stormy scene and the climax
Of the play, the young people are reunited
for veal or woe. But the father and hus-
band sail next day, answering the call of
the sea, leaving the girl to wait at home
alone.
The moral is that old man leading a
rough, dissolute life, thought his daugh-
ter safe on farm in the "pure" country.
And alone and unprotected she was worse
off than with pack Of wolves who might
have eaten her but would have spared her
honor. Regardless of what parents are or
have been they are poor sticks indeed if
they will not protect their own children.
900
Patriotism" said DR.. Samuel Johnson
in one Of his inspired moods, lis the last
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-01

Patriotism" said DR.. Samuel Johnson
in one of his inspired moods, lis the last
refuge Of a scoundrel."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
GR|FFMEN D j I
FOR VICTORY
AGAIN
Johnson or Martina Are Ex-
pected to Climb HiII-Har-
ris Suspended
BIZ LOUIS a. DOUGHER.

Walter johnson or Joe Martina will
climb the hill today for rhe fighting
Griffs against the Cleveland Indians.
iris Speaker is reduced to the last
stages for pitching now and will
send Stan Coveleshie to the slab,
thus making it a contest of children
of the diamond.
When the Indians came to town
last Saturday they had won TX out
of seven skirmishes from the Griffs.
Today, after dropping three of the
four games played here on this trip,
the record looks better from a
Washington angle. Now the In.
dians have won seven out of eleven.
The Griffs today are one full
game behind the New York Yankees
and two full games ahead of the
Detroit Jungle Cats. They have
won three straight victories and
show signs Of escaping from their
recent batting slump.
Manager Harris has been sus-
pended by President johnson, fol.
lowing the report of last Sundays
mixup forwarded TO MIN by Umpire
Holmes. Bluege is playing second
base In the absence Of the Manager,
with Thomas Cyclades Taylor, the
Memphis marvel, holding down the
hot corner.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
OFFICER IS
BELIEVED
ALIVE
Missing Officer Reported
Seen IN North Carolina
Sunday Night

AsIIEVILLE. N. c.. July 15.--
Search for Major Samuel n. Nc
Leary. missing army officer, was
renewed today by army and State,
officials. following reports that
man believed to be McLeary was
seen in Winston-Salem Sunday
night. Developments OF the last
few hours have caused the au-
thorities to practically abandon the
theory that McLeary was killed
in this vicinity. !.
All evidence points to the fact
that the two men seen by Mrs.
Luther Hall in July 3 In the car
owned by the missing army officer
were on secret mission in which
the car was wrecked. According
tn Mrs. Hall, who reported the in
cident to police, neither of the two
strangers was McLeary. Shown q
photograph of the army officer she
was positive he was not one OF
these two men.
Lieutenant Heron, of Washing.
ten, has arrived here to assist In
the search for his missing friend.
r. e. Edwards, Galveston, Tex.
has gone to Winston-Salem to
Investigate reports that McLeary
was seen there as late as Sunday
midnight. 1t was learnea that q
man believed to be Major McLeary
stopped at q gasoline station be-
tween Greensboro and that city
and later was seen walking bare.
headed on the streets there.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
ASYLUM S
HOPE FOR
SAYERS
Leopold and Loeb VIII Not
Seek Freedom, Defense
Counsel Admits
b. InternatIonaI News Service.


CHICAGO, July 15.Clarence
Darrow, chief Of defense counsel
for Nathan Leopold, ir., and
Richard Loeb, confessed slayers Of
Robert Franks, declared today
that mo attempt win be made
to free the two defendants" at
the coming trial.
Social Menace, He Says.
Boys charged with such crime
as this" continued Mr.. barrow,
should not be allowed to go free
Tor fear they might commit another
similar one. There seems to have
been no earthly reason Tor It. The
excitement motive has made this
an unusual case which requires ar.
usual procedure Z
This case said barrow in his
startling pronouncement as spokes-
man for the boys, has been likened
g the Thaw case. It may be In
some respects but it is different in
the great point Of the disposition
OF the defendants. Strenuous ef-
forts, that were successful after
many years. were continually made
~ give Harry Thaw his liberty.
Freedom Not Sought.
I'm this case no effort will be
made to free these boys.
In fact, IL we are successful in
cur efforts to have the case settled
BY q sanity hearing, there will be
no effort to acquit them"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
THIS WoMAN's JOB is
HUNTING FOR TRoURL {

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 15.-I4.fe
p Just never,endingy game of tag
with trouble for Mrs. Vivian Coyle,
Columbus matron. When the wing.
Cd specter Of disorder isn't pur.
suing her, she is chasing it.
But she doesn't complain. She's
getting paid for her part in the
game.
Mrs. Coyle's vocation is not fol.
lowed by any other member Of her
sex In the United States, her en-
ployers believe. She is chief tester
Tor the Ohio Bell Telephone Com
pany's automatic lines.
Arranged before her on her desk
are innumerable devices for curing
the ills Of the automatic trunks.
BY an almost uncanny manipulation
OF the divers switches, levers and
diais, the system Of which she has
perfected during seven years Of
service, unruly wires are spotted.
and the linemen do the rest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
BLIND WOMAN IS
FOUND DEAD
IN BED
Body OF Aged Margaret Kelly
Said to Be Decomposed.
Not Seen in 8 Years

Mystery surrounds the death Of
a woman thought to be Margaret
Kelly, about sixty-ffve years old,
whose body was found in q ted at
her home, 1711h Seventh street
northwest, shortly after noon today.
Police are seeding to locate NJ. A.
Foley, also about sixty-fiVe vears.
said to be a cousin Of the dead
woman, and to have lived in the
house with her.
The cause Of the death IS I'M
known. The body is badly decom-
posed and police believe she has
been dead a week or more.
The woman, according to neigh
bors, is blind. She has not been
seen for three years, they say.
Some neighbours said that they
learned today for the first time
that there was woman IN the
house.
According to a policeman of the
Eighth precinct, two Alexandra
women, approached them on the
street today and told him that Mr..
Foley, a relative, came to their
house last night and said the Kelly
woman was dead. He said that she
had just died in the morning and
he wanted to take her to Alexandria
in an automobile and bury her.
The policemen broke into the door
and found the womna dead in bed.
Headquarters detectives are aiding
police of the Eighth precinct in max
ing the investigation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15

After a night Of terror, in which
the blood-red sky and over-hanging
pail Of smoke told or thousands Of
feet of virgin lumber being trans.
formed into pillars of flame, casual
ties, according to reports reaching
here, were appropriated at nearly
fifty dead and as many injured. An
estimate, Of the property damage,
forestry officials said, today, so far
is impossible.
Thirty Men Trapped.
The dead today included thirty.
five persons believed to have per.
ished as the flames swept over
Wheeler's Mill. In Penn O'Reill
county. No word had been heard
from them this morning.
From the north, across the inter
national boundary, also came word
of thirty men trapped in the salmon
valley, British Columbia. Pa1alyzed
communication today made verified.
ton virtually impossible. but no re-
port Of a rescue had triclElod through
70 this city, and forestry officials I'd.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
s. 100000
IN '[))PE:'|S
SEIZED
Officers Of italian Ship Ar
rested Ring Believed
Smashed

NEW YORK. July 15.-Nine
persons were arrested and drugs
said to be valued at $1,000, 900
were seized in a raid by Federal
agents today on board the Italian
steamship Duillo.
Sixteen Federal agents, assisted
by nearly 100 customs guards,
staged the raid.
"D0pe Ring" Smashed.
The authorities declared that the
arrests and seizure broke up one of
the biggest dope" rings in the
country and will materially reduce
the amount OF drugs being brought
into this country.
Prisoners taken in the raid gave
their names as: Francesca SchissinO,
captain: Albert Bucci, first officer.
August Piled, first officer; August
Borcelli, second officer; Vincent
Messina, third officer; August
Serro. third officer; Louis Pessanti,
chief purser; Louis Catell, assistant
purser, and Gpatta Atura, ships
plumber.
All said they lived in Genoa.
Violations OF the Jones-Miller law.
prohibiting the smuggling of mar
cotics into the United States were
filed against the prisoners.
The raid was the result Of three
months work on the part Of Federal
agents James Moog and Joseph
Smith who have been trailing q
man they suspected Of being q
go-betweeh Of srnugglers and mar
cotics dealers IN the city.
Caterers Make Deal"
Posing as caterers Of narcotics to
wealthy families, the agents met
the man in, a Broadway restaurant
and made deal for a quantity
OF drugs. Making an engagement
for a later meeting the man Is said
to have introduced them to Gratta
Atura and went with him to a
room where they say, packages Of
heroin were taken from behind
mirrors and pictures from holes in
the ceiling. under hunks and be-
tween mattresses.
Moog says he was told he could
have the lot for 100000 but that
he gave Atura 100000. saying he
would return shortly with the bal
ance Of the money. The agents left
and notified Colonel L. G. Mott.
Colonel Mott with two other Fed
eral agents and ten city detectives
met Moog and Smith at the pier
and the party boarded the vessel.
More packages labelled ''T. III.
Smith, Limited, London, = were
found, the agents said and after
arrests had been made a thorough
search OF the ship was started.
The Duillo reached New York yes
terday having sailed July 8, from
Genoa and July 4. from Naples.
She carried 431 passengers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
WOMAN Slayer
FEARED GIRL
RIVAL
Quarrel Between Two Pre-
coded Hagerstown Stay
ing, Police Say
By International News Service.

HAGERSTOWN, Md, July Is.
Out of four conflicting stories
told yesterday by the principals
in the murder of John H. Siga-
foose, thirty-one years old, who
was shot and killed at the home
of Henry circuit, near Balls Sta
ton, by Mrs. Cora Ricketts, Will
kinson Sunday night, authorities
are today endeavoring to learn
the true facts surrounding the
crime.
No two Of the principals de-
scribed the shooting alike.
Discrepancies Revealed.
Thus far investigation by the
authorities has revealed four sig
nificant discrepancies in the stories
Continued on Page Q, Column ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
WOMAN CLAIMS CONTROL
OVER SEX BEFORE RlRTH

LONDON, July 15.--Mrs. Monteith
Erskine, wife Of member Of Par
lament, after fifteen years Of study
claims to have discovered method
Tor predetermining sex before child
birth.
She was student Of medicine in
Geneva and says that no amount OF
wishing or thought has any effect
In determining sex. Her theory
centers on discovery that there
are suspicious times to insure the
birth of boy or girl.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
REPORTER ENDS HIS LIFE
WHEN GIRL SPURNS HIM

DOVER. N. j., July 15.--Depres-
sion over the refusal Of girl to
accompany him to- a dance caused
Thomas s. Bulmer. 90, years old.
OF Brooklyn, to strangle himself with
the wire OF an electric curling iron
in Owls Nest Cottage, at Lake
Hopatcong. Coroner Joseph Voelker
recorded the death as a plain case
Of suicide over love affair"
Bulmer, q reporter employed until
yesterday on Montclair newspaper,
is reported to have asked Miss Dor
othy Long, 20 years old, to go with
him to dance. She went with
another instead, and on returnilg
found him dead. Bulmer was the
son Of Mrs. Anna Bulmer, Of Brook.
lyn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
IT
Gates
SANTOS
CITY
Federal Armies Mutiny, and
Big States Turn on the
Central Government
By International News service.


MONTEvIDEO, Chile, July is.
The Brazilian revolution, which
has conferred about Sac Paulo and
Santos, the seaport town, is
spreading and threatens to become
q national uprising, according to
private advices reaching here to-
day.
A strong rebel army is reported
to be marching on Santos, and Z
battle is imminent with the fed
eral troops guarding the city.
Earlier dispatches from Buenos
Aires said the rebel army was
within eight miles Of Santos.)
Three additional states Of the
Brazilian republic are threatening
to join the revolt Matte Crosse,
Para and Rio Grande Do Sui
according to the advices received
here. These are among the
larger states and contain q popu-
lation of approximately $780, 900.
Federal Troops ATutiny
Reports Of additional mutinies
among Federal troops continue to
reach Montevideo, although the
censorship makes such reports un.
confirmable and the federal CONF
muniques make no mention Of them.
Mutinies were reported from
Matte Crosse, Para and Rio Grande
Do Sui. where q It was said the
troops were Joined by the civilian
population In demonstrations against
the governments.
It was also reported that the
detachments Of Federal troops sent
to Sac Paulo and Santos revolted
and joined the rebels.
In the past few days the federal
army besieging Sac Paula has been
increased to 10000 and an intermit-
tent bombardment of the city is
continuing.
10000 Join Rebels
An especially heavy fire has been
concentrated on the town OF Braz,
a suburb Of Sac Paulo, which is
also In the hands Of the rebels.
Ten thousand well,armed rebels
are said to have succeeded in
fighting their way past the federal
lines into Sac Paulo and joined the
main rebel body, which is said to
be well equipped with machine guns
and artillery as well as airplanes.
The rebels, according to reports
here, are firmly resisting the ad.
vance Of the federals.
Rebels Nearing Santos.
=. LONDON, July 16.--Wireless
essages picked up here today
from the steamer Andes as It was
leaving Santos, Brazil, said the
situation in the revolutionary area
Of Santos and Sac Paulo was
most serious"
The captain OF the Andes said
the rebels were within eight miles
of Santos, and that he had been
told by refugees from Sac Paulo
that some Of the federal artillery
forces had Joined the rebels.
The federal troops. the message
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
THREE SUFFER FROM
BITES BY b. c. DOGS

A policeman and two young boys
have been bitten by dogs, according
TO reports to the police today.
Policeman Thomas #. Heide,
Tenth precinct station, was bitten
on the forefinger OF his right hand
by a dog today, while visiting
friends. He received treatment at
Freedman's Hospital.
While delivering newspapera.
James Gosham, fourteen years old,
1SS6 N street southwest, was bitten
on the left arm by dog. He will
recover. t't'.tf' s..sas. h, ~ ss'.'.
Nine-year-old Herbert Welsh. OF
Chicago. ILL.,, visiting at els Rock
Creek Church road received a bite
on the foot. Doctors said his con.
dition was not serious.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
BONDED IN $1,000 ON
CHARGES or HIS CLIENTS

Burley NJ Odum, former member
Of the Police Department and now
engaged in the real estate business
"a the Capital, was released under
yz,OOO bond. today to appear in the
United StateFs branch of Police
Court to answer to charges Of
larceny after trust.
Odum, according to Assistant Dis
erict Attorney Ralph Given Is al.
legged to have converted to his own
use $4,000 which had been turned
over to him by clients for use in
settling a real estate deal in New
York.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
URGES CLOSER UNION
WITH LATlN-AMERlCA.

Although the formal government
relations between the United States
and the Latin-American republics
are most satisfactory, there exists
a great need for closer acquaintance
between the peoples Of the two
Amrican continents, Doctor L. s..
Rowe, of the Pan-American Union,
told students of the George Wash.
ington University summer school in
a lecture yesterdya.
Doctor Rowe spoke on "The De.
velopment Of the Relations OF the
United States With Latin America. !"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
Debs Urges Socialists
to Back La Toilette
By J. 2. YoDER,
international News service.

CHICAGO, Juys l5-Eugene " Debs today formally de-
cared himself for Robert M La Toilette the Presidency
and urged all members Of the Socialist party Loyalty support
the Wisconsin Senator's candidacy. It is the first formal
statement to be made by the leader Of the Socialist
party since the organization decided at its Cleveland
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15

with formation Of an American
labor party In sight"
The Debs statement was various
~ interpreted by political leaders
Continued on IaSO = Column ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
Dead IN Forest Fires
Put at Fifty
BY international News Service.

SEATTLE, July l5-TThe peril from forest fires raging
beyond control in Of widely separated sectors Of the
West and Northwest today continued undated despite es
perae attempts Of hundreds Of volunteer fire fighters to check
the on-rushing flames.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15

mitted they feared the men had
persisted. 81
Scattering casualties from other
Continued on Page 9. Column 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15

In making his pronoupcement as
titular head Of the party, Debs de-
clared the alliance thus made with
the la Toilette party for independ.
emit political action constitutes the
grasping ."of this golden. Op-
portunitys Ct this supreme junctpra.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-15
Business Body to Elect

The board Of trustees Of the Bet
ter Business Bureau will meet to
elect officers at 1890 p. m. Friday
at the City Club.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-11-15
MADDEN OPENS HIS FIGHT
FOR SPEAKERSHIP

Washington, d. C.-The fight over
the speakership Of the new House of
Representatives got under way here,
when Representative Martin B. Mad
den Of Illinois, chairman Of the House
appropriations committee, announced
that he was a candidate for Speaker.
Representative Nicholas Longworth
Of Ohio, is also expected to Be a can
didate.
Substantial support Of President
Coolidge in the national house oi
Representatives was claimed at the
headquarters Of the Republican ma
tional committee, in the Wrigley
Building. This claim was based on
a table compiled from reports re-
ceived indicating that the new house
viii have $50 Republican Representa-
tives out Of 435 congressional districts,
Of the $50 Republicans, however,
ten from Wisconsin, and several in
other states, although running on the
COP. ticket, may Be classed as IA
Toilette Republicans Or Independents.
According to Secretary Earl vena-
bic Of the national Republican con-
gressionaI committee, La Toilette
Republicans in the house viii not ex-
ceed at the very outset fifteen. leav-
ing the so-eaIled regulars OF admin
istration supporters with 235 as
compared to 200 which lie claims i
all that a coalition Of Democrats and
Progressives could muster.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1924-11-15
Mr.. CHARLES PICKETT, THE
WELL KNOWN SILENT
POLITICIAN OF
ILLINOIS

One of the best and well known
colored Republican politicians of Illi-
nois is Mr.. Charles Pickett, who is
highly connected up with the big poll
ticians in Washington, ID. O., as well
as with the headline politicians in Illi-
nois. He was one Of the main cogs
in connection with the Republican
State committee of Illinois with head
quarters at the Congress hotel and
very few persons knew any more
about the powers that be and their
movements than Mr.. Pickett. Col.
Frank l.. Smith, chairman OF the Re-
publican State Committee of Illinois,
also chairman of the Illinois Com
merce Commission, regards Mr..
Pickett as one of his most valuable
aids or lieutenants; that he is trust
worthy and at all times absolutely re-
liable. In the near future Mr.. Pickett
will depart for his home near Wash
ington, d. C., which is well presided
over by his good wife, Mrs. Pickett.