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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
HELD FOR JURY
ON GIRLS
STORY
c. S. Closes Ball Is Raised
to 81, 900 After Court Hears
Ruby Reid's Charges.

Claiborn Sherman Close, former
disciplinarian at the National Train
ing School for Boys on Bladens-
burg road, charged with a statua-
tory offense against Ruby Reid, a
sixteen'year-old girl residing with
her mother, Mrs. Rhoda C. Reid,
at 1912 Bladensburg road, had q
hearing before Judge Gus A,
Schuldt In the United States branch
OF Police Court today, and was held
Tor action Of the grand jury.
Closes bond was raised from s., 900
70 $4,000 at the suggestion of AS
Given.
The alleged associations between
Close, who is forty three years old,
ana the girl are said to have start.
cd more than q year ago, when the
girl went to the training school to
visit q crippled inmate. There she
met Close.
On February 8, Of this year, Miss
Reid quit her home, leaving a mole
telling her mother that she was
going to end her life in the Pc.
tomac river. She later was found
to have gone to the home of a
former inmate OF the school, who
now lives in a fashionable section
Of Cleveland.
Close Denies Charges.
Close, when questioned by Detec-
tive Mansfield, denied that he had
seen the girl for three years, &C.
cording to the evidence, but when
she was brought back here Miss
Reid admitted relations with Close,
and said that 1t had been at his
suggestion that she went to Ohio
and that he had furnished the
money with which to make the
trip.
When the time came to leave,
she told the court today, she had
changed her mind, but, she said
Close insisted that she GO. He also
bought her d dress, stockings. shoes,
underwear and number of other
articles of wearing apparel, she
added.
A list Of occasions when Close
is said to have taken the girl to
theaters, Marshall Hail, Chesa peake
Beach and other places was of.
fered In evidence.
Several post cards signed "Mar.
garet" were produced by Given
and the hand writing identified by
Miss Reid as that of Close. She
said that he always signed his
letters and post cards Margaret"
Close has been connected with
the training school for several years
and Is prominently identified in
fraternal circles. He belongs.
among other organizatio to the
Spanish-American War Veterans
and veterans of the Philippine in
surrection. He has q son eighteen
years Of age.
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Motorists Aid Sought
to Keep Street Car
Tracks Clear

Te-ups of street car traffic
while the snow remains on the
ground will be decreased greatly
if automobile drivers will keep
their cars out Of the street
railway tracks, according to
J. R. Jenkins of the Traffic
Bureau.
Drivers were asked by Mr..
Jenkins today to cooperate
with the bureau by keeping
their cars in the regular paths
laid out for them.
Driving in the tracks, he
explained, packs the snow along
the rails and makes more diff
cult the task Of the snow
sweepers and snow plOws.
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Of A
FIGURES
.NCASE
~
n
Accused Are Said to Have
Misrepresented Her Age to
Virginia Authorities.

Despite their insistent denials
that they chad sworn to any,
thing" in the procuring of a mar
rage license, Joseph E. Sheppard,
24O5 Pennsylvania avenue north
west, and Policeman Harry Fuchs,
Of the, Fourth precinct, were to-
Gay ordered held under bonds Of
$500 each for a grand jury hear
ing at Alexandria on a charge
Of having committed perjury in
obtaining the license.
Girls Age in Question.
It was charged that the two went
to the office Of the clerk Of the
court at Alexandria, February 10,
and Sheppard applied for a license
to marry Clara Smith, fourteen, Of
1880 Twonty.fifth street northwest.
The girls age was given to the
license clerk as eighteen, and when
Sheppard was told that she would
have to be twenty-one, he is said to
have told Fuchs, You are the girls
uncle. and since her mother and
father are dead, you are her nearest
relative. Do you give your permits
sion?" Fuchs replied in the az.
firmative, it was charged, and the
license was issued.
In Court With Father.
Mrs. Sheppard appeared in court
with her father. She corroborated
the testimony Of Earl Sullivan, clerk
Of the court, who issued the. license.
Attorney Harry Whelan, Of this city,
attended the hearing on behalf Of
the father, who announced that he
would institute suit to set aside the
marriage. Mrs. Sheppard left the
court with her father
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WHEN WE'RE BROKE.

We Sae many wonderful treasures,
On every hand there are pleasures,
There's q beautiful hat.
Or an Ang0fA cat,
And the prices arc low when our
DOckotbOOk'S flat.
Great bargain sales boom al around
They almost completely surround IN;
There's Q wonderful cloak,
And tho price 10 o jOket
That In always q bargain when We
are dead broke.
Our luck 10 simply atFOciOua,
Az times ! am really feFOciOus;
There arc bargains quite grand
On every hand
When haven't the price that tho
merchants demand.
JOE H. HOLMAN.
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WORKERS
BUSY ON
SNOW
District and Traction Com
pany Forces Are Keeping
Lanes Of Traffic Open.

Tractors, trucks and a small
army of men today were set to
work by the District government,
Washington Railway and Electric
Company and the Capital Traction
Company to clean the snow off
the streets of Washington and
make a clean path for street car,
automobile and pedestrian traffic.
To Clean Roofs.
At the same time, Major John w.
Oehmann, building inspector, mind.
full OF the Knickerbocker Theater
disaster during q snowstOrm two
years ago, issued a general warn
ing to the people Of Washington,
especially owners Of large public
places, to clean off their roofs IL
the snow continues and reaches
any considerable depth.
Morris Hacker, supervisor of
street cleaning, and Thomas COST.
gan, assistant, dispatched five trac.
tors and five trucks along streets
on which street cars run. After
street car sweepers have cleared the
tracks and swept the snow aside,
Government tractors will push the
snow further toward the gutter to
leave a space for automobiles to
make it unnecessary for these
machines to use the car tracks.
II the snow continues today, Mr..
Hacker said he would send out
men to keep cutters and crosswallxs
open and dump the snow down sew
ers.
Residents Of the city also were
reminded today Of the law which
says that occupants Of homes must
clean the snow from the pavement
IN front or their houses within eight
hours after the snow stops falling.
Car Sweepers Busy.
John H. Hanna, vice president
and genreal manager Of the Capital
Traction Company, said that his
company has eleven street car
Sweepers going up and down their
tracks continuously. In addition, a
small froce of men are stationed at
intersections to keep switches clear
of snow.
William F. Ham, president of the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company, says his company has
twenty-one car sweepers at work
with $50 men with brooms to keep
switches clean, one plow clears the
snow five feet outside of the car
tracks, three motor trucks with
plows and six passengers equipped
with scrapers to 70 into the
suburbs.
Delays In street car traffic un.
doubtedly will come, but officials
OF both companies declare they are
taking every step to prevent such
delays and make them as brief as
possible when they do come.
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FIGURES
.-AA>-
THE DIFFERENCE.

I met q girl from Tennessee, who
never sounds her RS,
It sounded awful cute to me when
she'd exclaim my Stahs!'
She always said, ''You all'' to me,
and called me "hOney" too,
She said, "Ah CANT" or eyes All
S S.IU and you" she said Just
i like that girl from Tennessee, who
talked In her Southern way,
There was something that appealed
to mo, In everything she'd say.
Then once met q lass from Maine,
who tried to talk like that.
She left the "r" off Florida, abe SUBJ
stituted "caht' for seat"
don't know why IL seemed 90 Queah,
when she would calmy say.
''my deah,"
But there was something wrong
icah, she didn't have the right
ideah!
THE UNKNOWN,
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ELKS TO HOLD FOURTH
ANNUAL CHARITY BALL

me fourth annual Charity Ball
unaer the auspices or Washington
Looge NO. is, B. b. o. Elks. will
De held at the New Willard the
night OF February 81. A souvenir
the affair.
Music will be furnished by the
Elks band and the Elks Orchestra.
preceding the ball q concert will lie
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LITTLE JIMMY.

Jimmy in a high chair,
Pounding sOith a spoon;
Doesn't haze a lot of hair,
Face is like the moon
Shining in the evening air
Middle-timae o. June.
Wonder wkGt he thinks Of?
Jisunsv cannot tell;
Just a little bit Of LoVe
Down from heaven fell,
And, a million miles above,
Angels, rang q bell.
Jimmy's slo1UIy growing,
Brighter are has eyes,
Little lights G-glotoimg,
Hardly ever cries,
And he looks so knOaOing-
Jimmy is a prize.
GENE BLOSSOM.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
!: LAYEDBY
OFFICIAL
At HOUSE
HEARING
j. n. Walker, of Illinois Com
mission, Heard on Fitz-
gerald Bill.

Charges bordering on graft on
the part of private insurance
companies in the administration Of
workmen's compensation laws
were made today by ]. H. Walker,
president of the Illinois State COM
mission Of labor, at a meeting of
the subcommittee of the House
District Committee which is now
considering workmen's compensa-
ton laws for the District of CO.
lumbia.
Back Fitzgerald Bill.
Four witnesses representing labor
ing unions appeared to testify in
favor Of the adoption of the Fitz-
gerald bill, which would provide
a Government-administered fund.
The chief witness was J. H.
Walker, president Of the Illinois
State commission of labor. Walker
testified that under the present H.
linois laws, which permit private
insurance companies to administer
the workmen's compensation fund.-
the unions are compelled to boar a
burden Of 100000 q year to fight
for the rights Of the working men.
He declared that this condition IL
general in other States which have
private funds.
Federal Fund Advised.
1.-THE problem in the District Of
Columbia will never be settled" he
said, until there is an exclusive
Federal fund, where INSCRIPTIONS
men cannot reap q farthing Of re-.
ward and where there will not be
DDS"
!. W. Reynolds, representing the
Otis Elevator Company, urged adop-
ton Of the Fitzgerald bill on be-
half Of Washington elevator con-
structors and operators.
Forest L. Ormes, representing
moving picture operators, declared
that administration Of workmen's
compensation fund for private com.
panles inevitably resulted in a.
greater overhead and longer settle.
ment.
=. Collection Difficult.
The difficulty Of collecting under
private funds was outlined by James
J. Bresnahan, rs New York avenue
northwest, who has been employed
as bricklayer for forty years. He
explained that he had been injured
when a scaffold Collapsed during the
construction of local theater.
He stated that he had to settle
his case out Of court after months
OF delay under the threat that II
he took II to court he would be
compelled to sue before he could
| collect a cent. He cited a case of
washington employe who was
injured several years ago and who
had been awarded $4,000 but who
had never been able to collect a
cent OF the amount.
c. H. Adams, Of 8 Eight street
southeast, representing the local
carpenters union, testified that his
| organization had been on record for
two years in favor Of the Fitzgerald
bill. During the course Of his tes-
timonal it was developed that In
every State but Ohio, which has
q State administered fund, the
unions are compelled to retain
highly paid, sl1illful lawyers to fight
the insurance companies in an ef-
fort to secure justice for the en-
ployeS,
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SUNDAY SCHOOL BODY
WILL MEET TONIGHT

What young people expect of
the church" will be the topic of
the speakers at a meeting tonight
Of the members of the Sunday
School Institute of the Diocese of
Washington in the parish hall of
st. Johns Church, Sixteenth and
Fl streets northwest. at 8 O'Clock.
A mass meeting in the interest
OF the children's Lenten offering
will be held IN the Epiphany Church,
Sunday, at p. m.
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COMIC-DRAMA.

(Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather,
creator Of "The Better ole"
says cartooning is drama. 1t
probably is to the struggling
young student who can think Of
but one idea-that his board bill
is due.)
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Cop and Friend Held on Perjury Charge
'IlllENRDlt'SEEN8
~aI'EHEI ~ BILL PRICE q
POKEs AND STROKES.

The verdict moaO seems to be
"TOO much lip, Mr.. SIGnderIip."
NOGO playing:
DOHENY AND SINCLAIR.
THE Oil Can Kids"
AnyhosU, the ladies had no
hand in this teapot business. AL
the "teG" passing OGS done By
men.
Maybe John DrinkaOGter sOiH
10Tite play on the "TrGgedy of
William II. AndevsOn."
Those 1OhO crave "higk office"
don't always give nigh service"
Their ambition seems to be a
pie service," the first helping
going to Themselves.
The jokesnsiths are doing their
best to keep the pot boiling"
Those Statesmen sUho fGiled to
climb on that "petrOl wagon"
are doubtless cOngrGtuLotin0
themselves that they sOom't haze
to ride IN patrol wagon.
FRED VETTER.
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Lecture on English Women.

An explanation Of the campaign
which resulted in the election of
eight women to the House of Com.
mons In England will be given by
Miss Adelaide Mercer, social worker
and English lecturer, who will be
the guest Of the Woman's Party
this afternoon at their I National
headquarters. During the war Miss
Mercer was member of the
refugee committee and later organ.
led the women police movement.
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GO AHEAD, CONGRESS.

Dear Bill: Please ask Con-
Qress to put about fiVe more
hours on the nights. With
Heard and Seen and radio sve
don't get enough sleep and find
time for other things.
"AH, G'WAN."
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NOT GOOD IN MATH.

Brigft boy to dumbell glrll-lf
a herring and o half cost a cent
and q half, what will q dozen and
a half cost?
DumbeII GirI-YOu think you're
smart, dOntcha? Anyway, don't
cat herring, and don't care how
much they cost? BY JINGO.
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Latest song hit: $50 /
Took the $4,000, 900" by
Count SGlm.
TWO COLLEGIATES.

BLISSFUL MATRI-MONEY.
They walked arm in arm down the
aisle,
His ears couldn't hold back his
smAlslo;
But gone was his laughter
A year or two aughter-
She'd spent the last cent Of his palsle'
Y. PENCE.
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Many a man Who tries to
act bossy 1Oken his sUife has
company rolls OVer and PLAYS
dead as soon as the company
leGVes.
SASSAFRAS SAM.
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GEOGRAPHICAL LIMERICKS.
LEARN A STATE A DAY

Minnie Mimi from Minnesota,
Took q ride In q drummer's motor.
Minnie Min won't ride NO more.
Because Minnle's feet got aw-
fully sore
Walking back from South Dacotn,
TEACHER.
The Omaha morning bee., 1924-11-11
HOLD
SOCCER LEAD

grhe Calleys. league leaders in the
Omaha District Soccer league, main
tained their winning stride Sunday,
defeating the d. B.s, to 2, in a we'll
played game at Miller park. The
work of J. Henderson and Dave Johns
ton featured. Henderson scoring two
goals while Johnston scored the
other. o. Christensen and Christof-
fcrson scored a goal apiece for the
ID. B.s.
The Omaha Kickers blanked the
w. G. Clarks, to 0. in the first half
OF a double.header at Douglas Motor
field. Urban starred for the winners,
getting four goals. Stumpp accounted
for. the other marker.
In the final game at Douglas Motor
field the Horaks experienced little
difficulty in defeating the vikings,
To J.. Robson, McDade and Jones
shared the scoring honors for the
Horaxs, Robson leading with three
goals, while McDade and Jones
scored one apiece. Hedberg accounted
for the vikings single tally.
A meeting OF the league will 'e
held At the city hall Wednesday night
afsS
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Fuente Matched
With McTigue

Los Angeles. Nov. 10.-Tony
Fuente, Mexican heavyweight,
whose repeated knockouts OF his
opponents during the last two
months have added zest TO the
heavy" boxing game I'm the west.
will meet Mike MeTigue, light
heavyweight champion, February
% In the American Legion stadium
at Culver City, near here, accord
ing TO an announcement today by
Fred Winsor, Fucnte's manager
and also manager of the stadium.
Winsor says that Fuente will
make lis pounds at o'clock the
afternoon of February 90. His
normal fighting weight Is 1873
pounds. On November II, Fuente
meets Fred Fulton. Minnesota plas-
terer, in a four.round contest at
Culver City and the winner OF this
match will go against BARLEY Mad
den at Culver City December /, ac-
cording 10 Winsor.
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French Sport Papers
Can't See Baseball

Paris. Nov. 10.--One thousand Ameri,
cans, 80 japanese and 100 French
men Is LAutos analysis OF the
crowd which attended the game he
tween the New York Giants and the
Chicago white Sox In the Colonies
stadium yesterday. The Giants won,
10 0.
The paper says the teams seemed
to have come TO Paris for a pleasure
trip rather than TO fight for the out.
come of their matches.
The writer regrets that somebody
was not placed near the umpire to
give = brief explanation OF the game
in French as 1t Ia "frightful ia think
that The Giants have been brought
such = distance and yet the uniniated
left with the impression Of having
grasped nothing of the game"
Echo Des sportes, another sporting
paper, says
1T is the mathematical precision
produced by the remarkable virtuosi-
,iy Of professionals that gives the
game It's monotonous aspect
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Broken Back Ends
Football Career

Massena, n. Y, Nov. IA second
"broken back today marks the tragic
end of the brilliant gridiron career OF
Gabriel Murphy. varsity end OF the
Massena High school team.
Murphy will never again don the
moleskins and hit the line. In prac-
tice scrinmage a vertebra near the
lower end Of his spine snapped and
placed him back in the casts from
which he was liberated scarcely more
than year ago. after he had sur
fered a similar injury In . football
game.
Two years ago Murphy suffered
broken vertebra in the same place.
Physicians prepared for him protec-
ton pad, which he was to have worn
when participating in all sports.
Thinking there would be no scrim-
mage, Murphy left off the protection
pad when he dressed. Coach Demo
suddenly switched the program and
called for a scrimmage. sending Muir
ply into a tackle position. In the
first play, called through his side OF
the line, Murphy failed to rise from
the ground.
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never being able to overcome the lead
that the Gipp-Bergman prep schoo
trick had piled up in the first few
seconds of play.
Nebraska had the best OF every
thing that day excepting in for
ward passes. Gipp was on the
throwing end OF most Of the flips.
eight of them being completed for
ia yards. In all other departments
the HusIers were superior.
In the second period Nebraska
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r Says "6u@'
DQCZ~: !:

TT WAS az the Commonwealth
c. the night that Lew Hurley
L fought Carl Duane. Hurley was
crossing the ring al the start of ths
third round when he stumbled and
fell. A spider on the ceiling yelled
That's a knockdown in the news
papers"
Yours until Fulton is champ.
TERRY KID KLINGO, Brooklyn.
Here's load I gathered at Paddy
MeQuigan's matchbox fight club in
Harrison. A pair OF top-spotters. a
and Walton for five frames. In the
sixth round an Old Virginia creeper
way up on the highest shelf hollored:
Hey. you Hugsing Toms. quit that
clog dancing.
The colored boy tiShfensd his grip
on his opponent and shouted hack:
What do You want 10 see. a reselu-
ton for 50 centse'
JOE DONOVAN. Bellevills. Y. :.
During the war two sausage and
waffle fighters were going through
the motions Of a preliminary a. the
Pioneer. The gallery woke UP from
the middle Of 4 sound disgust and 20
delled; II YOU can't fight. buy =
Liberty bond"
Another fight on the same bill ef
lading was almost as bad. One guy
WAS on the run and was hanging
up new indoor record for a square
track without banked turns.
The other guy was following him
like the tail on 4 runaway COW. But
every time he swung one from the
parquef flooring. the other lad went
away from there. The chase kept
mp for three rounds until sparrow
under the caves ehirped: One of
YOU fellows down there cut those
ropes and LET that guy out"
VINCENT o'RoURkE. New York.
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Important Boxing
Bouts This Week

Nov. 11-Jeff Smith against Frank
Moody. 10 rounds in Portland. Me.
Nov. I1--Young Sfribiing agninst
Fay Kaiser, 10 rounds In Greensvilie'
Nov. II-Jackic Gordon against
Danny lee. IL rounds In New York.
Nov. I1-Tim Droney against Larry
Ayera, 10 rounds In Atlanta.
Nov. 11-Bob FItysimmons against
Joe Burke, 10 rounds in Portland,
Nov. 1e-Luis Angel Firpo against
Charley Weinert. 12 rounds In New
Nov. 1e-.Jack BrItton against Jim
my Duffy, 10 round. In Oakland, Cal.
Nov. Fiddle Burnbrook against
Jack Perry, 10 rounds in Yonkers'
Nov. Is-NeI Coogsn against Sid
Terris. ~ rounds In BROOKLYN.
Nov 14-Paui Berlenbach against
Tony Marullo. Is rounds In New
Nov. 14-CsrI Tremaine against
Eddie Shea, 10 rounds In East Chi-
Nov. if-M Van Ryan against
Archie Almond. 10 rounds In MITCHELL
Nov. 14-Bobby Garcia against
Eddie Anderson. 10 rounds In Cieve-
Nov. 14-Ernie Gooxemsn against
Benny Hersbe. 10 rounds in Cleve-
Nov. Is-BiIiy Wells against Jimmy
Duffy. 10 rounds In Los Angeles.
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the Valley.
Kansas fought Drake to SIS tie,
the outcome OF the game having nc
bearing on the conference standings
except to slightly cloud brakes rec
ord which had been unsullied before
the Jayhawk battle.
Missouri downed Oklahoma In the
only other game between confer
ence teams. the victory giving the
Tiger a clear title TO second place
and lowering Ames and Nebraska
TO n tie for third place.
Ames went out Of the conference
last week and had 10 be satisfied
with n IL tie with Minnesota after
the Cyclones had led the Gophers
until the waning moments OF the
game. Norton Bebm's great run of
10 yards to n touchdown featured
the contest. Washington universi-
iy also played non-conference
game. defeating James Milliken,
| 10 TO q.
The Kansas Aggies have the next
opportunity to knock Drake off the
top Of the standings and with an
extra week of preparation the Ar
ries may turn the trick when the
Bulldogs invade Manhattan satur-
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BEEGLE, DAWSON
TIE IN CLUB SHOOT

Ken Beegle and Joe Dawson tied
for first place honors in the shoot
held at the Omaha Gun club Sunday.
breaking 9s out OF = possible 100
birds Fred Hayes followed next in
line getting IS out of 100.
Alley led Saunders at IS birds get
ting 5s 10 Saunders So. Swerinser
broke Al out OF a possible so while
Otto and Nerling brought down sS
and ss birds respectively out OF =
possible so. had wind hlowins
across the field had somewhat TO do
with the poor showing made by some
OF The nlenihers