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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
.UNvE|L BUST Of
ROOSEVELT At
SAN JUAN
Statue Atop Hill Commemo-
rates Activities of Famous
Rough Riders
international News Service.

SANTIAGO, Cuba, Dec 15.--An-
other statue honoring the late Thee.
dore Roosevelt today was unveiled
atop San Juan Hill, where Roose-
velt's famous Rough Riders made
history during Cuba's fight for free.
dom. 1t Is bust of Roosevelt, and
commentaries the activities of the
first volunteer calvary United States
army known as the Rough Riders
of which Leonard Wood was Colonel
and Theodore Roosevelt was Lieuten-
ant Colonel.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and u
special commission OF the Roosevelt
memorial association attended the
ceremonies.
Major General j, G. Hartford, who
was a Lieutenant of calvary during
the battle of San Juan, represented
President Coolidge and delivered the
dedication address.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
CUMBERLAND MAN, HIT
BY MACHINE, Is KILLED

CUMBERLAND, Nd. Dec. 49,
]. F. Kyle, forty-eight, was killed
almost instantly late last night on
the McMullen highway, near this
city, when struck by automobile
driven by Walter J. Hughes, OF
Hancock, Nd, telephone lineman.
Kyle's skull was fractured.
His wife and six children sur.
vive. He was once in the employ
Of the Western Maryland railway.
Kyle was accompanied by NJ. H.
Gates They had run out of gaso
line and had no lights, the batteries
having burned out. Gates was
steering the car down a grade and
Kyle was on the running board,
from which he stepped directly in
the path Of Hughes car. Hughes
was exonerated by Court Coroner
joseph B. Finan,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
HIS JOB
AND CH|NA'S
WAR ENDS
Chi Hsieh Yuan Gives Up Gov
ernorship as Picking Troops
Begin to Move

SHANGHAI. Dec. is. The
threatened, renewal Of civil war in
China in the vicinity of Shanghai
came to an end today when it was
learned in dispatches from Marking.
capital Of Kiangsu province, in
which Shanghai 3 located, that
Chi Hsieh Yuan, military governor
Of Kiangeu, who had been ordered
removed from his post by Peking
and who had threatened to resist
this order had finally decided to
comply with the dismissal mandate
and had turned the seals Of his Of.
flee over to Han Kuo Chan, the
civil governor Of Kiangsu.
CHS family arrived here today
and Chi himself is expected to reach
Shanghai by tonight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
NORSEXPECTED
To TESTIFY
TODAY
Husband of Slain Woman Will
Take Stand Against
Mccoy
nMEs sTAEE niOIn


Los ANGELES, Calf, Dec. 15-
Albert Mors, former New York and
Chicago antique dealer, was SEIZED
uled to take the witness stand today
for the State, as the second week
Of the trial Of kid" Mccoy for the
murder Of Mrs. Teresa Mors got
under way.
Mors, who was divorced from the
woman, the State charges, a week
before Mccoy murdered her, was
expected to be one of the important
prosecution witnesses. Through
Mors. the district attorney said,
an effort would be made to prove
that the former prize-fightOr killed
Mrs. Morg with robbery Of her valu.
able jewels as a motive.
Rapid progress made in the trial
Indicated the State would finish
its case Tuesday or Wednesday, Civ
ing defense attorneys only q short
period to determine whether Mccoy
would take the stand in his own
behalf. The defendant has insisted
from the start that he be permit
ted to testify and today 1t was be-
lieved that his lawyers would place
him on the stand.
Should the defense decided to
make an insanity plea, more than
a score of internationally known
sportsmen were said to be ready to
take the witness stand to testify for
the defendant. Among those who
may be called are Harry Hollack, OF
New York, formerly associated with
Mccoy, Jack Dempsey, James J.
Jeffries and Tommy Ryan, former
middleweight titleholder, who fought
Mccoy several times.
Twenty-Five witnesses have been
summoned by the defense and
twenty-eight of the fifty.four called
by the State already have testified.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
LOUIS XIV HAD
INFLUENCE ON
ENGLISH ART
All Europe Affected by sumpt-
uous Tastes in Furniture of
Grand Monarque

In order to arrive at q sense of
proportion as to the value of Eng
lish furniture and its relation to
contemporary art in Europe, one
should take under consideration the
movements that were taking place
in France in the creation OF a new
style in furniture UNDER the impulse
of the Grand Monarqus.
To estimate more correctly the
styles of he early Jacobean and
or the later English furniture ex.
tending to the days of Chippendale
and Sheraton, 1t must be borne in
mind that England was not always
50 fnsular in art as the DAYS of
Queen Anne would seem to indicate.
1t was impossible for the cabinet.
makers and craftsmen to have utter
~ ignored the splendors of France.
Louis XIV had a long and event.
ful reign, which extended from the
days when Charles I was marshall.
ing his forces to engage in civil
war with the Parliament down to
the closing years of Queen Anne.
During his minority 1t cannot be
said that Louis XIV influenced art
In furniture, but from 1861. con.
temporary with Charles II, when
he assumed the despotic power that
he exercised for half a century, his
love OF sumptuousness, and his
personal supervision Of the etiquette
or formal court, in which no de-
tail was omitted to surround ROYALTY
with magnificence, made him the
patron Of the fine arts. and gave
MS court the most splendid prestige
in Europe.
During the reign Of Louis XIV,
tables, armoires, and cabinets were
designed on architectural principles.
Under the guiding influence of Col.
bert, minister of finance. architects
and cabinet makers were selected
to design furniture for the Tuileries.
he Louvre. and Fontainebleau. In
the early years of the reign furni.
ture Was made with severe lines. hut
gradually it became the practice 10
fashion larger pieces.
immense tablesk with sumptuo1is
decoration, on gilded clawfeet. and
having tops inlaid with pietra -dura
intended to carry bronze groups and
porphyry vases. were made at the
Gobelins factory, under the direc.
ton OF the celebrated LIE Brun.
This artist loved grandeur and
gorgeousness in decoration, and in
accord with the personal ideas Of
Louis XIV, who had an inordinate
love FOR perfect symmetry. huge
pieces OF furniture were huilt in
magnificent manner to please the
taste OF the Grand Monaroue.
Men OF genius were EMPLOYED in
the mandatory of tapestries. of
furniture, and of metal mountinTs.
and the interior decorations of the
palaces were designed Mn harmony
with the furniture intended for use
therein. Upon the building. decorat.
ing and furnishing of Versailles.
Louis XIV spent over 500 900 600
francs, in addition to which there
was an army Of workmen liable to
statute labor
THE CONNOIsSEUR.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
CORSET STAY STOPS SHOT
AND SAVES WoMAN'S LIFE

JERSEY CITY. N. j., Dec. a.
Mrs. e. Giggelmau, of North
Bergen, probably was saved from
death by a corset stay. One of
several bullets fired by Mrs. Lillian
Gutenberg in local grocery,
where Mrs. Giggelman was stand.
ing with her four children, struck
the steel support and was flattened,
inflicting only slight flesh wound.
The proprietor told the police all
the bullets were aimed at him.
Mrs. Gutenberg was arrested on
q charge of assault two years ago
for shooting at Mrs. Giggelman, the
police said
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
KElTH'S WILL BE HOST
TO D. c. CIVIC CLUBS

Civic clubs of Washington will be
the guests of Manager Roland 8.
Robbins. at B. F. Keith's Theater,
all this week, beginning tonight,
when members of the Rotary Club
will be entertained
Tomorrow night, the Kiwanis Club
will attend. The following nights
are arranged as follows: Wednes-
day, Civilians and Newcomers:
Thursday, Lions anO Optimists: Fri.
day, Cosmopolitan and Monarch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15

the status and standing that has
come to him as Republican, and
will be put down to the bottom
of all his committees as new mem.
Der representing new party with
no seniority rights whatsoever.
The quetsion is:
Will Friend Charlie pull any
equally rough stuff in the Senate?
The Senate on it's Republican eide
has excluded the La Follettites from
the Republican caucus. Will 1t go
farther and degrade them in their
committee appointments?
If not, Friend Mich may have
something to sneer about to Friend
Charlie in the evening time.
Copyright. 1924. by Current News
Features. Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15

furious work in the Senate: and
his dear friend Nick has either
anticipated him or has countered
him by thinking up the great
thought Of organizing the next
House before the present House
lies down and expires.
1t is suggested by some obserV.
ers that each committee Of the
next House will then write a week
~ report during next summer to
Floor Leader Nicholas Longworth
saying just how many thousand
pages of testimony it has taken or
has read regarding the bills which
1t is going to introduce In the
succeeding winter.
It is felt that Friend Nick and
Friend Charlie between them, when
they are not playing together, will
drive their respective Houses into
never getting any chance to play
at all.
This is not thought fair, but 1t
is thought 20 be fine for the coun-
try.
just Like Sweat Shop.
1t is felt that if Friend Nick
and Friend Charlie will keep on
spending their evenings together
and comparing notes and exchang-
ing challenges, they will probably
get up every morning and fortify
themselves for the next evenings
conversation by extracting a per-
fectly sweat-shop lot of work from
both chambers of the American
Congress.
If the public observes unusual
strenuosity on the part of the Sen.
ate and of the House this year
and next year, it konws the real
deep-down reason. Longworth and
Curtis meet often; and being re-
spectively a Senator and a Con-
gresham, they have to have some
thing on each other whenever they
meet.
That is the merit of organizing
the committees of the next House
before the present House adjourns.
1t means more hard labor.
The beauty of 1t is that thus.
within the limits of this winter,
appropriate retribution may he
measured out to those Republican
members of the House who sup.
ported Robert Marion La Toilette
during the late political unpleasant.
ness.
Hanging jefferson Davis to a
s2ur-apple tree is politically moth.
ing to what the Republican leader.
ship of the House of Representa-
tives proposes to do to John M.
Nelson Of Wisconsin and to Fiorella
H. La Guardia of New York ana
to a dozen other Congressman for
becoming La Follettite and ex-Re.
publican
AK for Progressives.
Mr.. Longworth. a moderate and
humorous man, is deeply panied by
his constant receipt of suggestions
from stern Republican regulars that
Mr.. Nelson shall now be withdrawn
from the glamorous and glorious
Rules Committee, and shall, be con.
signed to a Committee on Inaudihlc
Acoustics, and that Mr.. La Guardia,
having now become a Socialist, shall
be appointed to be a Committee
All by Himself on Relationless Re-
lat ons With Russia.
II the present temper of the Re.
publican side of the House shall
continue. there Is no doubt that
every La Follettite in the whole
House will be entirely denoted from
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
Ulster Leader Dead

LONDON, Dec. Is. William
Coote, member OF parliament ami
leader of the Orange extremists OF
Ulster, died early today shortly
after being taken III while address.
ing a political HAAetinG.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
BRITAIN is PREPARING
TO PAY U. s. SOL 900, 900

LONDON, Dec. 15.-Great Britain
prepared today to make a payment
of $91 10000 to the United States
as an installment on the $4,000,
900 900 war debt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
NEW REVOLT Of
RIFFS ST|RS
ENGLAND
Several Spanish Posts Fall.
British interests Not Yet
involved
INTERNATIONAL NEWS ran
By In.ernationaI News seryio..

LONDON, Dec. 15.z-The foreign
office today denied that British
interests were threatened as yet
by the new revolt Of Riff tribes
men near Tangier England and
France have, entered into no agree.
ment regarding concerted action
there, the foreign office announced.
Press Plays Up Revolt.
The British press is playing up
the revolt as well as the heavy cost
Of the Spanish withdrawal from
most OF Morocco.
The Spanish embassy today de
clared the revolts Of the Anjera
tribes was due to propaganda from
the outside which started in Egypt
spread to Tunis, and now had af.
fected 10000 Anjera Arabs"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
Spanish Posts Captured.

TANGIER, Morocco, Dec. 49,
Freed from the danger of flank
attack by the Spanish retreat, the
Anjera tribesmen today were in
possession of the Spanish post at
Al Cazar Kebir. Several Spanish
officers were taken prisoners in
the attack Sunday and held as hos.
tages against the possibility of re.
prisal attacks by Spanish airplanes.
Other posts have fallen, 1t was
reported here and more are be.
sieged by the tribesmen.
The move has exposed twenty
miles of the Tetuan-Ceuta railwa y
endangering the supply service to
Tetuan.
Steamers from Gibraltar have
ceased calling at the port of Tetuan,
which is under rebel fire.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
ApVERrIsEMENT

Prices realized on Swift e. Company
sales of carcass beef In washington, D. g.
for week ending Saturday, December
10, 1924, on shipments sold out, ranged
from 500 cents to 1000 cents per pound
and averaged 1918 cents per pound.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15

LET THE Gifts for Children"
suggestions in the Classified SCI
ton fatten your kiddles' bookings.
Evening star., 1924-04-27
"PRIZES WOULD BE AWARDED TO ANY MEMBER FATALLY
SHOOTING ANY BARBER WHO MENTIONED TONIC"

Club. the Meeting Eyebrows Club, the
Freckles Club, the Ancient Order of
Moles. the Store Teeth Assn. ard the
Independent Order OF Outstanding Ears
or these, the last named is the
latest in the field and also seems to
. have the most ingenuity. Like for
inst. their I'd. annual meeting was
held weeks ago and the meeting
place was Erie. Pa. on motion Of tho
president, steps was taken for the
formation Of a ladies auxiliary, TO be
made up of gals whose ears refuses
to hide hut insists on swaying in the
breeze. The auxiliary will be called
the FIappers.
After Il brief business session, the
entire membership ciumb aboard a
Erie train and was taken to the Erie
Canal, where each was provided with
a fiat bottom boat not furnished with
oars or other means Of locomotion.
EaA member clumb into his boat and
there followed ! of the most eXcit-
ing events of years, Il race from b lf-
falo to Ilion, y. Y. using the ears as
sails. The race was won by Ira Lobe
of New Era, Ohio, who boasts that
when at home, he has to go in and
out tho door sideways.
Evening star., 1924-04-27

close of the services each Mohamme-
dan took these in his hand and
walked with them out Of the mosque.
i x !:
THE Mohammedan prayers and
= method of praying are fixed by
the Koran, and these 10000 men all
prayed I'm the same way. ] noted
their actions from the beginning to
the end Of each prayer. The person
praying must first remove his shoes
and sandals and turn his face toward
Mecca In the court of this mosque
Of Santa Sophia there Is a large and
beautiful fountain, and he must battle
his hands and feet and certain other
tarts of his person before going in.
Entering the mosque and standing in
the right position, the worshiper be-
of his ears and then holds them a
little below his girdle. He then goes
through a number of prostrations, re-
citing certain prayers from the Koran
as he does SO.
IF the Moha nm edan is a faithful
believer he prays five times every
day throughout the year, and to this
he adds twerity more prayers each
night OF Ramadan. He does this
without regard to his surroundings.
At the hours of prayer Moham-
medans will begin their devotions in
the midst OF a crowd. They will stop
their business transactions and,
whether in the store or in the field,
Evening star., 1924-04-27

The Industries of MADEIRA are as
following:
l. Making wine. all vintage OF
1904.
.. Picking fiours to sell to Tower
lists.
3. Putting them back on the
bushes so they will look pretty when
the next boat comes in.
T. Teaching children how to run
miles after an ottomobile, yalling
Gimme nickle.'
). Weaving willow chairs and tell
ing American Ladies' that This will
be the Very Thing they will need
when the neu sun Porch ale built.
6. RunninC a FundiCular Railroad
UP the mountain side and stopping il
every time the gentleman who acts
as President, GeEl. Manager & Brake
man gets too tired to carry any more
coal in a clothes baskit.
This are about all | know about
MADEIRA except that Napoleon wanted
to get off there on his way to st.
Helena. He prefer that Island. This
are the only time 1 ever agreed with
Napoleon about anything.
Our next stop shall be Gibraltar,
where l hope to go so muchly that l
am enjoying great pains.
Hoping you are the same
Yours truly
Hashimura Togo.
(CJoprrisht, 1921
Evening star., 1924-04-27

Cain chairs & pretending they would
need them sometime. maybe, when
they got home. I give my Portuguese
Pirate 4 portuguese dollars for his
exercise. Pretty grand of me. Por-
tugoose dollars are now worth &c.
shall now tell you what I learn ed
about MADEIRA, SO your readers will
get educated.
Little or less arc known about the
history Of MADEIRA. This arc not be-
cause that quaint Island has not got
history, but because travellers al
ways get so confused from drinking
the native Flame Water that they for
get to remember anything about 1t.
BY the time they get back to the boat
they has lost their Guide book and
want to go to sleep.
But this much | remember distinct
ually. MADEIRA were dishcovered by
n Portuguese Admiral name of Fargo.
He get there quite few months be-
fore Columbus dishcovered Anne rica-
| are glad that Columbus did not ar
rive there first. Sometimes l think
Columbus dshcovered too many
places. Howeverly. there arc a house
on Madeira where Hon. Columbus was
either born or died. / forget because
of headache. Perhapsly he merely
rented it furnished to have a good
place to go to when rents got too
high in America
Evening star., 1924-04-27

they will drop down on their knees
and pray I remember once enter
ing 4 rug bazaar in Alexandria and
calling upon n gray bearded. tur-
baned Turk while he was engaged
in his devotions. He was standing
on a rug in the back of the store
looking toward Mecca. and munlbling
the Koran. He must have seen me
as I entered with a party of Amer
leans, but though he knew | intended
to buy he paid no attention to me.
He continued to kneel and rise for
fully fifteen minutes and I was forced
to take a seat and wait until he
was through. There were many
other rug establishments near by.
and he surely knew that he stood
the chance Of the loss of a. sale by
not attending to me, but this made
no difference to him. Would it not
he curious thing to see a merchant
in New York or Chicago stop his
sales in the middle OF the day and
drop down on his knees and pray
in the presence of his customers.
The Mohammedans are not ashamed
of their religion. They are proud of
it. and it is only in the rarest of in
stances that Christian missionaries
are able to make any impression upon
tho followers of the prophet. Such
conversions as they do make in Mo-
hammedan countries are. as a rule,
from other sects than the Moham-
m ndo0
Evening star., 1924-04-27

licly destroys the ornament. After
the 1st offense he should be give the
the same treatment as the barber and
the citizens mentioned above.
In time it would he my idear to
take some kind of action VS.. the boys
that is 80 years old and over and still
retains the same amt. Of hair they
had at 81 This list would include
boys like Thos. Meighan. John Barry
more. Valentino and Count Ludwig
Salm Won Oofdegoof and the 1st. step
would be to warn them and then if
they didn't show no falling off i'll a
reasonable time. have them bobbed by
a Red Indian.
| would impose Il severe penalty on
any member that went to IL recital by
Heifetz or attended n fight in which
Firpo was taking part or patronized
any event by which benefits would
accrue to of these here hairy apes.
Vile on the subject Of the Bald
Heads il might not be out of place
to inform readers that several other
clubs of a somewhat similar nature
has recently been organized which
has very simple eligibility rules which
may be guessed by the readers them
sells. Amongst these is the Chinless
Evening star., 1924-04-27
Bald Head Club Receives Advice
Ring Lardner, Not Yet Eligible, Postpones Speech

"O the editor: May IL has been
set to 1 side as the date for
the annual meeting of the
Bald Head Club of America
AS the club was founded in Connec>
ticut most all the meetings is held
III what | have nicknamed the Nut
meg state and the one next mo. will
he in Waterbury. 10 matter If you
are IL member or no, you are eligible
to attend and join the organization
provided you can prove by wit
nesses that you don't harbor a comb
in the home.
The club just done the undersigned
the honor OF asking me to make the
annual address which l declined on
the grounds that 1t will be couple
more years before / can talk to the
boys on equal footing. When the
proper time comes and | am reed. into
the fold, l will lend all possible as
sistance to a membership drive that
will give the organization such ma
tion wide strength AS to unable IT to
carry out as important reforms as is
now being tended to by the Ku KluX
kian and the Gill Scouts
don't want nobody to get the i'm
preston that | am criticising- the
Bald Heads for their present lack of
activity. In the list. place | under
stand that the sole purpose of the
club when organized was to just meet
once yr. and kind of comfort each
other with stories and incidence in
regards to the advantages of bald
haV
far as doing what they set out to
do is concerned. But il seems to me
like a shame TO have such assn.
devote themselfs to pleasure only
when they's 30 much necessary work
that they might do.
The lst. measure that L would sug-
gcst is to have each local chapter
apply to the police dept. Of it's city
for permission for every member to
carry a gun. Members would half
to pledge themself to not misuse their
weapons but to use them only when
necessary, and for effective use of
Same they would be awarded a cash
prize to be drawed either from the
local or national treasury. Prizes
would be awarded to any fatally men,
Der shooting
l. Any barber who mentioned the
word tonic in the presence of a
member.
9 Any citizen OF either sex that
slapped any member on the head or
rubbed his or her hand over same.
8. Any citizen who made any face
tfous remark 10 a member in regards
to their ailment, like for inst. Put
on your hat. You're Il undressed."
The custom of wearing a wig or
toupee would be considered II insult
to the organization but If the person
caught doing same (and II might be
stated at this point that about the
only way you can tell il a man is
wearing a wig is to look at him) is
a 1st offender. lie should be let off
with a scolding provided he pub