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The Washington times., 1924-09-17

The Mystery Of the Impresario
and the Ducks.
We have the word of T.
Arthur Smith, our genial irnpre-
sario, on this, and Clarence
Harding and Bill Hoge probably
will both bear him out.
It seems that T. Arthur owns
an island, Just off Quantico,
where he goes for week-ends and
sometimes for longer periods Of
recreation.
There's some fine duck hunting
off the island, and T. Arthur has
a fine time banging away at the
feathered denizens of the sur
rounding air and water.
So (says he) he trained a flock
of live ducks to act as decoys
for the wild ones. And he as
tonished onlookers one day when
a lot Of game lighted near the
decoys. He blazed away with
both barrels. When the smoke
cleared away, the result was
toothsome. The decoys were I'M
hurt. They had dived under
water when they saw him level
ling the gun!
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
B0BE ROBBERY.
MAY SOLVE
Staying
Police Believe Same Bandits
Slew dot" King and
Lawson Girl
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apartments were being searched.
Miss Larrimore and her mother
fctgned sleep when they discovered
robbers working in their rooms, or,
it is thought. they, too, would have
been killed.
In the murder of the two butter
flies of Broadway, the bandit muir
derers escaped without leaving the
slightest clue as to their identity
and the crimes have been the most
battling faced by the New York
police in years. In the Larrimore
robbery the two women did not see
the faces of the robbers as they
worked in the apartment, and could
give the police no information of
value.
Mask Slipped.
While Miss Bobe and Hague were
being robbed of jewelry and money
valued at $4,000, however, the
mask slipped from the face of the
leader of the robber gang, and po-
lice have therefore obtained a de-
scription of him from the two vic
tins. The maid also had an Cd.
portunity of seeing the robbers
faces.
On that wil-o-the-wisp clue, police
have the first definite information
on which to work out the mystery
of not only the Bobe robbery, but
Of the two sensational murders and
robberies, and the robbery Of Miss
Larrimore.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
ARRESTE[
|NGRAF
CASE
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make a statement to newspaper
men.
The statement of Vermillion was
taken down by a stenographer,
Evans and Attorney Darr were
next called into Major Bells office.
Questioned as to whether others
were connected with his case.
Evans, on the advice OF his at
torney, declined to reply. Attorney
Darr asked the questions be put
into writing.
Typewriter questions were then
prepared and Darr, with Evans,
left the Commissioners office. The
answers to the inquiries, If made,
will probably be given to the Com
missioner tomorrow.
The charge of extortion, which is
In effect an allegation that Yer
million solicited and accepted
bribe, concerns only one case, 1t
was said today.s
Detectives are continuing their ill.,
curry, however, into the activities
Of Inspectors Evans and Vermiillon.
Verrniilion, like Evans, will be sus.
pended without pay pending DIS
position of the charges. Vermillion,
1t was said today, inspected the
Robey elevator. This fact led to Tie
inquiry into Vermillion's activities
and resulted in his arrest.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
WRECKS
FIREWORKS
PLANT
EmpIoye Badly Hurt, Dozen of
lgnites PoWder-Scores
Homeless
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Sleeping residents were hurled from
their beds. Many were cut by fly
ing glass and bruised.
Relief measures for those made
homeless were undertaken immedi.
ately by the Beacon Red Cross
Chapter.
The explosion was felt in New
burgh, across the Hudson, more
than three miles away.
Fire which ragged unchecked
through the factory destroyed five
buildings. Two others containing
huge amounts of powder and ex-
plosives, were saved by firemen.
State police threw Gordon about
the factory site and kept the
curious at a distance.
The explosion is thought to have
resulted from a spark from a metal
spoon used by a workman in shift
ing quantities of powder from one
receptacle to another.
Fabiano, his brother Frank. and
Chiarella were the only persons in
the factory. Frank and ChiareIla
escaped with minor injuries.
The explosion occurred Just after
a car on the incline railway had
cleared the danger zone. Windows
in the car were shattered, however,
and its passengers were shaken up.
Two men near the factory at the
time of the first blast told polioe
thye saw a sheet of flame be!ch
from windows and through the roof
OF the one-story structure, then were
hurled to the ground by another
tremendous explosion which eft
them stunned.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
WYOMING MINE
BLAST TOLL
PUT At 36
Thirteen Bodies Recovered
and Twelve Men Saved
After Blast
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vivors mournfully trailed the trucks
to Kemmerer as the dead bodies
Volunteers in Shifts.
Volunteer workers had arrived to.
day from Rock Springs, Diamond.
vile, Cumberland and Frontier. Tie
workers will be split into three or
four hour shifts in an effort to
speed up the work Of rescue.
Many. expert mining men ex.
pressed the belief that 1t would be
many days before complete ex.
ploration of the mine can be made
because of the extensive damage
done the interior by the terrific
blast. Timbers were splintered, rails
twisted and great cave.ins of rock
and earth hindered the progress of
the men who were searching for
victims of the disaster.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
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The Washington times., 1924-09-17
Concerts
BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band, at the Bandstand,
at 5:45 O'Clock, John s. M.
zimmerman handuaEtar

BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band. at the Bandstand,
at 5:45 o'clock, John s. M
Zimmerman, bandmaster.
March. "oId Comrades. Teike
Hunoresque. Listen TO My
Tale. of Woe. Wheeler
scenes from comic opera,
1.-THE Prince of Pilsen'' Luders
Oriental patrol. "A Stroll
PHILIPPINE waltz. "Pepa y Chat
F, nag .;Msrcbs iorrain:; A Ganns
THE star-spangled Banner"
BY the United States Marine
Band. at the Capitol. at 4:3O
p. m, William II. Santelmann
leader leader: Taylor Bran'On' second
March, Second Connecticut
Overture. "Jubiiee". Weber
Nocturne, Dream Of Love" List
cornet solo. willow Echoes"
Musician Arthur s. witcomb5
Grand scenes from THE Val
Prologue from, I'll PaGliacei. aSas'
"Reminiscences of TschaikowsEy.
Godfrey
THE star-spangled Banner"
BY the United States Navy Band,
at the Navy Yard, at 1880 p.
m, Charles Benter, director
March, One Hundred Per
dedicated TO my friend, Andy" .
Loffler)
Overture, Poet and Peasant"
Won Suppe
Fantasia. Nautical" .Tobani
Grand scenes from ''Mefisto-
tele" ............. ........ Bote
ballet Music from La Refine
de SABA ............. .Gounod
a. Allegro Andante
b. Moderate
c. Andante
d. Allegro
Three Spanish Dances
Moszkowsky
Original No.
Original No. 2
Original No.
a. ''Pasquinade," IntermezEo,
b. Spring zephyrs." valse
Excerpts from "The Merry
Prelude" ........ .Rachma ninoff
Popular ................ Selected
The Star-Spangled Banner"
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
JACKIE coo0AN BECOMES
NAVAJo'S TALKING EYES,

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, Sept. IL.
A group Of Navajo Indian medicine
men, headed by Hoskay Yashi, old.
est of the Navajo war chiefs, 106
years of age, initiated Jackie Coo
gan, boy movie star, into the
tribe as Benay Yulthie, or Talk.
ing Eyes"
The ceremony was performed on
the platform Of the Sante Fe rail.
way station here before a crowd
dressed in cowboy, Spanish don
and senorita costumes Of seventy.
five years ago in New Mexico.
The Coogan party arrived here for
a stop of six hours on IT'S way
East on the children's crusade
which will take the young movie
s'a" TO the Near East with food
relief.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17

Horace Seal, the bosom friend
OF Mr.. Otis Elevator, Is back in
our jolly midst from Baltic, Otis
having taken fancy to him and
having made him manager Of the
local agency.
Maybe you've noticed the bath.
ing girl sticker craze in local au-
tomobile circles. Almost every
windshield is plastered with the
figure of a lady diving.
OF late days, some autoists aren't
satisfied with the ordinary pretty
diving girl. They've begun to
paste fat mermaids on their ma.
chimes. One enterprising manu-
featuring company has even made
a sticker representing a comic
Valentine diving through a tire.
sgd Selinger, in telling us by
letter of how he happened to move
from $40 to S1S r street, begins:
1--WE have been thirty-nine years
writing this letter." which Is just
about as clever an opening as our
old eyes have ever seen.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
STORM REPORTED MOVING
NORTH FROM CARoLINAS
By International News service,

ny IHIUFNdIIOMHI News beFVICe.
n b w Y o r X, Sept. 1.-THE
weather bureau TODAY issued a storm
warning for the North Atlantic
coast from Nantucket to Eastporr,
Me. A disturbance of marked in.
tensity is reported off the North
Carolina coast, and moving north.
east with increasing intensity, caus-
ing danger of gales along the North
Atlantic.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
MAN Is CHARGED WITH
ATTACK ON AGED WOMAN

Charged with assaulting a sixty
year-old woman, Ernest Wade Acton,
twenty-six, 1884 Buchanan street
northwest. was arraigned before
Judge Schuldt today in Police
Court.
Mrs. Anna B. Myer, 7o2 B street
southwest, the complaining witness,
will testify when the case, which
WAS continued today, comes to trial.
Detectives Springman and Darnall
said that robbery was the motive for
the attack.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
U. s. ORDERS $75,41o
FORFEITED TO INDIANS

Forfeiture of $75,410 to the In.
dams of the Choctow, Chickasaw.
and Creek nations Of Oklahoma by
purchasers of leases on timber land
was ordered today by Secretary of
the Interior Works.
The purchasers agreed to pay
total Of $256, $50 for the leases, but
the balance was not forthcoming.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
TOWN HAS THIRD BIG
FIRE IN FOUR YEARS
By international News Service

KANE, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE Little
village of Marienville, so miles from
here, for the third time in four
years is the victim of fire today.
This morning calls for assistance
came from the little forest town.
At that time the main hosiery and
several other buildings on the main
street were ablaze. The village is
IN the heart of the heavy forest
growth.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
U. S. Marines Withdraw

The American marines who landed
at Ceiba, Honduras. have been with.
drawn, said a dispatch to the Navy
Department today from the destroy.
er Rochester. which has sailed from
Ceiba to Celia. The destroyer Gal.
weston Is remaining at Ceiba.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
APALACH|COLA
GUT OFF BY
STORM
Great Damage Reported Along
Gulf Coast, But Details
Are Unknown
By International New. s.rviee.

CHIPLEY, Fla, Sept. 17.-Extent
OF damage done by the tropical
storm which swept inland from the
Gulf of Mexico at Apalachicola,
Fla, remained unknown today, as
those sections. suffering most were
still cut off from the rest of the
world.
Nothing definite has been learned
from Apalachicola, ST. Andrews,
Port st. Joe and other coast towns
in that section.
Train service to points east of
here has been resumed after scores
of men worked for twenty-four
hours in clearing the tracks of
wreckage and in building new
bridges in place of many which
were washed out.
Rescue workers who attempted
to reach the isolated district south
of here have turned back, reporting
that it As impossible to get through
because of trees which are blocking
the highways.
No loss of life has been reported
from any of the stricken areas as
yet but the crop damage is known
to be heavy and it is believed that
hundreds Of head of cattle were
lost.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
ADAY'S
WALK
With JIM RING

THE ETIQUETTE PRIMER.
BIASED on the Latest Louisiana
Horror Story.)
oh, 7teVer let your brother dear
Hack off yOur pretty head.
An old, experienced hGngh1Gn
1OONtd
Be better far, instead.
Ye Ed has a double in this
town, who is giving him and his
friends q lot of unnecessary
trouble.
Just the other day, Bryan
Morse tells US he was on the
Potomac Park golf course and
uncerennoniously yelled at our
replica, who was getting ready
to tee OFF. And the utter
stranger turned and replied, says
Bryan, with a look that said,
well, you poor fish! Aren't you
having good timer"
And Doc Everett Bradley, who
got back to town recently, asks
us If he didn't see US in Hud-
son coach on F street.
We are also mistakenly located
in low dives, opium dens. banks,
fish markets, gay parties and
other places which we make 1t
a point never to frequent.
At the same time, we cannot
but surmise that our double 10
having just as hard q time,
Strengthening himself out at
home and In the office.
This Is getting serious, Double,
old fellow. We must put our
heads together on it.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
RICHMOND MAN HELD
AFTER KNIFE BATTLE

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 17.-Al.
though he lost nearly two quarts
of blood in a fight last night,
Dewitt T. Felvey was alive today
and was expected to recover.
Several friends offered their blood
for transfusions.
Frank Harrington was arrested
charged with cutting Felvey.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
ALEXANDRIA DAY
PLANNED At
FAIRFAX
Boosters Club Is Behind
Movement for Exhibit at
Virginia Fair

ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 1.-THE ex-
Ocutive committee Of the Alexandria
Boosters Club decided at a meeting
yesterday to formulate plans for
Alexandria Day in Fairfax county,
on October 2. Irving Beimer, A. Is.
Baker and C. Page Waller were ap.
pointed as a committee to plan an
exhibit for the fair.
More than half the cases of those
indicted by the grand jury in the
Corporation Court Monday for vic.
lation of the prohibition laws were
disposed Of yesterday by Judge
Howard w. Smith. In the majority
of cases the men pleaded guilty and
fines Of $50 and costs were imposed.
The jail sentence was suspended.
The practise of the court allowing
credit was dispensed with, officials
stating that it would be necessary
TO hire a bookkeeper If fines were
collected in this manner.
Hereafter fines must be paid or
the prisoners must go to JAIL" 1t
was stated.
Three thousand new pupils have
enrolled in the public schools Of
Alexandria, according to Superin.
tendent r. c. Bowton. He declared
that the schools would be filled to
the limit by October. Numerous
students are arriving daily from
their vacations.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
Holy Name Convention
Editions

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elusive, including Special Sou
venir Edition, giving in detail
full reports of all meetings and
activities OF delegates, may be
mailed to any part of the
United States or Canada for
only 25 cents.
OUR REPRESENTATIVE
AT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
WILL ACCEPT YOUR OR.
DER.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
Two Killed in Georgia.

MACON, Ga, Sept. 1.-Two per-
sons are dead, village is almost
completely destroyed and crops have
suffered heavy damage as a result
of the hurricane which swept across
this part of Georgia yesterday fol-
lowing one of the most terrific rain
storms on record.
D. NJ. Chism, sixty.five, Of Nash
vile, Ga, was instantly killed when
an electric wire fell on him. The
five-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Penn, of Brownton,
Ca, was killed when the storm
almost completely destroyed the
Penn home. The girls mother was
injured along with more than a
dozen others living near Nashville.
Brownton, according to unverified
reports, was almost completely de.
stroyed. Most of the homes there
were said to have been torn to
pieces.
The Washington times., 1924-09-17
Violence Increases.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. II.
The tropical storm which has
threatened the Florida east coast
for several days is now off the
middle Atlantic coast and is moving
rapidly southeastward according to
the United States Weather Bureau
here.
AS the disturbance moved it has
gained velocity, reaching So and "
miles per hour at Cape Henry and
Cape Hatteras respectively, accord
ing to the reports received by the
jacksonville office.
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-09-15
" DANGEROUS "
Pa. R. R. Ordered to ReinState
 Working Man

The Railroad Labor Board order- ed the Pennsylvania Railroad to re- instate to his former position with full rights and pay, Joseph Greek, general chairman on that system of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Ways Employees and Railway Shop Laborers.
 Greek had criticized the "Pennsyl- vania System Fraternity" a com pany union organization, and was dismissed
 The Board rules that the dis charge of Greek was unjustified in- asmuch as it is not against the laws of the state or nation to be Q member of bona fide union, even when employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
 Intolerance is the crime of the ages.
 It has led to the specification of the prophets-by the churches and the "better clement"
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-09-15
GLADYS TAMAREE PASSES
 AFTER LONG ILLNESS

The many friends of Mrs. Tillie Paul Tamaree will learn with sor- TOW that her youngest daughter, Gladys June Tamaree on August 23rd, 1924, passed away, at ' o'clock in the evening.
 She was nearly sixteen years of age and just entering high school. She was buried at Wrangell. She is survived by her father, William Tamaree, her mother, her sister, Frances, and three brothers, Samuel K. Paul of New York; Louis F. Paul of Petersburg, and William L. Paul of Ketchikan.
 God loaned her to us; she has finished her work and God has taken her back to Himself. It remains for the living to honor her memory by striving to carry on her ideals of love and goodness. She knew that she was departing and she was not afraid. At the last moment, she asked for her sister-in-law, and said, "Where's big Frances" This sister, Mrs. William L. Paul, took her hand and she closed her eyes for mo- ment. Her father then came in, and the young girl, with one final effort, looked at him and said "Don't cry, Daddy"
 1 think that should be the senti- ment of Christians. Our loved ones go on before us, to prepare a place for us as it were. Soon the time will come for each of us, one by one, to take that last step that will unite all those who die in the Faith
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-09-15

At a meeting of the Republican Club of Anchorage, Harry l. Staser denounced William L. Paul for cer- tain political sins and declared that he had to be put out of business. To do that, the legislature had to adopt a litercy test bill. The Club then appointed committee to Gin vestigate" the question and appoint
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-09-15

ed Harry to do the Investigating. That is what we call "Fair play"
 X
 If Harry I. Staser ever had an idea of his own, he did not display it during the 1923 session of the legislature. He always voted with the other reactionaries, Joseph H. Murray, Tom Price and Frank Eos ter. As a reward for his "single mindedness" the Governor got him his present job of Deputy Marshal at Anchorage. It pays to be a leg islator providing you know on which side your bread is buttered.
The Alaska fisherman., 1924-09-15
QUIET MEETING

The Ketchlkan Commercial Club had "quiet meeting" the last week of June when they appointed a com mittee to communicate with the Bureau of Fisheries with the view of securing the temporary with drawal of the regulation which re- quires a 25 foot opening in all traps.
 It will be remembered that during the consideration of the White Fish Bill, the Ketchikan Commercial Club went on record opposing the regula- ton of the trap system. This would be voice of the people of the Terri tory again is opposed to regulation which will compell the absolute clos ing of the fish traps.
 The construction of the floating trap is such that it will not be pos sibe to comply with the law. It is rather difficult to see how these traps can be constructed to comply with the law. But inasmuch as the regulations are now in force 1t is to be hoped that the department will rigidly enforce the regulation.
 We have watched the operation of fish traps for many years and 1t IS our observation that the trapwatch- mans home is put on top of the trap for the explicit purpose ot cvading the law. That they allow the trap to operate in violation ot the law and when a strange boat IS seen approaching there is much rush ing around on the trap and by the time the boat gets up to the trap it is, legally speaking, closed. Prac- tically speaking it is still fishing from the observation and knowledge of fishermen. With the 25 foot re- ouirement it will be practically inn possible for the trap watchman to rush around and fool the deputy fish warden and therefore it will be ot the greatest benefit to the industry that this regulation be not tempor- arily withdrawn.
 This rule has been on the statutes since 1906 and the packers have been aware of it but they never made any effort to construct trap that would comply with the law. Now that the law is to be enforced they desire further time to change the construction of the trap. They have delayed the enactment of any law for the conservation of the in dustry and now they desire the fur ther delay in actual conservation. It is to be hoped that the Bureau of Fisheries will see to the rigid enforcement of the law.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-01-31
MACHINE TO DRESS GOLDFISH
Iron Splitter Does the Work Of Sew.
enty-Five Men In the Grand
Banks,

Out on the foggy grand banks the
most arduous task Of the cod fisher
man is dressing down." Every one
breads it, for it means working re.
gardless of hours until the Job is done,
If the catch has been heavy midnight,
or even the dawn following, sees the
entire crew hard at 1t by the light OF
flares. No one, not even the cook,
commonly known while afloat as "the
DOCTOR" may have any respite, saws
the Scientific American. The deck is
slippery with parts of the thousands
OF cod that have been slid from the
knife of the slitters into the hold. Cut
fingers are of no avail as an excuse
for laying off.
Power has taken lot of the mean
ness out of life at sea and the same
little gasoline engine that hoists the
sails and weighs the anchor will now
have more to do-and the crew less.
The iron splitter" does the work of
W to 70 men who now WELD sharp
knives on the grand banks off New
foundland, up along the Labrador as
well as in the localities frequented by
fishermen from France. England and
Scandinavia.
Every second the new machine takes
fresh Goldfish and as often it turns
out dressed fish. 1t performs all the
usual operations of splitting. removing
the backbones, cleaning and washing.
This ingenious machine was perfected
In Seattle, Wash, by the company
which perfected, In 1905, a somewhat
similar machine called by fishermen
"the iron Chink," because it took the
place of thousands of Chinese who
were formerly employed to clean fish
in the salmon canneries of the north
Pacific.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1924-01-31
HONORING THE
FAITHFUL.

Some of the ladies of the First M.
E. Church have banquet in prepara-
ton tor, Friday night complimentary
to the choir which is so much appre-
ciated for its faithfulness. These sing
ers have attended the weekly services
year in and year out for long period
of time and rarely fail in mid-week
practice following prayer meeting SER
wees on Wednesday nights.
The personnel of the choir is Mr..
and Mrs. Burr Stokoe, Mr.. J. H.
Burke. Mr.. Ranald Burke, Mr.. Albert
Matthias and Rev. ]. H. Elder, Mrs.
Il, A: Owens, Misses Marjorie Owens,
Kathleen Owens, Ruth Martin, Mvrtis
Corley and Mrs Myrtle Beauchamp,
while Mrs. Floyd Eads and Mr.. Ray
Frey are regular stand-bys to give
valuable assistance at any time. The
very fine service of this choir is known
outside their own church circles, but
most valued within and for which the
banquet is but small token of appre-
citation.