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The Washington times., 1924-04-17
CARNIVAL PULLS IN TOWN
FIRST OF D, C.. SEASON

The Johnny J. Jones Exposition,
first Of the carnivals to invade the
National Capital this season, opens
up tonight on the grounds at Fiji.
teenth and III streets northwest, run.
ming continuous daily performances
from 2 p. m. until midnight.
The show, press agents declare,
is bigger and better than ever, and
will provide entertainment for the
young and old.
Among the attractions are the
puzzling mirrors, the Wild West
show, the fortune tellers' booths,
the animal show, crazy house
monkeys driving miniature automo.
biles, the Fat woman. the giant man,
the tiny people, the whip, and the
hippodrome, with it, daredevil
motoEcyNlists. b. -.
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
TWO BOYS BITTEN BY
DOG WHICH Is SEIZED

Everett Saddler, six, 1922 BIadens.
burg road northeast, and Edward
r. Daley, eight, 1920 Bladensburg
road, were bitten yesterday by a
dog owned, police say, by Roy Shar.
fel. Blad6nsbhrg road and Mt. .Olivet
street northwest. Neither boy was
seriously hurt.
Ninth precinct police have seized
the animal, ana said they will, turn,
it. oyer to the pound master.
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
YOUR BEST FRIEND.

"WhO is your best friendP" 81
l was asked just yesterday.
ION whom can you depend,
No matter what people say"
IL know Of only One," softly made
reply,
"Wh0 laughs when laugh or cries
when i cry
Only one, for the rest all try
To win my friendship thrO O lie.
"She IL is who sang loves lullaby,
Matched kiss for kiss and sigh for
sigh,
Gave me things that money cannot
buy
And kept the lOvelight ever nigh.
II hope have answered You clearly,
(AlthOuEh have talked like q
lOveF)
But she IL the one 1 love dearly,
This lady. an angel, my mother"
KEVINO.
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
PEPPERIsMs.

When Edison opined that success
IN lite resulted from 10 per cent
Inspiration and 80 per cent per-
SpirGtion the demand for chill con
cGrne 1DGS tremendous.
One, sniff of OIL these days toilI
drGt0 b larger crOtcd than the Pied
Piper OF HGnsIit ever dTetD.
Helen RotUIGnd says: "GtVe mo
q man 4Uho smokes" She probably
wasn't referring to Pittsburgh sto0ies
Some authors easily obtain d.
UOrces. Others tOrite 35O-pGOe books
as briefs for their sprinO-ttnse as
pirGtionS.
Some golfers use skill and science !:
others profGntty. g.
Most trGnpS refuse to Work, but
they IotH labor for hours trying to
conUince you that leisure has its
cOnpenSGti0MS.
O. B. SERVER.
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
Wrong Bottle; Hospital.

Lillian Davis, twenty, 1885 L
street northwest, took q teaspoonful
OF medicine" last night. After
swallowing It. she discovered 1t was
Iodine. She was treated at
Emergency Hospital. Later, she
was removed to her home. She will
get well. doctors said ..a
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
>BIMBO BROWN.
THIS OLD MAID WAS GAME.

HE GOT IN DUTCH.
Judge, I'd like to get . divorce
from my husband"
"On what grounds do you ask
it?" 4
"He speaks German and / don't. !"
well. that's not q sufficient
reason"
But, Judge. you see it's this
way. In the day time he speaks
English, but at night, when he
talks in his sleep he speaks Ger.
man." HANK HAWKINS.
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
Thieves Take Radio Set.

Burglars last night stole radio
Get and large amount Of extras
from the Northwest Battery aud
Electric Company, $500 Georgia
avenue northwest. The loot Is valued
at $3.50,
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
Pickpocket al Theater.

n While attending a performance at
Q local theater, someone picked $40
from the pockets OF Joseph Caselli,
70 II street northwest, according to
q report he made to the police last
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
i9E:9G
z.l71

PatL was CHAD to zee You 1t
the prayer meeting last night.
Mike (stil1 tipsy)-SO that's
where was, was I?
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
EASTER-(Am Acrostic).

e verywhere, on bush or tree,
A n opening bud or new leaf we see;
8 ilent nature. in nascent way,
7 ellis of a new life today.
Il astertide is now at hand
II esurrection pervades our land.
H. SMITH.
The Washington times., 1924-04-17

A NOISELESS SOUP FEEDER.
After an interview with Prof.
PERKUNSKY, the famous in
ventor of this column, EVERETT
gives you an accurate description
of a combination soup bowl and
feeder about which all noise is
unnecessary:
The Washington times., 1924-04-17
BLEA CHE RITIS

b Il e n Z n = b I .
Yes, bIeacheritis IL the latest disease,
And It affects both men and boys;
Some Of them become seriously run
down
II they can't partake Of it's Joys.
It hits the office boys worst Of all,
Causing their grandmas to be quito
i'll;
At least that's one Of the many
they give. 70 get off TO see 'em HE
WESTERN UNION.
The Washington times., 1924-04-17

A Kentucky man forgot his
speech at q banquet and
VGlked out and killed himself.
Most of these orators don't
forget their speeches and al
most kill their hearers.
CICERO SLAPP.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
GERMANY STOPS
 SALE OF TITLES
Prussian Government Puts End
 To Adoption Contracts

BERLIN, April 2O.-Profiteer Mayer or Profiteer Finkelstein. can no longer become Count Meout or Baron Won Wurst through adoption"
 The Prussian government has put an end to the sale of titles by this route; since the war, the lowly, but rich could become titled by paying for adoption" by noble, but poor, fam fly. Thereupon, the baron or count title automatically descended to the "child"
 The newspapers were full of adver- tisements, in which dukes. princes. counts, barons, etcetera, announced their intention to ''fructify" their titles.
 The new decree makes an end to such dealings by declaring null and void all adoption contracts, intended mainly to transfer q name.
 This is about the only measure of the socialist Prussian cabinet. which meets with the full approval of the ''junkers."
 The decree, however. puts an end only to part of the abuses. since no legal method, so far, has been found to stop the name-marriages. by which ambitious adventuresses and daugh- ters of the nOuveau riche become count eSses.
 The authorities declare it a hope less task to determine, whether a we'd ding. is performed for the sake of a title or sound matrimonial purposes. or whether dowry or a fee is handed to the bridegroom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
T. R. THOUGHT HIM GREAT
An Amusing Impression Of The Former
 Presidents Enthusiasm

I knew no more of military tactics than of the lost island of Atlantis; but something I had written in the old Everybody's about mobilization on the border caught Theodore Roosevelt s eye, and he invited me to Oyster Bay, writes Charles Merz in the New Repub- lie.
 We had a walk together. I remem- Der that we met neighbors, and that I was introduced to them with a grace that went on steadily to a crescendo. At first I was Young man written good thing Mexico. Worth your while to read it." Two neighbors more: I had become Able young war corres- pondent, done one of the best pieces of reporting I have seen in months"
 On we went. By the time that we were home again, and the shadows of the colonel's trees had begun to stretch themselves for the work they had to do at twilight. bore, for one last friend well met, the title, One of the most talented young strategists now writing for the press"
 It was impossible, suppose, to stand still for one whole afternoon. I did not matter. But there I was. and from the bounty of his enthusiasm he chose to see me moving forward It was my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
.BROOKLYNBANDIT
 BELIEVED IN JAIL
Bob b-Haired Woman And Husband Arrested In
 Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 21.- A woman believed to be Brooklyn's bobbed-haired bandit and man who said he was her husband! were arrested here at 1 o'clock this morning by two New York detectives. The woman gave her name as Cecelia Cooney, aged 20, and the man was booked as Edward Cooney, 9.
 The officers, F. s. Gray and Will liam G. Casey, said they were confront ed by an automatic pistol in the hands of the woman and two revolvers held by the man, when they broke down the door in a rooming house in which the couple was staying,
 The couple was booked on charges of suspicion. According to Detective Ca sey, they are wanted in New York on 17 charges of holding-up establishments and with assault with intent to murder in connection with the shooting of Ma than Mezzia, at the Brooklyn plant of the National Biscuit company on April l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
4 DEAD NEGROES
 ARE DISCOVERED
 IN FREIGHT CAR
l.. & N. Officials At Loss To Account For Grue-
 some Find

MOBILE, Ala. April 20.-(Special Leased Wire. l--Scraps of paper may play a large role in clearing the mys- tery that cloaks the staying of four negroes whose bodies were found in a gonlola car, at Flomaton this afternoon. The scrap of paper in. this case is commitment from Jackson county, Miss, showing that the bearer had served a term on the county roads. The four bodies each with a bullet through the head, were found when a northbound Louisville and Nashville freight stopped at Flomaton to allow passenger train No. l to pass. <
 None of the men had, been dead for more. than few hours, declared Dr. F. H. Mason, Escambia county coroner, who conducted an autopsy at Brewton, where the bodies were taken. Only one negro had any identification about lffm and this was in the name of Henry Millgan and showed that man by that name had served at hard labor on. the roads of the Mississippi county.
 Gondola cor 10131, in which the bod ies were found, lay in the yards at Mobile all day Saturday and was at tached to the freight train leaving at II 20 o'clock Sunday morning. Cir cumstances point to the murder having taken place here; Sheriff Paul Cazalas doubts the conclusion as watchman is stationed at intervals of a block in the yards and switchmen are constantly moving about Certainly, believes the sheriff. had the bodies been placed in the car while it was here, the occur renee would have been seen ]; had the men been killed while in, the car here, the reports of the weapon would have been heard. Two of the men were shot through the head twice. A deck of playing cards was found with the bod dies, lyings in erumpled heap on the floor of the gondola.
 The car came here from New Orleans, according to records of the local freight office and lay in the yards Saturday and Saturday night,sno unusual incl dent was reported from the yards dur ing the time no report of pistol or rifle heard, yet the bodies had been dead but a few hours when discovered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
OIL COMMITTEE TO END INQUIRY
 DURING WEEK
Group Expected d To Recommend Measures
 Against Exploitation
tBy Leased Wire to The Ase-HeraId,

(By Leased Wire to The Age-Herald) | WASHINGT0N, april 20.-Conclud- ing one of the most sensational investi- gations ever held in Washington. the Senate oil committee will finish it's work during the coming week, when the last of the witnesses will be called and the committee will begin the work of preparing it's report.
 1 This announcement was made yes 1 terday by Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. the member of the Senate public lands committee. who has played the leading part in exposing the sensa- l tions that came from the committee hearings. 2
 Five More Witnesses Only five more witnesses will be questioned. Walsh has summoned three of them and two have been subpoenaed by Senator Spencer, republican of Missouri When their examination has finished the committee will go into secret session on it's report to tke Senate, Walsh said. This report will include recommendations for prevent ing future scandals in the administra- ton of public domains.
 With the exclusion of the oil com mittee's labors. there will end one of the most spectacular episodes in Amer ican governmental life. Long before the investigation was ordered by the Senate. charges were made of irregu- larity in the leasing of naval oil lands by Albert E. Fall, former secfetary of magnate. Senator LaFollette was one l.lf %l,s .,, .l., Little public inteest was aroused in the alleged scandal, however. and even after the Senate public lands commit tee was directed to investigate the charges the incident did not promise the sensations which developed later.
 Lean Story Opens Interest
 It was not unti, after the com mittee brought out the testimony from E. l.. Doheny, California oil million aire, that he had loaned Fall $100,- 900 that the Senate inquiry aroused nationwide interest.
 The leases granted to Sinclair were for the now famous Teapot Dome oil tract in Wyoming. Fall also had leased naval reserve lands in, California to Doheny.
 The oil reserves. formerly held by the navy department, had been turned over to the department of the interior. Secretary Denby's name became, in- vOlved and he was forced to resign.
 Meanwhile, President Coolidge, prom ising thorough prosecution of those re- spOnsible for the leasing scandals, ap- pointed government prosecutors who already have obtained injunctions halt ing the development of the oil lands.
 From the committees investigation is expected to come report containing detailed recommendations for conserv- ing government resources and prevent ing their explorations by government officials.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
DaWes Is Present Choice
 For COP. Vice Presidency
Harding Death Emphasizes Need Of Able Man
 In Second Place

ure by the House to elect president So there is this chance that one of the vice presidential candidates soon to be nominated, may preside for a time at the White House
 In these circumstances are to be found the reason for the ultimatum with which the name of Charles G. Dawes has been received in, republican circles. There is q strong probability that if the convention were held today, he would be the republican vice presi- dential nominee. He distinguished him self in establishing the budget system under Harding here three years ago. Now he has distinguished himself in deyising appropriations settlement which has brought harmony in Europe after five years of wrangling.
 Picked By Pershing
 In addition to these evidences of of political availability. Pershing pick ed him to be chief purchasing agent of the A. E. F., and after the war he was active in organizing the American Legion. Furthermore, he comes from Illinois, and the republicans want the middle west to be represented on the ticket. The chief opposition might be expected from. progressives desiring a man of more insurgent temperament.
 On the other han l, Dawes has a magnetic, straightforward breezy per sOnality which would make him pop ular candidate in the west, even though he has not been identified with the in surgent faction or with the agrarian movement. Governor Hyde of Mis- seuri and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas have been mentioned also.
 The democrats are so completely en- crossed in their presidential contest that the vice presidential nomination has not yet been given so much atten- tion. Senator Copeland of New York is regarded as a possibility as is Gov ernor Silzer of New Jersey. Mayor Dever of Chicago is another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
CLARA K. YOUNG
 IS RECOVERING
Physicians Believe Actress Will
 Survive Operation

FORT WAYNE, Ind. April 2O.- Clara Kimball Young, actress, who un- derwent an operation in n local hospi- tai last night for the removal of an abdominal tumor. was resting easily tonight and her ultimate recovery is looked for. according to Dr. E. T. Weav- CT, her physician
 Dr.. Weaver said Miss Young rallied "splendfdfy" from the effects of the anaesthetic and regained complete con seriousness early this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
CITIZENS THREATEN
 ALLEGED MURDERER
Mississippi Man Rushed To Jail
 Following Wife's Death

BELMONT. Miss, April 2O.- Clement Wood, charged with the mur- der of his wife in their home here early today, was rushed to the jail at Iuka, Miss. this afternoon, following threats against him by citizens
 Mrs. Wood was killed by a bullet from a rifle which the husband ad- mitted he fired, but he contended that the gun was discharged accidentally. Evidence at an inquest held by Mag istrate $. l.. Summers tended to show that Wood quarreIled with his wife when he found her at her mothers house. near the Woods home. late last night. An hour after, returning to their own home, Wood, who it is charged was intoxicated, ran to neighboring houses and declared he had accidentally killed his wife. Mrs. Wood was found dead on the floor; with a year-old baby playing by her side.
 Witnesses at the inquest testified they heard two shots fired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21

such action. Leaders and masses alike, he said regretfully, were too much imt bued with what he rather scornfully termed liberal maxims like the will of majorit wand the rights of minorities to make revolution even q remote pos sibiity.
 This believe to be an accurate state ment of the case. The British working man is about the poorest material for a red revolution that can be imagined. Generally speaking, he is slow, steady fellow, content with moderate comforts and averse to getting excited. especially over matters like abstract theories and
 principles. t-r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
By RAYMOND CHAPTER lI.aaSed Wire to Aea.HeraIdl

WASHINGTON, April 20.-Unus- ual importance is attached to the vice presidential nominations of both par ties this year, portending a lively con test over second place at both CleYe- land and New York instead of the usual cut-and-dried formality rushed through at the tag end of an exhausted, weary and indifferent convention.
 Tkere are two reasons why this hon. or--which in the past has been handed around as n sop to disappointed fac tions-has come to be regarded as of genuine importance, second only to the presidential nomination itself.
 One is that Warren c. Harding.s s death has emphasized the high mortal ity rate of American presidents, which is roughly one out of four Six of the thirty presidents have died in off, flee. Six have moved into the White House through death of predecessor. This indicates the risk involved in throwing men who are declining physi- cally into the terrific pressure of the White House. It indicates the wis dom of having ,a vice president on hand who is of sufficient stature to fill the presidential chair. This has not been the theory ill making vice presidential nominations in the past. Most vice presidents have been admittedly 6infe- rior to the presidents under whom they served. There have been notable ex- captions like Roosevelt and Coolidge. but the rule has been the other way.
 May Go Into House
 The second reason for the importance of the vice presidency this year is the possibility that the election will be thrown into the House of Representa- tives. As the House is now divided, a tedious deadlock would be probable be. fore majority decision could. be reached, The constitution provides that the vice president. elected by the Sen ate, shall preside in such cases of faiJ-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
DAUGHERTY TO SPEAK On Way To Honor Dinner In C0lum.
 bus, Ohio |,

ASHEvILLE, N. C., April 20.-Har- " NJ. Daugherty, former Attorney Gen. keral, left Asheville this afternoon for Washington. en route to Columbus, Ohio, where he will deliver an address at dinner in his honor on Wednesday night.
 Before his departure, it was stated by close friends of the former depart ment of justice head, that he will issue statement upon his return to Wash ington in connection with the present investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
FIND 70 SNAKES
 IN ONE LARGE PIT
Tennessee PIowmen Kill Nine
 teen, Then Call For Help

JACKSON. Tenn. April 20.-Forty snakes, averaging seven pounds in weight each, were unearthed in a hi bernation bed on the farm of W. $. Saunders, five miles south of Humbolt Friday. .,.
 Two plowmen in the field killed 19 of the reptiles and then called for help. Reinforced by several men they dug deeper; and found 21 more cotton mouths in. an underground pit measur- ing eight by five feet. All of the snakes were killed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21

guess that because he had pushed me on with his own hands, in his own esti- nation, where he put me 1 would stay more securely than if I had come to him full panoplied in frame.
 Six months later I caught glimpse of him in Washington. What I knew of war in Europe was limited to head lines on printed page. But his quick eye picked me out for all the fact that he had seen me only once. What do you think?' He turned away from the men around him for a minute Are they right in dropping the Chantilly plan? Will Nivelle break through on the Aisne front with those 27 French divisions?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
CLAIMS METHOD }
 TO AVOID SLEEP
Battery ; Affair Would Make Man An All
 Night Machine
By CHARLES MCANN U.eased Wirc to Age.Herald.)

LONDON, April 20.-Scientific re- search has demonstrated that the need for sleep is the result of actual chem ical reaction in the brain cells which drains them of their vitality.
 Dr. A. W. Grille, the great American surgeon, and 'Dr. David Fraser Harris of this country contend that these brain cell changes are. electro-chemical. That started something.
 It is now learned that . British in- ventor, who desires to preserve / his anonymity, is working on an apparatus. which, he believes, will recharge worn out brain cells Dy direct electric cur rent, thus eliminating sleep.
 Until Office Time
 If the apparatus were to prove sue cessful, the tired business man, after the usual evening at revue, would only have to have. few shots of his private brain battery before he began wondering what to do until it was time to go to the office.
 Discussion of the recharging theory is not all favorable here. It would add something like g years to the span of waking life; but it is argued that life is dull, anyway. There might be Ilov more snoring it is admitted, but it is pointed out that a man with a talka- tive wife would have 101 500 addition al listening hours during married life of 35 years and a wife afflicted with golf addict would hear 12,775 addi- tional golf stories at the rate of one a day. 4
 Doubt Practicability
 Surgeons doubt the practicability of the recharging theory. It can be de- layed at present by electrical treatment, they say: but sleep following such ar-. tificial stimulation is abnormally heavy, and if the brain cells were stimulated too long, or by too strong a current, they would collapse.
 It is pointed out that the branches of nerve cell in action spread out like the branches of tree. There are ten billion such cells in the brain, even of a wrestler, and while the branches are extended they overlap each other and the brain functions. When the cells are tired the branches curl up. Too much artificial stimulation, it is stated, would permanently injure the cells.
 NEW LAID
 'Wot's de matter wid dat kid?"
 ''Aw, he links he's hard-boiled. but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
THEATRE MAGNATE
 DEAD IN BALTIMORE
Frank Howard Reputed To Have
 Lost Several Fortunes

MACON. Ga, April 2O.-Troup Howard, who is reputed to have made and lost several fortunes, died in a hospital in Baltimore today, according to messages received here. He was known in this country and in England as a cotton merchant, but in recent years became interested in the movies and built theatres here and later in At lanta. He was 54 years of age. Fun eral services will be in Atlanta Tues day,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-21
IN THE AIR TODAY
Copyright, 1924. for The Age
 Herald !

Copyright, 1921. for The Age
 Herald.)
 WOS, Jefferson City. Mo. GAO meters). s D. m. The Missouri State Prison orchestra.
 KPO. San Francisco (425 me ters), ' to II D. m.. P. C. s. T. evening musical program.
 KDKA, Pittsburg (526 meters), s 30 D. m.--Concert by KDKA Lit tie Symphony orchestra, assisted by sOloists. t5 A
 WOR, Newark (450 meters), 8 D.. m. and 9:30 P. m., E. $. T.-Per- sonal appearance of Vera Gordon and Lois Wilson, motion picture stars.
 WSB. Atlanta (425 meters), s p. m., c. s. T.-Wenden Hall and his ukelele.