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The Washington times., 1924-02-01
EX-PRES|DENT'S life
EBBING FAST AS
FRIENDS GRIEVE
War Executive, Realizing End Is Near,
Whispers to Admiral Grayson: Il Am
Broken Man; | Am Ready to Co."

Woodrow Wilson is lying at the point Of death at
his home, 234O street northwest.
Since II o'clock this morning thswar President has
been kept alive by oxygen and other stimulants admin
Iistered b. his physician. " -
Virtually no kope Is held out his recovery.
Shortly before noon Rear Admiral Cary Z. Grayson
the former Presidents physician, stated that he had
virtually abandoned belief that Mr.. Wilson would pull
through.
T believe MIR. Wilson's death is inevitable, he said.
81 believe that he is going"
Only short time before this Mr. Wilson had called
Dr. CraysOn to his bedside and in faint whisper had
said:
doctor, am broken man. I'm broken piece
Of machinery. am ready to go.
At this time the Presidents voice was very weak.
He was barely able to communicate with his physicians
i'm hoarse whisper, but his mentality apparently
unaffected
He was conscious Of everything about him.
MRS WILSON AT BEDSIDE.
Shortly before D. M while watchers around his bedside
expected death almost any hour Mr. Wilson fell into
deep Sleep the first he has had in than "a hours and
cheered his physicians that they declared might posi-
bly mark a turning point in his condition.
Dr. H. A. Fowler the kidney specialist left the house at
1880 he also stated the exPresdents condition unchanged
Dr. Fowler said there had been stOppage Of the kidneys
contrary to earlier reports The patients respiration he
said, quite normal"
Mrs Wilson is remaining constantly at her husbands bed
side She and the doctors the only admitted to the
sckroom.
Shortly after 1880 it reported that Mr.. Wilson had
lost consciousness and that he in semconscous
dition but this not confirmed by the physicians
At 1915 p m DR.. Sterling Rufn left the Wilson house
He said the Presidents condition unchanged
that he very weak but still conscious Dr. Ruffn said
there is no intention of resorting to operation.
Unless there change in the patients condition Dr.
Ruffn said more bulletins will be issued until tonight
B. Baruch and j. p Tumulty who had called earlier
and condoled with Mrs Wilson, left the house shortly before
Dr. Ruffins departure They were vsbly affected and
only shook their heads sadly at nquirers.
An hour before consultation Of physicians called
about Mr.. Wilson's bedside
At the hour Vance Mccormick former chairman Of
the Democratic National Committee and for years
the exPresdents closest ntmaes emerged from the house
visibly affected.
About 10 o'clock Admiral Grayson issued bulletin stating
that Mr. Wilson'S condition had taken for the worse
and he regarded his Condf.pn very serious
Mr.. Wilson very at IL o'clock, weak that his
voice amounted only to He conscious, how
everything about seemed to realize perfectly
was said that the long health which he has waged
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
REPORTSHON|ES
IN ALLEYSNOT
ALONE bad
Many on Wide City Streets
NIgsanitary, Declares
W. Commission.

Conditions as insanitary as those
in Washington alleys prevail out
side OF alleys in many sections Of
the city, Oliver Metzerott, District
Rent Commissioner, declared today.
1t Is not SO much the location
OF the dwelling as it's condition that
must be altered If Washington is
to become completely sanitary
city" Mr.. Metzerott said.
Mr.. Metzerott declared that with
the diminution of the number Of
stables in the alleys and the replace
ment therefor of garages, alley con.
better.
Many Of the dwellings which
race Washington streets are con.
siderabiy more insanitary than are
many OF the corresponding alley
homes" he said.
In many of these dwellings, he
said, greedy landlords pay little or
no attention to orders that REQUIRE
repairs and installations for com.
phance to District regulations.
ANY attempt at q clean up Of
washington should concentrate as
mucn on these insanltary homes
outside Of alleys as on the dwellings
tnat 90 not face a District street.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
GNILD STARVED
BY.PARENTS,
IS CHARGE
Emaciated Body Thrown Into
Unused WeII-Mother and
Father Are jailed.
By International News Service.


SALEM, N. J., Feb. Miriam
Atkinson, six-yearold daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Atkinson, of
Woodstown, was starved to death,
after which her emaciated little
body-a skeleton covered by al
most transparent hesh-was hurled
into an unused well beneath her
parents home, according to an an
nouncement made by DIR. r. C.
Sutherland, county physician, fol-
lowing an autopsy performed early
today.
The parents are in Jail.
To Search for Poison.
Today DR.. Sutherland said he
would examine the child's stomach
for traces Of poison. An inquest
Will be held tomorrow.
The father was silent under QueS-
tioning.
II wasn't home when Miriam died.
my wife made me help her put the
body in the well. Ask her - she
knows"
This was Atlxinson's only reply to
questioning by County Prosecutor
Beckley.
Mrs. Atkinson, according to Beck.
ley, lived under the impression that
the girl was a chsngeling--that Upon
her birth in a hospital sne had been
switched" for another child.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
WOODROW WILSON
Hines Urges Measure
To Speed Aid For
All War Vets

The draft Of a bill making
it possible for American war
veterans to enter Government
hospitals whether or not they
received their disability in the
military service was transmit
ted to Congress today by Di-
rector Hines, Of the Veterans
Bureau.
Hines said the ideas behind
the plan are to authorize the
granting of hospital relief to
veterans at the moment that
it is needed without waitino 10
prove the service connection,
and to extend the same rellef
to all veterans of all wars as
there car be no real distinction
among the men who served
their country.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
DIES Of WOUNDS
AFTER KILLING
HIS WIFE
Cumberland Couple Quarrel
led Coming From Dance.
Had Been Separated.

CUMBERLAND, Nd, Feb. L.
Earl Machley, alias Burke, died at
Allegany Hospital this morning
within less than three hours after
he shot and killed his wife, Musetta
Martin Machley, twenty-six, on
Blue Ridge, shortly after midnight,
from self-inflicted wounds.
Mrs. Machley had not been liv-
ing with her husband and was en-
ployed at the Fort Cumberland
Hotel. She was returning from a
dance at Peoples Park with Mrs.
Nellie Jarvis, a neighhor in Bridge
ley. w. Va. opposite this city,
where Mrs. Machley made her home
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. c. Martin, when they were &C.
costed by Machley. who said he
was going with them. Mrs. Jarvis
walked in front Of the couple while
they argued and quarreled. After
ward she heard Mrs. Machley say:
II tell you I'm not going back
with you," she heard a shot and
Mrs. Machley dropped dead at her
feet with bullet through her
heart.
pKTachley then turned the revlover
on himself, inflicting two wounds.
He was conscious when taken to
the hospital, telling DIR. Thomas w.
Koons, mayor of Cumberland, who
dressed his wounds, that "she was
not true to me-" The pair were
married July IL last and lived to-
gether at the home Of her parents
less than two months Mrs. Mar
tin, mother of the dead woman.
said they separated because Mach.
ley. refused to provide for his wife.
The family opposed the marriage
and the girl ran away with Mach.
ley. Mrs. Martin said that Machlev
had threatened to kill her ana the
rest of us" IL her daughter did
not marry him, and since their
marriage he made threats to kin
his wife.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01

House Passes
Bill to Kill
Oil Leases
By KENNETH CLARK,
International News Service.


Congressional authority for
legal steps to secure the can
collation. Of oil leases obtained
from former Secretary Of the
Interior Fall by E. L. Doheny
and Harry F. Sinclair was given
finally by Congress this after
noon.
The Walsh resolution, declar-
ing that the leases were Sc
cured through "fcaud and cor
ruption," was adopted unani-
mously by the House less than
twenty-fOur hours after the
same action had been accorded
by the Senate.
The resolution will now be
sent to the White House for
the formal approval of Presi-
dent Coolidge, but his consent
is already assured through the
selection Of Thomas Watt Greg
ory and Silas H. Strawn to
start legal proceedings to have
the OiI lands in California and
Wyoming returned to the Gov
ernment.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
TOWN
. CAPTURED BY
WHITES
Peasants, Battling Soviet
Forces, Reported to Have
Cut Rail Line.

SHANGHAI, Feb. 1.-Reorgan-
lied Russian white" forces have
opened revolt against the Reds,
proclaiming free state in Amur
province, according to reports re-
ceived in Russian sources here
today.
Anti-Red peasants fought Soviet
troops at Blagoveschensk and oc-
cupied the city, the reports stated.
Riots were reported at Habarovsk,
where there was widespread re-
fusal to obey orders to mourn
Lenine's death.
Mails Halted Five Days.
The Whites, it is believed. con-
troll the railway from Harbin as
no trans.S Siberian mail has been
received. for five days.
+ HELSINGFoRS, Feb. 1.-The So
Wet is withdrawing Red troops from
Siberia and massing them at Mos
cow fearing clashes between the
population and military, according
to word reaching here today.
ComnosHenr Djersjevsh has been
authorin"f 20 arrest revolters.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
BY KENNETH CLARK.
International News Service.


A subpoena ordering former
Secretary Of the Interior Albert
B. Fall to appear before the Sem
ate Public Lands Committee. at
10 o'clock tomorrow morning was
issued today after a special board
Of physicians reported that Fall's
physical condition was not serious
enough to keep him from appear
ing.
Fall viii be questioned con-
cerning the $25, 900 and 100000
loans which he received from
Harry F. Sinclair and E. L.
Doheny, Iessees Of naval oil
lends.
Fan Highly Agitated."
Fall came here a week ago from
New Orleans to testify before the
committee, but his personal physi-
clan advised the committee that he
was so i'll that he could not go to
the Capitol and suggested that he
be examined at the home Of Col.
J. w. Zevely, partner Of Sinclair.
The committee, however, named
Q special board Of physicians to
examine the former Cabinet officer,
and they reported that he had no
organic disease, though he was in
a highly agitated state as result
Of the Teapot Dome revelations in
the Senate.
The board consisted of Drs.
Thomas A. Clayton, Daniel d. ".
Stuart and Sterling Ruffin. Their
report follows:
Text Of the Report.
''Mr. Fall shows the effect Of a
severe nervous strain, but his gen.
eral appearance is fairly good. He
is somewhat enaemic and his
muscles are flabby. The radials are
soft and the pulse, is 92 to the
minute and regular. The blood
pressure is 10 systolic and 90
diatolic, and heart is normal as to
sizN and sound. The lungs are ap-
parently normal. The abdomen is
negative, except for slight tender.
ness in the gall bladder region.
I'VE are told by the attending
physicians that there is no evidence
Of disease of the kidneys.
"He Is in an anxiety state, but
there is no evidence of organic
nervous disease, and no psychotic
symptoms. In our opinion Mr..
Fall Is In condition to appear before
the committee"
Missing" Letter Found.
John Holland, clerk to Senator
Walsh, was called to the stand by
the committee to tell of his search
for mysteriously missing letter.
written FAN by E.. L. Doheny on
November 2S, 1921. He said he
finally obtained 1t from the Interior
Department after a search had
shown the letter missing from Falls
personal file in the department.
In 1t, Doheny urged Fall to turn
Continued ON Page 2. Column ~
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
FALL, ONLY
NERVOUS,
CALLED
Senate Doctors Find He ls
Not Seriously IIl-Subpoena
Issued for Appearance.
Rx International Now. I ssrvioe.

By International News Service.
A new sensation was sprung
this afternoon I'm the naval oil
scandal when e. l.. DOheny. multi
millionaire oil king, revealed he
had employed on a wholesale
scale ex-members of Presidential
Cabinets 10 act as counsel for his
various oil interests.
While the committee room sat
stunned, DOheny calmly recited
how he had employed william q.
McAdO0, former Secretary of the
Treasury; Thomas w. Gregory,
former Attorney General; Frank.
LIN X. Lane, former Secretary Of
: the Interior, and Lindley NJ. Gar.
risOn, former Secretary Of War.
dcAdOO. the witness said, was
gtin In his employ at salaryrDE.
$4,000 . year and that the can
didate for the DennOcratic nominal
ton had been paid $25O,OOO to
date.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
FORD 'SOFFERTO
BUY SHOALS
FAVORED

Acceptance Of the offer OF Henry
Ford to take over and operate the
Governments great nitrate and
power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala,
was recommended to the House
this afternoon In O report from
the Committee on Military Affairs.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01
"The Home of
The Want Ad"

The New Hearst Building.
at 18th and HI Streets North
west, convenient to every
thing, is, indeed, "the home
Of the Want Ad."
Elaborate preparations were
made to take care Of CIassl.
fled Advertising when the
building was planned, and
now this department In func.
tioning to perfection.
In our new quarters we are
better than ever prepared to
handle your classified ads.
Twelve trained Want Ad TAX
ers at the end OF as many
trunk lines, and q score Of
outside solicitors are at your
service.
II you are q telephone sub
gcriber, all you need do to
start your ad working In The
Times-Herald combination is to
Call Main $3.50
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The Washington times., 1924-02-01
WITH
Gun BY
Him
Charles n. Morris Believed to
Have Shot Himself-Found
in Bathroom.

Charles H. Morris, fifty years ol3
proprietor Of a pool room and soft
drink place at 2o2S X street north
west, was found dead shortly after
noon today in the bathroom Of his
apartment, located over the pool
room.
Police awaiting arrivai Of the
coroner have noe examined the
body. A revolver. was found by
Morris side. Location Of the bullet
wound has not been determined.
pending arrival Of the coroner.
Morris has been missing from his
pcolrOom for three days. This
morning a colored man who cooks
for him. knocked on the door. There
was no response. The man entered
and found Morris dead in the bath.
room.
The Washington times., 1924-02-01

Are you reading Helen RowIanA's
articles daily on the magazine page!
Don't miss them.
Evening star., 1924-08-19

The StrdHd-d ,,ezU
NJ o d el for Fall.
Semi fitted with
n, e din NJ width
trousers. Popular
sath the man, zUlro
likes O little feel
to his clothes, $40.
Evening star., 1924-08-19

Queenstown for New York, left 683
passengers here. OF these, 292 were
immigrants, among them the first
ever to present Irish passports, their
papers having been issued by the
Irish Free State Government.
The bulk Of the immigrants were
from England, Ireland and Scotland.
AS a result of the provision Of the
new law providing for selection of
immigrants in their home countries.
officials at this port found their du-
ties greatly lightened. Out of the 292
seeking admission, only 10 were de-
tanned.
Evening star., 1924-08-19

Shasta, and caused tho ashen crust
to break from the mountain.
The mud flow carried away the
main pipe line supplying waterJ to
McCloud, which is 4 miles south of
the point where the ashes left the
mountain. The mud has made the
county read from McCloud to Bartle
almost impossible, a small automo-
bile which was caught in the flow of
mud being deserted when the mud
line came up to the body Of the car.
For two days it was necessary to
haul a water supply into McCloud by
train, but today the system was re-
ported repaired and with colder
weather in prospect the peak of the
disturbance was believed past.
Evening star., 1924-08-19
FOUR KENTUCKY MINERS
KILLED IN ACCIDENTS
Sandstone Falls on Three Men and
Fourth Dies on Touching
Live Wire.
BY the Associated Press,

ASSOClattu 1rtSs.
HARLAN, Ky, August 19.-Four
miners were killed in two accidents
which occurred almost simultaneously
in the workings of the United States
Coal and Coke Company at Lynch
yesterday.
In the first. four men, two of them
foreigners, who We're taking down
top in one of the main entries, were
caught by a large piece of sandstone
that had worked loose. the two
Foreigners and a negro being killed
instantly while the legs of a fourth
We're severed above the knees. An
other foreign worker was killed
when he touched a live wire.
Evening star., 1924-08-19
SLIDE FROM SHASTA
CLOGS WATER line
Ashes and Snow Drop Form Base,
and Mud Ties Up
Road.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
REDDING, Calf, August 10
Mount Shasta, coated with volcanic
ash and a top dressing of snow, was
the center of attention in the extreme
northern section Of California today,
after a large area of ash formation
and snow dropped from the base of
the mountain into streams and
clogged the McCloud water system.
The latest theory advanced for the
unusual disturbance which has dis
colored the waters Of the Sacramento
River as far down as Redding is that
the extremely low water marks in
the streams tributary to the Sacra-
mento this year undermined the
formation at the base Of Mount
Evening star., 1924-08-19
BABY BROWNS IN CAN.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Md, August 19.-
Bertha. 1imonth- old daughter of
John Nicholson, near Connellsville,
was drowned when she fell off a porch
into a 5O-pound lard can partially
filled with water. The mother dis
covered the child's body. The baby
had tried to retrieve a rubber ball.
Evening star., 1924-08-19
Reports Family Gone.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va. August 19.-Sam-
uel Gillian of Glasgow has asked the
police here to assist him in loca ting
his wife and children, who are alb
sent from home. The wife is % years
of age, and there are two girls, 10 and
! years old, and a boy of 4.
Evening star., 1924-08-19
FIRST UNDER new QUOTA,
6S3 Immigrants Arrive by Steam
Ell Scythia.

BOSTON, August i9.-The first
aliens to arrive at the port Of Boston
seeking admission under the new
quota immigration law, which went
into effect July / last, were landed
here yesterday, when the Cunard
liner Scythia, from Liverpool and
Evening star., 1924-08-19
Farmer Is Suicide.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dlspatch to Tie Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md. August 10
James Barron, A years old, well-to- do
farmer. committed suicide at Somerset
yesterday by shooting himself in the
head with a revolver. Dependency
over i'll health is said to have been
Evening star., 1924-08-19

Women's associations in Bulgaria
are eAertIns pressure on Parliament I
to remove all obstacles to women
seeking admission to the practice of
law
Evening star., 1924-08-19

the cause. His body was found in
the field. He is survived by his widow
and one son.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-01-25
Garfield Tea
Was Your
GrandmOfher's Remedy

For every stomach
and intestinal i'll.
This good old-fash-
Toned herb home
remedy for cons.i-
patton, stomach Ms
and other derange-
nents of the srs-
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-01-25

Is there parable concealed In this
apparently humorous story in the Ar
.gonaut1 Some social philosophers
would say so.
A traveller on the desert came upon
lone stock raiser on the lower Colo
RADIO river. The chief object OF inter-
est ON the barren ranch was giant
heap Of firewood. and curiosity caused
the visitor to ask the stockman how
in the world he happened to possess
It.
wal" the man drawled, last year
this here brush came piling down the
river at flood time, and so I Jest
rounded up a bunch of Indians and
told them they could have half OF all
they drug ashore Golly, them In
dams workedr
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-01-25

Fairmont, W. Var suffered for
about six years with serious feminine
trouble. At last l had TO take to my
bed. / was so weak 1 could hardly
raise up. / suffered for ten weeks,
enough to die. Three doctors said I
would have to go to the hospital for
an operation or face sure death. /
sent to the drug store and got bottle
of DR.. Pieree's Favorite Prescription,
also a box of DR.. Pierce's Purifying
Lotion Tablets and used both exactly
according to the DIRECTIONS. When l
had used these wonderful remedies only
one week I could go around in the
house and assist with my work. now
can do all my own work and some for
others, too. I can Z praise DR.. Pierce 5
wonderful medicines enough for the
great benefit I have received. They
viii doubtless do as much for others as
they did for me. Mrs. Clara B :
Redmond, Route /.
If you want good medical advice
write in all confidence to Dr. Pierce,
President Invalids Hotel in Buffalo,
N. Y. No charge for this advice.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-01-25
Proof That Robin Hood
Really Existed Found

Recent colliery developments in
sherwood forest have unearthed proofs
that Robin Hood. the famous outlaw
Of story, had an actual existence, and
that he really practiced the profession
Of philanthrOpie hlglIwayman. robbing
the rich so as to be able to help the
poor
Doubts had within recent times been
thrown on the old-time tradition, but
current researches of busy antiquarl-
ans and folklore experts now show
beyond doubt that Robin was not only
a very live wire. but that his chief ex.
ploIts were carried out in the neighbor-
hood OF Newstead abbey, the home Of
Lord Byron.
The documents discovered go to show
that the bandit actually did WOO and
win for his bride the fair Maid Mariali
Of Bldworth, that he jousted with the
iovial Friar Tuck, according to the
story.
II is said that Robin Hoods top
boots are at Annesley hall, near New
stead. and that last century his bow
and some Of his broad arrows were
claimed to be In the possession of resi-
dents at Fountain Dale.
Robin Hood died in 1247 at Kirklees,
Yorkshire. Hathersage, in Derbyshire,
claims the last resting place Of little
John.--London Tit-Blts.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-01-25
He Knetu Ho,v to Saue

John is thrifty Scotchman from
his fathers side and very witty
Irishman from. his mothers side Of
the house. He often makes good use
of the combination. Recently he
promised a girl some flowers for her
birthday. He wrote note which
read:
what kind Of flowers do you iIke7"
Back came her answer:
"Orchlds. They are so rare"
Back went this: But girls are
not And with his note were some
red carnations.