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Evening star., 1924-11-05
WOMAN NARRATES
LE|S|NGER KILLING
CoIored Girl Passenger in
Death Car Tells of Police
mans Staying.

Helen c. jackson. a young colored
woman, testified today for the prose-
cution at the trial of James T..
Holmes, Harry w. Freeman and John
A. Gross, all colored, who are charged
with murder in the first degree in
connection with the death Of Police
man Raymond C. Leisinger, August
% last The trial is in progress be-
fore Chief Justice Mccoy and a jury
in Criminal Court The witness was
in the automobile on which Leisinger
had jumped and where he received
the fatal wound. She has been held
In Jail in default of $1,000 bail since
the homicide as a government wit
ness.
The girl has n weak voice and
much difficulty was experienced by
ing her testimony, much of it having
to be repeated. Assistant United
States Attorney Burnett. who. with
Assistant United States Attorney
Neudecker. is conducting the prose-
cutlon, took position at the
farthest point of the jury box from
the witness in an effort to have her
speak loud enough to be heard by the
jurors. The chief justice asked the
so that the testimony might not
escape the jury.
Tells of Ride.
TIE witness after identifying
Holmes. Freeman and Gross said she
was at Seventh and S streets north
west on the night of the tragedy
when Holmes drove up in his car.
After she entered the car with the
three men, she said, the vehicle was
driven into an alley on p street near
North Capitol where Holmes and
Freeman left the car and entered the
alley. They returned shortly with a
pint of whisky. which was drunk by
the three men and the car was started
down North Capitol street. AS they
turned the corner, the witness aver
red, she saw policeman attempting
TO jump on the running board and
falling in this jumped on the bumper
in the rear.
Holmes was notified by Freeman
that some one was on the car, the
witness said. and Holmes reaching
for his gun gave it to Freeman who
fired three shots through the back
Of the car. The shooting did not
take place until after Leisinger. or
the man on the car. as she expressed
L. had fired twice as the car turned
into Eye street. Holmes again in
quired If the man was still on the
car and Free man look ed out and an
nounced he was no longer there. The
car Wa then driven rapidly aHay
She said. To a garage at Fourt rteenth
and streets where it was parked
The men then hired a. taxi cab and
drove her and Gross to her home,
she declared.
Evening star., 1924-11-05
FAIRFAX COUNTY SLOW.

Special Dispatch 70 The star.
FAIRFAX, Va, November 5.-With
five precincts lacking out of its 25,
Fairfax County was confident TODAY
of comparatively large majorities for
all Democrats in yesterdays election.
Davis was 715 to Coolidge's 5ss and
La Follette's i6l, In the first IA pre-
cincts counted. Glass was far ahead
of Doak for the Senate, and Moore
far ahead of Dudley for Congress
Hooker, Democrat, will win the
contest for State corporation commits
sion.
1t was apparent on the face of the
partial returns that the road bonds
issue in Falls Church and DrancsviIe
districts carried by large ua-G.1,
Evening star., 1924-11-05
RUM CAR CAPTURED,

An exciting pursuit of a rum car
equipped with a smoke screen started
at Connecticut avenue and Woodley
road about 1880 o'clock today and
ended near Rodman and Thirty-fifth
streets, where two colored occupants
abandoned the car and escaped.
The car, containing 113 half gallons
of corn whisky was seized by Motor
Cycle Sergt. S. ]. Marks and Motor
Cycle Policeman J. T. White of the
Tenleytown district, whose eyes were
badly affected by smoke thrown from
the screen. The pursuit was south
on Connecticut avenue, west on Cath
edral avenue, rear Wardman Park
Hotel, and through the Massa chusetts
Avenue Heights section. Identity of
the owner of the car was established
through the license numbers Il
Evening star., 1924-11-05

Democratic candidate could have over
come or survived them.
Incidentally, but by no means in
significantly, there was the astute man
agement of the Republican campaign.
All along the line it represented a
brand of generalship. strategy and
acumen which the Democrats at no
stage could match or cope with.
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Evening star., 1924-11-05
GARRISON REVOLTS.

BUENos AIRES, November 5.-The
garrison at Pernambuco, Brazil, has
revolted, according to La Nacion's
Montevideo correspondent, quoting a
dispatch from Melo, near the Brazil
ian frontier.
Evening star., 1924-11-05
PRESIDENT GETS 379
ELECTORAL VOTES TO
152 FOR TWO RIVAL S

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ID SEATS ARE GAINED
BY G. 0. P. IN HOUSE

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STRENGTH OF COOLIDGE
EXCEEDED FORECASTS

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Davis Given Bad start.


It would be idle to deny that. at.art
from his Stranglehold on public con-
tfdence. the sun shone on Calvin Cool
idge from "A variety of other directions
He was peculiarly fortunate in the cir
cumstances under which his chief op-
ponent, John w. Davis, was pitted
against him. No candidacy, Democratic
or otherwise. was ever born under less
fortuitous stars. 1t was conceived in
party strife and begotten in incura BILE
rancor.
Madison Square Garden with its gap
ing wounds, branded John W. Davis
with the scar of defeat in November as
long ago as the middle of July That
was disaster No. !. Then came Davis
own choice of Charles W. Bryan for his
vice presidential running mate. That
was casualty No. .. Then ensued in a
spirit o! --atitude which does honor to
John w. Davis manliness, his selection
OF his friend. Glenn l.. Shaver Of West
Virginia, as his inexperienced campaign
manager. That was misfortune No. 5.
Then, as the campaign proceeded,
there was revealed Mr.. Davis own in
ability to stir the country into any inn
passioned interest in him. That was
ill-luck No. 4. Then nature, at home
and abroad, smiled beneficently upon
the agricultural situation, obliterating
the Western farm "grouch' as if by
magic. That was catastrophe No. for
the Democrats. There were Others as
tine doleful months rolled by, but those
just named were enough. They proved
to be insurmountable. Hardly any
Evening star., 1924-11-05

Edward +. Whitney entry.
SIXTH RACE-Purse, $1,000: 3.year<
and up; claiming; l mile and furonc
Evening star., 1924-11-05

SEVENTH RACE-Purse, $1,000; III,
Country Club; 3-year-old fllies; III miles
Priscilla Ruley. .13 Sunayr ........ 10,
Princess Doreen..i23
. 'FjYe pounds apprentice claimed
Weather cleaZ track fast
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18

words upon De Witt was electrical.
him, snorted, and then deliberately
shot out his foot, the heavy boot strik-
ing Winton in the pit of the stomach
and causing him to double up with
pain.
1t was only for moment. Winton
leaped at him, tore him from his place,
and sent him spinning backward
against the window with a well-planted
blow in the face.
Instantly the coach was in an uproar.
Hands were outstretched to pull
Winton away But Winton, mad with
rage and pain, was ignorant of them
and Of Daddy Seaton's high, quavering
cry of alarm. AS De Witt recovered
himself, he followed his blow with an
other, which landed squarely on the
mans lip. The blood spurted as from
an artery, and De Witt reeled and fell
backward as the door gave. In his fall
he clutched at Winton and dragged
him from the vehicle.
A few seconds later Winton found
himself facing De Witt upon the sand.
The coach had stopped some hundred
yards distant, and it's occupants were
running back toward the pair.
In a flash Winton realized two
things: first, that his enemy was not
coward, at least when infuriated; ;
second, that he was a man Of great
muscular strength. De Witt ran at
him, believing like a bull, while the
| blood from his cut lip streamed down
over his chin.
Winton was no mean boxer, but the
trained man Is not always profted by
his lore in a rough-and-tumble. There
followed a confusion of short blows
which never got home; then De Witt
had him by the throat, but lost his
hold. WintOn grew calmer. The others
were almost upon them, and he meant
to punish De Witt before they were
separated. He watched for his op-
portunity, and as De Witt flinching
under a short and comparatively harm
| less jab at his face, opened space be-
tween his body and his extended arms,
Winton shot his right upward with
the full force of his body behind it.
1t was a deadly blow at close range,
permitting the extension of the strik-
er's arm to the full, with no possibility
of an ounce of the driving-power be-
ing lost 1t caught De Witt upon the
point of the jaw, and the man dropped
| where he stood A moment later Win
ton stood, quite collected, in the hands
of the other passengers, who, seeing
that the fight was over turned their
attention to the man on the ground.
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
HOW TOM SMITH tanned
ARH ENE

TN THE year 1869 the cowboys who
4 came up from Texas with the trail
herds had given Abilene, Kan, the un-
enviable reputation of being the wild
est and wooliest" of all frontier towns
west of the Mississippi. Home talent
elected to the position Of town mar
shal gave up the job after a few weeks
of stormy attempt to rule. Two men
imported from st. Louis came, saw
and went home the same day.
Then the job was offered to Tom
Smith of Kit Carson, Colo. Smith was
quiet little man, soft-spoken, almost
apOlogetic in manner. But as town
marshal of Green River, Wyo., the pre-
vious year he had successfully held in
check the tough characters OF that
little mushroom railroad town, then
"end of steer on the Union Pacific,
and he did it with no other weapons
than his bare hands.
When his appointment to the mar
shalship of Abilene was announced, the
wiseacres croaked dismally, "He may
have tanned Green River with his fists,
but this is Abilene. Wait till he sees
the big guns of those Texas cowboys y
And then the first official act of the
new marshal was to announce that
there should be no more pistol-toting
in Abilene. Immediately mighty
guffaw went up. Fancy
The first man to test out the new
law was a notorious two-gun bully
named Hank Hawkins. Back Of HaW-
kins, when Smith walked up to him
in a saloon, were his fellow cowboys,
an ugly, scowling group. The des-
perado laid his hands on his weapons.
what are you goin' to do about
these?" he asked with a sneer.
..There is a law against them in this
town and I'll trouble you for them
now" replied the marshal quietly.
There amt no livin' man can take
'em from me !" roared Hawkins
Instantly Smiths fist flashed for
ward in terrific blow that dropped
the cowboy to the floor. Then the
marshal faced Hawkins friends.
Boys" he said, m gong 10 keep
order in Abilene, and want every
man to obey. If he don't I'll make
him. You must give up your guns.
They will be taken to the mayors
office, where you can claim them when
you leave town"
For a moment there was an omi-
nous silence. At any second the
hand of a cowboy might go streaking
to his holster. Then the silence was
broken by the voice of faro dealer.
'N1r. Marshal that is the nerviest
thing 1 ever saw done. Here's my
gun"
The spell was broken, and as the
man handed over his weapon the
crowd surged forward to do the same.
Tom Smith, single-handed and weap-
onless, had disarmed a whole town,
and Abilene was tanned at last.
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18

their legs after the ten-mile drive The
mules, unharnessed rolled in the dust
delightedly, while their ten successors
came dancing through the corral. They
were inspanned, the driver cracked his
whip, and once more the coach was off
and away, and the post only a feck
upon the bosom of the sand.
1t was insufferably hot. The whirling
dust found its way through the crevices
of the windOw-panes and coated the in
terror of the coach with white, plaster
ing the sweat-stained faces of the
travellers. Daddy Seaton still crouched.
in his corner, watching De Witt in fas-
cinated terror. De Wits mood ap.
peared to have changed when he re-
Sumed his seat beside SheiIa With
hardly a word to her he settled him
self to sleep, as did the majority of
the passengers. His body, swaying with
the sWaying COACH gravitated now
toward her and now toward the man
next to him, who was himself asleep,
his head resting against the glass Of the
window; finally, however, De Wits
head fell sideways upon the girls
shoulder, and the man lay with his
shoulders supported against her body.
Winton saw the same appealing look
in her eyes. And this time he was
about to intervene, when Sheila ven-
tured to protest by a slight movement
which sent De Wits head back gently
against the padded back of the coach.
De Witt opened his eyes, looked
round, grinned, and settled himself
again deliberately in the same posi-
ton. Next moment WintOn was stand
ing in front of him, white with pos
sion.
"Have the goodness to take your
head off that lady's shoulder" he
demanded.
He was aware of slight commotion
among the other passengers, such as is
described in published accounts of
speeches by the parenthetical word
sensation" But the effect of his
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
THE PRosPECToRs' RACE FOR
LIFE

LIFE
IN THE fall of 1868 Lew Crandall and
George Williams were prospecting on
the BlackfoOt Indian reservation in
northern Idaho. The Indians had
driven them out twice, warning them
never to return, but the lure of the
gold chase proved stronger than any
fear of the savageS.
One day the two men foolishly went
to their prospect hole without their
rifles, and while busy at work failed
to notice a party of Blackfeet sur
rounding them until the circle was al
most closed. AS the prospectors made
dash for their camp in the woods, a
quarter of a mile away, the Indians
closed in. Williams was the slower
runner and warrior had almost over
taken him when Crandall wheeled
suddenly, picked up rock and hurled
it at the head of the savage, who
barely had time to throw himself to
the ground to avoid it.
This diversion allowed Williams to
reach the forest safely, but it nearly
sealed Crandalls fate. Three toma-
hawks were thrown at him, but he
lodged them all. AS one Indian,
swifter than the others, sprang for
ward to grapple with the white man,
Crandall, seeing that he had no
weapon, jerked a dead limb from a
tree and felled the savage with one
mighty blow.
In the woods the white men sepa-
rated and Crandall never saw his part
ner again. BY series of tricks-back-
tracking, wading in brooks and hiding
in trees and on high rocks-he man
aged to elude his enemies, but he could
not shake, them off his trail entirely.
For three days and two nights the
chase continued and in all that time
the prospectOr had no food or sleep.
Finally he came to a broad prairie,
and here the ceaseless strain Of his
unrelaxing vigilance brought the final
calamity. Crandall went blind Stag
gering into a clump of sagebrush, he
lay down to await the end, but when
at last he heard footsteps he clutched
stone and arose for a desperate blind
defense. But instead of an Indian
yell he heard an Irish voice say,
whats the matter wild ye?"
He had been found by a detachment
of soldiers from Fort Lapwai, who
were themselves lost. Blind as he
was, Crandall guided them to the fort.
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
The Omnipresent.

"The late Bishop Tuttle," said a st.
Louis man, ''liked to drive home his
statements with an anecdote.
"He told me once about a tive-year-
old boy prodigy who was questioned
by cardinal.
"My boy the cardinal said, tell
me where God is and Pll give you an
apple
''T will give your eminence a bar
rel of apples,' said the boy, if you'll
tell me where he is not"
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
CHAPTER II
SheiIa Seaton.

Taungs-one hundred miles from no.
mbere-sizzled at eight o'clock in the
morning, though it had shivered an
hour before in the rarefied air of the
desert The little station on the long
railroad line that runs from Cape Town
n0rthw&rd into the heart of heathen-
dom looked forlorn indeed, set down
in the middle of the scorching sands,
coated, like NANCY dog, with patches
of stubbly grass that would not show
green until the annual rains.
WintOn got down from the train, col
hected his baggage, and watched the
engine go snorting down to the water
tank. He looked about him with the
curiosity of one new to the life of
Bechuanaland, which had seemed COM
pounded, during the northward jour-
ney, Of ragged negroes, farmers with
skinny oxen, heat, flies, sand, and
swarming. piccaninnies.
He say an array of single-story brick
houses, with corrugated iron roofs that
gave the sun glare for glare. There
were also hutS of waffle and daub.
and tents pitched on lots in the heart
of the town. The market square was
flIed with cumbrOuS, white-topped
wagons, before which many pairs of
oxen chewed and winked away the
flies, still harnessed on either side of
the wagon tongue. Every house
seemed a store, and every store ap-
peared to be dedicated to the safe Of
old clothes and junk; in front of them
gangs of natives in loin-cloths, with
tattered, filthy blankets about their
shoulders, were chaffering in dozen
different dialects with the proprietors.
Taungs looked the dirtiest, meanest
place that WintOn had ever seen. He
wished that it were possible to take it
I'D with the implement Of the same
name and bury it. He was sure that it
would not be terribly missed. He was
glad that he was to take the morning
stage across the desert for Malopo.
He hoped earnestly that Malopo looked
better than Taungs.
A drunken native, wearing a loin-
cloth and a naval officers secondhand
coat, which he had just purchased, and
carrying a knobkerrie, which is the To-
cal equivalent of the shillalah, lurched
by. A white man on the platform, TAX
ing dislike to him, kicked him into
fhe road and So untered on. Wnton's
heart warmed toward his Caucasian
brother. He accosted him.
"Will you kindly tell me where the
coach Office is?" he asked.
"Just arrived up-country and bound
for MaIOpo," answered the white man
not in question, but as the result of
his analysis of Winton.
He took him by the arm and pointed
up the principal street.
you'll find Zelden's hotel right at
the end" he said. you can't miss it.
It's by the garbage heap. He wants a
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18

pound a day, but you can beat him
down to five pounds a week. Better
get your board by the week"
"Why?" Injured WintOn.
because you won't start for Malopo
under a week, unless you hoof it or
go by aryoplane."
'"Travel pretty brisk?" asked Win
fon.
Look here, young feller, if your hair
was little shorter I'd ask you when
yOu came off the breakwater. Where
have you been living if you don't know
that men are rushing to Malopo from
all parts of the country?"
~ only landed last week." said Win
ton, trying to be diplomatic HAS
there been a big strike of diamonds
there?"
big strike, Mr.. Van Wrinkle? Oh,
no! Just a middling one. Only hun
dred thousand pounds worth of stones
taken out since Saturday, excluding the
ninety-five-carat De Witt pebble
That's nothing to men like us, ehi
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
1t Always Had.

A man was driving through the
country in an automobile without a
top. 1t began to rain and he sought
shelter under a farm shed. AS 1T
continued to rain for some time he
became impatient and said to the
farmer: do you think it is ever go
ing to clear up?" The farmer looked
out and slowly said: "Well, it always
has"
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
THE GIRL

SYNOPSIS. - Winton Garrett,
twenty-five and just out of col
Eege, calls by appointment on
Archie Garrett, his New York
cousin and executor, to receive
hHr inheritance of 100000. Ar
chtk honest, an easy mark and
q SooI for luck, assures Winton
that he is practically million
afre, as he has invested all but
$4,000 in a rubber plantation in
either the East or West Indies
and in controlling interest in
the Big Malopo diamond mine,
Some where or other n South
Afcica, sold him as a special fa-
vor py Dutch promoter named
De Witt.
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
Knew His Numbers.

Nov, Bobby, how much do SIX and
four makeY"
eleven, sir"
"Guess again"
Twelve, nine, thirteen"
'IIow about ten?
"Oh, you can't mix me up that way
Five and five are temp
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
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Say "Bayer" when you buy Aspirin
limitations may prove dangerous.-Adv.
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
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The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18

There can be no true friendship
that is not founded on virtuous prin
cipleS.
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
Nobody can fight the judge
as MIR. De Witt is his right
hand man."
(TO BE CONTINUED0

Don't make yourself common; the
world only sits up and takes notice OF
the uncommon.
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18

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soothing drugs. Say California" to
your druggist and avoid counterfeits
Insist upon genuine California Fig
Syrup which contains directions
Advertisement.
The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
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Constipated, bill
ious, feverish, or
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the tender little
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The Winslow mail., 1924-01-18
TALES OF
THE OLD
FRONTIER
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

t9, 1928, Western Newspaper Union)
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Age-Herald, Dec. 22-29, 1924.
GRADE ORDINANCE NO. $50

URaDE OhDlNANCE NJ. $751;
An ordinance fixing and establishing
the grade of Avenue U, Ensley, from
the south property line of 9th Place,
Ensley, to the south property line of
9th Street, Ensley, and on Avenue U,
Ensley. from the south property line
of End street, Ensley, to the south
property line of First street, Ensley,
and on First street, Ensley, from the
east property line of Avenue U, Ensley,
to the west property line of Avenue It,
Ensley, and on Avenue L, Ensley, from
the south property line Of First street.
2nd street, Ensley, and the curbs on
both sides thereof.
BE 1T ORDAINED, by the Commits
sion of the City of Birmingham, that
the grade of Avenue U, Ensley, from
the south property line of 9th Place,
Ensley, to the south property line of
9th street. Ensley, and on Avenue U,
Ensley, from the south property line
of End street, Ensley, to the south
property line of First street, Ensley,
and on First street, Ensley, from the
east property line of Avenue U, Ems
ley, to the west property line of Ave
nue. T, Ensley, and on Avenue L, Ems
ley, from the south property line of
First street, Ensley, to the south prop
erty line of End street, Ensley, and
the curbs on both sides thereof be, and
the same are hereby fixed and estab-
lished as shown on profile sheet Nos.
P4-F3, Nos. 3-A, 8, Z and 8, and P5-F1,
No. 3, heretofore exhibited to this Com
mission and now on file in the City
Hall, in the office of the City Engineer
Approved Dec. 16, 1924.
d. E. McLENDON,
President of the Commission.
A true copy.
l.. f. GRAY,
City Clerk.
Age-Herald, Dec. %, 1924