Evening star., 1924-01-25
TALKS and TALES
With and about
CAPITALS GUESTS

When the extra ordinary STdHu
jury. called by GOV. Templeton OF
Connecticut to investigate fraudulent
medical practitioners in the Nutmeg
state, gets through with its work
the chances are the unscrupulouS
physician will think twice before dis
playing his shingle.
With hearings not nearly COM
pleted, forty-eight questionable doc
tors have had their licenses revoked
at Hartford and. according to L. NJ.
Holden, noted lawyer of that city,
wlH presides as foreman of the jury,
every nefarious practitioner will be
driven from the state.
Mr.. Holden is at the Hotel Wash
ington and when seen in his rooms
seemed much elated over the trend
affairs had taken so far regarding
the Investigations. We have them
on the run now" said the attorney.
and no quarter will be shown until
they leave New England for good
Things had reached Il deplorable
state. Fake doctors. fortified with
certificates from \ certain notorious
institution in the west. were flocking
to Hartford. paying nominal fees for
licenses to practice and gouging the
public. The jury will continue it's
duty until the last vestige of these
undesirables have vanished"
When purged of the unwelcome
visitors Connecticut will pass legis-
practice and. while Mr.. Holden would
like nothing better than standard
iZed law covering such matters for
the entire country he is uncertain as
TO its feasibility.
The lawyer said further that more
than 250 Japanese, possessed of ques-
tlonahle. medical certificates. had
already gone to their native land TO
practice on the unsuspecting.
1T is terrible to contemplate the
harm such persons can perpetrate on
The ignorant" he said. Every ima&-
Unable device, from turning Il Whec,
and diagnosing a case by the various
"olors stopping at certain point
10 advising patient to indulge IL
The most weird performances, are rc-
sorted to for cures. and the sad part
OF it all is thousands pay their good
money with absolutely no chance to
recover"
Mr.. Holden is an andent Coolidge
enthusiast and said that folks in New
Epg gland had long since eliminated al.
possibilities except their favorite soE
for the nomination and that his cleo
fion was a certainty was confidently
hSSeTICu pS all III the section.
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Mr.. Holden was detailing the re-
sourcefulness of the takers when in
walked /. J. Ioldsworth. famous
minute man organizer during the
war. who was in charge of the Gill
lcspIe Company's loaded shell plant
at Perth Amboy, y. j.. when the
fatal explosion of October. 1918, oc-
Cured and when lis went to their
deaths.
1t will be remembered that the
concern was the only one in the
country that was successfully ship
ping loaded explosives to the other
side. The plant was a huge affair.
requiring seventeen miles of fence
10 inclose the works. The disaster,
which occurred on Saturday night.
shocked the nation at the time. many
attributing the explosion to German
lmccndiaries.
Undaunted by the wreck which ap-
l.oar"d 50 vital to Americ4 at this
limo. Mr.. Holdswor;H J.e}' urmed i
I"at which nearly 90 hin, his lie.
I;casiZins tndt nothing but Il. miracle
would save the Y, rES. and 2Ppre .i;4t-
ina tn" necessity OF rebuilding ut
once, accompanied by an I.nc>l;Sh
aviator he few over the ~mu crin1
tituation, noting the little that had
been left, and before nightfall ma
terial was rolling in for the re-estab
iishment of the plant Everything
was in working order again when
the armistice was signed. The en-
gineer was severely burned.
Tho New Yorker is positive the
catastrophe was due to natural liabil-
ity that goes with the manufacture
of high explosives. and says that
after the most careful examination
those Investigating the causes have
concluded likewise.
Like his friend Holden. Holdsworth
ts republican. and says that New
York will unuuestionahiy support
president Coolidge for the romina
tiou. and that ii is generally felt in
his section thai the former governor
OF Massa chusetts viii be elected.
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While the first formal hearing Of
the business that brings them to
Washington Will he granted repre-
seutstiveS of the Usage Indians in
the House today, and in the Senate
probably next week, fully half OF
those who made the trip to Wash
tugton have returned to dear Okla
homa.
4. T. Woodward, attorney for the
tribe: ]. George Wright, the best
known Indian superintendent in the
United States, and a little sroup of
friends laughed at the elements AS
they gathered in a comfortable cor
uer in the Hotel Raleigh yesterday.
Mr.. Woodward. whose wife was an
Csage and whose two daughters arc
Ttns hn1na n psr1nts psapls herS woh sai1 tne
oucatfonahly lie settled to the satis-
faction of all concerned.
1T was not essential that all Of
those who made the trip remain" said
along merely to see Washington.
chief Paul Red Eagle. his tribal
council and the six appointed dele
gates from the tribe will stay, of
course. our business has to do
mostly with royalties for oil lands,
and little trouble is anticipated"
Roth of Mr.. Woodward's daughters.
Mrs n. A. Andretta of Hartford,
Conn. and Mrs. II. b. Bolton of Kan
SaS City, were educated in Italy, and
are wonderfully accomplished wom-
en-, the former having prepared for
grand opera.
1t was learned from Francis Re-
ward, member of the tribe. that the
oil leases among the Usage tribe. the
richest in America amounted to more
than s76.000,000 since 1916. The royal
ties paid the tribe are enormous and
this is reflected in the quiet, dignified
bearing of it's members.
There are approximately 1000
Osages at present and. according to
Reward and Woodward, the politics
of those eligible to vote are decidedly
In favor of the republican party.
The six delegates chosen from the
tribe, all of whom are here, include
Fred Lookout, Roman Logan. Pierce
st. John. Roam Horse, William Pryor
and Henry Pruitt.
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Is Louis II. Torbet superstitious ?
MIR. Torbet, one of the best known
republican politicians in Illinois, is a
frenIIent visitor a the Intcl