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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
LUCE PREDICTS
No BALLOT
FOR D. c.
Congressman Says 1t Will Not
Be Granted-Views Rouse
Ire of Chamber Members.

Back to the days when the feudal
system was the prevailing form of
government, went Congressman Rob-
ert Luce, Of Massachusetts last
night for a shining example of
what kind of government the Dis.
trict of Columbia ought to have.
Mr.. Luce delved deeply into the
suffrage question of Washington in
a speech he made before the Cham.
Der Of Commerce at the New Will.
lard hotel
Congress will never grant the
District suffrage" he said. 1--WE
are too much concerned with the
betterment and the esthetic beauty
of your city"
The Massachusetts Congressman
said that Chicago and New York
were two good reasons for the
refusal Of Congress to grant the
people here the vote. He termed
these cities miserable failure Of
the suffrage form of government"
Congressman Luce said that his
study of the problem here had con.
WINGED him that universal suffrage
as experienced by the peoples Of
the nation in Central Europe had
shown conclusively to him that this
corm Of government was not good
The Congressman departed shortly
after his speech. Members of the
Chember, lead by George H. Brown
and Henry H. Classic bitterly at.
tackled the Congressman for his atti.
tude towards the suffrage question
here.
The plan to hold an industrial
exposition here next September was
Endorsed by the Chamber following
a report from the Committee on
Manufactures, of which Charles i
Stockman is chairman. A silk
American flag was presented to the
Chamber by Henry Lansburgh.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
MAN
FREED BY
GIRL
Sweetheart Works for 6 Years
Establishing innocence
OF One She Loves.

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Feb. 2O.-
Romance is not dead!
The lovers Of the olden days
those men and women whose heroic
deeds, whose faith and patience we
still read about in story books--are
with us again.
This time these lovers come in
the person of Miss Georgia Weaver
of Newbury, and John L. Barker.
OF the Little Orleans.
Here is the story:
Barker, now twenty-five years
old, was arrested in 1918 on a
charge Of assaulting a twelve-year.
old girl. Arrested, he was taken to
the Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) Jail.
Residents Of this and surrounding
towns stormed the jail In, an at.
tempt to lynch him.
Sentenced to Be Hanged.
The raiding party failed. The
Jailer promised the threatening mob
that speedy trial would follow.
He kept his promise. A few weeks
later Barker was sentenced to be
hanged.
Mary Gallagher, daughter Of Ru.
dolph Gallagher, was the principa!
witness. On her testimony Barker
was convicted.
A doomed man, Barker was sent
back to his cell. Friends deserted
him. He gave up all hope.
II am ready to die for a crime
/ did not commit" Barker said at
the time. The minister came. To-
gether they prayed.
But there was one who turned
not, one who believed in his limo.
cenee. There was one person who
believed Barker's story that it was
a "frame-up." And this was Miss
Georgia Weaver, his sweetheart.
Went to Governor.
Miss Weaver went to the gov.
ernor. She begged that Barker's
sentence be committed. The gov
ernors heart softened. He put off
the execution, changed the sentence
to life imprisonment.
Give me time and / will prove
to you that Barker was not guilty
Of this grave charge" the girl told
the governor. :
Miss Weaver set to work. For
several years she had little success.
And then came ray Of hope. En-.
couraged, she continued her in.
Quiry.
A few weeks ago she obtained
an admission from the Gallaghers
that Gallagher did not suffer at the
hands of Barker. She proved Bar
ker's story that he was a victim
Of a frame up" engineered by a
gang of mOonshiners in the noun.
tains near where Barker lived, men
who are seeking to get rid of him.
Possessing information proving
the innocence OF her sweetheart,
Miss Weaver circulated a petition
in Berkeley Springs which citizens
signed and which asked Governor
Morgan to pardon Barker.
A Free Man.
Yesterday morning Miss Weaver
visited the State prison of West
Virginia. A few minutes later, Bar.
ker, arm in arm with Miss Weaver,
walked out Of the jail a free man.
A few minutes later the couple
took train to Cumberland where
they were married. They plan to
live at Barker's old home at Little
Orleans.
And here's hoping they live hap
PLY ever after.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
CHARGE
IS BASED ON
BOAST
Norfolk Wrestler Held Follow
ing Remark Overheard
by Seaman.

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 20.-FolloW.
ing remarks alleged to have been
overheard by seaman in a pool
room, Ben Rogers, a local wrestler,
charge of murder in connection
with the death of Joseph Fisher, a
marine engineer employed on Sea-
board Air Line tug.
Fisher was found unconscious on
East Main street Monday night
and died later at a hospital with
out regaining consciousness. Short
ly after he was found, the seaman,
police say, overheard Rogers re.
mark to a friend:
I'VE got all that Fisher had and
he won't pull through to tell any
thing about it,"
Rogers denies the charges. Police
are holding the seaman as a ma
terial witness.
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WOMAN CAUSED DEATH
OF MAN; Is UPIMOLESTED

WILKEsBARRE. Pa. Feb. 20
Despite the fact that she already
has admitted setting fire to the
clothing of Levi Agnew, fifty-one
years old. who died in one of the
local hospitals as result Of burns,
no attempt has been made, as yet
70 place Mrs. Oliver Hoyt, Of Kun
kle, near here, under arrest.
The woman. in explaining her ac-
ton in setting fire to the mans
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
UNSUCCESSFUL SUITOR
SHOOTS GIRL; KILLS SELF

EDWARDSVILLE, ILL.,, Feb. 90
Joseph Levora, thirty-two, coal
miner, widower and father of six
children, shot and painfully wound.
ed Miss Frances Spindler and then
blew his left jaw away; dying at a
hospital early today.
The shooting resulted from an
unsuccessful courtship, the girls
parents declared.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
$4,000, 900 Diamonds
Sent u. S. in 1923
by Belgium

Diamonds valued at $50, OOO.-
900 were imported from Bel
GUM in 1928, the Department
Of Commerce announced today.
General imports from that
country showed an average in
crease Of % per cent, but
the American exports to Bel
GUM were 100000 under
1922. Exports in cereals,
sugar and cotton fell off ma
terially.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20

L
ne went and got me a dozen bottles.
IL mas done me more good than l can
ever tell, and my friends say. sWhat
nave you done to yourself? You look
90 well. i tell them it is the Vegetable
compound that makes me so we'll and
strong. There is no use to suffer WITH
Dackache and pains, I will tell every
one what 1t has done for me. "-Mrs.
wick, Vermont.
housewives make a great mistake
in allowing themselves to become "a
II that it is well-nigh impossible for
tnem TO attend to their household
duties. 9S out Of every 100 report
tney were benefited by its use. For
sale by druggists everywhere.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20

~ all. ! had back.
ache, headache,
sideache, and was
sick all the time
for six months.
We read about
Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable
Compound in the
newspapers, and
my husband said
to me- Why don't
you try itT So /
ani1 7 Vun,,lS 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
POPE THANKS U. s. FOR AID
TO STARVING IN GERMANY

ROME, Feb. 20.-Pope Plus XII
today sent message to the
Apostolic delegate at Washington
asking him to extend thanks to the
American people for their charity
in behalf of the destitute Germans.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20

Say II With GUIDES Flowers.
Home grown specimens of uncom.
mon beauty. 1912 II st.-advt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
ADVERTISEMENT.
HUSBAND SAID
WHY NOT TRY IT
Wife Said She Would. Result,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Made Her Well
and Strong

East Hardwick, Vermont.-"Last
winter / was not able to do any 1nnrk
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Iere are all the details of dimensions and finish
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

about then, neither. So he pied he was soused an got off with fine.
 "That Minnie linton oughta be run out O the neighborhood, anyways. Nobody knows where she come from who she is. She waitressfn in a swift roadhouse when Luke got pickled an woke up married to her, somethin'-I never did find out. She starts cuttin' didos becus he owns over a hundred acres, but we knew-oh aroun here we knew. Say, you think the houses are far apart an it's lonesome an private like, huh? We'll, we know what's goin' on inside ev'ry house, don't you worry.
 "See that silo over there? You can just see the top of it. Well they's house a-past that, in the holler. Theys gal lives in that house all alone. She's half-orphan Her mother is dead an her father, Pike Leeming, jumped the country after he got mixed up in p'litical piece O scul- duggery tryin' to sell his land to the State for a lunatic asylum. He was caught bribin' an he just did get away. That five years back. Now Fanny Leemng is goin' twenty-six. Lots O men has wanted to marry her, but she wouldn't have lem. She claims she's int'rested in her farm in. Yes, she is. Don't I see?N. Say-Ive stood in them bushes for hours, a-watchin-oh, bodys got to know who her neighbors is an what they're up to if she's decent Christian.
 Fanny Leeming is got a-well, aroun' here they calls em an affinity. don't know if you He comes up in expensive car. an oh, boy! Look!'
 A little car driven by boy had just passed, when out from behind some bushes pretty young girl ran, leaped on the running board and made for his throat with her two hands. The slacked down and twisted off the road The boys hands came up to save himself from being strangled, but the girl was strong and desperate and gave him a struggle
 Dotty and George flew to their feet
 ''Let lem alone," whispered Mrs. Emmerson huskilv "That's Marg'ret RaSto an GHly Minton She's a-sun' him for breach O promise. The case
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youse had the breakdown, an it may be him is gOin' to fix your machine If he does, hen soak you good. An I'll say he needs all he can steal, becus he went like fool an married Phoebe Ramp, an that she-divvil sure keeps him on the hop, skip an jump.
 "She was divorced before she pulled the wool over Clint's eyes an took him by the collar an dragged him to the justice an wished herself on him for life. She married her uncle, Ham Ramp, when she wRs fourteen. They say Ham drugged her or threatened to chop her head off with an axe if she wouldn't marry him after her aunt Bertha died. It was some scandal her dead a week an him marvin that pug-nosed baby with pig-tails, what'd been raised under their roof
 well, it didn't take very long before Phoeb got her eyes opened up, all right, all right, an after that no dance nor no beer party for miles aroun' was really goin' before Phoebe was in the middle of it. She on'y broke up about three families before she busted up her own.
 Ham went to law with her, an of all the stuff you ever did hear, the testimony in that there divorce ease was sure worth hearin'-you cOuldn get near the court. The first correspondent Ham nailed was On'y Cornell Hslard, husband O the richest girl in the county. Ham had it on him good an plenty, an that knocked the daylight out O the Hallard marriage, too, becus Sally Hallard went an sued him right off an got rid of him.
 "But she on'y jumped into the fire. She wasn't satisfied-oh, no; she had to go an hitch up with Curt Wooley, bus-driver. He took her for the money, guess, becus he was a right nice-lookn' felleE an she was older'n him. He earned it, I'll say, beeus Sal had about rotten temper as ever did zee, an she had plenty O chance to let 1t out on Curt, becus he was a boozehound, loafer an ev'ry kind O cut-up with women l ever did hear of. It was him got pinched in Cedarburg for cor1in' out O Luke Tinton's house in the mid dle O the night. He couldn' explain-an' guess Luke's wife didn' fight for no right O free speech
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apron and condoled with ~2z&
 chem, observing with the orthodox rasining of bro- mides that accidents will happen and body never knows when she starts out whatu come up before she gets back.
 As they sat, woman drove by in q buggy. Her head was down and she made no neighboriy sign of greeting to Mrs. Emmerson.
 "See that froweygookin' ol' hen?" asked the farmer woman, after the buggy had passed Well, she used to be the wife of our minister But she turned out bad-awful had; lot Q nasty talk before he died.. Folks said she killed him oh. not with poisen, though I weuldn put that apast her, neither; but with the way she carried on. we'll, one O the deacene left the township an never did come back.
 Her hull famly's that way, leastways the women folks. She had sister what went an married a ao7good drunk what worked on the rail- Toad. He usen't come home on'y twicet a week. But guess M'lissa didn' pine great deal-nO, indeedy She wasn't neglected, don guess, with her ways. The Higginses sold out an moved West beeus she wouldn' let their boy, WiI alone-an' her old enough to be his mother.
 "Then there was the other sister, Carrie. She never did get married at all., But she run away with book-sgent what come by here am stuck let q decent people with set O cycaloppediunS. Last hear of her she was chambernaidin' round in some fly hotel in Phladelphia-or was it Ne bfasky-7-anyways, alwus knew Carried turn out Somethin' like that; you can't expec' a weed to grow up iilsc-bush, can you?
 "Y'see, their mother, she come here from back that away about forty mile. Nobody knew much about her. She was a gOOd-lookin' enough hussy. My ma usets say she was too uppity pretty for 'roun, here. We'll, she nnarries Glenn Leper, who guzzled liquor by the demijOhn. Glenn was rot ten egg, himself, an got in a couple O mean scrspes with girls before he brings this fawraner wife Q his down on the neighborhood.
 "After that he behaves for while, but pretty soon he runs wild again. The three girls was still babies when Wheeler Tolkinson shot Loper becus he caught him out in the woods with his daughter, Myrt, who wasn't rothin' much to brag about neither, and man should O been killed over takin' her in the woods, not even scalywag like Glenn Loper.
 'T know what Pm taIkin' about, becus it wasn't a year afterwards Myrt Tolkinson went an got Clint Hymar crazy after her an the two was rested down in town bout twenny miles up that road one Sat'day night for actin up-an' him a vebtyyrasn, too. Well, she never come back here, but Clint did; he keeps garage up that way where
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his car swung into the road, and was off at the best speed he could muster. The girl dragged her self to sitting posture, shook her fist at him, screamed hystericaly and cursed him until the dis tant echoes rang
 Dotty looked at George; George shook his head.
 A big bus came trundling down the road. Mrs.. Emmerson Tagged it to ask whether anyone had started working on Georges car. The driver said it was still there, deserted.
 ''Do you go toward town?" asked Dotty.
 'Sfar as the interurban,' answered the driver. "We connect up with the cars to the city"
 "Hop in," said George. He gave Mrs. Emmer- son a card and told her to have her husband drive his car to that address in the city and he would be literally paid The woman waved them out of sight, smiling amiably.
 How'd you come to be mixin up with herr" asked the driver. "That joint is den O boot leggers :. oh, your car'll be safe enough, becus they wouldn' dare go 'sfar as to steal it. But they're tough lot them Emmersons /. she useta be married to Pete Heffernan, but he got life for murdrin' young college boy she had hypped. She give Pete the air in court on grounds O felony an copped the property. About that time a convict got out after stretch for perjry, an Pete sent him to bring message to her. We'll, she married him in a week-the. .convict-that
 When Dotty and George finally were on the electric car, tearing for town and the smokestacks and jagged skyline loomed into view, Dotty ven- tured to speak.
 George, dear,"' she said, as she held his near arm tightly, well soon be home, back in the city, where we breathe the air without choking and 1 thought the country was sweet and innoGent 9t%;e It, and quiet ;; oogh" c. nn. it's a great little idea to detour now and then and find out how the strangers live, too. It gives one such cinch information about some illusions better off for an occasional dip into the under world summing it in the great open spaces, where everyone watches his neighbor and where toerU -on Sundays"
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 air and verdaat yistas and quiet, lulling, r simple folks. ,.'
 George, who was in the atmosphere hinself' reacted in sympathetic harmony to these sentl- ments He had roadster, and he suggested thar they meet early in the morning and go--far out' where the smoke and the >gongs and the shuffhng of ten million feet and the sharp features of the go-getters couldn't jar their senses and their sem abilities.
 Past streams of early sleepy workers they slid, going the other way--uptown, out of town they rnotored. Now they could see g skyline without jagged skyscraperx gouging huge holes out of it, now they could breathe the fresh grass and the wet flowers as they passed httle country homes set back from the road and half concealed behind foliage shrubbery, ivy, trees,
 They said very little as they travelled peacefully on. When luncheon time came. Dotty proposed that they try farmhouse instead of Feadhouse' and the very first one to which they pulled up welcomed theHa--pivmp woman in calico and her man, the farmer of their neagre acres. They ate with relish the grseps from the garden and ethsr horaely rural dainties For their meal they paid twice as much as was asked and it was pieayune. And they drove again.
 A few rods further up the road was closed and detour signs pointed down dirt road. George turned in. After furlong or so it grew pretty rough, and after that rougher. Suddenly, without time to swerve or brake, he saw deep hole be- fore his front wheels, and down into # the wheels went. There came snap and jolt. The car stopped so abruptly that they were both jared up. George pulled himself together and inquired frightenedly after Dotty; she wasn't hurt. His next concern was the car-no such luck there. A spring was cracked.
 Here was nice to-do. Driving over even per feet highway with broken spring is almost im- possible. In that road it out of all question. There was nothing to do but walk somewhere for help, for a conveyance a blacksmith. They couldn't shove the crippled out of the hole at all. So they smiled that game but uncon- vincing smile which goes with just such a situa- ton, kissed and trudged back. carrying with them what pershable and pilferable props were in the car, such as tennis racquets
 They hiked back to the friendly cottage where they had lunched The man shook his head dis couragingly-he couldn't get spring like that short of twenty miles, and he'd have to pick up blacksmith expert repair man somewhere and haul him with his tools to where the car was stalled all of which would take hours. George gave him money and told him to hop to It; they would wait as long as necessary, but they hoped he'd make that aR short as possible.
 Off went Farmer Emmerson in his flivver. George and Dotty sat down on the grass and tried to laugh it off. Mrs. EmmeFSon came out and offered them
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cry and the trick cry, the ingratiJ tudes and inhu- nnanities and dis h nor a m o n g thieves.
 She didn't resent the felonies and frailties of human ity any more than a housewife waxes indignant against dust and rubbish. The dust and rub bish and worse of m etropolita e t an housekeeping went in the ash-barrel of Dotty's outlook, but she was entire ly conscious that such truck existed and was likely to offend her nostrils and smudge up her nOrlIOn dC any u4r guarded moment,
 And just now she wanted to smell only wiolets and see only pure, blue skies. She craved relief from the elbewing and snorting end, hus-
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him ever since, an now she's got him an she'll prob'ly scratch his eyes out. Well, he's got it comin' to him for mixin' up with such truck as her in the frs place, an for bein' such skunk as to ruin her good name in the secon' place, even if what he says is right, an I guess it is an more. of it, becus I know the hull Rasto gang an Marg'ret since she was baby an they ain't none of 'em much shucles, though the Min tons ain't none so sinless, theirself, that they can throw stones, specially Gilly's side O the outfits him with sister what ."
 The boy had shaken her off, and, with a rough, strong push, sent her on her back in the shrubbery. He started
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ain't come ap yet, but

E aln 'cOI1e ap yet, DuE
 he filed 8 affidavy clainhn' he chucked her be- GUS she didn't come home all night after a moonlight pie nic, an he put in a couple O more affidavys signed by two fellers i'm Cedarburg what was on that picnic, ad- mittin' ev'rything.
 'tShe's been a-layin' for
The Washington times., 1924-09-04

sister, Mrs. Henry Wolcott Farm
ham, as his guest in Washington
the latter part of this month. Mrs.
Farnham, who was Madamoiselle
Suzanne Silvercruys, is well known
in Washington, having visited her
brother when he was previously
attached to the embassy here.
+
Mrs. Medorem Crawford has re.
turned to her home in the Somerset
Continued on Page 24.l
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TO RETURN TO TOWN
IN LATE SEPTEMBER.

Mrs. William ]. Boardman and
her daughter, Miss Mabel Board
man, who are at their summer
home in Murray Bay, Canada, will
return to Washington on Septem.
Der 80.
L. Mccormick Goodhart, of the
British embassy staff. will go to
New York to attend the first Of the
international polo matches at
Meadowbrook on Saturday, return.
ing to Washington on Sunday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorsey Richardson
will give up their apartment at
1902 Eighteenth street on Septem.
Der 26, and will take a house for
the winter. The apartment, which
was leased from General and Mrs.
Marion E. Maus, will be occupied
by Mrs. Jane H. Towne, Of Evans.
ton, ILL.,, September 1, for the
winter.