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New Britain herald., 1924-01-29

checked immigration of other years.
 Native stock is not dying out Prof. Fairchild said. Statistics prove that the offspring Of American born par ents has maintained practical level for the past 30 or 40 years in Ameri- ca. One of the dangers of immigra- tion is that the mixture of the in- coming races with the native stock will submerge the native and also the best of the immigrant stock.
New Britain herald., 1924-01-29
STOP COUGHING

Coughs cause fererish conditions, throat and lung strain and lead to pneumonia and serious sickness The sooner you quit coughing the quicker you will feel better and have a better nights rest. Leonardi's Cough Syrup tCreo. sotedl cases ard scothes inhamed, raw th-oats, raises the phlegm without rack. ing or straiDing. protects the lungs, and removes tho cause of the trouble. Be warned hy ihe first cough. Get bottle of Icouardi's Cough Syrup (Creosottdl colds. grippe. croup. whooping cough and bronchitis. Pleasant, safe snd sure.
 SOLD Bl CITY DRUG SORE
New Britain herald., 1924-01-29
He'll Keen the First

l'armer-Be this the Woman's Ex- change"
 Woman---Yos.
 tarmer-Be ye the woman? Woman---Ncs.
 Farmer-Well, then. l think I'll keep Maggie. Daily Prov ince.
New Britain herald., 1924-01-29
PROPOSED MEASURES WOULD AFFORD
 HELP FOR DISABLED WAR VETERANS

That tuberculosis or mental disease, developing within three years after discharge shall be presumed to be out of service origin.
 That the salary of the director be increased, from sl0,0o0 to s12,e00.
New Britain herald., 1924-01-29

The Temple of Nepture. the ruins of which still stand at Paestum, in southern Italy, is held to be the fin- est specimen of Doric architecture outside of Greece
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
WOULD RAISE
PARCEL POST
RATES
by international News Service.

~ A"tOEHhhOHdA CN0WB SeFNtce.
The suggestion that parcel post
rates be increased to absorb any
deficit in the Postoffice Department
caused by salary boosts was made
to the joint Congressional POSTAL
committee today by George C.
Lucas, New York, director of trans.
portation for the National Pub.
fishers Association.
Lucas proposed specifically that
the Government, in addition to-
regular rates, fix a scent service
charge on each parcel post pack
age. This would result in increased
revenues that would offset salary
advances, he declared, and would
not necessltate boost Of rates on
second-class mail, newspapers, and
magazines.
THE parcel post was founded un.
der the guise of boon to the
farmers" Lucas said. THE cost as.
certainment report of the Postoffice
Department shows the farmers com.
pose less than 10 per cent Of the
users of this service. The added
service charge, therefore, would not
be an undue burden on the farmers
as class"
Lucas assailed the cost report as
Continued on Page 2. Column a.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
WELDON SEES
GREAT BOOM
IN TRADE
Predicts Prosperity Unmatch-
ed Since 1se6-suggests
Three Rules for Success

By ROBERT s. THORNBURGH
International News Service.
Copyright 1924, by International
NeWA SerNica \


No year since that following the
election of 1896 gives such promise
of commercial progress and ma
tional prosperity as does 1925, in
the opinion of Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon.
The situation in America looks
more favorable for sound and
orderly economic development than
at any time since the war;" the
Secretary declared today.
However, in order that the
United States may enter the new
year with view to obtaining the
maximum of prosperity and
progress, and that future years
may guarantee to the people of
the republic prosperous and
healthy conditions certain funda.
mental requirements must be met,
according to Melons view.
Would Reform Taxes.
Among the paramount of these
are:
Sound economic administration
OF the national and State Govern.
ments.
Tax reform with assessments
so levied that the source from
when the returns are derived will
remain unframed
S-Application Of conservat tive,
sane principles to the carrying on
OF commercial and industrial insti.
tutions.
Secretary Mellon believes that the
American people are pledged to the
application of these principles, &C.
cording to the spirit reflected from
the last national election when the
voters "repudiateu various theories
inconsistent with economic laws and
expressed themselves in favor of a
conservative and orderly program
OF handling our Governmental af-
fairs"
1T is only through hard work,
economy and sound policies that we
nave right to expect true prog
ress," Mellon asserted.
At Work Four Years.
During the last four years the
administration has been occupied
with the problem of reconstruction
and this work has succeeded, in
Melons opinion.
1t was pointed out that in 1921
when the adjustment Of Govern.
Continued on Page 2. Column a.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
RENEDIcTINE MOTHER IS
STRICKEN DURING DINNER

ELIZABETH. N. J.. Dec. 26.-
within two days Of her eighty.fifth
birthday, Mother Walburga Hoch.
D. s. B.! founder Of numerous
Benedictine communities on two
continents, died here today. She
was for sixty.three years a member
Of the Order OF st. Benedict.
Mother Walburga entered the or
der at Newark in 1860, having come
from Baltimore. She established
Benedictine foundations in Ohio.
New Hampshire, New York, New
Jersey, Washington, d. c., and
Ecuador, South America.
Mother Walburga was stricken
last night few hours after eating
\ hearty dinner Funeral services
will be hold Monday.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
c. v. TOWLES IS
FOUND DEAD
BY RIVER

Dead, apparently from exposure,
the body of George w. Towles,
sixty-six years old, 1880 lexington
place northeast, was found today
in a clump Of underbrush on the
shore of Eastern Branch at the foot
Of + street southeast.
The mans body evidently had been
there for several days. His bank
book was found on the ground be-
side him and his hat, glasses and
cane lay nearby. Preliminary exami-
nation by police indicated that he
had become entangled in the brush
and was unable to extricate himself.
His sister, Mrs. G. w. Upton, with
whom he lived, told the police he had
been missing from his home since
Saturday.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
ONE MAN
BARESH|S
PART IN
CRIME
duplicates Three Others in
$25, 900 Alexandria
Wharf Fire

A bob-tail tiger cat, the strang-
est piece of evidence ever pre-.
scented to the Alexandria police
department, today led to the arrest
of three more men in connection
with the, $4,000 fire which COM
pletely destroyed the Alexandria
wharf of the Norfolk and Wash
lngton Steamboat Company on
Christmas Eve.
Four men are now being held
by the police charged with arson.
Arthur L. King, jr., twenty-six.
a resident of "the Dikes," three
miles south of the city, who was
arrested with the cat under his
arm fifteen minutes after the fire
broke out, today signed a con-
fession in which he implicated
Carl Mander, Guy Wood and Babe
Mills as his accomplices in setting
fire to the wharf.
Cat Stolen From Shed.
The cat is the property Of c. w.
Wattles, local agent for the steam
boat company, and was stolen from
the shed on the wharf before the
fire gained Roadway.
The confession signed by King
today was given to Director of Public
Safety Paul B. Morton. 1t reads in
part. as follows:
ION Wednesday night, December
"a, 1924, l went down to the Alex
andria wharf and met Carl Mander,
Babe Mills, and Guy Wood and had
several drinks. We went over to
Prince street and out to the ware
house of the Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Company about 8 o'clock.
I'VE unlocked the side door of the
warehouse and Guy Wood said, Let $
have a little bonfire Mander said,
All right We gathered up some
paper and we lighted matches ana
threw them in the paper, starting a
fire. We then started up the street.
] left them somewhere near the
wharf but cannot recall at this time
where.
Got Another Drink
lHSH NduIS uQ IuS S(icOb ~
the Alexandria Quick Lunch got
something to eat and another
drink, and went around to the
truck house and there saw Abe
Martin, but cannot remember what
] said to him. The next thing 1
knew l was under arrest"
King was arrested at the No. 1
Truck House of the Alexandria
Fire Department on Prince street
between Fairfax and Royal streets.
When the policemen arrived, King
was slapping at the cat, which
was scratching his hands.
Mander, Wood and Mills all deny
any part in the crime but they
were taken separately into Director
pf Public Safety Morton's office
and King, pointing an accusing
finger at them, declared they were
liars II they denied 1t.
They are going to send me to
She penitentiary, perhaps" he said,
Sand I am going to take you along
with me-"
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
BANDITS SCOOP UP $1,000
IN THEATER AND ESCAPE

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 26.-As the
manager and cashier of the Norva
Theater were checking up the re.
ceipts shortly before midnight. two
masked bandits entered the office,
and at the point of revolvers COM
PEELED them to hand over all the
funds in their possession.
A total of $4,000 was scooped up
and placed in bag and the rob.
bers escaped.
The theater is one of two owned
by the Wells Theater Corporation,
operators Of third large moving
picture house in Richmond.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
8 DEAD IN
FLOODOF
MUD
10 Missing, % in Hospitals, 4
Dying in SaItviIIe MUCK"
Dam Break
By international News service.


SALTVILLE, Va, Dec. &c.
Nine bodies have been recovered
and searching parties were expect
ed today to recover more as they
dug through the muck and sedi-
ment which covered the valley
swept on Christmas eve when a
dam at the Mathieson alkali works
near here gave way in front of
thousands of tons of muck.
Ten persons are missing and
probably are dead. Cwenty-three
others, many of whom have con-
tracted pneumonia, are in hos
pitfalls. At least four of these are
not expected to recover.
Nine Bodies Identified.
Bodies Of the following have been
recovered:
Mrs. Luther Clear and her son,
Charles f.
Opal Pauley, ten.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Prater and
their son, Leslie.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A, Prater
Major James A. Scott.
Emergency hospitals have been
established to care for those in.
jured.
Caught in Sea of Mud.
The disaster occurred when the
thousands of tons Of muck. held in
check for use at the alkali plant,
suddenly pushed through the bar.
rier. An area of about 200 acres
in the valley below was engulfed.
The muck, a white, Shiny sub.
stance, streamed In torrent
toward the north fork of the Hol.
ston river, carrying away every.
thing in its path. Those who lost
their lives were submerged in the
swift, flowing, thick white mass.
The disaster, which occurred at
the plant Of the Mathieson AllSaIi
Works, came without the slightest
warming.
Doctors and nurses We're rushed
here from Bristol, Abingdon,
Roanoke and other nearby towns
and were working feverishly 10
save the lives of the more serious
ly injured. They were greatly
handicapped by the bitter cold and
lack of hospital facilities.
A dozen homes were swept away
and the entire bottom section to.
day stands knee deep in muck and
sediment almost impossible to pene
trate. This. too, slowed up the
rescue work and search for the
dead
Physicians working among the
injured said undoubtedly many OF
those missing had been frozen 70
death.
The names of the dead and miss
ing we're almost unobtainable. Cen.
fusion reigned throughout the entire
section, and those who were in 10
sition to know the names were too
busy to talk"
Doctor Rogers, one Of the many
physicians working to relieve the
suffering, refused to talk to anyone
until all had been cared for.
w. A. Hagh, chief Of police told
International News Service he had
no time to talk now.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
TIES TSF0R
TYPHOID
GERMS
NEXT
Result Of Probe to BE Made
Known Soon-Shepherd on
Way to Chicago
By international News Service.

CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-The Nc.
Clintock death probe today awaited
the first preliminary report on
the examination of the body o.
the millionaire orphan" which was
expected to give official verifica-
ton or denial to the sinister rumors
and hints that there was some
thing wrong" in connection with
the demise Of the last blood heir t.
the McClintock millions.
And while the physicians and
Psychologists were preparing to sub
init the results of their poison tests
to the coroner's jury, William d
Shepherd, foster father Of the
Billy" McClintock and chief bene-
ficiary Of his will, was speeding TO
Chicago from Albuquerque, N. NJ,
his Christmas holidays cut short
by the launching of the investiga.
ton which he declares will prove
only that young McClintock died n
natural death Of typhoid fever.
Summon Physician.
Subpoenaes were issued today fo:,
Doctor Rufus B. Stolp, who at
tended McClintock in his last ill
ness; Maria Gardner, former maid
IA the McClintock home who with
Eva Nelson, another domestic, Wit.
messed the signing of the will, and
TWO nurses who attended Nc.
Clintock.
Inc states attorneys office an.
nounced it was the plan to cues
ton these persons concerning cir
cumstances surrounding McClin-
tock's fatal illness, and death and
II possible, to clear away the hear.
ing OF all minor witnesses before
the arrival Of Shepherd tomorrow
Today's report of the doctors Will
not be in any sense complete or
final. 1t is expected to tell ONLY
the apparent cause Of death and
whether or not any poison was
found in the vital organs of the
body. The complete report will be
Tar more comprehensive, If the pres.
ent plans for the probe are con.
tinued. 1t will attempt to show
whether the typhoid, if such is held
to have been the cause of death.
was contracted naturally or by tn.
murderous administration of typhus
germs, either in food or hypo.
dermically.
The determination of the latter.
physicians say, will require con.
siderable time and may not be pos
sible at all.
A whole field of ugly insinua.
tons had been opened up today by
the probe. This ran back as far
as the death of McClintock's
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
lected by fate to have this
bounty laid at its door?
Will it come to a home Of
the idle rich, or to the
humble cottage of the lowly
worker9
Fate alone can tell.
The N. Y. B. A. doesn't
care.
Enough to state this: That
the first baby born in Wash,
ington on New Year Day
will get a royal welcome
from the N. Y. B. A.
Further details in The
Washington Times soon.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26

Both are members of the
Vermont Avenue Christian Church
and this fact, together with the one
that they live within two blocks
OF each other, are said to have
made possible the romance of
several years. Doctor Sunny lives
at 2101 F street, northwest.
Lost In Realty Deal.
In 1874 Doctor Sunny bought
the old st. Cloud Hotel at Ninth
and f streets for $82 500. He then
traded the property to A. L. Barker
and Company for $153 900 worth Of
District real estate, but the resump.
tion of specie payment wiped out
his equities, and he was left penni.
less on the transaction. From 1872
to 1878 he was captain of the
Presidents Mounted Guard.
He is member of the Association
of Oldest Inhabitants, Home De.
Tense League, West End Citizens
Association, Masonic Order, and IS
a trustee and member of the board
of officers Of the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
GIRL FATALLY SHOT IN
ROOM; COMPANION HELD

Fannie e. Reeves, eighteen.year
old colored girl, of Falls, Hill, Va,
was shot and probably fatally in.
jured at 1907 Twenty-sixth street
northwest, at noon today.
The shooting is alleged to have
been done by James Peters. of the
above adres. who was in the room
alone with the girl. Peters, arrest.
ed by the police, declared that he
and the girl were examining a re.
volver when It went off land she
got in the way"
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
CELEBRATES HER 1o2D
BIRTHDAY ON CHRISTMAS

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 26.--Mrs.
Maria Ransley celebrated her 10od
birthday yesterday. The Christmas
celebration was her birthday eele.
bration, and the guests who at.
tended Christmas dinner also at.
tended her birthday party.
Mrs. Ransley lives with dauyh.
ter, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Bradley. Be.
sides the daughter she has one son,
ten grandchildren, nine great.grand-
children, and six great.great.grand,
children. J...~..
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
PACT WITH JUGO-SLAVIA
PLANNED BY BULGARIA

SOFIA, Dec. 26.--Premier Team
koff left for Belgrade this evening
to confer with Premier Pasitch
with view to establishing friendly
relations between Bulgaria and
Jugo- Slavia. f
They also win discuss a plan for
combined opposition against Boil.
shevism
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
.COIneth Now The
n. y.B.A.
Which will give Super
Royal How-de-dO to
first Baby born in
Washington on New
Year Day.

You never can tell what
will happen.
Everything was going
along all right.
Nobody was raising any
particular howl, although
there was the usual amount
of soto voce buzzing about
whether we should have sent
Christmas cards to the
WhOzisses (they always send
one to us, and you know
they're very helpful to us in
business).
And there was the usual
office chuckle over the
boss s new necktie. Gle
has to wear it a few times,
anyway
But, in general, every
thing was going pretty well,
and then
What should bob up but
the n. Y. B. A.
What the deuce is the
N. Y. B. A?
Difficult, stranger; vera
vera difficult.
AS a matter of fact, you'd
be surprised. 1t has nothing
to do with New York. 1t
has nothing to do with
Bachelor of Arts, or Balti-
more and Annapolis, or
bread and anchovies.
1t has to do with babies
with A BABY, in fact.
THE baby concerned
well, what's the use of
wading around and be-
fuddling the issue? Why
don't you tell it right out?
In the words of Montague
Glass, if you have anything
up your arm, spit it out.
Idea is this: First baby
to be born on New Year
Day, January /, 1925, is
going to have great recep-
ton.
The N. Y. B. A. is go:ug
to do it. Now can you
guess who the deuce the
n. Y. B. A. is?
Great secrecy surrounds
details of what the N. Y. B.
A. is going to do. But this
much is assured: The first
child to arrive in Washing
ton on the gladstone New
Year Day will get a "send-
off"-or is it a "come- on"
that will knock it for a
row of safety pins.
All men are born free and
equal, but the first Wash
ington New Years baby will
not remain equal with his or
her compatriots very long.
When the N. Y. B. A. gets
through, it will be swaddled
in silks of the East,
Amounted with myrrh and
whatever the rest Of it is,
and generally fixed as
though it had been born
with a platinum spoon in
it's mouth.
Gifts no end will be
showered upon THE baby.
What family will be Sc
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
Falnilies Wiped Ont.

A peculiar fact in the disaster
was the almost complete wiping
out of so many families. This is
explained by the fact that the fam
lily groups nearest the Christmas
tree were caught in the first rush
Continued on Page 2. COLUMN 81
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
THE WEATHER.

FAIR, with slowly rising temperature; to-
morrow increasing cloudiness and warmer;
lowest temperature tonight about 90 degrees.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
Dr.. Sunny, rs, to Wed
Mrs. Lula Morgan

Doctor Benjamin W. Sunny, seventysx years. who lost
fortune of $4,000 overnight in the days of a. and Mrs
Lula Fagg Morgan yfour years. whose father for years
was prominent in Washington official life, will be married
the home of the BRIDE 1902 street northwest this after
noon at o'clock The Reverend Doctor Earle Whitley, pastor
OF Vermont Avenue Christian Church. will perform
ceremony.
The Washington times., 1924-12-26
50 KILLED,
100HlJRT
|NF|RE
School House Christmas Tree
Tragedy at Hobart Grows.
One Big Grave for Burial

HOBART, Okla, Dec. 26.-Care-
full re-check today of the injured
in Babb's School disaster, which
took thirty-three lives Christmas
eve, shows that there. are more
than forty in hospitals and homes.
Several of these are expected to
die.
1t was only today that actual
figures from the injured in farm
houses scattered over miles of
countryside began to be totaled.
Authorities said that the dead
and injured, including minor in
Juries, will be at least a hundred,
half of the audience that jammed
the little wooden school house.
Great Common Grave.
Late today, Hobart's tragic
FUNERAL services were held. And
they We're more poigant in Their
picture Of grief because of the fact
that in a common grave were
buried bits of bones and charred
flesh, whose identity bereaved
parents have only been able to
guess.
There is a list of dead because
it is known that those who did not
return or were not accounted for
among the injured. fell in the fiery,
school house furnace.
But there is no knowledge, in
the majority of cases, which por-
tons of twisted legs and arms and
torsos belong to the persons whose
names they may have held in life.
There will be few private
funerals. but only a few. These
will be OF those bodies which have
been recognized.
Horror Still Growing.
Hobart's story of tragedy is JUST
being told. The little inland town
was too dazed yesterday. the sur
vivors unable to recall anything
but the horror of the night.
Now it is established that a few
persons were saved by being pushed
through the wire netting-barred
windows. One window alone, the
one through which Mrs. Florence
Hill, who gave ner life for her
pupils, thrust a few children, yield
ed to the efforts to tear away the
screens.
The story Of the tragedy is brief,
but in it's detail more horrible than
its first report.
Started by Candle.
A candle did ignite some cotton
on the Christmas tree. The cotton
dropped into a bundle of paper
taken from presents Then a lamp
exploded.
Flames leaped to the cardboard
ceiling and fiery death fell from
above on the struggling. panic.
stricken mass of fathers and moth.
ers and children.
The floor caught and flaming
death again leaped at the hysterical
crowd from the floor,
The windows smashed and, in a
moment, the whole place was an
inferno. Hobart's tragedy was be.
gun and over--so far as its loss of
life is concerned--within ten min
utes.
One family of three thought to
have attended the fatal exercises
in the country school was found
yesterday on their farm home.
They had not gone to the school
house.
An all.day search through the
ruins of the school house and a
farm to farm check failed to dis.
close any additional missing per.
sons or bodies.
Families Wiped Out.
A peculiar fact in the disaster
was the almost complete wiping
out of so many families. This is
explained by the fact that the fam
lily groups nearest the Christmas
tree were caught in the first rush
Continued on Page 2. COLUMN 81
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06

Sprinkle some powdered neroxin On :
cloth dipped in hot water. Pat the skiu
where the blackheads are, then rub brnkiv
and every last blackhead. big and IittieI
Will be dissolved without leaving trace
This tightens the pores and there are nd
more blackheads. You can get the neruxin'
at any drug store. An ounce is plenty and
costs but little.
These are beauty secrets that VIII re
ward you every time you use them. and
am quite sure you can ~ G,em at any
drug store.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06

Rest of all was the Christmas day
when YOU came TO me In your uniform
The war was over, but II had not
brought peace 10 me, for though my
eyes were cool, my heart was crying
II love you!" I had dressed carefully
for you = do you rememberl And ]
held out my hand formally, as I said,
I'm glad to see you
Miriam is singing. I can hear her
delicate notes:
Gone Is the sorrow,
Gone doubt and fear;
For you love me truly,
Truly, dear.
NY eyes are full Of tears; bu,
they're happy tears, sweetheart. And
that's how I'll leave you-with tears.
yes. but with great flood of happi.
ness, too. MARION.