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The Washington times., 1925-02-04
D. c. MONEY BILL
SLATED FOR
ACT ION
MAY Be Called Before House
Today Under Suspension Of
Calendar Wednesday

The sci 900 900 District appropria-
ton bin may be called up before
the House this afternoon as the
result Of House action late yesters
day in suspending the calendar
Wednesday program for today.
The suspension 0f calendar We'd
nesday destroys the opportunity for
consideration OF the $14 7b0, boo
Arlington memorial bridge bill At
least until next week. Two other
District bills also must SO over.
The change in the program Of
the House was made on motion OF
Congressman Nicholas Longwortl1.
floor leader so that the House
might expedite consideration Of ap-
preparation bills, which are now
behind schedule.
The independent offices appropria.
ton bill, now pending. has been
under consideration In the House
for more than two weeks without
reaching final vote. Several
major items In the bin are still In
dispute In the House and must be
settled before the District bill can
be taken up. !.
House leaders hope that the Iii.
dependent offices bin may be passed
early enough today so that the Dis
triot bin may be brought up for
general debate this afternoon and
for reading by paragraph tomorrow
Under the calendar Wednesday
plan, the COMMITTEES on mines and
mining would have been given an
opportunity to dispose Of its pend
Ing legislation, after which the com
mittee on public buildings and
grounds would receive the call
The latter committee has q number
of bills OF Importance to the Ma
fional Canftal pending
The Washington times., 1925-02-04

Meanwhile physicians and doc
tors are continuing their exAinina-
ton of the girl to determine Wheth-
or they believe her weird confess
sion or IL 1t 10 simply q Pigment
OF her imagination. Among those
making q study of the girl and
her revolving narrative Il Doctor
Edwin III. Williams, well-known
Alienist. Poiicei are Of the opinion
that the. child Is an accomplished
fictionist and scout her story.
However, in opposition to these
theories and beliefs IL the fact. that
a strange substance, supposedly d
mixed solution OF acid water fro.el
q storage battery and antipaste Waa
found spread over the food for =
meal in the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jesse Platts, with whom the child
and her young sister have been
boarders, 1t was the discovery Of
this solution in the food that, led
to police investigation and subse.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
SNOW REMOVAL PLANS
ENDORSED BY CITIZENS

The Columbia Heights Citizens
Association last night voted in
dorsement of the plan Of Engineer
Commissioner J. Franklin Bell to
ask Congress for $35S,0O0 for snow
removal.
Action was taken by the organi-
zation after Jesse G. Suter, presi.
dent, Federation Of Citizens Asso.
citation, transmitted a request from
Commissioner Bell that this asso-
citation and other citizens asssocia.
tons express their opinion.
n the snow removal plan is APP.
proved by a majority Of citizens asso.
Citations, Congress will be asked to
make an appropriation.
Congressman Allard H. Gasque of
South Carolina, told the associa.
ton last night that streets, schools
and lighting system Of Washington
are disgrace.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
CHARITIES make.
WINTER
APPEAL
Finance Committee Seeks
SIS, 900 to Alleviate Dis
tress in the City

A mid-winter appeal for funds
- carry on the work in this city
against disease and poverty was
launched today by the joint finance
committee Of the Associated Char
tiles.
In Washington. according to
the committee, 1T9 families are at
present living under unfit condi-
tons.
These conditions are only one
more evidence Of the crlng need
OF more sanitary dwelling places
within the reach Of families Of
limited means" the committees
statement reads.
Our goal continues TO be 10 900
: investors in this family welfare
work. The total number last year
was 1894. including those who gave
to our Christmas Opportunity fund
or to the Summer Outings COM
mittee. The sum Of $55, 900 is
urgently needed to carry on the
work this year"
Contributions should be sent to
the joint finance committee, Social
Service House, 1922 Eleventh street
northwest
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
BOOTLEG AUTO,
D. c. bound,
D|TCHED
Car Leaves Pike Near Aspen.
Driver Phones for Aid.
Police Come

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Feb. 4.-When
q big automobile, loaded with boot
leg and equipped with a smoke
screen device, left the pike near
Aspen, this county, yesterday, and
plunged into q ditch alongside the
road, it resulted in the arrest Of
James White, young Washington
negro, on charge of illegal pos
session OF intoxicating liquor. He
Is now in jail waiting trial in the
police court here.
Learning OF the accident and
surmising that the auto was a
bootleg special, Deputy Sheriffs
Gingell and Howard hurried to the
scene. White had telephoned to
washington for assistance, and just
as the officers drove up to where
his machine was stuck" q car,
which had come out from the city
in response to the telephone mes
sage, drove off with liquor that had
been transferred from the disabled
machine. Another machine. which
had also come out from Washing.
ton to help out, was standing by
and into this a quantity Of corn
had also been transferred.
The officers not only arrested
White, but, took charge Of Joseph
Edwards and Edward Handsburg
both. colored, who had come out
from the city at Whites request
and were in charge Of the auto into
which part Of the liquor had been
loaded. They are being held in jail
here for investigation
White, so the officers said, ad'
mitted to them that he was on his
way from Baltimore to Washington
with the load Of liquor.
e. Lee LeCompte. State game
warden, has issued an appeal to the
people OF Maryland to feed and
otherwise look after cartridges and
other birds during the cold weather.
Game Warden LeCompte has also
called attention to rthe fact that
the season for shooting wild fowl
OF all kinds closed January 81 and
that heavy penalties are provided
by law for violation Of the law.
The Women's Bible Class Of
Epworth Methodist Sunday School,
Gaithersburg, entertained the mem.
bers OF the Mems Bible Glass at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. III. Clay
Plummer last night. Miss Ethel
Mills was chairman Of the com.
n1ittee in charge.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
RoNDoUT MAIL RoBBER
CALLED FOR GRAND JURY

LITTLE, ROCK, Ark, Feb. A.
Herbert Holiday. mail train rob-
Der, now serving a twenty.five-year
sentence in the Federal penitentiary
at Fort Leavenworth. Kan. has
been summoned to appear before
the special United States grand
jury during its session tomorrow,
United States DiAtrict Attorney
Charles r. Cole admitted.
The principal case to be investi-
gated by the jury will be the recent
recovery of $99,O00 worth Of Gov
eminent bonds stolen during the
81. $50 900 mail train robbery at Ron.
dout. ILL.,. about a year ago, for
which Holiday was sentenced by
the Federal court in Chicago.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
tx HERO HELD
As ROBBER
OF TRAIN
Roy Gaines. With Two Pals,
jailed on Charge Made by
Illinois Central r. R.
D. Interna.I0nal Nsw. serylc..

ANTE, La, Feb. 4.--Roy Gaines,
Tony Cittadino. and Joe Naverra,
ali Of independence, La, were in
Jail here today charged under in
dictments Of robbing the train on
which President Markham and other
officials of the Illinois Central were
riding a few nights ago.
Cittadino served a sentence OF two
years in Louisiana penitentiary for
robbing a store in Independence
some years ago, 1t was said.
Gaines has been in the limelight
since the murder Of Dallas Gaines.
his uncle. and the subsequent hang
ing Of six men charged with the
crime.
He wrote a series OF articles for
the press and only recently an APP
peal was made to Louisiana bankers
to lend financial aid to Gaines for
the part he played in preventing
the robbery OF the bank at indie
pendence at the time his uncle was
killed.
Subsequently he was arrested on
charges of violating the dry law.
Naverra is only nineteen years old.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04

duent taking Of the little girI into
custody
Doctor Williams stated that In
his opinion Alsa's story imprssses
him es being truthful, and that
isfe has probably the mind Of =
girl three or four years her senior.
He also said she was possessed
with too much intellect and not
enough judgment, and that her
psychic energy has been wrongly
directed.
In explaining her acts to the OF.
fIcers and her questiOners the girl
showed no sign Of emotion and she
said she guessed she was just
bad.
The child's father. Russell q.
Thompson, scoffed at his daughters
confession as being true. The
mother was reported nearly hyster'
ical and unable TO make q state
naeTt.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
TEN new Cases
OF DISEASE
IN NONE
Diphtheria Epidemic Spread
ingNeW. Serum Being
Used BY Or. WEIGH

NOME. Alaska. Feb. 4.Nome's
diphtheria epidemic continued I'M
abated today.
Doctor Curtis Welch's official
statement showed twenty-nine cases
today. There were thirty-one sus-
poets and more than 100 contacts.
There have been ten new cases In
the last five days.
Doctor WEIGH Is going ahead
using the antitoxin rushed here by
dog team relays over nearly 700
miles OF Icy tundra with the pre-.
sumption that its freezing en- route
has not harmed ii
He said he believed freezing had
not taken away its force, and that
with the 500, GEO units received Mon
day and the additional supplies on
progress in the fight against the
plague
SeppaIIa's Daughter Victim.
The state board Of health APP
pealed to Governor Scott G.. Bone
at Juneau to rush additional serum
by airplane.
they urged the governor to have
an airpIane dispatched here i'm
mediately and informed him that
difficulties regarding a suitable
landing place could be overcome by
having the flyers land on the huge
ice field Just west OF Nome in the
Boring sea.
Members of the board said they
feared the present supply would
be exhausted before an airplana
arrived now even IL plans for hur-
rying the serum here were ex-
Among the victims today was
Sigried Seppalla, daughter. Of Leon
ard Seppalla, the champion muSher,
winner OF the Nome dog derby, who
aided in bringing the serum here
nv dog teams. She was reported
dangerously i'll.
Kassen Badly Frozen
c,unnar Kassen, the master
nonsIer who brought the serum
into Nome. was recovering from his
fearful trip. He was suffering. It
was learned, from a frozen chin
and hands.
Kassen. it was revealed today,
made. the last leg of the trip along
the rocky coast while a fierce wind
was blowing so strong that at times
IL almost swept man and dogs
carrying the precious packet OF
serum into the sea.
At one stage of the trip 1t was
necessary to climb a hill four miles
long in a binding snow storm.
Kassen, questioned regarding his
trip, told of stopping to breathe on
the eyelids of his dogs, which were
frozen together. Four of his dogs
were badly frozen and may die as
b. result of the trip.
Leonard Seppaila, who made a
portion Of the trek to Nome with
the antitoxin in record time, was
resting along the way. He was
expected to arrive here today.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
sToKER HURT, FOUND TO
HAVE $50. 600 FORTUNE

NEW YORK. Feb flames Du-
gan, who kept the even and incon-
spicuous tenor of his way as fur
mace stoker until an investigation re-
vealed him to be the possessor Of
more than $3.50. 900, was reported to
oe recovering in Flower Hospital last
night. Dugan, was injured by steam
while working in a garage at 416
East Sixty-second street.
He lived alone in q furnished room
at % Sutton place. and when hospi-
tai authorities investigated they
found that he was wealthy. Dugan
conducted q junk shop on the East
Side for many years and invested the
profits in real estate deals. He took
the job in the garage because he
liked to do manual work, it was said.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
BOMB IS FOUND
INDEAD MANS
ROOM
Tossed Out Of Window, II
Explodes But No One
Is Injured

BOSTON, Feb. 4.-Hundreds Of
pupils in two public schools were
startled today by a bomb explosion
in the south end.
A boy, cleaning the room of a
man who had just died in a Warren
ton street lodging house, found pipe
SHAPED instrument and tossed 1t ont
OF a window. 1t exploded with a
roar.
Police and ambulances were rushed
to Warrenton street but no one was
found to be injured.
An investigation is being made
Of the dead mans effects to learn
II he made other bombs.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
GREECE I D
| ENFORCE
DEMAND
Minister Says Army May Be
Used to Restore Patriarch T
to constantinopIs

ATHENS, Feb. 4.-The Turkish
government is making military
Preparations on the Adrianople
frontier, according to word today
from the border. Feeling against
the Turks was undated here.
General Condylis, minister of
che interior, insisted in state
Fnent that the Turks must be
forced to take back Patriarch
Constantinos, whom they expelled
from Constantinople, "even by
force of arms"
Premier Michalakoupolos as
sured French Minister Dechan-
brun that Greece intends to pur-
sue q peaceful policy and would
invoke intervention by the League
Of Nations if Turkey refused ar
bitration by The Hague.
Denies Breaking Treaty.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. THE
official Turkish reply to the Greek
note Of protest over the expulsion
from Constantinople OF the Ecumeni.
cal Patriarch maintains that the ex-
pulsion was not an infringement nf
the Lausanne treaty, it was an.
nouHced today.
The Turkish government declines
10 accept arbitration by The Hague
court.
Newspapers predict that the Greeks
viii boycott ConstantinopIe.
Protests 20 Powers.
SALONTKA, Greece, Feb. 4.-Ths
EcumenicAl Patriarch Constantinos,
who was expelled from Constantl-
neple by the Turks today te1egraphed
70 the United States, Great Britain,
France and other powers protesting
against his expulsion He requested
the support OF the various govern
Thents for the preservation of the
Patriarchate.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
MAKING WAR PREPARATIONS ON. ADRIAN0PLE FRONTIER
Girl Poisoner 5 Story
.Reunites Parents

Los ANGELES Cal Feb 4Love and tragedy were linked
hand in hand today when sevenyeaK-od Alsa Thompson
confession that she took lives Of her baby twin sisters by
feeding ground glass their food two ended
another won0ans life giving her poisoning and recently
tried to take lives Of eight other by giving them
poison was believed have caused reconciliation between
her estranped mother and father
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
Cosmopolitan Speaker

Frank E. Ghiselli, vice president
OF the Merchants Bank and Trust
Company. will be the speaker of tho
day at the Cosmopolitan Club lunch.
con meeting. in the Franklin Square
Hotel, tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
Where. Away This Time?
He Opens the Pot.

The AID Club meeting yesterday
was featured by the suggestion
that a dime campaign be started
to build a memorial to the world
fliers.
The first big game was genial
Doc Gibbs, of Peoples Drug Stores,
who opened the pot with 1000
dimes.
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
Chemists TO Convene

A meeting Of the d. G.. Chapter
Of the American Institute of Chem
lists will be held Friday night at
8:15 o'clock at the Raleigh Hotel
The Washington times., 1925-02-04
A DAYS
w ak
With jim RING

Program Coming in Fine.
with abject apologies to Mr..
Lpngfellow's shade.l
I was seated last night at my
neutrodyne,
Conquering countless miles,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the numbered dials.
do not know who was singing
Or playing or talking, then,
When I thought OF the memory
contest
From nine o'clock until ten.
/ called in the friends and
As. the clock struck out the
hour,
And they gathered around the
To test their memories power.
BY the time Of the ninth selec-
ton.
The guessing had gotten hot.
Three had been killed, and had
Been struck by a fiower.pot.
When the contest came to an
The room was quite forlorn.
Two neighbors debating with
chair-legs
And one with the radio horn.
The ambulance and the coroner
Were busy, most OF the night;
And / was engaged with police
+ &
Until the morning light.
I shall never invite my neighbors
To darken my mansion door,
Or listen upce my radio.
Because there amt no more.
And Mrs. Hoover?
Johnny Chevalier. the ne plus
ultra, sartorially speaking, of the
local vaudeville world, brought
some Of Ned Wayburn's young
ladies from Keith's up to the
White House yesterday.
They came to shake hands with
President Coolidge. They re-
manned to be photographed.
An enterprising cameraTnan
took Sthem outside the executive
offices, where the visitors autos
are parked. He draped them
artistically over the hood OF the
first car. Eyes in the offices
bulged, for good reason.
And, oh, what Secretary Hoover
will think land, perhaps, say wheT
he sees the picture Of his machine
covered with roll-tops!
Where Away This Time?
The prevailing fashion, as out
lined by Bishop Freeman, is to
blame the young generation on
the supposedly upright older gen
Grafton. Which makes a differ
ence.
The terrible thought about all
this is that again we'll have
deIuEe Of movies based on that
au,aef SAMMY sentences: "And a lit
New Britain herald., 1925-04-22
HINTS FORGERY IN
 WHEELER HEARING
Senator's Secretary Casts Doubt
 ca Telegram
By The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press
 Great Falls, Mont, April 22,-- Richard Haste, former secretary to Senator Burton K. Wheeler, testi- fled today at the Montana senator's trial here that he did not believe that a telegram, with Wheeler's name attached and sent to Gordon Campbell, Montana oil operator, on March IA, 1928, was sent by his en- ployer The senator is charged with appearing illegally before the interior department to prosecute Campbcll's oil prospecting permits.
 The telegram read: Have al ready discussed permit with so- licitor." Edwin s. Booth of the interior department).
 Haste said he took up tlte mat ter, which had 10 do with a permit originally granted to L. E. Lincoln, with Booth himself on the same day. The Lincoln permit is one of those involved in the indictment under which Wheeler is being tried.
 Decision to call additional wit nesscs in an effort to break down the testimony of George P. Hayes, the governments star witness, was announced yesterday by Senator Ttomas J. Walsh, head of the ac- cused senator's legal forces.
 Senator Wheeler, charged with H. legally appearing before the depart ment of the interior in behalf of Gordon Campbell. Montana oil operator, was accused by the gov ernment's chief witness of attempt ing to employ him as a substitute, under promise that large retainer fee would be the reward.
 Senator Walsh has called for the presence here of Henry Stern of Buffalo, N. Y. who appeared before the department of justice investigat- ing committee; two character wit nesses from New York, and a tele- phone company official from Wash ington. The names Of the New l DIh anu " tloli tpil W II llNel7No WI not made known.
 The four defense witnesses re maining here are Fred Munger O Lcwistown. Mont; W, G. Feeloy Washington attorney; C. X. Spring myer, a former empIove Of Gordol Campbell. and A. B. Melzncr, a sec retary of the accused senator.
 Munger is alleged 10 have heart II. C. Closer, former secretary t' Campbell, declare that Wheeler di, not appear before the interior dc apartment for Campbell. Closer dc nied on the stand that he had sair f. and Munger is being called 10 re flute the statement, Senator WalsI says.
 Senator WhpdIer's testimony vii probably beTeserved until the last his counsel says.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-22
CULBERTSON GETS
 DIPLOMATIC POST
Is to Be American Minister to ...,. RuInania

Washington, April 2s.-Willlam s, Culbertson of Kansas. vice-chairman of the tariff commission has been selected for appointment as minister 10 Rumania.
 Mr. Culbertson was among the presidents callers today. and formal announcement Of his appointment is expected as soon as word that he Is acceptable has been received from the Rumaniau government, His ac- ceptabiIity is a foregoEe conclusion. He succeeds Peter A, Jay, trans fored from Bucharest 10 become am baSsador 10 Argentina,
 Appointment Of Mr. Culhertson to diplomatic post was urged by Senator Curtis of Kansas, and the original plan was that he should re- place Minister Schurman at Picking when the latter was made ambassa- dor to Germany. The gravity Of the situation in China however, led the administration 10 send 10 Picking a recognized expert in far eastern af- fairs, Assistant Secretary John Van A. MacMurray of the state depart ment.
 Minister Jay still is at Bucharest and probably will remain there until he has concluded understatdinGs with the Rumonian government on several porpieNing questions, The discussions now in progress or pro- posed include move for rcfunling the Rumanian relief debt 10 the United States.
 The debt question and the treat mcnt recently accorded some Amcri- can corporations doing business in Rumauia have placed somewhat of a strain on relations with that country. and Mir. Culbertson will be given the views Of the Washington government in detail before he fore he leaves for his new post. As vice chairman of the tariff Commis- sion, he has had extensive eNpcri- ence with tho financial aspects of in- ternational relations,
New Britain herald., 1925-04-22
City Items

Balloon dance Odd Fellows hall Ahlberg's orchestra, ,--advt,
 Rabbi Gerson Hadas of Pough- keepsie will speak at the services at the local synagogue Friday evening at o'clock Tn, public Is invited, Rabbi Hadas will come here in June to take over the local congregation, Dog License now due and payable at Town Clerks Office.-advt. The third degree will be eXempll- fled on class of lS candidates at the regular meeting of Andree Lodge, I. o. O. F., tonight.
 Home cooked luncheons, Crowell's -adW.
 Balloon dance at Odd Fellows hail. Arch St. All for fun and fun for alI Ladies and gents prize.
 --adNt
New Britain herald., 1925-04-22
City Advertisement
NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS.

Attention is called to the law con- corning the registration of dogs as shown by the posters issued by the Chief of Police of New Britain. The time for registration expires Friday May l, 1925. and failure to register on or before that date means that the owners of dogs will have to pay a fine Of One Dollar ($1.0Q) in addition to the regular fee.
 The Town Clerks Office will be open Saturday and Monday evenings to receive dog fees, in addition to the regular hours,
 Dated at New Britain, this 18th day of April, 1925.
 ALFRED L. THOMPSON,
 Town Clerk.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-22
City Advertisement

Sewer in Daly Avenue, from present
 end westerly 13O feet. Clerks office, City of New Britain,
 Conn.,, April 22, 1925. To whom it may concern:
 Notice is hereby given that the Board of Compensation and Assess ment of the City of New Britain, has made the following assessments of special benefits or betterments, caus- ed by the construction of sewer in Daily Avenue, from present end west of Short Street, westerly about 130 feet, viz:
 North Side Benefits Annie Gazda ............ $77.50 Salvatore & Getizia Arena jointly ................ 59.S5
 South Side | William !. Mccormick .... 1885 Jack Bartkowski .......... 76.SS Merritt 6: Maude A. McKean
 jointly ......,....:.... 76.SS l lUldl SO0 4 Accepted, adopted, certified from record and published twice by order of the Common Council:
 Attest: -..
 ALFRED L. THOMPSON,
 City Clerk