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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01
UN|FORMMONTH
CALENDAR IS
PROPOSED
American GeophysicaI Union
Told of Plan to EquaIize
IL Yearly Periods

A form Of simplified calendar
which will have twenty eight days
every month was explained before
the meteorology section of the
American Geophysical Union today
by c. F. Marvin. The union is ex-
pected to take action on Mr.. Mar
WINS plan.
Other important papers read at
today's final session were: w. j.
Humphreys, "Details of Method for
Obtaining Samples of Air from Great
Attitudes" E. B. Calvert, 1.-The Pos
sibility Of BrOadcasting Meteorologi-
cal Observations form the Pacific
and Japan in Europe. Through the
Cooperation of France and the
United States w. r. Gregg,
Meteorological Observations by Air
planes" A. j. Henry, principles on
which weather forecasts, for the
United States are based-An Illus
trative Example" and Fl. Fl. Clay
ton, THE Influence of Solar Changes
on the Earth's Atmosphere
Before the geodesy section of the
union the following are being heard
today: Doctor William Bowie, Doc
tor Arthur l.. Day, Doctor ]. G.
Hammond, Doctor Fred E. Wright,
Doctor L. v. Judson, Major c. v.
Hodgson, Henry G. Ayers, w. F.
Reynolds. c. II. Swick, w. D. Lam.
bert and 0. s. Adams
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01

Pronounces Man Dead.
As II in a dream I heard Doctor
Squire say:
This man, I now pronounce
dead"
Morris Diamond was lifted from
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01
az PER CENT or HARVARD
SENIORS ARE DRYS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May Sta
tistics compiled from 500 Questio.
naires, nearly the entire number sub
mitted to the senior class at Har-
ward. revealed today that ~ per
cent had never INDUCED in intotxi-
eating liquor and that sons were
straying largely from the occupa-
tions followed by their fathers, bust
ness and the ministry losing heavily.
Asked to indicate their choice OF
"a profession, Is per cent said they
were stIll in doubt. Although 45 per
cent Of the students fathers are en-
gagged in business, only 81 per cent
declared their intention Of entering
the industrial world.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01

Far!na sat there in the chair with
his death imminent. 1t seemed as
If we would never hear the hum
of the electricity for the third
death. The executioners gave
Farina shock which seemed to
me, b. mere muscular activity of
death, would burst his bonds from
the harness of the chair.
The first blow of the electricity
didn't seem to kill Farina. All of
us expected a groan or cry from
this man who was being slain by
the laws process. Once more Doc
tor Squire and his stethoscope.
searching for a heart beat. Once
again the dropping of a piece Of
linen.
To the horror of us all, from the
skull on the right side arose a
column of smoke. Then this man
seemed to have dropped like a tired
person in his tracks.
He was put on the little white
table and sent to the mortuary
room. He was the third to be
killed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01

the chair and put upon an op.
Grating table and wheeled into the
mortuary room.
Again the man who was the at
tendant on the door leading be-
tween life and death leaned and
listened. We could not hear the
foot falls, but suddenly the door
opened again and Joseph Diamond,
twenty-five. entered the room and
was escorted to the chair.
The executioners were quick at
this job. The lads life was ended
within about a minute. The man
who put on the current was q lit
tie bit of a chap and little bald.
From where / stood near Warden
Lawes, / could see him at his
work throwing on the current. He
seemed to take it as part Of the
days work.
Terrible To Behold.
Doctor Squire again applied the
stethoscope, testing for. heart
beat. Once more the piece of linen
dropped and our little bald friend
threw the current on and Joseph
Diamond was killed. He was ter.
rible to behold when dead.
There was one more to be killed,
John Farina. He was twenty-three
years old. There was the same
listening at the door for the con-
demned man to enter the chamber
of execution. Farina came in
smoking cigar. He took two
puffs of it, saw the electric chair
and threw his cigar aside knowing
that the moment he sat and was
strapped in would be his death.
His smile was cynical.
There probably has been no show
of bravado more striking than
Farina's entrance into the death
chamber. AS he sat down In the
chair, he said:
"Good-by, ALL"
Says "G0Od-by" Again.
The executioners were adjusting
the electrodes to his head and his
barred right leg and had covered his
eyes with short black mask. When
all Of us thought he was killed we
were surprised to hear him say
"good.by" again.
Father John P. McCaffrey. who
succeeded Father Cashin as. the
Catholic chaplain of Sing Sing, O.
young man, extended to Farina a
crucifix to kiss and as he did this
he recited the Litany of the Saints.
He completed the htany while
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01
BUTLER ORDERS SEARCH
FOR WIFE OF MARINE

PHILADELPHIA, May IA
search of all hotels, rooming
houses and missions was being
made here today in an attempt to
find Mrs. William l.. Berroyer,
twenty-one, wife of a marine corps
officer stationed in Haiti. Friends
say they believe the young wife
and her two-year-old son have been
abducted. The search was ordered
by General Smedley D. Butler, di-
rector of public safety, when
friends of Lieutenant Berroyer, the
husband, traced her to this city.
According to the police, Mrs. Ber
rover was some times known as
Helen Hawker Anderson. She is
described as an olive-skinned beauty.
Police say the woman and her son,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01
TEACHERS $4,000
SUIT NAMES LAWYER

PHILADELPHIA. May BE.
cause she went to his office to col
lect a bill he owed her, Annette NJ.
Culver, a school teacher and must
clan, charges in a suit filed in the
United States court here, that
Kingsley Montgomery. Chester
lawyer, beat her, threw her around
his office and virtually knocked
her out"
She is seeking to collect $4,000
damages from Montgomery for the
alleged assault. The plaintiff is d
resident of Dunkirk. N. Y, but at
the time of the accident was a
school teacher and musician living
at Swarthmore.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01
WIFE STRUCK THRICE
GIVEN $1,000 A PUNCH

CHICAGO, May Judge John
r. Caverly, sitting as divorce
referee, has awarded Mrs. Helen
Ruth Perlman alimony at the rate
of. 81 900 a punch.
In obtaining a divorce from her
husband, Doctor A.. j. Perlman,
Mrs. Perlman brought witnesses to
the fact that she had been struck
three times
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01
By JOHN A. MOROSO,
International News Service.

DEATH CHAMBER, SING
SING PRISON, May Morris
Diamond, twenty-eight, was the
first of the three to be killed. A
rather heavy man leaned his ear
against the door, waiting for the
sound of his footsteps. Suddenly
before us Diamond appeared.
He was guided toward the cleo
trio chair-a little bit of yellow
furniture. He looked terribly
frightened and seemed to know
that death was upon him even as
he and his fellow murderers had
given death to William Fl. Nc
Laughlin and to William s. Bar
low, Of the West End Bank, on
November ID, 1928.
Killed Men In Cold Blood.
The Diamond brothers had
offered no chance to these bank
messengers, from whom they had
taken $43, 800. The Diamonds ard
Farina had not offered them an
opportunity to lift their hands and
surrender. They murdered them in
cold blood.
Morris Diamond asked Warden
Laws that he might go first to his
death. His request was granted.
Above the door into which he was
ushered was the word Silence"
The legal witnesses and the news
paper men, realizing the dignity Of
death, were, Of course, silent.
Morris Diamond came to the
chair, stood in front of it and pulled
from his pocket a sheet OF paper
from which he read few sent
ences that meant nothing. The
paper fell from his hand. He was
pushed down into the chair AS
they placed the blindfold on his
eyes he looked like a scared rat
He was soggy Of body and soul.
Strapped Into Chair.
Suddenly belt was thrown about
his waist by a blue uniformed at
tendant of the PRISON, and in two
minutes he was strapped and tied
securely. Behind him was rather
youngish man, who held In his
right hand a white napkin. He
dropped that piece of cloth. There
was q hum. Diamond was killed.
Doctor Amos o. Squire leaned
over the dead body in a yellow
chair searching for a heart beat
with stethoscope. He put the
kaleidoscope three times on the left
breast, which had been barred by
stripping open his coat and shirt.
There must have been the trace
OF heart beat. because the rather
young man behind the yellow chair
dropped the piece Of linen again.
Once more there came into the
death chamber the hum Of electric
fly. / saw Morris Diamond lunge
forward, straining at his harness
of death.
Pronounees Man Dead.
As II in a dream I heard Doctor
Squire say:
This man, now pronounce
dead
Morris Diamond was lifted from
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01
AU 7 HOR TELLS
HOW SLAYERS
! FACED DEATH
Mcrosco Gives Vivid Picture
of EIectrocution at
Sing Sing

The State of New York today
had enacted from Morris and Joe
Diamond, brothers, and John FG-
Fi1tG, ats penalty for the murders
of Willirm II. Mclaughlin and
William S. Barlo4O, Brooklyn bank
messengers. The following graphic
account of the executions 1OGS
written for international Nea0s
Service By John A. Moroso,
novelist and short story 1Oriter,
author of "The City of Silent
Men" The Diamond brothers and
FCrind aUent to the electric chair
at sing Sing last night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01

William, jr., arrived in Brooklyn.
N. Y, on the steamship Astros on
March Is. They are said to have
disappeared the same day, having
last been seen taking taxicab to
the Grand Central station in New
York CITY
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-01
u. S. MAY TAKE CARS
CARRYING RUM, IS RULING

ATLANTA, Ga, May Auto
mobiles seized as liquor carriers can
be cOnfiscated by the Government,
regardless of mortgages. liens and
other claims. except when LIQUOR on
which tax has been paid is being
conveyed, Judge Samuel Fl. Sibley
ruled in a decision handed down
in United States district court.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-06-26
en-%esrHzzESF. -~rvv%- ~r~1 esszi
Ell FANTASMA
/ DE LA DUDA

EI n1undo es manera de- una
gran incognita.
Pregunte usted muchas de las
cosas que lie interesa a la hui
manidad y nadie sabra res
ponderIe concretamente.
Por ejemplo:
sSera all fin Add Ell Krim,
ell Presidente de la Rep1bIica
del Riff?
Quien sabe, lie contestaran.
SSometera Erancia y Espa-
IA al caudillo moro?
Posiblemente, pero quien. 10
puede adivinar.
SRenacera ell espiritu mill
tarista en- AIemania, estando
| aHinderburg de Presidente de
la RepQbIica de AIemana?
IS, n1uy premature negarlo
o afirmarlo.
cHabra alg1n dia un cho-
que armada entire los Estados
|. Unidos y ell Jap6n? ].
Es ruy difioil vaticinaElo..
Z Triunfara aIg1n dia la
AIianza en- sus demandas de
mas Iibertades para Puerto
Rico?
I Puede ser que ST y puede
ser que no.
Todo es duda, incertidum-
bre, vaciIaciones.
Pero pregunte listed cua es
la lniea sastreria que en-
Puerto Rico, bate ell record de
la elegancia, del buen gusto v
dc la calidad de sus driIes de
f1ilo, y Ia duda desaparece CO.
mo por encanto Y lHnanirne-
n1ente todos confestan: FL
CORTE INGLES.
Y es que la verdad no adnite
dudas y Sc ahre paso a las
buenas 0 a las maIas.
Y la verdad de Ell cORTE
esta:
Cue trae sus teIas de hiIo
de la misma lnglaterra, que
conpra directamente al fabri-
cante de esas telas, que sus
sastres son los mas expertos
en- toda la isIa de Puerto Rico.
y que sacrifica gran parte de
sus legitimas ganancias para
aufnentar dia a dfa Ell n1mero
de sus clientes, asf como otros
aumentan sus ganancias y dis
m'nuyen sus coInpradores.
IS question de. sistema, v eI
de Ell CORTE INGLES, es ell
de atraer a sus clientes con la
,caiIdad y con los precios de
4Su manufacture.
Ell CORTE INCLES ;
La FABRicA Y SASTRERIA
Ds MODA EN- PUERTO RICO
MO equivoque la direction, es-
tanos al Iado de la Barberia
e. FIGARO y frente al edificio
de EEL MUNDO".
San Jose ST. No. 5. P. o. Box
994, TeIefono 1923. San Juan,
ruefTo RICo. AoYt.
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LONE STAR S. S. CO.:

De Beaumont para etse puerto
sali6 ell dia % de los corrientes
ell vapor "Southseas" con carga
general.
LeD ep e1pIes ..spugfq4noS,, Id
weston para este puerto de San
Juan el dia IA de julio.
Ell vapor Guantanamo" Sc es-
pera el dia 10. de julio en- este
puerto Y saldra el dia proximo a
su llegada para puertos de Sto.
Domingo.
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MovIMIENTO DE VAPoREs
BULL INSULAR LINE:
asaAss. sanas.ssse aEswVRwe

BULL INSULAR LINE:
GeE4IxE s@ea~s'ss &ww~H
Atraco aver II mueile. de la
Compania el vapor ''Helen" ha-
biendo traido un gran cargamen-
to de vacas Y mercancia gene
raj.
FL vapor Glare saldra ell dia
27 del puerto de Nueva York pa
ra este con carga general.
Ell "Cornelia" saldra tambiea
de aqueI puerto el dia 3 de julio
proximo rumbo este puerto.
Ell vapor Mary" saldra de
aquel puerto hacia el de Santo
Domingo Ell dia s del mes entran-
te.
Ell Edith" con grandes carga-
mentos para este puerto saldra
del puerto de Nueva York el dia
Ii.
FL "Helen" saldra de aauel
puerto ell dia Is.
Ell Glare" ha anunciado su
sa1ida de Nueva York para este
para el dia 25 de julio.
. Ell @Corneliay esta anunciado
para zarpar de aquel puerto pa
Ia el de San Juan el 10. de agos-
z
to.
Del puerto de San Juan, sal
dra para ell de Nueva York ell
dia 80 de este mes el vapor
Edith.
FL Helen" que arrib6 aver,
saldra con carga general de este
puerto para ell de Nueya York
el dia 8 de julio pr6ximo.
Ell vapor Glare" saldra de es-
te puerto el dia Il para el Norte.
Ell "Cornelia" zarpara de este
puerto el dia % del mes entrante.
Ell Edith" ha anunciado la fe-
cha Sc salida para el dia 28 del
mes entrante.
Sc espera hoy en- puerto el
vapor Catherine.
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BALTIMORE. INsULAR LINE

Ell dia, "a de este mes sa1dra
del puerto de Baltimore hacia
este Ell vapor Governor John
Lind" con carga general.
Ell vapor "Delfna" saldra ell
dia / de julio tambien de aquel
puerto hacia el de San Juan.
Ell "Delisle" has anunciado Ia
fecha de salida de Baltimore pa
ra este puerto para. el dia s. de
julio pr6ximo.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-06-26
Civil No. 3181.
Cobro de Dinero
EDICTo DE sUBASTA

Yo, Fidel R. Rodriguez, Mar
shall de la Corte Municipal de
Caguas, 2. R.
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RED "Dy LINE:

~ ~ - ASAAtA@' ~
Aver saho de este puerto el va
tpor ''pachira".
FL dia 2 de julio proximo lie
CARA a puerto el 7vapor Mara
caibon.
FL dia 6 arribara el vapor
Caracas proeedente de Vene-
zuela.
Fl vapor "Maracaibop Sc espe-
ra Ell dia 27 dc los corrientes On
puerto.
Ell 27 llegara . Naeva 81 vapor
"Tachira'-
Ell dfa 80 de los corrientes Sc
espera el vapor sZuliap en- San
Juan.
Aver salio para Nueva York el
vapor correo puerto Rico" con
carga general, pasaje y CORES
no,1dof16ia = 9&
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-06-26
AL PUBLICo HAGO sABER

/ Que en- cumplimiento de una
orden de ejecucion de sentencia
expedida por la Hon. Gorte Mu-
ricipal de Caguas, VENDERE
EN- PUBLICA .SUBASTA Y al
nejor postor, quien debera con-
signar en- el acto Ell importe de
la venta en- moneda americana,
In siguiente propiedad pertene-
ciente al demandado, Julian Ro-
driguez:
FINCA DE TRES CUERDAS,
SITUADA EN- Ell BARRIO DE
CANAB0NCITO DE CAGUAS.
Colindancias: Norte Y Este, con
Juan Rodriguez; Sur y Oeste,
con Jose Leon.
La venta tendra lugar en- mi
oficina, sta en- ell edificio que ocu-
Pa la Corte Municipal de Caguas,
ei dia 90 de julio de 1925, a las
2 de la tarde.
Y para concurrencia de licita-
dores, fijacion en- los sitios publ
cos de costumbre Y publication
en- el periodico Ell .MUNDO que
Sc edita en- San Juan, libro el
presente en- Caguas, hoy dia Is
de JUNO de 1926.
Fidel R. RODRIGUEZ,
Marshal, Corte Municipal,
Caguas, P. r.
Resosa & Besosa,
Abogados de la demandante.
Advt.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
Raisuli Dies Again.

Raisuli is dead again. Gen. Primo
de Rivera. president of the Spanish di-
rectorate, announces that he has re.
ceived a report that the Moorish ban
dit leader, recently captured by Riffian
tribesmen, died while being conveyed
from his home town, Tazarut, TO
Sheshuan. A dispatch from Madrid to
this effect further says, however,
this report lacks confirmation"
Any report of Raisuli's death-and
there have been many-requires con-
firmation before 1t will be accepted.
And even confirmation must itself be
confirmed. For Raisuli has proved a
veritable feline for his ability to die
frequently. He has been reported dead
many times, and on several occasions
the reports have been detailed and CIR
cumstantial.
He Is, or was, according as the re.
port may be true or false, a unique
character intrepid, resourceful. crafty,
bold. He must be now-it Is impossi-
BILE to think Of him in the past tense
an old man. He was well advanced in
life 20 years ago when President
Roosevelt issued his famous mandate:
"Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead" He
had been a professional bandit and
kidnaper for a long time then. Natu-
rally in the course of time Raisuli
must pass, but any report Of his death
will require unusually specific con-
firmation before it is accepted.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
The Kentucky Cave Prisoner.

Alterations of hope and despair
have been felt in the case of Floyd
Collins, imprisoned for eight days in
cave in Kentucky. Collins was caught
by a slip of rock in an underground
massage on his property in the COM
naratively wild territory while explor
ing to determine the extent Of the
opening into the earth. His foot was
pinned 80 tightly that he could not re-
lease himself. A rescue party found
him and Immediately started to work
for his release. The passage to the
imprisoned man is a narrow crevice
barely wide enough in places to admit
the body of a single person. 1t ex-
tends for more than $50 feet through
rocks and earth, at first dipping at 90
degrees for SIS feet, then running level
for 20 feet, next dropping so feet at As
degrees, and finally after a short verti-
cal descent extending 20 feet horizon
tally to the pinioned man.
Rescue work in these circumstances
has been attended by difficulty and
danger. Yet men have risked their
own lives in an effort to release the
captive. He has been fed, and electric
lights have been carried into the cave,
with one left burning near him to
comfort him in his painful imprison.
ment. Attempts at excavation have
been carried on, but with great risk
of causing complete collapse Of the
cave and the Imprisonment of all the
workers. Finally, by some strange
Evening star., 1925-02-07

freak, the floor Of the passage leading
to the captive heaved sufficiently to
block off further access. Now drillers
are at work to try to reach the man
by other means. There is no certainty
now that ne Is living, Indeed, 1t would
be remarkable If he had survived the
pain and privation and shock OF his
long imprisonment. Yet doubtless the
effort will continue, for there Is no
limit to the endeavor of those bent
upon rescuing a helpless human being.
In the midst or all its busy affairs
this country has paused to watch the
reports from this remote rural region
in Kentucky regarding the imprisoned
man. A universal sympathy is felt
for him. He has become a national
figure. There will be great rejoicing
If he Is rescued, and sorrow If those
seeking his succor are finally baff1ed.
The region in which this tragedy
has occurred is honeycombed with
caves. The nearest town Is called the
Cave City. Within 10 miles lies the
entrance to Mammoth Cave, one of
the greatest caverns in the world. Col
Inns was exploring the passage In the
hope of finding a great underground
room of the same nature. The fissure,
running zigzag steeply into the earth,
Is an unusual formation. That it leads
to a large opening or to other assures
connected with ventilated spaces is
probable, as otherwise at the depth at
which he was caught the man would
have been suffocated. The air, how.
ever, appears to be good, and prob.
ably this chimney is a passage to some
cavern. itself supplied with fresh air
from the surface. The mystery of 1t
will doubtless be solved some day, as,
whatever happens to Collins. whether
he is rescued or Is eventually found
dead in his prison. in all probability
others will seek the solution of this
strange passageway through the crust
Of the earth.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
The Opium Conference.

Withdrawal of the American dele
cation from the international opium
conference at Geneva has shocked
the delegates from other countries,
according to report, and will cause
disappointment in this councry, al
though the decision of the delegates
will be received with general ap-
proval here. Indeed, under the joint
resolution of Congress authorizing
participation in the conference the
American delegates could not have
signed such an agreement as the con.
ference Is evidently about to con-
clude.
The American position in regard
to the opium traffic has been that the
nations represented at Geneva should
agree to a prohibition or control of
production and should not stop at
merely palliative remedies. The joint
resolution which authorized participa-
ton in the conference stipulated ex-
pressly that the representatives OF the
United States should Sign no agree
ment which does not fulfill the condi-
tions necessary for the suppression of
the narcotic drug traffic. Under the
reservations already drawn at Geneva,
and supported by a sufficient number
of national representatives to insure
adoption, no appreciable reduction in
raw opium is to be expected.
Tho J-r}fad GtotaS 10 ooncistopf i,,
its opposition to the narcotic drug
traffic. 1t has prohibited the distribu-
ton and use Of habit forming drugs,
save in medicine. 1t prosecutes all
violators of the national law on this
subject. Growing no raw material of
this character itself. 1t bans the i'm
portation of such products, save under
the most rigid supervision to insure
that the drugs themselves will not be
used outside Of medicinal prescription.
Other nations, however, have failed to
respect this prohibition. The Geneva
conference was held for the purpose
of putting a ban. If possible, upon the
production OF these materials, but, as
VI lCL SehlCo All SAS
memorandum submitted at Geneva
explanatory of his withdrawal, there
is no prospect of such action.
Large financial gains incident to the
opium and coca leaf production stand
in the way of an international agree
ment Certain nations decline to sub
scribe to an agreement which. would
lessen the output, perhaps reduce it
to the bare needs of science and med
icine. There remains possibility that
the withdrawal of the delegates of the
United States may bring about a
change in this attitude. By their
withdrawal the representatives of this
Government throw the onus for the
maintenance of this traffic upon the
governments which are falling to
carry out the protocol Of the Geneva
conference and are not sincerely seek
ing the suppression of this wicked
trade.