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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12
DR.. DURKEE DENIES
RUMOR he WILL QUIT

Flattering offers from other
institutions will not cause Doctor
J. Stanley Durkee, president or
Howard University to resign, he
declared today.
ST was exonerated Of the charges
brought against me at the special
session Of the board Of trustees to
such a degree that it was not even
necessary for me to make a re-
buttal.
at know that there are rumors to
the effect that / will leave the
university but I wish to say,
emphatically, that would not leave
the university at this time.
my critics are outsiders who, al
though they would like to cause
discord, know nothing whatever
about the situation" Doctor Durkee
explained.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12
LABOR I D
BACK HIS
MOVE
Senator Makes Charges
Against Detective Agencies
Employed by Large Firms

Senator Burton K. Wheeler,
prosecutor in the Department of
Justice inquiry last year, today
proposed a Congressional investi-
CATION into the alleged espionage
systems maintained in big indus
tries against organized labor.
Wheeler announced he would in
troduce q resolution in the Senate
Monday to authorize the investi-
cation. It will call for an Gin
quiry into the extent of the sys-
TEN Of industrial espionage in all
it, ramifications" and authorize
the investigating committee to
report to the Senate what legis-
lation is desirable to correct such
practices as they may find mimi
cal to the public welfare"
Labor VIII Back Move
In sponsoring the proposed inves-
tigation, Wheeler win receive the
support Of organized labor. While
Il probably viii run into serious
opposition, the resolution, If adopted,
Will give the labor unions an op-
portunity to defend themselves
against charges of radicalism and
Bolshevisrn.
Wheeler set forth in the resoIu-
ton the general complaint Of or
ganized labor against the detective
agencies employed by certain large
concerns.
"A large number of private detec-
tive agencies are obtaining large
sums OF money from business con-
Germs by falsely representing move
ments among their employees by
joining labor organizations and adj
vocating revolutionary methods for
the purpose Of discrediting the labor
organizations and by manufacturing
scares concerning the use OF vio-
lence in Industrial conflict, the
resolution stated.
Charges Are Made
These agencies are undermining
the peaceful relationship between
employees and employers. setting up
a system of espionage in industry,
thriving upon the unrest and fear
they create and spreading false
rumors and scares, while often
bringing about strikes in order to
maintain their services"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12

OSSINING, N. Y, Dec. I2.-Mrs.
Fannie Soper, who was to have
been executed January 8 for killing
her third husband, Deputy Sheriff
Harry Soper, in his home in Boquct,
n. Y, has received an indefinite
stay Of execution. Mrs. Soper is a
grandmother.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12
$4,000 BL AZE
IN Ar. NlGT0N
OFFICE
Dairy cisterns Save Part Of
Lyon Village Building.
Firemen Elect

-
ARLINGTON COUNTY, Dec. H.
Fire Of undetermined origin destroy
ed part Of the office building O1 the
firm Of Lyon and Fitch. owners and
developers Of Lyon Village, last
night Damage of $4,000 was
done TO the building and valuable
records and maps.
Had it not been for the water
pumped into the building from two
Is, 000-galIon cisterns at the Ar
lington dairy, about 500 feet from
the building, the building would
have been destroyed.
The flaring blaze brought hun
dreds to the scene. Citizens car
G. w. Fitch, member Of the drTa.
at once.
The Arlfngton-Fairfax Volunteer
Firemenss Association elected James
r. Mossburg. president: Robert e.
Jansen, Of Cherrydale, secretary;
and G. @. Donaldson, Of CherrydaIe,
treasurer. The election OF fire
marshall win be held at the Jan
uary meeting.
The claim that the section south
VI Lu6 highway UT1u&6 Known as
South Washington is not part Of
Arlington county, was settled today
with announcement by Common.
wealth Attorney william G. Cloth
that the section IN question is a
part of Arlington county, and that
all persons doing business on this
side Of the river will be required
to display Virginia automobile tags.
James M. Hayes, motor vehicle
commissioner for Virginia, has no
titled NJ. o. Eldridge. District traf-
fic commissioner, that persons CIV
ing addresses in Virginia applying
for 1925 tags must be refused.
state Senator Frank L. Ball,
confined to his home by Illness,
was reported greatly improved to-
day.
Fairfax will be represented Dy
M. e. Church and George B. Robey,
Wednesday, at the hearing on the
proposed increased rates Of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company, now going on before the
State corporation commission. A
strong protest will be made.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12
Bred RuchhoIz Honored

Fred Buchholz, Occidental Hotel
proprietor, has been elected district
chairman of the Elite Restaurant
teurs of America, succeeding his
father, the late Gus Buchholz, who
was chairman of the association for
many years. Buchholz, q member
of the District Of Columbia bar and
graduate Of Georgetown Law
School, has been running the Occi-
dental since his fathers death.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12
10 Serve Communion

The Sacrament OF Holy Com
munion will be administered Sunday
at Hamline Methodist Episcopal
Church, Fourteenth and Emerson
DR.. Herson will speak at the
morning and evening services.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12
Canadian Wheat

WINNIPEG, Dec. 12.-opening
wheat prices today were: December
1853, UP az; May 1.57@1.55, up 4.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12

You will be amazed and fascinated
when you read .Ty CObb's AutObi-
Ography, which begfas in The Times
next Monday
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12

Thrilling, exciting, inspiratiOnal--
Tv CObb's Autobiography, which be-
gins In The Times next Monday
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12
QUARANTINE ON FRUIT
AND ROSES IS COMING

Notice Of a quarantine to prevent
importation into the United States
Of fruit and rose stalks, used in
grating for the growing Of new
species,I is announced today by the
Department OF Agriculture.
The date has not been set as the
department plans to allow a hear
Ing for importers and growers.
The quarantine, according to de-
partment officials is proposed as
preventative for infection which. 1t
is claimed, is caused by these i'm
ported products, coming largely
from England, France and Spain.
AS the result of many years of
research and cross breeding, the
development OF rustproof wheat
is claimed by South Dakota grain
expert.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-12-12

State Senator Frank L. Ball.
confined to his home by Illness,
was reported greatly improved to-
day.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

porch vine, of course, because they
grew quickly. Selma, city-bred, was
ignorant of varieties but insisted she
wanted an old-fashioned garden
marigolds, pinks, mignonette, phlox.
She and Roelf dug, spaded, planted.
Her trousseau was Of the scantiest.
Pervus' household was already
equipped with such linens as they
would need. The question of a we'd
ding gown troubled her until Maartje
suggested that she be married in the
old Dutch wedding dress that lay in
the brides chest in Selina's bedroom.
"A real Dutch BRIDE" Maartje said.
Your man will think that is fine. "
Pervus was delighted. Selma basked
in his love like kitten in the sun.
She was, after all, very lonely little
bride with only two photographs on
the shelf in her bedroom to give her
courage and counsel. The old Dutch
wedding gown was many inches too
large for her. The skirt-band over
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proportionate. The name Dirk had
sounded to Selma like something tail,
straight, and slim. Pervus had chosen
it. 1t had been his grandfather'a
name.
Sometimes, during those months,
Selma would look back on her nrst win
ter in High Prairie-that winter of
the icy bedroom, the chill black
drum, the schoolhouse fire, the chill
blains, the Pool portland 1t seemed
a lovely dream; a time of ease, of free
dom, of careless happiness.
Pervus DeJong loved his pretty
young wife, and she him. But young
love thrives on color, warmth, beauty.
1t becomes prosaic and inarticulate
when forced to begin it's day at four
IN the morning by reaching blindly,
dazedly, for limp and obscure garments
dangling from bedpost or chair, and to
end that day at nine, numb and sodden
with WEAKNESS, after seventeen hours
Of physical labor.
1t was wet summer. Pervus'
choice tomato plants, so carefully set
out in the hope of a dry season, be-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
Disabled Veterans to Meet
at Omaha June % to 81

Omaha.-Disabled American vet
Grams fifth annual national conven-
ton, to be held in Omaha, Neb., June
% to q inclusive, will have many
cOlorful and impressive features, in
Guiding the parade of wounded
and disabled veterans, headed by
a division of blind veterans; the
public opening session in the
Municipal auditorium with Madame
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, the be-
loved prima donna and "Gold Star
Mother" singing for her boys" {;
a great open-air demonstration of
brotherhood and good will, in a nat
ural amphitheater just outside of
Omaha, on Sunday, June 81, the day
preceding the opening of the conven-
ton, members and heads of all re-
ligious denominations taking part, with
choirs bands, army planes and other
units assisting; and numerous other
outstanding events.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
CEN. M|LESFALLS
DEAD At CIRCUS
Veteran Indian Fighter
Dies During Performance
at Washington.

Washington.-Lieut. Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, retired, famous American SOL
der, dropped dead of heart disease
here.
Death occurred while General Miles
was attending circus performance,
at which Mrs. Coolidge also was pres
ent.
His old foes, the Indians, were just
entering the arena as he was stricken.
The general had apparently been
in the best of health. He was eighty
six years old, but despite his advanced
age he had taken his usual interest in
public affairs. When he started for
the circus performance there was no
hint of illness.
Was With Grandchildren.
The old Indian fighter was sitting
on the third row of the circus stands
when he tainted, falling into the arms
of DR.. Arthur w. Craig, who was i'm
mediately behind him. Doctor Craig
and others removed him to a position
under the seats and then to a point
outside the tents, where he died.
The general was accompanied by
Mrs. w. B. Noble, mother of his
daughter-in-law, and several of his
grandchildren. The opening of the
pageant of the circus had just begun
when he collapsed.
The body was removed to the Cas-
ualty hospital, where Acting Coroner
Martyr issued a certificate of death
due to myo-carditis and acute dilatioh
of the heart
General Miles left clerical job to
join the army in the Civil war at the
age Of twenty-five. At twenty-five he
was a general commanding $4,000 men.
He fought Indians on the plains for
twenty years, led the army of occu-
patton into Porto Rico during the
Spanish-American war His greatest
disappointment was when he was not
permitted part in the World war.
He had been retired for age in 1903.
He was born in Westminster, Mass,
April 8, 1889, of an old American fam
lily. He was made lieutenant general
at the age of sixty.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
Rookie Willing
to Admit Fault

1t was during the first month of
the first officers camp at Fort Har-
rison, when the rigOr of discipline
was being drilled into the embryo
officers, that local boy, trying with
all his soul TO make good" found,
much to his diSmay, that he was
standing for inspection with a but
ton missing on his blouse which all
militarists know is a grave offense.
The general was coming down the
line, and as he came closer the young
man determined to speak out, if ques-
toned, and admit the fault.
With the certainty of long training,
the stern generals eagle eye fell on
the unbuttoned blouse, as is inevitable
in such circumstances.
Have you no button there?" he
asked
NO, quickly answered the ready
neophyte
mo what?" sharply corrected the
officer.
mo button" almost shouted the
young man in his eagerness and ex-
element of the moment-Indianap
News.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
"Farm Work Grand! Farm Work 10
Slave Work"

came draggled gray specters in a
waste of mire. OF fruit the field bore
one tomato the size of marble.
For the rest, the crops were moder.
ately successful on the DeJong place.
But the work necessary to make this so
was heartbreaking Selma had known,
during her winter at the Pools, that
Kaas, Roelf, and old Jakob worked
curly and late, but her months there
lad encompassed what is really the
truck farmers leisure period. She had
arrived in November. She had mar
ried in May. From May until October
it was necessary to tend the fields with
a concentration amounting to fury.
Selma had never dreamed that human
beings toiled like that for sustenance'
Toll was a thing she had never en-
countered until coming to High Prairie.
Now she saw her husband wrenching a
living out Of the earth by sheer mus
Gle, sweat, and pain. During June,
July, August, and September the good
black prairie soil for miles around was
teeming, a hotbed Of plenty. There
was born in Selma at this time feel
ing for the land that she was never to
lose. Perhaps the child within her
had something to do with this. She
was aware of a feeling of kinship with
the earth; an illusion of splendor, of
fulfillment.
AS cabbages had been cabbages, and
no more, to Klaas Pool, so, to Pervus,
these carrots, beets, onions, turnips,
and radishes were just so much prod
uce, to be planted, tended, gathered,
marketed. But to Selma, during that
summer, they became a vital part in
the vast mechanism of living world.
Pervus, earth, sun, rain, all elemental
forces that labOred to produce the food
for millions of humans. She thought
of Chicagos children. If they had red
cheeks, clear eyes, nimble brains 1t
was because Pervus brought them the
food that made them so. Something
of this she tried to convey to Pervus.
He only stared, his blue eyes wide and
unresponsive.
Farm work grand! Farm work is
slave work. Yesterday, from the load
Of carrots in town l didn't make
enough to bring you the goods for the
child so when 1t comes you should have
clothes for it. It's better l feed them
to the live stock"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
Transfers Life Saved

Peterson Ointment Co., Inc. had a
very severe sore on my leg for years. /
am a teamster / tried all medicines and
salves, but without success. / tried doc
tors, but they failed to cure me. / couldn't
sleep for many nights from pain. Doctors
said could not live for more than two
years. Finally Petersons Ointment was
recommended to me ana by its use the
sore was entirely healed. Thankfully
yours, William Haase, West Park, Ohio,
March q, 1915, care p. G.. Reitz, Box 1913.
Peterson says: Il am proud of the
above letter and have hundreds of 9TH
ers that tell of wonderful cures OF
Eczema Piles and Skin Diseases"
Petersons Ointment is IS cents
box. Mail orders filed By Peterson
Ointment Co, Buffalo.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
BIC
By EDNA FERBER
60, Doubleday, Page & Cs.)
WNU Service.

air of fatality. 1t was as If she were
being drawn inexorably, against her
will, her judgment, her plans, into
, something sweet and terrible. When
with Pervus she was elated, gay, vol
uble. R.e talked little; looked at her
dumbly, worshipingly
There were days when the feeling OF
unreality possessed her. she, truck
farmers wife, living in High Prairie
| the rest Of her days! Why, no! No!
Was this the great adventure that her
father had always spoken of? She.
who was going to be a happy way
farer down the path of life-any one
Of dozen things. This High Prairie
winter was to have been only an epi-
sode. Not her life! She looked at
Maartje. Oh, she'd never be like that
That was stupid, unnecessary. Pink
and blue dresses in the house, for her.
Frills on the window curtains. Flow
ers in bowls.
Some Of the pangs and terrors with
which most prospective brides are as
sailed she contided to Mrs. Pool while
that active lady was slamming about
the kitchen.
Did you ever feel scared and-and
sort Of-scared when you thought
about marry, Mrs. Pool?"
Maartje POOLS hands were in a great
batch of bread dough which she pun
meled and slapped and kneaded Wig
orously. She shook out a handful of
flour on the baking board while she
held the dough mass in the other hand,
then pumped it down and again be-
gan to knead, both hands doubled into
fists.
She laughed a short little laugh. 81
ran away"
"You did! You mean you really ran
but why2 Didn't you lo--like
KlaaS?"
Maartje Pool kneaded briskly, the
color high in her cheeks, what with
the vigorous pummeling and rolling,
and something else that made her look
| strangely young for the moment-girl-
lsh, almost. "Sure liked him. liked
him"
But you ran away?"
"Not far. 1 came back. Nobody
ever knew ran, even. But 1 ran. l
knew"
"Why did you come back?"
Maartje elucidated. her philosophy
without being in the least aware that
1t could be called by any such high
sounding name. "You can't run away
far enough. Except you stop living
you can't run away from life"
The girlish look had fled. She was
world-old. Her strong arms ceased
their pounding and humping for a mo-
ment. On the steps outside Klaas and
Jakob we're scanning the weekly re-
ports preparatory to going into the city
late that afternoon.
Selma had the difficult task Of win
ming Roelf to her all over again. He
was like a trusting little animal, who,
wounded by the hand he has trusted,
Is shy of it. Still, he could not with
stand her long. Together they dug
and planted flower beds in Pervus'
dingy front yard. 1t was too late for
tulips now. Pervus had brought her
some seeds from town. They ranged
all the way from peoples to asters ;
from purple iris to morning glories.
The last named were to form the back
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
Mrs. Day, Acid Thrower,
Gets I to II Years in Prison

Los Angeles, Cal.-Bernice Day, re.
Gently convicted Of disfiguring, with
acid, the face of her husband, Darby
Day, Jr., son of Chicago capitalist,
was sentenced to serve from one ia
fourteen years in San Quentin prison
after Judge Carlos Hardy had denied
the motion of her attorneys for new
trial. The defense served notice OF
appeal.
Arguments for a new trial were
based on new evidence that the young
woman was insane Alienists for the
prosecution testified, however that
while she was dull she had the men.
tally of girl of fourteen, sufficient
to distinguish between right and
wrong.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
(To BE coNTINUED.)
Cruel Old Custom,

There was a time when Laughing"
faces were actually manufactured to
meet the demand of those who wished
to be amused. Up TO the end of the
reign of James II, human sculpture"
work was carried out by rowing tribes
of gypsies called COmprachios, who
were of Spanish origin. They bought
and even kidnapped children, and prac-
ticed science or art of human disfig-
uration.
Children thus treated grew up with
an immovable and fantastic grin. They
were an attraction at all successful
travelling booths and entertainments
until the custom was represss& By
William Ill
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
SWAMP ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine
for durable ailments of the kidneys,
liver and bladder.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has proven
to be, just the remedy needed in thou.
sands upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp-Root makes friends quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is
soon realized in most cases. 1t is
gentle, healing vegetable compound
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
UNI and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N Y, for
SAMPLE bottle. When writing be sure
and mention this paper.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
Lytell-Windsor Bridal
Attendants Also Wed

Los Angeles, Cal.-It became known
that Edwin Carewe, director, and MARY
Akin, well-known star, were married
at Juarez, Mexico, following the cere.
mony which made Bert Lytell and
Claire Windsor man and wife. In.
formation as to the Carewe-Akin nm.
tails came in a telegram from the
bridegroom to friends here. The
couple had gone to Mexico as best man
and matron of honor at the Lytell.
Windsor wedding.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

Tapped her slim waist; her slender lit
tie bosom did not fill out the generous
width of the bodice; but the effect of
the whole was amazingly quaint as
well as pathetic.
They were married at the Pools.
Klaas and Maartje had insisted on
furnishing the wedding supper-ham,
chickens, sausages, cakes, pickles, beer.
The Reverend Decker married them,
and all through the ceremony Selma
chided herself because she could not
keep her mind on his words in the
fascination of watching his short.
stubby beard as it waggled with every
motion Of his jaw. Pervus looked
stiff, solemn and uncomfortable in his
wedding blacks-not at all the hand
some giant of the everyday corduroys
and blue shirt. In the midst of the
ceremony Selma had her moment of
panic when she actually saw herself
running shrieking from this company,
this man, this house, down the road,
on, on toward-toward what? The
feeling was so strong that she was
surprised to find herself still standing
there in the Dutch wedding gown an
swering II do" in the proper place.
After the wedding they went
straight to belongs house In May
the vegetable farmer cannot neglect
his garden even for day. The house
had been made ready for them.
Throughout the supper Selma had
had thoughts which were so foolish
and detached as almost to alarm her.
Now am married. 1 am Mrs. Per-
vus DeJong. That's pretty name. It
would look quite distinguished on a
calling card, very spidery and fine:
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
Four DrouUn When Steamer
Sinks in Cumberland RiDer

Nashville, Tenn -Four persons wara
drowned in the Cumberland river near
Wooddale Grove, ten miles from Nash
vile. when the steamboat Fisk sank
Five other1 on the boat swan ashore.
The drowned, all of Nashville. in
Guided Capt Ed Bell, pilot, negro
man and two negro women.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
Cuban. Congressman Who
Killed Man Assossinoted

Havana, Representative 10.
seph r. (Pepe) Cano, leader of the
Liberal party, was assassinated shortly
before midnight by one of three mon
Two years ago Cano killed Congress-
man Manuel Alfonso and fed TO I'm
rope. After an amnesty bill was
signed he returned.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
Chapter vi

,, l"ey were married the following
Ny 4S' Just two months later. Selma
h, "S at once bewildered and calm: re-
ss nous and content. Overlapping these
o"o'ons was something like grim
ilai ~. Beneath them, something
''A' fright. She moved with a strange
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
More Honor for Smiths

The two largest colleges for women
in America, Wellesley and Smith, ceIe-
brate their semi-centennial this year.
Both founded in 1875, it is coincidence
that their founders should have had
the same surname, the good old name
Of Smith.