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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
LAST DISTRICT
FIRE HORSES
RETIRED
Barney, Gene and Tom Are
Given Great Ovation
BY Throngs

A dramatic chapter OF District
history was enacted on North Caro-.
lima avenue southeast today when
Barney. Gene and Tom, Washing
tons last team OF fire horses,
answered their last alarm through
the lanes of cheering men. women
and children who had come from
every section Of the city to pay
homage to the faithful equines. i
When the trio of handsome gray
horses came painting back rom
their last run they were greeted
by Commissioner Frederick Fen.
ming. Fire Chief George Watson
and Fire Chief Frank j. Wagner,
retired. Each OF them held APP
propriately inscribed .wreatns beside
the horses while scores OF motion
picture and still photographers.
both professional and amateur,
snapped the picture.
Former Chief Touched.
Perhaps the most affected person
In the assemblage was former Chief
Wagner who has been retired from
service since 1920
bought these horses Chief
Wagner said With pride today, md
syOA ASe-tA OCgS9 NEOuA0uaJ aKk1tSS IHl3
opportunity to- do them honor.
They have done their duty and,
like me. are in the, twilight of their
career. =
Precisely at 10 O'Clock the gong
at the No. 5 Engine Company was
sounded. For the last time, II was
answered by the wliinnyinE of
horses soon to give way to the
rvhft. az fha Yn0fnr.n
A. the brancings grays cIattered
out Of the engine house, drawing
apparatus. which is Anticipated IN
this modern age, q tremendous tu-
mutt went UP from the crowd.
Amid wild cheering and hand
clapping Fireman u. I'll. Gately,
proudly drove the engine up az far
as Lincoln Park. There they IN.
sttnctiyely went to the fire plug,
and then turned back for home.
Would Eat Tribute.
When the horses arrived back
at the engine company they created
waves OF nlerriment by attempting
to eat the huge wreaths OF flowers
bestowed upon them
At this point Commissioner Fen.
ming formally turned the horses
over to Superintendent Fay, Of
Blue Plains. 1t il to tn Clover
fields OF Blue Plains that the trio
win today be retired with nothing
more to do: than to take the old
folks at the home on q ride now
anu LHeHs 80
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
Russians Won Victory
At Canton Americans
Safe, Consul Reports

I The capture Of Canton by Canton
ese troups was largely: due to the
direction. Of the warfare by Russian
military advisers. ACCORDING to dis
patches Teceiv III today by the State
Department from American officials
In China. :.
The YuHnanese were completely
routed and all who remained in the
city of Canton surrendered to the
Cantonese according to dispatch
received from Consul General
Douglas W. Jenkins.
All Americans as well as their
property were reported safe. but the
Consul General had not had direct
with the outlying
missions whom his disnatch was
sent.
The. Cantonese generals. when,
they entered the city" jenkins re-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
l.ADvERTIsEMENT

Prices realized on Swift & Company
sales OF carcass beef in Washington,
D. C., for week ending Saturday. June
13. 1925. on shipments sold out. ranged
from IL 90 Oef4s to 1880 cents per pound
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15

FEAR AFRICAN INSECTS
BROUGHT EPIDEMIC

CHESTER. Pa. June 15 Gov.
eminent. State and local health 81.
ficials are ENGAGED ii 4 campaign
to stem the epidemic Of dengue. or
s.bone fever. d tropical disease
which appeared here several weeks
ago There now are 800 Or more
cases Iii this city and surrounding
bOroughs and ii il feared that the
disease may spread TO other large
centers Of Population.
The officials are directing their
efforts to rid the city of mosquitoes,
which are carriers Of the disease.
Tropical Insects entirely alien to
this section 81 the country are be-
lieved to have brought 1t. The
mosquitoes are supposed to have
entered this port on q steamship
from Africa
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STAYS
WIFE BX..GAS
CONTINUED from First Page.l

Continued from First Paeel
and / placed the cone over her
mouth, placed cotton in her nostrils
and she died shortly after inhaling
the gas"
shortly afterward, the dentist
covered the body with tarpaulin and
thrust 1t into the cistern beneath
the cabin. according to District At
torney Keyes.
Two nights later. according to
the authorities, Young took his
wife's son, Charles Patrick Grogan,
eighteen, heir to the millions Of the
late Pat Grogan, ripe olive" king,
to the cabin.
Odor From Body
The body had started to give
odor. Young declared accoT ding
to detectives who questioned him,
and he had the boy mix concrete
outside the cabin, which the den
tise poured over the corpse in the
cistern.
The boy, dazed by the news his
step.father, his pal since his
fathers death, had confessed, was
taken to the home OF his grand
father, r. w. Hunt.
Young, according to Keyes, kill
ed his wife because he was money
mad" and the dentist undoubtedly
planned to wrest the Grogan for
tune from his step-son by any
means necessary, the district at
torney declared.
Insanity, it was predicted today,
would be his defense.
"I'm crazy" Young told detec'
tives. "Of course. I'm crazy or l
would not have done what / have. "
An inferior complex, nurtured
from childhood until it gave the
dentist the uncomfortable desire to
kill, will be the basis of the Young
defense. 1t was said.
II fully expect medical experts
and alienists will be retained in an
effort to save Young from the gal
lows" Keyes said.
The district attorney said he be-
lieved at the same time he planned
the murder the dentist also planned
a defense In the event evidence
against him was uncovered.
Dorothy Leopold, Doctor Young,s
beautiful young assistant, assisted
the authorities in unraveling the
murder mystery. According to the
district attorneys office. she was
said to have urged Young to talk
freely, after she herself had been
questioned regarding a diamond
ring owned by the murdered woman
which the dentist had given her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
BUSINESS
IGNORES
NOTE

CONTINUED from First Page.)
local political chief who in turn de-
fies the state authorities. It has
been President Gales purpose to
correct this condition.
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CANTON 4 R NJ 7
Stays ZOO
J lcontinted from Tirst Page.l

CONTINUED from First Page.)
marines. The Chinese government
has made an official protest to
Great Britain against the incident.
The powers are in complete accord.
s
Demand War on Britain.
SHANGHAI, June is. Open de.
nands that. China declare war on
Great Britain were being made by
Chinese radicals here: today
The demands came as a climax to
& wave of anti British feeling that
has been. sweeping over China as
the result OF the killing Of eight
Chinese by British marines In
Hankow last week.
Sections Of the Chinese press to-
day are publishing warlike edi
toriaIs urging the immediate sew
erance of diplomatic relations with
Britain.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
D|P[ O|NAT SUED
BY HEIRESS
WIFE
Mrs. Elizabeth Huebscher Says
Former Embassy Aide Here
Treated Her Is ilnferiof'

CINCINNATI, ohJo. June 15.-
Mrs. Elizabeth Huebscher has filed
suit for q divorce from Carl
+. EIuebscher, for years prominently
connected with the Swiss embassy
at Washington, y. He now, is
said to be mysteriously absent and
q resident OF Canada. Mrs. Hueb-
scher, daughter OF w. Kesiey
Echoepf, millionaire president
OF the Cincinnati Traction Com.
pany, also asks custody Of their
child.
The Huebschers were married -
Cincinnati October IA, 1915, but
separated In November, 1928, this
being their third parting, the petit
ton alleges. That the defendant
refused to treat his wife as his
equal, but peculiarly as an inferior,
subject to his demands and con-
troll; that he resented her friend
ships with other women, her rela-
tons with her own family and her
love for her own children, one CT
whom has died.
She further alleges that he com.
planned of her household manage
ment that he treated her with
gross indignity" and caused her
humiliation in the presence Of
others in high society circles; that
he Is a man of violent temper and
that she frequently was in fear Of
her life.
1t was in October, 1915, that Miss
Elizabeth Allison Schoepf, only
daughter of w. Kelsey Schoepf.
the, Cincinnati traction magnate,
and Mrs. Schoepf, became the bride
of Mr.. Hubscher.
The ceremony was observed with
oId-world pomp at st. Paul's Epis
copal Cathedral, Cincinnati. The
Washington newspapers of the day
devoted much space to chronicline
the event, which was the social
event of the season.
Many Washingtonians high IN
society journeyed to Cincinnati to
attend the wedding. The late
Bishop Harding, who had baptized
and confirmed the bride, performed
the wedding ceremony.
At the head of the chancel steps
twin flags, the emblems of the
United States and Switzerland, were
placed.
AS a special favor for his bride,
Mr.. Hubscher sent to Switzerland
for a quantity of edelweiss, the ma
tional flower. Sprays Of edelweiss
held the brides veil in place in
stead of the conventional orange
blossoms.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
SIX GIRLS OVERCOME
BY "PEREUME'S'A ODOR

PACIFIC GROVE, Cal, June IS.
-Sixs girls are recovering after
having been overcome in a class
room in the grammar school Of this
city when Edna Davidson, four
teen, uncorked a bottle supposed
to be perfume which she said had
been given to her by a strange
woman.
The girls swooned when Miss
Davidson began playfully to, dash
the liquid about on her classmates.
The girls were placed under the
care of physicians and the bottle
has been sent to the University
Of California laboratory for analysis.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
walsh WIN. NO Serve.

Senator Thomas j. Walsh an
.noGnced today that he would not be
one of the defense attorneys in the
approaching evolution trial at Day.
ton. Tenn.
81 am not practicing law any
more Walsh said; land besides am
planning to spend the summer in
Europe" y
Walsh said he had received no in.
vitation to join William Jennings
Bryan in the Scopes case.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-15
empty Ice Box
Cause of Divorce

And Fay King has this to say
about ice in the New York
Evening Journal:
Sometimes when you hear of a
marriage that is about to bust up
you wonder what a guy like that
can be thinking of to leave a
gorgeous creature like that. I'll
bet they might have lived happily
ever after If there had been a
little more in the ice box and a
little less on the dresser"
Beware of the empty ice
boz. Fill the ice chamber
Nth pure American Ice,
then you're ready for the
ether supplies.
American
ICE
Company
e.'.- .-:-,-'... 's--..- -.
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TRIAL
To BE BIC

Continued from First Page.l
took part in a debate in New York
with a leading evolutionist. There
well-known judges presided.
challenged my opponent to produce
one fact that would prove his con-
tention and he couldn't do it. It's
all theory"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-19
ON THE BANKS OF
THE WABASH

The Republicans in the 69th Con.
gress will gain a temporary political
advantage from the death of Senator
Ralston of Indiana, as Governor
Jackson is Republican and has the
appointing of senator to serve I'M
til the election next year. This will
reduce the number of Democrats to
80 and increase the Republican
strength, real and nominal, to So.
The Governor Of Indiana, having
senatorial ambitions Of his own, Is
faced by feelings persisting from
previous struggles between the In
diana factions. If he appoints Bev-
eridge he Is not to please Postmaster
General New. Moreover there will
be. year from November, an cleo
ton of two Senators in that State, as
Senator Watson's term Is to expire.
OF course he would like to succeed
himself and Beveridge would have
contested his election had not SEN
ator Ralston died. And this recalls
the charges Of political "doin's" to
defeat him at the time when Rails .
ton was elected. the bitterness of
which 10 not supposed entirely to
have been smoothed away.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-19
NAVY DAY, OCT. a7

Oct. 81 has been designated as
Navy Day. Also it is the birthday
anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt.
than whom the Navy never had a
stauncher friend. On this day every
naval station and vessel in the
country is open to public inspection.
The public should take advantage
of the opportunity. The more one
knows about the navy the more ap-
preciative he becomes. Whether
aircraft be placed under a depart
ment of defense and whatever the
so-cared experts may predict for
the supremacy of the air. that mo-
ment has not yet arrived il ever 1t
does. Today the Navy is essential
to our defense: it is the only prac-
teal arm we have for carrying out
a recognized principle in defensive
warfare, and that is to strike the
enemy that attacks at his base.
Rear Admiral Dismukes. COM
raandant of the U. s. Navy Yard at
Portsmouth, n. H., invites the public
to inspection on Navy Day. has
detailed guides to escort visitors
through the shops and on the sub
marines; a military drill will be had
and an exhibition of deep sea div
ing will be included in the program
In his letter Admiral Dismukes
takes occasion to say: I'VE have
assumed, or had thrust upon US, the
vast responsibility of the defense OF
civilization. AS we recall our in
ability at time of the declaration OF
war to transport our forces to the
scene of action but for the assistance
Of Great Britains ships. 1t occurs to
us that in defending civilization we
should SO conduct our own affairs as
to command cooperation. That
would include maintaining a navy
capable of doing our share in the
maintenance Of the worlds law and
order.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-19
81 title JACK ~ Fl
i Rabbit - !. 81
He by David Cory "a S-@k
!. t,v David Cory

Through the misty autumn haze
cleans the crimson woodland ways;
Golden sunbeams see the leaves
All a-tWinkle with the breeze
While amid this brilliant crew
A tall ash CLOVIS in purple hue.
"Ha. hal" laughed Little JACK
Rabbit. as he hoped up the WIND
ing Trail through the Shady FOREST
his knapsack bouncing up and down
on his back and his red striped
candy cane swinging from his lelt
paw. "Old Mother Nature has been
BUSY with her paint brush.
mo, she hasn't" all OF a sudden
shouted a hoarse voice, and up new
Professor Jim Grow. his WISDOM
Book under a wing and a little plach
cap on his wise old head.
Dear me-" sighed the little bunny
looking UP at the old black bro
who had perched just overhead
who. then, turned the leaves suci
lovely colors.' ,,,,
she did but not with a pam
brush" answered Professor jim
Crow opening his case and placing
his ,spectacles on his beak. lilel
turning the pages of his wisdom
Book. he cleared his throat ano
began to read aloud:
in the autumn, the leaves give ul
their pulp. Little by little the greer
color draws in toward the centra
stem and the brown borders widen
1t would seem almost as II the FAIRIES
were squeezing the pulp back through
the leaf stem into the twlg.
I'D like to see the fairies
work." interrupted the little rabbit
smiling up at the old crow.
stuff and nonsense" answered
that wise old bird. The fairies nave
nothing to do with it. Mother Ma
ture attends to all this. Listen
moment longer" and again the WISE
old professor bird began to read;
Each leaf is nurse to bud ina
is growing between its base and the
twig. All through the spring anc
summer the sap that runs vi
through the tree has helped to feec
this little bud; but in the late
autumn, when the sap ceases to now
the careful mother tree takes bacf
the green pulp from the leaves be
fore they fall to the ground. Tht
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-19
Wet Weather
MenaceS Potatoes

Bangor. Oct. 1.-THE extremely
wet weather of the past month has
played havoc with Penobscot county
potatoes, a large percentage of which
are still in the ground and many that
were planted in low lying land are
under water. Many of them are rot
ting and in anticipation of shortage
the price of tubers is advancing
steadily, an increase ranging from %
to Is cents bushel being made dur
ing the week.
1t was reported today that the av-
erage price per bushel is around
$1.75 and the farmers are not anx-
ious to sell at this figure, anticipat
ing higher prices later on. During
the fall Of 1924 potatoes came into
the local markets at $1,25 per bushel
but this was the top price and the
decline was steady from that time
onward, many being sold later in the
season as low as SO cents per
buShel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-19

This country gave France a great
bargain in the purchase of the ma
terial we had on her soil for war
purposes. There were large quanti-
ties of food, clothing, shoes. tools
and other valuable material that she
bought cheaply and sold at a profit,
although we gave, her until 1929 in
which to pay the bill of S4OO,o00,ooo.
1t Is entirely unlikely that she would
care to default, as by no hocus-
pocus can she delude her people
into believing that. after war was
over, We should have rendered these
as a gift. Under the arrangement
whereby she would pay forty mil
lions annually this debt was in
cluded. If she refuses those terms
this debt become due as whole in
1929 and it might bother France to
pay 1t. "a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-19
Red Cross Will
Hold Roll Call
November II to rs

Washington, Oct. 17.-(AP(-Ameri-
can disasters this year while fewer
than the record number of last year
exacted a greater life and property
toll, the American Red Cross an
nounced today in it's annual report for
the year ending June So
The tornado that cut a swath through
the middle west last spring alone
caused 796 deaths and MANNED 2239,
the report said while the disaster cas-
ualties of the entire year preceding
numbered only 735 dead and not quite
1000 injured.
In preparation for whatever emer-
eences may be in store for the nation
during the next year, it was an
nounced, the ninth annual roll call of
the Red Cross will be held November
t1-26
The report showed that the Red
Cross rendered service in 80 disasters
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-19
Editors Letter Box
Look Before INVESTING

Daytona, Fla. Oct IA.
Editor, Kennebec Journal:
You may have wondered what this
Florida proposition would sound
like from an eye witness whom you
knew.
The stories which you hear are not
fairy stories, about the money being
made down here-there is plenty of
it being made-in fact nearly every
one here on the job. who looks at
property before buying it, makes
money.
1t is the fellow who isn't here who
is going to get his fingers burned
buying property which he has not
seen.
Surprising Augusta should have a
boom and some enterprislng real
estate man should buy Sidney bog
and cut it into house lots and bust
ness blocks--then should sell them
by mail to people in San Francisco.
My advice to people in Maine
would be not TO buy a square foot
down here that they hadn't seen
themselves.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-19
BOTH SIDES AND THE MIDDLE

The Presidents Air Board has
heard both sides and the middle,
but il anyone following the testi-
mony which has been given before 1t
knows what the conclusion should be
doubtless the Board would find the
information very acceptable. Re-
putable authorities have declared
one opinion and equally reputable
authorities have declared another IN
opposition. Colonel Millers mucn
touted exposure consisted chiefly Oh
old charges, in some degree cor
roborated by evidence and IN some
degree refuted.
There has been lambasting OF the
influence of politics, stinslness Oh
Congress, and all that and the chalf-
man of the House committee on APP
nropriations retorts with charges Oh
extrava cance on the part OF the
Navv and the Army in an orgy Oh
experimentation. Then comes Or
Vile Wright. who is supposed to
know as much about aviation as
can the chairman Of a congressional
committee, and he declares that the
work of the Army engineering d.
vision was very good. that the
money has been wisely spent. thai
the8 experiments, such as the flight
to Hawaii, have been very heip1ul
toward better development OF air.
craft. though he urged the develop
ment of commercial aviation as
means for building up an adequate
air service.
General Drum asked very
pertinent question of those VINO
propose separation of the air SER
vice. 1t was to the effect that while
the Army and the Navy have dis
tinctly separate missions, each in Its
own sphere being able to seize and
hold strategic areas, this cannot be
done by aircraft; that control of the
air is of a temporary character. II
may be used to carry out long range
0ONS
the artillery. for shorter range, and
that it should no more be separate
than should the artillery; that air.
craft never may be able to win a
war against a determined people.
And SO it has gone. Some Of the
criticism will be found helpful, we
hope; some of it appears justified
and some of it doesn't. Either the
present policy should be maintained
or a new one substituted, as policy
the country must have for its agen-
cies to function. The determining OF
that correctly is no slight under
taking. And even if there be sue
cess in doing it there yet will be
critics, for critics have their place In
the scheme Of things mundane.