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FEARS FOR Lift,
WIFE SAYS
HHHH HU =. s
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Mrs Mary r. Bartender, 81
Emerson ST. q. w. who charged
that her husband, Edward Bart
emeier. gasoline dealer, 90 threat
ened her that she hid all firearms
in their home. will be protected by
an Injunction in the future, accord
ing to the terms of decision ~
Justice Bailey in Equity Court.
The wife. represented by At.
torneys Raymond Neudecker and
Walter NJ. Shea, will also receive
alin1ony of $50 per month and the
custody of two daughters.
The wife had requested that the
court restrain her husband from
visiting or communicating with her
pending the outcome of her suit for
divorce.
Following her return from Canada
where she went on a vacation, Mrs.
Bartender claims her husband
ordered her out of their apartment,
threatening to kill her should sho
remain.
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WILL
STUDY D. c.

Senator Capper. chairman Of the
Senate District Committee, today re.
quested Senator William II. King
of Utah to reach Washington not
later than September Is for the pur.
pose Of holding a conference with
him on District affairs.
other members of the Senate Dis
trict Committee will be invited to
attend the conference. which is to
be held chiefly for the purpose Of
determining whether a District in
vestigation is necessary in advance
Of the converting of Congress.
Senator King has been a strong
advocate Of suoh an inquiry. and at
his office today it was declared he
probably would request Senator.
Capper to appoint a subcommittee
for the purpose of conducting the
investigation during the fall
months.
Taxation and public utilities are
the two leading issues before the
Senate District Committee. in the
view Of Senator King. Within the
past week he has been in commune.
cation with various Senators and
members Of the Public Utilities
Commission with reference to new
traction legislation, which he is
now engaged in framing.
Owing to the fact that the COM
ing session Of Congress will sbe
short session ending on March 4,
1927. it is Senator Capper's plan to
have important local legislation
ready for the consideration Of the
Senate when it convenes, so that
it can be enacted at an early late.
For that reason he hopes to have
the work of the Senate District
Committee under way within the
next six weeks.
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Ave. N. W., was run down in front
Of his home by an automobile
driven by Joseph Schwarzman n,
1850 Potomac Ave. 8. e. The
youth was taken home where his
slight injuries were treated.
Four others were injured in an
accident near Norbeck, Nd, and
the drivers of two matchines were
charged with reckless driving by
the Rockville police.
Four Hurt in Crash
The injured, all occupants OF
a car driven by e. NJ Sanford,
Of Silver Spring, Md, wers:
MRS. c. P. Mitchell. broken collar
bone; Mrs. E. M. Sanford, Miss
Yates, bruises. All were taken to
The driver OF the other car was
James e. Welsh, Of Redland, Md.
Ira Nicely, rs. of 1854 G. st.
N. E., received a badly cut wrist
and later was locked up, at the 18th
precinct police station charged
with driving while under the in.
fluence of intoxicants when his
taxicab, returning from the Naval
air station. Anacostia, D. c., turn.
ed over on the air station road.
In four other slight traffic &C
cidents yesterday the injured re.
fused treatment.
Stephen O'Neil, %, a mail car.
rier, Of 112 3rd St. n. f., died
in Casualty Hospital yesterday
from injuries received in a traf-
fic accident last Friday. An in
quest will be held at the District
morgue today.
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NUMISMAT les
WELCOMED

More than 200 amateur and pro.
fessional coin collectors from all
parts 81 the United States were vel
coined to the National Capital today
by Commissioners Proctor L. Dough-
erty, at the opening session of the
annual convention of the American
Numismatio Association in the Hotel
WASHINGTON.
Commissioner Dougherty was In
troduced by George S. Russell, OF
the District branch of the associa.
ton. after which the delegates as
sennbled on the south steps Of the
Treasury Department Building for
the convention photograph.
Visit Mt. Vernon
A bus trip to Alexandria and Mt
Vernon was scheduled for this after
noon.
Tomorrow morning the members
will visit the Bureau OF Engraving
and Printing, the National Museum
and the Capitol. The convention
will close at noon Thursday.
The association, which is 35 years
old. has more than 1000 members IN
the United States and Canada. John
Tug, of Bowie, Nd, Is secretary OF
the local district, which includes
the District, Maryland and Della
SI,OOO,O Exhibit
One million dollars worth Of metal
and paper money. which would not
buy an automobile on face denonni-
nation, was placed on exhibition to.
day in the rose room Of the Wash.
ington Hotel.
The annual banquet will be held
ut the Hotel Washington Wednesday
night.
The coin display includes a 1896
United States paper note the ex-
istence of which hitherto has been
unknown to modern collectors. w.
F.. Durham, of Chicago, is GUS
todian of a silver dollar Of 1904;
which is worth $4,000. He also owns
the rarest United States coin in
existence, the United States S.
gold piece Of 1892, valued at $1,000.
Moritz Wormser, retiring presi.
dent of the association, Is exhibiting
one Of the finest collections Of gold
and silver Czechoslovakian, Esthon-
ian, Polish and Russian coins.
Trained Waterman have been de-
tailed to guard the collection day
and night. Each coin and note
bears a microscopic Identification
mark by which it can be traced,
it was stated.
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GUNPLAY PROBE
IS ORDERED

Investigation Of the alleged
shooting by police Of the Fourth
Precinct at a fleeing Taotorist yes.
terday morning, resulting in a
crash and the serious injury of
three persons, was ordered today
by Major Edwin B. Hesse.
Inspector Louis J. Stoll was des-
ignated to make the investigation,
which also win include, an inquiry
into the failure Of the Fourth Pre-
cinct to report the shooting.
Major Hesse made 1t clear that
he has had no official report Of any
kind on the incident, and the inves-
tigation ordered is being made upon
the basis Of newspaper accounts OF
the shooting.
The pursued automobile at which
the policemen were shooting. ac-
cording to reports, finally crashed
into a brick wall surrounding Wash.
ington Barracks. at Water and r
SITS. s. w. No firearms were
found in the wrecked car or on its
occupants.
Policemen Howard e. Ogle and
John w. Wise. Of the Fourth Pre-
cinct, were in the police car. Ogle
only recently ION the carpet" for
alleged shooting at an automobile,
In defiance Of Hesse's edict, was
exonerated after a Federal agent,
also in the police automobile, took
the blame.
Feared Enraged Husband
The occupants Of the automobile
chased by Ogle who were injured
were:
Albert Rosebud. 4s. 7o4h Ninth
st. n. W.. possible fracture of skull,
at Emergency Hospital.
Frank Payne. 20, 1880 Howson st.
S. W.. cut and bruised; treated al
Emergency and later arrested.
charged with reckless drying.
Mrs. Viola Davis, u, s Wanders
Court s. W., cut and bruised; treated
at Emergency Hospital and then
went home.
According to the story told by
Payne after his arrest on the reck'
less driving charge, he was sitting
In his parked automobile with Rose
bud when the Davis girl came up
and said her husband was threaten.
ing her with a pistol. She asked
Payne to drive her to safety. 1t
was while doing this, he said, that
the police car gave chase and he
thought it was the husband follow
ing.
Other Accidents
Those injured in other accidents
were:
A young woman listed at Gar
field Hospital as Miss Shirley
Young, 30, Of 3123 Mt. Pleasant st.
n. w. Injuries possibly fatal re-
sulting from a collision between the
car in which she was riding and
another automobile on the Balti'
more Washington boulevard. The
young woman suffered four broken
ribs, a broken arm and shoulder.
and cut head. Charles P. McGin-
ley, 1925 Connecticut Ave. n. W.,
driver of the car she was in, was
uninjured.
James Mcfarland, 80, Hyatts.
vile, Nd, and Bernard Roth, 38, Of
Edmundston, Nd. were both badly
cut and bruised when their auto
mobile was in collision at Bladens-
burg, Md, early yesterday morning.
James E. Wills, driver of the ma
chine they were in, was fined $125
by Justice Of the Peace O'Neil, Of
Hyattsville. charged with driving
while under the influence Of intoxi-
cants.
George HUMPHREYS, 80, Of Alex
andria, Va, was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for cults and
bruises when their machine jumped
the curb at Pennsylvania Avenue
and Seventh Street Northwest.
David Coheas 1<b ct 2a2S Georgia
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BAD CHECK SENTENCE
OF 100 DAYS SUSPENDED

Suspended sentece of $50 days
was imposed on Bernard B. White
in court by Judge George II. Mac
donald today upon the mans con-
Tossing he had written check for
$3.50, knowing he had no POUNDS
in the bank, but intended to make
it good later.
Investigation of the case showed
White had never been arrested be-
fore. White promised to make the
check good by tonight and was
freed on probation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-23
YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY
TO STEALING MACHINE

Charles Rhodes, about "a years
old, Of 100 U ST. N. e, pleaded
guilty to stealing an automobile be.
longing to Charles H. Tiller when
arraigned in, Police Court today and
was held in $1,000 bond for the
Grand Jury.
Rhodes was arrested Saturday by
Policemen J. II. Major and c. J.
Butler in an alley In the rear of
U Street seated in the machine.
The automobile was reported
missing to the Twelfth precinct
July 4. Policeman Major identified
the automobile by the tagS,
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What's Doing Today
and Tomorrow

Today
coneert-Navy Band. Navy Yard. $50
p m. l
concsrt-Marine Band. Marine Bar
racks. $50 p. m. II.
coneert--Army band. Mt. Alto Hos
pital, 7:30 >. m
Convention - American Numismatlc,
Washington Hotel all day.
Exhibition-"Know Mississippi Better
train. Union Station; exhibits open all
) Exhibit-Amsriean Numisnatic, Rose
Room. Washington Hotel.
Tomorrow
Concert--soIdiers Home Band. SOL
diers Home. 5:4s p m.
Concert--Army Band, Walter Reed
Hospital. :s0 p. m.
Fifth and c Streets. Northeast, 1880
p. m.
Convention-Ameriean Nunismatic.
Washington Hotel, all day.
Exhibit-American Numismatic, Rose
Room, Washington Hotel, all day.
Enthusiastically scenes. given by
know Mississippi Better" party, New
National Museum Auditorium. $3.50
p. m. No charge.
Dance-Jewish Community Center
roof garden. 8 .. m.
Moonlight excursi0n---Maidelle JUNIOR
Social Club; Steamer 81. Johns leaves
Seventh st. Wharf 7:15 y. m.
Luueheon-Civitan Club, Lafayette
Hotel, 1880 p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-23
A. M. WILLlNGHAM MAKES
HIS FAMILY SOLE HEIRS

The will Of Alexander NJ. Willing
ham. who died August /, was filed
for probate today.
The document was executed July
81, and testator gives to his son.
Leonard c. Willingharn, premises a.
1912 Maryland Ave. n. E.. with the
household effects, and benefits from
Typographical Union.
Another son, Frank c. Willing
ham, is to have $4,000 and a legacy
Of 81 900 is provided for a brother,
Robert L. Willingham, OF New Or
leans, La.
Mrs. l.. H. Straub 10 to have 500.
The remaining estate is to go to
testators son, Leonard c., who,
with John NJ. Loughran, is named
executor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-23
'DAIRY" OF A SELF-FED MAN

Ia .m.-Cp with the alarm clock
and voiced anew a prayer that the
cuckoo inventor of the cuckoo clock
would fashion for me a sweet sing
ing robin. Join throng in hallway
and after minor strategy moisten
fingers and avoid halitosis. Has
with a past" Absorb soft boiled
eggs - boiled hard. and toast.
toasted hard. All. me- Must I
marry merely to eat?
9 a. m.-Newspaper lacks thrill.
Few scandals of modern scandal
Gus nature. Two murders, one pri-
vate detective divorce case and
several others OF that stripe. No
pepi
10 a. m.-Four girls and three
men in purple shirts tell me cts
not the heat but the humidity"
Perhaps they are right. Note from
paper: British sportsmen" claim
Gertrude swallowed part of Chan
mel and thereby lowered the re-
sistance of the tides Demand
that she swim IL over again with
anchor on each foot or that debts
be cancelled. France agrees but
refuses to cancel debts. ]. Demp-
sey has lawyers in all States
only married twice. S'funnyl
People fight and go to court.
Dempsey goes to court TO fight.
Cigarette cough-must get rid of
cough.
IL noon-Lunch. More talk of
humidity.
a. Nall chickens in bed Il
hope). MERCURY.
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USEFUL HOME BREW

Hubby. when you go home, why moi
grin?
Why look as grouehy as sin?
Give her, q little bit of apple sauce,
And don't look 20 cross.
When you eourted her you'd smile,
We're you then guilty of guile?
Shes human yet. you know.
And leved you as her beau.
Make her love you always;
Kiss and caress her in Railways
Or In dining room or kitchenette
And she'll be happy. you can bet.
You. WHEY, do you often growI,
And your pretty face wear . scowIf
Are you always finding fault,
Worse than VINEGAR or salt?
Are you neat when hubby gets In
And greet him with q smile or grin 2
DO you his love try to hold
BY careases that are not cold?
Do you help him up the ladder
Or make him madden and bladder?
HAPPY faces great joys distill:
Try II and you'll get many thrill.
STEAMBOAT STEVE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-23
ZONE CHANGES ASKED
STUDIED BY PLANNERS

Proposed coming changes of the
District are being inspected today
bv members of the Zoning Com.
mission and the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission,
Ailt@a 3. MedarX- jr,y Eassahee OF
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the Planning Commission from Phila
delphia, and Frederick l.. Olmsted,
member from Brookline, Mass, both
eminent city planners, are accom-
panying the Zoning Commission on
itN tour Of inapection,
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~Just match my smoke"
And he made 1t plain.
We did, aud he 1oas right.
He weRt up in his Girptdne.
kATXDLD.
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There are remedies for bad
br0dths, bat nobody has
found one for bad disposi-
tioRs. ABE.
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ONE ATTACHMENT SHE
FAILED TO THINK OF

The cartoonist says that
Harry Price, traffic cop at
Seventeenth Street and Penn
sylvania Avenue, knows some
thing about this:
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WHAT DID SHE SAY9

4 sweet grille girl from Montana,
Once slipped on o peel Of banana.
The words she did utter
Would surely melt butter
And wouldn't grace o Sundya school
BANNER. III. SMITH.
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Three Are Injured In Auto Crash


Of Washington
fired speeding
investigated by Maj Edwin B. Hese today
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BUG HOUSE FABLES

Boy at bali game: "Pop, don't
acGHt to see tie bah game.
ecosId rather 90 home and practice
Wsg n1Wsto lessons and hoe in the
garden" LEAPENG LENA.
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THE HUNGRY ADAM

THE HUNGRY ADAM
Adam sat in the Garden Of Eden.
waiting for Eve to get dinner.
The was cooking ON her electric stove
And was frying . small minnOw.
s1'm hungry az hl," yelled Adam to
whats delaying the grub?"
esWhy, you poor fish," she said,
This minnow's tough rs q club"
CICERO sLAPP.
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CHINESE PROVERBS
Good and evil are rewarded
OF last. Though we travel far
and fly high there is no escape.
The pestle produces white
rice and the rod good children.
A stupid son is better than q
srafty daughter.
She who is wife of one man
cannot eat the rice of two.
Let everyone sweep away the
snow from his own door and
not NEEDLE with the hoar frost
on his neighbor's tiles.
CHARLIE CHINK.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-12
YUMA BLACKIE'
DlSCLAIMS GUILT
IN ABEL MURDER

Howard johnson, alias "Yuma
Blackie,' indicted by the grand
jury Yesterday for the murder Of
Charles Abel at Calipatria on Febru.
AIRY PC, was arraigned before Judge
Cole in the superior court this morn
ing and entered plea of not guilty.
The court set April IL as the date
for trial.
The indictment against Johnson
was returned by the grand jury
yesterday afternoon. At the same
time a secret indictment was return
ed against another person whose
name was not made public by the
court.
Abel was killed in n drunken
brawl following party at his house
in Calipatria. In addition to john
son, four other persons are in the
county Jail charged with completely
IN the murder and one other princi-
pal is being sought.
Indictments were also returned by
the grand jury against James Man
ming and A. A. Avitt, charged with
forgery. They are accused of steal
ing number of checks from G. G..
Orr at Heber last week, and later
some of the checks signed with
Orr s signature, were found in their
possession.
Their eases were continued until
March 10 for plea.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-12
CONDITION OF
C0CtIDCE'S DAD
MORE FAVORABLE
Nv United Press Leased Wire

PLYMOUTH. VT, Mar. Elm
provement in the condition of Col
oncl John c. Coolidge, father of the
President. was reported this morn
ing bv Or. Albert NJ. Cram. follow
ing visit to the Coolidge home
stead.
"The colonel is far more comfort
able todav.' DR.. Cram said. He
seems brighter. and more cheerful
and his ability to take nourishment
is encouraging. His condition is
considerably more favorable.
The fact that DR.. Albert NJ. Cram,
the colonel's physician. called twice
during the night at the Coolidge
homestead. gave rise to reports that
the Presidents father had suffered
another relapse.
DR.. Cram and q friends from
Bridgewatcr came here on a sleigh
ride and on two occasions during
the festivities he went over to see
his patient. DR.. Cram said these
visit had no particular Significance
and there had been no important
change in Colonel Coolidge's condi-
ton
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-12
SUPERIOR COURT
UPHOLDS RULING
ON LABOR COUNTS

Judgment of the Fl Centre town
ship court i'll the cases against Theo-
dore Lohman, local contractor, were
upheld by Judge Cole in the super
ior court this morning in two in
stances, and was reversed in one in
stance.
The court upheld the verdict of
guilty by a jury against Lohman,
charging him with failure to secure
payment for compensation. On this
count a fine of $50 and jail CEN
tcncc of 10 days was imposed by
Judge Mayfield in the lower court,
together with instructions that Lob
man should pay the expenses of
Frank Silva. workman injured
while in Lohman : employ. The
Jail sentence was suspended upon
conditions that Lohman fulfill the
other penalties.
Two counts of failing to maintain
semi-monthly pay days were involy
ed in the second case against Loh-
man. On the first count Judge Cole
upheld the decision of the lower
court which imposed a Jail sentence
of - days on Lohman, following his
conviction by jury. Judgment on
the second count, which carried
penalty similar to the first, was re
versed by Judge Cole and the count
was dismissed.
Deputy District Attorney Lee
Nuffer prosecuted the cases against
Lohman, which were filed by Stan
ley NJ. Cue, deputy state labor com
missioner. Attorney Frank Birk-
hauser was counsel for Lohman.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-12
BURGLARS RIFLE
CASH REGISTER
AT DRUG STORE

Burglars paid visit to Clements
Drug store last night, but got very
little for their pains according ia
Bill Clements. proprietor.
Entry to the store was obtained
by way of a skylight in the roof, ap-
preached from the rear After fore
ing the glass in the skylight, the in
trudcr dropped n ladder picked up
from the rear of the building down
to n platform above the ground
floor.
A small sum Of money in quarters
and half dollars was taken from the
cash register. The intruder did not
bother with number of nickels and
dimes which were in the same draw
er. Search by thee proprietor failed
to show that anything else was miss
ing from the store. .ft
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-12
RITTLER, PINCHOT
WOULD SOON DRY
UP NATION, CLAIM
BY United Press Leased Wire

CLINTON. Mo-, March l2. -
President Coolidge could suppress
the present dav whiskev rebel
lion' as effectively as President
Warrington dealt with America s
first liquor revolt. by appointing
such men as Brigadier General
Smedley Butler and Governor Pin
ehot by '"drv up" the nation, ac-
eording to Herman p. Faris. Prohi
hition party presidential nominee in
1904.
Faris, who is banker and elder
in the Presbyterian church here,
branded the nationwide newspaper
poli on prohibition sentiment rs
apparently only wet propaganda,
and said it would reflect "but little
more than the sentiment of the very
hoisv and very little minority. y
Newspapers were blamed by Faris
for the "wcj - strength Of the pres
etr poll.
"Few if any votes for modifiea-
tion would be east if all newspapers
had been consistent champions of
the constitution he said, "instead
of nominally. at least, supporting
its nullifiers. -
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-12
NEWSWRlTER HIT
BY POLAR PLANE,
DIES OF HURTS
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FAIRBANKS. Alaska, March l..
Preparations for the departure"
northward Of the airplanes CT the
wilkins polar expedition were Civ
On a formal touch here With the
Christening of the big monoplane
" netroitcr.
Miss Gcnevicvc Parker, wearing
white fur parka and Eskimo
boots, and the wife of Mayor De La
Vergones sponsored the ceremony.
School was dismissed and Captain
Hubert wilkins ad1essed towns
folk. telling them il was his purpose
to find new lands-not to fly across
the pole.
Engines of the Detroiter were
given tests and it is proposed the
take off will be made within the
next few days.
Tragedy befell the expedition ON
the gala day when Palmer Hutch
inson, news writer for the North
American Newspaper Alliance, was
struck on the shoulder by a propeller
blade and was so badly injured that
he died.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-12
FAVORABLE
REPORT IS
NOW SEEN
Expect Senate Irrigation
Committee to Recon-
mend Swing Project.
WORK WILL APPEAR
To Explain Administra-
tons Support of Mea-
sure for Bond Issue.
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1stuStu ~ ssEV
WASHINGTON. Mar. PA point
or order raised ty Senator Ashurst.
Democrat, Arizona, against the
Swing Johnson Boulder dam bill
was, in effect, overruled today when
the senate irrigation committee de-
cided to proceed with consideration
of the measure.
Secretary Of Interior Work will
appear before the committee next
Tuesday TO explain the administra-
tons support of the bill, which pro
vides a $l25, 100000 bond issue to
finance construction of Il dam at
Black canyon of the Colorado river.
The committee, after hearing
Work, will go into executive ses-
sion and is expected to return i
favorable report at once.
Ashurst s point was that the mea-
sure was Il revenue bill and there
fore, under the constitution, must
originate in the lower house.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-12
FATE OF SWING BILL
SOON TO BE DECIDED

WASHINGTON, Mar. -. The
fate of the johnson Boulder dam
bill, providing for a $125,000,00e
bond issue with which to build the
proposed high dam in the Colorado
river in Arizona, for flood control
irrigation and power, may be decid-
ed at Il closed session today of the
senate irrigation and reclamation
committee.
Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Ari.
IONA, was to raise point of order
against the bill declaring it to be
be a revenue bill, which must orig
mate in the house.