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The Washington times., 1926-01-09
ARREST DOCTOR
'BELLHOP'

A practising physician who has
been employed for two years as
bell hop in a local hotel. DIR
Byron A. Watson, colored. 1873 II
st. N. W., was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Need
ham G.. Turnage today to answer
three charges of violating the Fed.
eral narcotic act. The hearing was
continued for one week and bond
set at $1,000.
According to Narcotic Agents
S. l.. Rakusin and II. S. McAuley.
Watson has been issuing narcotic
prescriptions to fictitious persons
has failed to keep a record of the
persons to whom issued, end has
been dispensing narcotics IN a man.
ner other than that permitted by
law.
His first arrest was on March
16, 1924 and his second on July
of the same year, both OF which
cases are still pending against him.
The agents claim that Watson
has been employed for two years
as a bell boy in the Gordon Hotel.
His practice, they claim, has been
confined to the issuance OF mar.
cotics and whiskey prescriptions.
The agents tried for several weeks
to apprehend him but were unsuc-
cessful until today. At one time
they broke down the door to his
room and found that he had es-
capped through a back window.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
MANY GIFTS FOR.
F6OD SHOW

AZ special feature Of the Food
show. to be held January is to ~
III the washington Auditorium, 1900
p st. II. w, the simpson Dairy
win present Buckeye wagon to
some boy each night Of the show,
according to an announcement
made today by John Brayshaw.
president of the Retail sGrocers
Protective Association.
The wagons are of sturdy con-
struction and VIII be on display at
the booth OF the Simpson Dairy.
There are to be no obligations at
taclied to the gift and no purchase
Will be required In order to obtain
lit.
This Is only one Of the special
features Of the show. Mr.. Brayshaw
said, since there will he a gift
awarded to little girls also. an
nouncenaent of which will be made
later.
Practically all of the floor space
has been reserved by exhibitors and
the public Ms promised "a food show
that has never been eqnalled here.
Goods of quality only Will be on
display. and the samples will be
fun sized packages of wen knownN
brands
Many other valuable gifts will be
announced next week before the
beginning OF the show.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
Young JOyrider Gets
Two and a Half Years;
Others Are Sentenced

john William Desmond, a young
man. who claims Utica. n. Y, as
his home, was sentenced today by
Justice Stafford in Criminal Court
No. 2 to two years and a half in
the penitentiary for joyriding.
lie stole a $4,000 car off the
street and drove it to Virginia,
where he was arrested. Diamond
said he sold the car and was going
to Florida.
Cardell ]. Perry, colored, con-
victed of HOUSEKEEPING and lar
ceny for breaking into the store of
Benjamin Brotman, received two
wears in the penitentiary for the
housebreakfng charge and one yeac
for larceny, sentences to run con-
currently.
Theodore Hamilton, colored, will
spend one year in Jail for joyrid.
ing and Florence Ward, colored. re-
ceived one year for assaulting
Louise Thomas. October II, with
a knife.
Bernard Rose and Russell Jack
son. colored, convicted of house.
breaking and larceny, received one
year in Jail on each charge, SEN
fences to run concurrently.
Leroy Turpin, colored, was sen
fenced to three years in prison by
Justice Bailey in Criminal Court.
No. 1. for striking Sam Lincoln
on the head with a monkey wrench
November 2.
Antonio Lucania. pickpocket, who
operated here during the world
series baseball games in October
will spend year and a day in TIE
penitentiary for picking the pocket
of Roland w. Fortune. Thomas
Fields also will spend a year and
a day in prison for stealing $50C
from Charles .Cramer.
George r. Brown. charged with
stealing an automobile from VII
liam NJ. FitZhugh last June 10, was
sentenced to one year in Jail. Wi.
liam Johnson, who stole Robert
Johnson's car, will spend ten
months in jail, and William r. Jas
per, for stealing a truck belongina
to Wise Brothers, was sentenced t.
six months in Jail.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
MOTHERS BILL
WINS VOTE

New York welfare workers won
victory over the unanimous stand
of all District welfare agencies
when the special subcommittee OF
the House District Committee to-
day ordered favorable report to
the House on a. mothers pension
nill.
Despite unanimous support OF
Washington welfare agencies for
the Keller bill, which had the sup;
port of the District Commissioners
and the Public Welfare Commission,
the committee adopted bill con-
tanning the provisions Of the meas
ure produced by Representative
Ogden l.. Mills of New York.
The Mills bill provides that the
mothers pensions shall be admin
istered by a board of five citizens
serving without pay;
The Keller plan called for adj
.ministration by the paid director
of consolidated District welfare
agencies.
Adoption Of the Mills plan fol
lowed a threat by Mills that the
bill would be fought on The floor
of the House if his view were not
adopted.
Mills declared mothers would not
go to a professional pension di:
rector except as a last resort to
avoid starvation. Supervision of the
fund by his commission, he said,
would rob the plan Of its charity
aspect.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
THAW REV|S|TS
OLD HAUNTS


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earnestly hoped she would recover
Thaw INDUCED in a two-hour
tete-a-tete with Kitty, but left in a
rage because she got too many
telephone calls while he was visit
ing her.
Later he went to a theater and
there lost handkerchief.
He said it was q woman's hand
kerchief and spent more than an
hour, aided by the entire staff Of
the theater, in a futile search for it,.
He reached Texas Guinan's about
i a. m. and was greeted up
roariously by the crowd there.
Frances Williams, night club
dancer, did Charleston for ThaW,
who viewed her performance with
deepest gravity.
Denies Reconciliation
Thaw declared reports that he
would seek a reconciliation with
his former wife, Evelyn Nesbit, to
be pure moonshine."
II shall always be ready to help
her with money and see that she
gets on her feet again" Thaw said,
but to say that I'm going back to
the woman who wrecked my life
why that's all nonsense"
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mercy when they come up for
sentence before Justice Stafford,
who today declared in Criminal
Court No. 1, that "the only way
to stop hold-ups is to make them
unattractive and Is years in the
penitentiary is ne by any means
too much of punishment"
+ Clarence Williams and Edward
Driver, colored, who pleaded guilty
to robbing the store OF Harry Pas
ternak on South CapikOl street, re-
ceived 10 years each in the peni-
Tertiary. They also held I'm Pas.
ternak's daughter when she came
into the store.
Charles Wilson West. colored.
who stole. Leonard E. Campbell's
automobile from in front Of the
house at 933 n ST. n. W., will
spend five years in the penitentiary.
Five years given David Belk,
colored. for stealing a car from in
front of 1410 Corcoran st. n. w.
Oscar p. Webster, coIored, con-
victed of embezzlement and larceny
after trust on two counts received
three years in the penitentiary on
each count. the sentences to run
concurrently. He was employed by
Nellie b. Altemus and embezzIed
$45 of her money
The Washington times., 1926-01-09

Because Mellzo, be IT understood,
is nothing If not literal. When he
said he'd swallow the Scriptural
stories, he meant to swallow them
and nothing else. He chewed the
sacred book, page by page. leaving
only the family record and the
hard board covers. Loaves and
fishes-little fishes-went down the
same as Jonah's whale.
Mellzo,s father called in the doc
tor. who found the Biblical diet had
given the boy all the symptoms of
appendicitis. The boy now is re-
covering. and his father has de-
cided to get him one of the mod
ern digests of the Bible. as less
harmful than a Bible digested
even il he eats that, also, because
it's a smaller book.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
RIG RECLUSE
FOUND DEAD
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a watch over Mrs. Jenkins in spite
of two sick children Of her own,
noticed that the kitchen curtain
which Mrs. Jenkins usually pulled
up as a sign that everything was
all right, had not been touched
and so yesterday she went over to
investigate. She was unable to gain
entrance and called Mrs. Taylor.
George Taylor. 5-year-old-grand-
son of Mrs. Jenkins, climbed into
the lonely house through a window
and found his grandmother dead.
Police from the Seventh precinct
were called. Her body was re
moved to an undertaker's establish
ment.
Suffered a Stroke
In August Mrs. Jenkins had suf-
fered a stroke. AS soon as she was
well enough she left her daughters
home' where She was being cared
for and returned to her own home.
She refused to keep fire in the
furnace being unable to care for it
herself and unwilling to pay for its
care. Consequently she had to turn
off the, water in the house. TO keep
it from freezing. Thus she had
lived for four years.
Mrs. Jenkins is survived by Mrs.
Taylor and a son, Charles Jenkins,
of Chicago. No funeral arrange
ments will be made until Mr.. Jen-
kins comes from Chicago tomorrow
morning.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
RADIO LICENSE GRANT
ATTACKED IN SENATE

The Department of Commerce was
severely criticised yesterday by SEN
ator Howell Rl Of Nebraska, at a
hearing Of the Interstate Commerce
COMMITTEES, for renewing radio
5roadcasting licenses originally is
sued to the Liberty Magazine. Of
Chicago Under the license, Howell
said. the magazine received permits
sion to operate two stations at
Elgin. ILL.,, simply because it pur-
chased the stations for $50 .00O''
More than a hundred applicants
for bFoadcasting licenses How
charged. were passed over IN favN
OF the magazine .
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
PREPARE VAULT FOR BODY
OF ITALYS QUEEN MOTHER

ROME, Jan, ''Margherita di
Savoia-Queen OF Italy"
This simple inscription is all that
will mark the tomb of the dead
Queen Mother of Italy, it was de-
clared today by King Victor EN-
manuel.
Masons are at WORK preparing a
temporary vault for the body of
the Queen Mother in the secret
chapel of, the Pantheon, to the right
of the main altar near the imposing
statue of st. Anastasia. The body
will repose in a Temporary vault
until a permanent tomb is built
by the side of the Queens husband,
Italy's first king.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
NORFOLK LINE STEAMER
MAY BE FLoATED TO-DAY

The river steamer District of
Columbia, of the Norfolk and Wash
ington Line, which has been
stranded on mud flat since Tues
day, when it went aground in a
fog, will be floated into deep water
today, according to belief of coIn-
pany officials.
Crews have been working Sto
float the ship steadily since 1t went
aground off Quantico. Va, with 125
passengers aboard At an early
hour today it was still stranded in
the. mud.
Company officials said today that
there was no listing of the craft, as
reported last night, and no danger
of its falling over.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
BOO TLEG GANG
ACKS MAN

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Court today, demanding a jury
trial.. Bail was set ct 81, 500.
Friends promised to get him out.
True to their threat. few hours
after the police raided the place at
els O'Clock last night the gang
Marks trail. According
ten men came to get hmm
representing themselves
nt to see Marks" they
sal bring at the door OF his
aparti ut in the Cathedral Man
sions about 1890 o'clock we
have a man here taken in the raid
just now who has to be Identified"
POunce on JanitOr
! just then John Mccoy, the col.
ored janitor, appeared In the hall
with a pack Of cigarettes for the
Marks household.
Recognizing Mccoy as the man
Marks had sent to the alleged
speak-easy with his threat to squeaI
on them if they didn't give hinl
back his money, the, 10 men
bounced on him. according to
Marks.
Marks called the police while
the gang was forcing the janitor
down the stairs to get him out
doors where an automobile was
waiting.
The scuffle alarmed hundreds Of
tenants who were just going to
bed. They crowded around the
thugs, but we're held off by one
of the negroes who said, 'I'Il shoot
the first one who butts in
nliEnI. mo &C 80 he
Mansions and brother of the own
er, ran for his gun in the office
When he brandished it, and the
white man. whom Marks identified
as Jim Deggan. recognized that
Oliver knew him, the gang was
ordered off and fled. An autonlo-
bile whisked them south when
they reached the street.
Discharges Janitor
Hazard said that he would dis
charge the janit0r today.
Marks takes the entire blame for
the affair on his own shoulders and
says he will try to have Mccoy put
back on the job.
4 really roped him in on the
deal when I sent him as a mes
senger to get my money back for
me.
II lost the money Monday night
when fell asleep on table after
taking a few drinks" he admitted.
In the attempted abduction of
the janitor he was hurt. DR.. John
A. Reed attended him for a broken
nose and a cracked head. His in
juries are not serious.
The balustrade was shattered to
pieces when the thugs were or
dered off by the white man and
they made wild lunges down the l
stairs toward the front door.
Marks Is hugging his home to-
day, fearful of attack at the hands
of his bootleg enemies, whom he
believes will surely hunt him down.
He has asked for police protection.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
Megaphone at Sale
Held BY Jury to
Be Nuisance
DRINKS WHICH

DANVIIT.E, Va, Jan. p
The crying Of wares at 9 bar.
gain sale through d n1egaphone
from d store door constitutes
nuisance, corporation jury has
determined in dealing with the
case Of Harry Rose, against
whom complaint was made.
Rose appealed from police
court conviction.
The case aroused keen inter-
est and lasted for q day.
The defense maintained that
IL baseball game can be an
nounced BY lnegaphone from the
rear Of moving street car
with impunity, Rose had the
equal right.
The jury imposed q fine Of
SIS.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
EIGHT FIREMEN HURT
IN BAL TIMORE BLAZE

BALTIMORE. Nd Jan. %
Damage caused BY fire which
swept the American Skirt and Coat
Company plant here early today,
in which eight firemen were in
jured, amounted to 500, 900, it was
estimated today. Five alarms were
sounded before the blaze was
brought under control.
None OF the injured firemen are
In q serious condition today, It
was reported.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
MRS. GEORGIA JOHNSON
GETS NEW U. S. POSITION

Mrs. Georgia D. Johnson, widow
of Henry Lincoln Johnson,' has
been given a new post In the Labor
Department with headquarters in
Baltimore.
Her work will include study, sur
vey and investigation of immigra-
ton matters and labor conditions.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
SNOW SWEEPS INTO
NEW YORK ON GALE

NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Sweeping
in on the teeth OF a Northeast gale,
the first snow storm of the winter
descended ON New York today, reg
Istering two inches by a. m.
Two thousand men were dis.
patched to stragetic points in the
city to attack the snowfall with
Ferries and transportation lines
reported slight disr, ptions of SEIZED
Nles due to the storm.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
PORTO RICO, HAPPY, DROPS
FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE

Conditions in Porto Rico were
never better than at the present
time, DIR. Samuel McCum Lindsay
educator at Columbia University.
who has just returned from the
island, told President Coolidge to
day.
Virtually all talk of independence
has died out. he said Responsible
citizens are satisfied with present
conditions and are happy and pros
porous.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
POLICEMAN AND GROCER
ARE SHOT BY BANDITS

NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Two bandits
shot and probably MORALLY wounded
George Michaels, policeman. ana
Bagdasar Meldosion.
They were robbing The latter's
grocery store.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
Premier's' Son in Films

PARIS, Jan. 9.--Juan Painleve,
son of Former Premier Painleve
will enter the movies in the near
future, it was announced today.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
Child Fundamentals
Just Eats Up Bible

MOULTRIE, Ca, Jan 9-Mellzo Mccoy, 12-yearod Moul-
trie boy, believes in swallowing the Bible whoIemraces
prophecies commands warnings and everything in both the
old and the Mellzo did it, and it almost
sent him straight to Heaven-xia appendicitis
The Washington times., 1926-01-09

alcohol railroad sdngs night
at the extreme right Above pictured the
bOotegger the driver which preferred the
evidence rather than be caught You viii
tail of this hghhanded business
the thoroughly organized professions
The story together with 100 Photographic of its authenticity
starts in The Washington Tinaes Monday
The Washington times., 1926-01-09
CRYING IS HER BUSINESS

Mrs. M.
Baker
in full
Georgian
costume as
town crier in
Chertsey
Market Place,
England.
She is the
only woman
in that
quaint
position
in all of
England. She
succeeded
her husband
who joined
the army in
1914, and
since then
has fulfilled
her duties
with marked
ability,
leading the
professions
and taking
part IN the
different
festivals and
fI1notinnc
Several times
she has
resigned, but
has always
been per-
suaded to
carry on.
The Washington times., 1926-01-09

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Court today, demanding jury
trial. BaiI was set at 81, 500.
Friends promised to get him out.
True to their threat. a few hours
after the police raided the place at
9:15 clock last night the gang
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New York. March 21-(By The AS
ISOLATED Press -Irregularities in
business became more pronounced
last week and were accompanied oy
further liquidation in the securities
market. Underlying conditions re-
manned sound but some disappolnt-
ment was expressed over the failure
OF trade to pick up more rapidly
with the coming of spring.
The most important restraining in
fluence on commercial activities I'M
questionably has been the realiza =
ton that stock market imitation has
been carried to extremes and that
a thorough readjustment would have
to be undertaken. Until this pro-
cess of correction is concluded the
business world has indicated that a
policy of conservatism will prevail.
Despite the excesses of speculation,
however, it has been generally rec
ognized that the dangers of imitation
in commodity prices nave been
avoided.
Credit conditions relaxed notice
ably last week, even the customary
large turnover of funds on March Is
failing to place the slightest strain
on the money market. Brokers bor-
roWlngS from the 1ederal reserve
member banks in New York City de-
clined over $160.000.000 in the period
between March and March 10
when the sharpest reaction in the
stock market took place. This re-
duction was cited as one of the pos
sible benefits of a decline in the Sc
curity prices.
Notwithstanding reports of salts
factory sales in the automobile indus
| try, earnings of the large companies
for the first two months of the veal
! compared unfavorably with those OF
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the same period in 1925, indicating
that price reductions during the past
year We're cutting down revenues. In
this connection bankers pointed out
that the general downward trend of
ton in evolving the prospects of cor
porate earnings this year as compared
with last years record prosperity.
Warnings against overproduction We're
sounded in several quarters.
Steel production remained at an I'M
usually high level, with manufacturers
undeterred by the last two mouths de-
cline in untitled orders. The acceler-
alton of activities, the trade review S
held pointed to another cycle OF eX-
panding consumption since buyers so
far this year have been acting only
upon immediate needs and not dis
counting future probabilities. March
is expected to set a new high mark
for monthsly steel output without pill
ing up surplus stocks to a dangerous
limit.
With freight traffic exceeding that
Of last year. the car service division
of the American Railway Association
estimated that loadings for the first
four months of 1926 would exceed
$500, 900 cars, or approximately ST.
900, 900 cars momre than for the cor
responding period of 1925. Loadings
from January 1 to March 6, the latest
date for which figures are available,
totalled 9073.190 cars, representing
substantial gains over the corre-
spending periods of 1925 and 1924.
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most attractively developed in rosel
and yellow. The walls were done
in rose with conventional design,i
put on by using stencil. of paleI
yellow water lilies. The floor was
painted in rose and yellow squares I'M
imitation OF the tiled and mosaic eff
fects so much used in the mansions of
olden days and reminding one of thei
marble inlay of the great Roman baths!
Sage green with a border of Law
ender flowers, lavender dotted cur
tains, lavender rugs and lavender
monograms on the linen is another
attractive color scheme for the bath
room. Pale yellow walls with Law
ender or blue stencils, rugs, and
hangings, would also be extremely
effective and very easy to work out
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manufacturers, in 1925 earned over
1895 a share on the common stock
after. federal taxes and allowances
for depreciation. Net income for the
year amounted to $1,697,331 and net
profits, after all deductions, totalled
s1,394,362. Sales for the year were
Il percent above those of the pre-
ceding year. Current assets of S.
1897 were ii times the current
liabilities. Upon acquisition of the
Hcminway SILK Company Bedding
concern recently was organized as
the Bedding Heminway Company
Earnings of the Commonwealth
Power Corporation and subsidiaries
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Practical and Pretty Bath Rooms

A GENEROUS use of paint and
n enamel in the bathroom is
always advisable. The thrifty
housewife can save much money by
the substitution of paint and enamel
for tile, and she will find that they
answer the purpose quite satisfac-
torily. She has found, too, that COL
or is pleasing, and her bathrooms
are taking on new individuality
through sparing use of bright colors.
Enamel is just as sanitary and
practically as inpervious to mois-
ture as tile and is much less expen-
sive. Its brightness can easily be
renewed with soap and water and.
when necessary, new coat of ena-
mel can be applied.
The bathroom in the sketch was
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The imp OF destruction
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