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OIL PLAN fire
ROLLED

BALTIMORE, Aug. 11.-After =
stubborn. all-night battle, fremen
today brought under control the
blaze which wrecked the plant Of
the American OH Company, on
Hanover Street, in South Baltimore.
Eight persons, seven Of them fire
men. were injured in the tire. but
none- seriously. The damage was ses-
timated today at from $20D.0O0 to
$300. 900.
Approximately 100000 gallons Of
gasoline and Iubricating. oil were
in the warehouse, storage tanks
and in tank cars on sidings Within
the limits of the plant. Virtually
all OF the gasoline and OIL and most
OF the tank cars were DESTROYED.
The company's office building ard
several smaller structures also were
wrecked.
one of the Baltimore plants Of
the Standard Oil Company and
reserve tanks OF the Consolidated
Gas Company adjoin the American
Oil Company's tract, and approxi-
mately so residences skirt the
area. Virtually the entire fire de-
partment was called out, and the
firemen devoted their efforts to
saving the Standard and Consoli.
dated plants and the residences. a
work in which they were success
ftil.
Five explosions Of gasoline tanks
occurred during the fire. The com
bustible liquids stiIl were burning
today, but there was virtually 40
danger Of spread OF the flames.
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brave nights in the cabarets OF
New York when he was the Candy
Kid" and as good as a millionaire?
When he took what he wanted
and paid with cash that he had
taken with a gun?
Does his whole life come back
before him, even to those days
when he raced the streets Of TAI
tinore, a black-haired, barefoot
boy?
Does he think of those days when
the law was only a "cop" TO be
twitted and plagued by boys who
realized nothing of the ponderous
legal machinery that had placed
him there on the corner?
The same terrible legal machinery
which has placed the grown boy
in q cell and decreed the day he
must die. A
Does he think Of his crl e3
Does It come back to him In the
darkness OF the night--the picture
Of. an aged guard lying on the
ground while his murderer bends
over him, blood.stained bar In ms
hand?
Do his thoughts go beyond that
choking wrench, which Will be MS
last earthly sensation?
Does he think Of what IS to come
when his soul shall escape througn
the moose that cuts Off ;lis orealh!
He has sought no spiritual com.
fort from religion, yet' IN ms
thoughts, he may learn what the
psaln1ist voiced, that the fear OF
God Is the beginning or WISDOM
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THREE INJURED
IN TRAFFIC

Two children and one adult were
injured in automobile accidents last
night, according to the police re-
ports.
Edith Griffith, 6 years old, 7oS
Sixteenth st. N. E., was shocked
and bruised when struck and
knocked down by an automobile
operated by Maurice e. Mangunn,
of Greesboro Point, D. c.
Injuries to the ankle were euf-
fered by Horace Jefferson. colored,
6. 1925 Seventh St. N. W., when
he is said to have run into the
side Of an automobile operated by
John B. Taylor. Of Baltimore.
When the automobile in which
she was riding was collided with
in front of 5619 Georgia Aver N.
W., by a truck. Mrs. Fred N.
Weber, Al years old, 1909 Shep-
herd st. N. W., was badly shocked.
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GERMANS FETE [
REPUBLIC
BY S. DUNBAR WEYER
international News Service

BERLIN. Aug. 11.-Part Of the
German nation numerically indeter-
minable. but indicated by the re-
cent plebiscite results today cele-
brating the seventh anniversary Of
the signing Of the Republican com
stitution.
The other part OF the nation
stands by sullenly. blaming all tha
ills OF the present day and all
changes from the glory of the en-
pire on the Republicans.
1t is necessary for the sake of
proper understanding Of the Ger
man nation to point out that those
who are not joining in the celebra-
ton are by no means all monarch.
lists or black reactionaries.
Germany is simply divided into a
right and left. All that is left is
identified with the republic. All
that is right, however, doesn't want
any Kaiserism back-certainly not
Wilhelm.
Bavaria flatly refused to join
the Republican celebration today.
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Does he think, with venom, Of
the States attorney, who took him
before jury and said this man
must die that we may live in
peace?
Or, in a softer mood, does he
think of his wife who must live on
to mourn him after he is dead,
who must awake next Friday morn
ing to realize at last he Is gone?
When He Was Candy Kid
Is it his father Of whom he
thinks? A baffled. frenzied man,
who impotently beats at the law
which has taken away. his son and
soon viii send him back--in cof-
fin.
-Re his thoughts go back to those
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SESSION
NEARS END

ALEXANDRIA, Va, August IL.
The eighth annual convention Of
the American Legion of the DE-
partment Of Virginia viii close here
today. Election of officers is
scheduled for p. m. It Is antici.
pated the members will vote to
meet next year at Virginia Beach.
Members today viii make their ans
nual pilgrimage to Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery.
The convention virtually closed
last night for il of Alexandria's .
guests. who were arrested and
charged with intoxication.
Each was required to deposit SIS
collateral for hearing today. !, Alex.
andria and Washington posts pro-
yided collateral for. several. Some
were not Iegionnaires.
Alexandria was scene Of car.
nival last night. following the close
of the parade. Al number OF inns
promptu parades were held. a de-
tachment of 25 Washington police
men assisted the Alexandra force
in keeping the streets free OF
traffic jams.
More than 1000 attended the an
nuaI banquet last night In the
naval torpedo station.
The speakers were I. Douglas
Robinson, Assistant Secretary OF
the Navy; State Commander Frank
NJ. Wray. Miss Cora A. Vaughan,
president Of the auxiliary, and Gen.
John A. Lejeune. The Marine Band
played.
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AHEPA ORGANIZATION
PIcNICS AT BEACH

A bottle sucking contest for men.
a pig chase for women and q pie
eating contest for children are
among the outstanding entertain
ment features of an excursion to be
given tomorrow at Chesapeake
Beach by Washington Chapter No.
81 of the Ahepa, patriotic fraternal
order composed Of American citizens
Of Greek descent.
The arrangements committee is
composed OF Andrew Panagopulos,
chairman; George Devakos, ath-
letics; v. K. Kissal, p. Doonis. E.
Efantis, g. Places, e. Nichols and
p. Kokalis.
Harmony Lodge, No. ., Independ-
ent Order Of Odd Fellows, is hold.
ing its annual outing at the beach
today. "A thousand Rre attending
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PRISONER Kills
n. Y. DETECTIVE
BY international News servlcs

BY international News Service
NEW. YORK, Aug. 11.-Detective
John Singer was shot and killed in
police headquarters here early to-
day and Gene Pearce, negro, his
slayer, was captured three hours
later.
Pearce, a giant negro, was ar.
rested by Singer on q charge of
automobile theft.
Singer took him to police head
quarters and was making an entry
in record book when the captive
snatcTed the detectives revolver
from its holster and emptied 1t into
the body Of his captor. Then he
escaped,
Hundreds Of policemen searched
the city for the negro. Pearce was
located by Patrolman John White
and after a desperate fight was sub.
dued by other policemen armed with
night sticks.
The negro was unconscious when
taken to police headquarters.
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ARLNNGTON co
Ne VS. NOTES

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Aug. II.
Replying to the charge Of Charles
Il. Taylor. of Clarendon, who, at
the meeting Of the Clarendon Citi-
zens Association Monday nighx, at
tackled the school system OF Arling-
ton county, County Superinten
Fletcher Kemp said today that
both he and the school board win well
come any investigation desired BY
the citizens
Arlington county during the past
three years has had the greatest
school building program Of any
county ia the state. and with the
extensive change made II IS i'm
possible to have everything running
smoothly at once" he declared.
Arlington Post, No. 139. was pre-
sented last night with g disrin-
guished service certificate at the
annual convention Of the Depar.s
ment OF Virginia as the best-bal-
anced post in the State. Out OF
/, 900 points, Arlington Post re-
ceiyed 662.
Arthur Orr. president OF the Rich
ard Byrd Boulevard Association, to-
day announced IA meeting to be held
at Front Royal, Va, August Ii.
Al. B. Eaton, OF Clarendon, is In
charge of arrangements for the trip.
Delegates from Falls Church ana
Fairfax will join the party en- route.
The weekly meeting and luncheon
Of the Arlington County Monarch
Club will be held tomorrow at -
o'clock noon in the Clarendon Bap-
tist church. DIR. y. a. Boston win
preside.
The executive committee Of the
Arlington County Business Associa-
ton will hold special meeting Fri
day night in the officers Of Secre-
tary Thomas S. O'Halloran in the
Clarendon Trust Building ct 9
o'clock.
Suit for divorce was filed In the,
office of the clerk Of the court yes
terday BY Wesley Thurman Wea k
ley against Effie Seaton Weakley.
The monthly meeting OF the Lyon
Village Citizens Association will be
held tonight IN the officers of Lyon
& Fitch. President Monroe II.
Stockett win preside.
Charged with felony. Harand G..
Craig. was held today for the grand
jury by acting Judge w. Thomas
French in the Arlington county
police court. Craig 1t is alleged
entered the home Of Barbara Craig
for whom, it is understood, q decree
for devorce has. been entered.
Charles Lewis and John Coleman.
charged with being under the in
fluence Of LIQUOR. were each fined
$14.25, Coleman in addition was
fined S4.75 On charge Of disorderly
conduct.
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BODY FOUND IN RIVER
MAY BE MISSING WARD

NYACK, N. Y. Aug. 11.-Mem-
bers of the family of Walter s..
Ward. missing son of the baking
magnate, today were to look at the
body of a man found here yester-
day in the Hudson River. State
troopers declared the body bore a
slight resemblance to Ward.
Raymond Bohr, undertaken to
whose establishment the body was
taken, expressed belief that the
body was that of a German. 1t
had been in, the water about two
weeks.
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half CLOSED eyes a thrill comes
over me. No, it is not conscious
stricken with my own guilt, for
in the eyes of God my love for
Mr.. Hall is. as you know. pure,
open, and above board.
Mrs.. Whitaker said:
Eleanor was under no illusions
regarding her love for Mr.. Hall.
She knew it couldn't last-that
It would come to an end some
day, and she fOretoId that when
the day came-it would be a
tragic one. She even wrote me
TO the effect, as follows:
al know it's going to end
tragically for me. So what's the
use of kidding myself? When il
does happen ] hope they won't
bring me back to this dump.
So don't worry If you hear Of
anything out of the ordinary. It
can't lasts forever, and / guess
I've had my share of this worlds
!oys-three glorious years OF
love-"
Halls Were Estranged
Mrs. Whitaker continued:
Her married life was one Of
suppressed desires. When she
met her untimeIy death Eleanor
was planning to run away with
Mr. Hall. Everybody knew It.
it was common talk and Eleanor
was not the one to do things
under cover.
Miss Hall knew, too, that her
husband was head over heels in
love with Mrs. Mills. Il was be.
cause of Eleanor that about three
months before the crime. Mr..
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and Mrs. Hall became estranged.
Eleanor told me all about IL, and
how sorry she felt for Mrs. Hall.
She pitied her from the bottom
of her heart.
"Mrs. Hall took up separate
quarters in her home and never
spoke one word with MIR. Hall.
''The cause of the sudden rup-
ture between the Halls dated
back from the time Eleanor un-.
derwent an operation at the Mid
dIesex Hospital at New Bruins
wick. Mr.. and Mrs. Hall were
to pay q portion of the expense.
after the operation, and while
still under the effects of an Opi-
ate, Eleanor was removed to q
private room, and Mr.. Hall came
to see her.
Mrs. Mills His Gan"
"He fell down by the side Of
the bed and gently took hold Of
EIeanor's hand, pressed 1T to his
lips, and offered up a prayer. At
this point Mrs. Hall entered the
room and took i'm the situation at
once. As / understand it, there
were no Werds between them, but
Mrs. Hall must have felt that
some great power was putting q
wide gulf between her and her
husband. Mr.. Hall turned to his
wife, and, pointing to Eleanor,
said:
"'Frances, IL she dies have
nothing else in the world to live
fort
According to Mrs. Whitaker, Mrs.
Mills frequently asked her husband,
Jimmy Mills, to divorce her, but
he refused. Then she planned to
run away with the Rev. Hall.
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What thoughts occupy the mind
of Richard Reese Whittemore?
AS he watches the light grow And
fade in his death house cell in the
penitentiary, where do his thoughts
turn2
At midnight tomorrow they will
come before him and take him out.
to bind him like a trussed fowl and
drop him through a scaffold with a
rope to break his neck before his
body strikes the floor.
What Does He Think?
Does he think of only that?
Or does he think, with bitterness
OF the world he Is to leave? Does
he think with hate, of the judge
whose words wove that moose about
his neck when he might have sent
him to life imprisonment?
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NEW BRUNSWICK N. j., Aug. 11Eleanor Mills lived in
constant fear Mrs Frances Haa fear which love
alone transcended.
HalAs murder investigation, Anna Whitaker sister Of
Mrs Mills her codane and best friend today revealed the
she loved.
Whitaker is the mystery witness who disclosed the
details of sisters with the New Brunswick pastor
years ago, when the dual murder committed, she
moved the Middle West and questioned by
authorities
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Egg-Eating Snake Killed

HAGERSTOWN. Nd. Aug. H.
An egg-eating blacksnake. over six
feet in length was killed yesterday
in the henhouse on the Silas. Alsip
farm at Pondsville. near the South
Mountain.
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Hicks By Xix

Cop-Gosh, man, how did
you come to get hurt?
Injured Mnn-I didn't come
z git hurt come e see me
nepheIU.
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What Thoughts Grip
Whiften1ore Now?

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 11-Enduring classics in prose
poetry have been aborousy conceived in prison.
have changed their the monotony of confinement
while plots have spread from cell and dungeon toppe
dynases from their thronesa because prisoners have
thought and thought to keep from going mad.
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RICHARD R. WHITTEMORE
WITH ONLY TWO days to live, what is occupying
the mind of Richard Reese Whttemore, Batmore's
Candy Kid bandit? Are his thoughts of his wife, who
is working to him; his father his old home and
boyhood days. his companions the judge who sentenced
him or the man who prosecuted him?
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Lately she has returned TO-
New Brunswick According TO
Mrs. Whitaker. Mrs. Mills wrote
TO her as follows:
81 am afraid Of Mrs. Hall.
When she looks at me with her
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Charles Lewis and John Coleman.
charged with being under the In
fluence of LIQUOR. were each fined
$14.25, Coleman in addition was
fined $4.75 On charge Of disorderly
conduct.
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Suit for divorce was filed In the,
office of the clerk of the court yes-
terday BY Wesley Thurman Weak
ley against Effie Seaton Weakley.
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The monthly meeting Of the Lyon
Village Citizens Association will be
held tonight in the officers Of Lyon
e Fitch. President Monroe III.
Stockett win preside.
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Lennie Quits Praying By G on-'.n Robinson

His father and mother were both fliterate and
lived in the very worst Of conditions. Lennie
had dreams but he never expressed them.
Early in the Spring Lennie was awakened by
his father and told to dress quickly. Without
question he obeyed hastily sensing danger in the
air. Finally his mother told him that a white
man and white woman had been found murdered
and three Negroes had been seen near the spot
of the crime The whites were hot for revenge
and swore they would wipe out every "dam'
niger" in the county. There was an old dilapi-
dated gun in the house, and old model Winches-
ter, and not over % cartridges
Hours of suspense then the sound of gun shot
in the distance-nearer and nearer. The Negroes
in their little colony made desperate attempt
to hold their own, but the CRACKERS" were too
numerous and too we'll armed.
Soon the door was forced open and blood
smeared Negro stumbled in. They're comm
close and they say it's me- Lord, what'll do.
They'll hang me if yo let 'em get me Brother
Williams"
''On yo knees, son, let's all pray"
The little group all knelt including Lennie.
However, he did so lstlessly and never closed his
eyes.
Again the door was opened and this time seven
Crackers came in. The men looked at the kneel
ing, trembling Negroes, then laughed bolster
ously. Cursing and shouting they snatched them
to their feet, and began to drag them to the open
doors.
"Say, Deacon, whatcha think this is. Who
tole you to protect that johnson boy Didn't
you know we want him? Let's hang 'em all, we
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The Middle Ages Come
land Go Again

THE great medieval spectacle Is over. A papal
1egate ten cardinals, 200 archhishops and
bishops, thousands Of priests gathered together
In Chicago and under the eyes Of hundreds of
thousands of the faithful worshippers wine and
,wafers that they believe to be the actual body
and blood Of Christ were eaten. The Eucharisic
Congress is over-the prestige of the catholic
church is vastly enhanced.
From the president of the United States to a
lowly Chicago police magistrate, politicians
paused in their unseemly duties to let it be known
that they too are awed by the power Of the Ro
man catholic hierarchy.
The Chicago police department. the Illinois
national guard and a division of United States
troops were at the service of the celebrants. s.
1t was the best press-agented pageant evd
held. Newspapers We'd with each other in givint
picture and news space the latter marked by the
lowest sort of groyelling.
FROM the beginning, prominent members of the
hierarchy, Withholding their names, took
casion of the free news space to launch a vicious
attack on the Mexican government for its attempt
to curb the unbridled educational and political
rampage of the church in Mexico. The press
eagerly licked up these stories and had their
Mexican correspondents send fresh stories of
atrocities against the bishopry and clergy.
1t was indeed a revival of the dark ages. The
flourish of gold in altar, crozier and mitre, the
jewel bedecked prelates, the costly vestments-
all these added to the mysterious rites that
marked every day Of the Congress-were calcu-
lated to dazzle the multitude. There is no doubt
they we're dazzed.
The millions of dollars spent for the Euchar-
istic Congress were well invested for the church.
It attests to the fact that religious power is not
built on faith alone.
THE Roman church and its Eucharistic Con-
crosses welcomed by the whole machinsl
cry of American capitalism. Thehchurch, serves
a useful purpose for capitalism 1t mentally en-
thralls the most exploited portion of Americas
industrial serfdom.
But this thralldom will be thrown off with the
awakening of that same proIetarian at a tia,e
when it is prepared to accomplish what anot r
proletariat accomplished also settled scoAs
with its mental Oppressors.
-THURBER LEWIS.
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and they were led into the midst of the mob The
minutes were hours-black hours filed with ter
ror. Jennie saw his father and the "Johnson
boy" tied to post, Soon fire was lashing their
stripped limbs, Their shrieks Of agony rent the
air. The "crackers' laughed, BE saw a few
women and children in their midst looking hend-
ishly at the burning men, Other Negroes were
added to the 'bonfre," and then, before his turn
came, an armed force led by the sheriff came to
the rescue, -
A few arrests were made but nothing was ever
done to the mob leaders. Lennie and his mother,
robbed of their supporter left for the North with
a few other stragglers. Bitter, helpless and
raggedy, Not knowing what it was really all
about-not knowing how to strike back, His
mother was still praying, but in his heart the boy
was cursing-cursing them who had killed his
father before his eyes-cursing the South ours
ing God,
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THAT Lennie slept mentally was the fact
which belonged to everyone who knew him
including himself But the basis for the accusa-
ton was rather of peculiar type. Lennie just
couldn't stay awake in church. Outside Of this
he was rather lively sort of chap He played
alley marbles and cOrner-lot baseball, and really
didn't don't' when it came to the Charleston.
But there was something about the church that
didn't strike an "awakenin'" cord on the He'll
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bound soul of Lennie. Rev. Smith had said every
thing he knew to say during the first two or
three weeks of his pastoring at the little church
and the remainder of the four years had been
spent in repetition. The prayer meetings we're
droll rehearsals of lamentable can't
~Lord, our Heavenly Father l have trOd the
OF path of prosecutions thru the wilderness of
Affections for 10 these many years, honorin'
and a praisin' you night and day. Some would
build their castle on this OF earth where the rust
rusts, where the worms eat, where the moths de-
stroy, where the work of Satan does flourish
much; but as for me, Lord, build my house with
Thee in the land where the streets are paved with
gold, where the milk and honey does exist in
abundance for them that praise your name, and
build my home an everlasting mansion of joy
and delight.
'Teach me to bear with the pain and persecu-
ton of this earth and lead me in that end to thy
throne. o Lord, to praise Thee forever and ever,
Amenp
The shrek with which Brother Williams an
nounced his "Amen" so startled Lennie from his
nap that he started and jumped quickly.
To begin with, Lennie wouldn't have been there
at all but for his mother who dragged him bodily
to the meeting house all day Sunday and Wednes-
/. day nights.
y ''Thunderin' Moses, mom don't want to hear
( all that OF racket any more, Pm gonna quit pray
in that's just lot of bunk. been readin' in the
paper about the way they treat us Negroes and 1
don't see why you and paw have wasted all your
lives a prayin, shoutn and singin'. You can
drag out if you WILL but will never open my
mouth to utter another prayer. If there is God
and he lets my people be burned, and lynched and
starved like he does DON'T WANT HIMp'
What made Lennie say that. A serious consul
tation was held between his, mother and father
that night and the old gentleman finally led Len
ME out into the woodshed Giving a serious lee
ture he beat Lennie until in his own words, "you
pray to God to TEX me off'n your hide"
In spite of Lennie's vow not to pray again, he
did utter that prayer for the old Christian was
an artist with the lash.
Jennie continued in the old way from all out
ward appearances, but he eagerly sought informa-
~tion about the way the "white folks" treated Ne
groes and especially studied the condition Of the
Negroes in the North, which, was a far away Can
nan Land TO the Negroes Of the South. In the
dirty little Southern Hell-hole where he lived
Crackers" were always giving him an original
taste of Christian meaness and very profound
hatred against all whites was bred in his heart
The "jim-crow" school he attended was always
closed up early so the Negro children could work
and was opened late in the Fall so they could
I'LL %
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FAILURE
BY A WORKER

My eyes hurt me.
If l can't see
What will become of me?
My eyes hurt me.
If they fail me
| can now see
Myself
On the Bowery.