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B0ERSIG PLEA SIGNED.
Gov. Byrd Agrees to 80 DAYS Res
pite for SLAYER

RICHMOND, Va. June lp, =
Louis Boersig. convicted of the mnr.
der last March of two children Cntb.
ernie and Loretta Ridgeway of Alloy.
andrla. Va, and sentenced to die in
the electric chair June Z. did nor
make the death march this morning
Acting upon the recommendations If
the Virginia Supreme Court of An.
peais, Gov. Byrd has granted the man
30-day stay of execution. Durinc,
thls period the highest tribunal in the
state will study the case upon appli.
cation of a writ of error.
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Asla-piraeus.
Observation-Disclosures Oslo and Copen
hagen.
Bereng aria-Cherbourg and Southampton.
SAILING TOMORROW.
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OUTGOING STEAMERS.
SAILING TODAY.

A=ia-Piraeis
Bergensfiord- Oslo and Copen-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Southampton
SAILING TOMORROW.
Byron-Patras and Piraeus
Lara-La Guayra Curacao and MaracaIho:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., southampton aud
santa Martta-Kingston, Cristobal and Santa
PORT Victoria-Bermuda
Andrea F. Northumberland Zone and
omayaguawPuerto Cortez
SAILING THURSDAY. JUNE ..
Caamo--San Juan.
Santa .Luisa-Cristobal. 1uuioue and Val
President Polk-Havana and Cristobal
iarOund the world.
American Shipper-London.
Oscar II-Christiansand. Oslo and Copen-
Columbus Plymouth. Cherbourg and
Bremen.
SAILING FRIDAY. JUNE 10.
De Grasse-Havre
Poseidon-La Guayra, Curacao and Mara
HomerIc-Cherbourg and Southampton.
Bolivar-Port au Prince. Puerto Colombia
and Cartagena
Choluteca--Puerto Cortez.
Astrea-Turks Island. Puerto Cabello and
Maracaibo.
SAIL SATURDAY. JUNE IL.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and southampton.
1rance--P1ymOuth ana faNre.
Volendan-Plymouth, Boulogne and Rot.
terdam.
AdFiatie-Queenstown and Liverpool
Lapland-PlSmouth. Cherbourg and Ant
observation-disclosures
Laconia-Queenstown and Liverpool.
Siboney-Havana.
Aranahoe--San Juan.
Calan1ares--Havana. Cristobal and Port
Limon.
Metapan--Santiago. Kingston and Puerto
Nerissa-St. Johns
Fort st. George-ReFmuda.
Maraval-Santiago. Kingston and Puerto
Colombia.
Erich Lindoe--San Pedro lie Macoris san
Domingo City and Barahona.
Fauban--Rio de Janeiro, MontevideO and
Buenos Aires.
Observation-Disclosures and Glasgow.
Tuscania-London and Hayre.
Minnesota--LOndon.
SAILING SUNDAY. JUNE IL
City of Shanghai--Port Said Karachi and
Bombay.
SAILING MONDAY. JUNE 10.
American-Cristobal and San Francisco
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apart and on opposite sides Of the
Milky Way.
Andromeda Is overhead in De-
cember between and 8 o'clock
p. m, while Hercules is in that
position near noon.
Drs. Kohloerster and Won Sails
conclude from their observations,
as reported by Science Service,
that although the rays do come
from all parts Of space, the chief
centers from which they radiate
to the earth are the Milky Way
and the two consultations above
named. The suggestion il also
offered that the great spiral
nebula in Andromeda is specially
concerned in the distribution Of
the rays. Its resemblance to a
very distant Milky Way ten
million light years away. say
some estimates) might be sup
posed to have some relation to
its apparent abundance of radi-
alive power.
But there Is no similar spiral
nebula in Hercules, though it may
be significant that Hercules con-
tains one Of the greatest and
perhaps the nearest Of the won.
derful objects known as globular
star clusters. These great balls
of associated giant stars appear,
according to the studies Of Harlow
Shapley. to be dropping from
both sides toward the plane Of the
Milky Way. DR.. Shapley has also
shown that there Is reason to
think that the globular clusters
actually enter and even pass
through the star-crowded Milky
Way, and that, through the play
OF forces not as yet clearly under.
stood, these relatively compact
clusters are dissipated during their
passage through the Milky Way,
their stars being scattered and
perhaps otherwise affected, so that
they may be regarded as bring.
ing, through their disintegration,
supplies Of new material for the
galactic system.
The idea that we are lombard.
ed. from nebulae and star cIus.
ters. with form Of radiation
more penetrating than any other
known and OF unexplored prop.
critics. and that these rays are
projected from particular objects
and from definite parts of the
universe-even coming. If some
speculations be true, from a uni.
verse lying outside our own sys.
tents so extraordinary. not to
say. fantastic. that one thinks Of
1t In association with the most
capricious inventions of writers
Of amazing stories" Yet all the
statements made about it come
from serious men enga ged in
strictly scientific investigation.
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HEAVENLY DEW" =

A RE we sprinkled by the Milky
"A Way with heavenly dew
(which may be anything except
real. dew), and does the remote
Andromeda Nebula, which recent
studies indicate may be another
Milky Way In another universe,
take a part In this strange celes.
tial baptizement? Such unconven.
tional questions are suggested by
the recent work of two German
scientists in Switzerland, DR..
Werner Kolhoerster and DR..
Gubert Won Sails.
They went to the glaciers and
snow fields of the Alps to study
those mysterious penetrating rays,
shed upon US out of space, which
have been called "Millikan rays''
because Of the discoveries about
them made couple of years ago
by DIR. r. "A. Millikan in Cali.
fornia. DR.. Kolhoerster shares
with DR.. Millikan the honor of
being the original finder of these
rays, and his latest experiences
with them are of a very extraor.
mary character.
Millikan thought that the rays
came with complete indifference
from all parts of the sky, but
kolhoerster and Won Sails have
round by their studies on the
Jungfrau and other Alpine noun.
ta1ns that the rays vary in in.
tensity with the part of the
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when he happens to think Of it
again, and to want it's comforting
companionship.
And he may forget his wife and
leave her waiting around for
weeks, while he INDUCES in a
little fit OF golf.mania or a little
spring Irritation, or plunges into
a big business deal, or goes fish
ing or hunting.
But he. always comes back,
when the game Is over, and is
astonished and heartbroken il he
doesn't find her waiting. RIGHT
WHERE HE LEFT HER!
Do you remember Barrie's hero,
who broke the mouthpiece Of his
beloved pipe and replaced it with
a new one-and then broke the
bowl and replaced it with a new
one? But to him, 1t was always
just the same little old brier pipe
the love Of his youth!
A man may admire a newer
and handsome pipe or a younger
and prettier woman; he may even
long to add them to his collec.
ton. But once his pipe and his
wife are seasoned" and mellow
and he has gotten USED to them,
nothing can wean him from
either Of them--permanently!
Just az he loves the little dents
and teeth-marks in the stem Of
The Washington times., 1927-01-13
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL

The Penalty of Prominence
has its danger.

DRoMINENCE has its danger
III Many of US less anxious to be famous
We would like to be gazed and crowded after like
Doug and Mary like the late Mr.. Valentino Many Of
lament the fact that days be spent in some
lowly valley where practically unknown
We might get comfort from what Doug" said the
other day when he remarked that he had pay five or six
times much in tips the ordinary person When man
is reputed to be making lot Of money or have lot of
money, every conceivable kind Of attack is made upon him
to get of it away from him. And there seems to be
something In human nature that enjoys taking whack at
prominent man. Nobody SAFE You would think that the
American people would have undyng and universal graft
ude for such hero Admiral Dewey, and yet when he
came home and married wife of different religious faith
and her his house public opinion was up in arms al
though what Admiral Dewey did with his own property
none of its business.
You speedily discover that when you re President or
Senator or Governor such thing whatever YOU do
is the pubics business.
Little acts or peccado that would pass unnotced in an
ordinary man played up when they are yours in the
newspapers You have to be careful about your walk and
about your dress About where you spit and whom Won
speak to. The eyes of humanity all upon Won and
living with everybody watching you is something like
being gold fish. It is not pleasant.
There childish element in humanity which cannot 70
sst throwing stones at anything that up high ON the wall
Publicity is great thing and doubtless makes some
people vast deal of money but it is dangerous thing and
on the WHOLE safer when he doesn Il fool WITH =
Copyright 1897 by The Mcclure ~
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the trivial tasks which / should
have learned to make and do
years before. even had to build
up ideals and standards for my
self, for I had none Of my own
only my parents standards. /
hoped some day to have a home
and children but before can
have children must stop being
child myself. And sometimes /
am hopeless
Does this all sound exaggerated
and ungrateful? I do not mean
to be ungrateful but I am sure
God never meant that love should
reach such fiendish ends as to
cripple life. It is so terrible when
a child realizes that its parents
love as manned 1t. 1t breeds
hatred and despair, and IL the
child Is too weak to make the
fight there is only one solution
suicide.
I do not know how It will end
with me but am sending this in
the hope that 1t may awaken
some foolish, doting parent to
the harm he is doing to his
child.
Fighting for Life.
There's the letter. What is
your opinion? Are the parents of
this woman to blame for .her
futility or was her own weakness
to blame? Is she using their folly
to camouflage her own laziness
and cowardice and instability:
Can she now mould herself &C.
cording to her new ideal, or Is she
permanently crippled?
In short, is our Will really Free
or are we the helpless victims of
circumstance, puppets In the hand
Of Fate? I don't know. Nobody
knows. But the side you take in
the argument Is a pretty fair test
of your character. AS for me, l
feel that there Is always a margin
Of free choice at my disposal, no
matter how adverse the situation
In which l find myself. A chance
to pick my way--a chance to
fight-a chance to serve that self
respect which Is like a little flame
within the weakness and stupidity
Of my darkened life. And as long
as I believe that, I'M GOING TO
HUSTLE
The Washington times., 1927-01-13
By ELSIE ROBINSON

Spinelessness will cheerfully pass
the buck to papa and mama.
One who signs herself Fight
ing for Life" Is divided between
the two opinions. In her darkest
moments she fears that her par.
ents have made an. irreparable
wreck of her character but she
Is still trying to mould something
out Of the pieces.
Read her letter and compare T.
with your own life. Your disap-
pointments and failures - how
have you explained them to your.
self? Have you felt that they
were your own fault, that you
could have prevented them II you
had tried hard enough? Or have
you blamed them on your parents
on your wife-on your environ
ment-on your boss?
Dear Miss Robinson:
have been reading your article
on Motherhood and have been
greatly interested by its bearing
on my personal life. I agree with
you that Motherhood is q wonder
ful privilege, but it can be used
to a destructive as well as a con.
structive end.
You told the story Of a poor
woman who recently killed herself
and her children because she felt
that she had neglected the chill
dren and untitled them for llfc
In this world. Perhaps she saved
them much. Who knows?
am the child OF another kind
OF home. A home where there
was too much love, too much Of
everything. A petted, pampered
poodle! An only child-a selfish;
egotistical wretch who has grown
to realize her own miserable con.
dition.
From infancy until the time /
was twenty my parents planned
every move I made and did every.
thing for me. began to rebel.
realized that some guidance was
necessary but / wanted some
credit for common sense. They
would give me none, and would
place no confidence in me. III
had been the type OF girl who
fancied boys and desired their
company every night they might
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QUESTIONS OF
ETIQUETTE
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman-
Flowers for the Sick


DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
- VIII you please help me in
this matter? A very dear man
friend OF mine, who has left the
city. has a mother whom I have
never met, but who. understand,
Is a very lovely person. l have
heard that she is i'll, and would
very much like to send her some
flowers. II you give me your ap-
proval. II you think this will
be proper, what kind of flowers
would you suggest? Also would
1t be better to enclose a note or
card with some kind Of greeting
on it? II. w
1t would be proper for you and
most thoughtful and friendly to
send flowers to the i'll mother
OF your friend. It is very impor.
tant when we send flowers to a
sick-room or a hospital to send
ones Of moderate size (since in
hospitals and often in homes they
do not have large vases and Also
ones with little or no fragrance,
How would you like to send some
Of these small yellow roses that
seem to be this year especially
lovely? Or a box Of the small,
delicately tinted pink sweetheart
roses? Carnations, too, IL you like
them. although most people arc
not very enthusiastic about them
have an agreeable, pungent and
healthy fragrance for sick.room.
With the flowers send your
visiting card or a card with your
name written on 1t, and a short
message Of friendly sympathy.
For instance, write on your card:
"Friendliest greetings to you, Mrs.
Washington, and the hope that
you will be well very SOON" II
you prefer, you might enclose a
note saying about the same thing,
but perhaps little more devei.
oped. However, under the circum-
stances, since you do not know
the mother. 1 suggest that you
send only the card with q mes
saga on It.
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MS favorite old pipe, so he loves
the little laugh-wrinkles around
his old wife's eyes and the Iittla
gray patches over her teInnles
and her little idiosyncracies, and
her funny little ways.
Cigarettes are like a. man'a
f1lirtations, which he lights care.
lessly. enjoys for a little whiIe
and filings away without regret
Cigars are like his loves. stimnIaf.
Ing, fragrant, and mourned whan
they die out.
But his pipe and his wife ara
his life-companions-for which he
feels no thrills, but an ahidirv
tenderness!
About them, he weayes a rea,
sentiment. a real affection. that
nothing can shake or change ar
spoil. They do not share many OF
his amusements, alas; their
existence is not exciting. But
they share his dreams, his real
thoughts, his finer moments and
MS sweetest hours.
And no matter how careless he
may have been with them, how
ne may have neglected them, it
Is always shock to him when ne
loses either Of them.
Show me a man who loves a
PIPE-and I'll show you q one
woman man!
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LISTEN, WORLD!

have had reason
for their dis
trust, but I
loved my books,
my music, my
profession.
Finally / de-
cided to leave
home. It was a
terrible figh t
but / stuck 1t
out. l cannot
describe what
that first year
meant to me.
I wanted indie
pendence a n d
at last / had
a chance to
achieve it but
at, oh, what a
cost Of suffer.
ing. It was al
most impossible
for me to make
the simple de-
cisionS and do
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THE PoPEs NIECE, IN HER WEDDING GOWN

Thousands Of young women wondering just WHEN they
will be married and just WHAT they will wear will be in
eresed in this charming bride and her extremely artistic and
beautiful wedding gown.
This lady is Miss Donna Maria Ratti niece of the Pope
recently married to Count Ugon The marriage solemn
lied in the Vatican the Pope himself officiating rare honor
What interests young ladies here the headdres by
the bride and the cut Of the beautiful dress.
No short skirt above the knees HERE you will notice
That would not have been tolerated in the Vatican
and the young womap probably too intelligent for such fool
ishness, anyhow.
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A RE we what
"A our parents
make US? Or
can we mend
our characters.
despite I h e ir
laundering?
That's a big
question. 1t in.
wolves the whole
problem of Free
Will. Those Of
US who like to
feel that we
have a finger in
the pie will say
that we CAN
make a good
job Of ourselves
even If we've
picked a poor
brace Of par
ents. w lille
those who want
an excuse for
t h cir laziness
and anarol
The Washington times., 1927-01-13
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland

The Way Of Man With a Pine
HE way Of a man with q pipe
i and the way Of a man with
a wife are far more inscrutable
than the way Of man with a
You know how a man feels
about good pipe. No matter
how old and battered and out
OF fashion It is. he still ciings to
1t, and there's no use offering
him a fancy new one to take its
place.
He may park 1t somewhere and
leave 1t lying around for. weeks
at time, while he dalliess with
cigarettes or smokes cigar "for
a change" But he aiways ex-
poets to find IL fright there"
The Washington times., 1927-01-13
By Garrett P. Serviss

intensity OF the strange radiation
is greatest. Moreover. it is par.
ticularly intense when the two
consultations Andromeda and
Hercules are highest in the sky.
But these consultations are far
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starry armament from which :
they seem to emanate. When
the Milky way (which may
now be seen spanning the sky
from east to west early in the
evening" IL nearest overhead the
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a way that banishes all hope that the
old invalid pension room win ever
again revert to male uses.
Color Scheme Details.
And now. of course, the whole
United States will want to know about
lne cu4ur scheme, furnishings II every
thing, in the Congresswomen's cloak
room Well. TO begin with, it's just
100 lovely for words. Mick" has al
ways been too dear for anything
in all that concerns the rights and
wrongs of Congresswomen for WASH t
Princess Alice's consort the first of
an Speakers to place the ladies of
the House on a status of full-fedged
equality with Congressman?
So, Mr.. Longworth insisted. with
the cooperation of Mr.. Page. in
m0therln2 the cloakroom as if it were
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CLOAKROOM GIVEN.
TO HOUSE WOMEN
Exclusive Possession As.
Sured Fair Members of
Congress in New Place.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Women in Congress have come to
stay--there's no longer any doubt
about that. BY official act of the
House of Representative unbeknown
to the world at large, things have Just
happened that signify and stabilize
the fact apparently for all time. In
other words. the first cloalIroom for
woman members in the history of the
congress of the United States is now
IN formal existence
1t was quietly unveiled on SATURDAY.
January %. a distinguished STRANGER
from abroad was present-Mrs. II. NJ
Phlllpson- Stow of London, house guest
OF the Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft and
daughter of a distinguished British
.lurlst. History is made in the cloak
rooms of Capitol Hin The latest add.
uon TO them will hardly fail to follow
precedent.
Inc CongreSSwomen' cloakrOom oc-
cupleS Well known quarters on the first
moor OF the House side of the Capitol.
lhey We're formerly the offices Of the
committee on invalid pensions. of
which the late Representative charles
=. Fuller of Illinois so long was chair
man
Completely Done Over.
no longer, however. is the old com
mttee room a drab and dreary con
gressional Office. 1t has been dome
over FOR the sole use of the three
woman members of the House-ATrs
Aahn OF California and Mrs. Rogers
~ MA ssachusetts. Republicans. and
Mrs Norton. Democrat. of New Jer.
sey-unth it is now unquestionablv
me sweetest" apartment anywhere
beneath the Capitol dome.
Inc Congresswomen'S cloal<room Is
also far and away the most imam.
proachable sanctum on the Hill. No
other women may use it--not even The
speakers lady herself-,lnless tbev
are there as guests of Mesdames Kahn
Kogers and Norton. The cloakroon1
mas mas been placed in charge of mafron
T S1,,i answers no knocks on the door.
IL, ~ oily Keys to the place are those
which the trio of lady politicians ana
the matron possess. Beyond All cam.
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pare. it is thus the most exclusive
salon in all Washington
The decision 10 equip and maintain
d CongresSw0men's cl0akroom was the
joint idea of Speaker Longworth and
William Tyler Page, veteran clerk of
the House Those two officials have
been interchangeable for a long time in
seeing the thing put through, dsvot
ing to its naturalization a zeal and
painstaking care that knew no bounds
As the women's delegation in the
Hodse has swollen to a certain four
in size by the 1895 elections-Mrs
John w. Langley, Republican. of Ken
lucky, being the latest recruit
Messrs. Longworth and Page were
fortified in their conviction that the
cloakroom was a practical necessity.
So NOW it's in operation. dolled up in
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WASHINGTON D. THURSDAY

plush. includes a center table, a writ
ing desk. stands of ferns and dainty
candelabra on the walls.
OF course, the Congresswomen may
take their friends to the cloakroom--
man friends as well as woman friends.
Mesdames Kahn. Rogers and Norton
plan. indeed. 10 use their very own
menage regularly for conference pur-
poses. But, neat and sweet as it is,
what the ladies of the House prize
most about ii is that 1t is symboliCal.
The first congressional cloakroom.
they avow and aver, means that their
sex's place In the American political
sun is at last recognized.
Downright 1897
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their very own. And now the Con-
gresswomen have the contest little den
that ever was complete in the small
est detail. They haven't overlooked
thing, except. perhaps, a smoking
stand and that's likely 10 come.
The cloakrooIn used to be one great
big apartment, but it's been cieverig
turned into two rooms by the erection
of a high glass and mahogany screen
that reaches to the ceiling The front
part is fitted up as a lounge. with
walls of a light tan tint. The floors
are carpeted in beautiful Plush Of
color to match the walls, with a light
blue border The massive mahogany
furniture. upholstered in blue mohair
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the companys' products at all river
ports and the loading and discharging
of steamers at Girardot have been
suspended.
Reports received here state that a
group of strikers made efforts To take
over two river gunboats at Barranca
Bermeja, but were driven off by gov
eminent troops and their leaders ar
rested.
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MINE FIRES lNCENDIARY.
Marshal Holds 100000 Blaze In
tentionally Started.

WHEELING, ". Va, January 81
P).-Fires which destroyed the tipples
of the Cross Greek, Richland and Elm
Grove mines within few weeks were
of incendiary origin, Edward J. Ritz,
deputy STATE fre marshal, said after
an investigation.
The fires, which entailed losses of
nearly 100000. threw 500 men out
OF work
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PROCLAlMS MARTIAL LAW.
Colombia President Acts After
Strikers Ban U. S. Oil Firm.

BOGOTA. Colombia, January 81 GFl,
Martial law has been proclaimed by
presidential decree at Barrance Ber-
meta, on the Magdalena River where
a strike has been in progress among
employees Of the Tropical Oil Co., a
branch of the Standard oil Co. Two
regiments # troops are being sent to
tho scene.
The strikers have refused to handle
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Twelve boys have just arrived in
New Zealand from England to learn
farming under the auspices or the
Fellowship Of the British Exhibition
Scholarship scheme
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SHOP

Pure Linen Crash Dish ToWeing-
25c All-Inen Towelng reduced TO- yard 19c
30c All-Lnen Towelng reduced to- yard 23c
SOC All-Lnen ToWelng reduced to- yard Doc
45c Al-Lnen Toweling reduced TO- yard }9c