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NUMBER 12,022. e v ~ ? WASHINGTON, SUNDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1921. WZATNZ-"u,wn, is RC FV E Today What Is Happening. Perhaps an Important Baby. ~ife a String of Beads. blishers, Attention! ARTHUR BRISBANR. (Copyright. 1931.) A year is a string of 52 beads, each one a week, and a man's life is a string of seventy years, more or less. History picks out a fact, here anid there, in this week or that-and so the story is told. One week Caesar crosses the Rubicon. Another week not far away in Father Time's eyes .9 Washin n crosses the Delaware. The rks take Constantinople, the Allies take it back-and hate - each other, jealousy. Columbus discovers America, Bell discovers the telephone, steam replaces horses, electricity replaces steam, the Queen of Sheba goes to see Solomon, Wood Lo wow Wil o to se King r George, = ur8ewill be com iaover here to see us. us the story runs along the lifting us by the scruff V the nock, gradually, up out of barbarism. What is worth recording in that fragment of life, the few weeks ;utpast? Not much, apparently. But you can't be sure. gLouls XVI at the end of the day on whilc the Bastile was t*n down, wrote in his diary RIEN, meaning NOTHING. He was mistaken. What had happened was the revo lution and the loss of his head. He had been out shooting, killed nothing, and therefore nothing had happened. You can't judge events by what happens to yourself-not even their importance to YOU. German murderer killed Ers rberger recently, and Germany got excited, but that is nothing In history. A line in German books; nothing in other books. The great airship recently fell and killed several-exciting in America and'England, where the foolish say great fing machines "are unsafe.I It will be forgotten in fifty years, when flying five thousand feet long cros e ocean regularly in a few hours. Our peace with Germany recently was signed-a mere formal . We went into the war to et nothing, and that is what we GOT-except -a debt of forty or fifty thousand rmillions and a prosperity knocked endwise. Something important MAY have happened. If so, it happened to some woman, mother of one of the thousands of babies' born last week. The real news, if we could read the future, would be found in the birth list. Per ene of those bableb, u ly-to t ite mother --and ess, be the real man or wom:a fifty rs hence. to The girt bab- to the irst woman President of the United States may have arrived or the boy that will harness the sun's power, or the leader, male or female, able to .convince human beings that mutual aid Days, and that mutual extermination does not pay. There was a baby born once and his father decided to name him Oliver. If you had asked the English royal court what it thought of that birth it would have answered, "Loes than noth But Oliver's last name was Cromwell, and his coming meant a go deal. So with many an oh baby, from Alexander, who put kings -at their highest, to Napoleon, who made all living kings (and finally himself) ridi culous. The railroads report, thank 70u, much better earnings. The right to raise rates, lowerwae and get $600,00 ,000 fromth public purse ouh to help some. Itis undersodthat if$00, 000,000 It not enough, the roads promise to come back for more. The Irish question Is still "open." 'There seems a fair heethat'it will be settled. A wit defnthe situa Stion as: "An Englishman Is just, but never generous. An Irishman is generous but never just." The Irish will ask just where the Eng lish justice has shone In Irish his tory. If fighting continues It will he uphill fighting for Ireland. Wales was conquered, after wars that lasted long, because she was "near er" to the English power. Steam and flying bring Ireland nearer London than Wales was 100 years ago. The Russians, eating clay and grass, are dying of hunger in thou sands. Mrs. Marguerite Harrison, American woman, back from a bol ahevist prison, says that neverthe less bolsheviat rule will continue, but modified. The Russian dicta tors-wonderfully frank mortal. admit that It is a race between famine and their theories. Famine is a fast racer. EDITORS, THTS IS FOR YOU: The Treasury Department, accord. into the Newark Times, has ethe first steps to prevent importing foreign newsprint paper, or paper pulp. It was foreign print paper that first came to the relief of our ' r makers here, distressed at nheg com& lied, "in justice to thei ste oders" t chrge14 en for spot paper, especlly to emlrnewspapers. Publishers that have not made their contracts for 1922 mIght drop ia line to President Harding. He i a pblshe, ndknows. I t would almost break the hearts of our aper makersif theyagn .found theselves "all out of pap' aind compelled to multipl the ~1ee~ treeto "prevent extrava. Ku K CHICA SWEEPING SHAKE-UP ORD E DRED Chief Declares Half His Force Co-operate With Booze Peddlers. CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-The Chi cago Police Department was shaken up today as Chief of Police Ftsmorris started a campaign to break up the alleged combinations between police and Illicit liquor dealers, in which he declared half the force to be involved. 8 -6 Transfs. A oweeptag t fMut rder, remor ing the men who have grown too tamwac wih~r presi etst ther e 1i was the first blo orris struck to smash up the boosm ring. In addition he ordered a change in the precinct boundaries that will In crease the efficiency of the depart ment by centralizing the administra tive machinery. The chief's orders, Involving hun ed of police and breaking gown relations, were carried out throughout the city today. Fitsmorris said that prohibition was a fallacy, that more drunkedness. more deaths from liquor, and more vice and crime resulted from the Eighteenth Amednment than from the old saloon days. 2,5W Affected. As a result of the wholesale activity of police officers In the liquor traffic, the chief Issued orders shaking up the entire police department. More than 2,600 policemen. including men of every rank, were transferred. At the same time he created new police districts and changed the boundary lines of old ones. 'A tlor94gh clean-up of the depart mntii with a view of ferreting out the guilty parties, was ordered by the chief. Immediate removals of officers found engagbed In Illicit boose traffic was Premised. The chiefs assertion came with the announcement of the dispatch of let ter@ to United States District Attorney Charles M. Clyne and John H. Alcock, first deputy superintendent of police. Wants Evidaloo. In his communication to the dis trict atterney, Fitsmorris requested Clyne to turn over to him evidence Federal agents gathered in dry law violations In which policemen were implicated. Armed with this, the chief says he will go before the city civil service commission and demand the discharge of officers named. Considerable evidence of this char acter, authorities say, was collected fors yworn udr the diretio of John Kjellander, In charge of the cen tral division, and by special agents operng under Bernehaw, intelli gence offie for the internal revenue bureau in the Investigation of dry law activities. CLAIMS UNKNOWN BODY IS IN DANIEL BOONE'S CRAVE KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 2.--The body of an unknown man instead of Daniel Boone, the famous frontiers man, is burled in Frankfort, Ky., Jesse P. Crump, great-great-grandson of the pioneer, believes. Data in Crumnp's possession Indi ting that the wrong grv as open what was declared to be the bodies of Boone and his wife to Frankfort from Marthasville, Mo., was being Investi gated. Crump, president of a title company here, believes Mrs. Boone's body was removed, but that an error remova wasn maei 1314. Beginig P Intimate I S by Pierre ( U lux Threatej GO POLCE G $10,000 Given Away! The procession starts! E. G. Lashlee gets the first chunk of cash distributed by The Times. "Easy money," he says. E. G. Lashlee, 901 L street northeast, leads the parade. Mr. Lashlee stepped into The Times office this morning and greeted the staff with the announcement that he had come to collect $5. Mr. Lashlee proffered a little card, on which were printed four numbers, among which was No. K-80,000, one of the numbers designated as lucky by The Times. The bearer was tickled. "Pretty soft," he chuckled, as he received an order on x the cashier for the five. I Here's how it happeted: Last evening about 8:30 Mr.1 Lashlee dsaided o take a peek at the show's t th6 fnpire Theater, 911 H street aortheast. When he purehased his ticket he was given one of The Times coupons. He put It in his pocket sad forggt about it until he came out of the anbdy may draw. It may beyo godfortune to get FreeGitCu theater, when one of The Times pons that call for substantial sums lusty-lunged youngsters was offering of money evr day. There are no the Sunday morning edition for sale rules, restri or limitations' in no uncertain voice. Mr. Lashles, whats0yev except that the em who ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~lv of an7%ez diero .~~1b Washington limes and who Is an -ardent admirer of The the relatives are barred from the Times, coughed up a thin dime. Idly distribution-so it Is possible for you he ran through the pages to the full to collect $100 one day and come i page announcement of the distribu- back the next day and get another peg anouceentoftheditria-hundred or some other stun. Puttingt tien of $10,000 cash. He looked over it in another way, If you hold twenty the lucky numbers. Then he looked five Free Gift Coupons, you have an at the coupon ho held. opportunity to draw twenty-five "Jumog shades of Billiken!" sums of money. e Lashle. I've got one of No Umit on Chaees. th, uckynumbersI'l He put the You will not experience the slight coupon carefully In his wallet, went Yuwl o xrec h lgt home and dreamed of a rain of $5 est difficulty in getting a large num bills and arrived at The Times office her of Free Gidt pons, because at a reasonable hour this morning to thea , so a b n c ash fr thouses every time you enter those Wait frthe Ughtiig. establishments and ask for one. In "Simplest thing I ever saw," said many instances you will not have Mr. Lashlee. "All you do is hang on to ask for a Free Gift Coupon, be to your coupons and wait for the cause the clerks behind the counter lightningto strike." will be eager to co-operate with you Mr. Lashleo opines that he will and help you get some of this wait until tomorrow to spend all his $10 000. money, and is inclined to believe that foe rrow Free Gift Coupons will he will spend it all in one place. be distributed at each of the Piggly The Times is giving away $10,000 Wiggly stores in Washington. In cash to holders of numbers pub- day The Washington Times lished daily in the paper. This Is an will publish not only the lucky num unusual offer, there being no strings hers calling for wads of kale, but to it. There is no work, no dots to also a complete list of the places count, no subscribers to get. where Free Gift Couns will be dis One of the attractive features of tributed. Read this litand be sure this $10,000 distribution Is that there to go to the stores or theaters and is no limit on the amount of money ask for Free Gift Coupons. HOUSEWIVES FORBIDDEN WOA HEDI$200 TO 00SSIP IN GERMANY FRDAhO UBN BERIN. Sept. 25.-"Gossigf' by ARN ho et 5-tony housewives is forbidden by the mu-foMr.ineL.Drcagdwt nicipal council of the German town- scn eremre ncneto ship of Suhi, because of the loss ofwthhedahohehsbdn time and neglect of duty occasioned Arnbunmmn avdpeii thereby. Police have orders to arrest nr ern npfc or etra al! women found gossiping on door-anwsbodovrtgad ryI aody on und ternoa ne 2*0bn.Ms oa e and after sunset. mie iettruhu h or FARMER MAKES 13 MILES ri_ ____ IN DAY, EXPERIMENT SHOWS LNNSRPYMYMA ISLAND FALLS. Me., Sept.25.-The PLS RA IhS~E farmer's boy about his chores covers Mocw se.25-fRuia1 a, lot of ground in the course of athosdntegatltnitrpy liay. Norris Nickerson, -o of a t h oihutmtm eeec farmer here, speculating on the ox.o ilmtcrltin ewe h tent of his steps from sunrise to sun- tocutisi on orsli At 'night it showed head waepce h oie nwrwudb fortenmie.ds. inLchrchred withiashrtme etoSundayren Threr Wnaoneci withonalteeedataon oena miardnetodt thle Tsruotevcout prcedigs RAFT I ARBUCKLE RULING BY MID-WEEK 'Whispered Testimony" of Al Semnacher Proves Damaging to Fatty's Defense. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. he Arbuckle hearing will be re umsed tomorrow morning in Judge lylvian Lazarus' court with prose uting witnesses on the stand. The Judge's decision on the sarder charge against Roscoe Ar >ueki In connection with the o ffl b t Virginia 0* ft'M po 7Le gie 1"10=1y or Thursday, when the hearing is expeted to conclude. W spers . The "whispered testimohy" of Al Iemnsehor, maager of Ums Rtfppe. Sang yet Introdued Lgainst~ buckle. Semnaober. testifying at the bear ng. declined to speak aloud the re nark he said was made by Arbuckle he morning after the party. He was sked what Arbuckle said he bad done o Miss Rappe. "We were talking about her intox cated condition-talking and laugh nff_-and--11 Answer the question," Aistant )intrict Attorney Golden commanded. "Well. Arbuckle made the remark hat-" And again Semnacher paused. em arransed. He said he did not wish to epeat the remark aloud. He whis ered it to the judge and wrote it on a lip of paper for the court record. Golden. continuing the question. re vated the vulgar remark aloud sev Ml times. Additional news of the later. sting Arbuckle a*e wilt be found apase three. OSPEL SINGER ANDPIANISTARE BARRED IN TOWN rwo Members of Powell Evan gelistic Party Forced to Leave Bowling Green. BOWLING GREEN. Ky., Sept. 26. -This town. capital of the Westerni Centucky oil field. and the wealth ,st municipality in that section is i the midst of the greatest sensa on in its history. A gospel singer and his beautiful tanist, both of the Powell evangel itic party, were found together in hotel roonw. The man was fined nd both forced to leave the town. lenry E. Litchfield is the man. He married and his home is at Ashe ille, N. C. The girl is Miss Jeddie la istow.a twn, whose home ,is When officers arrested them Litch eld is alleged to have admitted he dbeen inthe girl's room wen lothing. He said her room adjoined is and that he looked upon her as. is daughter. The warrant against Miss Bistow ras dismissed on condition that they ot leave thextcity immediately. They iington Time ng the Life a: th and Practic: IK * res tigl BARED HINANGIRL DIES AFTER HARD FIGHT Tries to Tell Story of Shooting by Love Rival, But Fails. NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-The love mysteqy of Mildred Hanan, pretty heiress, will remain untold. That daughter of the former mil lionsfe shoo manufacturer died in Lon Island College Hospital at dawn today, her lips sealed with the story of how she was shot down by Mrs. Gre Lawes, her jealous chum. UkaM" To Speak. The young woman died at 4.04 a. m. of Woands nfLEctse by Mrs. Lawes. Nae lest her fight for life because she was unable to overcome weakness from lom of blood due to the three bullet wounds. Up to midnight Miss Hanan was re ported imptoving. She had survived several operations for blood transfu alone, and physicians mid she might live. But with the early hours of the morning came a relapse. Her mother and brother. Alfred P. Hanan, Jr., were at the bedside. Patrolman Moriarity was present. He attempted to have Misn Hanan tell the reason for the sudden insane jeal ousy of Mrs. Lawes. which caused her to fire the fatal shots and then kiL herself. But Miss Hanan. although conscious, was unable to speak. Tried to speak. She seemed to want to speak to the policeman. She seemed to want to tell the reason why Mrs. Lawes sud denly attacked her as she was walk Ing along Schermerhorn street. Brook lyn. Friday night. She opened her lips, but her throat was clogged, and she only groaned. An autopsy was performed on the X of Miss Hanan by Dr. Cart tiger. assistant medical exam Iner of Kings county, In the presence of Dr. Earnest Vaughan. of the dis trict attorney's office. The autopsy merely revealed the direction the bullet took after entering Miss Han an's abdomesn. John 8. Borland. wealthy importer, who was with Miss Hanan when she was shot, maintained silence. He told police It was evidently a case of jea lousy but denied that Mrs. Lawe was fealous over him. He said she might have been enraged because he occu pieds mdechaofher chum' time.r. Tawes was in the habit of using drugs. They meid several friends of hers with whom they had talked told them she took drugs. Quarrel At Party. It has also been established that two wteeks ago at a week-end party at Shoreham. L. I., a quarrel developed and Mime Hanan asked Mrs. Lawes Lo leave the house. Police said this iuarrel was over money Mime Hanan had loaned to Mrs. Lawes. The police also learned that one night this week Mrs. Iawes met Miss ilanan on the street and openly threatened to shoot her. They said Mrs. Lawee had been drinking stren uously and taking morphia for a week before the shooting. They believed the quarrel at the Seeed patcaused the breah. It isappeared for two hours during the asked hr wher se had been "It's none of your business where I have been," Mrs. Iawes is rprted to have maid. This remark le to a heated argument and ended with Mrs. Lawes being ordered out of the house. s--"A V0iC4 nid Death of b ally a Member rtor of Martinelli to Sing Caruso's Roles in New York. Giovanni Martinelli, who will sing Caruno's roles at the Metro politan this season. photographed in New Yoric on his return from a successful season In South Amer ica. Martinelli received $3,000 In American gold for each of his twenty-eight appearances In South America. RN'1mS-WH AT DOCTOR'S HOME; SHOOTSLATTER Lynchburg, Va., Scene of Tragedy-Physician Fired Pistol Before Dying. LYNCHBURG, Va., Sept. 26.-Dr. William A. Strother. Bedford county physician, who enjoyed a large prac tice in the northeastern part of Bed ford county and who was prominent ly connected in Lynchburg. was shot and killed yesterday at his home by Jesse R. Ford. superintendent for the J. R. Ford Company, on a State highway contract, near Boonsboro. Ford immediately surrendered to the police and shortly afterward an inquest rendered a verdict charging Ford with the shooting. Wife Witness to Rfling. Ford's wife, who was at Strother's residence at the time of the shoot ing. was the only witness before the coroner. She testified that her hus band shot Strother, and as he turned to walk away Strother raised and fired two shots at Ford. Then the physician fell dead. At her solicitelion Ford returned and aided his wife to carry Dr. Storther to the veranda of the house and then went away to surrender. Ford has three small children, the youngest only nine month. old. Mrs. Ford Is said to have been away from home for me time. Her husband found her this morning at Dr. Sti-other's home. Father With Him. Shortly after the Inquest Ford was taken to the county jail at Bedford, and tonight an effort was being made to secure bail for him. His father, J. R. Ford, a contractor, with his wife, were with the son. When asked for a statement as to the causes leading up to the shooting Ford stated that he went to see Dr. Strother. He said there had been bad feeling between them for several weeks. He went to Strother to call on him about a matter which he failed to de scribe, and maid that Dr. Strother at tempted to shoot him. In a scramble for the possession of the pistol Ford ays he finally got it and fired at the physician, who fell with a mortal wound In his breist. Mrs. Ford testified that Dr. Strother raised up, fired two shots at her hus and, who was walking away, and then fell dead. i From a De ficholas, Czar of the Roman Klan 1,000 EYES' WATCHING PROBERS, SAYS NOTE[ Atlanta Prosecutor Receives Warning Note-Simmons Re ported in Washington. By raler.i Serice. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 25.-"The eyes of 1,000 real men" are again an the alert in Atlanta, and the first threatening letters since the inves tigation of the Ku Klux Klan started are reported to have been received. W. F. Brandt, an attorney who has been active in the investigation of the activities of the Klan, gave a statement to the newspaprs last night that he bad wastehi several thesatening letters waning him to eare town. He said one of them was signed "K. K. E." thers "The eyes of 1,000 real men" and "1,00 eyes., Recalls Thompesm Kuhaig. This has recalled vividly the kill ing of Fr6d Thom n several months ago in a woo near Lake wood Park, on the outsirts of Atlanta. Thompson .was killed b .T. C. Thomas, who slashed him t death with a knife and 'wounded three other men who had carried him to the spot to punish him foi alleged um . conduct with a woman. Previous to the night when Thomp son was killed Thomas had reeived threatening letters signed "The eyes of 1,000 real men" and "The eyes of the unknown." It was generally believed thae. Thomas had killed Thompson and wounded the others in defending- hits melf against a hand of self-appointed 'Regulators," and no Indictment was returned against him after the grand Jury Investigated the case. Homer Pitts and Ed Shute, two of the men In the car with Thompson, are now maid to be working as agents of the Ku Klux Klan. Brandt said the letters to 'him warned him that "1.000 eyes" were watching him day and night and ad vised him to leave town. He said be had destroyed the letters. Klan Offleals Fal Out. Rumors were In circulatior here to day that high officials of the Klan had been divided against each oter. Mrs. Elisabeth Tyler. head of the Women's Department, denied that there wai any friction. It was impnssible to reach Edward Young Clarko. Imperial kleagle, and It was said he lbft the city last night. He was here during the day. Col. W. 3. Simmons, imperial wizard, left here Friday morning to be gone for a week, and Dr. Caleb A. Ridley, a minister, said to b"- imperia' haplain of the order. declared he miderstood Colonel 38 mone had gone to Washington. Oter officials re 'used to confirm this. The three Atlanta newspapers, wrhich remained silent for 9ome timie Iafter the Ku Klux story had attracted tational attention, are now publishing ~ull report. of the news, and each of hem hats made editorial expression :ondemning religious Intolerance and Ittempts to stir up race and clasa "atreds. Clarke Quits Eu Klux. The editorial published In the Bearchlight on Friday by Carl F. Ilutcheson wa~s declared not vilolative f the law by Federal District Attor, ley Hooper Alexander, who admitted. riowever, that it wan "violent and ntemperate." The edit**ial wasn an inflammatory attack upon the Clatho Ic Church.. Investigation of the klan by the Prederal Department of Justice and the sostoffce Inspectors Is expected to ad Empire" of Russia, >ff Family