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WASHINGTON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1922.
(Closing Wall Street Prices) THREE CENTS EVERYWHERE.
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Eastlake Courted QrrI At Insane Asylum
Today
We're Saving Billions.
Must We Fight Again?
To Cure Hysteric*.
We're Very, Very Rich.
?By ARTHUR BRISBANE-?
Copyrl?ht. 1KJ.
' Not all the news is bad. Eu
rope is gloomy, men are idle
here, but here is one fact en
couraging to Americans. This
is the only country in the world
that ia living within its income.
The statement Is made on
the authority of Mr. Madden,
chairman of the Appropriations
Committee in the House of Rep
resentatives, who knows more
about our finances than any
body else.
We are spending money free
ly; the Lord knows it ami tax
payers know it. But few realize
how much President Harding s
administration and the men in
charge of the budget and the
appropriations have done to cut
down expenses.
In 1919 the Government spent
nineteen billions. In 1920 it
spent seven and one-half bil
lions. In 1921 the bill was six
and one-half billions. In 1922
We shall spend about four and
a half billions. The budget of
1923* eliminating postoffice
costs, which come back largely
in receipts, will be a little over
three billions.
To come down from nineteen
billions in 1919 to three billions
In 1923 is doing well. Espe
cially when you know that it
costs two billions of dollars a
year for fixed charges, interest
on the national debt, pensions,
sinking fund. etc. The co^t of
the civil part of the Govern
ment. leaving out army, navy
and war debts, is only three
hundred and forty million dol
lars.
Mr. Madden is paid $7,500 a
year by the people for the work
that he does. He earns that
money.
Lloyd George says that the
United States must fight again
If Europe fights, whether the
United States wants to or not.
It may be so; maybe not. If
people sink our boats, tell us
when we may and may not
tralSffer send ships, we may
find ourselves fighting again.
But it isn't likely that we shall
ever again be quite such easy
lenders as we have been. That's
one comfort.
At Genoa the war seems to
be dying down a little and com
mon sense comes to the front.
Lloyd George produced some <??'
feet when he told the Allies to
beware of a "hungry Russia
and an angry Germany" getting
together, uniting to start the
war again, to make Europe
take another swim in a sea of
blood.
Ancient Egyptian documents
have been f^und showing sur
geons performing all sorts of
operations in those days. Some
?f the ancient remedies were as
foolish as our scheme for mak
ing old men into young men
with monkey glands. At the
Metropolitan Museum in New
York there is the world's old
est prescription, written on
atone. It tells how to "burn
powdered emeralds to cure fem
inine hysterics."
In this day such hysteric*
are cured more often with large,
pretty pearls hung on a string
Feople of this country have
Ho idea how much money the
nation is really worth. Nobody
dreams of the wealth that it
Will represent in the future.
Mr. Craig, who manages
finances for the city of New
York, for instance, mentions
casually the fact that during
four years New York city has
increased its debt eleven mil
lion dollars a year. And in the
same period the assessed valua
tion of New York's real estate
has increased TWO THOUSAND
MILLION dollars. That in
crease is a little more than the
entire debt of the city. A very
respectable debt, but a slice of
Central Park could be sold for
enough to pay it all. How
much is the United States
worth ?
Seven big steel companies
will unite to make one big com
pany and try to fight Judge
Gary's United States Steel Cor
t>oration. They will have hard
work. For the big steel com
' pany. with hundreds of millions
piled up. has been brning coal
lands, ore lands, and possesses
underground n fortune that
would make Croesus dizzy.
1 Railroads al.so suggest big
combinations, saying that only
big combinations are effective.
That is true, and such combina
tions should be encouraged in
the interest of economy. Also
matched and strictly controlled
In the interest of the public,
which intends to share in the
profits of economy if it caa.
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First Photograph Of i
MRS. OYSTER FIGHTS FOR WINE
_ . _ __ __ L Where She Works.
ASKS HALF
SHARE III
BIG STOCK
Widow Also Petitions Court to
Order Sale of Clothing
and Art Objects.
Mrs. Cecils R. Oyster, the
twenty-six-year-old widow of
George M. Oyster, jr., the well
known dairyman of this city, to
day filed a petition in the Dis
trict Supreme Court for one-half
of the big stock of wines and
liquors left by her deceased hus
band, the other half to go to the
next of kin or beneficiaries of the
estate.
I llsaJeahle, Willow Says.
Mrs. Oyster claim" the wines ;ind
liquors cannot be sold or mxde liable
for any claim* llf detM'Haul
and cannot be otherwise disposed of
under the law.
Mrs. Oyster, represented by At
torneys Daniel W. O'Donoghuc and
Arthur A. Alexander, also a.^ks that
there be distributed to her the
wearing apparel of her deceased hus
band and that the household furni
ture. painting* and Jade pieces be
sold, preferably at a public sale; that
the paintings and jade pieces In
shipped to New York to be properly
catalogued. exhibited and advertised
for sale.
Mrs. Oyster declares that under
the provision of the will and first
codicil of her husband there were
bequeathed a large li^ll clock to
Emma J. Oyster, also a watch and
other jewelry and also his silver
ware and glassware and five pieces
of Chinese jades to Norman \V.
Oyster, of this city; fifteen paint
Ings by American artists to the
Corcoran Gallery of Art; a piano,
toilet articles, clock, rug and lamp
to Rosa M. Schulteis; set of blue
French china linen, and dining
roem furniture to Emma .1. Oyster,
two mahogany camisole tables, two
mirrors and lacquered stands to
Norman W. -Oyster; grand piano
to Helene Oyster; bedroom furni
ture to Herman Schulteis; plated
silverware to Henry Brnwner. Jr ;
black floor lacquered lamp to Edwin
C. Brandenburg; one lamp each to
Norman W. Oyster. Helen Oyster.
Edith Brawner and Henry N.
Brawner. Jr.
Declares Bequests Void.
It Is claimed by the widow tha<
because of the renunclaton by her
of the will these specific bequests
are void and of no effect, and that
the articles in question therefore
must be sold as requested by her.
She asks that a rule issue requir
ing Edwin C. Brandenberg. execu
tor and trustee of the estate, to
show cause why her requests
should not be granted.
DRY AGENTS WAGE BATTLE
IN SWAMPS OF DELAWARE
WILMINGTON. Del.. April 29.?
A desperate battle between pro
hibition enforcement agents and
moonshiners Is raging in the heart
of the Sussex swamps here today,
following ,4 night attack by the
dry force* on what is believed to
be the headquarters of the illicit
liquor traffic in this State.
COMIM.KTK WORDS
AND Ml NIC OK
"Try to Forget"
(Dedicated to Those to Whom
tbe Knickerbocker Disaster
Brought Sorrow.)
WRITTEN BY
A. GAMSE
Will Be Given Away With
The Washington
Times
Tomorrow Mornlnc
This is a comforting, solac
ing philosophical song, whose
lyric Is brightening and cheer
ing It breathes a message
of hope and optimism which
will do everybody good. Uamae
is one of Washington's moat
gifted and prolific composers
and it la agreed by critic*
that "Try to Korget" la his
maatarpiece.
Gay Paree Market On
Mattress Eagles Up
To Scratch
B.r International News Strrlce.
PARIS, April 29.?"Bedbugs ?"
Bedbugs bought here, 3 francs
per hundred. Only purchased in
quantities or 100 or more."
This sign in Vaisser's antique
stove in the Rue Ueoffroy St. |
Ililaro caused hundreds of passers
to pause in amazement today.
A reporter for I,c Matin, to re
| lieve the burning curiosity of the
| populace, interviewed Vaisser,
who said:
"I resell the bedbugs to my ,
clients who are bedbug powder j
demonstrators and who pay me
' T>0 francs per quarter of a litre ;
of good quality, living bugs. I
would like to establish branch
offices in Moscow and Petrograd.
I believe it would be profitable
to import from these cities, if
what I have heard is true."
PATENT OFFICE
WORKERS Pi I
WITH 48 GEN FSj
Mix-up in Paying Due to Com-1
plication Attending New i
illations for Employes.
Fifty-eight rents for two week*' j
work was the amount received in
scores of pay envelopes at the Patent!
Office today, when hundreds of em !
ployen found their salaries slashed!
through an official blunder
j The mix-up wan. caused b> thej
I reorganization of the Patent Office,
provided for in the act of February!
IS last, which called upon the work-,
ers there to take new oaths of office j
and to be assigned to new position*
Salary increases ranging from $200
to $2.">0 annually were provided for
In the deficiency act of March 20.,
1922. and employes not certified forj
the increase were made to relin-1
quish it.
| Many of (he employes at the Pat
ent Ofifice, whose service dates from
1920. were affected by Ihis measure. !
an they hail ^<t been officially as j
signed to new positions under the re-i
organization measure, but were paid 1
the Increase, together with the old'
$240 bonus in advance of their cer-1
tificatlon for both the increase and!
the bonus. Only those employes not
promoted since July 1, 1920, are now
allowed the $240 bonus.
The complicated bookkeeping af
fair was taken up with the Comp
troller General of ttie United States,
and'the following order was issued
on April 14 by William I. Wyman,
chief clerk of the Patent Office,
acting under the direction of the Sec
retary of the Interior:
"In view of the complications that
have arisen out of the recent re
organization of the office, it has been
found impossible to adjust in season
the pay roll with respect to In
creased compensation (or bonus).
The bonus will, therefore, not be in
cluded in the salaries to be paid off
tomorrow, but will be added to a sub
sequent pay roll where the employe
is entitled thereto."
This cut was severe enough, but
the disbursing officer of the Patent
Office today began to cut off the
increase and the $240 bonus from the
pay of uncertified employes. n< cord
ing to the amount paid from tjie
time of the passage of the rcorganlza
tion bill.
Paul Smith, of 1222 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, an examiners
aid, received $720 a year, and, sup
porting a blind father, his mother
and a brother who lost his Job In
the navy yard reduction of fores,
was one of those who found 68
cents In his envelope.
Charles V. Safford, administra
tive assistant to Secretary of /the
Interior Fall, said today that the
payroll would be entirely straight
ened out within thirty days.
"The $240 bonus will probably be
dropped on July I," he said, 'and
all bureaus of the department will
ln*c It, but the Increased salary
will apply to the workers In the
Patent Office. The reorganization
bill provided $li>8.000 for new help
and increased pav. and in the end
all the salaries will be equalized.
Do you know linw to ?eb-cf. fur
nWh and maintain a home <?o as to
(ret the create*! cnv.n1.-n4r rnei
fori and pleasure out of II? Waleh
for TilK IIOMK HK\l TIKIll, SI T
PI.KMKNT of the WaahlnfUiti Times
Sunday morning.
PRESIDENT
BURS OUT
CHILDREN
Refuses to Hear Appeal for
Release of Political
Prisoners.
By Intrrnut lonal >ewi Nrvlct.
Thirty-seven wives and children
of men now confined in Federal
prisons for violations of the espion
age act arrived here today to plead
with President Harding for their
release, but while they were speed
ing from the Union Station to the
White House in automobiles it was
officially announced the President
w^ald not see them.
To Tamp In Washington.
"Our present plans contemplate
camping tn Washington until the
husbands and fathers of these people
are released," Mrs. Kate Tlchard
O'Hare, of St. Ix>uls, In charge of
the party, declared.
"They will be given every con
sideration and attention by the At
torney General who has had fre
quent conferences with the Preal
dent and Is fully cognizant of hta
position in this matter" Oeorge B.
Christian jr the President's secre
tary said. They will not see the
President."
It was explained that Ihe policy
of the Administration Is to consider
separately the cases of all so-called
political prisoners and that there
would be no general amnesty.
Thr children range In age from
tots of three years to youths of six
teen or eighteen.
Helen Keller Hicks aged three,
carried a banner on which wan In
scribed: "My Daddy Never Saw Me.'
Her father, the Rev. William Madl
so# Hicks. Is in Leavenworth prison.
Barred From White House.
The policemen regularly stationed
at the White House had been aug
mented by o|?eratlves of the Depart
ment of Justine when the seven
automobiles arrived. The cars were
stopped when they attempted to
turn from Pennsylvania avenue Into
the grounds of the Executive Man
sion. Policemen informed those who
were In charge of the party that they
would not be permitted to drive Into
the grounds, and that the children
could not walk In unless they dis
pensed with the banners they were
carrying.
The leaders of the crusade held a
brief parley among themselves, and
finally named Mrs Charles Bdwurd
Russell and Mrs. Mary Gertrude Ken
dall, of \#oshington, as a committer
to go to the White House to try to
make an appointment with the
President.
Thousands of persons gathered
around the White House grounds to
'ratch the children.
The woman were told by Secretary
Christian that they could nat see
the President, but an appointm<nt
was made for them with Attorney
General Daugherty, and the entire
party left the White House for the
Department of Justice.
Do you know how to select, fur
nish and maintain a home no u tn
get the greatest convenience, com
fort and pleasure out of It? Watch
for THK IIOMK BEAUTIFUL SUP
PLKMKNT of Ihe Washington Times
Sunday morning.
Sheriff Will Ask for Indictment
of Unmarried Man as Well
as Wyman.
fir International >>w? K^rrlre.
MMWNN, III.. April 2S.?
The arreM of a inui in cnnnw
lion with tlir "parsonage mur
der" of Minn (ifrtrudr lluuui nu
promised today by Jiek Itogart.
chief of police. The ntan nought
was said by Kogart to be "tlie
one urho helped (he murderer take
the bod} to the parsonage."
State'* Attorne> J.ihn H. I^ew
inaii and Sheriff Charles N. Knox
left today for Danville, the county
Metal, where they naid they would
Mh for two ?rand jur> indict
v mcnta. ufr agwluat John ('. Wy
man, foriner fiance of the nlaln
girl, and for another man. The
grand jury will begin sesslmin
Monday.
By AUtKKT K. BAKNZIUKR.
(Copyiifht. 1912. by InternationaI
Newt Sarv'oe.)
(Copyright. 1 ? 2 2 bjr Ch icajn Kvfr.mg
American Publishing Company.)
HOOPESTON. HI.. April 29.?
] "As God is my witness. I know
no more about the deatVi of Ger
j trude Hanna than you do,'' said
John C. Wyman, former sweet
heart of the Hoopeston choir sinjr
: er. whose body was discovered in
i the basement of the parnonaKO of
the Presbyterian Church here
Thursday.
Karen tiirl'n Slater
Wyman was leaving the citv hill
after a third session with Joiin II.
Lewman. State's attorney; Charles
Knox, sheriff of Vermillion eourt>.
and Jack Bogart. chief of police of
Hoopeston. It wan 3 o'clock in the
morning when the county officials
let Wyman fro home
He wan faced early todav by the
dead girl's winter in a dramatic d<
inand that he conft-ns The twenty
j two-year-old teacher, clenching her
hands above his head, cried for th-i
truth.
"Please, oh my tiod, if you killed
my sister, tell us," she sobbed. "My
old mother Is on her deathbed at
home. Don't let us think the worst.
T>et us sleep."
Over and over. In anmver to ev> ry
question, the nuspeot moaned:
"I didn't kill her?I didn't kill h? r."
The sister, Orace. and father, W.
T. Hanna. were led at midnight into
the room where Wyman hud been
grilled for fifteen hours. At 2 o'clock
their high-pitched voices could be
heard through the transom and the
drone of the farmer's tiresome denial.
The man's insistence that he had
never b?en engaged to the nlaln gr'rl.
who wan to have become a mother
within a few months, wan broken
down when the sister and father con
fronted him. He admitted they were
to have been married on January 12.
The sister told how Oertrude had
pleaded with Wyman for an engage
mant ring and had threatened to
have him taken Into court to
aeknowledge the child. Team rolled
down her cheekn an she upbraided
the fiance for having Inveigled his
sweetheart Into admissions of past
(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.)
Why I Go to Church
Br ROYAL R. COPE LAND, M. IX,
Commissioner of Health, City of New York.
More and more I am impressed with the Idea that the world
needs the church. Within two yeara I huve had occasion to send
three thousand addlcta to tho Riverside Hoapital of the New York
Department of Health. They are given splendid physical regcnera
tlon there, but without spiritual regeneration they go back to their
old haunts, their old companlrms, and their old habits. There Is no
system of hypodermic medication capable of changing: the nature
of man. It is only through the means of spiritual lmptlam that
he becomea a new man.
It la my observation that the social worker who carries a mea
saijp of religion, as well as the ethical or social message, is more
Influential and helpful than the one who noes without It.
No matter how discouraging may be the career of a local church.
It muat go forward In its good work, having in mind the everlast
ing nature of religion.
We may differ In our views of external forma of worship, but
tfiere can be no doubt that this country ku progressed betuN
at tta heart It la religion*
MRS. Sl\SAN BELLE CRITTENDEN EASTLAKE.
BRITISH WARSHIP TO BE
ORDERED TO NORTH SEA
AMSTERDAM. April 2!t.?A
British warship will be disputcht-d
Bhortly to protect North Sea fmh
ing rights against Inroads made j
by Russians. according to advicoa
rearhinp here today.
NEW GERMAN ENVOY TO
SAIL FOR U. S. TUESDAY
BERLIN. April 2i? ? l?r otto
Weidfeldt, first ambassador of re
publican Germany to Washington,
wan Ihc guest of honor yesterday
at a farewell luncheon Riven hiin '
at the hotel Adlon by a croup of ,
American newspaper correspond
ent*.
The anihassador expressed the ,
opinion that the only way to re
establish trade In Russia was by
using Germany as a springboard
for foreign capital
Dr. Weidfeldt believes that both
Germany and Kussia will benefit
by the Rapallo treaty, hut points j
out that these advantage* are not
immediately obvious.
Dr. Weidfeldt is sailing May 2
on the steamship America for the
United States.
PAYROLL BANDITS GET
$5,400 IN ST. LOUIS
ST. l,Ol'IS. April 29 ?Three ban- j
dlts today held up l.eo Murre. as
sistant bookkeeper of the McKlroy- 1
Sloan Shoe Company. In front of
the company's building In the husl
eat part of the city, and m>' a
IM03 payroll
The bandits ran to a machine ,
waiting a Muck away and eaoaped.
LOVE LETTERS
READ AT TIL
Nurse, Accused of Slaying,
Deeply Moved as State Intro- j
duces Tender Missives.
I?> KIKK r. MIl.l.KR,
staff ( orrMpondfnt.
MOXTROSS, Va., April 29.?
While her love missives, ex
changed with Roger D. Eastlake
over a period of fifteen .months,
were given to the world from the j
lins of Commonwealth Attorney
Watt T. Mayo at today's Ression
of court, Miss Sara E. Knox, Bal
timore nurse, being tried for the
murder of ner former friend's
first wife, sat gazing out of a
courtroom window upon a languid
setting of spring landscape.
Nurse Is Derply Moved.
The low. monotous drone of the j
mailing whs only occasionally In
terrupted by the distant crow of i
some hiirnyard fowl or th?> sulky |
honk honk of a piisslnf flivver, j
Honey I?????? hunml In and out of
the half ot* n windows, and h?r??
and th?rr a Juror tKxMed until aw?k
It'MllnuMl un )'?(? 1, < olumn I.)
HELLO GIRL
IS STILL III
MB IN
HOSPITAL
Former Miss Crittenden De 1 ea
New Name and Is Resent
ful at Publicity.
The veil has been further drawn
aside from the mystery snrnrondinjj
Mrs. Susan Belle Crittenden Ea--t
lake, of 511 Second street southeast,
secret hride of Roger D. East lake,
three months ago acquitted of the
murder of his wife, for whose slay
ing Miss Sarah E. Knox now is also
being tried at Montross, Va.
Works at St. Kllisheth'a.
The new Mrs. Eastlake, it
learned late yesterday, is a lele
phone operator at St. Elizabeth *
Hospital for the Insane, where sht
Ha* been employed for nearly five
{airs.
Employe* of the insane asvlJn,
were dumbfounded a week ago to
learn through The Washington
Times that Miss Crittenden had be
come Mrs. Eastlake The young
bride was evasive when employe*
showed her the paper and asked
her if It was so
"It may be." *he replied
The revelation of the secret wed
ding recalled a humorous incident
that occurred several months ago
One of the doctor* at the asylum
wa* joking Mia* Crittenden about
being an otd maid.
"When are you going to get mar
ried?'" he asked her In a teasing
manner.
"Don't you worry." she repllod.
laughingly, "I'm going to marry
the first man who ask* me."
One of the attendanta jokingly
remarked today that it looked as
though the young bride wa* a girl
of her word.
The secret wedding cam* as the re
suit of an Anaoosta hoarding house
romance. As the romance progresed
Eastlake paid visits to the sweet
heart at the Insane asylum, where
he went under the assumed name of
"Mr. Cunningham." The ldenity of
the finance was not known to her
most intimate friends.
During the period of EaatlaUe's
courtship with the hospital tele
phone operator hecame for her earh
afternoon, and the couple avoided
acquaintances, it is said.
All eforts to keep the secret of
their marriage from the press and
their friends were successful urtHl
last Sunday when it was announced
In The Washington Times.
Following the announcement, ifter
it became known that the young
woman had secretly wed Eastlake,
friendship for the young woman be
gan to wane and friends have de
nounced her action in seeking to
cover up her secret marriage and tli*
identy of the man she had married.
A Week in IJttle Reno.
The romance of the couple cul
minated on March 4. when t|iev were
married by the Rev. Dr. E. R lack
son. pastor of the First Rtftisi
Church, of Alexandria, In the pastor'*
study, ,
Following the marriage thry hor>ev
mooned for a week In th- Little R>>ne
of the East, whose publicity ind fat is
have proven its popularity s* a haven
of refuge for those who seek an
; nullment from their bonds of matri
mony as well as the "tie ths' bird* "
When seen yesterday by n Times
reporter and asked for h stateme.it,
the new wife of the naval officer
who Is now In Montro** servinu as
a witness for the State In the i on
vlction of his former sweethr-art. for
,the alleged murder of his wife, em
phatically denied her met *lsge. and
denounced the rei>orter f r his In
quisltlveness
As the young hrldn emerged from
the hospital grounds at St Eliza
beth's Hospital yesterday af'ernooi
she walked with a rapid stride to
ward the car line.
As she left the main gate she
wa* approached by a reporter of
Tne Time*, who Inquired If that was
Mr*. Eastlake
"Mrs Eastlal"*??" she felgn*d
her face turning very pale "Whv
I never heard the name." she re
plied
"Then do you know Mis* Riissm
Bell Crittenden''" the reporlai
asked
Her worst fears realized, the
j young bride became hltterly an
tagnoatle and demanded the rlgh'
of anyone to a*k her h*r nama
"My nam* Is not Eastlake and It
I* not Crittenden." she hetlv de
J els red
"Thsa I b?f yaur pardon. th?