Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1921, Page 15

TEUTONS ATTEMPT TOHALT GAMBLING | {All Kinds of Spebulation in Various Fields Result in Drastic Mgasures. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 19.—The gov- fernment is trying to halt a gambling {fever which has been sweeping Ger- fmany for many months, and which jauthorities say continues to spread ‘t:L a surprising rate despite hundreds f arrests, the confiscation of millions (of marks, sentencing of scores of per- isons to jail and the imposition of heavy fines. i i § Close upon the heels of the gam- bling and specnlation mania which appeared among the people of all classes came a horde of stock market manipulators, race track touts, bucket shop proprietors and organizers of get-rick-quick betting _associations, Who, starting with small sums sub- scribed by working men and women, shortly were able to open luxurious gambling houses. Police Close Places. At least a dozen such establishments operating in Berlin, Hamburg, Dres- den and smaller gravincial towns have been ralded and closed by the police. Sums as high as 12,000,000 marks have been found and confiscated by JAPAN HEADS LEAGUE TO COMBAT WHITE RACE |Eawara Porritt, Once Lecturer at Universities, 3nds Lite. QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, October 9. —Soon after the steamer Baltic left Asiatics Forming Organization in Far East to Meet So-Called (i::vil?ofil fieséorduy.w!:fl:n:;ln‘};l:fli:"lt;_ with mitigating circumstances, was artholdi J5 open rtford, Conn., 8 sturned by th fn i 5 7 sl < Aggressive Policy. With friends on the mecond cobin Auditor Reports. e Y e Jonyiin ths cane r Brefest - ( TRAVELERin ' Without his eyes he Correspondence _of the Associated Press. league, with Japan at its head and with the avowed object of combating the so-calleg aggressive policy of the white race is being organized in the far east, according to newspapers here. Marquis Okuma and other promi- by Dr. Ryu Tai-Koi, a Korean. "THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. LEAPS TO DEATH AT SEA. 9,575 PENSIONERS STILL | CONVICTED OF MURDER. SURVIVE IN VIRGINIA Civil Wax‘- Soldiers_Passing Away Faster Than Wives, State promenade, rushed to the rail and Jumped overboard, despite efforts of TOKIO, September 10.—An Asiatic |others to hold him. was and flares were thrown into the sea, but there was no sign of the men’'s A “boat body. HARTFORD, Conn., October 11.— Mrs. Annie Webb Porritt of this clty nent Japanese are said to be behind |received a cablegram from Englan . t broached | nnouncing the death of her husband, the project, which was first broache: Eivars Yot o ov “Whatever the weakness of Japan, |board from the steamer Baltic.® Mr. on her depends the guidance of Asia |Borritt wae in poor health and had in the right direction,” Dr. Ryu said. |been attended by a physician while “We must make it our first duty totraveling. correct the wrong conception of the Japanese regarding their mission so (hat they may be able to discharge 1t properly.” Dr. Ryu added that headquarters for the movement would be establish- ed in Tokio, with branches through- out Asia, and that a newspaper would be published in Japanese, Korean and Chinese to propagate the idea ot uniting all the Asiatic people “against the aggression of the whites.” According to Japanese newspapers. the promoters of the proposal met re- cently to discuss the suggestion of the Turanians in Budapest that they amalgamate with the projected Asi- atic league. The offer was declined, it was said, but it was decided to co- operate in the attainment of the com- mon objective. —_— Beds, tables, chairs and stools are shown in Egyptlan carvings as far hock 73 4000 B. C. Mr. Porritt had been a lecturer at Johns Harvard, University of California. ritt is widely known as a suffrage worker. —_— MAJ. SHUFELDT IN HOSPITAL. Maj. R. W. Shufeldt, Medical Corps, i'nited States Army, is a patient at he Walter Reed Hospital, having re- cently undergone an operation. N f@: By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., ginla’s Confederate lowered and buoys are women. record the wi who jumped over- 1880. Hopkins and _the — Mrs. Por- parliamentary labor Storey. October 11.—Vir- pensioners number 9,5675_about one-half of whom The state auditor declares it is becoming increasingly apparent that the veterans are passing away far more rapidly than their wives, due to|ca the fact that in nearly all instances on es are younger than their husbands. the veterans were married twice. Virginia pays its Confederate veterans $200 a year in case of total blindness, $100 a year in case of total disability and pays $60 a vear to widows of vet- erans who were married before May 1, HEADS LABOR PARTY. . LONDON, October 9 —Reuter's Syd- ney correspondent cables that James Dooley, deputy premier of New South Wales, has been elected leader of the been commissioned to form a minis- try to succeed that of the late John charged with the marder of A. J Wortham, deputy sheriff, shot and killed near Jellico recently. Jones was sentenced to life impris- Reno was given twenty- one years in the penitentiary. A ver- ct of not guilty was returned in the now onment an: considerably Many of | the shooting. eek. party and has Lan Ten Way, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, Two Sentenced for Shooting Ten- nessee Deputy. h JACKSBORO, Tenn., October 11.—A verditt of murder in the first degree, : of two women, Mary Bennett and Phoebe Lane, alleged to have been with Jones and_Reno Motion for new trial was filed by counse Reno, which probably will be argued They are to go on trial ged with the murder of C. P. McDonald, another deputy sheriff, who also was shot and killed. GEN. WAV FunS LIFE. Chief of Staff of Chinese Repub- lican Government Called ‘Napoleon’ SAN FRANCISCO, October 11.—Gen. sald to be chief of | staff of the Chinese republican gov- crnment, committed suicide recently 1921. because of political difficultles, ac- cording to private advices received in San Francisco _Sunday. Gen. Lan Ten Way, local Chinese residents say, was the “Chinese Napoleon” and was instrumental in the overthrow of the Mai ju dynast: who was at the time of for Jones and BARTHOLDI RESTAURANT ! Eveless Eden for Men ||| Do you know that some men have " never enjoyed the Bartholdi?—How | Dumb, | Delicions “‘cholce’ breskfast, Tic. Across from the New Ebbitt Hotel. that as he stood before St. Peter’s he “felt” the beauty of it creep over him—it enthralled him. Not his sense of touch, however, enabled him to sense the pleasure. He was “feeling” with his eyes. unimpeded An ADITORIAL Rome once said beauty. “See Etz would have had to lit- erally feel every crevice and cornice to sense its Our eyes give us most of our joys in life and very often get least in return. Give us 15 min- utes of your time and know genuine eye care. Expert optometrists await your request for visions and thoro eye carg and OMETRIST) 8ce Better” —r > the police in gambling houses, which apparently were catering only to tte smaller gambicrs. The proprietors | IEIEEEGGEDE have been held on charges of fraud. The horseracing season, which has Clogged-Up Liver Causes S > been unusually successful, offered the crooked gamblers and promoters a chance which they promptly took ad- vantage of, and it is known billions of marks were waged on alleged tips. Some of these promoters became ely known as reliable *“inform- ants” and made so much money for their clientele that they became pop- / Vol ular idols. { Bar Accused Joekeyx. | I¢s toolish to suffer from constipation, AV A4 Following the breaking-up of 2 gick headache, biliousness, dizziness, X~ & number of the more prosperous bef- fniegron and kin- Mo\ ting clubs. the board of governors ar FEBFNT T the Grunewald race track, near Ber .dred ailments 4 lin, which receives the patronage of Carte: AV & hundreds of thousands of persons during the week, Barred three of the best known jockeys for life and sus- pended others for alleged crooked rid- ing, betting on other horses in races in which they rode and similar of- fenses. In a final effort to curb the gam- bling evil, the autherities have an- nounced they will hold as accom- plices the owners or proprietors of houses in which the gamblers are permitted to op:rate. CUTS LAID TO DRY ACT. Alcoholic Addjpts Cause Injuries to Many Summer Bathers. BOSTON, October 11.—Cuts sus- tained by bathers are the latest woes to be blamed on prohibition. In an official statement by the city park com- mission upon the work of its life-savers at Boston beaches this season is this HOKEX S B o e D a8 THE MAJOR — paragraph: FLEXURE e [ B “La since proibition came in. the . WISE = Z most frequent calls for first-aid as- ” s " sistance have come from the numerous LitTLE "well-BrD)S , 4 bathers who are cut by broken bot- tles. Alcoholic addicts are prome to g0 to the shore for clandestine indul- gere. They huyrl their empty bot- tles on the beach and seem to take delight in smashing them. “The beneficial milk bottle is a less- er but still serious source of trouble. 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