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LADY DOYLE CLAIMS SPIRITS GUIDE PEN Wife of Creator of “Sherlock Holmes” Has Gift of Au- + tomatic Writing. Bpecial Dispatch to The Sta: NEW YORK, April 5.—Lady Jean Doyle, wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, today held the spotlight focused on the second American visit of the author of Sherlock Holmes, who is here to tell America more about the spirits and the fairies. Lady Doyle has the gift of automatic writ- ing. It is through this gift that much material ha¢ been collected by her husband. and slim, likable a black hat surmounting her ¥ brown hair, and a gray suit topped off with a gray fox scarf, she gat bolt upright today on a couch in the biggest suite of the Hotel Bilt. niore and discussed spiritualism and detractors. The latter caused her to rush into an enthusiastic defense of her husband, both as an analyst and a man For a long while Lady against viefding to her automatic writing. "It seemed x0 weird" she suid. but when her hrother was killed at Mons she found on that her hand insisted on DTG out messazes. ey ‘ome fast 1 hardiy can Leep up with them,” she said. “Some- times in a frenzy of impatience the &pirits 1ift my hand and heat it on the table as if they would break every be No Irritation in Heaven. know where there do not_eat, a_ strong, Doyle fought power for that is no in our rom me eaven is a i frritation. The, sense, and they do not kill animals, thank goodne: There you can fol- low some such work as you enjoved on earth, and you progress toward a perfection so remote from human ex- rience that even the spirits don’t know what it is. Nothing hurts or annoys there. 1f some one irritated You on earth they do not come near ad we bad as well i no_hell hut a purga- f slums on the outskirts Jirits in the higher spheres nairie There even is and day the late entertained us with was wear- spirits as good tory. a to whicl send mis: yachting Cha ad fng. While 1. cort there one »n of the suit he -d her young son Malch At near by. Sir Arthur. ruddy. his gray hair untamed. his er unfailingly genial. stretched an eusy rhair near the gas 1og. Family Discusses Fairies. the electrie-lighted dern hotel, surrounded twenty-three pieces of lus with the ramble of trafic un 1 by them. this remarkable fam- ghosts and tairies nat- as a mirage, even though as unusual. and quite ax capable of in- Heast this s tha. Thuide of discussing the dead ' Sir Arthur suggested today that the fairies in the W fa hoto- graphs may be ought forms.” but he <ure the children and the photographs werc honest. And the fairies, anyhow “relatively un- nt.” he said 1I¥ prowd of her explanations, Lad Doyie talk suite by ural are husband's Doyle add- when the police > said, “my husband, study. has worked out lution of a mystery despite his marvelous powers of analysis, shallow-thoughted people dare to there's nothing in his epiritualistic investigations. It makes me furious.” In the face Aignation you can is_the lady who cries to Impatient pirits: “Oh, for goodness’ sake. don’t cend s so fast; [ can’t write so quickly as all that.” They take their ghosts as of fact that, these Doyles “ t. 1923.1 DISPUTE CHILDREN ARE GEORGE GOULD’S Four Heirs Hold Three Not Legal- ly Entitled to Share in Estate. in his correct s her laughing in- well believe she messag matter By the Ass NEW dren of Giould are not the Gould “within the will of Jay Gould and have ne in terest in his estate. four heirs of Jay Gould declared in an answer filed to the supplemenrt:l amended plaint of the trustees in Gould acccunting proceedings pending The Sumner, gua ate YORK the Press April 5.—Three chil- present Mrs. rge J issue of George J meaning” of the com- the now estate was filed by Malcolm dian_ ad litem to Jay uld, 'jr.; Georze J. Gould, 3d Maughan Carter Gould z tuy vesant Wainwright, juvenile s of Jay Gould. i children of M - 1, formerly Guinivere Sinclair, orge Sinclalr Gould, Jane Sinclair Gould and Guini- vere Gould are children of one Guini- inclair. and that all of them during the married life of orge J. Gould and Edith Kingdon Gould, the wife of George J. Gould— and prior to the death of Edith King- don Gould: and also prior to the warriage of J. Gould to the \gd Guinivere Sinclair.” Rights in Extate Denied. answer also alleged that the childven™ have no right or in- in the Jay uld estate and that the children “are not the issue of George J. Gould within the mean- ing of that word used in will of Jay Gould, deceased.™ it also was denied of testamentary The 1id torest that “the power appointment” given George J. Gould in the will over the estate held for his benefit empow- erad him upon his death to bequeath that share “or any part of it to any one or more of the children in ques- t The preme judecd th “hildren awnership and to the guardian asks Court adjudge his contentions and that it also he ad- t Guinivere Sinclair Gould's ave no title, claim, right, or interest whatever In estate of Jay Gould, de- ceased; or any part thereof.” The accounting proceeding was in- augurated in 1916 by George J. jould. Edwin Gould and Helen Gould Shepard. as trustees. to obtain ap- proval of their stewardship and of punts connected therewith. Frank ould interposed objections to cer- alleged acts of George J. Gould executive trustee of the estate, with the result that the case is stili vending. WILL EXTEND BUS LINE. Capital Traction Will Run Autos to Alaska Avenue. Tt is announced that the extension of the 14th street bus line on 16th street to Alaska avenue, will be put into operation in the next few weeks. The Capital Traction Company swys that if a good road is constructed from 16th street to old Camp Good that the Su- Will In Rock Creek Park, where the, new golf course is located, busses will be run to that peint. That serv- ice will wait on the road. it is said, but the plan is to get the golfers to the first tee as qufckly as possible, from the present terminus at 14th and Kennedy streets. 8 WHISKY BANDITS RAID LETTUCE CAR Trainmen Held at Bay While Truck Is Loaded With Liquor in Chicago. By #né Associated Press CHICAGO, April G.—Four armed bandits held up a dozen railroad em- ployes today while four confederates loaded a truck with whisky taken from a car load of lettuce. The robbery occurred in the down- town freight yards of Pennsylvania railroad. POPE MAY PROTEST PRELATE'S DEATH Discusses With Cardinal Gas- parri Form of Message to Entire World. By the Aswociated Press ROMIE, April 5. Pope Pius and Cardinal Gasparri. the papal secretary of state, discussing the ad- ¢ of formally protesting the world against the execution Mgr. Butehkaviteh, viear the Roman Catholic Church in Russia. They are also considering what form the protest should assume. IS CLOSED INCIDENT. are Kenera Russian Government Makes No Re- ply to Catholic Plea. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, April 5.- of Vi neral Butchkavitch pears to be a closed incident so as the Russian government is cerned. From Catholic sources it is learned that no reply has been n by the government to the request of the Roman -Catholics of Moscow for permission to bury the vicar general in accordance with the rites of the churcl . Beyond a resolution adopted by the Kharkov Pollsh workmen approving the execution, no mention of the affair is made by the Moscow press. SHOT FROM BEHIND. ap- far con- Warsaw Hears Execution Place Saturday Morning. Took Associated Press. RSAW. April 5.—Mgr. Butch- h. Whose death was ordered b the RuSsiun soviet government, w executed at 4 o'clock Saturday morn- ing. He was taken to the cellur be- neath the Cheka building, srding to advices reaching here, and made to stand with his executioner bhehind him. He was shot with a revolver through the back of the head While efforts are being made to certain what happened after the ex cution, the oy . imfomwnation thus far vouchsafed is that the body was re- woved to an unrevealed spot. REPORTS U. S. PROTEST. Would Save Rev. Dr. Tikhon. By the Associated Press, LONDON, April 5.—The Riga corre spondent of the Times says it is re ported by a reliable Moscow source that America has unofficially re- auested the soviet government to al- iow th ’atriareh of all Russia and Metropoli- tan of Moscow, but now under arrest and awaiting trial. to proceed to America. where he formerly resided Lr: Tikhon abdicated as patriarch 1 May, having been placed on trial {xome time before that for resisting the requisitioning of church treas. ures. It was stated recently that the proceedings agalnst him were to be itransferred to Petrograd. Trotsky and Kaminef, who have become virtually dictators, it is fur. ther reported, were inclincd to agree, but Bishop' ‘Antonin, head of the soviet supreme church administra- tion. dissuaded them. Bishop Antonin explained that the soviet church convocation summoned v April 15 intends (o place Dr. Tikhon on trial before an eccleciastic board and unfrock him, after which the soviet tribunal may without hin- tdrance try him as an ordinary lay- i man. The American request was and Tikhon's trial, adds the corre | spondent, has been postponed pending the convocation. 3 PLACED UNDER BOND FOR BANNER ATTACK John Martinowski Released on $500 for Assailing Daugh- erty and New. refused John Martinowski, charged with vublically libeling Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Postmaster Gen- eral Harry S, New and former United States Attorney for the District of Columblia Clarence R. Wilson, was ne- leased on bond of $500 in Police Court today. terday afternoon at 7th street and Pennsylvania by Capt. Robert E. Doyle of the sixth police precinct. At the time he was carrying a large banner bearing open letters on one side to Mr. Daugherty and on the other to the Postmastér General. The ‘' letters refer to an alleged fraud perpetratéd by a local music publishing company in 1913. in which Martinowski says he had all his sav ings nvested; that the music com- pany was a fraud and that he was beaten out of his savings; presented the matter to the Postmaster General and the United States attorney for the trist, Mr. Wilson: that the master General and Mr. Wilson re- fused to push an investigation or prosecution against the music com- pany. and as a result he lost all of his money. The same charge Is made aguinst Postmaster General New. When arrested Martinowski stated that his banner spoke for itself. The case probably will come up for a hearing in the United States branch of Police Court tomorrow SEES BIG CHANCE. ) | Bolivian Minister Points to Op- portunities in Rubber. The possibilities of rubber produc- tion in Bolivia ofter “great oppor- tunities” to American capital, Senor Adolfo Ballivian, the Bolilvan min ister, sald in a statement yesterday regarding prospects for new sources of supply for American manufacturers | as discussed at their recent confer- ence here. Although rubber production in his country has shown a decline in the last ten vears, Senor Ballivian said, the industry needed only the invest. ment of capital and proper super- wision of properties to be brought up to & highly productive state. then then Dis- The execution | Riga Correspondent Says America | Most Rev. Dr. Tikhon. former | Martinowski was arrested late yes- | Post- | i that he |. pion horseshoe pitcher of the world. ax the forty foot game, and in the natio where she won every game in the womnn's xeriex, she e nited States | CHARGING DRUNKENNESS %2 WIFE SUES HUSBAND, Declares Spouse Was Cruel, Saying. “Wait on the King,” M suit in the District Supreme Court for a li ter, THE EVENING WOMAN CHAMPION AT rence A. Lanham of Bloomington, I1l.. who ix the womnan cham- She ix equnlly ax good at the thirty | al tournament at Des Moine: rded 96 comers. ngers. She will tour the When 3 Wanting Service. re. Sylvia C. Porter today filed mited divorce from Henry G. Por- ST astonished “BARNYARD tes Civil Service Commission. She | cruelty rizes drunkeness, sertion Mrs sep band hand st ttorney pears for ration insisted that she and foot when wanting ait on the king.” d Raymond Mrg. Porter. wait his favorite Jares the Neudecker red 2NO points and in summer, meeting Porter savs that prior to their | in January, 1 on ald to be an official of the United | ous voice 4 Abie to ging two different notes at once. a 18ndon window cieaner has experts with his marv T 17 and de- | her hu expres- Dress “A” described below. Dress “A” This is a knitted dress, French blue, of silk and wool, and is priced at $55. Other models in wool are $25; fibre silk, $35; silk and wool. $52.50 to $65, and all silk, $100 to $115. Their colorings re- flect the newest shades for spring. Sport Suits ....... . Topcoats ....... Sport Skirts. . .... Spring Sweaters. Tailored Shirts. . Shower Sticks. .. ‘Sport Hats...... Phoenix -Hose. .. as and wool gray, black and wood. sizes: 14 to 18; 36 to 40. Dress “B” described below. The New Spring Dresses $18.75 to $115 Selections are now at their height in these tailored specialities for which we are famed. The styles are the smartest, the prices, quality considered, surprisingly low. Dress “B” This is a na belt, and Price, $24.75. $18.75, " include crepe in $33.50 to $29.50 to $13.50 to $8.50 to £2.95 to $5.00 1o $8.50 to $1.20 10 y blue dress of Poiret twill,” with smart leather clasps. models, some as reasonable tricotine metal Other navy, The Spring Sport Suits, Topcoats, Sweaters, Skirts and Shirts $69.50 $77.50 $21.50 $39.50 $15.00 $17.50 $21.50 $3.25 | i [TALY BENEFITED BY THE FASCISMO Ambassador Caetani Sgys Movement Has “Rooted Out” Petty Politics. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 5.—Prince Gelasio Caetani, the Italian ambas- sador, addressing the chamber of commerce here, defined “fascismo” as “a great spiritual movement aiming not only toward the good and the reconstruction of Italy, but also toward the progress and welfare of humanity.” The overthrow of bolshevism ltaly, he said. was not the principal in purpose of the fascisti, but it “hap- i pened to be the first obstacle that had to be shoved out of the way” in their effort to “clear the ground of all those petty, low-grade politics that made the natlonal Institutions a play- ground of party and class interests. “The immediate aim of the Fascis- mo 1 mora economic than political,’ the ambassador declared, addiing that politics and many statutes had been hampering the free play of economic laws and “the state had become a slave to Its employes.” every strike paralizing the whole economic or- ganism of the countrs Natlon Breathing Freely. 11 this has been rooted out in months,” he continued, “and the nation is breathing freely again, get- life and new strength trikes have come to an end. The efficiency of labor ix Increasing. In- dustries’ are nicking up. Our financial and trade balances are rapidly ap- proaching a position of equilibruim.” Citing the reduction of the eco- nomic balance against Ttaly from 7.970,000.000 lire between January and November, 1921, to 5.529,000,000 lire during the same period In 1022, Prince Caetani said the increase of exports and decrease of imports had been vital to the nation. The re- duction of 2.900.000,000 lire in imports from the Unitid States in the first half of 1922 as compared with the corresponding period of 1921, clared, should not caure alarm, sine he de- | AR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1923 “Follies” Dancer May Wed Earl in United States MISS JESSICA BROWN Of Buffalo, N. Y., formerly n *Follies” ncer, whose engagement to the rl of Northesk was recently an- nounced. Mins Brown arrived in New York from England yesterday. ance accompanied her mpton on the Olympie and xaid that | he expected to fo | Within = month. it ow | our due to th imports chictly {can pay in goods” and was | dition, " evidence of Italy's * {attempt to return into the | of normal and healthy life. e Usually So. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch popular witn the women, necessity from to get Where we in ad- incere annels isn't Very, if yo with at hom Baring-Gould. who the famous hymn. “Onward Soldiers.” hax entered his vear, except the ones he lives wrate Christian ninetieth Store Hours, 9 AM. to 6 P.\. New styles—fine values 3 FARMERS LAY PLANS TO CONTROL SUGAR Attribute Present High Prices to Manipulators, Whose Punish- ment Is Demanded. A closer organization in the sugar- producing industry was advocated to- day by the Farmers' Union in a state- ment attributing present sugar prices to a “criminal manipulation” of the market. “Some of the hard-pressed and gouged people of the citles,” said the statement, “are thinking that the tarmer is sharing in the proceeds of the robbery. Nothing could be farther from the facts. All r of the past season has long since been mar- keted and the sunplies are in the hands of men who never grew an ounce of the commodity There is something with an economic s mits the fleecing of hundred million Ameri remedy for such situations as hiave been created by the unconscionable manipulators is not far to see quite possible to so organize that we will be able to refine our own and market the finished product. We can stabilize the sugar market fust as we have stabilized the cotton mar- ket, the prune murket and the raisin market. We can do it by being our own salesman, our own middlé man and our own financier. In the the farmers mand the f the me sponsible t raid on American p They will 1 be satisfied with excuses and they will not tolerate deliays. They will eusily identify the ofhiciils who may be responsible for the escape of the nalfactors and they will remember hem at the polls in November of next year.” ALUMNI SEEK $500,000. I. A. Rogers has been chosen re- gional chairman to direct the cam- paign in Washington of the Univer- sity of Maine Alumni Association for a fund of $500.000 for a gymnasium- armory as a mwemorial to under- graduates and former students who lost their lives in the world war. Field workers under supervisi are H. P. Gould, . E. Chandler, €. P. Pharrabee. H. W. Bearce, Merle B Shaw, F. T. Noreross, N. €. Grover nd George P Merrill the sug adically wrong stem that per- more than one «n people. The ckethook Our policy always—Satisfaction or money back gar | | | tory | temy TRIES TO GIVE RELIGIOUS ADVICE TO PRESIDEN’ Weighty Letter Nipped by Polia When Writer Tries to Use Senate Room. “King” Moore, who claims he hail from North Dakota, New York and 31 Pennsylvania avenue, has some per sonal views about Christianity whicl he §s willing to impart to Presiden Harding, but Capitol police yesterda; prevented him from seting his 1dew down in writing after he had decidet on the Senate reception room as i place having the proper officlal atmos phere for such an undertaking. Moore, who said he was thirty four vears old, was so full of hi: subject and so desirous of unloading himself of his opinions that he hac made a4 number of attempts during thepust few days to gain access to thereception room in the Capitol, thu hie might write his mind on paper fo the President’s consideration AL MeGrath, a Capitol policemun sympathizing with M e's efforts teo communicate his beliefs with some one of impertance, explained thi President Harding was out of towr ily. and sugkested that au ies at Gallinger Hospital migh sted thor inte NEW POSTAL RULING. Newfoundland Parcel Post Rate be Not Same as ‘Canadian. Newfoundland province, but a separ ¥. the Post Office D it necessary to warn zens today While the two-cent-an-ounce letter postage for Canada also holds goné for Newfoundland, there are specla rates for parcel post and special rule of classification for this British terr which do not apply to Canada is not a Canadiar te British col partment found American cit THREE AUTOS TAKEN. Three taken by automobiles were reported joyriders or thieves yes - . "The car of Henry Berman 1142 fth street, taken from in front of the owner's home, and car of Kap lan and Crawford, reported taken from a garage In rear of 1135 T street, had_not been recovered this morning. The roadster of J. M. Bell 1848 Ontario road. w ken from in front of Central High School and found abandoned in Northeast Wash- ington in Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes ) HIS New Store is full of the clothes men and young men want—Smart Norfolks, loose easy draped models; trim-waisted types; style for everybody—2, 3 and 4 button sacks. Some Suits with 2 pairs Pants; others silk lined —exceptional values at 47 Raleigh Haberdasher " Thirteen Ten F St. Inc.