Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1923, Page 30

VETERAN TINE ENDS OV LIFE James T. Henshaw Inhales Lighting Gas at Home of Partner. despondent, James T. Hen- 0 X eight yea been in the tinning 13th street for a number ended his life today at the home o W. L. Brotherton, his business part- ner, 1516 Columbia street. by inhaling illuminating Henshaw attracted much attention to his place of business years ago by his peculiar method of advertising. Writings d pictures on the front of the sh oved interesting to per- sons passing and, it is stated, it was due to this method that many of the curious ones gave the tinner their trade. This morning about 7:30 o'clos when Henshaw had not appeared the Lreakfast table, his partner went to his room to learn if he were sick. He fou pletely covered and a from a fix- ture Life had been Dr. J deemed an in coroner, LABORATORY FIRE QUICKLY SUBDUED Small Dan\;; in Health Office Room, District Building—Garage Blaze Reported. Fear. [ i “I don't enjoy.my motor car,” aidl Charles Adolphus Squires, “al- though it glitters fike a star and has |iour handsome tires. For always, {always as I ride I'm fearing some mishap; into a ditch the bus may slide and speil my priceless map. The gas I cafry may explode as I pursue my way, and strew my frag- ments down the rdad and up the verdant brae. T often lie awake o | nights and think up grisly scenes, where I collide with other wights | and smash our limousines. I see myself on stretcher borne from scenes of wreck and woe, while cred- itors stand ‘round and mourn and figure what I ow And fear is spoiling countless lives, the fear of dole ahcad; like Charles Adolphus when he drives, we fake up things to dread. . My nieces gambol by my door; they play with old dog Shep; they have no pimple, boil or sore: they're gay and full of pep. And 1 regard them with a sigh, with tears their sport I view; tomorrew all t]\c,e girls may die, of mumps or Spanish flu. T have a dwelling, green and gray, the smoothest shack in e storms wil or fire will burn it " T wonder why we look for woe in every coming breeze; 1 wonder why we don’t outgrow such dippy fears as thesec. \Copyright.) WALT MASON. I street was extinguishea gine company last night. An automo- | bile owned by George C. Rocco, 1138 6th street, caught fire and was dam- aged to the amount of $50. An awning over a window of Cav- | anaugh Courts, 17th and streets, last night was extinguished by No. 9 engine company. | At 767 Quebec street an awning over a window of | fire, and was destroyed THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.b WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1923. [IGFE, You DoN'T Looic Any THINNGR TD Mc i ARS You FoLLoWING DemPseYs ORDERS . AND GATING ONLY OoNG EGG A DAYD Makes Jeff Feel Gay. | ; —I I MUTT AND JEFF—-One Egg a Day ATTA Boy! JACK WANTS Yovu ™ R&buce So You WILL WORIc EASTER IN THE SPARRING BouTs: GOTTA RAND T T® JGFE FoR WILL PoweR: RIGHTO! T'A1 GOING. ouT Aow AND GE&T MY CGG. €66 IS HIS ORDGR AND ONE €66 T E€ATS. 3 (Copyright, 1925, By H. C. Fisher, Trade Mark GOMPERS LAUDS MINERS FOR “RED” EXPOSURE Says He Has Known of Efforts to Undermine Labor Movement for Some Time. Disclosures by the United Mire Workers of America of the operations of communist propagandists within the organization should arouse pro- Ehurch | gressive Americans to the danger that confronts the nation, muel Gompers, president of the American Federation | of Labor, said y first of a seri rtment 5 caught | by terday, indorsing the the miner: with the subject. rganization dealing Mr. of articles prepared | SUBSTITUTE CONSUL SENT DeWitt C. Poole Delayed in Going to Post in Yokohama. De Witt C. Poole, recently appoint- ed consul general at Yokohama, Japan, and who arrived in this city a short time ago en route to his post. has been recailed to his home in Virginia by the death of a near relative and was obliged to cancel his | plans for proceeding at once to Japan. That made it necessary to send another officlal to Yokohama for temporary duty during the ex- isting_emergeney. Nathaniel B. Stewart, consul gen- eral of class 2, at the State Depart- ment, was selected for that mission and he will start at once for Yoko- ST. LOUIS MAIL MEN SERENADE OFFICIALS |¢ Band Plays for Mooney and New Before Leaving Capitai. St. Louls letter carriers on their ay home from a convention of the | National Assoclation of Letter Car- riers at Providence, R. I, yesterday stopped off here to serenade Postmaster General New and Postmaster Moone)‘v Washington city post office. St. Louis Letter Carriers’ Band marched from the Unijon station to the city post office, where they ser- enaded Postmaster Mooney at 10:30 o'clock, after which they marched to | ALLEGED FUGITIVES CAUGHT. Margaret Woodbury and Jeannette Crampton, alleged fugitives from the tional ‘Training School for Girls. were grrested yesterday by Policeman Decker of the ninth precinct. The po- liceman met them on the street in the business district, arrested arranged to return them echool THAYER SUPERIOR PRINTING them to and the Smal’ War.: Where Quality and Reg. U. 8. Pat. Off.) BREAKFAST, © MUTT BLICK BROTHERS, Inc. 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