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12 * DUESSELDORF RIOT LAID T0 POLITICS Plot of Former District Presi- dent Ascribed as Cause by French. By the Assoclated Press. DUESSELDORF, October 15.—The stores here remained closed today, but the looting which terrorized the city Saturday was not resumcd. The mu- nicipal authorities have called upon the population to organize a self- protective body that will be able to help the police in case of further trouble. The police today raided a number of houses situated near looted stores and recovered large quantitles of merchandise. Sixteen alleged leaders of the looters were arrested by the authorities of occupation. Several of the prisoners will be court-martalled and the others surrendered to the German authorities. . The widespread looting here and | elsewhers in the Ruhr during the! past three days is declared at French neadquarters to have been more of a political maneuver arranged by con- nivance between the fonalists and the communists than due to real suf- oring through unemployment. The French oficials lay the blame upon Dr. Gruetzner, the former district president, who since his expulsion srom Duesseldorf has continued to exercise authority, indirectly, from Darren, just across the border from the occupled zone. Transfer Reliet Office. In this connection the French attach great significance to a recent an- nouncement in the German press that the executive offices for the relief of | thie unemployed would be transferred from Berlin to Barmen and also to ;;I semi-official agency dispatch from Barmen quoting Mr. Gruetzner indi-} rectly as predicting that within a few | days the economic situation in the | Ruhr would be such that firearms would be needed to dispe the hungry demonstrators. This, accord- ing to the expelled ofticial, would lcad to a situation so embarrassing to the French that they would have to aban don the Ruhr occupation as a bad job. With these and similar maneuvers in mind, the French assert they have 2ood evidenc his henchmen conspired to situation embarrassing not only to the French, but to the Stresemann government, at which the nationalists are extremely disgruntied. The French belleve that Dr. Gruetzner's plans were known to a large section of the population here, which, they point out, would go far in explaining the apparent good-natured disinterested- ness of the crowds of onlookers while Saturday's vandalism was in progress. Much Food Ruined. Other evidences pointed to as indi cating that the plundering was not entirely due to hunger are the facts that hundreds of pounds of foodstuffs | were dumped in the streets, sacks of | tlour were ripped open and ieft on the | floors of the stores and barrels of oil | were tapped and allowed to flood the | pillaged establishments. | The French statistical bureau alsc announced today that the food sup- | plies in the occupied-urea were much | above the normal, 1,630 carloads of | foodstuffs having entered the oc- aupied ares urday, whereas th verage daily importations before the bandonment of p: iv resistance | were lcss than 600 carloads and the | verage before the Ruhr was oc- cupied less than 500 carloads. The French do not attempt to mini- mize the difficultics confronting the unemployed, but insist these are du vather to syStematic hoarding and un- restricted profiteering than to the un- employment itseif. —The French, at any rate, insist that Saturda: pillag- ing must be charged largely to other causes. TWC KILLED IN RIOTS. h e a RBeichswehr Called to Aid Police ini Meiningen. BERLIN, October 15.—Two ecivil-| iams are reported to have been killed and several others injured near Meiningen Saturday night when the reichswehr was called upon to help the police clear the streats of rioters, | Three persons were injured in ay food riot at Frankfort-am-Main on ! Saturda: GREEK RELIEF BODY IS ORGANIZED HERE Prof. Capps, Princeton, Heads So- ciety to Aid 1,250,000 Refugees Forced to Return. An organization for the relief of 1,250,000 Greek refugees forced to re- turn from Asia Minor and Thrace to their motherland under the terms of the Lausanne treaty was formed to- day at & meeting of & number of na- tionally prominent Americans at the Southern building. The organization 1s to be known as “The American Friends of Greece.” The president of the organization is Prof. Edward Capps of Princeton University, former United States min- ister to Greece, former.Red Cross commissloner to Greece and chalrman of the board of managers of the American School at Athens. Other officers and officials are: Vice chair- man, Dr. John H. Finley, vice chair- man of the Near Bast Rellef; Charles Ww. Eliot, president emeritus of Har- vard University; Heory J. Allen, for- mer Governor of Kansas; Dr. Mitch- ell Carroll, editor of Art and Arch- cology, secretary, and Milton K. Alles, president of Riggs Bank, treas- urer. The following _telegram was re- cetved by Dr. Carroll from Queen Ellzabeth of Greece and read to the organization at the Cosmos Club ves- terday: “Despite valuable assistance until recently given by the American Red | Cross and Near East Rellef to the, destitute refugees and their families | 50 aruelly expelled from Asta Minor, thousands will die this winter for lack of food, ehelter, clothing and medioines unless there is relief. Knowing philanthropic feellng of American people, 1 would be per- sonally grateful and so would the Greek people for any help you may be able to give us in this tragic hour of our history GIRL GUIDE SAVES 17 CHARGES ON HIKE OTTAWA, October 15.—The presence of mind of Eunlce Parker, girl guide leader, saved the lives of seventeen | of her charges who were hiking on a high bridge over the Ryda river Saturdey night, when she ordered them to throw themselves flat on the outer ties to escape death beneath an onrushing Canadian Pacific loco- motive. The nineteenth member of the party, owever, Mre. A. Campbell, failed to car the command. Her body was ound among the rocks forty feet elow the bridge. ing IF « | their insolven \FOUR ARMY OFFICERS { More Than 300 Miles to Be Cov- shot and killed ¥ entered, and discharged. had been hung over SIX DIE IN FLAMES IN BROOKLYN HOME One Woman Leaps From Window. Child Dead in Charred Arms of Maid. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 15.—Six per- sons were burned to death when fire destroyed a three-story frame dwell- in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn today. The dead are: Mrs. Lillian Andrews, her nephew, Charles, and niece, Margaret; George Kyne, Francis P. Fowler and Miss Roberta Wigert. Mrs. Anna Andrews leaped from the attic and was serlously hurt. Neighhors, seeing _smoke rolling | from the basement of the dwelling, rushed to the spot just in time to see Mrs. Anna Andrews leap from & win- dow of the attic apartment. Later firemen found the charred bodies of the six victims where apparently they had been overcome after escape had been cut off by the flames. The body of Charles Andrews, nine- teen-year-old athlete and student at Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, lay just inside a rear window. r him lay his aunt, Mr: Lilllan Andrews. The body of twelve-year-old Margaret was found clasped in the arms of | Miss Wigert, a mald, In_an adjoining | third bedroom dis-! sed the body Fowler. Kyne had | been trapped in the bathroom in an ( attempt to r a window. They | were roomers in the And fome. | ITES NEED OFNEW RECLAVATION PLAN rulns of Body Present System Is Near-Failure. Present condition of reclamation projects is enduugering the entire work, Secretary of the Initerfor Work | id today when opening the meeting | f the fact-finding committee appoint- | d by him to formul, mation poli imprevements © a new recla- | Radical reforms and | must be effected, he | said, if the settlers on reclamation | projects were to be protected from loss and the interests of the govern- | ment safeguarded. The committee Julius Barnes, president of the Chamber of | Commerce of the United States; Oscar E. Bradfute, president of the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation; James rficld. a former Interior Secre- tary jov. T. E. Campbell of Ariz nd Dr. John E. Widtsoe of Salt Lake | City. D. W, Davis, the present com- missioner of reclamation, also was member, but withdrew on the ground that his official position might em- | barrass the work. includes i Recelved Many Complaints. office, & mittee, com- s interested | rid iunds | i Soon after he assume retary Work told the co plaints from various gro: in the development of the gan to reach him, the cemplaints covering almost every phase of tivity § i “The complaiuts included charges.” | t in many of the projects ! estimates under which | e induced to go upon the 0 to 100 per| the actual cost | it is impossi- | ¥ out within | avw, or | ngineer- | heen mad to the ¢ and otherwise, added materfally structed projects; that othe: bee urdertaken that should been started; that ove head costs of the service and man of consiructed projects; that the cve by water users, were burdensome an excessive. ! . the system used in the: raclamat service I have been u able to get figures that appear to b dependable as to the cost of ual projects or the total money pended on all projects. ! “It is represented, taken from the ! records of the bureau, that the gov- ernment’s total investment to June 30, in round numbers is $181, and its total receipts ab . leaving a balance inves and unpaid of $135,000,000. “The reclamation service, for which this department is responsible, appar- tly requires reorganization. Annual : reports on some projects indicate s and pending failure. | Out of the twenty-eight projects only | one has met its obligations as they | fell due. | “Reclamation of arid lands by | Irrigation from government funds, as heretofore practiced, is failing on a| majority of projects as a business! procedure. “Government reclamation complished much. field for {ts future. Reclamation in}| the west by private enterprise was | begun thirty vears before the govern-i has ac- | There is a great ment began this work and has largeiy redeemed the reclamation should make a compar- | able showing, relieved as it is, from | interest charges.” west. vernment ; ON ENDURANCE RIDE ered in Five Days to i Test Horses. ; The annual Army endurance ride for the eastern section of the coun- try will take place this week, be- ginning today. The ride of more than 300 miles will take five days of sixty miles each day, radiating from Avon, N. Y. | Four officers of the Army will par- ticipate. Maj. C. L. Scott of the Quartermaster Corps will represent the American Remount Assoclation, and will ride the thoroughbred horse Pathfinder, making the third year in which that horse has taken part, after a record of fourth place in the last two events. Maj. J. M. Wainwright of the 3d Cavalry will also represent the Re- mount Association, riding the ther-| oughbred horse Vagrant, which also| participated in two previous events.) This year's ride from Avon will be made more interesting than usual by the presence of the two winners of the Colorado endurance test, Capt. H. E. Watkins of the 13th Cavalry and Lieut M. M. Corpening of 18th Field Artille These offic will ride, respectively, the thorough- bred horse Norfolk Star, which won the western ride for twe years in successlon, and Nintu, the thorough- bred horse that came in second in this year's ride in Colorado. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. | WATERTOWN, N. Y., October 1 Mrs” William Ober, forty-three, was sterday at _her home, near Pottsdam, when a rifle hung over the door was dislodged as she The weapon the door by a son, one of nine children, on \his return from a hunting trip. ; Seattle criminologist, him down and unraveled the dlubolic | lWork Informs Fact-Finding‘ {her’ stepson with an ! things. | Prospectuse: {sinister figure with his discoveries. iplaved upon their beliefs. imitted plan was to bide his time until 1shrewd contriving. {the age: {line | Bet better, according to the report of | THE EVENING CODE SLAYERT0. INTD COURT ON 0T Arthur Covell, Confessed |Killer by Zodiac Signs, Pleads for Quick Execution. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARSHFIELD, Oreg., October 15.— The evil stars under which Arthur Covell was born are with him to the end. A hopeless paralytic, hobbling about bent and gnarled on crutches, Covell spent his pain-racked hours in study of the occult, determined to make the stars thaf had frowned on him do his bldding. Today the astrologer lies in a cell, confessed master mind in the slaying of his sister-In-law, Mrs. Fred Covell, of Bandon. He will be carried into the courtroom on a cot to plead gullty to a charge of first degree murder.; His sixteen-year-old nephew Alton is, with him, accused of the actual mur- der, although he pleads that he com- mitted the deed under the hypnotic spell of his uncle. Resorted to Hypnosis. The dark pseudo sciences run all through Arthur Covell's scheming. Hypnosis, astrology, murder instruc- tions written in a code mado up of} the slgns of the zodiac were his in- struments. Fate had marred him. He was determined to match his crooked wits against. fortune. He played—but the stars were agalnst him, and he lost on his first throw. “Hang me and get thi he pleaded with Luke who over with,” May, the tracked | schemes by which May says the cripple planned to make himself the! arch murderer of the age. The murder of Mrs. Covell, wife of | a chiropractor in the little town of Ban- don, who was smothered to death by | ammonia-soaked rag on September 2, was but the first step in the astrologer's plans, uccording to the confession May obtained from him. Mrs. Covell died becauvse she knew | too much about the astrologer's plans. { Beat Her With Crutch, After she had fallen, to make doubly eure that she would not live to hear witness against him, the sinister crip- ple shuffied to her side and rained blows on the body with his crutch, he has confessed. For years Arthur Covell planning _his coups. His awry. But had the stars against him no less than would have been wiped out, com the beneficiary of possessions, He would have outwitted fortune. He would have en rich, In secret code, using zodiacal signs. which he put on the type bars typewriter, he had written Luke May, suspe the truth, gained p« St of crime out as he had studied out ma sort of cipher. had been first went not been en families he to be- eir earthly ting v another Then he confronted the Confeased at Orce. ! The break came instantly. Arthur| Covell begged, explained. told the secrets he would not intrust even to his zodiacal cod He told how he; had planned to slay Bandon's leading | merchant, make it appcar that he had | fallen down the stairs and broken his neck, and place a cleverly forged | will in his pocket leaving the plotter ! half his estate, Two men were to be enticed into a field and slain. Their relatives were to be told that they had gone to join an oil prospecting party in a newly discovered field. Rumors were drift back that they had been lost the mountains. The to share in their estate: Arthur Covell's study of the stars had given him an uncanny standing in the town. He was looked upon as | a myste. His opinions were sought | and cherished. He cast horoscopes | for his closest “friends” who were to | become his ultimate victims. | Believed His Prophecy. ! They belleved his horoscopes, and he So, his ad- the horoscope he had cast—always an ill one-—was near fulfillment. Then he was to strike—through some hyp-! notio agency abetted by his own “Had that man succeeded he would have become the arch murderer of | " Luke May declared. “He| had at least two programs fully out- { for evory murder. If one showed | flaws there always the other. But | ars outwitted him. He is| ELECTION CERTAIN, COOLIDGE ASSURED Phil H. Campbell Tells. Presi- dent of Observations in Several States. ! i | i Prestdent Coolldge was told today by former Representative Phil . Campbell of Kansas that, in his opin- ion, the Chief Executive would be nominated for the presidency and that} his election in 1924 is assured. Mr.{ Campbell has been in & number of ! states during the past few mont and after listening to the views of politicians and others he fs satisfied that the Coolidge sentiment is grow- ing greater all the time. Mr. Camp- bell said his call was merely to pay his respects to the Executive and to acquaint him with his observations. Business generally throughout the | United States is good and the present indications are that it will steadily conditions given to President Cool- idge today by the diregtors of the National Association of ‘Manufactur- | ere. James E. Edgerton, president of the association, acted as spokesman. ! The delegation did not take up with | the President any specific legislation, although several leglslative matters were briefly touched upon. President Coolldge today was in- vited by Robert J. Kennedy of the New York horse show to attend the national horse show to_be held in New York, commencing November 10. Others who saw the President to- day were: J. Weston Allen, who was attorney general of Massachusetts the last year Calvin Coolidge was gov- ernor of that commonwealth; James B. Bonner, representative in Wash- ington of the United States Steel Corporation, who said his visit was | personal and had nothing to do with the steel business; Representatives Burton of Ohio and Britten of Illi- nois, both of whom have recently re. turned from a visit to Europe, and delegates to the citizenship confer- ence being held here. GREEK MINISTERS QUIT. LONDON, October 15.—The Greek ministers of the interlor, war, jus- tice and public instruction submitted their resignations, says a Central News dispatch from Athens. Premier Gontas requested them to retsin their portfolios for another week, when he will accept their: resignation. | More men were to be sent there toda | Bridge Over Red River Reported i {Killing_of Police Lieut. David Duni- I'st. Gabriel's Cathollc Church, STAR, WASHINGTON, D, €. 25 D. C. MEN HELD IN DICE GAME RAID Rockville Police Pay Surprise Visit to Building at Lit- tonsville, Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 15.— Twenty-five Washington men are held following a gambling raid at Littonsville, near the District line, Saturday night. In a building under Sheriff Moxley, Deputy Gingell, Chief of Police Tooley and Motor peuczmenl as witnesses, construction Gaither, Rogers and Clagett found 2 dice game in progress about 10 o'clock at night. Walter Sonneborn, alleged pro- prietor, Washington, D. C., and Isaac Davis, negro, were arrested and re- quired to give $2,600 and $1,250 bail, respectively. All were released for appearance Thursday. Sonneborn is alleged to have attempted to escape when the officers entered the building, but a shot from the revolver of Oscar Galther, fired over his head, halted him. No bail was required of the Washington men who are alleged to have been patrons of the game. They | spent the night in the corridor of the Rockville jail, the cells of the prison having been crowded when they were herded in. More than $1,000 in cash was raked tn from a table in the building as evi- | dence of gambling, a quanti in silver. The officers say they met by a lookout when théy ap- | proached the building, which wi a secluded spot nc.r Rock Park, and objection was offered to their visit, but they placed the look- out under’ arrest and proceeded with the round-up. . RECORD OKLAHOMA FLOOD PREDIGTED Water Four to Six Feet Higher in Capital Than Last \ Spring Due Tomorrow. | By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, October 15.—A flocd menace increased here today with an announcement by J. P. Slaughter, chief of the United States ! weather bureau, that the North Cana- dian river would reach a stage of twenty to twenty-two feet between midnight tonight and noon tomor- row. This is four to six feet higher than the record flood of last spring. Oklahoma City's fifth flood of the year already has inundated virtually the same territory covered last June by the North Canedian river. The stream now is from one-half mile to seven miles wide. Work to Strengthen Dam. Ten milgs west of the capital sixty men using fifteen feams have been | sandbagging the embankments of the city wator works dam since Saturda: to wall up the embankments at ejther end of the dam and to reinforce a by- pass into the buge lake. { The lake is expected to hold mine feet more water, a major part of the Tuesday flood crést, acéording to C. E. | Bretz, water works' superintendent. | Scores of acres of the Walnut Grove ection are under water and the river for several hundred yards flows across three main traffic streets to Capitol | Hill and Packingtown, suburbs, where | more than six thousand persons I Westward from Oklahoma City river | points from 25 to 150 miles distant re- | port the most eerious flood damage in | their history. $500,000 BRIDGE DOWN. i Rock Island Structure Washed Out by High Water. MUSKOGEE, Okla, October 15— The half-million-dollar Rock Island | bridge over the South Canadian river near Calvin was washed out by highi water last night and service over the | road is discontinued, according to| word received here. I MAN REPORTED MISSING. i Rains Demolish 1,200 Feet of Ne l 1 | Railroad. ‘WICHITA FALLS, Tex., October 15. —One man is missing and approxi- mately 1,200 feet of the Wichita Val- ley rallroad bridge, recently com-{ pleted, has been washed out, as a re- { sult of the high waters of the Red river, according to reports received here. WEST TEXAS FLOODED. Damaged by Water. DALLAS, Tex., October 15.—Reports | from west Texas indicated that the! rain which has been flooding that sec- tion for forty-eight hours unin- terruptedly was general from El Paso over the Pan Handle and down to the{ border. The Kansas City, Mexico and Orlent railroad bridge on the Red river is reported damaged by flood waters and damage on_other lines is feared. The| Fort Worth and Denver railroad got | its first train In over a week across the Canadlan River bridge yesterday afternoon. COPELAND TO BE TRIED | FOR SLAYING OCT. 29, Herbert L. Copeland, colored, will{ be placed on trial October 29-to an-! swer an indictment for murder in the | first degree in connection with the| gan. The slaying occurred about five years ago and Copeland escaped from jail while awaiting trial. He was lo- cated last July at Akron, Ohio. ! The two lawyers recently designat- cd by the court as counsel for the prisoner have withdrawn from the case and Copeland will be defended by Attorney Henry Lincoln Johnson, former recorder of deeds. Assistant United States Attorney Emerson will conduct the prosecution. | { PLEADS INCOMPETENCE. Alleged Church Thief’s Act Laid to Mental Weakness. Charles Hearn, Indicted last week for robbing the school fund bex at at 8th and Varnum streets northwes: last August, is mentally incompetent, ac- cording to the plea_made for him to- day before Justice Bailsy in Criminal Division 1 by his lawyer, Charles L. Carson. Justice Bailey directed a report on the mental condition of the accused. MRS. MILDRED IVES DIES. Mrs. Mildred B. Ives, widow of Maj. Francis J. Ives, U. 8 A, died Satur- day at St Francls Hospital, Pitts- burgh, Pa. Requiem mass wis cele- brated at St. Matthew's Church this morning at 10:30 o’clock. The in- terment was {n Arlington national cemetery. Mrs. Ives was well known in official and soclal oircles while her husband was stafioned in Washing- ton. 2 { things like better schools, {from Bertha Z. Corn, charges with inducing her husband, | VIRGINA ASSENBLY MAPS HEAY WORK Nearly 100 Proposed Amend- ments to Constitution Sim- pliyying Government. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., October 15 for the consideration of the legislature and amendmeits to constitution to the number of nearly one hundred have been prepared by the legislative reference bureau. The amendments to the constitution are on recommendations of the commis- sion on simplification of government, the most important of which is that affecting the fiscal and appropriation years, making them conform. This will involve a change in the opera- tions of the county Systems, it is un- derstood, and they will have to adjust their business operations to meet that of the state One of the matters belng discussed is that of collection of taxes. At this time there are four tickets for every taxpayer who owns real estate. The is the state real and personal tickets, the county or city real a personal property taxes. ~These are payable at different times. Payments Overlooked. There are four tickets, and it has happened several times that some o the tickets are unpald, overlooked or forgotten. Then there comes delinquent _collector, who adds a penalty for failure to pay, and so long as the tickets are unpaid there is the fear of litigation and a cloud on titles to property. It is suggested that all taxes be placed on one ticket, and if so desired to allow the tax. payer to pay half at one time and the second half later on. It is contended that this would in- sure the payment of all taxes, save the making out of four tax tickets, and the collectors could easily sepa- rate the same and make their remit- tances accordingly. It would save taxpayers lots of worry and the time | required to make two to four trips to settle dues to the state and city or county and certalnly save litiga- tion. iDEMOCRATIC WOMEN PLAN 1924 CAMPAIGN Baltimore Club Secretary Prepares County Organization Work in State. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, October 15.—Plans have been made to organize the demo- | cratic women for the presidential campaign of 19; Mrs. George AL Galther, secretary of the Democratic Women's Club, has returned from the class of instruction held in Washing- ton under the auspices of the demo- cratfo national committee and ex- pects to organize “schools of democ- racy” throughout this state, through | county chairmen. In the city organization will be per- | fected by the ward chairman. “To give the fundamentals of democra to the women s the object of these sehools,” sald Mrs. Gaither. cvery woman know that it 18 through the party that they can bring ahout reforms desired for the general wel- | fare of the community in which they Itve. We wish to fmpress on the wo that the democratic party is_trs to better living . conditions” Galther said, “instead of merely try ing to elect men. It is the women w can correct. in a large measure, this wave of high prices sweeping over the United States. “We want the women to understand the possibilities of the ballot. Tp to this time it has not been popular to talkk politics to people who are not interested. Women have stood for but thes have not realized that the right use of the ballot will bring better schools. “When we were first given the bal- lot it was felt that women would come Into the parties and help raise their standards, but so far o handful have gone into active work, and they have not stood out for great moral improvement of the parties.” WIFE Lura M. Baker Says Bertha Corn! Alienated Husband. ‘Women as well as men should p: according to Mrs. Lura M. Bak who today flled suit in the District | Supreme Court for $10,000 heart balm whom she Charles L. Baker, to desert her. Through Attorneys Bertram Emer- son, ir.. and Raymond Neudecker, the plaintiff says she married Baker Oc- tober 22, 1907, and was happy with him until the defendant exerted great influence over him, causing him to divorce her. PASTOR RECOMMENDED. Special Dispateh to The Stay FREDERICKSBURG, Va., 15.—The speclal committee appoirted to secure a new pastor for the Pres- byterfan Church has byterian Church at Suffolk, Va., who {has indicated his willingness to ac cept a call Eggleston Presbyterian Church of Richmond for a number of years, and also at Co- lumbus, Miss. He has been at Suf- folk for the past seven years. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, V;., 2 October (Special).—The action of ths Wash- ington-Virginia Railroad Company in to Fredericksburg. Dr. | opposing the granting of a charter to operate business through Arlington !county is characterized as analogous {10 that of “the dog in the manger” by 2 letter addressed to the state cor- poration commission, signed by Frank G. Campbell as secretary of the Arlington County Civic Federation, made public here today. The letter charges that the com- {pany is not only hindering the pos- sible growth of Arlington county by { not allowing bus lines to operate for those who live at considerable ai tances from the car lines, but is als: failing to extend its own system. The federation is incensed at the actlon of, the commission in its recent decision which eliminated a bus line that was serving a_portion of the county .not served by the rallway company or by any other mode of transportation. Mr. Campbell says that the federa- tion is ready to fight its cause “to the last ditch.” Joseph Spotswood, twenty-one years old, colored, is in a serious condition ‘at the Alexandria Hospital as the re- suit of a bullet wound beneath the heart, which he suffered yesterday in what' his wife, Louvinia Spotswood, nineteen, tells the police was a friendly tussle. She says the gun was accidentally discharged. She is be- ing held, ames DIggs, colored, was wounded three times in a gun fight staged on South Pitt street. Police are seeking a man by the name of Dudley. . Mrs. Nannie Ellzabeth Henderson dfed vesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P. A. Kersey, 408 South St. “Asaph street. ~Funeral services will be held from St. Mary's Catholic Church tomorrow. morning. “It is the & wish of the national committee to let | SUES OTHER WOMAN | | the | | ! 1 October | recommended | Dr. R. B. Eggleston, pastor of a Pres- was pastor of the Third | | ! i 15 | MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1923. White Potatoes, 15-lb.-peck . . Sweet Potatoes, 5 lbs. for . . Yellow Onions, 4 lbs. for . . . Fancy Eating Apples, 6 lbs. for Cabbage,perlb. . . . . . . . Specials This Week Sanitary “Quick ..., Cook” Qats Various manufacturers are now putting but a special kind of rolled oats, known as “Quick Cook” Oats, which cook in a very few minutes. Saves time and trouble. Every user is cautioned not to cook these oats longer than the time called for on the direc tions. 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