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Bride ound Dead Shot By Accident 0 L7ra Margaret Cohen Killed by Own Pistol While Hunting Burglars NEW YORK Sept Dr Ira Cohen's bride of three months Mrs Mntgaret Coljcn a daughter of Dr Alfred Meyer noted tuberculosis spe cialist was found dead yesterday on a stairway landing of their home No 28 East 75th street and beside her body was an automatic pistol which she always kept beside her bed Many times both day and night she had picked up the weapon and searched through the house when some un seemly round made her thnik of bur glary A bullet had passed through her head Sho had fallen on the stairway and upon the pistol an army forty five Masgaaet Guinmel her maid found Die body and summoned occu pants of the house The police and Dr Benjamin Schwartz acting chief medical exam iner decided death was accidental that Mrs Concn was a victim of her haunting fear of burglars Dr Cohen left the house early yes terday to go to Montetloro Hospital Jho Bronx and Mrs Cohen went shopping In the neighborhood She returned about 3 a and went to her room on the third floor No one saw her when she started to mount the stairs to the fourth floor but the police believe she attempted to slip a cartridge Into tho chamber and the gun 'was discharged There were no powder marks about the wound and while Mrs Cohen is right handed the bullet penetrated tho left temple Those facts puzzled the police at first and a suicide motive was con sidered Dr Schwartz found a letter she had written and noted it was in a good humored jolly vein So it was suggested that Mrs Cohen being a novice with fire arms might have hold tho automatic in her left and operated the slide with her right Dr Meyer who lives with his son in law was away and Dr Moses Ijodcrman and Dr Harold Neuhof were called in Detective Alfred Ben ter of the East street station searched the house to see If there really had been a burglar in the house He found the scuttle locked and the win dows undisturbed Mrs Cohen was thirty and served In the Ambulance Corps during tho war I AN OPPORTUNITY never find 1 That Sparse in Her Eyes Little worries and sometimes big ones rob mother of much happiness other than smiling happy faces where there is music Music induces health banishes worry Give her a Player piano Then she may play all the best music the old favorite love songs the ballads the lulla bies that she loves so much Will place this quality Player Piano in your home You may take two years to pay for it 4 J' li To Keep Lee Piano Co 609 611 MAIN ST Come in today and let us ex plain our easy payment plan I i 1 Cadets Train Hard or Opening Game (Special to The Bee) LEXINGTON Va Sept The I squad has been worked un usually hard during the past week of practice The coaches realize that the Marine game on the 22 will be one of the hardest of the season and are consequently exerting every ef fort to make the initial game a vic tory for the "lying As yet no regular first team has been picked The men have been shifted promlscously rfom one posi tion to another in order to help the coaches line up the men in the place they best fit The three hard fought scrimmages of the past week have given the members of the varsity squad an op portunity to show their ability and it is very probable that the coaches will definitely decide on' the line up for the game with the by Monday at the least The loss of arley star quarter of the past two years who is now attending the University of West Virginia is still worrying the coaches The question as to who shall take his place is yet undecided Three men have been thoroughly coached for the position but no selection nas been made so far The seating capacity of the I stadium has been doubled and the largest crowd that has ever attended a football game in Lexington is ex pected (MANY MILLION DOLLARS HIDDEN AWAY IN RANCE I (By The Associated Press) PARIS Sept 15 All over rance men and women for years have been hoarding American currency It be came available in large quantities Rtiilhe coming of American soldiers during the war and the rench were gujek to see its value Today people are wondering how many are concealed in the of the republic The estimates run from $1000003 to $5000000 Recently a renchman jiving in Chaumont who kept a candy store during the war disclosed to a frend a strong box containing over 12500 in American bills of various denominations which he said he would sell when the hanc reached 20 for one dollar are a good many men in this town alone who have more than this man declared The exact amount of America ncur rency left In rance by American sol diers and officers will probably never fie known but many believe that If a thorough canvas of Brest Saint Na zaire Bordeaux Le Mans Tours Chaumont Aix les Bains Vichy Di nard and the surrounding localities were made the total would be nearly $5000000 ST LOUIS CLINIC DRAWS CHILDREN ROM MANY STATES ST LOUIS Sept 15 The St oufs Medical Society in a report of its free clinic for por children this year stated that slight to complete correction was accomplished in 94 of 1'7 cases already disposed of only three children being beyond assist ance The clinic which the society con ducts each year beginning in April is said to be the only one of its kind in the United tates for free hospital medical and surgical care is provided During the present year children front states throughout tho west and south are being treated More than a score of children still under treatment will remain at hos pitals for several months and a few for more than a year Half a hun dred other children still are receiv ing treatment at clinics In some cases as many as four op erations had to be performed to effect a cure CHATHAM VA ii i tn nw mi iCTir i Srmth Greater Slows All Week of Sept 17 to 22 9 Big Attractions 9 Clean Moral Refined THREE Danville Methodists To Make Bid or Annual Conference In 1924 That Danville Methodists will try to win next year's Methodist conference at thn annual meeting to be held next month In Richmond comes from ex cellent authority An effort is to bo made to revert to the old method of rotating the conference among the larger cities within the bounds of tho conference Instead of alternating be tween Richmond and Norfolk under tho more recent method Tho Dan vlllo delegation which will go to Rich mond will go prepared to offer an ur gent invitation to the conference to come hero In 1921 and' to resume the old order of things the enter tainment of the' ministerial nnd lay delegates entertained in the private homes At tho present time the en tertainment committee of the confer ence has hail charge of the following meetlisig and because of the larger hotel facilities It has of recent years been the custom to alternate be tween the cities of Richmond and Norfolk Under the old scheme Danville had the conference about every seven years The cities where the conven tion used to be held Included Rich mond Norfolk Danville Newport News Portsmouth: Lynchburg Pe tersburg Charlottesville atd Salls bury Md which Is within the bounds of the conference Visits to the la it two named cities were only occasion al however Methodists regard forecasts as to where ministers In the conference whose four year terms are now expir ing as purely speculative While they are guesses some of them may prove to be right Appointments are made as result of the meetings which ho presiding bishop holds every day with his so called which Is com posed of the presiding elders of each district At these meetings the vari ous churches are called in rotation and wherever the tour year limit has been reached the bishop for nominations Thus in the expiration of four year terms in the Danville churches Rev Stonewall Jackson lUttln presiding elder of the Dan ville district would be called on by the bishop to make nominations of successors Usually tho presiding el der is in touch with the congregations and suggests the "name of ministers for whom preference has been ex pressed by tho board of stewards It frequently happens however that there are clashing Interests but as tho week of the conference wears on adjustments are made and by the fi nal session of the conference the cabi net and the presiding bishop are agreed on a for the entire con ference and ft Is usually carried nut' Although Bishop Warren Candler who will preside this year is known to bo a year it Is quite likely that the return to Danville of minis ters who are completing their four year terms here will be sought THE BEE DANVILLE VA SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15 1923 Astronomers Are Watching or Two Vagrant Speeders CHILD IS A MENTAL WIZARD BUT HE LIKES TO PLAY CAMBRIDGE Mass Sept 15 As tronomers are on tho watch for two comets both discovered many de cades ago which speeding over their rather uncertain courses through the skies are about due for re appear ance One of these Interesting visitors is Di Vico's "long comet of 1846 popularly known as the Mexican War comet because just on the out break of that conflict It was observed by Professor Bond of the Har vard observatory on eb 26 1846 Professor DI Vico of Rome also found the comet Independently with his telescope two days later and be cause he officially recorded Its com ing his fellow astronomers have giv en it his name Professor DI Vico observed his com et godson for two months when It passed from view It was reckoned that It would reappear in 7571 years with a "period of of three years In 1319 It was within 300000000 miles of the earth some where between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and the scientists of the skies decided that it might appear to them any time between 1321 and 1325 When It does come it will not be visible to man in the street" Harvard College observatory officials say Comets they explain may at any time be thrown completely out of their accustomed course by getting too near the sun or planet these bodies acting so as to give the stranger a sort of to one side or the other The second comet that astronomers are on the 'lookout for this year is that discovered by and named for D'Arrest who saw It from Leipsic Juno 27 1851 It returned in 1857 1870 1877 1890 1897 and 1910 It was due in 1917 but the telescope failed to find it Astronomical cal culations showed that it might be seen telescope only" on twenty five or thirty dates of 1923 but the astronomers of the world who re port their discoveries to the Harvard observatory as a clearing house of in formation have not picked it up as yet Its schedule calls for visibility in various parts fthe heavens with the aid of high powered lenses on Sep tember 3 8 13 18 23 and 28 and October 3 8 13 and 18 The Harvard observatory does not specialize on investigating comets partly because its location does not lend Itself to such observations as well as do those of other astronomical stations in the United States and Eu rope In this country the observa tories which may be said to make comets a specialty are Lick observa tory of the University of California erkes at Williams Bay Wisconsin and the naval observatory at Washington 0 Ticker Talk (Thomson and McKlnnoa) Petroleum imports into United Kingdom in week ended September 10 were 22000000 Imperial gallons against 32000000 preceding week Interstate Commerce Commission authorizes to issue to $6000 000 five per cent equipment trusts Anthracite shipments in August 6672855 gross tons against 6260053 in July Marland Oil makes reductions in crude ranging from ten to 20 cents in northern Oklahoma Brockton Shoe As sociation grants ten per cent wage increase affecting 13500 employees in 63 factories Lehigh Valley Railroad for quarter June 30 reports surplus $2527608 after taxes charges against deficit of $1073333 in second quarter of 1922 Mexican Seaboard Oil completes well No 32 in Cacalilao dis trict for 25000 barrels oil at 1732 feet ederal Mining and Smelting for quarter ended July 31 reports excess of receipts over expenditures $462 082 against 551902 in preceding quarter and 308022 in corresponding quarter of 1922 Heavy frosts and snow hasten harvesting in central west Damage to Wisconsin tobacco crop estimated at $300000 Market Street Railway August bal ance after charges $153364 against $1333 44 in August 1922 New York Central grants 4000 shopmen increase of 3 cents an hour amounting to $300000 annually Governor Bryan of Nebraska plans to sell coal to farmers at mine cost plus freight Dealers cut prices to meet this competition Dun and Company report underlying confidence in domestic business situation despite continued irregularities in demand and prices Dun report 296 failures for week against 333 in corresponding week last year Bradstreet's reports cooler weather and sharp rise In cotton quickened fall buying in primary markets of west and south Steel lumber and canned foods feel stimulating effect of Japanese demand HAREM WILL SOON BE IN VOGUE AGAIN ANGORA Sept 15 Persisting ef forts are being made in Turkey to restore the harem as a national in stitution Polygamy was abolished more than a year ago by resolution passed by the national assembly but since then several unsuccessful efforts have been made to restore it to a legal status At the head of the current attempts to put through the assembly a reso lution recognizing the harem as a na tional economic necessity is Salib Podja a teacher old in and out of the assembly is rallying to his support Salib Podja has introduced as a member of the assembly five suc cessive bills for the legalization of polygamous relations But Mustapha Kemal himself a monogramist has opposed these measures and all of them have been voted down The Nationalist party as a whole is op posed to a reversion to the old domes tic order SCOOP JR Thursday night two fistic fans of Danville in order to get properly at tuned for the big fight riday night donned the leathers for several friendly rounds of pushing The first round ended it two times the de feated went down and the third time the sponge was needed I CHARLES STRATORD BOY WONDER' gf ft JBit Ml feu 4 TY A 4 C' 1 Bl tb A S' (Speeiul to The lice) CANTON Sept He recites the Greek rench Italian and English alphabets He adds fractions his He reads Italian poetry in the orig inal and translates the story Into English He quotes page after page of which he likes because he says it is musical He recounts the story of tho found ing of Rome the history of Joan of Arc the causes of the Trojan war and the American Civil War These are only a few of the ac complishments of six year old Charles Stratford Morse son of Dr and Mrs Morse of this city Yet the boy has never been to pub lic school a day in his life Stratford is a well knit sturdy lit tle chap straight and slender and alert His bare knees are browned and scarred from outdoor play His light brown hair has a way of reach ing down over his forehead toward one eye in the unruly fashion most boys' hair Typist Too His broad smile reveals the secret of a couple of front teeth missing He is al boy and at the same time has an astounding Intellectual bril liancy that has attracted the atten tion and study of some of the fore most educators of the country When hu va uiuv 1 1 a he learned to operate a typewriter and now uses it with speed and accuracy Suggest any county in Ohio or any state in the Union and Stratford will bound it Ask him the name of the ruler or the capital of any country of Europe and he will give you the correct an swer He will sketch for you the history of the five ancient empires begin ning with Babylonia and name the leaders of each conquest up to the downfall of Rome Could you? Rends Best He will tell you the story of Helen of Troy and Paris and the golden ap ple and the story of the death of Julius Caesar Literature? He is at home with the best authors He reads the Bible Shakespeare Stevenson Kipling sim ply because he is fond of them How he keeps all these things clearly catalogued in his slx year oid brain is a secret io one knowsvjte plays as other boys play In the backyard of his home he has a little private garage in which he keeps his play automobile a wagon and other toys he has outgrown If you ask him what he Is going fo be when he grows up he grims with a glance at his father and says I know exactly A doctor though I Navy Skipper Who Dared Dangers Of Tokio Bay Was Boat Hunter WASHINGTON Sept Lieut Commander Guy Barnes com mander of the destroyer VTiipple who steamed up Yokohama Bay to Tokio in the face of the warnings of ship ping men and rescued Americans and othgr foreigners has had several years' experience on this type of ves Kansas Barnes then was assigned to the destroyer Burrows When the United States entered the World War he was serving on the destroyer Roe which he commanded in European waters as part of the submarine pa trol After the armistice Barnes served Break Between Ruppecht and Von Ludendorff By GEORGJ6 SELDES (Copyright 1923 Chicago Tribune) BERLIN Sept 15 General von Ludendorff's absence at the celebra tion of the National Officers Associa tion in Munich where crown cele bration of the National Officers As sociation in Munich where crown Prince Rupprecht is lionized and crown Prince refusal to participate at Nuremburg on Mon archist Day besides General von Lu dendorff's and Prince re cent slurs upon ield Marshal von Hindenburg arc believed to mark the final break between two of the strongest figures in Bavaria both of 'are no friends of the present republican regime The raiikfuerter points out that Prince Rupprecht heads the Catholic Wittiesbach Separationlst movement and General von Luden dorff heads the Protestant Jlohen zollern and Pangerman movement both anti Republlcan The Zeitung has learned reliably that Prince Rup precht sent an emissary to General Ludendorff asking him to join the Wittlesbachs and declare Prince Rup precht as king of Bavaria Bavarian separation was discussed and it is explained that the rench govern ment promised 'political and material support General Ludendorff abso lutely refused It is pointed out that the first cam paign against General Ludendorff's residence in Bavaria is under way in the monarchist press one paper re minding General Ludendorff that it was shameful to flee to Sweden at the time of the armistice "Please leave us it cays MORNING COTTON LETTER (Courtesy Thomson and McKinnon)' NEW YORK Sept Liverpool nervous but closed at a slight advanca today There was a definite degree of res sistance In our market yesterday that makes us more inclined to the buy ing side on breaks than we have been before this week Local operators bought early and then wehen stocks slumped 'they got disgusted and sold out About 20000 bales came on the market during the afternoon but the quantity of Decem ber by trade houses with trade con nections around 27 1 4 cents was very impressive We would buy on all soft spots INDIGESTION Til GONE No More Uneasiness After Meals what people say after taking Dr Prescription the great ins digestion remedy fine for "the liver too After taking for a few days you feel like a new person No fake no dope Just a physic ian's prescription that hits the nail on the head No experiment as it haa relieved thousands See your drug gist today qnd if he iij get him to order you a bottle Sold in Danville by rankMcall'a Drug Store and Clanton's Drug Store in Schoolfield by Park Place Phar macy in Chatham by Chatham Phar macy and In Yanceyville by Drug adv sei Opportunity knocked on Command er door on Aug 13 whqn Ad miral Anderson commander in chief of fleet transferred him from the mine layer Hart to the com mand of the Whipple He has been on duty in the Asiatic fleet for more than a year Commander Barnes has the repu tation of being an excellent officer He was born Nov 21 1884 at Stin sons Ga and his present home ad dress is BullochvilJe Ga Barnes en tered the Naval Academy in 1904 Since graduation he has had twelve years ten months and twenty days of sea duty and five years ten months and twenty six days of shore duty His first service as a commissioned officer was on the cruiser Des Moines Next he served on the battleship ederal Court Convenes Monday The semi annual session of the United States Court will begin in the federal building next Monday morn ing at nine with ederal Judge Henry Clay McDowell of Lynchburg presiding Court officials and attaches as well as witnesses and jurors from the district will begin ar riving in Danville on Sunday evening Meade lynn deputy clerk said this morning there are aboqt thirty cases carried over from previous terms and about twenty cases already on the docket are expected to be continued or disposed of quickly when called It is expected that the court session will have terminated by Wednesday afternoon Changes in laws have robbed the twiee a year session of the United States Court of much of its pictur esque entourage The bearded moon shiner and the fiction famous "reve? has given way to their more modern confreres the fast driving well dressed rum runner or the boot legger and the prohibition agent The old custom of accepting in quick suc cession the pleas of by those who claimed the privilege of convert ing their corn and apples into spirits without paying revenue tax has long since passed Judge McDowell for merly permitted moonshiners to set their farms in order before serving their terms allowing them to get in their crops and to present themselves at the nearest county jail to begin their prison terms during the dull farming season The adage days is goYie it would seem applies now and those who plead guilty or are convicted no longer are dealt with in the same paternal man ner by Uncle Sam CRIQUI'S JAW MENDED INJURED IN DUNDEE BATTLE PARIS Sept 15 Eugene Criqui has spent most of his time in a den tist chair since his return from Amer ica The silver plate replacing that part of jaw shot away by a German bullet at Verdun and smash ed through his cheek by Johnny Dun left swings has now been com pletely mended The champion of sixty days as he is termed here to recall Napoieonls hundred days is the same modest little chap as a mil lionaire as he was four years ago when fighting for a few hundred francs He is not the least affected by his' defeat BRAIN WORK POORLY PAID GERMAN YOUTHS SPRU IT (By The Associated Press) GENEVA Sept 15 Intellectual occupations in low exchange coun tries like Germany seem destined to extinction and the younger genera tion is turning to more remunerative manual work according to evidence before a League of Nations Commis sion now investigating thia question for some time on the Prinz rederick Wilhelm an dthe Zeppelin ex perman ships in the transport service? Meanwhile he had served a short time on this'sfde of'the puttin gthe destroyer Evans in com mission Barnes was a junior lieutenant when first ordered to duty on the destroyer Roe but became her skip per some time before he was detached and assigned to other duty He also served for a time on the destroyer airfax and is thoroughly familiar with all the virtues and shortcomings of craft of this type Commander Barnes served for about two years at the Naval Acad emy Immediately prior to his detail to the Asiatic fleet last year he was on duty on the receiving ship at San rancisco Teachers writers and journalists are so poorly paid no new recruits can be found The commission in which John Henry Wigmore Dean of North Western University is active may ask American colleges for aid CHICHESTEH PILLS THE WAMIlNIl BB45D A JLU eel XKyourih'MfWtora a iHimoud Brand ills In Hed nd Uold meulHcV UB boxes sealed with Muo Ribbon yy LeJ Tate no other Tiny of yonr If AskforririCrreBTEBS DIAMOND BJiIND ILLS for i years known as East Safxt Always Reliable SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE Danville Traction Power Co Note: Siginaw Mich after a two year trial of Motor Bus transportation has just voted the Street Gars back by a popular vote of three to one and allowed a ten cent cash fare and twelve school tickets for fifty cents Holland res Jas I Pritchett Viee Pres Chas Johnson Gen Mgr (Good only for CHILDREN going to and from school) (Not good before 7 a in or after 4:30 Not good on or Sunday) or Sale at the Office Special School for 50c JI ON TIRES 1 i IXI IW Hl II i vidViJlll vU 1 1 kiivDu All Straight Side abric Casings to Be Closed Out at Big Reductions for CASH Only TREAD TREAD SIZE USCO NOBBY 32x3 $1430 32x4 1460 1705 33x4 1535 1790 34x4 1570 32x4 2235 33x4 2310 34x4 2380 35x4 2495 36x4 2530 35x5 3025 ail to Take Advantage of This Tire Sale No Change in Cord Prices Schoolfield urniture Hardware Co Phone 648 Schoolfield Va I SY I I I 6 I 1.