Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1921, Page 2

THE EVENING, STAR, WASHINGTON, - ALEXANDRIA FOLS BIG JAIL DELIVERY Hacksaw, Files and Letter Found on Visitor Said to Reveal Purpose. Special Iispatch to The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 18 —An attempt at a wholesale jail delivery was frustrated here today by the local police authorities While searching Hurry Fuller. eight- een years old of Baltimore, who had| called at the local jail to visit Oscar Gantt, one of a trio held for an at- tempt to rglarize the store of Julius Wolf, 425 King street, the police dis- covered a letter said to contain de-| tails of a contemplaied jail delivery. The man was heul for the action of the grand jury. 2 Suspecting Fuller. the avthorities searched him and found in his pos- session a_diamond hacksaw and two files, and on further investigation found the or, which was careful- 1y secreted hout his person The letter. dated e xt “Dear Harry April f Letter. 1 t you to come u ‘down here. and b rou come buy Six _hacksaw blades (Black Diam hacksaw Dlades). Buy them at any hardware store: they will cost about 50 or 75 cen nd T am sending you $2, and that v your way down here. too. After you xet down here 1 want you to sel a pint bo Bet in front of some policeman drop it. He will lock vou up. your fine will be £ 11 will pay When vou come with vou. Put them ttom of | n them or vour shoes or put them v, bring in the b insid Your false leg. They don't do ar thing but feel all over the outside of your clothes. Whatever you do. don't put them in your pocket or they will find them. “If you don’t want to do that come down here and find out where the jail is. Look at the front door and look all over the wall good, and the win- dow that you can put them in is right in the back of the jail on the inside | | 1 | Noted Labor Leader And His Bride of Today of the wall. It has a little peach tree about twelve or fifteen feet tail right beside it. When vou get this Jetter answer right away. Suggests Assumed Name. “If you ¢an get instide of the wall - Jay the saws in the window Wrap /them up in a handkerchief or so kind of cloth. There is never any one around the 1 after 10 oclock t 8top vou. If vou can get inside of the wall it will be the best way, but if you have to break them another name so mot know vou by the been writing to, see. some time this week. So don't fail “ me. Put the date that you expect to be here on the front page up in the left-hand cormer, so I will know when to look for you.” When questioned as to the author of the letter. Fuller said that he did “mot know who wrote it. but supposed it must have been Gantt, as he was the only one of the three prisoners held for the Wolf robbery that he knew. a bottle give the jailor will name I have Expecting yo1 D. A. R. DELEGATES COME FOR CONVENTION ‘Will Open Monday and Continue for a Week. Hundreds of delegates to the Thir- tieth Continental Congress of the Na- tional Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution are begin- ning to arrive in the ci The con- gress will be formally opened at 10:30 oclock Monday morning, and will run throughout the week. The national board of management i8 meeting today considering the hundreds of applications for member- ship in the organization. About the busiest place in the hall is the room occupied by the credentials committee, ‘where the various delegates are pre- Senting their papers admitting them to Participate in the proceedinge. The Continental Memorial Hall, at 17th and D streets, where the ses- sions of the congress are to be held was alive today with delegates, pages and members of the organization. On Monday only those having the requisite badge will be admitted to the building. The size of the hall and the great demand for admissions make it imperative that proper re- #strictions be placed on admission to ,the building. The management board is complet- ing the details for the regulation of the building during the sessions, and also is reviewing the several his- :torical tableaus which some of the states will present as a new feature of the congress during the week. TORNADO KILLS 50, HUNDREDS INJURED, TOWNS WIPED OUT (Continued from First Page.) | 1 Chattanocoga, Birmingham and Cinein- natL A gale of bigh velocity, accompanied Dy a cold driving rain, siruek Chicago last night, with conditions but slight- 1y improved today. The weather bu- Teau reported the storm moving south- eastward. SEVEN REPORTED DEAD. {Dallas Confirms Partial Damage of Tornado in Texas. DALLAS, Tex., April 16. —At I meven lives were lost in northwe ‘Texas late yesterday. in a tornado, which, after sweeping sections of 8mith. Good, Gregg, Cass and Bowie | counties, passed into M ler ana Hempstead counties, Ark., where mor than a score of persons were reported killed. Scores of persons were report- ed injured in the affected area of Tex- | as. Six of the Texas fatalities were at Avinger, Cass county, and one at At-| Janta. ‘WASH-OUT WRECKS TRAIN. iBeveral Persons Injured Near Hat- tiesburg, Miss. i HATTIESBURG, M April 16 "fllvfm persons were injured. non eriously. when the Cincinnati-New “Orleans limited on the Southern raii- ,Toad atruck a wash-out and went into {2 diteh a few miles north of here this | morning. The accident was attribut- fed to a heavy rainfail. —_— FINED $15 FOR CRUELTY. FTheodore Hamilton Convicted of “Lashing” a Team. Theodore Hamilton . colored was {fined $15 by Judge Ha today in { Police Court on a charge of cruelty 1o animals L It was testified by Susan F. Ham, a member of the Society for Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals, that she #saw the defendant lashing a team of horses without justification. C. H. Baesgen, park policeman, made the arrest. MURDER CASE NEARS JURY. FLORENCE, Ala.. April 15.—The case of the government against four- teen men placed on trial in United States district court yesterday on charges of conspirgcy in_connection with the death of Don Stephenson, } prohibition officer, and_ an alleged conspiracy to slay all officers operat- : ing in Colbert and adjoining counties } will zo to the jury today. Four wit- uessen WA MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL GOMPERS Mrx Gompers wax Mrx. Gertrude Alna- iee Glenves Neuscheler of New York. * ITY NEWS N BRIEF, The Housckeepers’ Alliance will meet Tuesday morning at the Willard. Miss Miriam Bitdseye of the Depart- ment of Agriculture will speak on “How to Recognize Wearing Quality in Textile Morris Rotenberz and H. Ehren- reich of New York will address’ a mass meeting in behalf of the Jewish immigrants in Palestine, to be held | April 26, at 8 p.m,, at the Sixth Street Synagogue. The Georgetown Citizens’ Aswoecia- tion will meet Monday at 8 p.m. in| Potomac Savings Bank hall. The Specch-Reading Club will meet Monday at 8 pm. at the Volta Bu- reau, 1601 35th street. All hard of hearing are invited. The Anthropological Society will QUICK COLLECTION Head of Merchants’ Associa- tion Wants Additional Route Established. {1 “Mail Early” is Slogan | | | Designed for Placards | on City Letter Boxes “MA EARLY!™ “The early Getw the H The above fx the wording o sign which will be hung Mon- day on every letter box In the downtown husiness aections of the city. Postmaster C] ance wants to | imprexss upon all that “mall early—mail often” I a xood | propoxition alike for the busi- ness man and the postal xervice. hment letter the of box put yesterday on Pennsylvania Fstrest, was aske President King of the Merc Manufacturers’ Association A quick collection street from another ite, into “quick addi- collection™ in to one operation ¥ venue tod ay by ants and Tth to system on Pennsylvania K street is ed by the merchants, and it is probable that City Post- master Chance will accede to the re- t ) successful proved the first da k collection service on the “loop” of twenty-four letter boxes along the north side of Pennsylvania avenue and south side of F street that Post- master Chance believes the scheme highly feasible. Route May Be Shortemed. It is likely that the Pennsylvanla avenue and F street route will be shortened by the elimination of sev- eral boxes and a new route establish- avenue ed. as requested by the Merchants and Manufucturers’ Association. Not only does the post office wish to accommodate all the merchants, but the first established route has been found too long for the rapid service contemplated By eiiminating several boxes. and Putting a motor cycle collector on the ith street route, it is hoped to bring the “quick collection” routes down to forty minutes for each rip, thus swinging important busin mail into the city post office as quickly as were collected on the trips to the twenty-four boxes constituting the first “quick collection” route, as printed in The Star of yesterday. Three hundred letters were brought in on the collector's second trip, these letters arriving at the post office noon. Forty per cent of the were addressed for local delivery, and these went out with carriers who started delivery at 12:30, Thus these local deliveries were tre- mendously speeded up, and postal of- ficials expressed pleasure today at the way the collections seem to be work- ing out. as well as over the way in which the business men of the city have been quick to catch on to the scheme. Statement By Postmaster. Postmaster Chance pointed out to- day that he selected the Pennsylvania meet in the New National Museum Tuesday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock Dr. C. Hart Merriam will speak of “The Indians of the Yosemite Region, California.” J. G. Logan will lecture on “The ‘Washington City Water Supply” Mon- day at 8 pm, before the Men's Club of Asbury M. E. Church. AT THE COMMUNITY CENTERS ‘Wilson Normal Community Center: Girls Scouts, basket ball, at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. Tonight: Co- lumbia Athletic Club; library open. Thomson Communrity Center: Mis- sissippi State Society and Tennessee State Society meet tonight. Other ac- tivities: Metropolitan Players; piano practice; plain sewing. Margaret Wilson Community Cen- ter; Activities tonight, 8 o'clock: The community parents; Boy Scouts, Troop No. 22; Toymaking Club and Dramatic Club meet. Johnson-Powell Community Center: Junior Dramatic Club: dance by Powell Alumni Association. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TODAY. Society for Philosophical Inquiry meets 4:30 o'clock, at the Public Li brary. Dr. Thomas A. Johnstone will speak. Women's City Club: Mrs. Maud Howell Smith will give readings at 4:45 o'clock Mrs. Philip North Moore, president of the International Aliiance of Wom- en. will address the Poltiical Study Club, at Franklin Square Hotel. Tea from 4 to 6 o'clock. TONIGHT. Society of Washington Club, at & o'clock. & 4t 7:30 o'clock. Geological Cosmos hool of Foreign Service of Gegrgetown University, dancing ¥, Hotel Raleigh ballroom. Washington Council, American As- sociation for the Recognition of the Irish Republic: Mass meeting of citi- izens of the southeast, at Washing- ton Hall, 2rd et and vania avenue southeast Pennsyl- Oldest Inhabitants’ Associatoin (col- ored), 8 o'clock, Twelfth Street Branch of Y. M. C. A. Dr. Y. B Mirza of the Persian le- gation addres: at 8 o'clock the Wom s City Club. | The Eeleet Klub: A dance, at 2400 16Lh street. that it was near enough to allow: let- ters to be brought from practically all the business streets with little trouble. He is perfectly willing, however, he said, to establish another route on ith street, as asked for by the Mer- chants and Madufacturers' Associa- tion, and believes that such a route, in addition to the one already estab- lished, should meet the needs of all business men. SHIPPING BOARD, TOPIC. President Talks With Senator Calder and W. H. Todd. William H. Todd of New York and Seattle, prominent shipgrepair man, accompanied by Senator Calder of New York, conferred with President Harding yesterday afternoon, the principal topic of discussion being the reorganization of the United States Shipping Board and the selection of the new board. Mr. Todd suggested to the President the appointment of Charles B. Forbes of Seattle and Representative Scotp of Chicago as members of the board. “LITTLE INA” DIES. ASHEVILLE, N. C., April 16.—Ina Brewer, known over the United States as “Little Ina” died at her home in Statesville today after a lingering ill- ness. “Little Ina" was thirty years of age, thirty inches tall and never weighed over forty pounds. She attracted the attention of a cir- cus many years ago and traveled with it for some time. M. VIVIANI HOLDS FINAL TALK WITH PRESIDENT Ends Mission Here and Will Sail Next Week for France—Ap- | preciates Courtesies. | Rene Viviani, former French pre- micr, who came to this country on a ial mission designed to facilitate re-establishment of political and economic conditions in Europe and | America. has completed his_business {and will sail from New York for France next week. He had a final conference with President Harding at the White | House yesterday afternoon, and was {the guest of Secretary Hughes at din- ner last night. To the President he expressed ap- preciation for the courtesies accorded him during his visit and assured the President that he was returning to France with the same impressions of the friendship of America for his country that he had always held. The President in turn expressed pleasure with the message of friendship from France, of which M. Vivianl was the heasan,. & i [ OF MAILS POPULAR, at | total | avenue and F street route to try out | the quick collection system, believing | i { ) BULL P PRESE: RRIS BERMANN CF 503 Inspection Shows P BY JOHN L. MARTI Maj. M. C. Tyler, District engineer and author of the Great Falls water and power development report which is before Congress, and 1. B. Hardy, superintendent of the filtration plant, {took me on a hike yvesterday along the conduit to Greai Falis for a close- up view of some of the hazardous possible, either for immediate de.|conditions upon which Washington livery here or putting the letters|depends for its water supply. 2 aboard mail trains for instant dis-| What the trip revealed is'a situa- patch. tion more acute than = be n;(-u;r..} Rew . by any report—a city of nearly hal . Ataset Semnice . |a million souls relying entirely for Yesterday more than 5.000 letters|its water upon a sixty-year-old bri tunnel, that any layman can see may g0 out of commission at any time. This tunnel is nine miles long. is delivering 10,000,000 gallons of water a day more than its designers intend- ed it should carry when it was new and cannot be unwatered for repairs, since it is required to operate con- stantly to meet the city's needs. Break Would Bring Disaster. Army engineers say it is a splendid | piece of construction or it would have succumbed to the strain long ago. But a break may occur at any time, with scrious consequences to the capital, they warn. 2 Ir Congress at the present session appropriates for a new conduit, it will be a race between the best engineering iskiil of the Army and the ravages of time to safeguard the apital against complete interruption of its water service. To buid a new water line from Great Falls will require nearly three years. }In that time the exiating conduit must stagger along under its heavy load without the aid of repairs and Wash- ington must depend upon Providence to save it from a water famine, en- i gineers who have gone over the situa- tion without éxception agree. Impressed by the Army's warnings, the District Commissjoners, in their deficiency estimates just submitted to Congress, have asked for an appro- priation with which to begin work on a new conduit. Although Congress provided for the emergency by at- taching a conduit item to the Army bill at the last session and js ex- pected to retain the item in the Army measure to be passed at tnis ses- ision, the Commissioners Jde ftake ne chances. They Lava tae separate recommendation * they tiink the necessity of provid immediately for a new water su cannot be too strongly impressed upon Congress. . The Tyler plan, I learned vester- day, not only will give Washingtol an assured water supply, which the vital thing sought, but will in- crease the water pressure in certain areas, particularly the second hign area, and reduce the cost of operating the pumping station at 1st and Chan- ning streets by relieving the station of the duty of filling the Brightwood and Reno reservoirs. The Brightwood reservoir will be abandoned. Under this plan a portion of the water coming into Dalecarlia reser- voir through the proposed new con- duit will be filtered on the Dalecarlia reservation and then pumped into a reservoir to be built back of the bureau of standards, which will take the place of the Brightwood reservoir. At Brightwood there is an elevation of 276 fect, whereas the proposed new ervoir will have an elevation of feet, which will make for in- creased pressure in the second high area. At present all water used in the iver at Great Falls. The condult is delivering more water than it w: when it was bullt sixty years ago. A serious break in the line might involve complete interruption of the water ARRIVES TO KEEP LADDIE BOY COMPANY. TED D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL- 16, 1921—PART 1. TO 1ZTH STR| PR |ACUTE SITUATION DEVELOPED IN GREAT FALLS WATER SYSTEM, eople of Washington! Depending Upon Unsafe Sixty-Year- Old Brick Conduit. it con- duit into Dalecarlia reservoi con- veved to Georgetown reservoir and thence by tunnel under the city to the fiitration plant at McMillan Park. the Tyler plan is put through. present system of conveying er through the Georgetown reser- [voir to the filtration plant will be centinued, with the exception of the water that is filtered at Dalecarlia, which will be sent direct to the pre posed distribution reservoir back of the bureau of standards and to Reno ervoir. Exceas May Be Utilized. Because the new conduit. operating in conjunction with the existing one, will deliver more water than will be required for several years, it is pro- posed to utilize the excess supply in gencrating power for the operation of the pumping station and filtration plant to be built on the Dalecarlia reservation. This will produce a sav- ing, it is estimated, sufficient to p; interest on the investment. Inasmuch at 1st and Channing necessity of filling th and Reno reservoir: coal saving to that is_expected to result. Dalecarlia was our first way to the falls, treets of the Brightwood considerable institution also top on the 0 Maj. Tyler went over the site of the proposed fiitration plant. It is on the summit of the wooded hill east of the reservoir, and may be seen from Conduit road. At Cabin John he pointed out the plan that will be followed in getting the conduit across the creek. The present tunnel runs through Cabin John bridge, but this structure is not wide enough to carry an additional conduit. So it has been decided to get the new line across Cabin John creek by means of an inverted syphon which will be constructed alongside i the bridge. The problem of connecting the c duit with the river at Great Falls presents no engineering difliculties It will be necessary to tunnel under the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. The present dam at Great Falls is con- sidered sufficient for the purpose of a new conduit, o that the cost of jconstryction at the intake will be com- paratively small Inasmuch as the government now owns land paralleling the conduit all the way from Great Falls to Dale- carlia_ it has a ready right-of-way for a new line, which is a big factor in the plans of the Army engincers to get the work under way the minute Congress sanctions it. Maj. Tyler proposes to build a con- on- i | s!crete conduit, with a diameter of nine fect—which is the diameter of the present tunnel. As soon as the new iine can be put in operation. ihe old one will be repaired and used as an | auxitiar. Although he is charged with the re- sponsibility of delivering water to the District mains for distribution, Maj. duit and does not know the condition of its interior. He can only conjecture as to how it is standing up under the strain of conveying an average of 65,000,000 gallons of water daily, when it was intended, back in 1860, to deliver but 55,000,000 gallons. As the conduit cannot be closed down long enough for adequate inspection and repairs, the Dis- | trict_engineer office is holding itself in readiness to act on a moment's notice of a break in the line. It has built wooden flumes and made other anti patory arrangements for such a con- tingenc; CONDUIT INTAKE AT GREAT FALLS. designed to earry e as it will relfeve the pumping station | Tyler has never been through the con- | WADDILL'S FRIENDS [NURSE FUND DRIVE. PEN WOMEN PLAN * T0 SEE PRESIDENT! for Call at White House Next Week. Senator Swanson of Virginia called the White H |for a conference today to arrange with President | [NeXt Werk to present w large delega {tion of members of the bar of Nor-! {folk to indorse Judge Waddill of that city to the United| ! Ship made vacant by the |death of Judge Pritchard. { Representative Elemp of Virginta |today urged the President to appoint Thomas J. Muncey of southwest Vir- iginia United States attorney for {the southern district of that state, and ;n Lawrence Groner of Norfolk {United States attorney for the Nor- folk district. He sald both men have the indorsement of the republican or- for appointment ates judg: as as bn of the state and are well to il the positions in ques- tion. He also urged the appointment of Maj ville, Vo, ioner bere W. B internal f Wythe- revenue com- Hint Brown for Japan. It has been intimated 2t the White House that a selection of un ambas- sador 1o Jupan has been decided Jupon and that the apointment prob- ably will be sent to the Senate early I next week. It is_understood that Walter Brown of Cleveland, an inti- mate friend of the President and his | floor leader during the Chicago con- { vention, has been offered this po: {but his acceptance is considere doubtful. He also has been sugeested {for appointment as counselor of the State Department. President King of Liberia, together with several officials attached to his mission in this country, was received by President Harding in the White House late yesterday afternoon. The meeting was purely formal and of- fered an opportunity for an exchange of felicitations. President King's mis- sion in the United States is primaril to obtain a loan of $5.000,000 from { this government for his government. Daughters of Cinclunati. Twenty members of the Daughters the Cincinnati, headed by Miss i Ruth Lawrence of New York. their president, visited the White House this afternoon and shook hands with the President. {SCHOOLROOM CHANGES PREDICTED BY EXPERT l {of Columbia Faculty Member Offers Forecast of Shop Work . Methods in Future. Changes in the equipment and architectural design of public school to mect the new conceptions in the education of young children were pre- dicted by Miss Patty Smith Hill, di- rector of the department of lower primary education of the Teachers' Coliege of Columbia University, in a speech before more than 500 der- garten and primary school teachers to- day at the Wiison Normal School, Brief addresses also were made by Superintenden hools Frank W. Ballou and Mis: Lees Hardy, di- rector of primary instruction of the District public schoo The new plens in the education of the yourh Hill declared. will change the schools from recitation or discussion institutions to ones oper- ated on a shop-work system. “They will mean.” she said, “that the schools will have to be equipped with more workshops such as dining rooms, kitchens, theaters and studios, which’ will make a child active in- stead of passive.” The most fundamental alteration {in the modern education of children, {Miss Hill said. is the change from ! the passive mode to a more self-active manner. Under this scheme, she pointed out, the teacher holds the child’s attention and the child, there- i fore, works with her instead of against her. The art of teaching small chil- dren years ago was likened to a housewife following recipes in {a cook book, in that the teacher ad- hered strictly to programs framed by educational authorities. The teaching art today is that of playing a game with a self-active person.” she said. “Young children declared Miss Hill, “are individualistic. They don't learn from each other like older chil- dren. In former years a child that icopied was looked upon in disgrace. { But today we put a premium on that kind of work.” Miss Hill indicated that she was a revolutionary in the group of teach- ers of young children and had broken away from formalism. e said she {was the type of teacher who let a child sleep in class, because she Knew the child would benefit more from the nap than from her teaching. EXPANSION OF LIBRARY GETS CLERKS’ UNION 0. K. The program of expansion drafted by the board of trustees of the Public Library was indorsed by the admin- istrative committee of the Federal! Employes’ Union, No. 2, at a meeting | of the committee held at 1423 New ! York avenue last night. The committee, in resolutions adopt- ed, urged upon the Commissioners and Congress the following program: Immediate provision for a branch Jibrary in the southeast section of the city. Completion as rapidly as possible of the full program desired by the li- brary, affording branch libraries and other’ centers of library service at convenient points throughout the Dis- trict. Maintenance, as fast as the branches are erected, by adequate staffs of trained librarians at proper salaries. “The Public Library is overcrowded and inaccessible to larg® numbers of federal employes,” said the resolu- tion. “Only one branch library is maintained in Washington, in con- trast with an average of fourteen branch libraries in other cities hav- ing a population of 200,000 or more.” e o e PRESIDENT FILLS R. R. LABOR BOARD (Continued from First Page.) R various bureaus of the War Depart- ment also were transmitted. These appointments recently were published. RAIL LABOR PLAN UPHELD. The plan announced Thursday by the railroad labor board should result in material saving in railway operat- ing expenses, “with justice to both sides,” Chairman Clark of the Inter state Commerce Commission said yes. terday before the conference of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Repeal of the Adamson law, Mr. Clark said, “would not have sufficient eftect on operating costs appreciably to affect railroad rates.” He added that 90 per cent of the carriers’ reve- nue now went to operating expense, as against 65 to 75 per cent before the war Railroad rates are at their peak and cannot be higher, the speaker said. “Any effort to increase rates,” he added, “will result in less revenue rather than more.” The human equation, Mr. Clark said, is the greatest factor in rallroad management, as of two lines with similar advantages one frequently ‘would.prosper and the ather-declina, GETS COLORED AID | | | { NATIONAL LEAGUE Senator Swanson Arranges‘Mrs. Terrell Heads SpeciaI'Purposes of Enlarged Organi- - Organization to Boost I. V. N. S. Campaign. zation Are Set Forth at Con- vention Business Session. The League of American Penwomen, at the first bus session its first annual convent At the Willard Hotel, is perfeciing a na orgar on to lant th Fue with its branches The new 1 o will be i1 ed, uccording to present plans and Will bear the same seal and have the ame headquarters as the parent in- stitution. The plans provide for the admission {of sculptors in addition to writers and painters, mus.cal composers and dec- orators "into membership under the revisea program Objects of the League. The committe. - revi of the by-iaws 3 ed today objects of t uld b following four, ual 1d ser he g and mibers Members sociate and MRS, ROBERT H. TERR 2 | & provided Colored residents of the District, | eor i at which the voting appreciative of the efforts for com- | body shull consist of the national ex- munity betterment by the Instruc I‘U“L} 5 ..‘.'_—,..‘ regula ax :':I‘h:v.l tivel Wisiting{ ‘Nurse iSociety, (ihavell =20 R MIE SENSEEE SapaOrEORsl I8 formed a special organization among e themselves to further the eampaisn| myo yurional exceutive board is of the L V. N. S. to raise $30.000 to |planned with a national president as maintain and enlarge its heaith con-the chicf otlicer, assisied by two na- & e ional vice presidents, forty-eight servation work. The campaign is to} ol 0 C REGTICtS, Toris ety start April 24 and last one week. vice presidents-at-large, one vic Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, wife of [president for ihe District and one el 3 Mu- [for_cach territory. Judge Robert H. Terrell of the The offic organ will continue to nicipal Court, has been designated by e the Ten Woman under the scheme Mrs. Corcoran Thom, general chair-| of revision. A bureau, to be hnown man for the whold campaign. as| 1o professional opporiunity chairman of this co-operating com- | also i8 provided fo mittee, which al ¢ shows evidence | present, rding to reports of great enthusinsm in the fund-iread al today's session the league ing movement. {has 1119 members, of which 321 were The regard in which colored resi-admited during the cleven months dents here hold the Instructive Visit-| Officers will be clected for the ing Nurse Society is a natural one,| revised on late this after- when it is considered that of tk noon. am A. Du P'uy is can- 437.000 people in the District over! did national preside and one-fourth are colored, and the pro- dore Tiller is in the fieid portion served by the society is much | higher than that Want Two More Colored Nurxes. The participation of the latter in the campaign was their own idea. The staff of graduate nurses of the so- ciety already include two olored nurses. whose efforts on behalf of their race have gained the respectful admiration of all who know them, and the olored eitizens benefiting by their attentions have expressed tne determination of raising enough money to add at least two more col- ored nurses for a year.| } Inasmuch as nearly half the patients of the L colored nurses ¢ n by no means handle them all, the white nurses serving among both white and col- ored alike. The campaign slogan of the latter will be *“Two more colored nurses for Washington,” according to two women education vears. " “Our real goal vs Mrs. Terrell, “will be to raise one-third of the whole sum needed by the society to continue and expand its work and we are confident the colored people of Washington will give that amount. Our ministers have promised to take up special collections in the churches and we have been promised that a number of organizations will collect funds. and who rved eleven Group Leaders Named. At the first meeting of the organ- ization at the home of Mrs. Terrell, 1615 S street northwest, Mrs. Havden Johnson and Mrs. Ortho Peters were appointed vice chairmen and Mrs. Emmett Scott section chairman. The following group leaders, each to have supervision of some separate activity and each to be aided by five assist- ants, were named: Mrs. Eva Board, Mrs. Arthur L. Curtis, Mrs. Cabaniss. Mrs. James C. Dowling, Mrs. Milton Francis, Mrs. Price B. Hurst, Mrs. Arthur B. McKinney. Mrs. M. Robinson. Mrs. Georze A. Robin son, Mrs. Virginia Robinson. Walter Singleton. Mrs. Dai Mrs. F. D. Whitby, Savoy, Mrs. Charles I. West and Mrs. Betty G. Francis. —_— PRESIDENT PRAISES K. C. Indorses Plan for Nation-Wide Paper for Organization. NEW YORK, April 16.—President Harding, in a letter received at Knights of Columbus headquarters here, voiced approval of the organi- zation's plan to issue a monthly pyb- lication with nation-wide circulation, beginning next August. “It is a pleasure, ) wrote, “to give an expression of mj; sentiments regarding the Knights of olumbus. The extended and high- ly efficient work of the organization | tive office, which would ma irf behalf of our most vital national interests during the war, and since, has surely earned it such a testi- mony.” S. are colored. the two | Louisa | Mrs. Terrell, who was onc of the first | TeNe e O ppointed to the board of 2ot G5TC, { i 1 i | the President | indic 1 i {ihe {forcement of prohibition has been m chief of the local branch. REVENUE HEAD MAY SOON BE SELECTED _(Continued from Page) With the two bra es of the govern- ment of the same political party, the task will be easier. Yet the big job of the commissioner of internal revenue is not prohibition nforcement, but administration of the income tax laws. The next Con- gress will go before the people for re- election a year from next autumn and will have answer on questions of taxation. What the business men of country are interested in is an wll nt administrator in the internal revenue office, and most of them.do » slightest whether the wet” or “dry.” Authority Restricted. matter of fact. the As a ual en- the hands of prohibition commis- sioner, whao a bordinate of the commissioner of internal revenue, and there are so many regulations which restrict the activities of the bureau that the opportunity for discretionary action is not as great as it has been. In any event, the chance for wrong- ful use of the commissioner's office s very much exaggerated. The job is 8o big, and there are so many peo- ple working in the bureau, that no conspiracy to evade the prohibition laws couid be carried on without a knowledge of it by the general pub- lic, and then the influence of public sent ent is alway powerful enough to bring the matter to the aitention of the President himself, if necessary. The National an appointment of c internal revenue in a Secretary of the Tre his way the administrator. a Capital is expecting mmissioner of few days. It ury Mellon has ountry will get an able 1f the politicians are supren® the job will become part of the spoils of the campaign. and the personnel of the internal revenue offices throughout the nation will be political, just as was very largely the case under the democratic ad- ministration. (Copyright, 1 OUSTER MAY STAND. No Indications Two D. C. tectives Will Get Old Posts. Although former Detectives Frank Baur and Thomas Sweency, who were demoted two d ago 1o privates, were granted a hearing yesterday afternoon by Commissioner Ovster, there was no tion at the District building today that the act'on taken would be changed. It became known today that the are still three vacancies in the detec- ke the re- Banr and Sweeney ir superiors snoula decide 1o promote them rank. ) De- instatement of possible if t some time to their former Accurate Business Forecasts Even as the Weather Bureau forewarns the farmer and the mariner of portending meteoro- logical conditions, so will The Star’s new ed Business News Bureau prove of gui value to local merchants and manufacturers. 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