Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 13

‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1921. OPPORTUNTY FUND STLL NEEDS 261 Seven Families Not Fully Provided For—Appeal Goes On. The Opportunity Fund today is within §2,648 of the amount needed, Yesterday the Star acknowl- total of $9,797, since which $611 has been received by the ted Charities. Several of the ning seven opportunities, 2 noted below, have larse sums to thel credit. No 3 needs less than $200 and No. 10 needs §161. Other sums needed range from a little over $300 ! to $700. The appeal will be kept open up to | New ¥ if ry. with the hope that by that every one of the original 11 families, with their 52 children and 19 adults, be taken care of for the coming year. Several gifts have been received in memory of loved ones in whose name whose init the gifts have knowledged. Already the re- have exceeded the sums re- for last ar's _fourteen Christmas opportunities. More peo- ple have contributed this vear than in any of the eleven previous vears during which the opportunity appe has been made. With the fund four- fifths completed. the Associated Charities hopes that the remaining sums needed for opportunities i, 4, 10, 11, 13 and 14 will soon be at hand. The Star will nece tim, will continue to_receive and acknowledge contributions or they 1t directly to the A: sociated € John_ Joy Edson, treasurer, H s Check John Jo should be made p Rl son, treasurer, | i | { | | | nities and are as fol- The remaining oppo the sum needed for eac lows: Opportunity No. 3 — Saving the children from their father's example; deserted wife and two children. Amount needed, $9 received _to date. § ill needed, $196.57. | Opportunity No. 4—Trying to be( both father and mother: deserted wife | and three children. Amount needed, £1.300: received to date, $395.12; still needed. $704.8 Opportunity No. 10—Hel who help themselves: widow children. Amount needed. ceived to date, $618.5: $161.50. R Opportunity . 11—Tuberculosis took her husband; widow (colored) children. Amount needed. $780; ed to date, $441.05; still needed, ill needed, $338.95. 4 Opportunity No. and influenza-did it; widow and three 2—Tuberculosis needed. still Amount to date, $181; children. received needed, $155. Opportunity No. 13—Too good to Young be true: invalid father (colored) voman nearly blind and five children. Amount asked for, $988; received to date, $513. needed, $474.35. Opportuni No. 14-—Thanks God for her blessings; widow and _three children. Amount asked for, $1,35: received to _date, $1035.35; still needed, $316.45. Contributions Acknowledged. Previously acknowledged by ciated Charities. $9,61 Asso- acknowledged | . $184. Total,| Associated Charities to- M. E. B, §3; 25Ve B 95 L. L §2. F. H., §15; Mrs. SR, T. Miss L. R. R. : Miss A P. B.. $1 ASHER FIRE PROOFING CO. 915 SOUTHERN BUILDING it Of course, you received Christmas Cards from some persons whom you overlooked. The grace- ful way out of the situ- ation is to remember them with New Year's Cards. We have just as attrac- tive Cards to greet the New Year as we offered for Christmas and you will commend our selec- tion. When you secure your Cards for any occ sion at this Shop you are sure of getting something distinctive. THE NATIONAL REMEMBRANCE SHOP (Mr. Fosters Shop.) Open Evenings 14th Street, one door from Pa. Ave. i PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 or 83 months. It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity Assets More Than $7,000,000 Surplus Nearing $800,000 Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. JAMES BERRY. President JOSHUA W. CARR, Secretary ,were similar in form to those which jtions have been received by The Star: ART WORK IN RUSSIA, LONG HIDDEN, IS SOLD AT RECORD LOW PRICES By the Associated Press. 5 MOSCOW, December 27.—The new cconomic policy permitting free trade within Russia has brought from their hiding places a large number of paintings, some attributed to famous artists. Among_these are works by Wil- l!am Hogarth. Jean Baptiste Greuze, Christian Dietrich, Rosa di Tivoli and others, the Italian and Dutch predominating. Che prices these works are bringing are ridiculously small, if they are genuine. A portrait of a woman attributed to Greuze was sold to a foreign buyer for s It was originally owned by Countess Sollohub, who was stripped of her wealth and estate in the Povroskaya distriet and imprisoned by the bolsheviki. She sold it for a small sum to buy food. Paintings by well known Rus- sian artists in some cases sell for the price of a pair of shoes. A Shiskin landscape, placed in a sec- ond-hand store by its owner, | brought $4. | PELLETIER'S TRIAL OPENED IN BOSTON Supreme Court Judges Turn Down Senator Reed’s First Exceptions. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 27.—The trial of District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier | of Suffolk county, on charges of mis- conduct of his office, upon which At- torney General J. Weston Allen has based a petition for his removal, was begun today. The proceedings, whict resulted in the removal of Nathan A. Tufts as district attorney of Middle- sex county last summer, were held before the full bench of the Massa- chusetts supreme court. United States Scnator James A Reed of Missouri, senior counsel for Pelletier, announced to the court that he wished to serve formal notice of his desire to file exceptions to two | decisions rendesed on December 16. ! One denied a motion of the distri attorney challenzing the court’s ju! s- diction and the o*her was a refusal of Pelletier's request that matters to be tried be limited to his acts during his present term of office. Chief Justice Rugg in reply sai “The full bench court sitting in and can re its rulings. District Attorney Pelletier presented Louis C. Boyle, former attorney gen- eral of Kansas, as associate counsel for the defense. The court then entered upon the taking of testimony. It had been an- nounced by the attorney general that the evidence presented on the first day of the trial would relate to charges that Peiletier had threatened criminal prosecution to force Dorothy Cote to relinquish claims against a man named Lawrence. a ciieni of Daniel H. Coakiey, a Boston attorne; 1 that Pelletier from improper mo- tives had nol prossed . complaints against Isaac Gordon, M. W. Shute, John Prendergast and Meyer D. Ber- man. _of the supreme . this case can allow ognize no exceptions (B‘ Mrs. R, W., A 4 M. K. Lol $3; E. H. 47 310 “Total re- | - Total today, $10,105. Summary. Amount asked for. $12,136: amount recelved. $10.40%; amount still needed, | The following additional contribu- E. D. P, any, $10; O. B.. No. 14, $3. $20.000 1S SOUGHT FOR SICK CHILDREN Campaign Planned to Aid 12,000 Annually Treated at Hospital. Persons imbued with a spirit of Christmas benevolence may put their generosity to good use by aiding the officers and executive committee of the Children's Hospital raise $20,000 With which to help in taking care of the 12,000 sick children treated an- nually at the institution, it was an- nounced today. Under a plan adopted by the ex- ecutive committee, a total of 100 sustaining mgmbers at $100 a year and 200 sustaining members at §$50 a year may join the board governing the hospital In meeting the deficit of $20,000 which arises each year. An appeal for subvort of the plan has been issued by Thomas Bell Sweeney, chairman of the ways and means “committee, 1637 Connecticut avenue northwest. Roll of Honor It is proposed under this plan that all who respond to the appeal for the first_year, with a promise to do the same” year after vear as long as vossible, will have their names in- scribed "on a roll of honor, to be hung upon the hospltal walls per- manently. A number of men and women al- ready have pledged their financial support in this way, it is stated, but o far there have not been suflicient contributions under the plan to raise the quota of $20,000. Realizing that there may be many who cannot give the amount asked for in the subscription plan first an- nounced, yet who would be willing to do to the extent of their ability, a supplementary plan has been worl ed out by the officers and_ executive committee of the hospital, it was as- serted today. Persons, through th second method, may contribute only $1 a day, a week, a month, or longer periods, ‘for the purchase of foods, ;medicine and nursing services, under conditions outlined on a pared by the authori Appeal Innu . The card bears an inscription offer- ing the hospital as a personal agency in “helping some sick or poor child back to health,” and asks: “Will you make this hospital, with its organi- zation and equipment, your own per- onal agent to care for a sick child in the hospital for one day, or as many days as you desire, to the extent of providing food, nursing and medicine at an expense to you of not over $1 per day? “The hospital, with the income from endowments, will pay all other ex- penses and your money is spent for the child only.” the card states, “When the little patient you have aided leaves the hospital you will re- ceive, corresponding to vour offer. a statement, ng the name of -the child you have heiped back to health and strength.” Many Respond. Several hundred of these cards have been signed and returned to the insti- tution. The cards were issued in the name of the officers and executive committee, headed by Admiral W. H. Brownson, president of the board, and Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, chairman of the ladies’ committee. - In.making the appeal for funds it was announced that the hospital “has in sight at the outside for the coming vear an income of only $47,000, against “estimated expenses, at the present rate of a thousand children a month, of $70,000. “Picture to yourseif the long line of thin, emaciated, crippled, suffering little ones waiting for your help and hasten to give it freely out of vour abundance or out of your self-denial at this Christmas time,* the appeal concluded, Ly Londoners consume 1.200 plum pudding on Christmas day. « card pre- s in charge. Cuba registered its thousands turning out for a parade American government. FLIGHT ATTEMPT FAILS AT PRISON IN NEW YORK Convicts Stop to Assist One With Broken Leg and Are Caught by Officials in Chbarge. By the Associated Press. AUBURN, N. Y., December convicts recently found guilty of riot- ing in the vard of Auburn prison fail- ed in an attempt to escape on Christ- mas night through their efforts to carry away one of their number v had broken a leg in flight. This b me known yesterday when prison officials announced one criminal had been slain and the others recaptured. Cutting the way out of the cells, convicts dropped into the outer . when one became crippled. The alarm was spread while he was b ing taken in a wheelbarrow across the yard and some of his compani were searching for a ladder which to ale the outer wail pple and two others were immediztely caught. The rest of the «roup were not recaptured until they cere discovered yesterday morning hid- ing in a packing box in a private offic A bullet fired to frighten killed one. Wwho was crouching in the bottom of the box. The men, all of whom came from Buffalo. had been serving long terms for manslaughter and highway rob- bery. Clement Pacyna was the von- vict slain, Investigation showed that the con- victs had sawed through the bars of their cells. Then, mounting on one another’s shoulders in the corridor, they sawed through the ba; ing the skylight. W »e made of blankets they climbed to the roof. Making their way to the roof of the old execution chamber, they dropped into the outer yard 1,000 HOMELESS IN FIRE. ARDMORE, Okla., December 2 Fire wiped out the business section of the town of Dillard. in the Hewitt oil field, causing damage to the amount of $100.000. None of the Istructures was covered by insurance. tons Of‘ More than 1,000 persons were made homeless. NINTH FROM-THE AVENUE AT All P-B Overcoats for Men REDUCED Covering without' a single exception ~ every overcoat in our tremendous stock. Including such fine examples as Patrick- Duluth great coats, Kenneth-Durward London ulsters, fur-lined overcoats, con- servative Chesterfields, short nap chin- chilla overcoats, English Guard Coats— All Reduced as Follows: $75 P-B Overcoatsnow............. $60 P-B Overcoatsnow............. $50 P-B Overcoats now. $45 P-B Overcoatsnow............ $40 P-B Overcoatsnow............. $35 P-B Overcoats now............. $30 P.B Over COatS NOW.....oovvuunn ..$63.75 .$51.00 .$42.50 .$38.75 ..$34.00 .$29.75 foi s S0SED The Avenue at Ninth Photograph w with in Havana, and dema: Mailed 19 Years Ago E Receives Post Card | | | At Knoxville Office Special Disputch to " he Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., December 27.—The Smith-Brixcoe Shoe | | | Company here hax just reecived | a postal eard which was post- ' { marked at Nnoxville, Ten: October §, 1902, An explanati accompanying the card indi found in a wa Knoxville office. d thnt it wan ting case in the i | | ! : ARREST OF NINE CLUE | TO $140,000 ROBBERIES Six Men Identified in Connection | With Bank and Pay Roll Hold- Ups in Illinois. EAST St. LOUIS, Iil, December 27, —Police of East Louis and neigh- I boring towns expressed the belief to- that they have rounded up a nd of robbers who have obtuined 0,000 in Tour recent bank and puy oll Tobberies in central and southern Illinois. Nine men were un ar- rest and six of them identified in he robberies. included that of the connection with The rovberie: Peabody Coal Miminz Company of Kinc in which 000 was stolen August 18: State Bank of F in which £19,000 was taken Decem ber 12; State Bank of Iuka. in which $15,000 was taken December 20 and the Dupo State Bank, which was robbed of $11,000 December 23, REACH COMMERCIAL PACT. ROME, December 26.—It is semi-off announced that a comme cni between ltaly and R: d today at the foreign offic WARNING! trenuous protest agninst the Fordney tarriff law recently in a mon: ing that “Roosevelt's promisxes” be fulfilied by the ws the parade, with placards, passing nlong the streets of Havama. 148,650 INTERVIEWED Per: clean | ing t been suran ons their A aries eran The mote ties b who know | cedure + Bureau. THE STEEL BOX Opened At Last! Ghe New York Times qut Sunday, Jdnuary 1st, 1922; Continuing Every Sunday Until Completed. Newsdealérs cannot return J the demand. To get the Bak Subscription rates by mail f $2.25; Touch With Host of Men Not former service -up which the veter bureay | should have the custody of the | campaigners have heen driving for | 43UENter. who has been living with | campaigners have heen driving for | pERENTR BOG HES OCE s during the past f of these cases are Lac! e veteran for the changes made by the eriginal s o 1 enlarged the this rel s in legislation had not been commun tion has reach th trated by the result number of men have bee $5,322,562 EXPENDED ON SCHOOLS IN D. C. PAST FISCAL YEAR Maintenance and operation of the schools and educational institutions of the District of Columbia, includ- ing teachers’ salaries, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1921, amounted to $5,322,562, which represented $11.87 per capita of population and comprised 30.5 per cent of the total expenses of all general depart- ments of the District government for that year, the census bureau announced today. Ttotal outlays for new buildings and other per- manent improvements amounted to $868,362, or $1.94 per capita, com- prising 19.8 per cent of the outlay for all general departments. Gen- cral departments, as the term is here used, the bureau said, do not include public service enterprises such as water works, electric light works, or street railways, which may be owned or operated by the city. A ‘total of $3,027,527 was paid for maintenance and operation of the schools for the year ended June 30, 1918, which was 7.28 per capita, and was 28.6 per cent of total expenses of gencra] depart- ments. T1TLE OF BARONESS FORS-YEAR-OLD GIRL Court Decides Child Born in Germany Loses U. S. _Citizenship. ed Press. Kan., S| B A, Petite Mary de Mumm, cight ye: December 2 old, through a recent decision w Jersey court, lost her American BY VETERANS’ BUREAU i 'ciuzenship and became a German |Clean-Up Squeds Have Got in!baroness. The court decreed that Baron Walter de Mumm, millionaire cham- pagne producer, husband of the late Mme. Frances de Mumm, formerly iMiss Frances Scoville of this town. Knowing Rights. sonal interviews men with 148,650 represents the months, accord- o an announcement a result of those personal | by the members of the clean- ting_from four- | zional offices. 75.907 handied. At present o ndin adjudica- ice. These ited every principal the Union in contact with who have mnot ion for government com. ational training or in- must be returned to her father b March 1. the court ordered. Romance Was International. The _international romance of ron Walter de Mumm and Frances coville atfracted widespread atien- tion in 1913, They met while M Scoville was traveling in Switzerland. and were married in London the sam ar. The daughter was born in Frank fort. Germany. i mpathy the baron's love for his fatherland 2used an estrangement shortly after the daughter's birth. Fightx for Share of Property. Mme. de Mumm and by a Congress her Amerd restored. Mme. de Mumm re- ned to France fo fight for her share of her husband's property, which the French had seized when the war {broke out. A separation had agreed to 1918, Mme. de { Mumm died in Paris May 6. 1919, cen through the pres: When diplomatic relations between and welfare organization ermany and the United States were se agencies had not been able to | resumed the father took up the fight nds of these mer for the custody of his child. r nd moun SHIP SINKS IN GALE. mining town fields woods districts Th(‘i more or T D iye ween Pene: | MOBILE, Ala, December 27—The that a surprisi American three-masted schooner Flor- ence Harvey, Sanchez master, 203 tons. from Mobile to Santiago, Cuba, with :argo of 286.000 feet of lumbger, san esterday o northwest gale. . vo nce. k of information on the part of regarding the provi- made by the federal zovern id has been respor failure {o file th act o hip ldiers’ r o These subse t chs to the: e tive benefici- | been and the on of ir and we: Nedze The crew were saved. * Secrets of the Paris Peace Conference Now Revealed ‘When Mr. Wilson decided not to write the story himself, he appointed Ray Stannard Baker to write it fro.n these secret documents, It Begins in .:fld!nwhideo!NWY aily and Sunday, one year, $12; six months, $8. of al sl Fort Morgan during al Wilson’s 7| copies of The New York Times, so their supply is limited strictly to it is necessary to order in advance. City: Sunday, one year, $4; six_months, The New York Times, New York. DOMINICANS FAIL TOHOLD ELECTIONS No Steps Taken to Negotiate for Troop Evacuation, Says McCormick. * Steps for the formation of a Do- minican government to negotiate for Ithe evacuation of the American mili- tary forces on the jsland have not been taken by the people, on the ad- vice of leaders, according to Senator Medill McCormick, chairman of the special Scnate committee which has just returned from a tour of inspec- tion on the islands. The people have failed to hold electio At the present time, it is impossible to advise a substantial modification of the terms of the proclamation, re- garded as necessary to assure civil order and peace within Dominican territory, the maintenance of its credit and the discharge of its obli- gations. New Loan Needed. “To provide funds for roads, the committee believes,” ~ Senator = Me- Cormick said, that if practicable a new loan should be issued with which also to fund the two outstanding lort-term loans, the conditions of hich, he said, were “crushing” and haust so large a part of the reve- nues of the republic as to cripple its ordinary administration, In addition to the drain imposed by these loans, the senator said, the rev- enucs of the government have “suf- fered grievously” since the collapse in values and trade depression following a great boom during the war period. Of present conditions in the republic, tie senator said: ‘With the execption of the activities iof some small scattered bands of high- w men in the extreme eastern part of “the Dominican territory, where ibanditry has been chronic for gen- [eration, there has been for several { vears such peace and order as is with- {out precedent in the modern history { of the country Towns Made Clean. “Under the direction of the military government, the towns have becen made clean, their streets have been paved, harbors and dor improved and the com- rt of any agreement between the a the Dominican Re- n according the same | favored tariff conditions to that coun- | tr: are now accorded to Cuba {would “contribute very greatly to the | prosperity and order of the Dominican {people as well as to the maintenance lof the fraditional good relations be- | tween them and the United States.” I ey IPHILIFPINE PARTY SPLIT. ! Quezon, Makes Charges Against House Speaker. { MANILA, P. 1. December 26.—A {split in the Nacionalista party, now {dominant in Philippine affairs, i forecast by political leaders as a re- sult of accusations against Sergio | Osmena by Manuel Quezon, in a let- iter sent Osmena and published re- {cently. Osmena is speaker of the {house of representatives of the island {legislature. Quezon is president of |1 nate. ) | Quezon said that zppointments icould not be confirmed except as Os- mena permitted. Quezon also rted department secretaries shaped ir courses under the “inspira- | tion” of Osmena. The Nacionalista party recently !adopted resolutions demanding com- plete independence for the Philip- pin Senate President,