Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1922, Page 17

R FLY ARMY TOFA - VIGOROUSATTACK ' ““QOne Female" of Species April Means Millions in. July,” New Slogan... - LITTLE GIRLS SLEEP - - - WHILE-PARENTS AND s; POLICE SEARCH CITY | i Virginda Cropwell a: Baker, six-year-old pupils attend- ing Hilton School, 6th and C L northeyst, . yeaterday afternoon caysed their parents a lot of worry when they failed to return fter school closed: - Th s mwelis reside at 307 A .street southeast, 4 while’the home cf the Baker family s at 10 4th street southeast. - Members: of the>two familtes and .the police searched for the children “‘untit nearly 7 o'clock ‘last niglit, when the father of one of the chil- dren suggested that they might be A | Impressed. caused. It developed~that while at play during the noon recess the chii- - dreii’ had, Spuiht a hiling place in the basement.of. the sohool when pursued’ By, older. children. " The door was -iocked soon after the little ones reached the basement. it is stated, and .they soon fell Proclamation - to -Distriet - People i Will Carry Declarafion of | 3 ° War on Pests. - J “One female fiy ‘in April means millions in July.” e With thils “TSF"4 “sl6gan, " the Dis: trict health department will wage & asleep. vigorous campaign’ of publieity ‘this spring to prevent the occupation af i gt Washington by the ~winged” pest, SUFFRAGE FflR D' B' Commissioner- Oyster, im ‘charge of | | & health matters,.anpouneed today.. . . UH N If this city was about to be at- | tacked by an ‘afmy of ‘huinar .foes, | . every citizen iould rise-up to de- fend his home, Health Officer William C. Fowler points out. ’ ‘Germ-carrying flies bring filth and disease which may-prove as fatsl’to some as the guns of an enemy, and should be so- regarded;” Dr. Fowler vontinued. Wi Attack Breeding Places. i The wiping.out of breeding places of these germ-carryving pests will be an essewtial - part . ofs the spring clean-up campaign launched by the ssiomer a-few *days ago. = ‘Officer Fowler called the at- of householders to tire fact Ny killed now means hun- to be fought next summer. it.until June to chase the pesky fly from your home,” said the health officer, “you will find himy with countless family, growing larger source of waste matter is into the The Rew line tp carry se fourth’ d o time n May.. abutting: Maryland, commu but .yp_to the prezent tim nectlons have been made a I i lnew Woodmont so:’l'er will trict Tine, Washington. .suburban sani mission, told The i to. Rock creek merely as a measure. * b Whenever the District mai League of Women- Voters to - Hold “Educational” Ses- sion Tonight. Feeling -that most ~of. its members are not sufficiently informed on the various phases of suffrage for the District, at least to the extent of taking = positive stand for or agalnst, the executive board’ of the District of Columbia ‘Leagie of Women Voters will hold an “educational meeting” tonight in the boardreom -of the Dis- triet building at 8 o'clock, ‘whep per- sons actively interested: in thp ques- tion will be asked to present their points of view. _ Speakors at the meeting wiil be: Chapin Brown, counsel- for the rent commission, who will represent those advocating the Jdnes resolution for an amendment-to tlie. Constitution, and Willlam McK. Clayton, chairman. publicity commitieé of the Federation of Citliens’ Assoclations, who will represent those adyoeating not only resolution, &nd approving tho Polndexter bill providing for & de!e-l |gate in Congress us temporary i measure, but aiso demanding, at the earliest possible date, full municipal suffrage for the District. Frank 8. { Perry 1s 0" spedk on atehood for the District of Columbia.”.. The speak- | & special appropriation er who will répresent the opponents|hundred thousand dollars of District suffrage will be C. C. Lan- | the main Rock Creek inte: the District line to connec the Maryland sewers. The sanitary engineer Maryland proposes to ke sary additions on i Park. B Mr. Bogley said the Maryl, tary commission authority bonds to make the .nes tention that one dreds le: “1€ yor these extensions ~until to make the connections. The new Woodmont sewe be the first to _enfer Ro 3 & ‘Get vour swatter now and bring it down on the first fly you see in your home, and you will save a thousand swats later on Advantages of Early Start. Dr. Fowler declared he could not emphasize too strongly _the adyan- tages of getting an eéarly start in fly killing. 1f.the average houseKecper realized how rapidly these insects multiply and the flth in -which_ they are hatched, thigre would be no' diffi- culty in induei every -resident of the city to join the army of fly swat- ters. - n zddition to making war:on t the health-department i force stricfly again th summer the law again: acaht lots in the now flow into the creek. ‘The Maryland and Districi ties are in hearty accord in that these sources of poluti Bogley said, J. B. Gordon, sanitary eni that there are a number proposed eventually to conn il\l‘o sewer systems. One is near the Dale voir at the west end of th another As above Pinehurst, the north of Rock Creek ¥ iy, | this the vicinity of Benning. Mr. Gordon said it wou! departmeént bulletin, ut now their presence in a house ‘is considered a disgrace and evidence of uncleanti- ness. Some day the presence of llles -will also be considered a disgrace and evidence of poor citizenship.” Mina Van Col Winfleld jones, Ge WILL DANCE AT HOWM!D' 1 orge B Higkr, Judson King; Michia Itow, “celebrated Japanese| Paul E. Lesh and otjers. artist, .will present his program' of oriental dances and songs at Howard Univeraity Monday night at 8 o'clock Tie will be assisted by Anita Enters, Yuji Itow and Yasushi Wurin. manian, Polish, Jugoslav and Czecho- The program will include the fol-|slovak governments have reached an lowing features: “Mai No Hufime,” | agreement on_ the attitude they will ighteenth century _warrior's|take at the Genoz economic confer- ance; “Genroku Hanami Odori,” the|ence. They .demand the exclusion cherry dance: a group of Japanese|from tlie agenda of the subjects re love songs, and “Kitsune No Odori” |fected by -the. allies at the Cannes a fox dance, by Itow. These nufbers | conference and propose a mesting at should be of special interest to all | Belgrade ef experts to decide upon Students of the arts of music and|common points of ‘economic fnterest daneing and those interested in the |upon which they will be united for'the life of the orient. Genoa conference. ity for questions discussion from ‘the ‘floor will be given, In which the following will plr“dpll%flldn Mary O'Toole, sideration a proposed agree! the DECIDE ON GENOA POLICY. BELGRADE, March 15.—The Ru- up plan is carried out. Mr. Gordon, Distriet sani neer, said today that would be extended to the Di this year, one mnear the avenye. ‘At Play or Study ~ her children to have . comfort with their feet One of the bright, vigor- oué styles that assist ia the comfort of the growing feet. Made in real calfskin, with welt soles to withstand the hard cracks. -3 tion, and makes them . _shapely and graceful and = assares them fipq’essity for Joining unfé of ‘D. C. With Maryland Again Necessity for conneeting up -the : in the bullaing. A search of the | PsT N JOT CORNSCHNR B rbe ‘sgricultural situation. B g y HEALTH CAMPAIGN OPENS | puleine simicssd, (i, Y oo tne. | Marviand. to suve creek from [ Mr. Trueodell found during his visit 3 . 7 -7} nocent of-the uneasiness they had [pollution wad emphusited - today, o BETicultural seotions of the Crimea, when it became known that another greek from Woodmont, Md. \oodmont ,to the creek is three- U"!D|EIC_VJ' and will: be fin- A plan to connéct the sewer mains of Washinigtdh with those of {he, H been- under way for several years, Only Temporary Méasure. ory, Bogley, & member of ‘the today that the tended to the District line, he’ said, side of the line to hook the two systems up and thus remove from Rock creek the poliu- tion which now flows into that attrac- tive stream down into Rock Creek lature has given the suburban sani- SRary extensions to the District Mne. He ex- plained that Maryland. cannot make the District mains are brought to the District line There are others in_the vicinity of Kensington and Garfeit Park which Oficlals in Accord. be diverted from Rock creek, the District government, stated teday | pled, but are slowly returning to & along the District line at which it is carlia reser- and a’fourth is at the east end in of several ! - that he has before him'now for con- Maryland commission on the question of what Maryland would pay to meet the- cost of pumping its sewage through the District and out into the Potomac when the linking- Two Sewers to Be Extended. two sewers reservoir and the“other near hurst, at Beech street and Western No further work will be possible, however, on the main Rock Creek i terceptor before 1924, Mr. Gordon lieves. This large sewer which wi relleve the creek of the sewag carries, was begun some’ years ago, sént to Congress imthe next estimates.| program. Sg\l@_flgrzo “This Is a Rebuilding Sale” Csilictridmed. Allthenew One American, with his-{mproved | agricultural instruments and devices, | k. can do the work of from five to eight |’ Russtan farmers and farm laborers— which is-the key to ihe soviet Rus- an - pussle,” dccording [to” M. W.] Truesdell, former Department of Ag- :[ricultyre expert in plant- diseases, whio Tias‘just returned to this city the lack of agricultural implements has placed the productivity of the people, compared to that of Ameri- cans, at & degree of approxtmately. 20 per cent or less. v Instead of having a horse-drawn plow go over fields—which are poten- tlally rich and fertile in many pec- tlons—men are obliged to spade!tho: fields by hand. They are not jazy. They are industrious, but backward. Their lands are in many cases to be ompared to the rich farmlands of the prairie districts of the United Stater. Their crops are large enough, but they compensate the Russians, on ac- gount of the lack of implements, by only 20 per cent of what the lands of the United States - compensate the farmers, for their energy. Russia i8 In the grip of a famine. But the pgla do not blame the gov~ to be run age- from itles has e ‘no con- t the Dis- tary com- | H. W.. TRUESDELL. be routed om0 of trained men was halved on a arnment r any outside sources. temporary L£ Tha caut agcribed to a. drought, odical Occurrence- 1R that nation ‘on an N which s x average of ap ‘Pximately every five years. The drought of the past year, however, furnished the last straw to the back of the straining Russian camel, and people in the famipg areas arc subsisting on black bread, 8 handful of cooked grain, weak soup and sugarless tea. Other Causes Givel Mr. Truesdell. in addition to the foregoing, listed other points of the Rusgian situation as follows: The financial status of the republic is in a’ straitened condition. The gold supply is virtually exhausted. Com- merce and trade with the outside world is practically nil. The effects of the blockade of Rus- sia_are being felt severely and the lack of outside help when it- was most_needed has made for conditions which are extremely difficult. The coal mines are not producing a sufficient output for the maintenance of steady industry, and plants are continually called upon to stop opera- tion for lack of fuel. The transportation systems are crip- geolsle to co-operate. ns aré ex- of the “capitalist” system on Russiz, vil the neces- line. Amierica In Model. The Russians, on the whole, Truesdell says, feel what in th same boat as reurs gone by. fighting having a hard pull treedom, of which ) nation is the cri Mr. Truesdell M and Jegis- to issud er for liberty ar v their eves thi rion and exampl The denunciators, as_ vehement as the soviets. eaid, were wished of the government which meet with their approval. action was taken against them. r will_mot k. creek, t authori- Mr. the belief ion should Mr. gineer for lished permanently, said. its downfall. Its greatest problem in crops that will prevent a revis tation of the famine. of points | more normal basis. On top of these place the problem ect up the | of reconstruction after war's devas- jtation upon a vast population of backward -people when it comes to things industgiul and commerclal, with only"1 ped éént of {hem trained } in special lines, and the observer can {noto what Ruseia is facing. } _But until recentl 1d require | ~ feeding up those farmers in the fan ine areas before planting time to for the crops. he said, sonable to expect - bett sced grain cun _ be a seemed 1 e Distrio third : urk itse next. 3 than this 1 per cent!gona before. PAY BILL REPORTED. | LEGION TO GIVE DANCE. Senate Committee Favors New Schedule Measure. The Senate military committee has ordered a favorable report on the bill establishing new pay edules for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, coast guard and geodetic survey, and the public health service. The measure is the product of four months/of re- search and study by a special con- gressional joint commission and is !expected to result vltimately in an {annual saving of $28,000,000 in the | pay bill of the six services it affects. e e e to extend reeptor - to t up with explained Women to Conduct Affair. ment with ‘Women’s Legion this evening at §: \l atronesses_are: Mrs. J. Mayhe Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, tary engi- Arthur Capper, Mrs. Miles Poindexte istrict line Dalecarlia Pine- Mrs, Harry New, Mrs, McCoy and Mrs. W. L. Finle officers of the unit are Miss Minnie Thompson, president; Mrs. A | Vanderltp, secretary, and Mrs. treasurer. will be furnished by but work on it was stopped when the war occurred. ‘There is no apyropriation in the new |1 District bill for carrying this line the additional two ‘ll&! to the Maryland it now ! border, but it is hoped an item wiil be features of be wmong the ge_. er = ——] Sth DEF With Emphasis on the Word “Sale” We've just one big idea in this SALE—to SELL. We have to do it—the builders demand more room. Because we want to SELL we reduce the prices—'way down—that’s the surest way we know of to SELL. There are big bar- gains in every department—notice these: | Spring Suits 1 And Other Nationally K_nou’m Makes All the materials—Tweeds, Homespuns, Worsteds, - Pin Stripes, Herringbones and everything else that’s popu- . lar, " Single-breasted models and double breasters—every one of them up-to-the-minute styles—come in and see them. R . The Values Are $35 and .In the new, light shades— g .50 - Tweeds, Homespuns, Gabar- dines, etc; in ‘raglan and :Tar styles, Edced_ = e oM . esensiverssesacses ~onditions for the eountry during the those “whieh’ have Chateau Thierry Unit of American A dance will be given by the Chateau Thierry Unit of the American 0 at cks, 8th and I streets Wainwright, Mrs. John A. Lejeune, Mrs. count of the refusal of the bour- The return small = hemselves some- Amerip pa Théy think they oft despotism and are rd 18 e id ‘that he found freedom of speech unchecked when it came® to condemning any act :l e they in condemning certain gcts did not Yet mno The soviet government is estab- ‘Truesdell There seems little chance of to allviate conditions in the famine areas so that the peasants will put The only solu- tion, it seemed to him, he said, was n- a point where they would not eat the 1f this | Rinehart, chair it | Spaulding, George W er T, _the Marine Band, and Irish meélodica v&;ll e cen! sell! the commission at its meeting yes terday di iy it y did not finally reject the pl Announcements. {& clations fof 08 AL tokens at three The commiseion felt, he said, that it could not judge.fairly the results &:3ose of the present arrangement after i ’ (Nevin) Bad beet” i eiect Sly ‘o' woeka. | | Allie Traver, soprano, pupil ot the o aNEiiEr Sl iu ot Mr. Lewls at the piano. federation, . said todsy that if - the Recreational singing. commisst AELRRL Everybody. twenty petition e the Sgrearee-fo! Recreational singing * nder it woul Washi Company he may file ton. for such an order on the lines tlon to stand whatever loss in reve- nue would result from selling tokens in.groups 6f three instead of six; An offieial of the commission sald tod cheaply as the, o wit pre: mil president of Aerie No. Downing, and. the first. genize: nigl entertainment of ‘Washington Aerie, No. west. More than 400 m present at -the m e arn can der. The committee i, niv | Don S8mith, Rinchart, Eis y the local police. m:!o-t of the drugs were found in Federal ag: rest of thy bra ring was uncove Mrs. Certer Glass, Mrs. Irvin Lennox, |: Walter J.| and WANTSMORE TME ONFAREQU |Public” Utities Commission [Postpones Consideration The Public Utllitles Commjssion | | Barnet Breeskin, pil of Bas decided to postpone copsiders-| . - Danfel B % tlon of ordering three to ‘.4;"" Recrestional alwng.. OPportunity to study the effects of Walter C. Allen, secretary to: the commission, made 4t clear téday that ;' of uz;;e. r. Clayton expressed the belief to- day that the Capital Traction Com- basis has had the effect, however, of | PANY at Teast ix in a financial pos drawing most of this class back into e 'OVER MILLION EAGLES. | Remarkable Growth of Fnt;ml Order ‘Reported at Anniversary. = —_— $50,000 NARCOTICS ! , . . BALTIMORE, g Narcotic drugs estimi 350,000 were se of alleged narcotic sellers mmunity Center, ell School. Admission free. merica,” “Salute to the Flag” + . "Oath of Allegiance.” i Everybody. * ) Whistling soli: ‘(&) “Crimsen I’lluhc(!t“ 3 2 P Lo .(Iauh) ; 5 uscall; Al’.':. Lip- pert, accompan! -Muuomn! -lngl,fi?. Violtn wolts - o = () “Hungarian Dance, No. §” (Brahms) (b) “Mazurkp” .(Wieniswski) TN (b), “Silent Mrs, Kate Bi of Token Problem. soll: (8) “Russian Dance” (b). “Gypsie Song” ¢ (Bertha - Robbine) (c) “The .Bnow Queen” - (Bohytte) Bertha Rfiblfiwl’llq pupil of Pearl ts “untll it has-bad & longer ing six for 40 cents: Pl the Federation of Citizens Assoo| | Voeal molt: . for 20 (a) “My’ Native Land” [ (Gretehanifr) (b) Mighty Lak’ ” committee on ‘utilities for thc etition on the ground that & Teduce the roveround tHat | | girection of Robert Lawrence, assisted at the gton Railway and Electric piano by Helen a new applica- | | Burksrt. CHARITY OF RECLUSE DISGLOSED BY FRIENDS Miss 'lomn C. Ryam, Now at St. Elizabeth’s, Aided Poor for Long Time. . Neighbors of Miss Teresa | Beventy-one years old, who afternoon was taken from her h 1 ist street, to St Elizabeth’'s Hos- pital for treatment for an alleged i paired mentality, last night expressed their sorrow for her, at the same time fully realizing it was best for her to be taken from her home, which was in 8o miserable a condition: the Capital Traction Company ay that stores may sell tokens as they ‘wish, or may give m away, ome at 'cl::wt‘h otltthox Fraternal Qrder. since its inception in 1901,| Up until some time ago Miss Ryan :i ‘L l‘;ndflil of members, to its|had-done a great amount of chlrl%l’ble “eonn ay membership of over a|work She had gone among' poor per- , Was discussed by -the first[sons living in 'ys and other byways F.fand ministered to their wants finan- clally. It is thought ‘by neighbors that much the money from rents she col- Jected was given to the poor. Miss Ryan seemed to know the value of money, neighbors said, and the col- ored women and childiren who made grand - or- of the aerie, Mye ht, at an lnn|Vel1‘:ly7rb£'ll1.thl.:i = 125, at 5th and 1 streets north- eeting und ffty-two didates were initiated intg the or- ‘were paid 25 cents for each errand. Miss Ryan, it is stated, was careful | in the selection of persons she entrusted | with money to make purchuses for her and at times wouid remain in the area- way in front of her home several hours before summoning & passer-by to go to a store. It was her custom ty purchase two or three quarts -of milk cach du. some for herself and some for her cats, the only other occupants of the paper- littered house. 2 n charge of the an- composed of James M. ‘man; L. B. H. L 3. > Sellers, Jam . George B. Hasker W, 5 S:, Dyson, William " . arvey G. en, her and John Kappeor " DOm0 rsary wa uald Britt purchases for her at neighboring. stores |- Persons who did her buying say she always bought more substantial articles e‘ll'-rcbh, 17~ | of 2 ¢ worth ized and t&g arrests gents of the narcotte parieeie internal revenue department Md. the principal articles purchased. Attor- ney Ralph B. Fleharty is counsel for Mrs. Alice Clarke, niece of Miss Ryan, who came here from New York to look after her aunt and was_surprised to find her home in such a condition. Mr. Fleharty will arrange to have the house given » thorough search and cieaning. eighbors have an idea that Miss Ryan has thousands of dollars secreted in the house, but counsel thinks to the < contrary. u of and ETocery stora of Charl te declare with the ar- two men o nches of an In(.dr-nl.lloun:l n:'l‘c!:!l‘:: e “NOT A MONOPOL '|President Newlean Testifies “It seems 1o mhe that the maxim possible cost to the nation of s keeping this industry, through & co tinuatich of the selective embargo, negligible compared with the risk incalculable 10ss to the nation necel sarily Involved in any less certal measure of protection,” declared J. Newlean, president of Aniline and Ci COMPANY | & £ i Before Dye Hearing at ; Senate. S 3 the Nation: , test subeon mittee of the Senate judiciary com mittee in cf Mr. New! les rge of the dye hearing.? n said that under the s§- ctive embargo established by the emergency tariff act there has bech free competition in the Amecrican d industry, unrestricted in with th ican dy and are today lower Mr. Newlean said that the averagh any wa§, e resul® that prices of Amer vestuffs have steadily declined, than ever beforg. price of the dyestuffs manufactur by the National Aniline and Che.—nh’ Company had decreased from $1.30 pound in ]1’9‘:_'0 to 71 cents a pound ip anu The Com; ar; 23, | National Aniline and Chemicd pany is aot a monopoly, has n% connection with any monopoly in ths American dye Industr; ment of or corporation for regul has no agres iy kind with any 51 n of proy duction or prices or division of tr ritors the witne ical , | proaching a ‘monopel itAmerican dyestufis production Mr. tional was c In rep E Shortridge as to what had been pa on the stock in the last threc or foub years, compapy had earned. an average of |less than 10 per cen was paid on the preferred stock., Tl preferred mately to $23,000,000, while o cas }dividends were paid on the commos stock, he said. will fifteenth century pl conductor of the school urchesira, preparing French music. The. cast food. butter. eggs and bread being | cludes the following: M. haas, M. D. Burnside, W. 3 J. E. Bassett, A. T. Myers, J. man, L April, mann, J. A. Patterson, C. W, . Dals McLeod, J. H. Bickford, Heien Walten, Ruth Russell, Margaret Bennit, Elizas beth Qlive Barhee, Florence Richardson Mildred Volandt. J. " Arrangements have hern comp! ¢ the st raining iof Mr. Newlean declared; in facl i said, there is nothing | the American dye and organic chems industry ven remote ae saj said Mfis compang per cent of ik witness ‘65 than wiean testified thut the apitalized at & to a question fron tof 4 Mr. Newlean =aid that thp bat 7 per cen stock amountz approxi —— READY TO GIVE PLAY. 9 3 3 give r ot Waitel a suitable program % the produsti 0. M. Iten, L. F. Barber, J. for Jacobs, C. F. Howison, B. Os¢ Buti Owen, W, 8. Lebowitz, J. Garper, T. W Hutchison, Beatrice Kinneaik Spring (B tyle Show "Saturday at All Our Stores—Including the New “City Club Shop”"—a Featare Presentation of Women'’s Dainty Néw Dress Pumps at $7.50 the Pair Gray Suede " Patent Leather : 7Straé and Trim ~and for: another feature Snappy New Sports Oxfords Sole with Low Heel. Tan, Brown or Toney Red Calf, ] Welt Sole Oxfords with straight or wing tips. Sizes 2}/ h to 8—AA to C widths—$5,95 a pair. 5 X tone. effects; Tan 35.'.95 : IVE Different Styles of-Strikingly New Oxfords and alt-anusually good values. Champagne Color Smocked Elk with Plain Toe, or Tipand Saddle of Brown Leather—Rubber Golf Soles or Leather rifig ' Women's Spart “Stockings of Mixed Lisle; Novelty Richelieu Rib designs in two- Black Satin sis5] |