Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1923, Page 2

* FESTIVAL AT POLFS * CHARMS AUDIENGE Clever Children Entertain Large Gathering for Ben- efit of Humane Society. | The large stage of Poli's Theater was filled with clever youngsters, numbering more than threescore, ves- | ‘erday afterncen, when Miss Minnie | ifawk presented her annual children's | <pring festival. The malority of | h=se children have not vet reached | heir “teens.” and it seemed more | ‘han fitting that these happy little, foll, with their pretty, carefree danc- ng, should give an entertaimment. the proceeds of which will be miven to the Washington Humane Socie to help dumb animals. The program, which was ingly long, and commenced at 2:15. was divided into three parts, with| the most artistic first. The second | and third parts of the entertainment were devoted to the usual divertfsse- ment, but the first part was a dance Interpretation of the story af “Pan- ! dora, or the Box of Mischief,” written | by Mrs. Goring Bliss, and given in | three short acts. The scenery used for the forest scenes of "As You Like 1t with an additional pretty cloud | effect in the back drop, formed an, tdeal setting for these tableaux and | dances. i The first and third acts were sup- posed to be on Mount Olympus. and ! the gods were well portrayed by Clark | aines, Jupiter; Meriam Jone: o "rank Burkhart. Apollo; Jeas widdie, Minerva: Ruth Shaughne: \lars; Conway Culear ine Powers, Diana; Marian 3 Venus; Dorothy Lee Wilkinson, Me: cury; Margaret Tippett, Ceres: Mar- garet van Horn. Bacchus: Schmidt, Par; Burnadine Hun i “oria; Donald Dinwiddie, Cupid. and} Billy Stein. Neptune. i Younguters Applanded. i exceed ! Megtio of 618 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, , 192 W ashingtonians Claim to' Have Largest “Youngest” Family Royden J. Dixon,33,and Wife,31, Parents of 11 Children—Joseph Di Meglio, 33, and Wife, 34, Also Washington not ouly has adequate cause to dispute Georgia's claim to the youngest mother of ten children, but has reason to believe that it has clinched the additional honor of num- bering among its residents the voung- est papa. in so far as large families are coneerned. Excelling the C of mothering t orgia woman's feat ldren at thirty- ears of age is the record o -one-year-old Mrs. Mary ¢, n of T1i I street southeast, who boast of haviug had eleven ingsters And upholding Washington's chal- lenge regarding young fathers of large families is Mrs Dixon's thirty- three-yvear-old husband, Rovden J i Dixon. machinist in the torpedo shop | of the Washington navy vard and withal a tenor singer of some note Another Beats Georginn. A runner-up for the honors held by the Dixon family is Mrs eph DL rard street northeast. who is now thirty-four jears old and is the mother of ten living children and one deceased. Mrs. Di Meglio will not be thirty-five until December. With the exception of the first child which was born iu [ there. each of the ten born in Washington his wite n y and came to W when sixteen vears of age. He re- turned to his native land and married wow is his wife, he teen and she twenty vears en the ceremony Was per- ter the birth and death of came here. since lived y and died Mr. Di Meglic was born being niv of age w formed. the first cb where they hav The oldest of the ten children is a Boy of twelve years, and he. with six brothers and sisters. attends the shinkton | One Shy of Dozen. Nine of the eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. Dixon are livin They range in age from slx months to four- teen years, five being girls. Of the deceased children one dfed shortly after birth, while the other. at the age of twenty-two months, fell from a porch and died of a broken skull. Here is the list that has added to the lubors of the census burean: Mary : Anna Gertrude, 13: Roy- Frances Cectlia. 10; Thelma Marte. 5; Willlam i (decoased: wouid have been | $); Ralph Phillip, 2. 2nd Jamen Ber- | ndtd. six months! } “Runa in the Family." “I guess it runs in the family.” explained the proud father to & Star reporter. “I was the third of nine ildren and my maternal grand- mother’s family numbered sixteen children. My brothers and siatera, however. have small familte: “I think that children are the greatest blessing that God can be- stow, although T'll admit it keeps me busy buying shoes. We are a happy | tamily happier. T'll bet, than muny la couple with no ters about the house.’ Dixon had to wrinkle his brow severul times tn trying to recount the (list of his offspring. and he then forgot to include Raymaend Aloysias, one of the “best looking children in the lot.” he sahl. Hard to Piek Name Picking names, he admitted, was an easy job afier the first half dozen little Dixons had been awarded two names each The Dixon tamily has been an fm- portunt fuctor in the growing con- gestion in the District public schools The oldest, Mary Evelyn, Is attending Business High School, and five others 4 n. are in various WASHINGTON F i ! NAVY WAR ON RUM Mr. and Mra. R. J. Dixon of 713 I atreet nouth Raymend, Ruth, wt and their mime children. {DRY RAID NETS FOUR !AND 61 QUARTS OF GIN | Arrests Made in Garage in Rear APRIL 21, 1923. | | Handcuifs Used - To Keep Newly Weds Together By the Assoclated Press. BRIDGETON, N. J., April 21 - Fearing the bonds of matrimouy* would not prove strong enough to prevent frivolous-minded friends from ceparating them before they could get out of town on their honeymoon, Mr. and Mrs. Percival N. Wilson linked themselves with the added'bond of handcuffs after their wedding. Safety Commissioner Tyler, who furnished the cufts, denied rumors that he had withheld the key When last seen, he said, the pair were riding out’ of Bridgeton cud- dled close. The bridegroom had the key in his ring pocket. 15 CITIES IN MODEL U. 5. CAPITAL MOV t —Evelyn, Gertrude, Royden, Francis, INTENSE RIVALRY | ning i | | | I | Civic Leaders to Mobilize Best Thought in Develop- ment of Washington. leaders from fifteen 1g today at headquarters of the American Civie Association, formulat- ed final arrangements for ‘a nation wide plan to mobilize the best thought of the country on city plan for development of Washing- ton. More than a score of men and women active in Washington in plan- ning for the future of the city joined with members of the executive com- ittee of the American Clvic Asso- ciation this afternoon in a trip of spection, visiting public park. cities, and From the (:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star PISTOFFCE TRES NEEST INVENTON 1 Officials Witness First Dera-- onstration of System of Mail Distribution. i i A brand new system of distribut.ng letters in a large city post office waw witnessed in operation at the Wash ington city post office vesterday after noon by Postmaster General New, ¥i Assistant Postmaster General Barret! Fourth Assistunt Postmaster Billany and other officials. ; The mechanieal distributor invention of the recently created division of engineering of the Post Office Department, of which Sidne: W. Farmsworth ix head, and is one of the filvt devices to be offered th- vostal serwices by the division Radical changes in the inner a { pearance of post offices from the new system, as its adopti would elimimate much of the clum casing which now clutters up “worh reom floors™ #n post offices. Through a system of baskets belts, letters are swiftly sent sorters, and the speed of distributic is waterially increased, it was d- clared. Officials who witnessed tl test today expressed themselves w well pleased, but reserved final de cision on the device until « later dat: distribution tem was o a today wa he svet to distribute lette this city, helping the different cart { Genera is the i ut for delivery in ithe eorting to stations here The division of engineering of ti. Post Office Department is one of modern lines of work in which the Dostal service is engaging. Many mechanical and englveer devices are used in the postal ser and it is the belief of officials betterments may bhe made and nto being by th- vell as by outsidr " RUNNERS LIKELY gradés of northeast of 1441 Rhode Island Avenue as Agents Spring Trap. The character of Pandora was well done, little Catherine Prichard. who. will be remembered. played the small oy in Mrs. C. C. Calhoun’s play. 4 Marriageable Mother.” Epimetheus was played by Lamont Saxton, and Pandora’s piaymates were Marian Mc- archy. Mona Lynch and Ruth Shaughnessy. The little imps of i ness and trouble who hopped out of | BV Pandora’s box were very clever, tou. | lIE Hope, as played by tiny Berpadette|The buildings and viewing developments public sol in their community. The father is a huckster and has smging | as an avocation. He has appeared in | ! many local recitals and concerts. He | wus eightcen and she was sixteen, a {owns and has patd for the house inllirtle figuring will shov The cere- Which he lives, and claims that with| monv was performed in St. Joseph's | the advent of cach child his luck has | Catholic Church. 2d and C streets been augmented The size of Mrs. | northeast by the late Rev. Father DI Meglio's family was brougl to | Schmidt. Lt when she saw a photograph in| Mr. Dixon <tar of the ten children of Mrs.|rick's Cathol southeust schools. Mr. Dixon married Mrs. Dixon. then { Miss Hutching, fifteen years ago. He{ N DANGING CAWPS .5 Two at Arcade and Four at bodying their conclusions in a Wash- ington plan to be indorsed and foster- COIISEUm LeaVe GO-HOUI’ ed by committees on Washington in Mark Behind. o inspe the mechanical ma office, the product o several years of labor by an Akro Ohlo, firm, which has been purchasec by the Post Office Departmnent, ar is in daily use at the local offi « The letters are sorted by a man « ing at a keyboard. _— interest Only Practical Course, Presi- dent Informed, After Quiet Negotiations. | Rayniond Frank Gray. afleged so- | I ciety bootlegger, who was arrested | | several weeks ago in a P street |apartment house for alleged deal- 'ings in intoxicants, was arrested larty cities : Civic leaders Washington, ir cluding members of the Fine Arts will present a symposiu - immediate and more obwious in s a soloist at St. Pat- “hurch, 10th and G Crouch, seemed to arouse unusual ad- | miration, and. with little Valetts! Schmtdt, who played Pan, won round after round of applause from the| arge audience of parents and friends of the little participants. } There were two lovely dances inl| this dramatic sketch. including a. dainty garland dance the tiniest tots and a classic di popular * t of the prettiest by Betty Smaltz, Marie Schwaltz. The group numbers of the second part of the program included a color- ful gypsy scarf dance, dance of the peasants and foresters, a highland ftng and Russtan group dance. Among the most popular of the solo dances were the Hungartan dance by the very small and very vivacious Helen Dick; Butterfty dance by little arol Morrison Smith, and the Irish| & by Margaret Van Horn. Pretentious Progra was one as danced Grace Carr and In the third part little Bernadet'e|impropty program of singing and the Morse conspiracy rouch gave the one recitation of the, afternoon hen she graphically told The audience the familiar Riley tale, of how “the goblins ‘Il get you, if you don’t watch out” The large group dances included oriental ballet, pony ballet, gavot la cinquintaine, ‘grand ballet of gold and the drill of the toy soldiers. The last-named. done by 2 &Toup of smali boys with the two- tiniest boys, Lou Saxton and Herbert Burkhart as the captain and drum- Imer, aroused storms of applause and excited comment. It is impossible to mention here all the many pretty solo dances, each of which showed the persevering practice of the small per- former. It was a pretentious pro- gram that the little folks offered in| amlable spirit and was recelved by an almost capacity audience with ador- | ing ohs and ahs. ! CANADIANS GUESTS | OF D. C. SCIENTISTS Col. E. Lester Jones Entertains Visiting Officials at Cosmos Club Luncheon. ] i Col. E. Lester Jones, director of the United States coast and geodetic sur- vey and International boundary com- missioner for the United States, gave a luncheon at the Cosmos Club yes- terday, in honor of the Canadian dele- gates to the American Geophysical Union, which closed its three-day an- nual meeting on Thursday. The guests of honor wers Dr. W. Bell Dawson, superintendent of the tidal an@ cur- rent survey of Canada; Dr. Noel Ogil- vie, superintendent of the geodetic survey of Canada, both of whom came from Ottawa. and J. Patterson, chief of the Canadlan meteorological serv- io0e, which is located in Toronto. The other guests, all Washington sclentists, were: Dr. J. C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Dr. Arthur L. Day, di- rector_of the geophysical laborator Capt. W. D. MacDougall, superinten ent of the United States Naval Ob- servatory; Prof. C. F. Marvin, chief of the weather bureau; Capt. Frederic B. Baseett, jr., hydrographer of the United States hydrographic office of the Navy: Dr. Charles G. Abbott, sec- retary of the National Academy of Sclences; Lieut. Col. Bruce Palmer, chief of the military intelligence divi- slon of the general staff of the War Department; Dr. Fay C. Brown, act- ing director of the bureau of stand- ards; Maj. Willlam Bowle, chief of the division of geodesy of the United States coast and geodetic survey, and Lieut. Commander Gilbert T. Rude, chief of the division of tides and cu rents of the United States coast and geodetic survey. The sclentific relations between Canada and the United States are as pleasant as the political ones, said Col. Jones. The unguarded boundary line between the two nations forms the theme of many stories of friend- ship and affords an example which, if amulated by the Test of the worid, would add much to human happiness. ‘The g!odl“c survey of Canada, un- ier the direction of Dr. Ogilvie, and the United States coast and geodetic survey, under Col. Jones, who is also the international boundary commis- sloner for the United States, it was pointed out, have co-operated in many surveys along the boundary and in oxtending geodetic control into Alaska @nd British Columbia. Fraternal relations are also pleas- mntly maintained between the tidal @and current survey of Canada, under Dr. Bell Dawson, and the division of tides and currents, the chief of which Lieut. Commander Rude of the Tnited States coast and geodetic sur- ‘vey, as well as in many other branches ot sclence, one example being the United States weather bureau, under ‘Dr. Marv! lwed and wervice of Canads, ich Mr, Patterson. Doing His Duty. Prem Lite. noSlaltor—What does the chaplain do Freshman—Oh, he gets up in the c’flu every morning, looks over the student body and then prays for the wollags. : | { the meteorol the chief of | for the intery Dalt NATNES SOCIETY MORSE ATTORNEY TOLDOF HSTORY Capital Described at “Ev- erybody’s Night.’ A short business meeting and an ating of affairs of a peculiar his- torie interest to Washingtonians were features at the celebration of “Every- Night” celebrated by the So- Natives at its regular monthly meeting at the Gavel Club, 719 13th street northwest. last night J. B. McCarthy related several anec- dotes of an historical interest. referring to the Washington eques- trian statue, located at 23d and Penn- sylvania avenue, which was recently removed to Brooklym, N. Y. for re- pairs. he said the statue was cast in this city by Clarke Mills, about 1860, and that part of the brass used in it consisted of a number of can- nons. used in this city in the quell- ing o riots 5 ‘apt. George W. Evans told how in looking through the records at the pension office some years ago that he had discovered that John Howard Payne, the poet. and writer of “Home, Sweet Home,” had been em- ployed in the pension office for sev- eral months during the year 1833. Mr. McCarthy stated that while Mr. Payne was working at the pension office he resided in a house on C street near 3d, and that the house in which he lived still stands. Give Prizes for Memory. Besides these extracts of history related by Mr. McCarthy and Capt. Evans which received much applause t that they furnished. Lee D. Latimer and Fred A. Emery amused the audience with several lively stories and joke § A musical memory test for which prizes were awarded for those being able to to guess correctly the greatest number of old-time pleces played on the piano by Willlam_T. Plerson, was won by Miss M. E. Forbes, after she had tied for first place with Mrs. George W. Evans, Mrs. H. M. Packard and Miss Grace Willlams. Walter T. Roache won the first prize for the men. Plans for an extensive celebration for the final meeting of the season, the third Friday in May, are in the hands of Mrs. Anna E. Hendley and ! Mrs. Ada Lewis, who are making up the program. it was snnounced. All members of the soclety were urged to try and bring_in new mem- bers on_this occasion. There are now about 700 members, it was stated. Jesse C. Suter, president, presided. Thirty-Five Members Enrolled. Thirty-five new members were en- rolled as follows: Matilda D. Wright. Edwin C. Brandenburg, Theima Mills Trotter, Ada_ C. Mills Payne, R. J. Quinn, Mrs. Jeter C. Pritchard, May V. Frey, Gilbert A. Clark, Albert E. Berry, Marie R Cross, Susie Purcell Beil, Mrs. Alexander H. Bell, Joseph Y. Reeves, Helen G. Koons. John A. Koons, Edwin D. Flather, Thomas L. Hume, Julia S. McAlister, George M. Myers, Samuel _Scrivener, John Scrivener, John F. Cox, J. Eliot Wright, jr.; Frederick F. Detweiler, Morris = E. Marlow, Francis L Browne, Irving R. Richards, Lloyd A. Douglass, Fannie O'Neal lsrael. Orra N. Moore, Leinor Ebert Reed. Ernest A, Knorr, Robert W. Richardson, Warren Choote and Sarah Crawford Trapp. MRS. LANG DEAD. Resident Passes Away Eighty-Second Year. Mrs. Josephine Martha Lang, & na- tive Washingtonian, died Thursday morning at the family residence, 1339 14th street northwest, aged eighty- two years. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from: the home, Rev. Richard Schmidt, pastor of the Zion Lutheran Church, officiating. The interment was private at Glen- ‘wood cemetery. Mrs. Lang was a daughter of the late Alfred Heitmuller. She was the widow of Prof. J. P. Theodore Lang, who dled nineteen yesrs ago and whp, during a long life in this city, was widely known to a large clientele as an Instructor in vocal and instru- mental music and as a composer. Her husband, during the civil war, was dotailed for duty at the Washington navy yard. Mrs. Lang was reared in the Lutheran Church and was long a member of Zion Lutheran Churen, 6th and P streets northwest. She is survived by four sons—Thomas Lang of the supervising architect's office of the United States Treasury. Depart- ment, Alfred T. Lang of Pleasantville, Ohio; George F. Lang of this city and C. in Joseph G. Lang of Bronxville, N. Y.— | M. and one daughter, Miss Anna C. Lang, and seven grandchildren and (w‘«; greéat-grandchildren, streets. * CAARGES REVENGE {Incidents in Early Days of Succeeds in Getting Claim| Before Talesman Ex- amined Today. for the defense the trial today suc- ceeded in getting before the talesmen summoned for ¥ Morse and his assoclates that the in- dictment is the outgrowth of per- sonal revenge and merely an attempt to “get even” on the part of certain officials and that the motives under- Iying the prosecution were not honest Judge Nash Rockwood of New York ked a prospective juror if he would convict if the evidence disclosed such conditions. United States Attorney Gordon objected to the question, and the juror was not permitted to an- | swer. Counsel Juror W Acquit. | Judge Rockwood also asked the | juror if he would acquit the defend- ants if the evidence under the tn- struction of the court would show | that the case should have been tried | in the civil courts for a mere account- {ing and should not have been In the criminal division. The juror was al- lowed to answer that he would acquit | under such instruction by the ourt. | Circumstantial evidence is expected | to play a large part in the trial. Ma). rdon in his examination of the {talesmen was insistent on learning | the attitude of the prospective jurors of evidence of this character. Examination Continues. examination of the talesmen continued throughout the court session today and will be resumed Monday. Gordon is being aided in the prose- Vecution by Special Assistants to the | Attorney ~ General Turner and Allison and by Assistant United States Al torney O'Leary. Among the counsel | for the defense are Wllton J. Lambert, Willlam E. Leahy, Nash Rockwood Stanley Fowler, W. Bissell Thoma and F. D. Davison. | OPPOSES REMOVING JACKSON'S STATUE Presiden® Harding opposes the re- moval of Andrew Jackson's statue in Lafayette Park, it was revealed last right at the White House in a letter to Senator McKellar from the chief executive. The matter had not been offictally brought to his attention be- fore, the President indiceted, adding that he did not know it was under consideration. The President in his letter said: “I have your letter of April 14, in which you Drotest to me the removal of the Andrew Jackson statue which is located in Lafayette Yark, across Pennsylvanla avenue from the White House. I think T shall make ample reply when I say 10 you that T have no authentic 1 nowledge of any such proposal ever having been made—certainly nonec bus ever been ruggested !n an of- ficlal way, and the question is not vnder consideration by any one of whom 1 know. “In thesr circumstances I can see no occasion for any expression on the subject, though I should have no hesitancy whatever in opposing such a removal if such & proposition were to be seriously made. I think you may give every aasuran to your fellow citizens in the home state of President Jackson that Washingten would not contemplate for a mo- ment any indignity to his revered memory.” ASKS RULING ON WILL. The American Security and Trust Company, executor of the estate of Mrs. Anna Livingston Morton, widow of Levi P. Morton, former Vice Presi- dent of the United States, has fi a p::l:lor!:l in the District Suprem ourt to have construed certain pro- visions of her will. S ‘The court is asked to interpret the meaning of the testatrix. Named s defendants are Edith L. Morton Eus- tis, ; Helen Morton, Mary Morton, Winthrop G. Rutherford, jr.; John P. Rutherford, Hugo Rutherford, Alice M. Rutherford, Guy G. Rutherford and Winthrop J. Rutherford. Attor= neys McKenney &' Flannery for the executor, * -~ - The y duty the clalm of } on the weight and value in thetr minds BY DAVID LAWR The Navy of the United States may be ordered into actlon soon against the rum runners on all coasts. Pres- ident Harding has been advised that the only practicable course to stop bootlegzing on the seas is to have the waters instde the three-mile limit patrolled carefully by all the small craft of the American Navy. For the time being no effort will be made to tackle vessels flying for- elgn flags and lying outside the three- :znlle limit. but under a recent court dectsion the prohibition authorities feel justified in pursuing any vessel ‘X!)‘)ng any flag which comes within !the three-mile limit and then makes 12 dash for outside waters. i Although the higher courts have not lyet passed finally on the issue, pro- hibition offictals point to the prece- dent established 1in Scandinavian countries where a twelve-mile limit 1s observed by vessels chasing those engaged in smuggling. They have no doubt that the twelve-mile limit will be upheld by the highest American courts and that it will have a dis- tinct influence on the attitude of forelgn governments. Quiet Negotiations. The prohibition enforcement con- tingent has deferred to the wishes of the Department of State in recent months refraining from any act which might cause international complica- tions by selzure of vessels outside th three-mile limit, and the effect of this policy has been to glve Secretary Hughes an_ opportunity to negotiate quietly with foreign governments so that their co-operation in preventing their own vessels from conspiring to violate American laws might be se- cured. There is a feeling in official circles here that the British government has lately been disposed to view with much more favor the overtures of the United States government for a better understanding with respect to the suppression of rum running. The principle involved is an important one, for if Great Britain were in- different to a comspiracy to violate American laws there might be a reciprocal indifference exhibited mn some future cases involving the jame general idea, but of much more ierious !mport to the British empire. Debates in the British parllament within the last few weeks have In- dicated a belief on the part of some of the members there that an Amer- ican sentiment against Great Britain might be bullt up if rum-running wa® countenanced by the British through improper clearance papers d similar devices. Whether this is a correct view of American senti- ment is beslde the subject, for if President Harding insists to the British government that better co- operation be practiced he is very likely to have his way. Question of Earnestness. What the British want really is to see whether the United States govern- ment 1s itself in earnest. The ordering of the Navy into the patrol business is one step which is being urged by pro- hibitionists, because they believe it will be evidence of the good faith of the federal governmen President Harding has let it be known in_the last twenty-four hours that the cabinet has discussed every phase of rum-running, and that the government is ready for important action, soon o be announced. Before the step is taken, Rowever. foreign governments will have to be advised of what is coming so that they may caution their nationals against engaging In conspiracies to violate American laws. According to the prohibition enforce- ment_office here rum-running has de- clined materially in the last few months. chiefly because of the disputes among the rum-runners themselves, the growth of piracy among the adventurous akip ers of rum-running vessels and the uge cost of arranging for the’ ship- ment ashore of liquor from the larger to the smaller vessels. ‘Wireless Communication. The wireless is the principle medium of communication, but the ! government is exercising not only a; {close watch on the radio apparatus of the rum-runners, but is keeping an eye on the small craft. It is ad- mitted, howaver, that the rum-run- ners have had much the better of it in evading the government patrol, especially in Florida waters, but the use of the Navy is expected to change 1 that aspect materially. All the sub- marine chasers and light craft which 'hnn been idle since the war may be manned by the Navy and sent on the enforcement patrol. The admin- istration has been hard pushed by the “drys" to take this drastic step, and the drift today is toward complete and effective use of the sea forces of -the government to -uphold the Volstead act. A formal announce- ment of plans may be expected any day. : - {(Copyright, 1933.) —_— 3 Seme Speed. From Lite. Mfl—-n“Whlm WUE you ‘when she | M ', Secred A ol ing mec- | ¢ 2 aries Sania: Mins Maria ‘Misa Ml ; wers ‘elected members of the exetutfve com-, W0 . - te . Lagain of liquor and conspiracy to violate | the law and defraud the government |of internal revenue tax Joseph L. Grifin and Ia seph Carter, 3224 14th street Juliu J. Forgette, Fairmont F Md., also were arrested for al complicity in dry law violations with Gray. ‘Forgette, it is charged, is oc- cupant of & garage in rear of 1441 Rhode Island avenue, where, it Is stated. a deal for two cases of gin i was consummated. Seizure of sixty- one quarts of the intoxicant was re- ported Datective Worrell of tihe first prec- inct and Assistant Prohibition Di- rector Kennedy and Agent Linton | Evans made the arrests. It is said by the police and revenue agents that a deal was made for the purchase of two cases of gin at an office in the Bond bullding, and last night when the police agents went t the bullding in an wutomobile they were escorted to the garage ir rear of the Rhode lsland avenue address, where the purchased Kin was placed tn the car of the agents. Then the ralders appeared and took posses- slon of the car und contents. Members of the raiding party re- ported the seizure of paraphernalla used in preparing the so-called gin. Bond was furnished for the appear- ance of the four men before United tates Commissioner George H. Mac- donald aad in Police Court. Gray and of § glv EGYPTIAN BELIEFS 300, while £1.500 was the amount | by the others. i i Dr. George S. Duncan Ad- dresses Washington Classi- cal Club. The Egyptian belief that the mummy must be kept intact to assure the hap- Piness of the departed spirit was cited last night as explanatory of many Egyptian customs by Dr. George S. Duncan, in an address before the ‘Washington Classical Club. Dr. Duncan said that this belief was responsible for the building of the strong tombs in solid rock, for in- casing the mummy in numerous cof- fins, for threatened curses upon the violators of tombs and for the de- velopment of the art of embalming in Wwhich the Egyptians have surpassed all other races. Jewels Lure Searchers. The great force working against the preservation of these tombs in- violate has been the burrying of jewels and ornaments with the dead The jewels taken from the tomb of two princes who died 2,000 B. C. were valued at $350.000, sald Dr. Duncan. That the rifling of tombs began early s recorded by men who repair- ed the burial places and caused in- scriptions to be placed on the tomb telling of the repair, by whom made and when. One of the earliest of such records is dated 500 B.C. Dr. Duncan traced the development of the burial place from the grave and various tombs to the pyramid: which, he said, were built about 4,000 IBC. The largest of these, he sald, Wwas 750 feet square at the base, cov- ering thirteen acres, and was built of 2,300,000 blocks of stone, each we(.nmf two and one-half tons. It was estimated that the building of this one pyramid must have required the work of 100,000 slaves over a period of twenty years, Religious Texts Valuable. ‘The greatest treasures of the pyramids, however, Dr. Duncan said, ‘were the 7,041 lines of religious text inscribed on the inner walis of the pyramids — the oldest recorded thoughts of man, preserved in the original “manuscript” = He quoted several of these inscriptions, particu- larly those showing then a belief in immortality. " “The.inner walls of these pyramids e extensive, and thus there w: ) for thousands of lin: But the same texts occur in each of th five pyramids, it is evident that w have, if not the entire oldest Egyptia Bible, at least the bulk of it. This repetition is also very fortunate in that it makes possible the restoration of an obliterated text in one pyramid.” Officers of the Classical Club were elected as foHows: Dr. George 8. Dun- cas. president; Dr. William A Eckels. the Rev. Dr. Henry J. Schandelle, Miss Mary Bechtel and Miss Mabel C. Hawes, vice presidents; Mra. Mabel G. ressurer, and Prof. and 2k t night and released on bond | on charges of selling and possession Cartey were required to give a bond | DESCRIBED 70 GLUB “Wher chirps the ninetieth Lo here” Joset { Boltrotsky, one of the two remaining |contestants in the marathon dance which has been in continuous session at the Arcade since Wednesday night day ) be right here with sang out Aubrey Giibert, the stockily bullt marine, who Is confident that e race is over a new world dancing record will have been es- | tablished Right at this juncture, a sweet- | faced old lady presented Gllbert with |a huge bunch of roses. “I want to {show my appreciation of the boy's | gameness while he still lives she explained The two boys, both products of the United States military service, Bol- trotsky having served as sergeant of cavalry at Fort Myer during the war, seemed apparently as fresh at the beginning of the -sixty-fourth suc- cessive hour as when they first step- ped on the waxed floor. Both are jealous of the reputation of thelr Tespective branches of the service, and feel that by outlasting the other, they will be upholding the different methods of training enforced by the marines and the Army. Both Gilbert and Boltrotsky have enviable athletic records. The for- mer, who hails from Clarksdale, Miss., won laurels &3 a foot ball plaver in his home town and later as a boxer of note in the service, while Bol- trotsky boasts more than four trophy cups for his prowess on the bicvcle and at one time held the bantam- | welght boxing championship at Co- lumbus barracks. Lone Woman Left. Down at the Coliseum, four intrepid | twirlers—one woman, Elsle Weber, !ana three men, Eddie Fluery, Walter | Keffer and William S. Farrell—were | atill hard at it at the beginning of | their sixtieth hour today, and all | i | | record was made. Intense rivalry has sprung up ber itween the contestants at the two Lalls, and when told today that Flora Gentry, the last remaining woman contender at the Arcade, had been | dragged, shrieking, from the floor shortly before 12 o'clock last might, Miss Weber snapped a contemptuous “pooh, pooh,” removed the bandage from her eves and said: “There's nothing to that crowd. 1 did hope the Gentry girl would hold out until I had a chance to show her what real endurance dancing meant, {she seems to have gone blooey. trust, however, she is all right.” The lone woman dancer at the Coliseum is from Baltimore, and only last week established what was then the record of fifty-seven hours. She is determined to keep going until she shatters all records. To Leave City. Both managers will have accom- modations in readiness at 12 o'clock tonight to ship their dancers out of the city in order to comply with police regulations. The Arcade con- testants will be taken to Virginia, while the Coliseum contingent will go to_Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Mendenhall, who had to give up yesterday, were taken from the Arcade to Emergency Hospital. Miss Gentry was also re- moved to Emergency Hospital after she suffered a complete breakdown about midnight. None of the cases is considered serious. BANS MARATHON DANCING. Mr. Rudolph Backs Colleagues’ De- mand for Law to Prohibit. Commissioner Rudolph, chairman of the board of Commissloners, declared today that he would support Commi: sioner Oyster in considering a regu- lation to prohibit marathon dancing contests in Washington in the future. Capt. Oyster stated yesterday that he would ask Corporation Counsel Stephens for an opinion as to whether it is within the police power of the city to enact such a regulation. WOMAN EDITOR TELLS NEED OF INDIVIDUALISM “Individualism and Finding the Thing One Can Do Best” was the sul ject on which Ida Clyde Clark, asso- Slate editor of the Pictorial Review and editor of the Women's News Serv- ioe, spoke last night to the third ses- slon of the conference for busine: women which is being conducted by the business women's department of the Y. W. C. A. “The woman of thirty-five is at her most efficlent age and is capable of turning out her best work on and after that age,” sald Mrs. Clark, “and this older woman has her definite responsibility toward the young girl just beginning to work.” “Until we publish more of what the women of America are accomplishing and thinking, instead of descriptions of pink teas and fashion hints,” co! tinued Mrs. Clark, “we won't get very far.’ Tonight marks the closing of the ‘which has been consis | ner serv at 6:15, after which Teoently gen e lo- cal Y. W., will speak on ving on Twenty-Four Hours a Day wed they would stick until a new j but { I needs of the city at a conference gin- ner to be held tonight at 1634 I street, when the conclusions reached at meeting of the exccutive board of tite American Civie Assoclation will be, made known Arrangements 10 Be Aired. The executive bLoard today dis j cussed arrangements for carrving the Breater Washington plan into fifty cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific, seeking the co-operation of a commit- tee In every city for the beautification and development of the capital. The American Clvie Assocfation will serve 4S5 a co-operating agency in the com- prehensive plan for a Washington fostered and developed by the na- tion.’ In direct connection with the plan for zdvertising Washington the ration and encouraging assist @nce in planning for its future, Miss Harlean James, secretary of American Civic Assoclation, will leave Washington about May 1 nth trip through the north and west, on which she expects to visit a major part of the citles whose co- operation in the greater Washington plan will be asked. Business and civic organizations through the country will be urged to put their energy and Influence behind the move to engage the best minds of the nation on the future needs of the Capital city, and through them pre sure will be brought to bear on Con- ETess to make possible whatever de- velopments are found necessary in the opinion of Congress and civic experts. Chairmanship Accepted. Representative citizens in nearly a chairmanship of committees in thelr {cities, all of which will work with {the association toward a greater | Washington. xecepted the chairmanship of the New I\'ork committee;: Frederic A. Delano is chairman of the committee in Washington; William M. Ellicott is chairman of the Baltimore committee, and Mr«. Edward Biddle, a leader in Ietvic development in Philadelphia. will take the chairmanship for that cit Among those who are on the in- specticn trip this afternoon and will {attend the dinner tonight are Charles Moore, chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts; Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public buildings and grounds; Frederick A. Delano, Fred G. Coldren, Dr. John M. Gries, Col. and Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Senator land Mrs. Medill McCormick, Maj. {Wheeler, assistant to the Engineer Commissioner; Stephen E. Kramer as- sistant superintendent of schools; Mrs. Sasie Root Rhodes, director of playgrounds; {sioner Helen Gardener, Re | Wood, Arno B. Cammerer, assistant director of the national park serv- ice, Dr. and Mrs. Whitman Cross, Mr. and Mrs. Wiiliam Ellicott and Jeffer- son Grinnalds of Baltimore, Clinton {Rogers Woodruff and Mrs. Edward Biddle of Philadelphia and J. Horace McFarland, president of the Ameri- can Civic Association, from Harris- burg, Pa. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES (For Monday) FIRST = RACE—Claiming: two-yesrolds; purse, $1,200; four furlongs. i Jacksen . . 118 Sarah Ginger . onus . 19 A 7 Bue *Bramton . 1038 *Friday 13th .0 Lady A 100 *Gold Pendant. 1*Moen D: . 108 Humbie . 8almon son entry. o SECOND RACE—Maiden three-year-olds; purse, $1,800; six furlongs. Do Pop Chief Blus Toney Evelyn Ruth G... Ontario Sparti Also el Sarsapa: ream. & Wiis ! m ible THIRD RACE—Claiming: three.year-olds and 1 up: purse, $1,200; six furlongs. tCooper & Gooda l FOURTH RACE—The uehanns purse. $1,000; three-ysar-olds; six furlengs. Body Prince Thessaly Traj ‘three-year-olds; SIXTH _RACE—Claiming: purse, $1,900; mile aad seventy yards. 507 vurse, $1,000; mile vad 8 ssteenih * *Papillon l Moody Our to the | for a five- | dozen cities have already accepted the ; Gustavus T. Kirby has| Civil Service Commis- | Charles | Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's ~ JUSTICE DELAYS -~ ALLEY DECISION - fStephens Contends Congress | Had Power to Pass Law. ! { i { w1ran alleys in Was v ike some I know of within & stone - {throw of the Capitol should have no hesitanc 2g this law.” said Chief Jus Coy vesterday at the conclusion of t arguments on the motion of the Dis trict Commissioners to dismiss a suit for injunction brought by Charlotte » Lockwood and others to test the validity of the law which forbids the use of dwellings in alleys in the Dis trict of Columbia after June 1 Since the law relates to ull the a leys, the court remarked, he woul take the question under advisem and consider the terms of the la and the scope of its requirements. Corporation Counsel Stephens, asking for the dismissal of the sui' contended that Congress had th power to pass the law, and that was the only question involved in th case. The legislation. he asserted, intended for the improvement of { health, morals and general welfar of the people and well within the police power of Congress. He stated {the Commissioners had adopted his opinian that no alleys are affected Which meet any one of the require ments laid down by the law, and the number of persons affected would be much less than the criginal figure of 9,000. Attorneys Culle cane for the owne law takes Away property process of law and if any four reqdirements set out in the law is present. the alley comes unde: the prohibition, thus taking an op posite view from Mr. Steid. The pointed out that the health of mant alley residents is good, their morals are of high order and their home- clean and sanitary. Because so few alleys may be pestholes it dc not follow that all inhabited alle: are, the lawyers stated i i | i | Cusick and Finu s claimed that th vithout du~ of the / 1 | From the 3:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star WEEKS RESIGNS FROM G. 0. P. BODY Sends Resignation as Member of National Com- mittee. Secretary Weeks has tendered hi resignation as a member of the re publican national committee fron Massachusetts. Mr. Weeks in his letter of resi tion, addressed to Frank H. Fo chairman of the republican state co mittee in Boston, said 1t was imposs ble for him to devote the time and attention to the work which its im portance demanded. “The time is approaching wh= more or less active work should be undertaken by all committees in pre paring the rreliminaries for conduct ing the presidential campaign of 1924 In the position which I now hold is impossible for me to devote th time and attention to this work whic its importance demands, and I ther: fore tender to the state commit my resignation as a member of the national committee.” | From the 5:30 Baition of Yesterday's Sta COMMONER SUSPENDS. Lack of Time Given for Discou tinuance of Bryan’s Paper. LINCOLN, Neb.,, April 21.—Gc {C. W. Bryan has announced hers that the Commoner, a monthly pui- lication edited by himself in crdination with his brother, Willi Jennings Bryan, for the past twenty two years, would cease publicaflon with the April issue, which is now on the press. Lack of time was given by the governor as the roazon for the suspension of the paper i ——————— What of It? 3 From Judge. Motor Cop—You were doing ma'am. Young Thing—Forty—oh, forty, was 1? {well, you were doing as much yours