Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1923, Page 11

STEARNS ELECTED BYPHOTOGRAPHERS ' Rochester Man Named Presi- dent at Closing Session of Meeting Today. Election of officers featured the Meeting of the Photographers’ Asso- clation of America at Convention Hall today. The meeting marked the end of the forty-first annual interna- tional convention of that organiza- tion. The officers elected were: Clarence Stearns of Rochester, N. Y. presi- dent: W. H. Monahan of Goldsbor- ough, N. H., first vice president; J. H. Brakebill of Knoxville, Tenn., second vice president, and Miss A. C. Town- send of Lincoln, Neb., treasurer. . R. Campbell, general secretary, was reappointed. Mr. Stearns, as a result of the elec- tion, moved up from the office of first vice' president to that of president, while Miss Townsend, treasurer, was re-elected. Report of* a majority committee recommending that the 1924 conven- tion be held in San Francisco or Chicago was adopted rity committee was com- peeiman, Jack ‘allinger and R. W. m, he minc com: was represented by S. b. Resolutions committee ¢ ing: Grant CF Mrs. Lyvdia Grunnell A Tesol struct t various men of the and urge them to urge spective congressmen to secure pas- 8sage of bill which will permit pho- tographs to be accepted in the malls as_parcel post It was further resolved to have a number of bronze replicas of the Daguerre Memorial Monument, lo- cated on the Mall, made and distrib- uted at various central locations of the association in order that the mem- bers of the organi ion might be able to frequently et a close up view of e statute of one of the fir: rhotog- the = first photog A boat trip to Mount Verno: this afterno, Gt plae e ot h upon the were the final activities. Yesterda ute was placed upon the Daguerre ument. Last night the delegates ded the annual banquet of the assoclation and r held @ dance on the roof of the Washington IHote MAY T POSTAGE ONPHOTDGRIPHS Congress to Be Asked to Re- classify Them as Parcel Post Matter. wera presented mposed of the Charles by a follow- Aylett, indorsed to in- to write to the ssociation’s oral tri Th ood that Con- the Post Of Rres e Departs next wir Aphs, classed as ail r. in th 1 post ¢ A high off of sald today that he could be induced to that there really is photographs s gent as third any insurance ife sajd tha not vet in rec the national photo tion which just adjourned he As it stands at present, if tographer sends out by mail a batch of photos, he will have to pay con- siderably more postage, if three pounds or under, than he will it the parcel weighs five pounds. This anomaly is brought about by the fact that if the p tographs wei it g cel post. Th would be perhaps 25 cents. several pounds more, it would go for 8 cents In addition to pa post the parcel would have privileze of being insured, and, the government would have to pay an indemnity. As third-cl mail” the sender would have to pay more, and not have the privilege of getting any insurance. CORN LIQUOR DRIVES DRINKERS TO POLICE Has Strange Power Over Victims, Court Records In- dicate. ter to place third fourth or phot s o of mail believed Congr do this, and said no reason why uid n to be without rtment was tions from the if lost, Corn liquor drinkers face anew terror, perhaps more to be dreaded than the dangers of delirium tremens. It is impulse which overcomes the drinker and guides him straight into the clutches of the law. Twice during the past few days has this potent effect been mani- fested. The latest experience was that of Willie Witt, colored. Willie took a drink last night of something he thought was “ice water” and lay down to pleasant dreams on the front porch of Policeman McAllister of the third precinct. When McAllister ho- hummed his way out of the house this morning he sniffed trouble in the morning breeze and found it right under his nose in the pe: of Willie. . In Police Court today Willie was fined $10 or ten days in jail, but the court took his personal bond and released him. Last week there was a similar case where a drunken man spent the night on the porch of a police officer. CLERK PLEADS GUILTY. 8. J. Deasy Accused of Uttering Lreasury Check of Girl. Stanislaus J. Deasy, a soda dis- penser, pleaded guilty to charges of uttering a Treasury check and re- celving another's mail by fraudulent means when arraigned before United States Commissioner N. C. Turnage yesterday and was remanded to jail in_default of $5,000 bond. Deasy is alleged to have had the mail of Evelyn Currie sent to his address and one of the letters he re- celved contained a government check for Miss Currie. a s The investigation of the case was! conducted by Raymond W. King of the United States secret service and Alexander B. Hulse, an inspector of the Post Office Department. —_— It is not the quantity but the.quality of knowledgo which is valuable i {COL. A. J. HUNTOON, 91, DIES IN RAILROAD CAR Veteran Retired Government Em- ploye Was En Route to Visit Granddaughter in Detroit. EDMONSTON COL, Col. A. J. Huntoon, civil war veteran, nonety-one y old, of 117 Maryland avenue northeast, who last ary retired from the government ser- vice, died suddenly on a train y terdav. en route to Detroit, where he had planned to make his home for a few months wi granddaugh- ter. Mrs. Isabelle Sirick, of that city. Messages of Col. Huntoon’s death reaching this city today did not sive the cause, but he w; here to have been in when he boarded the train at station to leave for Detroit hazards of travel for a man of h were considered by his frien. as likely to have brought the ANDREW J. HUNTOON. his Febru- | | sound basis, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ALEXANDRIA BOND ISSUE IS DELAYED Council Fails to Act on $205,- 000 Loan for Public Improvements. Special Dispateh to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, petition for a reduction in the city automobile truck license tax, signed by thirty truck owners, presented to the city councll at its meeting yes- terday afternoon was refused by that body, council unamjously declding to stick to the original tax placed. In their petition the merchants set forth that the present city tax of $10.50 is unfair and excessive on a Ford or Dodge truck and they requested that this tax be reduced to a flat rate of $3.50 or the rate of 15 cents per horseposver. City Manager Rich in his communi- cation to council on the subject, de- clared the tax not unreasonable. Mayor Explains Poxition. Mayor W. A. Smoot left the chair and declared many Alexandrians do fnot seem to understand that for many years this city has not been raising enough revenue to properly meet its cpenses and that it is the duty of this council to fully provide for the operating expenses of different d partments and the schools and to take care of the interest and sinking fund on our debt. Increasing taxes or lice is never popular, but it is a n. +y with us. This administration place the affairs of this city on a and it will speed up our work a lot if some good nature and some patience is shown while the task of reorganization 18 being done. New Bus Line Likely. If city council grants the request July 20.—The is going to Funeral arrangements have not been| [If elty counch €rOnie (ol ilion completed, but it is thought his grand- daughter will return to Washington with the body, for interment here. Col. Huntoon had a long record with the government service, having completed fifty ye jast February, when he was retired from the il Service Commission was born in | New Hampshir r of Columbia University and ter member Trsity of Washington Col. Hu was a past mander of rand Army lub toon com- | re, and He Lo 1 Coin- ors are Johnson of only | Tariff Commission to Seek Estab- laughter Bertha Richmond, ters, Mrs. nd, The tnothe been visiti after nddaugh- the city license busses for six robably soon for a reduction in taxes on automobile months Alexandria will have another bu between here and Washington to take the place of the Alexandria Motor Bus Company, which several w scontinued its service between here Wl Washington = Mr. Killeen, in his council stated he contemplated put- | ting on twelve busses, eight to carry twenty passengers and four to carry \ssengers, and he also a hearing before hearing letter to the | twen { reque City Tax, $40. Munager Rich, to cou said city tax be approximat = ©h in his opinion was not cxces- in a communi- the authorizing the issu- fmprovement and fundir went over until an to SALE MAY RATE COST |/ OF IMPORTATIONS : lishment of Principle in Findings. Establishment of a prineiple where- | by the domestic selling of im- used #s a basis for de- price ports may be production ht by the tariff said today, in hearings which ave been ordered under the flexible provisions of the tariff act ining commission, it The first step in the search for this|wa taken sion h basic principle may be Tuesday when the com arguments for and ation for an iner in dutics now ckets nvestigators have practically com- pleted their inquiry into the domes- 2 goods, and the com- available also e yses of foreign values hown In the invoices of import- next appli- 1se of 35 per cent imposed on wall v great difference between the latter and the wholesale price in the American market would be taken, it was indicated, as evidence of a mate- | rial variance in the cost of production here and abroad PILFERED HOTEL BIBLES CONVERT TRAVELING MEN Gideons in Annual Session Told of Cases Where Thefts Worked Good Results. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., July 20.— Bibles placed in hotels by the Gideons are sometimes stolen, according to J. Harry Humphreys, who is presid- ing over the annual convention of the National Association of Gideons, Christian Commercial Travelers, in sion here. But in some cases, at least, the plifered Bibles have had a salutary effect. Several persons who delib- erately “took” Bibles belonging to the Gldeons were converted, returned the Bibles and have made substantial payments toward carrving on the work of the Gideons, Mr. Humphreys declared. GOURAUD MADE MILITARY GOVERNOR OF PARIS War Hero Honored While on Visit to Veterans in United . States. By the Associated Press. RAMBOUILLET, France, July 20.— Gen. Henry Gouraud, commander of the fourth French army, who is in the United States, today was appointed mil- itary governor of Paris by the cabinet council. He succeeds Gen. Berdoulat. Policeman Hits Tire With Shot, But Car Escapes Policeman Padgett of the eighth precinct punctured the rear tire of a fleeing automobile with a bullet from his pistol early today near 10th and S streets, but failed to stop the fugitives. He first saw the automobile; con- taining three colored men and a colored woman, when it bumped into a tree. He started to investi- gate. The machine started off. He signaled it to etop. It kept going. He fired and hit the rear tire. It kept going. 3 Police are trying to find where it went, and to identify the operator, who is now listed as wanted for charges of colliding, failing to obey a signal and transporting liquor. 12 {invited to attend. next Tuesday af- rom the sale of i as follow: ; thousand do for fu ¢ outstanding notes of $65.000 for grading, paving 3 2d otherwise improving . $18,000 for erecting 30,000 for purchasing equip- , $12.000 for gen- at the city hall adjourned meet rnoon. The me bonds is is provid \ce authorizing the is- $95.000 school honds did a resolution.relative of $300.000 bonds provided bond ordinances which were sreviously introduced. City Manager {Rich recommended that the bonds be <old privately, as he was of the opin- fon that a better price could be ob- tained { Councilman Ticer said he firmly be will be!jjeved such a bond ‘issue will mean an increase in ta next vear, and he favored only $250,000 bonds. Street Equipment Authorized. A resolution appropriating $30,000 for the purchase of street equipment adopted, Councilman Ticer voting in the negative. Afterward a re ars | lution appropriating $12,200 for im- mediate use for the purch of a part of the proposed equipment was adopted. It provides for the follow- ing purchases: Five thousand five { hundred dollars for roller, $4,500 for truck, $700 for horse-drawn grader and $£1,500 for power grader. Morgan Jones, twelve vears old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Jones of Raymond avenue, Del Ray, Ar- lington county, was struck and fatal- 1y injured yesterday afternoon by an automobile truck driven by Edward J. Hudson of Washington. The ac- cident occurred on Mount Vernon avenue near Four-Mile run. The lad was picked up and placed in an auto- mobile by Victor H. Josey of Mount Jda and rushed to the Alexandria Hospital. Dr. H. A. Latane viewed the body and pronounced life extinct. The body was subsequently taken to Wheatle mortuary chapel, and a corone jury summoned by Dr. B. H. Swain of Ballston, Arlington coun- ty, after viewing the body, adjourned to meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Arlington county courthouse to take testimony. It is claimed that the boy endeavored to climb on the truck and lost his foot- ing and fell beneath the front wheel. Hudson immediately upon hearing some one call to him stopped the truck and ran back and found the lad lying un conscious in the road. After the acci- dent Hudson drove to the Alexandria Hospital and surrendered to Sergt. Wil- kinson, Policemen Taylor and Magner. The ‘father of the dead boy on Tues- day last had his store and several garages, located at St. Elmo, destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $8,000. Boat Club Founders’ Day. The 01d Dominion Boat Club will to- morrow celebrate founders’ day, which will mark its forty-third anniversary, with a big regatta, which the public is The regatta will start promptly at 3 o'clock in the after- noon and many of the few remaining ckarter members will be in attendance as guests of honor. A dance-at night will bring the af- fair to a close. The flower-decorated boats planned to pass in review at night have been abandoned. The re- gatta will be made up of fourteen events, including single work boats, swimming race, standing gunwale race, canoe doubles, canoe sixes with- out paddles, tail-end race, champion club singles, tilting contest, canoe sixes with paddles, outboard motor race, upset race, champion club fours, champion club doubles and duck race. The officials of the races will be as follows: Starter, C. Fletcher Dyso; judges, W. S. Snow, George T. Bur- roughs and Ashby E. Bladen. Pagennt Association Meets, The first meeting of the Pageant Assoclation, which will give a pa- geant in September for the benefit of the playgrounds, was_held last night. Director Frank A. Steele read the play to be given. The pageant this vear, it was stated, will be bigger than anything of its kind heretofore attempted. During the month of June a total of $2,576 Treasury saving certificates were sold at the city poést office. This makes Alexandria the fifth city in the state this month in the sale of thesq stamps. MOSCOW OFFICIAL HALTS SEIZURE OF SYNAGOGUES MOSCOW, July_ 20 (Jewish Tele- graph Agency).—M. Kameneff, pres- ident of the Moscow soviet, has issued an,order prohibiting the further con- fiscation of synagogues. A state- ment to this effect has been made by M. Kameneff to a deputation of the Moscow Jewish community. M. Kameneft, it is said, also prom- 1sed the delegation that he would con. sider their plea for return to their original owners of synagogues and valuables already co! Heat Up to 129 Stops Business in Moroccan City By the Assoclated Press. MELILLA, Spanish Morocco, July 20—Commerce and social Intercourse here are at a standstill | because of the exceptionally great heat, the thermometer having risen to 129.2 Fahren- heit. TREASURYCHEES WARON AUTOT Demand Safety Platforms at Car Stops Be Replaced for Employes. degrees vigorous protest to what | Voicing are declared to be “dangerous” traf-| fic conditions on 15th street imme- | diately east of the Treasury, officials | today started a petition to the Dis- trict Commissioners requesting that | the safety platforms, removed fron 15th street, be replaced At early hour today. it was| understood, the petition had many | prominent signatures at the Treas- | ury building, and following its cir- | culation there, might be sent to oth- | ers in the vicinity, who accus- | tomed to boarding street cary at th points in question, i When the wooden platforn t of | the Treasury were removed from the | street safety isles were painted. Says Autoists Are Menace. Automobiles, however, it is alleged, flagrantly violate the safety zone, run- ning through and over it at will Later the zone was painted narrower, and a steel contrivance placed in the street to guide motorists to the edge of the zone. The loading places for passengers were declared today to have been made so narrow that w automobile traffic the car stop danger. Trafic at that point has grown s congested that passage to the safe 1f, it is poi an are Wednesda hospital hushand in ages The fune from the tnterment cemetery daughter county of the and from being aekville Tni Mrs wards was the Iin T. Johnson of this| Edwards is n memb ington police force. Auto Ride. Wa Al-Night Following ride. Miss Vel roll” A. Batten o Va. and Miss Junita Clevenger of Salem. W. Va. and Edward H. Doyl of Clarkesburg. arrived in Rockville | early vester in quest of marriage licenses. The ined t out difficulty and later in were the principals in a doubl ding at (Ger » this | Rev. il astor of the Church of- afterward 4 on the long a homes. | homes with | the knots lost their esburg. W, the day wed- »un the newly trip to their West The couples left the the intention of having tied in Cur but way_and fi concluded to co to Rockville. ~ They Insisted the were not runaways. Grifith Funeral. ! funeral of Mrs. Amanda B.| daughter of and Mrs Griffith of Da wn, this who died in a B ré hos- ally The Griffith, Julian county, pital on Tuesday following an opera- tlon, took place vesterday from the home of her uncle. G. W. lett, | at Gaithersburg. Rev. T Lowden, pastor of the Preshyterian Church at ng. Inte t at Darnestown. | issued by the court here for| Lelia A. Mus- | , both of tim | i Licenses have been clerk of the circuit the marriage of Miss selman and William Mely Washington, and Miss Florence M. Allnutt of Washington and Richard M. Clagett of Akron, Ohio. Benefit Lawn Fete. Preparations are in progress the annual lawn fete and festival for the benefit of St. Mary's Catholic here, which will be held in for composed of many members of the congregation. Those who will charge of the v Supper, Miss Ma 3 ice cream, Mrs. Harry G. Poss: soft drinks, Mrs. Joseph J. Matthews candy, Miss Lucille Fisher; fancy a ticles, Mrs. C. Kingdon: country store, Geary A. Fisher. There will be danc- ing each evening to music Washington orchestra. Courtney Payne, a resident of Bethesda, was before Judge Samuel Riggs in the police court there on a charge of violating the local option law of the.county by having intoxicating liquor in his ell- have rious tables are: | Louise Yearl by a young negro possession with the intention_of ing it. Deputy Sheriff E. V. C wood swore that he ted Payne's home and found seven half pints of corn whisky there. Payne claimed he bought the liquor for his personal use. Judge Riggs reserved his de- cision. St. Mary's Pienic. The annual picnic for the benefit Mary's Catholic Church at Barnesville, this county, was held Wednesday _and _aitracted several thousand persons from this and Fred- erick counties and other places. Father Ritchie, pastor of the church, was in charge, and he was assisted by many of the men and women of the congregation. was realized. On a charge of assaulting Thomas Bundy, colored, of Bethesda, this county, Roosevelt Brice, a young negro resident of the Bethesda neigh- borhood, was before Judge Samuel Riggs in_the police court here yes- terday. He was adjudged guilty and was fined $50 and costs. of St A handsome sum LETTER TO “RUM ROW” WILL NOT BE DELIVERED Collector Gets Missive From Scot- land for-<Liquor Smuggler on Coast. NEW YORK, July 20.—Phillip Elting, collector of the port, says that friends of men aboard liquor luggers off the three-mile limit are “rubbing it in” oh the customs and coast guard services. A letter given Mr. Elting for de- livery came from Scotland and was addressed to a man on a schooner on “Rum which caused Mr. liquor- row, Elting laden U. S. A to_remark: “The friends of the rum fleet boot- leggers are badly mistaken if they think the coast guard patrol boats are going_to deliver mail out there until the United States officlally an- nexes Rum row.” 1] C the grove adjoining the church the | evening of July 31 and August 1 and | 2. Rev. John T. Coolahan, pastor of the church, is chairman of the com- | mittee of arrangements. which is| D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923. A Shower of Gold! - STORM WARNING FOR WASHINGTON! On July 23rd a Trade Wind will strike Washington, sweeping all before it. On that day the brisk, breezy, appetite - regaling advertising copy of GOLD MEDAL MAYONNAISE starts in the leading newspapers of your city. 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