Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1923, Page 11

' wions, . Eamonn de SCORE BIRKENHEAD Snoke Entirely for Himse!f at Williamstown, View of British Press. | . i g { By the Assoviated Pross i LONDON, August The Earl of Birkenhead has received little sym- pathy froni the British press for the position in which he finds himself | as a result of the first address of his | American tour, delivered last Friday evening before the Intsitute of Poli- ties at Williamstown. In faet, the | press tends to heap couls on the fire | Jaid by Henry Breckinridie, assistant secretury of war under ' President Wilson, when he criticized the earl for remarks about Mr. Wilson. The Morning. FPost asserts that “the effcet of Birkenhead's injudicious remaris is to confirm the isolationists in the wisdom of their policy of tarn= ing their backs on I 2 i In an editorla; headed "1 Terrible Abroad.” the Daily New that the British do not like fcan tariff laws but would an_almost prohibitive tarift tmportation of former memt of 3 inets and a rigid custom examination of the contents of their lecture tour portfolios. The Westminster Gazette hopes ' that unduc importance will not be | attached to Birkenhead's words, as-| that there are few politicians at Britain today who now | %0 exclusively for _themseives enhead his paper | oints out the unfairness of arguing | hat Woodrow Wilson is the agent of | -war conditions | pe is what it is because of the | and misdeeds of those who | have activel uenced its develop- ment and who were by no means dis- posed to help Wilson when his power was at its highest,” it say The Daily Herald, the labor news- paper, offers an apology for the ex- chancellor, saying: “He has long been regarded as a national nuisance, and has now become an internationat danger.” ! w H n the t Has Some Defense. i Some of the afternoon papers. how- | ever, stanchly defend Lord Birken- head's remarks concerning Wilson. | and take the position that “too much fuss” is being made over the incident | in America. The says: “The addre that we should other than univ ruths.” “Birkenhead said no more ! sober fact when he spoke of Wilson's having hope us his principal equip- | ment. . International discussion must| become a meaningless formality if it | is not permissible to touch in the| gentlest fashion upon facts which do | not happen to be flattering. “The Americans ave a free spoken | people, but they prefer the free speech | 10 be on their own side. They have not vet attained '» the philosophic ha mind in which hmen receive th lectures of syfoots. bolshe- viks, Sinn . whols world- wide menagerie upon the' depravity of their own character and policy.” The same attitude i8 tak Evening , which cor the rem ‘Americ are mot very shy in delivering opinions of England while in this country. ! Roosevelt said some exceedingly | straight thir the Standard “And o have many American dors. As a rule such eritle been’ taken in good humor even if vigor- | | Pall Mall Gazette contained nothing ve thought to be ally recognized | than the | ously challenged is held that kind of inappropriate to such occi- ms impossible to impute the of courtesy to Lord WANT BRI:TONS DEPORTED. Tnles: m it smallest laj RBirkenhead." it o SW YORK. August —Resolu- tions calling upon the government! to deport Lord Birkenhead and Sir A. | W. Cope immediately. the former. { having blicly in=uited offigials o this country” and the latter for ticipating “in “the »lot to the United States into the natlons,” were adonted meeting tonight, held tion by the More than meeting. wus referred Lord Birke ng Smith 4,000 ttended the Birkenhead in the resolution head. formerly British attorney Sir Cope, formerly British undersecretary for Ireland, is.in this v to_arrange for a lecture tou by Lio: >rge. which involves him in the * ceording to the reso. Tutions. The meeting, con persons Lord to as asserted at t st8 of the advocacy President Coszrave of the Free State| binet of tha entry of the Iri rea State into the league, "It be helieved that the anuearance.of Cos- at Geneva would allay Irish opposition to the league in America.” ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., August pecial) —The supervisors of elections have given formal notice that democratic and re- publican primary elections will be held in this county on Monday. Sep- tember 10, to nominate candidates for the various offices to be filled at the November election. The polls will be open from 6 am. until 7 p.m. and will be at the following places: Laytonsville district—Polling place No. 1, storeroom of George W. Mob iey, Laytonville: polling place No. 2, building of Frank Dwyer, Layton- ville. Clarksburg—Both polling places in storeroom of Charles W. Gibson, Clarksburg. Poolesville—Town Poolesville. Rockville, precinct—Polling place No. 1. St. Mary's Hall, Rockville; polling place No. 2—0ffice of Wallace E. Rickeétts, Rockville. Second pre- cinct, officc of the supervisors of clections, Rockville. Colesville—Both polling places W. C. T. U. Hall. Colesville. Darnestown—Storeroom of Earnest Ricketts, Darnestown. Bethesda—First precinct, both poll- ing_places in public school buildin, Bethesda; second precinct, Library bullding,” Chevy Chase; third pre- cinct, Town Hall, Glen Echo. Olney—First precinct, Grange Hal Olney; second precinct, 0dd Fellow Hall, Brookeville. Galithersburg—First precinct, Ma- sonic Hall. Gaithersburg: second pre- cinct, St. Martin’s Hall, Gaithersburg. Potomac—Knights of Pythias Hall, Potomac. Barnesville—Both polling places in by | Hall building, first in * Grange Hall, Barnesville. Damascus—Both polling places in Jr. 0. U. A. M. Hall, Damascus. ‘Wheaton—First precinct, Hicker- #on's storeroom, Wheaton; second pre- cinet, both polling places in the armory building, Silver Spring; third precinct, Krouse bullding, Kensington: fourth precinct, both poiling places in basement of Preabyterian Church, Takoma Park. Mr. and Mrs, Joseph L. Clagett celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of thelr marriage by entertain- ing about seventy-five of their rela- tives an. friends at their home here Saturday evening. Refreshments were served and an enjoyable time general- ly was had. Mr. and Mrs. Clagett re- celved many handsome presents. ‘The Baptist, Christian, Methodist «nd Presbyterian churches of Rock- ville held union services in the Bap- t:#¢ Church last evehing. The ser- mon was by Rev. Marion R. Malone, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. A large congregation attended, By defeating Boyds, at Boyds, Saturday afternoon, 3 1o 1, Rockville took the lead in the Montgomery County Base Ball League and is now one-half game aheai of the team from the upper secti a of the county. Bethesda defeated Dickerson, at Methesda, 9 to 4, avs Glen Bcho won from Washington Crove, at _Glen Heho, 11 to X . @sending of teams: Rockville, 16-3; |five hundregd strong, with bands pl | machine | Dolance { battles will be refo | tor of the First Ba Tw. | of the company” which will be held in $1,500,000 Year As Movie Star | By the Assopiated Press. NEW YORK. August 27.—Baby Peggy, three - and - one-half-year- old film star of kos Angeles, has Just made a contract for a three- riod which will give her mual income of $1,500,000, a ng to Sol ser, with wh contract was mad A bonus of $300,000 additional brings the total amount of the contract to $5,000,000. MARINES START ON 41-DAY DRILL Leave Quantico for Maneu- vers in Shenandoah Valley. Wiil Return Through D. C. the Special Dispatch to The Star. QUANTICO, Va., August 27.—Thirty- ing and colors flying. the marin left Quantico today for a forty-one- day stretch of marching and maneu- vers, much in the same manncr in ) which they started a few years ago to the army bhack Germany They send German there Mauj commandant_ of n Smedley D. But- The “Ser: " Wood < wjeune, corps, and Brig. « 1er on horseback Infantry of Bellcau n s < of them. It will be October 6, b they see the base agaln. In meantime they will march through Virginia to Fort Deflance, a t and trek back via Washiggton Recalls War Scenex. The old embarkation point £oilroad n khaki a ar on_the Spectator round and watched while tr it and _auxiliary companies formed the order of march. hats and equipment, a fleet the light seventy-fiv into a panorama which brought Quantico town back from the aceful present to the hectic past It was the first time since war time that so large a force went through the staid Virginia town Bugles blew. Orders sounded. Gen. Lejeune and Gen, Butler led the wa and up the road that leads to Quan tico creek, eleven mile ts> marines on the f m b blended of the #rch. For the first few until the marching feet get accustomed to the \ew shoes, about ten or eleven miles a day will be that narching will pick up to fitteen miles a Up past Joplin road, on “through country near Manas- as, with its memories’ of Bull Run, icross. the Rappahanock at Remin ton, through Culpeper, Rapidan, Gordonsville, Charlottesville, to Fort they'll go. Arriving there o/ September 10, maneuvers stirt and a number of the civil war ght by twentieth tim céntury “devil dogs Here for Big Game. st there u 1 when they start th The route back will be v d Washington. The marines will come to Washington October ‘§_and pitch tents at Camp Meigs. The next day they will parude through the city, park their guns and equipment and the getown foot ball eleven stack up against the Marine team at the Chey'11 arch back. Leesburg ' to September | he {qus KANSAS Y TOGET OFFES OF V.., Convention at Norfolk Form- ally Adopts Plan Approved | by State Departments. Followers of John staged @ big rally here Saturday and last night, resuliing in the “morn- ing after” appearance today of more than sixty in Police Court before Judge Robert E. Mattingly. Silently the prisoners listencd to | the policeman give a description of | | their night-before antics and sol- |emnly the majority entered pleas of gullty. Some, however, disagreed with the policeman as to their con- dition, advancing the new argument that, although they had been drink- ing. they were not intoxicated In the majority of cases the judge owed his regard for the police- Barleyeorn | By the Associated Press. G VA, ty arters of the August Kans., as national Veterans of For eign Wars was the first act of 1923 Veterans of Forelgn Wars conven- | man's word a little more than he tion, which convened here today. The [man's word alittle mere than he council of administration of Veterans | S0 U, 07 81e qefendant and simply of Foreign Wars in executive ses-|offenders the judge off lightly und | OF STORE MAGNATE comprising an entire wing of the new | memorial building Development of the V Cyrus Adler Accused of At-| tack on Fifteen-Year-Oid ! Milwaukee Girl. t headq adopted of | by the adopted used the Foreign Wars was discussed buncil and resolu ling fc nation: various st up the o made duri crease th mately hesdquarters and rtments in buli on. Effort is tg coming vear smbership, approxi- 10,000, by 100 per cent resolutions adopted by cou of administration is ta mount to adoption by the convention of the encampment, as it is the rule of the organization to ratify action by the council. However, matters will be put before the convention proper in due course this week Acceptance of the Kansas City offer some 12,000 square feet of floor | t the new soldiers’ and sail- memorial structure as national rs for the Veterans of Wars occasioned no_ surpri matter had been thoroughl. out in the state depart tional committee sessions }old the of space ors’ adqu “oreign the hrashed ment and n By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August on guard today at the j Adler, v Police were home of Max president of Se Ro. buck & Co., whose twenty-four-year- son. Cyrus Adler, narrowly during the last three months. Only!escaped harsh treatment at the hands | action of the council of admin- | i : L . istration and ratification by the an- | Of relatives of a fifteen-year-old girl nual encampment convention ierehe was charged with attacking. needed to make the change of head-| policeman Redman P. Gibbons | ters from New York to Kansas.| X & fore adoption of resolutiony! Waved his revolver threateningly at recommending the creation of a spe-|the gathering crowd until a patrol American League Park, and take the boat back home the same day ALEXANDRIA. ANDRIA, Va., August 27 (Spe- Rev. Eugene B. Jackson, st Church t seven and a half vears, . norning tendered his resigna In his letter he asked that the gnation be accepted as soon as ible. Dr. Jackson has pted a to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Lexington, Va., at Wash- ngton and Lee University. He de- ires to be in his new charge with the opening of that university next month. The resignation will be acted on at a congregational meeting Wednesday night. Dr. Jackson since coming to Alexandria has won for himself a host of friend who will regret his departure. Under his pastorate the membership of the church has stead- ily grown and its financial condi greatly improved. It may be sev months after his resignation is ac cepted before the vacancy is filled by the congregation. The funeral of William Henry Cuen, a former resident of this who died Saturday afternoon at Gar field Hospital, will take place at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from ac Spiscopal Chuarch, this city. The funeral party will leave his late home, 1844 Mintwood place north- west, at 2 o'clock. The service be conducted by Rev. Edgar ter, rector of Grace Church, and W. Shearer, the latter of Was ington. ‘The deceased was fifty-eight yvears old and besides his wife, Mrs. Blanche McCuen, is survived by two sons, H. Tablot and James Lester McCuen. Mr. McCuen also leaves a_ brother, James McCuen, this city For many rs past M McCuen had been en- aged in the heating and ventilating business, conducting an establishment at 1016 Connecticut avenue north- west. Six years ago he retired from active participation in_business af- fairs. He was a Knight Templar and a Shriner. Members of the Alexandria Light In- fantry, numbering fifty, will leave at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning for Vir- ginia Beach, Va., to attend the fifteen d encampment with the Virginia National Guard. The company will be in command of Capt. Robert Thomas. Final arrangements for the trip will bo completed tonight at the regular drill pas- for the armory. All of the company’s equipment to be used on the trip has been packed and today was placed in a-baggage car; which will be attached to the train to- morrow morning. The majority of the members of this command are new re cruits. Now that the fruit season is over, seventeen crews in the yvards at thé Potomac railroad north of this city have been let out. This means the dis- miesal from the services of these:yards |' of about eighty-five men. Each season, during the shipment of fruit, an extra force of men is employed at the vards. The annual gupper for the benefit of St.” Adthony's Chapel, Baileys Cross Toads, Fairfax county, will be given tomorrow evening, on the lawn of that church. Many members of the congregation of St. Mary's Catholic Church, this city, propose to attend. i cided {the {hers of the V- 1 used | Fifty ‘IL S { him to com ver. ring troubl Adler. it is ‘ volve rrowly escaped serfous H {injury at tie hands of the girl’s rela- tion { | their pla; {MAN LOSES LIFE cial fund for broadening the organi-|wagon came with reinforcements and ation. several plans were presented.y,ok the voung man to the station. Ly members of the council. Th . were | Young Adler a few minutes before | d fully and a plan finally de-ipaq backed out of the home of the upon avored plan is fo aunt with his revolver pointe d to be S LR girl's aunt, with whom she had from her home in ibeen on a visi I Milwaukee, flled char; of carryving W08 concealed weapons statutory Trhe | charge alloeq ! Last Wednesday evening, the girl's A A 4 o Mrs. Julia Lieberman, told the ini new posts and- building up others | yited the girl and a (riend, strangers Pt Kl R nnitonsia Ak wenRe Sty itomobile. The girls accepted feattwenty urday afterncon Adler called up e girl and Mrs, Lieberman asked exclusively ‘for organi. per cent of the fund is to be allotted to national headquarters for n_developing the organizat sparsely organized _territory. other per cent is to be and Ive IN'WILD WEST PLAY Fire Gets Beyond Control Before Boys Can Untie Chums Bound at Post. BELMAP, August 27.—A | juvenile “Western drama” with “live | Indians” tied to the stake ended in| grim tragedy in Wall township near here last night when two sixteen year old lads were burned fatally while tied to a tree by two companions in Moderate Prices Do Not End While August may Charles Spindler and William Hub- ard were the victims of the game of “Indian.” They permitted their com- panions to tie them to a tree and “burn them at the stake The others, Richard Foreman, six- teen, and Caleb Hubbard, eighteen, brother of the younger Hubbard boy. bound the lads to a tree and lighted a fire, the police say. The flames spread and before the nervous fiingers of .the boyvs could undo their com- Yanions’' bonds, had got beyond con- trol. A passerby succeeded in freeing the boys, but both died soon after being taken to a hospital. | entirely satisfied both and the prices asked. FURNITURE SWIMIMNG CANAL James " Costello Decides to “Swim Across and Back”—Sank Unseen. Bed Room Suites Console Tables Desks Davenport ‘Waste Baskets \ A decision to “swim across and back” in the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, two miles above Great Falls, yesterday cost the life of James SPECIAL SALE OF insure their sal Busses will leave the corner of King and Washington streets. The body of Mrs. Mary Belle Grif- fith, seventy-one years old, who died at 1428 Decatur street northwest, Washington; was brought here yes- terday afternoon and buried in Ivy Hill cemetery. — e Boyds, 16-4; Washington Grove, 11- 8: Bethesda, 8-10; Glen Echo, 5-14; Dickorson, 2-18. Next Saturday Bethesda plays at Rockvllle, Glen Echo at Washington Grove and Boyds at Dickerson. Mrs, Virginia Hilton of Rockville, has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Gladys Marguerite Hil- ton, to Mr. Henry E. Prentiss of Al- stead, N. H.~ Thc marriage will take place’ early’ in Seplemberpy Costello, twenty-five years old, a former resident of Georgetown, but more recently employed on the Ford Gold Mine farm, between Potomac, Md., and Great Falls. Costello was bathing in the canal with friends. He started to come out, but decided to swim again across the canal and back. No great attention was paid his movements. Friends did not see him when he sank and it was two hours before his lifeless form was dragged from the canal. Costello is survived by a wife and two children, who live on_the farm ‘where he was employed. The funeral will be at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon from the-Methodist Church at Potomac, Md. 9x12 ft $10.50 8x10 ft. 10.00 7.6 x 106 ft. 10.00 3x6ft 4.6 x 7.6 ft. $8.25 Store Hours, Daily, 810 5 Closed All Day Saturday More Than 60 Face Police Court After Week End of Intoxication | whisky were | saw W. & ]J. SLOANE 1508 H STREET, N. W. (Opposite the Shoreham) month of special sales of Furniture, we intend to continue our present moderate prices over the entire purchasing season. Visit and inspect our stocks—make your own comparisons—feel no obligation to purchase unless convinced as to the value and do this at your own conve- nience. We are confident you will bé There will always be found a wide selection in Windsor Chairs Book Cases These have been marked at prices which will Imported Belgian Rugs 8x10ft.$21.50 7.6x10.6t.$21.50 6x9 ft.$14.50 , MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1923.° PAPERS IN I.UNI]UN Baby Peggy Gets Fence Erected Around Unknown Soldier Tomb at MRS. WILSON LEAVES |uerd’s vec oo vuei'oci g | REPORT BANK FUGITIVE orde sonal d the clerk recognizance behave themselves Those charged to take their per- that they would in the future. with fptoxication numbered both white and colored, and men and women. Many walks of life were represented and many kinds of deseribed. Those loc up for intoxication numbered twenty-one. The collateral list contained about sixty names. Of | this number. however, a few more than forty answered to their names when called. The others left their collateral at the police precinct and did not appear in court. While this number does not set a | new high mark in the number of rests, it is considerably higher than it has been for some time. The lower | branch of Police Court tried prac tically no other charges today. All the cases had been heard, but the clerk had said the words so | often his lips kept repeating the POLICENAN GASSED BY SMOKE SCREEN Rum Car Escapes After Re-‘ leasing Cloud, Causing | Temporary Blindness. A smoke screen contalning gas | that caused temporary blindness and severe nausea was employed by boot- | leggers to escape capture when their automobile was being overtaken by Motor Cycle Foliceman G. C. Deyoe of the tenth precinct. Deyoe spied the car in the neigh- borhaod of 16th and Buchanan streets about § o'clock yesterday afternoon. Upon noticing that its occupants were moving about suspiciously he started | to draw up close when the chauffeur | him. In an instant the machine | sped away, but the officer opened | the throttle of his motor cycle wide. He was rapdly overtakng _the| supposed bootleggers. he reported, | when a great cloud of heavy smoke was suddenly emitted from the ex- | haust _pipe, completely veloping | Before Deyoe could turn out of | screen his eves began to | severely and severe nausea | pped him. He barely had time to | stop before complete but temporary lindness overtook him. { Deyoe recovered in a few minutes but the bootleggzers were then out of | ight. According to the policeman’ tory the smoke screen was lald down so soon after the chase started that he did not even have time to obtain the number of the fleeing! utomo! Théir escape, apparent- was complete. of our Furniture with August be considered the in the variety offered Dining Room Suites Sewing Cabinets Centre Tables Tea Wagons Tables SUMMER RUGS le this week 6x 12 ft. 6x9 ft 4.6 x 7.6 ft. $2.25 $9.50 7.50 4.50 4 x 7 ft. $8.25 Freight paid to all shipping points in the United States. Sloane Endorsed Merchandise Carries an Assurance of Satisfaction ON NEW ENGLAND TRIP Wife of Former President to Be Gone Week—Indicates His Health Is Better. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the former President, left Washington last night for Bosto n route to Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin, at their sum- | mer home, | Accompanying Mrs. Mrs. Jumes M. Helm. The trip will be the first of any duration since the illness of Presi- dent Wilson, four years ago. Except to attend a dinner in compliment to Lord Robert Cecil in New York re- cently, this is the first time that Mrs ‘Wilson has left the side of the former President. At that time she was away only twenty-four hours. Con- sequently this trip is being taken as Wilson was 1z CAPTURED IN MEXICO By the Awsociated Prens, SPRINGFIE Mass., August Dispatches received here today, be lleved to be authentic, teil of the ar- rest in Mexico of Joseph B. Marcino of Chicago, allas Blata, alleged arch- conspirator in the robbery of $213.06) in securities from the Iirst Natior Bank of Warren, Mass., 1 v It was sald that the an indication of the improved health '. of former President Wilsos ton for Marcino's Woodward & Lotheop DOWN STAIRS STORE Charming Fall Dres manner. of— Poiret Twill All the approved Fall materials, with knife pleating, embroidery. ses that reflect the Fall tendencies in a decidedly smart Good-looking dresses with worlds of style about them, tailored Satin-Face Crepes Trico-Kanton panels and braiding. New sleeves and neck lines contribute to make these dresse so desirable. In Navy Fall Coats 15 s Black and Bro wn—they are unusual values at $15. DOWN STAIRS STORE Autumn Hats New Fall Sports Coats arc made with pockets ous gener- and sleeves and full swing- ing lines which make them A favorites. coat of this warm, soit plaid late e = hali with Tan—Brown The brown may be had in striped ef- fects. value at DOWN STAIRS STORE into or even all winter. full lengths, full flare backs and belted and unbelted models, full or Venetian Double breasted, side and new sleéves that make them popular. may be worn the season, In Lyons Silk Duvetyn Velvet $40 7 5 Felt A very remarkable assemblage of the smartest of Fall Millinery that is new and attractive in the Fall Millinery world. All the new shades are included. Sand, wood, bottle green, deer, brown, copen, porcelain blue, black, navy, pearl, and black and white combination. You will want to see the new Chinese tams, the smart cloches, helmets, turbans, pokes and off-the-face models. 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This price is special. 4 Boys’ Tennis Lace Shoes, $1.45. 20 pairs with rubber soles in sizes 12 < .. to 3%. DOWN STAIRS STORE Continuing the Sizes August Sale Winter Coats $28, 338, %48, %60, $80, $100 Coats that are rich and beautiful and authentic in style, at prices much less than they will be later on in the season. In all of Fall's approved styles featuring the side-tic and straight belted coats All of the coats but the very lowest priced ones are trimmed with fur collar: and cuffs. All are beautifully lined. DOWN STAIRS STORE