Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1923, Page 2

2 * DEMAND FOR LABOR DECREASING HERE Nearly 256 Per Cent Drop Noted During Past Week Over Previous Period. A marked falling off in calls for skilled labor and unskilled labor dur- ing the past week was noted by the Washington officé of the United States Empoyment Service, the Labor Department announced today. The employment office placed 578 appli- cants for jobs last week, a falling off of 23% per cent as compared with the of Naval Officers ' Presides in Trial | previous week. ' There is at present a tendency to ease off In calls for both skilled and unskilled labor in Washington, ac- cording to R. M. Plikington, super- intendent of the local employment office. A surplus of clerical and sten- ographic workers exists, with prac- tically no demand for any but the most skilled workers. While there 18 no cause for pessimism regarding the local employment situation at present, Mr. Pilkington said, by winter there may be a large surplus -of workers over demand. The situation has been aggravated by a recent lay-off of more than 100 plate printers at the bureau of print-! ing and engraving and a check In con struction activities in Washington. Some of the jobs 'offered unskilled workers are unattractive because of the distances from Washington. Employment conditions throughout the east generally indicate a surplus of workers, with a noticeable de- crease in demands for men in the metal trades and a falling off in the call for able-bodied laborers in the Boston district. There i8 a con- siderable surplus of common labor in the Philadelphia district, while depart- ment stores in Philadelphia are taking on_additional employes. Outlook for winter in Callfornta is not encouraging, with the supply of common labor greatly in excess of de- mand and indications that there will ! be more unemployment this winter than last. COURT FORMALLY LISTS THIRTY-ONE NEW CITIZENS Applications for Americanization of Aliens Are Approved by Justice Hitz. Thirty-one new American citizens were created today by Justice iHtz of the District Supreme Court, who acted favorably on the application of thirty natives of different sections of of Europe and one from Asi Among the new citizens were three American women who lost their citizenship by marriage with foreigners. Mrs. Theda 8. Laber married a Rus- sian and now wants again _to be an American. Mrs, Laura K. Bayo was wedded to a Spaniard, and Mrs. Lulu F. Booth became the wife of an En- glishman. The other candidates came fice from Russla, four from Italy, two from Greece ‘and one each from Sweden, France, Germany, Armenia, Turkey and Hungary. -ITALY MARKSANNIVERSARY OF AUSTRIAN ARMISTICE Ceremonies Begun With Masses in All Cities—Mussolini Prays at Unknown’s Tomb. By the Associated Press. ROME, November 5.—The fifth an- niversary of Italy’s armistice” with Austria was celebrated throughout the country yesterday with imposing ceremonles. In every city the cere- monies began with the holding of special masses for those killed in the war. In Rome the mass was held in the Church of Santa Maria Degli An- gell and was attended by members of the government and a distinguished array of army and navy officers. Aft- er the mass there was a pilgrimage to the tomb of the unknown soldler, on which Premier Mussolinl placed a wreath and knelt for several min- utes in prayer. Thege was a grand aerial display during the afternoon, when the pre- mier presented the Italian air force with its official colors. The officers ‘were dressed in their new uniforms of dark horizon blue, trimmed generou: ly with gold braid. The enlisted men of the aerial force also presented a smart appearance in uniforms of the same color with red insignia. POSSES SEEK INDIAN SUSPECTED OF MURDER By the Assoclated Press. LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, November 5.—The cotintryside armed itself today | VICE ADMIRAL H. A. WILEY. Sitting in court-martial trial of eleven officers involved im wrecking of seven destroyers off Californin coast. MEASURING VALUES IS BISHOP’S THEME Rt. Rev. Dr. Freeman Sees Ten- dency to Consider Principally Outstanding Features. The ‘tendency of measuring values by conspicuous and outstanding fea- tures instead of their Intrinsic quali- ties was deplored by Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, at Mount St. Alban yes- terday afternoon. “The whole tendency of our time,” said the blshop, “has been to unduly magnify the conspicuous and out- standing things. The standards by which we measure eflicient service are largely commercial. We are too much impressed with quantity and too little with the quality of service. “Our youths today are being told to measure sucoess by the volume ex- pressed in material value that ac- crues to their effort.” Discussing the service rendered by persons “inconspicuous but very val- of service has become so broad in our time that the genius of the prophet has so far waned that it has become less and less evident. We shall hardly have a revival all along the line until we come once again to appraise the true worth and value of those who render high-grade but inconspicuous service.” FAILS TO SEE HOPE IN WHEAT REPORT (Continued from First Page.) against the wheat farmers for de- manding government al ald for them- selves alone;—for “class rellef,” in other words. “There are countless precedent he said, “for emergency measures in our economic life. The national and state governments have not hesitated, in times of grave emer- gency, to take unusual steps for relief of unemployment in industry. ‘What ails the wheat-growing indus- try is fundamentally unemployment. Just as conditions sometimes throw vast numbers of artisans out of em- ployment, conditions during the past year or two have been robbing wheat farmers of their livelihood. They are being compelled to desert the farms. They are losing their farms by foreclosure, because of their in- ability to pay taxes or liquadate mortgages. Surely, in the case of so basic an industry as agriculture, ‘class rellef, if you please so to call it, can be justified. Needs Purchasiag Power. “What 1s vitally and immediately necessary in the wheat country, how- ever, Is the placing at farmers’ dis- posal, by some means or other, of the purchasing power wherewithal to meet their urgent needs and obliga- tions. They cannot go on as they are. If they must do so, the social and economic results, already de- plorable, will become disastrous. The other day, when the investment bank- ers were in convention at Washing- ton, I was asked, as Minnesota iTepresentative, by dozens of men to ‘explain Magnus Johnson’ What I Johnson, the man, to the Senate uable,” the bishop declared “the fleld | 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (¢, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 193 mony on Grounds of Lin- “coln Memorial. Mrs, Calvin Coolidge planted {first tree when she assisted Henry Churchill King, president of Oberfin | College, Ohio, in placing a tree toddy on the grounds of the Lincoln Me: rigl. " Both she and Dr. King were Dresented with certificates of member- ; hip as tree planters in the American Tree Association, whi¢h is registering all the tree planting throughout the | country. - Many - Oberlin graduates | witnessed the ceremony, which is 1of a world-wide. program of tree planting in honor of the Oberlin eim which has stood at the corner of the | i college campus for more than two hundred years. Oberlin will in 1933 { celebrate its centennial. Dr. King, who was a member of the commission on mandates in Turkey, spoke briefly: on the importance bf ! tree planting and what the tree with | its ever-renewing life typifies. Tids, afternoon —at the University Club | there will be a receiption for Dir. King, the committee for which 1is! Willlam Howard Taft, Herbert Hoovar | and Theodore E. Burton, an Oberiin | alumnus. Tonight at the Church bf the Covenaut the Oberlin Associatign will give a dinner for Dr. King. At {this dinner Homer Johngon of Cleva- | land will be one of the speakeis. | Yesterday Dr. King spoke at the Frst | Congregational _ Church and Cl_il;lrch of the (70‘:"‘1\;6 l} 'he committee in - charge gfi AT rangements {s Mrs. L. P. Lahm, E"H, Van Fossan, Liste A. Smith, Waye B. Wheeler and E. Dana Durand. BELLEAU WOOD HERO i * HOME FOR BURIAL Body of Private Boswell, Who Died in France, to Be Given Military Honors. FRANKLIN K. BOSWELL. The body of First Class Private Franklin K. Boswell, who had been “missing in action” since the battlé lot Belleau wood in 1918, arrived in Washington this morning from New York. He was the only local boy ‘to |arrive with the last shipment -from France. The train bearing the body was /met at the Union station by members of the American Legion. His whereabouts had been unknown: since he was reported missing, fol- | lowing the battle, and - his grand- mother, Mrs. Mary E. Fowler, 918 4th_street southeast, tried in vain to_find out something about him. - The body was taken to-his grand- mother’s home today, at which place funeral services will be -held by the Seventh-day Adventist -'Church to- morrow at'l oclock. Interment will ake place in e Arlington ci with milltary honor SRR t the age of seventeen Private Boswell enlisted National Guard In 1917. overseas with the 161st the 41at Division and was teres ool signed to the 9th Infantry of the 2d Division, with which he was serv- ing in the Belleau wood drive. years in the He left for and formed posses to aid provincial |safd was that the sending of Mngnus;KNICKERBocKER c i 0. (#nd mounted police In hunting down # Joe Blackhorse, a Blackfoot Indian, sus- pected of the murder of sixteen-year- old Winnie Tollestrup of Raymond, whose charred body was found among the embers of a strawstack on the Dahl farm last Saturday night. Before the crime was discovered Blackhorse had disappeared from the nearby Indian reserve, taking his wife and family with him. ~Police belive he hit across the border headed for the |t Blackfoot reserve in Montana, just across the line from Cardston. Blackhorse is the first Indlan to be suspected of @ serious crime since the ploneer days of southern Alberta. October Circulation 92,306 rict of Columbia, s. m'"'mloxfl NEWDOLD, Business THE EVENING and SUNDAY STA) e 0r the parer et i g per o Sted during the month of Gctober, A.D, 1923, ‘was as fol .: e of Coples. 'I.U.l 2,541 91,361 92,583 1507 93,410 92,535 | Less adjustments..... daily net circulation. &E'iif'“.:.r’.}‘: ‘net pald ol fiy*"av averaxe ' number of coples for service, etc...... Total Sunday net oirculal Av&rl-.ltrlao ot paid Sunday Average number of coples for service, etc..... 'A'Jm Sunday net circula. lon 5 ?.uun doesn’'t mean anything. What does mean something is the state of mind his election denotes. It is a symptom of ungovernable unrest in our farm- ing country. With that symptom we must find ways of dealing, in remedial sense, if the wind that h been sown is not to be reaped as whirlwind. The people have lost con- fidence in political leadership—broad- ly speaking—and have no confidence 11 in our economic leadership, Indeed, they see no economic leader- ship. That is one of the states of mind reflected by Magnus Johnso: election, too. There has got to be more thinking in terms of practical economics at Washington, and term precinc :::;n&w;nlle—hopell to l\lr;lve. The lor economic inkers, ni political phrase makers.” sl Urges Higher Tarifr. Representative Anderson, who ad- vocates a 50 per cent incre: in the tariff on Canadlan wheat as an emergency measure of tangible value to the wheat farmer, has just for- mally applied to Chairman Marvin of the Tarif Commission, for the in- vestigation provided for by law. The elastic provisions of the Fordney- McCumber tariff act g:mlt the exist- ing import duty to be raised by not exceeding 60 per cent, if, after in- quiry, it is determined that the dif- ference between the cost of produc. ing American wheat and Canadian warrants it. Mr. Anderson says th difference is enormous. He sees the primary need of the wheat-grower in controlled ac: Something like 57,000,000 acres of wheat are now un- der cultivation in the United States. He thinks 52,000,000 or_ 53,000,000 would be ample. Also, in Mr. Ander- son's opinion, & reduction of the num- ber of wheat farmers by as many as a million might be an economic bi 135. “The world surpl today,” he concluded, “is around 200,- 000,000 bushels. It is likely in the immediate future, with countries like Russia coming back into the market, to increase rather than diminish. The limitless virgin acres of Canad: and Argentina one ix will be grow- ing wheat. ganized selt-control is our problem.’ (Copyright, 1923.] RABBIS PLEAD FOR COURT. In keeping with the resolution adopt- d by the Central Conference of Ameri- mmu‘:tmmm-g International Justice, Dr. Abram S8i- é-.a'-.-n-mum to- UPHELD BY COUR Plea Limiting Damages That May Be Collected for Boy’s Death Is Sustained. Justice Slddons of the ‘District Su- preme Court today sustained the con- tention of Attorneys Wilton J. Lam- bert, R. H. Yeatman and E. T. Bell for the Knickerbocker Theater Com- pany that Mrs. Josephine T. Lyman; mother of David H. Lyman, seventeen years old, who was killed in the dis- aster, cannot recover damages she gustained by the death of her son. The court, however, refused to hold that the suit brouffil by the mother as administrutrix of her som should be jabated, but limited the amount of recovery to the loss sustained by the boy’s _father, David H. Lyman, sr. who died three months after the col- lapse of the Knickerbocker roof. According to the ruling the father was the sole next of kin of the boy and the only one entitied to recove: for his death. As he died three months after the boy, recovery is limited to his loss during that inter- . Attorneys Archer, Chamberlain & Smith representing the mother not- ed an exception to the portion of the decision limiting the recovery. INDICTMENT UPHEL DESPITE VARIATION ‘The conviction of William Cady and Roland Clifton of housebreaking by ing into the ge of Edward L. lenn, in rear of 1616 R street north- west, was sustained tdday by the District Court of ‘Appeals in an opin- fon by Chief Justice Smyth. -~ ° Counsel for the accused claimed a variance between the indictment and the proof, in that the indictment charged that the men entered -m Shen Svidence. showed that b5 his permission it was also used and ocoupied by another person, ~Th court held that the purpose of th law in requiring the name of the person l:eo:pyln: t.l' Mgl.lnm t; stated negative 3 to the defendant’from & 880~ Hgtger i f&'.‘:’-‘.'.. and g i prove that a person other than the de. fendant occupied and used i T |Brow on- Friday, lost it agai {CRITTENTON DRIVE | - SECURES §100,000 i ‘More Expécted Toward $200,000 Quota - From _.Checks Now in Mails. _The, campaighers for the Florence | Crittentdn’ Home passed the $100,000 mark today.in the final dfive re- ports. More than half of the §200,000 quota was. raised, and it was report- ed that checks.and pledges were in | the mail which would materially boost the total. As a result of this contingency it was decided tp contimue the efforts 1of the forty-two.teams of 250 work- Mrs. Coelidge and Henry Churchill King, president of Oberlin College, Ohio, planting the first college tree on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial. They were presented with certificates of membershj, the American Tree Ansociation. The planting is part of a program of tree planting by former students of Oberlin College throughout the world, following the call of Dr. King. Mail", Plane Pilots in Constant Touch With D. C. Perfection of radio recelving and transmitting apparatus to a Point whereby officials of the Post Office Department in Washington may communicate with pilots of mall planes flying in any section of the country was announced to- day by an- official of the depart- ment. The possibility of such a feat was demonstrated _succesafully Saturday by Jack Knight, an air mall service pilot. when he flew over Washington, keeping in con- stant communication with Post- master General New by telephone. The newly developed transmit- ting and recelving set used by the Post Office Department does not require the service of a radio op- erator_jn the plane, the pilot o erating it while in’ the air. The bulky apparatus formerly used on VY FLYER'S SPEED OF 274 MILES AN HOUR BRINGS CONTEST EDICT (Continued from First Page.) “stop” order ‘Washington. F T]lf)" cheered up, however. when definite arrangements were made for them to fly tomorrow, wing to wing,! m a twelve-kilometer race at the air carnival here: for the Army rellef - Authorities at the fleld made it plain that one trick which more than any other had endangered the flyers’ lives must be eliminated. That is diving from a tremendous altitude to pick up speed before darting across the starting line. Aerial Zev-Papyrus Race. Yesterday Williams, who once.dove 9.000 feet, came within ten feet of death when hig plan, traveling at! more than.250 miles an hour, just managed to straighten out before reaching the ground. Tomorrow's exhibition fs expected to be even more thrilling from the spactator's point of view than yes- terday’s, for whereas in the last few, days the birdmen have been racing only against the clock, tomorrow they will engage in an aerial Zov- | Battling for speed supremacy in the alr, Lieut. Willlams and Lieut. Brow all but flew five miles a minute ye. terda; Willlams, setting a new ‘world’s record, won the contest with an average speed of 266.6 miles an hour over a three-kilometer course, although Brow on one leg of the flight traveled faster than ever ma; flew before, racing with the wind at & rate of 274.2 miles an hour. Six times in the last three days the two fiyers, pitted against each other, have smashed world's records. When they meet again tomorrow in the air carnival here, the much sought rec- ord of five miles a mi be e s nute may | ‘Win and Lose Homors. In the contest yesterday Willlams captured the record he had lost to in to Brow and recaptured it just as dusk was setting in. In his first flight he attained an’ average speed of 263.3 miles an hour. Brow a few minutes later surpassed this when he flew at the rate of 265.69 miles an hour over the course, reaching, on his final leg ‘with the wind, the phenomenal ed of 2742 miles an hour. Willlams again took the air, and, swooping from a height of 9,000 feet, four times crost the course for an aver- age of 266.6 miles an hour, winning again the world's record. ‘wice Willlams narrowly escaped death. In his first flight his machin diving from a height of several tho sand feet, almost touched earth b fore he recovered, and on thé final I & crash with a fleet of Martin bomb- ers was barely averted. “Closest shave of my life” was thi terse way Williams put it when came down. Brow found no thrills when ‘he made the second flight of the day. A}l he had to say of his 274.2 miies an hour, was: Plane Works Perfeetly. "Ilh 3’“;‘;‘."" Everything went ex- actly 0. E* did nder & m& ;“‘,l-ll summer sky, ax two_planes of bright .marine bl ‘were whéeled ‘out on the fleld. Wi Mams climbed:fnto-his stat and in & fow_seconds.was in the air. When he landed, he:had captured Brow's l-;:::. shook hands, offered con- tulations and then hopped into s own ship. When he descended, it was Willlams’ turn to dispense ' the congratulations, This he did more n"fin:’:’- I have to take it away from was received from you again tomorrow, Harold,” he said. | into a bigger ship for -an. . it . over . the Tore. ot ihs. game iueh %o 'fl: '-'u the homefolks had to wait. He craned his neck out of the cock- tional Photo. Office by Radio the planea, it was pointed out, oc- cupled valuable freight space. By _using the new apparatus, if an official of the department here desires to communicate with a pilot who is fiving over Omaha. he would establish _communication with_the mail service station in the Nebraska city on the long- distance telephone. The radio operator at that station would im- mediately transmit the message from headquarters to the plane in the air. Alr mail service stations are now in the coast to coast mail route, 200 miles apart. From the time the pilot leaves New York until he lands in San Francisco, he will be able to keep up a constant conversation with the varlous stations. giving his position, etc. and receiving advance storm warn- ings, emergency instructions and official orders. slgaver, and only #: helmet;. e climbed into acer again. Away he went and when he came down, he was again champlon. “Great_work Al cried Brow. “Well, Harold, we're having a lot of fun Bnyway,” replied his rival as the | two clasped hands. Then Willlams looked around for | his coat, collar and tle. The tie for a | moment’ was lost, and this seemed to | concern him much more than his two narrow escapes from death. ] Again correctly garbed, he climbed into another machine and sped away toward the Bronx for his exhibition fiight. 1 When Willlams started his: second | fiight he climbed 9,000 feet before he swooped to cross the line. He de-| scended like a stone dropped from the clouds. Then, just before dusk, the Aber- deen bombers suddenly loomed up on the horizon ard drifted lazily across | the field, thelr pilots ignorant of the fact that the speed tests were in progress. Willlams at the moment was high In the air. Squaring away, | he darted across the field. Racer an bombers were converging at right; angles. Hundreds held their breath. It; seemed a crash was inevitable. One of | the bombers had alighted and the, others were just settling when the little blue bullet shot clear through, them. Williams did not flinch an | ch from his course. There were | rv few feet to spare. . “Could you see them? newspaper men asked when Willlams later stepped out of his plane. “Sure/* he_said, laughing. “Didn't you hear me shouting to you to get them out.of the way?”’ On his first flight, Willlams covered the course twelve times before he was satisfled; 'His average speed for the total of twelve kilometers was figured from. his fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth attempts: , Brow. contented himself with just four trips. for where on some of his flights Wiiliams had been disqualified because he did. not cross the line at just the right altitude or for some other technicality his rival, on the other hand, displayed the greatest acouracy. He descended after his fourth flight because signal panels spread on tHe fleld advised him he had smashed the record. Statistics of Flights. ‘Williams took six flights on his last attempt. His record was figured from the last four. The statistics follow: 3 | WILLIAMS (First Flight). Attempts. Seconds per leg. Speed on leg. & v 551" 1 4 . 2 . .5 This gave Williams an average of 263.3 miles per bour. Average speed, 265.69 miles per hour. WILLIAMS (Second Flight). Both aviators were spattered from head to foot with oil and dust and their faces were covered with grime. _A feature of yesterday's flights, ac- cording to officials of the National Aeronautic Association, was the per- fect functioning of the new duralu- min propellers, buiit of an alloy of aluminum, copper and tin upon a hub of steel. FORMER GOV. LOWDEN WITNESS IN LIBEL SUIT By the Assoclated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr.. November 5.—For- Frank ©. Lowden of Iiiipols with t hlal' bean. call the Fille: . Eckhard Filley, in & farm libelous ata ‘of “hers to “BETTER SPEECH" WEEK IS OPENED Campaign Begins in Colored Senior and Junior High Schools. ‘With special exercises the pupils in the colored senfor and junior high schools today began the.observance of “Better Speech week." Assem- blies were held this morning at Dun- bar and Armstrong High schools at which the speakers emphasized the importance of better speech. Miss Lucy D. Slowe, dean of women at Howard University, spoke at Arm- strong, while Mrs. Coralje Franklin Cook, member of the board of educa- tion, addressed the Armstrong stu- dent body. B The ceremonies at Shaw Junior High School were opened this after- noon with an address by Ernest Just. ‘The Randall Junior High School will hold special exercises Friday after- noon at 2:15 o'clock. Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University will speak. A better-speech play by the players’ guild of Dunbar Wednesday after- noon will be a feature of the observ- ance of the week at this institution. Students of Armstrong also will pre- sent a play Wednesday afternoon en- titled “A Magic Voice.” 3 Teachers of English in these schools will supplement the more formal pro. gram by classroom exercise aimed to 'mphasize the need of self-directing efforts to attain grammatical ac- curacy, adequate vocabulary, effective composition and pleasing tones. Tags bearing the legend, “Pledged for Bet- er Speech,” will be worn by the stu- dents, and printed coples of “My Lan- guage,” by Charles Swain Thomas, will be distributed. Posters designed nd executed by the art department will be shown. The program, which Is under the general direction of the department of English and history, was planned by a special committee of teachers.of which Miss M. P. Burrill .of Dunbar 1s chairman, with Miss Adams of Armstrong, Miss Pelham of Shaw and im:u E. R. Clarke of Randall, assist- ng. 3 —_— VET HOSPITAL CRITICS . SCORED BY REPORT (Continued from First Page.) the tuberculosis case “manifestly was an effort to clear Dr. Rogers’ skirts” in the original finding. Senators wanted to know if Dr. Rogers had fixed Dr. Ballard’s rating, and Dr. Smith said he had made the recommendatiol ‘To support his conclusion that in- rance policies have been rein- stated not only on insufficient evi- dence, but in violation of the law, Dr. Smith cited the case of a regular Army officer who died recently of cancer. This officer notified the bureau he .would not continue his policy for $10,000, but a year later, after cancer had developed, he asked for reinstatement. He meantime had been serving on active duty. ‘The witne: said the officer .had “influential friends.” The policy was reinstated, he declared, as of a date predating that on which the officer became totally and permanently dis- abled. . After his death.- payments on the policy were begun, but have been stopped as a result of investigation. Chairman Reed wanted to know who approved the reinstatement, and Smith said the memorandum bore the initials of the assistant director of the insurance division, whose name was not stated to the committee, He added that a report had come in the name of Director Frank T. Hines that the Initials of Charles R. Forbes, former director, were on the memo- randum, but that he personally -had been unable to identify the initials as_those of Forbes. Discussing irregularities in the re- habilitation work, Dr. Smith told of the case of one veteran having a eon- tagious disease who was placed in a market in Baltimore selling fruit to the public. This was .after the ve}erln had refused to go _on with hi# rehabilitation work of ralsing chickens because he had to care:for them on Sundays. A ripple of laughter ran argund the committee room as Dr. Smith told of the cdse of a former prizefighter ‘who is being rebabilitated as a sale: 'man- in gents’ and ladies’ furnish- ings. The veteran claimed he was suf- fering from neurssthenia and was for . AT work. After {ers throughout . this week, although there will be no more luncheon meet- ings or team gatherings -held. |, The campaignheadquarters, how: ! ever, will remain open every day dur- !ing the week: from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for | { workers in the drive who wish to re- | turn subseriptions. Exacfly $100,832.82 was the total ! raised during the week's campaign- ing. A meeting of the board of man- agers of the home fs being held this afternoon to determine the disposition | lof this short quota and to lay plans for the continuance of the fund-rais- ing work. Rev. Isaac Ward dellvered the ad- dress to the workers at today’'s luncheon meeting. He urged them to continue the work with optimism and fundaunted courage, to charge off the mortgages of disappointment and wipe away the Halloween ghosts of discouragement of the last week and to start anew today with new hope, fortitude and faith in themselves and in the work. —— WILL UPHELD LIMITING EXECUTOR TO 3 PER CENT Bank’s Appeal for Larger Compen- sation Fails in Dis- trict Court. The Washington Loan and Trust Company, executor under the will of Samuel L. Phillips, prominent rail- road millionaire, is bound by the pro- vision of the codicil to his will which | 1imits the commission of the executor to 3 per cent, according to an opin- fon of the District Court of Appeals affirming the decision of the Probate Court. The will had provided a com- | pensation of 5 per cent for the execu- | tor, but by his codicil Mr. Philllps re- duced the amount to 3 per cent, de- claring that the duties would “con- sist almost exclusively of cutting o coupons from bonds and the receipt | of checks from corporations, duties | involving no trouble and quickly per- | formed. The trust company advised the| heirs that in its opinion the codicil was not binding and proceeded to ad- minister the estate, and on present- ing its final account sought compen- sation at 5 per cent. Objection came from the beneficiaries of the estate and the matter was submitted to the justice presiding in the Probate Court. He held against the executor and the company appealed. The appellate court today sustained the ruling of the lower tribunal. PLAN FOR FORMING BAND AT EASTERN HIGH HALTED Organization of a band at Eastern High_School for the 3d Regiment of the Washington High School Cadet | Corps which has been under way for the last month, was halted today when _school military _authorities learned the War Department would be unable to furnish the necessary instruments. It has been the policy of the War Department to loan its surplus band instruments to the cadet musical or- ganizations, but the supply has been exhausted. = The bands of the 1lst and 2d regiments stationed at Central and McKinley High schools, respec- tively, are using the surplus Army instruments. Lieut. Col. Wallace M. Craigle, U. S. A., professor of military science and tactics in the high schools, esti- mates that it would cost approxi- mately $1,500 topurchase instruments for the proposed 3d Regiment Band of twenty-eight pleces. As there are no school funds available for the pur- chase of instruments for the cadet bands, it is likely that the 3d Regl- ! ment of the Cadet Corps will be with- out its long-sought musical unit. NEW HEAD OF ITALTAN NAVY. NAPLES, Italy, November 5.—Vice Admiral Fredo Acton is soon to as- sume command of the Italian naval forces, in succession to Admiral Solari, who has been designated president of the committee of admirals. Admiral | Acton will transfer his flag to the dreadnought Conte di Cavour at Spezia on December 1. PIMLICO ENTRIES FOR TUESDAY. FIRST RACE—The _Catonsville chase; four-year-olds and up; purse, $3, two miles and & quarter, 13 fThe Trout. Five pounds olaimed for rider. ;J. B. Cosden entry. SECOND RACE—Two-year-olds: _claiming; putve, F1800; Ave and oRealf furlongs: 1 F1ags.ivinns e Fl i o 1;.&“,.... g e Mg tiia tes ;: Stable entry. B Conden optcy. . 'TH RACE—The for all ages; L R g v B R XL 116 Rhinegold . 3 B . Al « 11 ,‘gm 11e 90 105 95 m SIXTH RACE—The handicap; $10,000 T T waralds. aad up: one and by s T v m S50 Sonods penalty. | SEVENTE RAE—Thresyearolds nd ‘.__,,m‘-.‘m; -':'n.m“-!'-'n! long. 18 i veee 118 . 10 |under the sun, from the i3 |are sbringing —_— TALKS and TALES" With and About CAPITAL’S GUESTS “Time heals all things.” Back in 1836, when Santa Anna and his 1,600 merry Mexicans were de- feated and captured at the battle of Ban Jacinto, one of Sam Houston's 783 victorious Texans was Dr. Arthur M. Dignowity of San Antonlo, as in- trepld a fighter as ever handled “shooter.” Gen. Sam sald o a Gen. Sam knew. For the past forty years his sor, Col. James V. Dignowity, owner of vast mining interests near Monterey {and Chihuahua, has lived among thn people his father fought and todav there is not an American in all Mex- ico regarded more highly. At the outbreak of the civil war Dr Dignowity, driven from the Lone Star state with Houston, Throckmorton |and other abolitionists, came to Wash- | ington, where he practiced his pro- fossion and enjoyed the friendship of Lincoln, Seward and other noted northerners. He afterward roturned to his beloved Texas to die at San jAntonio and be burted ‘neath tho shade trces of Dignowlity hill, still a point of interest In the great southwestern commonwealth, Todzy Col, Dignowity comes Washington, not banished by the peo+ ple with whom he has spent the besg | years of his life, but to consult with the government ‘about his many poss sessions and to bring the glad tidingy that conditions in Mexico are daily improving since friendly relations were resumed with America. Time has been most generous with Col. “Jim" Dignowity, despite his strenuous life, and were it not for recent accident his powerful fram - and buoyant manner would sugge a man of fifty instead of seventy-fivis as the big Texan may be. When visit- ed in his rooms at the New Ebbit House this veritable glant cocked his game foot on & chair and for more than an hour talked on everything pride _ ho took in his only son, James V. Dig- nowity, jr, a Harvard graduate, now an expert electrical engineer with the Puffer soda fountain manufacturers of New London, Conn., to his radio lead mines near Chihuahua, Mexico, which are almost invaluable since the advent of radio. Boiled down Col. “Jim” Dignowity thinks: ra of Mexico s hat Brownsville ought to make & good a to boy, Creago ambassad Washington ha: much since my last visit. That Texas democrats are none too much smitten on Senator Oscar UR- derwood for the presidency. That President Coolidge is well hought of both In Mexico and Texas, and should be given a fair chance. That he s not familiar with the working of the Ku Klux Klan, but thinks if they are any good and can shoot they should be formed into a national constabulary to drive from these shores all European borrowers. That prohibition Texas of today fs vastly different from the old times when a man would be shot if he re- tused to licker-up. And that he has learned to love the Mexican people and will return to his gstate when his business here is fin- shed. changed Sunday afternoon must be the timo when former state governors pay their respects to other former state governors visiting the city, for seated in the far corner of the Shoreham Hotel lobby Thomas Hardwick, ex- Governor of Georgia, and Mrs. Hard- wick were receiving ex-Gov. T. E. Campbell of Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Campbell, and all scemed to be happy and in the best of good spirits. Said the former Governor of Geor- &ia to the former Governor of Ari- Zona—now wait a minute—Iit wasn't what you are thinking about at all. That subject uppermost in the minds of the old Carolinian chief executives has long since become taboo among all state and national officials—yes, former governors included. The truth of the matter is the lit- tle party seemed so congenial and laughed so heartily that it would have been most indelicate to intrude on their privacy. On bidding the Hardwicks good-bye, however, Gov. Campbell did say he would be glad to express an opinion on conditions in his home state if seen later In the day_at his apartments in the Hotel | La Fayette. “Arizona is going along quietly, taking the bitter with the sweet, and conditions In general may be said to be in fairly good shape” said the dis- tinguished-looking former official of the great copper country, when visit- ed later at the La Fayette Hotel. “You know we are optimists down in Arl- zcna and it takes more than a few financial knocks to get us depressed. ““Of course, copper has been off for some time,” continued Mr. Campbell “You know we produce 40 per cent of the copper used in the United States. and when prices drop, which th have to almost 12 per cent below a profitable production cost, we feel it. A reduction of 50 cents’'a week in labor wages was necessary later and reductions are never welcome. “The cattle men, too, have been having their troubles, but sheep raisers are happy. Cotton also has been a life-saver to our agriculturists and has helped wonderfully to bring lance.” A a b Bout the political situation. B the present administration is democratic, as vou know, and Me- Adoo is a great favorite wjth our democrats. He has invested in yeal estate in the valley, comes to tho atate frequently and hlready McAdoo clubs have been organized to bopst fia candidacy for the nomihatibn. Yes, he is strong in other states eut our'way. I think I could say atleast Olxteen western and southwestern States aro In favor of his somipajion The Arizona delegation will' tin- oobtedly go instructed fox. the former Secretary of the Treasu) ining_strength 9 15 iy manner and if the con- tention were held today he would rizona.’ ATy Aampbell is here ag a member of the recently appointed fact-finding gsion selected by S s o *TnvestiEate all reclamation projects in the west. He will be in the city at least two months. Fortunately for these United States that such is true, it's absolutely im- possible to squelch the pride of the right sort of American citizen in the wonders and achifevements of his na- tive state. The man from California bit extravagant in.de- e ™ine beauties of that fairy- fand, but his enthusiasm s nons the I re moticeable than that displayed by the son of little Rhody when he gets the floor. ng into Harvey F. Carr, fosl!:lx::lflfefldan( of the New Jersey Bar Association, 8s he brushed through the lobby of the New Willard Hotel, nothing would do, after greet- ings had been extended, but that the wonderful progress of the “Wet. the-ocean” state be related ‘in' detail. “Oh, we are going at a remarkable ace up there” exclaimed the ngted awyer, as his eyes beamed. “In Camden, my home, the Victor talk- ing machine people have just erected a building occupying a ecity block, and all around it smaller structures Y‘D llke mushrooms. Summer travel has been wondérful, resort hotels doing extraordinary business, factorles all toottg and what crops we have, fine.’ Mr. Carr had backed agaihist the glass _case that covers 'a model of the ZR-1 dirigible by this time, and turning to see Wwhi retarded -his 98 | movements, caught, a glimpse of the model, and mex}“l;l:m out ~ anew. “Made In. New 3 ts, completed at Lakehurst, six .‘.,':‘lfi:‘m&m Lakewood—oh; you can't hold us down. The New Jersey man then gwitched off on South America and the basutle. T R g returned from 2 THE MIXER.