Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1923, Page 2

RGANZATIONASK " ADEQUATE HON Association of Oldest Inhab- itants Joins Other So- cieties in Quest. The inadequacy of the old Union engine house, at 19th and H streets northwest, as a meeting place and as | a display place for valued articles of historical fiterest has brought about a joint movement by the Association of Oldest Inhabitants, the Columbia Historical Soclety and the Soclety of [/ Natives of the District of Columbia to find ways and means of obtaining | a buildink’ suitable for the purposes of the three bodies named. The project will involve an expenditure of approximately $100,000. A committee of fifteen, flve from cach of the respective organizations, met last evening at the headquarters of the Oldest Inhabitants, in the en- gine house, and after discussing the matter decfded to report back to their respective organizations that a gen- eral proposition for the securing of a suitable building for the needed purposes of the three bodies be en- tered into and that other organiza- tions be invited to participate in the undertaking. Property Owned by District. Tt was said that while the Asso- clation of Oldest Inhabitants was in no immediate danger of being ousted from its present meeting place, there is no certainty as to when the Dis- trict government will decide that it needs the property for other pur- poses. It also wag polnted out that the quarters are éntirely too small for the large number of historical objects in possession of the associa- tion. The walls are completely cov- ered with pictures, banners, flags; old newspapers, ancient fire-fighting implements, helmets, badges and oth- er relics (too numerous to allow of proper display), while the closets and lockers are stacked high with books and manuscripts and the engine room contains the old hand-pump engine, chief's carriage and other objects, of interest not only to members of the asgoclation but also to the thou- sands of visitors to the National Cap- ital. The Soclety of Natives has been en- deavoring for several years to pro- cure a permanent meeting place with factities for exhibiting its vast amount of museura material. Re- cently the Columbia Historical So- clety, it was said, was required to glve up its headquarters and the many articles of historical signifi- cance belonging to this soclety are now stored in some place deemed in- accessible. Both of these organiza- tions welcomed the opportunity to co-operate with the Oldest Inhabit- ants’ Assocfation In obtaining a site in a central location on which could be erected a building along appro- priate lines. to meet the requirements of the respective organizations, in which could be located a floor set apart for a museum. Reports on Loeation. William F. Duhamel, chafrman of the joint committee and a member of all three of the societies interested in this movement, presided at the meeting and reported on the various | locations avallable, together with the_ cost thereof. Dr. Benjamin W. Sum- my spoke of the honor roll estab- lished by the Assoclation of Oldest TInhabitants, wherein a number of members had made donations toward such a project, and sald that it is entirely probabie that as soon as the movement is well under way many persons would come forward with financial assistance. Dr. G. M. Brum- baugh stated that the Genealogical Soclety would be eager to enter into the general scheme of a permanent headquarters. It also is sald that the Sons of the American Revolution, the Daughters of the American Revolu- tlon and other bodies have expressed a desire to affillate with a movement such as Is being carried on by the Association of Oldest Inhabitants, the Columbla Historical Soclety and the Soclety of Natives. 1,500 Jotntly Comcerned. | There are about 1,500 members in the three societies jointly concerned. and it is reaiized what a huge task is set before them in raising the nec- essary funds:to complete the propo- sitlon, but it is planned to elicit the support of other organizations and individuals through bequests in wills, legacies, ‘etc. 2 The joint committee, of which Wil- lam F. Duhamel is chairman, is com- posed of the following: Assoclation of Oldest Inhabitants, William Me- Nier, Albert Harper, A. K. Parri E. Briggs and Dr. Benjamin W. Sum- | my; Columbia Historical Society, Al lan’ C. Clark, Henry P. Blair, Henry . Dr. Ira_W. Dennison and | F. Regis and ‘the Soclety of Natives of the District of Columbia, { Joseph 1. Keefer, Washington Top- | ham, Mrs. G. W. Evans and Miss M. | B. Morris. { A subcommittee was appointed by Mr. Duhamel, composed of Albert Harper, A. Parris and F. Regis Noel, to act with the chairman, in drawing up the report to be submit- ted to the three organizations. Aj meeting will be held early in De-| cember and it i8 expected that the three societies will favor the report of the joint committee and some defi- nite plan of action will then be map- ped out. 7,000,000 INCOMES FROM | $1,000 TO $25,000 ARE AFFECTED BY TAX CUT they will get from another source| minus the tax. In the end what may appear to a| man to be an investment at 7 or even | § per cent interest turns out to be an investment at 314 per cent, and when that is the case the wealthy man puts is money in tax-exempt securities at 4 per cent or higher. As for the railroads, they must keep their charges to the public on freight and passenger rates high enough to earn money to pay these interest charges. In this indirect way the public, according to Treasury officials, is saddléd with burdens and the gov- ernment doesn’t get revenue from the wealthy which it ought to récelve, as & consequence of which the persons of lower incomes must pay a larger {jured, probably fatally, when an au-| Six-Year-Old Boyl Confessés Theft Of Automobiles So small iIn stature that he had to stand up in order to operate the pedals of an automobile, a six- year-old colored boy, Robert King, confessed today to having stolen a number 6f automobiles from in front of the Union station. Offi- clals believe him to be the young- est and smallest auto thief on record. Tho arrest was made yesterday by Detecti*e Berry of the sixth precinct, who had parked his auto outside ' the Union station and upon returning found his car rapidly moving away with the boy standing up and driving it. The child gave a wrong addrehs: and is being held at the house of deten- tlon pending investigation. He de- clared he often took. automobfles on joy rides.and parked :them downtown. LAWYER INDICTED INLARCENY CAS Robert Lee _Montague Accus- ed of Misappropriating $119—0thers Face Trials. Robert Lee Montague, lawyer and former bank president,.was Indicted today by the grand jury on a charge | of larceny after trust. According to the indlctment, Dr. L. C. Phillipus) | June 20, 1922, gave Montague a check for $119.80 with which to make payment of a balance due under a second deed of trust on property own- ed by the doctor in Virginia. The check was cashed, it Is stated, but the lru‘!{ was not satisfied. Frank Newton, colored, Is charged With murder in the first degree in an | indictment reported today to Justice Bailey, Newton is sald to have shot to | death Theodore Jackson, also colored. following a quarrel with Sil i son, brother of the deceased, Green's court, near 27th and streets northwest, May 28 last. Accused in Army Theft. | Bringing stolen property Into the District is allbged against Morris Kessler, said to have been u tailor at Fort Myer, Va. He is charged in an indictment reported today with bring- ing across the river a quantity of Army blankets which soldiers at the fort are saM to have stolen. The grand jurors ignored several charges presented to them. Cl arges of assault against Robert F. Camp- | bell, Theodore Turner, John T. John- | son'and Cornell Robinison wera drop- ped, and the following were also ex- onerated: Ruth Robinson, grand lar. ceny; Christobal Cabezzo. seduction; James Lavane robber: Conway Lucas, housebreaking; Thomas Robin son, grand larceny; and Vasalos Stra- tako: Peter Karantzalis and Jamu Levanes, rape. ! Return Other Indictmen I Among other indictments réturned'| and the charges made were: Richard Moore, jr., and Otin Childs, housebreaking and larceny; Francls Garner, Mary Davis, alias Mary Haw- kine, Jonn _Roundtree, Florence Roundtree, allas Sis Garner, Charles Williams, -alias Sonny Willlams, Ar- thur Davis and Edward Starks, alias Henry Starks, violation Harrison ant!- narcotic act; Robert Butler, assault! dangerous weapon; Willlam V. Her- | ron, joy-rinding; Floyd Armstrong, | grand larceny Theodore Briscoe, at. tempt to commit robbery: Frank Noel, alias Frank Bell, robbery; Winfred | Coleman, assault dangerous weapon Robert Fortune, Louls Proctor, Jesse | Ford, Richard A. Washington and Jack' Gray, robbery; Lorne L. Platt, | non-support; Roscoe Pippin, grand larceny; James F. Ammerman, em- bezziement. i i 4 KILLED, 1 INJURED | IN TRAIN-AUTO. CRASH | | I Farmer, Believed to Have Rounded | Curve at Corner Without Seeing Locomotive. ! i | | | i By the Associated Press. HUDSON, N. Y., November 14.—Four persons were killed and one was in- | tomobfle was struck by a fast New York Central train at Mountaindale | crossing, near here, late yesterday. ‘ The dead are: Fred Whiteman. a farmer of Philmont; Mrs. Miller, his housekeepe: Mrs. Miller's flve-year- old daughter, and Mrs. Ashbury Ding- man of Metlenville. Ashbury Dingman was brought to the hospital here in a serious condi- tion and physiclans said they doubt- ed he would recover. Witnesses sald _that Whiteman | drove the car round the sharp curve | and on the tracks before the ap-| proaching train, apparently without seeing it WASTE PAPER IN SCHOOLS STIRS COMMISSIONERS | Refuse Division May Be Ordered to Collect Trash-:Ac- | cumulations. | « Accumulation of waste paper and other trash in some of the public schoo! *buildings led Commissioners Oyster and Bell to confer today with a view to having the city refuse di- vision clean out the school buildings. The matter was brought to the at- tention of Commissioner Oyster by Fire Chief Watson and ‘Fire Marshal Seib, The fire chief said he was un- easy over the fire risk involvel in| allowing waste paper to remain in he schools. At the District building it was said that in the past refuse has been re- share of their earnings than they might otherwise. The fight for tax revision has only begun., President Coolidge I8 resery- ing comment till his first address to Congress, but it now has become cer- tain that he will put his stamp of approval on the plan to revise taxe and make it one of the features of his program. SIR JAMES BARRIE'ILL. LONDON, November 14.—Sir James Barrle s in a London nursing home suffering from what is characterized as “uw slight Indisposition” At his residence it was sald that the con- dition of the eminent writer was by no means serious and he was having a rest.” The announcement of the author's illness came as.a complete surprise, as it had been withheld from even his_most intimat lends. wn‘.'t’:;y aid T wes' KuNUTICE. fontn mo; - e was suffering from a nervous breakdown brought on''dy’ overwork. e moved from the schools through an arrangement with private individual As a result of the fire department’ complaint it is probable that the city trash collectors will assist in keeping the schools clear of rubbish in future. CALIFORNIA JUDGESHIPS PUT UP TO THE PRESIDENT Senator Shortridge Presents Ques- tion of Filling Vacancies and Choosing U. 8. Marshal. Appointments to two federal judge- ships in California, made vacant by deaths, and to the office of United States marshal for the northern di trict of California were considered by President Coolidge today at a con- ference with Senator Shortridge, re- publican, California. The three offices are expected to be filled soom after the cenvening of Congress next month. Senator Short- ridge and his colleague, Senator John- won, have not yet arrived at an agree- ‘ment on recommendations. > -man, died yesterda: JUNIOR HIGH STUDY COURSES PRAISED Ballou Reports Decided Im- provement Since System Installed in D. C. Establishment of the junior high schools In Washington has served to peovide ‘an opportunity for a thorough revision of the courses of study | usually found in grades seven and’ elght of the elementary schools as well as those in the first year of the high school, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, pointed out In the second section of his annual report made public today. The junior high school courses of Study, Dr. Ballou explained, have originated with the teachers who are to use them. “Such utflization of the knowledge, ability and experience of teachers has the advantage of bwild- | ing up a practical course of study | based on classroom experience, of se- curing sympathetic understanding by the teacher of the course when adopt- ed and of affording helpful stimulus and proper encouragement to the teaching staff which must follow from such professional recognition,” sald the superintendent. The report touches briefly on the extension of the junior high schools in Washington from 1919, when two such institutions were organized, un- til the present time, with four in operation and two new ones almost ready for occupancy. In these four years Supt. Ballou said these schools have increased greatly in size and prestige. A thorough explanation of the plan adopted for qualifying teachers for the junfor high schools is given in the report, with an outline of the efforts of teachers to prepare themselves to teach In these schools by taking spe- clal courses. FORBES DENOUNCES AS LIE CHARGE HE AIDED CONTRACTORS (Continued from First Page.) denial that he had ever accepted “a penny” from Mortimer. 3 That is absolutely a lie,” he said of Mortimer's story about the $500 bills in the Drake Hotel. “It's a lie,” “It's false” “It's ab- surd,” the witness repeated time and again as he was questioned about other details of Mortimer's testimony. Asked if Mortimer had loaned him $1.000 or $1.500 after the westérn trip Forbes replied in the ncgative. “He never loaned me a ‘bean’” he repeated, “nor did 1 asx him for any.” Dentes Drinking Parties. What about drinking parties on the acific coast trip?” asked Easby- mith. “I know of no drunkenness on that trip except Mr. Mortimer."” Forbes re- plied. “I swear to God there was no carousing or anything wrong on that itrip.” He aiso denied any knowledge of a eode for use on the western trip in which he was said by Mortimer to have had the designation “McAdoo. “Did you ever write a letter to a woman In Stockholm, Calif k- ing her for her hospitality?’ ed shy-Smith. 'No,”” was the reply. “I did not write the letter that has been put in evidence here. That language is a little bit too far up the gulch for me.” The witness explained that it was customary for his secretary, M. L. Sweet. to write formal thanks to persons who entertained the officlal party and that the letter in evidence bore the initlals of Sweet. “Now. what about Mortimer's story about vou and a lady friend jumping into the lake at Hayden Lake?” asked Easby-Smith How does he know': there?” Forbes answered. Then he explained that he and some riends went on a fishing trip in the ftergoon and that there was a sug- gestion that the party go bathing. Forbes said all were roughly dressed and that he jumped into the water, which was about three feet deep. Calls Assertion Absurd. Forbes then denied Mortimer's story that the former dierctor had said on the western trip that he was to suc- ceed Albert B. Fall S the Interior and make a clean-up” on reclamation con- tracts. He characterized as “absurd” the asserticn of Mortimer that an agree- ment had been proposed by which the Hurley-Mason Company _and the Thompson-Black Company of Chicago were to divide the western territory on hospital contracts with the profits split” three ways and with Forbes sharing a third. Why how could that have been proposed?” Forbes asked, “when all of these contracts were being han- dled by the War and Navy depart- ments at my request?” Forbes said ha met J. W. Black on the Pacific coast trip and also C. B, Hurley of the Hurley-Mason Com- pany, whom he had known for many ears. 1 telegraphed Hurley to meet me in an Francisco,” he said, “as I wanted %0 discuss a number of business mat- ters with him\ We did_ talk about contracts for the hospitals, as we had a perfect right to do. 1 used to be assoclated with his company, and I told him that before he could get any contracts he must satisfy the govern- ment that I was no longer interested, directly or indirectly, in his company. “He did get a contract for the American Lake Hospital and 1 was glad of it. He was a fine builder, as the Army well knew. and always did splendid work,” Forbes responded. Reverting to the stay in Chicago, Forbes flatly denied tRat there had been any party in his suite at the Drake. He raid he left the hotel in the early morning to inspect «the Speedway Hospital and the Marine Hospital and did not return until late in the day, because at the conelusion of his tnspection trip he had a con- ference with officials of a Chicago firm, who had made him an offer of a position at $20,000 a year. MURDER MISSION ENDS IN ARREST OF NEGRO Tells Police He Came Here to Kill Man Living ‘With His Wife. . Detective W. E. Owens, on duty at the Union Station, last night arrested Roland Butler, colored, who had come to this city from Rochester, Pa., for the purpose, he said, of killing Lanler Roy, colored, alleged to have been living with Butler's wife here since she left her home recently. In addition to arresting Butler Detec- tive Owens arrested Roy on a charge of violatlon of a statutory law and the wife,on a similar charge. W e S CHARLES A. GREEN DIES. Long Illness Fatal to Retired Busi- ness Man. Charles A. Green, Te wasn't retired business t his home, 1340 22d street northwest, following an illness of more than a year. No an- nouncement for the funeral has been made. Mr. Green wi ington and was sixty-four years old. He was for many years in_the gro cery business at 20th and M streets northwest, retiring several years ago. He was a member of the K. of C. and Anclent Orded of Hibernians. He is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. Lizzie D. Green, Mrs. W. V. Grifin, Edward A. Green and Leo W. Gree 4 letters of | Upper left: Mrx. O. H. P. Belmont, president of the Woman’s Party. Up- per right: Elsie Hill, chnirman of the national counell of the Woman’s Party. Lower left: Alice Paul, who is to present the equsl rights’ program to President Coolldge. Lower right: Ml memorial ceremony. DR. MANNT0 OPEN EPISCOPAL SYNOD Pittsburgh Bishop Will Preach at Epiphany Church Next Tuesday. Rt. Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the dlocese of Pittsburgh, will be the preacher at the opening service of the seventh synod of the Province of Washington, which will be held in the Church of the Epiphany on Tues- day morning, November 20, at 10 o'clock. Bishop William Cabell Brown, D. D., of Richmgnd. Va, who is president of the synod, will read his annual ddress at the business meeting, which will be held in Epiphany Par- ish Hall immediately after the serv- fce. This session will be attended by the delegates to the conventions of womeu's organizations meeting in this city at the same time, as well as by the fifteen bishops of the Epis. copal Church and the 104 clerical and lay deputies from the thirteen dio- ceses in the five states which com- pose the Province of Washington. There will be no special speakers &t the meeting of the synod on Tues- day afternoon. At 2:30 p.m. at St. John's Church, 16th and H streets northwest, Mrs. Marcellin C. Adams of Pittsburgh, provincial president of the Woman's Auxillary, will make her annual report Wednesday-Thursday Sesslons. Sessions of the synod and of the woman's organizations will also be held on Wednesday and Thursday, be- ginning at 9:30 am. In the morn- ings organizations will meet sep- arately -in the different churches in the central part of the city, but in the afternoons joint sessions wiil be held, at which the men of the snyod and the woman.delegates will- meet together. The joint Session on Wed- nesday afternoon-will be held in the ethlehem Chapel _ of _the National ‘athedral, on Mount St. Alban. Each evening -there will ‘be a great mass meeting to which the public is invited.” On Tuesday and Wednesday these meetings will be held -in the Church of the Epiphany, and ‘on Thuraday evening in St. John's Church. s Hazel MacKaye, in charge of the CITY FIGHTS CLINIG FORBIRTH CONTROL Chicago Replies to Suit to Compel License Brought by Society Leaders. By the Assoctated Press, CHICAGO, November 14.—A birth- control clinfe, if permitted to oper- ate, might result in injury to public health and public morals, according to an answer fifed by Mayor W. E. Dever and Health Commissioner Herman N. Bundesen in circuit court, where a petition to compel the city to issue a license for a birth-control clinic was recently filed by a group of Chicago soclety women. Mrs. Helen G. Carpenter and others, seeking to establish the clinic, re- sorted to court action when they were refused a license by the Health com- missioner. The city's demurrer that the women had not complied with the law in detailing the methods they Proposed to advocate was overruled. Disastrous results to the welfare and morals of the community would result from the dissemidation of in- formation in public to married peo- ple, the mayor and health comm sloner assert-in their answer. knowledge, coming. to the attention of unmarried people, would encourage fmmorality, the city's officials con- tend. FAMINE RELIEF SURPLUS GOING TO COLLEGE Will Be Available for Ten Years in Case of Renewed Chi- nese Starvation. | By the Associated Pre PEKING, November 14.—The sum of $900,000 in gold remaining In the treasury of the Lamont committee for famine relief s to be apportioned between the universities of Nanking and Peking, as endowments, three {auarters.of the amount going to the former and the balance to the latter. The local famine fund committee, The meeting Tuesday night will be [headed by C. R. Bennett, manager of addressed by Rev. William E. Gard- |the International Bank, has approved ner, D. ., execut: department of religlous education of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, on “The Youth Movement.” and by Rev. James S. Russell, D, D, principal of St. Paul Industrial School, Lawrenceville, Va., on “Religlous Bducation Among the Negroes. Son of a Slave. Archdeacon Russell ié the son of a slave, but shortly after the civil war was educated by a Virginia frlend and attended the Hampton Institute and the Bishop Payne Divinity School. He has received the degree of doc- tor of divinity from the Virginia Theological Seminary, in Alexandria, the first negro to be so honored and one of the few honorary degrees ever conferred by the semiffary. He has built up almost entirely by his own efforts a prosperou. industrial and normal school for colored boys and girls, and In which, during the past thirty-five years, six thousand young people_have received training. On Wednesday evening the mi meeting _will be addressed by Rev Charles N. Lathrop, executive secre- tary of the department of Christian soclal service of the National Coun- cil, on the subject “Soclal Service Work of the Church.” The mass meeting on Thursday |take a two-month rest. Then, perhaps | denatured alcohol. evening will be held in St. John's Church, 16th and H streets north- west, at 8 pm., and will be given over to a consideration of the con- dition of the church in Japan since the recent earthquake, The speak- ers will be Rt. Rev. H. St. George Tucker, D. D., Bishop of Koyto, and the Rev. C. S. Reifsnider, L. H. D., president of St. Paul University, Toklo. LOWDEN SAYS KLAN CLAIM IS “ABSURD” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 14—Frank O. Lowden, former Governor of Illinofs, upon his return here yesterday, term- od “absurd” the statement attributed to Ku Klux Klan leaders at Fort Wayne, Ind., at & recent Klan meet- ing that he “is how a candidate for President of the United States on the platform suggested in the official August, 1922 e Lowden said it was the. first he had heard of the statement and immediately “F'm not a he declared, the Tadiana realm before. I idea what platform theyre ‘-"-:;;’5 about, . “mot {A- the- presi race; 5o there can be mo platform.” - e secretary of the |plans submitted by the universities for use of the fund, which includes measures for the prevention of famine and co-operation of the existing famine relief organizations, for a periodiof ten years. HARVEY HERE TO CONFER ON MATTERS IN LONDON George Harvey entered upon a series of conferences here today with President Coolidge, Secretary Hughes and Frank B. Kellogg, his successor as ambassador to London. Amgng the subjects considered was the recently negotiated agreement with Great Britain giving the United States the right to search rum- runners ouside the three-mile limit. Mr. Harvey has not disclosed his future plans. One official to whom he has talked since his arrival last night to become a White House guest, said the retiring ambassador first would he will announce his business and po- litical decisions for the immediate fu- ture. How soon Mr. Kellogg will proceed to London remains undetermined. FELSEET S S WINS CARTOON PRIZE. William Walter Given Top Award by Capt. Bairnsfather. William Walter, 487 H street south- west, won the first prize in the car- toon’ contest conducted in Washing- ton by _the famous British cartoonist, Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, while ap. pearing at Keith's Theater last week. One thousand dolla. in prizes offered by Capt. Bairnsfather to the non-professional cartoonists of the United States and $250 will be the first award. Other winners were Charles , H. Wardlaw, the Rochambeau, second prize, and L. Sartorius, Y. M. C. A., third prize. The awards here were $25, $15 and $10. DIES SUDDENLY AT HOTEL. a native of Wash- | publication of the-Indiana realm, in | 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. : EASTON, Md., November 14.—Wil- llam Merrick, fifty years old of Wil- mington, Del., special representative to adjust claims against dlell suddenly at the Hotel 1 |the b! CARE OF DISABLED SOLDIER SOUGHT Citizens’ Committee of America Meets Tonight to . Discuss Plans. The citizens' committee of America will discuss plans for the care of the Alsabled soldier at a meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the American Red Cross building. The meeting will be under the auspices of the local chap- ter of the Military Order of the World War, and will be presided over by that organization’s senior vice com- mander, Rear Admiral T. J. Cowle. Besides the requested attendance of m;, v-rlo;n civic, patriotic and frater- nal organlzations the general public is urged to turn out in full for the pur- Pose of bringing to their attention the lack of care that is alleged to,be meted out to the disabled veteran. ' Following addresses by Director Hines of the Veterans' Bureau, Pres- ident Gompers of the American Fed- eration of Labor; Dr. Thomas Green, of the Red Cross, and Rear Admiral T. 1. Cowle of the Military Order of the World War, a resolution will be offered covering the question of cor- rection In the methods and super- vision of all the government hos- »itals having in charge the recon- struction work of the disabled war veterans. I It 4s emphatically stated that the meeting will In no sense be for the purpose of condemning the Veterans' Bureau, but to enlist the moral sup- port of the American public in better hospitalization for the wounded men and to correct any existing evil. The Navy Band will furnish music for the occasion. GREEK KING STAY By the Associated Pre LONDON, November 14.—The Brit ish government has instructed its charge d'affaires in Athens to inform the Greek government that, while it has not altered its opinion with re- gard to the evil effects of the return to Greece of the late King Constan- tine, it does not entertain a like view concerning the present king, who, it belleves, capable, with proper sup- Port, of re-establishing Greece in ‘the &00d oplnion of the allfes. Although the British government has not the slightest desire to inter- fere in the interal affairs of Greece, offictaid Li-e declare that royal de- thronements, revolutions and politi- cal feuds are not calculated to win back allied support to that unhappy country. = Greece, they say, is one nation” that Premier Baldwin had specifically fn mind when, In"his Guild- hall speech, he said: “These states must work out their own destiny. They are all or nearly all impoverished by war and they will need financial aid for their re- habilitation. ~ But when _their agent comes knocking at the door, in Lon don, or wherever it may be, the first question that will be asked and the first guarantee that will be required will be that of internal order and se- curity.” —_————— D. C. LIQUOR SUPPLY GROWS MORE DEADLY liquor offered Lor sale contained a large percentag® of fusel oil. The grand jury there, it was explained, is golng Into the matter to arrive at alcoholic liquors. Scores of deaths Baltimore officials attributed to drink- ing polsonous liquor. Washington's “dangerous” bootleg supply is curiously represented on {the top floor of the Treasury, where lrboratory and storehouses are | filled with samples, which have been tested and which are going through the proce 3 That the quality of this bootleg supply is rapidly deteriorating is also the opinion of . William V. Linder, {chief chemist of the internal revenué bureau. Making a special tour of inspection yesterday ~ afternoon through that part of the laboratory analyzing sam- ples brought in from the immediate vicinity of Washington, Mr. Linder was emphatic in denunclation of the “stuff” and serious in his warning as to the effects which might result from imbibing. In one department of the laboratory Were row after row of bottles con- taining samples of bootleg liquor which, Mr. Linder explained, had been made 'by, an_attempt to take the de- naturants out of denatured alcohol and “doctoring” the remains, perhaps with a color. Dr. Doran, discussing the effect of such’ liquor,’ said the “redistillation” of denatured alcohol and the dilution, flavoring _and coloring of the re- sultant product constitute a continual menace ‘to the drinking public, be- cause it is impossible to detect the poisonous denaturants. here are two classes of denatured alcohols. The first, known as com- pletely denatured, is prepared”accord- ing to a Ilimited number of fixed formulae, and all products produced by these formulae are injurious to the human system. The formulae call for the addition to grain alcohol of poisons such as wood alcohol, benzol, ether, etc. the product being used commierciaily in alcohol lamps, toy engines and various heating and lighting devices. “The second class, known as specially denatured, i3 not so thoroughly de- natured, ‘but . the formulae are so constituted as to prevent the use, of the product internally; although it is used in manufacture of toilet prepa- rations, rubbing compounds and many ma s iprodustes e majority of cases of instant death, Dr. Doran explained, were due to the class of concoction made from “Wood alcohol, one of the principal denaturants,” he said, “is impossible of elimination from any other alcoholic mixture by distilling, precipitating or any other manipulative process which a boot- legger employs, and produces paralysis and atrophy of the optic nerve with consequent "total blindness, Inflamma- tion of the kidneys and bladder, nephritis and cystitls, and in some cases death. Death has been caused by a9 little as three ounces. Most - Corn Impure. Corn liquor, which constitutes a large per cent of the Washington i1~ licit supply, was said by the govern- ment chemists to be full of impuri- |tes. The illicit etill where most of the corn liquor is manufactured, Dr. i Doran sald, was by its nature “clan- {destine” and unscientific, “The containers,” he sald, “usually consist of old harrels, old ice cream cans, galvanized oll cans, milk cans, wash boilers and other metal vessels, unspeakably filthy and ill-smelling after repeated use without cleaning. The unprotected fermenting mixture attracts animal life of every descrip- tion, which feeds ypon the material and’ ofteh drowns in it. Two-quart jars of first-run whisky now on hand at the laboratory have as much as two inches of flithy sediment in the bottom, and samples. of mash are al- most -beyond description. There are frequently present in moonshine whis- ky metals, such asg copper and zinc, due to the corrosion of the distilling apparatus or (‘ho fwnu.hw(r in which the liquor accentuatin ooy cHaractde of the profucts _ (Continued from First Page.) i sofie means for state regulation of | RAILROAD UPHELD IN WAR ON UNIONS Companies - Get' Right to Exact WPledges That Employes Will Not Organize. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., November 14.—A decision by the United States circult court of appeals yesterday declared vold the California law for- bidding employers to exact pledges from employes mot to join labor unfons. The opinfon affirmed the decision of the United States district court of Los Angeles,” which enjoined labor unlons from organizing the non- union workers of the Pacific Electric Rallway Company In Los Angeles. The injunction was made permanent against the Brotherhood of Railway Tralnmen and the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers. “Actlvities without lawful excuse” engaged in by the unions, the court found, were: Unionizing the employes of the rallway company and draw-\ ing them ifto a controversy in which they had no substantlal cause for complaint; calling_strikes after or- ganizing 1,200 of the 1,600 employes; striking when the country was at war in the face of the presidential proclamation that there should be no strikes or lockouts during the war, and striking while the complaints of the employes were being submitted by the rallway company to a repre- sentative of the United States Depart- ment of Labor. % The court. held these activitles “in- terrupted the railway company's business in intrastate and interstate commerce to its irreparable. damage. COOLIDGE GREETED BY CITY MANAGERS Convention Delegates Pay Respects, Then Are Guests at Alexandria. Delegates to the tenth annual convention of the City Managers' As- soclation, in its second day of the three-day meeting at the City Club, were received at 12:30 o'clock today by President Coolidge. The dele- gates were escorted to the White House by Louis Brownlow, president of the association and former chair- man of the board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Mr. Brownlow is now city manager of {the city of Petersburg, Va. Immediately following their recep- tion by the President more than 100 {city managers and aseistants were {taken in automobiles from the White | House to Alexandria, Va.. where they were the guests of luncheon of the Kiwanis Club of Alexandria and met City Manager M. Rich. After lunch- eon the municipal administrators Were taken in automobiles to Mount Vernon and later in the anernot{n they will inspect the Arlington ex- perimental roadway. ! Hoover Address Canceled. President Brownlow announced at the session this morning that Secre- tary of Commerce Hoover, wWho was on the program for an address at the annual dinner tonight at the City Club, would not be_ able to attend the dinner. George W. Wickersham, {former _Attorney General of the | Unitea States, is §1l and will not be lable to address a joint dinner of the association with. the National Mu- nicipal League tomorrow night. |""At today's session delegates at- tendinz ghe governmental research conference sat in at the meetings of {the City Managers' Association, which was devoted to addresses on city trators of towns of 15,000 population down to 5,000. H Matter of Policy Discussed. “The policy of city management must be actuated by a continuous policy of public advancement,” Frank *D. Danielson, city manager of Hins- dale, 11l dectared in an address. The | manager in a small city, he Must combine the multifarfous duties of finance officer, engineer, social or- | ganizer, welfare worker and mayor, Sdding that the sole function of any Mmunicipal organization is to render service. : Other speakers on today's program, {over which H. H. Sherer of Glencoe, | T, presided, were W. A. Layton of { Safina, Kan.; W. P. Hammersley of {Norwood, Mass: P. H. Beauvais of Royal Oak, Mich.; N. A. Kemmish of Alliance, Neb.; J. P. Broome of Salem, Va.; Edd Wrenn of Reidsville, N..C., | and C. D. Forsbeck of Red Oak, Towa. |WOULD BAR ALIENS BANNED AS CITIZENS ]Psciflc Coast éongressman Propose ! Move After Victory for Land Laws. i ] Exclusion from the United States of all allens ineligible to citizenship will be urged as a provision of the immi- gration legislation to be considered by ! Congress at its coming session by sen- ators and representatives from a num- ber of western states. Senator Shortridge, republican, Cali- i fornia, and Representative Johnson of Washington, chairman of the House immigration committee, announced to- day that a conference of western con- gressmen soon would be called to form a unit to get behind the legislation. Senator_Shortridge sald that the Su- preme Court decision this week hold- ing constitutional Washington and Cal- ifornia, laws barring aliens ineligible to eitizenship from holding land un- doubtedly would give impetus to the exclusion provision as- a part of a general immigration bill. MISS EDNA MILLAY TO ADDRESS WOMEN Will Take Part in Ceremonies Sur- rounding Pageant at Capitol Sunday. Edna St. Vincent Millay, author of Iyrical verse, will speak here Sunday on behalf of equal rights for women. Miss Millay has answered the sum- mons of the National Woman's Party to take part In the last of its pro- grams with which the party has been celebrating the beginning of the equal rights movement started in this country by Lucretia Mott, seventy- five years ago. A pageant conducted by Miss Hazel MacKaye will open the Caremony, which will be held in_the crypt of the Capitol at 3 o'clock Sun- day. A choir of girls dressed in white | Armisf vestmerits; banner bearers, carrying the purple, gold and white pennants of the Woman's Party; women repre- senting every state in the Union, car- rying wreaths of fresh scented greens which they will place at the base of the_pioneer suffragists’ statue, will ches by Miss Mil- N SREY roassien by uiss {management by municipal adminis- | said, | CALL RS PUBLE. Baldwin Seen Sacrificing America’s Aid in Europe® by Political Move. BRITISHELECTION BY GEORGE WITTE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily Neya Copyright, 1923. ; LONDON, November 14.—Now that Prime Minister Baldwin has officially annotnced the dissolution of the preés: ent parlfament in two days and the forthcoming general election, the British public has a chance to cou- slder the possible consequences of this step at this particular time. On the whole it cannot be said that the people are overjoyed at the sud- den turn of political events. Press and public both describe the outlook as very uncertain, with no chance as yet of making any safe predictions Aside from the effects of the new situation on internal affairs, the ques- tion is being asked Mr. Baldwin Whether he considered its effects on international affairs. R. A. Scott- James, the well known author, writes in the Daily Chronfcle: Sees U. S. Ald Sacrificed. “Mr. Baldwin is throwing awa unique opportunity -of settling the European problem with effective help from Ameriea. The American peopls have hecomeé profoundly interested in the idea of co-operating with G at Britain in this matter. Mr. Lloyvd George's speeches set the ball rolli His ideal of the union of the Engli speaking peoples to promote pe and co-operation in the world wa caught up eagerly by the masses o people in the east, middle west anc south. “It was formulated in exact terms of practical policy by the State De- partment at Washington. President Coolidge affirmed it from the White House and Secretary Hughes defined it in the renewed offer of help for Europe. Here was a big constructi offer made by America. But before Mr. Lloyd George had time to get back to England, Premier Baldwi sidetracked the Whole movement, ¢ claring an lectoral war on the i of & protective tariff.’ This_view is sharcd in many quar ters where it is deplored that interns - tional strife had to break out England at this critical time of world's history. JEWISH WOMEN URGE PEACE DAY OBSERVANCEC Universal Disarmament Advocat at Triennial Con- vention. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 1 mendations that Peace day brated each year, that er , | ganization devote itself to the spre of peace propaganda and that “peac {be taught children” were urged last {night before delegates ot the tricr nial convention, Council of Jewi Women, meeting here. Miss Gert { Feibelman of Indianapolis, chair; |of the peace and arbitration comm! tee, spoke for the members. “Nothing is paramount to univer: {disarmament,” she declared. “Upon | | the future civi 3 world hinges.” With the limitation {armament economic conditions wil vastly improve. National expenditure will become instructive, instead of de- structive.” The convention voted affiliation of the council with the League Women Voters.. . - e {SAY WERE ORDERED TO i FIRE IN DEPUTIES’ HALL Army Officers Flee to TUnited ! States for Safety, After | Affdavits. - By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, November 14.—The« charges and countercharges of the ipolitical factions in Mexico City which appear almost daily, received further stimulus today, when th newspapers carried what purported to, be sworn statements by the two army officers who have gone to the United States to seek safety The statements, signed by Capt. Ro- berto Margain and Adelaide Cruz, said a plot had been afoot for the assassination of several co-op- eratista deputies on October 31. The officers alleged that they had re- celved orders from another army ficer, and that, with other captains of different regiments, they were start _shooting inside the cha: with Huertista deputies as their gets. Capt. Cruz in his statement said he had received orders to ki Jorge Prieto Laurens, leader of tha co-operatista party WOMAN LOSES SUIT. { Asked $20,000 for Detention Sanatorium. ATLANTA. November 14.—Mrs Carrle S. Hopkins, formerly of Atlan- ta and Raleigh and now of Augusta, Ga., lost her cuit for $20,000 against Dr._William B, Hopkins_of Richmond, Va., when @ jury in Fulton county superior court here returned a _verditt for the des fendant. Mrs. Hopkins alleged in her suit that she had been forcibly detained in_ her brother-in-law’s sanatorium in Richmond when she ook her four-year-old son there for { treatment in MARLBORO ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. CE—Claiming: purse. $600: for T A e v and ono-nalf furlonge. . 100 .12 o 112 L1z, . 105 12 12 12 112 *Bashdon Also oligible My Dudeaia Spindale . Kitty M. Jealous Woman. Bens e Sand Queen.. { Tads B | Tady Patric { Poadis. - o7 | North Breeze..... 105 SECOND RACE—CI: three-year-olds and up; e 108 Feod . Pendergast eodor ... Tombo Jumuor.. 112 Legal Torde 8id O, Keener.... 108 Zo 3 108 In Doubt 108 < 109 THIRD RACE—Claiming; purse, $60n: v e yenr.olds and up: Ave and one-half fur- _— 103 Rosie H. *Kinglin L osio Einsling %6 98 Bogart b it 3 e ar vy 115 Hard, Gues San_Diego 115 Roundsma Flar ... 109 TH RACE—Claimfhg: purse. $600; for formyoarolds and up; six And onb-balf o Longs, = le Sam Florsnce Boan.... 118 { Tra. Wilson... ... 113 The Enguirer..... 113 FIFTH RACE—Claiming: purse, $600; for three.year-olds and_up; seven furlongs. *Tricks 104" Stook Pin. Widow B 11z Erince Wi Teah oo oe. - 2 Bans Feaur 33000 109 *Olive May...... SIXTH RACE—Claiming; purse, $600; three-year-olds and up: Turlongs, M 108 Bl Simmons b Ha. LI N 12 sir Ads 12 Jetsam SEVENTH RACE—Claiming; purse, $600; for_three-year-olds and up; one mile and ane furlong. On_ High 108 *Zouave *Explosive . 105 Neapolitan . Dai ‘Rose, 110 *Hiokory - L) itice allowance claimed. P R T g iming; purse, $600; for five and one-half fur- n2 L 108 ... 110 108 103 Finality Alf Vezin *Ashlin ns C 13 105