Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1923, Page 12

12 URCE WORE MON * FORVATERWAYS éxtension of Inland Atlantic i Coast System Declared ~ Vitalto U.'s. Ry the A IMFOLK, November 16.—The election of officers for the coming b, and the adoption of resolutions upon Congress for appropria- v further development and ex- inland waterways of st country from Maine yrida will mark the close today snth annual convention of fnted Pross. fon of the the Atlantic ca ' AWARDED DAMAGES ! FOR FALSE ARREST THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1923. REGEIVER LIKELY $1,000,000 WORTH OF GAME IS KILLED R Chfir:k.in F[]R RA"_ BUMPANY Virginia Spends $100,000 Aimual Taking Silverware From Spring Club. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. I ROCKVILLE, Md., November 16.—! Caspar Giradl, proprietor of a Wash- ington lunch room, and Cairo Pros- peri, chef at one of the Washington hotels, were awarded damagés in the amounts of $750 and 1,000, respect- ively, by juries In the circuit court here In suits for maliclous prosecu- tion. The defendant in each case was Joseph W. Cain,,who owns and conducts the Rock Spring Club, on the Condult road, this county. The plaintiffs were represented by Attor- ney John A. Garrett of Rockville. Washington-Virginia Declar- ed in Straits Despite Court Action. Special Dispatch to The St ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 16.— Appointment of a receiver for the Washington-Virginia, Railway Com- pany is inevitable now, according to Gardner L. Boothe, attorney for the company. The decision of Judge Brent yesterday denying the petition of Mattle M. Newcomer of Washing- ton ! ly to Protect and Restock ‘Wild Life. Special Dispatch to The Star. PURCELLVILLE, Va., 16.—Nearly $1,000,000 worth of game is killed and captured In Virginia each year, according to the Unifed States bureau of biologleal survey, and it costs the Virginia department of game and inland fisherles about 15 per cent of this amount, or $150,000 November It costs the state absolutely nothiwg in the way of taxes to do this, and it ig entirely up to the volunfary de- sires of huntsmen and anglers who choose to pay for hunting licenses. 1925, 1924, BAPTISTS ADOPT §1 50000 BUDGET Increase of $100,000° for 1925 Made by Virginia Genéral Association. By the Assocated Press. RICHMOND, Va., Virginia Baptists late November 16— yesterday adopted a budget of $1,500,000 for an increase of $100,000 over the annual quota for the Southern Baptist zonvention's seventy-five-million cam- paign, which will be concluded This action was taken by the in STATE LOSES TAX CASES. Virginia Cannot Levy on C. & 0. Railway Property. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., November 16.— The state of Virginia lost two cases !in-the supreme court of appeals yes- terday, both of them being for taxes. They were the cases involving the ef- fort of the state to tax the property of the Chesapeake and Ohlo railroad between Covington and the West Vir- ginia line. The property was acquired many years ago and it so happens that there was a stipulation that it was to be free from taxes for a specified time or until the earnings had reached a certain point. It was then a separate and distinct road. 1t was acquired by the Chesapeake and Ohlo, and since that time it has been paying taxes, |1 the claim at this time being for taxes due forty years ago. < The county of Alleghany was a party to the litigation, claiming taxes as did the state. The trial court had ruled against the contention of the state, and this latter has been upheld by the appellate court. LAWYERS URGED. R. E. L. Saner Declares They By the Associated Press. others to assume leadership In lines in which the lawyer fitted to lead, R. E. L. Saner of Dallas, Tex., president of the American Bar Association, sald yesterday at a meet. ing of the West Virginia State Bar ! Association. |HERE TO TAKE POST WITH WOMAN’S PARTY 10 BE LEADERS e waee s s Interesting College Girls in Equal Rights. Miss Wilma Henderson of F n arrived yesterday in Washington, to take the post of secretary of the Inez Milholland Memorial comn | MORGANTOWN, W. Va, November ' 6.—Lawyers as a class are falling in heir political duties when they allow Should Not Lose Grip on Duties. ledicated to ‘ause of int ng young collr men of Am 2 in equal Ag Miss Hender vill participate he biennfal mi ng of the con is peculiarly considered as a mere techni- cality and the fact that the five trust companies of Philadelphia, acting < adelphia, acting oM | vear, over $75.000 of which is pald behalf of the owners of more than i out 'in monthiy salaries to gume 90 per cent of the bonds issued by |wardens, All of the hunting license the company, conslusively points to|money goes to the maintenance of SRR he department., receivership. The state now has 123 regular In answering the allegations made | game wardens in 100 counties and by the companies and dismissing the [twenty-one cities who are paid a demurrer entered, the Washington- | ™inimum of $50 salary a month, and a maxi Virginia railway has virtually in | bog iation ang aren. itself applied to the court for fore- closure, it is ‘noted. The hearing Monday morning in the circuit court of Fairfax county will most probably result in the appointment of a re- celver. The dnswers to the petitions filed admit that the road is in dire eir¢um- stances financially. They admit the defaiture which has been Koing on for more than three It is belicved that when the petition of the Continental Trust Company and that of Mrs. Newcomer are dis- missed in court Monday they will file intervening suits and join hands with the other petitioners. Directors Re-Elected. The retiring board of_directors of the Alexandria Water Company was re-elected at meeting of the holders this w They are: L. Daingerfield, Arthur H. S. Taylor Burke, George Worth Hulfish, Carroll ¥ CUrban §. Lambért. Mr. Lamb devote his entire time as president of “the directors to building up and in- & the company’s interests, ces for Everett at the ittee to be k sunday morn: d o connectio § “ith the two- onference of ional and stz iicers — of 1 Virginia Baptist General Assoclation in its centennial session here. The budget fund is to be equally divided for the support of objects within and without the state. The largest item is for foreign missions, to which pur- pose $450,000 was assigned, an in- crease of 20 per cent over Virginia's annual quota for that object in the seventy-five-million movement. The association voted to hold its next annual assembly in Bluefield, W. Va., beginning November 11, 1924, The association has established and now supports a school for boys near Bluefleld. —_— WEALTHY BARBER DEAD. Although Worth Million, He Still Followed Trade. Special Dispateh to The Star, HUNTINGTON, W. Va, November It is the lawyers business to se that the law is observed and enforced, he said. ‘“We want our liberties pre- served and we know that they can be | preserved only through liby the law,” he continued. duty of the American lawyer to sound the note of liberty under the law in the ears of, our citizens and to keep it sounding. Stand for Rightx, “We must make the people realize that while we stand irrevocably for the preservation of our bill of rights, the people as a whole must show themselves worthy of individual Ilib- erty; that freedom of speech, for ex- ample, is for those who know the speech of freedom: that when people talk about our needing a new consti- tution we should rather counsel them not to do anvthing rash until. we real- 1y thoroughly try out the old one, and in view of the threatening advance of federal paternalism and bureauoc- racy, that the proper constitutional functioning of the federal and state government Is no less a vital issue to- jday than it was in the times preced- ing our civil war." Both the civil and criminal docket teh to The Star. of the federal courts in West D RIC aa Nover ginia have become so congested that = 3 Hatmbrin an appeal for relief has been sent to | °f 1a GAtIce Of. Chief Justice Taft, Federal Judge W.[J¢ars ¢ & Justice OF f E. Baker declared in an address to|3ount Pleasant fof ahou the convention. He said that there | 1va% TOYRC Qedy were now sufficient cases listed to oc- |t T cupy the court for five months if|this counts. I daily sessions were held. Foars before: fonna Ciarence E. Martin of Martinsburg ; was elected president of the associa- tion and Webster Springs was chosen Hunting licenses, which run from July to July, yield about $125,000 a In 1922, so the testimony showed, Giradi and Prosperi conducted the Rock Spring Club under a lease from Cain, and when they closed down in the fall they removed the silverware, which they rented with other equip- ment from Cain, to a vault in Wash- Ington for safe keeping. Cain had them arrested on charges of larceny and they were before Judge Samuel Riggs in the police court here,. but the cases were dismissed. On charges of disorderly conduct Charles Gates, Dorsey Donaldson and John Sullivan, residents of Colesville district, pleaded guilty in the police court here and each was fined $25 and costs by Judge Samuel Riggs. The men ascribed too much wine the cause of their misbehavior. Marriage License. Licenses have been issued by the r clerk of the circuit court here for aft vessels, ) .| tae marriage of the following: Wil ccts will be made Known | ia; W, Wiseman of Spruce Pine, mittee on resolutlons § "¢ ang Miss Grace M. Siddons of port dur West Lebanon, Ind.; Willard today’s closin of Newark, N, .3, L. Heister 1 5 Lewis of Garrett Park, th g the leunveEation cyes Fielder T. Marlowe ot Fairland, construction of the this county, and Miss Florence V. 1 and water route from 1¢ 1 Connell of Burtonsville, and Willia:a 14 1 would make the commercee | \Cirty” of Washington and Mias of d States safer than wWol Dorothy M. Hoover of Mountsville, {ge construction of battleships and ar- | 29 pgoced s crulserh: Raymond Thomas, colored, arrested Plea for Proposed Link. by Deputy Game Warden Gilpin on Charles 1. Abernethy [a charge of hunting without having wrolina, district obtained a license, was not on hand ention in when his case was called for trial in the police court here yesterday, and his collateral of $17 was declared forfeited. Although the negro was Deeper Waterways Asso- RIVERDALE WOMEN WIN $100 CLUB PRIZ Receive Much-Coveted Award at Prince Georges County Fair. elation, " When the final session of the con- vention” met this 5 it was evident there would be a determined effort to re-lect President J. Hamp- ton Moore, mayor of Philadelphia, despite his known desire to retire from that office. Likely Resolutions. It seew certain that the conven- tion would adopt resolutions asking Con: = for appropriations covering the following projects: A proposed new Del cinal to take the plac Ly that name, which h; useful Extension of the orfolk- afort canal project to the Fear, and perhaps even farther south; Kovernment purchase and operation toll-free basis of ~the Dismal pening of the npper mit of nyvigation L% /4 3 MISS HENDERSON. Sunday. mittee of the ( on pitol Sunday, when a wre will be laid, on behaif of the woman Party, on the statuary of the f ploneers of cqual rights. and w later tour the coll > coun The committee rate wi the mem s Counci of the woman's . of which Flor ence Rogatz, a the Ye law school. is The first repe plan of the Ine committee will ference ham of th the commit advisor and —advisory mmit leading women of the countr ested in equal rights according to. U. OF M. HORTICULTURE SHOW OPENS TOMORROW Displays of Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables Expected to Set Record for Excellence. COLLEGE PARK, Md. November 16.—University of Maryland will hold its annpal horticulture show tomor- row and Sunday in the greenhouses at the Institution. The exhibition will be open from 8 o'clock in the morn- ing to 10 in the evening each day. All are Invited and no admissfon will be_charged. Slaborate displays of flowers, fruits and vegetables wiil be made and the show will culminate many days of effort by those in charge. It fs be- lieved that the exhibition will excel anything of its kind held previously at the university or in this section. Among the many features will be chrysanthemum and apple displays and a model vegetable garden. are-Raritan f the canal outlived its Speeinl Dispatch to The Star. RIVERDALE, Md., November 16.— The Women's Club of Riverdale won the much-coveted $100 prize at the Prince Georges county fair, which comes to @ close at Upper Marlboro tomorrow. This premium is awarded the best group exhibit of canned and baked {goods, needle and other handwork entered by any club in southern Mary- land affiliated with the Federation of 16—John Rau, sixty-seven, ploneer|Women's Clubs. The display fur- barber of Huntngton, is dead. HelP'Shed ¥ e omen's Cluh ranged collapsed at his homé while prepar-{A. S. Thurs ot Prof. ing to start for his post in the Bar onof et Sity' of Maryiun er shop. a hai f the c e S i BRI up a fortune extimateg at yan chairman of the commitiee in 1,000,000 through successful dealings | The club winning the bl never gave up his work in the.barber | j5 one of the most active organiza- shop. ' He so0ld his own place of busi- | tions In the county. ness flve vears ago, intending to re- ¥ tire, but after a year of idleness per- suaded his son to make a place for him in the son's shop Aplet mor W of posed ‘Representative of the third Nc a year for protection and restocking: b 7o nim that a proper time or [~ the crime is more t infamous than olation of truth At present the ston is interrupted H. Alexandria twelve how unfeasible aring on the sub; re the chief of Arni rnethy said that he ring before Gen. next month, when ted in an’ effort o survey of the gton link. In the mean- it the influence of th agsor be brought to bear on the sibject SHOOTING ACCIDENT, VERDICT OF JURY Man Declared to Have Fatally Wounded Another While “Play- ing” With Revolver. It to The Star. o . November 16.— * with a revolver in a ton Wednesday was, shot by imate, the ball and piercing the wound which re- few hours later. colored. Jones died at Hosy where he was tely after the shoot- ney hed fmme who was taken into custody 3 s and Welsh 4 . was held county en a coron Coroner H. me to ing, due ¢ \\‘hxn is exonerat- ased sisted of the following: en. Ralph B. Benton, W. H. Wash, J. H.| P. Rawlings. | Woman Injured. E. Davison of Mount Ida,| county, ha rm and | several in- | she was an automobile while cro: moned 1 “that lexandria coll. town where it is said The auto- Davison, it Jackson. eived b; 11 by A, F Potomuce reports . Driseoll the ¢ re. in Frne 1 posse: younger { on, and Warren on. During his one of the hoys, it is claimed, on the self-starter and the weEan o move backward, Mrs. Davison and co 1 embankment. s \king Mrs. Da Alexandria Hospital Seret. Driscoll took Jackson to Arlington coun- | ty courthouse, where he was delulnedll 1 at $1.000, had been | cas yeleased pending a ation of the affair, Mawx Mecting Tonlght. 1l important matters concern- ation in Arlington county will be considered at amass meeting | of citizens called for this evening me the courthouse by County Health0 ficer Dr. J. W. Cox. ‘Sewerage di; posal, d. probably will be the Petncis for the consideration ofithe It is pointed out that present has but one The contract on it anuary 1, and it, is rumored that a group of citizens are contem- ating an injunction to prevent the ntin e of this field. This is not th e, it is said, that the county has been' forced to abandor ields as the result of court ordera. qur years ago the county main: tained” three fields, but. the Tapid growth of the county in the matter of home consiruction has mot only re. duced this number to one, but may eliminate all chances of hav. v. This condition, it is point- ed out, may result in a comeerted ovement for @ modern sewerage vatem, which has 1ong been DROPOSEA ington county, and 2N per- interested In this project are ed to attend, . —_— L Sev first t | members of the assoclated organiza- jHome for the Aged, Jolly Bachelor out in, a woods with a gun, shelks and dogs, he insisted when Officer Gilpin ran across him that he was not hunting. Acquitted in Auto Accldent. As a result of an automobile de- cident on the Conduit road, near the Anglers' Club, last Monday evening in which John W. Haines, forty rs old, until re Frederick county. s 3 Willlam C. Gibbs of Great Falls, this county, was before United States Commissioner Charles E. Benson here yesterday on a charge of operating an automobile while under the in- | fluence @f liquor. The testimony did not satisfy Commissioner Benson, however, that the man was suffi- ciently under the influence of liquor to constitute a crime and he was acquitted. He was reprsented by At- torney John A. Garrett of Rockville. ‘While turning a sharp curve in the road a machine in which Haines and Gibbs were riding upset, pinni both men beneath it. Haines' neck was broken and he died almost in- stantly. Gibbs was not seriously hurt. Mrs. Gertrude Dorsey of Rockville as sold to H. K. Van Alstyne of Washington fourtecen acres of land near Rockville for $1.850. The prop- erty is opposite the farm of the late Samuel L. Phillips and is unim- proved. Miss Lavinia Knight of Rockville has been appointed assistant director of the Monsgomery County Social Service ~League. Miss zabeth Spamer is the director. HEBREWS LAY PLANS FOR JANUARY DANCE Jewish Organizations Will Have Mammoth Fete at Wil- lard Hotel. An intensive publicity campaign for the dance to be given for the benefit of the Hebrew Home by the assoclat- ed Jewish organizations of Washing- ton at the Willard Hotel off January 4 was mapped out at a meeting of representatives of the various affill- ated bodles last night at the Wash- ington Hebrew Congregation, Eighth Street Temple. Each Jewish organization will have a team competing in ticket selling. Harry Sherby, president of the He- brew Home for the Aged, outlined the plans for the new home and told of the importance of having more money | in order that they may be carried through to a successful conclusion. Among the organizations which are tions ar The Council Council_of Jewish Juniors, of Jewish Women, Hebrew Junior Leagie, the Ladies’ of the Hebrew Home for the Aged, Mordelle Social Club, Schae- muth Club, Social Workers, Social Club of the Hebrew Home for the | Aged, Temple Sisterhood, Young Women's Hebrew Association, Young Friend, Hodassah Club, Junior Ho- dassah Club, Delorah Club, Sisterhood of Adas Israel Congregation, and the following clubs and Jewish fraterni- ties: Argaloline, Alpine, Aurora, Alte- mont, Argo Lodge, Aurora, and the Bachelorettes. Officers of the associated Jewish of ganizations _are: A. Goldberg, chair- man; Mrs., R. B. H. Lyons, assistant ! chairman: Mrs, ~ Goldsmith, honorary chairman: Miss M. Lazoron, treasurer; T. L. Roebach, secretary, and Mrs. L. | Strauss, corresponding secretary. Chairmen of the various committees for the dance are as follows: M. Marks, program; Philip Stein, ticket; Adlol ' Mann and Newman ' Brown, novel feature committee, and M. Shapiro, chairman of the publicity council. The entire proceeds from the dance are to go toward expenditures for the | Hebrew Home for the Aged. LECTURE BY EDUCATOR AROUSING INTEREST Angelo Patri Will Speak on “Some | Aspects of Child Growth.” Readers of The Evening Star are Girls, Auxiliary TURKEYS SENT TO ITALY.' Cargo Also Includes Horses and Mules for Spain. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., November 16.—Tur- Leys for Italy and horses and mules for sain comprise the cargo of the British eamship Lord Ormonde, which cleared yesterday for Leghorn and Barcelon The horses and mules are for the Spa ish army, and were purchased in the west, w The turkeys—several thousand of them—are said to be the first shipped through this port to Europe in several years. A special compartment has been provided on the ship for the turkeys, in which they will be permitted té roam at will. - —e———— : Pride loves no man, and Is beloved “ho man. manifesting interest In the appear- ance here tomorrow on the lecture platform of Angelo Patrl, widely known here as a contributor to the feature page of The Evening Star. ' Mr. Patri will speak on “Some Aspects of Child Growth.” Mr. Patrl's lecture is being given | under auspices of the Dobbs Alumnae Association of this city and the pro- ceeds will go toward the building fund of the school at Dobbs Ferry, . Dr, Frank W. Ballou, superin- tendent of schools, will introduce Mr. Patri, who is principal of school 45, in New York city, and widelyl known a® an educator. Mrs. Arthur Franklyn Musgrave Is president of the-local alumnae asso- clation. _ At Japanese weddings it is the cus- tom to provide a small table on which | is placed a miniature plum tree, signi fying the beauty of the bride, and a fir tree typifying the strength of the bridegroom. . 3 { Johannes | returned from Europe, w a s will be at 3 o'clock. 1ded by mem- | of the Old Do »n_ Boat Club, | of the Virginia Athletic As- | nd from Al andria High School. Representatives from these will act as pallbearers th members of the Henry K. Fleld Bible Class, of which he was also a member. . Resolutions of regret were drafted | last night at a special meeting of the board of governors of the boat club. WAR DANCE FEATURE OF NATURE PAGEANT Gerald Fall of John Eaton School “Scheduled for Junior Red Cross. Program. As an Indian chief, Gerald Free of the John Eaton School will do a war dance in the nature pagiant at Central | High School tonight for the benefit of | the Junior Red Cross. Gerald is a son of Representative A. M. Free of Cali- fornia. Elizabeth K. Peoples, the di- rector of the pageant, says he has a| regular Indian costume and Is right up in his part. Gerald has two brothers, | Robert and Herbert, who will appear | as owls in the pageant In the play—the biggest th attempted by the schoc 400 children. The pla E importance of saving our natural re- | sources. Some of those in the pageant are: Alicia Jones, Ledger haughnessy, Donald Gre talie Norwood, Dorothy Trew, Nancy Sta Frances Ridgeway, Jane. Hogland, Ethel Taylor, Janet Smith, Virginia | Hall, Kurtz Hanson, Barbara Harri- son, Evelyn Bates, Marjory Kathryn _McNulta, ~ Ruth Martha Hall, Bill lotte_Revness, CI ren Browning, Robert M rison Knapp, Hugh Tange Trew. Carlos Baile Frances Mon aldin lis Raker, Stephenson, Smith, Ruth 1, Virginia | esch. Elizabeth Betty Fran- “ameron. Ereat deal done by the teach- | School, where the | represent vegetables. In t there will be birds, flow- ts and everything found in nature’s wonde: TOBACCONIST STRICKEN. Johannes Suhling Dies Upon Ar- at New York Dock. Special Dispateh to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., Nov Suhling, fif old, a tobacconist here, of work ha ers of the ils will rival years o had just s stricken with paralysis on the dock in New York. Friends from here who met | him, cared for Mr. Suhling, but the stroke proved fatal in a short *ime. He was a native of Bremen, Ger- many, but lived most of his lifé here His wife and a sister. the latter of | Germany, survive. The burial will | e here this .afternoon. | BEWARE THE COUGH OR COLD THAT HANGS ON Chronic coughs ‘and persistent colds lead to serious lung trouble. You can stop them now with Creo- mulsion, an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take. 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