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P PLANS FOR ARMY AND MARINE GAME Commerce Chamber Commit- tee Announces Features of Next Saturday’s Program. rrangements for the several entertainments in connection with the Army 3rd Corps Area-Marine next Saturday were erday at a meeting committes of the hundred Gans, of Corps game completed ¥ executive goncral committes of one \bpointed by President Tsaa Chamber of Commer Dinner at City Club. A dinner will be held at the City Club, Saturday, December 1, at 7 o'clock the large ballroom. The trophy. donated by R. Harris & Co., presented night to the ters have of the tew. The the i talent, L Secretary en. Lejeune ¢ aides have been invited attended by niemlbi umber and others Who i sed tickets, their wives s, Contribate. Theat entire house for @ s have spe- have do- ranging from urday or Sun- . Keith a d »ugh 250 through the and Potomac Tele- through its radio vice, has volunteered fur the chamber. Wil- n will do the broadcast- Ak and marin “hamber of Com- of 1 e building. e there will be a ball at the Willard This_arrang is of Maj. ¢ mander of the Di sth Di- OROHBTONSSUE FROMBITHANELE Advocates and Opponents of Enforcement to Hold Sepa- rate Conventions Here. ind | al gatherin he dry and “lit * Zorces of the Washington during the wonth of Jan The Anti-Saloon rive first iry 12 to a later ry in gue will for drying ‘ountry,” it ayne B. Wheeler, general the will meet W king modiflc Will Plan The Association hition Amendme <ults of four v drough | ! (te plans to seeure t dry lav yminent Amer of those + jublic includ Atterbur Kermif . Mra. Douglas | * . Goodrich and Maj. Mason Wright hering a conference Seen as € “The country.” it s hean 4 with the proceedings of two conferences on the subject of nrohibitio enforcement The 8o- called nship conference’ was born of the desire of the Anti-Salo League to strengihen 8 stranglehold on the National Con- Lrens. known the confer- wnca of governor called for the an- nounced purpose of bringing about bette enforcement L'n'n«»rnfl}fw was a tra parent camouflage of the drys to the same end acts conference pro- up these tacit admi Sions of failure and meet them with s concrete program to end the evils which V¢ 1dism has brought into existence k¢ wim of the_ confer- ‘nce will to modify the Volstead 0t now the next logical step, to return the polic power to the state: whore it belongs. Speakers for Anti-Saloon League. Speak: fo: the Anti-Saloon Teague clnde Gov. Pinchot of Penn- sylvania, William Jennings Bryan, Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, C. B. Griffith, attorney general of Kan- =t id “the zovernors of several states pld feet made the wets switch the date of their convention from early in January to January 20, when they realized the ms : ‘of the dry gathering” said, in an announ mn with the fortheoming “John Phil- ip Hill of M v f wine-juice fame and the ator from Dela- ware a the for the nullificat Prohibition suecessful in nearly States, except in th lantie s hoard, Wwith populatic Let by ernor of York, t in wet sectinns have fondly imagined they could overturn the Constitution, the federal and state en der the de ion of the Supreme Court of the United States, to the liking of their own appetites and greed. “The eighteenth amendment is in the Constitu WOMAN FREED IN MURDER. DELANO, Fla., November 24.—Clara Brown s« Clara Plscelli, of Boston, Mass., on trial for murder in connection with th (ving October 21 of Howard sher, & Daytona_taxicab driver, was found not guilty. Her husband, Charles Brown, was found guilty of first degree murder Tuesda. POLISH TRAIN LOOTED. WARSAW, November 24—A pas- senger train running between Kiev and Kharkov was attacked and loot- el 3 rday Ly a green army de- Ve oufinge. id, “has already ainently ¢ the United of the At- foreign idiplomas that 1,500 or more persons jand many turned out to be [DIAMONDS AND TIRES IN DEAD LETTER SALE Post Office Department to Auction Huge Collection of Un- claimed Mail. dead letter sale will be November 27, at 715 13th street, n almost every article from dla- monds to automobile tires will be auctionied off. The articles will be on_dlsplay November 28, More than 100 automobile tires, from which the tags were detached in the mails, so that dellvery could not_be made, are in the sale. Tho articles are a testimaony, pos- tal officials sald, of the carelessness of thousands of persons througiout the country, who did not take tho care to properly address the pack- ages. HUNTED PHYSICIAN READY T0 TESTIFY Dr. Sutcliffe, Located in To- ronto, Voluntarily Starts Return to Hartford. B tie Associated Preds. HARTFORD, Conn., November 2 The hunt for Dr. George E. sutcliffe, the Unionville physiclan, whose pres- ence is desired by the grand jury in- vestigating the operations of the al- leged “diploma mill” has been tem- vorarily suspended by the state uthorities, In expectation that he will appear here to testify and sub- mit to whatever action the state de- cldes to take in his case, Suspension of the search resulted from the receipt at the state's attor- nes's office late last night of a mes- sage from the Toronto police stating that Sutcliffe was on the way to this city. The doctor was reported in messages from Toronto to have left that city on Thursda Gather Up Meantime officials at the state's at- torney’a office we busy with prep- aratlons of evidence to be presented to the grand jury, which wiil resume its sessions at the county courthouse on_Monday. _Dr. James E. Halr, secretary of the Conn feut ecleetric xamining board, | in & statement today denifed that any request had been received from the Jury to revoke the licenses of ¢ physicians practicing in that 1dence. ade Good Mark. He also made public a letter re- ceived by him from David A. Strick- ler of the state medical examining | board of Colorado, in which Dr. | Strickler said Dr. Sutcliffe took the examinations of the Colorado board after presenting a diploma of 1918 ] of the St. Louis Collega of Physlcians s, passing with a m k ch was declared a very rage. letter proved, Dr. Hair con- that in taking Dr. Sutcliffe on th strength of the reciprocity agreement with the state of Colorado, | th. mnectics (S ning bou~d had acted entirely in good faith and within its rights. TURNS TO DENTISTS. Many Unlicensed in New York, Commissioner Says. By the Aesociated Press. NEW YORK. Novemt York city's search for guack new turn when Deputy Attorney c eral Dwyer trained his guns on s 500 fraudulent dentists alleg: same time Monogha , in connec H Connecticut investigation of medical | were fraudulently cine here. In conne with the dental ‘n- gation r. Dwyer said that twenty convictions already had been obtained and that the would be pressed vigorous! unlicensed dentists, he said, we found to working with lic members of the protessions. M them, he added, were without . knowledge of dentist aroers o only recently had come practicing medi- s where | ts had uffered indeseribable y and one man had lost his jaw- " The fakers, he sald, did not| bother to acquire a forged | e or certificate from diploma | Dwyer e s OPPOSES U.S. COAST LAWS | FOR THE PHILIPPINES President Regards Proposal to Ex- tend Shipping Regulations to Is- lands as Inadvisable. Extension of the American coast- wise shipping laws to the Philippines is regarded by President Coolidge as inadvisable at the present time. The President recently made & study of the question of extension of the coustwise laws to the Philippines and was advised by the State Depart- ment that grave doubt existed as to the propriety of such action in view of possible violation of treaties with foreign natlons. — RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH ARGUED IN HIGH COURT New York Counsel Charges Gitlow Published Manifesto for U. S. Overthrow. The Supreme Court yesterday heard extended argument on the cght of free speech in the case brought by Benjamin Gitlow, con- victed under a New York statute re- lating to criminal anarchy, for pub- lication in_“The Revolutionary Age,” of which he was an author, of ‘& manifesto by the left wing of the soclallst party. Counsel for New York state as serted that the manifesto advocate the overthrow of the government by force and that those who were in- volved in its distribution had placed themselves beyond the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. It ras not necessary for New York to wait, counsel stated, until overt acts aimed to overthrow the government had been committed before prosecut- ing those gullty of actively partlc- ipating in a revolution against the government. Protesting against Gitlow being de- prived of his liberty without due process of law guaranteed by the Corstitution, his counsel clalmed for him liberty of expression of his views with relation to the govern- ment, agserting that the New York statute was unconstitutional in that under It Gitlow would be deprived of rights which the Supreme Court had repeatedly declared belonged to all citizens. FAMOUS SINGER IS 75. BERLIN, November 24—Lilli Leh- ann, former grand opera star, cele- brated her seventy-fifth birth niversary today. She is still teaching girls who aspire to opera, and has a number of American puplls. -She refused, however, to give lessone to young women who are in love, as she says fifty years of operatic experi- ence have taught her that artists must give undivided attention to their art. THE EVENING PRECIOUS. Won'y Yeu RECITE THE PIECE You ARe GOING To SPCAK AT THE CHR1>TMAS ENTERTAINMENTT PLEASE, DEAR, Do ¥ For. MmAmAl i (o | | MR TEWKSBURY Mas! | JUST 810 6 WiTrou'T OouBLED ArD RE-DovCLED STAR, | krow e TewresBuey WouLp tove WASHINGTON, PLEASE ReCrTE | ¥ For us,marce! 170ST Keow r wite BE “Too CuTe For ') Health Work Stressed Here Week Program In Education Lectures on Demonstrations of Hygiene Given Pupils—Work Attracts Attention All phases of health work were dis- cussed in the District public schools this week as a t of the educa- tional week program. At the suggestion of Dr. e Stoneroad, director of physical train- ing, speclal emphasis was placed upon iphysical education at various times during the school week. This was done tirough interclass meeti showing physical activities, he parades, school assemblies, writing ompositions on health subject health slogans, the making of posters and short talks by pupils and teach- ers. Certain schools planned a speci: program for parents demonst physical exercise of pupils. Short and he these occasions selecte drawin sters and th charts made Ly pupils were on exhibition {and shown to parents Pupilx Print Bulletin, One example of special effort along this line was the issuing of a health bulletin_ printed by th I < School print *h_pupil alde educators is shown in an in the last number of the Work by Dr. Wil 1 THRFTWEEK DRNE ATTRACTING MANY =More Than 30 Washington Organizations Enroll for Campaign in January. | More than thirty organizations in Washington have joined in the Thrift | week movement, which is to be ob- | served in this cit | it was announced Fleming. secretary of the local com- mittee. Work done here 1 has re- ceived nation-wide recognition dur- ing the present campaign, Mr. Flem- ing announced, according to fnforma- tion received from Adolph Lewiston of New York, chairman of the tional Thrift week committee Usned Model. The Thrift week proclamation sued last year by the District Com- missioners and the letter of Howard Moran, chairman of the Washington committee, Mr. Lewiston said in his communication, had been sent to every Thrift week committee in the country_as models. The Washington committee will Tave the use of the District bankers' headquarters during the thrift cam-| paign. Organizations Farolled. i Organizations and those who will represent them, who have jolned in the movement, were announced today as follows: F. G. Addison, jr.. Bank- ers Association: Mrs. W. P. Bird, Women's_City_Club; B. A. Bowle: Rotary Club; Joshua W. Carr, build ing and loan associations; M. O. Chance, Boys' Club; Charles J. Colum- bus, Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association; Howard Cool, Better Business Bureau; Dr. W. L. Darby, Washington Federation of Churche: Miss Elizabeth Dean, Y. W. A. Leonard W. De st and C. E. e M. C. A; Victor B. Association: Is of Commerece; WINDOW associate | churches; H. H. | Assoclation: R. Outside. erintendent of the schools of New York. He writes as folluws Tribute to Ballou. “In the schools of the National apital Supt. Frank Ballou conducts a course in health training prepared by @ committee of physicians and shers. It requires medical and dental {nspection of children, corre tlon of remediable defects, emphasis upon right living at home and in the community, making health teach- ing fmportant as any other sub- ject and giving credft for it on the child’s monthly school report. o recognition of the prime pur- pose of public schools to prepare citi- zens, recognizing as their public duty the 1 of u full and perfect life. The perusal of the Washington health texthook will. it seems to me, arouse enthusia ) any American. “The: old of school from every -vaporates as one fol to directions for the es, the ears interestingly woven ' into plays, contests. pictures and They inspire the voung cins by stories of health heroes William ¢ Barton, 1 rt Hoov nd Theodore Roose vith colo; school and weight of follow-up and 11 this good work from ib: Peston Gor- 0 . C. Graham, : W. € Men's Civitan Club} Association; Club; Maj. A tion of Citizens' . Houghton, James, Buil Mrs, Lyman F fet Daughters American : George P. Kennedy, Ty- E. G. Kimball, pubiic arles M. Kindle, Bullding and Loan Council; T. Hunter Leith, Amer- ican Institute of Banking: James T. Lloyd, Chamber of Commerce; Rev. 1" J. McCormick, Roman Catholic McKee, Bankers' I. McKeever, Adver- tising Clu Arthur J. May, Whole- ale Credit Men's Association; Leon May Retail redit Men's Assocla- tion; Howard Moran, Bankers Asso- ctation “vening Star; John . Real Estato Board; W. L. bullding and _loan assocla- corze Curtis Shinn, Bar As- investment Stringer, City Club; Ed- Boy Scouts; Frank R Newcomers' Club; 8. H. Retail Credit Men's Assocla~ s. W. A. Trauty, Federation of Women's Clubs; Walter 8. Ufford, Assoclated Charities; E. W. Whitehead, Retail Credit Men's Assoclation; Jo- seph A. Wilner, Young Men's Hebrew Association; Maj. Guy Withers, life underwriters; David 'J. Nevin, Na- tional Press Club, and John Q. Wine- man, Kiwanis Club. CRIME WAVE CONTINUES. Storekeeper Chases Bandits From Shop, Seizes One. NEW YORK, November 24.—The wave of hold-ups that has kept the city's entire police force on tip-toe for several days has not ended. Two daring robberies were attempted yesterday, one proving successful. Nathan _Frender, sixty-flve, pro- prietor of a raincoat store, drove three bandits from his establishment and captured one. Isadore Schecter, twenty-six, did not fare 8o well. Three men stepped dragged him into a cellar and robbed him of $240 in cash and $69 in checks. Then they locked him in the cellar and eacaped. e SHADES You will want your home to look its best on Christmas day. our made-to-measure window shades. of factory prices. We can heip you enhance the beauty of it, through Get our estimato D. €, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1923, ’{flilllj}fimarh &n —~The Christmas Store e others here. Stories of the Vikings By Maurice Dunlap, $2 -here are those blood-red ad ventures that will appeal to the wide-awake, real American boy. They thrill the child- heart which is in all of us. In the Land of Diggeldy Dan By Edwin Norwood, $1.75 —the merriest clown in all the world releases all the animals for an hour’s play every day— with heaps and heaps of fun. Merrimeg, by William Bowen Merrimeg is a delightful, hu- man little girl, and the adven- ture and moral of the book are equally appealing. Fairy Tales Rootabaga Pigeons, by Carl Sandburg, $2. The Fairy Book, by John Halifax, $2.50. Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, $1.75. The Pied Piper, by Sarah Addington, $2. Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie, $3. Children’s Books Adventures of Mrs. Tubbs, by Lofting, $1.25. Knee High to a Grasshopper, by Parrish, $2.50. Peter Patter, by Jackson, $2, The Teenies in Wildwood, by Hill and Maxwell, $1.25. The Beatrix Potter Series, 75c each. Christmas Book Store, Fifth Floor. Gift Books Good for Young Folk Hundreds and Hundreds of Them for Christmas And in choosing here you may feel perfectly confident that vour Gift Books will be the right Books for the Young Folk who receive them. These titles, selected from the hun- dreds of good ones, may suggest Books for your Young Folk—there are many, many Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office By Hugh Lofting, $2.50 Ln this story the Doctor discov s that there is not only ani- mal language, but animal writ ing as well. Vinzi, by Johanna Spyri, $1.50 It is the story of a little Swiss boy whose love of music gets him into disfavor with his practical father—but it turns out beautifully. Days of Commanders By L. Lamprey, $2.50 Lhese are stories of history us it was really lived by men, women and children in those thrilling days of 1773 to 1815. Boys and Girls of Bookland By Nora Smith, $2.50 ing condensations of the E designed to in- troduce the children of today to the famous children of fic- tion. Charlie and His Puppy Bingo By Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell, $1.25 Charlie and his puppy have many wonderiful adventures— and you will love them Winona's Dreams Come True By Margaret Widdemer, $1.75 Winona is a camp fire girl and she finds herself with a problem vou'll be interested in helping her solve. Animal Stories Jimmy, the Bear Cub, by Bayne, $1.60. Beautiful Jo, by Marshall Saunders, $1.50. Buster Bear’s Twins, by Burgess, $1.50. Star, the Indian Pony, by Hooker, $1.75. Wongo, the Wise Crow, by Morn, $1.50. For Older Girls For Older Boys Stories of Adventure, by Green, $1.75. Mystery of the Erick, by Hartley, $1.75. Lost Pavrakeet, by Gregor, $1.75. Jim Mann, Backwoodsman, by Durell, $1.75. Scouting on the Frontier, $1.75. Sea Birds Quest, by Loomis, $1.75. Emily of New Moon, by Montgomery, $2. Talking Leaves, by Stoddard, 75c. Little Women, by Alcott, 50c. Who Was Jane, by Sharp, $1.75. Tranquility House, by Seaman, $1.75.

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