Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 4

PUPILS TO HAVE HOLIDAY FRIDAY Teachers Will Attend Institute That Day. ol chlidrer ¥ Friday wi the ach nd of the 1 titute progra by Sup u organ T Athey of the musi instituts roductors nith wdemy superinte Alphonso tates Naval L. Day of United Wil- dent of forme an, speak Sn W r as a > of Dr he Chatl up as mblies feature the ion which will begin at ‘The meeting for senior teachers and oMcers wi tral topic for dis- The Organization of th fes of the IHigh 1t Dr umbia Un Robert of the high school 1 elementary 15 will meet in and Norn in de. grade primary assembly the will preside Another m junior high n the hool_teacher: il 1 ¢ Clark ciation, will pres meetings will ftted to inqui have puzale BRITISH IN DOUBT ON ELECTION EVE ed from F landslid ! uit to say on what apital Levy Scored. concerned, dime from th their clear- 1 lev is hostilit n address protection would ply edfold and un- bric of British ng that as bad a proposed ore f capt opinion may inservative latter thinks a quostion now stection. L Birken- tif tariff reform did not at polls tomorrow it would not be resubmitted peeplc in the present genera pparent said thugs evening. Th froe-for-all fights a course of which lights nd several of fght meetin the conserv Newport, was mud by mem- were ir i again urb- omen faint were hurt, A a Bers wife for lted wi tile miob. Candidates. standing against thirty- last general clection en in that of 1918 s woman members of the 1ons, Lady Astor, Mrs. . Philipson, are and may be re dered " unlikely hers will suc- most of them hopele congery Eood nee of in Plymouth. Her Capt. G W. Brennan »idea of capital levy of the pa ve METHODIST BISHOP AT POINT OF DEATH| Southern, Church Leader Stricken During Conference at Little Rock. ROCK, Ark., December & nding Bishop James A: s stricken with paralysis described his condition nged and very grav and expressed doubt that he would live ! through the day. The patient has been us; since late vesterd ope for his revovery last night Hundreds of telegrams continued t> pour Into the home of Dr. James Thom- where the' em ‘hurchman les stricken. coming from |l sections he bishop's ccuditio: hope thut he would Many of the messages told of praver services being held in various churches for_the beloved prelate. Bishop Atkine, who is seventy-ihree | vears old, came here from his home In lu N. €, to preside over the Little Rock conference, but was forced ‘o retire last Wednesday, beransa, of 0 illness, which was not believed’ to serious. Apparently recovered from ihis illness, the bisicp again took his place as the presid.ug officer of the con- ference Sunday and attendes the cles- ing sessions Monday. Bishop Atkine has been prominent as leader in" southern Methodism for ore than o guarter of a century. He has been particularly active in the de- velopment of the Sunday &chool. —_— Many woman “devilfishers” at Sal- mon Beach, Wash., are 5o expert that they catch hundreds of them and carn on an average of $50 a month. in Public Schools‘ or | at | council wero | |WHITE HOUSE HAILS COOLIDGE VICTORY IN SOUTH DAKOTA (Continued from First 1 M. MeAdos 9.018, and the farmer- |labor vote was, for Ford, 7.247, and for La Follette, 31,999 Arthtr Capper, United States sen- {ator for Kunsas, wamw chosen for sec- {ond placo on the republican ticket d the democrats chose James W. ard of New York. to in the night & group of ap- hirty men broke y bor meeting, platform tng with the demo- for joint selection of a ticket United States senator down. onference was continuing early d. and torial in- us waged ts of Thomas Ster- . and William H. Mc with the latter to 37.82 and surprise. Gov. indorsed the | Tohnson and, | mnced his stand. | E as regarded as a welidize support Regardless of th riven . the ¥ nomina- r Senator ther as republican sen ing to S. W. chuirman of the state tral committer, won the sen: I indorsement at the farmer-l ntion by a majority | Mark Bates, former leader in the on-Partienn League High lights in the various platforms § includad ment of the na- progress and strict n- ot; ‘agr ‘ope comnletion of the a child labor and | conserintion af | Yo i and property as well l(lfl men in vent of war. H Democratic — Reduction of taxe swtoration of agricultural prosperit n of world pemce; stri “ut of the Volstead act and d loenl legislation enacted amendment; f smpensation for for- ¢ mot an ‘act of | nition af | Zrent o 1 re: nt; mone the {vorine adjustred fmer service me yeh 1y, but as jus and comme " wystam Farmer-lubor- neportation. wnking; urging go mtrol of m | ment of taxes and Firm wor CAPPER NOT CANDIDATE. | Kansas Senator i dency Move hip of | resources and | nent issue and | ar debt sa | repeal of Says Vice Presi-| Unauthorized. | nator Cappe el the unen the South { vice presid not a candt { vention's BE B . Tam going to sti . said | ator Capper. “Last summer 1 an- | noed myself for re-election to the My nan 11l go befora the st. I have no_p r President or Vi re to continue | o few more years in | rse, 1 would regard { r to run with Presi- esidential ticket, ations in that re- compli- he Senate. t as a high hon ent Coolidge on the 1 esents | {Candidate on Way to New | to See Hitcheock. RK. December 6.—Senator Johnson of California, for e repubdlican pre sntial nomination, is coming to N H York tonight from Washington for ¢ a conference with the men who are 1o ‘manage Dis campaign in the east {Prank T. Hitcheock, campaign manager, announced tod. The sen- ator will rematn through Thursday. | |G. 0. P. LOSES NORTH.AMPTON.l Home Town Elects| Democratic Mayor. | NORTHAMPTON, Mass. December ! ity of Preident Cool- | clected as mayor Ed- Woodhouse, democrat, pro- government of Smith Col- defeated Willlam Cordes, Ly seventy votes. The | gains in the city | and the board of aldermen, | Prof. Woodhouse is a native of | Virginia and before comin | taught at the {sin, the Universit £ . R | {mond College and | DRY CANDIDATE WINS | SALEMD Mas December i { Pledged to clos, barroom in ! Lthe city and to wage “war to the death” on bootleggers, George J.! Bates, a member of the state legis- | {lature, mayor of Salem ! yesterds Denis J. Sulli- mayor he last six years 3,489 votes to 3,663. Tha tota ote was the largest ever recorded clection here and Bates also set a new record. ;Coolidze's i {idge card J. {republi { republi I Yan, e | majori /STUDENT FOUND DEAD! IN BREAK WITH GIRL Pennsylvania U. Freshman Believ- ed to Have Taken Life After Love Quarrel. | By the Associztad Press. | PHILADELPHIA. Decrmber 5 | The body of Charles I. Sternberg of | New York city, a freshman at the i University of Pennsylvania. with a bullet through the temple, was found | last night by his roomméte tn a| chair in their dormitory room. . Be- side him on the floor was a pistol with one chamber discharged and legram signed “Mary” which | orry we could not say good- He had been dead only a ort time. H ves investigating the .case expressed the opinfon that Sternberg had taken his own lite. The tele- gram was sent from New York to- ¥.. The police belie the voung man had a disagreement with the | sender of the message and that this | led_him to shoot Sternberz ent Wharton S¢hool of Finance. spent the Thanksgiving with his parents, M Sternberg. in York, to the university' vesterday. His roommate, George Goryueta of Ha- vana, Cuba, and other students ‘said that 'he appeared yvesterday to have been in the best of spirjts. —_—— HERBERT STANDING DIES_. ! Well Known Actor, 77, Succumbs in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES. Calif., December 5.— Herbert Standing, well' known actor, died at is home early this morning after an illness of five weeks. ‘He was seventy-seven years old. . He is survived by a widow. two daughters and five sons, Wyndham and Herbert, jr, who are in New York, and Sir Guy, Percy and Aubrey Standing now {n London. Al are én- gaged in theatrical work, exception of vne daughter. in the He had holi with . the la i portant light freight from the * THE EVENING STAR, V A,HlNG’l‘()N. D. C, WEDNESDAY NEW OFFICERS SOROPTIMIST CLUB 1 MIss : RUBY LEE \ MINAR President ~—~ contributed ssusto PRSTSEN GREFN, Miss M ATATE dent. and Vice President Dr.JULIAM Vice Prest LANDSLIDE GOVERS ' SINGER SONG HINTS LB, |CANARY GIVES OPERA |: Lessons From Bird—Matches Her Voice With One. Service to Eastern Kentucky Halted as Tracks Buried (vr:- - E | Giilespie, ! CHIK MacBeth Civie « rence Chicago impany, vesterday i3 with feathered song i birds in the show re of the Inter- A | national Roller Ca Rrecders’ As- | soctation. Miss *Beth, who ad- mitted s had taken lessons from a consented to sing'in competi- h the Quarter Mile. Ity the Assoctated Press LOVISVILLE, Ky, Decenber qnarter mile 1 of the Louisville and lroad Company's | track is b under tons of earth and | C2RATY. rocks to depth in some polnts n'1“‘:" - thirty feet, following o landslide be- |, ~"" ibe tween Athol allega, in Lee county, 1°ard M and as a result large section of cast- { < is cut off from service by | /i) gud asked her ing tch to the | acknowledged that Jackson, Ky.|lessons for ight | can Jackson. eight | TAD of the slide, were |~ for my part taught him a number e track might |of things in turn,” said Miss MacBath, | includ the ce of drinking coffee. | | He bew for it But he taught | ime s perhaps my best song in | {'F Mivs MacBeth sang “Charming | {Blird,” by David, to an audience com- ¥ cases of dynamits were | prising Inglish Norwiches, eolorful reported to have been used in an effort, Yorkshires, Man ppies and | to break up 3 h trilling 4 iation who Caro Nome" - detected in her tr er canar; bout it. She had taken from a roller in Ger- nie of the ro to move it bit by bit with a steam shovel. | Franc s rock was said e as lar {” Listeners that while both ?.“.,;_:::"f ‘:‘ 5 2id to be as large a3 2, fiiitn preser thelr individuality, e their performances had mueh in com The slide occurred late Monday. For |mon time teamsters moved freight and | BENEFIT BODY ELECTS. passengers around the gap in the rafls. ! d i 4, T. Lewis Heads District Colored In a short time the wagons are said | to have churned the mountainside into | ‘Workers' Association. H Lewis was re-elected presi uch a mudds bog that i the Tustrict ves’ Ben: ble to continue the wagon tr. now packers are moving mail he scene of tao p fit Association at ting Tues- Hled and a ! gay night in Odd lows' Hall. IT PASSANEErs | The associntion was organized by | eolored mpl of the District | building i 1 "Other officers re-elected for another | ASKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. | ar were James H. Matthews, vice | rtrude E. Eilbeck today filed |president: M. 8. Williame, reconding suit for an abselute divorce in the |380Petary: Augustus (L0 - harles K. Eilbeck. They were mar- | 190 #P000, T8 Bolden ed June 1, 1916 Cruelty and mis- | Allen. = 70830 Hurd, conduct are ‘alleecd and a_co-respond. [SPEIATI-4t ent named. The wife asks alimony, | Chaplain. declaring her sbund makes §. week. he f= presented by A farm in New York hae bean de- | ney W. A. Cool voted to tie raising of zebras. ! end of the rails to where a tr side” stops. Two Years ago from the track at ent slide and an fireman and ¢ injured. AT a train was swept| gent of and John Due to the Rain—We Continue the Christmas Bath Robe Sale $7.95 For Men, Women and Children 5] .95 Because of the inclement weather, the Men’s and Women’s Bath Robes at $2.95, and Children’s Bath Robes at $1.95, adver- tised for today, will be on sale tomorrow. This also applies to the sale of Stout Women's Fur-trimmed Coats at $79.50. hus making Thursday a day of unusual importance. The Hecht Co. Seventh at E DECEMBER 5, 1923, Furniture Gone, |JAPANESE SEEKING BAVAICOVERNOR i Gone, At secine PRAISES TERRTORY, __Protecting” It s e | Denied American Citi- zenship. HOSPTAL BOARD T0 T PROPOSAL Casualty Directors to Consid- er Taking Over of Institu- tion hy Emergency. When & Wushington real estate [ agent visited a dwelling at Chevy | Chase, this county, a few days 8g0 to show it to & prospective renter he was very much surprised to find it devold of all furniture excepting a chiffonfer and & couple of chairs, as he had been Informed by the owner, a Mra. Huffman, now in the west, that it was fully furnished. He reporged the matter to Sheriff Moxley. After working on the eral days, Deputy Gingell and Motor C3 Policeman Leroy Rodgers went to the home of Bur- nett kraney, colored, about 200 yards from the Huffman house, and found there, so they state, the sing furniture. Although he Insisted that he had removed the furniture to his own home o that he could take care of it for its owner, Franey was ar- rested. Tells Soroptomists Posses-s sion Means Control of U. S.' | Pacific Coast. By the Associated Press. TOKIO. December 5. —Aroused Ly ‘he return from the United States of large numbers of Japancss emi grante, varlous public organizations and vernacular newspapers of the empire ars urging the forelgn office | to take some action which will offsct the effect of the decisions | United States Supreme Court bar-| of Tt 7 et ting Japanemo from American clti- | bues wne 1as et zenship and sustalning anti-allen| p,o4pita), reorganiza 1t and aperate ft nd laws of Californta and Washing- | Thig follows F . i ton. utive con Thus far, beyond preparing in-| Hospita { structions for the guldance of Am-| s i bamsador Hanihara at Washington, | Which t the contents of which have not been | rectors —— . disclosed, the government has taken | will n | no action. Proposals for the aboli- s o e rner sna| ENDS LIFE BY-HANGING | mimeity ane s esticsstens 51 +a in the Pacific. It cost the coun- | S the anti-alien land act, sed Ly e = i diet ten rs ago, hut never enforced, 24,600,000 and not a single life, | since this acquisition ihe | Charles Barnes, 33, Commits Sui-| have been under ‘consideration for 4 | year, however. wmtd into the federal | more than §105,000,000, and| cide With Sheet When Doc- tor Leaves Room. The board of a4 Hospital will 1 the inatitutior statems re ors of Casualty Tuesday night at tewr the forn « 4% to the The fmportance of Hawall as outpost in the Pacific should never be doubted, for the nation that con- trols this territory will control the Pacific coast, declared Wallace R. Farrington, Governor of Hawali, in 81 address botore the annual banquet of the Soroptomist Club at Rauscher’s last night. Gov. Farrington sald his people do mot know iwhether any | country has designs on the islands, | but the thought “should move us to} caution. H The speaker asserted that America ’PATIE never made a better business invest- > board of di mat before the cred Supreme Court of the approval = board of a formal one, the Th try ualty he sald, a | all the members D:"Il‘hn,\'r'ul‘l‘h‘i'fl‘l in government | have been te Claren A, As- es in the enforcing of the anti- 5 of tho't o¥s saia ded more than $17,000,000 | alien land act arises $rom the fact| P! f the two recelvers, sal for fmprovements to its harbors and | that restrictions on the ownership| O signation of the ols water fronts. of land, under law, would affect citi- | ¢ Ray R reflectinn upen Tells About Club. zens of stutes of the United States| !SI but a mere recognition missioner Rudolph was to | one of the | i i Clarles Barnes, thirty-three years old, of Riverdale, Md., w statisticlan ce |in the War Department, committed ionor guests, but was ! guicide today by hanging himself in s from attendiu the strong room at the Gallinger ) CXDressing regr was | Memorial Hospital. Mr. Barnes, who read. Mrs. Ruby Lee Minar, president | hue a wife and child {n Riverdale, had of the club, spoke on the spirit of{leon staying with his parents at 1337 revelry wud happiness that has per-| 4 street northeast. According to his meated the organization since its -} father he was restiess uall night and ception one v ago last night the father sat up with him. Toward The progrim of entertainment Was morning the young man rushed from | to by George O'COnnor Ly ped and jumped from the second- and Matt Horn and the Grace Dodge grom- window of his parents’ resi- Orchestra, composed of young WOmen, dence and was later picked up by under the leadership of Miss Sadie | omcers of the ninth precinct and Sewell Atoe 2 riett Hawley CRET | taken to the hospit for observation. Wwas toastmistres }e was placed in the strong room. 3 tand while Dr. Irving Shorrell, in Kint g8 (Gacats | charge of the hospital, went to spenk The honor guests beside Gov. Far- | (€S BLIAE SEATEE LA Father, who rington included Miss Imogene James, (0 C#IHER P0Gl C Rarnes took & president Zonta Club; Mrs. Louis N.| o0t from the bed, trying one end to Geldert, national president I & a window w‘r’mn' and plucing the American Pen Women; Mrs. William ;'”“r end about his neck, and hanged Chamberlin, president Women's | iS¢ - City Club; Clarence D. Harding, presi- US0R0 10 oporeall saw iieaa Mice: hanging he cut him down and in- | g ‘ted strong stimulants intohisheart | got the wrong bove. The evidenie - 10 restore life, but without avail i showed that, following the . alirm Barnes' parents say he had domestic:there was a stampede for the exite trouble. several women in the crowd ik DUGE OF AOSTA STILL |LL'K@§§<%§§§,§ Spanish King's Cousin, Grip Suf- J ferer in Italy, Relapses. “Pledged to Quality” TURIY, 1t Fourteenth St. at New York Ave. Duke of Aost Goodman & Suss Rochester Tailored Clothes A Month Ahead of Time! Semi-Annual CLEARANCE Every Suit In The House ' 1y recovering, as suffered a relapse, | Mrs. | developing & high fever. $40 and $45 Suits Suits Suits | 3235 | 3425 | 52 e ! passing through Turin. visited her phew, but hls case is not consid- Dress Clothes—the only item excepted! LRGN whose return to the city was set for | e t which now permit alfens to own land. | (2t t Io be'an entire _now | deal” in relation to Casual s | 1s_Jeffords is the other recejver. | | “3fr. Aspinwall today paid tribute to THREE STUDENTS FINED. | ... it i i ar of Wondburs | Blair. president of tha bourd of Emer at the meeting held Aspinwal that a_credit 4 that the iut is the onl: Boys Accused of Making Disturb- ance in Theater. Francis Orlando. Paul DeToto and Louts Marchose, Tech high school tudents el . $30.000 IN BEER SEIZED. duct in id o downtown e night of Nove were arcsigned befors Judge Schuldt {0 the District of Columbia brarch of Police Court today and wag fined §25. They were then pl on probation. ~The boys, who minors, pleaded not guilty to charge’ and when placed on the ness stand in their defense said other boys tha theater caused a {stampede by velling “fire” several times and that fhe arresting ofcers vaudevi theater Newark, N. J., Authorities Cap ture Twelve Truckloads. December beer, most of | breweries, have iay, prohi lain announcerl seklnads, seized near rday, were valuec dent Civitan Clu he patient litan Club, ¢ nt Kiwanis « president Lo hart. president N . Arthur M. Fisher, preside Ciub; Benjamin 1 dent Hitlt Civie The committ in banquet was compose K. Pollard, t $50,000 1 Charge aa Hun Dickson. Miss Miss Carolin ett 1. Lache Jennte Rya e L. Si Lule 3 of King Victor Mra. Reed, Margue: Har ar presider sooretary : treasure 3 Mre. H. H. 3 K. Pollard Tanman. Miss Helen : Mre. 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