Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1923, Page 9

MEMENTO OF BABES SACRIFICED TO BAAL Toys of 2,000 Years Ago Portrayed in Lecture Before Geographic Society. 'Dodd Succeeds Watson as Chief Of Destroyers The assignment of Capt. Edwin H. Dodd to command destroyer squadron 11, battle feet, vice Capt. Edward H. Watson, was announced yesterday In naval orders. It was the eleventh squadron Wwhich was wrecked in southern California waters, and Capt. Dodd will take over a reconstituted command. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1923. MR, GUMBOEG 1S OUT SIOE, HE WOULON'T SAY WHAT HE WANTED TUH SEE YA '‘BouT wouLON'T SEMO '™ WELL HE'S AFTER SOMETHING OR HE Fe HERE, " THAT BIRD HAS AN A¥X Tp GRIND OR HE WOULDN'T COME WAY uP HERE, | S Pose 1T's A TOUCH R SOME BUSINESS PROPOSITION HE WANTS mMe To FIMANMCE SPROULLOSS TODL. HOUSE COMMITTEE Representative, However, Friend of Postal Employes in New Post. ball garie between the alumn! girls and students, at 1:30, followed by the election of officers and business at 3 p.m. A musical entertainment and play will be given at 4 p.m,, and from 5 to 7 a reception will be held, and the alumni will be received by Miss Kate Buckham, assistant principal, and other members of the faculty. Dancing will be he.d in one of the drill halls, and refreshments will be served by girls of the senior class The dramatic association of the school will present a play, “The Trysting Place,” by Booth Tarking- ton, and Miss Mildred Boynton and Theodore Tenley will also take part in the program, The school will be brilliantly deco- rated for the occasion, and more than 9 dents will conduct the alumni on a tour of tne building, showing various shops and classes in operation; the new athletic field and stadium, which will accommodate more than 6,000 people, will also be shown to the old graduates. The executive council also madear- rangements for a vaudeville produc- tion, given by alumni talent, to be presented at the school on the even- ing of Friday, February 15, the bene- fits to be given to the alumni asso- ciation. The production is in charge of Miss Mary Murray and Miss Rose- mary Arnold. Bertram G. Foster, prestdent of the association, presided at the meeting. Those present at the luncheon includ- ed, in ‘addition to Mr. Hart and Mr. 1,000 alumni are expected. During the afternoon senior EL PO-DERSO Qe Cigar Jou Wil Enjoy Ask Your Dealer i Foster, the members of the executive Capt. Watson {s assigned as council and members of the faculty. sistant commandant, Hawall. His case is still pending at the Navy Department, where the action of the al court-martial which - tried him in_connection with" the disaster awaits disposition by Sec- retary Denby. STATEG. . CLUBS DU TS DRVE President Snyder of D. C: League Discusses Member- of the French government in its north H 1viti At b tote Do ba the' ie ot ship and Activities. Carthage and in the surrounding coun- ——— 3 . Near the edge of the Sa-| 1t a5 made plain at the meeting hara Fre ogists have duslor the League of Republican State that at temples of the|Clubs of the District, at the City pagan Romar seriod, and vast ba 1b Thursday night, that its members 0_fr‘|iw early days of Christianity propose to take an-active part in the he actus city of ancient Punic ¢ - a€e hia siuasd the ot nterest of republican during the Count de V'rorck s 3 natio campaign. en | SR lgar C. Snyder, president of the QU SHOEONS | seagne. tn W ssing a tentative plan i recalled how many of | its members had been engaged in the of the party for more than years, and that in the next &n they hoped to double their efforts to maintain the present ministration and to keep the S ¢ land House in republican contr 1t was declded to enter upon an in- tensive membership campaign in order sent @ solid and hars hen the first gun of sounded. This ¢ it the greater ( . z tng out / \ of republicans resid- 5 7)) gton who are entitled W Nationnl Work Described. Loee stu- Pictures of the-tovs-and milk bottlrs Of Carthagenian babies, who were of- fered as hamay sacrifices to Baal more than shed a pa- thetic ancient ve ne Field's “Little Boy Blue,” when s lecture on Carthage, by Count Byron Khun de Prorok, before members of the National Geographic Society at the Masonic Temple last night. With the pl hings and nursing bottles of the little victims. of one of the cruelest re- ligious practices the world has known were shown pictures of the bones of their tiny While the transfer of Representa- tive Elliot W. Sproul, republican, of Iilinols, from the House District com- mittee withdraws from active con- sideration of District legislation one of the staunchest friends of the Dis- trict on that committee during the last Congress, it means that all gov- ernment employes and particularly those in the postal service, will have a friend on one of the most powerful committees of the House. many years Representative n B. Madden of Illinols, now chairman of the appropriations com- mittee, while on the post office and post roads committee, was known throughout the country as the partic- ular legislative friend of those in| the postal TV Representative | proul and Representative Madden have been close friends for more than thirty years, During all the time t Mr. ) den was serving the in- terests of the postal employes he wis in frequent conference with Mr. Sproul. Thus Represéntative Sproul brings to his duties on the post office and post roads committee the knowl- edge of m y ¥ 8" clo: intimacy with pos Islation, particularly the hum; this very important federal activity To Be Real Power, Representative Sproul will be one of the real powe on the post office and p roads committee. He enters upon these duties with the determi- e (" HAVE A CicaR, BiLLs BY CEorGE! 1¥'s GOOD T SeE Ya AGAInY HOW's Tw' Acncy ? Remcmae% me ToTa MISSUS AN ALL TH K1D5 Lo, BiLL oL ScouT! How's A 8oy ?, THA' S CGoo D+ 'SBEEM A Lone TIME SIMCE | SAW YA ever own Archeological Specimens. tion pictures shown ok disc 1 a wealth of eological work done under flic auspice Count p rch- s 3 | : a EL PO-DER-SO —was made of the finest tobacco then grown. The one you buy today is ex- actly like the first. Try the EL PO-DER-SO After all, nothing satisfies like a good cigar. You GREAT B1G STIFF ! TAKE OFF THAT COAT AN SIT Down ! | WANT To TALK To YoU. jnation to do all he can for the bet- FoR ABOLT 3 HOURS AN THem YoURE[ [ [ {Riient of the postal wervice and to GOtnG "OUY To TH Hou3E postal employes h WiTe ME FoR Representative Sproul will also do his best to have leg ion passed as soon as possible inere: ng the pen- sions for all government employes. He believes that such legislation can be cnacted, increasing. the pensions. t $100 a month. In this work he will co-operate osely with Representa- tive Lehlbach of New Jersey, author of the m uge 10 amend the present Tetirement act. EASTERN HIGH ALUMNI WILL HOLD REUNION‘ Annual Christmas Affair Planned | for December 21 Starts in WELL, SaloNG, BiLe! YVE €0T To BE oM My WAy . TUST STOPPED Jin To SAY HOWOY An SEE IF You WERE Ate RIGHT From the bur lived in the city B. (', have b r @ mirr 1 places of as @ found nt into th hundred city, wh lic buildings and the shops Though the old Punic C! not yet been found, the Romeé founded a century destroyed her an martyr n triumphs hold the known hi urfes of the opinion, will Cizes and. Shapes fromy10¢ tg%? doms and then of became The 1 the fir: in the speake Ye know 1y be many yvears from the e ations at Cart Classed Most Valuab st dramatic an could b the kn republican national or the District, told ctive work done by the E mittee during its ent {sessions here and in which he lauded the harm relations existing between and the{ of church Afternoon. CoTR v 0L ¥, WORLD) TamE TR 0B COMPELLED TO KILL | SELF, SUICIDE WROTE;I]UE"]RS EXAMINE ‘ | Leaves Note Explaining H | Pt BT Children in Kindergartens and | First Grades Undergoing Physical Tests. The annual Christmas reunion nr} the alumni association of tern | EOUAI. RIGHTS B".I. ;Iluh‘\;x’ ol will be held on December | Henry T. Offterdinger Distribator 508 9th St. N.W. Phone Main §710 for the affair, which will | the first one to be held in the new | e completed recently by | OFFERED IN HOUSE |7 it e il nces and observations of the national committc hoped to be a her time to the repu use and would be active in o = republicun women in the ican program consists of a.basket | S Speed to call on-always An openroad. Smooth, deserted. You call for speed—more speed. The wind whistles. Treesrace by youablur. Yourengineresponds to the touch of your foot like a thorobred—gives you speed. That’s AMOCO-GAS. AMOCO-GAS rushes into the cylinders a thin vapor—ready to burst into instant power. .Demand and use AMOCO-GAS regularly. Always comes from the green pump. For power, speed, economy — it can't be equalled. and is now being followed with eve! hope of suc Count d the afte Grosveno Geographic A were shown for the first time country. The following were elected: C. Snyder, president; W. J, Dow, i Mrs. James Carroll | second vice president, and Thom third vice p Action Follows Introduction of i Amendment Measure in | Senate. Socies in this and Miss Florenca rresponding secre- | |MARINE WAR HERO i — In-law, said to reside in northeast Infantry | 3 - . 2, . ‘Washington. ird, Md., has |Answers Wife’s Charges in Divorce sompelled to Hawail, for | = v # Itten, { Suit— message, wr uit—Blames Her Family VRIGE serkrds for Woes. friends.” Ricclardi foreman of a gang of railroad laborers, appeared at the that interference from|G street house, conducted by Mr: his wife's people did much to wreck | Margaret Cumnl'flnx!. more than a gield | his' home, Grover Matthow CI month ago and was given a rear s beon | e e arover Matthew Chatman | 10i on the third floor- He said he o jprivate In the Marine Corps, vesterday | oxpected his wife and child here fro; filed answer in Equity Court to the & New York shortly, and Mrs. Cum A. J. Wasekanes ilery, of Mrs. Irma Louise Ghatman s mings had arranged to give him at Camp Meade, Md., to Aurora. [of{for an absolute divorce with per- |IWTEST TORL KON 1o (giaay ne duty with the Hilnois National Guard | manent allmons. g had lived in New York before com- T 5 . d : His marital troubles, Chatman said, | ing to this_city. He had resided in reen ! {outstripped an extensive ove {a house on K street, he said. and told camp 3 i ence, although he was left nerv- | of trouble he experienced in getting . . Lieut nd {1l mentally result of | his trunk after his landlady had at Lansir ipation in major enzagements.|moved. His father-in-law and a child Bennett cived the distinguished serv- |ywere visitors several days ago. Ric ross from buth the Army andlciardi was not at home when they the Itallan medal of honor | called, but later said he had seen rench croix de rre on two ons, got tw 5 T stars S other times for al 3 LIEUT. GOETTGE ON NEW POST and _was espec cited Pershing for daring in connection with the capture of enemy machine | First Licut. Frank B. Goettge, star gunners, |of the Marine Corps foot ball team, The marine defendant declared his{kas been relieved from further duty at the marine station, Quantico, Va.. 2nd ordered to San Francisco for home was open to his wife and chil- dren any time they chose to return. duty in the marine department of the Pacific. He denied having conducted himself TROLLEY TRANSFER 0. K.'D. with a younger sister of the plain- tiff wife, as alleged in her bill, and declared the whole proceedings a plot to ruin his good name and home. e P nd 5ors | The Public Utilities Commission g has approved the agreement Teached between the Capital Traction Co pany .and the Washington Railway and Electric Company, under which it will be possible to get from Randle Highlands to the Eastern High School on one fare and a 1-cent Inter- company transfer. Leaving a note that he was “com- amend- pelled to kill himself,” Rosario Ric- ciardi, an Italian forty years old.! ended his life in his room, at 463 G| street northwest, yesterday, The charge | from a shotgun killed him. “I couldn't return, and came to the The proposed “equal rights” ment to the Constitution, putting men and women on the same basis before the law, was launched in the | House Thursday by Representative Daniel Anthony of Kansas. This is the second appearance of the amend- ment this week, the first being Mon- {day, when Senator Charles E. Curtis |of the same state introduced it in | the Senate. i | The measure is supported by the |National Woman's ~ Party and the same delegation of women who ¢ cupied the Senate gallery were pres- ent in the House. Alice 1. vice president of the Woman's Parf n speaking of the | measure, said: "By the passage of the equal rights amendment we ex- pect to remove all form of subjection of women, in law, in custom, in the moral world, in the professions. in industry, in the home. What we de- sire is that men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United es and every place sub- ject_to_its jurisdiction S S Changes in Stations of i Army and Navy OJi cers | The health department yesterday the task of making a medical exam- ination of the thousands of children in the kindergartens and first grades of the public schools, Health Officer Fowler announced. * The department, Dr. Fowler sald, has always aimed to ascertain the physical condition of all public school children, but the medical inspection force has never been large enough to make it possible. e force is Inadequate for the | task now, but Dr. Fowler believes | much will be accomplished by begin- ning the inspection in the lower grades, where the children are of such ages that corrective measures may be easily taken. “It is necessarily going long and slow process,” Dr. continued, “since we have only eleven inspectors, and they must devote | some of their time to routine school inspection work. We will go ahead with the tematic examination, however, as rapidly as possible.” The examinations will be made | with the consent of parents and any | conditions found that would tend to retard the health growth of a child will be made known to the parents, i HEADS NON-DEGREE CLUB. | W. Eichelberger, 3§00 Macomb | strest, has been elected vic ident | of the Non-Degree Club Institute of Technolog: sult of the elections for the present year, ac- cording to word received here yesterday | from Pittsburgh. He is a student in | the heating and ventilating course at the institution. Maj. E Brigade, been ordere duty. Capt. B ter Corps, Parris, ai on account ¢ kill in to myself,” the Itallan, added. all my good been retired | tent to | Declaring s inc Artillery, ordered 1o the Ohio N tional Gua Fi a be a “owler '3 to to ace, infantry, haplain I L. | Md., have r duty Give Electrical Presents For Xmas Westinghouse o S $10.50 Radiators. John J. Odenwald Phone Fr. 6903 Ihoun has been Mclville to the | W. H. Toaz, Relief; linger, Lieut. Com- mand from the Me Licut. Commander receiving ship ommander D. to the C. Jen- Comi New; Hunter vad Lieut. Comm from the M Doyen; Lic peire: the W 0. Roesch, agon, and ced, 'from Sta Licut Supply Corps the Naval treatment Medic to a Naval follows iakes iampton omin from the Lieut. Comn the Mely distric Kilpatrick, mmand the H. 3.} ant to nder H { o the | + w."ts {HONORS DR. HILLEBRAND. to the Gold | PAE SRS Chemistry Society Pays Tribute to Past President. The three hundred and forty-eighth ing of the Chemical Society of hington in the Cosmos Club Thurs- night was devoted to enconiums and ulogies to Dr. W. F. Hillebrand, past o e Encourage Thrift who e ated his seventieth % ay. Dr. e . | Hillebrand is often referred to as the Recuvranny depositing a speci- % me court of analytical chemis- . fied sum ‘of money each week is the way to have money. Corcoran, ordered to city, for| been ordered | ruction the hool, this as Boor reat W, stein, at H. C. John- Lieut. A. H. and Lieut. officers irs Medical ent. H. Licut. cal Corps, from Hampton city, and Lieut orps, from ft squadron AMOLCO-GAS Drive with AMOCD-GAS Run on EZE-LUBE Motor Qil "THE AMERICAN OIL COMPANY Washington Plant—éOUTH WASHINGTON, VA—PHONE MAIN 6222 General Offices: Baltimore, Md. Washington Dealers Now in a Position to Serve You Amoco-Gas LORD BALTIMOBE FILLING STATIONS, INC. No. 1, 910 Pa. Ave. N. W.—No. 2, 608 K 8t. N. W. MOTOR TIRE COMPANY, 2715 Penna. Ave. N. W. RTHEAST AUTO SCFPLY CO. O tfiths Filling Station) Baltimore Boulevard above H St. N. E. 8 Cedar 8t., Takoma Park. He been in the service of y-elght s and with the bureau of stand- for fifteen years, coming to hington in 1885, prior to which he saw service in Colorado. Dr. 8 ail. Drs. E. T. Allen, H. S, Washington and C. E. Munroe were among those who spoke in_glowing terms of Dr. Hillebrand. The latter responded with a brief sketch of his life, detail- ing how he “broke into” the chemis- rofession and how he was able ' President William Mansfield Clark of the society presided. sided. CARNEGIE'S NIECE TO WED. BOSTON, December’ 15.—Miss Lucy Carnegie of Cumberland Island, Ga., and Phineas Shaw Sprague of Boston, a senior at Harvard College, filed ap- plication _at city hall for mar- riage license, ~Miss Carnegle is a j grand-niece of the late Andrew Car- negie. They plan to be married in {March. 11 INDICTMENTS QUASHE" - wcomim wison | NEW Liberty yesterday quashe n indictments | . o Winter Garden which have been pending for some | years. Eleven bench rants were | 402 New Jersey Ave. N.W. Entertainment ordered for persons against whom in- dictments are pending, but who have and Dancing Every Night never been apprehended. Broadway Revue The cases dismissed were: Maurice Featuring Nannetta B Conradi, non-support; Ralph H. Gel- dart, grand larceny: Vantile C. 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Tank Installations Are Completed] sault with a dangerous weapon; Har- v e enm v Johnson, housebreaking; Cornelius Young, non-support. Bench warrants were ordered for the apprehension of the following fu- gitives: Paul A, Brown, Patrick C. Thomas, Constantine Hondropoulos, “heslie_Dent, Richard Shell, Mason rent, Walter Spriggs, Russeil Gates, harles Scruggs, William L. 'nmnorl and Arthur Colbert. [More as Necessary T