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THE 2 PROTESTS 12-MILE PACT. | i1 Feisrn™Tor which Tsritin JL'«“S:‘\ would he permitted to bring liquor | KILLED IN ESCAPE. into American ports under bond, man- e twentz.toue | Anti-Prohibition Leader Says It||festiyvioletes the eimmioriin nad” |Insane Patient Falls From Third- EVENING STAR, ment. Story Window. 'END OF CENSORSHIPY"™ % Skceron e SO @ity Famous Detective Buried in View (Continued from Eighth Page.) from the llnlenfl;lumel\nrnt g\rn:l{; Jol 5 P the generosity of Mrs. Avery Coo Follett, 20, 1000 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., December | | CLEVELAND, December 17.—Sque Wwashington | 5, ! 3 - | SVELAND, 7.—Squeez i of Criminals He Hunted and | Misn Anna Hempat ad Tranch will de- | and s purty from [the (Wkaniugio) oo . Hiw G, Georgstown Univemity [17.—A formal protest against the pro- | WITNESS MEETS DEATH Ing between fron bars five inches 2 09% _Some He Reformed. program of poems by Mrs. Willlam 5. | John B. Larner. o | posed treaty with Great Britain re-| TORONTO, December 17—T. §. Miss Betty Btronach | “pl un K. Voste, 36 2V ot a NS e Chamberlin, president of the Women's | granddaughter of Congrossman Spro E: Yowtun, 9, st. ne. garding liquor transportation on the | 0'Connor, private secretary to H. J. By the Amociated Press i O e By Nammerrs B, | 5 Tiinois, Kave @ delightful and ap- | Melva 3. Caswell, 5, 1337 Emerson at. !hlnh seas was telegraphed to Presi- Daly, president of the defunct Home HICAGO, December 17.—A fresh | £uli G0 5™ on ‘i Appiicntion of | propriate program of music. e ey orlex’, 05 Garfield Howpital | dent Coolidge yesterday by Willlam | Bank, 'and held on 330,000 bail as a mound of earth in Graceland ceme- |the Principles of the Christ of the E Butman, 7 il H. Metson, chalrman of the cexecutive | material witness in the prosecutlon of tery, banked by flowers and. with & Andes to. Worid Peace” will concluds committee of the California division | bank officials. dled today in a he simple headstone, marks the end of | ‘h€ Prosran. tal trony @ fractured skuil was taken to the institution yester. “the eve Willlam A. Pinkerton, Metson sald the administration is|day after he was reported to ha i el e inconsistent in ity stand and contend- | siipped on the sidewalk while going x . Zdna to Mr. Walter Nash Balley Hpsiad e AtuRay, Thanksglving day. Mr. and Mrs. — ed that the agreement under consider- | to mass. An old Scotch hymn, “The High|pajey lidnys with A ) ) 4 ¥ ), By the Associated Press. Roud and the Low Roud” wias sung | the hrides patents on Kook Creek S NEW YORK, December 17.—A new n.l‘ the l-;n;gmhl I"rvxl T[lrrlA: .Ch;nrth Church road and will be at home after organization designed to crush the| ' n¢Fe r. John mothy Stone | January 1 at Mullins, W. Va. The WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1923. Deaths Reported. The following deaths have been reported to the health department in the L ington branch of the Vassar Alumnae Association for the benefit of the V. sar salury endowment fund Was en- joyed by a large audience, the major- ity of whom were children. Among the small spectators were a number | bous apart, Miss Dorls Grossman, twenty- eight, a patient at the Cleveland State Hospital for the Insane, fell three stories to her death yesterday Coroner A. P. Hammond pronounced death due to a broken neck. It was the s d time within six months that & patient has escaped from the institution by worming through the bars, Georb¥" Creel Heads Group Segking to Prevent New Laws and- Revoke Old. of the Association Against the Prohi- bition Amendment. Marriage Licenses. licenses hve been issued,to the | Nannfe Quander, 50, Freedm Marriage licenses Aunie Walker, 1, Gallinger Hospitnl 5 2 st ww. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.. Hughes an- ( Jennle Keys, 31 the marriage of their daugh- T TTTTIT T T, ¢ "5t Mars's county, M ARt preached the funeral sermon. £ tuts oHY S of bright- groom is a graduate of Marshall Col- Ga., and principle of censorship, to be known as the National Council to Protect the Freedom of Art, Literature and the Press, has been launched, it has been an-| nounced by George Creel, the chair- man. The councll is a reorganiza- tion of the joint committee for the promotion and protection of art and literature, formed a year agc { to oppose censor " sh\\‘p ng zdl‘kuld Membership at GEORGE CREEL. present is com- posed of the following: Authors’ League of America, Inec. et Equity Association, Inc An!orlt:zm Dramatists; ational Pub- lishers' Assoclation, In Cinema Camera Club, Printing Trades Union, American Federation of Musicians, Motion Picture Producers and Dis- tributors of America, Inc.; New York Employing Printers’ A ation, Guild of Free Lance ture Directors’ Association and the Screen | Writers' Guild, In outlintng the councll Mr. Creel sald: “It is not only proposed that cen- sorships will be fought. but the peal of existing censorship laws be urged. It is the principle of cen- sorship itself that we hope to crush, for the censoring of any one form of expression arries a threat of cen- sorship of every other form of ¢xpres- sion. “This Is In no sense a movement in favor of license, or a campaign for special privileges. At every point the national council stands squarely in support of the law of the land. What we protest against<£what we are formed to fight—are persistent and ill-advised attempts to set aside this law in favor of the bigotries of per- sonal prejudice and attacks upon lMberty masked as attacks upon license.” The council plans to keep in close touch with state city councils and “rafds upon civil liberty 1 no longer be allowed through lack of in- telligent resistanc DESTROYER OFFICER FREED OF WRECK GUILT Toesch Released When Admiral Disapproves Finding of Court-Martial. policles of the SAN DIEGO, Calif., December 17.— Naval authorities here last night confirmed a report that Admiral Sam- uel S. Robison had disapproved court- martial findings holding Lieut. Com- mander H. O. Roesch guilty of ne- in permitting the destroyer as to run ashore in the Honda tember S, th Admiral ¥ roval of the verdict, ‘ommander Roesch cleased | est donald 7. siderable surprise W conviction of oResch, as against him was said to have been no | to the And in the crowd assembled In the church and which followed to the grave were representatives of both “roads.” I'olice officials, substantfal business men commanding respect in - their communi crooks, reformed and otherwisge, stood together in common homage to the man they all re- « was the man who “lifted” the string of gems on a traln be- Spokane and Seattle, whom alone, without a guard, to the owner and bring back a receipt for the gems. He is a prosalc restau- rant owner today. was the slender, anaemic distracting a bank teller's $10,000 into his lunch I'inkerton at the door of returned and thrust the the counter and ve” to get him a Job. rton did, a night watchman's position, which he has held ever since. - FIRE CAUSES DAMAGE OF $200,000 IN GEORGIA Undetermined Origin Sweeps Columbus Busi- ness Houses. Blaze of By the Associated Press. COLUMBLUS, Ga., December 17.-~Fire, of undetermined origin, which for al hours threatened the heart of il business district of Colum- auscd 4 damage estimated at $200,000 before it was brought under control this morning. Humes Music Company was the greatest loser in the conflagration, which gutted the rear of the struc- ture. _ TWO KILLED IN FIGHT. One Wounded, One in Jail in Augusta, Ga. AUGUSTA, Ga., December 17.—Two men are dead, one seriously and another ' in fall chai murder, as the result of a gun fight In Polks alley, in the west end sec- tion of the city. The dead are Will Sims and George McCloud: Will ler is seriously wounded and S. W. (Bud) Inglett is in Jail. MISSING STUDENT IN ARMY Ohio, December 17.— erious disappearance of Rob- Moe, twenty, of Twinsburg, ophomore at Ohio State Uni- versity, October 30, was partially cleared up by receipt of a let- ter by university officlals from the s mother stating that he had en- ted in the Army, and Is stationed at Louis. Young Moe is a of Rev. W. C. Moe, a former Congregationalist min- ister. University officials have been conducting a h for the boy ever since his disappearance. CRITTENDEN BANK CLOSES. MEMPHIS, Tenn., December 17.— The Crittenden County Bank and Trust Company, at Marion, Arl closed its doors today pending, as cording to an announcement given Memphis News Scimitar b Luis Barton, president of the inst tution, “the working out of a reor- COLL The m ert L. Ohio, a stronger .than that upon which six other officers had been acquitted. ganization plan.” lege, Huntington, W. Va. Mr, and Mrs. Robert Bell Deford have’ Issued Invitations to the wed- ding of Mr, Deford's nlece, Miss nor Addison Willlams, and Mr. Wil- lHam Wallace Lanahan Saturday, January 5, at Folly farm, their home, on Joppa' road and Charles strect, Baltimore. The ceremony, which will be per- formed at 12:30 o’clock, will be wit- nessed by the two families and a few friends and will be followed by a small breakfast at 1 o'clock. Miss Willlams will have Mrs. Theo- dore Marburg, jr. for her matron of honor, and her mald of honor will he her sister, Miss Julia Williams. ~Mr. Lanahan's best man will be Mr. is N, Iglehart. Miss Willlams is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William §. G. Willlams, and Mr. Lana- han is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J, Lanahan. Mr. and Mrs. Minor A. Collier have returned to their home In Cleveland after an_extended visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Colller of 3209 Georgla avenue northwest. The moving pleture entertainment given Saturda orning by the Wash- “Built Likea Skyscraper” Height, 4 fest & inches nond of Taliapoor 1 v, Cohen. Wf this city and all Hall, Md. . Roper, both of Births Reported. The following births have been reported to ti department in the last twenty- . boy. dell, boy. 3 .+ hoy. Rhugart, ‘girl n Williams, girl. Jumes and ta HUIL, b —_— DUKE OF AOSTA IMPROVES. December 17.—It was e that the Duke of Aosta, who has been critically 1l with pne is out of danger, Exposing your valuable records to fire and thieves may some day break the heart of your business. Why take a chance on the loss of thousands of dollars, when you can have a new Shaw-Walker Safety Vault for $107.507 Every office, store and home needs this strong steel protection— and now can afford it. tional cost. —another night. Interiors to suit user at slight addi- Don't play with fire—don't gamble with thieves Phone or write for booklet. VAULT Made by Shaw-Walker, the M: “Built Like & Skyscraper" ors of toel Lotter Files Wood Files and Flling Bupplies. 605 13th St. N.W. Iy colored silks with fancy borders and stun- ning clubby handles of amber colored bakelite, or carved and $7.95 painted wood.. value in all these wonderful assortments. “La Garde” J $7.50 to $12.50 Envelope Purses (safety pocket), $5, $6.50, $7.50 to $12.50. Envelope purses, pouch bags and under-the- arm bags, all leathers, $3.95 to $35.00. Leather Vanity Boxes—All colors—$3.00— $5.00—$7.50 to $15.00. Folding Leather Vanities—$3.95 to $6.50. French Beaded Bags, drawstring styles— $7.50 to $25.00. Centemeri 2-Clasp French Kid Gloves, $2.25 ‘to $3.50. Ostrich Feather Fans, one to five plumes—$6.50 to $17.50. Linen, pique and English broadcloth collar and cuff sets, $1.00 to $1.95. Irish filet and novelty lace collar and cuff sets, $3.95 to $5.95. French neckwear, crgandie with real lace, $2.50 to $10.00. Fiber or silk and wool scarfs, fancy colorings, $1.95 to $6.00. Kid Gloves, $5.00. Centemeri long to $8.50. to $7.50 $1.00 to $2.95. to $2.95. Philippine hand-made Colorful boutonnieres, 35¢ to 75c. Silver and gold corsage roses, other beautiful flowers, $2.00 to $4.75. We Cannot Say Enough About gowns, $3.95 to $14.50. these famous stockings for gifts! White Gold Silver Sand Castor Buck Bobolink Skyn Nude Grey §9.25 Chiffon Weight Regular Weight _ v P germon rans e Radiant With Charming Gifts! From both sides the Atlantic are choice selections—one belated case from Paris having arrived only last Saturday! Gifts at moderate cost—or at higher prices—but quality and Centemeri, novelty gauntlet style, French Arabian Mocha Gloves, one-clasp, strap wrist and mousquetaire styles, $3.50 to $8.00. Capeskin gloves, shades, $2.95 to $5.00. Women’s Colored Silk Umbrellas, novelty handles, $5.00 to $16.50. Men’s Umbrellas, $5.00 to $10.00. Men’s Folding Suit Case Umbrellas, $6.95. Satin breakfast coats, two-tone colorings, $10.00. Silk jersey, all-over lace and s Radium silk, satin and lace trimmed camisoles, Boudoir caps, satin and lace, neglige shades, $1.00 derwear, gowns and chemise, $1.95, $2.95, $3.95. New French hand-made underwear, chemise— Gold Stripe Silk Stockings! A department many times as large would not be too big to supply every one who wishes to give Please Shop Before 4:30 If Possible! 1f not, we have an organization which will supply you with $2.00 T hese Are Silk Stockings That Wear! Most women know this and that is why they are in such big demand! Silk 100% pure—protection from ruinous garter-clasp “runs” by the patented gold stripe. bands, evening oudoir slippers, T =T =D white evening gloves, $4.65 =T T strap-wrist styles, street = DIEDNE = in brassieres, $1 00 and hand-embroidered un- little delay! Reindeer Browns Acorn Piping Rock Black $2.75 pair Silk Garter Hems This seems to be a Gold Stripe Christmas! Right Near Entrance—Street Floor. AT TTIETTTTITIT T T T T T T T Silver and Gold Brocaded Evening Slippers, four stunning styles. Pair, $12.50 Satin Mules, $3.50 Pair 7 —Most fascinating with their Spanish heels and pointed toes; rose, light or French blue, pink, black. Kid Boudoir Slippers $2.50 Pair Padded soles and a silk pompon; black or brown, palr $2,00; blue, green, lavender, rose. ' $2.50. Quilted Satin Slippers $1.50 Pair —Soft padded soles and silk pompon; ‘wonderful color assortment. Black Satin Slippers, $2.75 —With low block hesis—Just the thing for house wear. Pair, §2.75. —more colors, more styles, better size as- sortments th a n now. For mother, for father, sister or friend — you can’t go wrong if you decide on slippers! D’Orsay Satin Slippers $4.00 Pair ~A Spanish heel negligee siipper that stays on. ick, powder biue, rose, lavender. For Misses and Children N\ Soft Gray Suede, $2.00 —ith dainty sWk pempon. to 8, §1.80 pairj sizes § to sizes 12 to 2, $2.00 pair. Sizes & 1, $1.78 Glittering Rhinestone Buckles for afternoon and evening slippers, $15.00 Men’s Kid, Opera Style, $3.75 Pair —Black or brown, glazed finished, soft hand-turned sol Men’s Glazed House Slippers, $2.75 Pair —Noted for wear and the fiexibility that spells comfort, Black or brown. Felt Slippers, $2.50 Pair —8oft padded soles—brown or gray. Warm and immensely comfortable, pair, $2.50. Men’s Kid omeos, $3.75 Pai —Black or brown with elastic gore to Insure snug anki Men’s Ooze, Opera-Cut, $5.00 Pair brown coze vamp with —Gray or dark heel and trim of matching kid. HANDKERCHIEFS Were Never So Pretty for Gifts! Most people are putting two or three of the gorgeously colored ones in with each half-dozen, and when contrasted with the all-white ones they make a stunning gift, or for a young girl, perhaps all colors—or for an older woman (but what woman is old in.these days?) a half-dozen all-white with pretty initial or hand-embroidered corner! But whatever your decision—as to assortment—]Jelleff’s is the place to choose! Women’s Novelty Colored Linen Handkerchiefs COLORED LINENS—Black hand.rolled hems, embroldered corners, $1.00. COLORED LINENS—Hand -threaded hems and borders, embroidered, $1.00. COLORED LINENS—With real Spanish embroidery—hemstitched hems and motifs, $1.50. FRENCH PRINTS—Hand-rolled hems or scalloped edges—embrolidered dots and eyelets, 1.00. COLORED LINENS—Hemstitzhed hems, hand.decorated corners, 50c. COLORED LINENS—Printed and embroidered or hand.drawn corners, 75c. Women’s Embroidered Initial Linen Handkerchiefs COLORED LINENS—With embroldered corners and initials—four different colors with imtial, box, $2.00. ) e L LINEN—WIth madeira effect, scalloped corner and self embroidered initial, 50c. HITE LINENS—WIith flower design and colored embroldered initi g WH=TE LINENS—With double hemstitched motif and colorsd embroldered Initlal, 75¢ Women’s Silk Handkerchiefs—Unusual Values PRINTED CREPE DE CHINES—VIvid colors, stunningly combined with black, 75c. FRENCH CHIFFONS—Plain or printed, adorably unusuai, 75c. FRENCH HAND-PRINTED CREPE DE CHINES—Bandanna style, $1.00. FRENCH CREPE DE CHINES—Plaln centers and novelty colored borders, $1.00. Women’s Lace-Trimmed Linen Handkerchiefs o s‘oslaonsn LINENS—WIith novelty lace and embroidery corners and lace edges, $1.00 and $1.50. PURE WHITE LINENS—With exqulisite Honiton corners and edgings, $1.00 to $3.50. COLORED LINENS—WIith double white dotted net edging, one and one-haif inches deep, 50c. Men’s Fine Novelty Handkerchiefs EXTRA SHEER WHITE VOILE—With black and colored combination no WHITE LINEN—Handkerchiefs, wide noveity checking, tan,<blue, lave Men’s Linen Handkerchiefs—Plain or Initialed PLAIN WHITE LINENS—Quanter-inch hemstitched hems, 50c. WHITE LINENS—Self embroidered Initlals, quarter and half Inch hems, 50c. WHITE with_colored novelty initial, quarter-inch hem, 50c. PLAIN WHITE—Quarter and haif inch hemstitched hems or with tape borders, 75c. WHITE WITH HALF-INCH HEMS—Hand-embroldered colored initial. Speciai, 3 In a PLAIN HEMSTITCHED—OR hand-woven tape border: WHITE WITH NOVELTY—Hand-embroldered white initial, $1.00. Silk Handkerchiefs for Particular Men PURE CREAMY JAP_SILK—Quarter-inch hems, $1.50. WHITE FRENCH CREPE—Noveity striped in colors—hand hemmed, $2.00. PRINTED SOURI SILKS—stunning colorings, $2.00. JAPANESE PONGEE—Silk handkerchlefs, print borders, $1.00. WHITE CHINA SILK—With half.inch hems, 50c. Women’s Colored Linen Handkerchiefs 5OC Handmade—Hand-Embroidered The ular orange, rose, green and tan colorings and dainty pastel shades! Flower, Lattice ang sonventionsl embroidered designs on exceptionally fine Irish linens! This is a very special lot! Ity stripes, $1.50. 50c. Choose Silk Underwear A Gift that every woman loves! Extra! —Crepede Chine Gowns, $3.95 Lace-trimmed gowns with dee; yokes of dainty val Insertions and medailions and lace edged straps, tallored models with deep shirrings and wide self atraps; orchid, peach, fiesh color and light blue! Other gowns, $5.00 to $15.00 each. Pretty Silk Chemise, $3.95 Crepe de chine, Jap lingerie silk, glove silk, beautiful yokes of wide val or val combined with embroid. ered net or filet Insets—glove silk styles with filet edgings—mosti with lace trimmed bottoms, Orchid, fiesh color, peach, violet. A splen. did gift opportunity $5.00 to $10.00 !.2,11 er Chemise: ROBES If Christmas Morning’s Chilly They’ll Be All the More Welcome! Corduroy Robes, Draped or Side-tied, $7.50 Soft velvety, wide wale corduroy In _stunning ' shades of purple, it lavender, gray, rench blue; plain cordu- roy with long roll coilar and cuffs of embossed corduroy, all-embossed models, entirely plain styles—all of them unusually becomingl Beacon Blanket Robes, $3.95 , comfy styles with lon ecoming 9 collars, deep pockets, silk cord girdles. Attrac. tive floral patterns on gray, purple, brown back grounds, Silk Petticoats Extra Sizes! Extra Quality! A gift item that it’s some- times hard to find! Wonderful Lustrous Radium Silk Petticoats Perfectly straight but amply full; smart scalloped bottom and self fold trimming. Henna, purple, acock, ' brown, fawn, €7 50 sage and French Best Quality Mila Silk Jerse Petticoa embroidered scalioped, and contrast color trimming motifs. Henna, American beauty, gray, navy blue, brown. . - Silk Petticoats, $3.95 Splendid ouality radium and Jer- sey siiks—straightline styles or mode ‘with finely pleat fiounces; embroidered scaliops or hemstitched hems, All the popular high shades. Navy blue, brown, black. = Also 811K Jersey Bloomers, amply cut and shirred cuff and