Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 2

CHINESE CUSTOS FIGHT NEARS.END. French Sailors Leave Canton as Settlement With Sun Seems- Imminent. Py the Assoctutéd Pren CANTON, December 24.—The critioal cituation which has provalled here for neatly two Woeks as a result of the demand of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, south China leader, for surplus customs revenues, Is believed to have passed. Negotiations for settlement arc said to be progressing satisfactorily, and sallors from the French crulser Jules Ferry, one of the fotilla of foreign warships concentrated in the har- bor, have returned to Hong Kong. Tt is hoped the stage will sdon be reached at which the vigtllance of the fore! powers, represented In nearly a score of gunboats fn the harbor, anchored oft Shameen, the forelgn section of the city, whers the administrative cffices of their nations are located, ba relaxed, and the forelgn rehips withdrawn. The French sallors who already have left recently ded at Sha- megn, and were stationed in the old D oftice bulldini after n's threat to seize the customs to rrevent their payment to the Peking government, which he opposes. JULIAN B. HUFF DIES, ILL ONLY FEW HOURS Head of Coal and Coke Company Unconscious in Hospital . Fol- lowing Sudden Iilness. sn Epecial Dispateh fo The St GREENSBURG, Pa. December 24, —Jullan B. Huff. prestdent of the Keystons Coal and Coke Company died last night in the Bryn Mawr Hospital, Philadelphia, where he had been Iying unconscious for the past forty-elght hours. Mr. Hufft was stricken suddenly at his home In Philadelphia at midnight Friday. He was in Greensburg Friday morning and apparently was in perfact health, Julian Burrell Huff was a native of Greensburg, son of former Repre- eentative in Congress and Mrs. George F. Huff, He was forty-five vears of He graduated from Yale Uni- and then took & two-year trip around the world. Upon re- turning from his travels he set about 10 master the coal industry, fn_which his father was engaged, having been one of the founcers of the Kevstons Coal and Coke Company. Shortly after this Lloyd B. Huff. who had succeeded Col. George F. Huff In t business, died. and Julian B. Huft w elected president of the company. He became active in the amaigama- tion of some of the scattered holdings of the company. He was also an of- ficer in the Latrode-Connellsyille Coal Company, the Inland Coal Company, Inland Realty Company, Acme Gas Coal Company and a director in the First Natlonal Bank of Greensburg. Mr. Huff made farming a hobby. In adaition to the original holdings of his father he had bought up a number of the finest farms immediately north of the town. Highlands stock farms af- forded him much pleasure and pride. Until his marriage, about three vears sgo, Mr. Huff made his home with his | mother, Mrs. George F'. Huff, at Cabin Hill. Mrs. Huff sull maintains her residence there. Following his mar- riage Mr. Huff established a residence in Philadelphia. In addition to his widow. Mr. Huff is survived by his mother, Mrs. Georze F. Huff, and one sister, Mra. Murray Cobb of Washington, D. C. LEAPS FROM TRAIN, LIVES TO TELL TALE Fearing unidentified individuals were after him with an electric cur- rent that would snuff out his life, a colored man giving his name as Major Garrington, his age as fifty-eight and his address as South Ashfield, Mass., jumped from a moving southbound train some distance below the south end of Highway bridge, and lived to tell the tale. Looking lfke the electric current or threashing machine had ‘got him” atter all, Carrington made his way to the tower on Highway bridge, where he sought protegtion from his'Imagi- enemies, | came up here to get away from you fellows,” he told Detectives Liv- ingston and O'Brien, who took charg of him. “but I see you've got me. Carrington told the detectives hs ‘was on his way to a place near South Boston, Va., where his brother died last week. When he leapad from the train, he said, he landed against a fence and fell'in the mud. Washing the mud from him in a branch, he said, he started along the rallroad tracks and entered the tower hoping he_would get protection. The detectives searched the in- Sured man at police headquraters and found 3470 and railroad tickets in his ockets. He was taken to Gallinger ospital for observation as to his mental condition. PROBE MAN’S DEATH. An investigation is being conducted By Detectives O'Brien and Livingston d police of the tenth precint with a view to determining how Willlam Ebb, colored, twenty, 203 N street n:.r;.‘hwe.g was hurt fatally Saturday night. Ebb was found unconecious on the Toadway near 14th and Upshur streets northwest about 8:16 o'clock Satur- day night by Mrs. Naomi Miller, 42¢ X strest northwest, driving an auto- moblle. She had the unconscious man Rlu in her automobile and took im to Garfleld Hospital where he dled last night Burgeons at the hospital found Ebd had sustai a fracturc of the skull, Police have been unable to find wit- messes to throw any light on the aftair. It is belleved Ebb was struck by an automobile. —_—_— EXPECT COOLIDGE TO EXERT POWER (Continued from First Page.) looking in that direction for bold, stiff-necked leadership. If it does not get it. some republicans think Calvin Coolidge may be inviting the ‘William Howard Taft invited by ‘meaning well feebly,” in the caustic ‘words of his erstwh guide and friend, Theodore Roosevelt. In just what form Coolidge leader- =hip may be looked for, no one knows. Perhaps, at some psychological” mo- ment, the President wiil write a let- ter or make a speech that will olearly indicate his will and purposes. Once, while governing Massachusetts, Coole idge sald in a public address: “What Diassachusetts needs—what the na- tion needs—is a wise administration of the law. Lok not to the legisla- ture for rel ook to the cuti Many men e to the Coolldge throne expect dramatio events in that direction ‘Washi: in 2024 R SR S in official efrcles that| Liquors Stolen. After Watchdog Is Chloroformed By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 24.— After chloroforming a watchdog, bandits robbed the home of Croas- dale Knott at Glendale, a suburb, of liquors sald to be worth $11,000 late Saturday night, it becams known today. The bandits in thelr flight,” dropped $6,500 in bonds taken from a desk. Rare wines and corn were included in the liquor stock, poifce sald. BIG BLINP ADRFT WITH 50 ON BOARD {French and British Aid and i Sea Forces Ordered to Keep Sharp Look-out. By the Amsociated Press. PARIS, December 24.—~There ap- peared this morning to be some hope of saving the French dirigible Dix- mude, which, with fifty oficers and men aboard. hes been drifting help- lessly for three days over the Gulf of (iabes on the north coast of Africa and over the interfor of Tunis. Although news received in Parls has bLeen sparsc, the latest advices sald that the great airship had drifted well Inland and, taking a north- westerly direction was hovering in the vicinity of Foum Tatahoulne, thirty miles south of Medinin. Landing Place Prepared. Military authorities at Foum Tat houine were: reported to have pre- pared a fair landing place in case the ship was able to descend. Automo- ‘l\llc lights were set to mark out the {spot through the night. A strong force of troops was also present. The Italian suthorities 1n Tripol have instructed il military posts to main- tain a close watch for the Dixmude and to take all necessary steps to ald her should heip be necessary. British officlals at Malta have warned naval units in the Mediterranean to kecp an cxtra lookout by day and scarchiights playing by night. Gas Supply Ram Low. Successfully wccomplishing & three- day flight from Cuers-Plerrefeu to Insa- iap, southern Algeria, the Dixmude last Friday afternoon headed eastward for Tunis. Her gasoline supply ran low and it was neccssary to put her on one of her six motors. She then began to drift, sending out distress eignals that put In motion all French. naval units within call and all garrisons in the Tunis district. Last September tle Dixmude estab- lished a worid record duration flight of 4,500 miles. She was endeavoring to break this record when trouble overe H took her. i {EPISCOPAL MISSION DISTRIBUTES GIFTS Autos Laden With Presents Bring Cheer to Less Favored - - in Capital. Automobiles filled with gifts, candy, fruit, Bibles and hymn books, went itoday from the Episcopal city mi {slon, at Trinity Church, to various places in and near the District, bring- ing g0od cheer to the less favore A car, in charge of Chapin Brown, visited the National Training School for Girls. Another, in charge of Franklin Mades, went to the Home for the Aged at Blue Plains, Gifts were borne in another car, in charge of Mrs. Oliver Hoym, to Wal- ter Reed Hospital, Veterans' Hos- pital No. 32, the Homse for the Blind and the Tuberculosis Hospital. Mrs: L. C. Covell, in chargs of a fourth car, went to Gallinger FHos- pital, and & fifth car, under the lead- 1orship of Rev. George W. Dow, vie- iited the workhoure at Occoguan and |the reformatory at Lorton. Va. Tomorrow Mr. Dow will have a apecial Christmas day service at the Jail &t $ am. .after which he will distribute wiffs to every man and woman. On Thurmlay at 10 am. there will be a speclal service at S Eillzabeth's Hospital, after which Mr. Dow will distribute the “good cheer’ iboxes. At Trinity House there is a huge community tree which will be light- ed tonight for the first time, In doors’ there is al#o a large tree in the recreation hall. Tonight at 11:30 o’clock there will be a special midnight celebration of the holy communion, at which Rev. David Ransom Covell will preach. Wednesday night at 7:30 will be tha speclal Sunday school party, with Santa Claus, a play, gifts, a movie and a general good time. | _On Friday will be the community Christmas party, with a movle, games and gifts. The regular program of clubs and classes 15 called off for the week, but beginning January 2 the program will include: Beadwork class on Tuel day, 7 to 9; toy shop Tuesday, 7 to basketry Thursday, 7 to 9; sewin Thursday, 7 to 9; gym Tuesday an ‘Wednesday, 7 to'§; movies, Friday, 1:30 to 9; Bible class Tuesday, 8 p.m, Young People's Society Sunday, 6: kindergarten daily, 9" to 12; mental fz!nfilo Mondey, Wednesday, Friday, 2 D. M. FAUNCE SUCCUMBS. Native of Washington' Dies at Home—Rites Wednesday. David M. Faunce, member of a South Washington family that has been in the commission business on the river front, at the foot of 1ith street southwest, the past fifty or more years, died at his home, 918 F street southwest, early this morning. The deceased, fifty-five years old, was & native of this city. Ho was & Shriner and member of Columbia Lodge, No. 3, F. A, A. M. He is sur. vived by his wife.and two sons, Da- vid M. Faunce, jr., and Irving Faunce. Funeral services will be held at his late home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Con- gressional cemetery. ——— BURNED IN TORCH BLAST. Explosion of a plumber’s torch yes- terday afternoon resulted in Bernard Naylor, thirty-two, 906 K street southeast, . being verely burned about the face, hands, arms and knee, while his wife, Mrs. Emma Nay- lor, burned her hands while making ‘."rnnua effort to save her husband's e. Naylor was in the garage In rear of his home, mending a Christmas toy when the explosion occurred. ‘The flames ignited his overalls and he was severely burned befo: his ‘wife succeeded in extinguishing 'he husband was treated at Casualty Hospital and returned home. His wife refused hospital treatment. | i ! THE SALVATION SANTA GVES 500 BASKETS Food to Feed 3,000 Persons Distributed by Army and Assistants. Santa Claus appeared In the flesh bearing gifts from the Salvation Army to 500 poor families of Wash-, ington this afternoon. Carrying out its slogan, “a man may be down, but he Is never out,” the Salvation Army . today put its maxim Into practical effect by miving away baskets esti- mated to contain enough food to teed 3,000 persons. Citizens prominent in soclal and business 1ife assisted the agents of the Salvation Army In distributing the baskets, which contained chicken, bread. apples, peaches, sugar, coffec &nd vegetables, In addition to other delicacies to bring a touch of Christe mas Into homes that would otherwl be barren of the Yuletide spirit. The distributors started on thefr rounds from headquarters, at 606 B treet, under the direction of Brig. sen. Wililam E. Crawford. commands ing the army in Washingtor Fvery family which baskef had boen Investigated b, agents of the Salvation Army, whic ®iso investigated poor families for the Civitan Club. As the agents of the charitable ofganization called at each door the recipients of rhe-Christ- mas cheer were required to Show tickets which had been given them in_advance Tomorrow at headquarters 1,000 poor_children will be the guests of the Salvation Army, gathered around what is said to be the largest Christ- mas tres in the clty, from = which gifts will be distributéd to them by Santa Claus. SECRETARIES URGE PAY ACT CHANGES Mellon, Weeks, Denby afid Hoover Join in Letter to Congress. Four cabinet members, Secretary Mellon of the Treasury, Secretary Weeks of War, Secretary Denby of Navy and Secretary Hoover of Com- merce, have jointly signed a letter to Congress, which contains proposed amendments to the pay readjustment act of June 10, 1822. This s the act reclassifying salaries for officers In the Navy, Army, Marine Corps, cosst guard and similar services. This legislation is being proposed by four executive departments, but the chalrmen ‘of the naval, Interstate and foreign commerce and military affairs committees are agreed that it should be referred to a single com- mittee and it has therefore been re- ferred by the Speaker to the military affairs committee. 1t is pointed out that the proposed amendments are recommended be- cause of substantial differences of opinfon between the general account- ing office and the authorities charged with the operation and adminlstra- tion of the services concerned as to the operative effects and applications of some compensation features of the act. The proposed changes have been re- ferred to the director of the budget, who has advised the four cabinet members that their proposal is not in confilet with the financlal program of the President. FIREMEN PRAISED FOR WORK OF YEAR Oyster and Watson Transmit Christmas Greetings to Department. Complimenting the firemen on the service they rendered the community during the year, Commissioner Oyster today sent them the season's greet- ings on behalf of himself and the other Commisaioners. In passing the message on to the engine houses, Chief Watson added his own bellef that the firemen of ; With his father. The boy, with three | Washington upheld during the past twelve months the tradition of the department for prompt and efficient fire fighting. The message of the Commissioner follows In part: “I feel that the work which you have performed during the year une der the excellent directorship of Chiet Watson and his staff entitles you to great credit, and that it should be a source of satisfaction to you as it s & source of gratification to myself." Chief Watson's letter contained this Paragrap! “I want each and every one of you to feel that this letter i not written merely to carry out the old custom of expressing holiday greetings to you. It is written be. cause of my heartfelt appreciation of the work which you have done; of the loyal support which you have afforded me, and for the standard of service and deportment which you have maintained. “It {8 my hope that your endeavors will be rewarded in the near future by a substantial increase { Certainly no class of m is_more deserving of every which may be granted.” OFFICIALS AROUSED OVER MISSING LIST; * TO PUSH DRY PROBE (Continued from First Page.) enefit in this country,” he said, “who might be termed the inebriate rich, who in order to satisfy their gluttony would ull the whole country down to th level of their own debauched seives. Being unable to make the laws of the land sink to the low plane of their appetites and ideals, they openly flout law, scoft at the Constitution and do more in & minute to encourage the spirit of bolsheviam than. all other classes c:fl:bh‘\eu' do in & ye ° eanwhile, it is qu b those Washingtonidns whose pames were listed as customers are spend. ing quite & bit more comfortable Christmas than they expected a few days ago. 3 —_—— NEW FOG SIGNAL READY. By the Associated Press, JUNEAU, Alaska., December 24.—A $60,000 fog signaling station, erected on the north end of Admiralty lsland,’ twenty miles south of here, has been completed by the government. light- house service and will start operat- ing Christmas day, according to- am announcement issued by the light- house service officials. The new station is considered the best %nlnud on the Alaskan coast. A lighthousé valued at $176,000 is be- ing constructed at Cape Spencer, miles southwest of here. ’ tin. 834 434 atreet Back row: Jacqueline, Mary and Thousands of children will be tucked in bed tonight by the loving hands of thelr mothers, without a care in the world, to await the com- ing of Santa Claus with drums and horns and doliy and other such things. Four other little ones will close their eves tonight, but there will be no mother to make them snug or to greet them on Christmas morning. They are wards of the board of children's guardians, and they are asking today for some one to give them & home for the new year. The guardians have seen to ft that Santa Claus will bring them playthings, but even that bigehearted old man can- not give them what they need most Members of tha board of guardians are hoping that somewhere {n Wash- ington there are famillee into which the smile of & child would bring sun- CITES SOVIET PAPER T0 SUPPORT CHARGE Hughes Gives Date When Dis- puted Admission Was Printed in Izvestia. Replying to the challenge of Editor Stecklof of the Izvestia, a soviet organ, to Becretary Hughes to produce the date on which an article was printed showing the connection between the soviet republic and the communist in- ternationals,. the State Department an- nounced that dcknowledgment of this rélation was published In the paper No- vember 7, 1922. Stecklof branded the documeént from which Mr. Hughes quoted in his recent guard organization, such as exi in Latvia, for the express purpose of fabrication. State Department officials. did not comment on these charges, merely fur- nishing the date asked for hy the Rus slan editor, adding that the Izvestia was accessible In many of the large public libraries. Previous statements of soviet offi- clals that the documents quoted by the Becretary of State were forgeries had brought the statement that such ex- pressions in themselves were a form of propaganda designed to mislead the American pubite. FATHER SUES FOR BOY.: Parent Would Take Child From Children’s ' Guardians. Charles Eiting. a minor, by his father, John B. Elting, teday asked i the District Supreme Court to take i him from the custody of the board of | chiidren's guardians and place him otrer children of Eilting. was given. into the oustody of the board by the Juvenile Court and three of the wards ‘were surfendered to the parents, but Charles was placed in the Home for Fecble-Minded at Vineland, N. J. The boy visited his parents last September and has been with them ! slnce, except for & few weeks, when he was' in the Industrial school. Through Attorney W. P. Wendell, the jcourt is told that the board I ut to return the boy to the New institution, which, It {s claimed, s not for-his best {nterest. tather says he Is able to care for him. CLAIM'BOY HAD GUN. Detectives, by Ruse, Arrest 18- Year-01d Colored Youth. “I carry it for protection,” was the | lexcuse offéred by Wilbur Alexander, hteen, 618 T street north. esterday by Detec. tives Cox and King with a loaded re- volver in his possession.~ - < Search had been made for Alexander the past several days, the detectives stated, and yesterday they tralled him from 7th and T to 6th and P | streets northwest. King pretended he was intoxicated, which enabled him Ito get close to the youth before the laster identified him and tried.to get aws. 5 Alexander told the detectivi h purchased the weapon from anoth colored man in & poolroom, but wa unable totell his name. Th apon, according to the detectives, of the proceeds of a recent robbery. Alexander is held for investigation. FIVE'RAIDS STAGED. Nearly soven quarts of whisky and sixteen bottles of beer were seized by police of the fourth precinct and a revenus m in five ralds in southwest ngton _yesterday. Capt. Tra Sheets of the fourth pre- cinet:led _the .raiding party. the polio 4% ;’?...;, Maurice Horan and James 11iame, "411 4% street; Julla Cur- ‘Willie Hoes and Hattie -Hoes, colored,. 911 De'mond court; Calvin Dove, Edith Dove and , Johnsan, colored, 831 Desmond Lisut. Sheets .conducted the raids in“an effort to put & stop to the sale f_liguor to. persons who want ine ?ol|fl.fl!l for use tomorrow. » SPECIAL ‘SERVICE PLANNED. - HYAPTSVILLE, December 24.— A special communion _service, written by Willlam Moore, master of choris- ‘ters, will ‘feature the beginning of “hristmas services in Pinkney Me- morial Church here tonight, Rev. oA n o iy - 8 i west, srrested These Children Joseph. ¥ront, Tomy. shine and they feel that on Christs mas eve those Washingtonians might heed the plea of these little ones for a foster mother. The chiMren now offered for adop- tion by the guardians are Catholics and the board is asking for families of that faith to adopt them. Appli- cation should be madc to James Stuart, secretary to the board, at the District building. The children will be placed with a reliable family that s willing (o take them for & {probationary period of one year, after | Which they may be legally adopted. | “Little Jacqueline, eleven months old, was left at a day - nursery -severai months ago and the guardians have | not found her mother. Little Tony, two vears old, has a mother living but_she s unahle to |provide a home for him and, his | guardians state, will consent to his adoption. Mary, five vears old, and Joseph, now in his third year, have no mother, she having dled. and they are hoping some one will take her place. SLAYER AND FORGER ARE GIVEN PARDONS President Grants Executive Clem- ency to Two From District. Prosident Coolidgs has granted ex- ecutive clemency to Alvin E. White, colored, of this ¢ity, and Willls Swof- ford, colored, of the former Indian Territory, it was announced at the Department of Justice today. Thege two cases were recommended to the Président for Christmas par- dons. White was: sentenced by the Su- preme Court of the District of Co- lumbia to five years at Leavenworth on charges of forging United States obligations while serving as a clerk in the incoming mail room, bureau of navigation. TRecords show that he pleaded gullty to having forged three checks. He was a veteran of the world war, having served as first sergeant in the 86Ist Comnany, Trans- portation Corps, A. E. F. Swofford was convicied of a charge of murder and sentenced for life. The | crime was committed when the pris. oner, then & boy, had protested | #galnst a cruel beating which had | been administered to his sister by their stepfather, using a bucket. The boy ot his stepfather. He had :::21 confined about twenty-one CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE THEY STARTED IN HOME Two Dead, Another Expected to Die, Result of Blaze From Play With Matches. By the Asesclatad Press. GALLIPOLIS, Ohio, December 24— Two children of James Cheman are dead and another is not expected to live, the result of a fire which they started by playing with matches and which destroyed the Cheman home, in | the mining village of Albany, Athens county, Saturday night. The ‘victims were Daniel Cheman, two, and James Cheman, three: Mary Cheman, five, Boeaan was probably fatally 3 The children had been put to bed by thelr mother, according to infor: mation received here. When she left the room the three began playing with matches. The mattress was lgnited and the children were en- veloped by the flames. Cheman, hoseman of the Albany volunteer fire department, answered the alarm of fire with the other vol- unteer members. He collapsed when he found it was his home and that his children had perished. —_——— WHOLE FAMILY KILLED BY TRAIN AT CROSSING Four in Auto Which Stalls on Pennsylvania Tracks Near Hammond, Ind. By the Atseciated Press, HAMMOND, Ind, December #4.— A family of four persons was wiped out as the rsult of an automobil +cldent at Hartsdale, near her Baturday night. Those kil Michael Somolov, thirty-five; Joseph- ine, his wife, twenty-five; Theress, a daughter, aged four, and Albert, six, on. The 8omolovs, all - residents of Hartadale, -were driving to Osk Glenn, 1il, to visit Mrs. Somolov' brother for Christmas, when the ac- icldent ocourred. Somolov, according 1to witnesses, drove the machine on the tracks directly in the path of an approaching Pennsylvania passeng: train. - His machine stalled and struck by ‘the train, while appar- ently was making frantic efforts to start it. CHRISTMAS EVE PARTIES EXPENSIVE IN PARIS; By the Associated Press. PARIS, December: 24.~—It will take a fat purse to partake of one of the tradi- tional Christmas eve suppers at any of the thousand and one restaurants in Paris_tonight The humblest cafe is asking 25 francs for a meager feast, with. wirie extra. Thoss establishments that advertise jass band music are an?'lnr 300 france for a repast, the chief feature of which is a portion of turkey, unaccompanied by cranberry or 4y other sauce, | EVENING!'STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1923, anta Claus Unable to Meet Big Need of MAY AGAIN SUBMIT SHIP BOARD NAMES President Likely. to Renomi- nate Thompson and Haney as Members. Resubmission by President Coolidge of the mominations of Frederick I. Thompson of Mobile, Ala., and Bert E. Haney of Portland, Ore., as members of the Shipping Board, was indicated today after Senators McNary and Stan- flold, republicans, Oregon, had conferred with the .Executive on the Shipping Board question. The nominations, whith were " for- warded to the Senate at the opening of the session and were approved by the Senate commerce committee, were with- drawn by the President last week after the committee had voted to report ad. versely on the nomination of Edward P. Fariey of Chicago, now chairman of the board The rPesident was described as withholding_final decision, but gena- tors McNary and Stanfieid said they were eatisfied that an appeal in be- half of Mr. Haney would granted. Mr. Coolidge is understood to have told Scnator Underwood, democrat, Alabama, Baturday that in any event the nomination ‘ot Mr. Thompson Wwould be resubmitted. Should the President's final dect- sion involve the renomination of Commissioners Haney and Thompson he then would have to select a chair- man from the interlor states or from the present membership of the board. In the latter came those most fre- quently mentioned are Plummer of Bath, Me. and T. V. O'Connor of Buffalo, N. Y. CIVITANS SUPPLY CHRISTMAS DINNERS Baskets Distributed by Members to 100 Deserving Families. Fortified with a list of deserving, supplied by the Assoclated Charities and the Salvation Army, members of the local Civitan Club distributed more than 100 Christmas baskets to needy families yesterday. Volunteers from the club In auto- moblles, accompanied by a Boy Scout assistant, made the dellveries to the homes. Each basket contained two chick- ens, a half-peck of potatoes, twelve: pounds of flour, two pounds of sugar, A can of peas, a can of corn, & can of tomatoes, a can of soup, one pound of candy, » half-dozen oranges, a haif- dozen apples and a loaf of bread The committee in_charge was com posed of Frank Easen, chairman; Thomas__Sterne, John F. Cremen, W. O. Hiltobidle, H. M. Archenbauid Rudolph Jose and W. F. Hoge. jr. Odell Whipple supplied the Scouts from the troop of which he is scout- master. The club also donated 100 Christmas stockings to the Neighborhood House, 470 N street southwest. They will be distributed today. 12 YEARS ADDED TO LIFE, SAYS BRITISH SURGEON President of Royal College of Burgeons Declares Science Has Advanced Rapidly. By the Associated Press. LONDON. December 24.—A child born today has the prospect of twelve more years of life than had one born twenty-five years ago, Sir Wililam Wheeler, president of the Royval Col- lege of ‘Surgeons of Ireland, stated yesterday. - Medicine and surgery, he asserted, have made greater advances during the last twenty-five years than during the twenty-five preceding centuries. ir William admitted there were still mome great problems to be solved, but said that probably before present students had reached the zenith of their careers cancer would be under | control, having taken its place in the ranks of such conquered dis es as diabetes and smallpox. This optimism as regards cancer offers a contrast to the assertion made on the previous day by Dr. Childe. prssident of the British Medical Association, who asserted that victory qver this dread disease was no nearer today than forty years ago. DEAD BABY LEFT NEAR COURTHOUSE Colored Woman Seen to Leave Satchel Outside Entrance. Child Believed New Born. Clarence Morrie and Charles Cam- mack, colored, janitors at the District Supreme Court building, found a atchsl contained a dead baby oute slde the east entrance to the court- house about § o'clock this morning. The men were cleaning the pressroom when their attention was attracted to a colored woman about fifty years old, who hurriedly deposited some- thing near the courthouse entrance and walked away. Thinking the woman had dropped something and gone to get it, the men continued with their work. No. ticing that she did not return, they decided to Investigate, with the re- sult that the satchel was found. The niors summoned Lew Thomas, as- sistant ‘superintendent of the build- ing, who opened the satchel and dis. covered the body of an apparently new-born child. The men were not able to distinguish whether the child was white or colored. A_park rollcsmln was called and the ‘satchel, with its contents, was taken to the sixth precinct station. TWO TO GET PAROLES. Liquor Conspirators Will Be Freed by Government. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, December 24.—Pa-. roles have been granted to two men oconvicted in the Auerbach “million- dollar halr tonic” liquor conspiracy and been approved by the federal) parole board in the case of two! others, L. 1. Robertson, former law partner of Samuel Rembrandt, has announced. Rembrandt will be released from the Atlanta penitenti December 28, Mr. Robertaon . sai Ha was sentenced to serve thrée years. Abraham Limbert, who was given two years. has had his parole ap- roved, Robertson sald, while Morris Jioss and Morits Cohen were paroled some time ago, JAPANESE HOTEL BURNED. 1At 'rens. "r%?db'f"m’e‘.&h 24.—The Oriental Hotel at Kobe w. partly destroy: by fire early this morning: All of ti ocoupants are believed to have es- caped. Many of them fled to safety in their sleeping garments 'Secretary Sends Holiday Greeting To Men in Army Secretary Weeks sent Christmas and New Year greetings to the Army today, saying that the holi- day season brought increased ap- preciation of the “blessings of peace and the unmolested enjoy- ment of self-government which are dependent upon the nation's defensive powers.” “Each year that I pass in the ar Department,” the Secretary #aid, “makes me realize more and more how much you are. entitled to the thanks of your country.” Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, deputy chiet” of f1, in his Christmas Mmessage to the Army, pointed out that the efforts of the year had “resuited in a closer union of our military elements through the ties of oxcellent hievements In a common caus SEAL SALE IS SHORT OF GOAL IN DISTRICT Hope Entertained Total of 3,000, 000 Will Yet Be Reached in Last-Hour Demand. 'Twas the day before Christmas and all thru the town Crowds of people harried madly now dowen; They w. the late shoppers on the run with a list Of the folks they m and would not have ed. But however belated all the peo- ple now feel That each gift m be with a bright Christman Sea With which merry Christmas rhyme the Washington Tuberculosts Asso- clation comes to the final day of its annual sale ot Christmas seals with' the good prospect of mak- ing its quota of 3,000,000 gealy for the city. aithough up to this morn- ing the returns totaled barely 2,- 500.000. ‘This, however, does not take into account various 8chools and other organizations vet to be heard from and the seif-service seal boxes that | have been placed tn stores about the city. It 15 hoved that the closing day of the season will find 8o large a number of people using the Christmas seals on thelr gifts or greetings that the quota will be reached or excceded, and thus the various protective and educational lines of health work for children and adults mav be carried on with Increased vigor dufing the com- ing year. Approximately half of the people to whom allolment of seals were mailed with stamped and addressed return envelope have not vet been heard from. and it is hoped that many of these will send in their purchases as soon as possible. As all of the seals so alloted are to be accounted for it 18 earnestly requested that the recipients will either remit for the seals used or return any portion not taken in the stamped and addressed envelope provided for that purpose. POLICE BOND RULE ATTACKED IN WRIT Hitz Cites Macdonald and Orders Prisoner Released Pend- ing Hearing. Justice Hitz of the District Supreme Court has cited George H. Macdon- ald, United States Commissioner, to show cause, January 7. why a writ of mandamus should not bLe granted to compel him to consider and pass on the application of James Williams for release on bail. Willlams, thirty years.old, was arrested following a rald by the police at 411 4% street southwest yesterday morning, and was charged with selling and pos- sessing intoxicants. Commiasioner Macdonald dented the request of Attorney James B. Archer to admit Willilams to bail, declaring that the Judges of the Police Court | had {ssued an order denying the right of bail to persons arrested between 11 o'clock Saturday night and $§ o'elock Monfllx morning. Mr. Archer immedlately filed a proceeding in habeas corpus and a petition for mandamus in the District Supreme Court, and Justice Hitz directed the | release of Willlams on a bond of $2,000 pending a hearing aftsr the disposition of the mandamus pro- ceedings, January 7. Morris Horan, arrested at ths same time with Willlams and charged with possession, was released on $500 bafl. The raid was made by Capt. Ira Sheetz and Lieut. Willlam Holmes. PROMISE TO RETURN ASHES STOLEN AT BIER Thieves Notify Japanese Police They Will Bring Back Re- mains of Sociali By the Aseociated Press. TOKIO, December 24.—The ashes of the late Sakaye Osugl, soclalist leader, which were stolen from a room in which the urn was lying in state before funeral services on De- cember 16, will be returned to the volice tomiorrow, the snatchers have nformed authorities. The theft was committed by three armed men, wno cscaped in an au- | tomoblile. The Incident preocipitated a situation which - was considered critical for a time, headquarters of the Anti-Soclalist League: having been closely guarded after socialists were gald to have threatened re- yrisals for the desecration of the re- mains of their leader. Osugl was alain, with his wife and child, by Capt. 'Amakasu, a gen- darmorie oflicer, Who declared he was actuated by patriotic motives. He is now serving a sentence of ten years’ imprisonment for the slaying. —_—_— URGES VETERAN VISITS. Legion Head Asks Remembrance of Comrades. The first consideration of Ameri- can leglonnaires in the District to- morrow—Christmas day—is due the comrades of the services who are in four hospitals of Washington—8t. Elisabeth's, Walter Reed, Mount Alto and the Naval Hospital—Paul J. Mc- Gahan, District department com- der, declared in a statement is- ed last night. “Many .ot these hospitdl patients have no friends or relatives here in ‘Washington,” continued the state- ‘They have a confidence in ican Legion greater, per- than that of any other 'group in the country. A littie visit tomor- row to one of the hospitals and a call at the Dbedside of some one who otherwise would not have a visitor would mean * g ] BANKER SELECTED. THIRD 1. 3. EXPERT H. M. Robinson, Los Angeles, Named Envoy to Repara- tions Session. —— i By the Assaciated Pregs. PARIS, Docember 24 —ienry a1 Robinson, Iawyer and banker of Log has been selocted as tne rican to serve on the expert committees which are to Investigats the condition of Germany's fin under the auspices of the repar: commission. The other two America: previously eelected, are harles G, Dawes and Owen D. Young .\Iv" Robinson, who 18 president of thg First National Bank of Los Angelea ety A ATKel Anancial insticien ied with other eace onference 9 Ho oMlso represented ' the Chiied s at the first Ay International labor He was o Leglon ot ncea ation n members, in reated a chevaller Honor in 1920, e LOYALTY TO CREEDS, IS PLEA OF RECTOR Episcopal Dootrines Defended in Sermon of Rev. Dr. Herbert Scott Smith. A strong argument for the creeds of the Epfscopal Church was voiced ves- terday by Rev. Dr. Herbert Scott Bmith, rector of St. Margaret's Chureh, in his morning sermon, g “I plead for a positive approach to the creeds, for lovaity and love to thel Master they enshrine. The creeds as’ s We use them in the worship of the church are not vain repetitions, but af. firmations, sturdy and heartfelt, of pe. lef in an everpresent, everliving Lords the Lord Jesus who revealed to us God's Fatherhood and promised tha coming and sure leading of the Holy Spirit. “At heart of the creeds is5 Chris our example and Savior; at the hezin ning, and end, God the Father an the Holy Bpirit. A glorious, ang, od deed. a'final statement of the Triuns “This i & positive app: Positive and ever-modern creed which limns the Him who s the sam today and forever—the tory and xperience. hy say what tr there is €0 much thera should men of light and 1:::nour-,n n]l[l!llve! and t! ons, pul down a part h! age-oid * dootrinal etructure *whiin Wil lead others of less ligkt and lasy Teverence, we fear, to tear down the whole, God heip t time " comes—that peace and good wi ing, not the world, devil, but one anoth. hojd of the faith. pray for the peace of Jeru- salem. Truly they shall prosper l'uL love thee, O Mother Church :'IO(W: Iu\; thee, we will b, a ear down thy godl ces an mighty walle, 1f e Jose thes e wiil follow Him, thy head and heart, Who came not t5 destroy but to ful fill, ae He leads us step by step into the liberty of God's dear children, into the truth th, s HE at s to make us REBELS ADVANCING UPON MEXICO CITY ARE ONLY FORTY MILES T0 SOUTH (Continuea from ¥y roach to a creed. A likeness vestarda rist of b reed is not when tis? Why ading, with he in- Just tha blessed time of ll—we start fight- the flesh and the er in our house- t Page) by wounds received at the attack on San Marcos, A Leon Salinas, subsecretary of | treasury, issued a formal ial reports the Vi nt w. planning to fasue pap.r moncy.’ Ha £aid there were sufficlent funds to meot the entire civil and military obligations, and announced that only $300,000 jacking of the compiete min imum of fifteen millior ecded unde the agreement with internatie vankers, which amount would be for warded before the end of December. Boyeott Is Voted. As a_consequence of a complaint recelved from the National Fede tion of Labor in Spain relative to &overnment’s treatment of eynd workers as well as simi | Mexican labor conzress, Mexico City, voted boycott against the Spanish importation. ernments change their ward syndicalists. It {s planned to induce freight han- dlers both at gulf and frontie to refuse to handle imports. The gress previously voted to have wor ors take over factories in Nuevo Leo and other states shouid they bo closed. WARNING ROUTS REBELS. Agents of Revolt Leaving New Orleans After U. S. Stand. NEW ORLEANS, La., December 24, ~—The warning of United States Die- “trict Attorney Burns that more than 200 Mexicans and some. Americans were under surveillance by the feds ieral authorities, with the prospect tnas tifteen or twenty of them would b arrested within the next week, has had the effect of dwindling the smuil army of soldiers of fortune, alleged political plotters and seekers of arir and ammunition, Who _threntened t make New Orleans a htotbed of urgency following tha outbreak xico's latest revolution, it rned here on good autharity. Although Department of Justice agents, Who have been keeping a { close watch on every. Mgxican arriv- iing In the city, decilned to di.scuss the situation in any way, It is under- stood they have information that be- tween fifty and seve. . -five {nsur- roctionist- agents hava left hero within the last few days. Three ships sailing Friday and Sat- urday, it becameé known, carried as rnuen ers not only many lesser ights of the rovolution, but about cighteen senators and deputies of the Mexican congress, sympathizers with the de la Huerta faction, who fled by rall to New Orleans from Mexico City at the outbreak of the present trouble in the southern republic. Most of these are understood to have gone to Vera Cruz. — REAL PRINCESS AS FAIRY. Christmas Party at Sea for Chil- dren Aboard Aquitania. NEW YORK, -December 24.—When passengers on board the Aquitania, which is due today, held a Christmas party at sea yestarday, a real prin- ¢ in the person of Princess Xenia, wife of Willlam B. Leeds, jr., played the part of falry godmother. Tha two “rich old uncles” ware Lord Beaverbrook and Premisr Massey of New Zealand, who plaved their parts to the delight of more than a hundred children who gathered about a huge Christmas tree. the party was received < Word ot by radlo.