Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1924, Page 4

"4 MANY BARS BUTLER ,PLANS FOR “BATTLE OF PANAMA” \EXPLAINED BY WEEKS OVER RADIO Gemeral Warns Policemen to Abideicoml'nx Conflict Will Test Ability of Pacific Fleet to - CLOSED TO REOPEN by Letter of Law in Mak- ing Raids. Get Through Canal. Under Condiiions of Warfare. | T i DRUNKENNESS IS ON DECLINE| 7The stmulated battie between Army. | &ific. . In pither event. control of the One Hospital Bcport;'l)nth From| Poison Whisky. By the Associated Press, s PHILADELPHIA, January 15.—Many ‘ saloons, closed last week in Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler's offensive against vice and crime, today announced their intention of reopening as a result of the general's warning to the police to adhere s in raids 5 . Proprietors de- clared they had a would con- beverages of legal nplalnts of - several maglstrates were said to have influenced Gen. But- ler's action. The effectiveness of the clean-up ®smpaign was reflected in a report to- day by the Pennsylvania Hospital The report stated that not u single case of drunkenness had been treated at theltstitution In the last twenty- hour hours, whereas previously from five -to- twenty-five o day was the Tocor: Ont “'death attributed to pofson whisky, however, was reported from another. hospital Geu_Butler opes o induce hetel and ity of ralding side- private “stocks of liquor £pme were said 0 serve t0~A certain’ favored cla TF TEACHING CITIZENSHIP - - TO PUPILS IS ADVOCATED Irs. ‘Mary C. C. Bradford® Tells Radio Audience Duties to Na- “tion Must Be Met. The .only profession in the world. & Bradford. former président of the Na- tional Education Associitionand state tuperintendent of education in Colo- rado, told radio listeners last night n WRC. d Mrs, .~ “One may or ot be- come a lawyer, a dodtor, minister, or_a teacher, but one may. mot es- cape from being called to serve in the great profession of' citizenship.” In the school, Mrs. Bradford des clared, the chil be taught how to prepare for the activities of community and nation izenship, MATCHES CAUSE FIRE. Matches in 8 dureau drawer in the home of Rev. King D. Hall, pastor of Delaware Avenue - Baptist Church, 2228 Virginia avenue northwest, ig- nited early today and caused a fire scare. ‘The fire was discovered befors much headway had been gained. An alarm sounded from box 312 sumr moned several companies of firemen, and the fire wAs extinguished before much damage . had been done. . . {and Navy forces in the Panama canal Tegion to test the strategic.possibilis ties of the waterway were explaingd last night by Secretary of War John ,W. Weeks in an’ address broadcast | through radio atation WRC here. maneuvers have {forth virtually the entire peace-time. | strength of the Navy, supplemented | by & strong landing force of marines {4nd. the 9,000 men of the canal garri- gon. Secretary Weeks sketched the situation faced by the vival com- manders with the Blue Pacific fleat rushing south under orders to pass tic fleet in order to .beat off an ex- pected naval attack on the Atlantic coast. Plays Part of Enemy. Actually, however, the Atlantic feet, with atrplanes and a strong landing force of marines, {3 playing the role of the “enemy” flect, and Surging to- ward the Atlantic end of the canal determined to block the egress of the | Pacific fleet and prevent the concen- | tration of American naval power in llht Atlantic. The ‘“enemy” purpose would be served if the Pacific fleet could be held up and prevented from reaching the Atlantic side of the canal for ceek, the War Secretary said. this mo aginary hostile naval detachment (n the middle of the north Atlantic } ocean. 1" “The naval force at Panama, con- ]sulin of three gunboats, is assumed e n had sight greatly s force, presumably the imaginary detachment which peared in the Atlantic. Our Atlantic ficet is be- ’lng held at Narragansett bay in an- ticipation of an attack by the im- - | Mginary main hostile fleet, which Is ! | superior in strength. ~Our Paclfic flegt will reach the canal the day aft- er 'tomorrow—the 16th. “Our Atlantic fieet will represent the hostile raiding detachment. des- || ignated as Black, while the Pacific fieet and the Panama canal troops will represent the United States, des- ignated as Blue. “There are several ways in which the Black detachment, -inferior in number, may attempt With. hope of success to prevent the Pacific fleet from reaching the Caribbean.- ' One would be ,to -attack the -fleet plece- meal as it’ exists Trom the canal:: ui other to block the. Atlantie entran: another to destroy with their gu: airplanes or a landing force some vital part of the capal. ‘The purposes 1of the rdld’ will"be fuifitied 1f our Pacific fleet is delaved for a week. That would give the main Black fleet a long enough time in which to meet our Atlantic force and safl te-join its raiding detachment. Our. Pacific flect would then, in turn, be outpumbered, and have the alternative of risking .| an encounter or retreating to the Pa- brought | , through the canal and join the.Atlan- ' Atlantic wduld theoretically be pos- scssed by Black:” “WAR” STARTS TOMORROW. Rival Fleets to Struggle for Pan- ama Canal. By the Assoclated Prews. PANAMA, January 15.—The joint naval maneuvers of the Pacific and | Atlantic fleets of the United States ‘vay to determine the effectiveness of the Panama canal in national de- fense are scheduled to begin early ‘tomorrow. The Pacifle, or “Blue.” fleet, which is to represent the United States and ,whlch is to attempt to pass through the canal against the Atlantic or ene- my fleet, I8 due at Balboa tomorrow. ‘The vessels will begin their passage through the waterway immediately and as rapidly as possible so as not to_interfere with commercial traffic. The “Black” Atlantie fleet now is supposed to be steaming from the Azores and may arrive off the canal on the 17th. e A ! STRICKEN ON STREET, DIES. Abraham H. Levy, sixty ydars old, 606 Harvard street northwest, was taken suddenly ill in front of 150 W street northwest shortly before 9 o'clock this morning. He was taken into the house in front of which he was stricken and died before the arrival of Dr. French from Emergency Hos- pital. The deceased iw survived by ite, two sons and three daugh- TAFT AIDS HARDING FUND. Gives $1,000 Toward Proposed Me- morial. Chiet Justice Taft has made a con- tribution of $1,000 to the Harding Memorial Fund, it was announced yesterday by the Harding Memorial Assoctation. | Satisfactory progress was reported by the assoclation which said com- | pietion of the fund was expected by March 1. s ‘ JUICE OF LEMON WHITENS SKIN The only harm- less way to bleach the skin white is $0 mix the juice of two ] with three ounces of Orchard White, which any drug- will supply | or & few cents. Shake well in a bottle, and you have a whole quarter- pint of the most wonderful skin whli:cner, mn«q‘m and bilflfi?lr. assage s sweet! ragrant lemon bleach into the ‘I!?{fl!ck, a and hands. It can not irritate. - mous beauties use it to bring that clear, youthful skin and rosy- white complexion; also to sootfie red, rough or chapy hands and face. You must mix this remarkable bleach gurnlf. It can not be bought read: use because it acts best immediate’ after it is prepared. Orchard White ! 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