Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1924, Page 17

UNBAR STUDEAT TS ESSAY PR »Dorothy Maude Houston Winner in The Star’s Competitive Test. WRITES OF LENIN'S DEATH | Check for $10 Sent as Author's Reward—Teachers Elated Over Her Success. Dor Maude Houston, a Dun High School, wr @ death of Nicolal Lenin, pre ia, the third first week in “best contest, it announced tod ¢ the commit- of judges composed of cditors of Th A check for $10 has been sent to Misg Houston with the cem- pliments of the managing edito. of Miss Houston d lives at 1758 T She is the daughte Tlouston, head of the husine unusually good scholar rding 1o officials of tion. Story tudent ing on or of rize at e st old thwest. David nt of hip record, the institus in Star of on which Miss Houston ay appeared on the first Star Tuesd: January Lenin, pointed )t one of the the world has Tuesday. The she most uniqu nroduced. arnet C. Wi dent in d off ove st by of nee tant su- char, colored als at Dunbar were the showing made Housto fourth pri st week will be tomorrow. The will be in the con The winne 5 for the firs uneed in ends number vs submitted for the sccond week. The r. have until noon their essays in the 150 contest A #lready yri con . to get ant 3 nouncement of the for the first the judges ms for four essays which won FOUR ON CREW LIST FOR GLOBE FLIGHT Staff Sergt. Heiney of Bolling Field Is Tentatively Chosen. FOUR OTHERS TO BE PI CKED Intensified Training Marks Prep- arations for Event. taff Sergt. Abi th Observation Sq €ld, Anacostia, D. hani . Heiney of dron, Boll- , Is one of t ively -ound Angeles 7= aviation m ted for the flight to start from Los arch 15. Others who The | nd has | ot the: RIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1924 Third Prize Winner In The Star’s “Best News Story” Contest By Dorothy Maude Houston. Aged Fifteen years, Dunbar High School. Home address, 1758 T Street Northwest. Because I am interested in history, the article, icolai Lenin Dies Following Stroke at Moscow Villa,” in the first column on the first page of The Star for Tuesday, January 22, appeals to me. | 1 This article, heralding the abrupt eading of the career of one of the most unique characters the world has produced, attracts the attention because the subject of the sketch has been so prominently before the-public for the past four years. As the originator of the bolshevik government, a govern- ment founded on socialism and communism, Lenin must go down in history as one of the outs dnd'iug characters of the twentieth century. /\Y CERTAINLY 15 A RELIEF o riow THAT | o VE GoT 18 “Tori s 51 No FREEZING s The article is well developed. and gives a great deal of information in a comparatively short space. Out of the simple fact that Lenin has died, the story develops to give a comprehensive insight into the man’s life, character and activities. Even his per- sonal appearance is definitely impressed upon you. You clearly see the studious boy. interested chiefly in the conditions of his fellow countrymen: then the man, still deeply interested in social conditions and political history; and finally the man following out his revolutionary and socialistic impulses and seizing the reins of government. In summarizing. I will say I find this article ap- pealing because it deals with an interesting charac- ter, is concise and clear, is well developed, touch ing as it does upon all phases of the subject’ and activities, and because the whole story is told in the briefest possible spac THE WEATHER District of Columbia and Marylaud Mostly cloudy tonight, with lowest temperature about freezing. Tomor: row fair; moderatesshifting winds becoming northwest, Virginia — Mostly ~ cloudy ibly light rain or snow in south- portion! Tomorrow fair; littie e in temperature: moderate ting winds, becoming northwest. West Virginia—Fair tenight and to- maorrow; little change in temperature. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. $ pan., 36; 8 tonight, | { | | Contraceptive Knowledge. I 1 the mias {on Teapot Qome yesterday Senator Cummins of I a bill to remove the prohibition of the circulation of ¢ traceptive knowledge and introdu j@ mew section to safeguard th i culation of proper co knowledge by requiring certifi del pometer—4 tern widnight, noon, 41, ometer—4 p.m., midnight, 30.0 noun, temperature, 48, . Lowest tempera- pam., ol¢ am., Temperature | Highest, 41; lowest. Condition of the Water. Temperature and_condition water at 8 am—Great Falls: perature, 34; condition, very muddy Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States 1l geodetic survey.) am of the | medicine.” bill is successor to the was initiated 1 thood League, Fare Dennett is ins no th-control Volunt which M | rector. to s which iz cons the biil to be decision. to birth-c. coast que matter for individ simply legalize knowledge 2:05 pam.; statutes, — e MEXICO TO RATIFY PAC Sun rose 7:16 a.m.; sun sete rrow—Sun rises 7:15 a.m.; sun M 3:39 am.; sets 2:15 p.m. Senator Cummins Proposes Meas- ure to Regulate Circulation of yduced by at least “five graduate phyisicians lawfully engaged in the practice of Cum- ell bill in the last Congres tembt | \illiam P. Ricl red by those hackir moves the subject from the obscen 77 7 2 Z | Art9 THEMN ONE DAY A SHO EXPECTING Tn FIND A HOLE IM HIS SU N W ean sate UNDER-ASSE K con- ace i 1 i | 1% tha charges of Represent ive Rlanton that real estate is un derassessed in Washington, ssor | oS ds today cited th irecords of his office to show that as- | lua !svssmn ts are close to sale prices. ‘_\,‘_m, << | In submitting 4 minority report to 451850, y ;u.c House t week on the gasoline | building tax bill, Representative Blanton took | Prriod of {a list of apartment houses and comi- o T. |parea e essed values with the * |valuations placed on the buildings by the owners before the Rent Conuml di- | State: >, oR 3 DAYS LATER. - STILL FEELING 6600 ABOUT T RT TiME LATER HETAKES DOWN THE BOARDS RICHARDS DENIES BLANTON’S SSMENT CHARGES': Texan Referred to as Proof Tax Values Are Close to Real Valuation. of hi support of hi sments —By WEBSTER. |QYSTER ANNOUNCES | 7= | 13 POLICE CHANGES | Detective, Patrolmen, Traffic Of-| | ficers, Motor Cycle and Mounted ‘ ! Men Are Affected. 18 Term 5! MoRe THAM ENCUGH FOR The REST = —(~OF THe BARBEE TO SECOND PRECINCT | Compton Is Shifted to Force at the.‘ ‘White House. een changes in the police de- t were announced by Com- { missioner Oyster today, as follow! Precinct Detective William J. Bar- bee, from the sixth to the second pre cinct; Patrolman Harry E. Beck, from the seventh to the fourth pre- cinct; Traffic Policeman Leo A. Comp- | ton, transferred to the White House force: Mounted Policeman Hugh F. | Cornwell, from the tenth to the s | enth; Patrolman Judson R. Creec from the twelfth to the ninth; Patrol- | man Michael J. Dowd of tho sixth, | promoted to preeinct detective, rolman Willlam 1. Griges sle man_in the second pr rolman Robert C. Jackson, o the sixth; Patrolman Jai iff, from fl precinct 1o cl ve bureau; William F. Mc: from clerk in detéctive bureau to man in fourth precinct. . Motor Cyele Patrolman Michael J.| Mahaney, made foot patrolman in| tenth precinct; Patrolman Willllam A. | Schotter of the &ccond precinet changed from bicycle to motor cycle {man, and Patroiman Raymond L.| paulding, from ninth to twelfth pre- | ¢inct. | MUST RENEW BADGES. Boys in Street Trades Warned to Get New Permits. Miss Eleanor J. Keene, head of the child labor office, today admonishe all boys having 1923 street trades badges to have them renewed for new 1924 badges. Only forty boys, Miss Keene announced, have renewed their badges. The color of the 1924 hadge is white with green letters. The old badge was blue with black letters. | 'The child labor office in the Fran |lin_School, at 13th and K str | northwest, will be open from 3 to | o'clock on” school days and 9 to on Saturdays for the renewal of the badges. 1f the badge is lost or broken a Loy will have to pay a deposit of 50 cents in order to secure & new one. MARRIAGE HELD ILLEGAL. Samuel T. Bennett Awarded De- cree of Annulment. | | Justice Bailey of the District Su- | preme Court has granted an interloe- [ utory decres of annulment in favor ‘of Samuel T. Bennett, who claimed that when he married Margaret Phil- “for|1ips Davison Bennett ‘in June, 1914 *|she had a husband from whom she MENLS | had not been divorced. The wife admitted she told Ben- nett she was a widow, but explained she had not seen or heard of Davison in eleven years and regarded him as dead. Atforneys Bell, Marshall & Rice ap- |OBJECTS TO U. S. SHIPS - [péered for e husbind. ' IN PORT WITHOUT PERMIT| BRIEF ILLNESS FATAL. T | = ‘esentative also cited | Soviet Government Protests to Sec-| W. Fillmore Marquess, Stove Sales- el l’!\‘l man, Passes Away. W. Fillmore Marquess, thirty years !o1d, son of Fillmore and Ella R. Mar- i i 3 quess, residents of Chesapeake Beach, ebruary 1. inoff, | \1q, ‘died at Providence Hospital, gn minister, has Sent |\ qnegday, following a brief iliness. A Few VAYS LATER — BoAsSTS ABouT \'T WELL, GEGRGE, I'VE \7 Gor 18 Tons of CoAL 104 My CELLAR. AT THC PRESEMT mMomeeT ! WHAT U'vA = 1HiMe OF ) N s J. | k in 1 HAD I8 Toris Y OniLy A'FEw L\) HOURS AGD } \/ Ace Gome 7 { ) PPLY MO LARGER THAMN & OF A TomN 18 and n was $3 partments ¢ which the usse sales w i re total ,185,700 and | essments amounted to § ds in a trade three years retary Hughes, Alleging Viola- | tion of International Law. i 000, ient by Richards. contention that hould be based largely | By the Assoc the deputy fc te of protest .| that a law be actment of th have been| ‘\\oimobile lamps to be lighted one- Ratification by n the record of to the American iy, (s employed by a local store as Charles E. Hughes, MOTHERS' PENSIONS TOPIC AT HEARING Commission on Public Wel- fare Legislation to Hold Meeting Thursday. ITEM IN EXPERT REPORT Three Essential Recommendations by William Hodson of Russell Sage Foundation. The first public hearing of the cox mission on public welfare legislation will be held in the boardreom of the District building at 9 oclock Thursday afterncon. Subject, “Moth- ers' Pensions.” This was announced following an cxecutive ston of the commission yesterday afternoon, at which Wil- liam Hodson, expert of the Russell Sage Foundation, submitted his f report. As previousl predicted, Mr, Hodson made three essential recommenda- tions, namely: That all welfare agen- cles supported from the public treas ury be brought together under o es ised to elin criminal nature of its proceedings, and enacted for. the licens- tion of private chil, es, including mater ing and re caring agen hospitals. Other Recommendutions. Mr. Hodson so recommended cu mothers’ pension bill, the compulsory school atte! enactment of new provis ern the care and comm tally defective children, #nd rey of the law relating to abandonment, non-support and the care of illegiti- mate children. Referring o the existence of mar Qifferent boards for the control public agencies, Mr, Hodson said “There is wide variety In the power of appointment, divided responsibility in control and management ant there must also Le loss of efficiency through inadequate correlatio function and service. This state of affairs is illogical, wasteful and intolerable, ¢ from the standpoint of the which pays the bills, bat, wh more important, from the view of the neglected, de- 0 ‘handicapped. elients group of organically u icies and fostitutions tempts to serve.” Held Not'a New Propositioh. To show that he is not proposi anything new, Mr. Hodson States ti the recommendation for 4 tnified coxi- trol of all public ehfld-cari: agencles was made by local in- Vestigators as far back as 1835. Mr. Hodson s that the so-called mothers’ pension bill, to be censidered at the hearing next week, should more properly be called-a bill-to aid dependent children in thelr own Eomes. S The commission. after hearing Mr. Hodson's report, discussed its var) provisions, but took no definite & lion. Justice Frederick L. Siddo: chairman, presided. T LAWYERS TO BANQUET. Senator George Will Address C.o- lumbian Association. er ¥. George of gia will address the Columb George Washington Law School Aa- sociation at its annual banquet in tie crystal room ‘of the N Hotel tomorrow night at lis ev {point of { pendent f\(‘!mm th i | 1 Senator W 1 by the Mexican assem- | gjon, bly Within eight or ten days of the 7 . generzl clalms convention negotiated| The figures given by Mr. Blanton | with the United States as a forerun- {showed that the owners valued their | ner of recognition of the Obregon {Propertics at more before the Rent | government was predicted today by |Commission than the assessor had | Charge Summerlin, ity, | valued them for taxation purposes n dispatch ate Depart-| Mr. Richards asserted today that in Weather. | ment. {mal greatest | | weight should b to actual sale s and not to opinio He th Iyized some of ti ¥ Mr. Blanton to bear out h ment that ments a sale prices. Several Apartments Listed. rgyle apart ass 7. Mr. Ric 5 it s cretary of State CEetaEy; of Stat a salesman. Funeral services will be held at his parents' residence, at Chesapeake ! sity, and William L. King, a local at- Beach, tomorrow afternoon at 2|torney and a member.of the borr o'clock. Burial will be in the Mount, Of trustees of the universit Harmony cemetery, Calvert county,|Will speak. The importance o | Ma. ing the B his mother and father, he |for the u three brothers, Pre subseriptions Marques: hard E. Mar- | banquet, how: nd George P. Marguess, and|_ William C Mrs. Mattie 7. Knott law school.” half hour after sunset. ‘Weather in Varlous Cities. orarily selected are Technical Arthur H. Turner of the 91st Observation Squadron, Crissy Field, ‘an Francisco, Calif.; Staff Sergt. 1. Ozden, 57th Service Squad- | Mount Clemens Alva L. Ha Telhnical Field, Rantoul, 111, Others to Be Designatod, War Department ann four other meckanics v intensifivd , Va. it four will be chosen | @nd care for the four inis four being held | Jorrer 8 in of | Buftaly . harlesto made this statemen “An oplnion by an expert may have back of it the desire to prove a| contention, or his opialon may be! duenced by erronecus data, or his conclusions ~may have weakn through inades data. Opinio v Le changed in an hour withe ce, even by a sworn w sreatest welght must be the volume of sales having back of it a | sideration that compels that implies faith in ed. Sales have the ? mpetition in the investment of cap- | I. They are a bid for revenue,| {each investor striving to place Mr. Blanton cited the Alabama money on the best and safest in-| apartments, assessed at $219 come paying basfs. It therefore fol- sold in 1921, Mr. Richard: lows,that if sales are the weightiest | 215,000, guldé in making an assessment, they | Pelham Courts was listed with an | become the surest guide in measuri 60. Mr. Richards |the accuracy of an assessment |said the owner testified Vefore the| As further evidence of the rela- Rent Commission he paid $217,500, for | tion which assessments bear to sale which $87,500 was an equity in two |prices in Washington, Mr. Richards other apartments. gave the following figures The Barlington is assessed at $151.. In the business section 710 sales 793. According to the assessor, it|were made in recent years for a total William Mather ' Lewls, because the United States revenue! A Meer e e cutter Bear entered a Russian port of of I t1 id the destrover 223 entered Batum September 15 without | permission. of the soviet authoritie M. Litvinoff assetrs that this vie- lated the principle of relating, warshi the U States $ Temperature. at Mexico Yenry H E to the stressed. - received at Stations, fur-1 quess a sister, prevent The id 1 soon raining ta the . clond,; Cloudy Cloudy ed jat $20 ol !in 1921 for 010 Qzpes (8 am., Greenwich time, today.) Stations, Temperature, Weathe London, £ Paris, ¥ Copenhagen, Stockholm, ' Sweden. Gibraltar,” Spain. Horta (Fayal), Hamilton, Bermud. . San Juan, Porto Ri na. Cub Cloudy Pt cloudy 5 FIRE CAUSES $3,000 LOSS. Early Morning Blaze in Shaft of Glover Building. re, originating in a shaft of the Glover bullding, at 1419 street, ‘clock this morning, caused stimated at about $3,00 he Washington School for Secretar- ies occupies the building, but no pu- Is or teachers were in the bullding the tim O n Dumage consisted to a great extent | Philadelpii churred woodwork and water and { Phoenlx o moke damage. The first floor was L e 30: srmerly occupled by the F. J. 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