Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1924, Page 13

_ RTCHE RESTORES | SCADOLFUNDCUT Compromise Reached After Governor Was Flooded With Protests. Special Dispated to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md, February 15.— Thé budeet cut made In the equallza- | tion and high school aid fund re- quested by the Maryland Department of Education, will be restored by re- arrangement of the other budget items without raising the contem- plated state tax rate of 271-6 cents, sccording to a statement made by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie late last night. The announcement followed & con- ference between the governor und | Dr. Albert 8. Cook, state superin-, teudent of schools, ‘during whicn a compromise Wwas effected. ~ Dr. Cook ' agreed to reductions in the amount allowed for other budget items to go 1o the contested fund and the gov- ernor agreed to grant & slight ad- ditional appropriation In his supples aentary budget. The items cut by Dr. Cook are as; follows: Census and attendance, $23, xtenslon teaching, $6,000; ex-| m and certification of teach- | : printing, $2,000. f ere suggested i sald Dr. Cook, | had made it absolutely clear as determined to reduce the | that he 1ax rate. The agrcement arrived at yesterday | should huve the effect of stopping the : muss of propaganda which has been Douring into the executive office ever ! since the original budget figures were aunounced. Commenting on thls last | > governow suid: “If the par-; sible for the unfair propa- Which {s being spread, and | making the task will unly stop it T think the problemn n be worked out so as to make r that the ol standards will y continue to pro acrording to the | program, and that the taxes will be kept down, toc tda ich is ALEXANDRIA. | e 1 DRIA, Va, February 15 —The call recently extend- ed by the First Baptist Church to Rev. Dr. Alonzo Robert Love of | srtsmouth has been canceled by | animous action of the church mem ship, it was announced vesterda Love was relieved of his accept- after committee from his. church in l'ortsmouth conferred with ticlals of the local church. to have moved into here this week and irst sermon Sunday. He was called twice by the local church to iill the vacancy created by the res- | iznation of Dr. E. B. Jackson Sep- tember 15. The pulpit committee will proceed with the selection of another John B. Abrahams, president West End Parent-Teacher As- ppeared yesterday before cil and asked that arrange- ments be made to keep a school with- in tke bounds of that suburb after the preseat building, recently sold to the Masons, shall have been discarded. In her plea Mrs. Abrahams scored Alexandria’s school system, pointing out that among fifty citfes of similar size Alexandria stands forty-sixth in school advantages, while it stands sixteenth in wealth. She showed that the per capita cost of maintaining schools was less ‘than that of most | through these organizations difficult, ; ! it | 1" |of : EEE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15,- 1924. | | | Look in Mirror, Shame on You— Cure for Drunks! 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., February 1 —"See yourself aa others see yo 15 the latest cure for drunks adopt- ed by Maglstrate Cadden of the northeastern police station. He has trled it out on a number of those who tip “the cup that cheers" to such an extent that the “ground flies up and hits 'em.” He makes them take a look at themselves In 2 mirror in order that they may s¢e themselves as others sec them. His latest victim yesterday was Joseph Moifett, who was accused of being drunk. Moffett had fallen down and cut his face and “looked le a Valentiie,” according to the magistrate, who dismissed him after glving him “the mirror pun- ishment. ROCKVILLE. 1:0CK VILLE Md., February 15 (Special). — A~ MeAdoo-for-President Club, ‘believed to be the first of its ind tn Maryland, has.been organized at Kensingion.. this county, with a memborship of fitty prominent demo- crats of both sexes. Harry M.™Martin i# president and George Johnson vice president. It is planned to form similer clubs at Chevy Chase, Silver Spring, Wheaton, Sandy Spring and other places In the county, and ge a vigorous campalgn in behalf of the candidacy of Mr. McAdoo for his Z‘ll\r!\u nomination for the presie ency. Sheriff Clay Plummer has just re- turned from Atlanta, Ga., bringing with him Mrs. Grace Coster, an at- tractive young woman of that place, | Wwho 1s ‘wanted in this county te answer charges of larceny preferred hv Mrs, Annle Hoag of Takomu Park, She now in jafl here awaiting reliminary ‘hearing. Tt fs wid that Mre. Coster wae & member of & theatrical company that stranded in Washington some aRo, and that she obtalned ing at the home of Houg. Two weeks later, so It is resented, the young woman sud- disapprared, and about the same time Mrs. Hoag missed some clothing and cash, It was learned thet the actress’ home was in Atlanta, and Sheriff Plummer went there, and with the assistance of the local au- thorities located her. Mrs. Cecella A. Fitzgerald. widow of Michael Fitzgerald, and formerly a long-time resident of this county, died in Washington on Tuesday, aged ninety yvears. denly Marringe Licensex. Licenses have been (rsued for the | marriage of George E. Miller of El- licott City, Md., and Miss Nellle L. Scott of Baltimore: Randolph W. Jones and Miss Vennie Lawson, hoth of Washington, and Thomas C. Car- ter and Miss Grace D. Duley, both of Chain Bridge, D. C. ‘The annual convention of the farm- ers of Montgomery county will be eld in the ussembly hall of the Sandy Spring High School bullding Saturday, February 23, Willlam J. Thomas will preside and John I, Muncaster and Samuel P. Thomas will be the secretaries. Potato cul- ture in Montgomery county, the fu- ture of farming in Maryland, and whether or not further issues of county honds are desirable will be the principal subjects discussed. Sunday will be go-to-church Sunday in Rockville, 8o the pastors the varfous churches have an rounced. The people of the town are being urged to attend some church service on that day. Samuel H. Browning headed a del- egation of taxpavers which appeared before the county commissioners here in the Interest of road improvement in the Damascus nelghborhood. The MAY INCREASE SIZE OF U. S. HOSPITAL Hines Considers Proposal for Ex- penditure of $700,000 at Federal Park, Md. PLAN URGED BY EXPERT 600 Acres of Land Available for Occupational Therapy. Plans are under consideration the construction division Veterans' Bureau, Divector Hines an- nounced today, for ingreasing the capacity of the hospital at Federal Park, Md., by the addition of several bulldings to provide 264 more beds. at a cost of approximately $700,000. Director Hines sought the views of outside specialists as "to the ad- visabllity of enlarging the Federal Parl institution and as to wheth the locatlon was a proper one foi rehabilitation under the occupationat theraphy idep. As a result pf an inspection of the tnstitution, Director Hines and Wi 1", Lorenz of Wisconsin, who was con* suited, have concluded’ that, with 600 acres ‘of good soil available for out- side work, there is no reason why a greater number of recoverles cannot be obtained under the arrangement. Plans so far. considered, Mr. Hines said toduy, called for a “diagnosti building, one for tubercular patients, an “acute” building, with separate wards for “greatly disturbed” pa tlents and additional recrestion fa- cilities. With the additional structures, the dircctor sald, the institution will have equipment to take care of i K. clal class of patlents from Pennsy! venia in addition to thuse now being rehabllitated there. The hoswital, lo- cated about forty miles from Iiila delphta, would be continued in wper- ation under the plan, he added. TRIE; SUICIIiE i;&ELL. by Carpenter Who Had Tried to Cut |~ Throat Butts Head on Wall. Falling yesterday in an attempt to cut his throat with a knife, after his arrest as a suspected fugitive from Justice, Robert Vincent Stubbs, car- penter, today startled police officlals at the first precinct station Ly but- |n::l his head agalnst the walls of his cell. Attendants overpowered sent him to Gullinger Stubbs was arrested Arlington county yesterday Virginia authorities. Just b ing turned over to Detecth and Mansfield of this city he the attempt to slash his throat him and Hospital. road in the e be- Keck made of the| SCHOOL HONOR ROLL. Prince Georges Pupils Have Per- fect Attendance Record. Special Dispateh to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 15.- The following pupils at the Oxon Hill public school, Mrs. Gladys M. Rat- oliffe, principal, have neither missed a day nor been tardy during the en- fire school year: Robert Phelps, Les- ter Cox, Sarah Cox, Anna Cook, Isa- bel Pheips and Bessie Phelps. Thest pupils of the Tippett School, Mrs. Olive King, principal, have a perfect attendance mark for January: Frances Early, Harry Early, Joseph Caswell, Edwin Caswell, Jack Thorne, rl_Thorne, Willie Thorne, Berry lobert Windsor, Russeil Cathering Windsor, Ander-~ son Klig, Mary Tippett, Chatles Wal- ter. Rena Windsor. Lilllan Nothe 1ildred Sisson, Willlam Tippett, Li zie Walker and Benson Thorne. These plls have perfect attendance mark whole year: Frances aud Harry Early, Mary and Willam Tip- pett, Lizzle Walker, Joe and Edwin Cawwell; Lilllan Nothey, William Thorne and Anderson King. " ADMITS LARCENY. 1l!fiiss Creagh Placed on Probation i Pending Investigation. Miss M. Eleanor Creagh, former ’v-mnluye of the Department of Agri- | culture, today pleaded gullty before Justice' Hitz In Criminal Division 1 to two indictments, charging the lurceny of records of the internal revenue bureau and perjury in con- | nection_with a clvil service applica- tlon. She was permitted to remain on bond pending an Investigation and report by Probation Officer Steele. ! Luther L. Stanton, a soldier at { Walter Reed Hospltal, was placed on | probation fur one year for joy-riding. Georke Crawley, colored, drew a { sentence of three months in jall on n charke of assault. He had a dis- with Charles Adums October ‘horn e Los Angeles Council Questions Le- gality of Thirty-Year Contract. S ANGELES, Calif. he city councll voted vesterday to institute immediate court action to test the legality of a thirty-year lease on seven acres of municipally owned harbor district land given to E. L. Doheny's Pan-American Petroleum Company by the harbor commission. GETS SIX YEARS. Justice Hoehling in Criminal vision 2. today Willls, colored, to ithe penitentiary s “cha with snatching a watch and $66 | from Louis Rosenblatt, June The Last Big Cut TEST DOHENY PORT LEASE| “ebruary 15. cities of this class, although during [delegation let it be understood that the past two ycars the expenditure (& whole lot of road work in that sec- Lias been ralsed from $23 to more than | tion of the county is needed. but es- %70 for each puptl. pecially urged that a mile or more of Muyor Smoot told her that council {cement pike be constructed at the Would Investigate the matter before | earliest date in the road leading from any action was taken. Damascus to Purdum, to begin at| everal proposed city ordinances, {Damascus. The commissioners prom- | —and remai it gives you the choice of the entire maining stock of Mode Winter Suits and PRIZE COLLIE WINS FIRST FIGHT FOR LIFE Injunotion Granted Preventing Killing of Dog After Bit- ing Children. Special Dispatch to The Btar, FREDERICKSBURG, Va., February 16.—"Mac," pedigreed trick collle dog of L. W. McWane, won the first move In his legal fight for life, when an in- Junction was granted by Judge John T. Goolrick in the corporation court, restraining the chief of police from carrying but the mayor’s order to kill the dog. The validity of the city ordinance providing that dogs shall be killed at direction of the mayor upon request of persons who have been bitten, was attacked by Attorney W. B. F. Cole, counsel for Mr. McWane, who con- tended that a dog was personal prop- erty. A demurrer, flled by Attorney Willlam W. Butzner, counsel for J. R. Rawlings and J. Elton Alrich, fathers of the children who were bitten by the dog, was argued by Mr, Butzner and Commonwealth's Attorrey F, M. Chichester. Messrs. Butzner and Chi- chester contended that there was suf- {ficlent law to order a canine killed jafter it had become a nulsance in biting-children. Judge Goolrick held that under the 1aw no dog could be arbitrarily killed by the mayor or police, without right of the owner to appeal. Attorney Butzner indicated that he may take the case to the Virginia supreme ourt of appeals in the event the dog loose by the corporation WOMAN VOTERS TO MEET. Special Diepatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 15. The annuul convention of the Prince Georges County League of Woman | Voters, Mrs. K. J. Morris, chairman. will be held Monday, February 18, at University of Maryland, College . F. Woods, president of the university, will welcome the women ira. Theodore J. Vandoren, Hy- attsville, regional director, will re- spond. Miss Lavinia Engle, state manager, League of Woman Voters will outline the plan of work for the current year. A_biref business session will be followed by a luncheon served by the home economics department of the university, Miss Stamp acting dean of women. In the afternoon Miss Josephine Shaln, one of the officers of the Na- tional Lengue of Woman Voters from readguarters in Washington, will ¢ peak. It I» the desire of those in arge of the meeting Monday that every clubwoman in the county and women interested in the work of the ¥league attend. An invitation also is extended to the men. including a prohibition ordinance, were discuesed at the informal closed meeting of the council, Mrs. Roe Fullerson urged upon the Kiwanis Club at the weekly luncheon yesterday the necessity of the tablishment of & city nursery. She explained that the nursery would di- ectly be in line with the club's ef- orts now being extended toward ald- ing the crippled and underprivileged children, President Kenneth W. Ogden as- sured Mrs. Fulkerson that the club would etudy the advisability of pro- curing such a home here. . In addition to the address, Kiwan- ians enjoyed the annual valentine cel- ebration, city celebrities being made butts of appropriate “comle valentine Jokes. Luncheon was served in the audi- torlum of the Chamber of Commerce building, where all future luncheons of the club will be held, rather than | in Westminster buildin Tables were spread by the Ladies’ auxillary of the Y. M. C. A. under direction of Mrs. Harry B. Caton i Walter ‘Lemeshewsky and Olfver | Faulkner, sentenced by Police Court for parts they played in a disastrous joyride, are their appea Lemeshewsk talken Awith Faul! bing heard today on to Corporation Court. ! is charged with having ther's automobile and, 0 girls, taking a trip. Th, prehended when they came back to the city after wrecking the machine near Tappa. hannoe Lemeshewsky sentenced to serve two years with the state board of public welfare, while Faulkner was | fined $50 and given thirty days in the | city fail. s An old superstition in Iceland is that every bride must invite all her ! friends to a dinner in her own home, | and every article of food must bel| prepared by the bride herself. If she is successful in pleasing her guests, she not only rcceives praise for her own skill, but helps along her younger ' sisters, who are then assumed to be cqually good at cooking, &nd con- | sequently have a much better chance | of 'getting married. Our Annual ised to make every effort to comply | with the request. l Report on Hespital. At 2 meeting of the executive board of the Women's Auxillary of tk Montgomery County General Hos. pital, Sandy Spring, which was pro- sided over by Miss Anna Farquhar, chairman, Miss Gallagher, superin. tendent of the inatitution, reported an average of twenty dally patients | in January, and also stated that the services of Mrs. Powell, formerly as- sistant dleticiun at Garfleld Hospital, | Washington, have been obtafned as | stant superintendent. ‘The ap-] plication of the auxillary for mem- hership in the Montgomery County Federation of Women's Clubs, has, it ! was made known, been favorably| acted on, and the opinlon was ex-| pressed that such afliation is sure 0 broaden the usefulness of the | hospital by enabling the institution i to keep In closer touch with the many women of the county who are inter- ested, The auxiiiary meets the second | Tuesday of every other month. The | needs of ‘the hospital are discussed | and efforts made to meet them. At | cach meeting lunch is served by a| different group of members. i C. Parker Jones. member of promi- nent fumily and ilfe-long resident of the lower section of the county, died | oarly Wednesday morning at his home | at Forest Glen and was burled this | afternoon in Grace Church cemetery, | Woodside. The services were con- ducted by the rector, Rev. J. Henaing Nelms, Mr. Jones was seventy-four years old, His death was due to pneumonta and followed an illness of about a week. Surviving him are four deughters—Mrs. Charlotte 1. Stavro, Mrs. M. Frank Keating and Misses Alice M. and Mar- guerita ¥, Jones. ail of Foreat Glen. e also leaves o aister, Mrs, Diana Danforth, of Washington, and a brother, John C. Jones, of Sunderiand, Fla. Clean ‘Drinking_Manor, near Chevy Chase, was part of the ancestral estate and owned by members of Mr. Jones | family until recently. Mr. Jones was beloved by a wide cir- cle of friends. For many years he was & vestryman of Sfiver Spring parish. February— ~ CHOICE-OF-THE- HOUSE SALE Brings an unequaled opportunity to order Suits, Overcoats Overcoats—regardless of the regular price %$2 475 Alterations at Actual Cost 535, %40, 345 and *50 Golf Suits $19:5 Small lots of Neckwear Mode Cut Silk Cravats—now 39 3 for $1.00 Regular price, $1.00. Mode Cut Silk (3 Cravats—now ... 95 3 for $2.75 Regular prices, ' $2, $2.50, $3 and $3.50. Knicker Trousers— in light and medium shades . Small lots o Shirts Silk Shirts, all 34,95 our best grades, 3 for $1450 RADIO CLASS OPENS WEDNESDAY NIGHT Two Physics Teachers to Be in. Charge of McKinley High Tnstruction. The course in the construction and | operation of radio receiving sets planned by District public school of- ficials will be introduced at the Me- Kinley High night school Wedn day, it wus announced today hy Wal- | | with radio. ter B. Patterson, director of special schools. Two physics teachers at Mc- Kinley will organize and teach the clas Classes will be held Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday nights. The course will start with the theory of opera- tion of a radlo receiving set. The construction of sets will follow. The course will be designed to ulti- mately lead to the physics connected A special effort will be made to have the lectures and black- board {llustrations point out the prin- ciples of sound waves as dealt with in_physics. thousands of radio enthusiasts Washington, many of not familiar with the t principles of radio, offic ® 313" ———————— e ;hlt the new course will prove popu- ar. During the war a course In wire- less was glven at glcKinley, espe- clally designed to tufn out operators for the Army and Navy. Credit was glven by the Army and Navy to the 8raduates of this course, which con- cerned chiefly the transmission and reception of dot-and-dash signals. It is not the purpose of the new course to go Into this phase of radio work Adults as well as children will be admitted to the new radio class. U. S. EMPLOYE TRANSFERRED Miss Ethel Vocha of the press rela- tions . War Department, has been t ‘rred to the Department of Justice and assigned to duty in the of of the United States at- torney in New York ci OPENED THREE. MORE MEAT MARKETS ICE BERG Imported English Broadcloths— $2.39 NOW sevsecconns 3 for $7.00 Mode Knitted Silk Cravats— 31.39 now 3 for $4.00 Regular prices, $3 and $3.50: ool Hose Wool Hose—75¢c and $1—now....ce0uees Wool Hose—$1.50 to $2.50—now. ...... . to make low prices. EVAPORATED Large Size Can 0 Lb. Bulk NONE Better At Any Price, Packed in 14 Prints Sunset Gold, 1b. U. S. No. 1 Michigan Round ‘White, Uniform . . Size 15 1b. Peck Fancy California Large Size Dozen Extra Fancy Box Wine Saps, 4 Ibs. for And Fancy York Imperial, 7 bs.for 27¢ TODAY AT THE FOLLOWING STORES 5526 Connecticut Ave. N. 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