Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1924, Page 8

INING ENGINEERS SCORE TAX LAWS Secretary Says Many Arei Driven From Profession by Drain on Capital. | s are no longer spending large sums of mon .»n| Year sceking new opportunis many mining engineers have ven from their profession bee of federal taxes incom srding to the 1 report of I Larp! v of the Amer- an Institute of Minin nd Metal- Jurgical Lngineers, made publie and | o | of the older ¢ and many new one lundreds of thousands of doilars anuually in looking for minmg oppor- | tunitles, employing many .ugu.--\n: solely on this w Appearcd to he the most truit- of revenue to mect these of | “specua &tood a chan of losir nd they have had no alt 10 £0 juta other liues of worl This condition will not exist pe bhut while it lasts our m s in all parts of the country T n the inu lust lJon 'GRUSADER PAGEANT WII.L CLOSE TODAY Diplomatic Carps Patrons- Patronesses Are to Be Honored. 600 IN THE PERFORMANCE Two Final Presentations for “The Dreanter Awakes.” and Patrons and patronesses among the | diplomatic corps will be honored at the presentation this afternoon of “The Dreamer Awakes” at Reli's Theater. The “crusader pageant” being presented twice today by 600 of the atholi tudents” de, and today’'s perform- Rev. 1 Hall, i sted Walter Nall lic Unisersi members of Caldwell ¢, will be as- of St et battalion in re- s of honor at the ing the theater. Among these special patrons and patronesses of the production are the nish ambassador and Senora de iano, the Belgiau amb jor and Buroness de Cartier, the German am- sador and Frau Wiedfeldt, Ambas- or Augusto Cochran Alencar of Bu. the Cuban amba Dr. » de la Torriente w0 de Quesada, the of Portugal and Mu Pedro Guenara and nore Attendance. schools which a- go. A committee of Washington Students will be prepared at this end s fto welcome them. 1 years in the mininz west previous to the AUTHORS’ CONGRESS WILL MEET IN APRIL| All Branches of Wntmg to Be| Represented in Washington | Convention. PEN WOMEN ARE sponsonsl“ Famous Novelists and Dramatists | Are Committee Heads. e | among the out-o . when the congress | pice f the League of Amer Pen W en, according to an uouncement from national headqua Geldert, 2 national the organ tion, said | ill includ a affect | writer In cvery branch of | ture — novelists, Journalists ists, poets, publicists, scenario | magazine writers, spe writers, advers writers— | the convention itsel, un-| ned ta| >t American special riter el , is com- | striking. ae a tribunal of a history. The dis utions of each of t to he held on the e presented to the sembled for encral con- nations Menk Atkeson, nnuonced the nen and t som, vice followir writers; 1 group: Hele ture writers' e Thornboroug jouon picture committ WOMAN TO MANAGE : CANCER CAMPAIGN i Miss E. S. Schroeder to Open Ofice" Tomorrow as Center of Propaganda. Washington's cancer campaign will begin tomorrow President _has accepted th resignations of ~ Maj. William ¢. { Thomas, Medical Corps, and I | ward H. Guilford, it groups they ment. to St ments at the thea ention drawn to he Catholic A ‘niversity Glee Club through its ren- Bt ot oNoracs s he e ariotn has led Robert 1 { episode { rector s of the WC station, to eng: io duty for the Febru Charles interpr. n of Sir Crusader, nt's number one role, huit se- in the Georg - Shakespearean pr tion scheduled for the spring. The cant has thrown to the front number of college dramatic stars who have heretofore passed unnoticed in castin for T town Fuests performance today. Brooklyn, ) the 1ist of who will evening “The Dreamer £ to the 15 of the Archdiocese of one-half to the destroyed f the Japanese earthquake Changes in Smlwns of Army and Navy Officers Of Interest to Capital ARMY. S. Smith, Corps Atla Col. Clarke gineers, stationed will be retired June 30 on his own i ter more than thirty | e is from Tilinots r Reed General Hospital. Isaac Weil, in this cit Organized has been the Chaplains E. : J. Griffin at Aleatraz, ali W and Thomas J. Kelley at Fort ch.. have been ordered to Svkes, adjutant has been ordercd ail, for duty. . Brown, Coast Artillers dviug i Paris, Franc ordered to Fort Monroe, V: on, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. NAVY. Commander C. D. Edgar of 1di has been ordered to Schlossbach «d from Coco Solo, Panam San_Diego, Call nley from the batt lo; Lieut. Joseph Fea. istruction Corps, from Phil has been 7 ifleet to Coc ter, d-ln)n to Guantanamo, Cuba, and ut. A G. Merrill, Construction | & Sort from Guantanamo Massachusetts Institute of ch- nelogy. Ofticers of the supph' Corps_have n transferred as follo: Lieut. F. P. Delehanty from the ‘Sirius to Brookly Y.; Lieut. L. C. Sowell from Norfolk to the Navy Depart- L J. M. Spelssegger from partment to the first Lieut. James Chapman from the v Department to the third naval district; Lieut. Frank Humbeutel from the Navy Depart- Juliens creek, Va.; Lieut. E. 8. Schroeder, Charles I3 Leavitt from the cancer u executive commit- | Department to the navy yard, | tee, will open her headquarters in the \‘"“m"-l,{:‘ S it o Medical building, 1718 M street north- | ‘ navy vard, west. MARINE Lom-s Miss Schroeder will be in .nrnll Col. It. 1L. Dunlap, at Peking, China, charge of all ac of the cam- | hus been ordered to Quantico, Va. paign under the direction of Dr. H.| M) Smith has been trans- H. Kerr. chairman of the cxecutive ! gaprod frd rine headquarters, this commitice. She will maintain her |ty {o the 1st Marine Brigade, Haiti, ofice at the medical building untll | uyd’ Maj. C tting from the 2d the middle of April for the purpose | rigade, S of directing speakers, distributing literature and_attending to all cor- respondence. Her office hours will be from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m, Physleians as speakers will be as- | signed to address meetings of civic | organizations during fhe drive on the | menace of cancer. Posters will be| put up about the city to carry the message to those who do not hear the addresses. The local radio broad- casting stations will he asked to ai- low speakers on their programs. | Miss Schroeder now is engaged in | the formation of the ge eral citizens' committee for the campalgn. ———ls COL. J. G. SLATER DEAD. Confederate Veteran Founded Oldf » ‘Washington News. Col. John G. Slater, seventy-eight years old, a Confederate war veteran and a resident of this city more than fifty veurs, died at his residence, 1528 22d street, vesterday afternoon. ‘He established the old Washington the owner und pub- i aper until it merged | into the Was gton Times. He was in the real estate business in this clty, selling his interests in the news- peper. He malintained offices at 719 i5th street northwi :rt Sla- i Two sons, Charles and Robe ser, reside in this city. headquarters, this city. TA” Robinson, at San Fran- :i ‘:; hus been ordered to San Diego, Cali Second Lieut. A. V. 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