Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1924, Page 17

THE EVENING FEATURED IN THE SOCIETY bers of the Frank L. Carr and Lieut. ort Myer Olympic tea: ) aj. J. A. Barry. in comm F. 1L Bontecou, gave a spe The debutante: d; Maj. C. P. George, Maj. Sloan Doak. STAGE FIGHT AT THE CAPITOL YESTERDAY. But. of course, it was u sham affair; no one was injured and no decision was given. tor Smith Brookhart of Towa. SENATE RETIREMENT | Bernarr Macfadden, ph The gallery was made up of senators Auto Knocks Hole In Front Wall of culture expert, sparred a round or two with Sena- National Photo. nd representatives. |CIVIL WAR VETERAN STAR, WASHINGTON, B THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1924, cavalry drill team, made up of Washington girls, Capt. W. T. Bau-kett. jr. ial exhibition as a circus event. The proceeds of the show went to the Army Relief. National Photo. SCREEN STAR WEDS IMPRESARI wedding of Dorothy Dalton and Arthur Hammerstein, in C| bride’s mother and father at left AMBULANCE AND TOURING CAR COLLIDE THIS MORNING. This photograph was taken five minutes after an Emergency Hospital ambu. lance struck an automobile belonging to William H. Murphy at New Hampshire avenue and M street. The gmhbulance carried a patient. driver and phy 0'S SON. Photograph taken at the icago. The By United News I !Society-Soldier Circus Scores Hit ian, and the tou ciation of Universit g car beld four members of Mr. Murphy's famil v, but no one was serious| Gene Iy injured in the crash. Washington Star Photo. ral directors of the American Asso- ‘Women, Margaret T. Corwin. May L. Keller. Frances Perkins, Mary Leal Harkness Blark, Grace Ellis Ford, Frances Nacy Anderson, Leila Kennedy Hutchens, Abby Hagerman Shafroth, Ger- trude Homans Cooper and Emma Noonan. POLICE ASKED TO FIND | [ Heads Church Body |COMPOSERS APPEAR MEASURE APPROVED | DIES AT AGE OF 89 With Daring Riding and Funny Stunts| 2,000 MISSING BRICKS ' N UNIQUE CONCERT No. 2 Truck House)| RS | Amendment Provides More Liberal Terms for Veteran Fed- eral Workers. ORDER FAVORABLE REPORT i | | 3 Committee Expects Action at This | Congress Session. The bill amending the civil service ! retirement act so as to liberalize that w and provide increased annuities | Tor the retired employes was ordered | sported favorably to the Senate late vesterday afternoon by the Senate vil service committee. Senator anfield of Oregon, chairman of the mmittee, said later he expected to report the bill to the Senate today and that he believed it would be en- acted into law at the present session of Congress. ! The bill as reported to the Senate is not as favorable to the retired em- ployes as the bill now on the House calendar, but is described as a big improvement on existing law. Age of Retirement. The age of optional retirement in the Senate bill fixed at sixty-three after thirty years' service, except for mechani laborers, city and rural Jetter carriers, pos e clerks and railway mail clerks, whose retirement age is fixed at fifty-eight years. Employes who have reached the age of seventy will be automatically re- tired, provided they have had at least fifteen yeal T The maximum annuity is $1,200, as compared to $720 under existing law. In no case will an employe be allow- ed to draw more t > per cent of his average annual salary for the ten vears preceding his retiremen in the House bill, known as the Lehl- back bill, the annuity ured on the average annual salary received | for five preceding years retirement. House Bill Provisions. The House bill also fixes the age of optional retirement for the employes at sixty and fifty-five yvears, accord- ing to the classes of employment, in- stead of sixty-three and fifty-eight in the Senate bill. A compromise may be sought, it is said, making the ages | of retirement sixty-two and ffty en. Robert H. Alcern, chairman of the oint committee on civil service re- tirement, discussing the Senate com- mittee bill, said it would do a great deal of good, although not as liberal as the House measure. It is a vast improvement, he declared, over exist- ing law. i e WOMAN REFUSES NAME. Prisoner Won’t Discuss Charge of Stealing in Churches. A young woman booked by the police as Catherine Fennell, her name obtained from New York police rec- ords, under arrest at the house of ~ detention on suspicion of knowing of the thefts of pocketbooks and hand- bags containing money and jewelry in local churches during the Lenten season, Steadfastly refuses to give lier name or address. She has made no admissions and refuses to discuss N, Poaatd by police officials that the woman I8 the individual who figured in police circles in New York and this city in 1911 and 1913. In 1911, it is itated, she gave her name in this city us Mra Alfred S. Northrup, according 7o the police, while in 1913 her name \vas given as Mrs. Randolph Fitzhugh When she was in custody in New York. | day evening at § A hole in the front wall of the quarters of No. 2 truck company marks the place today where a motor truck yesterday afternoon ended a wild dash at New Hamp- shire avenue and M street. Several members of the company narrowly escaped being struck by the vehicle. Robert H. Nelson, 1325 Turner street! northeast, driver of the motor_truck for James Titcomb, 1900 H street northwest, escaped inju The truck collided with the auto- mobile of Pauline Wells, Arlington county, Va, made a sudden turn across the sidewalk and landed against the bome of the truck company. Police of the third precinct con- ducted an_investigation and will take the matter to court. STERLING ADDRESSES NEW MASONIC LODGE ‘Warren G. Harding Body Receives | First Visitation by . Grand Officers. A featurs of the first grand visita- tion in the history of Warren G. Harding Lodge, No. 39, F. A. A. M, last evening in lodge room No. 3, Ma- sonic Temple, 13th street and New York avenue, was an address by Sen- ator Thomas Sterling, constitutional lawyer, and former dean of the State University, at Vermillion, §. Dak. He explained the legal and educational features of the Sterling-Reed bill, pending in Congress, which, among other things, aims to create a de- partment of education, the head of which shall be a member of the Presi- dent's cabinet. In introducing the speaker, the master explained that the former's masonic associations began during the translation of the territory of South Dakota into statehood, and his calm and deliberate judgment and legal mind found excellent service as a member of the constitutional con- vention which framed the laws for the new state. Grand Master Charles F. Roberts and the officers of the grand lodge were accorded an unusually cordial | welcome by Charles L. Brockway, | master of Warren G. Harding Lodge. The latter has heen in existence only a few months, Faving been chartered December 19, 1923. It has a member- ship of ninety-two. The lodge was congratulated in the response by the grand master. The next grand visitation will be to Stansbury Lodge, No. 24, in Ma- sonic Hall, Brightwood, next Mon- o'clock. WILLIAM S. RYAN DEAD. Funeral Was Held Today at St. Matthew’s Church. Willlam S. Ryan, sixty-four years ©1d, a member of the inspection force of the Post Office. Department since 1893, died Tuesday at the Takoma Park Sanitarfum. Funeral services were held this morning at St. Mat- thew’s Church. Mr. Ryan, who was born at Batavia, N. Y. was transferred from the in- spection service during the world war to the office of the first as- sistant postmaster general, and for a time was assistant superintendent of post office service. - © - Charles R. Railey, Long Resident Here, Succumbs in Hyattsville. Charles R. Railey, eighty-nine years lo1d, a veteran of the Union Army of the civil war, a pioneer driver of the | old horse-drawn street on the now historic Washjngton belt line, and for sixty years a resident of this city, dfed at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ruth M. Maxwell, in Hyattsville, Md., Tuesday. Funeral services were held at his daughter’s residence yes- terday afternoon. Rev. Louis P. Chas- tain, pastor of Memorial M. . Church of Hyattsville, officiated. Interment was in Congressional cemetery. Mr. Railey was born in_St. Inigoes, St. Mary's county, Md. |Son of ‘the late Benedict and Mrs. |Ann Railey, both natives of Mary. |land. He ent his early life in St. | Mary’s county and moved to this city when a young man. He was at one time a commission merchant, with | his place of business located near the | present site of the Center Market. He was a carpenter by trade. Besides his daughter, Mrs. Maxwell, he is survived by four sons, James | B. Railey, Robert M. Railey, Charles | R. Railey and Wallace B. Railey, all of this city. DAUGHTERS OF 1812 END SESSION HERE Officers JElected and Officers for Year Elected on Last Day of Convention. | cars With the election of officers and closed the thirty-second assoolate council of the organization at the Willard Hotel yesterday. Resolutions favoring restriotive | immigration, Indorsing a proposed | memorial to women in the world war | and stamping with approval the Ken- more and Wakefield projects for na- | tional shrines were adopted. Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, state president for the District of Columbla, presented and successfully carrfed a project for the selection of an hon- orary vice president from each of the eighteen states in the Union in 1812 in this country and the District of Columbia, inasmuch as thid city at that time was the center of govern- ment. The elections resulted in the choice of Mrs. Robert Hall Wiles of Illinofs and Mrs. Clarence F. R. Jenne of Connecticut as charter trustees; Mrs. | Robert C. Maxwell of New Jersey, first vice president; Mrs, Clarence Chandler of Michigan, third vice presi- dent; Mrs. John A. Lusk of Alabama, auditor; Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway of Maryland, historian; Mrs. Fred- erick Millspaugh of Tennessee, re- Johnston of Washington, D. C., treas- urer. - S e High wages are pald to experts employed in packing women'’s trunks. Both in Paris and London, but espe- cially in the French capital, this has become a regular profession, and probably Seven out of ten wealthy women who purchase wardrobes in | Paris employ a professional paoker, | who may be supplied either by the modiste or the hotel, Women’s Drill Team, Mule Race, Artillery Maneu- He was_the | adoption of a number of resolutions | the United States Daughters of 1812 cording secretary, and Mrs. Robert J. | vers, Saber Combat Exhibition, Stagecoach Rescue Among Thrillers. Daring feats of horsemanship fea- | tured the annual circus held | in the riding hall at Fort Myer yes- | terday afternoon, in the presence of | | high Army officers and society f The exhibition was repeated in the evening, the proceeds going to the| post exchange. ‘ | From’'the dashing entry of the herald through the evolutions of the| ladies’ saddle drill olass, to the saber | combat and work of the United States | | Olympic equestrian team, down to the clown smoking a frankfurter, the | ‘circus” was a real one. Immediately after the parade the| | ladies’ saddle drill clads trotted in to the “March of the Wooden S diers.” There was nothing wooden,, however. in the evolutions of the girls, who, in their yellow and white outfits, presented a beautiful feature | of the’ exhibition. | Drill Class Personnel. Those who took part in this drill | were Dorothy Mills, F. S. Matlack, Miss Barber, Griffin, Ann | Devereaux, Mrs. Millie Thomas, Gerry Morgan, Mary Mrs. John Irving, | Emma_stitt, Helen ‘oleman, Freder Helen | Campbell, ~ Mrs. Mrs, | Thomas I3. Whitehead, Louise Whi head, Katherine Dent, Mrs. Elizabeth | Wright, Mrs. 1. L. Kitts, Miss Eleanor | Scott, Mrs. Paul M. Kyle, Miss Heil- man,’ Ruth Stoddard, Mrs. H. C. Hine, FIVE HURT IN CRASH OF TWO AUTOMOBILES | :Machine Driven by Samuel Mi- rando Overturned at 13th and H Streets. i Two automobiles, one driven by E. A. | | Frye, 726 11th street northeast, and the other by Samuel Mirando, seventeen years old, 321 H street northeast, col- {lided at 13th and H streets northeast | yesterday afternoon, injuring five oc- | cupants, as the latter car overturned. They were: Samuel Mirando, injuries to the body and a sprained ankle; his | elght-year-old sister, Constance, a frac- | tured shoulder, and Joseph Mirando, | thirteen-year-old brother, injuries to his body and a sprained shoulder; Rosie Scuderl, twenty-two, 819 H street northeast, cut about the face and her leg badly injured: Annie Chainey, also of 319 H street northeast, a fractured hip ,and injuries to her body. They | were treated at Casualty Hospital by | Dr. John Dull. — Wife Files Counter Suit. Mrs, Edna R. Healy has filed an an- swer to a suit for a limited divorce brought against her by her husband, James W. Healy, a race-horse trainer, and has filed a counter suit for a limited divorce on a charge of cruelty. The wife claims that she did not desert her husband, but was obliged to leave because of his alleged cruelty. He makes $20,000 a year, the wife states, and should be reguired to give her permanent and suitable alfmony. iss Northrup, Dorothy Mondell, Eleanor Wheelcr, Katherine Suthe nd, Miss Barbour and Mrs. J. Caperton. After the nished plenty of fun to nd audience, the real the circus came in the hold-up, in which an made_and cue affected by . The stage coach rattled, the aborigines whooped, the soldiers ar- rived just in the nick of time. Cavalry Trick Jumping. Trick jumping by men of the 3rd Cavalry, and the agile evolutions of the monkey drill, by the headquarters troop of the ird Cavalry, followed, Wwith a_mounted saber cambat by Troop G. A field artillery exhibition N. mule ra which fur- articipants hriller” stage | by Battery B of the 16th Field Artil- lery was a feature, while came across with a real rough riding exhibition The entrance of the United States Olympic team was the signal for an ovation to the band of gallant riders, who included Maj. John A. Barry, Maj. Sloan Doak, Maj. C. P. George, Capt William T. Bausket, Lieut. Paul M. Robinet, Lieut. Frank L. Carr and Lieut. F. H. Bontecou. Hurdles and course running comprised their offer- ing, the hurdle work being particu- larly clean cut. Tampico, the “school- ed "horse” of the team. was put through his paces by Lieut Carr. A clown band added much to the general hilarity of the afternoon. Several “ring maste with tremen- dous moustaches, gave the proper HUGE WATER POWER Troop F Fort Myer PROJECT APPROVED, Chamber of Commerce Committee Favors Great Falls Plant. Construction of a plant at Great Falls to supply lumbia with hydro-electric power was approved yesterday by the committee on Great Falls of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. It acted fa- vorably on the report of its subcom- mittee, by a vote of 7 to 5, but only after considerable debate, in which the project was opposed by A. H. Fer- randou, engineer of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Company. The plan, which is that of Col Tyler, United States “Army engineer, pro-| Thirty-three parishes were represented | vides for the generation of the power and selling it outright to the local electric company for distribution over its conduits to the residents of the city. It was the contention of Mr. Fer- randou that the installation of a plant at Great Falls would result in in- creased cost of power. He said that his company could furnish power at a fraction of a cent per kilowatt hour less than can the proposed Great Falls plant. On the other hand, Gen. W. H. Black. chairman of the subcommittee, said that the people of the District would save about $400,000 a vear in actual cash, and at the end of thirty years would be the sole owner of the plant. The report will be presented to the full chamber at its next meeting. of | the District of Co- | | Building Material Disappears When Transferred From One Project to Another. The Washington police have a good | record in solving murders, in over- taking automobile thicves and in de- tecting “corn licker” establishments— | but today their reputation is at stake. | They have been called in on what Sir Arthur 'onan Doyle might call | “The Strange Case of the Missing Schoolhouse Bricks.” tion of the police by the department of the District, and here are the brief facts: The tran: ported a large consignment of bricks | from Occoquan to be used on a ce tain new school. A last-minute change was made, and the bricks were divert- od to another more urgent scho project. The number of bricks in the | shipment was estimated at the start- | ing point. A check-up at the scene £ operations later showed 2,000 less engineer Ericas is cnly $i5, and, of course, there is the possibil of an error ving been made in checking at either end. evertheless, officials decided to | make the inquiry complete, nd so they asked the police to help find | the missing bricks 'EXPECT 150,000 HERE " DURING CONVENTION Holy Name Officials Estimate Crowds From All States Next September. Members of the Holy Name Society who are coming to Washington Septem- | ber 15 to 21 from all parts of the United | States in commemoration of the 650th anniversary of the founding of the so- clety will far exceed the estimated | 100,000, according to Rev. M. J. Ripple, {director of the Holy Name headquar- iters in New York. In an address at the quarterly meet- he Washington branch of the | Holy Name Society. held at Holy Trin- ity Church last night, the director esti- | mated there would be more than 150,000 visitors here. Headquarters will soon | be established in Washington to make | plans for the convention. | " The Washington branch unanimously | seconded the suggestion of the executive | committee, given by John Hadley Doyle, | that P. J. Haltigan, resent archdioce- san__president, be _renominated for | other term of office at the arch- | diocesan convention at the Sacred Heart Church on Sunday. |ing _of |at the meeting last night. ¥rank G. | Gunning, president of the Washington branch, presided. | ASKS PARK SURVEY. Fernald Introduces Bill for Po- tomac River Investigation. A Dbill proposing a survey of the banks of the Potomac River from Washington to Great Falls, with a view to the extension of the park system of the Capital, was intro- duced in the Senate yesterday by Sen- ator Fernald of Maine and referred to the Senate committee, on public buildings and grounds, of which Sen- ator Fernald is chairman. The bill is similar tojone fintro- @uced at the last Congre: i | i The case was brought to the atten- | | Il REV. JASON NOBLE PIERCE, The money value of that many |President of the Washington Federa- | tralto, tion of Churches. 'REV.DR. PIERCE HEADS CHURCH FEDERATION “Succeeds Rev. G. M. Diffenderfer | as President—Latter De- clines Second Term. Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor | of First Congregational Church, was elected president of the Washington | Federation of Churches at the annual meeting and dinner last evening at the Calvary Baptist Church. He suc fer, pastor of the Luther Pla morial Church, who declined to serve two terms. Other officers elected were: S. Abernetkh pastor of Calvary Bap- ti: Church, and Rev. Dr. Earle W » pastor of Vermont Avenue Chris. j tian Church, ce presidents; Bishop James E. Freeman and Bishop W liam F. McDowell, honorary vice presidents Rev. Dr. A C. Christie, secretary, and Howard Moran, treas- u The executive committer was choken as follows: Baptists, E. Hil- ton Jackson, Dean W. A. Wilbur, I H. Do Groot and Mrs. W. A. Wilbur Congregational, Willlam _ Knowle 1 Cooper, Dr. A, “ Call and Mrs, W, A. Chamberlain; Disciples, Arthur ( Bishop, C. R. Stauffer, Rev. B | E. Dickins and Mrs. James 1. Park. Dunker, Rev. Winger; Episco Moses, George Wales, ebrook and Miss Friends, Rev. Murray Kenworthy; Lutheran, Dr. H. D Hayes, W. J. Showalter and Mrs, B C. Dinwiddie; Presbyterian, Dr. John | Cl Palmer, Charles P. Light, Charles | | A. Baker, Rev. E. H. Brundage, Mrs, H. S. Irwin, Mrs. W. L. Darby and | Miss Ethel Bagley; Methodist, Dr. J. C. Nicholson, John' C. Letts and Mrs. | W. F. McDowell; M. E. South, Dr. J. | L P. Tylor and James T. Lloyd; Meth- odist Protestant, Dr. J. H. Straughn; Reformed, H. H. Ranck; United Breth- ren, Dr. C. E. Fultz, and United Pres- | byterian, the Rev. C. E. Hawthorne. | The federation adopted resolutions | indorsing Kathryn Sellers for reap- pointment as judge of the Juvenile| Court. Rev. L. W. McCreary, secre- | tary of the Federation of Churches in Baltimore, greeted the federation. Rev. Oscar T. Olson of Baltimore gave | the principai address. | Dr. W ceeds Rev. Dr. George M Difl‘(—ndnr-‘ Large Audience Greets Entertain- ers, Aided by Local Singers, at Pen Women's Session. and as given 1 ham Hotel by f composers of A leading local s audience of the of the League Women Composers were present and acted as accompanists for the singers, also t explanatory notes about positions H. A. Beach, dean of the woman composers, had the opening number, her arrangement of Brown ing’s “The Y the Spring. written a numb for « festival ~_performa “Pi Passes.” ¥ the Browning requested that > for this sung by the retchen Hood Keefer, con Warren 1 ry, tenor, an inMarville, baritone. All thes singers have unusually fine and wall trained’ voices and are popular | Washington artists. The voices seent ed to blend in exceptionally gobyt harmony effects and with a nice bal nee in tone. nel Glenn composer re sitions, arr: ist, ceili “In the | the Gler Quickl {poets, | erine’ { The M Jose, cellist interesting concert night at the Shore- e prominent woman erica and a group of ngers before a large biennial convention of " American Pen nique | 1yric | quartet, | soprano; Flora Me Te Tier was_the secoud nted. Her compg wged for soprano, violin nd pianist, were rpenter’s Shop.” and “If You Must Adams and Elois sisting artists were Mis: s Marjory Fisher, violinist, of S Calif., " and Richard Lorleberg { Plays Four Songw. | Gena Branscombe plaved fo | her songs for Mr. Marville— { rather conventional but vem orientai melody; “I Sew Up to Thes Zondol:: Iyric b wning; ¢ ate,” a rollicking soBg: iventure, from the eycle. “Soj the Unafraid,” and “I Bring ¥en | Heartsease and Roses.” § | The instrumental treat of the okt {ning came when Mrs. Beach playéil group of her plano 1 were completed w year, work being done upon them at the MacDowell colony, at Peterbor ough, last fall. There were “The Hermit Thrush a The Old Chapel by Mogi Nocturne” and “Danciti o Krid | | Postern iet Ware pla " with words ‘Boat Song, interpre and dram r_“Iris’ v Joyee Kilmer Mr. Terry.as both d cate with eqiid! artist Mary Turner Salter was represen! as both author composer_ inj £roup of son, by Mra Keef Mrs. Salter wrote the words as wi the music to three of the four ps “The Sweet o' the Year” wa. favorite with last night's audi but “Come to the Garden— “Last Night T Heand the Night- ingale” and “An Incantation” wese heartily received. A brilliant finale was Mrs. Beaoh's (Sons of Liberty,” sung by the quar- et. s i - D S Dr. Florence R. Sabin, who has th. distinction of being the first woman elected to the presidenc; of the American Association of Anatomists has been professor of anatomy i Johns Hop University for mor: than twenty years. Born in Colorado in 1871, s received her A. B. degre. from Smith College ard then went to ;‘ulm‘a Hopking for her medieal train ng. B