Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1924, Page 12

C.. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1924 AIRPLANE INVENTOR DECORATED. Orville Wright being made an officer of the Legion of Honor by Gen. Dumont, the French military attache here, yesterday on the twentieth anniversary of his first flight. Nations! Photo C: NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE FESTIVAL. “The Song of India,” to be presented at the annual May fete at Neighborhood House, 470 N street south NEW MINISTER TO POLAND. Alfred J. Pierson, who has been ap- west, the first three days in May. Left to right: Marie Kaldenback. Elsie Lewis, Louise Davis, Mary Taylor, Charlotte Harrison, Christine pointed to succeed Hugh Gibson, and J. Butler Wright, third Secretary Smith, Frances Smith, Mary Lynon, Helen McWilliams, Ethel Hall, Eleanor Shippe and Neligh Martin, Photo by Johu Muelier. staff photographer of State, at the White House yesterday. National Pooto (.. CONFER ON WORLD COURT. Subcommittee of the start public hearings. Left to right: Senators Shipstead, Brandegee, Pittman. WILL BLAZON “JESUS” IN LOFTIER LAMPS Women to Ask Permit to Raise | Message Over Roof of New Mission. FORMER SIGN TORN DOWN Was Long Familiar Landmark Along Lower Avenue. A special permit will be asked of the District Commissioners for the re-erection of the sign, “Jesus, the TAght of the World,” on Louisiana | avenue between 6th and Tth streets | resolution | unanimously adopted by the Woman's | northwest, according Interdenominational Missionary Fed- eration of the District of Columbia and vicinity, meeting in the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church, yesterday afternoon. The sign, which it is desired to have placed on the new Central Union Mis- sion's building, now being built, will be higher than the height allowed in the zoning regulations for that sec- tion of the city, and therefore a spe- cial permit is necessary. 0ld Sign Torn Down. The old electric sign, which fa- miliar to all those who traversed Pennsylvania avenue at night, was torn down when the old mission building was dismantled. Tt had been placed on the old building by the Woman's _Interdenominational = Mis- sionary Federaton about fourteen years ago. It is said to have cost| $1,000. - The new sign, it is estimated, will cost in the neighborhood of $3,000. The Central Union Mtssion will co- | operate with the federation in getting | the permit, it was announced. - . A resolution also was adopted by the tederation to adopt as its slogan, “Close Theaters in the National Capi- tal on the Christian Sabbath.” It was pointed out that the slogan is an “ideal” of the federation and that the members will endeavor to do all in | » that the slogan is | their power to pat_Into practical operation by the District government. Opened With Prayer. The meeting was opened with prayer by Rev. Walker Smith of the Park View Christian Church. Rey. P. 5. Vernon, vice president of the World Association of Daily Vac er, chairman of the internation: committee for the daily vacation Bible schools, tol of the work being done in_the various countries toward re- | ligious_education. Mrs. Thomas Younghusband told of the work of the federation’s South African mission. Mrs. John Newton Culbertson, president of the federa- | tion, presided. —_— SPONSORS AID CONCERT. ‘Washington Saengerbund Will ‘Hold Program Tomorrow. ‘The Washington Saengerbund, one of the oldest singing societies in Wash- ington, will give a concert tomorrow, % pm, in St. Mary’s Hall, 721 5th street, for tlie benefit of the hungry chiidren in Germany. The proceeds will be turned over to the American committee for the relief of the German children, Gen. Nelson Miles, Washing- ton chalrman. The program consists of choruses by the singing society, orchestral selec: tions, by the Marine Band Orchestra. Taylor Branson, second leader, assisted by Miss Dorothy Smith, W. F. H. San- telmann, Herbert Erisman and Walton Boyce, X The concert is under the direction of Armand J. Gumprecht and the com- mittee in charge are the officers of the Washington Saengerbund, Karl Richter, George M. Siebert, Richard Brauner, John Wisehhusen and Richard Schwert- ‘Dz, > MRS. PAULINE A. SMITH, ‘Who took the oath of office this morn- ing as an official in Arlington Cemnty. WOMAN TAKES 0ATH AS DEPUTY SHERIFF Mrs. Pauline A. Smith Will Look After Welfare Cases in Arlington County. Mrs. Pauline A. Smith of Virginia Highlands took the oath of office to- day as a deputy sheriff in Arlington. She is the first woman to hold such a position in the county. Her appointment was directly spon- red by "the Organized Women Voters’ League, although backed b numerous - civic and_ other organi tions of the county. highly recommendes because of her act | plishments ‘in civi | work. Her untiring gen Bible Schools, and Mrs, C. A, Selt- | WOTG ST 10T a member _of ‘Women Voters' League and the Jef- ferson District Women's Club. As o deputy sheriff, Mrs. Smith's | duties will be chiefly social welfare cases involving women and minors, | Keeping check on ‘“petting parties” and running down hootleggers and other lawbreakers will be left to the male members of Sheriff Howard B. Fields' office. R A R FACE CONTEMPT CHARGES. Two Alleged Violators of “Pad- lock” Injunctions Are Cited. Assistant United States Attorney elly yesterday filed contempt of court charges against Joseph . Graves, colored, who conducts a near- beer saloon at 16-18 G street north- west, and against William Johnson, 1545 4th streef northwest. - The men are accused of disregarding “pad- lock” injunctions. Graves has been convicted on three former contempt charges and was sentenced to serve cighteen months_in jail and to pay fines totaling $1,500. Applications for “padlock” injunc- tions were filed against James J. Lake, proprietor of the Rochester Hotel, at 910 E street northwest; Ed- ward Garrison, Joseph Freeman and Emil Krause, his _employes, and against Thomas M. Wright of 235 4% strect southwest, enate foreign relations committee, which is about to Pepper (chairman), Swanson and tional Photo Co. PLAN WORK TO HELP | POOR GIRLS OF SOUTH |Education Alliance Executives t Meet Here Today to Con- | sider Program. Plans for the continuation of their work during the summer months were made at the meeting of the general executive committee of the Southern Woman's Educational Alllance at the Willard Hotel today. Miss O. Latham Hatcher of Richmond, Va., president of the organization, presided. The alliance, now in its tenth year, engaged in providing proper educa- tion for the needy girls of the south. Since the work began it is estimated that approximately 10,000 girls have been aided by them. Headquarters of | the society are in Richmond and At- lanta, although branches have been established in many of the southern states as well as here and in New York. Mrs. Charles W. Wetmore heads the Washington branch and Mrs. Wood- row Wilson is the honorary president. In New York, Mrs. Charles Dana Gib- son is the leader. A luncheon was held this afternoon at the Willard with Mrs. Wetmore presiding. Talks on the work of the association were made by Dr. W. Car- son Ryan of Swarthmore College; Miss Mary Stewart, director of the junior division of the United States Employment Service, and Miss Lena M. Phiilips, former founder of the Na- tional Federation of Women's Clubs, A tea will be given in honor of the members this afternoon by Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of the senior senator from Virginia. ATTACKS ‘MONOPOLY’ IN POPULAR MUSIC Theater Official Says Authors and Publishers Conduct “Conspiracy.” Ninety-seven per cent of the pop- ular music is controlled by the Amer- ican Authors and Publishers’ Associa- tion, the House patents committee was told late yesterday by Sidney S. Cohen, president of the Motion Pic- ture Theater Owners’ Association, while the committee was conducting a hearing on bills dealing with music copyrights, He charged that this formed a “conspiracy” against theater owners. Samuel Handy, general oounsel for the theater owners of sas, con- tended that the presenf “pooling of copyrights ought to be stopped,” while J. B. Klugh, executive chairman of the National Broadcasting Asso- clation, attacked the activities of the American Association of Authors and “Publishers and its “monopolization” of popular music. "SUES TAXI:COMPANY. ‘Woman " Asks $5,000 Damages. . Charges Injuries in Crash. Mary A. Burkitt has filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $5,000 damages from the Black and White Taxi Company for alleged per- sonal injuries. She was a passenger in a taxicab of the company August 18 last. she asserts, when it was in collision ~ with another machine on Sherman avenue. ~ Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert and Rudolph H. Yeatman appear for the plaintif, Toastmistress at banquet. Miss Grace M. Whelan, president of the ss of 1925 of the Washington College of Law, who will officiate at the annual dinner at Rauscher’s tonight. WATER MAIN BURSTS. Pressure in Northeast Temporarily ‘Weakened by Mishap. Water pressure in the suburbs of the northeast was weakened for sev- eral hours last night while emple of the water department repaired a break in one ion of the new | thirty-inch trunk main on Rhode Island avenue near 3d street north- east. A small river flowed down the Rhode Island avenue hill and formed a lake at 4th street until the sewers were able to carry it off. J. S. Gar- land, superintendent of the depart- ment, had not determined the cause of the break this morning. The supply in the Brightwood reservoir was only slightly reduced by the break, Mr. Garland said. When the accident occurred there were seventeen feet of water in that basin, which was only lowcred about one foot by the break. —— PEMBERTON DANCES WIN MUCH APPLAUSE| Series of Colorful Interpretations With. Excellent Music Presented. Stafford Pemberton and his ballet corps of pretty Washington girls pre- sented a series of colorful dances to beautiful music at the President Theater last night. Matthew Pero, conductor of the symphonic ensemble, gave the dances fine instrumental ac- companiment and also interesting in- terpretations of Mendelssohn's “Ron- do Capricciosi,” Rimsky-Korsakoff's “Hymn to the Sun,” Victor Herbert's “Indian Summer” and Tschaikowsky's “Andante Cantabile.” The special feature, for its unusual beauty of dance Eroupings, costuming and setting, was “The Dance of David Before the Ark of God.” This number offered a fine_contrast in theme to “The Stave Market” "the' oriental drama which preceded it, and was given with smooth transition of ac- tion and good pantomimic effects. Slinora Peake and Alexia Bronte de- serve special commendation for their | s0lo dances in this scene. he second novelty was “The Span- h Dancer,” with a gay, cabaret set- ting, graceful waltzing couples in conventional Spanish dance costumes and an interesting tango by Miss Bronte and Mr. Pemberton. Glazanoff's “Bacchanale’ was.a brilliant group dance, with especially good concerted dancing in its finale. The narrative, “Adam and Eve" danced to exquisite Debussy music, was given with expressionistic beauty and artistic setting. Other numbers included *Music in Motion,” “Sampson and Delilah” and “Funeral March,” all of which were given in earlier performances this season. The large audience seemed to be cosmopolitan in nature, and it was noticeable that applause of certain numbers was unusually boisterous. S DRY RAID AROUSES DOG. Animal Attacks Detective, - But Liquor Is Seized. A bulldog in a stable at 311-13' Mis- souri avenue yesterday afternoon reg- istered emphatic objection to the arrest of its master, Willlam Graham Smith, manager of the stables, on a charge of violating the Volstead law, and the dog succeeded in tearing away a section of the trousers worn by Detective Dowd of the sixth precinct. p Dowd and Detective Cole seized four- teen ome-half gallon jars of corn liquor. Charges of -illezal possession and selling were filed against the man- ager of the stable. He furnished bond for his appearance. —_— . Only forty-four women in Spain have taken out licenses to drive their own automobiles. Collects data on Wheeler. Blair Coan, who says he brought about the senator’s indictment on evi- dence collected for Republican national committee. National Photo Co. DRY RAIDERS SEIZE TWO. Automobile and 14 Quarts of Liquor Taken by Police. Having received complaints from wives and mothers that liquor was sold to m and Detec by arresting John D. Hereford and Charles M. Reed scating an automobile, ten qu four quarts of gin Two charges of selling and one of possession and transporting were preferred nst Hereford, one of the sales being made, it is charged, while he was seated in Reed’s new 31,700 automobile. Recd was held on charges of transporting and illegal possession. He was released on $1,500 bond, while Hereford was required to give bond in the sum of $2,000 |BOY PIANO GENIUS CHARMS AUDIENCE Shura Cherkassky Proves Complete Mastery in Concert at Cen- tral High. The wonder of a boy pianist has always fascinated lovers of good music. There are those who, out of sheer curiosity, go to hear child- hood perform, to marvel at musical memory and endurance through a two-hour program of classics. But those who hear Shura Cherkass- ky get vastly more than that in re- turn, as was again attested last night at Central High School .Auditorium, where he was presented by the Com- munity Center Department of the Public Schools, under the manage- rment of Mrs. Wilson-Greene. Beneath that marvelous technique and artistic interpretation must be something of mus: 1 genius far deeper than memory. From the bright, delightful “Spinning Song,” by Mend- elssohn, with its sweet childlikeness to Chopin’s “Nocturne in F Flat \Major,” full of exquisite nobility of feeling, Shura played his way into the hearts 'of his adult hearers. He won. not the patronizing adulation given a “nice boy prodigy.” who had done well, but their ~whole-hearted, en- thusias tribute to the artist Handel's “Harmonious Blacksmith™ was given melodious interpretation. Beethoven's “Sonata in E Minor” was flled with soulful understanding, while in Schubert'’s “Impromptu in A Flat Major” the voung artist fairly revealed in the soft flowing themes of that old maste Into Mendelssohn's “Hunting Song” was infused a colorful, rippling beauty. A group of four from Chopin show- ed fine artistry. Rachmaninoff’s “Melodie in E Major’” and “Prelude in G Minor” re- vealed further reaches of the boy's power of expression, while Debussy’s “Reverie” brought dreams of a Corot painting. Moszkowski's “Waltz in B Major” was played with alternate fire and melody. Three encores in- cluded Beethoven's “Eccos Sais, “Ron- dino” and Mendelssohn’s ‘Scherzo.” But it was in his own composition, “Prelude Pathetique,” that some clearer Insight was afforded the depth of understanding and pure feel- ing that inspire this boy to heights of achievement, unusual not -only for his age but for any age. - == Crew fi:cned in 30 Minutes. NEW YORK, April 26.—Capt. James Legge and his crew of five men, who yere forced to abandpn the disabled three-masted schooner David C. Rit- cey las. Tuesday, 480 miles off St. Johns, Newfoundland, were removed from the sinking vessel and placed aboard. the steamship Virginia in thirty minutés, they reported on landing here today. s of their fam- | ilies of 4909 Arkansas | avenue, L sh, Sergi. Groves | r and Brown of | the tenth precinct last night wound | up an investigation of the complaints | MIDGETS VISIT PRESIDENT. Sergts. Dalrymple and Seaman of the White House police force, with a group of French Lilliputians from the Johnny J. Jones Exposition, calling at the Executive Mansion yesterday. CHARGES U. S. SEEKS TO START NEW WAR Communist Leader Says America Strives by Fraud to Monopolize Wealth of World. SEES EUROPEAN INVASION Declares Austria and Hungary Al- ready Under Financial Heel. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, April 26—A May day proclamation issued by the com- munist international refers to the United States as not knowing what to do with its “colossal wealth, piled up during the imperialistic war,” and continues: “It is still greedily reaching out for new wealth, searching the whole world for fresh sources and striving by fraud and violence to monopolize them. By this action it is again re- viving the terrible specter of war.” ° In an article in the Labor Gazette Isael Amster, member of the “central committee of the communist party in the United States and head of the American section of the communist international in Moscow,” says the United States is preparing “a world war which will be unexampled in its cruelty and devastation.” At the command of the American capitalists, whose interests are scat- tered tiroughout the world, he de- clares, the blood of millions will be shed, and he calls upon the American laboring classes and the communist party to devote their efforts to pre- vention of such a dreadful even- tuality. “Since the Spanish-American war,” the diatribe continues, “the United States- has become a great empire, having acquired 2 number of colonies and suzerainty over most of the South American republics. It is ex- tending its superiority in the Pacific. Rich in manpower, strong eco- nomically and unlimited in capital, it now is preparing to invade Earope. “Austria and Hungary, by reason of “the loans extended to them, already are under the financial heel of the United States. The samg fate awaits Germany. It may be deduced from this that American imperialism seeks new colonies in Europe, which makes war inevitable." 2 Amster describes Canada as sliding slowly and peacefully into the hands of the United States. He asserts that the day is not distant when Canada will separate itself entirely from England. HARMONY IN SAMOA. Naval Governor Reports Populace Satisfied. Good feeling between the natives of Samoa and the naval officers in control of ‘Samoan affairs 'was. re- ported to the Navy Department to- day by the naval governor of Samoa. Dispatches from Pao Pao on March 11 reported secret meetings by na- tives - to “consider petitioning the President for civil government and to end control of naval officers over Samoan affairs.” They reported dis- satisfaction with present methods of administration. ORI ) COOLIDGE GIVES DATA. Submits Hungary Debt Report to Senate. President Coolidge submitted to the Senate yesterday with his_approval a report from the World War Debt Funding Commission announcing the funding of the debt of Humgary. Enough timber is lost in forest fires in the United year to build a five-room frame Thouse every 100 fect on both sides of a road stretching between New York and Chicago, lace of the Department of Agri- culture declared broadcast from station WCAP last in connection with Prevention week. Mr. Wallace said he wanted to arouse every man, woman child in the country to the enor- mity of the losSes through forest fires, about 80 per cent of which are caused by human carelessness, according to research eat service. — FFICE VETERAN GIVEN BIRTHDAY CAKE Phillip Ward, Long District Build- ing Worker, Surprised by Associates. ecretary Wal- in an address veteran employe of the District tax office, was at his desk bright and early as usual this morn- ing, writing away at his books. clerks were moving Phillip Ward, score of other about him in the daily routine. Came a message that he was want- ed in the private office of Collector But this also was a part of the day As he started for the chief's office he noticed that all the other clerks were following Perhaps it was to be a general office conference, he thought. Inside the collector's door the real Ward, to whom he had said good-by hour before. saw Comnussioner Oyster, one of his And on a table be- at home an boyhood chums. tween them he beheld an white cake, ‘with seventy-five candles covering its surface. Instead of discussing tax records he heard the col- lector tell of the regard in which he is_held by his assocfutes. For more than sixteen Ward has been in charge of the col- lection of license t: SAMUEL W..COOK DIES. Retired ‘Railroad Man Had Just Come From Florida. Samuel W. Cook, eighty-one vears old, veteran of the civil war, died in the Berkshire apartments, 1412 Chapin street northwest, yesterday. Mr. Cook was a-railroad conductor for many years. time been on the retired list. had recently returned from Florida, where he had been with Mr. Towers, had for some spending the Juneral services, under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic, will be held in Harrisburg, Pa., Mon- day. " Interment will be in the brook cemetery of that city. GOES BACK TO MEXICO. The American eruiser Tulsa, which was ordered vesterday from FProgre Yueatan. to Galveston, orders to proceed to Frontera, State Mexico, where she will remain and act as a means of com- munication for Consul Robert L. Ran- kin. In making. this announcement the State Department explained that Consul Rankin had no other means of OOED Ul Cu i@t has received of Tabasco, donal Phote Co. Wallace, in Radio |FILIPINOS FORCED Talk, Shows Toll Of Forest Fires| | INTO LIBERTY FUND | New Scandal Seen in Scheme to Send Third Parliamentary | Mission to U. S. | LAW FORBIDS COERCION | Yet $2,000,000 Annual Contribu- | tions Are Exacted. i BY WALTER J. ROBB. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | MANILA, J A scandal of large p ns as developed in connection with the sending of a rd pi ry mission to the United States to work for the in dependen of the F ippines. To | provide nd for propaganda in this direction all of the 50,000 civil service employes have been asked to con- tribute annually one-fifth of their monthly salaries. 1f all contribute {it is estimated that the fund t raised will amount to about $2,000, | & year. It is to be expende | the supervision of M director general of the the organization of the “national sul scription committee” of the legisla- ture. The contract follows “I, John Doe, the undersigned pledge eontributions and I hereby as- sign_a corresponding amount of my salary as an employe in the bureau of to Arsenio N, Luz (Luz's title follows), who is hereby appointed by me m torney 'in fact, for me and in_my place and stead receive such sum and to rece therefore a contract of assessment of & - with mention of the dat« on which A. N. Luz draw the same from the treasury.” Law Against Politieal Funds. From the way in which the con< tract is arranged it is evident that the devisers of the scheme planned to gpt everything pertaining to the collections of contributions into their own control. The Philippine law pro- hibits compellig the civil employe to_contribute to political funds. The pink sheets bearing the con- tracts were scattered throughout the bureaus and placed under the ver: noses of the employes at the de: though some of the chiefs say that they required that the distribution of the contracts place outside the buildings, White sheets intended to be de- stroyed as soon as read, say, in part “The Philippine Inéependence Com- mission, which is composed of every elective member of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, knowing the loyalty of our civil serv ice employes to our glorious ideals, has found it necessary to provide for them an easy method by which they may contribute one-fifth of their sa ary to the glorious cause without in- terference from our enemies. Promised Salary Increase, “The elective members of the Phii- ippine Senate and the House of Rep- resentatives, being in possession of our honor roll, will be in position to grant an increase of salary equi lent to one-fifth of your present sal- ary and likewise (o separate fro mong you thbse enemies of our glorio ideals who have preferre < the hand of the autocrat im- diately our course has been won. “Blank forms will be placed in all the offices the government and made accessible (g every employe. Fill out nd sign_the forms and send them to the director general of the campaign and organization. Do- nations should be made from ' April 1 and_continue until the Philtppine Commission of Independence shall de- cide otherwis