Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1924, Page 5

THE EVENING APRIL 30, 1924, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. WEDNESDAY, MAJOR PARTIES FAIL TO CAPTURE WOMEN Big Organizations Seem to Prove Unattractive to New Voters. STAY MOST Display Firm Sentiment for Secur- ing Peace. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. BUFFALO. N. Y.. April 30. will have more to do and Republican Democratic conven ~Women ; in the national at any ting conven- held. League annual ons year than other preside tions that have Although the Woman Voters here, ever beer of session National in n-partisan body tes shows liated with the and that ral will drafting of platform balloting of the state a can- dele r parties the planks and t dele of suntry zation various members one gets the i of the ity brother able to ac in voters, nor have the ept the present for tions as particularly en are of pa he T draw t smpte riy leader: red tas their In th en the lead- in America oman v may be work Serfous Manner. t their convent er and they apply to the b took no the am actio did not 1y -pri evan birth o fail, however, to the world court, and it was nt that whenever the leaxu s was mentioned ou overwhelming. tha on B9 or extrem on record total disarmam The i rt Ige e were may ol ons, nite undercurrent question of in i Peace stl he wome long befo Both th \ national conventions ctter than If they set of proclaimed National League of Women b % made_to conventior for le “.;r adult nen on sentiment and stay to to plank rties out. But ny candi- ct of much n, and tne pendent voters all extent 3 the candi- dates and handle the prohibition There ar will e pai tions that women active part in the owing the n attitude major parties with an o \sional thought about the pos arty, thot were in ion of Sena- t one of the ed with pro- zed applause big parties Lo ‘\)v' capture the imagina e newly enfranchised voters. ht, 1924.) mass mee (Copyr NAVAL BILL ADVANCES. Conference Expected to Finish Measure Without Delay. ply_bill was read adjustment of diffe; Senate and House n passed yesterday vote by the former led provisions calling of about §700.000 rried when passed by after it xpen than 000.000 and téd in iro about $2 is expr ing out the difference: FALL'S SISTER IS HELD. ANGELE 0.— g lif., April Katherine Petty, r o of the Interior for hearing before imission Monday she is held at the ps: chopathic ward of the cral ho: pital here after her arrest at Santa Monica Monday night on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. Meanwhi AGe~dMeat Course in & Minutes Let the wate putting lard. Bither = dellcious me Made in Washington by N. Auth Provision Co. | INDEPENDENT that | | two aflilia- | their side | planks, | 1t to get | the | the frankfurters Cook for 5 minutes and they are ready to serve, or fry in Asks Virginia to Make War on Cat as Savage And Destructive Beast Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 30.—The Rev. Noel J. Allen, connected with the conservation department of the bureau of fish and game, has made an appeal to the people of Virginia to declare war on the house cat. That animal, in the bellef of Dr. Noel, has not been and never can be domesticated. 1t is by nature savage, cruel, vicious, eating its own_young in many cases, destro; ing hundreds of thousands of birds and domestic fowls every year, and it is one of the enemies of the human race, he said. 1t has been known to kiil children by poisonous breath, he said, and it has attacked and mutilated corpses. Ie cites one or two cases of death from hydro- phobia from cat bites. S ASKS REGISTRATION | OF ALL ALIENS HERE, Sccretary Davis Proposes Move in Address to Chicago Jew- ish Lodges. WOULD HELP HONEST MEN | P T | U. 5. Wants to Help Ambitious Newcomers, He Says. Associated Press CHICAGO, April 30.—The States must Americanize fore the alien alienizes America, ames J. Davis, retary of Labor, in an address last night be- | ago lodges of the Indepe N,: of B'nai B'rith. | ed, Secretary Davis said tem that will give the alie desiring to become a citizer. the help which he must have to ac- complish this end and “to clear the | | way for the elimination of the alien | who is here in defiance of our laws, | >t who seeks to abuse our hospitality by prea g the downfall of our in- stitutions and the destruction of our representative form of government." Secretary Davis proposed a plan of enroliment for the registration of every azlien entering the United States, requiring him to make an an- | nual report to the government. By | {giving him an identification card en titling him to the benefits of an edu- cational system aiready established, | Secretary Davis aid, every n would be given an opportunity to be- | come a citizen under a simplified | naturalization plan, while it would | be easy to weed out the undesirables. | Not Plan of Espionage. | gistration of aliens, he declared, | would subject them 1o more su) - | veillance and espionage than has been sed on every citizen through reg tion as a voting qualification. | treatment of aliens is inconsist- ent, he declared, pointing out that | the' nation provides that every child, | native or foreign born, must attend | school, while hundreds of thousan foreigners are accepted wit out an effurt al caucatioun, ainv. | they are more in need of schobling in | Americanism than the child who has | {lived from birth under the influence | of American institutions He pro- posed payment by the adult alien of a small annual fee prior to naturali- | | zation to defray the expense of edu-| ation and suggested the fee be $10. | cretary Davis said he was for a| tem of selective immigration that | would weed out the undesirables be- | | fore they left their home shores. | Lucius L. Solomons of Sun Fran- cisco, first vice president of the In- | uependent Order of Bnai B'rith, in| |an address, attacked the immigration I bill wh has been passed by both| | houses in Congress. He objected to | | using the nsus of 1890 as a basis for the 2 per cent limitation instead Y.W.C.A. CONVENTION OPENS IN NEW YORK| By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April 30.—The eighth | national convention of the Young| Women's Christian Association, with | 500 voting delegates in attendance, opens téday. Delegates from all of the world are here for the meeting which will last a week Mrs. Robert E. Speer, chairman of the national board of the Y. W. C. A., | will preside at a dinner tonight. in- troducing Mrs. Montague Waldegrave of London, chairman of the world's committee of the Y. W. C. A, and | representatives from Germany, Sw | den, China, Japan, India, Australia, | the near cast, and Latin America. | Visitors were entertained at a re- ception at national board headquar- ters yesterday by Mrs. Speer, Miss | Clara” S, Reed, first vice president, |and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr, | second vice president. Lady Gladstone of London. princi- | pal_speaker for “Peace Night,” May | | Unitea the alien be- | honestly pent yesterday at Ellis Island with r foreign delegates, studying im- | migration conditions She is Lhe wife of Viscount Herbert | Tohn Gladstone, first governor general of South Africa and vounger son of tho late W. E. Gladstone, one time prime minister of Great Britain. The National Student Assemb vational Business Women's Assembiy and the National Industrial Assembly, composed of factory girls, all afl- fated with the Y. W. C. A., also will open tonight betora 1n. r botl , they maks SEEKS T0 PROTECT Expert Urges Nature Lovers to Pre- Reveals How Growth May Be Culti- fowering dogwood, P. I« Ricker of the expert of the Department of Agricul- vealing how the tree may be grown **pseudo LARNER IS HONORED AT NOVEL BANQUET Junior Past High Priest of Ma- sonic Lodge Entertained by L. W. Estes. Noble D. Larner, junior past high priest of Mount Pleasant Chapter, No. 13, Royal Arch Masons, was the guost of honor at a dinner given last evening by L. Whiting Estes at the Columbia Country Club. The party numbered 22 and included the offi- cers and past officers of the chapter and two past grand high priests. Tho dinner was the tenth annual af- fair of the kind given by Mr. Estes, who is a past high priest of the chapter and an officer of the Grand Chapter of the District. In view of the fact that Mr. Larner is a construction chief in the tele- phone service, the table decorations were provided accordingly. A minia- ture telephone line ran the entire length of the long table. With poles, properly stenclled; wires, suspended cable, guy lines and lawns with growing flowers—no detalls were overlooked. A minfature telephone. with bell. wood trees in the vicinity often do|and wired to the main line, was at not recover from attacks of these|€ach plate and every member of the . ; party was the reciplent of a silver nature-love who strip souvenir, appropriately engraved. A the trecs of their blooms, endangering | feature of the evening was the pres- of the principal beauties of the :’“mlw'rl in accordance with cus- neople often do not realize, he sald, | beirg made by John G. Hedges, the the seriousness of the situation. xrrn)wnll'_mlz‘l(\ priest. . Al s 3 ] toe Fulkerson, past grand hi royThe wutomobile has been 1ATEely | prinat, was toastmaster. A full-sige the destruction of dogwood telephone at his side was in use al- e o e most constantly, mesuges all of N e foner them cf & pointed charao er. bolng Miliere formier T oy a2 | received for the diners. resses now practically no part of the coun- try is free from it Dogwood Growth is Slow. — = n — it~ “The growth of dogwood from seeds s 100 810w 10 be commercally feas- A Feature Offering of— Round BLOOMING DOGWOOD serve Trees From Attack by Ruthless Hands. DESTRUCTION IS GENERAL vated From Cuttings. ing to all nature ton to preserve lovers in Washing the wild Wild Flower Preservation Society, an ture, today issued a statement re- from ¢ Mr. W attings, ker charges that the dog- two winters, but it own readily from nearly ripened cuitings | taken in late summer and placed in | flats of sand, preferably underlaid with an inch or more of sphagnum moss, and thoroughly saturated wit water at the time of planting “The flat should be covered with glass and shaded, but the glass should be raised in very hot weather. The moss will hold the moisture so watering_will not be required day. The cuttings should be lloused and good roots formed six to elght we after which the glass may be removed, the rooted cuttings transplanted to pots and later to nursery rows before cold weather sets in." HERRICK CONVALESCENT. | Ambassador to France Will Leave With Son for Biarritz. | April 30.—Myron T. Ier- American ambassador, con- from his recent indisposi- | PARIS, rick, the —extra finish Black en- Iy amcl—sateen lining—new, T arcior: | full top pocket—removable 2| hat form car, which regular train shown | valescing ion, wiil be The government officials hay olicitude all through the ambas- sador's illness, - President Millerand | nquiring daily how he was gettng Mrs. going t William will join later. OSHKOSH WARDROBE TRUNKS. .. who i3 and Mrs. w_ York, Biarritz Herrick, ain’ with Mr. Whitehouse of her husband at Scientists predict that the dominion | of man is on the wane, and that in X G C lime woman will be the ruling sex. Leather Goeds Company 1324-26 F St. N.W. Declaration before witnesses of an intention to marry was once suffi to make a valid marriage in SHOES GALORE— Bargain Day at Kinney’s 7th Street Store Only—Thursday 10 Bargain Tables loaded with bargains for men, women and children for this sale at prices from— $1.98 to $2.98 $2.98 $1.98 Women's Patent or Black Kid Strap Pumps, with rubber Licels and Goodyear welt soles. Sizes 3 to 8. Boyx’ Brown English Lace Oxfords, big valu to 5. Growing Girls Patent Strap Pumps, with rubber heels. Sizes 2% to 7. $2.98 Men's Tan Crepe Sole Ox- fords, also Men’s Black or Brown Lace Oxfords, Goodyear welt soles, with rubber heels. Sizes 6 to 10. Exten special, 258 Pairs Misses’ Patent Two-strap Pumps, with rubber heels. Sizes 11% to 2. $2.49 Novelty Pumps for Growinx s, patent leather with Sizes 2% to 7. Growing Girl’ Brown Lace Oxfords, hiroad or narrow toes, rubber heels. Sizes 2% 500 prirs Misses' Brown Ox- fords and Patent Strap Pumps. Sizes 8 to Z. " At Our 7th St. Store Only—728-731 7th St. NW. by Joseph H. Milans, past grand high priest, and by Mr. Larner. mentioned, included Willlam W. Wales, Joseph M. Marzolf, Sydney K. Jacobs. Edwin E. Putnam, George H. Post, Ver- non G. Owen and R. Stone Jackson, past high priests; John F. Putnam, king: Rudolph L. Golze, scribe; Alton T. Hastings, past scribe ; Harry B. Plankin- ton, captain of the hast 'ge B. Turner, principal sojourner; Stephen O. Ford, royal arch captain; Richard H. Woolfolk, master of the third vail; J Ernest Dulin, master of the second vail ; C. Fred Cook. master of the first vail, and Charles H. Korts, past master of the first vail. Complimentary reference was made to William T. kett, who is away from the city, and a tribute was paid to the memory of Harry B. Cramer, deceased. Shriners Will Act in Revue. Prominent members of Almas Tem- ple Shrine - will be called upon portray the part of a blushing br groom "in the wedding sce fashion revue of the nol held in Convention Hall May 2 to 10, it was announced today ut Shrine headquarters, Harry Cary, illustrious potentate, has been chosen as the bridegroom for the opening might. On subsequent nights Arthur E. Cook, chief rabban: Charles D. Shackleford, assistant chief rabban; George Duval, high priest and prophet, and Harry Stein will be bridegrooms. The attendance, In addition to those | JURY HOLDS NEGRO ON STABBING CHARGE Alleged to Have Caused Death of Man After Fight in Home. 45 OTHERS ARE INDICTED Persons are Exonerated by Report. Twelve Manslaughter Is charged in an in- dictment returned today by the grand jury against Emory Washington, col- ored, in connection with the death of Byrd Hackley, also colored, March 4 last. Washington is said to have stabbed Hackley following a fight at the latter's home, 1222 6% street northwest. The grand jurors exonerated twelve persons of various charges and re- ported a total of forty-five indict- ments to Justice Hitz. The cases ig- nored are: Raymond Parker, Isaac Patrick, — John Woodson, Elsanora McGee and |John Hailstock, robbery; Stanford S. Wyche, Benjamin Bennaugh and Thomas L. Allen, assauit with dan- gerous we i Percy Harris, arson; Theodore Dyer. bringing stolen prop- erty irto District of Columbia: John Scott, assault dangerous weapon; Percy M. Graham, attempted robbery. List of Indictments. Those Indicted and the | against them are: Walter Hill, Cazrell Robinson, Jo- | seph Best, Harry Liverpool, Willlam Jones, Lawrence Merriman, Marie Campbell, Edward Reed and John Foster, assault with a dangerous weapon. , Wallace L. Batchelor, Leslie E, Gross, ddward C. Han Ldward Douglas, Clarence Galloway and John Garner, robbery. Thoms H. McGlasson. John Erhardt, John Tate, Howard Washington, Joy-riding. William P. Beckwith, non-support of three minor children. Wert O. Wise, non-support wife and minor child. John Facinda, Curtis Owens, May I. Donovan, aias May Bryant; Volie Lee Jackson, Joseph Worth, Charles Wil- liams, James Smith, grand larceny. Jobn ,T. Fletcher, John W. Tate, Harry " West, Raymond Crawford, George W. Pryor, Walter R. Brown James Waugh, Willlam Dorsey, Fred- erick Robinson, alias Role * +* .cman; Frank Jones, alfas Frans ¢ se.: Mau- rice J. Cody. Lillian Flete- . -otn T. Fletcher, Wilson Lua. Alie C charges Scott and Glibert H. Loflin, house breaking and larceny. Benjamin F. Pinkney, tenses. Charley Odell, 1aws. Oscar Marshali, grand larceny. false pro violation of posta CUBAM MAYOR IS SLAIN IN STREETS OF CAPITAL Assassination Not Connected Witl Revolt, People Feel—Island Report:d Quiet. By the Awsociated Press, HAVANA, Cuba, April 30.—Mayor Asencio Villalon of Santlago de Cubi was shot to death last night as he drove through the streets of tht capital of Oriente Province, according to newspaper dispatches, but_ beliel generally expressed here was that the | affair had no connection with yester: day's revolt of troops in Santa Clars Province. The assailant edcaped. The revolting soldiers still were al large, according to latest reports, aftes another clash late yesterday with loyal forces at Coyedito, near Santa Clars City. Their numbers were unofficially declared to have been swelled to ap- proximately one hundred by civilians but it was officially announced thal quict reigned throughout the remaindes of the island. Two troops of cavalry have been sen) in pursuit, and it was supposed to be these that the government claims dis- persed the rebeis at Coyedito. From_the AVEN The Avenue at Ninth UE ¢ NINTIH- APPRECIATION