Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1924, Page 17

WEDDING GROUP AT THE BYARS-COONTZ CEREMONY YESTERDAY. The wedding of Miss Virginia Douglas Byars and Lieut. Kenneth Lee Coontz, United States Navy, took place at the Church of the garet Anderson, Bertha Broone Van Pelt. Misses Marjorie W AUTOMOBILES OF thousands of dollars’ worth of cattle being destroyed. Tillar (maid of honor), th and Douglas Summers, Juli i CALIFORNIA, county to another, the cars running through troughs. SAVE THE DOGWOOD [ of blossoms near Wa: big strides, trees this spring. THREE SHIPS FOR LEGAL PILGRIMAGE American’ Bar Association to Sail in July for London Meeting. OR OTHERS TO ENJOY. In one of the groves ington. The conservation campaign has made and very few of the beautiful blossoms are being torn from Washiogton Star Photo. Billie Land, jr. Left to right: Misses Kathe Mrs. E. Lee venant, For many weeks California_has suffered from an_epidemic—the hos The photograph shows a system of disinfecting antomobiles passing from one ATTENDING BYAR: rinkle (matron of honor), Mi: and Helen Sue Trinkle in front. ummers, Isabelle Smith, Mar- Amelia Preston, Mrs. National Photo. nd-mouth disease- Copyright by Underwood & Underwood DING. The Governor of Virginia, Mrs. E. Lee Trinkle and their daughter, Helen Sue, photographed at the wedding of Miss Virginia Douglas Byars and Lieut, Coontz ves- terday. "Operating Power Plants by Steam ( From California Hot Springs Seen Plan Already Worked Out in Italy and May Prove Important Industrial Asset for Rocky Mountain Region, Experts Claim. EMINENT MEN TO ATTEND| . proposal to operate power plants #Greatest Outpouring of Lawyers on Record. BY PREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. The exodus of the American Bar As- sodiation in July to attend the bar .pssociation convention in London has grown to enormous dimenstons. In- stead of only one ship, the Berengaria, the Cunard line hu found it neces:. sary to assign its second biggest vessel, the Aquitania, to the American jawyers, and still a third ship, the Jacoria. The convoy will leave New York July 12. Yankee lawy judges will crowd aM- three boats to the last cabin. The entire Will_‘ot-® 2.000 persc ‘L and Associate Justice nd will represent the upreme Court. Solici- Be who will be in States tor General ‘ < and | rty prob- | Chief | Furope all summer, expects to repre- | sent | the Department of Justice it the Bar Association meetihgs *j,ondon. John W. Da n ex-presi- Went of the association and former \mbassador to Britain, will be aboard the Berengaria, if in the meantime he hasn’t been nominated for the presi- dency of the United States by the “Democrats. From every state in the Tnion, judges, district attorneys and Jawyers are going to England. It is to De the greatest outpouring of the ‘American bench and bar to a foreign Jestination that was ever organized. Have Filial Spirit. Our legal lights will visit British soil In & filial spirit. As Wade H. Jllis of the District of Columbia bar and an official of the Bar Assocla- tion puts it. “We are going home— .ck to the cradle of the common Jaw.™ The Americans ave also travel- to Britain in the spirit of men ing for knowledge. They are nxious to see the British law courts These are in on well the middle E yangements have been made to show T very branch of them in action to the \merican visitors. Wor swift admin- {stration of justice the B; h courts re vastly ahead of our own. There he law's delays” are reduced to the nintmum. T result is achieved mainly b se in a British court- Jiom the judge on the bench is nearly Jionarch of all he surveys. He “rune” proceedings from start to fnish. He ]4 clothed with autocratic power, and js the terror alike of the wrongdoer in the prisoner's dock and the quib- bling offender who may happen to be pieading at the bar in a barrister's wig and Tobe. ¥ Many of the more eminent Ameri- can jurists, like Mr. 'aft and Mr. Hughes, will be invited in London .nd- elsewhere in England to sit on the bench with Fuglish judges and watch the wheels of justice going around _in actual practice. Chief fustice Taft came back from England in 1923, enthusiastic over the success with which the British dispense jus- tice, with an absence of lost motion B in | direetly from the heat of the earth soon will have its first trial in the United states and may hol great economic possibilities for some sections of the Rocky Mountain region, according to Dr. A. L. Day, director of the geophy- cal laboratory of the Carnegie Insti- tution here, who, assisted by Dr. E. L. Allen, will conduct scientific studies this summer of the hot springs in the So- noma Valley of California. This is one of the most unusual sec- tions of the country. It is’a valley of about six square miles, in which are a great number of scattered hot springs, creating considerable quan- tities of steam power which now goes to waste. The surface of the entire alley is hot, indicating even greater possibilities than now appear. ‘Will Study Heat. The Carnegic Institution studies will not concern directly the pro- posed commercial experiment, Dr. Day emphasized, although the results have an important bearing on engineering project of the private The two Washington ill compile voluminous data on temperatures both above and be- low the surface of the valley and will make chemical analyses of the dif- ferent springs to determine whether and wasted time. He declares Amer- ica has much to learn in that respect. British Judiclary System. Our lawyers-are bound to be inter- ested, too, in the system under which the British judiclary exists. With the exception of the lord chancellor, which is a political office and usually changes hands every time a new government comes into_power, John Bull's judg sit _on the bench as life appointee: Once they don the robes they are judges always. If they resign or retire they never re-enter practice. There is no law compelling them to live on_their pensions. They do so by tradition. In the single case of the lord chancellor, he is for- bidden by statute from again taking briefs as an attorn He retires on his pension of $25,000 a year, his official salary. The American lawvers are taking a statue of Blackstone, by an Ameri- can sculptor, to England for presen- tation to one of the “inns of court” in London. Hospltality enough is in sight to entertain them all summer, instead of the week the Bar Associa- tion convention will last. Scotland, Ireland and Wales and France are angling for the lawyers' presence, but nothing of a general character is planned outside of the London meet- ings, which will be richly interlarded with banquets, royal receptions and government attentions. (Copyright, 1934) FIGHTS ESPIONAGE LAW. Repeal of the war-time espionage law prescribing punishment for dis- loyalty, mutiny or refusal to perform military duty would be ordered under a resolution proposed today by Rep- resentative Berger, Wisconsin, the. only Socialist in Comgress - the water is acid or alkaline in sub- stance. Borings, Dr. Day said, already have been made to determine power pos- sibilities. The plan is to pump the steam generated below the surface into turbines whers it will be trans- formed into power. One similar ex- periment was made with success in Ttaly during the war and 30,000 horse- power generated by the plant This =till is in operation and has proved a commercial success. Sources of Power. The use of hot spring areas as power generators, according to scien- tists here, is likely to have a pro- found offect on sections of the coun- try where there are no other sources of power and where fuel is difjcult to obtain. These areas are numerous in the Rocky Mountain region and a number, probably, have not been brought to the attention of scientists The geophysical laboratory is in terested rather in the nature of the hot springs themselves than in the present commercial possibil s and considers the Sonoma valley an ideal place to conduct the projected studies. The fleld work of* the laboratory, which has been extensive in other years, will be curtailed largely this year ‘on account of an unusual num- ber of changes in personnel during the winter which has upset plans for svological explorations, although a number of field parties probably will £0 out later in the summer. WILL PRESENT PLAY. Georgetown Club Plans to Stage ‘“Hamlet.” The Mask and Bauble Club of Georgetown University will attempt to scale the heights of amateur dramatics Saturday night, when it presents Shapespeare’s “Hamlet” A dress rehearsal will be held Friday evening at Trinity Hall, when Pres- ident John B. Creeden, S. J., and the college faculty will sit in judgment. Charles Clifford, who achieved suc- | cess as “Shylock” in last years per- formance of “The Merchant of Venice,” iwill be siated in the role of Hamlet. In Edwin Cashman, a soft-voiced sophmore newly “discov- ered,” the role of Ophelia will find a clever interpreter. The cast of characters has been selected as follows: Claudius, King of Denmark. John F. Dailey; Hamlet, Charles Clifford; Ghost, Bernard M. Wagner; Polonlus, James M. McLarney; Laertes, Louis B. Laplas; Horatio, J. . Gibbons Burke: Rosencrantz 'Robert Sulll- van; Guilderstern, Martin J. Hard- ing; Osric, John E. Laughlin; Marcel- lus, Thomas _Slattery; Bernardo, Thomas A. Callaghan; Francisco, James F. Lee; first player, Dennis A. Shea; second player, Vincent O’Leary; player queer John T. Doren; first grave digger, John A. Goodwin; sec- ond grave digger, R. Rutledge Slat- tery; priest, Stsnley Wallace: Ger- trude, queen, Robert C. Craine; Ophelia, Edwin Cashmans The stage directors are Robert Shaw, Jobn E. O'Brien snd Francis Brady, : tional Photo. |MARKET ASSISTS DOGW00D CAMPAIGN None Sold at Booths This Year, Center Superintendent Announces. Center market, under government control, where wild flowers for years have been sold, especially by the farmers from outlying communities, has jolned in the campaign for pres- ervation of the dogwood. with the result, according to C. W. Kitchen, superintendeat. that no dogwood is being sold there this season. Mr. Kitchen sald it was the convic- tion of the management of Center market, which is under the Depart- ment of Agriculture, that steps should be taken to protect the flowering tree wherever possible. Asked for Co-Operation. Consequently, early this seasom, following conferences with commit- tees in charge of the dogwood cam- paign, it was decided that the best method to pursue would be to elicit the co-operation of all those Who sell at Center market. Official notice was sent to all mer- chants and farmers who sell at Cen- ter market, asking that they co—op- erate in the dogwood campaign by offering none for sale. All Have Kept Falth. “So far as I have personally ob- served,” said Mr. Kitchen today, “there has been mo dogwood sold at Center market. I think the idea of saving the dogwood an entirely worthy one and I am very glad that all who do business at Center market have co-operated so splendidly in the_campaig; Keith’s Theater {s exhibiting at each show slides carrying the mes- sage of dogwood conservation to the thousands of its patrons from all parts of tho vicinity. This method of approach is believed by officials of the campaign to be highly ef- fective. Although a few persons are seen from time to time with dogwood, of- ficials of the campaign expressed the conviction today that good results already may be seen. Many friends of the dogwood have not hesitated to criticize persons seen, breaking it. 'WILL HOLD RELIEF SALE. Handmade, needle-point edge hand- kerchiefs, the product of destitute mothers in the near east, will be of- fered for sale Monday, it was an- nounced today by the local Near East Relief, with headquartems in the Bond building. The relief organization has adopted the slogan, “A mother-made handkerchief as a Mother's day token.” Each handkerchief is in- Idn-aa in an appropriate folder and It was a big day at the playground Farland Junior High School yesterday. The annual luncheon brought in quite a sum of cash, whieh will go toward the purchase of playground equipment. Washington Star Photo. ‘Western beauty, Miss Alyce McCor- mick of Omaha, Neb,, goes to New York in her search for a hushand. She has been unable to find the right man for a life partner, o has made the public announcement that proposals will receive consid- eration. She says her husband must be a Mason. ‘Wide World Photo. THRONG HEARS FINAL RUBINSTEIN CONCERT| Gans Felicitates Club on Success- ful Season—Kathryn Meisle Is Soloist. The Rabinstein Club, prominent among women's choral organizations, presented the final concert of this, its sixtsenth season, last night. before an enthusiastic audience that filled the large ballroom of the Wiltard Hotel and even overflowed to the wide window sills for seats It was a successful event from every peint of view. Isazc Gans, president of the Chamber of Commerce, in a short address, complimented the members of the club, not only on their fine sea- son just ended, but also on the am- bitions plans for next year, which in- clude possible scholarships for de- serving students with vocal, instru- mental or composition talents. Kathryn Meisle, American con- tralto, was the guest soloist. She has a voice of exquisite timbre, wide range and powerful volume. = Miss Meisle is a consummate artist of song, both dramatic and purely lyric. Her enunciation is ever distinct and at- tended by delicate shading and dra- matic emphasis. She gives a legato movement to her numbers without sacrificing the emotional qualities of the compositions. Features German Greup. In her first group of German lieder, the feature was Schuberts “Erl- koenig,” although “Lachen und Wein- en” and Brahms “Lied” were equally well sung in clear German and with vivid color. Miss Meisie's operatic aria, “Amour viens aider” from “Samson et Delflah,” was given with accuracy of tene and clean-cut at- tack. Her final greup of English songs included Farley's "Night Wind”; “Eyes cf Blue,” by Orth; “South Car- olina Croon Song,” by Gaul, and Gol- de's, “The Awakening.” Among the encores were Leoni's “Birth of Morn,” a clever little “April Fool” song, and a Scotch air, the last mentioned be- ing sung to the members of the club. : The Rubinstein Club, under the skilled direction of Claude Robeson, sang with unusually fine fervor and enthusiasm. The feature was “The Day Is Done” written by Rebert Stearns,- a resident composer of Washicgton. Ross Farrar, well known tenor, sang the solo of this number. Mr. Stearns was present and seemed to enjoy the interpreta- tion given his composition. Another feature was Nevin's suite, “A Day in Venice,” of which the see- ond number, “In the Gondola,” was particularly delightful. The alub opened the program with Spros¢ ar- rangement of Rubinstein's “Good- night,” and followed it by Spross “Will o' the Wisp,” which was one of their best numbers _They also sang “When?” by Busch, Patton’s arrange- ment of Chaminade's “Summer,” and Ebel's arrangement of Beethoven's “Night” Mrs. Adele Robinson Bush aceompanied the club and Erl Beatty played for Miss Melsle. —_——————— “A wildflower on the bush is worth ten in the tonmeaun.” — President Themas P. Henry of the Am: Automobile LAST PHOTOGRAPH OF MISSING AVIATOR. post office, at Kanatak. Portage Bay. Alaska, where M. This picture was taken j. Martin in front of quarters, next to the as forced down by a leak in the airplane crank case. Right to left: Lient. Commander Wishaar. United States coast guard; Maj. Martin (missing ). Evan J. David, correspondent; Capt. Gabbett of coast guard service, and his son. “HELLO GIRLS” ON THE STAG phone Company who the piece is “The Ghost Stors. Chinese Blame Huge, Hungry Frog Copyright by North American Newspaper Alliance E IN WASHINGTON. Emplo Il take part in a sketch at Central High School auditorium tonight. For Moor’s Eclipse, Scientist Says Touches On Picture of Chaotic Conditions in Tibet. Natives Sought to Scare Away ““Lunar’s Fam- ished Enemy”’—Ruthless Bandits Active. A vivid picture of chaotic condi- tions in China's “wild west” and the comsternation of the people at an | eclipse of the moon is contained in | a letter just received at the National | Geographic Society’s headquarters from Joseph F. Rock, fameus Wash- ington plant explorer. Mr. Rock, who located the chalmoo- gra tree that yields a leper-healing ofl, heads a National Geographic So- | clety expedition which is studying | the plant life of the Tibet border | provinces, and seeking botanieal | traces of pre-Columbian communica tion between Asia and America. “Yesterday there was a complete eclipse of the moon,” he writes, under date of February 21, 1924. “You should have heard the yelling and screaming of the people. The whole village (Nguluko-Likiang) ran about like mad, beating gongs, drums and howling. Sought to Scare “Frog.” ‘“The people said a huge frog was eating the moon, and they had to make as much noise as possible to scare that frog away. “Some went to bed with rice and others cooked food for fear it would be dark the next day and they would —_—m AUTO DEALERS FAVOR TITLE LAW IN DISTRICT Claim Legislation Would Protect Innocent Car Buyers From Un- scrupluous Venders. Discussion of the merits of auto- mobile title laws, followed by a vote to advocate such a law for the Dis- trict of Columbia, marked the regular monthiy meeting of the Washington Automotive Trade Association held last night in the City Club. Rudolph Jose explained the ad- vantages of a title law. emphasizing the protection gfforded honest buy- ers and sellers of motor cars, and expressed the opinion that there should be a federal act providing this safeguard. If this is not possible of attainment, he said, the District should have its own title law to pro- tect innocent car purchasers aguinst unscrupalous venders of automobiles. Walter B. Guy, legal counsel for the association, 'was instructed to prepare and submit the draft of a suit- able law for the organization to sponsor. C. H. Warrington, chairman of the service committee of the trade asso- ciation, was named to represent the local dealers at the automotive main- tenance and equipment show to be held in Detroit next week. This exhibition is to be staged un- der the auspices of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the motor and accessory manufacturers and the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Com- merce “and is to develop some beneficial motor service station be unable to cook. Candles, even unknown and people go about With pine torches as their only light. No wonder whole villages are burned down “Nobody who does not live in Yun- pan can conceive the utter chaos which exists here. “Just before I left Yunnan a poor French priest was captured between the village (Nguluko-Likiang) and Talifu. Now another, an old man, has been takem at Langkiung. 300 Robbers Waited. “The robbers came to his house at 9 p.m. and marched him off. He was just about retiring when nine men arrived. After a march of one and one-half miles he found 300 robbers awaiting him. The magistrate at Langkiung, who tried to do some- | thing toward his relea now has joined the French priest prisoner. He also was carricd off. “There is no end to robbers. When moving out of this place anywhere one gets an escort of filty to eighty soldiers, most of them ex-robbers. One is at a loss what to do, as they may turn brigands on the road, or, if one should meet active brigands, he fears his soldiers will join them “In the meantime the officials are beating the people, squeezing them to the last farthing. They smoke opium all night and get up at 2 or 4 p.m. It is like living in the gray of the middle ages. i are methods that will be put into effect in Washington. As chatrman of the entertainment committee, Mr. Warrington was also authorized to make plans for the annual summer outing of the auto trade. June 14 was set as the tenta- tive date. On this occasion all local motor salesrooms and service stations close up shop while employvers and employes g0 to some nearby resort. There will be no fall automobile show locally, it was declded. Instead, the date for the annual new year exhibition will be advanced. Financial support was voted for a golf team to represent the local dealers in an intercity tournament to be played by the auto trade asso- ciations of New York city, Phila- delphia, Newark, Baltimore and other nearpy cities. Sam Luttrell was naméd captain of the golfers. Paul B. Lum presided at night's meeting. last Social Workers Convene. COLUMBIA, S. C. May 7.—Social service workers from five states were gathering,in Columbia today for the sixth annual meeting of the Southern Textile Social Service Association, which convenes late today. Expres- sions of greeting will be made at the formal opening session tonight by Dr. W. D. Melton, president of the University of Sough’ Carolina; Mayor W. A. Coleman of Columbia; W. P. Hamrick, superintendent of the Hampton group of Pacific mills, and M. W. Heiss, president of the asso- ctation. The convention will last through Friday. s of the Chesapeake and Potoma Tele- The title of Photo by Fletcher. DISTRICT WELFARE " PLANS DISCUSSED Commission nln Legislation Holds Public Hearing to Consider Court Proposals. | REVISION OF LAW FORESEEN Co-Ordinating and Unifying Pro- gram Is Reaching Final Stage. Warm debates and considerab! disoussion was expected this after- noon at a public hearing under aus pices of the commission on District welfare legislation at 3:30 o'clock to consider a change in the Juvenile Court law from criminal to equity status. The commission is about ready to hegin a revision of the law. William Hodson, consultant of the commission. announced today that it was the commission’s aim to gather and con sider all complaints and objections to the law before starting the redraft- ing process, so that there will be discord after the work is completed A resolution from the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, expressing full- est confidence in the work of the commission and heartily indorsing the plan of co-ordinating and unify- ing the administration of various welfare agencies of the District of Columbia, and advocating a salary for the proposed director of publ welfare at a figure sufficlent to in- sure serviees of a thoroughly com- petent person for the position, was received by the ocommission today Mr. Hodson expressed the deecpest appreciation for this action. Plan In Final Stage. The co-ordinating and unifying plan for welfare agencies in the Dis- trict is reaching the final stage aimed at for twenty years by the poard of charities, Secretary George Wilson said tod: During that period the board has been seeking, he said, to center all authority of institutions supported by public funds in the District Commissioners, no matt how many or how varied the adminis- trations of such organizations are At a meeting last Friday the board of charities approved and indorsed the bill drafted by the welfare legislation commission for this pu pose, even though the identity of t board of charities would be sub- merged in the agency which would take its place, the board of public welfate. Although some claim that the pub- lic welfare board will wipe out the board of charities, Mr. Wilson said, nevertheless the ' establishment of such a_board will mark the attain- ment of the goal' for which the char ties board has been striving for two decedes. The hearing this afternoon is in the board room. It is expected that a number of opponents of the place- ment of the Juvenile Court in equity jurisdiction will be read put up several -direct and straigh from-the-shonlder arguments, while it is also understood that numbers of those on the other side of the femce will be ready to stand their ground. no to