Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1924, Page 17

THEIK SUBJECT W S FARM RELIEF. Being close to the soil, Presi- dent Coolidge’s mind is running toward relief for the farmers, so when he met Gen. Dawes at Plymouth, Vt., tHe conversation turned along that line. was not even mentioned. According to news dispatches from the North, the Ku Klux Klan Wide World Photo. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1924. TAIL-SPIN ENDS IN CRASH WHICH WRECKS HOUSE AND GARAGE. The pilot and passenger of this plane had miraculous escapes from death when they crashed to earth at Brant Rock, a seaside resort near Marshfield, Mass. Elmer Lyon, the passenger, landed, unhurt, in his own back yard. Then Halsey Bazley of Everett, Mass., the pilot, was arrested on the charge of operating a plane without a pilot’s license. GREETING VISITORS FROM THE HOME TOWN OF DAVIS. C. Bascom Slemp, private secretary to Pres dent Coolidge, receiving touri: s from Clarksburg, W. Va., at the Coolidge headquarters in Plymouth, Vi. Thousands of tourists are planning their trips for stop-overs at Plymouth while the President is there. | LIBERIA ASKS U.S. 10 CHECK GARVEY African Republic Opposed to Policies of Universal Negro Improvement Association. The Republic of Liberia has in- formed this Government that it is “irrevocably opposed” to the policy of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, headed by Marcus Gar- vey, and its “widely advertised scheme for the immigration of Amer- ican negroes into the republic, under the auspices of the association.” A formal communication to this ef- fect has been delivered to the Amer- ican Government by Ernest Lyon, consul general of Liberia, according to the Associated Press. The note, signed by Edwin Barclay, secretary of state of Liberia, says. Government Opposes Plan. “The government of Liberia, irre- vocably opposed both in principle and fact to the incendiary policy of the -Universal Negro Improvernent As- sociation, headed by Marcus Garvey, and repudiating the improper implica- tions of its widely advertised scheme for the immigration of American negroes into the republic under the auspices of this association, which scheme, apart from not having the sanction of the Liberian government, does not appear to be bona fide and has in addition a tendency adversely to affect the amicable relations of the republic with the friendly states possessing territories adjacent to Liberia, desire to place on record their protest against this propaganda #0 far as it relates to Liberia, and to express their confidence that the Gov- ernment of the United States will neither facilitate nor permit the emi- gration under the auspices of the Universal Negro Improvement As- sociation of negroes from the United States with intent to proceed to Li- beria.” Visa No Passports. It also was stated by Consul Gen- eral Lyon that he had been instruct- ed by his government to discontinue the practice of visaing passports for American negroes members of the Universal Negro Improvement As- sociation or who had expressed them- selves in any manner as being in sympathy with the movement headed by Marcus Garvey. It was not the intention of the Liberian government, however, Con- sul General Lyon said, to exclude from that country American negroes who desire to make their home in Liberia and enter into the commercial or busi- ness life of that country, - No Team to Camp Perry. The District will not be represented this year at the annual Small Arms Firing School and National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, from September 5 to October 5. The Commissioners received today from the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practise of the War Department a Tequest to select and send a team of clvillans to the school,-but decided that the invitation came too late. oGNS Elected president for two terms of the Nebraska State Editorial As- sociation and vice president of the Tri-State Editorial _Association of that State, lowa and South Dakota, is the unique distinction achieved by Mrs. Marie Weekes, editor of the Norfolk Press, YOUR BONUS Questions That Bother You Will Be Answered in This Column. Address: Room 722, News De- partment, The Evening Star, ‘Washington, D. Q. My. husband died two weeks after he signed and mailed to the Navy Department his application for the bonus. 1 understand that he named his sister as the beneficiary of the adjusted service certificate he would have been entitled to had he lived to receive it himself. Now I am his unmarried widow and 1 believe I am entitled to this bonus payment. 1 never had any difficulty with my husband. What can I do to get the bonus?—Mrs. W. A. There is nothing vou can do. If your husband named his sister as his beneficiary and his application is on file properly made out, the person he named as beneficiary will receive in cash the amount of the face value of the policy. The departments of the Government have to pay it to the person named as beneficiary. They have no discretionary powers. Q. T have filled out and mailed in my application for adjusted compen- sation. Later when looking over a friend’s application I discovered that 1 did not name a beneficiary. What can I do or what should I do?—C. M. T. A. The War Department will pre- sume that vou did not wish to name a beneficiary. After reading your letter 1 am not sure whether or not You want to name a beneficiary. If you do, write to the Veterans' Bureau and state in your letter that you want your wife to receive the benefits of your adjusted compensation if you should not live to receive the bene- fits yourself. Ask the Veterans' Bureau when it prepares your ad- Justed service certificate to name your wife as your beneficiary. Q. I am recelving payments on ac- count of the war risk insurance which my husband carried while he was In the Army. If I should marry again would I continue to receive these payments or would they be made to my child?>—Mrs. E. A. B. A. If you marry again the pay- ments will revert to your child. Q. My brother served in the World War and was killed. I am his sole beneficiary. Will I receive the bonus? —H. L. F.—J. M. H. A. Adjusted compensation benefits are not payable to brothers or sis- ters of deceased veterans who have not lived to make application. Q. Please tell m¢ what will be the face value of my certificate for the period of my service from April 18, 1918, to July 7, 1919, all home service. I am now 29 years old.—L. L. O'C. A. Your adjusted service credit 1s $370. In 20 years your policy, or ad- justed service certificate, will be worth $945. If you die before it ma- tures this amount will be paid in cash to a beneficiary you may have named. You will be able to borrow about 10 per cent of the face value of your certificate after it is two years oid. 0. W.—Your adjusted service credit will amount to $338. Add to this sum a 25 per cent increase and com- pound interest for 20 years at 4 per cent to compute the amount of the face value of the certificate to which you are entitled: To W. M. C—The answer to O. W. as printed above also answers your inquiry. We will mail you an ap- plication blank for ndjl,ned compen- Wide World Photo. Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, the new chief of cavalry of the United States Army, succeeding Gen. Willard Hol- brook, now retired. Gen. and Mrs. Craig recently returned to this coun- try from the Philippine National Photo. Hoke Smith, Former U. S. Senator, Marries Hi ‘Secremry of Interior Under Cleveland, 69 Years Old, Private Secretary Weds Miss Mazie Crawford of Georgia, Aged 28. Hoke Smith, 69 vears old, local at- torney, formerly United States Sena- tor from Georgia, Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Georgia, was married today at the home of Mrs Livingston Leeds, at Pelham Manor. N. Y. to Miss Maizie Crawford, 28 years of age, of this city and Cordele, Ga., who came to Washington a num- ber of years ago as sccretary to Mr. Smith when he was in the Senate. Former Senator Smith has lived here since his retirement from the Senate in 1921, and has been engaged in the practice of law. Upon his re- turn to this city after marriage, he and his bride will make their home at Wardman Park Hotel. The present plans are for a honey- moon by boat from New York té Boston and then up into Canada on an automobile trip, after which the couple will return to Washington, The marriage ceremony was attended LACK OF POLICE DETAIL HALTS INJURY INQUIRY Man Believed Attacked and Robbed, in Hospital 5 Days Without Report. Failure of police officlals to have a policeman detailed at Emergency Hospital, where so many injured per- sons are received day after day, re- sulted in a delay in the investigation of the case of Robert Walker, 26, son of an Atlanta, Ga., fruit grower, who was found unconscious at 9th and F streets about 10 o'clock last Thursday night and taken to the hospital in a passing automobile. He remained in a stupor until the fol- lowing afternoon, and an examina- tion of the patient revealed an in- jury to his head. A police investigation was started last night, and the belief was ex- pressed that a sandbag probably had been used in an attack upon-the At- lanta man. Walker told of the loss of $60 and a railroad ticket. The man explained that after pur- chasing a railroad ticket at Union Station Thursday night he strolled in the direction of the Capitol. He was unable to recall what happened between that time and the time he was found at 9th and F streets. Reserve Officers Commissioned. Commissions in the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army have been issued to Alfred M. Zitani, 1318 Buchanan street, as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps; to Edward F. Hinton, 206 East Clifton Terrace, as a first lleutenant in the Medical .Adminis- trative Corps; to Louis F. Melchior, 424 Eleventh street northeast, as a second lieutenant of Infantry; to John M. Gaines, 422 King street, Al- exandria, Va., as a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, and to Minor L. Hawley, Abingdon, Va. as a first lieutenant in the Signal Corps. sation upon receipt of a 2-cent stamp and your full name and address. P. W. F.—You are not entitled to any cash bonus. The answer just preceding covers your inquiry. You can reinstate. your Government in- surance at any time. The State of West Virginia Is not paying a bonus. by a large number of guests, includ- |ing members of the families df both | former Senator Smith and Miss Craw- ford. Among the guests were Mr. |and Mrs. Lyman Pratt and their two | daughters, being the son-in-law, | ughter and granddaughters, re- spectively, of Mr. Smith ‘apt. Burton Smith, brother of th. bridegroom; Mrs. W. D. Wilson of Cordele, Ga. mother of the bride: Mrs. Harmon Frederick of Marshallville, Ga )} Miss Maryde Wilson of Cordele, Ga., ters of the bride. Rev. Robert Gardner McGregor, pastor of the Pel- ham Manor Presbyterian Church, of- ficiated. The bridegroom is a widower with four married children and a number of grandchildren. The bride, follow- ing the retirement from office of Sen- ator Smith, was in his law office in f confidential secretarial capacity dur- ing the t three year: War Veteran, Heir To Willed Estate, Located by Radio Radio will be praised by Charles Earl Mitchell, war veteran, for it brought him an inheritance. He was located through a broad- cast for him, sent out by Stations WRC_ and WCAP, at request of the Veterans' Bureau, who had been asked to help locate the man. The veteran's sister, Mrs. W. A. Murray of 730 Sixth street north- west, learning that he had fallen heir to an estate in Baltimore, left by the “Earl Sisters,” who had adopted him when a child, ap- pealed to the Veterans' Bureau to help find him. The message finally reached Mitchell at Inkster, Mich., through a former school teacher, with whom he had kept in contact. She had heard the message over radio, and written him. Many letters reached the Vet- erans’ Bureau, from all classes of persons and from many parts of the country. Even soothsayers came forwdrd with suggestions. Mrs. Murray has gone to Balti- more to help settle the estate. DIES OF ALCOHOLISM. Colored Man, Found Unconscious, Expires in Hospital. A middle-aged colored man was found unconscious at Massachusetts avenue and E street last night and taken to Casualty Hospital, where Dr. C. W. Stallard found him sufrer-' ing from alcoholism. The patient was transferred to Gallinger Hos- pital, where he died about an hour later without having regained con- sciousness. There was nothing found on the person of the dead man to assist in establishing his identity. He wore dark_trousers. brown cap and but- toned shoes, size 5. He was coatless. Coroner Nevitt and police of the sixth precinct are investigating the death. e Hundreds of hens were drowneq in » flood in Holland recently, Mrs. daughter of Mrs. William K. Van- derbilt, who has married Winfield Nichols, a follower of the Tantrik cult of Dr. Pierre A. Bernard,known as Oom the Omnipotent. (opyright by P. & A. Photos Boys Excel Girls As “College Risks, Report Declares Boys are better “college risks" than girls, says a report on the intelligence of high school seniors received by the Interior Depart- ment from the Massachusetts Board of Education. For every two boys apt to fail for graduation, the figures show- three girls are likely to lose their chance. Forty per cent of the boys and 22 per cent of the girls are listed as “good risks.” Ten thou- nd of the 16.000 seniors in Massachusetts high schools, the report adds, will enter as freshmen in higher institutions of learning this Fall. HUGHES TO ANSWER LEAGUE’S INVITATION U. S. Wanted at Geneva Conference On Control of Arms Traffic Among Nations. The Invitation of the League of Na- tions for American participation in the forthcoming Geneva conference on the question of arms trafic was acknowledged today by the State De- partment with the announcement that a reply would be made in due course, Department officials emphasized that the invitation did not refer to the question of disarmament or limitation of armament, but related exclusively to the control of interna- tional traffic in arms. This question has been considered at various times by league committees, and Joseph Grew, now undersecretary of State, first attended the meetings on behalf of the Washington Government. He was succeeded in that capacity by Hugh Gibson, American minister to Switzerland, who probably will be designated to attend the forthcoming conference if the invitation is ac- cepted. RESERVE OFFICERS MEET Plans Outlined for Aiding in De- fense Day Observance. Reserve officers of the infantry, military police and inspector gen- eral's branch of service held their first_meeting of the year last might in the local reserve headquarters in the Graham building, Fourteenth and E streets northwest. Lieut. Col. John Scott, executive officer, was in com- mand. The Infantry officers were divided into regiments for Defense day. The 320th, an organized reserve unit, will be commanded bx Col. Glendie B. Young, former commander of the 3d District of Columbia Infantry; the 40th United States Infantry, an in- active Regular Army unit, ‘will be under the command’ of Lieut. Col: Frank A. Awl, Officers Reserve Corps, a distinguished service cross man. The 40th Infantry will assemble September 12 at 1:30 o'clock on Mary- land avenue, with the head of._the column facing First street southwest. The 320th will form on Second street northwest, with the head of the column facing B street. Reserve oficers of the 313th and 16th Regiments of Field Artillery. Ordnance, Coast Artillery and Gen eral Service, e the Graham bullding. will - meet tonight at| Wide World Photo. INVENTOR AND HIS motion picture projector which was awarded the Elliott Cresson gold medal by the Franklin Institute. type machine, invented in 1893-1894, T | | | | At United States Capitol at 5 pm. by the TUnited States Marine Band. William H. Santel- mann, leader: Taylor Branson, sec- ond leader. conducting. March. “Nibelunger' .Wagner Overture, “Lenore” .Beethoven Sextette, “Lucia de Lammermoor.” Donizetti (Musicians Arthur S. Wit- comb, John P. White, Peter A. Hazes, ldward McIntyre, Robert B. Clark, Lee Sanford.) Selection, “The Force of Destiny,” Verdi “On Tiptoe.” Hosmer today Characteristic, Waltz, “Cagliostro”. “Les Prelude e “Star Spangled Banner. Bandstand, navy 7:30 pm. by Navy Band, rector. March Pure” (Dedicated to my friend Loffler) Overture, “Der Geist des Woje- woden” . ...Grossmann (The Ghost of the Mavor) “Reminiscences of Scotland,’ vard, today at the United States Charles Benter, di- “One Hundred Per Cent Benter “Andy” “Ballet Music" Meyerbeer (From “Robert Le Diable") Patrol, “American”......Meacham Selection of College Songs, “Cam- pus Memories”...........Seredy Characteristic, “Dance of the Serpents” .............Boccalari Suite (a) “Petite Bijouteries, Bohm (Valse Intermezzo) (b) “Pasquinade,” Gottschalk (Intermezzo) “From Italy,” Arr by Clark (On Italian Folk Songs) Popular, selected. Finale, “Star Spangled Banner.” Fantasia, United States Soldiers’ Band, at bandstand, today, 5:45 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. March, “Richelieu” Overture, Home Beisvert Roses” Flath “La Cinquaintine” Gabriel-Marie “Gavotte Louis X111 Ghys American fantasia,, “Ten Pictures of the North and South,” Bendix Fox trot novelty, “You Can Take Me Away From Dixie, But You Can't Take Dixie Away From Me” Waltz song, “Sunshine and (a) (b) Entr'acte, ‘Just a Lullaby: Davis Finale, “Spirit of America” ¢ * Zameenik “The Star Spangled Banner. Marine Barracks, tomorrow, at 4:30 p.m., concert by the United States Marine Band. William H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Bran- son, second leader, conducting. March, “The Shenandoah,” Stephan Overture, “If I Were King,” Ada. “Andante and Rondo Capriccioso, Mendelssohn Duet for -flute and horn, “Sere- nade” Titl (Musicians, Clayton, Lindsay, and Adolphe Seidler. Master Melodies from the Light Operas .. 2 Roberts Waltz, “Wine, Woman and_Song” Strauss Norwegian Rhapsody ........Lalo “The Star Spangled Banner.” Montrose Park, Georgetown, to- morrow, at 7:30 p.m., concert by the United States Marine Band, William H. Santelmann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader, conducting. ‘March;-“Natfonal Emblem” Bagley Who is this speaker, photographed at the point of impressing his audience with a vital fact of the day? You have had your guess, and you probably were wrong. Labor. He is Samuel Gompers, pre: now used in motion picture theater: PROGRAM OF BAND CONCERTS fasanielo” ......Auber Sleanor” . .Deppen 'he Chocolate Soldier.” Strauss Mexican serenade, “La Paloma, Yradier Waltz, “Andalusia” .....Le Thiere Selection, “The Force of Destiny Ve “The Star Spangled Banner.” Overture, Romance, Selection, * di The United States Army Band, . J. Stannard, director, at Merid- ian Hill Park, Sixteenth and Eu- clid streets northwest, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. March, “National Defense,” Lampe Overture, “The Four Ages of Man.” Lachuer ‘The Wanderer.” Harlow (Performed by Sergt. S. L« Johnson.) Excertps from “The Pink Lady, Baritone solo, Song hits of tod: (a) “She Loves Me,” Brown- (b) *“Why Did I Kiss That Girl? Henderson * Herbert Impassioned Selection, “The Serenad. Mexican waltz, Dream’ “The Star Spangled Banner.” WOMEN PRMS_E COOLIDGE. Colored Republican League Calls President Second Lincoln. President Coolidge was praised as a “second Abraham Lincoln” at a meet- ing of the Women's Republican League, colored, in monthly meeting in the T WICLA Mrs. Mary Church Teprell presided. An address was made by the president, Mrs. Annie Campbell, who praised the high ideals of President Coolidge. Other speakers were: Miss R. E. Bell and J. W. Phoenix, both of whom were introduced by Miss E. A. Chase, or- ganizer of the league. The club voted to join the Federated. League of Women's Political Clubs, which also held a regular meeting at the residence of Mrs. Thomas L. Jones, 1901 Vermont avenue northwest. Another meeting at the former office of the Washington Bee organized the Absentee State Voters' League, electing Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham of Michigan as its president. Miss R. E. Bell also recently headed a group of Republicans for a rally at Buena Vista, Md. FIND CRUDE COUNTERFEIT. Service Says $20 Bill “Looks Like Dodger.” A counterfeit $20 bill, so “very poor” that it looks “more like an advertising dodger than money,” has been detected i the Secret Service of the Treasury, which today sent out a warning against it. The counterfeit is a $20 national bank note on the National Commer- cial_and Trust Company of Albany, N. Y., and is printed from lightly etched plates “of poor workmanship. It_bears charter No. 1301, bank No. 26594 and Treasury No. H260796H. So poor was the counterfeit found to be that Chief Moran in his circular to banks and others departed from his usual custom in more minutely de- scribing it. “The bill looks more like an advertising dodger,” he said, “than money, and it should be in- stantly detected by any one at all familiar with our currency. A more detailed description 18 therefore deemed unnecessary." Secret ent of the American Federation of From a tintype of the nineteenth century Copsright by Kadel & Herbert FIRST MOTION PICTURE M ACHINE. C. Francis Jenkins of Washington and_the This s all over the world. Copsright by Underwaod MILITIA PROBING . POSTAL QUSTERS New Denies Dismissing Men for Going to Guard Encampment. & TUndersood Investigation is | today by Col. John W manding the gineers trict of Columbia, int: missal of three membe mand from the postal count of their having recent encampment | phreys, Va Col. Oechmann last night inter= | viewed the men in question and they told him that they had been given no intimation that their civilian employ- ment records were unsatisfactory. Col. Oehmann said that he would call on Postmaster General New today, and of the conference, would make a full report to Col. Lloyd M. Brett, adjutant general of the District of Col bia Militia However, Col. Oehmw explained that his purpose in seeking an inter- view with the Postmaster General was merely to make the stand of the local National Guard cl If these men were cient, he will point out to the Postmasier General, he said. it is mot the purpose of the militia_officiers to make an effort to use the law giving Government authorities military leave without af- fecting thei re rds to have the Government keep ineflicient men in service. The fact that they wero discharged following their return from camp would be viewed just as an unfortunate coincidence, he said, The Postmaster General issued the following statement regar: & the case: “The statement that any one has been dismissed from any branch of the Post Oftice Department, hecause of having attended the National | Guard® encampment as members of that organization is without the | slightest foundation in truth, with- out regard to who makes it Not only were they not dismissd for going, but they were encouraged to go. “In the Mail Baxz Repair Shop were 13 young men, members of the Na tional Guard, to all of whom leave was given in order that they might attezd. Among them were the three who have since falsely claimed that their separation from the service was the result of their attendance on the guard. All three were probational employes, whose service was entirely unsatisfactory, as disclosed by their averages and records, which are open to inspection of the officers of their respective companies. Of the 13, the other 10 resumed their duties on their return from the encampment. “Since the first of January have been 34 instances where leave has been granted emploves in order that they might perform service s members of the National Guard, 21 of which were during the two weeks August 11 to 23, and 10 more in the Washington City Iost Office. | "“The departmen would be glad to {know the authority quoted in some of the newspapers for saying that the record of the three dismissed employes was good. “There is not a particle of truth in the claim that their military serv- ice had anything whatever to do with the dismissal of the three men’ in ucstion” beinz conducted Oehmann. com- 1215t Re ent of En- 1a e Dis- the alleged dis- s of his com- service on ac- attended the Fort Hum- ational ( at there