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2 WOMAN TO TESTIFY AT HOGAN INQUEST Admits Presence in Office of i Man Found Dead in ! Basement. Mrs. Ruth Christianson, 28, who was with William J. Hogan, repre. sentative of the National Liberal Alli ance, shortly before his death at the foot of a staircase in the Ames Build- ing late Thursday night, will be the principal witness at the inquest at the morgue tomorrow, it was an- nounced last night after Detectives ;‘w\\l.r and Flaherty had iiterviewed Mrs the Christianson's story confirmed theory held by the detective office that the death was accidental. She was not detained She said that there had been drink- ing in the office of Hogan at about 9 o'clock Thursday evening and that Hogan went out, intending to return later. When he had not returned 40 minutes later, she said, she decided to leave and on her way out saw noth- ing to attract attention. Detectives Fowler and Flaherty lo- cated Mrs. Christianson through a slip of paper found in the pocket of Hogan's coat. They already had gleaned an inkling of what she had seen from friends of hers earlier yes- terday and they were assured of her co-operat It is believed by the detectives that after Hogan left his office, while Mrs. Christianson was sitting in it. he fell over the stair railing to the basement, causing a fracture of the skull, which proved fatal UNIVERSITY WOMEN CREATE FELLOWSHIP Scandinavian Prize Is Offered in Recognition of Conference Held at Christiania. The ity gates A o Association of Univer- whid sent 66 dele- the ecoting of the Interna- tional Federat of University Women in Christiania this Summer, is offering a fellowship in celebration of the con- ference. Two of the delegates, Mrs. ymond B. Morgan and Dr. Mina 5 from Washington, ellowship, which is given in of the hospitality of the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swed- ish federations, is to be known as the Scandanav fellowship, and will have a value of $1.000, its object being to enable the holder to undertake a year's research in some country other than her ow The association also is undertaking, yith the aid of the Laura Spelman ockefeller fund, a study of the pre- schogl child and’ elementary® education. The Work wili be under the direction of Miss Lois H. Meek, a new member of the Washington staff, who is organizing Broups of thers and other women in- terested in child study, both in Wash- ington and throughout the 287 branches of the A. A U. W, Miss Katherine S. Arnold, who has just returned from three years’ work in Constantinople, where she was pro- fessor of mathematics at the Wome: College, is another new member of the staff, and as assistant to the executive secretary will work on various com- mittees, including those on the recog- nition of colleges, publicity and the Journal. Miss Florence A. Angell is now sec- retary to the committee on international relations, with headquarters in New York with the Institute of International Education ITALIANS, BALKING, HALT PEACE PLAN (Continued from First Page.) nerican that the protocol should not be bind- ing until disarmament was effected, followinz upon the conference. But the French insisted that the protocol should enter into force immediately sufficient ratifications by the powers were recistered with the league secre- tarist. Thus, France can enter the dis- armament conference with her security red beforehand, and the protocol be suspended only in case the dis ament conference should fail or the 1e council should be forced to rec- that the disarmament confer- ence’s final convention was not being lived up to. The French tonight were ready to rraise “the great reciprocity” the British delegates had shown in meeting their viewpoint. wi arn lea oz Await German Move. According to information from Ger- man sources in Geneva, the German cabinet is likely to decide next week in favor of applying for admission to th league, though it may not ap- ply at the present ion of the a: sembly. The idea is to convoke an extraordinary session of the assembly some time before January 1 if Ger- many makes a move in the league's direction It is understood that Germany has sounded out Great Britain as to whether France would oppose giving Germany a seat in the council and that Britain has replied that so far as she is concerned there would be no opposition. As for France, the British suggested that Berlin get into direct communication with the French gov- ernment. The League council, at a brief meeting, heard Lord Parmoor and Fethi Bey set forth the respective British and. Turkish viewpoints on the subject of whether the Vilayet of Mosul should be Turkish or under the sovereignty of the®Mesopotamian kingdom of Irak. Lord Parmoor op- posed the Turkish demand for plebis- cite in that reglon, saying Great Britain could not admit that a purely frontier question could be settled by plebiscite that the Nomad tribesmen in the area were too ignorant to know what they were voting for, and that the holding of a plebescite would inevitably bring about dis- orders. Probe Is Opposed. Fethi Bey contended that while Irak was a well defined Arab terri- tory, the Mosul inhabitants had noth- ing in common with the Arabs. He was convinced that the solution Lord Parmoor proposed—that the League Council appoint a commission of in- vestigation—would not be effective, as its conclusions would be summary at the best. His reference to recent border in- cidents as proof of his conjecture drew the retort from Lord Parmoor that Britiah foreign office reports maintain {kat no forces from Irak had ever crossed the frontier. The Turks, Lord Parmoor said, had al- ready sent a note to the British on ‘the subject and Great Britain would not hesitate to reply. M. Branting of Sweden moved that the question go over until a later session of the Council and this was unanimously adopted. Officers Placed on Retired List. Maj. Vincent P. Edwin, Field Artil- lery, and Maj. Willlam H. Garrison, jr., Alr Bervice, have been transferred to the retired list of the Army on of disabilities incident to the ses Sullivan Cautions Police to Enforce Flag-Honors Law Maj. Daniel Sullivan, superinten- dent of police, has issued an order to precinct captains calling their attention to the law to prevent desecration or improper use of the American flag in the District of Columbla. He issued this reminder to his men following receipt of a lettar from Henry W. Samson, former chairman of a special committee of the Board of Trade and a mem- ber of the American Flag Aswo- giation. Mr. Samson suggested that a copy of the flag law be posted In ail station houses. “The display of ragged, fasvd American flags dishonors instead of honors our flag,” wrote Mr. Samson, “and those displaying same should be urged to cooperate in honoring our flag by replac- ing such flags by new ones. Mr. Samson called attention in his letter to the recent action of Police Commissioner Enright of New York, who issued an order to his patrolmen to report im- y\lru’:er display or disrespect of the 3 ORDNANCE CORPS 10 SHOW PRODUCTS Modern War Machinery Will Be Demonstrated by Of- ficers at Aberdeen. An exhibition of the Army's most modern patterns of war machiner: including ordnance creations, big and small, and typ perfected but never used in actual warfare, will be given October 3 by the Aberdeen, Md., prov- ing ground officers to a limited num- ber of civilians and brother officer: The demonstration of these weapons is intended primarily to show the state of preparedness of the ordnance branch of the Nation's defense. Due to the limited “accommoda- tions” at Aberdeen, the exhibition will be open only to membe; of the American Institute of Chemical Engi- neers, the National Defense Section of the American Society of Mechani- cal Engineers, the Institute of Makers of Explosives, the Army Ordnance Association and local sections of the American Chemical Society Among the features of the demon- stration scheduled for the occasion will be the firing of 1é-inch rifles on {barbette mounts, shifting of l4-inch guns from railway traveling posi tions to land emplacements, layi | smoke screens by aircraft and dles, machine-gun fire played upon toy ‘balloons loosed In the air, sub- caliber firing against tank plates, and a comprehensive display of latest de- velopments in tanks, tractors, motor carriages and cross-country vehicles, as well as hombing tests by aireraft. MISS TODD TO WED S. P. GILBERT OCT. 8 at Nuptials to Be Solemnized Bride's Home, Louisville. Sail for France. The marriage of S. Parker Gilbert former Undersecretary of the United States Treasury and now agent gen- | eral for the Dawes reparations plan, to Miss Louise Ross Todd, whose en- gagement was announced in Louis- ville, Ky.. last week, will take piace at the Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church, Louisville, on the atternoon of October 8. The wedding will be followed by a reception in the home of the bride-to-be’s parents, in Cherokee Park, Louisville, according to dispatches received here last night Miss Todd, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Ross Todd, has spent several Winters here with her aunt, Mme. Hauge, widow of the former Minister of Norway, Chris- tian Hauge, who presented her to Waehington soclety after her debut in Louisville. Through the past two Winters Miss Todd has been a mov- ing spirit and has done finished act- ing here in the amateur theatricals in which Mrs. Richard Porter David- son, formerly Miss Elizabeth Hanna, is so active. Miss Todd attended Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Conn., for three years, entering in 1917, She has spent many Summers abroad, more recently being with her par- ents at Hot Springs through the Sum- mer season, where the mountain trails give her opportunity to show her ability as a skilled horsewoman. Mr. Gilbert and his bride expect to sail Saturday, October 11, for Paris, later going to Brussels. Mr. Gilbert resigned as Undersecretary of the Treasury some months ago and went to New York, where he resumed the practice of law. He then was named for the new post., Miss Todd and Mr. Gilbert first met at a dinner party given here in 1922 by Maj. Gen. Bethel, then military attache of the British embassy, in honor of Miss Muriel Vanderbiit, The engagement was to have been an- nounced in November and the wed- ding was planned for early January, but the departure of Mr. Gilbert for Eurepe sooner than was expected changed these plans. Mme. Hauge, with whom ' Miss Todd spends the greater part of each Winter, is still abroad, but is expect- ed to return in time for the wedding, after which she will open her home, on Massachusetts avenue. BERRYMAN'S ART WINS HIGH PRAISE Display of Drawings at Corcoran Gallery So Popular Exhibit Is Continued. The drawings of Clifford K. Berry- man, cartoonist and head of the art department of The Star, which have been on exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art since June 18, have become so popular with visitors at the Gallery that their display will be extended for about two weeks. When the drawings were first placed on view it was understood they would be allowed to occupy the place In the gallery until about the middle of September, but the enthu- siasm they have created has caused officlals of the institution to prolong this exhibit. To date 38,896 free visitors and 8,043 paid visitors have seen Mr. Berryman’s work, making a total of 46,939. By the time the exhibition is brought to a close it is expected more than 50,000 persons will have seen the drawings. Altogether there are 217 drawing: on the wall, covering a variety of subjects—politics, patriotism, local affairs and topies of the day. From comments of visitors officlals of the gallery declare it to be one of the most popular exhibitions ever con- ducted there. The drawings pos: charm, ~leverness’ and ‘are - timely, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C STORE MORE GOAL, ADVICE T0 DISTRICT Engineering Council Experts Decide 19 Per Cent of Fuel Should Be So Handled. Washington should store 19 per cent of its annual coal consumption, it is asserted in the report of the z0al storage comittee of the American Engineering Council, 26 Jackson place, by which a nationwide survey has been conducted in co-operation with the Department of Commerce and other agencles. Peculiar conditions exist in the Dis. trict of Columbia, says the report, which discloses the results of a study of 12 typical consumers, diversified enough, it was said, to represent a cross-section of conditions in the District. Three Classes Foun: “The users of all the coal consumed in the District,” the report continues, “can be grouped into three general classes, name'y: “(1) The Federal and Municipal Governments, using approximately 16 per cent of the total for heating all public buildings and generating electricity in Isolated plants. “(2) The public utllity corpora- tions (consisting of one electric cen- tral station, one street railway elec- tric generating station and one gas manufacturing plant) using approxi- mately 24 per cent of the total coal consumed. “(3) The local coal dealers, ap- proximately 100 in number, who re- ceive the remaining 60 per cent of the totul and supply all householders, business houses and local industries. “rom available information it ap- pears that but two industries obtain coal direct from the mines—one, the Washington Abattoir Co., using ap- proximately 50 tons of bituminous coal per week, and the Fleischmann Yeast Co., whose normal requirements are approximately 50 tons of bituminous coal per day Small Ameunt Stored. “Outside of the coal stored during the Summer in the bins of house- holders (including apartment houses). for Winter requirements, practically no coal is stored in the District with- in the meaning of that term as de- fined in the instructions of the main coal committee of the American En- gineering Council. “The public utility corporations at- tempt to carry a reserve stock of coal for emergency needs. As to the storage capacity of the local dealers, the committee finds that it is their practice during normal vears to use approximately 50 per cent of their anthracite coal storage capacity for holding coal received during the Sum- mer months, the remaining 50 per cent being needed for the proper handling of daily receipts and de- liveries through hoppers.” The firms studied in Washington, it was sald, follow no systematic method of storing coal. The largest accumulation of stocks occurred in the months of October and January, whereas there was @ net loss in stocks during the “storage period.” For the District of Columbia a plan of uniform monthly coal shipment was recommended, and, according to the engineers, would result in: Monthly shipments of 43,391 tons to the 12 consumers; seasonal storage of 60,750 tons; seasonal storage of 116 per cent of annual consumption; reserve storage of 7.4 per cent of annual consumption; total storage of 19 per cent of annual consumption. }SCHOOLS TO OPEN WITH 69,000 PUPILS (Continued from First Page.) its accommodations. McKinley will avoid the temporary overcrowding ex pedients by increasing the size of its classes from 30 to 40 pupils. Owing to the construction of its new addition, Western will feel the pinch of congestion more than the other white high schools, although its student body will be about the same as the last school year. Several of its classrooms, as well as one-half of the lunchroom and one-half of the asfembly hall have been put out of use by the work on the annex. Temporary corridors also have been cut through a number of the class- rooms, decreasing seating accommo- dations considerably. The school may have to go through the entire new school year under such a handicap. Although the contrast for the erec- tion of the addition calls for its com- pletion next March, officials now be- lieve that it will not be completed before the beginning of the 1525-1926 school year in September. Colored Schools Taxed. The situation in the colored high schools, Armstrong and Dunbar, will be more serious than in the white senior institutions. Armstrong will continue to divert its overflow to a colony of 18 portables now located in the rear of Dunbar High School until its new addition is finished. Like Western, the Armstrong addi- tion was originally planned to be completed early next year. It is not expected now to Le: ready for occu- pancy before next September. The prospective gain in enrollment at Dunbar is estimated at 250, which will give the school a student body of about 2,000, or 800 more than it was originally built to accommodate. Disappointed over the delay in com- pleting the installation of the heat- ing apparatus in the Thomson School, which will keep it closed for another week, Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent of schools, issued a statement_last night explaining the plans for accommodating the pupils in the Franklin and Thomson Schools. The statement follows: “Owing to an unavoidable delay in the completion of the heating plant at the Thomson School, the building is in such condition at this time that the school authoritics do mot deem it advieable to undertake any class- room instruction at the Thomson 'dur- ing the opening days of school. The contractor expects to have the build- ing ready for occupancy by the end of the week. Meanwhile, nolsy elec- tric drills are at work drilling through cement floors for the exten- sion of the heatihg pipes. Besides the noise and dust there are points of danger for the pupils in and around the building which lead the school officials to postpone the open- ing of this building, which has just received a new third floor addition. ‘All work at the Thomson School will be suspended for two hours to- morrow morning when the 18 classes Will be assembled in their regular rooms, will be supplied with their books and instructed in regard to taking up their temporary quarters at the nearby buildings. The four classes now at the Franklin and the classes at .the Webster must be placed on a double-shift organiza- tion to-meet the emergency. The upper grades, which will be accom- modated in the Franklin assembly hall, in the beard room and in other available rooms, must also attend upon a @ouble shift. Miss Maud Aiton, principal of the Americaniza- tion School, now housed at the Web- ster, is co-bperating with Charles F. Finckel, the principal of the Frank- lin-Thomson School, in making ad- Justments at the Webster to meet the situativn.” - %2 Joy SEPTEMBER 2 . 1924—PART 1. 1 CONFERENCE ENDS SPECULATION AS TO WILBUR’S SUDDEN RETURN Secretary of Navy Wilbur meeting with naval budget officers shortly after the Secretary’s hurried return from the West coaxt. Rear Admiral J. ¥ WOMEN'S SUPPORT OF LABOR URGED Resolution Adopted by Work- ers Calls for Organization for Protection. Straus, director of Special Dispatch to The . York Wor LONDON, Septembe worker's r aud The New r 20 demonstration few nights ago in Hull. A. A. Pur- cell, M. P, president the Trades Union Congress, who presided, said there was greater need today for the organization of women - in trade uni than ever before, Their wages were extremely low and their hours lopg. In his opinfon the con- ditions under which they were em- ployed were a serious danger to so- ciety. Low wages among women were a greater temptation to im- morality than among men, Miss Margaret Bondfield, parlia- mentary secretary to the ministry of labor, moved a resolution expressing Erave concern at the present indus- trial situation, especially as it affeets woman wage earners, and calling upon all woman workers to join their appropriate trade union for their own A women was held a protection and for the furthering of | measyres required for the adequate treatment of unemployment and a raising of the standards of living of the workers generally. Miss Hondfield said there wa: reason why women should not do any process in industry for which she was fitted. The only thing labor asked was that women should not sell their labor more cheaply than the recog- nized rate for the job. Women had every right to say that the trade union organization should take any steps it could to shut out that unfair kind of competition. Trade unions should not shut out women's labor simply because it was women's labor, but it was perfectly right to say that women coming into a trade must be asked to take their share of the re- sponsibility for maintaining the standard of living in that trade. Women should not be allowed to de- grade the standard which others had spent their lives in building up. It was in those trades in which women were mainly employed that they had the greatest difficulty to contend with in relation to the degradation of the standard of life, After several other speakers were heard the resolution was adopted. Lieut. Goddard Transferred. First Lieut. George W. Goddard, Air Service, on temporary duty .with the world flight, has been relieved from duty at Bolling Field, and assigned to duty at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohi: Largest Still in no ) the naval MA udget IN There are more than five thousand poignant human interest stories bur- jed here in Washington—unwritten | because no “outsider” can find words potent enough, untold because the persons most interested cannot be found to them. Each story is mate- rially represented by a trinket, paper wrapped, lying in a special room of the War Department War stories they are—tales of sol- | diers who have fought in battles here and in other lands, who have died in and whose relatives have never been found. Their trinkets, their jewels and keepsakes, taken from their still forms on fields of battle, all are there waiting for the call of someone who has the right to claim them | Hundreas of Good Lu¢k Charms. Good luck charms there are by | hundreds—charms which failed to | keep their owners safe from harm, And there are decorations and medals of all kinds which testify to the | valor of their winners, thoush there | be no one to know they were wori. | Strange are the storfes that the | trinkegs would tell—if they could: | Stogies ©f reckléms desire to win dis- tinction for.-séme one back at home; tragedies of human hearts made rashly brave because some one did not care; debonair eagerness for ex- \perience—and heart-break for count- less families left at home to wait and hope. There are hundreds of photographs of beautiful girls, smiling or sad- eyed, taken from breast pockets of soldiers on battlefields. diamond rings, fashioned for femi- nine hands, which went to the war with their purchasers, doubtless be- | cause “some one” withheld her con- ent. There are remnants of enemy | buliets and toy cannons whittled of | wood. There are costly gems, Liberty bonds and sums of money. | Wealth Lying in Wai Families have doubtless been desti- tute because they could not be given the wealth these soldiers possessed Other apparently worthless trinkets would be priceless to mothers, fathers, wives and sweethearts of those who died. But all have been unclaimed. John W. Robins has them in charge. His is the task of locating relatives to whom these belongings of service men left on battlefields, in hospitals or camps should be returned. Although countless of the living have been :e connected with their dead, there are more than 5000 packages whose Capital Seized service Fpr Third Time by Vice Squad The vice squad again seized “Wash- ington’s largest still” last night. It was an immense affair with a ouble condenser, a huge gooseneck cooling coil, a 200-horsepower boiler and neatly-fitted connections, con- servatively valued by Lieut. C. T. Davis of the vice squad at $5,000. It was located in a building at the rear of 1727 Thirteenth street. This is the third time the largest still in Washington has been seized. The first was some time ago. when a still was captured near Second and E streets northwest. That was a relatively small 50-gallon affair. The next was out Anacostia way some time later. It ralsed the ante to 300 gallons. Last night's still, it is estimated conservatively by Lieut. Davis, could turn out 2,000 gallons a day and could take in a carload of barrels of denatured alcohol each week, turning out pure non-fuselized alcohol from that product, to the ex- tent of about 14,000 gallons a week. “It can be said,” said Lieut. Davis conservatively, “that this will close up one of the principal Sources’ of Washington's liquor supply.” When the raid was made by Lieut. Davis,' Lieut. Ready, Private Holmes and Revenue Agent Fisher last night information had already reached the police that 500 gallons of pure alcohol had just been taken away. The still was still warm when seized. ¢ A large amount of denatured alco- hol in barrels, two trucks and a num- ber of five-gallon tin containers rep- resented the seized products. The men in charge of the place were absent. - For a Children’s Sanatorium Results of the new Night-and-Da; service pro= vided at the Health Camp, maintained by the ‘Washington Tuberculosis Association with part of the money raised by the sale of Christmas Seals, demonstrate need of a permanent institu- tion for such service. Tent-Houses Made Demonstration Possible These, in addition to the frame buildings used in previous sea- sons of the Camp for children from the special tuberculosis schools, gave the patients a day-and-night service which enabled them to make surprising gains in weight and health as shown by weekly clinics of special workers of the Tuberculosis Association. Shows the Need of a Children’s Sanatorium Dr. J. W. Peabody, head of the Tuberculosis Hospital, in an interview on another page of this issue of The Star makes this statement : : “These facts great practical value of the Tuberculosis Association has judgment, emphasizes ainly and surely demonstrate the very continueus service which the nstalled this year and, in my beyond question the xreat meed which we have for a modern, convenient and adequate sanatorium for year-round care and observatiom of chil- dren sufferiag with tuberculosis infection” For several years the Tuberculosis Association has called atten- tion in its annual reports and through the press, to this vital part of our city’s health program. Can Congress Be Induced - to Make Provision for It? This Bulletin is poid for by the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis - 1022 11th Street NW, Wesss Notios) L There are | Made eft to right: Secretary of Navy Wilbur, Capt. W. R. Sexton, assistant director of naval budget, and WAR THRILLS BURIED FILES OF DEPARTMENT Human Interest Stories That Remain Unwritten Be- cause Persons Most Interested, Who Know the Facts, Cannot Be Found. should-be owners among the “nearest of kin” cannot be found All wars are represented. There are even trifles taken from the bodies of soldiers of Revolutionary days and of the War of 1S12. Mementos of the Civil Spanish-American and World Wars are most numerous, however. Only a few days ago, honor was delivered to of lad who was killed in action with the aviation service. She had been traced through four States and was finally found in Paris, conducting a futile search for her boy's grave. The medal, she said, almost compen- sated for not knowing where to lay flowers on his grave. Watch Battered by Shrapnel. A battered watch, which had done service for many years and was in- dented with marks of shrapnel, was recently sent to the fiance of the boy Wwho carried it when he died. It was all she had, save memories, of the lover to whom she had not said good-bye’ 'because she was in Cuba when he sailed. A mother, comparatively young six ears ago, now aged and.grayed with grief. came to Mr. Robins for help in locating the grave of hef boy. He bad worn a ring baering, the family coat of arms, she said. After four years the boy was traced to a name- less grave in France. A young lieutenant wore a sorority Pin over his heart whenhe died. With only the name of the sorority, search was started, and inquiry at college after college finally located the girl to whom he had been engaged, and possible the marking of his a medal of one grave. Civil War Widow Gets Ring. Only a few weeks ago a family ring worn by a soldier of the Civil War was returned to the widow who for all these years had thought it lost. Of the thousands of soldiers wo have died in service of this country, the effects of more than three-fourths have been returned to those who have the right to them. But 5,000 still are waiting distribution. (Copyright, 1924.) ——— BLUE RIDGE SITE LIKELY CHOICE FOR VAST FEDERAL PARK (Continued from First Page.) spent across the valley in the Massa- nutten Mountain region, where a small reservation already exists for the preservation of forests and plants, after which Col. Smith and Maj. Walsh returned to Washington. From the Capital Maj. Walsh continued on to New York City. Opportunities Vast. Should Stony Man Mountain and its vicinity be selected as the site of the new national park it would give Washington a great natural play- ground, carefully preserved and kept up by the Government, only 80 miles over a perfect automobile road from the White House. It would be second to none in the country from the stand- point of beauty, accessibility and rec- reational opportunities. There is available there a tract 10 miles wide and 100 miles long. In it trout brooks abound by the score; camp sites seem almost as numerous as the streams that gush down its mighty slopes; a modern Summer camp already exists on the summit of Stony Man, which the Government would acquire and operate at a mod- erate cost, as it now operates the hotels and camps in the Yellowstone National Park Pastare Well Stocked. Tts pasture lands would be well stocked with buffalo, deer and elk, which would roam the confines of the park in their wild state. Al- ready it is a sanctuary for birds, and species native to that section is found in abundance. Wild flowers crowd one another for room .in the open Spaces, and in the forests are all of the trees that are typical of the mountain South from the now rare mountain laurel to the hardy fir bal- sam that can thrive only in the rare- fied atmosphere well up in the clouds—Skyland. At present Skyland and its natural wonders can be reached by a rather circuitous automobile route through New Market, to Luray, a distance of 166 miles from Washington. Next Summer, however, Luray will be brought’ to within 80 miles of the White House, with the opening of the new Lee Highway as far as that point, and should the park be created perfect roads would be built through itw area. Skyland and the Stony Man region, it was pointed out, hold many ad- vantages as a site for the proposed park aside from its natural advan- tages. In the first place, besides be- ing typical of the South in every re- spect, it is within easy automobile distance of Washington, which itself is a mecca for tourists every year. Every one who visited Washington would be able to take in the park. In addition four caverns among the greatest in the world are directly on the fringes of the Stony Man site— the Luray Caverns, the Endless Cav- erns, the Shenandoah Caverns and the Grouz of the Gods. the mother | Funeral So Cheap, City’s Ads Aver, Dying Is Pleasure BY ALFRED M. MURRAY. Special Cable to The Star and New York World. PARIS, September 20.—The mu- nicipality of Cuisery, near Cha- lons-sur-Seine, has gone intq - the undertaking business and is con- ducting an advertising campaign in true “go-getter” style. All over the town gayly colored posters show how much cheaper is the cost of municipal bursal than the cost of living class interment, three dollar: Patrons sipping their drinks in the cafe and looking pensively out into the streets are reminded of the transient nature of worldly pleasures and urged to take thought of their eventual and in- evitable journey to a better land and make arrangements to travel by the municipal burial route. (Copyright, 1924, by New York World.) STATE MAY SEIZE KAISER'S HOLDINGS Plans to Give Hohenzollerns $400,000 Annually for Living Expenses. Special Cable to the Star and New York World BERLIN, September 20.—Moderates in the Prussian state legislature are | proposing to end the controversy with | the Holienzollerns over former im- perial estates and funds, by confisca- tory legislation. After the state takes over all this property, the proposal is to give the former reigning family an allowance which Prussia deems sufficient for its needs, about §400,000 a year, for all the members of the family. Es- tates sufficient to provide this sum would be &et aside. At present the state holds the prop- erties but the Hohenzollerns, with the exception of the former kaiser, live on them and legally no one owns them. During the last four vears, various | members of the family have instituted | | civil suits against the state. They always appeared before reactionary, | monarchist judges, and aleays won | Now the moderates fear that by a| | series of such suits, all the Hohenzol- |lern property gradually will slip | away from the state. Settlement Is Rejected The family has rejected the state's offer of a settlement which would have given them 15 castles, villas and palaces in _Pottsdam, § _enormous estates in the country and 10 royal |funds, a total estimated value of {$300,000,000. The Hohenzollerns claim the priceless collection of paint- ings in the Friedrich Museum, which includes 11 Rembrandts. They threaten to withdraw all these works if their demands for triple what the state offered them are not granted The moderates have been lobbying {for a two-thirds majority necessary to pass the confiscatory legislation they | seek. The arrogant demands of the Hohenzollerns, both in form and in content, have so enraged all but the most extreme reactionaries, that it is believed this majority will be forthcoming. Then the Hohenzollerns will have to accept what the state sees fit to offer them. (Copyright, 1924, by New York World.) THE WEATHER District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia—Showers today and prob- ably tomorrow; warmer tomorrow moderate east and southeast winds. West Virginia—Unsettled with showers today and probably tomor- rowo; slightly warmer today. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Midnight, 65: 2 am., 64; 4 am., 63; 6 am., 63; 8 am. 63; 10 am., 65; 12 noon, 67; 2 p.m., 69; 4 p.m., 69; § p.m., 66: 8 p.m., 64: 10 p/m., 59. . Highest, 69; lowest, 63. Relative humidity—8 am., pm., 75; 8 p.m., 85. Rainfall (8 pm. to Sp.m., .06 Temperature same date last year— Highest, 84; lowest, 66. ‘Weather in Various Cities. —Temperatare.—, Precip- Max. Min. itation. §: Fri. Sat.8p.m.to urday. night. 8 p.m. § p.m. 62 1.08 63 020 6 S I 7 46 50 a 62 66 o 64 4z o1 o 88; Asheville, Atlanta, G Atlantic City.. Raitimore, Md. Obio. Cheyente,” Wyo.. Cleveland, Ohfo... Davenport, Towa. Denver, Colo...... Des Moines Detroit, M Little Rock, Ark.. Los_Angeles, ‘C: Lovissille, Ky.... Merquette, Mich. Memphis, Tenn Miami, Fla Mabile, = New Orlean: New York, North Plaite, Omaha, Nebr. Philadelphia. 'Fa Phoenix, Ariz...00 Pittsburgh, Pa. Portland, Me. s Nebr. St Faol, Minn. San Antoaio, Te: San_Diego, Cal S. Franclsco, & Beattle. Springiel Tam Toledo. ORI Vickeburg. Mies: WASH'GTON, D. C. d. ¥ SOUVENIR HOLY NAME enlarged 12-page Rotogravure mailed anywhere in the United NAME ..... STREET ADDRESS CITY | Pittsburgh, WHEELER ATTACKS DAWES IN CHICAGO Candidate Charges Opponent With Questionable Bank Transactions. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 20.—An as sault on the public and private rec- ord of Gen. Dawes, Republican vice presidential candidate, was launched tonight by Senator Wheeler of Mon- tana, nominee for the same office on the independent ticket. A capacity crowd®at a night mass meeting heard Senator La Follette's running mate unloose his oratorical guns, The address was the third of a series delivered in the city during the a: His night audience hailed Senator Wheeler's declaration that he ‘came to tell someth Daw first with tears, and then with sympathetic cooing. He went straight to quotations from pre-car - gn speeches made by Gen. Daw ich showed the Republican repr sentative to be, he said, an oppons of “a free Democra He procee: thereafter to an alleged descript of banking transactions, involving failed Chicago bank, organized former Senator Lorimer of Ilinois which, he said, Gen. Dawes had p ticipated. Departing from written text, § ator Wheeler said that John Bur Payne. attorney for Mr. Dawes' ba in litigation over the transaction, I issued a statement declaring th there was no wrong-doing in t steps. “But e about s that's where Judge Payne opinion differs from that of th courts which have passed upon it Senator Wheeler said. “I'm reminded of the story of ar airplane driver, who took a passenger over the dome of the National Capito just after the Teapot Derm ndal came out,” Senator Wheeler added “The passenger wanted to know what the buildlng was, and the aviator jocularly said it was the greatest steel mill in_the United States. No wonder Gen. Dawe wants to get down there now.” “I've told you at some length about Gen. Dawes' earnest constitutional defending,” he bLroke away again “Whose Constitution? His own, I sup. pose, because all his connections show he means the kind of consti- tution he wants to use. He may fool some of the people in the East, but he cannot do anvthing with the peo- ple of the West and Northwest when he tells them Senator La Follett and myself want to tear down the Constitution and the country merely because we are trying to give the people a square deal. They've bee: fooled out here too much. It be done again.” can’'t PRIZES ARE AWARDED IN ESSAY CONTESTS Rev. Peter Ireton, Baltimore, Wins $500 on Subject of Building Up Society. Prizes were awarded at Name convention session to the winners of Journal essay contest, covering th entire United States. The first prize of $500 on the sub- ject “How to Build Up and Ma. a Successful Holy Name Soci won by Rev. Peter Ireton, spiritual director of the Baltimor: section of the Archdiocesan Union The second prize of $250 was wor by Rev. Thomas F. Coakley, Pitts burgh, Pa.; the third prize of $150 by Rev. Anthony M. Benedict, Latrob: Pa, and the fourth prize f $100 by Rev. John F. Fogarty, Philadelphia In the contest on the subject “The Holy Name Society as a Huilder of American Citizens” the first prize $50 was won by Daniel L. Dougherty Pa, and the second by Louis F. Borstelmann, Greensburgh Pa, president of the Most Holy Sac: ment Holy Name Society. A. B. BLACKWOOD DIES. Patent the H last n the Holy Name tain was Baltimore Attorney Succumbs Garfield Hospital. Albert B. Blackwood, patent torney of this city, died in the G fleld Hospital Friday. He was t to the hospital Thursday. Death wa caused by paralysis Mr. Blackwood was 55 years old and a native of Pennsylvan - ilve for awhile in this city and then moved to Baltimore, where he lived for several years before again taking up his residence here. He is survived by a brother, Walter 0. Blackwood of this city, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at the chapel of John R. Wright, 1317 Tenth street, tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Interment will be " in Glenwood Cemetery. ARMY SCHOOL OPENING. Finance Course for Enlisted Men Starts Tomorrow. The next regular course for en- listed men of the Army Finance De- partment will begin tomorrow at tha Army Finance School in Tempo Build ing, No. 5, Twenty-first and B streets. The students are drawn from the first six Army Corps, and the ma- jority are men recently enlisted. The school prepares men during the 12- week course, to perform the technical duties of the pay department in a manner conforming to laws and regulations, with a minimum of supervision from finance officers upon return to their permanent stations The Finance Department settles all bills of the Army, including pay of the personnel and costs of clothing and subsistence. in EDITIONS CONVENTION The Coening and Sunday Star From Wednesday, to Monday, September 22, Inclusive Each issue will contain a complete and accurate account of the great event. On Sunday, September 21, will be included an September 17, Section, featuring pictures of Bautiful Washington and Catholic Buildings. The six issues States for 25 cents. STATE........ Leave order ‘with representative at Gymnasium (Catholic University) or The Star Office, Eleventh and Pennsylvania Ave.