Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1924, Page 17

ALLEGED MEMBERS OF 1. W. W. GET THEIR “WALKI G PAPERS.” STAR, But the sherifl and his deputies ) % of Concrete, Wash., kindly escort them by auto truck from the vicinity of the town. One hundred and fifty were ordered to leave the neighborhood—-and keep going. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. CALLED UPON MRS. COOLIDGE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Members of Council of Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association photographed on White House lawn with the wife of the Pre<ident. council isgbeing held in Washington, HERE FOR NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UTILIZATION OF FOREST PRODUCTS. President Coolidge ‘made the opening address to the lumbermen who are now in Washington. LLITERACY FIGHT SUPPORT SOUGHT Commission Asks Civic, Pa- triotic and Welfare Bodies’ Indorsement. Civic, patriotic and public welfare organizations of Washington are heing urged by the illiteracy commis- son of the ciation to indorse its program design- d to eradicate illiteracy in the United States. The movement in the District is In charge of Miss Maude E. Aiton, principal of the Amerlcanization Schools, and a member of the illiteracy commission of the N. E. A. Miss Aiton has written to a number of organizations in Washington, pointing out that there are 10,509 illiterates here over 10 years of age, | and urging the indorsement of the illiteracy commission’s objectives. These letters’ have been sent to the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, Federation of Women's Clubs, Sons of the American Revolution, American Legion, American Women's Legion, Civitan Club, Rotary Ciub, Board of Trade, Washington Chamber of Commerce and the various parent- teacher organizations.. Ten Points Raised. The 10 points made against illiter- acy contained in the recommenda- tlons of the National Illteracy Con- terence in Washington last January, which the local organization has been ssked to support, follow: 1. Appointment by the governor of a State illiteracy commission. 2. The creation of a State director of adult education. 3. The removal of age limit to pub- lic school attendan 4. Requirement that school boards organize day and night classes for adults when minimum number apply. 5. An illiteracy census required by, law to be taken by the regular school census enumerator when _taking school census. 6. Literacy test law. 7. Training course for teachers of adults in all State normal schools. 8. Bupervision of teachers who teach illiterates. 9. Suitable course of study and methods of instruction. 10. State pubdlcity committee, ational Education Asso- | {U. S. ANNOUNCES PROBE OF BIG BAKERY MERGER Federal Trade Commission to In- vestigate Corporation to De- termine Legality of Move. An investigation of the organiza- tion of the Continental Baking Cor- poration, recently incorporated in Baltimore, is being undertaken by the Federal Trade Commission, the | commission announced today. Merger jof several of the largest bread and cake baking companles In the United States is contemplated, it is said, and the commission's inquiry is to de- termine whether any of the anti- [trust laws are being violated. | Experts for the @mmission, it was said, are keeping in close touch with he details of the proposed merger, which would include the United Bak- erles Corporation, the Ward Baking Company, the General Baking Com- pany, the Fleischmann Company of New York, the American Baking Company of St. Louis, the Loose- | Wiles Blscuit Company of St. Louls {and the Grennan Bakeries, Incorpo- | rated, of Detroit. { The commission declared it would { “act promptly, if the facts develop | that the laws have been violated.” TUBERCULOSIS REMEDY STUDIED BY SURGEONS 22 European Medical Leaders Go to Copenhagen to Investigate Sanoerysin. By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. COPENHAGEN, November 20.—The Interest .aroused by the new tuber- culosis -~ remedy, sanocrysin, has brought 22 European surgeons here to study the cure. Professor Moell- gaard daily, receives hundreds of let- ters from sufferers throughout the world requesting information about the success of the discovery. Prof. Moellgaard expects to go to the United States at the beginning of the year to lecture on the remedy. It is also intended to send over a delegation of Danish surgeons who are acquainted with the treatment to teach it to- American surgeons. (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) I S R Though she is past 69 years of age, Mrs. Mary L. Lee was recently ac- claimed the most popular girl in southern Wisconsin, securing & ma- jority of 92,000 votes from a fleld of 138 contestants, pQlling nearly 2,- 000,000 votes, | | {lation of live stock and co-operative National Photo. PRESIDENT'S FARM BODY 15 RECESSED Special Commission to Meet in January When Data | " Are Prepared. ‘ The President's Agricultural Com-| mission was In recess today while all| Government agencles whose activities affect the farming industry began the assembling of comprehensive in- | formation it requires as a basis forl considering a permanent relief pro-| gram. | Members of the commission plan to reassemble in January, when it s expected sufficient data will be avail- able for them to proceed with formu- marketing proposals, which they re- gard,as the most urgent probleras before them. They hope to have recommendations on these subjects | and as many others as possible) ready for consideration by Congress before it expires, March 4,.in com- pliance with President Coolidge's de- sire that agricultural rellef be acted upon at the impending short session. The commission recessed last night after agreeing upon a tentative plan of procedure, which Chairman Carey expects will earry its work well be- yond the adjournment of Congress. The data it has asked the Govern- ment agencles to provide takes in financial, statistical and regulatofy activities pertaining to agriculture, tariff, reclamation and numerous other subjects. Eugene Meyer, jr., managing di- rector of the War Finance Corpora- tion; Chairman Hall of the Interstate Commerce Commission and officials of the Federal Power Commission were among those consulted by the commission at its concluding ses- sions. SRRy G. U. Alumni Change Meeting. The meeting of the Georgetown Alumni Club, set for tonight, at the City Club, has been postponed until Thursday, December 4 owing to a change in the plans of the executive committee. For December 4, an in- teresting meeting is planned, and WASHINGTON, THE BEARDED SHEIK GOES WESTWARD. ita Naldi, Rudolph Valentino left New York yesterday wife and Hollywood. wovie stars, New Yorkers thronged TO EUROPE FOR REST AND STUDY. D. C, THURSDAY, Accompanied by hi to the station ta say farewell Copyeliht by 1 & A. Fiiot John W. Davis, who was the Democratic candidate for President, and Mrs. Davis sailed yesterday aboard the S. S. Paris for a vacation in Europe. immigration systems. Mr. Davis will study Copyright by Kadel & Herbert. WOMAN SLUGGED, SPRING LOCK ON CLOSET TRAPS INTRUDER Youth Near Collapse From Suffocation and Thirst When Discovered in Hiding Place, Day After By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November 20.—A spring. lock, inadvertently snapped by an intruder in the home of Mrs. Sarah Kauffman, in West Philadel- phia, after she had been struck over the head and Injured, kept the in- truder a prisoner in a second-floor closet 14 hours yesterday, and might |have resulted in his death from lack of water and air. Police, summoned by Mrs. Kauffman, who had heard a noise in the closet, unlocked the door and discovered a youth, who later gave his name as Melvin Barnes, Galveston, Tex/v on the verge of col- lapse. Mrs. Kauffman was passing through a darkened hallway on the second floor of her home Tuesday night, when she was suddenly struck on the head, the blow inflicting a gash in her scalp. Police were called and searched the house, but could find no Attack. trace of an intruder. Mrs. Kauffman, doing some housework on the second floor yesterday, when she heard a scraping sound in the closet. She nearly collapsed when the police opened the door and the strange youth fell into their arms. denied having struck Mrs. Kauffman. He admitted having broken into the house, but declared he was “merely looking for a place to sleep” and when he heard footsteps fled into the closet and was trapped when the spring lock snapped into place. “I couldn't have held out another Barnes declared, “for my strength was giving out, and I doubt if 1 could have made noise enough to attract.attention an hour later.” The prisoner was held on charges of attempted burglary, forcible en- try and assault and battery. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— BANKER CONVICTED; TAKES LIFE AT HOME President of South Carolina Insti- tution Shoots Self—Was to Have Been Sentenced Today. By the Associated Press. GREENWOOD, S. C., November 20.—. B. F. McKellar, sr, president of the Peoples’ Bank, who was convicted in County Court here yesterday on a charge of violation of the State bank- ing law, committed suicide in the back yard of his home here last night by shooting himself through the head. McKellar was to have been sentenced by Judge Henry C. Tillman _today, along with O. D. Duckett, cashier of the Peoples’ Bank, which Was closed some time ago. Both were convicted on a charge of having made excessive loans to the People's Trust Company, in violation of the State law. The jury deliberated on the case two hours. e Instead of using her police club when a man attempted to hit her, Mrs. Margaret McHugh, one of Bos- ton's policewomen, landed a right TWO UNACCOUNTED FOR IN BIG HOTEL BLAZE Philadelphia Couple May Be Dead in Ruins, Officials Fear. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,, November 20.—At least two persons, Mr. and Mrs. Albert McClenahan of Philadel- phia, are still unaccounted for in the fire ‘which destroyed the Bothwell Hotel on Monday night, according to I police who are conducting a search for them. The hotel register has not yet been found and a positive check-up is im- possible. ‘The condition of the ruins makes search dangerious and no move has yet been ‘made to take out any of the debris, Boy Bitten by Dog. While ‘playing in the yard fir rear { of St. Mar$n's Church, North Capitol and T streets, vesterday afternoon, Arthur Bridges, 16, 129 U street northeast, was bitten on the right ¢leg by a dog belonging to the jani- George O'Connor is hooked, among|swing on the man's Jaw and semt him tor of the church. He received treat- others, to entertain, sprawling into the street. ment at home. 2 NOVEMBER 20, still puzzled about the attack, was!| After he had. been revived, Barnes! 1924. DOWN WHERE BALMY BREEZES BLOW IN FROM THE S| A, It is not coldgat St. Petersburg, Fla The sun shines brightly and the bathing girls scamper hither and yon. This is supposed to be Mme. tune, the young wife of Old Father Neptune, and her court. A NOVEL METHOD OF ADVERTISING THEIR SHOW. John of the St. Patrick Players wore the clothes of their grandmothers on F street vesterday. The “open: hack™ and its occupants attracted SPEND FIRST WEEK OF THEIR HONEYMOON considerable attention. By UniteqNews Picty Misses Peggy Lally. Clara Priddy and Mary St ace National Photo THE WOODS. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Day of Norfolk. Va., without firearms and with crude cooking utensils, try living next to nature in the Virginia woods. REALTORS INDORSE DISTRICT SUFFRAGE {Will Sign Joint Petition to Congress for National Representation. The Washington Real Estate Board unanimously authorized its president, Thomas E. Jarrell, to sign the citi- zens' joint petition to Congress for national representation, last night voring the right of franchise for resi- lowing an address by Edward F. Col- | laday, former president of the Board of Trade, at the monthly meeting of the Real Estate Board at the Ward- man Park Hotel. Wants Full Voice, Mr. Colladay told the realtors that there was no way in which the peo- ple of the District could have a voice in the laws that governed them un- less they had Representatives in Con- gress. “The proposal of a voteless delegate in that body would be a mere empty shell,” declared Mr. Col- laday, who, suggested that the Dis- trict should have voting Representa- tives based on population and one or two Senators, all of whom should be elected by the citizens. The right to vote for presidential electors was also declared essential by Mr. Colladay. He pointed out that the bill proposing the necessary amendment to the Constitution to en- franchise thé District, as it now stands, would also grant the right to take court actions from the State courts into the Federal courts. Explaining that the District is pro- portionately represented in each of the party conventions, Mr. Colladay said that the citizens were asking no more of the people of the coun- try than 1s recognized and granted by the political parties. “The grade of intelligence of the people In the District is higher than in the States. By the last census its population is gregter than the seven smaller States, and possibly by now {s greater than nine of them,” de- clared Mr. Cofladay, who said that the number of soldiers' sent to the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the World War by the District was {n each case greater than in a number of States. “We certainly pay. fair share to the support of the Gov- The realtors went on record as fa- | dents of the District of Columbia, fol- | VAUGHN CLASS CONCERT i DRAWS BIG AUDIENCE Thirty-Fifth Annual Program Given at Calvary »Blpfi!t Church ! Includes Opera Act. A capacity audience attended the | thirty-fifth annual concert under the auspices of the Vaughn Bible class of the Calvary Baptist Church, in the | Sunday school rooms last night. Fea- | uring the program were an opera |and several musical selections given | by local talent. | “Among those on the program were | Walter Holt and a section of his Nordica Mandolin and Guitar Orches- tra; Walter W. Beck, dramati terpreter; Elsa Louise Raner, vio- linist, with Marie Hansen, accom- panist; George H. O'Connor, bari- { tone,. with Matt Horne at the piano; a cast from the Estelle Wentworth Opera Company in the kitchen scene from “Martha,” with Miss Wentworth as musical director and accompanist and Albert Parr as stage director. The opera was given in costume and | the cast included Elizabeth Thorn- | berry, Nina Norman, Russell Cordrey, Woodruff Youngs and Ellsworth | Condron. The committes follows: E. in charge was as Guy A. Ourand, talent; Rayford, program; Hugh W Smith, press;: E. L. Tolson, tickets; J. A. Patterson, reception, and O. A. i C. Oehmler, decorating. G. W. U. ALUMNI TO MEET. Annual Luncheon of Association to . Be Held Next Week. The monthly luncheon of the George Washington University Alumni Asso. clation will be held at 12:30 Satur- day, November 29, at the Lafayette Hotel. Dr. Frank Hornaday, senior vice president of the assoclation, will preside in the absence of Gilbert L. | Hall, the president. Entertainment will be provided. All George Wash- ington University graduates are urged by the. askociation to attend and bring with them others who may not have heard of the luncheon. ——— ernment and we pay a fair tax,” de- clared Mr. Colladay. He pointed out that the resolution to amend the Constitution was fa- vorably reported from the Senate Dis- trict committee and that Representa- tive Zihlman, probable head of the House District committee, hds de- clared in favor of it. B. C. Brandenburg, general counsel for the Board of Trade, addressed the realtors on “Bankruptey.” in- | World Wide Photo AGTRESS' HUSBAND SHOT; CASE PROBED Cousin of Gen. Smuts in Hos- pital—Wife Formerly Was May Yohe. By the Associated Press, BOSTON. November 20.—Capt A. Smuts, cousin of Gen. Jan Smuts South African war hero, was resting comfortably today ata hospital, where he was taken last night with a bul- let wound in his chest. In the mean {time policc were investigating th {circumstances of the shooting, whicl |Capt. Smuts said was aceldental. A note found at the South End lodging [house where Smuts and his wife, for |merly May Yohe, an actress, had e sided two weeks indicated that | had planned to commit suicide Tast night Mre. Smuts summoned physician, and Capt. Smuts was tak: to the hospital. The shooting o curred yesterday afternoon. Cap Smuts said he was sitting on a I cleaning a small-caliber revolver when it was discharged accldentally In a search of the house the police found a note which read: “I intend to shoot myself because I have been unkind to my wife. The note wa.! signed “J. A. Smuts,” but the police sald note and signature were in dif ferent handwriting. When questioned at the hospital, Capt. Smuts warned the authorities not to make troubl: for his wife, and said: “It_makes no difference who shot me. If you make trouble for my wif I will maintaln that I shot mysel no matter what you say. I am x game fellow. I can stand this. 1 love my wife.” Capt. and Mrs. Smuts came to Bos- ton two weeks ago. Mrs. Smuts, as May Yohe, was _formerly the wife. of Lord Francis Hope and later whs married to Capt. Putnam B Strong, son of a former mayor o York. She was marricd to Cap! Smuts in London in 1913. As the wife of Lord Hope she became pos- sessor of the Hope diamond, around which ix woven a story of mishaps for the owners. H Johr | | —_— A handful of Epsom salts in a foot tub of hot water is a splendid so! l,lon to ease those tired and swollen oet.