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READY FOR INTERNATIONAL R America for the tests w Ra ing a preliminary test yesterday. States Marine Corps, before Saturday FGHTBY ELIEONS ON WAR CRIIEZED Their Methods Mistaken, As- serts Lecturer, Who Prom- ises Right Program. _Religious organizations are over- [oking plain teachings of the Bible, Dr. W. G. Wilkinson, dean of theolo- &Y, Washington Missionary College, declared last night in an address at the Belasco Theater before a large congregation. In working upon the governments in their efforts to bring about & permanent peace and upon our own Government in particular, the fundamental facts seem to have been forgotten, he said. Dr. Wilkiuson discussed the recent return ot F. E. Nicholson from Rus- sla, where he has been engaged in famine relie work. Mr. Nicholson will resume his position as assistant secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. Borah Report Scored. “The Borah Senate report upon the activities of the Communistic party in the United States presents abund- ant evidence that the radicals are meeking to disarm the United States at the very time when radicalism is maintaining a large army,” said Dr. ‘Wilkinson. Recalling the program of war of the past, he added that the world's consclence was declared too enlight- ened to permit International slaugh- ter, That program failed. Then came the war of 1914. The powers rushed into the “glorious war to end war.” That program also failed. Now they begin on another program equally contrary to the plain program of the Scriptures as were the first two, he avers. The answer that shall be given to those religlonists who quote the prophet of the Scriptures about beat- ing the “plowshares into swords and spears into pruning hooks” Dr. Wilk- tnson will undertake to present next Sunday night at the Capitol Memorial Church, Fifth and F streets. The sub- Ject of the lecture will be “The Sec- ond Coming of Christ.” CULTURE OF TOBACCO FAILURE IN ENGLAND Native Product Has Distinct Flavor Disliked by British Trade. Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON, November 7.— England will never bo a tobacco-growing country unless the present tastes of tobacco users change. The commit- tee of the treasury appointed to in- quire into the tobacco industry and to report on the possibility of grow- ing and marketing English tobacco said in its report that English to- bacco has a distinct flavor which is foreign to the acquired taste of the consumer and therefore rarely ap- preciated by him. “The trade, in fact, could never be profitable. The committee does not recom- mend any further expenditure of publie funds toward attempting to build ,a large tobacco industry in Great’ Britaln, Broadcast ‘Laboratories at Garden City, Philadelphia’s public servis with little Joe Lyons, mascot of the Quaker C director, shaking hands police foot ball team, game with the Norfolk, Va., firemen. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanl Hall, tomorrow evening at 5:45 o'clock, John S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster. March, “Sons of Uncle Sam,” McCoy Overture, “The Hand of Fel- lowship’ Entr'acte— (a) “Unspoken Word (b) “A Fan Flirtation, Jackson Selection, “The O'Brien Girl,” irsch Moore Fox trot, “Pleasure Ma Simmons “Andalusia,” Lethiere “Hard-Hearted Han- R Spangled Banner.” ONE SLAIN, TWO SHOT IN REVOLVER BATTLE Police See Revenge for Dion 0’'Ban- nion Killing in Cicero, % 111, Strife. Waltz Espagnole, Finale, AN “The Star By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 24.—One no- torious gambling house and saloon keeper was killed and two other men probably fatally wounded and a fourth less seriously hurt following a gun fight in Cicero yesterday. Eddie Tancl, known to police as a power in_gambling circles, was slain in his saloon and gambling place in Cicero during a revolver fight. Myles (Klondike) O'Donnell and Leo Climax were probably fatally wounded and Martin Sinet, a waiter in Tancl's saloon, was slightly wounded by a stray bullet from the gangsters' weapons. Chicago officials immediately acted to prevent further bloodshed in the city proper, fearing that the lull which followed the murder a week ago of Dion O'Banion, prominent underworld figure, and aonther al- leged gangster yesterday, would be broken by new trouble. Police spread a drag net through the “bad lands” of Chicago, determined, they said, to forestall any influx of Cicero gunmen. Squads were sent to Cicero to co- operate with the suburban authorities. Sinet and Mrs. Tancl, wife of the slain man, asserted that O'Donnell and a James Daugherty, who escaped, had done the shooting, after an argu- ment over their bill. Detectives saw in the affray re- venge for the O'Banion killing or a fight for control of the traffic in beer- running. Cicero authorities recently announced their city was ‘closed tight” and gaming could not be found there. . FRENCH EMBASSY CHANGE Washington Staff Transfer and Promotion Announced. PARIS, November 24.—Announce- ment is made of several changes in the personnel of the French embassy in Washington. Andre De Laboulave, counselor of embassy, has been ap- pointed counselor of the embassy in Berlin. M. De Sartiges will be_ the new counselor in Washington. -Jules Henry, second secretary of embassy, has been promoted to the post of first secretary. AT A el £ Queen Mary {s making e personal effort, to bring about a revival of the lace-making industry in Englandy. e T ADIO TESTS, Preparations have been completed 1n rutupe e h start today. They will continue throughout the week from the headquarters of the L. 1. The photograph shows John B. Brennan, an expert, mak- Copyright by P. & A. Photos. “DRESDEN CHINA DANCER” IN FILMS. The newest recruit to the Hollywood film_colony is Mlle. Mar Mindzsenty, star of the Vienna Opera Ballet. She is known all over Europe as “the Dresden China ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO AND TODAY. Fifth avenue is cele- brating its one hundredth birthday, and so the styles of today and a cen- tury ago are being displayed. The coat on the left is an “opera cloak™ worn 100 years ag CAPITAL PRIEST FTS PAPALHONOR Mgr. Joseph H. Cassidy Made Domestic Prelate Before Church Leaders. Attended by clergy and prelates from this city and vicinity, St Stephen's Church, Twenty-fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue, passed through a day of religious ceremonies yesterday marking a_ new epoch in the church history. First, Mgr. Jo- seph H. Cassidy, pastor of the church, was Invested with the purple robes of a domestic prelate of the papal household, and It was accompanied with all the pomp and pageantry that for four centuries has attended such events. Then in the afternoon a class of 135 boys and girls was confirmed tn the church and this was followed by the dedication of the $200,000 parochial school. The solemn investiture was con- duoted by Archbishop Curley, an out- standing feature of which was the presence on. the altar of four men who attended St. Stephen's Church and who have since become priests, and who came here especially for the ceremony. Rev. Francis J. Leary of St. Ann's Church, Baltimore, one of them, celebrated mass. He was assisted by two of the others, Rev. Joseph J. Leary of St. Peter’s Church, Western Port, Md., and Rev. Joseph P. Callaghan of St. Brigid's Church, Baltimore. Rev. James J. O'Connor of the Corpus Christi Church, Baltimore, the fourth, served as deacon to Mgr. Cassidy. 40 Prelates Present. Among the 40 prelates who were in the sanctuary were three who formerly were attached to St. Stephen’s. They were the Rev. Rob- ert J. Froelich of St. Augustine's Church, this city; the Rev. Thomas G. Smyth, pastor of the Blessed Sacrament Church of Chevy Chase, and the Rev. George J. Larkin of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Baltimore. The latter also served as a deacon to Mgr. Cassidy. Mgr. C. F. Thomas, recfor of St. Patrick's Church, preached the ser- mon. He praised St. Stephen’s parish for the firmness of its faith and eulogized Mgr. Cassidy for his aclevements as pastor. Mgr. Cas- sidy, he said, had realized early that he had’a mission to perform and that he had worked at it trelessly and un- swervingly. Archbishop Curley echoed Mgr. Thomas’ praise of the parish and its pastor. He desoribed Mgr. Cassidy as a “priestly priest,” and explained that more than that could not be said of any churchman. Mgr. Cassidy’s greatest. achieve- ment, he. sald, was the new St. Stephen's School. This he described as his greatest monument to Jesus Christ. The Rev. T. Vincent Fitzgerald of St. Stephen’s made the arrangements for the day's events. The Rev.' Wil- ligm A. Neligan acted as master of ceremonies. The cholr was under the direction of Miss Margaret M. Siat- tery and Father Fitsgerald. —_— Miss Clara Belle Kelly has been appointed passenger representative in Cincinnati ngn ok of ‘rn. bl::;le: road systems. y two.other in. America are known to fill ‘simflar; Dpositiona P SN S ey Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. the Texan war for independence, Gen. Sam Houston, wil HAVE YOU ORDERED YOUR THANKS! JIVING TURKEY YET? The birds are coming into town by the truckloads, and there promises to be a large enough supply to go around. Years ago, the turkeys were driven into Washington from neurby Virginia and Maryland, a whole week sometimes being taken up with the of the hero of be unveiled in Houston, Tex., during the convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. Enrico Cerracchio, the sculptor, at left. Houston was born March 2, 1793, near Lexington, Va. Star Swarms Found in Nebulae Prove Them Stellar Univers Carnegie Institution Observer Confirms View of Great Systems Existing Outside Our Own. Confirmation of the view that the i nebulae that appear in our ns are distant stellar systems, has just been obtained in some investigations car- ried on by Dr. Edwin Hubble with the powerful telescopes at the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Some of these nebulae, which ap- pear through even the most powerful instruments as whirling clouds, have been found to be about a million light vears distant from the earth, meaning that they are now observed by light which left them in a past geological age upon the earth. A brief account of the results of wr. Hubble's investigations was tele- graphed to the Washington office of the Carnegie Institution ‘from the Mount Wilson Observatory, at Pasa- dena, Calif. A part of this message was made public as follows: Divergence of Opinion. “THe question of the nature of the spiral nebulae is one of the most in- teresting problems of astronomy and has led to a marked divergence of opinion on the part of those who have studied them. Some astronomers have belleved that they are at enormous distances from the earth and consti- tute independent stellar systems, or ‘island universes,’ while others con- sider them as objects within our own stellar universe at distances com- Dlflrabla with those of our fainter stars. ‘The number of spiral nebulae is very great, amounting to hundreds of "thousands, and their apparent sizes range from small objects almost star-like in character, to the great nebulae in Andromeda, which extends across an angle some three degrees in the heavens, about six times the diameter of the full moon. Measured by Brightness. “The spiral nebulae are much too small to admit of the use of the simple method of triangulation em- ployed so successfully in the case of the nearer stars. There are, however, powerful methods avallable which depend upon the possibility of deter- mining direotly the true or intrinsio brightness of stars from the ¢har- acteristics of the light which they send to us. “If the intrinsic brightness of a star Is known, it is a very simple computation to derive its distance by comparison with its apparent brightness in the sky. One of these methods, and that employed by Dr. Hubble in his investigation of the two brightest spiral nebulae, depends upon the fact that certain stars which vary in Hght in a very definite way are known to show dirgct relation- ship between the perfod of their light variation and thelr true or intrinsic brightness. “Theé method has been used success- fully by Dr. Shapley of the Harvard College observatory, in his studies of the distances of the globular star clusters and the Magellanic clouds of the Southern hemisphere, Swarms of Stars. “The investigations ot Dr. Hubble were made hotographically with the 60-inch - and 100-inch reflectors of the Mount Wilson observatory, the ex- treme .faintness of the stars under examination making necessary the nsg oL these great telescopes = The resolving power of these instruments break up the outer portions of the nebulae into swarms of stars, which may be studied individually and compared with those in our own system “From an investigation of the photographs 36 variable stars of type referred to, known as Cepheid vari- ables, were discovered in_the two spirals, Andromeda and No. 33 of Messier's great catalogue of nebulae. The study of the periods of these stars and the application of the re- lationship between length of period and intrinsic brightness at once pro- vided the means of determining the distances of these objects. “The results are striking in their confirmation of the view that these spiral nebulae are distant stellar sys- tems. They are found to be about 10 times as far away as the small Magellanic cloud, or at a distance of the order of one million light years. This means that light traveling at the rate of 186,000 miles a second has required a million years to reach us from these nebulae, and that we are observing them by light which left them in the Pliocene age upon the earth. “With a knowledge of the distances of these nebulae, we find for their diameters 45,000 light-years for the Andromeda Nebula and 15,000 light- vears for Messier 33. These quanti- ties, as well ds the masses and densi- ties of the systems; are quite com- parable Wwith the corresponding val- ues for our local system of stars. Ithough these nebulae are the most distant objects for which we have reliable data, it seems probable that many of the smaller spiral nebulae are still more remote and appear smaller on this account. From this point of view the portion of the universe within the range of our in- vestigation consists of vast numbers of stellar galaxies comparable to our own, scattered about through nearly empty space and separated from one another by distances of inconceivable magnitude.” DAWES IN LEGION DRIVE. Accepts Vice Chairmanship of Com- mittee to Raise $5,000,000. INDIANAPOLIS, Nevember 2h—Ac- ceptance by Charles G. Dawes, Vice President-elect, of the vice chair- manship of the honorary committee created by the American Legion to assist in its campaign to raise. an endowment fund of $5,000,000 to care for disabled world war veterans and orphans of fallen ex-service men was announced yesterday at legion head- quarters here. The list included Secretary of State Hughes, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Work, Secretary of Agri- culture Gore'and Secretary of Labor Davis. Representing the ‘Navy will be Secretary Wilbur, Admiral E. W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, and Maj. Gen. John J. Lejeune of the Marine Corps. The Army’s representatives will be Secretary Weeks, Gen. John J. Per- shing and Maj Gen, Jobn L, Higes. l Copyright by Underwood & Und OMMERCE BUREAU wood. DOUBLES 1S WORK Foreign and Domestic Trade Queries Last Year Num- bered 1,250,000. Work of the Bureau of Fore and Domestic Commerce en doubled in the last two yea the annual report of Dr. Julius director of the bureau, made public today by the Department of Com- merce. The bureau, Dr. Klein told Secre- tary Hoover, handled during the last fiscal year approximately 1,250,000 in- quiries from American business men Business resulting from the replies, the records showed, amounted to about $427 per inquiry. The food- stuffs division received 143,000 in- quiries from farmers and dealers in farm products, while the automotive division answered 106,000 inquiries, the specialties division 98,000 and the textile division §1,000. * Many Queries on Europe. Queries during the last fiscal year concerning western Europe numbered 340,000, while 232,000 related to Latin America and 174,000 to the Far East. These last three were shown to be figures more than 10 times as great as the number attended to during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922. In addition to gaining for American business thousands of small orders, the report sald, the bureau has been instrumental in obtaining several six- figure contracts for Americans. The Rome bureau was responsible for ob- taining a $3,000,000 harbor contract and a mineral exploration entailing the expenditure of five millions with- in 10 years for American firms. Confidential Circulars, The practice of spreading informa- tion to bona fide American firms by confidential circulars, Dr. Klein said, has been increased and has received strong indorsement from all concerned. The report also cites the aid given to American firms during the earth- quake disaster in Japan last year. Notwithstanding that the office in Tokio was destroyed, its work went| forward and facts regarding Japanese markets for reconstruction material and hte chances of buying Japanese raw materials were gathered. BIG BANKS ARE MERGED. Two of Largest Financial Houses in Nebraska Unite. OMAHA, Nebr, November 24.— Merger of two of the largest bank- ing institutions in Nebraska was an- nounced jointly last night by Walter W. Head, president of the Omaha National Bank, and Harry S. Clarke, president of the Corn Exchange Na- tional Bank, which was merged by the former. As the result of negotiations completed tonight, the Omaha Na- tional will take over the deposits of the Corn Exchange National, amount- ing to approximately $3,200,000. The Corn Exchange National was established in 1910 and the Omaha National was founded in 1866. Mr. Head is former president of the American Bankers' Association. B If you need work, read the want columns of The Stax, ght by Underwood & Underwood. ENGLISH NOVELIST COMES TO AMERICA. Sir Gilbert Parker, who has wrijten many novels of the Northwest, arriving in New York aboard the S. S. Pr lina to complete his latest book. AD CLUB TO ENTERTAIN | NOTED STAGE STARS| MclIntyre and Heath Guests of Honor Will at Be Luncheon. MclIntyre and Heatl favorites for half are now. maki tour will be the the Washington their weekly 1 Club tomorrow. "he District Commissioners, managers of all the local theaters, nd dramatic’ editor. the local papers will be the guests of the club, Othe s from Keith's theater wil entertain the party and Roland Rob- bins, m: er of the theater, will speak. Kemper Cowing, of the club will preside. TWO KILLED, 2 HURT IN PLANE COLLISION| Ships Meet in Midair—Girl Pas- senger in Commercial Craft One of Victims. 1 stage y, _who farewell guests of honor of dvertising Club ncheon at the C the By the Associated Press. "LOVER FIELD, Santa Calif.,, November 24 A man woman were killed and persons were seriously injured here yesterday when the airplanes in which they were flying collided in midair. The dead: Ralph Hugh Jennison and Miss Ruth Wilson, both of Pasadena, who were about to make a landing in their commercial plane when it collided with another ma- chine piloted by Leslie K. Traughber, a lieutenant in the Army air reserve. Traughber and his passenger, Sergt. Gilbert R. McMurrin of the Army Air Service, were taken to a hospital in Sawtelle, near here, where surgeons said they had a fair chance to re- cover. Spectators said the two planes ap- peared to sidle into each other, and then fell 200 feet to earth with wings locked. Both machines were complete- 1y wrecked. i ST PO BANK SHORT $630,000, PRESIDENT IS JAILED Accused Official, Ill Since State Closed Institution, Under Guard in Hospital. Monica, and a two other By the Associated Présy. * KANSAS CITY, Mo., November 24.— Joseph R. Gant, president of the Centropolis State Bank, which was closed this week by the State finance department, was arrested yesterday on three charges of second degree forgery and two of embezzlement. | Directors 'of the bank estimated | Gant's shortage at $630,000. Mr. Gant, who has been i1l since be- fore the bank was closed, was re- moved to a hospital following his arrest and placed under guard. Gant was a member of several prominent clubs and business associa- tions, Last spring the young banker was named as one of the two-year counselors of the chamber of “com- merce and later was made second vice president of the chamber. He was a member of the grand jury that in- dicted Richard Morrow, former cash- ier of the Corn Exchange Bank here in the fall of 1933, ident Harding yesterday. He will go to South Caro- Wide World Phot PLANS 10 AVER FAMINE N COAL Engineering Council Commit- tee Urges System of Uni- form Monthly Shipments. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 24.—A port of the coal storage of the American Engineering Coun- cil, made public yvesterday by James Hartness, president of the organiza- tion, outlines a series of community plans by which the principal cities of the country m through a system of uniform monthly shipments, avoid coal fami Mr. Hartness said the survey on which the report is based has revealed that storage is the remedy for the nation's coal trou- bles. The committee recommends, accord- ing to the report, that all con- sumers purchase their coal on an an- nual contract for yearly require- ments, with a provision that the coal be delivered monthly in equal allot- ments. Consumers are urged to pro- vide storage facilities to meet the terms of such a contract committes es. Regular Schedule Possible. The recommendations are based on the finding that the purchase of coal on a monthily delivery basis will en- able coal mines to inaugurate and maintain a regular production sched- ule and make it possible for carriers to plan definitely both schedules and equipment for a uniform movement of coal. “A reduction in the price of coal will be made possible,” the report states, “by more regular schedules of production and transportation and by elimination of peak demands in the Winter months, when the costs of both production and transportation are the highest. % “The railroads have more to gain by storing coal than any other class ? consumers,” the report continues. ‘They ‘should store their own coal on such a scale and at such times as to obviate the movement of company or non-revenue-producing coal during the period when there is a heavy de- mand for the transportation of revenue-producing freight.” View of John Hays Hammond. In the foreword of the report John Hays Hammond, chairman of the United States Coal Commission, says: ‘his report of an engineering survey qof the possibilitles of improving the method of purchase, delivery and storage of coal should appeal to producers, carriers and consumers as the key to the solution of many of their troubles. The President’s Coal Commission, learning of the purpose |of the American Engineering Council to make such a study, assigned to it the task of conducting an extended engineering survey of the storage of coal. “The commission and other Govern- ment departments have collaborated with the American Engineering Coun- cil extensively, the survey has been conducted By over 400 engineers in leading industrial centers, and the re- port has been formulated by a com- mittee of prominent engineers— recognized authorities in each branch of the subject covered.” R G Y A Alda Wilson, a graduate englneer, is in charge of the drafting room of the Jowa State Highway Commission,