Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1924, Page 2

FOUR FARM RELIEF PLANS GONSIDERED Report to Short Sessien of Congress Now Expected From Commission. Plans for the aid of the farmer at the short session of Congress are understood to include a fourfold proposition — co-operative marketing: preferred railroag rates for farm| products; development of the Euro-| pean market and casier credit for the ser. ricultural Commission is ex by of Congress to| 4 preliminary report within} the next moath recommending these | seaturss as the basis for legislation. Those most directly connected with £ aid measures declured them- | Ives optimistic over the outlook. | r Capper. Republican, Kan-| spokesman for the Wesjern farm who recently discussed the Itural situation with President tidge, said today that in his opin- | commission’s report would solution of the farmer's difii- | i cattle ra The A pected mit members eultics Co-Operatives Fauvore marketing situation o solved by properly co-operative marketing with Federal support and| market can be stimu- | the sorvices of the diplomats and attaches of Commerce Department the American farmer can permanent relief, the Kansas ®uid, some means must be ided to overcome South American ipetition In the ltve stock trade anadian _competition In the Wheat trade. He belleved this could be done by co-operation between the | Amerfcan foreign agent and the De-| partment of Agriculture, Capper declared influence for lower interest uld offer temporary aid. nce report on the Hoch- resolution recommending to the Interstate Commerce Commission the reclassification of rates to give a [‘ri-*fl'rvn\m' rate to the farmer is pending EGYPTIAN PROTEST LEAVES LEAGUE IN i AIR AS TO ACTION| | he operated 2 the ate foreign e Re nator Proy co and tated, can Zencies ough | 1l T s | ! govern- > conf | Smith | | | i i ontinued from First Page.) remain of the ered ¢ upright opr rtain to be it not ugainst the attacks wh are consid- violent in the new manifested more Alle and Neville Hender- | the British diplomatic repre- in Cairo, meanwhile are king contact with the new | government to greater extent than | their official duties require. it belng: desired to prevent prevalence of the | idea in that Great Britain is! 1nfl1r1»nv new government's! poliey | While the men h troops toward I mporarily pended, tually within Lgyptian are constautly noving ubont the concentration Cal d Alexandria are being marche through the streets of Cairo daily In accordance | with the British custom in similar| cases in Near F tern territorles, tased on experience as to the best means of deterring would-he rioters. Lord Allenby informed the home gov ernment that there were three bat- tal £ now in Calro, that | arch through the | streets t night and would | probably be ordefed out again today. Strikes Continue. i The strikes of ctudents and some of the public employes are continuing, but | it is stated they prebably will be eup- sressed by the new cabinet. The minor | disturbances and secret meetings which | have cccurred so fgr are asserted to have been inspired by the students, but they have not assumed any important ' consequences. The Egyp and Brit- ish authorities are refraining from | inaking any unnecessary arrests, al- though martial law is expected to be prociaimed at the first instance of any widespread disorders. The school au- thorities In some cases have issued de- aands that the students return immedi- atsly to their work, but these have not proved effective. i The wide critictsms of the British ! ous regarding Ezspt which have been pi ed in newspapers throughout the continent are not in any way taken by British officlals as representing the attitude of the foreign governments | or as inspired by them, and the sug- gestions that the matter should be re- ‘erred to the League of Nations are not | Delleved to be seriously considered by | any of the powers, as the present situa- | ion is thought to be regarded by all of | them to be the concern of the protecto- Tate power, as in the case of the other | North African protectorates. i As far as France is concerned, it| 8 pointed out that both ¥ ingland are bound by the agreement | of 1904, in which each agreed not to interfere with the other's sphere of inftuence in Bgypt and.Tunts, respec- | ively, » far no intimation has been mndet ially in any foreign quarter that | Guestion of the differences be- | tween England and Egypt should be| sent to the league. The Egyptian| Kovernments, past and present, never have taken such action and the com- | plaints communicated to the sec- retarfat of the league are declared here to have come only up to the| present time from the group of| ERyptian deputles known as forming | the parllamentary association. The Egyptian government, stated has not power to raise the question with the league council directly as it {§ not a member of the league, but as a non-member it may request another power to bring up any question it desires to have raised. No pronouncement has been made !.))' Great Britain on the question of intervention by the league. TROOPS MARCH IN CAIRO. British Brigade Parades in City With Fixed Bayonets. By the Associated Press. . CAIRO, Egypt, November 26.—The entire Cairo brigade of British troops again paraded the streets of the European and native quarters with fixed bayonets today. So far no news has been received concerning the two bluejackets from H. M. S. Valtant, who have been miss- ing from that warship at Alexandria for more than two days. i any Brit- | have been ! troops ac- ¢ boundartes | toward and | points at Eritish troops | ot t the 1t is Church Enrolls 49 Members. The membership of the Fifteenth Btreet Christlan Church was 49 mem- bers stronger todav after the drive put on by means of evangelistic services ended last night. The sermon, “After eath, What?” brought a large crowd &nd the addition of music to the pro- gram_assured the members of the ghurch that a much larger attendance would be expected for the sermon to- might. The subject will be, “Two 'VA‘.M“KB About Which Everybedy L Local Juarez ax result of beating in jail. PLANES AN Pole Liouts. slastic over the plan, rance and |no: | great ¢ Thursd; | Charges HARRY L, ROGERS, newspaper man, near death in DE MARTIN SEEN ASENVOY TO L., Present Italian Ambassador to Japan Probable Suc- cessor to Caetina. BY HIRAM KELLY MODERWELL. By Hadio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. ROME. Italy. November 26.—It ap- pears probable that Giacomo de Mar- tino, now Italian Ambassador to Japan. will be named Ambassador to Washington to succeed Prince Don Gelasio Caetani, who will return im- mediately to Rome. Although Pre- mier Mussolini has not vet definitely made up his mind, and sometimes makes sudden and unexpected de- cislons, it is regarded in circles close to the government that De Martino is best suited for h post and fairly certain to be chosen. Diplomat by Profession. Unlike Prince Caetani, who is re-|bill for more rapid promotions, more | all of | liberal pay and retirement privilegesjunde t garded as the personal Mussolini, De Martino Is a by profession, as is the Ambassador to Ttaly, Fletcher. He Is a birth and was chief Forefgn Minister Marquis di San Glulano. Later he became general secretary in the foreign office and envoy diplom American Henry | apolitan by assistant of When Ttaly declared war on Turkey | he was charge d'affaires in Con- stantinople. DPremier Mitti sent him as Ambassador to Berlin and after the World War mier Giolittd ap- pointed him Ambassador to London and Mussolini later him to Toklo. Not Identified with Politics. Thus Sig. de Martino been identified with any particular policy, but he is the three or four ablest and ex- perienced of Italian diplomats. His wife, Signora de Martino, is a fa- vorite in Rome society and a woman of exceptional charm. (Copyright, 1624, by Chicago Daily News Co.) sent has party not or D BLIMP MAY RACE TOPOLE. German Airship Commander | Plans to Compete With Amundsen. BY BJORN BUNKHOLDT. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. CHRISTIANTA, November 26.—Capt. Roald Amundsen will have competi- : tors when he starts for the North next year in the Norwegial Riiser, Larsen and Dietrich- sen, who. according to the newspa- pers, will partake in an expedition | organized by Germans and headed by the famous airship commander Bruns. in Chris- | The latter, tlania, who is now submitted his plans to Dr. Nansen Tucsday, obtaining Nansen's ' moral support. huge Zeppelin, with accommodations for traverse polar regions in 40 days. He intends to use a ntists, which will be able to the essential parts of the Lieut. Nansen is said to be enthu- and has an- unced that he will introduce Comdr. Bruns to the Norwegian public at a meeting of the university ay. There Comdr. Bruns wil tell the public of his plans. (Copyright, 1924, by Chicago Daily News Co.) WIFE ASKS DIVORCE. Policeman Husband Brutally Attacked Her. Mrs. Martha V. Kellum, in a suit for a limited divorce from Willie E. Kellum, a policeman, charges that he brutally assaulted her on four differ- ent occasions. They were married June 14, 1920, and have two children. The wife tells the court the police- man beat and bruised her April 20, repeated the attack November 12, blackened her eye November 16, and last Saturday slapped her face and kicked her. She is represented by Attorney D. Edward Clarke. Court Orders Acquittal. Chief Justice McCoy, in Criminal Division 2, has directed a verdict of acquittal in the case of William Car- per, a local bakery salesman, charged with violating the white slave: traffic act. A 16-year-old girl living in Mary- land had charged fhat Carper asked to take her home from Georgetown and then attacked her. Attorney Harry A. Grant represented the accused. Christmas Is Coming Shop Early So You Can Mail Early THE EVENING NEW CABINET POST GREATION SOUGHT House Soon to Get Bill Pro- posing Department of Aeronautics. ‘onvinced that the future of the United States must alr and that the air forces defense be in the proper development of is vital to the Nation, Representative Curry of California will introduce in the House early next week a bill calling for a se rate air force presided over b new cabinet member to be known as the Secretary of Aeronauties. would have an academy of aero- nautids ectablished comparable to West Point or Annapolis. Representative Curry introduced a somewhat similar but less preten- tious measure in the Sixty-seventh Congress. He thinks he may et some action on this air department is| measure at the incoming session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, but feels more certain. of having it passed during the new (Sixty-ninth) Con- gress, and is introducing it now so that the subject may be given seri- | ous consideration during the coming year. Provides Perwonne! The Curry Bill will call for ap- pointment by the President, the samc as other cabinet members, of a secretary of ueronauti who would be allowed the services of an assistant secretary. There would then be two division marshals, one in charge of military air forces and the other of civil air forces. In each of these two divisions would be four bureaus each headed by a brigade marshal, corresponding to the rank of brigadler general. These brigade marshals would also be presidential appointments, but subject to con- firmation by the Senate. Some would be named from the Army and Navy air forces and some from civil life. These elght divislons which the Curry bill proposes to set up are: War plans, training, operations, ad- ministration engineering, supply, finance and civil activities—the first four would be under the chiet military forces and the latter four under the chlef of civil forces. Asks Special Schools. Under the training department would come the Academy of Aero- nautics, a staft college and war col- lege, and special schools to instruct pilots for the civil branch ! " Provision is made in the Curry exist In the military { forces. It specifically provides for retirement of 25 per cent of the ofli- | cer personnel after 10 years, thus in {suring a younger and theoretically ! better qualified fiying force. i Repregentative Curry says it evident that this country years after the World War, a serious disadvantage as compared with other nations, and says his bill is designed to open the eyes of Con- | ess and the country to the need for [correcting this evil by advanced | measures. | BANKR than now self- at e UPTCY RULE one of | AMENDMENTS SEEN {U. S. Court Procedire | Changes Expected to Come " From Supreme Bench. Amendments to the bankruptcy and equity rules of the Federal court the abuse of which has caused mmpre- sentatives of the American Baf and National Credit Men’s Association to seek new legislation which will pre- | vent losses to business men through the filing of bankruptey proceedings, are expected to come from the United States Supreme Court, the Associated Press. Based on the mmendations made by the ju- cial conference of sepior circuit judges in session here, the changes to be announced may change radically the regulations involving defunct | creditors. Chief Justice Taft, chairman of the onference, sent to the bench, as the re- sult of g careful study and consultation with every circuit and district judge, committees from the American Bar and Credit men, the recommendations of the proposed amendments. Under the rules set down by the committee petitioners in bankruptcy whose claims rest {upon assignment or transfer must un- nex to one of the petitions an afidavit stating the consideration paid for the assignments of claims, stating legal ownership and that the claims were not purchased for the purpose of in- stituting bankruptey proceedings pon them. ! Other Proposals Made. Other changes would prevent the receiver or his attorney from solicit- ng proof of debt, power of attorney ior other authority to act for any creditor for any purpose in connection | with the administration. Still another | modification would require that a re- colver or marshal appointed by the court to take possession of the assets lof a bankrupt should be deemed a mere custodian within.the meaning of section 48 of the act unless specifi- | call set forthin the court orders giving him further authority. Other sections of the amendments would prevent the procedure of the manner of disposing of property, re- quiring the persons selling such property to file a statement showing the value of their services. The court also reserves the power to refuse to al- low such persons a fee, If it sees fit. ATTEMPT TO DYNAMITE COAL COMPANY TIPPLE i | Shriver Mine Plant, Near Morgan- town, W. Va., Scene of Disorders Child Seriously Injured. By the Associated Pres; MORGANTOWN, W. Va3 November 26.—The Shriver Coal Co. settlement on Scotts Run, an open-shop opera- tion, was the scene of disorders early today, during which a child was wounded seriously and an attempt made to dynamite the tipple. 1 ;uut a part of the approach to the paratus. .~ The blasts were followed immediately by a fusillade of rifle shots from a nearby hillside. Five- year-old Sarah Rokys, standing In the doorway of the cabin occupled by her parents, suffered a wound in the chest. Attending physicians said she could not live. The force of the blasts was felt Yoat, accompanied by a detachment of State troopers, went to thé séene. | The officers found 150 sticks of dy- namite under a pile of straw beside the tipple. This charge had falled to explode. £ i of | - is_already, ! according to! Two charges of dynamite ripped | tipple and damaged the loading ap- | jin Morgantown, and Sheriff W. M.! STAR, BUS HEADS CLAIM | FARE RAISE VITAL 36 New Busses Promised by May if 10-Cent Charge +Is Allowed. Replacement of all of its 36 busses with new ones by next May, if a straight 10-cent fare is granted, was promised hy Arnold, president of the Washington Rapld Transit Company, at the public hearing on, the company’s petition ore the | Utilities Commission today The mpany based its plea inerease the following grounds, briefly stated: That all of its busses are near the end of their service | life, that a garage in which to store! them must be provided and that | wages of operators arc to be in- | creased if the petition is allowed. which Mr. Arnold sald would be the best obtain- able, would cost $285,000. The new garage would require an outlay of is 00 and the advance in wages would amount to between $8,000 and | {810,000 o year Leon for an on The new busses, Clayton Opposes Raine. | William MeK yton. represent- ing the Federation of Citizens' As-| sociations. vigorously opposed the ap-: !plication and at one point moved that the commission dismiss the applica- ition i M ! motion for on the in fts| Clayton based his dismissal of the petition ground that the commission {previous order of last Augu that it regarded the mdministrative {overhead of the company excessive. {The federation spokesman declared the company had not acted on the| | suggestion of tho commission since | that time. Mr. Clayton also sought to restrict the testimony to recent| ioperaticns of the company. | Mr. Clayton's motlon to dismiss was | overruled by Col. Bell, chairman of | the commission, who stated that the | commisson would be treading on { dangerous ground to deny a company the right to be heard because ft had ' | fatled to comply with a suggestion | of the commission. i Cites Commission Policy. | ol Bell also sald he thought’ it ! would be a dangerous precedent for |the commission to restrict the testi- to operations of the company limited pertod. The Commis- endeavor, Col. Bell said, both ty matters, to get sible on questions mony | tor a | stone: { fn zoning and uj the facts r discussion. the outset of the hearing Mr. | Clayton suggested that the commis- sion could give the company the benefit of a straight 10-cent fare without actually ordering it by pro- viding that tokens be sold at 3 for 25 cents at the company's barn only. Conrad H. Syme, counsel for the bus company, read a lengthy brief {to the commission, setting forth the | results of operations since the com- | pany was started tending to support the contention that a straight 10-cent fare is essential. At the present time the company charges 10 cents for a | cash ride, but Is required to sell tokens at 3 for 25 cente. E. V. Fisher, executive secretary to the commission, and Maj. W. E. R. | Covell, Col. Bell's assistant, cross- | examined President Arnold as to de- | tatls of the proposed wage increase | for operators and the erection of the | | garage. i The commission will take the testi- | mony under advisement and render! its deoision later. PASTORTO i i At | i i vear, | gratitude through charitable acts to- PRESIDENTPLANS SIMPLE HOLIDAY Few Guests May Be Asked fo Dine at White House With Coolidges. Stmplicity will mark the service of Tharksgiving at the White House tomorrow. Other thgn attending 2 special Thanksgiving service, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge- will follow out their regular routine. As will be the case in most Amer!- can homes, turkey will feature the menu zrranged for the President’s Thanksgiving dinner, and it 1% thought likely that ral closa friends will be invited to participate in this feast The dinner will, how- ever, be at the customary hour, .7 o'clock, and after the meal the President, Mrs. Coolidge and her guests will remain fn the White House during the evening. b o Bg Flower-covered casket containing the body of Mrs. Florence Kling Harding being placed in the tomb in the WASHINGTON "'t stated | Mttle Marion, Ohlo, cemetery, where rests the body of the late President Harding. LEADS NATION IN THANKSGIVING OBSERVANCE Cfipital Residents After Big Feast Will Proceed to, Display Holiday Spirit in Various Forms of Recreation. E Once more America, led by the Na- tlonal Capital, will turn its thoughts i tomorrow from the problems of bus! ness and government toward the siz- 2ling spit, where will roast the tradi- tlonal Thanksgiving turkey, symbol of that historic repast three centuries ago which celebrated the secure foun- dation of the Pilgrim Fathers in the new world. Just &s those early trall blazers returned thanks to a benevolent God for the blessings of their new-found freedom, so America will recall to- | morrow the fruits of favor that have been bestowed upon giving physical it In the past cxpression of ward the less fortunate members of the commonwealths In Washington the day will open with divine services of thanks, and after the appetizing gobbler has hes properly digested, be given over to a holiday in all branches of endeavor. Whilo many persons will hasten to athletic events, others will devote heir time to outdoor recreation of aried kinds. Motoring and hiking will hold the Interest of the greatcet number if the weather is good. Dinners for All It will be an unfortunate person. in- deed, who is obliged to see this Thanks- giving day slip past without having a taste of the good things that are sup- | posed to adorn every true American dinner table. Every charitable institu- turkey dinners for those to whom suc- cess has lagged, and heaping baskets |tion in the clity has arranged special | { | Ewm be left at deserving homes. {Jsutheran Church, to be participated i This year many patriotic and war vet- {eran organizations have joined charita- | Memorial | | ineedy familles with the things that Ro!11 o'clock in the morning: Washing- |to make a Thanksgiving dinner the ton Hebrew Congregation, at 11 o'clock; ble societies {n the work of providing symbol of American progress. Espectal follow the custom of 16 suoressive vears and band together. The merv- ices will hegin at 10:2) o'clock in Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church, North Carolina avenue and Thirteenth street northeast. The churches that will participate are Douglas Memo- Methodist _Episcopal, Eastern Presby pworth Methodist Episcopal Church South, Ingram Me- morfal Congregational, Keller Me- morfal Lutheran and the Ninth Street Christian Rev. Kyle Booth of Ingram Me- morial Church will preach the ser- mon. Rev. J. O. Wrightson of Doug- las Memorial Church will offer the Invocation; Rev. T. Nicholas of | Keller Memorial Church will read the President's Thanksgiving day brocla- mation; Rev. C. R. Stauffer of Ninth | Street Christian Church will recelve | the offering, which will go to Sibley | Hospital. and Rev. Alfred E. Barrow will read the lesson. The natlonal servie Church will be held at Calvary Bap- tist Church in the morning. Re Dr. Edward O. Clask, pastor of Chevy Chase Baptist Church, will deliver the sermon and special music has been arranged. Special of the Baptist musle has been prepared for the occaslon by the Epworth choir under the direction of Prof. Louis A. Potter. Rev. John Paul {Tyler is pastor of the Epworth ethodist Episcopal Church South. |- Other outstanding church services that have been announced for to- morrow morning are as follows: A {union service at St. Paul's English {in by Epiphany Church and Luther Church: Transfiguration Episcopal Church, at 7:30 o'clock and | Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal |attention will be pald by these asso-|Church. | Rev. C. V. Sheatsley Expect- ed to Aid Prosecutor in 1 Solving Mystery. ‘ By the Associated Press. ! COLUMBUS, Ohlo, November 26.—| ' Ald of Rev. C. V. Sheatsley and his| four children in the effort to solve the mysterious death of the pastors | 50-year-old wife, whose body, prac- | ticaliy incinerated, was found by him in the furnace of the parsonage of | of Christ Lutheran Church in Bex- 1 ovember 17, was expected to- | day by County Prosecutor John R., | King upon the return of the family from Paris. Ohlo, whare they have | i ! been for the last week. Rev. Mr. Sheatsley said yesterday | that they would return to Columbus by automobile today. The victim of the tragedy, Mrs. Addie Sheatsley, was burled at Paris last Thursday. | While all members of the Sheatsley | family voluntarily testified last Tues- | day 28 to their movements on the| |day of the tragedy, a number of points which have come to light since that time may be cleared up, Prosecutor King said, by additional | testimony. | Dr. H. M. Brundage and Chemist | 1 C. F. Long, who are making a sci-| entific investigation of certain phases of the case, were working today, hoping, they sald, to have certain re- ports ready for Prosecutor King by | tonight. ' Analysis of brownish _crimson stains found on a number of articles in the Sheatsley home to determine whether or not they might have been human blood is being made by Chemist Long and Dr. Brundage. Upon the result of this analysis | hinges the possibility that the body { may be exhumed, the prosecutor in- | dicated. Edwin M. Abbott, the un- dertaker who removed the body from the furnace and prepared {t for | burial, told Prosecutor King that “the skull was cracked,” but that he was unable to say whether it re- sulted from the heat of the furnace or some other cause. i | i |FRENCH OUST ADMIRAL FOR BAN ON BOLSHEVIK By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 26.—Admiral Exel- mans, port admiral of Bizerta and { commander-in-chief of the French | naval forces in North African waters, ihas been recalled after declining to | recelve delegates of the Russian Soviet government who arrived at Bizerta to take over the remnants of Baron Wrangel's fleet, £ays the cor- | respondent of the Echo de Paris. The writer adds: “Particularly _violent {propaganda promoted by the Mos- |cow government, now is being hedrried out in Tunisia, the object of { which -is ta provoke an insurrection of the natives in the protectorate, and the arrival of the Soviet com- i mission could only give fresh im- petus to the propaganda. This was the -opinion of the admiral, Wwho would not receive in the territory under his command supporters of this order, even officlally invested by the minister of marine, and hte latter 4 promptiy recalled -him." { communist | St clations to the Thirty baskets are to be distributed by Stuart Walcott Post of the American Legion alone. Members of various posts will also make pilgrimages to the Mount Alto, | Elizabeth’s and Walter Reed Hos- pitals to help cheer up the veterans who are stlll confined there, recuperating from wounds received in the World War. Favors are to be distributed by the visitors. The hospitals will supply the regulation Thanksgiving day dinner to those whose physical condition permits them to Indulge to such an extent. President to Church Services. President Coolidge and Mrs. Cool idze will lead the people of the Na tion in attendlng church service. They will attend services at the Cen tral Presbyterian Church &t 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. they will sit down to a regular old fashioned New England Thanks- glving day dinner, with everything on the gnenu from perfectly browned Turkey to steaming plum pudding. One of the foremost religious events will be the annual Pan-American mass at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. Mass will be celebrated at 10 o'clock, with Most Rev. Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate, and Rt. Rev. Michael J. Curley, archblshop of Baltimore, presiding. At this serv- ice high officials of the State Depart- ment and leading members of the resident diplomatic corps will at- tend. as usual. Each of the various faiths of the church will have especially arranged services in addition to the regular services at’ the different churches. There will be a festival service in the of the National Cathedral, on Mount Saint Alban, at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning which will be representa- tive of the Episcopal Church. Services at Cathedral. Rev. Dr. William L. De Vries, dean of the Cathedral, will preach the ser- mon. Special music will be rendered by the full Cathedral choir, under the direction of Edgar Priest, organist. They will sing the Te Deum in B flat, by Sir Charles V. Stanford, and an oftertory anthel ‘The Eternal God Is Thy Refuge” by J. E. West. An invitation has been extended to visit- ors in Washington and the general public to give thanks at that service. What might be regarded as the na- tional Thanksglving service of the Methodist Episcopal faith will be held at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning at Metropolitan Memorial Church. Right Rev. Willlam Fraser McDowell, resi- dent bishop of the Methodist Church, will preach the sermon and special music will be furnished for the occa- sion. Rev. Dr. Harry Dawson Mitch- ell, pastor of the Metropolitan Me- morial Church, will conduct the serv- ice. Another service of importance will He the 10:30 o'clock of the Gun- ton-Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church, Sixteenth and Newton streets , northwest. The sermon will be preached by the pastor, Rey, Bernard Braskamp. Special music will ndered, including an orgin prelide, n the Morning,” and a tenor solo by Mr. Klein, “Thank God for a Garden.” Services in All Churches. Every church in the city will have services some time during the day and most of them will conduct serv- ices both morning and evening. A large number of the city's places of worship will hold union services, when the people of half a dozen different religious faiths will meet in a common service of Thanksgiving, | ~The churches on Pnnal Hill wil) familles of veterans.| Later | beautiful little Bethlehem Chapel | be | Church of the Ascension, at 11 o'clock, choral eucharist; union serv- ices at 11 o'clock at All Soul's Uni- tarian Church, participated in by the Church of Our Father, Universalist; unfon service at 10.30 o'clock at Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Memorial United Brethren Bethany Baptist Church, Presbyterian Church, Lincoln Methodist Episcopal Church and St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Church, at 11 o'clock; Shiloh Baptist Insti- tutfonal Church, at noon: Church of {the Covenant, at 11 o'clock; at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, twen- tieth annual sunrise service at 7 o'clock, under the auspices of the three Christian Endeavor Societie song services at Holiness Church, colored. This afternoon the Central Union Mission will deliver to 215 needy fam- illes a basket of meats and groceries for their Thanksgiving dinner. John S. Bennett, superintendent of the mis- slon, has taken personal charge of the work and is making each family feel that it is an act of love and not of charity. In addition, the mission will give a dinner tomorrow at its temporary headquarters, 432 Tenth street northwest, to all who appl: The dinner will be served from noon until all who apply have been served. At the mission’s children’s emer- gency home, where 30 tots are under the care of Mrs. Bennett, a turkey dinner will be served at noon. In the evening representatives from many of Washington's churches will entertain the chiidren. has been doing these acts of kind- ness on Thanksglving day for the into existence. Joseph H. Smith, who 25 years ago held evangeltsic meetings in the District of Columbia at the Hamline M. E. Church at the corner of Ninth and P streets northwest, converting as high as 100 men and women in one day, is holding meetings in the Wesleyan Pentecostal Church tomor- row, Thanksgiving day. Three serv- {ices will be held. Mr. Smith will |close his services at the church on |Sunday evening. DR. M. A. HAYS’ FUNERAL TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY Body of Bandits’ Victim Due in Capital Today—Will Be Taken to Mother’s Home. The body of Dr. Melville A. Hays, formerly a resident in the District and well known here, who was killed in a pistol battle with bandits in New York Monday night, will arrive in this city this afternoon and will be taken to the residence of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Hays, 1344 Four-and-a-Half | street southwest. Funeral services and mass will be held at St. Dominic's Catholic Church Friday morning at & o'clock. ton cemetery. Dr. Hays was a visiting surgeon at New York Hospital. Dr. Hays was a graduate of Georgetown University and was a surgeon in the United States Army before starting the practice of medicine in New York city. He was a brother-in-law of In- spector Willlam S. Shelby of the local police department. He leaves 'his widow, an adopted child, his mother and a brother, W. J. Hays, who lives with his mother In this city. Protestant Church, participated in by | Eckington | Road | Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, | The mission | past 40 years, ever since it first came | Interment will be in Arling- |, P. & A. Pboto, ASKS SIMPLE CODE OF TRAFFIC LAWS | | -1 'Frederic A. Delano Wants| District to Eliminate ““Nuisance Rules.” ‘While police and ctvil authorities ! were continuing to grope tod: a solution to Washington's entangled traffic problems, Frederic A. Del vice chairman of cretary Hoover's special committee engaged in study- ing the country's traffic situatic in general, me forward with t ex- pressed hope that the National Capi- tal will forego “too many laws" in favor of a simple traflic code that may i set “a national standard.” i Mr. Delano belleves Washington i should eliminate many of the minor, detajled regulations now in force and promulgate, instead, a general set of regulations governing reck- less driving, colfiding, etc, leaving to the courts the duty of judging the details of each infringement “General Speed” Discussed. He Is an ardent supporter of the contention that a general speed limit is impracticable of administration, because of the widely varying condi- tions encountered not only in dif- ferent sections of the city, but from block to block. He favors instead a reckless driving law. “A driver may be driving reck- lessly at eight miles an hour, s dangering the lives of pede: yet he surely Is not speeding, Delano pointed out “A rveckle driving law wouid remedy such in- equitles of law. It {s the onl ticable method of punishing scrupulous or careless driver. While not wishing to commit him | self on the plan of the District Com- missioners to urge the establishment here of a separate trafiic court, be- cause he ad not investigated the situation, Mr. Delano remarked that the traffic court idea seemed a good one, He pointed out that Great Britain i has her admiralty court to,try tech- nical naval cages, and stated that a specially equipped court, familiar with trafic conditions, should prove just as valuabld in judging traffic cases, most of which involve tech- I nical problems that the ordinary i court is not adapted for handling off- hand. Uniform Trafic Law Urged. “The United States should have uni- |form trafic laws, and the Federal | City should take the initiative in | adopting a model code for others to follow,” the committee vice chair- | man said. | “Secretary Hoover's committee is | working now toward the end of a | nationally uniform set of regulations. | Wo hope to make some concrete | recommendations very shortly that | Will appeal to Congress. “It would be very helpful if the | National Capital could set a standard | which could | try's model traffic code. This model | code should not go into details about | minor infractions. It should, in my opinion, be a general outline of im- { portant rules for the guidance of the motorist and the protection of | the public. Too | confuse the public and the police. | Law enforcement is hindered rather | than helped. A general code will not easily be misunderstood. The unen- | forceable regulations will be cleared away and the traffic situation sim- | plified greatly.” for un. | ‘Wil Submit Recommendations. Recommendations along this line will be submitted to the National Conference on Streev and Highway Safety when it meets here Decembr 16. The District Commissioners, mean- | while, are preparing to bring to the attention of Congress serious defects in Washington's present traffic code, especially with regard to the penalty for certain violations. Authority to impose jail terms on collision fugi- tives and “traffic cr¥minals” will be Jamong the important amendments sought, it is understood. It is expected, also, that the Com- missioners again will urge the es- tablishment of a special traflic court, as provided for in the bill introduced in 1921 by Representative Zihlman of Maryland. See Court “Desperately Needed” The local police and municipal | authorities maintain that the extra court Is desperately needed at once to take care of a vast accumulation of trafic cases under the present court system. The congestion is so great, they declare, that culpable {motorists are delaying - indefinitely {the administration of justice by icrowding the already overloaded dockets with demands for jury trials, which must await their turn. Police are indignant to find that the “traflc criminals” they succeed in |'eatching are allowed to go free, to {all intents an purpdses, because of court congestion. Maj. Sullivan, {superintendent of ploice, has made | several recommendations in the past that this handicap be eliminated by the establishment of the separate court. ———— ‘The superior effectiveness of Chil- ean nitrate to synthetic and other nitrates as. fertilizer has.been as- cribed to its radloactivity. be taken as the coun- | Son Stays at School. John Conlidge, the son of the | President and Mrs. Coolidge, who is & {student at Amherst College, did not {return home for the Thagksgiving | holidays, having postponed his visit t the suggestion of his parents until the Christmas holi the will be at the White more than three wee President and Mr: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boston, who have be since election. night. The President. his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Stearns will attend the morning services at the First Congregational Church and it fs understood foMow- ng the service they will motor for probably an hour or more before re- | tuming to the White House. The size of the turkey that wil | 8race the White House table tomor- row or anvthing about fits histor: | has not yet heen made known, but one of the Whita Houss attacher sald today the bird will be of ample size to fill the needs of the situa tion. It has been reported that Bill Sunday, the evangelisti was send ing a large bird to President Coolldge for his Thanksgiving dinner, but noon today this had not arrived that the presi out sald today has been obtaine and Is being made ready for ton {row and it will be of little mome if Sunday's turk fails to put an appearance in During past than a score of ridges have hee White House Prestdent, some of prineip tomorrow. presented crate of arowr House The only Le with the tdge will be rns ef me carried s are ese ks and pa received midday m of Yuma President to- grapefruit and navel his place in Ari- accompanied to tha Senator Ashurst of re of the B. F. to 1 jday a oranges ona. He w | White House Arizona Following a Prestdent today stated that h ne action short session \fford general tural sit said he lo one of the mos by with the Senator Gooding ger to see he coming gress that would agricu! antry. Ha conference ones that vill have to 1d be no de that would give bstantial as- lay In epacting a lav tho American farm sigtance and would necessarily co | tribute largely to the prosperity ! the country. The Idaho Ee { that in the event that legfalation fails during short session the Pre lose no time in calling on of the new Congress his matter. of nator said ericultural this coming ent shou an extra 1o dau BILL OF ONE-ACT PLAYS ENTERTAINS ART CLUB sharply contrasted one-act plays the Arts Club dramatic committee last evening entertainec {the members of the club and their | guests in the club parlors for the | November program of that organiza- tion { The | Silence,” b { this city, and “Thur | Christopher Morley | somber episode in | the latter a gay co life. In “The Brin | parts were rende | Charles J. Ferris. Chan | Glenn_Madison Brown. In “Thu |day Evening” those participating were Willlam Walsh, Harriet Murphy, Emma l. Ostrander and Maud lee { Hunt. The plays will be repeated to- night plays wers The fo the ed domestic ence” the A. Lyon. ling Smith and BOWIE ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. FIRST RACE—Claiming; Purse, $1,300 ges; 613 farlongs. Sweepstakes .. Captain_Costigal Peter Piper R | { | a1 94 Also Eligible— many regulations | *Beloross RACE-—-Clalmiz ‘turlongs. u3 08 . oacs108 Welis. (103 ..o101 Je3 .5 110 ‘108 [ a1l egen; 63 4 Mount . {Dexpair exinnt Ciuas, Hidden ‘Jewe! *Peanon AllTn Al *Flax Rosal Alrman $Elemental ... Jntee *Admirer 1G. W. Campbelt and Foreman entry. THIRD ~RACE—Sunay South Haadicap $1.500; all ages; 6% furlongs. 124 Abu Ben Andem ..121 120 B 1 | | | | Leonard G .. tEdinburgh 3 pounds claimed for rider. FOURTH _RACE—Thanksgivin | $10,000: S-year-olds and up: 13 miles. Jonaghee Privce Hamlet | Spot Cash Tnitiate . 5 | 30pperman ... ! 3Wilkesbarre Plough Boy .. Fraternity 10 000 Joy Smoke - Setting Sun ....10l04 tH. G. Bedwell entry. {Triple Springs Farm entrs. *Weight includes 3 pounds pemaity. FIFTH RACE—The Dixfe: purse, $1,400; sear-olds; 1 mile and 70 sarde. Ballot Brueh ......116 Joy Smoke .... Abu Ben Ahdem ..107 3ISenator Norris ...10 tPrince Hamlet ...104 Pathan 101 MacLean 98 Miss Whisk . .98 $H. G. Bedwell entry. SIXTH RACE—Claimiog; purse, $1,300: ai! ages; 1d miles. *Potentislla .. Gray Gables Hyperion 4 .16 *Dernfer Sou *Triumph Sslvan Spring . Intrepid ... MaryAgnes *Vulosd SEVENTH RACE—Claim 8-year-olds and up; 14 miles ancing Fool. . Wood Lake ..... Owesco .. *0ur Birthday Composer Also eligi Tiandl .. *Meadow ' Lawn Seare Orow tAmniversary M. L. Davis eatry. Apprentics allowases ciaimed”” Weather clear, track fast, L1038 108 108 a0 Tei £1,800: : purse, 107 102 *Ed Pendicfon . s Little Ammie ble ing Wire *Gladys V. Trevelyan e