Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1924, Page 5

| DLW ASSALS | EFFCTSOF PROBE 0’Donnell Says Cure for In- dustry Ill Lies Outside of Congress. he Associated Press, )RT WORTH, Tex., Today's session of December 10. the American m Institute was given over p meetings. Such topics rdization of oil well equipment, eating the home with oil, taxation 7d accounting, improvement of oil i nd production methods and equip: nt, motor fuel and motor lu- Wrication, problem of oil taxation, and accounti and transportation of ofl iilroads were discussed. a genera] session tonight E. de »f the Amerada Petroleum and D. M. Folsom of the oleum Corporation will | The Geologist and the Pe- | dustry” d *‘California,” spectively Delegates today ug the speech O’ Donnell, still were discuss- | vesterday of Thomas | president “of the Insti- | at | When he said “business gets good and “the | the hetter ant no reflection | smen, he ex-| | it stays gets, dual adjourned he 1 Congre Confident in Court. to as referring on the “our ging,” th e had every confidenc leral jud ary and belie e end, if any wrong b ited, it was being corrected. The oil business is sick, but in my | opinion 1t is a temporary {l1-| 3255, he said is subject to our | Avorst ill—overproduction. Jt might be said to he suffering from | » bre 1e and is limping a little. But broken legs are mended by cer- well known practices, and I for ion't want to go to the Govern- to healed. If we did, through we probably neither legs nor arms -slin Tt economic ment When would left.” “If America ever exhausted its sup- ply of petroleum,” he said, “we will| ) into the business of evolving sub- | it maybe go Into the Roc suntains, which contain petroleum than all the fields developed.” 15-YEAR-OLD GIRLS HELD IN SHOPLIFTING Parents Coming From Richmond to] Get Daughters Held by Police. we got have Parents of two 15-year-old 'girls are ©n their way here today from Rich- mond, following the arrest of the girls by Detective Sergeant E. J. Kelly and Detective Dalglsh of the shoplifting squad ¥ on charges of petit arceny, growing out of allezed opera- tlons of the girls in department stores here in the | The girls are Mary Townley Hanson os . Detectives | that they of hosiery a Pennsylvania | artment store last Saturday ¥ took two umbrellas from n F street department store the fol- owing Monday. One of the charges slleges that one of the girls took back one of these umbrellas, and, informin: the sales clerk that her mother decid- ed che did not want it, got the cash for it. Among other items alleged to Jiave been taken were gloves and shoes. In one case, according to police, there is evidence that they obtained the shoes by use of a neat ruse, whereb they memorized the name and addr of a person with a charge account, noticing the sales slip on a box of ehoes, and thereupon ordered shoes on that account. Detec only at the 1003 New SEES GIFT TO COLLEGE “CREPE ON METHODISM” Baptist Minister Criticizes Terms of James B. Duke’s Donation of $40,000.000 to Education. M the Associated Press ; RALEIGH, N. C., December 10.—Tt | the offer announced in the morning yapers that James B. Duke will give *I'rinity College a large share of 240,000,000 if it will change its name to 'Duke University, is accepted, it will hang crepe on the door of North Carollna Methodism,” declared | Rev R. Bateman, D. D, pastor of the st Baptist Church of Asheville, , In delivering the keynote ad- Qress of the North Carolina Baptist | «onvention, which opened {ts seventy: Fourth annual session here yesterday. “1 do not know who wrote this ar- ticla” declared the preacher as he 1eld up a copy of & morning paper containing the announcement of the Duke fund, “and I do not know per- conally the man who is making the offer, but there is not a word of Jesus «hrist in a single llne of it Bateman added facetiously that ince Mr. Duke Is giving away money derlved from waterpower investments, Tie_should give it to the Baptists. The address followed closely on the reading of the report of the soclal service committee, in which Christian .ducation was given as one of the litree primafy activities of the Baptist Church, NOTED ACTOR RETIRES. Ditrichstein, One of Best Known Players, Quits Stage. NEW YORK, December 10.—Leo lsitrichstein, for many years one of the best known players in the Ameri- can theater, announced last night his yetirement from the stage. He said hie was taking this step because of liis health and that he and Mrs. Jutrichstein would saill for Europe next Tuesday. The actor, well known also as an author and adapter of plays, sald he prefers Europe to America as a place of resldence solely because this coun- try seems to “provide no place for the man of leisure.” Among the plays in which Ditrich- stein appeared are: “The Great lover,” “The Concert” and “The Thantom Riva One of his greatest successes was the role of Zou-Zou in “Trilby.” In addition to adapting the first two of these plays, he wrote a 1 umber of comedies in collaboration with the late Clyde Fitch and was the @uthor of such popular farces and comedies as “Are You a Mason?’ “Is Matrimony a Failure?” and “All on Account of Eliza.” ege ads a nvenue di and that es said they had rooms not | Raleizh Hotel, but also at | Hampshire avenue. Hurling Cuspidor At Turnkey Gets Man Sanity Test While awaiting his turn on the doc'cet to appear in Police Court today on a charge of trespassing on raflroad tracks, Willlam Frido became incensed'at €omething and hurled a cuspidor at Joe McMahon, turnkey. The cause might have been the cold, for the courthouse felt anything but warm. The missile missed its mark and Frido was confined to a smaller room by himself. while an order was given by the céurt to send him to Gallinger Hospital for mental observation Despite the fact that Frido ob- tained a cup of hot water In which he put in some tobacco and threatened to throw it in any one's face who approached him, he was acefully taken down in the Black Maria to the hospital. STORY OF NATIVITY IN PAGEANT SERVICE Program of Entertainment for De- cember 22-23 at Luther Place Memorial Church. of Prophecy,” a story of arranged from the Bible y Bess Davis Schreiner, will be presented by the Luther Place Memo- rial Church on the evenings of Mon- day, December nd Tuesday, De- cember 23, under the direction of the stor, Rev. George M. Diffenderfer, nd the author, with Marie Moore Forrest as chairman of the advisory committee. Assisting directors for this pageant service include Mrs. Laura J. Bogue, Miss Caroline Mc- Kinley, Mr. Denis E. Connell and Miss Katherine Riggs, harpist and director of muslc A number of “Voices the nativity committecs for the production of “Voices of Prophecy” were announced today by Dr. Dif- snderfer, including: On organization nd cast, Miss Bess Davis Schreiner, TIrving L. Koch, Mrs. Albert D. Spangler, Mrs. Arthur Briscoe, Mrs. W. McK. Stowell, Miss Vogel, Mrs. John W. Martin and M Edgar Gaardsmoe. Committee on stage, N. K. Gardner, John Swanson, G. A. Ellestad, George berly and Frank C. Keefer, and com- littes on lighting, George Diffen- derfer, jr, Fred Shoemaker and | G. A. Ellestad | pecial costumes which are mnot aro symbolic in are being made only historical but| color of the char- acters they portray. The committee costumes includes Mrs. N. K. Gardner, Miss Ruth Campbell, Mrs. Carson L. Frailey, Miss Jessie Shep- | d, Miss Bessle Bright, Miss Judy h and Miss Katharyn Gault. t will be recalled that the ant drama, “The World and The Way,” which was also arranged from the Bible by M Schreiner and which | has been presented for the past two holiday scasons at Central High School auditorium by the churches of | Washington, under the direction of the interdenominational committee, was first presented in December, 192 at the Luther Place Memorial Church e SUSPENDING UNION HEAD 1S UPHELD IN OHIO COURT| E. H. Fitzgerald of Clerks and| Freight Handlers Under Fire in Order. P . | | By the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, December 10.— Dissension in the ranks of the Broth- erhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, SXpress and Statlon Employes, which resulted in charges being filled against its grand president, Edward H. Fitzger- ald, and his alleged suspension from office, followed by Fitzgerald appoint- ing a committee to try the grand executive board, which suspended | him, and the removal of the grand executive board by the trial board, all are alleged in a suit which was filed in Common Pleas Court yester- day by Charles A. Herbst, a member of the brotherhood Herbst's suit seeks to enjoin the defendants from taking further ac- tion against the executive board and to compel a trial of the charges against the grand president. Judge Thomas H. Darby temporary restraining order case. According to Herbst's petition, President Fitzgerald was charged with soliciting subscriptions to the Railroad Brotherhood's Investment Co., against the rules of the order, and he was tried by the grand execu- tive board, which imposed upon him a reprimand, the lightest sentence permitted, whereas, - Herbst alleges, the offense “warranted” the most severe and drastic punishment, issued a in the i Officers Are Transferred. Second Lieuts. Melville E. Grant and Francis M. Greene, United States | Infantry, at Camp Meade, Md., have | been ordered to the Philippines fr)r) duty. Capt. Francis G. Bonham,| United States Infantry, also at Camp | Meade, has been transferred to the Panama Canal Zone for duty. 8th and Eye Sts. S.E. g —is a Star Branch Office —for the reception of Classified Ads. Please feel perfectly free to drop in there with them |l every attention and | ads promptly fi to the main The Star prints MORE Classified ads . ‘Will Explain Reclassification. How the clerical force of the' Dis- triot public school system is rated under the reclassification law will be explained by Supt. Frank W. Ballou et & meeting of the clerks in the Franklin School this afternoon at 4 w'clock, ~ 2 every day than all the other papers here combined. As a mat- ter of course—the re- sults are greatest. |robbing four houses in land homes at Forest Glen and Mount TAR BEACH GONTRACT WILL BE LET SOON Bathhouse for €olored People to Cost $55,000—Ready Next July. Work , on the proposed bathing beach on the north side of the Tidal Basin for the use of colored bathers will be pushed promptly with the idea of having it completed as carly in the bathing season as possible, Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, in charge of public buildings and grounds, sald today. The deficiency appropriation act carried an appropriation of $72,- 000 for this purpose. Plans for the bathhouse have been prepared and the contract for its con- struction will be let within the next 30.days. The building will be of con- crete, and will be of the same size as the present one on the south side of the Tidal Basin, used by the white bathers. The structure will cost $55,000. Ready by End of July. It 1s expected it will be completed and the beach will be ready for the bathers by the end of July. With the facilities to be provided Col. Sherrill estimated today that it will accom- modate between 5,000 and 6,000 bathers a day. The bath house will accommo- date 2,000 bathers at one time. In addition to the construction of the bathhouse it will be nec to haul tons of sand to give proper slope to the beach for bathe; Other construction under the pub- lic buildings and grounds office Is going forward without delay. The foundation for the Erlcsson me- morial In West Potomac Park is be- ing completed. The central power house courtyard of Building No. 6, teenth and B streets, is going up rapidly. It will furnish heat and power for eight buildings immedi- ately surounding it. Owing to the condition of the ground where the structure 1is belng erected it was necessary to go down 42 feet to get a foundation PRISONER ACCUSED IN SEVERAL THEFTS Harry Clinton Allen Said by Police to Admit Entering Number of Homes. in the at Nine Harry Clinton Allen, 29, giving his address as Macon, Ga., was arrested cesterday afternoon by Detectives Cox and Brodie on suspicion of being the individual reported to have been seen carrying a black bag in several houses where robberies had been com- mitted. mitted robbing several homes in the District and Maryland, and jewelry valued at about $800, property of Louls Dismer, Georgia avenus beyond the District line, was ffnd in the bag. More than 50 keys were taken from his handbag, detectives stated, and the bag also contained a number of toilet articles that concealed the keys. Detectives say the prisoner admitted the District Rainler, Md. Property alleged to have been taken from the several homes In the District and Maryland is said by the police to be valued at about $2,000. Allen, ac- cording to the detectives, sald he con- fined his operations to home in subur- ban places. SCOTT BONE HONORED. Governor of Alaska Guest of Wil- liam Griffin at Luncheon. NEW_ YORK, December 10.—Scott Bone, Governor of Alaska, was the guest of honor at a luncheon given vesterday by William Griffin, vice president of the American Press As- sociation, at the Advertising Club. Melville E. Stone in a talk recalled his association with Gov. Bone, when both were Teporters. Gov. Bons, speaking of the development of Alaska, sald that although that ter- ritory had been purchased for $7,000,- 000, it had already ylelded more than $1,000,000,000 to the United States. that now The QUEEN'S at London, Naow On and 1214 to “Around the Corner” is a Star Branch Office | The prisoner is said to have ad-| The set was made i Potteries, Limited, Stoke-on-Trent. WASHINGTON Senate and House Members to Get Parking Extension The District Commissioners have decldéd to make some arrange- ment by which members of Con- gress will be permitted to park their automobiles longer than the prescribed time limits, while they are transacting business at Gov- ernment departments. Whether this arrangement will be made by the issuance of a small marker for the car similar to that provided for diplomatic cars, or by card, has not been de- clded, it was said at the District Building today. The request was brought to the attention of the Commissioners a few days ago by Representatives Blanton and Lambert of the House District committee. CITIZENS INDORSE SCHOOL PROGRAM Sixteenth Street Heights Group Wants Site Purchased for New Building. At a meeting of the Sixteenth Street Heights Cltizens' Assoclation last night, at the residence of Perry Cleveland, 1301 Geranium street, G. R. Dickson, presiding, the members went on record as indorsing the bud- et for public schools for the coming year as prepared by the Board of ducation. The proposed five-year hool building program was outlined H. M. Phillips, delegate to the »deration of Citizens' Assoclations. Mrs. H. M. Phillips, chairman of the school committes of the assoclatlon, reported that, In accordance with a resolution adopted at a previous meeting, she had filed a request with the Board of Education that a site for a school bullding in Sixteenth Street Heights subdivision be pur- hased. It was clted that ground for the buildiag can be obtained now gt a lower piice than if deferred another vear. Mrs. Phillips urged each mem- ber of the assoclation to take up the | matter with the board and endeavor to have the site chosen at once. The chalrman of the public utilities committee reported on the status of the bill in Congress for extension of Fourteenth street and quoted a letter received from Representative Zihl- man on the subject. Complain of Sidewalk. Complaint was filed, and direction given to have the city authorities in- formed as to the condition of the sidewalk on Fern street between Georgla avenue and Twelfth street. It was alleged a portion of the paving is nearly always covered with clay that washes onto the surface with each rainfall. The secretary was directed to com- municate with the Commissioners asking that ashes be collected regu- larly and, it possible, twice a week Homes on the outskirts of the city are, as a general rule, larger than those in the congested areas, it was stated, therefore more coal is burned, and the congested sections get two collections a week as against one in the suburbs. | A special committes was appointed lto arrange for the next meeting, at which time officers will be elected | and an entertainment held. ILLNES FORCES TROTSKY TO LEAVE RED CAPITAL War Minister, Suffering From In- fluenza, Ordered to Go to Southern Resort. By the Associated Prees. MOSCOW, December 10.—It is an- nounced that War Minister Trotsky has been suffering for four weeks from & fever following an attack of influenza, and that it is imperative that he depart for & water cure at some resort situated in a milder climate. A bulletin signed by Dr. Semashko, commissar of health, and three other physiclans says: “In view of the fact that the pres- ent trouble is similar to that of last year, with permanent high temper- ature and irritated state of the bron- chial and lymphatic glands, result- ing from the change from the tem- perate climate of the Caucasus to damp, cold Moscow, we consider in- dispensable M. Trotsky's urgent de- parture for some hydropathic station situated in milder climatic condi- tions.” We are privileged to show a replica of the Miniature Coffee and Breakfast Sets appear in DOLL HOUSE the WEMBLEY EXHIBITION England n England by Cauldon And only three sets are in existence; one in the Queen’s Doll House, anather at the factory, and the third— Exhibition our Show Windows DULIN&MARTIN (2 1215~1217 F Street - 1218 G Street Store Hours: 8:45 to 6:00 D. C., WEDNESDAY, DE U. 3. FLAG HISTOR ISTOLD BY COLB Rear Admiral, Retired, Ad- dresses Sons of Revolution : Meeting Here. .Comdr. Essex Hopkins the American vessel Alfred, leading & squadron into the Bahama Islands, which resulted in the capture of Naseau and 100 guns, flew the first American flag early in the Revolu- tionary War. The American flag, au- thorized by Congress in 1818 and having the same design as that now carrfed by the military and naval forces, with fewer stars, was designed by Simon Chester Reed, an American naval officer. John Paul Jones during the War of the Revolution carried the Ameri- can battle flag, with the stars placed in parallel bands. He carried the flag of the new republic into every civilized nation on the globe, unfuri- ing it over British territory on his historic expedition to Great Britaln, and hs ship was the first to carry the Amerifoan flag which was saluted by foreign natlons. Colby Reveals Facts. These facts on the development of the American flag were revealed by Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. 8. N, retired, who addressed the annual meeting ‘of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Colum- bia last night at the Metropolitan Club. Admiral Chester gave a de- tailed and fllustrated history of the evolution of the flag, punctuating his discourse with many interesting anec- dotes from his own personal obser- vations. The official American flag has never been recognized as having stars in a circle, Admiral Chester declared. The original use of this flag would have con- fused it with the State flag of Mary- iand, which had a lone star in the mid- dle of & group of stars, representing Maryland in the center of the Union of States. The atars on the American flag have always been placed in parallel lincs, he sald. . of Disputes Bryan View. Taking fesue with the declarations of Willlam Jennings Brsan and David Starr Jordan that there shall be no more wars, Admiral Chester declared the millennium has not yet arrived, and that this Natlon yhould remain in a state of preparedress. There will be no more wars, he declared, when crime shall have ceased and prisons will be turned Into schoolhouses. Admiral Chester scored Mr. Bryan and Dr. Jor- dan for thelr pacifistic views, and sald that even though the United States could possibly raise an army overnight, a standing army was needed. In sup- port of his contention he said it took 3,000,000 men more than seven months to fire the first American gun in the World War. Brig. Gen. George Richards, United States Marine Corps, was re-elected for the seventh consecutive time president of the soclety, an honor re- ferred to by the president as a “sig- nal one. Other officers elected were as follows: Vice president, Clarence A. Aspinwall; segretary, Charles P. Light, sr.; treasurer, Maj. Edward F. Riggs; registrar, Willlam Smith; chaplain, Dr. Thomas Edward Green. Capt. Robert R. Capt. Adelbert Althouse, N., and Col. Herbert J. Slocum, U. 8. N., re- tired, were elected members of the board of managers, other than those | who are ex-officlo members. The soclety recelved a report on the essay contest being conducted by it, presented by Comdr. J. H. Sypher, U. S. N. The essay contest being con- ducted In the schools ends February 22. Unlon of the two societies com- posed of descendants of the patriot of the War of Independence was dis- cussed. Four new members were elected as follows: Maj. - Edgar E. Hume, Fletcher Hamilton Lansing, Frederick W. McReynolds and John H. Moore. —_— . Two hundred and forty women were among the delegates attending the American Institute of Banking con- vention held recently in Baltimore. i I a gift of money. In a very few min may arrange for as your young folks or e to make. S b s b st et bt et st e St et st s e Downtown Bank 900 F Street Walker | Bennett, | | The Best in Santa’s Pack A Washington Loan and Trust pass book showing the initial deposit and a metal bank make a gift that is good to look at, pleases from the beginning, never wears out and grows more valuable year by year. It is a gift that endures—it is more than SAVINGS DEPARTMENT The Washington Loan & Trust Co. Resources Over $14,000,000.00 JEMBER 0, 192%° MAN, 65, HELD SLAYER OF DRY AGENT IN RAID| Pa. Ave. State Enforcement Head Sends Deputy to Cousin’s Home to Seize Him on Liquor Charge. By the Ausoctated Press. ROMNEY, W. Va, December 10.— Benjamin Day, 65, was brought here yesterday charged with having shot and killed Benjamin Wolford, a State deputy prohibition _officer, Monday night at Higginsville, when prohi- bition officers went to the Day home to arrest him upon a charge of manu- facturing liquor. Wolford had been deputized by J. W. Day, a State prohibition officer, to ald In arresting the latter's first cousin. When the officers entered the home, they said, Day grabbed a shot- gun and fired, the charge entering Wolford's lun Officer Day remained in the house all night with the dead man and his alleged slayer, summoning county officlals from here yesterday. GENEROUS RESPONSE IN CHRISTMAS GIFTS Council of Social Agencies Have Calls for Many More Cases. A generous response has been re- ceived to the appeal for Christmas gifts sounded a few days ago by the Washington Council of Soclal Agen- cies, which will act as disbursing agent for the gifts. There are yet, however, many needs still unprovid- ed for and gifts along lines will be appreciated, the council announces. The needs remaining unfilled are as follows: Boxing gloves, express wag- ons, Irish Mall, punching bag, soccer ball, phonograph records, construction toys, a moving plcture machine, In| the settlement houses. 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