Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1925, Page 21

DECLARES MOVIES Speaker at Conference Charges Rum Propaganda Put in Films. Liquor interests are using the mov- ing pictures to b n shown in vin of N address at the mo, national motion picture conference at today i that the motion make the pr ook ridiculo THE EV SELECTED FOR ARMY’S OBSERVATION WORK l = The Douglas (upper) and the Curtis “Falcon” - | the atr scrvice the lutest and best types of observation planes for the mext | . | xeveral years. and wild 3 < [ method of Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, this city conducted the devotional exercises. Fenrs for Morals. Unregulated stroying the = they te tion pictures are de- ational ome will Rev. S Minn., told the c afternoon. He d thing of the past If t hrough the country by the mo- industry™ is not curbed, Dr. Johnson sald. regulating the showing of ctures wou'd be along the srnment adopts in prevent- motion p - | when (lower), which will give distributed no power in the world could prevent it from reaching the consumer. So it is with the films, he declared Dr. Clifford G. Twomblx "ot described the mov- e “situation” in his State Dr. Willlam Sheafe Chase the bill now in Congrdss to commission to be known as leral Motion Picture Commis- ing out copies of the bill better, urged . by Congress. He charged, that congressional forces working against him, declaring “we've been trying for a year to get a hearing on this bill” before the committee headed by Representative Dallinger of Massachusetts. Canon Chase sald Mr. Dallinger wrote a minority report on a similar bill the committee favored its adoption several years ago and he re it was |now is chairman or the committee. mmawmay, NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Last night's sossion was presided over by Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Board of Temperance and Public Morals, Methodist Episcopal Church, this city. Rev. Dr. Charles Wood, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, conducted the devotional service and Representative Willianr D. Upshaw of Georgla, author of the Federal mo- tion picture bill, spoke. Other speak- ers were Rev. J. Whaskom Pickett of Indiana and Mrs. Ella A. Boole, pres- ident of the W. C. T. U. of New York. The conference represents 94 or- ganizations from 18 States, the Dis- trict of Columbla, Western Australia, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. POLICE RAID SHOWS. Arrest 376 at Dance and Movie *Exhibition. NEW YORK, January 16.—Three hundred and seventy-six persons, mostly men, were taken into custody by the police last night in two raide on halls in which the police sald {l- legal entertainments were in prog- ress. 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ALEYANDRIA BRANCH 818 King Street FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF OUR CUSTOMERS WE ARE OPEN EVENINGS GEORGE H. HOWARD DIES IN NEW ENGLAND HOME Practiced as Patent Attorney in Washington More Than 40 Years. George Henry Howard, 80 years old, a prominent patent attorney of Nor- wich, Conn., who practiced in Wash- ington from 1871 until his retirement in 1920. dled in Norwich Wednesday night after a two weeks' lliness with pneumonia, according to word re- C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1925. celved here by friends. He leaves a wife and five children. Formerly a patent attorney of this city, he was born In Yorkshire, Eng- land, October 5, 1844. He came to the United States when a voung boy and recefved his training in the Maryland Institute and School of Design, Balti- more. He entered Trinity College In 1868, hut did not finish there. He was admitted to the bar by the su- preme bench in Baltimore in 1876, practicing in the United States patent affairs under the firm name of G. H. and W. T. Howard from 1871 to his retirement in 1020, From 1873 to 1876 he was editor of LLOAK the American Engineer and trustee of the House of the Good Shepherd, ‘Washington. He was married December 17, 1884, to Roberta Braill Braoke Macgill, Mr. Howard was also a member of the American Bar Assoclation and Delta Psl Fraternity, the Metropoli- tan, Chevy Chase and Loch Tavern clubs of Washington. . Evident. From Life. . Father—My boy, I hear that you are most recalcitrant. Son—Be yourself, pop. dolng cross word puzzl You've been again. 8 SUIT STORE Will Give Entertainment. The departmental players, under the direction of Marc Cohen, will be a feature of the annual installation of officers of the National Union this evening at the Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and F strests northeast Among those who will take part are Jerry Ripp, 1da Belt, Lois Gladding, Ruth McClelland, Blanch Lehmann Marc Cohen, Dorothy Ehlers and Jeanne McCauley. John J. 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